the one with the donuts!

and a lit­tle catch­ing up! This post is going to be a bit of a mish­mash so bear with me!  I don’t know where the time has been going but I just can’t man­age to blog reg­u­larly lately!  So, what have we been up to lately??

We’ve been vis­it­ing friends and eat­ing too much and drink­ing too much. I love my friends!  I’ve been clean­ing the house/organizing for view­ing.  I’m still amazed that I’ve got­ten 2 view­ings (and count­less emails) from the tepilo web­site list­ing. We are list­ing w/ a local estage agent, he’s com­ing on Mon­day to get the details and the house should be listed by next week! I’m been a bit stressed out about the fact that our house is not super ready to sell.  We are 3 liv­ing in a 2 bed­room house with little/no stor­age so it gets a bit clut­tered around here.  The kitchen needs to be mod­ern­ized. The back gar­den needs a lit­tle love.  Then I just remind myself if the kitchen was all shiny and new I’d be ask­ing more money!

Oh and in case you’re won­der­ing how Wal feels about all this, he’s just going along with it and I’m sure if/when some­one makes an offer he’s going to act all sur­prised!  LOL that’s just what he does and I love him for it– when I’m not irri­tated with him for it!  I keep telling him we’ll be mov­ing in with his par­ents if we sell before find­ing a place.  As most of you know THAT would be inter­est­ing!  On that sub­ject Squidge is con­stantly talk­ing about my par­ents and how they live in Amer­ica.  Sooooo because I’m an evil bitch I asked her if Daddy had a mummy or daddy, she said no, he did not.  I hope that made Wal feel like shit! Not that it’s his fault his par­ents are use­less pieces of flam­ing dog doo… Any­hoo I’ve always said I wouldn’t be nasty to/about them on this blog as it’s their loss so I’ll end it there.

I haven’t men­tioned wed­ding plans for a while so I’ll do that now.  Wal and I are get­ting mar­ried on the 24 April at Man­ches­ter City Hall.  Noth­ing fancy just the 3 of us and our wit­nesses.  I still need to speak to my wit­ness (yes, I’m look­ing at you Biff) and I KNOW Wal hasn’t con­tacted him wit­ness either so we might end up just pulling some­one walk­ing down the hall! Last minute cuz that’s how we roll!!  I hope this doesn’t offend any­one but it’s just a for­mal­ity.  We are plan­ning on hav­ing a party later in the year and invit­ing all our friends and fam­ily– I’m think­ing August.  I just want some­thing really casual and laid back for the ‘recep­tion”,  I’m not really into all the for­mal­ity and tra­di­tional wed­ding rig­ma­role.  I’ll let ya’ll know the details later in the year.  If you want to come to the party and you don’t think I have your address just send me an email.

Con­sid­er­ing this blog is sup­posed to be all about Squidge I sup­pose I should men­tion her.  I’m find­ing her more and more grown up and it’s hard to wrap my head around!  She’s going to be 4 in June but I swear she’s more like 12!  She never shuts up, con­stantly wants me (or her Dad) to read to her, knows how to write (finally) her name, loves to imag­i­na­tive play and loves donuts more than any­thing else in the world.  Thank good­ness (or not) for Krispy Kreme)

I also want to apol­o­gize to my Mom for not call­ing her.  Every day around lunch time I think about call­ing my mother.  The only prob­lem is that lunch time here is 5 am there– not a socia­ble time to call any­one!  I’m hop­ing to finally call tonight after Squidge gets home from nurs­ery.  I’m not mak­ing any promises as we’re bak­ing pizza for sup­per and I might not survive.

If you’ve read this far down you really are a ded­i­cated Squidgy­boo reader.  Because I’m a slacker blog­ger I’m going to open this up to ques­tions.  Now the last time I did this no one asked any ques­tions and my ego was wounded.  Still here I go again, this time I’ll make cook­ies so I can drown my wounded ego is  choco­late chips!   So what do you want to know? Any­thing I haven’t men­tioned that you’ve been curi­ous about? Now is your chance! Also any lurk­ers out there why don’t you stop for a sec and say HELLO!