Beauty Therapy
Our tickets arrived at the end of last week. That means it's all official and in 2 weeks and 6 days, we will be flying off to the Caribbean! YIPEE!!
Last weekend I bought the last of my holiday clothes and my wedding make-up. This weekend is –hopefully- my last dress fitting! I have booked my pre-holiday bikini wax and eyebrow shape, but the beautician lady was a tad pushy and now I’m going in for a slimming treatment on Friday. All of this was done over the phone. I could have been a size 6 for all she knew and yet she was talking me into a slimming treatment. Oh well, lets hope it works.
I am so tired at the moment it’s untrue. All I want to do is sleep!
Did anyone see LOST last night? I knew Shannon was going to die, but that’s not how I read it was going to happen. It all happened a bit quickly really.
I tell you what; ITV and Channel 4 should have really conferred with one another. I’m trying to watch Celebrity X Factor (GO MOYLES!!!) and Big Brother, yet they’re on at the same time. Which results in me channel hopping. Tom is not impressed!
I don’t know how I’m going to survive 2 weeks without Big Brother!!
Job Offer
So this job interview I went for last week... They offered it me.
I should be elated right? It's the job of my dreams, with the pay that I want. So why aren't I excited?
It means losing 7 days annual leave per year, that 's working days. It also means working some evenings, weekends and bank holidays. What to do...
Haven't got the energy to think about it right now. I've been so tired this week. Tired and slightly nauseous. This week has pretty much been a blur. Can't believe it's Thursday already.
Mum and Dad got their tickets this morning. Why haven't I got mine?
Guest Poster Wanted - I Think
I might have mentioned that I'm going off to get married soon? I fly out 4 weeks today in fact.
I was wondering, do you think I should organise some guest posters to keep my blog ticking over? Or will you faithful readers return when I come back? If you think I should organise some guest posters, does anyone want to volunteer for the job?
Wedding Bells and Baby Blues
Friday went without a hitch. The bride looked beautiful. The bridesmaids and pageboy walked down the aisle perfectly. The groom was on top form. But most importantly, the rain held off until after the photos.
We arrived at where the ceremony was taking place. My mum greeted my brother and started to well up with tears. I on the other hand was fine. Or at least I was until the bride started to walk down the aisle. I started to choke up, but I managed to hold it together. Until the vows. When my brother started reciting his vows, I started crying. It came as such a shock to me because I really didn’t expect to. I had to ask my mum for a tissue!!
The sun even came out a little bit for the photos. The dinner was gorgeous. The speeches were heartfelt. So much so, that yes, in my brothers speech, I blubbed! Again, I didn’t expect to. I think its just because our wedding is so close, it got me all emotional. This could be good or bad. It might mean that it’s all out of my system and come our wedding day I’ll be fine. Or, it might mean that come our wedding day, I’ll be even more of a blubbering wreck!!
The bride and groom have gone to St Lucia for their honeymoon. My brother kept it secret right up until the last minute. Not even the bride knew and the only reason we found out is because on Saturday night, my brother rang my dad to tell him. The bride still didn’t know at that point!
I saw my sister on Saturday. She actually pulled her finger out and came to visit my mum with her two sons and grandson. So I met my great nephew for the first time. He is 6 weeks old and absolutely gorgeous.
I’m broody at the best of times anyway, but now I’m so broody I have this aching feeling inside of me that I just want to have a baby. I even had a dream last night that I was pregnant and in labour. Today, I’m training a bunch of midwives. You have no idea what this is doing to me.
I’ll be ok in a few days time. The logical part of me tells me that I’ve got plenty of time and it’d be much better if we waited a few years, but the maternal part of me can’t wait that long. Unfortunately, I don’t have a choice. Tom and I have agreed to wait, so wait I must.
I Should Have Known...
After all that worrying, my sister didn't turn up on Wednesday night anyway. Dad had spent the afternoon trying to call her, but she wasn't answering, so he left messages, which weren't returned. So he turned up there, and she was in. She said she wasn't going to come because she didn’t want everybody staring at her. As if the world revolves around her anyway. This week is about my brother and his wedding. No one else. Instead, she reckons she’s going to come on Saturday and bring her grandson with her. So at long last my mum gets to meet her 2 month old great grandson. About time. Lets see shall we?!
The Italians are over at the moment. They consist of my uncle (my dads brother) and my cousin (my mum’s nephew). It is VERY loud at my mum and dads house at the moment. Trying to get someone’s attention is pointless. The wedding is tomorrow at 12.30. The weather isn’t looking promising. Forecast says showers and wind. It was lovely and sunny today for a while. I went to get my hair done. It was looking all lovely. Then as soon as I walked out, the heavens opened and I was about 10 minutes away from my car. I was wearing a white top, which was see through by the time I got to my car and my lovely hair wasn’t so lovely anymore. I was not a happy bunny.
I had a job interview today. Don’t want to say too much about it just yet, but I think it went well. They want to see me again next week anyway.
Right, I need to go. I have a wedding tomorrow to prepare for. Fingers crossed for the weather.
Rain Rain Go Away
It's raining. It's Monday. My brothers wedding is on Friday. What are the chances of the rain stopping before then and us having some decent weather?
It's 6 weeks today until I get married. Th lady in the shop DID pin my dress the other day. So she reckons it'll be back within 2 weeks and then I should go in and try it on again to make sure it fits properly. That means I absolutely must not lose or put on any weight in the next 6 weeks. She also showed me how I should pack my dress and what to do with it when we get over there. She was very helpful. All I have to do now is figure out what to do with my hair.
I'm in a quandry as to what to do. Obviously, we're going to have photo's of our wedding day. You guys have shared the excitement and seen it happen. However, this blog is supposed to be anonymous, yet I want to share my photo's with you. Hmmm, what to do?
Families
Last night Tom and I went to Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull. I might have mentioned we’re getting married next month, so we went to John Lewis to complete our wedding list. We’re not expecting many presents as we’re only having a small wedding, but we wanted a list for the people who wanted to get us something but didn’t know what to get. We had great fun. They give you a little barcode scanner and you go round the store scanning the things you want.
Anyway, I’m digressing.
We also went and got our sun lotion for when we go away. It WILL be sunny. Or at least it bloody better be!
This time in 5 weeks, we will have been there for 3 days already!
While writing this post, I’ve just had a phone call from the shop I’m getting my wedding dress from. I was supposed to be having a dress fitting tomorrow. My dress used to fit perfectly, I’m sure of it, but last time I tried it on, we decided it was too big round the bust, how I don’t know as I’m very well endowed in that area.
Anyway…digressing again.
My fitting has been cancelled, as the dressmaker can’t it. My bridesmaid is still going in for hers, as her alteration is a simple one, so the lady in the shop is going to pin it. However, she doesn’t feel comfortable doing mine. So it’s been put back until Thursday. Which gives them just over 4 weeks to adjust it, get me to try it on again, make more adjustments if necessary and then steam it to get the creases out. That’s not a lot of time.
I have also just found out that on Wednesday night, my sister will be at my mum and dads to see my cousin and my uncle. I haven’t seen my sister in nearly 3 years. She isn’t a pleasant person. She never calls my parents. Ever. She didn’t even send them a card for their 40th anniversary. Tom has never met her, and I was hoping he would never have to. She ALWAYS causes a scene. She caused a scene at my mum and dads 30th anniversary party. She refuses to come to my brothers wedding. She has a son who got his girlfriend pregnant. That means my parents were about to become great grandparents, and she didn’t even bother to tell them until my parents rang her for something. She doesn't care about anyone but herself.
Mum wants me to ignore all of that and just play happy families. Well I can't. I don't like the woman. I don't hate her, I'm indifferent to her. She means nothing to me. I could walk past her in the street and quite happily ignore her.
I think I might make my excuses and not be there Wednesday night. If she was that bothered about seeing the family, she should have accepted the invite to my brothers wedding.
txt spk
Y do ppl ryt lyk dis? Duz ne1 els fink its stoopid or iz it jst me? Wat r ur forts on it?
Dat iz de end of dis pst. Gd job 2. It’s ard to ryt lyk dis.
Road to Hell
Right, so I'm in a training room, all set to do my training. I have 8 computers, but 10 students. You do the math. Maths isn't my strong point, but even I know that's too many of one and not enough of the other. So they had to double up. Not the best thing to do. Especially when they're a loud group anyway and the room is pokey, small and stuffy.
Then halfway through the morning, all the computers crash. I log them all back in. Twenty minutes later, they crash again. I log them all back in. Two minutes later, they're all out again. My delegates ended up having a one and a half hour lunch break and went to the pub. The afternoon session went ok and they all left.
My journey home was a nightmare. A 45 minute journey took me nearly 2 hours because some lorry had broken down on an island. It was hot in my car and I don't have air con.
It's my time of the month, I have a headache, and I have cramps.
I'm off to watch Desperate Housewives
Help me settle an argument!
Ok, girlies, I need your answer to this:
Where do you keep your hairdryer? Do you keep it plugged in, or do you religiously unplug it and put it away everyday?
Stupid Fucking Idiots
This is how stupid the people who used to live here before were.
This is the door in one of our spare rooms. Look at the hinge expertly placed on the OUTSIDE!!
Muppets!
Judas
As you know, my brother is getting married in a little less than 2 weeks. Last night was his fiancée’s hen night, which I went on.
Over the last month or so, I’ve been a tad worried as to who might be going to their reception, as there is a particular someone that I don’t really want to see. I was fairly certain that they wouldn’t be there as they are having quite a small reception. However my fears were confirmed last night when the wife of the person I don’t want to see said to me “see you on the 19th”.
When I was about 9or 10, my brother was quite good friends with this person. He would often be round our house and they would hang out.
One night, I was in bed and this guy was still at our house. He went upstairs to the loo and then came into my room. He sat on my bed and talked to me for a while. I didn’t really know why he was there. The next thing I knew was he asked if he good give me a goodnight kiss and before I could say or do anything, he was kissing me. Not just a kiss on the cheek, but a full-blown kiss.
Now I know that in comparison to what some people have been through, this is nothing. But it’s stayed with me throughout my life. He took away the special thing that should have been my first kiss.
I never told my mum and I never told my brother because I thought they’d think I was making it up.
I did tell my mum just over a year ago and she told me I should have told them sooner. She wanted to tell my brother but I stopped her because I didn’t want it all coming out.
So now he and his wife (who is lovely) are going to be at the wedding and there will be no avoiding him. So yes, I’m feeling a bit nervous about it all and I’m keeping everything crossed that we won’t be on the same table. I wont cause a scene. It’s my brother’s big day and I don’t want anything to spoil that for him. I’ve always just tried to stay away from him, but won’t be able to happen this time.
Imagine the slimiest guy you know, double it, times it by ten and you’ll be close to how slimy and horrible this guy is.
Wish me luck everybody!
Impatience is NOT a Virtue
Some people should not be allowed to use a computer. Simple as.
I’m usually really patient with my students, but today I’m finding it difficult. Don’t get me wrong, my group are lovely, but I do have a particularly difficult lady. She’s not very good at using a computer, she’s not very good at retaining information and she’s awful at listening to me. One of those I can cope with, all of them and you have an inpatient trainer.
I also have a group of 3 who keep chatting over me. Now I don’t mind people having a chat, but if I’m talking to the group, trying to explain something, I expect the group to listen to me and not carry on their chat about what they were doing last night.
I think my patience is so low today because I’m tired. But also frustrated. Tom and I have both been so tired and so busy this week that neither of us has had the energy to, well, you know. We were also at Jack’s last weekend, so it’s been a total of a week and I’m getting tetchy!! I’m not used to it being this long.
On a higher note, last night, Tom and I went to the cinema to see Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown. If you haven't already seen it, then you should, it was brilliant! Next film on my list to go see is Confetti!
46 sleeps to go!!
Late Nights and LOST
I’ve somehow managed to hurt my back. And no, not in the way you’re thinking of. I had a coughing fit last night, a mix of the weather and my asthma I think, but afterwards, my back was really sore. Lower back, right hand side. I have a bit of a twisted pelvis – yes I’m strange, but I thought that if I went to bed, I’d wake up this morning and it’d be gone. No chance.
So today I have taken the following drugs:
My contraceptive pill
My vitamins for healthy hair skin and nails
2 anadin ibuprofen tablets
2 pro plus tablets
2 more anadin ibuprofen tablets
The pro plus was just because I was feeling so tired this morning. We’ve had a couple of late nights recently and they are starting to take their toll.
Talking of late nights, last night was one of them. The second series of “LOST” started. Can someone tell me what the hell is going on there? So many questions. Who ARE the others? And what the hell is Locke on? Why is Desmond in the hatch? Can’t someone just go and rescue them and put an end to my misery. I’m enthralled in it, yet somewhat annoyed!!
48 sleeps to go!!
Not Enough Hours in the Day
49 sleeps to go until I'm on a plane heading off to the Caribbean! Anybody would think I was excited or something silly like that!
This weekend was spent at Jack’s helping him decorate his flat. He’s planning on moving over near us so just wants to get his place fit to sell. I’m SO tired it’s untrue!
It’s my brothers’ fiancée’s hen night this weekend; think it’s just going to be a quiet one. I can’t believe my brother is getting married in just over 2 weeks. I’m so pleased for him. He deserves to be happy, and the girl he’s marrying is lovely! My uncle from Italy arrives 2 weeks today. I have my haircut and dentist appointment booked for 2 weeks tomorrow. I don’t have much time left to get a tan and I want to try and get a pedicure. So much to do, so little time!
It works out that the guy who’s going to be my brothers’ best man has broken his foot. He isn’t in plaster, but he certainly won’t be able to run round on the wedding day sorting things out. Lets just hope it all runs smoothly.
My beloved Sony Ericsson K750i is dying. It needs to be sent off for repair. They won’t provide me with a replacement so I hope it will come back quickly. It also means I have to faff about with removing my numbers. Tom reckons we can synchronize my phone with the pc and back everything up. I hope so.
We have a double-glazing sales man coming round tonight. Tom and me are hedging bets as to how long he’s going to stay. Any longer than an hour and he will be asked to leave. We only want a new front door, but no doubt he will try to sell us windows too. He was supposed to come last Wednesday but didn’t turn up because apparently, he got lost and wrote down Tom’s number wrong. The fact that they called Tom earlier that day to book the appointment was irrelevant!
Did I mention we fly out in 7 weeks?
