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!