Ice cream sprinkles & Hammocks

Bank Holiday weekends are definitely about discovering yourself. Your talents, your strengths and weaknesses. So here is what I have discovered about myself so far. I'm no good at last minute change of plans. Especially when I'm trying to fit in shopping for shelves, horse riding and buying a car all in one day. The result is that I now have a Navy Blue 16 year old BMW 320i series. Brilliant to drive but drinks like a camel. Nearly drove into a post at the stables and damaged aforementioned BMW. And also came home with a baby blue hammock. Impulse buying to the max.

Then today I have discovered ice cream sprinkles. Easy to make: All you do is follow Delia Smith's recipe for Flapjacks with Jumbo Oats and leave them in the oven for too long. Voila the best crunchy ice cream sprinkles anyone can get.

Conclusion so far is 'I need more practice making Flapjacks' Anyone for ice cream?!

Bye Bye Charlie

I have now joined the world of ebay and listed my beloved Scooter. Just hope I get a bit of money for him. Hopefully enough to buy my car and save up for another Vespa. A bit of a smaller engined one this time. Let's see whether this ebay is going to be worth it.

Apart from this life is good. It's Bank holiday and I have three days off. Tomorrow is purchase day- shelves and car.
then Sunday is chill out and Xavier Rudd concert time. Monday as yet is not planned. But will probably be spent with Craig as I'm not really seeing him for the whole of this weekend. It's a spend time with our respective best friends time.

On the up

Last few days have been much better. A lot has been unchanged concerning jobs but still life does go on. Craig and I went to Derwent Valley on Sunday with Blue. It was gorgeous and ever so much fun. Especially the adrenaline ride along the snake pass. My mother would be horrified.

Am also in the process of purchasing a very old BMW 320i series. Oh yes, it's Navy Blue. Haven't actually driven it, totally going on trust. But it's Craig I'm trusting so that's ok.

The picture is us trying to re-create our silly photos we lost on the night we got engaged. It's at Derwent Valley taken with his phone!! I now want the same phone.

Update on the ring: It's been returned and we have commissioned an new jeweler :( so i don't get it back until mid to end September. Hopefully by my birthday.

A series of unfortunate events

It seems that the high stress levels in my life are just ain't ending. But praise the Lord through it all I have not had any major health or panic issues. Let me start on a positive note: BROADBAND IS BACK ON AT HOME. Yeah how exciting so I can actually journal a lot more frequently. Such a relieve but I'm still looking for a new internet provider as tiscali's customer service sucks.

Other news- The ring has now been returned. We got it back on Thursday but it looked rather hideous. He had obviously done it in a rush. The sapphire's were out of line and there was even a bit of fluff stuck in the clasp. Outrageous so Craig and I decided to ask for our money back and go to a different jeweller. But this jeweler is going away for 2 weeks at the beginning of September I'll probably won't have the ring until my birthday. I just hope I get it back before we fly out to Canada.

My contract with AWHA is soon to run out so could be facing no job.

Craig is not finding a lot of work- so he is very stressed out and I'm not sure how to help out.

Then my car was stolen on Friday- a financial and practical inconvenience I really don't need right now. I mean why..... So on the hunt again for new transport. Will have to sell Charlie! Very sad.

So all in all rather stressful to say the least.

But in it all I'm positive that things will work out.

Update

Couldn't think of an orginigal title but felt it was about time to update. We still don't have broadband at home so being extremely naughty and doing this at work. So yet another short one. Tiscali are bad, bad, bad. Lots of empty promises.

A few highlights of the last few days:

1. Seeing Katy W, Jen Marshall and my friend Jessie in London. (was only there for 1 1/2 days so couldn't fit everyone in)
2. Missing train stations because we were talking to much
3. Going to the chocolate Cafe in Richmond.
4. Having dinner at Brian's Katy's fella (who scarily is similar to Craig) and watching Con Air and laughing very very hard.
5. Seeing Craig after a few days of not seeing him.
6. Discovering that there is a J K Bennett store in Manchester. I love their dresses and accessories and as I can't afford anything from there for myself I'm hoping that my bridesmaids can be spoilt.
7. Discovering Katie Fleming's extremely amazing skills at doing Make Up and her willing to do mine at the wedding!!!


Dissapointments:
1. Loosing a saphire stone out of my engagement ring and it still not being fixed after nearly 2 weeks.

But that one got turned round by my man giving me a huge bunch of gorgeous flowers to make me smile.

London

Yeah I'm going to London this weekend to spend time with Katy W and hopefully Jessie from the states who I haven't seen for about 5 years.!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm ever so excited. Also going to go Underwear shopping for the wedding dress. Thought I splurge out to make me look even more stunning.:o)
This week has been alright. I'm trying to not winge to much these days. Everything happens for a reason.