Sunday 20th September 2009

I woke up feeling a lot better today thankfully. I got on Facebook to play all of my games. My Fish World is a favourite at the moment.


I then chatted with some friends about Uni tomorrow and mumsie before she came to get me for dinner. She had already made it before I got there so we ate pretty much straight away. The cauliflower cheese was particularly nice.

After dinner we chatted for a bit then I read my book while Mumsie checked on her Facebook games. We are both pretty hooked, lol.


Mumsie was off out this evening so she dropped me home early. I have loads to do before Uni tomorrow including getting an early night. I took some pictures of mums flower arrangements for you because I thought you would like them. She's really very good.




Sorry for such a short blog but I have an early start. Hugs xx

Saturday 19th September 2009

After going to bed exhausted the night before in the hopes of some high quality sleep I was pleasantly surprised to wake up nice and late at about 12.30pm.


I got on Facebook pretty much straight away as I had texts from mum and Heidi and have no credit to call or text either of them back. I checked my fish and farm games then arranged with mumsie to go shopping for cat food. I got myself ready just in time for mum arriving and off we went to the shop. I got bread, a pasty and some cat food. Afterwards mum and I popped in to see Heidi and Daisy.


Heidi is now ill too but at least with Lily at Robs neices she only has to look after Daisy who even though she is ill is still incredibly easy going.


Today I was holding her hands and she was taking steps up and down the living room. She has got the pulling herself up on things totally down now and is only holding on with one hand, sometimes just finger tips. She is funny as she points her toes and does ballet type positions against the sofa, it is very cute!


Mumsie went home as she had to babysit and I hung around a bit longer, watching tv, chatting, drinking coffee and playing with Daisy until later in the evening.


When I got home I just chilled, watched tv and played Facebook games. I got a particularly good score on Bejeweled Blitz today, lol.

I am feeling a little better this evening and am hoping to be at Uni on Monday. I am skipping the carboot sale in the morning even though I always go with mum once a week as I don't think I am up to walking around for hours. I'll be going to mums as usual after that though for a lovely roast dinner. It will be nice to eat a proper meal for once this week with loads of lovely vegetables, yum.

Friday 18th September 2009

Well today was a rather uneventful day, as I still have horrible flu which has now gone to a chest infection (of course!) and I've been at home all day. I had stayed up all night reading and writing blogs then hanging out on Facebook. I checked out Joels incredibly fantastic script. I really enjoyed it! Since I had stayed up so long I wasn't tired anymore so I decided that I may as well stay up and see my little neighbour Lily before she went to school as I haven't seen her all week.

I often pop down my neighbour Heidis for coffee, I have been going down every morning since Lily started school, doing Lilys hair and keeping Heidi company until Daisy gets up or helping out with Daisy if she is awake, lol. These last few days while I have been ill I have been waiting until Lily has gone off to school before popping down to try and save her from catching my cold as she loves school so very much and would be upset to miss it.

Heidi is a great host and a fab friend. Her other half Rob works long hours as he is the head chef in a very busy restaurant. Unfortunately Daisy woke up sick today even though I had been so careful to stay away from close contact and took my own coffee cup each time so I felt awful even though it's not really my fault that these things are going around. Daisy was so incredibly easy going about the whole thing and was such a cute little snuffler! You'd never know she was ill except for her breathing, such a happy baby she is. Heidi and I chatted and drank coffee for a bit while Daisy went back to bed for a nap. By this time I had been awake for over 24 hours and began to flag so came back up to my flat. I should have taken some photos today but I didn't think of it but I will in the future ;-)

For some reason by the time I was back home I wasn't sleepy again so I hung out on Facebook a bit longer. I have all these little games on Facebook that I am totally hooked on which I was only going to check on....... anyway I was exhausted then a few hours later and went off to bed for a bit. I wasn't asleep very long, just a few hours as I can hardly breathe and woke up often coughing and needing my inhalers. I must have been coughing a lot in my sleep because I had sore ribs. I got up then and got straight back on Facebook to see if mum was around, she also has this chest infection and with her asthma how it is, I worry but she wasn't around so I played my little games......

There is a new version of Bejeweled Blitz which was posted for testing and feedback which I got great scores on. Unfortunately as it's only in testing, the scores are not recorded but I am looking forward to seeing if they replace the old Bejeweled Blitz because this new one is way better and I seem to be not bad at it, lol.

Around 6pm, Heidi popped up with snuffly Daisy who was all red eyed and weary looking. Apparently she had been screaming the place down tired so Heidi wanted to give her a change of scene as it was another hour at least before her bedtime. As soon as she was here of course she acted like butter wouldn't melt. Full of smiles and giggles although she was clingy, enjoyed having different things to look at. I gave her a squishy pig to nibble on and that kept her very busy on Heidis lap. They went off about 7pm for Daisy to go to bed.

I then realised I hadn't eaten all day (I know, I shouldn't go without eating but there is sugar in my cough medication, my blood sugar levels were fine strangely and I just wasn't hungry at all) so I ran down to Heidis to get the microwave rice I forgot to take home with me that she said I could have to go with my chicken curry. I ended up staying there another hour watching the two soaps we both watch then came back up and had my curry. My cat Monty decided to amuse me by jumping in the empty bag when I opened up my new toilet rolls. I thought he looked cute.



Since then I have been hanging out on Facebook, chatting to my mum, playing games and chatting with Heidi. We played a game of doodle on windows live messenger which was fun. I have purposely stayed up as late as possible with the hope of not waking at all until the morning, at least that is the theory. All week it's been a struggle to sleep. I am all dosed up with vapour rub on my chest, I've had both inhalers, taken my cough medicine and paracetamol so fingers crossed.

I'm seriously missing out on all the fun of Freshers. There have been events all this week in the Chaplaincy that I wish I could have been at, pasta suppers, movie and pizza night, cream tea meet and greets etc. Next week is when it really starts though, every night there is free evening meals for all in the hall put on by the Chaplaincy when around 250 people herd in and eat. I went to a few last year scared, agoraphobic and overwhelmed so was looking forward to enjoying it this year as I know the place well now. If I stay in all weekend and keep taking my antibiotics I should be able to go. Of course I don;t want to pass on this cold!

So there you go, that was my day. As promised it wasn't too eventful but I thought I would try to get back into the routine of blogging. It's a nice feeling to know that I am all up to date. I am now sitting here wondering how Joel got on in the final and wondering what exciting things I will be reading in the next Holly Daze.

Thursday 17thSeptember 2009 part two - Summer super long update Blog

Ok, so back in June when I wrote part one of a blog I can't remember what I was going to write in part two so I can only appologise about that and put some of the pics I have for June on here and write about them instead. It's late (3am!!) but I will do my best to post as much as I can. Once I get into it I expect I will post the lot, lol.

The first pics I have are from Sophies Prom at the end of school. She is now a sixth former at school this year doing her 'A' levels.




The 3rd of June was Tommys 18th birthday. The family met up for a drink in Wetherspoons beer garden. Here is Tommy, Georgia and some of Toms friends.


Afterwards, in the evening, Tommy, his friends, My brother Kevin, sister-in-law Lisa, her brother Jason, his fiance and Kevins friend Andy all went out for more drinks. We went to quite a few pubs before going to a club. My phone takes awful pictures in low lighting but I did take a few that you can just make out.





I also have some pictures from a darts tournament my brother Kevin and Lisa went to and picked up some trophies but I don't remember the date.

We had many days over the summer when we went to the local outdoor pool, it's a five minute walk from my house and free so even though the water is freezing, it's still worth it and Sam loves it.





I took many more pics but I won't post them all just now. Then I have pictures from the day I got Sims 3 which I was very very pleased about, especially since it was the day before my phone was cut off (including my internet) so I at least had something to do on my laptop at night.



This is a great random pic of Tommy in his new flat. There were lots of people in his room all chilling out and this was the only available place left for him, lol.
I think I mentioned in a previous blog, maybe that I had been growing from seed my first plants. I grew then in little pots on my kitchen window and then took updated pics when I put them in bigger pots out into the back yard.
I was very proud of them. Runner beans, strawberries, mint, basil, tomatoes and a fuscia. :) The cats also got to go in the yard this summer for the first time. Jynx absolutely did not want to go as he is a very flighty cat and the pidgeons scare him but Monty loved the opportunity to go out.


I also bought bikes for mum and I this summer and had many days of reading first Twilight, then New Moon and Eclipse down by the sea.



There were of course days in the park with Sam too. I love this Oscar the Grouch vest top he is wearing that I bought him.



He is a lot of work in the park as he is so adventurous. We run around a lot keeping him from hurting himself as he has no concept of danger at all. He flings himself from great heights and falls over all the time running too fast, not looking where he is going, etc.

There are many pictures that I would love to show you but can't because my family are strict muslim and can't be put on the internet. We had loads of days out, picnics on the moors, bike rides, eating out, shopping etc but I can show you the ones without them in, lol.





My Auntie Annette and cousin Terrie are in the pics too. Terrie is Auntie Jeans eldest daughter she lives over here and the little boy is her son Leo.
I can't put many pictures from my nans 80th birthday party in as those members of my family are in them too but I have some with Katie singing and one of my nan. Sorry about my phone picture quality.


My auntie Jean also has two sons, Khalid and Adel that didn't come over to visit. Khalid because he and his wife just had their first baby the week before and Adel because he couldn't get time off work. I knitted some little shoes for my new cousin Dhabiya.


Pics from another day at the pool.


Mumsie and I went to some of my Uncle Andys gigs with Auntie Annette too.



There was a huge fireworks competition up on the Hoe as usual, it is once a year. Katie, Sam and Sophie were there too but by the time Mumsie and I met up with them it was too dark for me to get pictures, same reason there are no firework pics.




A few random pics. Cupcakes I've been making since I got my new cooker (I had three years of just a steamer and microwave so it's a treat to have a cooker) a picture that I painted for my cousin Nabeela for her birthday, the cats in their new bed (please excuse my untidy living room) and a funny pic of me!




Here are pics of my neighbours little girls (they live in the flat below). Lily is 4 and Daisy is 7 months.


Daisy is really advanced for her age, yesterday she said Dada, she sits up unaided, pulls herself to standing on the sofa and eats everything that Lily does! It's a daily surprise with her. Lily will be five in October and is super hyper fun! Last week was her first day of proper school which she was so so excited about. She goes to a special Speach and Language school to help her with her talking.



A few pictures of the cats, including Montys cunning ways to try and keep me off the pc and grabbing my attention.





This last weekend I had Sam not knowing he was ill. Mum and I took him to the park where he wasn't his usual self but did do some lollipop-in-hand climbing about and we walked him a very very long way which I felt bad about the next day. When we got back to my place, he grabbed my guitar but was quite lethargic so I put Nemo on and he fell asleep. You may notice he has a choice of many drinks lol. He has different flavours in different style containers to encourage him to drink more. He was all tuckered out and I'm not surprised now that I have the same terrible flu, what surprises me is how well behaved and uncomplaining he had been all day. Mum and I have been practically dying all week with it but I suppose it's different when you have asthma.





On Monday, even though mumsie and I were feeling a bit under the weather we went for a bike ride with Auntie Annette and her hubby Uncle Pete. We went to a lovely place called Saltram near to where I grew up that I used to ride my bike every day with my dog. It was nice to be back there and it was a lot of fun. Annette and Pete bought their bikes because we had all had such fun on the last bike ride and we have decided to do this more often now.





Last two pictures before I go to bed (OMG it's 5.15am!!!) of the cats hiding out while Sam was at my place and Daisy who pulled herself up the other day all by herself.


All of these pictures are the condensed version and they are all in folders on Facebook as I have recently updated those pictures. Sorry it's been so long coming and such a long post lol. I know I say it every time but I promise to try harder to keep this blog up to date from now on!

P.S. Some things don't get posted to Facebook or Blogspot, lol. Which email address is the best to sent to?
P.P.S. Your daughter is super gorgeous but you already know that and I love and miss you heaps!!