Happy New Year!!!

Posted on December 31, 2006

Hiya! Noth­ing much going on at the moment. Wal­ly­woo is home for the Xmas hol­i­days and won’t be going back to work until Tues­day. We’ve been just loaf­ing around the house eat­ing too much choco­late!! We went into the vil­lage yes­ter­day in the rain. It was a nice lit­tle walk but I was chilled to the bone. I have some wellies but decided not to wear them. Big mis­take I was soaked!! I bought some salmon and I was plan­ning on mak­ing it Sun­day night for din­ner but then I remem­bered that it’s NEW YEARS EVE!! So we’ll be hav­ing it on Mon­day!! We’re head­ing over to a friends house for din­ner and drinks. Noth­ing too fancy just a place to hang out and not worry about the kids. I’ll update tomor­row as to how it went. Now I’m off to take a shower and going to Marks and Spencer to return the flan­nel jam­mies I bought Wal­ly­woo for Xmas. He didn’t like them!! I’d like to tell every­one that we’re going to return the box of choco­lates I bought him but I don’t think they’ll take an empty box!! Start back at the gym next week. YAY!!

Should I make a list of my new years res­o­lu­tions??
1. Be neater!! I’d like to keep the house clut­ter free for more than 4 hours!
2. Go to the gym 4 times per week and drop 20lbs.
3. Vol­un­teer.
4. Buy the Big Issue more often (local mag­a­zine to help sup­port home­less peo­ple in Man­ches­ter).
5. Eat more veg­gies.
6. Read a book. I haven’t read a book other than Harry Pot­ter in years! For those who knew me when you’ll know that’s not like me at all!!
7. Take a class, I feel like my brain has atro­phied!!

Well that’s about it. There will be peri­odic updates on how well/badly my res­o­lu­tions are going through­out the year!!





Boxing Day

Posted on December 26, 2006

Hiya! Just wanted to wish every­one a happy Box­ing Day!!! One of the joys of liv­ing in Eng­land– an extra day off for xmas!! We went to see North­wich Vic­to­ria play– they lost! I spent the sec­ond half of the game in the car w/ Squidgy­boo because it was too cold and she’s a bit grumpy. She’s finally teething… I think. Christ­mas was good. I spent hours in the kitchen cook­ing too much food but it was nice. I got a gym mem­ber­ship ( I asked for it), a dig­i­tal cam­era and a Gotan Project CD. I gave Wal­ly­woo an IPod speaker sys­tem, a pair of flan­nel jam­mies and a box of choco­lates. Squidgy­boo got a LaLa from the Tele­tub­bies and a Tele­tub­bies CD. She’s too lit­tle to appre­ci­ate xmas but we noticed that she laughes when­ever the Tel­ly­tub­bies are on.

I took some pho­tos of Squidgy­boo w/ the new cam­era. This one is my favorite.

I’ll post more when I get a mem­ory card. I hope every­one had a very merry xmas. I’m going down­stairs to help Wal­ly­woo eat that box of choco­lates he received…





Merry Christmas!!

Posted on December 25, 2006

It’s a lit­tle past mid­night here in Eng­land and I’m about to go to bed but wanted to wish every­one a Merry Christ­mas!! Squidgy­boo is sleep­ing in her Xmas jam­mies and I’m about to put mine on as well. I’ll post lots of pho­tos of her first Christ­mas as soon as I can. I think there’s a new dig­i­tal cam­era under the tree!! I might be charg­ing the bat­tery for the cam­era that is under the tree this very moment!! *grin*

Here’s a photo of us, it’s our very first Christ­mas morn­ing. All I have to say is I’m glad I have a pod of my very own!!





driving test

Posted on December 24, 2006

Yip­pie!! I passed my the­ory dri­ving test on the 16th!! I was a lit­tle ner­vous because as usual I left it really late and I didn’t start to study until the night before. I have to call my dri­ving instruc­tor now for my last 2 dri­ving lessons. Hope­fully soon I’ll be legally able to drive. I’ll keep every­one posted!!





Ho! Ho! Ho!

Posted on December 22, 2006

Hi every­one!! I had a great time in NB!! It was really nice to see every­one and to spend time w/ my Mom and sis­ter. The only thing that sucked was Squidgy­boo being soo sick! Every­one kept telling me they thought she was teething but I don’t think she was as she still doesn’t have any teeth and I would have thought she would have one after that bought of fever and cry­ing she went through.

Things here are going well. I went to a Christ­mas curry night out w/ some of the mums from the 2 baby groups I go to w/ Squidgy­boo. I had a really nice time. Wal­ly­woo stayed at home and watched Squidgy­boo. We also went to a Carol ser­vice at church last Sun­day. It was very very nice. The music ws beau­ti­fully sung and the church was gor­gous w/ all the can­dles. We had mulled wine and mince­meat pies after­wards. Mince­meat pies, now that’s some­thing I’m hav­ing to get used to. It’s not a meat pie but a sweet fruit pie (raisin, sul­tanas, cher­ries). I’m still not 100% in love w/ them but I like them bet­ter than I did last year. Wal­ly­woo and I also made mulled wine on Sat­ur­day. VERY VERY NICE. I can’t wait to make some more this weekend.

I’ve sent out my Christ­mas cards but they’re all going to be late!! Oh well at least I sent them out this year. Last year I bought the cards, signed them and then just left them on the desk for 2 months. I finally threw then out some­time in mid Feb­ru­ary!! Any­one that would like xmas cards please just email my your address. I’ve moved soo many times that I can’t find half of the addresses of fam­ily and friends.


Wal­ly­woo and I put up our Christ­mas tree on Mon­day. We went to the Dele­mer For­est to pick it out. We wanted to buy a local tree (fresher and lasts longer) and have the money go to the forestry com­mis­sion. As we were pulling out with our tree in the car we real­ized we had actu­ally pur­chased a tree from DD Dele­mer For­est shop and NOT the Dele­mer Forestry Com­mis­sion. It was a bit of a bum­mer but we THINK it’s still a local tree. We went down the road a bit after we saw a lit­tle sign direct­ing peo­ple to the for­est com­mis­sions Xmas trees. So at least next year we’ll know exactly were to go.

Well I’m going to try to blog in a more con­sis­tent basis. That’s one of my res­o­lu­tions for next year. It’ll be eas­ier if I just chat about the lit­tle things and not try to remem­ber all the things we’ve done in the past month or so.

Chris­ten­ing Update: Still attend­ing church. We should be meet­ing w/ the vicar in the next cou­ple of weeks to firm up plans but at the moment it looks like the chris­ten­ing will be either the first Sun­day in Feb­ru­ary (that’s the best case sce­nar­ion). If not Feb then defi­nately the first Sun­day in March. It’s hard to get a defin­i­tive date because they’re all so busy w/ Christmas.