Here's a couple of things that make me smile :D

 1. Winter when it snows and my brother goes outside to make snow angels. :D Taken from my window. 

 2. My dogs. Alfie is not a normal dog. He likes to turn over his bed and get under it :D The top picture is him putting his head through his bed and fighting with Archie :p

 3. Faces made out of different things. Me and my old flat mate Clare had fun making faces :D

 4. Giving funny names to doddles and blu tac faces :D

 5. Pumpkin carving :D My boyfriend bought me one to carve. He even scooped out the middle for me. :D Mine is the happy one on the right :D

6. Utilising holey jeans. Those holes aren't a trend they are for drawing funny pictures in. It will only be seen when sat down. Otherwise it's hidden :D






Just a few pictures that I found on my phone. They remind me of funny moments and make me smile when I see them :D 


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Progress

So yea first week of my exercise/ food diary log book thing. :p went great... gym everyday, eating good food. I even cut down on sweeteners in my tea. In my mum's words "You're too old for sweetener now" My dad is 60 and still has them explain the logic in that and you can win a prize. Woop! Only joking. But really how can that be explained? :) 


I was quite impressed at when I got on the scales it said I had lost 6 pounds. This is doubtful as water retention is a bitch. However, was still impressed :D 
This week however, not a great week. :( Monday evening the boy and I went to Alton Towers for a couple of days as a present from him to me for my 21st. Yey! I am a giant kid and the smile simply wouldn't leave my face for the duration of the trip :D The room was immense as the whole Hotel was pirate themed. Avast! :p I was tempted to have rum but didn't as I don't like it. Go figure. :p 


Breakfast was all you could eat and free which was good 'cos we were pretty much abused with the £19.95 dinner all you could eat buffet we booked for the evening. I totally got my moneys worth though. However, this was quite bad for the food diary. I justified it by saying it was for my birthday and I needed to get the most out of it :D Plus the food was amazing!! :D 
I'm back home and now have no excuse not to eat better. :( Sad times. Weigh time again on Monday and I'm hoping it's not too bad :D. 


On another note got the keys for my new house on Monday :D I basically ran round the house with a giant grin on my face. I want to move in now! My house mates are immense and the year is going to equally immense. 
Funny story though. On receiving my keys I went to go have a look around walked down the road to what I thought was my house and tried both keys in the door (I was quite shocked before putting the keys in as the area didn't look familiar at all. I should have taken this as a clue tbh). Neither of them worked. I had walked to the same number house as my new one is, but on the wrong bloody street. I'm glad no one saw me, except Mike who now makes fun of me for it. I don't think he'll let me live it down :/ I'm off to paint it tomorrow and should be asleep 'cos we're going early. But, I wanted to update my blog :D 


Back to the gym on Sunday. Woopie :|
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It's been a while

OK so it's been a few months since I last posted due to a couple of reasons: 
- Uni work and
- Forgotten password and 
- Laziness to reset the password
:D 


I haven't really done much lately. Went to Turkey with Mike which was really nice. Had a Turkish bath and went on a boat trip around the islands. Very relaxing and serene. I've been home a while now and it seems like an age since we were on holiday. :( 


Now I'm back I have to find a job and start toning up. 
The job hunt isn't going well so going to focus on toning up at the gym and with some diet changes. I am going to keep looking for a job as well, of course. :p


I've started today as I went to a friends BBQ and ate EVERYTHING. I love food. :). 
So starting today I've been quite good. Monday I'll start to write a food diary which will include everything I've eaten, the exercises I've done that day, feelings behind bad choices and motivational quotes to help me keep going :D 
I really hope it's going to work 'cos I want to tone up. The aim isn't to lose weight but if I do woopwoop. :D 
I've been reading food and exercise tips on the internet to try and find some good ones that will help. Some of them sound pretty good so I'm going to try them out :D 


Next week I'm going to Alton Towers, for a couple of days, with Mike for an early 21st birthday present. I hope it won't screw up my diary but I'll try my best to be good :D 
I will give an update on my days there when I get back. 


Wish me luck on my goal :D
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New Addition :)

I love pets. Simple as. We've many pets over the years: 
In total about 6 guinea pigs (that I can remember), I've had about 14 hamsters. Give or take a few. One of them was pregnant when we bought her giving me 8 little babies. Nawww. That's why the number is so large :p. My brothers have had hamsters as well so the total number is much higher than that anyway. :), 1 rabbit, that ultimately died on one of my brother's birthdays. Bad times :(, 1 budgie, 3 dogs (2 are in the house at present), loads of fish, stick insects, and Ben once had a snail :D 
Funny story with one of Ben's fish. When he was younger he liked to take the fish out of the bowl and one morning when my mum came downstairs to feed the fish she noticed one of them had gone. Ben, the lovely pet lover, had put it in a tissue box to die. How cruel :p I always find it funny though. Poor little fish. :( 


Today I bought, I say I did I really mean my mum did :p, a new little hamster. She's beaut and I want to play with her but she has to settle which sucks :/ 

I did mention in an earlier post that it was going to be a boy called Ted to match Lucy's future guinea pigs. However, this little girl got my attention more so I now need a new female name to call her. I was thinking Lily to fit in with the How I met your mother theme. It's cute and it can't be called Robyn 'cos that's a bird and this is a hamster :p

Mind my face :p These are the two present dogs we have at the moment. Archie on the left and Alfie on the right. They are little terrors but I love them. 


Next on my list of pets that I want is either a toyger. Which is a cat with tiger markings. Looks ace! Or white chipmunks that I saw today 'cos they look mint running over the cage and doing back flips. :D 

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Daddy's Birthday Party :D

Been a while since I've posted so thought I'd do a bit of an update. Been quite busy lately with helping my mum with my dad's 60th and trying to get assignments finished for upcoming deadlines. 


The party was amazing and couldn't have asked for a better night. Over 100 people turned up and a few people who I haven't seen in years. One couple came down from Scotland who we haven't seen in 8 years, a couple came over from Spain and other people from all over the place. Was so good to see them. About 3/4 families used to go camping with us to France and places. Kids everywhere and adults getting drunk it was an amazing time but over the years the kids grew up and the adults decided to move on with their lives. Ended up going in different directions. However, once we're all back together it's like we never parted and it was great. :) 
I pretty much class the people that were at the party family and I love them all loads. During the night one lady who has known me since I was born fell over and I got quite emotional and had to be taken outside to calm down. She was OK but it was just worrying to see her on the floor. Other than that it was great. The band played some good songs. I made my dad get up with me for the first dance. :D I was a bit tipsy at the time but I was just getting the party going a bit as everyone was just sat down doing nothing. I certainly got the party going a bit better :D 
As people where travelling from all over the place my mum let people stay in our house and Mike and I got booted to the caravan, which wasn't bad at all to be honest got us out of the mayhem. :D There were so many people around the house it was hard to be on your own. I loved every minute of it. 
The weather was amazing all weekend as well. One of the best weekends I've had in a while. I was upset that it had to end so quickly and It made me miss all the big family holidays we used to have. I don't think my mum will ever want to organise another party that big ever again. Bless her. She did a great job. :)


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Why did I think this was a good idea :/

OK I've come home for a bit, to try and get some work done before my deadlines next week. However, I've come home at the worst time ever. My dad is 60 on Saturday and for his birthday my mum has been organising a huge party for him. Woo party! Woo free alcohol! It's not all sunshine and rainbows here though. I'm sure it'll be amazing on the night and will be good to see people who I haven't seen in many years. However, endless phone calls off said people is getting tiring. I haven't spoken to these people in such a long time that I don't really recognise their voices and spend half the duration of the call trying to figure out who it is. The first caller was only recognised 2 mins before the end of the call by mentioning a name that I remembered. I did pull it off pretty well that I didn't actually know it is was though. Go me! :) But now it's happening more and more. Also they decide to ask me questions about the party of which I have no idea of the answer. 
Where am I sleeping? 
What's the dress code?
Do you need bedding? 
Are all questions for my mum, not me. My guess work is pretty good though and I seem to give the right answer when I ask my mum the same questions. Though I do tell the callers that they will have to call again to ask my mum to confirm. :p 


Also my mum is getting pretty stressed out about it. I feel sorry for her and I am trying to help. I've even given up my bed for the night and Mike, Jon, Katie and I are sleeping in the caravan for the night :| 
Woopie! Oh well. :p 


My mum has a mattress in her room for the time being and today whilst trying to run for the phone I tripped over the plastic cover to it and almost headbutted the window. :/ :p I picked the phone up laughing to myself about it because it almost certainly would have looked hilarious to see by someone else. On the phone was my dad. I risked life and limb to tell him my mum had gone out. :| typical. 


One further thing that I'm not going to look forward to is the meet and greet of old friends and the very repetitive phase of "I haven't seen you in years! Look at you!" that I know will be coming my way over and over again. I might make a handout to tell people that "I'm a 2nd year student at Sheffield Hallam studying criminology and psychology. Yes it is a good course but does have it's boring parts. I'm looking to be either a social worker or an A level psychology tutor." Just so I don't get bored of my own voice repeating these statements. Ha! It's going to be a great night though. Really looking forward to it :D My mum has told me I'm not allowed to get too drunk though 'cos she doesn't want me being sick in the caravan. :p Oh dear 


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Eye didn't realise they would be that annoying to do :p

After a rubbish trip home of missing my second train and having to walk home from the station with loads of heavy bags I decided to get straight to drinking and grabbed a cider :) It was gooood. The reason I was drinking was because it was one of my mate's 21st going out to York trip last night. It was really good. 
Before I went out though I tried to put fake eyelashes on. I bought like 20pairs from Hong Kong and decided to do a test run of them. They are so annoying to put on. But finally did it after 20mins of messing about with them. They didn't look half bad either. I was impressed. :D but this morning woke up and my eyelids were glued shut. Bad times. 
So we went out and had fun. Evil Eye is an expensive cocktail place but I liked the one I had :D I also got reminded about an incident that happened in Revs a couple of months ago. Just because there was a candle on the table in Evil Eye. I didn't know what I was thinking holding a tissue to a candle. What did I expect to happen really? Lol. Idiot. 
I got told off by a bouncer for swearing at my friend. But he was only joking. It was Jasmin's fault ha! 
On the way back to the car we went and got food and ate most of it the car before we set off. Sam and Hayley told me to chuck theirs in the bin as we drove past. I was going to keep mine as I wasn't finished. However, I decided to chuck mine away instead of Sam's I was quite upset about it ha! 
Got home with Hayley and my brother was up and we stayed up for a bit watching stupid videos on youtube. Such as the badger song and the llama song. I was quite tipsy and was just singing along with them. I'm such a douche tbh ha. 

This song made me laugh quite a bit. Especially because there was different versions of it. German was the funniest. :) Katie, my friend and my brother's gf, was laughing because she'd never seen them before and I was singing every word. Such a geek. :) 


Went to go see my grandparents for grandma day and she gave me a box cheerios because my grandad had bought too many boxes. As we left my grandad said "cheerio" He's so funny. I love my family :D 


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