Monday Mornings are just awful and should be banned.

Monday morning again. Yawn. I hate them, however this time next week I will be on my 4 day weekend which will be very nice :D

So I have outfit posts I wanted to share.

All are with a skater skirt I got from Miss Selfridge in the sale.

1. The first outfit is a checked shirt from H&M that I got at the weekend. It is inspired my NEW FOUND LOVE for New Girl. They all seem to be wearing them in it so I fell in love! I love the colour of this too and I really like how it looked, I got quite a few compliments on it! I would like to get a darker one perhaps in red for the winter!
2. The second outfit is peplum top I bought over a year ago! I’ve always loved it but hardly worn it as I haven’t really had the opportunity with the style of skirt I used to wear, but now I think it looks great tucked into my skater skirt! It’s super cute with little owl on it.
3. Lastly is my favorite jumper at the moment with stars on it! So comfy and great for this season as it’s not too warm but adds extra protection, great for shopping in under and jacket!

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And this last image is just to remind me that I have com far in the last year. When I feel like I still hate the way I look I get a old photo and put it near a new ones and it makes me feel much better and shows how much confidence I’ve gained and that you can see the 39lbs that I have lost! I am back on track this week from my trip to France and I hope to be saying its 40+ by next week!

The weekend was ok. I went shopping with Mat and got my shirt and I also got an adorable fox scarf! Little more than I usually pay for a scarf but well worth it!

Sunday Matt went out with Luke in the evening so I didn’t have too much to do but just chilled out! But I am super excited about next weekend I will be meeting Michael Shanks! Been looking forward to that since the summer when he has to cancel! 

I will be well on my way to collecting a photo with all the members of SG1 and also the main cast from SGA! Super excited and it's come around SOOO insanely fast too! Haven't even picked what I'm going to wear yet!

So i just need to get through this week first and luckily the morning is going fairly quickly I just hope the rest of the day does and the week.

I have swimming this evening and I no regret staying until 1am and I'm going to KNACKERED this evening. But I shall push myself to do a full hour of swimming! 

Right I must do work hey ho!

Back from France and back to work.

So my week off, my glorious week off I have been planning and looking forward to for months now has GONE, its passed and behind me. It is a horrible feeling. Its a Monday and the first day back today double wammy of shit. 

So now just to get through the next two weeks and I will have a 4 day weekend for my birthday....eeep I hope they go quickly.

So I will start with France and the weekend before. Left work a very happy girl on Friday. Went home then Saturday got up later than planned and had a breakfast at popin café. Me and Matt then bought all cake ingredients to make Ruxandra’s cakes as part of her birthday presents. That was a major caffale! But we got it all together and it took a fair few hours to make. But they turned out pretty darn good.

Butter Beer Cakes for a Harry Potter crazy fan!

The recipe came from here!

Now keeping in mind I have never baked on my own from scratch I think I did pretty good! I made the ganache too and the butter cream on top. It took longer as I made the cakes then the rest but I had to wait so long for the ganache to cool down, if I made them again I would do the ganache first as that takes the longest to cool.

Now I don’t like cake but I did rather like these. I couldn't eat more than one as they were so sweet and they made my teeth hurt a little but I did enjoy them! Ruxandra ate them all within a week and Matt put away most the ones I kept at home.

So overall I am very happy with them and it’s kinda made me want to try baking other bits and pieces now!

So the evening was lovely me and Matt met Luke and Ruxandra in a pub in Epsom. I was worried things might be strange with Ruxandra as I worried she didn’t really want to go but it was really nice. Food was good and she seemed really pleased with her gifts and I’m super chuffed as I didn’t think she would like them as much as she did! :)

Sunday was pretty boring the weather was naff if I remember correctly and then Monday rolled around really quickly. I was packed and ready had brunch/lunch and headed to the airport!

We got to France pretty late maybe 6ish in the evening and went to buy food with Matt’s Dad and Julie. We had a really nice pizza thing and chips and then watched a film and went to bed. Tuesday was a chilled out kind of day. We just sat indoors and watched TV. I’m kinda glad as I couldn't get rid of my headache. Wednesday was much of the same except we popped out for a little bit to a store and then we went out to a grill place and I had a lovely beef burger!

Then on Thursday we took a trip to a zoo. It was a long drive that made me feel pretty ick but it was worth it when we got there. There were animals I hadn't seen before like a bear or a panda. The weather even brightened up a little for us too!

I had a really lovely time there and we came home and had dinner and watched Unstoppable which I also really enjoyed. I woke the next morning and started to pack my bags in disbelief that 5 days had flown by :(

We didn't have to fly until 5ish again so it was a late flight. Had a big fry up brunch thing for lunch and it was LUSH! Soo good! And then we flew home. As we had to drive past Lakeside from the airport so we popped in and had dinner and did a little shopping so we didn't have to pay the toll on the way back. Then before we knew it we were home and it was the weekend again!

It was lovely just having time away and relaxing and also seeing Matt’s Dad and Julie. I know how much Matt misses his Dad at times. I think they are planning  a trip to England in October so we may end up seeing them very soon.

So this weekend was ok. Went to Croydon on Saturday bought a AWESOME adventure time scarf. Then on Sunday Luke invited us to a BBQ, That was a really nice end to the week. I like spending time with Luke and his friend was nice too! Wish Ruxandra hadn’t had to of worked but I still got to spend some time with her!

So as I said before I am on a count down until my birthday now! Two whole weeks and then a 4 day weekend! At the moment I actually have some plans for my birthday.

• 6^th October – Winter London film and comic con (bought my tickets today)
• 7^th Dinner with Matt, Mum, Dad and Sarah (sister)!
• Then the 8^th which is my actual birthday me and Matt are going to Longleat which I am excited about. Although didn’t know it was a 2.5hour drive eeep!

I ordered these yesterday too and I’m going to have them from my Grandma for my birthday I love them! I am so into jumpers this year they are just so comfy!

They are both from NewLook and they just have the cutest print for Autumn  on them!

I think they are a good price too at £14.99 each!

I’m getting excited. My mum said I could have the coat too this is the first time in years where I have actually wanted stuffs for my birthday :)

There is only 15minutes left at work now so I will wrap this up. I wanted to show my nails as I thought they looked pretty awesome, like mermaids! They are a light blue/turquoise Barry M colour with a turquoise glitter on top! I usually put the glitter on darker colours and it can look a little heavy but I think it works really nicely on the lighter colour. 

I stumbled across some orange colours today on Tumblr which I love! I can’t seem to find the OPI version but I have a gold and I think I may get an orange and put the gold on top. Great for Halloween and autumn!

                         

Both images above taken from Tumblr!

I just LOVE all the autumn colours! They are so pretty and make me feel festive! I guess that is all for today I am going to head home eat and go for a swim!

Autumn days! Bring on all the jumpers!

So I think it is safe to say that autumn has arrived. The mornings are FREEZING and the little radiator has gone on in our room! The trees are slowly going golden and I can see my breath in the mornings. Being England though it has also bought grey skies and rain. Lots of blinking rain. But I’m hoping the rain will pass and we will be blessed with lovely sunny chilly days with all the oranges, reds and yellows that autumn brings.!

So I was rattling on last time about getting some jumpers for my birthday. I ended up getting none of the ones I looked at haha! Well actually I got the black version of the grey one!

The thing that really sold it to me was the inside is reversed so if you role the sleeves up you get white with black spots instead of black with white! Lovely little jumper. I am still pretty set on getting the start print one! I think I will have that from grandma.

I got that jumper from forever 21, and me and Matt looked in the likes of Primark. Although the jumpers are cheaper (only by around £5) the quality difference was shocking! The materials were itchy and just felt horrible, the patterns were poorly done and bleed into each other. I think I will be aiming slightly higher. I’m not a throw away fashion person and I am going off of primark! They are good for shirts and kickers and pj's but that’s about it!

So I did manage to get what I went for which was Pj's they are sooo cute with little foxes on them. I don't have a picture of the top but that has a cute fox on the front and is just a plain navy blue. The fit really nicely and I was pretty happy with them they are sooo snuggly and comfy!

I will have to take some photos of the others when I put them on, but they are long sleeved and more for winter. Although I will HAVE to get some more tbh as I love them so much.

SO I have one more day of work and 30minutes of today left! Then I will be on my week holiday. A WHOLE 9 days off. I can't even explain how excited I am! Off to France on the Monday back on the Friday! 

I am also going for a drink and dinner with Ruxandra and Luke. I was really looking forward to it but after the weekend I worry shes just coming because she feels she has too. I really hope that's not the case and I'm being paranoid but I don't know.

Swimming tonight then a nice sleep as I am SHATTERED, but first I need to kill the last half an hour of the day!

Wishing for things and horribly bored.

I am so looking forward to the next month. Firstly I have 9 days off this time next week! Me and Matt will be going over to France for 5 days so that should be lovely!

Then just two weeks back at work and I will then have a 4 day weekend and it’s my birthday. Me and Matt are going to longleat! That I am really looking forward to that, I’ve never been and as I wasn’t invited when other people have been it should be very enjoyable. I am worried about going through the monkey bit though in fear that they may steal and takes bits off of my car ha ha!

And just before that there is the London winter film and comic now for the first time being held on the 5-6^th of October. So far I plan on going to the 6^th and I will be meeting Michael Shanks! I am pretty damn excited about that. I will have met almost everyone who played a member of the SG1 team! Woop! Then to add to the geeky excitement MCM is also on in October at the end and me and Matt will be going to that too. I went in the spring and it was ok, but Matt really wants to go so we shall be going back in October for that.

I know it’s a bit early to be thinking of birthday gifts, but I started having a think this week otherwise I will come up with nothing. The older I seem to get the harder it seems to be to think of things? Now I work too I can buy things that I may have waited for a birthday or Christmas to get! I have taken a bit of a shine to jumpers after getting one last week. As I am feeling much better about the way I look I would love to have a selection of jumpers to wear during the autumn and winter. I have been eyeing up these from Forever 21.

I believe me and Matt may pop to lakeside this evening I would like some pajamas. I don’t own any sets and the bottoms I had from last year aren't looking that great anymore but holey some of them! So I think I will have a look around for some jumpers then and anything else that catches my eyes. I’m thinking I may even be a boot wearer this year. I got a lovely pair from rocket dog for Christmas last year but they really are more for the snow and when it is minus numbers outside! I would like a brown pair that are much lighter for the autumn that I can take into the winter too!

As well as possibly getting some new winter clothes for my birthday I fell in love with a Hell Bunny coat I tried on in Camden. It is around £50 cheaper online so I will be getting it online if my mam says its ok to have! This would be a coat that would be kept for best and would be looked after and I hope to make last for years. It’s very classic with an alternative twist that’s really subtle! It’s the perfect style for me too! Tight at the waist and a BIG skirt bit, I have to say that I really did fall in love with it when I tried it on. I also went from barely fitting in an XL coat to a M fitting very nicely! That makes me feel good and makes me proud!

On that note I went swimming again last night and this morning lost another lb. That is now 38lbs gone or 2.7stone! 4 more lbs and it will be 3 stone! Its so strange because I don’t feel any different :( which is a shame as I wish I did, although confidence is rising which I believe is evidence in what I have been picking to wear recently.

So Thank GOD it’s Friday its been a rubbish week and I have 1 hour left of work and then the weekend hurrah! Still undecided on shopping this evening but we shall see. No doubt I will post any buys up here.

New glasses YAY!

So I have been looking around for almost a year now for some glasses I couldn't find any I was happy with. I've had 2 pairs in-between, I melted the first pair after about 2 weeks and the second pair were kinda cheapy (£30ish) and I have never been 100% sure.

2 weeks ago I found some in a Vision express for £180 that I fell in love with, Matt insisted we bought them but I didn't rush into when they cost so much. I looked online and found Glasses frames and lens who had the frames AND good quality lens for £95! I had some money saved from when I sold some dresses on ebay and I returned a pair of vans I bought months ago so I though pffft sod it lets get them!

I am thrilled with them! I think they look really nice and I have had them on since I got them! This is a first as I hate wearing my glasses! I had to pop to Spec Savers at lunch to have the legs loosened as they were rubbing one of my ears but now they are very comfortable.

They are converse ones (I don’t like to be a sucker for brand names but that did sway me a little) they are a lovely purple and blue. All the others I have looked at have been too dark and over powering on my face but these hit the spot! Also the shape is much less square too so it doesn’t round out my face!

I’m very happy with them and I shall we wear them often! Well I hope so anyway ahahah!

2 months, wedding, outfits and trash talking.

Ok so it has been 2 months since I have updated properly! There’s not that much to yak on about I don’t think.

I’ll guess I will start with work. It’s been ok of late, I got given a MASSIVE project at the end of July beginning of August and I only finished it on the 29^th of August, so that’s kept me really busy for  a month. The last 3 days at work though have kind of become painfully dull and I have been horribly unmotivated. Luckily I have 8 more days at work (and a weekend in-between) left and then I have 9 days off and me and Matt are going to France so that should be very exciting.!

I haven’t had any proper time off since March so I am REALLY in need of a bit of me time. It’s always lovely when we go to Matt’s Dad’s. Its so peaceful and beautiful. I’m kinda just really looking forward to doing NOTHING! Eheh!

So what have I done or what do I have to report in the last 2 months. Well weightless is going GREAT! Lost 37lbs now. That’s well over 2 stone I think…. let me work this out…yes its 2stone and 9lbs! So not far off of 3 stone. In actual fact in total I have lost 65lbs since being my heaviest. That’s nearly 4.5 stone! I find that MIND BLOWING! That is over about 3-4 years though. I don’t feel that much different, but people have started to notice recently so I guess it shows. I guess where it seems so slow to me I just don’t pick up on it. The only time I notice is when I put clothes on and go ‘OH they don’t fit anymore!’ or ‘OH! That’s rather baggy where it wasn’t before!’.

I hope to lose another 1-2 stones before Christmas. Corrr…. Picked a bad time of the year to do that me thinks! But my will power is strong this time and I am swimming twice a week at the moment so hopefully I can do it!

So I will just talk about the last few weeks as I can’t remember all the happenings in 2 months!

Not the weekend just gone but the one before was the lovely bank holiday and we went to Lauren and Martin’s wedding. The weather this summer has been pretty glorious, most days sunny and very warm. On this Saturday it was chilly, grey and RAINED ALL DAY ALONG! It was a lovely day though.

They had it in a yurt! Lauren looked amazing and I got to wear my new dress. Oooo the dress.

So Matt was asking me questions about dresses all day a few weeks ago…. The next day he brings me a present and he bought me this BEAUTIFUL Hell Bunny dress. It was a little too big and we ended up ordering a smaller one that fitted like a glove!

So I got to save it and wear it to the wedding. I felt a million bucks in it! 

 Because I designed the wedding invitations and save the date cards too, I got given a special gift in the speeches. Lauren makes the most beautiful handmade silver jewellery. I have been admiring it for some time now and she gave me a necklace and earrings. They are absolutely gorgeous! I was very touched.

The starter was to die for! And the main was nice too! Didn't enjoy the desert but it was cheesecake! I gave it a go though!

Really did have a lovely time!

Me and Matt then went and did a bit shopping on Sunday and came across these Converse glasses. I fell in love. Matt insisted he bought them for me but they were £180ish and I said I wanted to have a good think first. We then found them online for £95, so saved a good £80!   

Its a pretty poor picture of me in them, but they were shipped today and should hopefully be here tomorrow or Thursday! Yaay!

So yeah that's a little snippet of my last two months.... not been over exciting and I will end on a outfit post from the weekend. Autumn is on it's way, people seem to be sad I am exceptionally happy so I bought this awesome jumper! <3 It was to cheer myself up as some asshole had pissed me off on the Friday.....

Funny as I now know what a pathetic, lying BORING little cunt she is! And this jumper celebrates the fact they are GONE out of my life. Good feeling taking out the trash especially when it's been rotting away for a few months.

I WILL KEEP this blog updated more!

London Film and comic Con! 2013

It has been such a long time since I updated!! (over 2 months) what a lazy bum am I!

So where should I start? I guess I will start with London Film and Comic Con.

So I waited a WHOLE YEAR to go. I was so excited as last year was so good and I was going to meet Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks eeep!

However about a week before Michael pulled out, and then they replaced him with Claudia Black, I was disappointed but it would still be a stargate talk and Michael was coming back in the winter so I was excited again. Until Claudia also cancelled due to family issues and that meant that talk was cancelled and I only had one photo shoot  :(

What annoyed me a little was if I had known this a few days earlier I would of seen if I could rearrange for the Sunday and go to the Amanda and Jason Stargate talk instead! But alas it was like 5pm on Friday and I just couldn’t think straight. So we got up at 6am and we were in the queue at 8am ish. We had an amazing pretzel on the way too from a place we just happened upon in Clapham Junction. It was called Knot and I had a bacon and cheese one OMG is was freaking good.

The trip was really nice actually, really really easy. Train to Clapham and then the over ground two stops to West Brompton. I loved the fact the venue was so easy to get to this year and that it was air conned and it was actually near things like a café and some pubs! But I didn’t like the lighting it was HORRIBLE yellow colour and I didn’t like it didn’t have an upstairs bit. Last time when we were tired we went up there and sat down and people watched! This year we had to sit outside and it WAS BAKING HOT. I mean the whole weekend was late 20’s early 30’s the sun was burning on your skin! I wore lots of sun cream on Sunday and tried to stay out of the sun on Saturday!

Anyways. We queued for an hour on Saturday the queue apparently ended up wrapping right round Earls Court 1 and 2! It was shaded that side so that was nice although I don’t think it was too hot at 8-9am. We got in just passed 9am and I went and joined another bloody queue to exchange my Michael ticket for a Jason Momoa ticket, then I JOINED ANOTHER QUEUE to have my photo with Amanda! Didn't have to wait too long maybe 10-15mins and I went in all shaky and what not and he voice was divine! Her Canadian Accent was lovely and she asked me how I was and I said I was great thanks how are you? And she said she was great! Got a great photo too really pleased with it!

We then had a long wait till 2:30 for my photo with Jason so we went and looked round all the stalls. Saw my friend Jenna who had a stall there! We then went to look for food but matt started to get really stressed I think he was majorly over heating! So we went to the pub and had a drink and then went to a café as the pub was rammed! And had some food. We then bought cookies and sat and ate those and there was a robin that was RIGHT next to us he was very brave and I didn’t know robins came out in the middle of the summer!

Matt left me to queue for Jason, I had to wait a while it sucked because for Michael I had ticket number 69 or something and then for Jason I ended up with 400 and something! Bah! But I saw him, didn’t really say much , his queue was huge, I kind of wished I had gone in the morning as it I think it would have been much less busy. BUT I was super super pleased with my photo and he seemed like a really really nice guy! 

We then mooched about and I got an autograph from Eve Myles who plays Gwen Cooper in Torchwood. 

She was such a pretty lady, and she was lovely. I wish I could work up more to say to people, but I asked her if she was having a nice weekend and she said my name was very pretty same as Mr Sorbo last year :D

We left around 3:30ish I think and went to Oxford street. That was horrible though in the heat and my shoulders were on fire from the bra I was wearing and my bag weighing a ton! We went home shortly after though as I think we had both had enough.!

We ate ribs, onion rings and potato skins for dinner and the whole journey home I was debating on whether to go back on Sunday and see the Stargate talk! Anyway after much debating and texting Jenna to see if she could find out if there were tickets left I thought FUCK IT! FUCK IT I WAS GOING TO GO. It was only £20 for the two tickets and yes it was another £18 for the train but I wanted to go and see the talk and I wanted to go up there again. I knew if we sat around at home by 3pm we would be BORED SHITLESS! So Jenna was super kind and rang me at about 8:30 and got me and Matt tickets! So I got up at 9ish and we left around 10am and made our way back up there. We stopped off at Knot again and had another breakfast/brunch pretzel and also had a strawberry and cream one to share with nutella dip! 

I’m so glad we did I had a fantastic time! It was a little better than Saturday because I wasn't as tired. (I had planned on getting a super early night as I had Friday off so I stayed awake but with the heat and eating too much dinner I couldn't get to sleep well and kept waking up in the night, Matt had about 2-4 hours sleep!) And the disappointment from guests cancelling was long gone and the talk was amazing. We got some awesome bits including a £10 bender toy! I got some beautiful art prints and Matt got a t-shirt and book!

Jason and Amanda had great chemistry and it was great to hear some stories of behind the scenes!

Overall I had another great year there, and the atmosphere is lovely. It’s great to be somewhere full of people like you with the same interests and  you don’t have to feel silly or worried about being different or geeky!

They have another one in October now a few days before my birthday. I'm pretty glad I don't have to wait a whole year again!