Over a month since I last blogged...jeeeez....now my holiday is in 5days!!! Gran Canaria here we come!
Found out today that next week is CARNIVAL WEEK in Playa Del Ingles which is where we are staying woooooo! See this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr86TGcgv78
All day/night street parties, parades, drag queen competitions and at some point a paella to feed 2000 people!
My hair is now blonde! Thanks to the wondeful hairdressers at Boosh, Swansea. They have performed a total miracle on my hair since last summer. It was very dark brown, almost black, but over a few sessions they have managed to make it first brown, by cleansing it then dying it (this is a nice sounding way of saying they stripped it) then gradually blonder through highlights. It looks natural too because the highlights are so thin and carefully done....nothing like when I tried to bleach my own hair in the first year of uni...gaaah total disaster....and when I tried to give myself highlights and ended up with obviously stripey hair.
Oh I could sit here for days and tell you of all my hair dye emergencies and disasters. But....no more! I am staying with the professionals now!
It sounds like my poor hair should be ragged with all the stripping, dying and bleaching but it is actually in really good condition. Can't recommend Boosh highly enough! Each time I've left there I've been really pleased.
I have been really good going to the gym 5 days a week before work since January but now I am sitting in bed with the left over Christmas tub of Roses next to me :)
As always I have eaten too many and now feel sick! Put the tin AWAY girl.
5 days 5 days!!
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Thursday, 3 February 2011
New Passport!
Today I have managed to sort out my passport (at long last), "Hooray!" I hear my mother cry! But GOD is it not expensive??
Mine hadn't expired in the sense that the date wasn't up until 2014, however it had pretty much physically expired.
It looks like it has been through the washing machine, been bitten by a dog, been swilled around in a swamp etc etc....
Like an idot I have been carrying my passport around in my bag for the last 3 or 4 years. Most people who sensibly keep their passports in a safe drawer or maybe even in a special passport cover or case will be wondering if I am mad.....
It turns out that yes, I probably am mad as it has resulted in me having to pay this extortionate amount of money 3 years before I would have needed to when my passport expired.
Not that I am not GLAD to be rid of the pasty faced picture of a hungover and overweight teenager...Ok so in my new photo I look like a scruffy tramp, as my casually windswept updo came across on the photo as more like I couldn't be arsed to brush my hair rather than the fashionable hairdo I thought I wore, but hey, at least the tramp is 3 stone lighter.
Anyway, you may be wondering why I chose to carry this expensive and valuable document around in my bag for all these years? Good question, I am wondering that myself. I use it for ID for when I buy wine or go to pub or whatever...you never know when these opportunities will present themselves, right?
Well why didn't I get a provisional licence? It is cheaper and easier to replace....well I did have one once, but I lost it when I lost my purse in Ayia Napa when I was 18.
Ok.....
So why didn't I have some sort of Proof of Age Card? Oh but I did! I lost that when I lost my purse in Glastonbury 2008.
Theme here?
So anyway I decided that "just for now" I would use my passport as ID. Yes I am 25 but I get ID'd a lot ok?? Not just for wine either, but for lottery, cigarettes and once for a packet of razors.
You see my need for constant ID?
It is amazing I have never lost my passport considering how my other forms of ID have met their demise. Oh but wait....I did lose my passport once! But fortunately got it returned to me although I did have to go out in the rain with a hangover to get it...shouldn't complain though.
Anyway, as it has been in my bag it has been rained on, scuffed over and over again as I rootle around in my bag for stuff, had beef stew spilt on it, had drinks spilt on it when I spill drinks in my bag.
Anyway it was time for a new one as I have had a few comments at the airport, nothing serious but as I am going away a few times this year I do not want to risk being told I cannot fly! The laminate had come away from the photo page in the corner and apparently that can mean refusal.
Mine hadn't expired in the sense that the date wasn't up until 2014, however it had pretty much physically expired.
It looks like it has been through the washing machine, been bitten by a dog, been swilled around in a swamp etc etc....
Like an idot I have been carrying my passport around in my bag for the last 3 or 4 years. Most people who sensibly keep their passports in a safe drawer or maybe even in a special passport cover or case will be wondering if I am mad.....
It turns out that yes, I probably am mad as it has resulted in me having to pay this extortionate amount of money 3 years before I would have needed to when my passport expired.
Not that I am not GLAD to be rid of the pasty faced picture of a hungover and overweight teenager...Ok so in my new photo I look like a scruffy tramp, as my casually windswept updo came across on the photo as more like I couldn't be arsed to brush my hair rather than the fashionable hairdo I thought I wore, but hey, at least the tramp is 3 stone lighter.
Anyway, you may be wondering why I chose to carry this expensive and valuable document around in my bag for all these years? Good question, I am wondering that myself. I use it for ID for when I buy wine or go to pub or whatever...you never know when these opportunities will present themselves, right?
Well why didn't I get a provisional licence? It is cheaper and easier to replace....well I did have one once, but I lost it when I lost my purse in Ayia Napa when I was 18.
Ok.....
So why didn't I have some sort of Proof of Age Card? Oh but I did! I lost that when I lost my purse in Glastonbury 2008.
Theme here?
So anyway I decided that "just for now" I would use my passport as ID. Yes I am 25 but I get ID'd a lot ok?? Not just for wine either, but for lottery, cigarettes and once for a packet of razors.
You see my need for constant ID?
It is amazing I have never lost my passport considering how my other forms of ID have met their demise. Oh but wait....I did lose my passport once! But fortunately got it returned to me although I did have to go out in the rain with a hangover to get it...shouldn't complain though.
Anyway, as it has been in my bag it has been rained on, scuffed over and over again as I rootle around in my bag for stuff, had beef stew spilt on it, had drinks spilt on it when I spill drinks in my bag.
Anyway it was time for a new one as I have had a few comments at the airport, nothing serious but as I am going away a few times this year I do not want to risk being told I cannot fly! The laminate had come away from the photo page in the corner and apparently that can mean refusal.So to make sure I can go on my girly holiday to Gran Canaria next month I have applied for a new one and paid for a 2 week service just to be sure. Bloody bloody expensive though.
Also, mine isn't quite as bad as the picture, it does not have any ripped pages...although was probably only a matter of time!
I do not want to be like this man: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7695225.stm
And my passport looked worse than his definitely. Looks like I have been lucky over the last few years being able to go anywhere, especially as I have been travelling on Ryan Air!
At least when they send me the old one back I can continue to use it for ID and spill beef stew and drinks on it and keep the new one in a safe drawer or maybe in a special holder like someone who really looks after their valuable and expensive documents.
At least when they send me the old one back I can continue to use it for ID and spill beef stew and drinks on it and keep the new one in a safe drawer or maybe in a special holder like someone who really looks after their valuable and expensive documents.
Monday, 24 January 2011
Marketer's dream
GAAH. Second (and thankfully last) exam today at 12pm.
Have been revising my head off, in between eating consoling chocolates and buying benefit make up as a "reward" for work I haven't yet done. What?!
I am now waiting not so patiently for my purchases to arrive which will give me flawless glowing skin.......yes I believe the gimmicks.
Being a marketing student this makes me even more of a sucker because I know exactly what tricks they are using to get us to BUY! BUY! BUY! and I fall for it hook, line and sinker all the time. And I love it!!
Have been revising my head off, in between eating consoling chocolates and buying benefit make up as a "reward" for work I haven't yet done. What?!
I am now waiting not so patiently for my purchases to arrive which will give me flawless glowing skin.......yes I believe the gimmicks.
Being a marketing student this makes me even more of a sucker because I know exactly what tricks they are using to get us to BUY! BUY! BUY! and I fall for it hook, line and sinker all the time. And I love it!!To quote from some cosmetics company or other that I have come across in my revision, "In the factory we make cosmetics. In the drugstore we sell hope." Too true!
I am waiting for Benefit Benetint - a liquid blusher which is "the sexiest flush you can get from a bottle" har har insert slutty remark here...and Dr Feel Good - "A creamy complexion enhancer" or something like that bla bla.
I am probably a marketers dream. Hopefully this will help me today and my battering of my bank balance will not have been in vain all these years!
I am probably a marketers dream. Hopefully this will help me today and my battering of my bank balance will not have been in vain all these years!
Anyway, should be going back over my notes.................
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Thank you Jebus
Revision. @|'fgg\|+mhgf"@kk!!!!!!
Spent all morning in work revising for my Marketing exam which is on Tuesday. So far I have revised about a quarter of what i need to know...for this subject. If the correct questions come up....we answer 3 questions out of 6.
Lecturer 1 said "Just revise 3 topics out of the 6 really well and write down a model answer to remember and then just adapt it to fit the question."
Lecturer 2 said "Only revising 3 is the worst mistake you could make. You are asking to fail"
Oh.
Well as it happens I agree with lecturer 2, cos if I only revise 3 and cannot answer one of the questions I will be stuck cos will not have revised anything else. So now I have do revise everything for all 6. GOD.
Also have accounting to revise this weekend. 100%. Not good. Dividend Policy anyone?? Soft and Hard Rationing?? Calculating the Internal Rate of Return?? This is how I will be spending my precious and treasured weekend.
But not as much to learn for Accounting as for Marketing due to half of the question being a calculation, which I think I know how to do. Better practice a couple of times though. Cannot wait for them to be over...
Now for the reward....
I nearly spent £200 on a pair of Ugg boots before Christmas, but am glad I didn't now as before lunch had an email from advert mail saying one of the lecturers is selling a pair of Uggs, unworn, £50!! Total bargain. I just had to.
My current comfy boolts that I wear have no grip so even walking in the rain I am sliding everywhere.
As I may have mentioned, I do not need any extra help in falling over!!
Brand new unworn Ugg boots on advert mail for £50. Waaaaahh!!!
Perhaps a reward from Jebus for starting revision??Spent all morning in work revising for my Marketing exam which is on Tuesday. So far I have revised about a quarter of what i need to know...for this subject. If the correct questions come up....we answer 3 questions out of 6.
Lecturer 1 said "Just revise 3 topics out of the 6 really well and write down a model answer to remember and then just adapt it to fit the question."
Oh.
Well as it happens I agree with lecturer 2, cos if I only revise 3 and cannot answer one of the questions I will be stuck cos will not have revised anything else. So now I have do revise everything for all 6. GOD.
Also have accounting to revise this weekend. 100%. Not good. Dividend Policy anyone?? Soft and Hard Rationing?? Calculating the Internal Rate of Return?? This is how I will be spending my precious and treasured weekend.But not as much to learn for Accounting as for Marketing due to half of the question being a calculation, which I think I know how to do. Better practice a couple of times though. Cannot wait for them to be over...
Now for the reward....
I nearly spent £200 on a pair of Ugg boots before Christmas, but am glad I didn't now as before lunch had an email from advert mail saying one of the lecturers is selling a pair of Uggs, unworn, £50!! Total bargain. I just had to.
My current comfy boolts that I wear have no grip so even walking in the rain I am sliding everywhere.
As I may have mentioned, I do not need any extra help in falling over!!
Thursday, 16 December 2010
The Boring Hour
14.35
Isn't that the worst time when you are at work? Long enough after lunch so that you think it should be later...but still 2 and a half hours away from hometime. Bang in the middle. Limbo. The Boring Hour - between 2.30 and 3.30 yaaaawn. At least when it gets to 3.30 I can start looking forward to going home at 5.
Mikes parents are away in Bath for the night so we have the house to ourselves, I am going to be putting fake tan on and giving mike a fashion parade of my dresses to decide which to wear tomorrow. Not in that order. Lucky boy no??
Isn't that the worst time when you are at work? Long enough after lunch so that you think it should be later...but still 2 and a half hours away from hometime. Bang in the middle. Limbo. The Boring Hour - between 2.30 and 3.30 yaaaawn. At least when it gets to 3.30 I can start looking forward to going home at 5.
Mikes parents are away in Bath for the night so we have the house to ourselves, I am going to be putting fake tan on and giving mike a fashion parade of my dresses to decide which to wear tomorrow. Not in that order. Lucky boy no??
Friday, 10 December 2010
Leopard Print and Other News
I have an unhealthy obsession with leopard print and animal print that has been growing steadily. I already own a leopard print top, a leopard print vest, a leopard print dressing gown, a pair of leopard print pajamas and slippers! However in the last 4 days I have bought: Fluffy animal print coat see pic, chiffon leopard print dress and a leopard print cape top!
Perhaps I will turn into a leopard?
Look at my looovely coat it is so fluffy and warm!!
Mike and I have moved into his parents house and this weekend we will have been there for 2 weeks. Its going well and they are making us feel very welcome :-) Last night they said they are going to put a full length mirror on the inside of my wardrobe as at the moment I just use the little mirror in the bathroom so that is very much appreciated and really nice of them.
Mike has the day off today for one of his Christmas parties (he gets TWO!) but he very kindly got up early and brought me into work even though I offered to get the bus. So now he has gone back to bed for a bit before his mum gives him and his dad a lift into town and they will go for a pint together before going to have their Christmas lunch. They work on the same floor in the DVLA in case you were wondering why Mike is taking his father to his party!
Later today Kim is picking me up at 5pm and I have a bag of presents to give to her for her and the twins and it will be really nice to see the twins as I haven't seen them since the summer. They're nearly 4 now so will have changed quite a bit since I last saw them as they are growing up really fast! Then after Kim has dropped the twins with their dad we are going out for a meal in Chiquitos. Can't wait to see her and catch up and drink some wine! If Mike is still out later I will meet up with him but if not Kim has offered to drive me home (She is not drinking the wine lol)
So I just need today in work to faaaack off so I can start enjoying the weekend! The only good thing about today is some clothes I have ordered from http://www.asos.com/ are arriving today so that is exciting. Here is a picture of my purchases...check out the sparkly party dress!!And of course the leopard print!
Monday, 22 November 2010
Rubbish
God I am rubbish at blogging. Fact. I have not updated this in over a month even though lots of things have happened....I will do a short summary:
1) I ran the half marathon! Except it wasnt a half marathon, it was measured wrong and was actually 0.1 miles too short or something ridiculous. Luckily I started in the slowest possible pen with all the old ladies dressed in pink cowboy hats so I had to run a good 0.5 miles to even cross the start line.
2) Remember that dickhead that I work with? You know, the fat loser one? (I am not "fattist" but this guy deserves every insult going) anyway he pushed my anger to new levels a couple of weeks ago by winding a lecturer up by telling her she was not going to get paid and telling them to phone me to ask WHY. In fact they were going to get paid and I had taken the spreadhseet with the payments into payroll the prevoius day. I managed to calm the irate lecturer down and explain that he (the idiot lazy arse) had made a mistake. When I confronted him he said he couldnt be bothered to check on the spreadsheet THAT WAS ON THE DESK NEXT TO HIM so just told her she was not getting paid and to speak to me. So he winds her up and send her my way for NO reason at all. Nice one you fucking tool. I could have written a post on this, see?
4) Other stuff has happened that I can't remember. In a month all I can think of is those 2 things?!?!
I have eaten a lot of mince pies and chocolate cake but that's not really newsworthy as it is a frequent occurence. Must blog better to avoid this seive brain when it comes to writing up all the weeks I have missed.
1) I ran the half marathon! Except it wasnt a half marathon, it was measured wrong and was actually 0.1 miles too short or something ridiculous. Luckily I started in the slowest possible pen with all the old ladies dressed in pink cowboy hats so I had to run a good 0.5 miles to even cross the start line.
2) Remember that dickhead that I work with? You know, the fat loser one? (I am not "fattist" but this guy deserves every insult going) anyway he pushed my anger to new levels a couple of weeks ago by winding a lecturer up by telling her she was not going to get paid and telling them to phone me to ask WHY. In fact they were going to get paid and I had taken the spreadhseet with the payments into payroll the prevoius day. I managed to calm the irate lecturer down and explain that he (the idiot lazy arse) had made a mistake. When I confronted him he said he couldnt be bothered to check on the spreadsheet THAT WAS ON THE DESK NEXT TO HIM so just told her she was not getting paid and to speak to me. So he winds her up and send her my way for NO reason at all. Nice one you fucking tool. I could have written a post on this, see?
4) Other stuff has happened that I can't remember. In a month all I can think of is those 2 things?!?!
I have eaten a lot of mince pies and chocolate cake but that's not really newsworthy as it is a frequent occurence. Must blog better to avoid this seive brain when it comes to writing up all the weeks I have missed.
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