• Big staff meal on the Wednesday night, where Jenn made a lovely speech for Carl and my engagement! Made me all emotional!!
• Jenn hammering on the back doors as we approached the main hall and no-one was manning them, rather than radioing in a covert manner, Jenn started the weekend off with a bang! lol! And then got one of my Mothers looks!!
• How much is that Muffin, in the window? ;)
• Carrying a hat box down the corriddor and laughing so hard I nearly fell over!
• Inhaling helium at the Stewards request because they shoved a £20 down my top, then almost passing out, as I didn't realise it was common knowledge that you have to breathe it in, then take a breath, then speak. Not just speak straight away.
• Jenn and I getting told off by the tech guys for not knowing it was common knowledge to put water into the sponge on the soldering iron, so going to the downstairs foyer of the hotel to solder my hard hat, and then trying desperately to open the doors so the smoke alarm didn't go off!
• Me falling asleep on the trolley at the very end, damn it, they got photos as well!
• My nicknames for Jenn, Precious, Jennkins, Button etc etc.
• Carl giving Tracy a piggy back around the room and then us all falling around laughing, to the point of Liesl crying her eyes out.
• Can you see the Muffin Man? The Muffin Man? The Muffin Man!? :)
• Giving my Mum her flowers and doing a little speech to the 270 attendees about how brilliant her book is
• Saying infront of 270 people how proud I am of working with both my Mum and Dad at these events!
• My mums face when her spoof book was presented to Amanda at the cocktail party
• Cramming everything into my 4x4 to get to the ren, including an Alaskan and a dodgy Scott!
• Dancing with Tracy to the music as we packed away!
• Chasing Liesl with the camcorder around the Somerset suite!
• Not having to get up at 6:30am on Monday and getting a massive lie in and breakfast at 9:30am instead! Amazing!
• Carl falling asleep on the sofa in the restraunt!
• Playing with the hearing dogs, especially Max the labrador! How cute was he? Reminded me of my doggy wog!
• Coming home, as much as I love my friends in GABIT, they are my family, but my life is also important and coming home, especially since a few of them came back with us, was lovely!

First of all, I think everyone should watch this.
It has a graphic warning on, for some blood, but it's nothing terrible I wouldn't say.



I genuinely think everyone should watch that.
It's so important.

It may be the law here now to not talk on a mobile phone whilst driving, but the amount of people who go against that, or worse, who text while driving, where you actually have to look down at your phone and take your eyes off the road, even for a second, is ridiculous.
I know know the cost of lives it has, not just you, but other road users, my job has shown me enough of it!

Morbidity and warnings over, I am in a very good mood today!
Last night I went up to the stables and jumped Domino some more, Dad was there taking photos so see my FaceBook for photos. This time I put the jumps up by 8 holes in the end, and jumped them way bigger, plus I went over a straight! I have never done that before!! It was amazing!
Then Dad an I walked the mile to the fields to turn him out, and then went for a drink in the pub opposite the stables. It was a lovely evening :)

After that Carl came home and as I heard his key going into the door (we were at mum and dads) I felt like my whole world was in one place, Mum, Dad, Carl and me, Jenn was about to call me from Scotland, and my horse was happy in his field, the dog lying by the tv.
So peaceful and happy! Very soppy maybe, but happy!

Today I had the best lie in, I have had such a busy week at work, it has been a joke, I am doing 2 peoples jobs, plus learning a thirds because I'll be taking over my boss when she goes. So I have been busy, to the point of exhaustion! So I stayed in bed until just before 11 am! lol! Nice :) Poor carl had to get up at 7:30 and head off for his shift. Bless him!

Tonight is my childhood (and when I say childhood I mean age 1-2 years!) best friends, 22nd Birthday Celebration in Watford. We are not best friends now, but friends, which is nice. Some of the people going I have not seen in years, not just a year, but years.
They get to meet Carl which is cool, and his friend is coming along as well so that he has someone to chat with while I catch up with a few of them! I'm not saying I like them all but some used to be my whole life as a teenager, I'd spend my weeeknds at their houses and my evenings in the park with them or something silly like that. I guess it's time to put silly things behind and move on. There is only so much childishness one can take, it's adult time!

Then on Monday, it's PARAMORE TIME!
Laura I guess we will see you there now huh? Woohoo!! :)
xx

My day off was lovely!
I slept in and got up at about 11 this morning with Carl, the bed at our flat is so nice he spent a ridiculous amount on it so it's really comfy and good for your back! He went off to the gym at about 12:30 and I spent an hour on here posting to long hair communities and curly hair communities figuring out which LUSH conditioner to buy etc! I also had a lovely shower thanks to Aussie! I REALLY love their hair products, they are natural and great for your hair. Plus they smell good and the bottles are entertaining and funny! lol

After Carl got back from his personal trainer, and discovered he has lost 9lbs in just over a week from the carb cut they put him on, which I am very proud of him for! We went to Nandos and had lunch. I'm still off diet coke or any type of caffine until Thursday, after which I will have been off caffine for 10 days which is the longest I will have done in living memory. Then Thursday we can have some diet coke but then on instead of me having 8 cans a day it will be 2 a day etc. I just need to wean myself off a bit, and this week has been hard, but I'm glad I did it and got through it!

Shopping was nice, got a scarf discounted at this nice shop it has skulls on but had a hole in, but Mum or carls mum can darn that so it's fine, and I got it cheaper. Got a writing set and some stickers so I can keep better ontop of my corespondance.

We did go to Lush and the girls in there liked my hair :)
They gave me a few taster pots for curly hair shampoo and conditioner.
It's expensive so I will try first and then when we go back for our celebration meal on Thursday (trainer and nutritionist say the cheat meal once a week is important to kick start the metabolism) we are going back to the shopping centre to get the LUSH stuff if I like it. If not at least I have not spent money for nothing and I already have my Aussie products that make my hair yummy and frizz free!

After we went to tesco and I am such an idiot, I trod in a puddle when I was not looking where I was going, and water from the carpark went all over my flipflops, on my feet and up my legs! I'm so stupid lol. Carl dried the flipflops and I wiggled my feet in the sun for a bit! Trust me to do that eh? Loser!

I have the busiest few weeks ahead of me, the next free weekend I have is the weekend of the 25th September. That's it!
Then busy again until mid November! I cannot believe how busy we all are and how poor I am gonna be by the end of it all haha!
In October we are off to Italy to Marks wedding (Carls younger brother) and then November it's Egypt! Hopefully anyway!
I'm hoping so because last time I had a holiday in the sun I had Chicken Pox very badly, so I would love a stress free touch wood sunny holiday. Then again I have had Scotland this year and that was so lovely, so relaxing and so peaceful that I never wanted to leave!

Tomorrow though, it's the end of the day off and back to work.
Gym at 6:30am for training session, then work at 8am nice and early, my co-worker is on holiday so it's just me and my boss this next two weeks. Which is fine by me, but means earlier starts but earlier finishes so not too bad!

Tonight is gonna be nice though, at the moment I am sitting cross legged on the sofa, Carl is filling our holiday photo album and we are watching Dexter on TV. Then it's a nice dinner and a nice bubble bath! I can't ask for much more! :)

I lost 1 and a half pounds tonight at Weight Watchers, I'm really pleased as I have been working hard on what I eat and my fitness.
That brings my total so far to 5 and a half pounds. So 1 and a half off my first silver seven! (Silver Sevens are a sticker that is silver and glittery and marks every half a stone you lose.

I am so glad I have the day off tomorrow, I really need it! I feel as though there was no chance for me to rest these last few weeks!
Work has been crazy and I do the horse every day with the mucking out and the riding and feeding and what not, so I am always out even after work. I just can't wait to have a real lie in! My first one in absolutely weeks, every day early for work, then in from work at midnight on Friday night, starting again at 9am on Saturday and then riding early on Sunday! I just need a nice rest!

Carl and I will be in the flat and then out for lunch at Nandos then I need to put a cheque in and go to LUSH to look for healthy hair stuff and shampoo bars etc! I love Aussie as it has no cones or sulphates (only the lucious long ones though) but want to try some others too! See which better suits my hair! I may check out a few other shops but don't have alot of money at the moment due to saving up for a few things in September (My 22nd Birthday Party and some weddings) then October (Hen nights and weddings including Carls brothers wedding in Italy!) and then November (Egypt people! Egypt!!) and then comes Christmas so cash is at an all time low right now!

On September 7th I am going with Katie to see Paramore, this will be our second time going to see them together!
I'm excited! It should be good, I haven't heard their new album, is it even out yet? But I have heard the new track which is good. I always liked them, hence second time to see them! I just wish MCR would come back so we could have an old times gig queue with Laura and Becca and me and Katie again!
Even though I am into more wide music now, some rock, some metal, some pop and even quite a bit of R&B etc, I still like the old classics!