Motivated Mondays

Monday, I woke up and exercised in the mancave. Nice start to the day!

I woke Ant up as per , I helped him life as he needs a helping hand in the mornings bless him. 

Anyway, Monday was fine... My director joked to me about not bieng in on Friday. I think where my manager has said I was working from home they've assumed I was really really hungover and couldnt make it in!

I was in and ready(ish) for the day! It was fine anyway, we laughed about the Awards night. 

Erm, I can't remember anything more about Monday! It wasn't even 2 days ago haha.

Pretty sure we just went off home and ate the thai dish I'd cooked at the weekend which was delicious! And then chilled. 

Tuesday, sameyyyy. 

Just work and then at lunch we went and did a back and abs session at the gym. Now we have 9 weeks and few days countdown to the holiday we are both feeling hugely motivated!

So here's my back exercise.. I can’t upload the video so here’s a still... will have to do. 

Hoping I can look back at the video I have and will have improved!

It was good anyway, me and Ant both enjoyed it. 

After work, I headed home to make lunches and feed our kitties. 

My lil Lois isn't feeling great this week and so we didn't meet for our catch up. I'd made us a slimming world dinner in preparation, so I went and delivered it to her. 

She came out of her house in her lil pjs and dressing gown, so cute! We ended up nattering in the street for ages as well!

I drove home and pretty much showered, had my dinner and watched Love island! (Future me, you need to re-watch, it's so juicy! But also a load of crap so maybe you're too mature for it now?)

So it's now Wednesday.. I went to the gym at lunchtime to do the legs/bums and tums class which I did last week and really enjoyed. 

This week.. not so much.. 

The new instructor who i’d not experienced before.. was late and we had no music for half of it. He didn't explain the exercises properly, which is fine for me.. but I just thought.. really?!

He ran over by 15 minutes and then at the end asked me how it was! I am too polite and said really good hahaha!

To be honest we did do some burners so it was still good. 

This evening Antony is out for a work meeting, so I'm just chilling with the kitties and awaiting a call to pick him up. 

Sunny Sat and Sun

Saturday.. 

So Saturday morning, I woke up and went off to the gym. I did a circuits class which was a bit of a killer to be honest! Lots of upper body which I really need to start doing more of. 

I got back from the gym and me and Antony ate the pizza that we accidentally ordered the night before. 

Antony went off into the garden to start mowing and I started cleaning the kitchen.. Adult life!

All of the shopping I'd ordered arrived and I excitedly put it all away (yes really) I love a full kitchen! Anyway, Ant continued to garden and I started cooking up some meals which I'd planned to do over the weekend. 

It was such a lush day, nice and chilled and so good to know we had no plans. 

Ant popped out to his friends for a little bit and came back with some gorgeous flowers and some cherries which I didn't know whether I liked or not. He's so bloody cute!

He bought me the flowers cos they’re purple and my fave colour. 

I loved the cherries too, can't believe I've just discovered them. 

I cooked and Antony chilled for the rest of the day then we both went to shower and decide what to do with our night. 

We ended up walking to a nearby pub about.. 40 mins walk away. It was so beaut! It was such nice weather still and so we sat in the pub garden which was huge and really pretty!

We had such a nice night. Properly chilled out, chatted and the food was incredible! It was a little pricey but so worth it. Bacon and duck flatbread MMM!

We (Ant) decided to get an uber home rather than walk and we got home around 9:30, on the sofa ready to slob. We are getting old but I bloody love it. 

Sunday morning I woke up and went off to the gym, I went to a tone class which was really good. Lots of chest though and I'm pretty sure that's the weakest muscle on me.

I got home, Antony made us bacon sarnies, cos he's a top babe. 

Then we pretty much did the same as the day before, I cooked more food and Antony chilled more! 

This week I made: Sweet potato cottage pie, frigging spicy jerk chicken, chilli, peanut Thai chicken, Beef and red onion stew, chilli chicken and basil spaghetti and chicken jalfrezi.

OH then we booked a holiday!!! We sat down and both sat on our phones looking at different places/prices/reviews etc and to be honest it was a bit annoying in the end cos we'd try and book one and suddenly the price would jump up. Anyway we got there in the end!

We are going to Gran Canaria which neither of us have been to before.. our hotel looks amazing with great reviews and it's 10 mins from the beach and 10 mins from a big complex which has bars/restaurants/clubs and DRAG SHOWS OMG.

Apparently it's home to lots of gay couples and they love it there. I am so excited!

So once we'd booked we were both buzzing dancing around the kitchen.  

Fri..yay?

So I woke up Friday morning feeling a little rough... and so so tired!

I usually sleep early and get a good 8-10 hours sleep, I know, a lot. But I really do love my sleep.

But we got home from the work event around half 2 and I was waking up, hungover, at 8am. Not cool!

But I got up, took some painkillers and got myself ready for work. Atleast it was Friday! I felt so rough though and was really hating the thought of work all day.

I popped to Greggs and got myself a sausage sandwich to help me through, but the man gave me a fat off baguette.. sorry who needs a sausage BAGUETTE at 9am!? Not me! So I went to Ant's work and left half for him.

I then headed into work and mentally prepared myself to say hi to everyone. I had no make up on as I'd left it at work the day before.

So I looked rough! But I walked in smiling and saying good morning to everyone as usual.

I turned on my computer, got my self sorted out and started my day.

Not long after i'd sat down, my director messaged me asking I was feeling.. the answer was like f*cking sh*t!! But I said not.. great haha.

He was the same and then asked me if I'd seen the video he'd posted on the general channel (slack - messaging app everyone at work uses).

The video was of everyone dancing on the stage at the Awards and I was there frigging headbanging to living on a prayer! It was hilarious but I couldn't help die a little inside...cringe!!!

My manager was also messaging me asking how I was feeling. Again, not great! She said the same! 

She was working from home today, good preparation right?! She  needed her laptop though and so I went downstairs to meet her and give her her things.

I sat in her car for a bit where we both moaned about how we felt but said how good the night before was.

She asked me how I was and who was in the office and then told me to go home and work from there! Omg I swear it will go down in history of one of the best moments ever! I was so relieved to go home.

I quickly printed what I needed and did anything I couldn't do at home. And left as fast as I could incase someone was to try and stop me! 

I got home and set myself up on the sofa. I worked from there and Ant came home for lunch. 

I think he was a bit miffed that I was home and he wasn’t! Which is understandable. 

But we had a nice lunch together. 

It was nice when he got home and we could start the weekend, not that we did much. Just had a chill on the sofa.. Ant gaming/me watching my garbage tv which I love. 

Tuesday/Wednesday

So again, I'm playing catch up!

Tuesday Lois came round after work and we ate a banging beef curry that she'd made for us. It was really yummy and she put peppers in it but cut them up really small so I actually ate them.

I'm like a kid!

We chatted and chilled for the night which was nice as always.

Wednesday.. erm.. I honestly don't remember! Oh I went to the gym at lunch as Antony had a work lunch.

I did a legs bums and tums which was really hard cos my legs and butt were absolutely killing from a session earlier in the week.

At the beginning of the class I asked a guy what the instructor had said about getting weights and he wasn't sure... said to get some free weights and a kettle bell.

Then really patronisingly said.. are you okay with a 14kg? (that's the kettlebell I chose)

I said yes thanks.. and wondered if he was okay with his 10kg *insert upside down smile emoji which is also my fave emoji*

Anyway, turns out he was not okay with his throughout the class but I was with mine! Ha!

That night me and Antony had chicken burgers, steak burgers and sweet potato fries which was so so good! Ant tried to make his dinner look arty...

Looks great right!

Thursday was a bit stressful as I had a work event that evening and it was quite unorganised as my manager was off sick and we hadn't really made a plan before hand..

So I did have quite a stressed/anxious morning worrying about it. I think my main issue is I don't want people to think I'm really rubbish!

Anyway.. who cares because it was all fine. We walked to the train station (in heels, a little painful!), got the train, got a cab and bam.. we arrived.

It was such a bloody good night. The event was Comms Business Awards 2018 and we won the Software channel product of the year! It was awesome when we won, the whole table went crazy, cheering. It was so loud, probably the loudest there.

Everyone at the table ran up to the stage to collect the award and get a picture taken. I didn't as I stayed back with the new girl that's not started yet and didn't want to go up. Which is fair enough!

So then we had lots to drink and lots and lots of dancing! It was so much fun. I actually got a lot drunker than I should have for a work event...

I drank quite quickly at the beginning then realised I was pretty drunk so stopped.. but I was still feeling it when I got home so it still lasted me ages.

We got on the stage and sang, danced, headbanged. The guys who ran the event actually came up to us at the end and thanked us for having such a good time.

Here's some of the pics.. my neck is still so sore from the headbanging..











Oh and David Mitchell is really funny!!

Sunday/Monday

Sunday I woke up, feeling weirdly fresh considering we'd been drinking since 12 the day before!

I went straight downstairs and ate some of the curry that me and Mum had ordered the night before, yummy. 

I went back up to see Antony, who wasn't feeling great. I mentioned Mum had made breakfast casserole which is SO damn good and he asked whether there was egg in it and then ran to the toilet. Haha!

He didn't actually throw up but it did make me laugh. Mum's kittens came to join us and we all chilled on the bed for a while.

We made it down stairs eventually and sat with everyone, eating breakfast casserole, which did I mention its amazing??

We wished Andy's Happy Father's Day and gave him his cards and pressies. We all got him some grappa and then I got him a  colouring book which was of cats and their butts showing, I thought it would be hilarious but it ended up kinda weird.

We all sorta chilled out for an hour, I watched Love Island on the sofa with Ant, others just chatting/chilling in the kitchen. 

Mum got me up  eventually as she wanted me to show her and Emily some weight/strength training in the gym. Mum does a lot of running and Emily wants to get fit and so I spent some time demonstrating things they could do. 

I am excited for them to do some circuits and tell me what they think.. what exercises they really hate and what they're improving on etc. I am really jealous that I live so far away and can't join in! But I really hope they get into it and enjoy it as much as I do. I know mum will cos she's the one who got me so into fitness. 

She made me laugh when I was showing them exercises by saying to Emily 'I created this monster!' Yeah mum, ya did, thanks. 

Me and Antony then set off on what I thought would be an easy journey as the way there was. I was wrong. 

It was so long. 5 hours long. There was loads of traffic and we were so tired we stopped for coffee two/three times. 

We listened to a podcast about the Illuminati which I ended up zoning out of so took nothing from it unfortunately. Antony enjoyed it which was good. I like crimey podcasts but I think they can be a bit deep/dark for cheery ole Antony. 

Anyway, we finally got home and the first thing we did is both give our cats loads of fuss. I was upstairs baby voicing Sooty and I could hear him downstairs like 'hello baby, you've got a nice soft fur coat' to Sweep. I think they were happy to see us as they came and sat on the sofa with us afterwards. 

Lois looked after them all weekend and sent me pics/videos of them which was really sweet. 

Then we chilled on the sofa at last. (fave thing to do if you hadn't guessed this by now)

Monday was uneventful.. I got up early so I could unpack/sort washing/dishwasher etc and then did some exercise in the mancave. I just thought I'd feel better about Monday if I did this rather than leave it till the evening time.

Work was fine, very quiet actually. Then me and Ant met for lunch, eating a subway salad and then chilling in the sun. Poor Ant wasn't feeling great after another weekend of heavy drinking. 

He says he can't hack it anymore as he's getting old!

After work I rushed home to get any other housey stuff done asap so Ant could come home and chill straight away. The dinner I'd prepared went to sh*t I'd frozen pasta and tried to defrost, it was tasty-ish but soggy.. so Ant got some chippy chips on his way home. 

Then I caught up with Love Island and he played his game.. and then bed time. 

Family day

So Saturday morning, we got up nice and early and headed to the park. I felt a little rough but not massively and so was quite excited about the run as I have done a couple in the past and not for a while. 

We all started off together but then Adam was the first to run off faster, then I did too. It was fine! I have to admit there were a couple times where I really wanted to get past people and couldn't which was a little frustrating but fine as I still did it in under 30 mins which I was hoping for. Not by much though, my time was 29:41 and my fastest has been 26 mins. 

Recently if I've run around where I live I've been getting 32mins so I was happy with the 29:41!

Adam did it in 25 and Mum and Erika I think were around 31/32 mins. So we were all pretty happy. Well.. Erika went off to throw up as soon as she got past the finish line though, which was kind of funny! 

We headed back and I got a b e a utiful bath. Just what I needed! What else I needed was FOOD.. when we were all together and ready we sat in the kitchen and all had bacon/sausages banging breakfast, I was starving so it was extra yummy! 

Me and Emily played such a good game of pool, maybe even the best for me as for once it was a close game. Usually I am really rubbish so it was a lot of fun to feel like I wasn't 100% going to lose, event though I still did.. JUST. 

And I had to do a shot of sours for losing.. it was around 12pm at this point, oh well!! 

We then headed to a lil fair kind of thing just round the corner where they had music and drinks and a bouncy castley type thing where these block things go round and you have to avoid them. Me Adam and Connor went on it and it was frigging hilarious!

It was bloody knackering though, you'd get whacked/knocked over then when you finally made it up there was another coming towards you. Then you'd jump over one and then the man controlling it would send it the other way and take you out.

God, it was so funny, writing this is making me laugh. I remember laughing so hard at Connor getting whacked in the face by it that I didn't have the strength in me to jump over or avoid it coming towards me. I also got fully whacked in the face by it. 

We were sweating afterwards! Knackered but so glad we did it. 

We then sat and watched the band for a bit which was good/funny. Me and Connor kind of cringed at the main guy going GET READY FOR THIS?!

We then had a lovely stroll into the centre of Taunton onto another festival. On the way there we talked mainly about Love Island/memes and I went for a wee in the bush. Nice.

We got there and it was quite packed! It smelt amazing as there were loads of food stalls and more music. It was cool, although we didn't really spend much time festivalling as we went into the pub which was in the middle of it all. Where we spent the rest of the day.

We got loads of drinks in and sat having a chat and a laff. Well until Adam spilt his vape juice allllllll over himself! It wasn't funny, we all felt really bad for him, until he did it a second time then I couldn't stop myself laughing at Connor trying not to laugh. 

Anyway, he cheered up and we all went back to chatting away again. One of the things we spoke about was my least favourite subject.. Geography. I am so so awful at it and so we obviously then had to do a little quiz...

I got them all wrong and it was really funny although I am really bloody dumb, to be fair I know feel like I learnt a lot from Saturday. I hope mum remembers 0800 00... (I hope I do too when I read back)

We took selfies, took shots, took the p*ss out of each other it was great!!

Everyone apart from me and Mum ordered and ate their food.. I was bloody starving but ours took so long to arrive later that we weren't even hungry by then. 

Me and Connor started trying to get a sweet in his mouth using my toes.. so getting it in between my toes and flinging it in the air into his mouth for so long. 

Mum started filming cos she wanted to get it working.. but ended up joining in because we were taking so long. This honestly went on for so long, it was gross but so funny!

We again, played pool and had such a fun time! Me, Mum and Conor had a dance off... Mum doing the floss dance which I can’t do at all! Then me and Connor doing some sort of breakdancing... it must of looked really funny. 

Then me, Connor and Emily did an Irish jig/Morris dancing/not really any of the two haha. 

Everyone had a loads of fun and we ended up going to bed around half 1, not too bad! 

Such an amazing day I won’t forget. 

Friday fun

Friday work was soooo slow because I was just so looking forward to the weekend as usual. 

Me and Ant were looking forward to lunching allll day as we said we'd get a Greek wrap from one of the stalls, which was a big pitta thing with mixed meat in it like flavoured chicken, donar meat, hot dog and then chips, onion, garlic sauce and it's just amazing. 

We walk past it all the time but I like to have salads/healthy meals all week and then Friday we were like oh fk it! And then it wasn't even there! What the hellllllllll. It's literally there all. the. time. So that was weird/annoying.. devastating!

So we just got a different mixed meat wrap and sat in the sunshine, it was really nice but I think we definitely need to try again this Friday for the Greek wrap. 

5pm FINALLY hit on Friday and I waited for Ant to finish work and then we headed off to Taunton to see my family. I was so excited! 

The traffic was fine, we got some grub on the way - I had a ham and cheese toastie from Starbucks and it was banging. Ant didn't like his as it had loads of mustard in it.. I did offer to  swap.

Anyway, we arrived in good time and unpacked our stuff at my mum and Andy's mansion (yes literally). 

We had a quick shower and got ourselves a drink! Let the weekend begin. 

We had a good laugh as always, played pool, had couple drinks and enjoyed each other's company. 

Me, Mum, Adam and Erika had all said we were doing the park run which is 5km, the next day and so we didn't stay up too late...

We managed to persuade Connor to come too, but surprisingly he did not the next day! 

Swim and lift

I am getting bad at keeping this updated (sound familiar Mum?)!

So last week, Wednesday... I don't remember much about work. But then I do remember that at 5pm I went to my car, got my gym stuff, changed and then ran to the gym. 

I then did a super quick set of squats, lunges and a couple of leg machines and then I ran/walked.. mainly walked to the leisure centre to meet Lois. 

We got changed and headed into the changing rooms to get into our swimming cossies!

We used to go swimming lots and just do some lengths whilst having a natter. We haven't done it in a while so it was really nice to do again. Although, you seriously get out of breath! We used to go every Sunday when we were at school, and I don't remember having to stop to breath so much, definitely getting old. 

We chatted about life whilst swimming up and down and getting splashed by kids, which I couldn't help but laugh at cos it was just annoyingly funny!

We waited around for the sauna but it was too full so just gave up, showered and headed back to mine. 

I'd made Lois that slimming world stew so she tucked into that and I had a beef stew I'd made and frozen recently too, it was so good! We'd built up an appetite. We chatted some more (we could talk forever and ever) and then Lois headed home to watch 13 reasons why. Finally my girl is watching a series we can chat about. 

Then me and Ant chilled as usual and off to bed.

Thursday was a good evening! (I'm skipping the day parts now because I just don't remember work from a week ago.)

I got home, did some housey bits and then got into my gym gear, ready to go to Ladies that Lift. The clues in the name what it is.. but it's a weight lifting class for women, just in case I need reminding in my old age when I read this back.

I was actually quite nervous! I don't know why as I gym/lift a lot and really enjoy it! And as I've mentioned in this blog before, I feel most confident exercising.. 

But anyway, I left really early cos I just wanted to go!! Then got there super early and thought I'd go chat to the other early arrivers cos I'd like to get to know people who like lifting too. But I was the only one there that early (loser).

I got chatting to the lady that ran the class and she explained that you go to each station and do 1 warm up set and then 3 sets of 12. The stations were deadlifts, chest press, leg press, hip thrusts etc.. 

Anyway, I ended up being paired with the founder of Ladies that Lift - who was obviously really strong! I am so glad I got to go with her as she really really pushed me! She made me beat my personal best in most exercises as she was like 'you can go up in weight, you got this!' and I did! It was frigging awesome, I was so buzzing afterwords as I felt quite strong and proud of myself. 

It was really really good and I want to go every week! Everyone was so nice and really encouraging each other. 

BUT omg I ached the next day.. it's now Monday and my hamstrings still hurt! But I love the ache, can't wait to go again. 

I got home and wanted to tell Ant all about it but he had his friends over so I couldn't chew anyone's ear off about it.. shame. 

Sunday munday

Sunday we honestly did nothing, as usual! 

I felt fine, Ant was feeling rough! We slobbed together and watched a film in the morning which was really nice. 

Then I got to the point where I was feeling like I needed to do something, so I got up and had another Sunday cook up.

It wasn't as exciting as before.. this was just cooking all the chicken I had defrosted from a meat delivery we had a week or so ago. 

I made loads and loads of flavoured chicken for our salads in the week, green thai curry, a pesto pasta meal, erm.. and I think just a chicken stuffing sandwich for lunch the next day! 

So, not really a cook up, just making use of the chicken.

Erm, then we chilled some more! Ant made me dinner for the first time ever.. oven pizza and chips woo!

Monday came around faaar far too quickly as usual. 

I got up and exercised in the mancave which felt good! I am feeling really motivated again and am going to exercise ALL THE TIME I SWEAR.

We had a normal work day to be honest, can't say anything exciting happened. Work and then home to chills, we did have a banging spag bol I made/froze last weekend. Delicious. 

Then Tuesday was pretty samey too! Work was work then I went to an appointment to try and sort my stupid female body out.. won't go into too much detail but fingers crossed I may have a solution soon!

We then went to Hithermoor, where we used to live, to see Hannah and fam for her birthday. 

It was nice, we sat and ate Prezzo, I got a low calorie meal as I'm exercising and being healthy again. It was cool to see everyone as I haven't for a while. Well I have seen Hannah just not the others. 

I felt a bit bad as I lit up a cigarette in the house and then asked for the ash tray and they said they hadn't been smoking in the house.. and then when I used the beer cooler to get Ant a drink it started making a funny noise and then wouldn't stop.. so yeah. Don't think they'll invite me round again in a hurry haha!

Me and Ant headed home, I made our salads and we chilled for the night. 

Bbq fun times

Friday was the usual work day.. I had done the housey stuff earlier that morning so that I could go home and chill straight away. 

And I was so grateful! I got home, had a shower and straight into my comfies with a glass of wine on the sofa. Bliss! 

Antony came home and we chilled all. night. long. We ordered curry which was amazing and had such a lovely night.

Saturday morning, I got up and cleaned/tidied the whole house. Antony made us some cheese on toast and we got ready for the day. 

We were off to a bbq at Antony's friend's house to celebrate a couple of the girls in the group being pregnant. Exciting times! 

Ant was going to drive.. but soon after leaving the house we ended up in Tesco buying lots of booze, surprise surprise! We have no self control.

It was such a brilliant day. The sun was shining (for most of it), everyone was there, chatting, laughing. It was awesome. 

I decided I'd take on the boys and persuade them to have a (jokey) fight with me. As soon as one of them, Tay, punched me, all the boys started on him! Was hilarious. 

I did wake up the next day with a sore arm where he'd punched me. I was happy to hear he was the same the next day (or so he says anyway)

I tried to make more of an effort with the girls as I've mentioned before that sometimes I feel like they might dislike me or think I'm a bitch as I always hang round with the boys. I don't know why! I just always do.. the girls sit and chat and the boys are loud and silly and I think that's a bit more me.

Cheryl, who's bbq it was along with her husband Chris ended up trying to do some pull ups on a wooden thingy outside and then everyone had a go. It was really funny to watch.. the man were eager to have their go and show off. I couldn't do one.. I couldn't even reach the floor once Ant had lifted me up to get my hands on it. 

Then we ended the night with the girls doing a spice girls dance routine (I winged it as I didn't know it) it was so funny. We then moved on to the cha cha slide which we got everyone doing. 

It was a really awesome day and night! I do love that lot. 

Me and Ant went home around 1:30am and even though we didn't need it as we'd eaten loads of bbq food.. we ordered pizza. Standards. 

My week

I can sum Tuesday up reaaal quick.. wake up, go to work, go to the gym and do a leg set, go back to work, head home, make food, wash, eat, bed..

Honestly nothing new or exciting to report! 

Wednesday was pretty much the same, wake up, go to work, but this time I had a lunch break with Ant. We sat by the river and ate our salads which we hugely enjoyed! I'm not even sure how healthy they are to be honest.. flavoured chicken breast which is literally just a herby mix I coat the chicken in and cook.. then lettuce, sauce (LOTS for me), onion, carrot shavings, little bit of pasta, jalapenos, gherkins, beetroot.. croutons for Ant. And bosh, there's our salad.

It's bloody delicious, hence why I'm questioning whether it's actually healthy! 

The other one we have is lettuce, sauce, lil bit of pasta, onion, boiled egg slices and ham. Bosh again. 

See, that's how unexciting my posts are getting.. I'm sat here fully describing my salads.. oh dear.

So anyway, lunch was beaut. I went to quick gym after work and we headed home to chill, as usual.

Thursday, I woke up.. a little grumpy as my body is just going through some shit and it's getting me down.. I can't seem to sort it out. So I woke up and went to the doctors, who were pretty unhelpful to be honest. They recommended putting me on the pill which I don't trust and have had bad experiences with. 

So anyway, after moaning to my manager she's recommended going to a proper clinic and so I've booked an appointment there. My manager is literally like a bestie/mum to me all at the same time. 

At lunch, I met Ant and we went and got a coffee, both had a wee moan and a chill, it was nice. 

Tonight, I was supposed to go to a class called Ladies that Lift but I just don't have the energy/motivation so I've cancelled and booked for next week. This is something I really want to get involved in! I love weights/lifting and I want to do it more more more.. just not tonight.. I just want to go home and eat/bath/chill to be honest.. 

That's another thing bothering me, I'm either not eating at all unless my stomach growls at me for being hungry.. or eating EVERYTHING and then feeling really bad about it. 

All appetite or no appetite. 

Loads of energy or no energy.

Anyone fancy giving me a happy medium?

Sicky Sun..

Ohhhhhhhh my god.

Sunday was one of the worst hangovers ever! I was honestly just throwing up everything. Even water.

I was feeling so so sorry for myself and wishing it would just stop, damn me and Ant for having fun on Saturday!

So yep.. me and Ant were feeling sorry for ourselves for a lot of Sunday. Which I hate as it was such a nice day and we were even enjoying slobbing this time. We both felt bad.

So I forced myself to eat bread and butter.. which was a real struggle, I won't lie. But it worked! I got up, tidied, cleaned and got my cook on.

All the food I had ordered on Saturday was so I could cook loads of food in bulk so that we have lots in.

I think I made 13 dinners in total or something like that. I made slow beef stew, slimming world bacon, squash and sweet potato stew, spag(less) bol and Hairy Bikers chicken tikka masala. 

They were all yum! Apart from I may have got a little OTT on the tumeric in the curry which I was really annoyed about. I didn't mean too.. it was me tapping the jar and then BAM way too much.

But I was still yummy, to be honest.

I was cooking for hours and it was so so hot.. It was a struggle but I did really enjoy it. I love cooking and listening to/singing along to my music as well. I think I sat down around half 8.. my feet were aching and I smelt quite bloody awful but I'd had a productive and I was proud!

That night I didn't sleep well at all which really sucks when you know it's Monday the next day!

I woke up and just knew it was going to be a struggle! But I got through the day, it was really hard cos I just felt so tired! Traffic was so so so bad as well trying to get home so me and Ant were a bit miffed.

But we had a lush little evening as we sat and chilled early as we had a pre made dinner woo!

Sunny Sat

I was supposed to wake up and go to the gym in the morning but I woke up and just couldn't be bothered!

I kept saying I'd get up and go but I just never did. I actually wore my gym kit all morning and even that didn't work.

We had a Live Lean delivery which is lots of reduced fat meat, I got a discount from the gym so I thought I'd give it a go. Think it ended up being £35 for loads of chicken, steak, burgers, sausages and meatballs.

We then got an Asda order which I spent almost £100 on and when it arrived I realised I didn't get bread, eggs, or milk.. how! How is that even possible.

Anyway, Ant popped to the shop and got those ESSENTIAL bits so we could actually have brekkie. When he got back we made and ate some sausages sandwiches and discussed what we'd do for the day..

We didn't have any plans.. so I went and got a bath and sorted myself out. It was a really nice and sunny day so I wanted to go out and do something!

Ant got ready too and we decided to walk into Egham, which is half an hour away from our house, and go to a pub garden.

We got to the first pub and sat outside with a drink, it was so lovely! But maaaaybe, a little bit too hot. So we headed inside to play a game or 2 of pool.

I was so rubbish! The first game was better but I was still bad.. the second I literally didn't even pot a single ball and Ant potted all of his! It's lucky we weren't at my mums cos they have a rule you have to run around in your underwear if you don't pot any and lose. Not that I would have done that of course!

We decided to head home, and figure out what we were gonna do for the night.

We had a nice chill at home, sat in the garden and had couple more drinks.. and yeah it ended up being a very drinky day/night before we even knew it.

We ended up going to Sunbury and meeting our friends Hannah and Matty and going to the pubs around there. We sat in one pub where we got some drinks and Ant got a burger. Lois' brother was on the table next to us and we kept shouting/chatting to each other. Bants!

We moved onto a different pub and sat in their garden, and had a great night!

Matty came back to ours but I couldn't hack it! I went to bed around 1/2.. how I made it to there from starting drinking at around 12 I do not know!

Friday yay

Time to catch up!

I've not written on here since Thursday and it's now Tuesday..

So let's go back.

Friday, as far as I can remember was a normal working day.. I got up and did a weights exercise in the mancave, which I've not done in ages and it was really good!

I keep staying up later and so not getting up early and exercising which has always been my routine but for some reason recently I just can't wake up. Anyway, Friday I forced myself to and I'm so glad.

It really reminded me that, that's the best way to start the day. Everything just felt so much easier about the rest of the day. But maybe that's because it was Friday as well, so everything's a bit more positive as you're ready for the weekend.

Work was work.. I can't remember too much to be honest or even what me and Ant did at lunch time.

I do remember work being quite a laugh that afternoon, as me and my manager were chatting and laughing about stuff.. one thing being our next team away day being to go and spend time with micropigs! But my director said no.. boo!

I finished work anyway and headed home, I rushed to get ready as I needed to go and pick Lois up and then head to the Slug and Lettuce for a little school reunion. It was just a little meet up with the friendship group I used to hang around with in year 7-11.. not the whole year.

Me and Lois have been friends ever since so we, of course, were going together.

I picked her up and we got ready at mine, poured ourselves a pre drink (prink!) and waited for the cab.

Theeeeen the cab took ages so which was annoying as the girls were arriving and Lois booked the table. Oops.. fashionably late dalllling!

Anyway anyway, we arrived and it was bloody brilliant!

First there were Annie and Sophie, so we got there and did the usual OMG HAvenT SEEN yOU IN aGES!

Then the so what are you doing these days, how are ya! Turns out Annie is 8 weeks preggo, so exiting!! Sophie was saying she's really happy working where she is as well, she's moved around a lot but happy now. Woo! Onto the prosecco..

Then Becky, Emma and Rachel arrived. Now we have the old crew! We all had loads of chats, loads reminiscing and lots and lots of laughs! 


I ended up doing a jokey dance on the sofay bit where we were sat like omg look at my twerk and then pretended I was doing it but not really moving my butt... anyway I turn around and Ant't bloody work mate is there watching, laughing! Cringe!

So we all moved onto the dance floor anyway and the girls started doing the Lissa's mum dance! I had totally forgotten about this and can't even really remember how it all started! But it's basically where you start off dancing really rubbish-ey cos you're not really feeling it... then slowly but surely.. getting into it.. until you dance loads like an idiot! Haha, it's so funny!

We ended up walking to Mcdonalds after (definitely my fault as I hadn't eaten dinner). I ended up putting a sign on my head and running around like an idiot hahaha... why am I like this. I was drunk but I remember it all, it was't me being out of it (even though this blog shows you I do that a lot) but this time I was actually just being stupid. I think I've always been the crazy one of the group.

Lois' boyf picked the two of us up and I got home and ate my Mcdonalds.. well tried to anyway I couldn't finish it. Ant helped of course.

Kettlebell klass

So Wednesday went well!! 

I ate well..ish.. and I went to a body build class after work which was really good! Nicely aching today. 

Me and Ant then headed home to have the stew I'd made the other week and frozen, it was delicious! (Lois if you're reading this, we ate it but I am making it again on Sunday for us to have Tues haha).

And then we had a separate together night! I was about to explain what that meant and then thought.. the clues in the name. Antony played his game and I watched programmes he hates. Last night it was My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. It was great, I love reality tv shows. Love Island is starting soon and I'm so excited. Antony is not. 

So that was our evening. 

Thursday was samey. We both went off to work, I did a kettlebell circuit class at lunch which was good! It was actually pretty hard but good hard. I was sweating! I actually wrote it down afterwards so I could re-do:

Antony got his courtesy car whilst I was at the gym, which is great news as I get my car back! It's a nice little car as well. Now we wait for his mashed up car to be taken away and either repaired or written off.

Then yep, back to work as normal. I then left work and headed to meet Lois at her dad's house to we could go out for a chill in a pub for her birthday celebrations. It's a Thurs and we're all trying to eat healthily so it was a chilled meet up. 

We all have a diet coke and chatted away. We gave Lois her pressies which she seemed to like! They were all pretty girly and smelly stuff, so she's going to have the best pamper sesh on Saturday! Kinda jealous.. kinda might have to get some smelly stuff on lunch and copy her.

So yeah, it was a nice evening, we just had a catch up and a gossip as usual! The guy Sarah is seeing seems to be totally into her! Which is really nice, I'm hoping it works out for her as being in a happy relationship is awesome!

I headed home and munched my (healthy!) dinner as soon as I got home as I was starving! This is the first day in forever I've actually eaten well and I plan on sticking to it as I just feel so much better about like when I eat well/gym!

Anyway, after doing a couple bits for the next day me and Ant chilled on the sofa. My fave.