Hi Ho Hi Ho It's Off To...

... Newcastle I go! Tomorrow I mean :)

::WARNING RAMBLE POST::

I'm there over the weekend for Adam and James' birthday. I really need to get a train pass, I get 3rd off any travel because I am aged 16-25. I keep saying I'll get one and then something else comes up on the list that needs paying for first. :)

I'm trying to kick-start a healthier eating thing. This morning I had lots of fruit for breakfast, and then my sisters brought me a surprise lunch, McDonalds. This evening I got home to some lovely healthy fish and parsley sauce. Am I the only one who can quite happily sit there and dunk potatoes into lots of parsley sauce? It is most definitely would you like some food with your parsley sauce! Then later on we went for a chat and a giggle with the lovely ladies from Relief Society and we had snacks there... Galaxy and Mars snack bars... So I think healthier eating for today was BIG FAIL! And I ate after 7pm. I won't even think about tomorrow.

Do you ever find that you seem to have the two same things constantly on your mind? Mine is weight and money and money and weight. Fun fun. I just realised, the 'i-before-e-except-after-c' rule doesn't apply to weight either. In fact why is that a rule? It should just be the 'write-what-looks-right' rule. I think that sounds better too.

I've been talking to Hazel from church about my moving day and so far I have two vans, lots of pairs of hands, lots of furniture thanks to a few wonderful people, and no keys or house, until 30th.

Oh and nothing is packed.

The Piano Teacher

This is kind of a book review. I finished reading my bathroom book. It was called 'The Piano Teacher', I did mention it a really long time ago about the same time as I was reading 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'; only I finished that book a while ago. It's all those long train journeys to Newcastle. A good book can always keep you company.

Anyway, 'The Piano Teacher'. It was good. Uhm, the ending was a bit odd. I still think the book should have been called something else because it was centered around this 'Will Truesdale' character and not the actual piano teacher but I guess not all lead characters are the most important. I don't usually read books based in Asia, no idea why. I mean it could be because some of the names are really hard to pronounce and when that happens you just lose the flow of the book and you can't immerse yourself properly. I guess thats why some romcom novels are really good because you can just sit back and immerse yourself.

I would recommend 'The Piano Teacher' to other people just to see what their views on it are. It's not a very long book I just only read it at short intervals and the ending is quite sad. I think somewhere in one of the blurb bits it says the book is a modern day version of 'The Atonement' (the film with James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley) and I can kind of see why that might be. There are a few similarities in there. It's not a bad book I just think I have mixed feelings on it.

Fashionista - WiP

Work in Progess.

Haha, me fashionista. I actually think this statement is hilarious. I'm moving house, again. My life is in boxes. Again. Or splattered over my bed like a clothing grenade just gone off. My clothes are not in a wardrobe they are in two boxes (which makes a difference from 3 full ones). I have one box for t-shirts and jeans and one for dresses and skirts. I started taking pictures of my clothes but got bored.

...Oh my boxes are 80 litres...

...I know.

So, I've been looking for a wardrobe. I can't decide whether I want a spruced up shiny shiny one that is slightly expensive (eventually) or one of the cheaper ones from Argos. They have a 3 door one which I think I'll need. :) But with wardrobes comes coat hangers... and coat hangers, let's be honest are helpful but the bane of anybody's life, and you can't deny it. You add up all the hangers and you're still short of a skirt one, or you need one for a pretty shirt you don't want to spoil but all you've got are the rubbish ones that can barely hold a tie never mind your shirt. Then there's the decision of whether to hang up your t-shirts or fold them into your drawers, but if they are in your drawer you can't see the ones at the bottom and then you end up mix-matching and looking like you've just gotten out of bed.

See my woes?

I am trying to find some sort of closet tidy thing that holds a lot of clothes but still lets you see them all so you can work out what you have and what you don't need. And I'm looking for a shoe tidy to push under my bed but I won't get started on one of those... I have 4 drawers full of shoes, and some downstairs on the shoe-rack. Hmm...

Inspiration

I have been a bit slack in posting recently; which is actually a shame because I love posting and I want to be one of those people that has a really long blog even if nobody is reading it!

This evening Emily did a really awesome FHE lesson on being inspired. It was long but it was fun. I guess that's one thing to be glad about with us all being grown up, mum doesn't have to do all the FHE lessons!

Emily asked us to write down 5 words that described what inspired us. I wrote 'Personal Quotes that People Say'. For some reason no matter how I am feeling or what I trying to say someone else can always explain it better than me, whether it's through a song or just a random quote I've found online. The other 5 word sentance I wrote (Yeah I kinda cheated) was, 'rainbows, spring rain and butterflies'. These things inspire me too.

I think sometimes, in fact most of the time, it's the things that inspire that keep us going. Keep us on the straight and narrow going towards our one goal in life, because let's face it, we all have different ways of getting there. We all have our own definitions of the straight and narrow (even if they are a little wonky), none of us are perfect.

Emily's also set us the challange of 'What inspires you?' and she's stuck it to the living room door (main entry door to the house) and whenever something inspires us this week, we have to write it down.

I Heart B.O.G.O.F's

We all love bogof's right? You know the Buy One Get One Free's of this world?

Emily went to the shop this evening hoping that with £2 she could get some Jaffa Cakes for a house full of seriously chocolate-jaffa-cake-craving women and what did we get? TWO packs of jaffa cakes, buy one get one free... and some Cadbury's chocolate fingers, can't go wrong with that?

So I've decided to let you all know about all the other wonderful offers you can get for enjoying yourself's from pampering to a meal out to just a simple bogof. We all love to save a bit of money here and there don't we so why not have all our favourite places in one...

Now, at the moment I'm only signed up to 3 dealtastic savers:
KGB Deals
Groupon
VoucherCloud
I've yet to use any of them, but my friend and collegue, Carolyn from work printed off a voucher for us both to go out one day in the next month or so I presume and get a full body fake tan (I've never had one before) and have our nails done... which knowing me will only last like, 2 days. But I'm really excited about it. The best thing about it is, the price! It's only £9, down from £33, can't say no to treating yourself a little bit can you?

Go on, sign up and give yourself notification of a treat, you never know what you might find. Oh and please let me know of anything you guys find!

Review of Resolutions

I found an old diary (I say old because I usually go through about 4/5 a year), and it was from the beginning of the year. It had my new year's resolutions in it. For some reason I keep making the same ones. The only one I've actually properly crossed off is 'Start Learning to Drive'. I do have high hopes of passing before this year is out. If I pass in December I can say it took a year to pass... Craziness. My lesson was pretty good today though.

How do we stick to new year's resolutions? I guess you just have to be very ruthless and know exactly what you want to do and be really headstrong in doing it. Maybe in a few months time I can buy a wii. I am thinking of starting to walk to work and back again. Yes, as you can tell I'm on about, 'Losing Weight'. I'm sure everyone I know has had this on their New Year's Res list for... ages.

By the time I move into my new place it'll be 30 minutes to walk to work, which if I think about it, it'll take 30 minutes to get a bus into town and bus back out again to work so I might as well walk and save the £75 a month (I hate not being young enough to have a student pass). I'll be on minimal food as well so I don't know how that'll work out.

How much would you say bills are roughly for a 1 bed house? Anyone? :)

To Build a Home

I love this song, it's by The Cinematic Orchestra. It comes up in a lot of films. I just love the piano in this and since I got my speakers back from my dad's I've been able to appreciate my music more efficiently (I've always wondered why the 'i before e' rule has never applied to that word).

There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills...
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust..
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home.......

Bit of a busy day today and I didn't even really do much! I went to work, watched a carpet get fitted, took a referral then came home. I feel like I've been stood up all day, even though I haven't. So, when I relaxed this evening onto my bed it was a big sigh of relief and tomorrow we're nearly half way through the week. Only my driving lesson to do!


I got my house!!! I get to move on the 30th July, I was going to move on the 1st of August but I just realised it's Bank Holiday so I can't and it's a good job I told them the 30th! I can't wait. I won't have internet though until some guy comes and sorts it for me. Then it's all the other bills too. Oh how fun. :D But yay! Updates soon for you all!

I won't do a countdown honest...