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?