Christmas 2008

How was your Christmas? Mine was good!

I got some really lovely pressies, I got:

An iPod touch
A CD player for my car
Some gorgeous diamond earrings from Adam
Loads of Urban Decay make up from my best friend
Chocolates!
A lava lamp
Pyjamas
DVD's
An Indian recipe book which looks so good, so much gorgeous food!

Everyone loved what I got for them too, which makes me happy. My sisters and I have been having a family photograph done of the three of us in private and we gave it to my Mum and Dad and they loved it!

I know it's late but...

...Happy Halloween!

Alton Towers

I'm a bit pissed off right now. I'm at Alton Towers (a big theme park) at the minute with my friends, but they're going into the Haunted House and it has live actors, which REALLY scares me, I hate it. So, I didn't go in. But I'm annoyed because I've already missed out on two rides today. One because my friend didn't want to go on Air and I felt bad for her sat waiting on her own. And the second because both myself and my friend got into one of the carriages on the ride but due to neither my friend or me being skinny, I couldn't fit my legs into the ride properly coz I'm tall as well, so I got out as I knew she'd been wanting to go on that all day. But they've all just left me sat here! It's absolutely freezing too, and the line is really long so no idea how long they'll be. I thought that was a bit unfair, sometimes it's hard being nice, you always seem to get taken advantage of. The one ride I really, really wanted to go on, we haven't been on at all! It'll be our last ride of the day too, we're off home after this. It's a good job we got the tickets half price otherwise I'd have been so annoyed!

Update!

I forgot to bring my book to work today, which means I am now only 20 minutes into my lunchbreak and very bored. Work here is attrocious; it's so boring and I've had so little training I'm still not quite sure what it is I'm supposed to be doing. I can't wait for 5 o'clock though, there is a really nice restaurant right by where I work and my mum and dad and sisters are going to meet me there after work for our tea! Then I'm stopping at Adams after. I'm really looking forward to a (hopefully!) nice, quiet, relaxing evening!

Thanks Dad!

I went for a daytrip to the seaside with my parents and two younger sisters earlier on this week. It was actually a really lovely day! I enjoyed it so much, it's really nice being able to catch up with everyone again after so long away from home.

We went to a place called Bridlington which is on the North East coast of England so it was quite chilly! We packed a picnic lunch and I made some bulgur wheat salad, which was actually really nice but I was so busy enjoying it I forgot to take a photo! I still have some left in the pantry though, so I'm sure I'll make some more soon.

While we were wandering around the town (it was too chilly to spend any time on the beach, which is typical of English seaside hehe) we passed a cooking shop, so being the avid baking/cooking fan that I am, dragged all my family inside for a thorough look around. I could have spent a fortune there! My friends are all obsessed with clothes and shoe shops, but me? Give me a cooking supplies shop anyday! I found a massive tube of cookie cutters while I was in there too, which my dad kindly bought for me as a gift!

The next day my sister and I couldn't wait to try them out, but first things first, we laid them all out on the carpet so we could get a good look at them! I'm such a kid, I love any stuff like this and I've never had any proper cookie cutters of my own before. My grandma used to have some when I was little, and I used to love it when she'd let me use them.



So this post is just really to say thanks to my dad for the present! And also to let you know to stay tuned, as an extremely delicious cookie post is coming soon!

(This post is one of a few that have been transferred over from an old blog as part of the process of updating this blog with all my old entries from other blogs/journals for posterity)

A little update

I'm getting a new laptop! Yay! My old one broke in July and I took it to a few places to see how much a repair would cost, but then my dad said he would try and claim on the house insurance for it, and he could and they're delivering me a new one by Tuesday at the latest! A much better one as well. Which is good, my old laptop caused me nothing but trouble. I want to get a case for it as well as I never had one for my old laptop, but I want a nice one so I might look on etsy, or does anyone else have any good ideas for where I can buy them from?

I had an amazing weekend last weekend. My cousins 18th was fun, and I've got a few photos to show you of it. I won the 1st prize for the fancy dress, and it was a £15 asda gift voucher so I took the copy of Sex and the City movie that I bought and exchanged it for the 2 disc special edition, which only ended up costing me £11 altogether, instead of nearly £17! Bargain! Then on Sunday, me and Adam went to the cinema and pizza hut with my little sister and her friend which was really fun, and Adam bought me a new hat and mittens for the winter as it's really starting to get cold now, don't you think?

I've started going back to college as well, I'm doing a part time evening course in Photography and I'm really enjoying it. I should post some of my photos I've done from it so far!

Apart from that though, I haven't really been doing much apart from working and making plans for Christmas! I'm looking forward to this weekend though, I haven't really got anything planned but I'm going to do more Christmas stuff, put some work into my blog, take some photos for college, and do a load of baking!

Photo's below!

The first signs of life

I was overjoyed this morning when I got back from spending the night at my boyfriends to find that my plants are finally starting to show that they're growing! I was starting to get worried; although I did only plant them last week!

I've never really grown anything before, but since I've got home I've planted spinach, radishes, pak choi, chinese cabbage, carrots, baby turnips, herbs and potatoes. I can't wait to start eating all my organic, home grown veggies!

NZ update

I'm in the mountains on the south island of New Zealand... and it's cold! The clothes I have don't even begin to cut it in terms of keeping my warm! I'm having a good time though, which is the most important thing!

This is just a quick non-update really, I can't believe in 11 days I'll be home!

A day in my life: 20th June 2008

Below is a copy and paste of an entry I wrote to a livejournal community, a day in my life, in 2008 when I was living in New Zealand. I've been looking for it for a while and was over the moon to find it! So I'm reposting it here on 16/7/12. Such sweet memories (and embarassing writing!)

Good morning!







I'm rudely awaken by the alarm going off way too early for my liking! Adam gets out of bed and into the shower, and I eventually get out of bed and start to get ready for work too.



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After I've brushed my teeth, we're both ready so it's time to head off. I always walk to work, even though it takes the best part of 45-50 minutes. It's a nice walk though, and for the first half hour I'm walking with Adam which is lovely! ♥ We get to bitch about our housemates with no fear of being heard, lol!



The Auckland skyline





Bye Adam!





Normally I can resist the sirens call that is Starbucks; lulling me into a false sense of security and drawing me in, before sending me crashing on the rocks of weight gain, addiction and an empty purse...



But not today! Probably because I didn't have breakfast. I get a hot chocolate, and then head off to an internet cafe (I don't have internet in my house, so whenever I come online I had to go to an internet cafe!)





I chat to my mum and dad and sister on MSN for a while, and do all the facebook/LJ stuff (you can see a photo of ! Hehe!), and I write my letter of resignation and send it off to the agency I'm working for.

Time check:



Uh-oh! Best get to work!



I work as a debt collector, and today we were having a "Movie Day"! Basically, people dressed up themselves and their workstations in the theme of a film or a TV programme. Here's ours:









Can anyone guess what TV show we were doing?!
Here's what other teams did:











I get an email from my travel agent, so on my lunch break I quickly eat my lunch and then I go and pick up our tickets for our holiday.



Back to work








Time check:



After work, I get changed and Adam meets me outside. We walk across the road from my work to the harbour, and we're going on a Christmas cruise!









Boys are disgusting. He knew I was taking a picture of him, but burped anyway







There were a lot of older people there, and the DJ was playing mostly cheesy party tunes, which I love!





After the party, we jumped straight into a taxi, and straight back home.



It was quite late by the time we got home, and Adam had to be up at 7:30 to go to work!



Night!