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.