Christmas countdown has begun!

One of the biggest reasons I have been looking forward to Christmas this year is the idea of decorating my own home and having my own tree! Because the year is disappearing quicker than I can keep track of we are now into December and on the first I hurried home and put my tree up.

I have had these decorations and the tree long before we actually had plates, towels of furniture (I went sale shopping on boxing day last year!) so I was so excited to put it up! All the tree decorations are ones that ADORED and picked out with Matt so each one feels special to me!

And then of course you know when you are counting down for Christmas when the Christmas party comes around! I had a EPIC time this year, my head was sore the next day and I was so tired but I had such a awesome time! The day started very early for me at 6:20am as I had to help out at out IoT design conference, it was then a dash home to get ready and back to work to check emails and then the party.

I had rather a lot of cider as well as some other drinks, I was nominated for an award but alas I didn't win. We did win one for our team which I went on stage to collect with Hara and Jimmy.

I danced the night away, and almost missed my last train home at 12:37! I danced so hard that I have rather sore cut up feet.

I won't lie, I was a little worse for wear on Friday. Safe to say it was a very unproductive day in the office!

So December is 100% in full swing! My Christmas shopping is almost complete and I am counting down the days until my two weeks off!

Elektra Awards 2015

So November is coming to an end. I just have no idea where this year has gone seriously! But I am super excited about Christmas and enjoying December!

Now November is coming to a close, it meant it was the Elektra Awards time! I most likely spent too long planning this event, and as I reviewed in a previous post I ordered 11 dresses in preparation for it! However if there is a time to GLAM up then why not take advantage of it!

I picked a dress I really adored although I was a little worried it was going to be ‘too’ much but decided to wear it. So I was super excited about that and also to have my hair done professionally. My sister offered to do it for me, but alas she doesn’t seem to be great with hair haha! She very generously paid for a hair dresser to do it so I was really looking forward to that.

My hair was book at 14:30 so I headed home at just gone 13:00 and jumped in the shower and waited for Sarah to pick me up. I have already sorted out my nails and got all my accessories ready to go!

I really enjoyed having my hair done and I was amazed at the end result, it looked stunning and was surprisingly secure. So secure in fact I slept in and wore it to work the next day.

Sarah came back and helped me get ready, I did my make-up, I went for a smoky eye with gold glitter and nude glitter lip gloss. I had to pick Matt up as his bike is broken and he wanted to see be all glammed up before I went off.

Sarah then very kindly dropped me at the station as it was raining and off I went! We ended up all running late so we didn’t stop for drinks on the way as planned but got to the venue at about 18:30.

The evening then flew by, we have a lovely fancy dinner, Robin Ince did the entertainment and presented the awards and then the after dinner entertainment started. I had lots of wine and tried the Vodka luge, so I was suitably jolly and I danced the evening away.

We also took advantage of the photo booth which is always so much fun and goes down a storm. I have no idea where the time went but before I knew it, it was 1am and our taxi was outside ready to drop us all home.

I got some many compliments on my dress and hair, I was feeling very swish and I got a real confidence boost! I’m so glad I kept the dress once I got there I didn’t feel out of place at all!

I eventually rolled in at 2:30am and got to bed at 3am. I did not sleep well and safe to say the next day was a struggle.

Even getting to work late and treating myself to a McDonalds breakfast didn’t seem to help!

I am feeling much less delicate today and looking forward to partying next week at the Christmas party! WOO!

Ma Partay

I had a really nice Saturday this weekend. Work last week was manic and I had so much to do. But that was good as it meant the days flew by! But I have loads to do today and tomorrow.

Saturday I got up real early and went and took Matt to the station and then went to spec savers and got the contacts sorted out! Dailies seem  to be working much better for me than monthly ones. I then drove straight to Croydon and was there by 10:30am and it was really quiet and very pleasant shopping on a Saturday as usually I go in the afternoon and it is way too busy and hectic. 

 I had a very good shop too and got some lovely bits. The jumper to the right, I've always wanted a tacky Christmas jumper and now my dreams have come true and for £12 too so it wasn't even expensive. I cannot wait to wear that out at Christmas time! WOOOPA! 

Then I went into New look and found a LOVELY skirt and I tried it on a it looked great which made me very happy. It’s hard to find skirts that I love. Usually I hate the pattern or the shape is completely wrong, but this one was exactly what I like and I also bought a Moustache scarf! I will post a picture of them up when I am next wearing them!
I then went for lunch and a look round Redhill with Gem and then picked Matt up from work and headed over to Cat’s house to have a night with the girls from Uni and a little birthday thing…. BUT THEY ACTUALLY THREW ME A SURPRISE PARTY.

 It was soo soo soo cool and there was a party table and balloons and a banner and food and drink! It was sooo nice! And then they got me the coolest gifts. They all went and got me a bear hoody that I have wanted forever and Aimee drew me a pillow of all the amazing things that I love the most. It made me completely speechless which is something that is very hard…. It was amazing and it was all so thoughtful!

We then ordered Pizza and ate too much, watched some TV played with balloons and just had a really really nice night! I had to leave about midnight as I was falling asleep I was so tired, but it was fun and I was really touched they would go out their way to do that for me.

Sunday on the other hand was pretty shit. Had a MASSIVE HEADACHE, weather was awful and it was boring and long and I wasted half  the day asleep. Ahhh well, and now it’s Monday again and I have a whole week of work ahead of me. Boooo….

Toodles.

My birthday and France.

I’m going to start this post with a list of complaints.

1.  I fucked my thumb nail. It split half way down my nail in the actual nail bed and I tried to ‘fix’ it and now I have a stubby thumb.
2.  My hand is super sore. I have this Calais/dry skin on my hand and I have started to cut it away and file it when it gets quite big as it also gets very sore and making it smaller seems to help. This time it has made it 100x worse.
3. I’m exhausted. I went swimming and then stayed up and watched Dexter way too late.
4. I’m not watching Dexter and this makes me sad. What I would give to go home and watch that all day…   pfft.
5.  There’s still one more day left after this one D:
6. This time last week I was in France >:|

I could go on but I will stop….

On the plus side I am seeing Fee on Saturday and RedDwarf is on tonight.

So France went really well and I had a lovely time. Exhausted on the first day with the traveling and the fact I only got about 3 hours sleep >.<  Had a DELICOUS breakfast in the airport at Frankie and Bennys…. MANY NOMS. Then realised I hadn’t packed a change of top, I was all FUUUUUUUUUUU! Really annoying I was so busy fart assing around getting ready I forgot to pack a bloody change of top…. Got into France around 2pm and went to the food place to buy food for the week, flight was quick and the weather wasn’t too bad.

The evening was nice, ate Pizza I kept falling asleep and we started watching Dexter and it is amazaballs. Like seriously, I’m hooked! Then on the Thursday we went to Anger (On-Jay) and had a DELICOUS lunch and did and bit of shopping and I found an H&M HURROAH and bought a new vest top…. YAY CHANGE OF CLOTHES! Go all that way and that’s all I bought! Again just had a relaxing evening and then on Friday got up late and went to the zoo! It was amazing they had penguins, tigers, lions, leopards, snow leopards. I also got attacked and pecked by some evil bird with a massive long evil beak! The zoo was lovely and was made to feel more like you were walking around with the animals rather than staring at them through bars. The weather on Thursday and Friday was amazing 24 degrees and sunny!

Then on Saturday we had a chill out day. Matts Dad and Julie went out and we played with the dogbot and watched Tv and napped.  It was very nice! And then on the Sunday we flew home. Got back by 3pm and had dominos for dinner.

Then it was my birthday on the 

Monday. Had a nice day with Matt even though it was raining all day…. Went to Croydon and had Poppin Café for Lunch and returned stuff and bought stuff. Stone chipped my windscreen which sucked ass. Then I threw myself a party with the Mr Poes and cooked party foods and watched lots of Dexter with Matt :D

Matt got me a beautiful Hello Kitty Neo figure, I got a Hello Kitty Liberty Tes Set, a dress, two bracelets, Vans, jewellery box, gloves, earrings, scarf, purse and nail varnish! 

Then on the Tuesday didn't do much cause I had to wait in for Auto Glass but eventually went to Lakeside where I bought amazing pajamas. 

Hello Kitty from Primark, they were a little more than I would spend but I had my monies from my birthday.

So yeah now I am back at work and that week I have been so excited for, for over a month has just gone….. pretty sad really D:

Onwards and upwards though :D start focusing on Christmas wooooooooooooooooooo

Toodles xx