important things to take on holiday:

in no particular order:

• more underwear than youd think youd need, and less clothes (although i think i wore everything i took other than one top)
• painkillers (bfs mystery agnosing shoulder pain made driving/doing anything that involoved moving tricky and i didnt bring anything strong enough)
• scissors (theyre just generally handy and a very blunt kitchen knife isnt really as useful)
• arnica cream/something for bruises (i fell down the stairs)
• actually if travelling with me, just bring a whole first aid kit
• beach towel(s) (my mum bought us some on her holiday, i said i didnt need/want/like them- i cant remember what they had on them but they were tacky. we then spent ages looking for somewhere to buy one, when we did it was extra tacky and didnt get you dry at all, instead it just covered you in multicoloured fluff. whereas my mums would have been washed and dried and nice and soft and absorbent)
• a sewing kit (when i fell i ripped the bum of my pants) (and my knickers...)
• plasters (flip flops vs. feet didnt go too well. i couldnt find any specific blister plasters but the ones with silver in are quite good)
• batteries (we ended up buying loads that lasted about ten minutes, so we had gone through quite a few eight hundred and odd photos later)

i think thats everything! feel free to add your own though...

i have new fish. i got my original fish a few months ago and not long after there was a slight problem (they died) it was quite traumatic, i was very attached to them already and whatever was wrong with them it wasnt very nice to see. poor little things. but now i have new fish, and this time theyre 'our' fish, me and the bfs. i got them a little house the other day- its a treasure chest actually. theyve been very wary of it and would swim anywhere but near it, but tonight one of them was brave enough to go in it and now theyre both cosied up in there, its sweet.



my holiday came and went too fast, it was fantastic though. other than a few hiccups me and the bf got along fine spending that much time together, it was a bit of an adjustment going from hardly ever seeing each other to being together all day every day for two weeks but its made us alot closer

update: the fish are now madly in love with their house (i started writing this yesterday and sort of lost interest...)

lazy sunday

it was dark when i woke up. woken up by the bf, but via text sadly, not in person. we had (yet another) disagreement yesterday, which ended in me missing a's birthday night out, just to be stubborn really. but we ended up talking and sorting things out. he comes home next week, and we go on holiday a few days after that, so i really want everything to be ok. or more than ok ideally.

its suddenly very sunny now, its only 10.15 but hopefully it will last (dark cloud covers the sun just as i type that) im meeting a this afternoon instead, but not for long since im already going to my parents for late sunday dinner, to be deafened by their holiday stories, and a new tv, which there will no doubt be some problem with but..nevermind.

i think i might also be off out with the 19y/o tonight as well, so thats quite a busy day for me!

i also need to fit in a supermarket trip to look for holiday things and i havent got a a card yet- after a failed attempt to make one, so i should really go and get ready

and its cloudy now,,,so i cant test drive any of my new flip flops...

beep beep!

well well, i really am out of touch with blogging, i do miss it at times, and still read a few when i have the time, which isnt alot at the moment- which is good in a way i suppose, but i would like to think i can still write little bits now and again, and hopefully someone out there might still read it!

so the last time i wrote here i said i was going to learn to drive, that was back in june, and i only had my first lesson today! that was mostly because i am lazy, i will always find ways to fill my time in when im putting off doing something else, i couldnt decide on an instructor, and some of the time i was genuinely busy. but mostly i was being lazy. i was sooooo nervous, i was panicing when i even rang about making an appointment, i dont know why really but i was dreading even phoning him. but i did, got it sorted and im so glad i did. it went well, especially considering ive not had a lesson in (i think) about 7 years. he said it wont take me long to get through it, so thats cool. and best of all i really enjoyed it!

im impatient though, i want another lesson now! or to hopefully get some practice in, which is hard with the bf being actual hundreds of miles away. speaking of the bf, weve been together 6 months this weekend, and everythings great. i went to visit him, all those hundreds of miles away at the weekend, which was an adventure. it was really nice, lovely weather and we packed loads into the weekend. i came home early yesterday after nearly missing my flight....scary stuff!

ok thats all i have to say for now cos im half asleep

hello people

wow, i havent written anything here for a while. i only am now cos ive decided i need to learn to drive- with a slight nine and a half year delay from when i originally planned to, spurred on by wg1 passing her test, and getting a car last week, and also the fact that the boyfriend has a car sitting idle for the majority of the time. i used to be quite good at revising and stuff like that, but the highway code might just be the dullest thing ever to read, and i have absoultely no concentration span whatsoever, as proved by recent events at work which proved to me, and anyone else that might have had any faith in me, that i do not and can not pay attention to anything of any importance. im doing it now, im being distracted by an advert while typing this, and wondering what to watch now that ive just watched tomorrows hollyoaks, incase im stuck at work and miss it. fun!

oops, i just thought as well another incentive to drive is to visit the boyfriend, who is Very Far Away. seriously. it sucks. but thats all going suprisingly well (other than the distance, obv) its been just over three months now (though generally i see him like one weekend a month, but theres been the bank holidays lately as well) we do have alot of minor disagreements- nearly all because i am a huffy bitch, and he is a jealous...person, at times. but other than that all is well, i am happy.

im not really sure ill keep this blog stuff up, if i do it will be very occasionally and just me checking in. i do still read other peoples, though i dont comment much because im lazy.

i now have hiccups and im sick of this reading business. im going to do something more thrilling, like make dinner. woo!

hello

after rushing round trying to get ready for work, as i do most mornings, my boss rang me to say come into work 'when i like' as its so so quiet. as it should be, its good friday and yet were open allllll day. i said id go in half an hour later than usual, not actually 'when i like' cos that would be about 4, and i finish at half past.



this time last year (but it wasnt, cos easter had already happened) but this time last good friday i was very very hungover, after a long night of drinking etc, with david and a friend whos house we ended up at, i went home about 6am, paranoid to leave because the 18y/os mums boyfriend is this guys neighbour, came home, slept, went back to work and did it all over again.



this year...well im half ready for work, watching the news drinking tea and eating chocolate sneaked out of one of my easter eggs. im still with ng. he needs a new name! its been....5 weeks? yeah, 5 tomorrow and its going ok

see, i wrote that bit above on friday and its now wednesday- id realised i should probably like, go to work. and i get very little time on my own lately, which is nice but means i never get anything done. ng is away for a few days so ive been catching up on boring but necisarry (cant spell it) things. and then after that were going on a tiny holiday!

so yeah, things are going well, despite a few blips+ridiculous fallings out over misunderstandings over seemingly unimportant things (facebook being the worst one, and has caused actual hours of hassle!) but everythings fine, other than it being time for work again. i just need to find time to catch up on other peoples blogs now!

am alive. will write soon.

ish.