The Richards Family

During December, I had some weekends booked off work which I'd put in months before. So Adam asked me if I'd like to go for a visit to Edinburgh. Of course I said yes! We'd been to Edinburgh once before but it was a bit of a flying visit. I loved it, and had an amazing time. We drove up, and booked a hotel which ended up being absolutely lovely and having the perfect location.

It was nice to get away and have some time just the two of us. We kept it very low key and in fact we were back in our hotel room after a lovely meal out at about 9pm and asleep for about 10pm. We didn't wake up until 9am the next morning, it was absolutely glorious, especially as I could probably count the nights of unbroken sleep since we got Roxy on one hand.

We went around on a sight seeing bus and saw all the sites, and walked down a massive long street from the castle with loads of shops on. There was a big market there, complete with ice skating rink. We bought a couple of decorations for the tree, and it was lovely.

Edinburgh I'll be seeing you again!

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.

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: