Clearout!

In anticiaption of the new garage and having to knock the old one down we have been having a good old clearout! Today was the shed so we can move things from the garage to the shed.
The stuff we found and chucked out - mostly kids toys that have not been touched in years - pogo stick, cricket set, skittles, petanque, swingball, tennis net to name a few!!

Spiders were galore, Stuart saw one run across the floor and thought it was a mouse until he saw it again!!!

Tomorrow I head to lakeside shopping centre with my friend while Stuart gets to sort out the garage.

public speaking!

Second public speaking for the week done phew! Was not as bad as I feared but I am still glad it is over! there were only 50 people to talk to today so not as many as I thought.

Stress

So this last couple weeks have been a bit stressy, today I had to go and talk at a conference in newmarket, tomorrow i have to go talk at a conference in Norwich. although despite my fears today was okay, fingers crossed for tomorrow!

On top of worrying about this my next masters assignment module is due in on Monday and I really am not even sure I understand the question!!

But hey stress is healthy right?

I booked Stuarts 40th birthday pressie he is going for a tandem skydive, we are then headed up to a quiet 16th century hotel for the weekend which should be great :)

We were hoping to have a double garage built for Stuart to start his new hobby of building a classic car, we were going to do the block paving at the same time. Unfortunately the bulding society decided our house had dropped 50k in the last 6 months and refused to lend us as much as we need. After a couple days stressing (mostly on Stuarts part because he really really wants this garage) we decided to borrow what they will allow and find the rest of the money from elsewhere. It means the garage will get built but the block paving needs to wait.

Hopefully march will be less stressy! The garage should start being built middle of march - pictures as it happens!

cross stitch

cross stitch still underway, taking shape a bit more though hopefully you can tell at least what the part I am doing is!

February

wow well the year is whizzing by, and I am slacking yet again with this blog. Nothing very exciting has happened to me over the past month, my shoulder is not getting any better apparantly this impingement syndrome can take months to improve - joy oh joy!



Following on from my successful cross stitch attempt last year I decided to go for something a bit more complicated for my next attempt. Below is the start of it, much as i love doing it it makes my shoulder hurt if I do it for too long so it has to be done in baby steps. Can you guess what it is yet?

Resolution

So new years resolution going well so far, 3 weeks in and 5lbs lost plus an inch off the hips and 2 inches off the waist :) Hopefully it will keep coming off.

January

January sucks! Getting back to work and trying to motivate yourself when the weather sucks bleuughhh.

Took my parents out for a meal for their 40th wedding anniversary on Sunday, lovely meal, I had roast pork but Stuart had roast pheasant. The diet went a bit to pot though with the apple pie and custard, having lost 3 lbs last week I doubt I will lose quite as much this week.

Had a routine blood test last week and it turns out i am anaemic, so more tablets to take! I feel like I am falling apart and i am not even 40!

Had some good news this weekend though Stuart has booked our weekend away in paris - 24th April - something to look forward to.

On Saturday Stuart had a tooth out under sedation at a dental clinic - I had to accompany him, the actual proceedure took 10 minutes but when he came out he was as high as a kite talking about mushroom leaders!!!!!!!! He then proceeded to lose his memory of everything for the next 4 hrs. He did not remember anything from going in to the dentist at 1210 to waking up at 4pm on the settee. I could have done anything to him :D