Hello

I don't need to say it's been a while since my last blog because it's pretty obvious it's been a long time since my last blog....two months about. I have said this before, but I do want to get back into weekly blogging but it's hard to remember to do so.
I'm on my new computer right now...this is one of the reasons I've not been on here in the last two months because this site is on my favourite list on the other computer and I was waiting to go back on that to get all my favourites off it so I can come back on this site but I've not gotten around to doing that yet so I thought I'd find this site myself so I can write some kind of blog before the new year, when I'm hoping to do a couple of blogs before heading back into weekly blogs.
It's almost time for me to go to bed, I am so tired and tomorrow is New Years Eve so me and my dad are going out shopping early so we can get some food before the shelves in the shops become empty. So it's an earlier night than normal for me that's for sure even though I don't expect to be asleep for another 2 hours I will be in bed well before that with a dvd on trying to settle down for the night. We won't be going out as early as we did on Christmas Eve...I was up at 4:15am then to go out at 5:30am. It was really mad because I decided to drive (the second time that week which was the second time since I started lessons) but the weather wasn't too good. Not that it was raining or anything like that but the fog was so thick I had to use fog lights but had my dad sat next to me saying I didn't need them but he wasn't the one driving in thick fog. Even though it was super early in the morning it didn't feel that early because their were people around with the same idea as us although it was weird being up for almost 5 hours before the sun started to rise in the sky and to add to that the bloody moon was out even the sun had come out .... it had been like that for a week so I was used to that but there is no stranger site that pure daylight and the moon being out...I don't think I will ever get used to that.

As of today, Tuesday, it's been almost 2 weeks since my last driving lesson. I was having 1-2 a week up until the end of November and then I went back down to one but now not having one for almost three weeks feels so weird to me because I am so used to seeing my driving instructor weekly. Well in fact I saw him last week when I was driving home from Clitheroe (on the Monday) and I was waiting to turn into the road that leads to my street and his learners car was coming up the road (he was on a lesson) and stopped in my way (cos the traffic was backed down to that point) and I was in such shock...lol...I couldn't quite believe I'd seen him and got super excited and kept looking at his sign on his roof to make sure it was him...how strange and then I was in a super bouncy excited mood for the rest of the night after seeing him. So I've gone a week without seeing him, so who knows I might bump into him again, who knows but it doesn't feel like almost two weeks since I've had a lesson. I know next lesson he's going to regret saying I should drive my dads car because of the bad habits I've picked up, I reckon I'm going to need a couple of lessons to get me back on track again because almost everything I learned went out the window when I set foot in my dads tank. I knew it would because of just how hard my dads car is to drive...it did my head in to be honest so I'm in no hurry to get back to driving my dads car that's for sure and it just makes me want to get my own car even more because I don't want to be driving my dads car when I pass...it's horrible and he shouts at me too much...still.

Christmas was good this year, I am hoping to write some kind of blog about it but just in case I don't get round to it I shall do a little about it in this blog. I ended up having two different Christmas Days because my dad kept messing me around leading up to Christmas Day saying we were going to the Ribchester Arms for lunch and then chaging his mind and I decided I didn't want to go because I'd have to go when he wanted and come home when he wanted and he'd neglect me and leave me sat there on my own like a lemon so I said we weren't going and I said I was going to invite my mum and step dad to lunch but because my dad had been messing around saying we were eatting out she'd made other plans for Christmas Day so I wasn't at all impressed by that because I didn't want it to be just the two of us but that went out the window so I wasn't happy with my dad.
So I arranged a second Christmas Day for Boxing Day for the four of us so I ended up having two Christmas Day's which isn't bad but I think it would of been better if I could of had them here for Christmas Day.

Anyway I think it's time for me to get off this thing and get to bed. I should be back within the first few days of the New Year to give some kind of update of what's been going on in the past two months since I've not done a blog.

A New Day Has Come

20 days since my last blog, I really need to get on top of keeping up with these but I guess that 20 days is better than 2 months.

I've had at least 3 driving lessons since my last blog and things are slowly and finally coming together. I may not like some of the things we do but I love the three point turn, which I haver got down to a fine art, my general driving skills are getting better and better but there are still a few issues which I need to work out for myself. I have a lesson on Wednesday, this week, a lesson next Tuesday and then two lessons the following week. Then it will be the week before my test, my driving instructor said he'd only need to take me out once but it's up to me how many I have that week. I'd love to have ten....lol. I really would, I wish I could have ten but I'm going for at least 2, I'd like three ideally but we shall see how things progress on the next few lessons.

I went out for a pre-birthday meal on Saturday with the three parents. We ended up going down to the Ribchester Arms and having a really good meal. It was nice, I wasn't content with eating my own, I was trying my dads starter and mains too. I had prawn cocktail starter, which I'd give 7/10, followed by the minted lamb shoulder which I'd give a 9.5/10 and I finished with one of my all time fave desserts, Banoffe pie which I'd give 9/10. All in all it was a really nice meal.
I got a couple of presents off my mum and Dave (Step Dad) which they made me open in front of them even though I wanted to wait for my birthday. One was a present and the other was a birthday present. The present was a really nice small black bag which is perfect for the evening or just in the day time if I only want to take a couple of things out with me....it's a swanky bag because it came with it's own dust bag. My birthday present was a really nice silver necklace, it's really hard to explain but the pendent was a circle inside a bigger circle, it's really nice although the chain is slightly shorter than I like so I'm going to get myself a longer one.

I went out for my high school reunion on the 11th Oct and that was a night to remember and forget because I drank so much that I was ill for a week. A record there - a week long hangover. It wasn't at all fun and I was so ill I almost choked to death on sick, which I was doing for 4 hours straight. Anyway I don't need to go into too much detail about that but I know I won't drink as much again.
The reunion was good, it was nice seeing some old faces and it was shocking how many people remembered me. Mel Clark didn't turn up and let me down and I think she thought I wouldn't go but I wasn't missing it and I was surprized to find that more people remembered me than her. I don't think she'd like to know that but it's so true.
Anyway I think we are having a second one in six months time and Mel will probably turn up to that one.

I'm sat here listening to Celine Dion's new album, which came out today. I wouldn't say that I was her number one fan but I liked the track listing of this album so I decided to go out and treat myself to it today because I went to get an album for Dave's birthday. I got him Daniel O'Donnels new album. I don't know if he will like it but I am hoping he does.

My computer is being a total pain in the arse at the moment. I will be sat here typing away or browsing the net when it turns itself off. Plus I can't upload any CDs to the computer because as I start the process it turns the computer off so as you can imagine it is a total nightmare. I want to put songs on my iPod for weekend but I don't have the songs on the comp so I can't put them on so I am going to try and download iTune onto my dads computer (my iTunes with luck) and try and sort it that way. Hopefully I can because there is about 13 albums in front of me waiting to go on iTunes and then onto my iPod.

I'm away Friday till sometime on Monday. I am looking forward to it because to be honest it will be nice to get away from here for a few days. I'm planning on going for a meal and for drinks on the Saturday because its my birthday but Lyndsey (who I'm going with) wants to go clubbing and invite someone but no one can stay in the place we are staying, other than us, so she was pissed off about it but I couldn't care less because I honestly didn't want someone with us who I didn't know and I'm not willing to get kicked out of the place we are staying because of someone else.

Anyway that's all for now but I will be back soon :o)

Here Comes The Sun

Well it's not been too long since my last blog so that's good.

Since my last blog I have had two driving lessons which have been great, I really enjoy them but the hour is always over before it begins. The last lesson I had it just went so fast, it was crazy but I did enjoy it. I think I am really getting the nack of these lessons now which is great. It's about 6 weeks away until my driving test now and I have one driving lesson this week, on Thursday, and another 2 booked for next week. I don't know how many more I will need after that but I am guessing it will be at least five more to make it up to ten lessons.

I had another girly night in on Friday night with Lyndsey and Lou and it was OK but not as much fun as normal, it felt a little dull to be honest but the food was good and the food was good but it just needs to liven up a little next time. I didn't get to sleep till arond 3-4am but those two were asleep hours before then.
I felt rough all the next day and I seemed to feel worse and worse as the day went on which wasn't good especially because I was off to see my friend Mel later that evening.

I still don't feel well but it's not a hangover, it's the horrible illness that I seem to get every few weeks where I am extremely tired, dehydrated, headache and a tempreature. It isn't nice to have and makes me so unwell and unable to do anything other than sit around feeling ill. I am sick of getting it and I always get it when I least expect it. It's day two of it and I am hoping to feel better by tomorrow but I will see how things go.

I have an exam on Friday and I haven't revised at all and I am hoping to feel well tomorrow so then I will 3 days of a mad revision session to try and get the basics in. It's a 3 hours exam in the afternoon and I am not thrilled by the thought of it and would rather skip it but if I did that I wouldn't be able to pass the course that I've worked so hard on all year and I wouldn't want to be so weak (like an ex friend of mine) and walk out on something that I've worked so hard on. Even if I don't get enough points to pass if I get more than a certain mark I will be allowed to re-sit the exam next summer so I am hoping that I get at least enough points for the re-sit although I would rather just pass it first time around and get it out of the way.

Well it's time for me to go and chill out in bed and hopefully get myself better.

Am I ever going to catch up?

WOW! Again I am forgetting about this blog, I think it's just about needing to get back into the habit of posting on here because I did use Myspace's blog for a while but I don't even use Myspace anymore and I don't think that I've posted a blog on there in a very long time so I just need to try and remember I have this blog and post blogs.

I don't know what I mentioned the last time I posted a blog but I will do an update of the last couple of weeks for now.

Well I've passed my 6th and final assignment for my history course and I'm meant to be revising for my exam but I haven't been. My motivation sucks big time I can tell you that and I don't even know when my exam is, how bad is that? It's either next Friday or the one after...personally I am hoping for the week after so I can get some revision done.
I will be glad when the course is over, it wasn't what I thought and I did find the whole time I was on it that I was spending most of my time trying to catch up or having to cram the full months course work and an assignment into 5-10 days.
I don't know when I will be doing another course with the OU, I am meant to be on a new one now but for a reason too long to get into now they don't let me register for another course. I know I need to try and sort it out because I do want to do another course next year but right now I just can't be bothered trying, I think I just want to get my exam over and done with first.

Well, I finally started driving lessons again after not having one for two an a half years....haha. It's been a long time and I've driven loads in the mean time but I haven't had a lesson but my theory runs out on the 11th of December and I don't want to re-do that so I am forced into the situation of trying to pass before then. I can't really be bothered with it all but I don't want to do my theory test again so I am having to get it done and out of the way...my test is booked for the 25th November.
So I had a lesson and yeah I am a good driver but I need to be taught how to drive to the standard needed to pass my test. I'd rather not have a test because I don't like tests and I am sure I am going to be a bag of nerves and crash the car...oh well. Anyway my instructor is interesting to say the least...I'd describe him as a old hippy or a new age type of guy...interesting is a word that comes to mind when I think of how to describe him. He is so chilled out and laid back and I think we are going to get on well which is good.
I have two lessons next week to look forward to and I can't wait but at the same time I can wait...it's because driving is old hat to me because I've been driving for three years so it's not as exciting to me as it once was but it will be nice to pass and be able to drive along instead of having to have someone in the front who has had a full license for three years.

Well I don't know if I said but I had a joint eye test at Spec-Savers with Lyndsey a few weeks ago, picked out a funky pair of specs and had to wait to pick them up. Well I picked them up and I had them on for a little while but they were hurting me so much that I had to wear my old glasses. Plus the prescription wasn't as strong as my older ones so they needed to go back. Anyway I finally took them back on Tuesday, after my driving lesson, and they didn't want to book me in for another eye test and when I finally convinced them I needed another one they were trying to book me in with the guy who originally tested me and said he'd have a go at me if I'd not tried them. Well I had tried them, I mean how else would I know they were a wrong fit and I couldn't see as well with them on?!! Anyway then they were wanting me to wait another week for the test and I said that wasn't any good because I needed it sorted. So I was booked in for the next day, I went back and had another test and the guy who had originally tested me had badly messed it up and gave me a really weak presciption. Then I was allowed to pick another frame because the day before the girl had badly mis-shaped my glasses by trying to stretch them. It took me half an hour to find a pair and then I ended up with some metal framed purple ones which are nice. I didn't like much of what was in to be honest so it was a task to find a pair that I was happy with and now I am waiting to pick them up. I don't know when they will be ready but I have been told 3-5 days so it could be next week....well I can't pick them up tomorrow if they are ready and I don't think they will be ready until Monday at the earlier.
I plan on getting some more glasses but from the designer factory because it will work out much cheaper for me that way.

Hmm...what else...what else...what else?

I can't think, it's just because I stopped writing this to reply to a email and now I can't remember what I was going to say next.

I have been making my own Christmas cards lately...it takes me ages though because I have so much stuff that I can use that I don't know which order to put it in and what colours or how much etc. I always pick what I want to use, which takes ages, and then place it how I want it and then change it around and make sure I have it all in the right places and then finally glue it together. It's taking ages and I have made about 6 cards so far, it's a slow process but I want to make sure things are looking good and don't have too much or too little on them.

On top of that I am also making my own soaps. That is great fun and I've sold a couple so far and I've given some away but I don't want to be giving too many away, I want to be making back the money I've had to spend to get me started on making it. I think I spent around £60 to get me started so I want to make that back at least even if I don't manage to sell any after that as long as I make what I've laid out then I will be happy.

Looks like I'm going away for my birthday this year, it's going to be good....4 days away from the 31st October till 3rd November and I am going away the weekend after too and I have plans for the weekend before my birthday too. It's going to be great fun and cost a lot but I've never been in this situation before where I can do this and have a good time with my friends and do so many different things so I am really looking forward to all of it. Just think of the crazy pictures that I am going to have after those weekends..lol. It's 5 weeks tomorrow that I go away and I can't wait...I need to get saving because I need a lot of spending money for that weekend and the weekend after plus I am looking at dresses and tops that I want to buy also so it's going to be costy but I am getting clothes that I can wear for Christmas party's etc.

Anyway I think that's all for now, I do hope that I come back on here soon and do some catching up and keeping up with what's going on.

Another long time

It seems I have all but forgotten about my blog until tonite. I have much more going on in my life than ever before and I am finding less and less time to do blogs plus I have gotten into the routine of not doing them but I really want to try and blog once a week because it is nice to have some kind of record of what I am up to and what I am doing and what I have done. I am hoping that I can get back into the habit of doing blogs once more because I want to so here goes for the first one.

I can't even remember what I last talked about the last time I did a proper blog so I will do a brief update of what has been happening since the end of June.

Well in June I went to see Bon Jovi in Manchester. I was actually meant to see them in London and Manchester but I just couldn't afford to do both in the end so I had to sell my London tickets and make do with just seeing them in Manchester.
They were good and it was a really good night but I hated being so far away from the stage...it is crazy because before last year I didn't know how wonderful it was to be right at the front at a Bon Jovi concert. I didn't think it would bother me being at the back in the stands but it really wasn't as good up there as it had been on the floor the year before so I am going to try my best to get Golden Circle tickets for next year.

I have started going to the cinema which is amazing. I have probably been around 10 times in my life before July so it is nice to go and see new films when they come out. I went to see Hancock and then Mamma Mia and then I went to see Mamma Mia again and I went to see You don't mess with the Zohen...that was one of the funniest films I have ever seen. I haven't been in a few weeks but I hope to go soon because there is about 5 films out I want to see and I still haven't seen the new Batman film which I've wanted to see since it came out...I hope I don't miss seeing it at the cinema.

I am working on my last assignment for my course, before the exam, and it is tough. I haven't had much chance to work on it until the last couple of days and even now a week before it is due I don't know what direction to take it in. It is crazy. I need to start writing it tomorrow so I am hoping something comes to me tomorrow and I do at least 1000 words on it...this is a 4000 word self researched one without a question and it is tough. I could really do with another week to be honest because it has no direction yet and I am still needing to find some really good resources for it. So I am hoping I just do some outline tomorrow and maybe decide what direction I'm doing in. Time is running out and fast so I need to try and get it done as soon as I can but also make it good and not a pile of all rubbish. I will be glad when the course is over to be honest because I just need a break, this course has been taxing in the last couple of months so it will be nice to have a break and try and take up a new hobby or something. I was going to start a new 60 point course this month but I think I will save that one until next September.

I finally went for an eye test last Saturday too!! I have been putting it off since March but I finally went and it was only because my friend had an appointment and said I should try and get one around the same time so we could go together.
I was so worried about that air test thing that they do but I didn't need to bother with worry because they didn't do it. In fact I had the quickest eye test ever, I was in and out so fast. My friend then helped me pick some glasses and I can't wait to pick them up. I will be picking them up on Saturday and I can't wait to get some new glasses.

I am looking for a new driving instructor at the moment because I have 12 weeks to pass my test before my theory runs out and I don't want to do my theory again so I need to find an instructor within the next week and then book my test and get one as soon as poss. I really can't wait until I pass, it will be amazing to be able to go out and drive on my own. I have been putting it off because I am worried my dad will try and use me as a personal taxi and I don't want that so I have been putting it off for that very reason but I don't want to sit my theory again so I must pass now. I hope someone gives me some money towards a car as a passing gift, that would be nice anyway but with my family I think it is very much doubtful.

I had a really good night in with Lyndsey and Louise two weeks ago (2 weeks on Sat) and it was amazing. We actually went out to see Dill sing at my mums club and then came back and had a right girly night in sat around in our PJs listening to music and having a good old gossip as well as having a couple of drinks and munching on food too.
We are having another night in on the 13th and we are all looking forward to it, it is going to be a top night.
I hope we can have one at least once a month from now on because they are just so much fun.

I am going to see Nickelback with Lou and her son in a couple of weeks time so I need to really start listening to my Nickelback CDs because I haven't listened to them in ages and I don't want to be there trying to rawk out to songs I don't know the words to so I need them on at least once a day (all their music) and then I will hopefully know as much as I can for the concert.

Work is getting busier too and I go out at least once a week to a in-house job in a pub...in the office. I like the guys who I work for, one especially makes me laugh like crazy and I will admit I do have a slight crush on him but he bats for the other team so nothing will happen. He is cute though and makes me smile so it is all good.

I don't know what else to say really, I am sure there is so much I need to talk about but it is time I went but I shall be back before the end of next week with more x

It's been a while...

Well is certainly has been a while since I last posted anything on here....this is by far the longest time I've gone without posting on here. In truth I have been posting my blogs on Myspace but I don't really use Myspace anymore so I will be posting my blogs back on here again.
In the next couple of weeks I will post the blogs on here that I've posted on Myspace just so that this blog doesn't miss out on anything and then I will do some catch up blogs and then hopefully try and get back into the routine of doing a weekly blog.
Until next time....(!)

Bank Holiday weekend was a good weekend because I had my friend Pete here for the weekend. He was actually going to come on the 18th April but I said he should come on the bank holiday and go back on the Monday because that would be easier.

On the days leading up to Pete visiting I had to do a bit of a spring clean because I tend to do one of those around this time of the year and it needed doing so I spent a few days giving the house a major clean up and it's stayed that clean since so it's all good.

Pete was arriving on the Saturday at 10:25am at the trainstation at Preston so I wanted to set off at 9:45 at the latest but that wasn't going to happen so I was a few minutes late. I knew the train would be early because Virgin trains always arrive early so that's why I was trying to leave so early to get there in enough time.

My dad was really annoying me shouting at me in the back of the car, where he was sat when Pete got in, so I bet Pete was wishing he'd not bothered coming because me and my dad were arguing about the directions to the Preston Asda. Even once we left Asda we were arguing about how to get to the Ribchester Arms, where we were going to go and eat.

We had some amazing food at the Ribby Arms (as we call it) and it was soon time to get back to my house. Pete had decided that he needed a nap. WTF?!! I rarely ever nap especially if I'm going to see someone, I don't go to sleep for a few hours when I get there. I also suggested that my dad should go to bed too because he was obviously tired with being a grumpy so and so. I was pretty tired myself after only having four hours sleep the night before but I decided not to bother because I knew if I went to bed for two hours I wouldn't want to get up again so I stayed up.

About half an hour before Pete got up I did my make up and put a nice outfit on and was ready to go out and get some food from Chiquito's. My dad had to be woken up and then took forever to get downstairs to go out. He was still being a grumpy so and so and it was causing so much tension and I wasn't happy that he was being so grumpy.

The food in Chiquito's was rubbish to say the least. It was overprice, not very tasty and the waiting on was rubbish too. We sat for thirty minutes waiting for the bill and when we complained to the manager he couldn't give a fook about it so we are not going back there again.
When we left there we was meant to go bowling but Pete had a headache so that was going to happen. Instead we went to a pub called the Bonny Inn where my dad and Pete had a drink and I sat outside for a while but my grumpt dad was complaining about how cold he was so we ended up inside.

Finally went home, calling for lots of different of cold drinks on the way home and some more beer for my dad who went to bed as soon as he got in. I helped Pete set up his bed for the night and started to upload my pictures from the day before he went off to bed. I was able to then go on the other computer but didn't really have thr right frame of mind for it so I went to bed and watched a DVD.

Next day we were meant to go out for Sunday lunch around 12pm but my dad went for a 14 mile run saying he'd be back in plenty of time but didn't turn up till going up for 2pm and I wasn't at all pleased. He then seemed to take forever to get showered and dressed so I was glad to finally get my Sunday lunch in the windmill. We decided not to have dessert in The Windmill from past experiences and went up to another pub for a cheaper tastier dessert and a lot of games on the quiz machine.

We dropped my dad off at home and then went to have three games of bolwing. Of course Pete cheated (or so I say haha) and won the first two games so I was determined to win the third game which I did. We then went upstairs to the cinema for a milkshake and found they aren't as good as they used to be and for almost a fiver they should be amazing.
Then we went down to the arcade and played on a car game but mine seemed to have a fault on a crashed so Pete won and wouldn't believe me about the fault. I always beat him on car games so he should know I'm not lying but anyway he played one on his own after that before we came back to mine.

We didn't really do anything in the evening which was a little dull. Pete watched Indianna Jones on TV and I was on the computer uploading pics and avoiding the film. I also drove my dad somewhere and was out for a while. It wasn't too long before the both of them where in bed and I'd love to joke and say they went together but I better not even say that.

Next morning I was meant to do a race but the night before I dropped a full glass bottle on a toe and it was painful. Then the next morning I had an argument with my dad, who was still in a grumpy mood, so I wasn't going to do it but my dad was still going to do his race because there was a female race (that was the one I was going to do) and 45 minutes later there was a mans race so we all packed into the car with Lucky and my dad and I drove us to Preston.
It was a nice day outside so Lucky was loving running around in the park. As we got to the start the womens race set off and as soon as they set off I was wishing I'd done the race and next time I enter a race I am going to do it because I regret not doing it now.
There was another member of my running club doing the race so we supported her and in turn she stopped and stood with my while my dad raced and had a good old natter and my dad did a great race.

We left there and argued again. I thought we should stay in Blackburn because Pete was getting a train back in around 3 hours time and I thought it would be pointless to leave Preston just to come back but my dad was being a moody pain in the arse so we had to leave Preston.
I ended up drving us the nice scenic route to the Ribby Arms for lunch. We sat at the back of the place this time and even my dads boss popped out to offers us free drinks which we didn't get chance to have because the food took 75 minutes to arrive and we didn't have time to have another drink because Pete had decided he needed to get to the trainstation an hour before his train was due in case they changed the time of the train. I said there is no chance of them changing the time because they can't do that but he wanted to get there early. In fact he wanted to get there over an hour before it was due but luckily for us the food was so late because the place was so packed.

We got to the train station about 55 minutes before the train was due and my didn't know what time the train was due but when Pete walked off to go to the toilet I told him and he wasn't happy about having to wait around for all that time and of course that made him even more grumpier than he was being. I wasn't pleased about being there so early but I eased some of my boredom by messing around with Lucky.

The train arrived about five minutes before it was due to leave and after hugs and shaking of hands Pete was on the train and we were stood poised the wave as the train set off at the time it was due to leave so we got there early for no reason.
Back to Blackburn and to a pub for dessert and games on a quiz machine before a trip to McDonalds for some dinner and then home.

All in all it was a good weekend but my dads mood wasn't fun at all. I asked him since why he was so moody and he said he didn't want to do what we were doing and that Pete is my friend and not his friend and I said he should of told me and I didn't make him come with us and that he came on his own free will. Next time I won't even bother taking him anywhere with me and then I bet he won't be happy. I do try and include him but I simply can't take him everywhere with me anymore because I need my own life, my own space and my own friends. At the end of the day we are pretty close and I want to spend time with him but I think it's about time I scaled back just how much time I do spend with him but also I will still go places with him and include him with my things too!!

Easter Weekend!!

Well I thought it was about time that I did a blog about Easter before I forget what I got up to.
It was so strange having Easter so early this year, it’s normally Mother’s Day the weekend that it was Easter so it didn’t feel quite right but I’ll get over it

The Friday I didn’t do too much other than chill out. I was determined not to do any work so I treated it like a weekend and just did nothing really. The Saturday was the same old day which involves shopping normally but this time we also went up to JTF and got some things that we’d actually gone for. On the way back we passed the Preston Asda so we decided to do our shopping there instead of going across to Accrington like we’d been doing. I am so glad we went to the Asda there because I’ve never seen such a big supermarket in my whole life. Inside this Asda they have their own McDonalds, Thorntons, Photo Shop, Opticians and other shops in the actual Asda which I though was pretty cool. Not only that but their entertainment section (TVs, DVDs etc) was like the size of a shop and the George was like the size of two shops and the rest of the shop was also massive (heaps bigger than normal Asda’s). To top all that off they also have three bus stops outside the shop and a car wash and a petrol station so it’s massive.
On the way home we went to the pub for a couple of drinks and I played on the quiz machine at ’Deal or No Deal’ which I love playing and of course I won a little money too. I ended up having my tea (dinner) there becauser it was like £1.80 for sausage, chips and a roll which is cheap.

The Sunday I wanted to go out somewhere but I didn’t have any idea where so even as we were setting off driving we didn’t have any idea where we were going to go. We went to the motorway and had McDonalds and as we sat there eating we decided to go to Blackpool for a few hours. It’s been years since I’ve been to Blackpool so I was kinda looking forward to going and taking some piccys. When we got there, there wasn’t many people there which is strange for a bank holiday but as soon as we got out the car we knew why - it was freezing!! I only had a really long cardigan type thing with me so I was very cold and after 30 mins of walking we turned back for the car so only stayed there for an hour. It just got to the point where I couldn’t feel my face or my fingers and I had Lucky with me so I couldn’t go in anywhere so we thought it was best to get back to the car and get home but then we took the wrong turn and ended up walking even longer to find the car. I was so happy to get back to the car and get the heater on. It must of taken the whole journey back to Blackburn for me to get warm again.

We ended back in the pub once we got back to Blackburn with me playing on the quiz machine. We didn’t have much cash on us so after 3 drinks we had enough for only one drink for me and a packet of crisps so I went on the quiz machine with my last 50p and won enough money to buy us both another drink and still have some money left over which was good. I also ended up eating curly fries and a sponge pudding while I was there.

So there was my weekend. The Monday I ended up giving the house a bit of a clean and went through all my stuff and started to get rid of all the things I don’t need or want anymore and some of it I sorted out to go on Ebay to earn myself a little moola.

4 Minutes

I remembered something I’d forgotten to mention on my last blog. The day after I went to see French and Saunders I was looking online for reviews to see what other people had wrote when I came across one someone had done and they’d basically lied about the show saying it was only an hour long with a thirty minute break in the middle. It really annoyed me because the show was 2 hours long and had a 15 minute break in the middle like all theatre shows, I don’t know why they felt the need to lie so I decided to write my own review on the site.

So I wrote my review and didn’t think anything about it again until the following week when I got a email. I got a email saying my review had been put forward as review of the month. I couldn’t quite believe it because I’d only wrote my review in response to a load of rubbish and didn’t know there was such a thing as reviewer of the month. I think it’s pretty cool that I’ve been nominated and it doesn’t matter if I don’t win because being nominated is just fantastic all by itself plus I can put it on my CV which is good. I won’t find out if I’ve won until the beginning of next month but if I did win it would be wonderful just as being nominated is wonderful too.
This past week has been pretty dull because I’ve been ill since last Friday. I am feeling much better now but I’m not 100% yet. It’s just so annoying because I’ve no energy to do anything and it’s so frustraiting because I have so much to do and I’ve missed running for a week now but I’m hoping to get out again for a run this weekend although according to the weather it’s gonna piss down.

I am almost three weeks behind on my course work which is 45-60 hours because I’m meant to do 15-20 hours a week. I managed to do a couple of hours yesterday afternoon and I’m going to spend 3-4 hours doing some today. It’s just such a pain because I will now have about two weeks to do six weeks of course work and then a week to do my assignment if I’ve worked the times out correctly so that means a lot of coursework each day and I’d rather not do more than 2-3 daily but I have no choice. If I’d not been ill I could of gotten about 30+ hours done this past week but I was ill so couldn’t do any.

Work still had to be done this week and it was tough with a banging headache and tempreature etc. But got it all done and next week I just have one job to work on which will, thankfully, give me more time to study etc.

As for plans this weekend, well not doing anything today other than Study and hopefully have an early night because I am already tired because I didn’t sleep well last night and was tossing and turning the whole time. Then if it’s not pouring down in the morning I am going to go for a run, then go to JTF and shopping. I am planning on going out for a few hours tomorrow night and Sunday if it’s not raining I am going out for the day but I still haven’t decided where yet. Normally I’d want to go up to my favorite place in the Lakes but I am going there in two weeks anyway so no point in going this weekend.

Herm I think that’s about it....oh if you’ve not heard the song ’4 Minutes’ by Madonna then you really need to hear it. It’s one of the best songs I’ve heard for a long time. I got it on iTunes the other night and have played it almost non stop since.

Oh, how could I forget?!! I finally got Bon Jovi tickets to see them in Twickenham!! I thought I’d have to get them on Ebay at twice thw price because Ticketmaster ran out but then this week Ticketmaster released some more so I finally got two and paid just over £100 which is what I paid for the Manchester ones so I will be seeing them twice within less than a week - once in Manchester and then again in London (Twickenham).

My London plans are slowly coming together. I have my Bon Jovi tickets for the 28th June but we are going down on the 24th first thing in the morning on the train and then in the evening we will be seeing Nial Diamond which of course I wouldn’t normally want to see but my dad is a massive fan so I got him two tickets the other week for his birthday (10th April) and he doesn’t know yet. Then the day after the concert I don’t know what we will be doing but if the weather is good we will be sight-seeing, the places we didn’t see last time, and first thing on the Thursday morning we are off to Paris and he won’t know about that until we go to Paris and then a few days later it’s the Bon Jovi concerts at Twickenham cricket ground and we will be in London for at least two more days after that so it’s going to be at least a week but then I started to look at other places we could go to from London so if I make enough money in the next 2 months we won’t be coming back to Blackburn after the week, we will be going away for about 4 days and then back to London for one more day before coming home. Where I am not saying right now because as I said it all depends on how much I make in the next 2 months because I have yet to buy the train tickets which are £150, then the travel to Paris, then the London hotel is £600 and there are other bits and pieces to pay for so I need around £1200 for all that and then if I am going away for another four days I need another £800 so that’s £2000. Then I need £100 a day spending money so it’s a lot of money and it would mean no clothes or anything much for the next three months so I will have to wait and see how things go. You may be wondering why am I paying for it all....well it’s because it’s a father’s day present from me to my dad and yeah it’s expensive but he’s worth it and we won’t always have things like this together so I want to make the most of it and spoil him. We both love London so it’s gonna be great!!

It's a Living Thing

What a crap week it has been weather wise, it’s either raining or on the verge of raining and tonight it’s so cold. I wish I was somewhere warm either lying on the beach or having some nice cocktails by a pool.

Work this week has been busy for me, it goes from one week having not enough to having too much to do. I don’t mind having to work harder or longer days but I am so far behind on my coursework now it’s getting stupid. I’m about 30 hours behind and I want to catch up as soon as I can because before I know it my next assignment will be due so I need to spend five hours on it tomorrow and at least three hours daily although I hope to get a lot more done. Work wise this coming week shouldn’t be too bad so I can hopefully spend five hours a day on my coursework on at least two of the days later in the week which is good.

I managed to get out more running wise this week which was good and was meant to get up early this morning and go again but it didn’t happen because last night I started to feel unwell so I thought after a good nights sleep I should be OK but I couldn’t even wake up I was so tired so had some more time in bed and still woke up tired and unwell. On top of that I seem to have an injury which didn’t come on until last night. My left foot is in agony and I have a similar pain in my right food although that isn’t too bad. I know it’s a running injury because of the position I need to have the feet in for it to hurt the most but what I can’t understand is when it happened because I ran Thursday and it wasn’t until over 24 hours later when it started to hurt the way it is. It’s doesn’t feel like a muscle injury which isn’t good but also it doesn’t feel like a tendon injury because I know what that feels like so that leave bones. It’s unlikely I’ve broken any bones because I was running in trainers but it doesn’t means there isn’t a chipped bone or something but the fact of the matter yeah it can happen but in two feet not likely. So I will see how things go and hopefully the pain will go down, there is no swelling but again that doesn’t mean it’s not some kind of bone injury. So even if I was well today I couldn’t of run but I would of gone on the exercise bike if I wasn’t so tired or ill.

Running I ran Tuesday and came home and went on my exercise bike, I was so tired that night and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. On Thursday I ran more but I didn’t get the chance to go on the exercise bike because I didn’t have the time to do so because I was getting my nails done. I was meant to run and go on my exercise bike but illness and injury prevented that. I did hope to go for a walk tomorrow but that all depends on how I wake up feeling and the weather etc. If I don’t get out it won’t be the end of the world but if I feel well and it’s not raining then I’d like to get out for at least half an hour sometime during the day. I’m hoping to run Monday regardless of the weather but it all depends on how my feet feel, if they are still in pain then I will go for a walk and then go on the exercise bike. If I am still in pain in my feet by the end of the week then I will have to go and see a doctor and luckily two of the doctors I see are runners (one was a member of my running club but she’s just had to quit because she had to have a hop replacement although she’s only 40.... the other is married to a member of my running club) so they will be more understanding than other doctors.

Nothing too exciting happen this week other than buying some nice slightly expensive and highly fashionable platform sandles which are to die for as well as a couple of clothes items and some jewellery including a lovely apple necklace and a butterfly bracelet.

What are you trying to say to me

Nothing much happened this week except for French and Saunders on the Friday night. The week has been filled with work and working on my first assignment for my new course.
There is so much work to be done I don't know where to start and there is a lot of it needing to be done over this next coming week so I can see there being a lot of long days making sure it's all done on time.

My assignment was a nightmare, I basically had the choice of two questions to pick from and I picked what I thought would be the easier of the two but I was wrong because I couldn't find much material in the course books to help me with it so I basically wrote a load of rubbish and I struggled to make the 2000 word, word count so I don't think I will pass this assignment. It means I am going to have to work even hard on the next one and make sure I get a better mark to keep up with the points I need to pass the course at the end of the year. I am already a week behind on my course because we are meant to carry on studying while we work on the assignment which is on something different than what we should be studying next and I don't see how I could carry on studying and do the assignment because I'd get confussed and probably put some wrong things in it. So I'm a week behind and to keep up I need to do 15-20 hours a week so even if I could do a assignment and carry on studying that would be 5-6 hours a day on top of working for 6-10 hours daily so I'd have no life. I am hoping to get a couple of weeks ahead but that's going to be tough and might not happen this month but I will see how things go.

I finally got out for a run this week after starting a new schdule but I didn't manage to run on Thursday like I needed. I was going to run Friday but knew if I did I'd be sleepy through French and Saunders. My next run was due for Saturday morning but I was unable to get my UGG boots on let alone my running shoes so there was no chance of that so basically I have to start week one of my running schedule again so hopefully I won't have to repeat another week because I simply don't have the time to do so. I am hoping to get out for a run tomorrow but my feet still have blisters although the swelling has gone down. I will see what tomorrow brings and if the worst comes to the worst I'll just go for an hours walk or something poroviding it isn't raining.

I finally got my lovely pink GHDs on Wednesday and only used them today. They are so amazing and worth every penny, I've wanted some for a long time so it's pretty amazing that I've got some now. When I used them this morning I was more than impressed with them and glad I got them. I don't think I will get rid of the ones I already have because I might need them on day.

Thursday must of been the busiest day for me this week. I finished my assignment off, well except for 100 words, and worked the morning and then in the afternoon I needed to go to Clitheroe to see my mum and give her the Mother's Day presents I'd gotten her. She'd gotten back from Cyprus the night before. But my dad needed to go and see a client in Blackburn and one in Padium so I had to drive him to see clients as well as get my mum some flowers to go with her gifts so by the time I finally got over to Clitheroe it was after 4pm.
My mum got me a gourgous silver bracelet because she knows I prefer silver to gold and she was telling me it's pure silver out there and they have more silver than gold. Also bracelets aren't already made up and that all the gold is on wheels and you basically pick which one you want and then tell them how much you want cutting off and then they make it into a bracelet or necklace if that's what you want. So she picked the one she liked for me and got it slightly bigger than she'd get for herself because she has tiny wrists. Anyway it is slightly too big for me but not so big it falls off but I can roll the bracelet on and off my hand.
She really liked the presents I'd gotten her so I was very pleased because my mum can be hard to buy for at times. It's funny because normally I can get quite stressed trying to think of things to get for my mum but I didn't need to think about these for some reason and just got them so that's good.

It was after 6 when we left there and I was so tired I got my dad to drive. I got something from McDonalds on the way past because I was so hungry and went to Curry's because I'm after a flat screen TV for my bedroom. I found a nice 26inch Samsung one that's £500 and I want it although I did go to look for one that had a DVD player in the side but there only had a couple of 19 inch ones with them in and they didn't look as nice. I've not got the TV yet as I'm still thinking about it right now and it's not like I don't have one.

I guess that's pretty much my week. Today I've been out and done the food shopping with my dad. My feet were simply too swallen yesterday to get anything on them and standing on them was a nightmare but they are much better today and I'm just waiting for the blisters to finally burst and I know that's disgusting but my feet will feel so much better when they do.
Anyway it's time for me to go, I'm looking forward to watching the Semi Finals of Dancing on Ice in 50 minutes. I've got to have an earlyt night tonight and get up early to start work at 7am because of how much I need to do this week on top of my course work.

French and Saunders - Part III

Once the show was over we made our way outside and then made our way across to the trainstation we were oringally meant to get the train to. We wanted to find out if there was a direct train home and what time the train was and found out the direct train goes from the other trainstation at 23:10 so we got a taxi across the town centre to The Hard Rock Cafe which is quite near the station.

We had a couple of drinks there, malibu and diet coke, and left before midnight because we wanted to be back at the station for midnight in case the train left early.
By this point my feet were in pure agony because I'd worn new shoes and they'd rubbed my little toes like mad and now my big toes were rubbing and my feet had swelled and were pushing against all parts of the shoes like they were trying to break out so walking felt like I was walking on glass at that point and to make matters worse my jeans kept sliding down because I'd not put a belt on because I was wearing a waist belt above my top.

When we got to the platform the train was only a few minutes off leaving so it was a good job that we'd decided to go back slightly earlier otherwise we may of missed the train which of course wouldn't of been good. I was very relieved to sit down and take the preasure off my feet.
The journey home was slow and I was tired but had to stay awake because my dad has a habit of nodding off and Lynds was close to falling asleep next to me. The journey really dragged on taking an hour to get back, it could of gone a lot faster but I guess it has to go as fast as it's meant to go.

By the time we got back to Blackburn I had such a numb bum and couldn't wait to get walking but that was painful and hard to walk with the pain my feet were in. It was bloody cold too and standing around in that with feet feeling like I'd walked through glass wasn't my idea of a fun night out but I guess that will serve me right for wearing new shoes on a night out.

The taxi took a little while, Lyndsey had ordered two and she got in the first one and we were stood around for another five minutes for ours. I've never been so pleased to see a taxi arrive than I was when the taxi turned up. My poor feet were dying to get out of the shoes and now I was finally on my way home. The taxui driver was so nosey asking where the other one had gone because he knew two had been ordered and he was asking where we'd been and then started to go on about how he lived round the corner from where we lived and knew if we knew certain people.

Finally home I collapsed on the sofa and pulled my shoes off. My feet were swallen and bright red and hurting like crazy.
Both my dad and I were hungry so we ordered take away, he got a donner kabab and I got a chicken kabab and they are £3.50 each but when he came he charged us £11.20. I'd sent my dad to the door with a tenner and he came back in asking for change and I asked him if he was sure it was so much for two kababs. What a rip off and they weren't very good either. I've used that take away later than that time before (after 1am) and they've never charged me so much so in future I won't be using them.

I was so shattered I should of gone to bed but I ended up staying up till 2am and then went and read the program I'd got from the theatre so it was well after 3am when I put my head down to sleep but it was such an amazing night ... well except for the shoes murdering my feet.

French and Saunders - Part II

The show started with the French and Saunders theme tune followed by the big screen at the back of the stage showing a film sketched where they play the two old women. They are making their way to the show and you see they are in this buggy that is being driven by a hamsters through the countryside and through the town. When they went to a long shot, where you could see them from a distance, they turned into plastic dolls and it was so funny. Then they'd pass signs for Manchester and make their way into the theatre still being driven by a hamster on this buggy and then the screen went blank and this mini buggy with the dolls on was driven across the stage to a load of laughter from the audience.

Then on walk French and Saunders in matching outfits which are basically a piss take out of Simon Cowel. They have grey trousers on that come up to their arm pits and black long sleeve t-shirts underneath and black coverse trainers. They play themselves at this point and Jennifer (Saunders) mentions that some of Dawn's (French) family are in the audience and Dawn turns round and has a go at Jen for mentioning her family and they have a play fight and end up throwing themselves on the floor and basically fighting with fresh air.

One of the first sketches they go into is based at a bus stop and they play teenagers. Jens character is telling Dawn's character that she has a boy coming round and that her parents are going to be away to which Dawn goes into hilerious detail about the size of a mans "togger" and idicates the size with her arm and it's about 3 foot long. She says that when you have sex the "togger" goes inside the girl and keeps bashing against the hymen until it breaks, when the hyman breaks a egg falls out (she idicates the size of the egg with her hands again and it's about 2 foot big) and tells her there is green slime and blood everywhere and she has to clean it up with the towels that she had to put down before sex and put the egg in the towel and flush it down the toilet otherwise she will have a baby. It was just so funny.

While Jen went off and got changed Dawn went into the audience and stole people's chocolate and generally made people laugh a lot. Then Jen did the most hilerious parady of Madonna and the song "hung up" but her own version. So it started like the original video (this was shown on the big screen) where madonna goes into a dance studio with a big stereo and starts dancing round and posing in front of the mirror. Well Jen comes on (on screen) and she has the leotard on etc like Madonna but comes in with the biggest stereo ever. She had giant,almost knee length, skin coloured knickers on under the leotard which was obviously done on purpose and was sooo funny. She is doing really dodgy dancing in front of the mirrors and pulling the leotard out of her arse. Then the screen goes blank and the stage hands wheel on a wall with a pole on and on comes Jen as Madonna and gyrates up and down the pole just like Madonna did in her live shows and then starts to do the dodgy dancing around the stage and pretends to hurt herself and pretends not to be able to get up with was so funny and on walks Dawn and tells her off for trying to do Madonna at her age (in fact Jen is the exact age as Madonna). Then she has to help her across the stage to where a big white sofa has been brought on. I must admit Jen has a nice pair of legs and certainly aint shy because you could see her black knickers under the skin coloured tights because they were bigger than the leotard she had on. I must admit I almost wet myself laughing during this Madonna piss take, it was just so funny and you need to see it to appreciate it.

They did the original Ab Fab sketch were Dawn played Saffy, they did it word for word. That TV show is one of my all time TV shows so when they started the theme tune for it I was really made up about it because the character from the show who Jen plays, Edina Monsoon, is my all time favorite TV character and I truly hope she writes another series of it. It was so amazing to see it live in front of my very eyes and it's not something I will ever forget. I'd love to be in that TV show if only for one episode it would be like a dream come true for me. To true form the sketch was very funny.

They did a lot of pre-recorded sketches which of coursse gave them time to go off and get changed into other outfits to play other characters.
All of a sudden Born to be Wild started to be played and Jen and Dawn came on in their old ladies outfits on electric shooters and drove round the stage. That was so funny, laugh a second comedy and when they left the stage on the scooters the big screen came on and it saw them go out the theatres back door and down onto the main road where they drove along it (obvious pre-filmed) and Jen's scooter had a backet at the front with a flask in which she opened and poured a cup of tea and passed it to Dawn's character. They ended up in a gym and bumped into two of the professional dancers from Strictly come dancing. Then the stage turned into a Strictly come dancing stage with Dawn's old lady character coming on with Anton Du Beck which turned out to be a dummy and Jen's charachter came on with Brendan Cole which again was a dummy. They both danced round this these dummies and for those who don't know about Brendan he's a bit of a player who gets together with the celebs he dances with so they played on that with Jen going out of sigth for 5 seconds and she came back on with Bredan upside down up her skirt and then he ended up on to of her on the floor having sex with her.

During the show when they played themselves they were pissing around joking about who is the bigger start out of the two of them from their shows Vicar of Dibley and Ab Fab. Personally I think it's Jen because she's been in lots of big films including playing the fairy godmother in Shrek 2. Anyway near the end Dawn walks on with this 20 foot moving doll of her character from Vicar of Dibley while Jen was in a white box on stage. Jen was pretending not to like Dawn's character from the show and started insisting she was a comedy godess when all of a sudden the bix lid opened and Jen went floating upwards on these wires. She had a white flowing gown on that went to the floor and had these massive arms and when she spoke this big earthy voice was replaced over hers and all this smoke appeared and it was so funny and she was basically telling Dawn to admit she was the bigger star when one of her arms fell off and Dawn went and got the rope that was holding Jen up and swung her across the stage, up and down and all over the place and wouldn't lift her up until she admitted Dawn was much bigger than she and in the end she did.

They did their own version of Abba's "Thank you for the music" at the end and it was funny and brought a tear to my eye because after the tour there will be no more French and Saunders and then they bowed and went off.
Then two voices started to shout "cab for French and Saunders, Cab for French and Saunders" and on came Jen and Dawn in the outfits of the two dirty old men. OMG! This was so funny, the men come on and they always talk about "giving on to" women etc and said "oh she's wants it, she wants me to give it to her" while they pointed at an audeience member. They then went up to a wall that had been placed on the stage and turned their backs to us and pretended to piss on it. Then Jen's character turned round and his dick was hanging out. I was in a total fit of giggles at this point and couldn't stop laughing, it was just so funny. It looked so real and the of course Dawn's character turned round with his nob out and Jen's put hers away but Dawn's couldn't get his away so Jen's had to do it and the other character got off on it and they ended up dry humping each other *LOL*!!

They then took their wigs and maks off and took their final bows before rushing off the stage.
What a show!! I loved it and I would love nothing more than to see it again, I wish I could see every night of the tour because it wss just so wonderful and I am so sad to know they aren't going to do it anymore, I wish they would because they are wonderful and so funny live.
I've not gone into detail about all the show because that would simply take way too long but it was probably one of the best nights of my life, never laughed so much and would love to see them again if that was ever possible.

French and Saunders - Part I

French and Saunders have always been a duo who have been in my life whether it's as a partnership or as French or Saunders in their various character roles. They are both idols of mine especially Jennifer Saunders so when I found out they were touring this year for the final time I had to make sure I'd see them. I got my tickets about nine weeks ago and had been counting down the days until it was finally the 7th March 2008. When the day arrived I was so excited but also a little stressed because of clothing issues but that wasn't going to ruin what was going to be a fantastic show.

The morning of the show I had to rush out and get a new outfit to wear because items I'd ordered either came or didn't fit or came and had faults or didn't turn up at all. So I rushed round some shops and got a lovely new bag, a ring, some amazing shoes, some black smart bootcut jeans and a purple preppy type shirt. Got home and the shirt didn't fit so I was worried, thought I better look and see what I've got and found a new top I'd forgot I had and it went with everything else I was going to wear so that made everything OK again.

Fast forward to 4:40pm. I was meant to be at the trainstation to meet Lyndsey but the taxi wasn't here. The train was at 4:58 so I was panicking and worried I was going to miss it. By 4:50pm my dad decided to drive us down and leave the car at the station overnight. We got there with five minutes to spare and tried to run up to the platform to get tickets. Luckily for us the train was 10 minutes behind schedule so we were happy about that but there was no signs of Lynds. Lynds finally turned up a few minutes before the train was due and we gave up waiting to get tickets and made our way across to the right platform. Standing there was no fun because it was blowing a breeze and my hair was flying round all over the place and the train was running even further behind so we weren't too pleased as we stood there getting colder and colder. When the train finally arrived we were happy to get a seat for our slow journey down to Manchester.
We were meant to go to one Manchester station and change over for another but we decided to get a taxi across to the theatre because we knew it wasn't far. But first we went up to McDonalds and had a double cheese-burger each to help fill a hole. Then off we went in search of a taxi which then drove us round in circles to get us to the theatre and all of us sat in the back knowing what he was doing. Finally we got there and he dropped us round the corner when it would of been just as easy to drop us outside or across the road but never mind.

Now it was time to find a bar for a nice drink before the show but we ended up walking the wrong way then getting directed another way and ending up near where we started before we eventually found somewhere to have a drink. I guess you could call it a hard rockers bar because of the music and because of how everyone was dressed. The three of us fit in like a sore thumb so to speak. Two drinks later and we were off in search of some chocolate to eat and some plasters for my little toes which were rubbing in my new shoes.

Mini eggs and two free plasters later Lynds was shoving a carrier bag down my coat and making me feel like a bit of an idiot as we lined up to get into te theatre. I was standing there thinking people were gonna think I was deformed or something or the chocolate was going to melt over over me and I'd look like I'd had a weird kind of fake tan accident.
Bought a program and then went in search of a toilet before buying a small bottle of water and heading for our seats. We had a great view from where we were so I was happy for that and a few minutes later it was time for the show to start.

As I Am - Part II

I went to Ikea on Wednesday. I'd been wanting to go for a while for two reasons, the first was I needed another DVD/CD rack because I've filled up all the four I already have and have more DVDs/DVDs to start filling another and there is a table and chair set we've been after for a while. So we ended up going to the Manchester one around 4pm on Wednesday and we took the Sat Nav which decided to take us the wrong way when we got to Ashton Under Lyne (that's where it is for those who don't know) and took us down a dead-end street in the opposite direction. We eventually got there after turning off the sat nav. I really enjoy walking around Ikea, when you go the first time it's very confussing and a different experience but once you get used to how things work it makes it so much easier and I just love walking round there looking at things because I always spot things I end up going back and getting. We always get a lot more than we went for and end up with a IKEA bag full with bits and bats and for those who don't know what size Ikea bags are they are MASSIVE and cost 30p but they can be reused but we alwayd forget to take one back with us.

We got the table and chair set we've wanted for ages and some really nice cushions for the chairs. The cushions were only £3 each which I thought was a total bargain because they look amazing and make the chairs look heaps better. We got some bamboo-ess placemats which look amazing too. I finally got a blind for my bedroom after wanting to get one for a long time now and my dad put it up for me this afternoon along with my mirror. Got another fleece throw for the sofa, they are so amazing and everytime I see a new colour I have to get it and it's hard to believe they are under £2 each. We also got an blue bathmat because we don't like the one we had because it looked too much like a towel. We just got generally bits and bobs. The next day we got a Ikea statement thing which had a voucher in saying if we spend £60 we get a £10 voucher, well we could of done with that the day before!! We will be going back in the next 2-3 weeks because there is a sofa there that I want and my dad wants two blinds for his bedroom and I want some big cushions for the sofa and a few other little things.

I think I'm having a driving lesson this week which I'm looking forward to but I must admit I can be a bit of a nightmare. I'm really confident and good at everything except for reverse parking, you know the one where you have to reverse round a corner, but that's not why I'm such a nightmare. Basically if I didn't have my Ls on the car you wouldn't know I'm a learner and also because I am constantly complaining about leaners especially when I get stuck behind one and they are dreadful at driving, I must confess they really do test my patience. On Saturday I was stuck behind one all the way to Accrington from Intack, they were so slow, well I was stuck behind 5 cars and at the front of us was a learner. Also on Saturday I think all the crap drivers were out, OMG, because I had a lot of them, more than normal, doing dogdy stuff in front of me and they totally pissed me off and my dad was glad when we weren't driving because he was sick at me shouting and swearing at them. I was fine when I wasn't driving but there were 100 times more on the road than normal and they wound me out so much, I was a lil pissed off about something else so they got me even more wound up than normal.

Finally started my assignment today and am just over 500 words into it. I am clueless what else to write and really need to go through my course book and write some notes so I can do a better argument because basically at the moment I'm saying social practice is more important than art or technology to film historians but I've not said why or how I've come to that or how I've managed to take techology and art out of the equation so I need to work out why myself so I can write it much better. I want to get up to 1100-1300 tomorrow as well as doing some notes so I have my work cut out for me. I have until Thursday to finish so the more I get done the sooner the better but I also have to work but I think I will do my assignment in the morning and work until 8pm in the evening work wise so then I'm doing the assignment with a fresh rather than a tired brian.

I've just watched Dancing on Ice and it's back on in 20 minutes so I'm off to get the washing outta the washer and sort it. I think I'm going to go to bed and watch Stardust again after DIO if there isn't any films on TV and then hopefully be asleep before midnight.

As I Am - Part I

Well I'm sat here trying my best to avoid starting my assignment, I don't even know what the question is yet and I've not even done all the coursework so I'm really dreading starting it right now to be honest. It's due on Thursday and it's 2000 words and I don't feel like doing it in all honesty but I have no choice. Today I am meant to get as much done as I can, I find the first 500 words and the last 500 words the hardest because they are the ones that include the introduction, the start, the ending and the conclusion so it's the main part of the assignment that I do find the easiest part of the lot but it's the bits where I don't know what I'm quite doing or wanting to say etc that I find the hardest. I did have a goal today of doing around 800 words but the way things look I might have to settle for 500 but no less. That will take me ages because once I read the question I will have to look back in my course books for inspiration and spend a few hours writing some notes and will often have to keep looking back at things. When I start this I don't know but I certainly won't be going to bed until I've done 500--800 words and if I'm still sat here at 2am doing them then so be it!!

For all those of you who know me well enough you'll know that I barely (rarely) ever eat chocolate but for the past 2 weeks I've been having at least one a day and that's not good for my diet but I just seem to be craving them and need to get off them so tomorrow I'm going cold turkey. I'm actually sat here with one of those massive ones in front of me and my choice of chocolate bar right now is Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Caramel. But I need to kick this habit so this will be my last one for a long time hopefully, I feel stressed today hence the size of the chocolate bar but also they are only £1 in Asda haha.

I got two really good albums this week, one of which I've wanted for a long time...it's called The Very Best Of Legends - The Definitive Collection. There is a lot of the good oldies on this one, I know it won't be everyones cup of tea but there are a load of songs on here that I think are totally amazing. The second album I got was Alicia Key's new album As I Am which is also very good, I've been listening to it on and off for the last 3/4 days and I'm really enjoying it and I must say it's her best album to date and I'd highly recommened it.

Talking of good things I've bought this week, I got Stardust, finally, and I LOVE IT!! It is fantastic!! I couldn't wait for it to come out on DVD and I finally got it on Tuesday in Tesco and it's just amazing. I read the book about 2 years ago and that was just wonderful and the film is such a good adaptation of the book. The characters actually looked how I'd pictured them in my head as I read the book so that made the film even more wonderful to watch. I did start to watch it again in bed last night but I was so tired I must of fallen asleep around 15 minutes into it. If you've not seen it then you should get it because it's utterly brilliant!!

The week has been filled with work for me, it's good when I have so much work to do because I prefer to be doing something although I find it tiring especially with coursework too. My dad came home with a new job the othernight and it's the neatest set of books/paperwork I've ever seen so I'm happy plus it also saves time too but there are 100s of things like invoices etc in there so there is up to a weeks work in it although looking at it, it didn't look that much until I started to go through it. I still have a job to do which I will be finishing tomorrow but I am sure it'll take me the whole day to get that done and I've also got to work on my assignment too so this week it looks like it's going to be long days for me. I'll certainly be glad when this week is out of the way.

I had my nails done on Thursday and I am so pleased with them. They look amazing and I keep catching myself looking at them. They felt really strange at first and I've had to learn how to do things with them because I can't do things how I did before I had them done and the hardest thing is texting. They took a lil while to do but they look so good, at first it was a shock seeing them like this but now I just think they look great and I'm so happy with them
Hmm...what else?..erm....(!) Nothing too exciting really, I discovered a really great magazine called ZEST which is probably one of the best and most imformative magazines I've ever read. In fact I am so impressed with it I have ordered a subscription which starts in April. Well actually I ordered two...why two? Well I'd forgotten I'd ordered one and then ordered another one and I can't get out of it because I paid upfront rather than monthly and they said the best they can do is start the subscriptions months apart so I thought that was good because I could start one when the other one finished in twelve months but that isn't the case, the longest they will let me start them apart is four months so I'm going to get the same issue twice for eight months but I guess I could always give it to someone. I am just a bit of an idiot for even doing it twice, I did one late at night when I was really tired and the other one I did the next morning thinking I'd only been on and had a look so in future I will only do things when I'm not tired.
I was meant to go and get myself a new TV yesterday and then that changed to today but with no assignment started and me not at the word count I want to be it won't be happening today, it won't be happening until I can spare a couple of hours to go and get one, I might get one on Thursday if I get the time because I am going to see my mum with her mother's day gifts because she gets back from Cyprus at 8pm on Wednesday so I'm going over Thursday afternoon providing my assignment is done, if it is I can also go and get myself a new TV.

I guess I should end this here and get my lunch so then I can come back and sit down and start my assignment. Dancing on Ice is on later too which I'm looking forward to.

I can't stop thinking about you

It's blog time...normally Sunday is blog time but I won't have the time to do it tomorrow so I thought I might as well get it done now.

Well this weeks I've mainly worked and done some study. They are both as important as the other but I need money so that kinda has the edge over study right now although now it's left me in a made rush to get the coursework done by the end of Thursday so I have six days to do my assignment.
I am working on two sets of accounts right now for a husband and wife and they are taking a little while but I'm hoping to have them done by the end of Monday or Tuesday at the latest and I'm going to dedicate most of my Monday to doing them so it might be a 10-12 hour work day but once they are done I can just go onto my study/coursework and get that done. There is a lot to do and as I said, it needs to get done by the end of Thursday because the the assignment is due the following Thursday. I will start it Friday but I might not get much done on Friday because I might get stuck on it as I've not done one in nine months so getting back into it might not be too easy. Saturday I won't get any done because I'm out and about all day so it will be a all say session on the Sunday and everyday until it's done.

I've been buying a lot this week too. I ended up getting some things off the Body Shop website because I got a email haha....they do work. I got a white musk set for my mum for mothers day and I got myself a Jasmin set because I love Jasmin and I got a cool free gift and free delivery because I spent over £30.
It's funny because when they came the next day I'd totally forgot I'd ordered anything and when my dad walked in with the big box I was saying I'd not ordered anything so when I opened it, it was a surprise.
I also bought somethings from La Senza but I am not going into details about that haha. As well as La Senza I had my weekly buying session on Play.com and got some CDs which I'm still waiting to get.
I got a Scarf from River Island off ebay (brand new) and then I ordered some things from Assocorize and then Evans because they had 20% off everything which was pretty good.
Oh and I also got 20 free pictures from Snap Fish (sign up to get that) and I bought a Mother's Day cup off there which has a picture of me and my mum on and I got that half price too which is good so I have that and the body shop to give her and I will be getting her some flowers.
Today I was buying things in Boots including a birthday present for my friend Pete. He asked for some aftershave so I went and smelled some and ended up getting one that Lynds recommened for me. I even got a free Max Factor gift and £2 off my mascara so I was happy. So I guess this has been a spending week for me.....oh and I bought my dad's birthday present also which is 2 Neil Diamond tickets to see him at the O2 in London in June. I'm taking him down with me in June anyway so we'll be going for two days longer than origially planned and I'm in the process of sorting that out right now.

Oh, my mum won't even be in the country for mother's day so her mother's day is going to be on the 6th March.
She rung up to let me know she isn't going to be in the country for mother's day because she knew I'd be wanting to take her something.
Her and my step dad are off to Cyprus less than 5 weeks after they got back from Malta. I wish I was going for a week or two. They got a last minute deal and are going all inclusive for a week and it costs £250 per person which is pretty cheap. I saw a deal for 2 weeks today for £500 per person and if I had a grand going spare I'd take my dad away for a fortnight.
So she gets to move mother's day for her haha.

I'm doing a duathlon in June.....am I crazy? haha. I am far from being fit right now but having a goal like this will push me to work out and train for it. It's for charity too so that makes me want to do it even more, I might even get some sponsership for it because it's all for a good cause.
So it's 5K run followed by a 20K bike ride and then finishing with a 5K run. I'm doing the bike ride and I'm hoping to find someone to do the running parts for me because I know I can be fit enough to do the bike part but maybe not the running bit and I don't want to come last so if I have someone to do the running it will help me out a lot.
I am planning on doing 3 bike rides a week and walk/run 2-3 times a week. The bikes rides may only be 30 minutes each to start off with down Witton Park but it's better than nothing and 3 a week is a good start and there are various things I can do round Witton Park and the surrounding woods and roads and everything, there is a bit of hills and rougher routes I can take myself round as I get fitter.
My training is starting Monday so I need to find time to fit this in, it will probably stop me from watching my daily DVD some week nights but the end result will be worth it I am sure.
I also have plans for a 5K charity race in August and a 10K charity race in July so of course the walking/running will eventually go from 2 times a week to 4 times a week at some point. I won't be doing any races (running wise) before July so that gives me time to get fit enough and I hope to progress a lot further than I've done before.

I should be having a driving lesson this week. I'm a good driver and too confident according to my dad but my reversing needs work and I need to re-learn how to drive the way you need to pass your test (I can it anal driving haha) so I'm gonna need 3-4 lessons to sort that out so that will cost around £100(ish). Oh and did I mention that I plan to pass before the 6th of April? I've got 6 weeks today to do that in so I've basically got to go out for a lesson with this instructor (who I found when I out driving and was stopped behind him at traffic lights and was impressed by his car haha) and see if we get on etc and then see when he can fit me in and then put in for a cancallation driving text and hopefully get it before the 6th April and of course pass it.
The reason I've picked that date (as well as it actually pushing me and motivating me to finally getting this done) is because my dad is doing a 14 mile race in the Lakes and I want to drive him up there and there is no B roads all the way there and there is some motorway and only being a learner I can't drive on the motorway so my dad would have to drive that bit and it's OK on the way there but after running 14 miles and spending the day in the Lakes I don't think he'd fancy any driving so I want to be able to drive us there and back so I need to pass my test so watch this space.

Right I need to go to bed, I'm cream crackered and have lots to do tomorrow.