It's all paperwork crap!
A week or so ago, everything was fast.. Monday we went to see Marie, Tuesday I went to the council to see if I could get any help, then I phoned up Loveitts to book an appointment to view the apartment, and first thing Wednesday morning we viewed 3 different apartments. When I got back from the viewing I got sent the application form, which I immediately filled in and sent off on the same day.
But Christmas is delaying my progress! Damn you!
Today however, I get a phone call from Loveitts asking me if I had made a decision on whether I want the apartment or not.. Of course I do! I sent you my application over a week ago!
Except this time, I was asked to fill in another form to send off.. I've never wanted the post to be delivered asap before, but if there's going to be a time in which Royal Mail should get their asses into gear, it's now!
The anticipation is killing me!
Thought the only problem now is that i've already pictured having all my stuff in there, waking up in the morning, going into my own kitchen, pouring my own cereal into my own bowl (and then having to wash it up in my own sink!) etc etc. And if someone else was to get the apartment instead of me, or if I was declined.. well I don't know.. Or atleast I know i'd be very frustrated :P
Though I don't see why they would do that :D
So fingers crossed!
And hurry up Royal Mail!
Thursday 29 December 2011
Saturday 24 December 2011
Christmas is Nigh!
Oh yes, can you feel it? ^-^
People are crazy at Christmas! Why do people feel the need to leave all their christmas shopping to the last few days of the christmas week, where the shopping centers are packed, the stores have next to nothing on their shelves, getting into town and finding a car parking space is a nightmare, and everyone is stressed!
Their loss ^-^ I managed to get in all my stuff at the beginning of December, and just went for a stroll in some of the shops in the last week :)
Like Michael Bublé, I love Christmas :D Despite England isn't well known for having a white one, you don't necessarily need snow to have a good un' :)
Though we are one person down this year, my brother! He's currently travelling that vast western country of America, and he's doing an awesome job! He's been so many places within so many different states, and in such a short period of time! He's only been out there since August, and he's already beat me on travelling locations! And he's also richer :P Damn him!
But he's still got something to open! I got him a little something for Christmas, something pretty cool, practical and mail-able ^-^
So when you (or should I say 'I') come to open it tomorrow over skype, you'll still be apart of the Christmas day you've loved for the past 21 years :D Your not missing it this yea bro!
And by the way, Happy Christmas Eve!
Wednesday 21 December 2011
New Home?
9:30am sharp! She was there, we we're there.
She seemed nice enough, despite her loud leopard print faux fur coat *cringe*. I thought there were 4 available apartments, two 2 bedroom and 2 one bedrooms, but apparently one woman was so desperate for a place that she took the one that I was hoping to look at - one of the two bedrooms on the highest floor, damnit! :(
Oh well! First off she showed us the available ground floor apartments, which happened to be one of the single bedrooms, and the last two bedroom. The single bedroom apartment was ok.
"Just ok?" I hear you ask? Yeah.. it wasn't exactly thrilling, but then again, I already knew what the layout was going to be like since Marie has one of the single bedroom apartments just above it, and i've been there a few times.
The single bedrooms are like so: As you go in, it's blue carpet throughout. You go into the 'hallway' or 'lobby' whatever you want to call it. Spacious enough. The living room was rectangular, with 4 double wall plug-sockets (can't have enough of those little delights!). The bedroom was, well, a little bit disappointing really, I thought it would have been bigger, there was still wallpaper/carpet roughly 'rolled' up in the corner and just a view of an iron fence looking through into the carpark around the back of some shops. The bathroom was fine, however it didn't have a shower, just a bath. Not really anything to whine about but i'm more of a shower gal, but, meh.
Overall, i'd probably rate it a 5/10, purely because of the lack of shower and the size of the bedroom. Although the kitchens are lovely, a nice pine wood effect and space for a washing machine and a fridge, but then again, only a under-the-counter fridge and we didn't know where we would put the dryer without it being in the way within the kitchen :P
The second apartment we viewed was the last of the 2 bedroom apartments, right next door to the one bedroom we'd just seen. First impressions was the cover on the doorbell was off, but to be honest, I didn't even notice that, my dad did ^^.
So we wen't in, and instead of walking straight onto a carpet floor, we we're pleasantly greeted by a section of wood-effect lino, which was definitely a plus, since noones wants a shitted-up carpet as soon as you enter the place - a lino is much easier to clean :)
Also, directly to our right was a nice sized double-doored storage 'room' for coats, shoes, a mop - generally anything you want to store in there that you don't particularly want on show :) And just up from that was another same sized storage room with the boiler in, and some shelving. So far, so good!
As we entered the 'lobby' if you will, which was a pretty nice size by the way (probably the size of the bedroom in the previous apartment -.-), the floor was a lovely textured cream, as apposed to a random blue, and around it was the allocated rooms; kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and the bathroom.
We walked into the "master bedroom" and it was nice - spacious (alot bigger than the other bedroom), the carpet was a slightly off-cream colour, which without sounding snobby-professional, complimented the magnolia walls! ^-^
The other bedroom however, was rather shocking. I'd seen a glimpse of it just as we'd walked in, but I just thought my eyes were tired or something, but nope.. Bright baby pink walls greeted us as the faux-furred woman opened the door! Argh!
If there's anything I dislike in the world, one thing would be baby pink walls. The woman tried to justify this by saying the guy who previously lived here painted it for his daughter.. then I feel greatly sorry for her.
Anywho, dispite the colour, which she had told me could be repainted (which i'm hoping they will do rather than me!), the room was a pleasant size. Good enough for what we had planned it for; the dryer and a guest room for anyone who wants to stay over, or even just a room to store our lovely shit :D
Next room, the bathroom! She opened the door to reveal a quite modern bathroom with a shiny bath tub and shower, and a lovely wooden mirrored cabinet on the wall :) Although it was kinda awkward when she couldn't get the bathroom extractor fan to work :P oh well, just another thing they'll have to fix!
Onward to the kitchen! I must admit, the kitchens in these apartments are really nice, a lovely clean bright wood, all neatly fitted and tiled walls. Due to this apartment being on the side of the big block of apartments, the layout is different to the first one, and Marie's. As apposed to the kitchen units going up and along two walls, this one goes all around the three walls, and the sink unit looks out through the window onto a neat patch of grass that's fenced off both sides with sturdy dark brown stained wood, that also has the view of the trains that occasionally go by... I wouldn't say it's the view of all views, but it's a better view than what the first apartment had to offer :)
As she showed us the living room, I was quite happy actually. The living room was alot bigger than the one bedroom apartments, the carpet was a nice clean cream, and it generally looked nice and tidy (yea, I know, even without anything in it!).
The view out of this window was the continued patch of grass that lead around the side from the kitchens view with the dark brown fence behind it. Again, it's not the best, but what we had was neat enough that I didn't care, and also, alot better than a view of an iron fence and some cars ^-^
Overall, quite impressed! Much so that I didn't care if I saw the last apartment or not, which was on the top floor, mainly because I knew what the layout was going to be like. Even so, not to assume anything, we continued onto the last apartment. It was pretty much the same as Marie's. Same kitchen layout; full fridge freezer could fit in and room for a washing machine. The bathroom had a shower aswell, which was what the first apartment was lacking. Same size bedroom, same living room layout, and not forgetting, the same random blue coloured carpet :) However, it also had no available room for a dryer, no real space for someone if they wanted to stay over, and it didn't have the spark that the 2 bedroom apartment gave :(
As I mentioned yesterday, I love my lists ^-^ so I made a list of the pro's and con's of the two apartments (Yes, only two, since I was that disappointed in the first one bedroom ground floor apartment, i'm not even going to consider it :P
Can you see a clear winner? :D
I've already been emailed, completed and sent off the form for my tenancy, and i'm now just awaiting a yay or a nay! Woop!
She seemed nice enough, despite her loud leopard print faux fur coat *cringe*. I thought there were 4 available apartments, two 2 bedroom and 2 one bedrooms, but apparently one woman was so desperate for a place that she took the one that I was hoping to look at - one of the two bedrooms on the highest floor, damnit! :(
Oh well! First off she showed us the available ground floor apartments, which happened to be one of the single bedrooms, and the last two bedroom. The single bedroom apartment was ok.
"Just ok?" I hear you ask? Yeah.. it wasn't exactly thrilling, but then again, I already knew what the layout was going to be like since Marie has one of the single bedroom apartments just above it, and i've been there a few times.
The single bedrooms are like so: As you go in, it's blue carpet throughout. You go into the 'hallway' or 'lobby' whatever you want to call it. Spacious enough. The living room was rectangular, with 4 double wall plug-sockets (can't have enough of those little delights!). The bedroom was, well, a little bit disappointing really, I thought it would have been bigger, there was still wallpaper/carpet roughly 'rolled' up in the corner and just a view of an iron fence looking through into the carpark around the back of some shops. The bathroom was fine, however it didn't have a shower, just a bath. Not really anything to whine about but i'm more of a shower gal, but, meh.
Overall, i'd probably rate it a 5/10, purely because of the lack of shower and the size of the bedroom. Although the kitchens are lovely, a nice pine wood effect and space for a washing machine and a fridge, but then again, only a under-the-counter fridge and we didn't know where we would put the dryer without it being in the way within the kitchen :P
The second apartment we viewed was the last of the 2 bedroom apartments, right next door to the one bedroom we'd just seen. First impressions was the cover on the doorbell was off, but to be honest, I didn't even notice that, my dad did ^^.
So we wen't in, and instead of walking straight onto a carpet floor, we we're pleasantly greeted by a section of wood-effect lino, which was definitely a plus, since noones wants a shitted-up carpet as soon as you enter the place - a lino is much easier to clean :)
Also, directly to our right was a nice sized double-doored storage 'room' for coats, shoes, a mop - generally anything you want to store in there that you don't particularly want on show :) And just up from that was another same sized storage room with the boiler in, and some shelving. So far, so good!
As we entered the 'lobby' if you will, which was a pretty nice size by the way (probably the size of the bedroom in the previous apartment -.-), the floor was a lovely textured cream, as apposed to a random blue, and around it was the allocated rooms; kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and the bathroom.
We walked into the "master bedroom" and it was nice - spacious (alot bigger than the other bedroom), the carpet was a slightly off-cream colour, which without sounding snobby-professional, complimented the magnolia walls! ^-^
The other bedroom however, was rather shocking. I'd seen a glimpse of it just as we'd walked in, but I just thought my eyes were tired or something, but nope.. Bright baby pink walls greeted us as the faux-furred woman opened the door! Argh!
If there's anything I dislike in the world, one thing would be baby pink walls. The woman tried to justify this by saying the guy who previously lived here painted it for his daughter.. then I feel greatly sorry for her.
Anywho, dispite the colour, which she had told me could be repainted (which i'm hoping they will do rather than me!), the room was a pleasant size. Good enough for what we had planned it for; the dryer and a guest room for anyone who wants to stay over, or even just a room to store our lovely shit :D
Next room, the bathroom! She opened the door to reveal a quite modern bathroom with a shiny bath tub and shower, and a lovely wooden mirrored cabinet on the wall :) Although it was kinda awkward when she couldn't get the bathroom extractor fan to work :P oh well, just another thing they'll have to fix!
Onward to the kitchen! I must admit, the kitchens in these apartments are really nice, a lovely clean bright wood, all neatly fitted and tiled walls. Due to this apartment being on the side of the big block of apartments, the layout is different to the first one, and Marie's. As apposed to the kitchen units going up and along two walls, this one goes all around the three walls, and the sink unit looks out through the window onto a neat patch of grass that's fenced off both sides with sturdy dark brown stained wood, that also has the view of the trains that occasionally go by... I wouldn't say it's the view of all views, but it's a better view than what the first apartment had to offer :)
As she showed us the living room, I was quite happy actually. The living room was alot bigger than the one bedroom apartments, the carpet was a nice clean cream, and it generally looked nice and tidy (yea, I know, even without anything in it!).
The view out of this window was the continued patch of grass that lead around the side from the kitchens view with the dark brown fence behind it. Again, it's not the best, but what we had was neat enough that I didn't care, and also, alot better than a view of an iron fence and some cars ^-^
Overall, quite impressed! Much so that I didn't care if I saw the last apartment or not, which was on the top floor, mainly because I knew what the layout was going to be like. Even so, not to assume anything, we continued onto the last apartment. It was pretty much the same as Marie's. Same kitchen layout; full fridge freezer could fit in and room for a washing machine. The bathroom had a shower aswell, which was what the first apartment was lacking. Same size bedroom, same living room layout, and not forgetting, the same random blue coloured carpet :) However, it also had no available room for a dryer, no real space for someone if they wanted to stay over, and it didn't have the spark that the 2 bedroom apartment gave :(
As I mentioned yesterday, I love my lists ^-^ so I made a list of the pro's and con's of the two apartments (Yes, only two, since I was that disappointed in the first one bedroom ground floor apartment, i'm not even going to consider it :P
Single Bedroom Apartment (No. 20)
Pro's: Cons:
- It's on the top floor, which makes - Only had one room, and that
it quite exciting :P room was pretty small
- It had available attic storage - Despite attic storage, it can be
- There was noone above us quite annoying to keep
- Views we're slightly better venturing into
- There was only one place to
put the dryer and it's an
awkward place in the kitchen
Double Bedroom Apartment (No. 15)
Pro's: Cons:
- Alot more overall space - It's on the ground floor
- More easier accessible (and handy) (although this can be a pro :))
storage - There is a pink room!
- There was a more convenient (however can be repainted)
place for the dryer (with available - Broken bathroom fan
window) (also can be fixed)
- If someone wants to stay over
they have their own room, and not
the sofa
- More modern and nicer bathroom
- Lino by the front door for muddy
shoes
- A bigger hallway which makes
the whole apartment feel larger
(and is!)
Can you see a clear winner? :D
I've already been emailed, completed and sent off the form for my tenancy, and i'm now just awaiting a yay or a nay! Woop!
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Ooooo Progress!
Today me and Robin took a little trip to ze town centre of ol' nunny, and walked into the council house and asked for a house!
Well, it didn't quite go like that.. we actually said that we had found an apartment and we'd like to know if we could get any help paying for it :P
It's aaaaalways the same. You go somewhere specific to get something done, or get some answers, and all they do is just give a phone number.. which then in the end either leads you to go back to where you started, or leave you confuzzled!
In this case however, the small spectacle'd woman behind the counter actually gave me a few answers.. but then gave me a number ^-^
So I rang it! You know, livin' on the edge an' all.
Due to Robin currently unemployed, and me on low income, they said they would give me a hand with my rent. Happy days! So I immediately phoned up Lovetts (the company currently owning the set of apartments in which I want to live!) and I have an appointment to view 2 of them tomorrow morning :)
The anticipation is killing me! But in a good way, you know?
And sooo much things to get on with!
Oh, and by the way, I'm a list kinda gal.. I lurve making lists! I even make lists about lists!
So in order to keep my head from spiraling out of control trying to memorise the list (ha!) of things I have to do.. I just make one :D
Here's my 'To-Do' list so far:
1) Go to the apartment viewing at 9:30am tomorrow morning
2) Make 100 mince pies for Christmas day down at the Jailhouse
3) Somehow figure out how i'm going to bake 100 mince pies when I have work Thursday, Friday, Saturday AND Christmas day
4) Possibly look for more Christmas stuff
5) Find places to get cheap cute ginger kittens (this one's optional for now)
6) Get Robin to wrap my goddamn presents already! I want to shake them :D
7) Wrap my brothers present! Oh yes John, you may be in America, but I still got you something :D
8) Figure out which day i'm going to pipe the chocolate buttercream onto the Christmas logs that my mum got as a dessert option at the Jailhouse
9) Probably bake more mince pies for the days up until Christmas day
Gosh!
It may look a little chaotic, but it's a lot less stressful knowing you have it written down somewhere :)
More tomorrow after my viewing at my possible future home :D
Well, it didn't quite go like that.. we actually said that we had found an apartment and we'd like to know if we could get any help paying for it :P
It's aaaaalways the same. You go somewhere specific to get something done, or get some answers, and all they do is just give a phone number.. which then in the end either leads you to go back to where you started, or leave you confuzzled!
In this case however, the small spectacle'd woman behind the counter actually gave me a few answers.. but then gave me a number ^-^
So I rang it! You know, livin' on the edge an' all.
Due to Robin currently unemployed, and me on low income, they said they would give me a hand with my rent. Happy days! So I immediately phoned up Lovetts (the company currently owning the set of apartments in which I want to live!) and I have an appointment to view 2 of them tomorrow morning :)
The anticipation is killing me! But in a good way, you know?
And sooo much things to get on with!
Oh, and by the way, I'm a list kinda gal.. I lurve making lists! I even make lists about lists!
So in order to keep my head from spiraling out of control trying to memorise the list (ha!) of things I have to do.. I just make one :D
Here's my 'To-Do' list so far:
1) Go to the apartment viewing at 9:30am tomorrow morning
2) Make 100 mince pies for Christmas day down at the Jailhouse
3) Somehow figure out how i'm going to bake 100 mince pies when I have work Thursday, Friday, Saturday AND Christmas day
4) Possibly look for more Christmas stuff
5) Find places to get cheap cute ginger kittens (this one's optional for now)
6) Get Robin to wrap my goddamn presents already! I want to shake them :D
7) Wrap my brothers present! Oh yes John, you may be in America, but I still got you something :D
8) Figure out which day i'm going to pipe the chocolate buttercream onto the Christmas logs that my mum got as a dessert option at the Jailhouse
9) Probably bake more mince pies for the days up until Christmas day
Gosh!
It may look a little chaotic, but it's a lot less stressful knowing you have it written down somewhere :)
More tomorrow after my viewing at my possible future home :D
Monday 19 December 2011
House hunting!
Me, mum and robin went over to visit Marie's today :)
She's recently bought a cute little kitten from Martin's pet shop in town, and she's so cute! Her names Precious and shes all black :)
Me and Robin we're teasing her a bit with a laser pen, since cats, have a thing for running around after things looking stupid :D Although, she is a bit shy still.. well I don't blame her! 3 new scary looking strangers wander into her new home wanting to pick her up must be scary for a little kitten ^^
Anywho, she made us a cuppa and offered some mince pies that she baked herself (they we're nice, I may have some competition!) and she gave me and my mum a Christmas present :)
Marie lives in a one bedroom apartment over in kingswood, and it's really nice. Hers is on the first floor, and it's just the right size. After she mentioned the fact that there was quite a few empty apartments now, above and below her, it started us thinking about looking into them.
When I got back home, I grabbed my lappytop and googled it! There was a few, like she said, available - 2 one bedroom apartments and a two bedroom. The one bedroom apartments we're £350pcm, and the two bedrooms for only an extra £25pcm. Nice!
The area isn't too bad either. We would be living close to someone we know (Marie!), just around the corner is some shops; a newsagents, hairdressers, takeaways! And just down the road is Aldi :)
Having our own place would be awesome, and living not even 5 minutes away from my mum and nan is definately a bonus! Even though there is a lot to give out when having your own home, such as bills, house upkeep, doing your own laundry even! It still doesn't out-weigh having your own space :) And besides, I wouldn't mind doing my own laundry! :D
Plus, when me and Robin are stable enough with the bills etc, we can look into getting a cat!! Oh yes, obtaining a lovely feline friend to mope around the house would be aweesoooome! Any specific cat I hear you say? Yes! A fat ginger one :D maybe one that looks like a tiger or something :o
Can't find a fat cat? Feed it moar! There's no better house pet then a fat lazy ginger cat that doesn't care if you pick it up and fuss it, or even poke it a little ^^
Like these!:
She's recently bought a cute little kitten from Martin's pet shop in town, and she's so cute! Her names Precious and shes all black :)
Me and Robin we're teasing her a bit with a laser pen, since cats, have a thing for running around after things looking stupid :D Although, she is a bit shy still.. well I don't blame her! 3 new scary looking strangers wander into her new home wanting to pick her up must be scary for a little kitten ^^
Anywho, she made us a cuppa and offered some mince pies that she baked herself (they we're nice, I may have some competition!) and she gave me and my mum a Christmas present :)
Marie lives in a one bedroom apartment over in kingswood, and it's really nice. Hers is on the first floor, and it's just the right size. After she mentioned the fact that there was quite a few empty apartments now, above and below her, it started us thinking about looking into them.
When I got back home, I grabbed my lappytop and googled it! There was a few, like she said, available - 2 one bedroom apartments and a two bedroom. The one bedroom apartments we're £350pcm, and the two bedrooms for only an extra £25pcm. Nice!
The area isn't too bad either. We would be living close to someone we know (Marie!), just around the corner is some shops; a newsagents, hairdressers, takeaways! And just down the road is Aldi :)
Having our own place would be awesome, and living not even 5 minutes away from my mum and nan is definately a bonus! Even though there is a lot to give out when having your own home, such as bills, house upkeep, doing your own laundry even! It still doesn't out-weigh having your own space :) And besides, I wouldn't mind doing my own laundry! :D
Plus, when me and Robin are stable enough with the bills etc, we can look into getting a cat!! Oh yes, obtaining a lovely feline friend to mope around the house would be aweesoooome! Any specific cat I hear you say? Yes! A fat ginger one :D maybe one that looks like a tiger or something :o
Can't find a fat cat? Feed it moar! There's no better house pet then a fat lazy ginger cat that doesn't care if you pick it up and fuss it, or even poke it a little ^^
Like these!:
Who doesn't want one like these? :D
Sunday 18 December 2011
Sunday morning rain is falling...
...Steel some cover, share some skin.. Maroon 5 :)
Anyway, back to the point!
Sundays.. Oh, how I dislike them. A miserably cold, dark morning start at the apparently reasonable time of 5:45am and trying to fight the powerful temptation of just getting back under the covers and telling yourself it's already Monday until you fall back asleep.
The second hardest part is leaving the house that's only just beginning to warm up as the heating ticks itself on. Going outside in the incredibly fresh.. scrap that.. *freezing(!) air, and having to scrape the clingy frost off from your car windscreen.
Poor little Betty (my car) has had trouble recently when starting up, she flakes out and resets and throws a hissy fit. So I either stick it out and wait until shes ready to start, or I go in my mums car! ^^
This morning I just knew she wasn't going to have any of it, especially when I ventured outside to go to work and seen her caked in a little frosted tomb! So we took mum's :)
I hate when you have to sit in a cold car, on a cold winters morning and wait for the engine to heat up to give you some warm air through the AC.. What's worse is when it's just got lovely and warm, coincidentally, at the exact time you pull up at work.. so it's back to freezing my ass off and start cooking! And you know, the heat in the kitchen just doesn't match up to the kind of warmth you get when your sitting at home, chilling, watching other people freeze outside!
Evil? No! They probably do the same to me when I'm dragging my ass outside to scrape off some frost at 6am!
Oh and by the way.. I have company.
Not the kind you invite into your home, offer a warm cuppa and a biscuit and chat about the latest shit on the telly. Oh no. This one is all but pleasant.. A spot! And a pretty huge one aswell :(
Currently residing on my face. Yes, John, if your reading this, your most likely filled with joy knowing I'm walking around somewhere in public with a second head on my face! And it just so happened to conjure itself in the perfect viewing point on my cheek this morning where i had to spend a joyful 9 hours with work colleagues all pointing and laughing!
I wasn't unknown for the jokes.. as my mum gladly demonstrated a good handful - Robin too!
I tried to cover it! Of course I tried, but a spot of this size wasn't coverable! I took a handy little bottle of E45 cream with me to work, and kept lashing bucket loads on, but It just made it worse.. much worse :(
So Mum had some sort of demented epiphany of putting salt on it.. so like a daughter does, I took her motherly, years-of-knowledgeable advice, and applied some salt to my face.. that bastard stung like a son of a bitch!
At this point, I am not only fully ashamed to be out in public with this second head freely growing on my face, but I'm also at work, with nowhere to hide, in pain because this thing is stinging it's way through my flesh, and awkwardly sitting there with a large helping of salt just residing on my face..
Oh how I love Sundays :)
Anyway, back to the point!
Sundays.. Oh, how I dislike them. A miserably cold, dark morning start at the apparently reasonable time of 5:45am and trying to fight the powerful temptation of just getting back under the covers and telling yourself it's already Monday until you fall back asleep.
The second hardest part is leaving the house that's only just beginning to warm up as the heating ticks itself on. Going outside in the incredibly fresh.. scrap that.. *freezing(!) air, and having to scrape the clingy frost off from your car windscreen.
Poor little Betty (my car) has had trouble recently when starting up, she flakes out and resets and throws a hissy fit. So I either stick it out and wait until shes ready to start, or I go in my mums car! ^^
This morning I just knew she wasn't going to have any of it, especially when I ventured outside to go to work and seen her caked in a little frosted tomb! So we took mum's :)
I hate when you have to sit in a cold car, on a cold winters morning and wait for the engine to heat up to give you some warm air through the AC.. What's worse is when it's just got lovely and warm, coincidentally, at the exact time you pull up at work.. so it's back to freezing my ass off and start cooking! And you know, the heat in the kitchen just doesn't match up to the kind of warmth you get when your sitting at home, chilling, watching other people freeze outside!
Evil? No! They probably do the same to me when I'm dragging my ass outside to scrape off some frost at 6am!
Oh and by the way.. I have company.
Not the kind you invite into your home, offer a warm cuppa and a biscuit and chat about the latest shit on the telly. Oh no. This one is all but pleasant.. A spot! And a pretty huge one aswell :(
Currently residing on my face. Yes, John, if your reading this, your most likely filled with joy knowing I'm walking around somewhere in public with a second head on my face! And it just so happened to conjure itself in the perfect viewing point on my cheek this morning where i had to spend a joyful 9 hours with work colleagues all pointing and laughing!
I wasn't unknown for the jokes.. as my mum gladly demonstrated a good handful - Robin too!
I tried to cover it! Of course I tried, but a spot of this size wasn't coverable! I took a handy little bottle of E45 cream with me to work, and kept lashing bucket loads on, but It just made it worse.. much worse :(
So Mum had some sort of demented epiphany of putting salt on it.. so like a daughter does, I took her motherly, years-of-knowledgeable advice, and applied some salt to my face.. that bastard stung like a son of a bitch!
At this point, I am not only fully ashamed to be out in public with this second head freely growing on my face, but I'm also at work, with nowhere to hide, in pain because this thing is stinging it's way through my flesh, and awkwardly sitting there with a large helping of salt just residing on my face..
Oh how I love Sundays :)
Saturday 10 December 2011
What a rubbish day..
Today I had work.
I usually have work Saturday and Sunday, and bake for the restaurant at home.
It started off as a usual Saturday morning. Got up, had breakfast (I don't usually have breakfast, but my mum got in those crunchy nut bites with nuts and caramel that i looooooove :D), took my choccy out of todays advent calendar door and left for work.
Thursday and Friday I was asked to come into work because one of the chefs wanted them days off for his birthday, but where I usually park up the side of the restaurant, some builders were doing some work on the bank building on the other side, so they blocked it off. Which left me having to park in the shopping centers multi-storey car-park.
I was not at all pleased (mainly because I have to pay for a ticket and I have further to walk! Oh noes!)
Today was the same - I arrived at work, and there was the same builders doing the same old non-working-multiple-tea-break kinda work with the barriers blocking my path.. Off to the multi-storey!
Due to it being Saturday (and 10:30am) the car-park was full, and there was a queue waiting to enter - this added to my already annoyed attitude; First I can't park right beside my place of work, then I have to queue for 10 minutes and all the time thinking I also have to pay for this!
Eventually I grabbed my ticket and drove in.. Now the 3rd level was where I wanted to park as it's where you can just walk straight into the shopping center without taking stairs of lifts, but just as I drove up the steep ramp leading to the 3rd level, the car infront of me suddenly decides to stop, therefore I break too.
This caused problems for me..
I have a 2002 fiat punto. It's not an old banger, but it's also not the latest model, so poor old Betty (as i've named her :)) has some trouble getting up steep hills without a lot of momentum.
I'm stuck right on the hill, the car infront of me has already drove off, probably feeling happily successful knowing the car behind him (me) is now stuck (bastard!).
I crank my hand-break right up, rev the shit out of Betty, slowly release the hand-break in attempt to get her up this damn ramp.. She starts sliding back.
So I try again, and yet again she slides back a little.. each time I have to quickly crank my hand-break back on due to the arse behind me being right up my cars arse!
I start panicking, and I can feel the two dudes in the car behind me laughing away and mocking my driving skills (as men do).
I know I wont make it, so i tell them to reverse so atleast I can get some momentum to actually make it - I start slowly going back but they wont move!
So I wind my window down and tell the two cars behind me to move, but all they do in return is whine at my driving.. At this point i'm filling with anger and embarrassment :(
They eventually slowly move their asses back a bit and gave me enough space (not a lot of it I will add!) to rev little Betty enough to get her to the top! Of course, the lads in the car behind start yelling "Oh for god sake!" because they must have thought I just wanted to leave!
Pah!
So nieve!
Even though I made it up and managed to find a space, I sat in my car for a little while feeling stupid, embarrassed, and just wanted to cry :(
Why do people just feel the need to make people, who are clearly in need of help, feel like crap?
If this happened 20 years ago, people would get out of their car and help them out, doing their 'good deed for the day' an' all that.
But no.
What also dawned on me when I got out of the car, was I had to somehow try and carry 2 big chocolate tins and 4 smaller plastic tubs filled with mince pies on my own! *sigh!*
On my way down the escalators (or struggling down the escalators!) I happened to see the two lads that we're yelling abuse at me in the car-park. They we're just 2 people infront of me... I've never been filled with the urge to throw heavy tins of mince pies at someone before!
But I guess today wasn't my day.
I know good ol' karma will singe their asses for me someday :D
I usually have work Saturday and Sunday, and bake for the restaurant at home.
It started off as a usual Saturday morning. Got up, had breakfast (I don't usually have breakfast, but my mum got in those crunchy nut bites with nuts and caramel that i looooooove :D), took my choccy out of todays advent calendar door and left for work.
Thursday and Friday I was asked to come into work because one of the chefs wanted them days off for his birthday, but where I usually park up the side of the restaurant, some builders were doing some work on the bank building on the other side, so they blocked it off. Which left me having to park in the shopping centers multi-storey car-park.
I was not at all pleased (mainly because I have to pay for a ticket and I have further to walk! Oh noes!)
Today was the same - I arrived at work, and there was the same builders doing the same old non-working-multiple-tea-break kinda work with the barriers blocking my path.. Off to the multi-storey!
Due to it being Saturday (and 10:30am) the car-park was full, and there was a queue waiting to enter - this added to my already annoyed attitude; First I can't park right beside my place of work, then I have to queue for 10 minutes and all the time thinking I also have to pay for this!
Eventually I grabbed my ticket and drove in.. Now the 3rd level was where I wanted to park as it's where you can just walk straight into the shopping center without taking stairs of lifts, but just as I drove up the steep ramp leading to the 3rd level, the car infront of me suddenly decides to stop, therefore I break too.
This caused problems for me..
I have a 2002 fiat punto. It's not an old banger, but it's also not the latest model, so poor old Betty (as i've named her :)) has some trouble getting up steep hills without a lot of momentum.
I'm stuck right on the hill, the car infront of me has already drove off, probably feeling happily successful knowing the car behind him (me) is now stuck (bastard!).
I crank my hand-break right up, rev the shit out of Betty, slowly release the hand-break in attempt to get her up this damn ramp.. She starts sliding back.
So I try again, and yet again she slides back a little.. each time I have to quickly crank my hand-break back on due to the arse behind me being right up my cars arse!
I start panicking, and I can feel the two dudes in the car behind me laughing away and mocking my driving skills (as men do).
I know I wont make it, so i tell them to reverse so atleast I can get some momentum to actually make it - I start slowly going back but they wont move!
So I wind my window down and tell the two cars behind me to move, but all they do in return is whine at my driving.. At this point i'm filling with anger and embarrassment :(
They eventually slowly move their asses back a bit and gave me enough space (not a lot of it I will add!) to rev little Betty enough to get her to the top! Of course, the lads in the car behind start yelling "Oh for god sake!" because they must have thought I just wanted to leave!
Pah!
So nieve!
Even though I made it up and managed to find a space, I sat in my car for a little while feeling stupid, embarrassed, and just wanted to cry :(
Why do people just feel the need to make people, who are clearly in need of help, feel like crap?
If this happened 20 years ago, people would get out of their car and help them out, doing their 'good deed for the day' an' all that.
But no.
What also dawned on me when I got out of the car, was I had to somehow try and carry 2 big chocolate tins and 4 smaller plastic tubs filled with mince pies on my own! *sigh!*
On my way down the escalators (or struggling down the escalators!) I happened to see the two lads that we're yelling abuse at me in the car-park. They we're just 2 people infront of me... I've never been filled with the urge to throw heavy tins of mince pies at someone before!
But I guess today wasn't my day.
I know good ol' karma will singe their asses for me someday :D
Thursday 8 December 2011
Christmas and Dieting do NOT go hand in hand!
December, hands down, must be the worst month ever to contemplate dieting.
I've tried it many times, and the results have all failed, now my method involves just cutting down and out of the crap (captain obvious!).
Simple enough? Your having a giraffe!
December involves the intense passive persuasion of mince pie munching, treating yourself to more than 'the-odd-one' takeaway and being shot down by every form of chocolate consumption: Hot chocolate drinks for the cold winter evenings, little chocolate treats in your advent calenders, big tins of chocolates to have around the house for guests (Ha! yea.. for the guests.. *munch*) and the average little chocolate indulgences: Chocolate milkshakes, chocolate cakes, choc chip cookies... it's madness I tell you! MADNESS!
...Yea...
But what is it that makes us crave so much crap in the winter? Are we feeling like animals preparing to hibernate? If so, we're a little late!
Do we feel like we should be eating all these 'seasonal' indulgences just because it's Christmas? That it's some form of unconscious 'peer-pressure' - if everyone's doing it, so shall I! Maybe we feel like we need to treat ourselves from the all-year-round dieting and weight watching, that we can let loose in December because we deserve it. Or maybe it's a way of 'cheering' us up in the miserable, cold, dark mornings and the early cold, dark nights that make us feel like comfort eating.
Who knows?!
So, planning to take it easy and lay low until the season passes, then look out fruit and flavourless salads, ima coming!
I've tried it many times, and the results have all failed, now my method involves just cutting down and out of the crap (captain obvious!).
Simple enough? Your having a giraffe!
December involves the intense passive persuasion of mince pie munching, treating yourself to more than 'the-odd-one' takeaway and being shot down by every form of chocolate consumption: Hot chocolate drinks for the cold winter evenings, little chocolate treats in your advent calenders, big tins of chocolates to have around the house for guests (Ha! yea.. for the guests.. *munch*) and the average little chocolate indulgences: Chocolate milkshakes, chocolate cakes, choc chip cookies... it's madness I tell you! MADNESS!
...Yea...
But what is it that makes us crave so much crap in the winter? Are we feeling like animals preparing to hibernate? If so, we're a little late!
Do we feel like we should be eating all these 'seasonal' indulgences just because it's Christmas? That it's some form of unconscious 'peer-pressure' - if everyone's doing it, so shall I! Maybe we feel like we need to treat ourselves from the all-year-round dieting and weight watching, that we can let loose in December because we deserve it. Or maybe it's a way of 'cheering' us up in the miserable, cold, dark mornings and the early cold, dark nights that make us feel like comfort eating.
Who knows?!
So, planning to take it easy and lay low until the season passes, then look out fruit and flavourless salads, ima coming!
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Fishy Aquatics!
So me and Robin eventually took that trip to Dobbies.
After we browsed some christmas decorations for our awesome 3ft tree, we thought we'd visit the pets :)
As we found, Dobbies has some wierd, but cool looking fish :)
After we browsed some christmas decorations for our awesome 3ft tree, we thought we'd visit the pets :)
As we found, Dobbies has some wierd, but cool looking fish :)
Really liked the look of the corals in this fish tank :)
Can you find the frog? ^^
This fish looks pretty awesome :)
Turtle!
Not quite sure about this one, still interesting though :)
Then we found some other pets!
This hamster was awesome! THAT awesome that he even high-fived me :)
I shall call him!: Glen :D
Oh, and this bird looked cool too :)
He was the only one in the cage with those colourings.
When I first saw him, he looked only pure white, then when he flew off he had a hint of yellow in his feathers, but this picture seemed to give him some added tints! Very photogenic :)
I so wanted to take Glen home :D But Robin pulled me away before I got too attached :(
Still gave him a name tho ;) Muahaha!
Glen, I'll be back!
Monday 5 December 2011
Running the tempers
How can people act the way they do sometimes?
Why are people spiteful, selfish, rude.. ?
Sometimes people just like to pull at your temper, see how far they can push you before you finally flip out.
A guy who deliberately pulls out infront of you, despite it being your right of way.
Seeing someone speed up to get through the one way chicanes seconds before you get there, even though they have to stop for you.
A dude who decides they can just make up their own queue in a store, even though you've been queuing for 10 minutes because a slow-ass cashier suddenly decides today's the day they will attempt to annoy every customer, and when it's your turn, the guy with the new queuing system pushes in before you.
People who do NOT know how indicators work on their motor vehicles!
15 year old lads who think it's great to jump start and rev their ways around the local fields at 2:00am on someones motorbike/ped that someone has spent their hard earned cash on finally treating themselves to their luxury form of transport, or even that their parents have finally saved up to buy for their child on a birthday - instead they decide to ruin peoples lives and use their time, not by contributing themselves to society, but by stealing something that isn't theirs, playing around on it for one night and throwing it in a fire in attempt to burn away their guilt.
Guilt can't be burned.
There's more..
How can someone possibly feel that they can play god in someones life when it takes a turn for the worst? Why do they suddenly feel that they are in charge of what happens to them after they have gone? Why do they think they have a right to stop concerned neighbours, old friends even, from visiting the hospital bed of a seriously ill individual who would want nothing more at that time to see a friendly face.. a bit of kind company..
The worst thing of all, this person was their daughter.. their daughter stopped people from visiting her mother whilst she was on her deathbed. She didn't get to see a friendly face before she unfortunately passed away, she didn't even know her daughter was doing this..
This person even thinks they have the right to phone people up and have a go at them just for getting in touch with their siblings to see how their sick neighbour is recovering in hospital.
After all of that, just before they leave in their car after strip-searching their mothers house for any valuables, they happily wave along to the neighbour who they recently trashed talked and stopped their mother from saying some final things to an old friend.
Do these people not have any morals? No guilt? No conscience? No voice in the back of their spiteful-ridden minds telling them they're taking it too far?
People can't be perfect, but surely by that age they should know the difference between doing what's right, and what's most definitely god damn selfish.
Whilst I'm ranting on, here's a list of other things I hate!
-Women who let their 12 year old daughters stroll around town in their 3" heels that you can tell are killing their feet, but they think they look so damn cool!
-People who let a young baby cry and cry and cry in the middle of a restaurant and don't do a thing about it but ignore them.. so what, you forgot your in a restaurant surrounded by a lot of people trying to eat their dinner without a side-order of screaming baby?
-Justin Bieber (just because)
-People in supermarkets who can tell that your in a rush and trying to get past them but decide to take it nice and slow
-Wackey waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men.
-Spiders who just appear on your wall and act like they pay rent
-People who just can't park close enough to your drivers side door in a supermarket car park
-When your toaster just isn't deep enough to fully toast the entire sides of the bread, so you have to flip it and toast it some more..
-Milk that still has 1 day left before it goes mardy and turns to cheese, but has already acquired that dodgy scent
-having to touch the piece of cutlery that was used to butter something, but has butter also on the handle
-the word moist
Thursday 1 December 2011
'Tis the season and all!
It's December! And what a festive first day of the month it's been :)
We decided to put up our crimbo decorations today, dragged them out of the shed in ancient ready-to-decompose boxes, however, the living room looks stunning, thanks to the teamwork of Mum and Robin :D
Even though I was busy making mince pies and cupcakes in the kitchen, I felt the festivity! (Of course I did, I was making mince pies :D)
Me and Robin also put up our first Christmas tree! It's only a mere height of 3ft, and small enough to be placed on a table next to the telly, but it's still a tree ^^
Although, we did have to pinch a few decorations from my mums tree in the house :P (since ours is in the conservatory and has only a small handful of microscopic lights on).
Also, due to using some leftover tree decorations, our tree is consumed in pure red! (or in other words, the decorations nobody else wanted), therefore, I plan to make a trip to Dobbies!
But, a garden center I hear you ask? Indeed, every year this place has a gorgeous selection of crimbo decorations, and since I think decorating a Christmas tree in the same old usual 'attire' if you will, is incredibly boring, I would love to see more 'vintage' pieces, or even the more unusual stuff - but not too weird :P It is still Christmas after all!
It made me use google! And after a quick search, I found some quite interesting controversial pictures of your average Christmas Tree:
Kinda weird, huh?
Although, the ultimate christmas tree goes too.. (as far as i've seen!):
We decided to put up our crimbo decorations today, dragged them out of the shed in ancient ready-to-decompose boxes, however, the living room looks stunning, thanks to the teamwork of Mum and Robin :D
Even though I was busy making mince pies and cupcakes in the kitchen, I felt the festivity! (Of course I did, I was making mince pies :D)
Me and Robin also put up our first Christmas tree! It's only a mere height of 3ft, and small enough to be placed on a table next to the telly, but it's still a tree ^^
Although, we did have to pinch a few decorations from my mums tree in the house :P (since ours is in the conservatory and has only a small handful of microscopic lights on).
(note the dodgy ribbon bow, good improv on my point) :D
But, a garden center I hear you ask? Indeed, every year this place has a gorgeous selection of crimbo decorations, and since I think decorating a Christmas tree in the same old usual 'attire' if you will, is incredibly boring, I would love to see more 'vintage' pieces, or even the more unusual stuff - but not too weird :P It is still Christmas after all!
It made me use google! And after a quick search, I found some quite interesting controversial pictures of your average Christmas Tree:
The worlds Most expensive apparently ^
Some say cute, I say slightly depressive :P
Kinda weird, huh?
Although, the ultimate christmas tree goes too.. (as far as i've seen!):
Ooh the room for pressies! :D
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