Catch up/ramble

Ah, so after not being able to get to sleep for ages cos I just felt sick after Arcadia, Antony then came up and started snoring so I got into the spare (ish) bed with Hannah next door and slept so much better. I woke up about 7, typically! Fed my kitties, saw Matty asleep on the sofa and then thought right, I need more sleep! 

About and hour and half later, I woke up and said hello to the other dying people in my house. It wasn't pretty.

I had to go feed my friend's cats (yes I definitely neglected them Sunday night, I feel awful! Completely forgot) so Hannah gave me a lift there and we went to Burger King on the way back.

We munched and slobbed for a bit. Matty went home to his bed, I really don't blame him.

I started to feel okay so thought I'd be productive instead of just sitting on the sofa watching something I really wasn't in to. Hannah put something she's currently watching on, think I've seen some of it too. She just likes looking at the long haired men on there ha.

So I stripped the beds, tidied up, sorted the cats out, swept the floor, and yeah basically cleaned and tidied around Hannah and Ant.

Then I had a really long bath and washed away all the sweat and glitter and probably sick off me!

I am definitely getting old because the fact I put on 3 lots of washing AND them all be dry by the end of the day, made me really happy..

I then sunbathed and chilled in the garden until it was time to go and feed my friend's cats again. Me and Ant headed out and Hannah headed home.

We went to the Chinese and the chippy after feeding the cats and then happily munched and slobbed out until it was time for bed. The 3 day weekend was over and we were not happy about it! It was also baking hot, so sleep was going to be uncomfortable. Or was it! Because we had fresh bedding and were both exhausted from the heavy weekend.

Waking up this morning was difficult! Just the thought of normal work life.. I like my job but you know.. it's not Arcadia!

Poor Ant was very sleep and sulky but we persuaded each other to be positive and get on with it.

BUT life hates us and we both ended up stuck in loads and loads of traffic. It was about 20 degrees and so it was not fun! We were on the phone to each other just moaning about it.

I then reversed into a walking man! I went too far forward onto the roundabout before I realised i'd be blocking it and and then looked in the mirror, saw the car behind was far back and so started to reverse. I didn't realised a man was walking behind me! I don't know if the thump was me hitting him or his hand hitting the car like STOP.

I apologised loads and asked if he was okay and he looked annoyed at first - obviously! But I think he saw how sorry and shocked I was and just sort of gave me thumbs up like it's fine, it's fine.

But it wasn't and I burst into tears and couldn't control my stupid sobs. I pulled over and ended up walking to work cos I couldn't hack the heat, traffic and my stupid emotional-ness. Ant ended up pulling over as well and walking with me as the traffic was so bad!

We finally made it to work and we decided to get a coffee and re-start the day. We can do it! 

Then after work Ant had Matty over and I had Lois over, we ate lots of yummy food and slobbed. Perfect.

It's now Wednesday evening and I'm trying my hardest to catch up here so I don't get behind! I keep just having super long blog posts instead - sorry!

But today has been a normal work day.. been quiet and I met Ant for lunch where I had lil moan about how I can be really stupid at work sometimes and then I realise and worry people around me are like.. why she so dim?!

But I'm over it because I cheered myself up by going to TK Maxx and buying a new handbag. Ant also always cheers me up as he's so sweet, even if I do shout at him when he laughs at me. I also ate pizza and now telling Antony that we are going to be fat and get take away tonight because I've lost my motivation to eat well/exercise.. I do this a lot. It will come back soon, hopefully!  

Arcadia!!!!

Where do I start!

It's been a mad couple of days..

Saturday was a loooovely day, me and Antony took out some blankets and chilled in our garden. It was so beautiful to lie there and just think ahh, relaxing in our own lil garden together. 

Until he started to wind me up by pushing me out of his shade and putting his cold cold coke can on me! He just loves to annoy me, honestly! But no, it was really nice. 

I then got ready and he dropped me off and the pub with my 2 besties Hannah and Abby - the pokemon professionals and squirrel friends.

We sat chatting and having a cider in the pub garden and slowly but surely the other girls joined us. It was good! But I did leave around 11 as I wanted to be on top form the next day.. even though I was quite drunk!

I got home and me and Ant ordered pizza and chilled. 

The next morning, I got up excited!! Went and fed my friend's cats and started to get ready asap. It was ARCADIA DAY!! Literally so excited. 

I started pre drinking vodka at about 9am, still feeling a little hungover but so ready for the day! It was another really sunny day and I love that.

Hannah and Katy came round and started getting ready with vodka and glitter. Matty then came round and we headed to the station to meet Baxter and Fraz.

We all managed to get on the same train and get going.. me and the girls were pre drinking and annoying the guys.. as per usual! The train/tubes were hot and we were all desperate to get there. 

After a looooong and sweaty walk, we finally arrived! The queue in was super quick and we headed straight to the bar! We could see Arcadia and hear the tunes already. Ahh just writing it I can feel the excitement I had on Sunday.

After getting a drink we headed to the tent we could hear drum and bass coming from. It was baaaaaaaanging!! We all did the usual OIIIIIII and started skanking out. I got myself up on a little podium of course! It was awesome but SO hot so we ended up going back and forth in and out of the tent. Cooling down, wanting to rave, cooling down, needed to raaaave. We also had lots of trips to the bar and walked around, it wasn't a huge place so couldn't get too lost. 

Although there were a lot a lot of phone calls/texts of where are you?! WHERE!!? Can you see me waving?!

It was such an incredible day! We had such a laugh and a good ole rave. We used to go every other weekend about 7/8 years ago and now we go every few months! If that! So it was awesome to do it again and with some old friends. 

We headed over to Arcadia as it was about to get darker and have some tunes on (it did have some during the day but not skatty enough for us). 

To be honest, it was amazing but did take aaaaaaaaaages to get the actual tunes on and the drops going... felt like we were constantly waiting for the music to start really.. 

Frazer was making me crease, I was getting so much enjoyment out of him shouting 'This is shit!!! Put some drum and bass on!!! House was yesterday! This is shit!!'

But eventually it did get better and we were having itttttttttttt. I spent a lot of time holding Hannah's hand cos I just had no balance as there was a little ledge and everyone was bigger than me.. and maybe alcohol had a lil part to play.

Antony put me on his shoulders and Bax put Hannah on his and WOW! It was bloody amazing. I miss so much being small! Arcadia is just awesome, they had little spidery things crawling out the side of it, jellyfish things coming out and people dancing around. FIREEEEE coming out. Was. Awesome.

We raved and raved until we could take no more.. and I must say I must be getting old because I did get to the point I was done. It was 15 mins before the event ended and I just wanted to sit down.

Hannah felt the same and it was good to have someone on the same page as me throughout the rave I must say! Hannah is the best person to go raving with cos we always wanna do the same thing. Anyway, we waited around for ages and tried to figure out how to get home for aaaaages. 

Finally £200 later, into an uber.

I felt sooo rough and had to get out of the car to throw up on the way back.. luckily we were stopped and I got out casually and yeah... lots and lots of liquid haha. I hadn't eaten all day.

I got home and straight into bed! What. A. Day!!!!!

Sunny Saturday

Last night we had a huge chippy dinner and then just chilled alll night long, it was b e a utiful.

This morning I woke up early which is annoying but felt I slept well apart from being woken up in the middle of the night with a chest pain. I tried to take deep breaths to make it go but it just wouldn’t and I was obviously half asleep so just ended up drifting off again. Couldn’t have been that bad!

So I got up at about 7 and sorted my cats out and got into my gym gear. 

I headed to my friends house, fed his cats and went to the gym. I was early for my class so did a quick set of weighted squats and lunges. (30 kg, 8 pulse squats 8 lunches on each leg 3x just in case anyone cares) 

Then I went off to the circuits class. Oh my, it was so hard! I wanted it to end like twice and it just wouldn’t haha. 

I do love when the classes are hard but not always at the time. 

I burnt 426 calories so it was only right I then came home and had a bacon sandwich (and I wonder why I am putting on weight..!) 

I then did the house work, moaned at Antony for never helping till he helped and then made banana and peacan bread. I’ve made this before and it was really yummy! 

I really don’t enjoy baking, I like cooking but as we had left over bananas, I thought what the hell. 

I’m now in the bath chilling and when I get out will see how the bread is doing & post a pic, if I’ve not burnt it! 

I’m gonna paint my nails and get myself ready to go to top golf and pub later tonight. 

I’m also going to sit in the sunshine as it’s another beaut day again! Need to hurry though in case the sun goes in! 

Friyayaaaaay

Happy Fridyayaaaaaaaaaaaay, 

The sun is shining today and it's almost the 3 day weekend wooo!

Feeling good today, I put together an outfit for Arcadia.. it's really nothing special but it will do. I am so so excited! I don't reaaaally care what I look like. 

I did pop in to some shops on my way to work and looked for gems/glitter but I only found 2 shops that did them, one was ridiculously expensive for what they were and the other you could only get them free if you spent £12 and couldn't buy them on their own.. FINE.

I have some glitter at home I'll just shove on. Let's be honest, we're gonna look at state by the end of it anyway, drinking and dancing all day in the sun! Sweaty mess I reckon.

So today, I'm obviously working.. meeting Ant for lunch and back to work. Then I am going to walk to Sainsburys, get lots of booze and supplies for the weekend. Then Ant's going to pick me up, we feed my friends cats then get chippy! 

I am so looking forward to a nice chilled evening.. calm before the storm.

Tomorrow we are going to Top Golf for one of my besties Hannah's birthday, should be good fun. We've already said we're gonna be rubbish but will just drink and eat and give it a go. Sounds fun to me!

Then we're going to some pubs near Hannah's house, we'd usually go back to mine afterwards as obviously, it's just me and Ant there. But I'm determined to be sensible and not stay up all night drinking cos of Sunday's plans. 

We'll see how it goes.. I just really don't want to wake up hanging out me ass on Sunday. I wanna wake up excited!!

Update - I wrote this this morning but didn’t post. I’ve now finished work and was supposed to walk to Sainsburys then to friends house and then chippy and  home... but after speaking to my bad influence of a mother I ended up going to a pub and sitting with a glass of wine. I’m now waiting for Ant to finish work and take us to Sainsburys. Oops! 

I blame my mother and FriYaY personally... 

Happy hump day?

So Lois made me dinner and it was delicious! We went for a walk to my friends house and fed his little kitties, or not so little compared to mine! 

Then we chilled on my bed as Ant had all his pals downstairs for his Tuesday gaming sesh.  Me and Lois had our weekly gossip and cuddle with my Sweep (kitty). I love this, it's just so nice to have a catch up with my big booty biatch.

Apart from when she kept touching her foot on mine and it just creeps me the hell out haha, such a creepo.

Errrmmm, Wednesday was pretty samey to be honest. Gym, work, meet Ant for lunch, work and then home to eat and chill! 

We had pulled pork in a baked sweet potato and it was delicious. And yes, I am one of those that takes pictures of yummy dinners I've made. I'm kind of sorry.. maybe. 

Think that's pretty much my whole day summed up. I did actually sing around the kitchen to High School Musical which Antony thoroughly enjoyed. Radio 1 was having ittttt!

My mum made me laugh as well asking me what happy hump day meant... 

I also went up and tried lots of clothes on in preparation for this weekend. Me, Antony, his sister Hannah and our bestie Matty are all going to Arcadia!!! Arghhh, I am so so frigging excited. 

Arcadia is this huge robotic spider thingy which has fire coming out of it and obviously blasting out music. It's incredible! We saw it at Boomtown a few years ago and words can't describe how much of a good time that was so I am so excited to experience it again!

It's the 10th anniversary of Arcadia this weekend so we are going raaaaving. 

BUT I need something to wear big time, it's supposed to be sunny (everything is crossed) and so I tried on my shorts and all sorts last night but of course decided I need something new. So, I'm going shopping at lunch time and hopefully find something I like and am comfortable in. 

Hannah will look amazing as always so I need to make some kind of effort to look decent!

Then after work, we're not doing much really, as usual. I need to do some sort of exercise as I snoozed my alarm this morning, I never do this but have done lots recently, weird.. 

Then yeah, beef stir fry, Homeland and chills I guess.  Almost Friyay!

Typical Tuesday

My day started off by ignoring my alarm which was for me to go off to the gym.. but I thought naaa. I am aching almost everywhere after body pump yesterday and besides, it's the 1st of May which means my random challenge of exercising all of April is over!

Anyway, I woke up and exercised in the mancave haha. I went back to sleep for a bit then when I was awake thought I may as well squeeze in half an hour. 

I weighed myself at the beginning of January, determined to hit the gym loads this year and then I weighed myself the other day. I thought I'd done loads of exercise so it surely wasn't going to go up! But I guess I have eaten a bit.. relaxed you could say. 

I normally eat healthily and then the weekend I just let loose. But since moving into my own place in Jan I feel like I just let myself go when it came to eating. I don't know why I just relaxed more. 

So anyway, I've put weight on and I'm really sad about it! I have to say I can't tell if I look in the mirror. And my mum said it's because I drank lots the weekend before.. so I'm sticking to that. 

But for reals, I am little gutted about this as I really like to be fit and healthy, especially as Summer is coming!

Anyway, back to this typical Tues, I then showered and woke a very sleepy and lazy Antony up (as per) and he went off to work and did I shortly afterwards.

Work was fineeee, always is. Enjoying having my manager back at work so we can have a lil natter.

I met Ant for lunch and we did a few bits and went to get a coffee. I really like having Antony work right next to me so we can meet for lunch.. we see each other so often. I know some couples may not see each other as much or think they'd get sick of their other half but honestly, we love it. 

Guess we are just needy f*ckers. If I go to the gym at lunch Ant jokingly sulks at me! 

Anyway, nothing really exciting happening today. I am starting to feed my friend's cats tonight so am going to do that from work then Lois is coming over for the weekly gossip.

Lois has made me dinner tonight, so am looking forward to that, hoping she doesn't poison me.. 

Morning madness

Monday mornings are the best arent they?

Especially when you clear your cat's litter out then 2 seconds later one of them, not only poops right away but also walks the poop it through the house. 

Ah, just a lovely start to the day! I also stepped in one of the poop paw prints.. haha, just my luck. 

But even though that was the start to my day, I'm feeling happy.

Nothing special going on today, just work, body pump at lunch then home really.

I did some housey bits this morning so I've got next to nothing to do when I get home, which is so nice for a Monday evening. 

Antony recently split the money left in the joint account he shared with his brother.. and not to steal his money BUT... if he's not going to spend it or plan how to spend it, then I might just have to! Okay, that sounds really bad, I don't mean to sound like a gold digger.

We just have loads we need to do around the house.. and Antony won't plan or do anything unless I give him a nudge.. or 20.

The first priority (in my opinion) is getting a cat flap. Our cats love going outside but at the moment can only go out when we're there, which is evenings and weekends but not all of the day sometimes.

And it would be fabulous if the cats could poop outside!! 

The other things on the list are, paint pretty much every room, new carpets, new bathroom, sort the garden out and most importantly (to Ant) is sorting out the mancave/garage at the back of the garden. 

We have these big ideas and it is really exciting.. we just need to get started! So we have started talking about that today. These are the 2 really awesome and artistic pictures we drew:

Mines the white one.. Ants is done on snapchat so not great, neither are to be honest!

Okay, so we have some work to do.. I really really want to get to work on the house/mancave/everywhere to be honest because the house is lovely... but does need work! We were happy to just live in it as it was because getting our own home together was sobloody  amazing and all we wanted for so long. Now I think we’re ready to make it our own and make it look modern. 

We just always seem to have plans every weekend, and when we don't we just want to chill!

I really hope that we can start to plan and get the ball rolling soon because at the moment, nothing really matches and when we show people round we say oh we want to do this and that... I want to be showing people round like look! We did this and it looks good right!? 

Anyway, I’m getting quotes together for the back door/cat flap (thinking of just getting a whole new door) and so hopefully this will be the start.

I’m currently sat with a cute little kitty on my lap, which I don’t think I write enough about! 

I love my little babies so so much and I really do think they love us too! Sooty who is very timid around other people is so confident with us and it really makes me happy. 

Love my lil family in our lil home.