Pink Muffin Explosion

A couple of my 'lurkers' have mentioned to me that I haven't updated for a while. This is because I've gone friends only so if you're an LJ lurker and not on my friends list, then you won't be able to see my updates. This is going to be my last public entry so if you want to be on my friends list, leave me a note here. But if you don't have an LJ and are just 'lurking' (Yes Andy, I'm talking to you! :op) then you can read my OpenDiary instead which is still public and updated almost as often as my LJ.

If you're already on my friends list then you're safe, so no need to comment, begging not to be cut ;o)

Cheers m'dears!

I really don't do anything with my evenings any more apart from read random things online. I'm not even doing anything useful, just reading. Reading journals. Reading a journal specifically. I get like that, I start reading something and I just have to carry on reading it and can't bring myself to stop. Jess isn't going pole dancing this week so I'll probably end up not going either as I sometimes find it hard to motivate myself if I'm only relying on myself. I couldn't even motivate myself enough to drive to Tesco tonight so I'm going to have to make something up for breakfast and lunch tomorrow. I am stupid, hopefully it's a temporary phase that I'll get out of soon. Maybe it's because I've just moved house and am getting used to living on my own, and so far out of town as well. At least Simon and Bee came over to visit for an hour so I didn't isolate myself completely from the world. Simon fixed my TV :-D I now have many channels. I gave him beer, he was surprised for some reason, but also grateful. Well he bought me a freeview box and set it all up for me, I can't not give him anything in return. I also spilled an entire pint of milk all over the kitchen floor. That was fun.

Work was crap. We had a team meeting which was all going well, until Delaney decided to bring up her grievences with Tracy. Delaney is leaving work tomorrow to have a baby. She's not having a baby tomorrow, I don't think, she's just leaving tomorrow to have the baby at a later date. I knew trouble was brewing when she was saying her farewells and said "Karen, Shellie and Sharon, I've really enjoyed working with you all and I'm going to miss you." Uh oh, she didn't mention Tracy. Then she did. Basically Tracy is a bully, she puts people down, tells tales on people when they make mistakes to try and get them in trouble, throws out personal insults (for example calling me a "skinny witch" after I lost a lot of weight through stress a couple of months ago, calling Delaney a "fucking moody cow" when she wasn't in the best of moods after she nearly had a miscarriage, and, just a couple of days ago, telling Sharon that she'll "open her legs for any man." because she has children by two different men. And then denying that she said any of this.) But because she's such a bully, she's quite terrifying and no one will stand up to her, me included, so unfortunately she doesn't realise that she's making everyone feel uncomfortable, nay, not just uncomfortable, positively insecure and quite scared of going to work. When Delaney brought up this fact, telling her the way she makes people feel, she acted all innocent like she had no idea and then tried to play the victim, acting like we were all ganging up on her, and saying that it was us that has the problem, not her. Yeah right, four people are imagining all this...

After the meeting was over, Tracy spent an hour in the meeting room with our boss, crying, getting sympathy and no doubt saying all sorts of things about us that we weren't there to come back on. Thankfully our boss is on our side and knows exactly what Tracy is like. But, bringing it up is one thing, trying to sort it out is another, especially when Tracy won't even acknowledge that she is the source of the problem. *sigh* Office politics and all that.

Plans on Saturday, hopefully should all come together if no one is ill this time and there's no more snow, fingers crossed, I'm looking forward to it :-D But no more details for now just in case.

But I need to make sure I get up early enough to go to the bank because 1) I need to pay Steph for my holiday to Wales and 2) I was stupid enough to pay my rent and house deposit with the wrong cheque book and both cheques bounces, resulting in bank charges which I've never had in my life, and is also quite rude towards my landlady who now has to wait even longer for her money. I am officially rubbish.

Right I'm here again! I know I haven't posted for ages and ages, but I haven't had time to stop moving for about a fortnight. I was going to go pole dancing tonight but I decided I needed a night off from moving house, unpacking, socialising etc etc so I thought I'd stay in and have a bit of a rest and catch up with my online life. So, apart from Simon and Bee popping over later for a cuppa and doing a bit of unpacking, I will be writing in here, replying to all your notes and other such scrummies.( Read more... )

I didn't have time to reply to your notes like I promised up there, but they were here for longer than I thought they would be, so I apologise, I'm going to have to find more time another night!

So I've just re-read this entry and it's very rambly and disjointed. I apologise for that, I was kind of distracting and not really concentrating properly when I wrote it. I hate my writing style, it's so childish and has the feel of "OMG LOLZ ROFL" etc. Ick.

Please excuse my title, me and my friends were reciting comedy sketches in the pub last night, including lines from Donald and Davey Stott, who were on Vic Reeves' Big Night Out. Most of you will probably never have heard of it, either being on the wrong side of the Atlantic (or Pacific if you're Trish) or a bit...more sane. Heh :o)

I only dyed my hair two weeks ago and I have roots already. Hmm, I had no idea my hair grew so quickly. I don't want to dye the roots as my plan was to try a different colour once this one had washed out, so I hope my roots aren't showing too much by the time I get around to doing this.

So this weekend is my last weekend in this house, which is a very strange thought and I can't quite get my head around it. I'm going to miss the house, it's lovely, and I'm especially going to miss the huge ginormous most-comfortable-sofas-in-the-world we have. Most of my friends seem to have lived in this house at some point over the last few years, and those who haven't lived here, have certainly stayed the night here and most people have had sex in various parts of the house, including on this sofa I'm sitting on right now. Heh. Yes, that includes me...but anyway, too much information. It's the end of an era as the landlady is moving back in here, so goodbye to 8 Pleasant Close, being the social centre of our friendship group it seems! I'm quite sad to see it go, living in a 3 bed semi detached house makes me feel like a proper grown up. Being a lodger living with my landlady makes me feel like I'm taking a step backwards. Gah, come on, it's a good thing. I'll be a lot closer to work and I'll have more of my independence.

I'm packing in earnest this weekend and have started affecting the address change; I've told the bank my new address and I'm about to get a divert with the Post Office. It's £15 for six months which is worth it if you've forgotten to tell anyone about your new address. The last divert I got to this house only ran out in October, and now I've got to set up another one!

My life has once again been taken over The Gorum. I haven't posted there properly for years, but I've made my comeback and have alreaedy posted almost 500 messages in just over a week...it's a great community, I don't know why I ever left, and I've already been invited to two events that are taking place :-D I was welcomed back into the fold so easily, it's like I've never been away.

Ah, I've decided what I'm making for one of the people who posted on my handmade gifts entry :-D I can't wait to get started, I just need to gather all the right materials together. Some of you might have to wait a while as each thing has to be handmade, so don't be disappointed if it doesn't come right away, I haven't forgotten you :o)

Pole dancing on Thursday was ace, meeting Donna wasn't as scary as Jess made it out to be and I learned some awesome new moves and combinations. Sure, it was painful and hard work and, as Jess said to me "I'm just one giant bruise!" but I really felt like I got somewhere with it. I'm looking forward to the choreography class we're going to later :o) I'm going to have to get some photos and videos sorted out sometime so you can all see what I'm up to!

I seem to be getting colder and colder as I sit here, it feels like a door or window has been left open somewhere. How strange. *shivers*

Anyway, back the packing... *sigh* I hate moving house.

Number 29 in my list of 101 things in 1001 days, dramatically change my hair with either a cut or a dye. I did both!( Photos! )



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Lady at work said to my boss "Is it just me or has Delaney put on quite a bit of weight lately?" My boss says "Well I should hope she has, she's having a baby!" Delaney just happens to be 32 weeks pregnant, but it seems it's passed Carole by completely and she just thought she was putting weight on...but only on her belly...lol.( Twlight review here )

Ooh I'm going to ask the lady at the new house if I can swap the furniture around in the rooms and maybe I'll have room to put up my very own pole which will be ace! I'll have to ask her what she thinks, I hope she won't mind. Then I can practice as much as I want at home and not have to wait until I go to classes, meaning I'm progressing a lot slower than everyone else and spending more money doing it!

Anyway, oops, I've just had an hour and 10 minutes for my lunch and I normally only have 45 minutes, I kept getting distraced by various journals and forums and things! Back to work.

Pole dancing was going great last night, I was doing all the spins no problem despite my six week absence. But then we got onto the inverts and it turns out that I've been doing it wrong all this time. ( Read more... )

Number 73 in my 101 things in 1001 days challenge, hug at least five people in one day.

Do you know what, I bet I did this more than once over the Christmas period. Everyone at work was hugging everyone on the last day, and on Christmas Eve I went out with all my friends and hugged a lot of them including Rachael, Peter, Richard, Sarah, Judith, Rosie, my sister's friend Helen, so that's way more than five! Eeeexcellent, another one to cross off the list. By the end of the month I really should have completed 18 to be keeping on track, and I'm only on 11 at the moment. Sonja, how many have you done? :op

Pole dancing tonight for the first time in about six weeks. I went to Jess' last night for a quick practice before tonight's lesson and I was pleased to find that I can still get into the invert position, but my thigh grip isn't strong enough to hold me upside down any more, boo. It's amazing how quickly you lose physical ability to do things unless you keep it up regularly.

I hope they've got the heating on tonight. When you're wearing tiny shorts and a t-shirt and no socks, it gets kind of cold in a dance studio when it's -1°C outside. Brrr!

Look at me writing all these public entries again :o) A step in the right direction for definite.

Thanks for all of your notes in my last entry, I posted the same one over on OpenDiary and everyone on both entries said I should choose house number two. So I'm going to ring the lady and ask to have another look, I'll look more closely this time and try to imagine myself living there, but I'm pretty certain it's going to be the best option. As everyone's pointed out, two miles from town isn't very far at all considering woosgirl said that she lives 30 miles from the nearest town! I've just been spoiled and always lived within easy walking distance of everything, but now I've realised that it isn't going to be a problem, I'm quite excited about it! Pete's going to be living 3.5 miles away from the city centre in Nottingham, so I'm going to be closer to the pubs than he is ;o)

I'm going to be working on a few things from my list of 101 things in 1001 days. ( Read more... )

I love having projects :o)

Now I'm torn between two houses!( Read more... )

What would you do???



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This is number 32 on my 101 things in 1001 days challenge. I actually completed it ages ago but never got around to writing it up. ( Read more... )

Sooo, lincoln_sx_echo suggested we do a motorbike trip in the Summer. I suggested we do John O'Groats to Land's End and she called it Mini Way Down. She said I had to be Charley and do all the wheelies, but really, I'd rather be Eve if we can get Ewan to come along. Only, I'll be less whiny ;o)

Anyway, I don't know how many of you have bikes / licences / are planning on getting one, but get yourself over to the event (not sure if that link will work...) I created on FaceBook and see what you think. And while you're there, you can add me to your friends list if you're not already on there ;o)

We're doing Secret Santa at work tomorrow, I'll have to remember to wrap the present I bought, then remember to actually take it in! There's a bloke at work who always gets us a box of Thornton's chocolates each, but this year his wife bought the presents and got us something different. Tracy was tempted and had a peek and made all sorts off "ooh" and "ahh" noises...so I was naughty and had a peek too. I know, I'm bad, but she intrigued me! We all got a bottle of Davidoff Cool Water, which I thought was very generous! I was hoping I'd get some perfume this year as my last bottle has almost run out. I know, I only have one bottle of perfume at a time, but I don't wear it very often and it always lasts me ages. My last bottle is Live! by Jennifer Lopez, and I don't care about the name on it but I really like it! I've never smelled this Davidoff one before, I hope it's nice :o)

I'm going to see Four Christmasses at the cinema with Abi tonight. It's not normally my cup of tea but I need to keep my spirits up so hopefully it'll make me laugh :o) I think I'll have battered jumbo and chips for dinner, I haven't had chip shop chips for absolutely weeks! I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to have to learn how to cook for one again. Normally when Pete's away I live off ready meals as it's too much time, effort and mess to cook just for one person, but that's not healthy in the long term is it! Anyone have any tips? :o)

I'm back! I still have a massive pile of your notes to reply to. I don't like the way Googlemail does it. It puts all of your notes from one entry into one email and every time you get a new one, it shoves it in there with the rest. Thing is, when you reply a note, you can only delete the whole email at once, so if you open one, you have to reply to all the notes in one sitting before you can delete it, which is very annoying. I might switch back over to Hotmail and see if the problem has been fixed.

Well, I'm very disappointed to report that my holiday was very very boring! The complex where my parents' house is hasn't been finished so there are no shops, bars, restaurants etc, no people, there isn't even any mains electricity or water so they kept on randomly cutting out whenever we were in the shower or trying to cook dinner or something. At one point we were without water for 24 hours! It's amazing, you don't realise how much you use it until it isn't there; boiling the kettle, cooking, washing up, laundry, brushing teeth, having a shower, washing your hands, even flushing the toilet! We ended up buying big 5 litre bottles of water and Dad filled up a bucket from the swimming pool to flush the toilet with!

The nearest town was 15km away but by the time Dad had sorted himself out in the morning, we had lunch and then headed into town, but it Spain everything is closed between 2pm and 5pm, so we were randomly wandering around the streets and on the beach, shivering in the cold wind, with nothing to do. The week felt like a month and I can sadly report that I've never been to happy to see Liverpool airport in all my life when we finally got back!

I'll post some photos so you can see how deserted it was; see how many people you can spot in the photos apart from the three of us!( Photos this way! )

I hope you're all well, I am trying to catch up with you but you've all been so busy, it's taking me a while. There's no way I'll be able to catch up on the Playground, you naughty ladies have been posting too much. Quick, is there any important news that happened in the last week that I need to know about? :o)

Another quickie today. I'm off home then straight out to Nottingham to meet Pete and his Mum for dinner. I'm still annoyed Pete's going to the pub to meet his friends so he can "be out partying until 2am" leaving me to bring his Mum home and look after her for the evening and tomorrow morning as he isn't even going to be coming home all night. I think that's really inconsiderate and rude towards both of us. It's not like he never sees his friends, he's already been out with them twice this week, surely he can miss one night out because his Mum's travelled 120 miles to see him. Obviously not.

I put the Christmas tree and decorations up in our office today :oD much to the disgruntlment of one lady (actually, the one who's been causing all the trouble!) because it's apparently too soon, she's been moaning about it all day!

I've tried to catch up to all of your notes and I really appreciate them, but if I haven't replied to you yet then I'm really sorry, I'm overwhelmed by how much you all care and didn't expect to get such a huge response. I promise I'll reply when I get back from holiday. *hugs you all tightly*

Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll get to write again after tonight as I'm off to my sister's house tomorrow night and then I'm off to Spain so you might not see me again for a week! If not, then I've failed NoJoMo, but only by 3 days, so not a bad effort I think. Have fun, see you in a week!

So Pete's gone to Hooters tonight, not sure when he'll be back.

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I went pole dancing and I can now easily go upside down on my own with no help from anyone, woot woot! Now I feel I can call myself a proper pole dancer now I'm not just swinging around the pole, I'm now doing unaided inverts :o)

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I know it's early, actually it's exactly one month today, but I saw some really cute gel Christmas window decorations and couldn't wait to put them up. Each piece is a separate bit of gel; Santa's eyes, nose hands etc, it took ages to get them up but I think they're really cute!( Read more... )



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It turns out that the NoJoMo challenge I did yesterday was supposed to be done on the 27th, which is apparently Thanksgiving day, so I'm a bit ahead of myself...

Today's challenge is a Groundhog Day thing, we have to pick a day we want to live over and over again. How boring, I don't have a day I want to do over and over again, I really can't think of a particular single day that I loved that much. The other part is to pick a day we wouldn't want to live again. That's easy ( Read more... )

This is a public entry, it's not double locked like my last two, hence the tone will be very different.

I can't do today's NoJoMo challenge purely because I'm not American. Scabby xenophobic NoJoMo wanting us to post our favourite Thanksgiving recipe.

The other thing they suggested was to post 50 things we are grateful for. Fifty! That's going to take a while I suppose I could give it a go.( OK so I only got to 15, that makes me seem really ungrateful...! )

I'm going to throw out the Secret Santa idea again. Last time it was only kewfant4ewan who was interested, but I thought maybe it was too close to Christmas for people to think about. Well now it's only five weeks so I'll post it again. ( Come and join the fun! )

So, leave me a note if you're interested and give me your ideas :o) *excited*

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As well as Secret Santa, I'd like to send a Christmas card to you all, so if I don't already have your address please leave it in a note and I'll send you a card :o)

Hang on, I forgot to post day 17...

Day 17

Well I've done pretty well with the challenges so far but I don't think I can do today's challenge. ( Read more... )

Day 18

Today's challenge is The Dinner Party, which I've never actually done before. You can invite up to 11 people, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would they be? ( Read more... )

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I'm behind again...I have five more entries to import from my OpenDiary. I'm still doing NoJoMo so here are the last five. ( Read more... )