Scenes from an Italian restaurant

Well here I am yet again and I am so tired but that's what you get after a busy day which finishes by sitting up channel surfing until 2am.
Today I haven't really done much but I am allowed one lazy chill out a week I think especially after how busy I have been lately. I have watched one of my fave films today AIR FORCE one and as I type this I have THE CRAFT on but it's on in the other room and I am sat here with the best song that I have heard this year on really loud. The song is by U2 and Green Day and is called THE SAINTS ARE COMING!! It is an amazing song and I just love it!!

Last week I was busy and I mean busy, most nights I was shattered and was in bed by 9pm although I would stay up and read until 11pm and then settle down for the night to sleep. I was actually falling to sleep really fast last week which is amazing because at times it does take me a long time to fall to sleep.
Well I managed to get my course work done in super fast time and get my assignment finished by 2:30pm on Tuesday afternoon and had it submitted just before 3pm that day. The course wasn't too hard to catch up on because it is the beginning of the course so wasn't very intense and I liked that. The assignment wasn't too hard either and I whizzed through that which I am pleased about and I was more than happy when I finished it and read it through. I finally got my mark back for it on Friday night and I got 73% which I am more than pleased about. Pete has done this course and he said he only got 53% on the first assignment so I was shocked that I got a much higher score than he did because he is the computer guy.
Wednesday I started my B120 course work a week after the course started and I was shocked by it, I really was because I haven't done business studies before I didn't really know what to expect. I am not sure if I fully get it but I am hoping everything will be ok. My assignment for that course is due a week on Tuesdays so I am hoping to get all the course work out of the way by Wednesday evening so then I get to spend a couple of days on the assignment and also then if I need to I can go back over the course work if I need any clarification for my assignment.
Talking about OU courses, I was thinking of doing A217 next year but I think I will stick with AA309 for next year and then go back to A217. I was worried AA309 would be too hard but I saw this years assignment questions and they don't seem that hard, they are very much in the style of A207 and A217 except a level higher so I am 90% sure that I will stick with that course for next year now.

This week on top of studying hard, I have been reading two books. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett and a book Pete sent me to read and I am really enjoying them both and hope to have them both finished by the end of the week.
Also been working hard for my dad with his accounts work and have some more this week coming up and with Christmas coming up I could do with all the money possible.
On top of that I am 25,00 words into NaNoWriMo and taking a break for a while, well until tomorrow. I haven't done any since Wednesday and I plan to get up to 35,000 this week and if it is possible I will be on 40,000 by next Monday. It is getting hard for me at times and I have a sore wrist and hand but I will get there in the end I am sure of it, 2-5,000 words a day is my target and it can and will be done. I will be glad when it is over on the 30th so I can break away from it for a while but I will be back on my book because this is my outline of the book I have always wanted to write "one day" so I will spend the next year working on it when I have time and maybe one day it will be published which would be amazing!!

Another busy week coming up, doing all as above but also need to sort out my bedroom which may take a while but it's something new to do that I don't normally do and it needs doing so this is the week to get it done. I also have a few other things to do so I know there won't be time for me to get bored and I hope that I don't get too distracted because that is one of my biggest weaknesses and I know I need to try and control that.
Need to also decide what to get people for Christmas, I do have a lot of it sorted out and some stuff but having the main problems with what to get my mum. I just don't have a clue and don't want to repeat what I got her last year so I am racking my brains to try and think of something that she will really like.

Got some passport pictures done yesterday and they didn't turn out too bad though of course they could of been better. I wasn't having a good day in that picture booth I can tell you. The seat wouldn't move down so I was having to sit at an arkward angle and then the picture kept taking after it said it had taken it so I kept having to redo it and I settled with the 5th attempt just because I had loads of other things to do and wanted to leave.
One of those will be used for my NUS card and I will be sending off for that tomorrow and hope to get it back before Christmas. People are having to wait five weeks to get it back but I hope I don't have to wait that long because I really want it and the sooner the better.
I don't have any plans for the other 3 pictures but who knows. I don't want to use them for my passport because I have to keep that for ten years so of course I want better pictures lol. Plus I am losing weight (12 lbs so far) and I don't want to have some pictures taken and then lose a lot more weight and look different in person than I do on the picture so I will wait until next March/April time before I apply for my passport.
Also when I pass my driving text (by March next year at the latest) I need more pictures for my driving license so I will have to have some taken again for that so with losing weight I am going to wait until I need the pictures.

I am going to be doing my theory test really soon and my driving lessons are starting withing the next month by the looks of it. I need to start revising for my theory and hazard perception test because I don't want to fail. I have CD ROMS for them so I am going to get them out and do twenty minutes a day on it to make sure I am ready because it will either be the end of this month or beginning of Decmember when I take it.

Tried my Chinese Cook book on Friday and made Honey chicken and Egg Fried Rice and it was super YUMMY! I can't wait to try another recipe next FRIDAY!!