Just a typical Tuesday

Good morning invisible but also possibly none existent blog readers! 

So I didn't write anything yesterday and that's mainly because I was a) busy but also b) nothing really happened. It was basically: work, gym, home, housey stuff, chill and bed! So thrilling. 

One thing I did do is call my dad. He, my step mum, my sister, my twin and my twin's girlfriend are coming to stay with me this weekend. I am super excited!! I've never had people round like this really. We moved in in January and we've had loads of people stay but never for a few days.. Should be good fun! Especially as my dad and family live in Manchester and twin now lives in Southampton,  so we really don't see each other as much as we'd all like to. 

I am a mahooosive stresshead though I must admit. I am worrying about my house being clean, tidy, comfortable for everyone, enough food in the house, enough space (I have a 2 bed house, my brother and his gf are going to stay in the mancave). So yeah really excited, also a tad anxious. 

I am mostly anxious about my cats. They are still only 7 months and I worry about them being scared away for a whole 4 days! They won't have anywhere to hide either really because they'll be people everywhere! But as my boyf and my dad keep saying.. they'll have to get used to people. I suppose! 

So tonight my bestie, Lois, who is literally my rock and has been since we were about 13.. is coming over to have dinner, gossip, moan and to do a big shop. We've made it a weekly thing for her to come round for dinner and a goss every Tuesday, which is awesome. I'm going to go and get her a key cut at lunch so she can chill in the house if she's there before me or if I'm out and she's around to look after my kitties! I'm sure she'll love having a key.. we're so alike and quite sad with things like this. 

I don't really have much else to say to be honest! I am basically waiting for 5pm (as usual) so I can head home to make me and Lois some broccoli, pesto, chicken pasta! Yum! 

Oh, one thing is that the boyf recently bought me a new car (I know legend right??) and I was in traffic to work this morning and it started vibrating whilst sat in 1st and making a really awful screeching/screaming noise.. so I am really worried about that as I've only just got it and still in the process of getting rid of my old car! Finger's crossed it's all fine. 

Adulting is hard.

Closing the rings

I have an apple watch, which I love having - mainly for fitness reasons. As I said in a previous post I have a slightly unhealthy/healthy obsession with exercising and keeping fit. I love exercising but sometimes beat myself up about it..

BUT lets be positive and talk about the good side. I honestly get so much enjoyment from exercising and keeping fit, I love seeing how I can improve and feeling stronger.

I feel so confident about exercise, I'm pretty sure it's the thing I feel most confident doing.

I used to just go to the gym and do cardio for an hour and then wonder why nothing was changing.. then I discovered gym classes and different bootcamps and this brought in weights and things I hadn't tried.

Now I favour weight training and constantly trying to push myself to lift heavier! I don't exercise to lose weight or necessarily change the way I look, I really enjoy it, like people enjoy taking part in a sport. Obviously it's great when you notice differences in the way you look though!

So anyway, back to the Apple watch.. god I do ramble. The apple watch has 3 rings: stand for a minute each hour 12 times, 30 mins of exercise and then the move goals is set for you based on what you did the previous week (mine is 400 calories a day most of the time).

So yeah, this really motivates me to exercise. I try and do 5/6 days a week.. usually hanging for at least one day a week ha! But recently I've randomly set myself a challenge to close the rings every day this month.. I don't remember why but I now have to do it and so far so good! Today is my 19th day of closing all the rings.. I've never done this much!

I spend a lot of time in the classes at the gym which I love as it means I work muscles I wouldn't usually focus on (like shoulders for example) and I go to the gym so often I know the instructors and so I know it's cringy but I feel like it’s quite homey.

I also go into the 'mancave' (garage at back of house) and do my own workouts in there a lot. The boyf wants to make it his mancave but I really want a gym! So we're going to 'share' pretty sure I'm getting about 20% for the gym stuff.. which is fine with me to be honest!

I've added some pics of the sort of stuff I do in the mancave.. I improvise a lot and obviously I don't have actual qualifications in Health and Fitness so I make up the name of exercises I don't know.

Hopefully you can read when you zoom...

Weekend fun

So yesterday the boyf absolutely LOVED the bungee jump. He is crazy like that, he just doesn’t feel fear... he’s done a 160ft bungee and a skydive before this 300ft bungee and he loved them all! Think I was more nervous than he was. He lept off and was shouted yeaaaah!! Love him.

He was buzzing afterwards and we went for some lunch in Staines where they had animals and all sorts going on. Weird day so far really!




We then got ready and our friend Tay drove myself the boyf (Ant), Matty and Ade to our friend Sammy’s housewarming party. Tay put on awful awful rap music in the car which was funny but as I said.. awful! I was also in the middle of 2 men where there wasn’t actually a seat and it was so hot! So yeah it was a bit of a sweaty mess.

When we arrived it was pretty quiet and we very quickly changed that, loud voices and lots of laughter. Lots and lots of booze... Love going out with the boyfs lot, we always have proper belly laughs.

We played beer pong, I got a total of one ping pong ball in the other teams cup and drank a total of no beer at all as it’s rank! I was on the boys team so they drank it for me.

I always seem to hang out with the boys over the girls. I just get on with them so much more.. I don’t know if that makes girls dislike or judge me but I just feel like I fit in with the boys better. Don’t get me wrong, I love all the girls in Ants group and I am good friends with them! 

My proper besties are girls who I love but I mean at parties and get togethers with the boyfs’ lot the boys have such a laugh and a joke and the girls tend to sit around and talk about life... I like the jokes and booze more to be honest!

 So yeah, we got pretty drunk and Ade and Matty came back to ours so we could order and eat pizza. I actually ended up sitting in bed and drunk texting my mum rather than hanging with them downstairs, it was only around half 10 at this point too! Think we started drinking around 4.

It’s currently 6:16am as I woke up at half 5, I hate when this happens, I just can’t get back to sleep even though I sooo tired. I want to wake Ant up but he’d kill me... gonna find me some cats to cuddle.

07:17

Don’t you just love it when you wake up on a Saturday morning feeling like you’ve had a lovely lie in.. and it’s 07:17am. Lush! NOT.

Sun is shining though at last and I’m so happy about it! Everything is made better with sunshine and blue skies, I think. 

So I woke up, went into the ‘mancave’ (the garage at the back of the house we want to make into a living space one day). And did a workout... until my kitty got through the only gap in our garden. I quite literally panicked as I am a big whimp and I did that weird movement of left, right, left, right.. WHICH WAY AM I GOING. 

My choices were try and open the garage door (not gonna happen realistically) and make him go towards the house or run and get the cat treats. 

I’m happy to say the cat treats won and he came running in. He’s just like his owners.. food is life. 

So then the boyf’s mum came round as we’re going to Windsor today so the boyf can do a 300ft bungee jump! Not sure why but hopefully he’ll enjoy it. 

I’m in the bath now and he’s currently cooking up some bacon... happy Saturday everyone!

                 

FriYAY

So as I was falling asleep last night, I was thinking why am I writing this blog.. it’s not like I’m special in anyway or have very exciting life.. or more so than anyone else anyway.

But then I thought.. it’s just so different from getting likes, or follows or retweets.. its for me to just enjoy writing about life for no real reason and not checking it to see who’s looked at it and just.. not caring too much to be honest!

I think the main reason it to be able to look back in years and remember how life was..

Anyway!  Just some night time thoughts.

So, I woke up.. well was woken up by the boyf snoring next to me this morning. Then as soon as I open the bedroom door the cats run to me and I HAVE to go and feed them so I’m clearly wide awake by now.

So I got up to go for a run, I did 5K in 31 minutes and I cant help but feel disheartened afterwards as I did 5K in 26 mins previously and now I’m just hard on myself wondering why I can’t get that again!

I’ve exercised for 17 days in a row so far and I feel knackered but I’ve got a bit of an unhealthy/healthy obsession with exercise… nothing too serious of course!

Off to work and I am wishing my day away so me and the boyf can go to Jimmy Spices, a place where it’s buffet style with all kinds of foods: Indian, Italian, Chinese.. etc. 

I’m going to eat so bloody much and I can’t wait. Oh and wine, can’t wait for wine. 

Day 1 of blogging

So, my first official post!

My manager has gone on holiday for the next two weeks which means I have to deal with some of her work which I’m not used to. And I’ve lost my work bestie!

Part of me is in full on panic mode as there are somethings I’m worried about having to do but then another part of me is saying ‘guuuuurl you got this!’

I may quote rupaul a lot as I am completely obsessed with the Rupaul’s Dragrace show and I am not ashamed about it either, hunny!

So after the first day without my manager which had a couple of ups and down, I had a quick gym sesh and then home to chill..

Nothing exciting to report, just that my lovely new kitties are getting more and more confident as days go by which I love. Apart from the fact we let them outside and it worries me they’ll leg it when they have the chance ha!

Now to chill and watch homeland which my manager recently completely ruined for me as she didn’t realise that I was only on the second series.

Friday tomorrow and I’m already excited for the 5pm finish! My lovely boyfriend is taking me out for dinner. Can’t. Wait.

As the pic below I’m gonna find me a kittle to cuddle 😊

P.s - as I was about to post this we had to get the kitty in as he jumped out the window! They do wanna leg it!!

This is the beginning of the record you like

So! Here goes nothing.. 

I decided to start a blog, I thought it would be cool to note down some of the stuff going on in my life. I wanted to be able to look back at it in a few years time and take a trip down memory lane! 

I recently found my mum's old blog and it really made me happy reading about old times. 

I'm 24, I live in Surrey with my other half and our two lovely little cats and I'm an office manager.

I love keeping fit, being healthy(ish)... and cooking :) 

I just read that back and it already sounds pretty dull ha! 

I'll come back when I'm up to something more exciting.