Well this week saw me discover my new favourite show thanks to my bestest bish Bav.
Dark Blue is possibly the best show I have seen ever. Totally amazing.
Good little domestic housewife today, laundry in, tidied up, carried a ridiculously bloody heavy parcel to the post office for the boyfriend & sent a care package off & picked up some food at Tesco.
Anyway, tomorrow will be the 1st anniversary of my Uncle dying (nice and cheerful time of year of course) & it just seems so strange thinking this time last year I was sat in a hospital room with my family watching him take his last breath. Still doesn't seem like it ever happened, even more weird is that a year has flown by so quickly. I feel majorly bad for not being back home this weekend to go put flowers on his grave but next weekend I shall be back in Wales to be able to do so.
Sounds really horrible but in a way it is a bit of a relief not to be there, to witness the grief of my Mum & my Nan :( It has been majorly hard the last 2 or 3 years for both of them and I really just wish that things would start looking up for the family, but with my Nan being in such poor health, I don't think it is going to be over for us any time soon.
For some reason as well the blogging juices really are not flowing today.
Just to write the crap I spurted out above took me 20 minutes :/ I seem to be a bit of a yo-yo lately still, but I can put that down to the current circumstances.
Saturday 18 September 2010
Friday 10 September 2010
First week back...
Well after having an AMAZING week back home with my family, Saturday brought the inevitable journey back to Bristol.
After having such a laid back and just plain happy week, it was a massive downer to have to readjust ready back to work and just the real world.
To be fair, first week back at work was alright, pretty uneventful for the most of it anyway.
However, today was particularly lovely as I finally got to meet Fi.
Now, for any of you that have known me for a while, may know that I was part of the Shiny fashion forums back in the day for a while.
It is through there that I know a few exceptionally lovely people, 2 of which were responsible for my introduction to twitter. Fi is one of those people :) she has her own blog (shoegalfi.blogspot.com) which is somewhere in my blogs I read bit, or whatever the hell I named it anyway!
I have known her for several years, so it was lovely to be able to say yup, met her in the real world too!
So we had a few hours of wandering about Bristol shopping and having a hunt for a denim skirt. (which didn't end in a success sadly!)
On a family note, yesterday was my brother in laws birthday, for which myself and the boyfriend have promised to take him to Hooters when it eventually opens in Cardiff.
Partly for the fact he is American, and also because its a good excuse for chicken wings, beer & boobs!
Also, today saw my dearest Nan allowed out from hospital again. This time around she was stuck in isolation for a few weeks, so it is a relief to know she is settling back into her home again. :)
Current music mood is stuck between Pendulum's latest album & The XX.
Polar opposites, but it works for me!
After having such a laid back and just plain happy week, it was a massive downer to have to readjust ready back to work and just the real world.
To be fair, first week back at work was alright, pretty uneventful for the most of it anyway.
However, today was particularly lovely as I finally got to meet Fi.
Now, for any of you that have known me for a while, may know that I was part of the Shiny fashion forums back in the day for a while.
It is through there that I know a few exceptionally lovely people, 2 of which were responsible for my introduction to twitter. Fi is one of those people :) she has her own blog (shoegalfi.blogspot.com) which is somewhere in my blogs I read bit, or whatever the hell I named it anyway!
I have known her for several years, so it was lovely to be able to say yup, met her in the real world too!
So we had a few hours of wandering about Bristol shopping and having a hunt for a denim skirt. (which didn't end in a success sadly!)
On a family note, yesterday was my brother in laws birthday, for which myself and the boyfriend have promised to take him to Hooters when it eventually opens in Cardiff.
Partly for the fact he is American, and also because its a good excuse for chicken wings, beer & boobs!
Also, today saw my dearest Nan allowed out from hospital again. This time around she was stuck in isolation for a few weeks, so it is a relief to know she is settling back into her home again. :)
Current music mood is stuck between Pendulum's latest album & The XX.
Polar opposites, but it works for me!
Wednesday 1 September 2010
Week so far.
So far my time off has been lovely, relaxing, watching Jerry Springer and visiting various family.
But now is the final little countdown to my birthday and after failing to find a restaurant that will cater for a lot of fussy eaters, I decided to just have a quiet chinese with family over at my Grandparents.
This seems to end up being my normal birthday celebration as it caters for everyone except my older sister.
Now this sister is the absolute fussiest of us, she eats no savoury food, only bread, yoghurt and desert basically.
As you can imagine, this makes going out for meals awkward as hell and frankly embarrassing for my Grandparents who cannot understand why at 24 she is still ridiculously fussy.
In comparison, I seem to be a rather good person to cater for, providing there is no vegetables involved.
This way sister can be fed her usual attire of bread and pudding without anyone feeling awkward whatsoever.
I was under the impression she would have been happier with this arrangement anyway, so I was told I had to tell her the updated birthday meal plans.
So today (I was meant to yesterday but I ended up meeting up with some old friends and getting properly pissed!) I send her a message to let her know what is going on.
Dear God why did I even bother?
I get a response from her which to be honest really annoyed the hell out of me.
She made a massive fuss about how she didn't get paid by her work and has no money, and she can't afford to pay for her and my brother in law to get down to us for the meal.
Instead she was planning on getting carted around like a princess being chauffeured to a restaurant and having my Grandparents pick up the bill.
Now the plan to have a takeaway also solved the problem of designated drivers.
Everyone aside from my boyfriend will likely drink a stupid amount of wine and whatever else becomes available and this saves anyone from not being able to drink as they would have to drive.
But still, I end up with my sister having a go at me for changing what I wanted to do.
Obviously she forgot that it is going to be MY 21st, and I actually get to choose what I want to do, not what she wants to do.
Rest of the family, perfectly happy with the arrangements except her. I haven't had chance to see her all week as she has been working but now she would rather go without seeing me at all than ask for someone to either lend her the train fare or to even go collect them and bring them down.
Even though if she doesn't even have enough money to get down here, she won't have enough money to feed herself and pay her bills, so basically she needs a loan which Grandparents will happily give her.
Fucking typical that it is her causing the problems.
But now is the final little countdown to my birthday and after failing to find a restaurant that will cater for a lot of fussy eaters, I decided to just have a quiet chinese with family over at my Grandparents.
This seems to end up being my normal birthday celebration as it caters for everyone except my older sister.
Now this sister is the absolute fussiest of us, she eats no savoury food, only bread, yoghurt and desert basically.
As you can imagine, this makes going out for meals awkward as hell and frankly embarrassing for my Grandparents who cannot understand why at 24 she is still ridiculously fussy.
In comparison, I seem to be a rather good person to cater for, providing there is no vegetables involved.
This way sister can be fed her usual attire of bread and pudding without anyone feeling awkward whatsoever.
I was under the impression she would have been happier with this arrangement anyway, so I was told I had to tell her the updated birthday meal plans.
So today (I was meant to yesterday but I ended up meeting up with some old friends and getting properly pissed!) I send her a message to let her know what is going on.
Dear God why did I even bother?
I get a response from her which to be honest really annoyed the hell out of me.
She made a massive fuss about how she didn't get paid by her work and has no money, and she can't afford to pay for her and my brother in law to get down to us for the meal.
Instead she was planning on getting carted around like a princess being chauffeured to a restaurant and having my Grandparents pick up the bill.
Now the plan to have a takeaway also solved the problem of designated drivers.
Everyone aside from my boyfriend will likely drink a stupid amount of wine and whatever else becomes available and this saves anyone from not being able to drink as they would have to drive.
But still, I end up with my sister having a go at me for changing what I wanted to do.
Obviously she forgot that it is going to be MY 21st, and I actually get to choose what I want to do, not what she wants to do.
Rest of the family, perfectly happy with the arrangements except her. I haven't had chance to see her all week as she has been working but now she would rather go without seeing me at all than ask for someone to either lend her the train fare or to even go collect them and bring them down.
Even though if she doesn't even have enough money to get down here, she won't have enough money to feed herself and pay her bills, so basically she needs a loan which Grandparents will happily give her.
Fucking typical that it is her causing the problems.
