Holidays go by so quickly

Sat all hunched up on my new sofa.  I'm thinking 'Where has time gone?'

I keep thinking back and remember leaving work.  Full of hopes for what this holiday would bring me.  A London trip?  A surprise engagement?  Will the house finally be done?

Now I'm sat here the night before the night before I go back..and I just think - Where has time gone?

We did go on that London trip and we did our Christmas shopping in Oxford Street.  We saw Bill Bailey at the Vaudeville theatre.  We finally spent more than three nights at the new house.  Our sofas arrived and we finally decorated the tree for Christmas.  It was done with four minutes to midnight!  We did our massive shops and spent our money willy nilly.

We had New Year but even that was sober.  And now it's the night before the night before I go back and I'm still sat here thinking - Where has time gone?!

Still six weeks until the next holiday.  maybe then it'll feel like I have a life!

   

    

 

London adventures - 20th - 22nd December 2015

I love London.

I'm from the countryside.  A small rural area that really has nothing going for it.  A previous mining town, it hasn't exactly recovered from the closure of them.  High quantities of people on benefits and living in council estates.  Aside from the occasional crime and police helicopter, life here is pretty much sedimentary.

So  when I'm faced with going to a massive city - the capital city, the senses explode.  There's so much to do, see, hear!  It's overwhelming and I love it!

I got my boyfriend hooked on it too, and now twice a year we embark on 'the London trip'.

It really was just a glorified Christmas shopping trip with us battling the crowds of Oxford Street and working our way through the numerous Christmas markets that spring up for a few weeks and then disappear.  The most impressive of which is the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland - a must see for every age.  It's hard to believe that the structure isn't permanently embedded there all year around.  It's jam packed full of rides, stalls and bars and restaurants, complete with it's very own ice rink.

The only other purpose of going to London was to see Bill Bailey.  He was fantastic live!  So full of enthusiasm and gust!  Definitely go to see him if you get the chance!

Here's a few pictures of our time in London :)

   

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Just to let you know,

I'm back from London and will get back to blogging more frequently!!

I am still amongst the living!!

The worst thing about packing is unpacking.

Finally finished today!! Yeyy! Break up Friday usually means crash out and drink copious alcohol. Well it's just not the case today (well I might get started on the drinking later...). Today I drove straight home, to my new house, and instead of crashing... I started unpacking!! Excitement or what!!

This project has taken months and months and months   By project I mean moving in.  We've had to change everything about this house. Electric, kitchen, bathroom ... Every room in the house. But now it's getting close to completion. Five rooms down, two to go. And so with London looming on Sunday. I'm trying to get as much work done on it as possible!
Knackered or not knackered!! 

 

Hmm ... How can I get my views?

I am an intensely private person if you've never met me before. However I seem to live my life out online. I'll post stupid Facebook statuses as I want people to know about how mildly interesting my life is. It just gets to the point that what I put up there is actually pretty much the only thing that happens that is interesting. I suppose it's a sort of cry for attention.  However I don't sit counting the likes. I merely put it up there for my own amusement. And for me to look back at this time in history when it should appear on my Timehop in a year or two years time. 

However, being a computing coordinator, I can't help but think about how on earth you could get popularity from a blog. Just watching the Gadget Show last night as background noise, just showed to me that some people are making a sustainable income by living their life through the Internet such as YouTube. But i just don't get HOW. My life is no more interesting than your average Joe.  And I'm certainly not going to resort to endless childish pranks to get views. It's not that I even want people to read my blog like that. I just want to know what makes people that particularly interesting? 

It was just the other day that a friend and I, were watching You've been Framed. This to us was incredibly dull and unworthy of laughing. However as children, the stunts seen would probably have us giggling. Then it struck us. Our standards of comedy have far surpassed grainy home videoes. No, to entertain the public you've got to do something downright dangerous or completely original. Which again isn't me. 

So I don't know. Maybe I should keep plodding on with my blog and see if I can generate more views as a cumulative!

Getting on with life

I do try my hardest to get on here and type but it's getting increasingly hard. I'm between three houses now. Deciding a day in advance as to where to go the following night. Dragging bags of clothes with me, laptop, work stuff. Not taking any chance that I'll leave something somewhere. I'm pretty much back to living in my car. 

We're nearly there though. Carpets and sofas are ordered for the new year and in the meantime we're papering and painting. By two months time we should be up and running and living like a somewhat normal human being. 

On Sunday I went up there to work while the other half was busy with the painting and it honestly felt like home :) for the first time I felt like I was properly living in the house. We only stopped there two consecutive nights before coming back to his house as he was missing home comforts. 

Still it's getting there. 

Today I also procured an inhaler. With poor breathing and back pain I really must get myself back to the gym but it's finding the time. 

At work I managed to get a rise by the skin of my teeth. Still working constantly and having to do more and more extra curricular things that are eating into my home life. My job's one of the worst for not having a life. Everyone and everything comes first but you :( still it has some perks. Anyway that's it for now just a brief note to say I'm still here!!

I'm losing myself, I'm losing it all...

Just wanted to check in.  It's been a crazy few weeks and this half term has flown by.

I've finally managed to get myself a good observation.  Yey!

I thought perhaps that my house may be on the way to being done.
We set a deadline for it.  Halloween we said.  This was a joke.  Then it became real and now it's becoming a dream because that deadline is slipping away.

I hate this.  Hate being in these living conditions.  Sick of it.  I'm still between houses.  In fact I'm between three.  My mind is all over and I have nothing that is stable.

Actually think I'm losing my mind!

Let's see whether I'm in in two weeks or not...