Merry Christmas!

Merry christmas everyone :) I hope you got everything you wished for!



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That dreaded snow

It's a repeat of January. I have already packed up a back pack ready for a long trek to work in the morning. Though instead of having to walk the full distance, I will still have to catch the bus and it's not doing the full route. The closest main road to us is just a sheet of ice and so many cars have been sliding all over, so first thing in the morning I will need to try and find out where the last stop is for the bus and walk there. Catch the bus into town, and then walk a further 1.4 miles to get to work. Beats walking the full 4 miles though. I tried walking the 3.6 miles to our old building back in January before we moved and that was hard enough, and so it seems I shall be catching the 6.57am bus (well, I say that time, but who knows really with the weather??)  and Gareth shall be catching the bus too but then catching the train as he works in a nearby town.  There is no way I can get out of the cul de sac, and even if I did, I would then be skating on the little road off it, and then skidding across the main road after that, and it's just not worth it. Though it's going to cost Gareth a good £7 or more to get to work tomorrow, and that's a bit of a bitch, even knowing I will be leaving so early I won't be able to get a return ticket, and even then if it goes on alllll week, maybe I should by myself a week's bus ticket? Gosh and with my late shifts too, I'll be getting home very late indeed, but that extra time I do the cleaning I suppose will be a contribution towards the bus fare. Won't cover it at all, but it'll contribute.

2010 Christmas Prep

Now, normally I make the Christmas ornaments but this year I decided on a special ornament instead. The requirement was that it HAD to have the year on it. So whilst on our honeymoon in Disney, we picked up this cute ornament!

I have been a busy bee making Christmas presents, so photos to follow on that, but the whole point of this post is something I read, firstly on Craftster, yesterday. Then again today on the Silhouette blog lol.

Something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read

How cute is that idea? Sometimes people can get a bit carried away (I must admit, I'm generally one of those people!) and the idea of 4 presents under those categories is something I'd like to try... Of course I'm sure my wonderful husband might have something to say on that matter! He's just like a big kid!  There's also something about HANDMADE gifts that I adore as well. Knowing that someone took the time & effort to make it, just fills me with warm fuzzies :) Something as simple as a bottle of bubble bath, or some handmade chocolates. Sadly not everyone GETS that. My family do, they don't even expect a present & sometimes that whole appreciation & the concept are completely lost on some people. For my parents I made them a simple ornament, (well it was a clear premade ornament) and I had a photo of Oliver (My nephew) & on the other side with the help of some digital scrabooking kits, I had "OLIVER'S FIRST CHRISTMAS 2009" on the back. They adored it, and it has pride of place on their tree this year too.

I'm not religious in the slightest, and some might argue "Why do you celebrate Christmas then?" For me, it's about being with family. Spending time together doing things like playing board games and such that you wouldn't normally do, and fully appreciating each other. That's what it's about.

Saturday night... What a HOOT! I got into my clean jammies, into bed with my clean sheets just before 10pm, chatting with my Hanson friends ready for a Live streaming on the Hanson website. We were all so excited (Hanson became a trending topic world wide on Twitter!)  I was thankful Gareth had the new Expansion on World of Warcraft to play on, as though it was supposed to start at 10pm we were on Hanson time after all! Just before 11pm GMT the guys came on and me and all my friends were messaging each other and in complete hysterics. They played songs from Snowed In, they baked cookies, opened presents... and just generally had a laugh. I'm not getting a Christmas party this year, so for me that more than made up for it, and best of all I got to spend it in my PJs nice and cosy at home, with some of the best people you could be with, and with my favourite band in the world, singing along with them & having such a laugh my stomach hurt the next day :) you just can't beat it! It all finished about 1am which was just LUSH. Though I was thoroughly tired Sunday, but oh so worth it ;)

bad blogger!

I have been here a dozen times before. I keep saying I need to blog more, but then life gets in the way. I put wordpress on my phone so I can type out posts when I'm not by a computer + I've never used it until now.
With new year just around the corner I have decided that I need to make more time for myself, have a better system at home that means all my time isn't taken up with housework, and that I get to do the things I want to do not what I have to do.
It is difficult with family matters as well. My father in law is getting more and more ill as time goes on, and this often means late night phone calls to say an ambulance has been called to his home which is about an hour away from where we live, and often my husband having to take days off work to go + sort things out, which as you can imagine causes a few more problems itself.

They weren't kidding about the first year of marriage being the hardest, though we've had all this to deal with before we got married.

I can't even remember the last time I did some scrapbooking, and squeezing in the chance to blog has gone out the window, but I'm hoping all that will change. I have a few subjects already written down to do, I have a week off come xmas break, so bring it on. I hope to be a much better blogger now ;)

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Florida

It seems just a distant memory and I really need to sit down and write about everything, but in the meantime as our CD came in the post yesterday, here are a few pictures:


Tinkerbell said hello


Mickey's Halloween party


I got to meet Mater :)