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Date: 22 July 2008 00:02:34
Where on earth does the time fly?
I know the weather hasnt been all brilliant but i have been really enjoying the summer so far. Whether that is because i havnt been working much im not sure but i suppose it helps.
I finished at the Uni in May as there wasnt much point me being there if the students wasnt and apart from a 2 week placement at the council doing online shopping for people who cant leave their homes i havnt worked since.
The Council job was fab btw. I really loved it and would have loved to have accepted the offer of staying longer but they needed someone straight away and i had just booked 2 weeks holiday.
I have been offered the odd job when i got back but they were either in Rotherham and only for a couple of days or i had family commitements that i couldnt change.
I would love to be able to say that not working as meant that my house is totally spotless, but that would be a lie ha ha. Its generally tidy though and i sort out little projects that need doing to make the most of being off.
Its been a bit boring at times but its been lovely to meet up with friends, go to the cinema, pop to see family etc.
We have both been for some weekends away also. One of them being up to Newcastle. I worked for a church there about 13 years ago and it was the youth leaders 40th party. It was so lovely to catch up with people and see how people are getting on. I cant believe it had been that long since i had seen them and there have been lots of changes. It made me feel old when i realised all the kids now were in their mid/late 20s and most of them have now moved away. It was good to see who we did though.
In the same week i also met up with a lad i knew in Newcastle at the time. His sister was in the youth group and we both shared a love of Kareoke ha ha. Again i couldnt believe it had been so long since i had seen him. The joys of facebook. That is the side of facebook i like. Not the silly applications and poking, its the catching up with old friends and keeping up with their news/photos etc that i like.
We have also had another visitors week at church and this time we had 3 American ladies staying with us. We always enjoy visitors week although this one was a bit tougher than usual, but on the whole they were lovely ladies.
The biggest thing we have done over the last month or so is go on holiday. We were heading down south for a family wedding (which was fantastic btw and i got to hold babies alot so that was also wonderful)
The wedding was in Portsmouth so we decided to make the most of our time there and visit friends. After the wedding we decided to also make the most of a cheap flight from Bournmouth and popped to the apartment in Spain for 5 days.
This ended up being our itintery for the 10 days.
Day 1- Travel to Hertford- meet up with friends to have lunch
Travel on to Maidstone to meet up with friends, have tea and stay at their house.
Day 2- Spend day with our friends and then head down to Portsmouth for family tea.
Day 3- Family wedding
Day 4- Meet up with friends for lunch in Portsmouth.
Travel on to Southampton for tea and stay over with friends.
Day 5- Have lunch with friends and then head to Bournmouth to fly out to Spain
Day 6-9 Spain then fly back to Southampton and stay over again due to late flight.
Day 10- Travel back to Sheffield
Busy busy time but it was so great to catch up with people and also enjoy a nice break. I really did miss the cats though which i felt really pathetic about. It was the longest we had left them and our usual cat sitter couldnt do it and although we found someone new i was worried they would think we had abandonned them. They generally were fine though apart from following us about for a little bit once we got back to make sure they knew where we were going ha ha.
A couple of weekends ago i also popped back to my parents for the weekend and then Jono caught the train down on the Sunday morning. It was lovely to see them and it was great to spend some time with my nephew. I even helped him with his paper round at 7.30am on the Sunday morning.
I even sneaked in a little trip to Ikea as its so close (10 mins away) and met up with my friend in there for a cuppa.
I was there for the weekend as it was my moms birthday the following Tuesday. As i mentioned before, she is a online radio DJ and on the Saturday evening, myself and my nephew helped her do her show. After the show there was a big Kareoke as two of the stations were merging for the evening. You had to pre record your songs and send them in. I did some serious stuff but the shocking rendition of 'perfect' by the 3 of us managed to be a highlight of the evening ha ha ha.
Right i think that is enough catching up. Im going to feed the cats and then head off to bed as im cooking tea for 8 of us tomorrow. Hopefully we will just be doing a BBQ if the weather is nice but if not i need to think of what to cook.
Nitey nite
L xxx