Fabric Friday

Ahhh, so I really am going to have to play catch up here! It's now Tuesday night and I've not posted since Thursday. I know when I'm looking back on this in years to come I'm gonna wonder where I went! (which is what happened to you mum!). So I'm gonna just fill in the days.. or any interesting bits anyway.

On Friday, me and Ant woke up and thought.. oh god Fabric tonight! Usually we'd be so excited! But I think with having just gone to Arcadia, we just weren't as up for it. And living in our own little home, we often just like take away and chills on the sofa with a casual drink on a Friday.. god we are getting old!

Anyway, we knew we'd enjoy it later.

Work was work... I remember actually trying to write a post on Friday and being like I've nothing to say!

Anyway.. I finished at 5 and headed to my friend's to feed his cats. In my head I was just thinking I'll pop in really quick cos I was just desperate to get home. I just wanted a glass of wine.. and a cigarette (SHAME ON ME I KNOW)

I got to my friend's and his cat ran out the front door.. he usually comes straight back in but this time (the time I wanted to rush!) he wouldn't come in for ages.

Every time I tried to get him in with treats or calling his name, he hissed at me and hit me with his stupid cat paw!

I was getting so frustrated, one second thinking right fuck him, don't care, whatever... then thinking goddddd, I can't leave him. My friend said not to let him out of the front because of the road.. so I needed to get him back in!

Whilst in the kitchen effing and blinding over this stupid cat, he just swans in looking at me.. you..little..

Anyway, so I finally get to go home!!

I was so tired and frustrated at this point I just wanted wine! And of course, I had lots of it. I felt like I needed to drink lots to get in the mood for tonight.

But I drank too quickly and wanted to leave the house at like 8 and that was way way too early for Fabric.

Anyway, Hannah came round to get ready and pre drink we me and Antony.

We finally left with some drunken singing in the taxi from me and Hannah.. and eventually got in the queue for Fabric, yay! Oh actually, I ended up making us get out of the taxi early as I needed a wee. As always.

Hannah somehow scraped her leg and was now using my cardi to wipe it up, lovely! Not that I actually cared at all at the time.. or now!

We got in, got some drinks and got our rave on. The music was SO GOOD. I bloody love drum and bass. We saw our friend's Ade and Rach there and had a boogie together. It's annoying because this is a long post and not much details about Fabric but I can't say I remember a huge amount from actually being in there! Just that it was a good time.

It was awesome awesome awesomeeeeeeee. We did leave around 2:45 or something because we always said we were leaving early as Hannah had work the next day, but to be completely honest we left because we were messy. Oops!

Ant called Hannah to see where she was as we were leaving and turns out she was already in a cab! So I had to repeat my post code to her about 20 times before just asking her to put on the cab driver. God knows where she was going before hand. She was with some boy she and Ant used to know.

Anyway, we got back eventually.

Me, Ant, Hannah the guy they both knew, Alex sat and chatting and drank more wine for a couple more hours.

It was fun! Alex told us about when he was stabbed 6 times a few years ago which was.. interesting! I just couldn't believe it.

 Again can't remember much more about what we talked about, but again it was a good time!

Off to bed we went at 5am.

Thursday thrills

So today, I woke up to Antony waking me up very gently.. I was so surprised he was waking me up! This means I actually slept past 8am.

I went to bed really early as well.. I think I went to bed around half 9 and woke up at 820. I feel I may have finally caught up from the weekend now. Just in time for Fabric on Friday!

So I got up and ready and headed to my friend's house then to work.. same old really.

I met up with Ant for lunch and we discussed our evening plans. Ginette has asked if we can go to a flat she rents out and clean it a bit as the new tenants are arriving tomorrow and apparently there's mould or something like that.. so that's my plan tonight!

Very exciting stuff. Then to my friends, then home to eat and chill. 

I have eaten really badly and not exercised since Saturday and so feeling like a fat lazy flump. I've decided to get it out of my system and then re-start on Sunday/Monday. Really get back into it! It's summer soon.. I can't put weight on now.

So I wrote out this plan - the Tuesday slimming world recipe is bacon, sweet potato and squash stew. Lois is doing slimming world and so thought I’d make us something this time. Sorry for the swear word mum but it’s now a running joke that on Friday we have fuck knows!

 I always needs a plan to get me back into action and I think that one will do! Wheatley has also joined the gym now and wants to start coming so I'm gonna start doing evenings with her too. 

Friday tomorrow and I'm ready for the weekend.. tomorrow night we're going to Fabric nightclub in Laaandan and Wheatley is gonna drive which is beaut! Also said she's gonna leave about 3 which is also a beaut as I was dreading the 6am finish (I’m getting old, I used to be gutted when it finished at 6!!) and then Saturday being completely written off. Even though it probably will be anway.. 

Sunday I want to gym and cook and get my life together and then Monday me and Ant have taken off to chill together! (we didnt think we'd be recovered from Friday cos we're old now but I reckon we'll be fine!)

And that’s my life basically. I’m now sat chilling on the sofa after loads of food and feeling bad that I shouted at Ant for showing me his bogey... 

But seriously why!?

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!