Family fun

Today’s post is very positive!

So after work on Thursday I went and got my haircut and then came home to finish off any last bits before my family arrived.

Antony set up the replacement table and chairs, yay! So when we had finished everything, we sat outside and relaxed with a beverage.

First to arrive was my twin bro Connor. He came in, farted in every room and then needed a poo! Typical Connor..

Not long after, my dad, step mum and sister arrived. So exciting! And so strange to have them here as we’re usually in Manchester. I showed them around and then we sat and ordered pizza. Beaut.

We didn’t stay up too much longer as it was already about 1am at this point so we all went off to bed.

I woke up at 6 as per usual.. which is so very annoying. I got up, went for a run and then when I got back me and my sister sat in the sun chatting away and painting our nails. And screaming about the wasps! My step mum, Karen came and joined and we had a nice chill.

Once everyone else was up I made them some brekkie and we all got ready for the day.

Me, my dad, Connor (twinnie) and Beth (sister) played the longest game of cards ever which was hilarious. Making stupid noises to do the reverse card and Connor showing us a magic trick which was made better by his silly sound effects.

After picking my brothers girlfriend Emily up we all got back to mine and sat in the sun with prossecco cocktail Karen had made. It was yummy! And many laughs were bad.

Antony got back after finishing work and we got ready and headed to Turtle Bay.

We got there and ordered lots of cocktails to start. Beth is only 16 but always seems to get away with drinking. She is gorgeous and does her make up so well! I am jealous of her! We look the same age. We’re both 5foot. We actually had to ask someone in Sainsbury’s to pass up something from the top shelf earlier in the day and the man laughed at us calling us short! We know mate.. we know.

The food in Turtle Bay was Caribbean and delicious. We had such a laughs as we always do.

We came home and attempted to play cards against humanity but to be honest we were all so tired - especially me who ended up being a grump because I’d not got enough sleep the night before!

So me and Beth headed up, not before checking the weather for the next day as we’re going to a food festival in Richmond. Looking forward to it, my other brother and his girlfriend are also coming to meet us so should be good!

Friday(ish)

Before I've even started writing this post I already know it's gonna be.. less positive that usual. So apologies for that!

Last night Antony picked up a table and chair set for the garden, which we were really excited about as it's sunny and have family coming this weekend. 

So when we got home I started to do the house cleaning and sorting all bedding etc out.. fun stuff, I know. And Antony started to set up the table and chairs. Anyway, fast forward about 2/3 hours and I've done the cleaning and Antony is still faffing with the table and chairs. Basically it was faulty and Ant just sweated out in the sun for 3 hours trying to put a faulty table together ARGH. 

So not only was that a load of wasted effort.. we still have no outside seating. 

To top the night off, when we gave up and decided to chill, the bloody cat wouldn't come in (like to keep them in at night) and we ended up chasing one round the garden whilst our pizza went cold. 

So, to this morning.. I woke up and did some exercise in the garden, it was lovely! It was sunny and was nice to watch the kitties play outside. Also this is my 23rd day streak of exercising/closing the rings on my watch! God I can't wait for the 1st May to do absolutely nothing.

It's supposedly going to hit 27 degrees today. So after a shower and waking Ant up, I thought let's find something summery to wear. 

Sooo, this is where it all goes wrong and where I'm going to contradict something I said in an earlier post. In my earlier post I said how I don't exercise to change the way I look.. and to be honest, that's still true-ish. 

But, I got so upset this morning putting a skirt on and wondering why why why, when I exercise almost everyday am I still looking in the mirror at myself in a skirt and crying! It's ridiculous. 

I just hate my legs/knees so much and it upsets me. I should feel confident about my body and sometimes, like today, I just don't. 

Anyway, I decided to keep the skirt on because a) it's gonna be bloody hot and b) because I CAN wear a skirt and not worry about my stupid god damn chubby pasty legs!! ARGH AGAIN.

Okay, I think I got it out of my system. I want to be positive and happy today, especially as it's my Friday and the sun is shining and everything. is. good. 

I am so looking forward to 12, I'm going to meet Antony and we're going to eat a baguette by the river, in the sun.

Antony is so good, last night he kept his cool and stayed happy (I probably would have smashed up the table!) and this morning trying to cheer me up. What a gem.

Right, I'm off. Hoping the next post will be super happy and not like this one!

Happy hump day! *insert camel emoji*

As I mentioned yesterday, I got a key cut for my best friend Lois. I made her close her eyes and put her hand out and when she saw what it was she cried! Haha, so cute! 

We are so similar it's scary, the amount of times we've talked about our future weddings and having babies and both looked at each other with tears in our eyes. It's ridiculous. 

I can't tell you how awesome it is to have a bestie who is so like you so you know you can be yourself 101%. I really hope that we both read this blog back together when we're 40 and can talk about how we really did have our weddings and babies. Right I have to stop now before I get emotional! 

So, after we recovered from the key, we had some dinner and headed to Aldi! We were both (again we are sad) quite excited about going to Aldi. 

I spent over £100 (a lot for Aldi!) and it was bloody hard work packing it all and putting it in my car and then unpacking it again at home.. Phew! So nice to have a full kitchen now though ready for the busy weekend ahead. 

It's such a beautiful day today, the sunshine really does make me happy. It's just a shame that today will mostly be working and then home to completely clean and tidy the whole house. I asked Lois if she fancied coming round again tonight.. for some reason she wasn't keen. 

I'm going to meet Antony for lunch in a bit and hopefully we can sit by the river in Staines and enjoy an hour of sunshine. 

Today is my Thursday as I am off Friday to spend time with the family. So I'm in such a good mood, ready for the weekend!! Currently listening to George Ezra which was recommended to me over the weekend. 

I'm enjoying his album so far to be honest.. Right better do some work. 

Adios

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!