Weekend

So friends coming down this weekend which I am so looking forward to, but it means i have spent the last 6 hours cleaning the house. Sometimes (hell in fact all the time) I wish i was a good housewife who did housework on a regular basis so these mad cleaning episodes are not necessary.

Still housework takes up valuable Everquest time or reading time, or TV time or scrapbooking time. Whats a girl to do?

Mamma Mia

Just got back from the pictures where me and some girls from work went to mamma Mia singalong version. Had a few drinks before we went in and I have to say it was absolutely fantastic, had a fabulous time.

Lots of singing and dancing :D the only question is when shall i go again!

Payday

It's payday!

Long weekend

So its the end of the long weekend and in true british style the weather was pretty crap, still at least it did not pur down all the time. Saturday Stuart went to the football to watch Ipswich town lose err i mean play and me and the kids did some scrapbooking. Saturday evening we had a family DVD night and watched 10,000 BC (actually quite good) and Hellboy (in preparation for watching the sequel at the pictures). We had some popcorn and crisps, lights out surround sound turned up just like being at the pictures :).

Then me and stuart watched Sweeney Todd - we did not realise it was a musical Stuart detests musicals. Fortunately it was not too bad although very gory and very very dark.

Sunday Sam and a friend went to the ipswich carnival, when i was a teenager the carnival was great - usually had a big funfair and lots to do. Well i got a phone call 2 hours later asking if i could pick them up apparantly there was no funfair and the stalls were pretty unusual - testing for chlamydia anyone!!!!!

Alex had a friend round for the afternoon and sleepover so they commandeered the living room and the TV, there might only have been 2 of them but they were more hassle than sam and her 5 friends put together! I think it was 3 am before they got to sleep but unlike sams friends they werent quiet about it.

Monday dawned bright and at 930 the whole house was still asleep as i snuck out to a car boot sale. It was huge the biggest I have seen in a long time, got a couple of books which i was pleased about but i was even more pleased that was all i came back with. This afternoon I went to the pictures with Sam to see wild child - was a good teen film I enjoyed it and sam thought it was brilliant which is praise indeed from her.

Alex has headed off with her friend to go on a boat trip, at least the weather is dry if a bit overcast.

knackered!

So, 4 days at work this week 9-5 and I am absolutely shattered. It seems every man and his dog wanted to see me this week! Still a nice long weekend to look forward to lets hope the weather improves.

I have an assignment to be finished for my Open University masters in Education course and i am so lacking the energy to do that - only a week left to do it - help!

Have been enjoying watching the olympics the last couple weeks, I still feel an immense sense of pride when I see that Union jack being raised and the national anthem being played. The kids do not seem to have the same sense of pride in the union jack and the national anthem, I don't know "when i was a young un........"
Think happy sunny thoughts for the weekend :D

Shopping

So today was shopping for school day. Shoes - always a trial, Alex was her usual fussy self and ended up trying at least 15 different pairs on before finding one she was happy with the poor fitter must have been at her wits end. Sam was much easier, first shoe shop found a pair - fantastic.
Trousers next, found some nice black ones fairly cheap for Sam, the trouble is I am a sucker for clothes and sam found a very nice blouse (not school related) and Alex found a very nice coat (in the sale I might add). Me being the soft touch agreed to buy them for them - not such a cheap couple of pairs of trousers after all!
Stuart ordered himself another pair of glasses after losing his in the lake (hahahha) and we went to an all you can eat chinese buffet while waiting for them to be ready.
We have also decided on a date for our trip to Florida next year - 15th August so we went into a couple travel agents to get some quotes - I am so excited already how can I wait 12 months!
Stuart then decided to buy sam a new phone as hers is the same as the one he lost in the lake (hahah again) and he likes it more than she does. So off they trotted to carphone warehouse and sam is the proud owner of a samsung phone that slides up (apparantly the feature she most wanted).
After 2 weeks off it's back to work for me tomorrow, still have to earn a crust.

Sleepover

So last night Sam had a sleepover, she had 5 friends over who all arrived about 430pm. Not sure how but Sam insisted they would all be able to sleep in the living room so I left them to it. They were watching DVDs most of the evening and I know they were watching a scary one at one point due to the screams that kept emanating up the stairs.
I went down at 11pm and asked them to be quiet as i was going to bed, that was the last I heard from them although apparently they did not go to sleep until after 3 am!

While this was going on Stuart decided to go fishing for some peace and quiet and relaxation. He left about 5 and returned home just after 10pm absolutely soaked. Apparently he had fallen in the lake, while it was funny and I laughed he does appear to have lost his designer glasses and his phone looks beyond repair.