Sunday funday

Sundays I always find slightly depressing.

For me, I always wake up really hungover and then the realisation of work sets in later and its just a bit meh.

But, on this occasion it wasn't so bad at all! I mean, I did wake up feeling pretty rough in the end but managed to shake it off and make us all a fry up and again, out into the sunshine!

I am so glad Antony returned the set of table and chairs for outside because the new ones are so much better (obviously) and we've used them every day since! It's been so nice. Especially as there's been 10 of us at certain points and my house isn't huge!

Anyway, so back to Sunday. We spent most of the day chilling in the garden, talking about the usual, weather, holidays, serial killers.. you know.

We then all bundled into the cars to go and visit Runnymede Air force Memorial. It was pretty incredible to be honest.

The view from the top was awesome! You could see Windsor Castle and Heathrow.





Obviously, it's an awful reason as to why it exists but I also thought it was such a lovely way to remember those who fought for us. We had a wander round for a while and Antony was giving me a History lesson.. I should have listened in school really!

We then left to go to the Magna Carta but that was closed, so we just went for a walk around. We did look at the 'Jurors' which I googled as I couldn't explain what they were: ' Twelve intricately worked bronze chairs stand together on this ancient meadow. Each chair incorporates symbols and imagery representing concepts of law and key moments in the struggle for freedom, rule of law and equal rights. The Jurors is not a memorial, but rather an artwork that aims to examine the changing and ongoing significance and influences of Magna Carta.'




They were really cool! And now I really want to learn more about this kind of thing.. I want to go back to school to be honest and really concentrate because I feel like I didn't make the most of it at all.

We were all feeling pretty tired now so we headed back home.

Connor used to be a chef and so offered to make us all a cheesy, creamy, spinachy, leeky, amazing pasta bake. Omg it was incredible! And I have it tonight too as there was loads left!

So, we ate this delicious meal and then it was time for Connor and his girlfriend Emily to leave. I really hate this part..

We said our goodbyes and my dad dropped them to the train station.

Feeling really tired after a weekend of drinking in the sun, we pretty much all went to bed when my dad got back. I slept so awfully as all I could think about was going back to work and routine.. was dreaming about making salads for lunches.

Anyway, so it's Monday morning and I'm feeling a little bit sad as when I get home after work, my house is going to be empty and quiet. I absolutely love seeing my family but having to say bye again really sucks when they live so far away!

We really did have such an amazing weekend! So many laughs were had and memories were made. It's been so so much fun and I want to re-do it all.. but maybe tomorrow so I can catch up on some sleep first.

Food festival

Waking up yesterday morning at 7 then going back to sleep until 8 was so impressive! Finally later than 6am!

I got up and went for a run, the weather is still so nice! I seriously wish it could be sunny allllll year round.

So after my run, I got back, showered and got ready to sit in the sun again! We all had some breakfast and chilled outside with a drink.

My older brother Adam came round with his girlfriend Erika too. Erika brought me some clothes round which I love! She’s given me loads of her clothes in the past and it’s beaut because.. new clothes obviously! But also they’re better than mine as I’m a cheapskate and just shop and primark and matalan whereas Erika has better brands!

Anyway, so we all went off to the station to make our way to Richmond where the food festival was.

We arrived and all went straight to the different bars. Antony got a beer, I got cider, Karen and Beth had pimms, Connor and Emily had cocktails, Erika had prossecco and I think Adam had beer! More like an alcohol festival than food so far!

There was a band playing some typical music that everyone knows the words to, like queen and I can’t remember the name of the song but all I keep singing is ‘sweet dreams are made of cheese, who am I to disabrie’ hopefully you know the one.. kind of.

So we all decided to go off and get the food we liked and meet on the grass. Antony’s friend was working at the festival which is how we heard of it. And we went over to say Hi and he made us 2 mixed meat Greek pitta wrap things. It was amazing! It was a big pitta bread with chips, garlicy sauce with about 3/4 different meats. Yum.

We sat and ate and chilled for a bit. It started to rain a little which was annoying as we’d all taken the piss out of Antony for bringing a jacket ... now I had to ask nicely to borrow it. He let me until I started singing rupaul and then took it away until I stopped.







We ended up going for a wander and getting more drinks. I was getting very drunk quite quickly, to be honest everyone was! Apart from my dad of course as he doesn’t drink at all.

We saw a sign shop and Karen bought Antony a mancave sign which is damn cool!

To be honest, I know a lot more happened but it’s a little bit blurry from here on as I had a lot a lot of 6% cider... ooh I also had a vimto cider which was amazing!

Okay so yeah, I’m not sure on a lot that happened next. I do remember lots of photos being taken and being dragged across the grass by Connor and then him and Emily touching my neck and me being dramatic about it. I remember a lot of being picked up and picking people up and yes. It was all very drunken. I don’t remember the journey home and I’m pretty sure soon after getting home I ended up in bed feeling sick.. it was about 9pm.

Party animal me (Jamie T, if you know, you know) 

I’ve just woken up, feeling surprisingly fresh for how much booze I had but I guess I’ve also slept for 10 hours ha. 

I just made a cheese spread sandwich and cleaned the garlic butter Antony spilt all over the sofa. Looks like pizza was ordered. Gutted I missed out! 

I’m having sooty (kitty) cuddles and debating whether to go to the gym now or later. Cos I could watch the new rupaul.. 

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...