Pre Xmas

Again, I'm going to have to update this more often but I always forget, and to be honest my life is pretty boring. Thank god I've now finished my Xmas shopping and I'm sooooo glad, this year it has been horrid, and today didn't help. Standing in a queue in HMV to find then the tills go down and they are only excepting cash payments, so i had to leave the queue go to the cash machine then re-join the queue again, which was the full length of the store. To put it lightly I wasn't amused.

But the upside to all this I've got my Wii for Christmas, I managed to leg it to HMV on Tuesday, thanks to my boss letting me leave work for 20 mins in the middle of the day to rush to the other side of town. I'd previously rung the store and they had 4 left well, i was the last person that day to get one. Lucky me, but i think various store are slowly getting more stock in now. It's sitting nicely wrapped under my tree. I will let you know what i think of it after Xmas.

I had my works Xmas do on Monday night we went to Cafe Rouge again this year, and just like last I had the same menu choices and it was well worth the £20 for 3 courses. Totally enjoyed it. This year I was in charge of co-ordinating Secret Santa at work, the budget was £3 and the theme was silly and the item had to beginning with the letter S. I think it went ok, there were a few moans about the letter choice but everyone managed to get a gift starting with S, mine was a Kids Fake Ferrari F1 car. Yes I know this doesn't technically begin with S but it does state on the box Supercar so that counts, well according to the person who bought it anyway. So good times had by all.

I'll sign off now, hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Actioned Packed Weekend

The weekend of the 17th Aug was hectic but great, the weather held out but the traffic didn't. We set off on the Friday morning on our journey to Kent to the annual Bad Taste Bear outing. We had a reasonable journey down but hit traffic on the M25, going at 50mph on a motorway isn't great and I think at one point my BF put the hand brake on because we weren't even moving. But we arrived safely, and with only about half an hour added on to our journey time.

Our first stop off was Bluewater shopping centre, the reason for this is that like any other gal i like shopping and more importantly I like Krispy Kreme donuts. I first discovered KK at Harrods in London and fell in love with the little dough circles, they are the best donuts in the whole world, but the only problem is that up north were I live we haven't had the luxury get so I took this opportunity of going to Bluewater to sample some more of these wondrous delights, well 12 donuts later and I'm stuffed. I just want to make it clear I didn't eat them all, I did have some help.

Now Bluewater isn't a bad shopping centre but I feel that I had worked myself up for it to be twice the size of our Local shopping mall, Meadowhall but I was surprised that I think it might be just a little bigger. There are more expensive shops at BW and the most important one the Lego shop, where i nearly lost my BF, it was like a little child in a sweet shop, bless...

So we checked in our hotel that night and had a well deserved rest from all the shopping and donuts.
The next day was the trip to the event, which was at Groombridge place gardens in Kent, and also in the middle of nowhere, thank god for SatNav.

The event was really good, we got our bears and goodie bag, and then joined the queue for the shop, another 14 or so bears later we joined the queue for the tombola, at £5 per go we limited ourselves to 4 goes but the prizes were rare bears, so later in the day we had another few goes. Things were starting to run out, the shop was fast running out of stock and so was the tombola, it was apparent that one collector had spent £400 on the tombola, now in my book this isn't fair, the organisers really should have done something about this or limited the amount of goes you were able to have. Oh well we were glad with our wins and thankful we went to the shop first. We had a look around the gardens then went back to the hotel.

On the way home the next day we stopped off in Slough to visit friends, so all in all a very good but tiring and expensive weekend.

Furniture Shopping

I've been told to update this as it hasn't been updated for a week now, i'm really sorry but i've been rather busy. Question: How is furniture shopping so stressful? well it is for me, first you have to decide on what to buy then trying to sort out if it will fit where you want it. The reason for this is that me and my fiance went up to IKEA on friday evening to get our new wardrobe and bed which match the chest of draws that we has previously bought but having measured said furniture the bed won't fit and it will be touch and go if the wardrobe will fit, but we ordered it anyway, IKEA state that you can have home delivery either the same day or next dayso we thought if we ordered it on Friday we could have it delivered on Saturday, this wasn't the case they should state that it's the next available day delivery so it shouldbe delivered tonight all being well, it better be coz we are taken the old wardrobe to the tip.

I have started to look at wedding things as i'm getting married in September 2006 hopefully on the 16th, but my fiance is getting fussed about how much i'm getting in to organising things, i'd started looking at invitations designs as my soon to be mother in law and I are making them ourselves so i've been researching designs then taking a trip to the craft shop and buying materials, Fiance is getting stressed about this and says i'm starting too early, what he doesn't realise is that it takes time to organise a wedding, and as i'm really indecisive it might take even longer, but i'm sure it will all work out for the best, watch this space!!!

Yule time comes to an end

Well, another xmas over, all that panicking making sure you get the right present and all the food just for 2 days, still i guess it's kind of worth it in the end.

My christmas was really good, i managed to cope without my boyfriend on xmas eve and we had a nice evening together xmas day and daytime boxing day apart from him going out to buy a build your own car and race toy, which he proceeded to build whilst at his mothers with his brother (he got one too), leaving me to sit on the sofa and get bored, oh well, the best and most important thing to happen this christmas is my engagement to my boyfriend, the ring is gorgeous and i'm very much in love with him.

The next thing to happen is new years and we are having our first party at our house with both of our best friends coming, i'm hoping it will go well and i'm planning on getting very drunk.

Will update soon. x