7/365 Jan 7th 2010

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Dan and I both had today off work because of the snow, which means so far this week I’ve worked a total of half a day!! Not so great from a financial point of view but it’s always nice to get a little extra time off. I’ve decided it’s time I seriously started saving. I’ve had a full-time job for about a year now and I’ve just turned 23 so I need to start beng a little more mature with my money. Dan and I don’t want to have to carry on living with other people forever, especially once we’re engaged and married. If we both get a good amount in savings and if I take a job oppourtunity I have later in the year, I can see us being able to afford a mortgage.

Most of the day was spent relaxing, we didn’t want to risk going out anywhere because the roads are still really icy. I walked to a mini-supermarket near us with our flatmate Big Dan in the evening and we bought loads of delicious food to cook for dinner for the house. Dan, Big Dan and Hayley all had steaks and I had my favourite- enchiladas! It was delicious but I’m sure I went over my allocated 1200kcals for the day. I’m going to have to restart my two week challenge tomorrow. I have decided I want to lose 11lbs so I’m starting with the two week challenge from My Big Fat Diet Show to kck-start things (and to get me to reduce my portion sizes) and then I’m going to try to just eat healthy, normal sized meals and up my exercise!

Dan’s in bed already and has been for a couple of hours. He hurt his back earlier :( I’m off to shower and then give him some much needed sympathy!

[ps]nI was finding blogging hard to get back into as I hadn’t done it regularly for so long, but I’m starting to find it much easier already and really thereaputic to write :) [/ps]

6/365 Jan 6th 2010

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Today was my first proper day back at work after the Christmas holidays, although it was more like a half day as we got to go home really early. This is us toasty-warm in the car on the way to work. I spend most of the journey taking photos. Dan is a computer technician and a lot of his job involves going to people’s houses to fix their computers, so if he has a call booked on the way to/from work, I go with him and work in the car.

We were only actually at work for a few hours, it started snowing quite soon after we got there. A lot of Dan’s calls for the day were cancelled so we got to leave around 2PMish (via a very quick call). I took a ton of pictures on the way home, I love my new camera! I was so excited to have so much to photograph!!

When we got home we played in the snow for a while, make dinner and just watched tv. I watched My Big Fat Diet Show. It was really good, typical diet show but some much needed motivation for me to get fit! One of my new year’s resolutions this year is to get fit and eat more healthily.

5/365 Jan 5th 2010

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Dan and I were woken up this morning by Snowdrop (our kitten) absolutely screaming. I ran around the flat frantically trying to find her. Our flatmate had just bought a new bed and he’d left his old one outside his room so the delivery people could take it away when the bring his new one. Somehow Snowdrop had managed to get INSIDE it. I have NO idea how!!! It’s one of those bed that are a hollow box, with a draw in it for storage. The bed was perched up on one end, so the draw was on top. I have to open it and reach in to get Snowdrop out! I’m so glad she hadn’t fallen asleep in there and been taken away by the delivery men!

I would’ve been back at work today but our boiler broke so I had to wait at home for the engineer to come fix it (and the new bed to arrive). Luckily I have a job which allows me to work from home, although I was freezing because the heating was off until the engineer came. Even after it had been turned back on the whole place seemed really cold for the rest of the day. I had to wash up everything that was in the dishwasher, which was a lot, but a least it kept me a bit warmer having my hands in hot water. lol

I made french onion soup with cheesy croutons from scratch ready for when Dan got in from work. I thought he needed a yummy and warm dinner as he’d had a really busy and stressful day driving in the cold. After we’d eaten Dan suddenly noticed it was snowing so we all (yes, even Snowdrop- she sat on the window-sill and looked out) ran to the window and looked at the snow falling, super exciting! The photo is me surprised/excited at the snow. Once the novelty had worn off we watched a program on cats (so cute!) and then went to bed with hot water bottles, microwave teddies and hot drinks to keep warm!!!

4/365 Jan 4th 2010

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Today was meant to be my first day back at work but I ended up having to work from home instead today. At first this seemed like a really good thing but our boiler is broken at the moment so it was really cold! Even Snowdrop (my kitten) curled up next to me for warmth! It was strange having the place to myself for a day. Dan and I work together so we’re usually together almost 24/7 so I was really missing him by the end of the day! Pathetic, I know, but what can I say? I love him!

When Dan got back we ate then cuddled and watched the new Star Trek film. Love it. After the film I went into the kitchen and there was a HORRIBLE smell. The dishwasher has completely died, which means I’m in for a day of washing up tomorrow!

3/365 Jan 3rd 2010

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Today was my 23rd birthday! My mum and sister came over early this morning, I opened my cards and presents then got ready and went out for a fun-filled day of shopping! We went to Nando’s for lunch, I had a yummy beanie pitta (mmm) and piri-piri fries.

We walked round the shops for ages, I felt completely exhausted afterwards but I got some cute things! I got some amazing hollister jeans and an off-the-should jumper dress on sale, the cute cowgirl dress I’m wearing in the photo and a brown knitted jumper dress. I wanted a brown belt and flats to go as well but couldn’t find anything I really liked. I think Dan was pretty happy to be leaving! LOL I don’t think he had a very fun day shopping but was super sweet all day :)

On the way back we went to the caves near us very briefly. My mum and sister left pretty much as soon as we got back and I made a potato bake for dinner.

2/365 Jan 2nd 2010

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Dan and I still both felt pretty sick today so we got up pretty late and just relaxed. In the afternoon we took our housemate (and Dan’s best friend) Big Dan bed shopping. We walked around shops for quite a while so I was feeling pretty bad so we headed home via the supermarket to get some things.

When we got back Dan ran me a bubble bath to help me feel better and said he’d take care of dinner for me. What I didn’t know was that he’d bought some nice things whilst he was in the supermarket. He got Big Dan to sneak them back in the house for him. By the time I was out of the bath Dan had prepared a candlelit dinner for us! He made stirfry because he’d remembered me saying a lot recently that I fancied having stirfry for dinner, he had bought some wine glasses because I’d wanted us to have some for ages and he got one of our favourite drinks – schloer!

After dinner he bought out dessert – a chocolate toffee cake complete with musical birthday candles! That’s me blowing out the candles and making a wish. This is all because it’s my birthday tomorrow and my mum and sister are spending the day with us, so Dan wanted us to be able to celebrate alone as well. He also got my a little present, Four Christmases! He knew I’d wanted that DVD for ages, I’ve been going on about it since we saw it in the cinema.

We spent the rest of the evening snuggling watching Four Christmases and the new Family Guy Star Wars DVD. I also used some of my Christmas money to buy a pro flickr account.

1/365 Jan 1st 2010

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Day one of my 365 project. Dan and I are both slightly sick and exhausted from all the fun of last night, so we just spend the day relaxing in front of the tv. We watched the series finales of Doctor Who and Gavin & Stacey which were both amazing!

Our boiler’s not been working properly recently, the shower randomly goes from scalding hot to freezing cold. We were woken up this morning by an engineer who came round to look at it and hopefully it’ll be fixed on tuesday. So this is me and our boiler! haha Slightly more interesting that a picture of me in front of the tv!

Happy New Year!!!