happy as i am

SEVEN THINGS YOU WILL FIND IN YOUR ROOM:
1) Dust bunnies
2) Clothes
3) books
4) duvet
5) junk
6) suitcases
7) broken fan

SEVEN RELATIONSHIP QUESTIONS:
1) Do You Like Anyone? Yup, Hubby for reality and there's a nice bit of eye-candy in my office for looking at!
2) Does Someone Like You? Only the hubby that I know of.
3) Last Kiss? about half an hour ago
4) Been Lead On? Definitely
5) Been Cheated On? Yep I was sooo naive at the time, thought he cared but he was screwing around.
6) Want A Relationship? Happy with the one I've got thanks
7) Want to Get Married? I'd love another wedding day to the same man, with all the things we couldn't afford first time, but not if i have to pay again!

SEVEN OTHER THINGS - DO YOU ...
1) Believe In God? Nope - cliched but too much unexplained sadness and pain for their to be someone watching over us all.
2) Had A Dream Come True? Yep if you mean an aspiration but nope if you mean a night time one
3) Read The Newspaper? nope. I am ignorant about the worlds news
4) Get Enough Sleep Everyday? nowhere near as much as I'd like!
5) Have A Best Friend? my hubby is my bestest mate nowadays. Is that sad?
6) Take A Bath Daily? How much effort would that be? No, I shower.
7) Wish On Stars? Nope

SEVEN HAVE YOU EVERS
1) Fallen In Love? Yep
2) Kissed Someone Of The Same Sex? not like that no, only in a familial way
3) Hooked Up With Someone Who Had A BF/GF? someone that had a wife, but we never did anything, just flirted a lot.
4) Been To A Bonfire? yup, hate em.
5) Ran Away From Home? Not that I can remember
6) Played Strip Poker? No,
7) Pulled An All Nighter? Nope

SEVEN THINGS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS HAVE YOU:
1) Cried? yes - I'm a bundle of emotions today
2) Had Fun? nope
3) Been Kissed? yep
4) Felt Stupid? yep
5) Talked To An Ex? nope
6) Missed Someone? yep
7) Listened To Music? definitely

SEVEN THINGS ON YOUR MIND:
1) Need to clean the damn flat
2) my throw stinks
3) wish the weather would improve
4) hate maggots, hate hate HATE!
5) must get up and hlp hubby cook soon
6) should also comb my hair
7) can I go bed yet?

SEVEN THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT:
1) Hubby
2) Shoes
3) credit card
4) food
5) music
6) sleep
7) cuddles

Inspired by La_spices' post I was thinking back to the last time I wrote a letter. Not the complaint letter, or a scabby note to the docs for a repeat prescription, but a proper letter to update a friend on news.

I have one family friend (a dear lady from my childhood) that I write to, but even that is lucky if I do so 3 times a year! Yet I do so remember the days when you'd sit down to a letter from someone you hadnt heard from, with a cup of coffee and a bit of cake and sit back and enjoy their news.

Now the post just brings junk, so I have decided I am going to give myself a new challenge. I am going to get back in touch with people I haven't spoken to in some time and instead of emailing them or texting them I am gonna try to write them a nice long letter with all my news.

I've hoards of letters from friends and family that I've kept over the years, I'd hate to think that I will receive no more. My only sadness is that I have no choice but to trust my letters to Royal Mail.

So, when did you last write a letter to someone you care about? And will you take up the challenge to write a letter a month to someone you care for? Just think of the smile on their face when they get home from work, go through their mail and find a handwritten letter in amongst the junk.

SWALK

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I had a fairly decent nights sleep and am a lot less paranoid today. It's hubbys last day of work this week and I'm glad for him, he's taking tomorrow off to attend a Dr's appt with me, and then to help his dad take our junk to the tip.

Its been sitting in the garden for ages, an old bath, an old loo and an old sink, plus various other bits n bobs. Plus, he needs a break. I think the thought of finishing our house, moving house, driving lessons and stress at work is doing him in. Tis certainly a time of change in our household, but all for the best. I keep hoping hubby will apply for a job with a rival company (tis well known that ours underpays for his kinda role) but then he'd have to commute and that's the last thing I want to add to his day.

I was gonna call the docs today as I've managed to bugger my back up. There's to be no more sliding down stairs on my bum for some time, although I think it was more likely the sudden stop when I realised I had carpet burn which jolted my back, but it bloody hurts!

I can't even be bothered to go the Dr today. The lines been constantly engaged since 8am anyway which means all the good appointments will be gone.

So, breakfast and into work early today I think, I wanna get on top of my work as early as I can this month, my job is great but the targets are done monthly, so no sooner you think 'fab I've cracked this' it resets and you're off again.

This month especially, being the start of the 2nd half of the year, means I have to shape up to ensure I get a decent payrise/bonus next spring. I'll sure need the cash, even if we don't go Barbados next year!

Ok, must get on, have a good day all

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Is that a word?

Anyway, my posts here are a little erratic at the mo, I've needed a little time to chill out and blog has had to take a back seat, but if you don't hear from me I am still reading your posts.

Happy

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My poor friend is getting stuck in the middle of my bitchiness, and I really must stop, she is Sister in Law (almost) to Mr & Mrs Smug and has to be diplomatic with Mrs Smug but I always find myself bitching to her about them.

I try to remember that she has her familial obligations but my mouth runs away with me. I must remember to curb my bitchy emails and (sadly for you) save it for my blog pals, or other pals who do not have the ties.

Silly me.

In other news today, I went to the gym this morning. I did 2.5kms on the bicycle and 3kms on the treadmill - 50% walking, 50% running. Ok so I'm not quite up to my pre-holiday exercise routine but any exercise I do is a bonus right now as I'm eating so unhealthily. I had a huge pile of ribs for dinner on Saturday, BBQ'd burger and corn for dinner last night, and tonight we have BBQ'd chicken with some sweet potato chips (hopefully) mushrooms, peppers and corn. Yummy.

Gotta run, the sun is shining and I can blog later if needs be,

Hope the sun shines on you all

Happy
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All things told. And from tomorrow I will be resuming full use of those pesky ex marks. I wonder whether I'll still overuse them or if this will have been a lesson in excess?

So why has the weekend been good? I took Friday afternoon off and spent two hours sleeping, before I wandered to Waitrose and home again to bake. Hubby was home bang on time and we headed out into the garden for the evening.

Saturday morning we drove out to Durrington to view two houses, we've decided that have to visit the mortgage adviser before we go any further, but the second house was really quite nice - recently refurbed and bound to be gone before we're ready to move.

Saturday lunch time and afternoon we relaxed, or at least I did, hubby had a driving lesson and I went for a leisurely wander around town. And then in the evening we got ready to go out. We were due to meet a large group of friends for drinks and then dinner at the local Tex Mex restaurant (Montagues in Worthing) which is small but perfectly formed. We met most of our friends at the pub and our two friends who are ALWAYS late (usually by at least an hour) made it to the restaurant only ten minutes late.

Almost everyone enjoyed their meal and the atmosphere and it was a lovely chance to catch up and gossip. The only sticking point in the evening was that one of the couples (that I really don't get on with) announced their pregnancy* and then proceeded to be so smug and patronising for the rest of the night.

After the meal (we had to leave at 9.15pm for the next sitting) we headed back to another friends house where we had leisurely coffee, cake and chill out before heading home.

Today? I slept all morning, except for getting up to eat, followed by my two hour sit, and then on to see my mum and sis briefly, before heading home to BBQ some burgers and corn. Not the healthiest but never mind.

A chilled out weekend, sadly its back to work tomorrow. Ah well

I have just remembered something to add to the list, and that is to do more baking.

I took this afternoon off, and made some yummy cheesey scones for hubby -it's been about a year since I last made them and I've also made some lickle cupcakes which I'm gonna ice and add some hundreds & thousands.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy baking and the smell of fresh out of the oven baking filling the house makes me smile. Thankfully its also a nice sunny day now so I chose a good day to have time off.

In other news, this morning on being woken by hubby and told of the demise of Michael Jackson (yes I had to mention it) I initially felt a little sad, but then my thoughts went out to his family and especially the poor children who will not have their father as they grow up. Yes, he had his issues but he was still a parent and an iconic singer throughout the years.

It made me go to the gym because I certainly do not want to die so young. I aim to do everything I can to be healthy. Well almost everything

After reading BDA's post about getting out there and living life I have been reminded of how many things I've still to do in this my 30th year of life. I have 5 months left of this year and so much to achieve.

So, here is my updated list for the next 5 months - lets see how I do:

Go for a drive twice a week minimum
Go swimming once a week minimum
Back to the gym 3 times a week (I've been rubbish only going twice a week if that since the holiday).
Investigate lessons in Dutch
Do my pass plus
Get our flat saleable
Take my bike out at the weekend
Trim down my film list to films I really wanna see.

Ok, I'm gonna stop there, but there is sooo much more that I need to do. I'm gonna review this in a month and see how I've faired.

Have a good day

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The film with Jason Statham - it is really funny. Not intentionally of course, it is an 18 and does have violence, bad language, sex and other 18 stuff but the plot is so silly and the action so overdone that it made the film really really good.

The only problem I have is that the second one is still on at the cinema so I have to wait for its DVD release before I can watch it. Bummer.

Strongly recommended

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The exclamation mark challenge hey? Let's see how I can do.

This week I have been rubbish, I've only been to the gym once so far and I've been out in the car not at all. We did share some news with the father in law when he visited, and also discovered that some bugger has nicked one of my P plates from the car. Only one mind. One?

Hubby has just read my post over my shoulder and commented on how hard this challenge will be for me, but so far it has been easy enough. So far that is...

What else is new in my life? Not really that much, I am really enjoying work at present, glad that I was given the opportunity back in February to change my role. I never thought I would be, but yesterday I had my half year review and got a much better half year score than I'd expected. Well, not better than I had expected, more exactly what I had expected, but wasn't sure if I would achieve. Does that make sense?

Anyway, my boss has not been very pro-active, she didn't want to set me any goals for the next six months as she knows I will probably go away next year.

Oh yeah, I checked out facebook and was surprised to find out that another one of my friends is pregnant, that makes 3 all due between Oct and Christmas. I was so shocked. Well, although I say 'friend' we were good friends, but I haven't made the effort to keep in touch since she moved to Manchester a couple years ago. It seems like the done thing is to put your 12 week scan on facebook and share your news with the world. Personally, if and when I get pregnant I'd rather pick up the phone and have a chat with people. Remember that?

Right, well I'm all outta news and I think I've managed not to use one of those punctuation marks that looks a bit like an upside down i. I haven't been back through to double check so let me know if I screwed up.

Love to all.

Happy

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