Long weekend

So It's been pretty hectic at work of late and I've been going a bit mad. I decided to take a 'flex day' on Friday (25th November) and a days holiday on Monday (28th November), Saturday - Sunday are freebies.

I had high hopes of how I was going to spend my time: quality time with myself, relaxing etc. but unfortunately I'm absolutely useless at relaxing and I didn't really have the fulfilling time I thought I was going to have. But like B*witched once said: C'est la vie.

Steve and I watched 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Friday night. It's your classic American big-budget event and you really have to suspend your belief throughout. To be honest, ever since I saw that documentary about the woman who had her face and arms ripped off by a chimp (gruesome stuff) my feelings towards them have changed, no longer do I think of them as the friendly PG tips drinking/friends of Michael Jackson but violent predators waiting to take over the planet!

Friendly Chimps

As per your last blog, we've downloaded 'Our Idiot Brother' and look forward to watching it shortly.

Sunday, Steve and I went to the Mad Moose for lunch (as we had a 20% off voucher!) I had sweet chili chicken noodles, he had a pork roast dinner. After dinner and on my request, we went to ASDA (<3) to buy food for the week. I ditched the gym in favour of getting in bed to watch the new series of 'Misfits' on 4OD. I wasn't entirely impressed, my favourite character has left (that Irish one).

Monday/Today was/is the best day. I got my lazy bottom out of bed, drove Steve to work, got to the gym for 9:30am (I've lost my blasting edge a bit) then had a walk round town . Upon returning home I walked my Puggy and did the washing up.

I wish I could tell you that I'd bought loads of lovely stuff recently but I haven't because I am totes skint.
There's lots and lots of things I want (naturally) I have made you a little collage of a few items. Enjoy.

1. Knitted Penguin Jumper - £50 - Topshop
2. Plushious Bag from Fuzzynation.
Check out this link, it's AWESOME: www.fuzzynation.com. They sell them in Jarrolds but they didn't have a Pug one :( 
3. Les Tai Tai - Compact Mirror 'Cobracabana'
4. OPI nail varnish in 'Rainbow Connection'
5. and/or Knitted Reindeer Jumper - £50 - Topshop
6. Baby Deer Ornament - £12 - Topshop
7. 'Unconditionally Fabulous' nail varnish - £10 - Mac
8. Leopard print detail loafers - £40 - Next

* As requested, my gym playlist currently  looks a bit like this:

All Fired Up - The Saturdays
Break the Ice - Britney Spears
Breathe - Prodigy
Down With the Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks
Earthquake - Labrinth (current fave)
Fight For this Love - Cheryl Cole
Foundations - Kate Nash
Hold it Against Me - Britney Spears
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
The New Workout Plan - Kanye West
Pass Out - Tinie Tempah
Radioactive - Marina and the Diamonds
Rollin - Limp Biskit
Run the World (Girls) - Beyonce
Shake it Out - Florence and the Machine
Since You've Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Stronger - Kanye West
Super Bass - Nicki Minaj
Sweat - David Guetta feat. Snoop Dogg
We Found Love - Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna
We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup
We R Who We R - Ke$ha
What Do You Take Me For - Pixie Lott
What Makes You Beautiful - 1D
Yeah - Usher
3 - Britney Spears

- This is a constant work in progress, changing on a weekly basis as it doesn't take me long to get bored. Hopefully there's some inspiration in this week's offering. Suggestions are highly welcome.

Things I am Lovin':

Starbucks Gingerbread Lattes.

 

I can't get enough of these bad boys. I could drink them every day.

Recent events in my life:

Brother Ryan moved in!
He's made himself at home in my spare room (formally your Sponge Bob room) even purchasing the most disgusting piece of furniture from Argos I have ever seen...

If it's possible for a shitty 'Wardrobe' to transport you back to New York this is it.

Love and Pugs!

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My 28th Birthday 2011: Italy & London

My brief but thrilling journal of events (grammar, correct tense & punctuation not included):

Thursday, 20th October 2011: Arrive at Pisa airport 9am (Day in Pisa), climb the leaning tower/almost deck it on the slippery marble stairs on the way down, buy tat (including snow globe & leaning tower ornament), have pizza outside the tower/cathedral in a cosy little Italian bistro, Papa and I fall asleep on the train to Florence (without tickets) and are rudely awoken by the conductor, Papa winds up some Americans, back to hotel/very nice (best I've stayed in), rest, Swordfish for dinner, BBC world news: Goddafi is dead!

Friday, 21st October 2011: (Day in Florence) : awesome (continental) breakfast, watch Jersey Shore on MTV Italy, climb the Duomo (lots of steps!), visit the Piazza della Signoria (the center of political life in Florence since the 14^th century), gaze at the Ponte Vecchio "Old Bridge", consume espresso and pizza for lunch, lots of little churches and tourist sights observed, visit Michelangelo’s David, MORE Tat (including Firenze university hoody, snow globe & football shirt for Stephen), back to hotel, rest/watch Godaffi related news, dinner at local restaurant, awesome pepperoni Calzone/peroni, Papa stares at the waitress.

Saturday, 22nd October 2011: (Day in Rome) get up at 6am (leg muscles in agony 'FML'), catch fast train from Florence to Rome, left at 7:30 get there 9:30, start day at the Vatican, see lots of religious art and history, buy nodding Pope outside the Vatican/have red bull to keep up energy, the Spanish Steps, the Trevi fountain (throw in a coin for good luck which is yet to transpire), the Pantheon, pizza for lunch...obvs, the Colosseum (can't go in as it's shut - Wah!), fast train back to Florence, arrive back at 8pm, swipe MacDonald’s for tea at station/so exhausted, big Mac meal €7- total rip off!! Hang around hotel/admire beautiful tat...Godaffi STILL dead.

Sunday, 23rd October 2011: (last day in Florence) awesome breakfast, supermarket to buy treats for the colleagues, walk around/want to stay, last look at lovely tat, Pisa airport for 3pm, hit every airport check: asked to empty suitcase/get frisked/search handbag/questions RE my destination (assume tip off received for terrorist matching my description?), flight = awful, Ryan air= shit, home, massive migraine, slept for 12 hours!

 (artist's interpretation)

Monday, 24th October 2011: (Norwich to London) Steve drives, parks at Redbridge, stay in Travel lodge in Fulham next to Iceland (super classy), Nando's for dinner (full of scum-bags), WICKED the musical, defying gravity.

Tuesday, 25th October 2011: (still in London) MacDonald’s breakfast wrap, presents!!!!, tube, Victoria & Albert museum (half term/full of screaming kids), consume tea and carrot cake, Oxford street:  Forever 21/Zara/Primark, Steve drives home.

 Travel Lodge view of London (yes, that's bird-shit smeared across the window).

Love and Pugs
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Next blog in draft state to follow shortly.