When I was at university I had a job as a PA it was for just over two months. There were some issues between me and my manager. She wanted me to work her way even though it meant that I wasn’t completing the tasks she put before me. There were also things like the fact that we didn’t see eye to eye over what was expected of me. Also I ended up working for one side of her business and I wanted to be working the other side.

Recently she joined Twitter as another form of advertising her business I guess, I’ve been sat here reading my book and watching the Tweets roll in during my break. One of her tweets appeared so I replied with info about putting @ in front of usernames to get links and stuff. I probably won’t get thanks or anything but just wanted to kinda throw this idea out there. Is it weird that I helped her even though she’s my ex-boss and she sacked me like 4 years ago?

Han over and out

To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your ABC’s of Me, tag 26 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

Ok so I didn’t follow the instructions I copied and pasted from Facebook back here so that I can post it here and still tag people when it’s imported to Facebook later on.
A – Annoyingly weird

B – Bed size: Double with a King Duvet

C – Chore you hate: Cleaning full stop lol. I am getting better though!

D – Dog’s name: I don’t have a dog 🙁 If I did it would be a Dalmatian called Pongo or Lucky!

E – Essential start your day item: A hug from CJ – however while he’s in India it’s 5 minutes lay in rather than hug time.

F – Favourite color: green – yes people it’s not pink! 

G – Gold or Silver: Silver  

H – Height: 5 foot 2 and a bit inches – yes people I am short.

I – Instruments you play(ed): You really want to ask this question – do you want played or play and own one of the above? If it’s the second I would need my fingers toes and probably your fingers too to be able to count the instruments I can play – bearing mind there are 5 flutes and 5 recorders of different sizes that I can play (I own one flute and 3 recorders) 

J – Job title: Customer Service Rep/General Skivy/CJ’s PA 

K – Kid(s): Nope not yet. I have a goddaughter though and she is gorgeous!!!!

L – Living arrangements: With CJ

M – Mom’s name: Mum lol

N – Nicknames: Titch, Hannie-Pants, HP, HL, H, Smithey, 

O – Overnight hospital stay other than birth: None. Then again taking Mr C to A+E was nearly an overnight stay in the waiting room we went in at 7pm and was left about 3am ish.

P – Pet Peeve: People who whinge lots! (I am trying to get over my whinging)

Q – Quote from a movie: I couldn’t decide which bit to put so the whole poem is here. 

I hate the way you talk to me,
And the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car,
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots
And the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick,
It even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you’re always right,
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh,
Even worse when you make me cry
I hate it when you’re not around,
And the fact that you didn’t call
But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you,
Not even close…
Not even a little bit…
Not even at all.

From 10 Things I Hate About You

R – Right or left handed: right

S – Siblings: Little Bro who is taller than me!

T – Time you wake up: which attempt?

U- Underwear: Whatevers clean! If I’ve got to wear them they’ve gotta be comfy!

V – Vegetable you dislike: Courgettes, Beetroot, Squash, Pumpkin

W – Ways you run late: Getting sidetracked with my reading books

X – X-rays you’ve had: Teeth, Ankle/foot, 

Y – Yummy food you make: Pasta Salad (Pepperami, peppers pasta and mayo easy peasey!!)

Z – Zoo favorite: Marmoset Monkeys or Chimpanzees.

Tag 26 people in the top right corner…. I don’t think i can do that bit… might find the odd one or two…

Again do it if you want.

I am a dopey plonker!!!!

I managed to lock myself out of the flat. I am at present locked out of my flat but at least in the dry in case it starts raining (if it had been raining and I was locked out I would be buzzing my neighbours!!)

Thank goodness for International Rescue (aka my Dad). He’s coming to rescue me with the spare keys. Unfortunately my car keys and flat keys are all on the same key ring so I can’t even use the time by going and getting the spare keys from my parents house.

Anyhoo I just tweeted a request for blog urls. Let’s see if anyone replied.

Han over and out. >_<

Then again when I’m rich and famous and have the money to pay for it lol. I think I might stick to dreaming for a new car that doesn’t play up. Maybe a Toyota Yaris or Mini Cooper (The style that looks like a Morris Minor) then again if I can dream it would be a VW Beetle!

Well No I am not. Apparently I am a C List blogger which is apparently not so good – however when I did a few of the blogs on my RSS reader I found that I am in the majority (Yes people I might go try some more and see if I can adopt a A List button lol – then again that would be stealing someone else’s ranking so I won’t do that!). You should be able to click on the above image and it will take you to Kineda.com

So technically it’s my lunch break still but I’m about to lose the last ten minutes ish because I am sat back at my computer, I went to the local supermarket and while I was wandering round I listened/watched Carpool by Robert Llewellyn. The episode I was watching had Ruby Wax in it. I also watched the end of the Jo Brand episode.

Some of the language is a little rude but I like the conversation and some of the stuff that Robert and whoever he’s interviewing comes out with. I love the concept of just video-ing the conversation that they are having while they drive somewhere. I think I might have to try out the idea when CJ is back from India. It’s not the same if you talk to yourself! I tried to like brainstorm a blog spot idea by calling the home phone and leaving a message on the answer phone – it was okay but I felt like such a dork I had to delete the answer phone message out of pure humiliation.

I am still working on my monster of a blog post – I keep going back to it but seem to lose motivation to get on with it. How does that work?? I think I prefer the aimlessly rambling type of posts rather than actually planning posts and I’m sure that can’t be good! I discovered a new blog yesterday. The author is called Elly and her blog is Retrograde.

(Image from Cupcake Dazzle)

This is seriously cool!!! CJ is at present 4 and a half time zones in front of the UK and so when it’s morning here it’s nearly lunchtime there (9:30am here = close to 2pm). I didn’t expect to hear from him today and expected that if I did it would be by email.

HE PHONED!!! All the way from India!

Their team had been given an Indian mobile phone so that if there was an emergency they could use it rather than using their UK mobiles (it tends to be a tad expensive!). The team deemed it an emergency that CJ rang home to wish me a Happy Anniversary, I think that is a fair point to ring home lol.

So two years ago today I was getting married 😀

So here we are sat on the 1254 train to Brighton. Except we’re not going to the seaside today.

After some hang out time in London CJ is then heading to Heathrow Terminal 4 to catch his “hairyplane” to India.

The ticket man just checked tickets so now CJ is telling me about stations without barriers.

He’s suitably excited this morning so I want to tell him to bring it down from a 12 to a 7 (if 10 was extremely excited!)

I think he’s running on adrenaline at the moment seeing as he was still packing at 2am this morning.

If you could catch a plane and to anywhere where would it be and why?

Mine would be Barcelona becuase it’s a beautiful city. I love Gaudi’s architecture, La Sangrada Famiglia is one of my favourite buildings

Next would be Kyoto in Japan – this is for the culture. I was given Strange Fruits for my birthday and it has loads of people who dress Harajuku style everyday. I wish I had the guts to do it. I have my little touches but nothing as major as those.

 Yesterday I went to see this film. I saw the trailer for it a while back and added it to the list of films that I want to see – I nearly went to see it for my birthday but it didn’t come out till the 1st May so I couldn’t go see it for my birthday which is why we went to see I  Love You, Man which was also really really cool. 

The film starts Matthew McConaughey as Connor Mead, Connor is a notorious photographer who has a bad boy reputation of loving beautiful woman and then dumping them when they fall in love with him.

Connor’s brother is about to get married and Connor is convinced that he is making a huge mistake. Connor and Paul share completely opposite opinions. Paul believes that marriage is a great thing and that him and his wife will be happy together whereas Connor is convinced that marriage is outdated.

This is where the parallels to A Christmas Carol come in, Uncle Wayne (played by Michael Douglas done up as a Hugh Hefner kind of character) arrives and warns him that three ghosts will visit him – and you get the rest. The ghosts show up in the form of his first intimate partner (they were sixteen-ish), his PA and then some mysterious angel looking character  (as the ghost of Girlfriends future). 

They all try to work out where Connor became the cynical womaniser that he is in the present day.

I did enjoy the story but the trailer gave the idea that Jennifer Garner would have more of a part within the whole film – she seemed to only be half there.

In one of the flashbacks the girl who plays Garner’s younger self is the same girl that plays the 13-year old character in 13 Going On 30.

Overall I think I give it a 4 out of 5 somethings (Stars are so everyday and Angelika already stole the hearts lol!)

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!!

So this time tomorrow CJ will be sat at Heathrow Airport waiting for his plane to leave for Bangalore. I am really excited for him and I think it is going to be an awesome trip and he’s really going to get alot out of it. However he’s spend the last half an hour or so talking about what he has left to do and stuff to do with his other job.

I’m kinda fed up in all honesty. I pointed out to him that he needed to pack before today so that he could go to town or Interchange during the day or this evening if there were bits he needed to get. However in the way that he does he’s still not finished packing and he leaves tomorrow lunchtime ish.

Right thats it rant over now I am going to post lots of useless information about Bangalore to show my excited-ness.

1. Bangalore is also known as Bengaluru.
2. It’s the capital of the state of Karnataka.
3. It’s the third most populous city and “fifth-most populous urban agglomeration” (yup I did just say that what ever it means lol! Agglomeration is something along the lines of a metropolitan area)
4. There are historical references to the city before 900 CE (or AD) but the modern written history of a settlement there is from 1537 (if you want historical comparison at that point Henry VIII was on the throne of England.)
5. During the reign of the British Raj it was the colonial centre of Southern India.

So technically I am working on a bigger post but I wanted to swing by on my Mac shaped vine to post a quick post as the other one is going to take some work and is beginning to mash my brain a little!

I’ve spent alot of the weekend reading! I finished Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs at some point on Friday and since then when I’ve been at home I’ve been reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. When I’ve been out and about I’ve been reading The Gaudi Key The Gaudi Key by Esteban Martin and Andreu Carranza. It’s interesting that Martin is an Anthropologist (just like Kathy Reichs – although she was a forensic antropologist – which is apparently different!). 

When I’ve not been doing them I’ve been trying to clear out my iTunes library – I seemed to have gathered a whole bunch of music that I don’t like or no longer listen to – I have a list written of songs to delete  but some how left it somewhere – I might have to start over again 🙁

My albums at the moment are quite old ones actually (ok at least in the sense that they are a few years old rather than Top 40). For example: at the moment I am listening to Show Me The Real You by Daniel Bedingfield (this is on the album Second First Impression.)

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be half living at the cinema as there are quite a lot of films coming out that I want to see, including the latest Star Trek incarnation (which I happen to be going to see on my own – what a geek!) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – Another chick flick – however it’s a adaptation of A Christmas Carol in a sense (for some strange reason I like the story and I guess that gave me the info for my recent post.)

CJ has suggested that I found a project to get excited about. We’ve come up with the idea that I should get some of my photos blown up to like A4/A3 six and sell them for charity.

I have alot of my photos uploaded on my Flickr photostream which can be found here. So if you could take a look there. I’m going to start taking more landscape photos and arty photos.

I’ll take requests for portraits etc. But bear in mind that I’m a beginner. I need to have a look at prices for getting them printed.

I have a friend who has depression somedays he talks about how life is so black and he can’t find a way out – some days I think he’d more Emo than me.

Anyhoo so what does Charles Dickens have to do with my friends depression. Well, you know how in A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, Christmas past present and future. I’m not sure which particular one it is but one of the ghosts takes Scrooge to see what his life would have been like if he hadn’t been born (and he sees that his brother or some relative would have died because Scrooge wasn’t there to save him).

That’s the bit of the story that keeps coming back but I’m not really sure why.

By Sunday, I was a little daunted about going to the conference. Part of me wanted to be there and then part of me didn’t want to be there. CJ woke me up Monday morning and just before he woke me up I was dreaming about what I was doing at work and that I’d fallen asleep at my desk. CJ then woke me up as it was time to get up and for a split moment as I came to I was convinced that I was late for work. Thankfully I wasn’t, it was time to get up to get ready to leave but it wasn’t because I was late lol.

We finished packing the car and headed for Mr C’s house. CJ was getting tense even before we got to the end of the street because of one thing or another. It got worse when I took a corner and bit too quick and his books that he’d put in the shelf fell off and landed in the foot well. (Fiat made the Seicento’s with like a hole cut out of the dashboard as a shelf rather than a solid dashboard with a glove compartment like most cars.)

We got to Mr C’s and Princess Nat peeked out of her bedroom window. A few minutes later her, Mr and Mrs C appeared and we loaded the car. Princess Nat was so excited to see me and CJ but I think also because she was getting rid of her Dad for a few days. While we were loading the car CJ made some harsh comments to me about my driving which were really hurtful. I tried to ignore it but it really did hurt and made me nearly cry.

The journey wasn’t too bad minus CJ trying to tell me how to drive; We drove passed the Weetabix factory at Burton Latimer and there was an interesting smell in the air – just before or just after the factory there was a field of about 10 wind turbines. Now I think wind power turbines are really graceful but some people really don’t like them. There was heavier traffic towards Nottingham as there is a lot of road works on the M1 (I think there is improvements to the junction structures) but other than that and some comments from CJ over all the journey was good.

We arrived at the Conference Centre and I asked CJ where I should park and CJ wasn’t being very helpful so I was getting annoyed at him and he was getting even more and more tense with me. I got out the car and lent against the bonnet and once CJ and Mr C were out of the car, I shut myself back in the car (then locked myself in too) and had a good cry. I really wanted to turn round and go home, or on the other hand go for a wander round Mansfield and then go to Kewey’s house and wait for her to get in from work. It didn’t get any better. I sat went and got a drink then sat outside on a bench as I didn’t particularly want to be sociable with anyone. Mr C came and joined me and we chatted about various different bits – mainly about my driving – he said there was only one major bit that could have been better but other than that he felt safe with me driving.

We went to the first meeting (imaginatively entitled “Keynote 1”) which was good. I was there for some of the worship but then decided to leave as I couldn’t concentrate and I just kept getting upset. When I came back in the preach had started, a guy called Jack Groblewski spoke (He’s the Senior Pastor at a church in the United States called New Covenant Community Church or NC4 for short.) The message was on Revelation 3:7 and for what I was there for it was good.

Following the meeting we all headed for lunch. I walked in, and was “encouraged” to sit with CJ, and I didn’t. I made a point of sitting on a different table, I ended up sat with The Gibb, Mrs Gibb, Q, and some other people including Mr C.

After lunch we had our rooms assigned. Although we were under impression we might be in single rooms me and CJ ended up in the same room. The room was nice. Between then and going to the next meeting me and CJ chatted about everything that had happened on the way. He’d been under the impression that I was annoyed at him which is why he was being mean to me on purpose. (Kinda like why should I be nice to you when you’re annoyed at me?)

We made up and then went to Keynote 2. This time the guy speaking was Francois Van Niekerk – he’s from South Africa and is Pastor at Hatfield Christian Church in Pretoria – I think I’ve heard him speak at Grapevine (usually over the radio from my tent rather than in the Big Top). After Keynote 2, there were seminars – I wasn’t really in the mood for the seminars. They are all mainly about leadership but there is only one about youthwork and no kinda ones about childrens work and stuff like that.

While the seminars were going on I stayed in the bar area and started writing a review of Marley and Me by hand – I guess I really should post it as I spent most of the afternoon writing it but I always seem to run out of time.

After the seminars everyone congregated in the bar area before tea then we joined the queue for tea. We sat trying to guess what it was for tea before it arrived. I was sat with Mr C, CJ and Pastor Mow Mow. Pastor Mow Mow and Mr C got it correct as it was lasagne. It was really nice but I was so hungry I ate seconds and more chips – what is going on!!! Hello!!!

After tea there was a little break but then we headed to the evening meeting – it was good worship time and there were some lively songs so lots of clapping! I’ve looked through my notes to try and remember who spoke Monday evening but I can’t remember! (I just asked Chris and it said it was Stuart Bell – he’s the Senior Pastor or something like that at New Life Lincoln). It was a good talk and it was about the different mentalities we can have in church – I know that Pastor Mow Mow spoke on a similar track a little while ago at church.

Following the meeting we all headed back to the bar to have a drink and chill out – it was good but somehow I ended up in the queue trying to sort out a round even when I got to the front of the queue people from our group were still adding their drinks to the list.

(I’m writing this post on Sunday but I’ve posted it back as Monday so that I don’t get too confused lol)

At lunchtime my Mum sent me an email telling me that my Dad’s work had been evacuated so I texted my Dad.

The alarm had gone off and they had to evacuate. On the local news website it was classed as breaking news but it was posted over an hour and a half after the event (technically it was on Twitter before it was on the News website – Twitter 1 Local News 0). But so that I don’t waste time rehashing a post, I’ll let the man at the Newspaper do the business:

Fire crews unable to find the cause of blaze which broke out on the fourth floor

Emergency services are still at the scene of a mystery fire at the BT exchange building in Harpur Street Bedford.

Firefighters were called to the site at 1.05pm on Friday (March 27) and found thick smoke billowing out of the fourth floor of the building.

Crews used large fans to clear the telephone exchange of smoke, but have not been able to find the cause of the fire.

An investigation into its source is ongoing, but police have reopened the road, which was initially blocked off.

When I first started blogging I used to read a post then take the first link form the comment then read the first post (or more if I liked them LOTS) and then picked a link from the comments. Instead today now that I have worked out how to drop Entrecards I have a list of fab blogs to go read.

So here we go:

The first blog I started with was Angelika’s blog. Now I love Angelika’s blog and go read it every time she posts. She loves House M.D. and thinks that Hugh Laurie is the No 1 guy on the planet lol.

Following that I went to Of Living and Loving… and Coping. This blog is authored by PinkLady. On the 25th January 2005 her husband past away. She writes about her life and her path through grieving for her husband.

Next up is… (Drum roll) Without Dash. I loved this blog – on the first post that I saw was a really cool advert that was for Lux – it was very vintage and very cool!

I also travelled through Girltime Coaching. The Author of the website is called Christine Spencer and she is a Life Coach, followed by Speak Wealth Now, Personal Budgeting and Internet Income. These are both about personal finance so if thats your thing and you wanna read about it theres the place to find it.

After a quick trip the loo and starting the next episode of The West Wing I parked in front of my Mac and carried on. Next in the list was Goo from Another Dimension and it was so cool I actually have to post the cartoon cos it rocked.

The next in the line was Tomorrow is Here, unfortunately i didn’t spend very long on this site as there seemed to be lots of links and not much else.

The link that followed was to Hollow Whispers I love the banner image as it looks like anime or manga – which I love!

There were a couple of links which were to marketing blogs rather than social life blogs.

The next one that follow is called The Story of a Girl – I loved the Sidebars as they are crammed with images and bible verses like my favourite which is Matt 11:30 – I have this one written on a piece of paper and it’s bluetacked to my monitor at work.

Then last but not least when I decided that I needed to stop writing this post and find something else to do was How’s Your Blog?. There are just soooo many pictures on it!

I woke up late this morning which was not good so I got to work at like 10 past 9.Yesterday me and CJ had two disagreements about little things. Have you been in a relationship where you feel like every move that you do is being scrutinised and assessed like it’s an exam or something?

We went to the supermarket which was a struggle, CJ wants to involve me but rather than involving me he just gives instructions and tells me what to get. He says he wants to include me because I’m picky about what I eat. But then when I pick what I would like I’m wrong and it should be something else. For example, I like tinned new potatoes – don’t ask me why in particular but I do, CJ on the other hand prefers fresh ones that come with the mud still on them – I can’t stand them, even when they’ve been washing and cooked, they still taste of mud lol.

Anyhoo, this morning was not a good start but now it’s 10:40ish and it’s looking up. The temp girl asked me about what Twitter is, I didn’t do a very good job explaining it to her but was able to find a few links for information either from the top of my head or just from a search engine rather than actually going on the site (I went onto Obama’s quickly just to make sure that I had the link correct). She also said that I was good with computers so she thought I’d know about it lol.

Finishing my lunch at high speed, I went into town but it was mad – the private schools have kicked out at lunch time today for the Easter break (yes people and then they don’t go back till the 24th April or something random like that. Whereas the other schools break up next week.) I think I might go to the cinema this evening.

Twitter have announced that they will support SMS if you are on Vodafone – well it’s getting better if it’s on a UK network but if we could get to O2 it would be fab!

You can read more at Twitter’s blog

(Yes People 3 posts in a row – I am sorry for invading your RSS Feeder but I had inspiration and couldn’t stop!)

I found this Meme on Angelika’s blog.

[Listen] What song have you listened to the most in the past month? Does it an any way reflect the current state of your life, or is it a song you just happen to like a lot?

Since Thursday (last Thursday not Yesterday) it’s been a worship song called We’ve Come To Praise You or another one called I see The King of Glory. I think it does depend on my state of mind however I’ve notice if I listen to worship music in the car and stuff like that I chill out more.

[Watch] Do you feel like you always root for the right people in movies/TV?

I’m not really sure – I think I do. I watched Win A Date With Tad Hamilton yesterday and really felt for the best friend who didn’t have the guts to tell the girl that he liked her.

[Read] Do you prefer to read fiction with very clear good guys/bad guys, or is it better if the line is blurred?

I prefer it when good triumphs over evil. I’ve just finished New Moon and that’s a bit of a hard one. Humans vs. Vampires vs. Werewolves – who are the goodies and who are the baddies?

Today I found this prompt at 20somethings Writers. I also saw some responses at The Pink Jelly Baby and at My Quiet Testimony

We all have something we want to say to someone. Maybe it’s someone in your life now. Or, maybe it is something you wish you said to someone who is no longer in your life. It could even be Mr./Ms. Random Person that you saw in the local coffee shop today. What do you want to say that you were never able to? You can leave the person(s) identity anonymous, if you’d like. Feel free to feature more than one person. Do it in letter form or any form you prefer. Show us that creativity!

– If you like her ask her out before she finds another guy. Ignore what everyone else keeps saying to you.

– You bug me. Yeah I get life sucks but it sucks for everyone at some point so deal with it.

– Please hush it! I know that you think your kids rock. I agree they do rock but I don’t need to hear about it everyday. Do you know realise how much it hurts me?

– I think you stole my confidence – where did it go? Can I please have it back?

– Why do you decide now that you want to be my friend?

– Why did you add me as a friend on Facebook when at school you bullied me and made me cry?

– I didn’t abandon you as a friend. You shut me out for the boy who broke your heart. When you accused me of being busy I was at home watching TV with my folks not partying the night away in clubs – I had the time for you, I would have been there for you.

– Don’t lecture me about being tidy and organised. You’re hardly the neat freak at the moment.

– Pacing while you are on the phone annoys me, stand still, doodle find something to do.

I found my book worm-ness I’m not quite sure where it ran off to but it came back and I’ve read reams in the last week or two.

I started with finishing The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (This is her pseudonym – her proper name is Samatha Weinberg). The Moneypenny Diaries is a series of novels and short stories from the perspective of Miss Moneypenny, M’s personal secretary in the James Bond series of books and films. I’ve grown up watching the James Bond movies and the actress who I know as Miss Moneypenny is Samantha Bond (who I later saw as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the MK Theatre with my Mum). According to Wikipedia, Weinberg was the first women to write an officially licensed James Bond related story. (I’ve got the feeling that I read the last one in the series before the first one! DOH!)

Following this thanks to my longest known friend (hello! I’ve known her since she got home from the hospital having been born lol) lending me her copy, I read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer plenty of people had recommended it to me but I had never got round to reading it as the hardback copies tend to be expensive and as I read very quickly it needs to be worth it. I really did like it but some bits were a bit expected or too obvious.

Following that I then read Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, I saw Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist at the cinema a few weeks ago and added this book and some of Cohn’s other books to my Amazon Wish List.

Then after that I read the second in the Twilight series, which is titled New Moon. I finished this yesterday morning with a quick burst of reading before heading off for work.

Next on my To Be Read list was Petite Anglaise. Courtesy of Little Red Boat, I stumbled across this blog a while back. I’ve read it on and off as my Google Reader gets a little busy. I am about half way through the book and I LOVE IT!!!!!! Petite Anglaise you rock!!!

So I installed a plug-in earlier to look at some stats here on my blog. I then managed to find out the top comment peeps on my blog.

The Top Three (who have blogs that I can link to – so send them love)  are:

Shannon

Tough Girl Kat

Janette

Though actually because Tough Girl Kat commented under three different names – she is like the clear winner! (However there isn’t a prize – well unless a link to her blog counts as a prize?)

Shannon commented 38 times and Janette commented 20 times. Kat on the other hand commented a total of 48 times!!! Thats like 1 in 8 posts there is a Kat comment lol.

There also some other fab comment peeps these are: David, Elle, Ari, Diana, Evan, Cheyne, Judy’s Teapot, Sara, Perky, Caryn, Angelika and Robert aka “Bobberdilly” and thats just the ones that were listed.

Thank you all for your comments here.

Well as you can see I’ve not been reading very many blogs recently – or at least my Google Reader hasn’t been having a good enough work out!

This was after I’d deleted at least 100 posts already. I always feel rude deleting the posts because they are items that people have spent time over but seriously if I didn’t at least wipe a few I’d be snowed under lol.

However even when I do have this many posts there are always some blogs that I just have to read like Pipe Dreams and Professions,  Confessions of a CF Husband (Gwyneth is just super gorgeous!) and  Life with my Special Ks.

It would be interesting to know how many people had me on their RSS Reader – I know of a few people but they are like my friends who I see lots anyway. It would be also good to know who reads. I don’t mind if you lurk and don’t comment but it’s nice to know that you are there sometimes.

I don’t tend to moan and whinge on my blog because I know that my life is a whole bunch easier than the people around me but today I really want to moan and rant about stuff because I don’t know what I’m doing or where I’m going.

I don’t dislike my job I just think I am getting bored with it. I spend every day in front of a computer answering the phone answering emails and fulfilling orders. I don’t mind it because I set myself personal goals – how many orders did I do yesterday? Let’s see if I can do 5 more today.

But I don’t want to be here for years and years or anything like that. I was given an opportunity at church. I could go back to university and study to be a children’s worker but with all the house stuff ideally at the moment I need a job to support that idea – I need 48 hours in a day so that I can go to work to pay the bills but also go to college to study.

Then again maybe I am on the wrong track and my prophesy wasn’t about studying – maybe I’m going to be an Admin peep in the office at the university or something like that. (As I sit here I feel like I’m going to burst into tears and have no idea why – there is just this gigantic lump in my throat and my hands keep getting the shakes – that’s not good lol).

The sales guys in my office often talk about how little they like the foreign travel part of their jobs. I know the novelty would kind of wear off after a while but I want to do the travel bit can’t I just go once and prove how good I am etc. But no not now, I am here behind my desk succumbing to my worries and stresses.

As I said on my previous post, there would be a picture and here it is! Ok so it’s a wonky randomly taken mirror image of me and my t-Shirt.

I got this shirt from Iffyton high street which can be found

I used to read other blogs where people were reviewing products and wish that I was the girl with the free clothes, the free shoes or the free gadget to review and thats now me!

I got the opportunity from Fuel My Blog to be that girl with the fab T-shirt.

The T-shirt came from Iffyton High Street, I love their website, if Camden High Street had a website – this is what it would look like, there are lots of little “portals” that take you to different themed shops. My Favourite little portal is Royal T. I liked this one because they had cartoon versions of bands, characters and stars.

Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Shirt

So I ordered my T-Shirt on Monday and it arrived today – so that would be First Class Royal mail postage. I ordered a Medium and now wished I’d ordered a large as it’s a little tight! (I’m not exactly skinny!) It would have been better if the website had a sizing chart (maybe it does had one and I missed it!)

The design is clear and the prints not broken or split – which is awesome. It’s quite a thick T-Shirt – so much so that when I ran outside to find my friend who couldn’t find out flat I didn’t bother grabbing a jumper till I came back inside and realised that it was cold outside and that I needed a jumper!

What would make Iffyton enormously better would be if they were able to source fair trade t-shirts other than that I love the shirts and love the designs.

(I will be back tomorrow with a picture of me wearing my new shirt :D)

Have you seen this about the new iPod Shuffle?

I would so lose it! The largest one is the original iPod shuffle which has the controls on it. The new one on the other hand will have a control on the headphones like the iPod Touch and iPhone have.

I can see the benefits but how easy would it be to mistake it for a memory stick or a pack of gum in your bag. If big handbags are in fashion imagine losing that iPod in the bottom of it.

I started this post earlier today but as I finish it I am running down the battery on my Mum’s new laptop before she recharges it – I am sure that CJ suggested to charge it then run down but there you go each to their own.

This film is mine and my Mum's favourite, mainly because of this speech.

It's not just one line it's the speech! This is the amended speech!

I consider them a threat to national security, and I will go door to door if I have to, but I'm gonna convince Americans that I'm right, and I'm gonna get the guns. We've got serious problems, and we need serious people, and if you want to talk about character, Bob, you'd better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I'll show up. This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I *am* the President.

I had the best weekend! It was soooo good!!

I had a lovely surprise from my friends.

It turned out that it’s cheaper for my friend to get a car trip to Bedford and then get the train from here to the Arsenal football ground rather than get the train from Nottingham to Arsenal.

So Kewey used this to her advantage, with a bit of help from CJ she organised to surprise me on Sunday.

She’d also organised that Shopaholic and LB would meet us as well.

I was hanging out in Crèche with Essie while Mrs W grabbed a drink, I noticed someone had come in the room but thought it was Mrs W coming back.

Kewey then said Hello and I looked up and it just kinda floored me because I didn’t expect to see her. As far as I knew she was like an hour and a half away in Nottinghamshire.

Then it dawned on me that she was here, in the crèche at church to see me!!! That was just the beginning of the madness.

We hung out at church for a little while, we were mainly catching up with people as we normally do with the added extra that Kewey was catching up with people. At about 12:30pm, we realised that we needed to sort some lunch so decided that we’d go into town and grab some food.

We then dashed back to the car trying avoid the rain drops as it was pelting it do Shopaholic wn. Luckily we walked along the road in front of the Corn Exchange and there is like 5 bus stops so we kinda jumped from one to the next and as we got to the last one it kinda stopped again. My SIL called me to tell me where she was and I kinda slowed down while I was walking, so Mr LB stood behind me and grabbed my shoulders and pushed me along so that I was walking faster (At one point somehow I was running)

We headed for the house viewing and waiting outside. It was still kinda raining so me, LB, and Kewey waited under the porch, Shopaholic tried to look through the letterbox but the bit I wanted to show to her. It was funny because she was doing the bits I was doing like where do put fairy lights (they are so going across the “hall way roof”.

I think we upset the Estate Agent as there was a total of 11 people looking round this house. Even without the girlies and Mr LB there was going to be seven of us – which is still alot!

I stood at the bottom of the stairs and split everyone up so that we weren’t all trying to look in one room at the same time.

I ended up looking round with Mr LB as everyone else vanished – then again I think it was my fault for sending everyone off but not having a group to go with myself!

Shopaholic said that she’d rent the bathroom because it was so cool! We are considering a lodger but you can have a proper room! lol

After the viewing we stood on the pavement outside and chatted for like 15 minutes about the house and the good bits and stuff like that.

After that we headed back into town for a little while then went to Danish Camp with our friends from church.

We then went to hang out at the church as our flat could have really done with a tidy up.

I loved this weekend and I feel so blessed to know that my friends would come and surprise me like that and just hang out and stuff. In our friendship group minus partners there are four of us, so we make the effort to be at each others birthdays.

My birthday isn’t till April but I am so blessed. I know that we were seeing each other but they came to Bedford to see me too. I am blessed and my friends rock!!

At the moment I am coaxing my Mum’s computer to work while I write this post.

I was trying to work out how to print one single category on her computer rather than the whole lot. (Apparently it can be done I’m just trying to download a Add-in for Windows 2003. It’s not as easy as it sounds lol.)

Anyway so today was good. I got up and went into town. Felt like a bit of a personal shopper as My Dad wants a new mobile phone but can’t decide what he wants.

He found the new N97 and I think he liked it but on the contract he wants to go for I doubt he’ll get it without paying extra pennies on top of the contract cost. I like the phone too maybe me and Dad will be matching lol. I have given up on my iPhone for the time being and purchased a second hand handset from CEX so that I am less distracted by the fab apps on my iPhone when I should be working.

Then saying that, Dad is struggling to make up his mind when it comes to what he wants to be able to do on his phone. Does he want a camera? Does he want an MP3 player then again does he want a QWERTY keyboard or just a 1-2-3 like his existing phone. Talk about complicated. All I know is that at the end of my contract as much as I love my iPhone I am very very tempted to return to a Samsung or a Nokia. The apps are great but the distraction isn’t if I needed all the bits for my job i think it would be different but for now I know who gets my vote lol.

So anyway I went to the different networks to pick up catalogues. I point out to the guy in T-Mobile what kinda phone my Dad would like and he points me at the T1 (aka Google Phone) hate to point this out but I doubt my Dad would like it. He wants something he can stick in his pocket and ignore till it rings I think.

Ok so I am like super super excited about this evening but I can’t fall in love with the house…yet. We are waiting to hear back from different people about the money side. Why can’t it be simpler?

Anyhoo it’s lovely and I could talk more and more but I kinda don’t want to jinx it. Then again I don’t believe in jinxes and bad luck.

If God is in it then the house will be ours, if it’s not meant to be something else will come up.

So I have all three whereas my friend just has two and my Mum has none but what are the differences. 

Tumblr

Post anything. Tumblr makes it effortless to share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.

So I can post all sorts on my Tumblr from wherever I am (like my blog pretty much!) however I can add my Twitter feed, YouTube Channel and normal blog to feed to it and create like a super blog!

Twitter 

Twitter on the other hand is whats called micro-blogging.

And because I suck at describing it here is a fab video that explains it.

Last but not least… Friend Feed

FriendFeed helps you discover and discuss interesting stuff that your friends and family find on the web

Friend Feed is a bit like an RSS reader in that it picks up RSS feeds from blogs but it also picks up Twitter comments and other bits and pieces.

Copied from Renee at My Special K’s (Go comment and show love!)

Fill it out and let’s learn about you and your better half!
Mine: Louise
His: Graham Byng (Yup Bing like Chandler from Friends except it’s with a Y rather than an I – apparently it’s a family tradition.)

What are your middle names?

How long have you been together?
Married: 2 years in May

How long did you know each other before you started dating?
Which attempt? If you mean the most recent it would have been like 5 years!

Who asked who out?
I think it was a bit of both with some coaxing from our friends lol.

Who said I love you first?
I don’t remember – I know I didn’t want to say it till I was ready and then when I did CJ wasn’t listening!

How old are each of you?
I’m 22 and he’s 23

Who’s siblings do/did you see the most?
Mine I think

Do you have any children together?
Nope not yet. Maybe one day

What about pets?
Nope no pets

Did you go to the same schools?
Nope we didn’t

Are you from the same hometown?
Nope we aren’t lol

Who is the smartest?
Depends. I’m a geek when it comes to music and movies but CJ is like computer whizz kid.

Who is the most sensitive?
I am

Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Depends what we fancy most of the time it tends to be takeout and stay at home.

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Amsterdam or Corcieux in France.

Who has the craziest ex?
I’m not really sure

Who has the worst temper?
Me – then again CJ stayed quite chilled I can imagine that he gets quite angry when needed.

Who does the cooking?
CJ does. I really struggle with cooking. I love cakes and baking stuff like that but proper food just goes straight past me.

Who is the most social?
Me

Who is the neat-freak?
CJ is but when he’s stressed or worried it goes out the window.

Who is the most stubborn?
I think it depends on what we are being stubborn about!

Who wakes up earlier?
CJ usually I hate mornings!

Where was your first date?
Erm I think it was wandering round town a bit aimlessly.

Who has the bigger family?
Direct family wise we match (Mum, Dad, Sibling) but you get to grandparents/aunties and uncles and I think I win lol. You get to Great Grandparents and Great aunts/uncles and I definitely win

Do you get flowers often?
Nope not really

Who do you spend the holidays with?
Depends I think we try and split between both sides of the family.

Who is more jealous?
Not really sure

Who sings better?
Me probably (or at least I remember the words in the right order!)

Who does/did the laundry?
I do.

Who’s better with the computer?
CJ fullstop!

Who drives when you are together?
I usually drive because his driving annoys me big time!

Who picks where you go to dinner?
Depends usually CJ as he has selective tastes

Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
That depends,I know that I tend to say sorry more.

Who named your pet?
We don’t have a pet

Who wears the pants in the relationship?
Not really sure but I rarely wear skirts so I guess it’s a draw lol

Who has more tattoos?
Neiter of us has one.

Who eats more sweets?
I do probably

Who cries more?
Me that’s for sure.

So following 24/7 this evening we had our tea thing. While I was on head cook duty I ended up playing first aider as two of our lads were messing about and one of them fell over and caught his head on the floor. He was a little dopey but he was awake and was responsive so I think he was ok just that it was hurting lots. (I know I get dopey when I have migraines.) He had perked up again once the initial pain wore off so I think he was okay in the end.

Anyway so ages ago, I was asked if I would run the bookstand for the evening – I didn’t mind as long as I was given the relevant information to get it right etc.

I manned the bookstand at the beginning of the service and stayed there till Pastor Mow Mow gave out the notices then me and Rikster went and parked ourselves on the front row of the church where we’d been saved seats.

I loved the worship songs this evening at the service which was like 95% worship songs so I guess it was like a praise party! The musicians were Wayne Drain and Noel Richards who are both worship leaders and song writers. The majority were ones that I knew and could dance, sing, clap or play tambourine along to. (I ended up playing tambourine along to He Has Risen. (The link should take you to a video from 1997 when the song was played at Wembley Arena!)

About two or three songs from the end there was a little break where Wayne read out some prophesies that he’d been given earlier in the day.

I’ve been to bible weeks and concerts and stuff like that before and had the “I feel God is telling me that there is someone over there” or “That lad over there in the green top…” but I was a little gobsmacked at this evenings one.

So Wayne gives his little intro and then flips over the page on his note pad.

The first one was for..ME! EEEK! and this is what was said:

It’s an exciting yet an anxious time for you. Several possible directions to go, not sure of the good options – which one is best.

Remember the Lord said be anxious for nothing, but cast any anxieties on the Lord because he cares for you.

The road you are to take will be found in peace, not anxiety.

I see you walking on a university campus and you are smiling. Part of your journey will pass through academic settings. Don’t be anxious. Don’t be afraid. The Holy Spirit will lead you.

As you can imagine, I was thrown completely! It was so spot on it was scary! I’ve been considering the whole going back to university thing but with everything else happening both with me and CJ, living arrangements and work stuff my mind had kinda been changed and was going to stay in work for this year and save like it’s going out of fashion lol!

Anyhoo so I think there needs to be some serious praying and talking to people at church. Seeing as the fact that I’d only met Wayne for about 5 minutes to set up the bookstand I think this is definitely from God lol.

Today was a little manic so my reaction was a little bit more emotional than it could have been also the fact that so much was crammed in I’ve had to split Sunday into two posts lol.

Firstly I woke up late. I was supposed to have been at church at 9:15am and at 9:50am Chris called me to ask where I was. I got dressed as fast as I could and got myself to church. I was there in time to run through like one or two songs and then it was time to pray followed by the service. The preach today was on the book of Jude. You can catch the podcast on the church website. The preacher today was Pastor Mow Mow and the preach rocked (Although I might need to read over my notes again while listening to the podcast lol).

We were on teas and coffees for the last time this morning, Kewey and Dan the Man arrived and after church we went out for lunch with David and Joy and the kids (Princess Nat thought it was awesome to have me, CJ, Kewey and Dan the Man for the afternoon).

After lunch me and CJ headed back to church, CJ realised that he was missing some bits and if I was feeling generous and would run a couple of errands for him.

CJ had encouraged the youth group to bring an item of food to share with the group (for example I brought pizzas and then CJ was supposed to make a cake but for one or another reason he didn’t make it) so I ended up going to the supermarket and getting a cake (Victoria Sandwich btw!)

So I got back to church and then was Youth leader for the afternoon it was a real struggle this afternoon as everyone was kinda hyper and a bit crazy also Lambkin had to come to 24/7 because of Mrs Mow Mow needing to be there. It was cool though cos I felt kinda important! lol.

(Part Two to arrive)

So before Christmas there was brief conversation of moving into a part buy/part rent flat so that we got get our foot half on the housing ladder rather than renting.

Anyhoo so now the Estate Agent has our phone number and called about a flat this afternoon and CJ has booked an appointment to look round.

It’s a one bedroom, across the road from a multistorey car park (you come out the door go round a brick wall and cross the road and walk into the entrance). It’s off Tavistock Street which is like the Golden Mile of takeaways and adult shops. At the end of the street there is a sheltered housing building run by the YMCA – I think.

I am not at the stage of considering moving house. I know that I’m not business minded and the economic status of the UK is a little confusing for me at the moment but I don’t think moving house is the option. I’m not saying never I’m just saying not at the moment.

Before I left work The Big Cheese had a chat with us all about a bit of shake up thats happening which means there will be more work all round (including the semi-need for me to learn business French and/or German/Dutch)

I checked my phone and CJ had called me and texted me which seemed out of character as if it was desperate he has my direct line so he could have just called (and as i checked the voicemail before I left I would have seen any messages)

I called him as I attempted to leave work (the downstairs door wasn’t working and so I had to go upstairs) and he explained about the message and how the Estate Agent had rang and all this – which got me would up seeing as we’d already decided we weren’t going yet. (Add to this that he’d spoken to my mum before me about it)

– I got home and he jumped in the car and wanted to go have a look at the flat so we did and that started another argument because I’d already been to have a look as it’s on my way home. I think CJ has gone to my parents house as I locked him out. (I was seriously not in the mood for round two)

Anyhoo so it got sorted out in the end (it’s taken me like 6 days to finish this post as my weekend was a little nuts!) We’ve looked at some more properties and we’re going to keep looking in case we find one we like.

So once in a while I decide that I’m going to be all sensible and grow my hair long and not dye it so it’ll be all natural looking.

Well once again I gave up on that idea! As it’s the Rock Star and Ballerina’s party on Friday I decided that black hair would be cheaper and longer wearing that a black wig!

So I have the black hair for my rock star outfit just what on earth am I going to wear with it????

I’ve always known that kids with special needs are a bit more of a handful. But I need to throw up my hand and give those parents a hi-five.

I started this post on Tuesday which is why it’s kinda written in the wrong tenses.

This afternoon I was on my way home from work and got a text from my friend. He’d had a rubbish afternoon and it was looking like he’d be going to the crisis team again. As The Gibb was already on his way I knew I could stand down. Then it crossed my mind maybe taking Princess Nat to our flat so that friend and wife could talk to The Gibb without Princess Nat interuptions.

So I did a funny loop round town and headed back towards work as Friend lives out that way.

I picked up Nat and we headed back to the flat. Turns out CJ decided pizza might be needed for tea then we’d go to church as it was more Princess Nat friendly.

We drove across town to Kempston to go the pizza place then CJ realised he needed to be in Bromham for 7pm we got to the pizza place and it was like 20 to 7!!! So then I drove to Bromham and then back to Princess Nats house.

My poor little car was cranking up the town driving just going backwards and forwards.

It was good fun but I really struggled with focusing on directions at the same time as making sure Nat was facing forward and had her belt on and stuff like that. So hi five to the parent son special needs kids you all rock my socks into next week!!!

HSMSHS – Row

Originally uploaded by hanniejo

How appropriate.

I live in Bedford and we rarely get snow – if we do it’s a little sprinkling that’s melted within the hour.

This week we’ve had three days of bad snow or at least adverse conditions where schools have been closed.

I love this song lots and lots

As you may or may not know the majority of the UK has been struck with lots of snow over the past 48 hours. Yesterday and today I spend quite alot of time covering my manager in her absence due to the inability to catch a bus from her house into Bedford.

(there are links to follow – I wrote 75% of the post and then managed to delete the whole thing!!!)

Me and Ellefie at Pipe Dreams and Professions have taken to discussing the films that we want to see or that we have seen via Twitter. 

Last weekend I went to see Slumdog Millionaire which was awesome! I went to see it with Mrs Mow Mow and we both really loved it. I really liked the Bollywood Dance number at the end. One of the lads in our Connect Group said that some of the subtitled bits are translated a little cleaner than what is actually being said. So on Monday the snow didn’t hold us back and we went to see Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Back in October we went to see The Women (I think I reviewed this or at least mentioned it so there should be a link to it later 🙂 ) and I think we saw a trailer for it and decided we would see it. Michael Cera (played Bleeker in Juno) plays Nick, a straight bassist in a gay band. Kat Dennings (I think!) plays Norah, daughter of a rich record producer (Nick’s Ex-Girlf often reminds everyone of this point all the way through the movie).

I really enjoyed it. I think I upset people in the cinema when I got a little worked up and shouted rather louder than I expected “No Way!” it was only when Jeccy laughed at me did I realist what I had done. There would be more info here however I am sat at the college having modeled of Mrs Mow Mow in her Make up class and need to wait for her as I’m giving her a lift home. I will adapt and change when I get home.

Over and out!

Todays word is Trinket

I guess these aren’t really a trinket but then again in a way they are.

So with everything else that has happened across January my photography seems to have taken a back seat big time! So my HSMSHS for January has some of my photos in it but then I went to Flickr and found the funkiest, most colourful images I could find using the prompts. Enjoy.

Later today I should have some links to the photostreams used 🙂

When me and Chris were writing our wedding list I found this teapot on the internet somewhere.

I so wanted it for Chris – I don’t drink tea but I guess I could put hot squash in it and look like I drink tea hehe.

There will be lots of photos of snow to follow later today. So look out for them 🙂

Special Person Award

Originally uploaded by hanniejo

My friends Daughter aka Princess Nat was given this award at school today.

In between the title and the line “My friends think I am special because…” was her picture but I decided unless I get my friend’s permission I would cut out the picture.

Princess Nat is cool as I said about a few weeks ago when she went to look for me after church (I was tired and slept through the whole service lol!)

She rocks full stop lol.

Good morning.

It’s Thursday which is good because it means it’s one day to the weekend. Although I have another busy weekend so again I won’t be catching up on sleep. Can I skive church on Sunday? I’ll still be going to 24/7 in the evening so it’s not like I’m totally avoiding church. Then again the old dears will probably think I am backsliding or something.

On Saturday I have training for the Street Angels program. Because the meeting is in the middle of town I think I am going to have to walk there other wise I have to pay parking for the whole day which would be kinda expensive. Does the Congregation Hall in Bedford having parking?

I’m failing at my reading of Austen! Seeing as Jane Austen January was partly my idea I feel a bit rubbish for not seeing it through. I started Sense and Sensibility but couldn’t get my head round it so I jumped straight onto Pride and Prejudice which again I can get my head round but life has just got in the way and I’ve not been able to read it. Today marks the beginning of Mansfield Park which apparently is one of the shorter ones. So I could read that quickly and then come back to Pride then again maybe I should take till Sunday to read as much of Pride as I can manage and then flick over to Mansfield Park.

We had Connect Group last night which was hilarious. CJ started talking about a tutor from his college back in Hull and then Mr W and The Murf kept making comments which got sillier and sillier and then Mrs Mow Mow got all confused and didn’t keep up which made it more funny! Me and Zoza (my new friend!) couldn’t stop laughing it was so funny! It was one of those moments that you calm down and then someone says something and it starts you off again! At one point I could actually breathe for laughing – I’m sure that’s not good!

CJ had to weight himself when he got in so that he could fill in a medical form to take to his new doctors today. I jumped on the scales just before him and got a fright. I’m now over 11 stone. I think the whole diet thing needs to be taken seriously and maybe even taken up a notch.

So this is what my To-do list looks like at the moment.

I have a friend, well I like to think of her as a friend even though I don’t really know her and I swoop in and read/comment on her blog. She goes by Coffee Girl and blogs post is entitled “I use mouthwash, sometimes I floss” and it had a list of random bits. I wanted to comment on them but realised that my comment was getting rather long again so a post in tribute to the other blog post was needed so here we go.

Rock Angel’s take on Coffee Girl’s list.

I often watch marathons of Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Degrassi. Reruns never seem to get old.

Ok so I have never heard of Degrassi but I love Fresh Prince. Me and my brother used to rap along to the title even though we were both really rubbish.

I don’t wash my hair everyday.

Neither do I! Is that gross? My theory is if it doesn’t need the wash why waste time? Can I just go with one day old hair (then again I get to about 4 day old then decide it needs a wash.)

Sometimes I sing when I’m listening to my ipod and walking somewhere, people give me weird looks.

I walked into town on Wednesday and on the way home I was listening to Can’t Stop The Beat from Hairspray. I danced down my street and then up the stairs of our flat building.

I avoid doing dishes, my apartment needs to be cleaned but I just blame it on living with a boy.

It’s CJ’s chore to do the dishes but for one or another reason they seem to mount up until we have very few left. I would do them for a second week in a row but then I’d be doing his chores and mine.

I’m scared of elevators.

I’m ok in elevators but escalators used to freak me out big time! Especially the really long ones on the Underground.

I hold my breath if I notice I am passing a graveyard.

Nope don’t do this one. I bet I do do other random things though let me think about that one.

Sometimes I think my internet self is way cooler than me in real life.

Me too! I’m not really sure why though! I think it’s probably because I seem to be more confident between what I write/say.

There are a few songs that still make me cry every time I listen to them because of the people I connect them with.

I used to love Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Eva Cassidy. Back in November it was played at my Grandma’s Cremation. Can’t listen to it now.

Sometimes I forget to use spell check.

I try to use it at work but I don’t always remember!

I secretly like the security and safe feeling that comes with working in a cubicle.

I don’t work in a cubicle I work at a desk in what could be an open plan office I guess. I don’t mind it but I feel out in the open and a bit defenceless.

I don’t like chocolate milk.

I don’t either – I also don’t like Coco Pops!

I hate when my hair is curly. I straighten it obsessively even though most people agree that it looks better natural.

I have wavy hair, so sometimes I straighten it – most of the time it’s pulled back into a pony tail or a scruffy bun so that it’s out of my face. (I would be an emo but the hair in my eyes annoys me!)

Every single morning I drink a 20 oz coffee. Until I have that coffee, I am usually in a terrible mood.

Can’t stand coffee!! I have to hold my breathe when I make it for people at work and at church the smell just makes me feel a bit queasy.

I like eggs even though I am a vegetarian and they are unborn chickens.

I like eggs too. Aren’t they treated or something so that the eggs don’t hatch? Could you imagine going to the supermarket – opening a box to make sure they aren’t cracked and theres a little chick sticking it’s head out the box?!?! Lol

In general, most 20somthing blogs bother me. They are so unrealistic and chipper. Also, there is no way to really achieve internet fame unless you post a ridiculous video on youtube.

I tried the whole YouTube thing but I sound so dopey over the microphone also I struggle to find stuff to talk about!

My mom and much of my extended family reads my blog.

I know my cousin, his girlfriend and my aunt read it and I think CJ reads it but other than that I don’t think my family do read it.

Very few people really know me.

I’m not really sure. I know I am struggling to make friends in RL at the moment. Since my friends from uni when home like a year and a half ago I’ve become more and more involved in online stuff like Twitter and Swap-Bot.

I hate pens write in blue ink.

I do like blue but they have to be comfortable to write with. I prefer slightly chunkier pens but not too chunky. I dislike pens that come in packaging that you can’t open to try because how do you know that they are comfy to write with.

I am a terrible driver.

I probably am too but I pretend I’m safe lol. CJ always whinges about my driving but then I don’t drive like I’m on my test all the time.

My socks often don’t match.

I am permanently in odd socks for example today I have black and white stripes but one has wide white stripes and thin black stripes and the other is the opposite.

I am incredibly predictable

I am predictable when I try to be random CJ looks at me like I am nuts or just tells me I’m weird.

I love listening to new music, but usually end up choosing old favorites after I’ve listened part of a new cd.

I have listened to Layla by Derek and the Dominos like 10 times since Thursday! How weird is that! It’s like part of my childhood! My Dad is a huge fan of Eric Clapton and Derek and the Dominos.

I hate birthdays, more specifically my birthday.

I love my birthday! It’s my day. Will ask Coffee Girl why she doesn’t like it.

I take things too seriously and try to control everything.

I went through a stage when I got really uptight about stuff and everything would bother me but I think that was linked to the friendship thing. (I thing I may have had/may still have very minor depression which was worse when I didn’t have a job.)

I haven’t seen The Dark Night yet and I think I am the only person who didn’t really like the movie Juno.

I saw the Dark Knight at the cinema and loved Juno!

I don’t like showing a lot of skin. It makes me uncomfortable.

Ditto! I don’t mind my arms or my legs when in shorts and it’s too hot for trousers but other that that I don’t like it – I really struggle with wearing a swimming costume because they are so uncomfy. I want a swimming costume all in one thingy along with a pair of surf shorts to cover the lumps and bumps is that too much to ask for?!?

I think sushi is gross.

I so agree! I would try it but as I can’t even stomach the smell of tinned tuna or walking past the fish counter in the supermarket how would I manage Sushi.

I’ve cut some of the list out as I either didn’t agree with it or didn’t think I should write about it 🙂

Today was the first time our band made our appearance in church after the overhaul of the way worship time is done. 

We had a funny moment this morning. Last night there was a boys sleepover (there was supposed to be a girls one too but we only had one girl who was able to come so we decided to postpone) 

I went to church early so I could grab breakfast and encourage the boys who were in the band to be at church in time for the rehearsal. The drummer nipped off to the loo, tucked his drum stick under his arm while he went, he turned round and managed to drop his sticks into the toilet! This became a joke for the rest of the day and will probably continue to keep doing!

Zoza (another fab nickname!) came to church again today. She’s seriously cool! I think she was a bit baffled keeping up with everyone but I hope she felt welcome. I think she’s coming to Connect Group on Wednesday which should be cool. 

Kewey and Dan arrived towards the end. We hung out at church for ages and chatted with different people and hung out with Princess Nat. 

After that we went out for lunch. We went to the Orchard which was lovely. I had Profiteroles for pudding which were lush! There were like 9 sat on a bed of ice cream! They were fantastic!

After lunch we came back and chatted for a bit. CJ grabbed a nap and I played host. Kewey and Dan left about 3:30ish. I then sat on the sofa to watch Eagle Vs. Shark, but I kept dosing off. I curled up on the sofa and had a sleep for a little while. 

I had a dosey moment where I woke up long enough to close my MacBook and put it on the floor, then change position so I was laying on the sofa with my scarf over my eyes. 

Next thing I knew it was 6:30 and CJ had just had a call from someone in the youth group – we were late for 24/7! NOT GOOD! 

24/7 was good this evening as it was about families, but it there wasn’t so much God content today. 

Overall I had a fab day. I asked The Murf if I could borrow Wanted on DVD so I’m working my way through that now (but sleep will be needed soon). I have work in the morning so am coming down now :(. Why do I get so down about Sunday Evening/Monday Mornings? Yeah ok it’s not my dream job but at the moment I enjoy it, it pays the bills and doe the trick. 

I keep questioning about what I’m supposed to be doing. Am I just not listening carefully enough to see what God wants me to do? Has he already told me and I’ve ran away. (We’ve been doing the story of Jonah at church and the story keeps coming back to me.) Did I run away? Or am I yet to hear?

In all honesty I am a bookworm.

I could read till the cows came home (except when they did I’d shout at them and tell them to go away again)

When I was at school I didn’t like the whole reading as a class thing because I liked reading at my own pace (on numerous occasions I would get told off for reading forward.)

The other day I was hanging out with my Bro and he was playing Guitar Hero World Tour. He was struggling with one bit on the drums, so I tweeted about it and waited to see if anyone out there on Twitter could answer the question. Then Matt came to our rescue. Later that day Matt was looking for bloggers to review his book I thought why not, you know a bit of you help me I’ll help you in return. 

I’m currently reading Pride and Prejudice as part of Jane Austen January as hosted by Elle at Pipe Dreams and Professions – it would be something different and put my reading skills to some use.

I read through the first chapter and emailed Matt with some questions as follows.

(Btw I’ve just been back to Matt’s Blog to find out URL’s and stuff like that – I ended up reading one of his posts, and I get a mention how fab is that!)

In a couple of sentences can you introduce yourself to me?

Well, I make a living as a software developer, and I’ve done that for almost ten years now. I’m also a bit of a pianist and a composer — you can find some of my music on my site. My wife and I live in El Paso, Texas, where we were both born and raised. We spent a few years up in Washington state, and came back down once we decided just how nice it was seeing the sun every once in a while.

How did you get into writing?

I’ve written off and on for as long as I can remember. One day though, a couple of years ago, my dad called me up and said he’d found a couple of old short stories and poems of mine. He said I should keep at it, maybe try and get something published. I started writing short stories again, and remembered how much fun it was, so it kinda stuck with me that time around.

If you had to name two or three writers who influenced you, who would they be?

Oh gosh. The first one is really easy: Stephen King. I love his conversational style, how it sounds like you’re just sitting around talking with friends instead of reading a book. The second one I’d choose would probably have to be Poe; I’ve always kinda liked the gothic flavor, and he was definitely a favorite of mine when I was growing up.

Also, what genre would you put your stories into?

That’s something that I’ve had the hardest time trying to figure out — when you’ve read Like Glass and have a suggestion, let me know 😉

I’m a movie geek and love going to the cinema or just curling up with a DVD, if we were to see Like Glass on the Silver Screen who would you have playing Rob Jackson? Cindy? Bill?

Hmmmm…. I think Rob Lowe might make a decent Rob Jackson. I almost want to say Keanu Reeves would be good too, but he’s a bit too “surfer” for the part. Cindy isn’t a major character in the novel overall, but Janet, the real love interest (you’ll see that once you get a couple of chapters into it) would probably do well with Jennifer Love Hewitt, maybe Jennifer Morrison (she plays Dr. Cameron on House). I think Matthew Lillard would probably do pretty good for Bill.

Are we able to know what Bill did do Rob or does that come out in the rest of the story (or then again do we just have to wait and see?)

Yeah, that’s what a good chunk of the book after Chapter 1 is about 😉

(I can tell you if you want but that would spoil it! You need to read it!)

I really liked the story and for nearly all of it I was glued to it and couldn’t put it down at all. I think this annoyed CJ quite a lot!

Over all it was good and I would read it again. Having chatted briefly via email to Matt about the characters and who he thought he would have in the role should it be a film I think it made it easier for me to kinda visualise the characters and what was going on. Matt is good at describing the characters and being able to help the reader to visualise what is going on and what the buildings and people look like.

About half way through there is a section were one of the characters has a bit of a breakdown so the storyline becomes a bit muddled between past, present and future tenses. I struggled to keep up with what was happening at these points. However after it had happened the story line straightened out again and made sense.

The ending is a little sad as you just think everyone is going to get their happy ending the way it should have been at the beginning then Matt throws in just one more twist to leave the reader guessing right to the end.

I struggled with the language as there is quite a lot of swearing through out the book – or at least more than I’m used to! However I did like the story over all and would definitely look and reading the next book that Matt produces, who knows I might be reviewing it!

I’ve just emailed one of the people I follow on Twitter and we’re discussing about me interviewing him about his book that he’s written. It’s called Like Glass you can find Chapter One here and his name is Matthew Cory.

And just to warn you there are the odd couple of swear words in this opening chapter so just be aware of that. Other than that go read the chapter and comment, then come back here and read the interview when it’s posted.

Okay so I’ve been writing this on and off all day but I’ve finally got it to my blog rather than a Word Document or an E-Mail. So here we go:

It’s now Monday lunchtime and it’s taken me about four days to write and check over the events of Wednesday. I gained permission of my Friend to post about it incase he felt it was too personal to be shared elsewhere. I also send him each section of the posts so that he could double check that I’d not mentioned people by name rather than alias and stuff like that.

CJ’s plan involved us going to Pastor Mow Mow’s house and chatting with him and the other Pastor about all the stuff that had happened and what we felt about it. This was good as Pastor Mow Mow had/has had depression on and off over the last few years he can give us the insiders opinion whereas me and CJ have been close to be it but always on the outside of it. (If that makes sense).

Even though I’m the more emotional one out of me and CJ it seems to have affected him more. Have I been watching too many medical dramas and become desensitized to it or something?

So anyway Thursday we had the chat in the morning and then at about 11:30 Mrs Mow Mow arrived home and Pastor Mow Mow had to go out. I spent a lot of Thursday at the Mow Mow’s house. We had lunch with Mrs Mow Mow which was cheese on toast.

We ended up playing Xbox for most of the afternoon and I picked up Lambkin from school (he looked a bit worried that he’d been forgotten – I couldn’t find him in the playground at first – I was kinda worried too!). Lambkin and me went to the shops for some new batteries (the ones in the controller were dying!) and some potatoes. I think I embarrassed him by walking up the street singing Sponge Bob Square Pants.

Well he was either embarrassed or confused as to how I know the lyrics! We got back and CJ was playing Xbox and then Lambkin had ago. I went and got his book bag and he needed to do some reading so we put the game on pause while we did the reading. It was four pages long that we needed to do and Lambkin did really well. He struggles on some words like zapped (how do you explain zapped to a 7yo? I used some rubbish Batman analogy!)

When we’d done the reading he was allowed to go back on the Xbox for a little while – apparently it had been a real treat to have it on that long! Oops! Mrs Mow Mow invited us to stay for tea as well which was really lovely – we had home made burgers which were fab.

CJ went off for a little while as he needed to go and set up the wireless at one of our friend’s house. (Their son got an iPod Touch for Christmas so they decided as a treat that they would get wireless internet.)

Before he left I asked him to go home and get my bass but I guess he didn’t understand or something. I texted him to make sure he was going to get it and he texted back saying no he wasn’t at the car was still with me not with him. Once he got back to Pastor Mow Mow’s house I went home to get my bass guitar.

We went to band practice and it was sooo good! We’ve just split into two bands and it’s going reasonably well – our band line up is still temporary but I love our line up. I would tweak a few bits but ultimately it doesn’t come down to individual preference and you never know God has got reasons for the line up and why we’re in the groups that we’re in – don’t you think?

So today I would really rather be at home!

I got to work and my computer wouldn’t work and then I kept feeling like I was going to doze off – which is really rubbish because I had enough sleep last night.

Anyhoo lunch is in 9 minutes I’m having a dilemma about going home or not for lunch (Seeing as our kitchen is a mess!) and also what to do next.

ttfn

The week after Valentine’s Day, it’s my friends 23rd birthday. So the following weekend there is an outing to go clubbing in MK. Now clubbing isn’t my cuppa but seeing as the theme is Rock Stars and Ballerinas I am up for the event. 

When ever we go out clubbing I always feel a little like a sore thumb as we rarely go on a Thursday which is Indie night and so I’m a little too Emo compared to everyone else out lol 

I guess at least by us all being dressed as rock stars/ballerinas I don’t feel so bad. Even at the sight of seeing Kewey’s boyfriend as Alice Cooper makes me wanna be there! After seeing The Murf as Gene Simmons from KISS I can’t wait!!!!

I’ve decided that I am going to go on a similar track as Faith from Buffy. Then again maybe Trinity from Matrix is more the look I’m going for lol.

I’m not really sure! I have a friend who is like goth-chick supremo so I might ask her if she can give me a makeover and get me ready for the party!

My friend is having a Rock Star/Ballerina fancy dress outing in MK on the 20th February – So I’ve decided I’m going to go in a long leather jacket if I can borrow one from somewhere – I’m thinking Faith from Buffy. So I need to be able to borrow or purchase a leather jacket from somewhere – think the Matrix and thats about the right line of thought – I think I’m going to have to go online or something to be able to get hold of one. (Yeah a Tutu might be easier but a tutu is less me! I get to dress up as Goth as I wanna go and not feel like a plonker!)

So everyone your mission should be willing to accept it and is where can I find a full length leather jacket thats not too expensive?

I found this post at Popping Bubbles Weblog – please show her some love too!

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
DUDE! What happened to my hair??

2. How much cash do you have on you?
Erm I think £10 maybe a little more

3. What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR?
Moor – like in Yorkshire!

4. Favorite planet?
Saturn – permanently playing hula hoop

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
Andy from church, he was helping us get a new car battery.

6. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone?
Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall (it’s like the opening chords cos iphone sucks when it comes to ringtones)

7. What shirt are you wearing?
Navy Blue long sleeved top and a green vest top

8. Do you label yourself?
Sometimes, usually Heffalump! Lol Erm or emo girl (A friend of mine told me off!) So my original answer and my tweak weren’t right and my friend told me off for giving myself such a negative label. So I am awesome and I rock maybe at least a little bit!

9. Name the brand of the shoes you’re currently wearing?
Gola – I don’t normally buy name brand shoes but they were cheap at the market in Camden. I got them last May so I’m probably due some new ones soon!

10. Bright or Dark Room?
Bright during the day, but really dark at night, unless I’m ill or tired I really struggle to sleep in a light room.

11. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?
She loves bubbles as much if not more than I do so that makes her awesome!

12. What does your watch look like?
It’s a Bench one from Argos! Lol. It’s got a lilac face with silver hands the strap is like black leather-ness. I might need a new battery though as I have to keep updating the time every 24 hours or so at the moment. I bought it about a year ago as my Punkyfish one (that I absolutely adored!) had got really grubby and because the clock face was sewn to the strap there was no way of cleaning it.

13. What were you doing at midnight last night?
I was lying in bed but I wasn’t asleep.

14. What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
No Thanks

15. Where is your nearest 7-11?
No idea! Let me have a look. I know the nearest Walmart is like Nova Scotia in Canada which is interesting seeing as I’m in the UK! The nearest is in Maine! Well at least I think it is!

16. What’s a word that you say a lot?
Awesome!

17. Who told you he/she loved you last?
CJ

18. Last furry thing you touched?
My friend’s dog Fiver or Fifer I’m not really sure what it’s name is!

19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days?
None so far but paracetamol is on the cards when I get home from work.

20. How many rolls of film do you need developed?
None – I am a digital chick hehe

21. Favorite age you have been so far?
Erm I think 21 I was at uni and my friends were still in Bedford rather than at home.

22. Your worst enemy?
I don’t have any – at least I don’t think I do. Having enemies takes up too much energy..

23. What is your current desktop picture?
At work it’s a funky picture designed by CJ and at home I have my Macbook on rotation so it scrolls through my pictures.

24. What was the last thing you said to someone?
Erm goodbye to my Aunt i think who happens to be account lady at work.

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be?
I’d have the cash – I would share it round my family.

26. Do you like someone?
There are lots of someones in the world my friends are someones hehe.

27. The last song you listened to?
Erm I think Backstreet Boys were on the radio earlier!

28. What time of day were you born?
2:21 p.m. GMT I got this wrong and Ally corrected me! Because I am an April baby I would have been born in BST rather than GMT! So I was born at 2:21pm BST

29. What’s your favorite number?
27

30. Where did you live in 1987?
Bedford, Bedfordshire

31. Are you jealous of anyone?
Not really. I have a little bee in my bonnet over something at the moment but I’m dealing with it.

32. Is anyone jealous of you?
I don’t know.

33. Where were you when 9/11 happened?
I was at school. I remember walking into the music room to see my teacher and the other music teacher came in, in a bit of a flap about it. When I got to my G-ma’s house my aunt and my mum watched the news. I played with my cousin while they watched the news.

34. What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
Press the cancel button till i feel satisfied that it gets the point lol

35. Do you consider yourself kind?
I think so

36. If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
A small star – I just have to decide where and when.

37. If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be?
Japanese

38. Would you move for the person you loved?
I think so, however CJ has this idea of moving to Hull and he just doesn’t get that I don’t want to move.

39. Are you touchy feely?
I used to be quite huggy but I think I’ve gone off it.

40. What’s your life motto?
I don’t thing I really have one. I guess This life is more than just a read through is kinda one thanks to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

41. Name three things that you have on you at all times?
Wedding ring, Hair elastic, glasses

42. What’s your favorite town/city?
Bedford – I’m at home or Mansfield – 2nd Home.

43. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Ham Salad sandwich at lunch I think

44. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?
I wrote the letter at the end of last week and it was posted today.

45. Can you change the oil on a car?
Yep. Well at least I can on my car and maybe on others with assistance from the manual!

46. Your first love: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?
He was working as a bar man at a pub in Bedford. He’s actually one of my facebook friends.

47. How far back do you know about your ancestry?
My Grandad can take it back like 6 or 7 generations if not further!

48. The last time you dressed fancy, what did you wear and why did you dress fancy?
I don’t know probably Graduation and that was the Graduation gown I wore. Other than that it would be my 6th form Valedictory in 2004 – i wore a two piece blue dress (if i can find a photo i will post one 🙂 ) I was about to say how dopey I was and that the last time I dressed fancy wasn’t graduation however I handed in my dissertation in April which was kinda “graduation”, got married in May and the final graduation ceremony was in October! So it was Graduation hehe.

49. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
My headache is clearing but it still hurts a little bit.

50. Have you been burned by love?
A few times…

A – Age: 22
B – Bed size: Double
C – Chore you hate: Washing Clothes! It never stops!
D – Dad’s Name: Graham
E – Essential start your day item: Music
F – Favorite actor(s): Anne Hathaway, Ewan MacGregor, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Julia Stiles
G – Gold or Silver: Silver
H – Height: 5’2
I – Instruments you play(ed): Flute, Keyboard, Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar and various sizes of Recorders.
J – Job title: Customer Service Representative
K – Kid(s): 0
L – Living arrangements: one husband
M – Mom’s name: Carolyn
N – Nicknames: Hanniepants, Hannie, Han, Titch,
O – Overnight hospital stay other than birth: none, thankfully. I’ve been in an ambulance after being in a RTC when I was 14 but other than that I’ve not been overnight.
P – Pet Peeve: two-faced people – it bugs me lots!
Q – Quotes you like: I have quite a few! I could be here all night!
R – Right or left handed: right
S – Siblings: one – Younger, Brother
T – Time you woke up today: erm like 11am
V – Vegetable you hate: Courgette, Brussells, Squash, Swede
W – Always running late: Not really I’m getting better at it.
X – X-rays you’ve had: Two I think when I was in the RTC as above.
Y – Yummy food you make: I suck at cooking! I think the only thing is beans on toast or fairy cakes.
Z – Zodiac: Taurus – but I don’t follow my Horoscopes.

So my friend Dave Q from church tagged me to do this on Facebook but it’s easier just to post here as it’s redirected to Facebook anyway! (I’ll come tag you Facebook buddies in a few minutes!)

1. Put Your iTunes (or other music player) on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag at least 10 friends.
6. Anyone tagged has to do the same, because fun pointlessness spreads like a virus.

If someone says, “Is this okay?” You say?
I Need Something by Newton Faulkner

How would you describe yourself?
These R The Thoughts by Alanis Morisette

What do you like in a guy/girl?
Don’t Need The Sunshine by Catatonia

How do you feel today?
Fascination by Alphabeat

What is your life’s purpose?
I’ll Stand By You by Girls Aloud

What is your motto?
Unashamed by Paul Oakley

What do your friends think of you?
Oh My God by The Kaiser Chiefs

What do you think of your parents?
Don’t Want To Miss A Thing by Aerosmith

What do you think about very often?
Joining You by Alanis Morisette

What is 2 + 2?
Hate To Say I Told You So by The Hives

What do you think of your best friend?
Intro by Newton Faulkner

What do you think of the person you like?
Everlasting God by Brenton Brown

What is your life story?
Pure and Simple by Hear’Say

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Need Some Sleep by Eels

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Good Day, Sunshine by The Beatles

What will you dance to at your wedding?
If Only by KT Tunstall (actually I danced to Finally Found by Honeyz)

What will they play at your funeral?
Nothing Hurts Like Love by Daniel Bedingfield

What is your hobby/interest?
Come Away With Me by Norah Jones

What is your biggest fear?
Wuthering Heights by Hayley Westenra

What is your biggest secret?
The Heart Never Lies by McFly

What do you think of your friends?
I Promise by Stacie Orrico (I’m going to post the lyrics and video of this one!)

What will you put as the title?
Last Thing On My Mind by Steps!

(Ok going to hide now due the interesting taste of music I have!)

Home made Christmas pudding

Originally uploaded by hanniejo

So i cheated on this one. I took this (rather blurry!) photo on my phone when i was helping my Mum make christmas pudding back in December.

Hello There

So there was a little break – well in the end most of December was a break for me from HSMSHS. I had a bit of a blip and never seemed to have the time to do stuff!

 So the 5th January was my first day back at work after Christmas. I’m giving Project 365 another shot – although this is currently shot 1 it’s actually 5 i need to sort my other pictures out!

The prompt for today is Heart so here is a doodle of sorts!

So when we went to bed last night the car wasn’t running and I was looking at walking to work (I kinda hoped in some freaky reason that it would start running again this morning.)

I woke up this morning and CJ checked his phone and saw the weather – it said there was going to be snow and I told him that he was lying, that it wouldn’t happen – Bedford is in a bit of a rut so when it’s cold enough we get a sprinkling of snow but not enough to be a proper snow shower (as one of the guys at Star used to say – he was Canada – of course it wasn’t proper snow over here!)

I looked out of the window while grabbing my clothes from in front of the wardrobe and was gobsmacked! There was snow on the ground! It was snowing here in Bedford!!!!

Me and CJ wrapped up warm and went to try the car in case we could get it to push start. We had three attempts along the street and decided that it wasn’t going to start and that I needed to wrap up some more and start walking to work.

I don’t mind walking to work normally but it was so cold and snowy! I got to the park and the lake in the middle was frozen over and there was snow on the ice as well.

I took some photos and then carried on walking (I got a nice one of the bandstand surrounded in snow)

I got into work and my foot had started to hurt. I checked the back of my ankle and I had given myself a blister by wearing my walking shoes rather than trainers or boots (the idea being my feet would be warmer). I changed into my trainers and sat at my desk with one shoe on and one shoe off for most of the day in the hope that it would help the blister to go down.

I was chatting to Mr C by email this morning and we chatted about getting the battery for the car sorted out. He recommended that I talked to Andy W about it as he works with cars and in a garage now (I think!). I texted Andy and he called back almost straight away. He could sort the battery and he didn’t mind coming round in the evening to install it and make sure it was working. I had a smile from ear to ear – it was the thing I was worrying about the most was getting the new battery.

It was busy as it was the first day back properly after Christmas which meant I didn’t actually get a proper lunch break – I got about 10 minutes if you count standing in the queue in the canteen as a break. We’ve got a new system now where we have to write out these extra forms. The idea being that it will help to correct any pricing errors we might have. It’s a good idea and I don’t mind doing it but it is causing me extra work lol.

After work me and Mum went to Interchange to have a look for some bits. She needed paper for work so we went into Staples – spent ages looking at the different colours pens lol. That would be like a dream job working in a shop that just sold pens and funky notepads lol.

We then went to Argos and Toys R Us. My brother wants to get the band kit for Guitar Hero World Tour. Aparently it’s a different kit and guitar so he can’t his existing stuff with the Guitar Hero game. Unfortunately Bedford had sold out, so we couldn’t get it for him. We had a look round Matalan and Mum bought me a funky pink fleecy jumper (which is very warm!)

After that we grabbed KFC for tea and headed home. Me and Mum watched University Challenge (we decided that then when Dad gets home from his business trip we can watch it again and we’d look clever because we already know the answers lol!

We also watched Masterchef as the new series started last night – I’m not really keen on it but it’s okay. I keep telling my friend to go on it but because he’s classed as a professional chef he can’t go on it. (Maybe he should go on the Professionals one!)

We then watched P.S. I Love You – or at least we started watching it! Mum gave me a lift home. When I got home me and CJ put the Christmas decorations away. (I had asked him to start doing it before I got home but he hadn’t read the text message right and so decided to wait for me) Although they aren’t properly away in the attic they are at least down which is good.

After that we had about an hour to chill out doing stuff (he’s still working on the Lego village) then we headed to bed. That was the end of Monday!

So it’s now the 4th January, I keep thinking about what is going to happen over the next year, I turn 23, my brother turns 21, CJ is going to be 24.

My Grandad is going to be 70 on the 21st April. I think about the things that have happened over the 23 years I’ve been alive and think about the things that my Grandad would have experienced and witnessed over his life.

I don’t tend to make resolutions. It used to annoy me when you got back to school after Christmas your English teacher would make you write your resolutions and the list had to be like 10 items long.

My resolutions turn more into a to do list!

1. Complete Thank Yous for Christmas Presents
2. Find models to take photos
3. Take photos to make my portfolio.
4. Get photos printed out.
5. Find nice folder for photos
6. Finish Sense and Sensibility (by 14/1)
7. Read the other books for Jane Austen Book Club (0/6)

Thats to start with at least!