DAY... (LOST COUNT ) at Hippie Hq

3am, completely lost track of what day of blog I am on! The past week has been full of hurdles, For some reason the technology I own just decided to contract the most dramatic illness... man flu! It started with the computer not working on the internet (Quite a big issue if you sell online) , illness then spread to the phone,( bye bye emails- that I had just set up- bye bye what’s app.)Then the oven wouldn't switch on (quite bad if your baking glasses) and my TV decided to crash, It then spread to the dryer not working. Mother Nature took on the hippie HQ last week that's for sure! Really there was no need for it to be that dramatic one issue would have been enough. Finding and fixing the route cause of me not being able to get on the net and retrieving my emails is how we have pretty much spent the last five days. for some reason mother nature has turned a corner today and decided that she was going to cure my computer of the dreaded man flu ( Just as the IT Consultant is coming around tomorrow.. knew it would happen…now I feel I have to somehow purposely break my computer so I do not look stupid!).
Lots to get done and in this week so sleep is very much required, slowly making this relationship between me and my bed better! Business head back on and ready to go we have lots of loose ends to tie up before streamlining is finished.
Sam's story
Best one last five days was when we were in asda with Sam and two people kiss in front of us at the queue, he then shouts out ewwww you’re the gayers... you're the gayers....yeaaaaahhhh.... I am actually totally to blame for that! Sandwiched in the que's people behind me, the gayers in front of me and my son was like a dog smelt the fear he persisted in making the situation a lot worse!
Well I have only myself to blame for that!
Short and sweet blog to ease myself back into the virtual world.
NIGHT xxx

Hear we are getting a heatwave, high five :)

Day 11 at Hippie HQ

ONLINE DIARY DAY 11 HIPPIE HQ

After my health issues were forcing me into some type of tuck and roll movement for me to even get off the settee I thought I better get myself back to the experts and get some better painkillers. I had to laugh whilst there today as I was in the waiting room and the people sitting next to me were talking about why they are going to see the doctor. (I’m not a fan of ear wigging but I do not have the ability to turn off my ears on demand) So they reel off a list of symptoms and before you know it they have diagnoses in the waiting room, of cause the diagnosis was not that of a cold but something more dramatic, pneumonia... I thought the lady was going to call her husband and get the hospital bag packed; the ladies face was a picture when she came out and the doctor reassured her it was in actual fact just a cold, she was ecstatic… about having a cold haha! All that worry came from well 'Mary’s husbands friends sister had the same symptoms and she was in hospital for three weeks with (Dom Dom Dom diagnosis time) Pneumonia’. Did make me think how much people worry unnessascarly. Yep friends like that along with google are a Hypochondriacs dream
So I got my broken body fixed, well numbed anyway and I have my smile back, managed to finally get in a run since Saturday that’s to the new kick ass painkillers. Been cracking on all day again today in updating the website, I am really getting into this ad word thing and how to research the most common words searched on the internet for the month. I’m multi tasking and finishing the last batches of wine glass orders as I write this blog. GMC are now in a position to pay people to make the wine glasses which is great, helps them, helps me, everyone wins! Well as long as we keep getting the orders in. For the time being business is great I'd like to keep it that way only time will tell? We have some great events coming up in the Christmas period that I am really looking forward to that involve the wine glasses. The one I am most excited for is the East Midlands airport event; they are putting together a Christmas market in aid of the wishes for kids’ flight that is going to Lapland. I can’t wait to see their faces when they get extra money to spend with Santa! So I am busy stocking up for event.
Sam (Auntie Sam) dropped me off a very professional looking piece of apparatus today (THANKYOU)... now i look the full part of business Lady with my laptop pull along briefcase (full blown gayness) ... now i just need to ditch the 'i am only wearing this because it is the only thing that is ironed' look. Me and Sam have been discussing rotas and sharing responsibilities throughout the businesses so it means I can have a set day to be booked out for business and likewise for her. All part of the streamline for GMC. A lot of sleep is sacrificed but I made a promise to my son and I don’t make promises I don’t keep; so next year we are going to Disney and we will be eating breakfast with Mickey mouse.. Sweating our faces off whilst riding on dumbo, spinning in the teacups until we are sick and driving around in what he describes as a ‘wicked awesome’ car track.
Its now 3am and I must get on with some sleep I have 4 hours before sam comes home. Tomorrow is exciting for us- face book shop-(YAY) need the sleep to focus. I love going to GMC head quarters, I walk in and am greeted with a gayer dance or something just as funny. We need to discuss health and saftety, we had two trips over computer wires yesterday and today sam got hit on the head and covered in dry candle wax whilst trying to get out some paints. Funny and serious all at the same time… Teething issues- getting used to our new surroundings that is all.

Loves @ hippie Hq

Day 9 & 10 Hippie Hq

Monday and Tuesday have disappeared this week. I have spent most of this week so far working on more-lingerie-today, Halloween is approaching its set to be our busiest time on this site, Most of our customers are from London so working on those key words. We have had some amendments to our site so just trying to navigating my way around behind the scenes . Also making and Baking Wine glass every day as usual.
Making Time for Project two; this will soon be requiring a lot more of my attention in the upcoming months, we have the final stages of prototypes going on over the next three weeks. I have had to learn the art of 'patience' over this project. As I tell my son look for patience in your pocket if you look long enough you will find it ( normally buys me enough time , he doesn’t quite get yet that patience is not an object so he will look in his pocket for quite some time)
Mondays- all about the Pink roses.
This is a great concept, once a month on a Monday night I go to a networking meeting with 11 other lady business owners in Leicester, We share idea's on what’s working, what’s not and we also get to buy each others products. The Pink roses are the best 'word of mouth' advertising you can get. They all work crazy hours, they all have to be innovative in order to get new business and they all have a dream, but the end goal is the same, achieve the dream no matter what it takes. Anna just did that this month so CONGRATULATIONS! The 12 ladies are trailing the structure so don't want to give anything away into how it all works but From personal experience it’s a great structure and I hope it brings massive success to the founders.(Hey Karen is that a testimonial - that’s another thing off my to do list ;) )
We have a new addition to the Greasley enterprises her name is Meredith, its the growth that as decided to break out on my head, it went past a spot about a day ago so thought it would be rude of me not to name her (especially as sam keeps asking me what is that on my head.. now I can respond, oh that, you know, its Meredith.. the really big annoying spot.. he shuts up then, where as before I had .. what is it? a what? a spot? what’s that? why?.....anything for an easy life!). I have a health issue that is slowing me down this week and I can't have that so I am off to try and get fixed this morning. I can’t help but think that my brothers played a massive part in this, seeing as I am the fourth child I think the first three took the good genes. Growing up with three older brothers was tough... i got taken the mick out of so bad for playing with a barbie and they still have amo about a dolphin bike ( which by the way was and still is VERY cool.. the dolphins looked like they swam when you peddeled... how can that not be cool!).They also decided to tell me way before my time to sniff the sink for sherry and look in the bin for Rudolf’s carrot, I mean come on, it was bad enough that they were telling me Santa wasn’t real when I was about 5 but they had to take it a step further and public ally embarrass me by getting me to look in the bin and Sniff the sink.... who does that.. So mean!

Brothers; please forward me some better genes, and if you can't manage that a tad of sympathy wouldn’t go a miss right now... sympathy in the shape of ice-cream or chocolate would be fine...

OFF TO FIX MY BROKEN BODY, HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Day 7 & 8 at Hippie Hq

feel refreshed today, over the weekend I managed to get in total 26 hours sleep, it was required I averaged 3 hours a night last week, the cause of obtaining so much sleep though was a hangover which I am sure most people can relate to. I managed to get all of my pressing work done on Saturday which didn’t make me feel too bad about sleeping the whole of Sunday
I made and baked over 36 wine glasses at the weekend, completed my work orders, I was going to not drink Saturday night for my friends birthday but as she works silly shift patterns too I swayed myself by saying it was an opportunity that may not arise again until 2012 so better go with it.
THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL-RESEARCH
Overall improvement in mood and possible euphoria
Increased self-confidence
Increased sociability
Shortened attention span
Flushed appearance
Impaired judgment
Impaired fine muscle coordination
Impaired memory and comprehension
I can relate to what is said above and I can vouch that those are indeed the effects of alcohol
MY Top 5 vague memories from Saturday night- (putting the effects into examples;)
1. Actually thinking I can break dance - this is predictable it happens most nights I am out, I seen the X factor once and really liked twist and pulse... for some reason my brain tries to rein act the routine.
(Impaired fine muscle coordination , Increased self-confidence , Impaired memory and comprehension)
2. Poking random people to see what the reaction was... some people got it... some people didn’t...
(Increased self-confidence Increased sociability )

3. Playing out my sons smurf dance... people’s reaction lead me to believe that only me and my son share the same humour.
(Increased self-confidence Increased sociability, Impaired judgment )

4. At the end of the night ordering a burger asking for extra mayo (bad move-) there was so much mayo on there that every time I took a bite of the burger my friends husband had to wipe my mouth with a napkin... we were laughing a lot about this at the time but on suicide sunday the laughter turned into shame.
(Impaired judgment ,Impaired fine muscle coordination)
5. Black cab- As I go to get out of the black cab I stood up (very stupid they look spacious inside but in fact they are not) this meant I had a little concussion from hitting my head on the taxi roof, it wasn’t even like I attempted to get out slowly, my friends thought this was funny, I just found it embarrassing.
(Shortened attention span ,Flushed appearance ,Impaired judgment ,Impaired fine muscle coordination ,Impaired memory and comprehension) but it was ok because the other effect of alcohol ( improvement in mood and possible euphoria ) meant I shortly found the funny side…
I’m sure the above are all elements that are contributing to my ‘single’ status. Who on earth would want to date a girl that thinks doing a smurf dance in public is funny or the fact the same girl can not complete a simple task unaided (like eat a burger, my three year old son can do this better then me) .
Sam cam home last night and we played on Mario, another indication I had too much alcohol is I lost so bad and had to put up with the looser dance way too much for my liking!
So the eye bags have gone a tiny bit from me going into a coma at the weekend and I have plenty of work to do today and a networking event with the pink roses this evening. Start the week off busy!
Have a great start to your week xx

Hippie HQ day 6

I’m going to start today with yet another awkward moment . As all mums will be aware you can not control what comes out of our Childs mouth, I was unloading the Wineglasses from the car when a man walks past wearing an I would say is a cool hat, however my son did not share the same opinion. Sam shouts as loud as he could, ‘hey man, why are you wearing a silly hat you look like a SMURF.... smurfs dance, do you?’ Sam then decides to break out in what I assume is an impression of a smurf dance (I had never seen him do this before to give you a visual it involved him smacking his bum and a lot of waving his arms in the air) it was awkward, the man did not embrace the dance and join in ( I would have) he simply ignored the fact sam was doing it and carried on walking. I have to be honest I did laugh it must have been a nervous reaction, I did correct sam though and say he could not have been a smurf, he wasn’t blue and he probably shouldn’t be saying that to people because it’s not very nice.
Samantha joined GMC yesterday, it was great to work with someone again and especially Sam we have a great working relationship, she is the one to introduce the word 'GAYER'. We do a lot of high-fiving, victory dancing and 'gayer' dancing to show when we are proud of what the other has achieved... (You crossed the road and didn’t get run over... high five) We spent the morning with the Website designer of Pack-Kit learning lots of things we can do to have a bigger impact on the internet. We are streamlining all projects at the moment and looking into ways to save time, it has been so busy on our side that me, Jamie and Sam have had to sync goggle calendars. There has been so many nights in the past that the only time we can conference call is 12.30 am we know we can not sustain that. We all work equally as hard and all share the same work ethic. We also know when one needs a break so we have arrange a cinema trip or DVD night (No more drinking every weekend, my body severely malfunctions after alcohol and I loose around two days). The hardest thing for any of us to do is take a break, something we are working on. We have a bigger picture and we have sacrificed a lot of things in our life’s to try and achieve this, working hard now to play harder later. We all pitch in to make this work, if I have to attend a networking event or evening meeting Jamie or Sam will be looking after Sam (little Sam), It is the only way this will work, I realise how lucky I am to have the family and friends that I do.

Someone asked me this week how do I do it, stay awake to work, the answer, red bull...Though Lack of sleep has meant that I have premature eye bags, as I am one for solving a problem there's this amazing invention called sunglasses, they work for me, even in the rain, im not taking them off, im good :) ..... Someone did also ask this week (cheers Tony) if I was 32..... Another sign that I need more sleep.

On that note, night from Hippie Hq, have a great weekend!

Day 5 Hippie HQ

Within Greasley Management Company We have many issues that we have to tackle on a daily basis as the internet is changing everyday in the way it is structured. Face book is fast becoming the new google with what I hear 22 % of online traffic across the world is generated via face book (I know what you’re thinking... wow I really wanted to know that useful piece of information). 22% is massive and google know this and are ready with a similar version of face book called google plus. Like most business we also have issues to tackle with some suppliers, Basically people lie to you on delivery dates, you place an order, be told you will receive by a certain day, that day arrives, stock hasn’t come, you ring the supplier, they cough out a Bad lie about why it can not be delivered... The business world as I have been finding out works on who shouts the loudest, (I have a problem of being to nice... so I am told anyway... I was told I need to shout more in order to get results?!?!? .. Eh?) Again I believe every problem can be solved with a little imagination, so I have taken note of this constructive criticism and started looking at ways I can self develop and get tougher; So I have the solution... If I have a problem with people not delivering on time I am diarising them and calling them back on PMT week, Never underestimate the effects this can have on a woman.
SO Today was just a normal hectic day at hippie hq, making and baking glasses, emailing, project two, washing (boo) more-lingerie-today orders, pack-kit orders... oh even updated my brochures and wholesale lists too! Went and said happy birthday to the lovely Rach and dropped of some gayer presents, We go back a long way, I am so proud that she put herself through Uni with two young kids and achieved her nursing degree, Qualified for two years and is nearly at her band 6 post and is immigrating to aussie, 100 percent behind you..No really when your plane is taking off I will be running down the runway after you :) X
Picked up sam and went to see a friend of mine James and his girlfriend Mel, they cooked me a beautiful dinner; They have what we call ‘Movie Love’, something a few of my friends have already... Yes it is a little Gay but lets face it we all search for this type of love in life (This is why so many of us are single, we believe that its all going to happen like it does in the movies when in actual fact we are more likely to have someone be sick on our shoe, if that happens to you, well done, you now feel 'comfortable' with each other and are classified as dating!). So Mel lived in Australia, she has saved for the last two years and last month arrived in England, Mel and James only met each other face to face at the airport, just pictures and internet before that, they understood if they didn’t like each other (they obviously do) Mel would just get back on a plane and go on home but they both then knew that they had took that chance and wouldn’t ever say what if...
Again another example of how useful the internet can be- it can even get you a partner. Even if you meet someone in the real world, they ask your name and do their research on you... research being a replacement word for STALK. It’s ok though the 21st century single people have become used to this now and some even ask 'so did you get all the information you needed to decide whether you like me or not when you did your face book stalk? (crb check)... yeah I did, you didn’t have a good profile picture so I have decided that I don't want to be sick on your shoe'. Whilst we are on the internet subject, Pokes on facebook...what the hell are they about? Wait I have this amazing thing called google I will check- (copy-paste)“When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose. People interpret the poke in many different ways, and we encourage you to come up with your own meanings." Mark Zuckerberg”
cool?????????????? Like I said before the internet world is a mine field and very different from the real one... in the real world if you were in a bar would it be ‘cool’ to walk up to a person and randomly POKE them .. and then when they turn around and say what ARE you doing you say... i dunno you make up your own meaning?!?!?!?!?

VERY EXCITED TODAY SAMANTHA HAS ARRIVED FULL TIME!!!

NIght/ Morning whatever 1.20am is classified as!

Day 4 in the hippie HQ

I love this word that business people talk so much about... 'NETWORKING'. Today I have been doing a lot of this, I looked up the definition of the word; Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally (Someone obviously had a meeting with their boss once and when the boss asked them what they had been doing all day they couldn't respond with 'talking to my friends' so decided to make it sound professional and say 'Networking'.) I have networked (talked) a lot of my day; it has generated me a lot of business. The Wine glasses went into another local hair salon in Humberstone ( Simply Claire’s, if you are local check them out) and by the end of the day I had seven new orders from that one salon, which is a great example of what 'NETWORKING' can achieve.
For all those new subscribers (Thank you, I have actually been blown away from the feedback) you can find the business links to what we are doing at the bottom of the blog for those that have asked. Just wanted to shout out for the group that is holiday reading this in Greece, Congrats Sean and Shell on your marriage!! hello all you others sunning it in Greece... hope you all burn and peel ;)
It is true, the more you get out talking to people and the more avenues you explore, the more business you generate. My mentor did say to me once if you grow a monster are you going to be able to control it; I thought it was a good metaphor... It can be as big or as little as you like it to be, however if you make it big do you have full control over what it does, the business can start telling you where to go, not you telling the business, and one day it may grow too big and stand on you. So implement systems to prevent that happing or do not feed the business to much. – DEEP ;)
On with my social activities then, Sam goes to his dads on a Wednesday night. I like to get out during this time, so I go to body pump, hosted by the lovely Jo Hubbard, who by the way is a great personal trainer (www.steamfitness.co.uk) her stories are hilarious. I had a real S.O.S moment though at tonight’s class, I was half way through my squats and pain hit me, My underwear decided to wedge themselves in places they don't belong, I wanted to relieve my pain but there was about 5 people behind me and lets face it there is no dignified way to unwedge yourself, so as a consequence I had to put up with the pain until after the session was finished... shame that squats are the first set of a hour routine! Came back from the session ...’unpicked’ and printed off more orders got ready and headed on out on a mate date to watch the film 'Friends with Benifits' with miss spencer. We were put in screen 11... wasn’t a fan of that screen, I’m on a running diet and cant have popcorn so Not only did I have to try and ignore the popcorn stand on the first floor (screen 1-6) I then get to the second floor and I am hit with another popcorn stand.. Its mental torture..., I avoided the purchase but I did feel like I was missing out on the full cinema experience! The film was absolutely hilarious it’s definitely worth the cinema trip, even without the popcorn! I came out of there with tears in my eyes and face ache from laughing so much. Who knows maybe I even lshabowco (if you don’t know what this abbreviates you will have to google it). I am stealing so much material from that film; I will then recycle it and claim it as my own!
So after the date came home, painted the glasses, wrote my blog , I could do more on the website and key words but seeing how me and my bed are going through what can only be described as a rough patch I’m going to make an effort and try and spend some time with it.
Night X

Day 3 of Hippie Hq

Well I turned into bed at a more normal time last night, May have something to do with eating a good meal and going into what we like to call a 'food coma' (When too much food is consumed and all you want to do is sleep).

Organisation...
I think I have finally cracked this, it may have taken a good ten months since the start up of the projects but I finally am creating some free time, im sure its down to a better routine. I wake up normally 6.30 get the deliveries packed and ready to be sent from our websites and ebay shops (With Halloween approaching we are getting even more busy at more-lingerie-today). I put the glasses in the oven that were painted the night before, I then have 45 minutes to get the lunch box packed, the school bag done sam up breakfast made and us both dressed ( I used to spend time deciding if the outfit looked ok, things could not be more different now, I have to go with what ever is ironed). So I Switch the oven off before we leave so the glasses are cooled by the time I get home, on the way back from the morning run I post deliveries at the post office and attend to that paperwork straight away- there was a time when we were so busy that I had to leave the paperwork, I will never do that again because trying to pick up where I left from is a nightmare (I have a mild form of dyslexia numbers are like a different language to me .. I actually think it would be less painful for me to stick a needle in my eye then do accounts but we all have to do things in life we don't like, one day i hope to pay someone to do this side).

After that I work on project two, respond to emails, communicate with Jamie and Sam about where they are with their projects and what we need to complete on the ones we are all involved in.

Sales come from everywhere so sometimes it is really hard to keep onto of the orders, face book, website, twitter, Ebay, wholesalers, and phone. People send emails and talk on discussion boards on the networking websites like face book (again), linked in, futures network... the virtual world is a minefield, I try and respond to everything instantly else I would most definitely forget to respond at all. We are in the process of trying to streamline a lot of the above as it is very time consuming, there are ways to link a lot of it in, Its just a case of researching and implementing a system. Face book, twitter and rrs feed is what we have connected so far, thank you to my friends that put up with the constant picture uploads and the newest picture of what is being sold, It is done automatically, some days even I have even looked at my profile and been like 'eh... who has fraped me'.

So let’s leave the work thing there... The wolfs
Briefly, the reason behind the wolf Pac, may be a little stolen banter from the film hangover but also the wolfs are the most loyal Pac in the animal kingdom, they never leave the Pac and always defend their own, 'a true friend is one that talks nice about you behind you back' Their is no jealousy over someone having a bigger nicer house or a faster car, bigger TV.. we just like having fun, we also all know that at anytime we would drop it all if someonw was in need.I am Lucky to have a great circle of friends and family that encourage and support me.
Lunch with a Wolf is something a little different because its never just lunch, have to make it gayer, Big Gunns Birthday so we had helium balloons, birthday cake, presents on the table and posters of some of her lets say 'finest' moments.. I love the fact this lady is a respected lawyer yet she still dresses up as 'where is wolly' and a reindeer. We Decided to add to her embarrassment by inhaling helium and bursting out the Classic song 'I’ve had the time of my life'... nothing like a bit of public embarrassment on your birthday. It was great to catch up with everyone and take time out, they are a lot of fun.
What was described at lunch as ' The FED ex incident;'
Went for my daily run ( bear in mind that when I run i'm not one of these fortunate people that just break a sweat, I actually look like a tomato face ready explode, even my gym instructor said she has never seen anything like it...). So I get in straight away I unload the washing machine and knock knock at the door, So I answer the door and there is Mr Fed Ex starring at my red face...really he was starring i am sure he wanted to ask if i needed him to call 999 but i explained i had just been on a run. It could not have been worse timing! I did not smell too sweet after my run, my face was most definitely on fire and there in front of me is this gorgeous man. He asked me to sign and do the paper work as he bought in the two containers (packaging for project two.. yay) after I signed my paperwork and look up it was then I realised that he was looking at my 'LINGERIE' I had just hung up on the clothes horse....... he knew I seen, I knew he knew I seen, we had a bit of a long silence…..


AKWARD!

The akwardness was broken with a 'Thats it were done then, Thanks, bye'

On that note I am signing out …One more day until Samantha joins us!

Day 2 in the hippie HQ

Day two in Hippie HQ

I am currently giving my computer the evil eye. I just wrote today’s blog, and then the computer did a really amazing trick and switched itself off. Its magic... everything you have wrote just disappears right before your eyes.... except its not a very good magic show is it because what disappeared doesn't come back! I even entertained its surprise trick with a really prolonged 'noooooooooooo'.I don’t know why I held my head in my hands either but it seemed to help.

Well nothing can be done about it so let’s try again.

Today at Hippie Hq it’s been full on work mode finally finished my last orders at 12.30am, spent the morning trying to digest paperwork that consisted of far too many big words that I need a thesaurus for. Two hours of that paperwork and I needed something a little less testing on my brain so I decided to get my skype account set up. I severely underestimated this task.

Download Skype- Easy, Activate Skype, little more challenging, two password reminders and three emails later I am in, add contact, this is where we hit the hurdle, it was like trying to solve a rubrics cube, for every process I followed it completely counteracted my previous move. I am sure it was a computer wormhole, I spent 45 minutes trying to add a contact in... I was still unsuccessful... I felt a little discriminated against, it never held the warning sign ' BLONDES MAY NEED ASSISTANCE' . I decided the best way to solve that problem was to power the computer off but not before sending out the emails to the contact and asking them to add me, a smart person would have done that after 20 minutes instead I insist on learning the hard way.

Thought a run may ease some frustrations of the morning so went on out for some training, although I won't be able to attend a full marathon this year I signed up for a half with my sister in Law Sam who will be joining us full time in our projects in t-minus 2 days she is leaving her full time accountancy career and moving in a complete new direction, she is the founder of www.pack-kit.co.uk.

The afternoon and evening consisted much of juggling my son Sam, and work. On the way to playschool I had to listen to him shout at me for ten minutes 'mummy you look like a donkey' and then some rather annoying noise that did not sound like a donkey at all but I knew full well what he was getting at. It wasn’t just a one off quote either it was repeated on several occasions. I tried to get the better of him by saying Donkeys don't sound like that...It was a fundamental error on my behalf because the voice got more annoying as he tried to correct himself. I believe every problem can be fixed with a little imagination, my tactics were not working with him at this point, I had been mentally challenged in the morning, and I had nothing left for the wit of a three year old boy. I stared at the radio... I caught his eye in the back of he car in my mirror... I smiled and then turned up the volume. His response was a smile back- I love this song.... at that point I decided I was never going to win today’s battle.


Lots to get done again later today, but not before getting some sleep, one of the main reasons for me putting in another really late one was to be able to break for lunch tomorrow for Big Gunns Birthday and spend some time with some of my closest friends 'The Wolf Pac'.

On that note Goodnight from Hippie HQ. X Happy Birthday Big Gunn

First Blog of secret diaries of an Entrepreneur

Right I'm just going to get stuck into this blog then, seeing as I am using it as my online diary, might as well tell you about my day.

Sunday AKA in my friendship group 'Suicide Sunday'.. The day when being single is the worst day of the week as the couples are all off doing their 'Gayer' activities. I had prepared for Suicide Sunday this week and kept myself busy! Me and Sam (My Son) went to a Scarecrow festival which was great! This little village and all of the people that lived there went to tremendous lengths to win the competition of best scarecrow. We got to see the Simpsons, Bender from Futurama, Spider man, Dragons den, a full size pirate ship, that is a handful of the entries, we were so impressed! The village was a different world to me, families riding around on their bikes, baking cakes, balloon races, Men that spoke to your face not your boobs, It was like a scene off of desperate housewive's. That life actually exists, It looks expensive though! Had the most amazing cupcake ( worth the 5 mile run tomorow) and Sam won a football on a fair game (The prize was a football- it was broken by the time we got home).

So when we get back from our day trip Sam says 'I want to play Rumble in the Jungle' ( another format of Mouse Trap). This is where I need a man in my life... It took me an hour to read the instructions and piece together the game...It looked important that the set up was right in order for it to work  (every minute also consisted of a high pitched voice saying 'are you done yet.. are you done yet' and  the owner of that voice also knocking down the pieces I had just fixed in) It was a painful experience! I did victory dance when it was complete, looked at Sam and said 'right lets play'.... the response.. 'I DONT WANT TO PLAY THAT ANYMORE- I WANT TO PLAY MARIO'. Well talk about deflating!!! I stared into his eyes for about a minute before it became awkward and i moved onto making a cup of tea.

Chilled out with him for all of the day and then after he went bed cracked on with work... Its now 3.21 AM Monday, Its a time of day I am becoming used to, I know from experience the longest I can go on zero sleep Is a little over 72 hours, but it bites you in the bum when you finally do close your eyes It is no longer classified as sleep, It can only be described as a mini coma. SO tomorrow has arrived before I even said goodnight to yesterday, on that note I look forward to coming back posting some more on here and learning what this blog thing is all about!

Night from Hippie HQ

Those that follow, have a great start to your week!
xx