Toga!

What a fantastic night had by all! Normally something goes wrong..fights, crying, injuries but this night nothing. I really enjoyed myself. I've never been out in Chesterfield as it is quite a way from home, especially at 3 in the morning when you are wasted!!

I have become a bit of a lightweight during recent years so hadn't had a drink since about easter so I pushed the boat out! I'm blaming this all on Scott as he was encouraging me to have shots... Ok he wasn't really he said i should have one not six!! lol

Unfortunately i was the only person stupid enough not to book the next day off work...so needless to say breakfast kitchen was enjoyable for me!! I managed not to be sick at all which i'm mega impressed by!!

Christmas has come early. My auntie Sue is leaving to live in Canada for a while and won't be around for Christmas...so today I've had Christmas dinner..yummy, although Santa hasn't been today he has for Harriet. I just can't help myself. I went to Toys' R US on Thursday as it is my friends babies 1st birthday so i went present shopping. I got Harriet a Trike and I've given it to her today!! She Loves it!!

Sorry about the disturbing toga pictures!!

The Deep

Yesterday I decided i wanted to go and do something fun as all I do is go to work for a million hours come back tired out and go to bed. I had a really rough weekend working nearly 40 hours in 3 days!! So I decided I deserved a treat. Jason and myself went to 'The Deep' in Hull about 3 years ago and we had a fantastic time. Yes I know it is designed for kids but it is great fun! So after i had been to work to finish the schedule me, Darrell and Jason all set off. I was a little unsure to whether Darrell would like it with him being 14 and cool!!

I am very unorganised as normal and never thought to take a camera so pictures are just off my phone again so sorry the quality isn't amazing! But it is pretty difficult to get pictures when the fish are swimming around I think someone needs to teach them to pose for us!

We later went into Hull for lunch and found Pizza Hut which Darrell LOVES!! So we had the buffet lunch all you can eat thing. The guys on the table next to us no word of a lie must have eaten 70 pieces of pizza and chicken wings on top of that!! I thought Darrell did well with 9 pieces! I was going to try and get a picture of the stack of pizza crusts but i thought that might be quite rude!!!

I'm now off to buy birthday presents and something to wear Saturday night.....I HATE SHOPPING! I'm sure i was meant to be a man!!

McPassport

Haven't felt like blogging for past few days but now I'm back. Today I have applied to go and work in the Olympic Village for the 2008 games in China. If my application is successful I will go and work for McDonald's out there for between 2 weeks and 2 months with all expenses paid!! woohoo! So I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I am going to also apply to go to Rome to work we have cheesy things called McPassports which allows to go and work in other countries. Good idea but cheesy just like everything that place does.

Today I am going into a school to give a presentation on McDonald's and it's people practices.......so wish me luck I may get eaten alive!! It seems there is a trend emerging with what i agree to do...firstly I agree to give this presentation next I agree to make costumes for my uncles theatre company and last I have agreed to go out in a toga for Toni's 21st birthday!! oh what am i getting myself into!! I went to make my toga the other night and to be fair it's not looking that bad....i have a skirt made out of a bed sheet and then we have been adapting a top as I don't want to be half naked!! This event is next weekend so photo to follow!!

I was sorting through all the pictures on my computer as it's getting slow now and i found this one...it is one of my favorite of Harriet. She loves her belly and lifts her top up...but this one she was fast asleep and luckily speedy Charlotte got me a pic of it!

First day back to college

I started back to college today, I was really nervous and I shouldn't have been. It was like I never went away. I still got the same old abuse of my friend Deb and was great to see my bestest bud Graham again! So thanks guys for making me feel welcome again!

I still haven't managed to unpack yet...well not that I have tried very hard to be honest. It can stay like that for me as I can face putting everything back!! I know I'm lazy. Worked everyday since I've been back suppose it takes my mind off things. Nothing ever changes though I had the Police out the other night to deal with the most awful teenagers I think i have ever met. I'm sure i wasn't like that when i was their age!!! One of them tried to spit in my face last week so i said i wouldn't serve them so the abuse started then. They soon shut up when police took them all in and cautioned them for verbal abuse!! hahahaha! Horrid children!

The other night me, Samantha, Charlotte, Darrell and Jason oh and not forgetting unc John were all playing rapidough...if you haven't played it you don't know what you're missing! i was on Samantha's team which was going to be trouble from the start. Normally i get sooooo mardy if someone cheats and throw the board in the air! Yet this game I was getting so excited I couldn't help myself but cheat. The aim of the game is to make your dough into whatever it says on the card. Which ever teams guesses first wins and takes a chunk of the other players dough to make it harder for them. I must say i did actually guess some although I'm usually rubbish at these kind of games.

I am going to add some pics of the board and also of the day out to rufford as i have now got round to finding the lead to download them from my phone. The hobby front is still looking rather gloomy and looks like I should pick up an extra shift a week! NOOOOO!!!

Back in to education.

On a more positive not than the one on Thursdays i have secured myself a place to study a HND in Business management and Finance. I started this course last year and finished it with a HNC. This basically counts for a first year at uni. HND 2nd and then you go and do a top up year somewhere. This means i will get a degree from a university just not Swansea. Everyone has been so supportive and said just do what makes you happy ...but god i didn't want to make the decision!! the best piece of advice was "a degree is a degree no matter where you get it from as long as you are happy" This made me think, yes I'm dropping out of Swansea but not out of education all together. I will end up saving a lot of money, be happy...well i bloody hope so now after all this and will be with all my family and most of my friends. The friends i am not near i can and will come and visit at some point I promise!! So thank you to everyone who has been supportive and not judgmental and has given me good advice. Especially my mum, you think i don't appreciate it but i do. So there it is public now!!!!!

Started back to work today and never received so many hugs even more than when i left!! Loads of people have said glad to have you back which is really nice of them. Now back to the same old same old. That is the only thing I am worried about just falling back into the mind numbingly same routine. I need a hobby or something so any ideas anyone?!

Harriet's vocab is coming a long great now. It's really funny and I love it when she copies us. Samantha, Charlotte, Harriet and I went to Rufford park on Friday and had a nice walk round the lake and fed some quack quacks. Although she did fall down and end up head to toe covered in soil...which isn't funny but man she looked hilarious and even got a mouth full! I have got some pics of the day but i am too tired to be faffing around. I am back at work at 5.30am for the open and it is now 23.57. The time my blog says is wrong and i have no idea how to change it!?! Any ideas Louise?

Will be back with pics tomorrow once I've done my shift and eaten Sunday dinner and many YORKSHIRE PUDS!!! yummy. Sunday is my fav day although it is the end of the weekend and nothing on TV but you get Sunday dinner i spend all week waiting for it to come around from Sunday tea time!!

I've been tagged apparently!?

According to Louise I had been tagged and have to answer the following questions i think? Hope this is right!

4 Places I have worked:
Well when i was young I used to deliver leaflets with my friend Amy....this really was slave labour I'm sure we had to deliver 250 for £5! We thought wow £5.....no not at all we didn't last very long at this. My first 'real' job was in Scott's the bakery which was called the Robin Hood bakery at the time. I got an amazing £2.50 an hour and used to work Saturdays. This job was ok apart from the spider cupboard which they used to make me clean out....I HATE spiders! oh and touching meat...yak! Ding Dong Avon calling was another one of my jobs when i was about 16. This was easy money. I had a great round and always made plenty of commission. My final and present job is working for McDonald's. I have progressed up the ladder in the four years i have worked there and I am now a shift runner. The job is ok for the time being and according to my performance review I'm quite good at it?! (not sure where they got that idea from!)

4 places i have visited
I didn't go on a plane until i was 18 so the first place i have got to say is Morocco. What a fantastic place. The first few days were a little alien to me but then i got the hang of it. We stayed in Agadir but visit Marrakech which took us three hours to get there, but was worth it. Although i did get heat stroke and pass out and throw up everywhere. Do you blame me it was like 45 degrees. I had a fantastic time as the place was not too touristy so you could really embrace the culture. I'd love to go back again. The follow year I went to turkey, this i did not enjoy so much. We were out there during the world cup so i enjoyed the football and the beer but not the sleazy men. I went scuba diving, white water rafting and a few other things so it was an action packed holiday but full of tourist which isn't really my thing. Although i am a tourist i know what you are thinking. This year i went away for the week with my parents and Darrell to somewhere near St. Ives so i could revise. We visited the Minack theatre and i thought this was AMAZING. If you are every there go honestly the views and the sculpting is fantastic. Also somewhere i used to visit a lot when i first started driving was the Yorkshire sculpture park I went twice with schoo and now i have been about 8. I love everything about the place. If you have never been go.

4 fav foods
YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS...can i say them four times?! No really i love Yorkshire puddings especially home made ones. Ice cream...who doesn't like ice cream. Pineapple..yummy i like it out of a tin or fresh. I love steak too especially with creamy peppercorn sauce. As you can see nothing very exciting there from me.

4 places i'd rather be
In bed...although technically i am in bed but not sleeping so i should say sleeping in bed. Somewhere, anywhere would do, on a beach in the sun with a cocktail in my hand. On the catwalk as it would mean i would be skinny!! yay!! out shopping with loads of money...but only when I'm skinny.

Think that answers all the questions.

Failure

I'm sad to say i am going to become another one of those statistics the university drop outs! I've tried to be brave and put of the face but it just isn't working. I've used two full boxes of tissues and about 10 sleeves since I've been here, and that just isn't me. I cry of course but no more than the average hormonal woman!

I cannot believe that one group of people can make me feel like this. You may all be there saying move flats which yes is a good idea but takes ages to do. The course outlines have changed so i am taking core modules for every first year degree that takes place within the school of business and economics which means I will be doing stuff that will in the future not help me. If i wanted to spend 4 hours a week doing economics and 1 hour doing business management i would have taken an economics course not an international business management course!!

But fear not i will not be leaving education just yet not sure what i will do but right now i just need to get out of this places and stop crying!! I know you all probably think i'm giving up to easy and part of me does but part of me is telling me to go away from the things making me feel vulnerable and emotional. If you are going to leave mean comments please don't as i already feel like a FAILURE!

I'm sorry to everyone who has invested in me with pots and pans etc or money or just time being supportive, i do appreciate everything that has been done for me. thank you x

Lectures

Well i have now been to at least one lecture on every subject i will be taking for the next 20 weeks. Some seem really good and can't wait to get into them but others seem a little more difficult. Mathematic with business and economics sounds well hard. I had to take a test to see how good i am at maths this pointed out exactly what i thought...not only am i rusty i am seized up with a mega 16%!! The questions were well hard (hence the result!) It has been like 6 years since i did maths GCSE as i took mine a year early. Algebra and fractions have long left my mind. Not to worry though i bought an amazing text book (well it wants to be for the money) to help me get back into it.

I think i have just about found all the rooms i will be having lectures or tutorials in. God help me if they ever move us around!! You can tell who all the first years are as we all walk around the campus with our mouths open trying to read signs and match it to our maps!! It's like hundreds of tourists all in one place!

Can anyone enlighten me to when tuning in a TV became so complex!?! Yes i know i am a woman but these things are usually quite self-explanatory yet it took me around 3 hours to tune mine in and still i do not have the right channels on the right number!! I have welsh TV and all kinds of things.

I have finally made it to the beach today although it was cold and dull i thought i'd go and see what was around. I visited Mumbles Pier it is not how you would imagine a pier as i always think of the big grand ones but this is little an old. The picture will be somewhere on here (not quite sure how to position them how i want yet!)

As i didn't blog yesterday HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Charlotte. Sorry i couldn't be there but at least you got a card and present...better than when i am there!! hahaha

oh how I ache!

Think I'm getting old, every bit of me aches! I went home Tuesday night and worked everyday until i came home, which doesn't sound a lot I know but man those shifts were hard!! Although i must say i enjoyed them all apart from Sunday's on which the Grill blew up, the shake machine broke down and i ended up covered in ice cream from the pump. So this obviously meant we had more abusive customers....oh how i love them!! However the Saturday shift was mint, i really enjoyed myself. I always say to people "hurry up i could run circles round you" and that day myself and two fellow managers (the best ones!) actually did run rings round people...how there were no accidents i will never know. After that shift all three of us went for a well deserved pint, well shandy to be exact.

I'm back to Wales now and the drive back wasn't to bad. Ironically as soon as I'd past the 'Welcome to Wales' sign it started to rain!! I don't mind though rain doesn't bother me. Driving back on Tuesday it was raining the funny fine stuff which soaks you, before you say it all rain is wet rain but this kind is just annoying (I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about!) and there were three rainbows...i love rainbows not sure why just think they are amazing.

Although i am now wide awake i suppose i should go to bed so i am ready to go in the morning to for my first lecture. How exciting but a little nerve racking.