The whole thing was a bit of a non event to be honest, which is why I didn’t blog about it — I told every one not to make a fuss and I didn’t really want or need any thing new so ended up without many presents. I was fine with that, though I admit I was upset that my fiance completely forgot, he didn’t even wish me a happy birthday until ten to midnight after his Mum had asked him if I received her card. He lost a lot of brownie points there for sure.

How sweet is that, shopping with someone else’s money!!

Wanna know what I bought? Some sweet letters that I used to have as a kid and have not seen for years, and a pack of Sharpie pens.

Seriously, that’s it!

There was just nothing I fancied and trust me it was not from lack of trying, we were out shopping for over five hours, eek.

To really top it off we set the home alarm off when we got back and annoyed the entire street, especially our neighbours who had just got the baby off to sleep, ooops, but what can you do?

I am still feeling a little unwell to be honest, I am not sure what’s wrong with me but I keep getting these waves of nausea — it’s not fun.

I am meant to be going birthday shopping tomorrow and I am not sure I will be up for it. Shopping when someone else is playing and I might not be up for it?! That’s seriously messed up man hehe

My face was always blotchy and spotty and rough to the touch, I don’t even think I realised how bad it was at the time.

Now with 5 stone less to carry around, the use of great creams and lotions and potions and a healthy diet my skin is glowing and smooth and much more what you would expect a 28 year olds skin to look like

Seriously, it’s been a crazy old 24 hours sleep wise and I am worried my whole pattern is going to be thrown completely off by it.

I went to bed last night at 3am, I was still awake at 7am. Managed to get an hours sleep and then we were up and setting off home. As soon as we got home the other half and I went to bed where we slept for 3 hours, then he had to go to work so we got up. After he went to work I went back to bed for another hour before I had to get up and go around to see my family as it was my mums 60th birthday. Got home around 8pm and again went back to bed for a few hours — it’s now 4am and I am headed to bed again, this time for hopefully longer than a few hours!

It’s all caffeine’s fault, but I shall explain about that tomorrow. For now, good night.

I have loads of photos, more than 200 in fact, but I had to edit and only post 10 of them…it was difficult to decide which to go with! Really.

I ate a lot of naughty foods, got lots of great presents, saw lots of family and friends, played lots of Wii games.

I love Christmas.

I got a lot of ‘bits n bobs’ from the family as ever, I can’t remember the last time I really got a big/main gift because come this time of year there’s never anything I want

Here’s a list:

Necklace (matches my black heart ring, have posted it here)
Bracelet (Tbar heart, cheapy)
Scarf x 2 (One is black and sparkly and one is HUUUGE knitted by my mum to keep me warm at night!)
Leg Warmers x 2
Gloves x 2
Hat x 2
Jumper (it’s going back, I don’t like it…my mum should know by now not to get me clothes)
Bra
Ring (Cheapo black thing, it’s horrible lol)
Slippers (but fluffy pink ones with toes!)
Nightie (grey and lacey)
Mrs Beard Face (a dog toy thing, it’s cute)
Zack and Wiki Wii game
CD marker pens
Strawberry quality streets
Pocket Vaseline x 2
Body Spray
Lighted Tweezers (random)
Face masks
Head Band
Nail Varnish set
French manicure set
Lamp shade
Hair bobbles
Sports Bras x 2
Jewellery Box (not actually new, a hand me down cos my mum got a new one for her birthday)

annnd from my brother and SIL I got

Bracelet (Heart shaped on a solid bar, sterling silver!)
Bath stuffs
Toiletries bag

and from the Poohead.

Necklace (Silver with a small heart made up of pink sparklies — it’s much classier than my big black one lol)
Watch (pink and has hearts on it)
Pink Disco Ball
Pink Fluffy lights
Fruity soaps
Clock (needed for night time, been after one for ages that is backlit but not too bright!)
a can of diet coke (Yes, really)

He forgot to get me a 2009 diary though which he lost brownie points for as it was pretty much the only thing I actually asked for

What do you think, pretty in pink huh?

Oh I know what you are thinking right now, you are thinking;

“What a loser, what sort of life must she live in order to consider that an exciting day?”

You are of course right, it does make me a loser — but shut up. It’s exciting because I am a creature of habit, I like to eat the same breakfast and dinner each and every day so it’s a rarity that I have something else.

What do I have for dinner every day? Well, it’s a fine work of art that I like to call a ‘Fat Sandwich’, it’s called that because it has so many things in it that it’s impossible to give it a name based on it’s contents, and the aforementioned so many contents make it physically….fat.

Fat Sandwich

2 slices of wholemeal bread
A little light Mayo on both sides
A little cottage cheese on one side
Lettuce
4 x slices of cucumber
2 x cherry tomatoes
1 cut up spring onion
5 x radishes
40g of chicken tikka
A little BBQ sauce
1 cut up spring onion
A little low fat cheese
Some peperoni

Then on the side of the plate:

2 x cherry tomatoes
2 x crab sticks
5 x grapes (for pudding!)
A cup of green tea

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The cheese and peperoni are optional and I will only have them if they fit in with my calorie allowance for the day.

Mmmm, writing that has made me hungry.

Rentalo.com seems like a good place to start, they offer a lot of information and great savings on everything from budget properties to swanky naples beachfront condos.

Not that the place we stayed in York was bad really, it was clean, it was quiet and although it was basic we definitely got our monies worth since we only paid £9 for the room as we got it in a killer sale But it would have been handy to know more about it and the area in general before going….so we knew more what to expect, what things we would need to take and how to get to the places we wanted to go to! When we first arrived we left the place and turned right..it took us a good 15 minutes to get to our destination and when we got there we realised if only we’d turned left we would have got to our destination in around 2 minutes!

Typical eh?