August/September

Hello again!

Wow what a crazy crazy few months...

Things have definitely changed. Sam started big boy school and for the first three weeks this was was an absolute nightmare, the first week we had to go mornings only,same the second week, the third week was afternoons only. The first week wasn't too bad but the second week we had five hours in the morning of him saying "are we going to school yet" every minute,  ARGHGGGHGH. Even walking to school is weird,  Realisation of how old I am. I pray every day that it's not raining, not because it is getting us wet but because when we get to the school there is a flock of 50 parents holding umbrellas, yet none of them know how to use one, I personally think that umbrellas should come with a manual, Every time a mum bends down to pick up the what a child has dropped they end up poking someone in the face with those really pointy sharp bits. The other day I had the experience of one of those pointed things getting stuck in my hair (after two pokes to the eye) I  said excuse me to the lady but she didn't hear me, it then forced me to bend down as she was bending down else my hair would have been pulled out, umbrellas… They need to come with manuals Because people have no common sense When they're scurrying in trying to get their kids ready. I would just like to express that i think umbrellas are in fact the worst invention ever, a hood was invented to protect us from the rain, lets look at this from my point of view of why this hate has built up over the years.

As a child you are given a stupid umbrella that probably has one of those green frogs on it or those stupid lady bird ones, so already you look like a clown.. it can't be cute as it has metal spikes as weapons in at least six different places..... as you are walking along the street your mum is SCREAMING at you 'WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING' yet you cant because you have this big stupid thing over your head blocking where you are going! so your petrified because your mum is screaming at you, and your petrified one of your friends might see you with a big stupid ladybird device over your head.

Then you grow older yet your skills for using and umbrella don't seem to get any better... in fact they make you look even more stupid... its windy and its rainy outside, whilst the umbrella was built to protect you from the rain, it most certainly does not protect you from the wind..... you walk down the street the rain is still going in your face because the wind is blowing it under the umbrella... and then the umbrella does a magic trick and turns itself inside out and you weren't expecting it... so now you have to battle again with looking like a complete nob whilst getting wet trying to put your umbrella the right way round. Lets face it never have you once drove past someone and not laughed, and never are you that person that wants to look like your converting into a bad scene from Mary Poppins taking off with your inside out umbrella.

You get the umbrella home.... and if you managed to avoid getting wet well done, but it doesn't last long does it... nooooo, you have to shake your umbrella to stop it going mouldy and its like a wet dog shaking themselves all over you! so you were dry but now you are wet from head to toe!

And then as you become a fully grown adult and have children of your own, you go to the school to pick up your kids but you have to battle with the army of umbrellas that are trying to save someones hair from getting wet... yet not one person has their hood up! and these parents are shouting each other and whipping around to see who called their name forgetting that they are holding what i consider to be a lethal weapon... theres spikes flying everywhere! getting caught in peoples eyes and hair... and have you ever stood next to someone holding a umbrella... you may as well be standing next to a water fall.

So its not very often i use this word but i actually hate umbrella's. I see no purpose for them at all rather then to try and save a bit of vanity from the user. I think they should at least come with an 18 certificate, after all the health and safety shit we have to do in this country, women are allowed to walk around with umbrella's. It is absolute madness to me!

School;

Sam doesn't normally come home saying much about what happened at school except for this week. He told me on Monday that he had a girlfriend, I couldn't believe it, my little four year old boy had a girlfriend. He is always talking now about her now. This week we had a screaming fit because he wanted spiky hair so he could ask Ella rae to hold his hand, but it was windy that Day and it blew it down a little, he was so upset he said he was never ever ever going outside ever again because he doesn't like the wind and now we couldn't ask Ella rae way to hold his hand. He then came home that night and asked if he could have pocket money, I said why do you want pocket money he replied so I can take Ella rae

Well that was the start of the love story... two days later he came back saying 'Ella Rae' annoyed me today because she kept saying my name :/ I actually think at four however young this may be, he has his first crush. I spoke to Ella Raes mum and we have decided that they are a perfect match and their marriage is being arranged now.

Speaking of first crushes, totally weird going back to the school that I had my childhood sweetheart, and funny enough I seen him at the school, made me realise that life goes by too quickly without us knowing and I am only 26, but I do know that time goes too quick for everyone and we shouldn't be wasting a minute of it.

So on the business front its busy season, Halloween and Christmas approaching and the time in the day now just seems to go with a blink. I hope i learnt a thing or two from last years rush and know how to deal with it a little better. well organised this year which last year the hype was just sprung upon us. With the Launch of Flexiwear around the corner it should be a good end to a tough year.

 This year i have most defiantly needed more sleep than i did last year and mentally challenging rather then physically demanding. I like to keep myself extra busy its the only way i function, If i am busy rest assured i fit everything in... Feel like superwoman ( or just that of a woman on too much redbull and energy drinks). Get me to a level where its just getting through and i fail miserably at being a human. I had a injury to my ankles and legs this year which has meant no running which is one of the things i enjoy the most. Sometimes for some reasons things happen and you are unable to do what you did before, it's OK for change, i just needed to find an alternative exercise, with Sam being at school though and childcare in the evenings it has thrown me all off balance. This is no ones fault but my own if i really wanted to do something i would, i believe that anything is possible and everything is dependant on attitude. I have no one to blame but myself.

When people say they have no time.. its not because they have no time, its because they would rather be doing something else with that time that they do have. When people say they have no money, same principle, they might not have any money to go out and get drunk but they have the money for the holiday or phone they have been saving for. Time and money are the two things we battle the most with, i know for sure that when you feel like you have neither times can feel like  they are getting tough. Having no money and no time is not an issue, the issue is when you have no imagination to fix the no time and no money.

So i could find the time to do different exercises, but i have other things going on... that fill up that space.

I am learning sign language something that has been on bucket list for many years! I love it, If you don't know by now that i am a massive geek that enjoys learning then you certainly do now. I learn things for fun.... yes i am well aware that i sound like a A* looser right now, I wish i could have focused more at school but now that i have it now i don't want it to go to waste, so i embrace the inner nerd! 

I also signed up for a volunteer job, I will soon mentor a young person between 11-19 that has come from a difficult back round or is struggling in school.

I got involved with this because i gave up tying to change the world., i have met some wonderful people in my life but I am aware of the not so wonderful people. People who say one thing to you yet another behind your back, people wishing and wanting you to fail, people who are just so angry they take their moods out on other people, there are too many people like this that i will never have a influence on, nor do i want to. I was in the petrol station the other day and some man was screaming at the woman because of the length of the que, and the fact he was going to be late for a meeting... I do not understand these actions from people. Everyone gets stressed out, we are adults, take some time to reflect on the situation before screaming out in a tantrum like my four year old son. The fact is he was late because he didn't get up early enough to deal with what may have happened that day, he may have run a flat, there may have been a que.... its not the ladies fault its his own. he then made this woman feel so small though and insignificant which is so awful. I take on board that everything is my fault if its not going to plan, i am tired ( i haven't slept enough... its no ones fault but mine... even if i was working late because i want to earn money to take my son on holiday, that's not his fault, that is my choice). people that don't like their partners, continue to stay in a unhappy relationship through choice even though they will blame the other. Loosing weight, i lost 3 stone, before i did though i blamed everything for being bigger then what i wanted to be other than the fact that , hey actually i eat too much bad stuff not enough good and i don't exercise enough... i blamed working late and having to pick up a take away ( if i really wanted too i could have organised the weeks meals at the weekend) the fact i didn't have time to exercise (I sat in front of the TV for hours per night) We all have choices, we just don't always make the rights ones, which sometimes frustrates us and then we take it out on others. We all have the ability to change its whether we have the confidence, determination and passion too... Which is where i hope to come into play with my mentee, i am going to get the chance to change one persons life so drastically, I get to listen to them, not judge them and fill them with everything all humans should be told, that someone believes in them, has their best interest at heart and will help them any way they can in order for them to be happy. So i am muchos looking forward to this next little adventure i have going on there :D.

being single;

I had an overwhelming feeling the other day whilst driving home in my car because i was content. My boyfriend is my best friend and he makes every day exciting, again i know i sound like a douche right now but its true and its nice that i have someone that loves me as much as he does, my mind was suddenly distracted back to the time when i was single though...because of how clever you have to be to be single and i feel like my intelligence is now lacking.

Differences being in a relationship to being single;

In a relationship my grammar is turning into that of marge Simpson,

when he does something i disapprove of i make a hgggmmgmgmgmgm sound....when i am happy i smile and when i am angry i do not talk....

I look like general dog shit on a daily basis because it doesn't matter who i may bump into.

Instead of avoiding take aways i look forward to eating one at the weekend

Being single

you have to look like something they put on a magazine, you have to buy the best push up bra available on earth especially after you have had kids, you have to have the best make up and you most defiantly on fb change your profile every week and have a 'sexy face' by sexy face everyone will know what I mean, the angle of the camera has to be at 90 degrees pointing down to miss the double chin, you have to have a non expression face so there are no visible wrinkles and its prob best to add on an effect to cut out any of your facial hair you may have going on.

As a singleton you have the intelligence of a algebra genius.... for examples...

Text  'Hey how are you x'

Reply 'Yeah good thanks just busy'

To some that may read a simple conversation, which i used to think it was until i got into the land of singleton and my good friend Pete used to spend many hours with me decoding messages.

from a reply of five words it could lead to hours of conversation like.......

"So what does that mean from a guys point of view?"

 "Well... theres no kisses there so maybe hes like saying it like... i am good leave me alone? and he didn't ask

a question back so maybe you should leave it... i can't believe you put a x on your message"

"yeah i regretted the x as soon as i put it"

"your an idiot"

"yes i am... i put a x... have i screwed this up?"

"not sure....

maybe he is going to play the 48 hour game with you? "

I replied "what the fuck is the 48 hour game.... "

you know the 48 hour game... "

if i knew what it was i wouldn't be asking you."

 So for those of you that do not know then this is what it is .. apparently if a guy really likes you, he will not reply to you for 48 hours to see if you text him in that time, if you don't, he assumes your not interested but be careful because if you text more then twice ( even if you are genuinely concerned for his safety) you automatically go into the 'bunny boiler' list... and once you hit that list there is no getting off it, its worse then the STD list, if your on a bunny boiler list you have just disappeared off all future men's radar...it is dating suicide.

I laughed my head off wen i heard this, i was like so, if you genuinely really like a person, you don't text them back..... that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, what if you don't like someone... you text them all day long? Its so screwed up. I am glad i stuck with if i like you i will tell you and if you reject me then so be it, it is life and it happens. If i don't like you, i will tell you because i do not want to lead you on. To me that is simple... but oooooo nooooo and lets not even start on the smiley face... there is a smiley face with a wink, a sad face, a no expression face...when i first received a message with a smiley face i thought... dork, and yet everyone talks like this and i have jumped on the band wag on, i have to stop myself writing emails to people that do not include a stupid smiley face. the only thing is this then leads to another two hour conversation of over analysing a smiley face.... ohhh no you got a side way smiley face... that's not good... bluegghhh.. bothered!

So its a very tricky game to be playing the single game, and lots of head games and cryptic codes, you have to have a urban dictionary next to you to understand what they are saying because in the 21st century dating world, your a bunny boiler if you ring them ( and no one wants to be on a bunny boiler list) so its text only... how can you be funny, Witty or charming over text message?

There are many differences between the two worlds and I have enjoyed them both equally each one teaching me new things in life!

All in all life is really good, although it is  more of  struggle this year with my Best bud in Aus sometimes i really miss that hug and just need her happy cheery face, but shes there over and i get to talk to her every week :) . I do have great people in my life that give me a lift when i need it.

Although i would love to be much further advanced in business then what i am now, i am happy that it is all going in the right direction and i will learn from the hurdles and challenges i have been facing. When you are faced with a hill, you step on the gas... which is what i am currently about to do.

My goal is to earn enough money for a flight to go and get one of those hugs, which looking at the prices is going to take a while lol. Life, its all about the dream! 

That is it for now, been a little behind in the blogs, no excuse just lost the creative writing for a while. I will use it while it's here. I feel a few stories coming up for whats in the rest of the years pipeline, no drinking though, after going to a wedding and thinking that you can do the lift from dirty dancing i was started to get concerned for my general well being.... 

 As you can see below we have the before intoxication and after intoxication.... hence the band waggon...

For now, 

Cheerio 

Laura xoxx
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July

Hello :D

It's been a while, this has been in my 'to publish' section for a while. It's not the best blog but i'll bring you up to date with LG.

My handsome man Sam is growing up so fast now, he wants to play chess and monopoly now which is far from his Thomas trains he was mad about last year, he surprises me every day with big words (usually telling me that I am annoying him or that he is frustrated with me...?!?!) He has some great banter because he listens, retains and uses the words in the best situations, like all kids he says what he thinks when he is thinking it, which sometimes is quite embarrassing, For example... we were walking down the street and a girl walks past wearing a lot of makeup and he shouts.. Mummy why does she look like that is she trying to be a clown! (All I can do is smile, look down in shame and try and get to the other side of the road as quick as possible). He loves making and creating things and is 100 percent ready for school. He can say the dinosaur names better than I can in his bedtime stories now and this worries me! The next chapter is going to be great when he is at school. Craft projects still not so great at the moment, fifteen minutes to set the game up , actual two minutes of play before I get, I’m bored now let’s play something else.. You manage to do this three or four times in a day before the funniness wears off and you become quite aggravated by it. If I could buy patience I would certainly be spent out by now! This is something I continue to work on, the Joys of being a parent, challenging yet rewarding!

The first thing I HAVE to talk about is my near death experience;

I am pretty sure it was a normal day in my village and I was running some eons, a man a few weeks ago reversed into my car at a Tesco car park, (I was pulling in and he started to reverse, I papped to let him know I was there, he still reversed, I papped repeatedly... he still reversed .....It wasn't until he saw the lady in the shop window he was perving on pointing and waving her arms that he looked behind him, my car was off the ground on two wheels before he knew what he was doing... men lol. Anyway that is not my near death experience) Mycar had run a flat tyre after this event and I took it to the village to fix it and also ask what the damage was to car. They fixed my wheels with a friendly service (shout out to parkers motors) and told me to head to their other car place across town, so I jumped in my car, tyre fixed and out of nowhere I literally mean nowhere big black clouds came over and hailstones the size of golf balls starting hammering it own in my car. COMPLETE SHOCKER, I didn’t have time to even recognise what was going on or process it, there is no other way to describe how I felt other these three words...... I shit myself. I was next to a white van man who looked at me like his days were over and he lifted his hands in the air as if to say wtf and I thought shit shit shitero he is scared this is really bad, then I couldn't see him anymore, complete visual failure. I was right in the direction of the wind so my instincts were to try and find a side street, it was at this point in my head I was making the decision to drive blind and risk death or to risk death by hailstone, my decision was to take my chances driving blind because quite honestly the golf balls that were flying at my windows were scaring the shit out of me and I would rather try to make an escape rather than await my death. Somehow I managed to get to the nearest side street and I don't know how because my legs were shaking so much I could barely keep them on my pedals and I could not see my windscreen let alone a street! I had my mother instincts kicking in as well wanting me to go 'rescue' Sam but I couldn't move, the preschool constantly busy I was a little panicked to say the least, as soon as I pulled over my dad rang me, must have been father instinct, asking me where I was, I will tell you my proper response " dad, I am in the village I’m scared and I AM GOING TO DIE .. I AM GOING TO DIE BY A HAILSTONE...” I wasn't joking I thought that was it for me, it was like something off the movies, this freak storm, then tiles started flying off the roofs and a hailstone cracked my window so I started screaming 'THIS IS IT DAD, WHAT DO I DO, I LOVE YOU' he suggested that I got in the back of the car and wait it out.. Then I seen the flash flooding start coming down the street and I was screaming 'WHATS GOING ON' ..."DAD AM I GOING TO DIE? "I am 26 years old and still think my dad can predict my future... I thought I would try and save myself some more by unstrapping sams car seat and putting it over my head, It sounds funny now, actually I am in a fit of laughter thinking about it, me in the back of a car with a child seat on my head but I honestly thought that was it for me and I was prepared to do anything to save myself! My dad ends the call to me to ring mum as she was also out and I do the 999 call to Mike.....what bloody use he was, here I was on my final minutes giving him the sos I love you call and he didn’t bloody answer the

phone! I left a traumatising answer machine message to ring back ASAP its SOS. so it passes a little and I what’s ap my best buds checking that everyone is ok which luckily they were and the village was in ciaos, floods everywhere, there was accidents on every road so I nipped into Gails house, a street away from where I had been hiding to have a tea and try and calm my nerves, I could not believe what just happened. I finally made it home an hour later after the first storm and being stuck in the tail end of it too. I can honestly say that is the most fearful of my life I have ever been. Thank god Sam was at nursery and safe, great thing about fb the mums were in contact straight away on their letting everyone know they had contacted them and the kids safe and thought the storm was 'cool' ... COOL?????? pfft mine and their definitions of cool differ for sure!! And when mike decided to return my SOS call, I get it's only a bit of rain... no actually... no it wasn't..... There was a tornado in our city... slight difference! I'm pretty sure most people were as petrified as me (girls anyway). But isn’t this ironic... I was on the way to get my car quoted for the damage that guy did... and my car got written off in the process, every panel of my car is now dented thanks to mother nature and they class it as a write off... Life and its ways hey!

Slight change;

I have moved house! TO cut this down... a lot.... I have been having problems with the landlord fixing my roof since October... march still not sorted then my door wouldn’t lock, after months of constant phone calls, relentless efforts trying to get this guy who lived in Manchester to come and sort out a lot of issues I had with the house it never worked, the damp and mould was becoming so bad me and Sam couldn’t sleep there anymore and we had to stay at my parents. It wasn't until I gave in my notice that the man had the roof fixed the next day and then said, why are you still moving out, I have fixed it? I tend to do this, I am nice, cool calm, collected until I feel like someone has taken the piss and I tend to explode a little, I won't go into too much depth here, My HQ ended up being a not so nice place to live but Kalmar will come at get that man that takes no responsibilities as a landlord. I am unsure why some people have such a negative attitude... anyway in true lg style I walked back to my parents on day and said, I’m home lol, well it was only next door and I was sleeping there most nights anyway! This did add some pressure to my parents and to Mike, I am a  whirlwind... what most people take weeks to do we did in three days and since then we have been playing catch up trying to get organised with it all...

This move tested all of my relationships;

Me and my dad;

My mum and dad worked so hard making sure that things for me would be as 'comfortable as possible' ... Let’s face it having to go back to your parents at 26 is a little degrading anyway, with an annex I am pretty much out the way but there is no denying I have a lot of stuff that needs storing with running businesses from home, had to get organised, I can see why people do this, it’s easy to find, it creates space and generally frees up the brain a little. We have been working on a workshop, and it is great, I love it but one night at 11.40 me and my dad were on the second layer of paint on the walls and me busting out some beach boys kokomo way off tune must have been his final straw, he said, after 26 years it’s a good job he has learnt to tune me out because he is way too tired to listen to that.. I tried to get him to join in the chorus and I think that is what broke him. The paint brush went down and I think it took three cigarettes for him to recover from that comment, I only wanted a sing song but now I know to not talk to people that are tired and exhausted as there is humour failure.

Me and Mike;

after the late night painting I have an early start shifting wardrobes; let this be known DO IT YOURSELF (DIY) is not DIT ( DO IT TEAM .....) teams do not work when it comes to DIY because everyone wants to do it their way.

We have some almightily wardrobes to get upstairs and that task is ok because mikes friend Ben helped with that, cheers Ben, but then we had to get it from one room to another... these were heavy doors and he asked me to move them.. It was taking me ten minutes apiece to move them, trying to EXTRA careful not to his nice walls... and I managed to get them into the room we wanted them in... I was already pissed at this point though because he must have said to me ten times, why don't you do it this way... and I really just didn’t want to do it his way, sure it might have been easier but ...  I wanted to do it my way so I kept saying no (he obviously wasn’t listening because he kept asking me to do it his way even though I said no at least 4 times). His beady eyes kept looking at me disapprovingly, after getting mad I decided to pull it together like any woman would and said ok I am your apprentice... tell me what to do. This was fine when he was giving me specific instructions... like please hold this board that is above my head as if you don't it may fall on my head and hurt... ok... Laura understands... I hold board (simple) what is not so simple is when you are expected to hold a board with not being told and then being shouted at... "WHY ARE YOU NOT HOLDING THAT BOARD...? HOLD THE BOARD HOLD THE BOARD"...arghghghghghghg... girl panic attack , like a rabbit in headlights I get all confused and don't know what I am suppose to be doing!  Agreed if it falls on you it may hurt, yet you did not give me specific instructions and I AM A GIRL.... I DON'T GET THIS MAN SHIT... I explained to him that at my old house blue tact was the answer to everything and this to me is new water so I should be granted a little lei way on this subject...but again he didn’t listen and it got worse, he was getting frustrated that I wasn’t the queen of carpentry and I was becoming pissed off with his male ego attitude, until he said in a angry voice “I’d be better off doing it myself".. At which point I said FINE...( for the records boys fine is never ever fine when the F is pronounced loudly... it should in the dictionary say, Fine=Twat). I unconsciously let go of the piece of wood that was above his head as I said FINE...and it was only my support that was keeping him safe.... whoops... my bad....  he did give me ' A LOOK'. I hate that look...

 DIY a relationship test for sure... I can see why women just leave the men to it! What a traumatising experience... lesson learnt... no more joint efforts at DIY!

Hen night;

Hen night in Liverpool, what an experience, I got to share the night with some great girls! The effort claries’ best friend went to was great, we had beyoncee dancing lessons, and we learnt the single ladies song, party bags, shopping, games, just a whole lot of fun rammed into one weekend.

There is too much to talk about here but this is the highlights of my night;

1.

We walked into a bar to get a drink( standard) but as I turn around claries’ mum had took the microphone off the DJ and stared singing, I m pretty sure in her head at this point she imagined herself to be a very famous pop star, she gave it her all and  we were all supporting her up there! After a few drinks... anything can be possible!

2.
Every time the single ladies songcame on we obviously thought that after a day’s dancing lessons we were professional back up dancers to beyonce I think I even stole a pout from someone.... yet I am not sure we managed to nail down one move correctly, pretty sure we just looked like a group of people let on day release!
3.

The picture opportunities, as I was walking to the toilet with Louise there was a random air fan, so I embraced it, switched it on, told her she should use the random umbrella as a prop and it will be a scene from Greece... then a random person also joined the picture, highly amusing whilst drunk, I am not sure why so it must have been 'you had to be there' moment.

4.

 I had taken out some signs that had quotes from songs wrote on pieces of paper and the best one is when a guy tried to talk to me and I pulled out the lets all do the conga one.. and we started a conga through the bars of Liverpool, a big line we got going, it was great fun, and I was very pleased about this whilst drunk and decided to give Claire a hug to share the excitement, big mistake I was in a lace top and she was in a dress that had broach like ornaments on (very pretty she looked like a princess) and we got stuck together.. And because we were drunk we couldn't get unstuck!

5.

 Louise, claries’ and Amy’s combined dance moves made me giggle and they were in sequence too, someone even developed a Jamaican accent which I have n idea why it went from Jamaican to Irish but again when your drunken things like this are highly entertaining!  Great night!

 So the hotel we stopped at is by far the poshest hotel I have ever been to in the UK it had a grand piano in the reception! Very classy! What is not so classy... is me... after a night out, I thought it was going to be a hospital trip hangover, I was sick from the moment I got up until 8pm at night, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t drink, I couldn’t even stand up! Amy you are an angel! the girl I shared a room with had to pack my bag for me, ( actually felt like a child) she looked after me and I think even carried some bags too as my hands were being used to support my head that felt like it was falling off! We get to reception and we have to do the whole check out service thing which is the worst thing ever with a hangover... I couldn’t manage it, I layed down on the marble floor in the same room as the grand piano just wanting the world to swallow me up... there must have been fifty people in that reception room and I looked like I was knocking on deaths door, a big pile of human mess over the posh hotel floor, I pulled my coat over my head and thought I wish I was Dorothy right now if I click my heels together and say there is no place home I wonder if I can be exported... no such luck....Claire even said to me, your green! At this point I didn’t care if I was purple, blue, pink or yellow I just wanted to concentrate on keeping my organs going. After the reception check out I managed to make it out the door before I was sick again then I realised I’m never going to make it to the car, so Claire had to stay with me when I was in the gutter... when I say in the gutter I mean it literally, fully in it.  I'm in Liverpool, Its 10am on a Sunday and a random stranger walked past me with no teeth, quite dirty and smelly and said Jesus, are you ok, you don’t look well... I am pretty sure that this had been one of my most undignified moments! I slept the whole way home which must have been a drag for Amy because I wasn’t smelling or looking fresh, so a massive thanks again for rescuing me!

Putting it down to Age; not being able to party like I used to I feel there is a reason why people become more 'boring' as they get older. I cannot handle it now, two glasses of wine and I am like that I think the only way for me to go now is tea total but I think I may miss the alter ego a little!

That’s the story I will leave you with, another example of the effects of alcohol.

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June's BLOG- A little late and its not 50 shades of grey!

Finally I am getting around to a blog!

Start of with the zzzz first; well for me its :D :D :D but i can hear everyone say 'there she goes again so i will keep it short;
There is alot of exciting movements in our companies! Recentley I have been able to let out that we have been working with the official betty boop as they have licensed our glasses. It has always been a dream of the group to have a patent and a licence, so thats off the list, with in two years so I am looking forward to what we have planned next :D I am learning that I'm better at keeping secrets :D I feel like a little fish going into deeper water now...exciting yet possiblities of drowning here. Either way I love my job, what ever my job is classified to be, to most its probablly the del girl.
The life of a working woman is tough, I pick Sam up from school some days and think I should be wearing a cape, and then i realise its not just me, i see other mums running in, running out saying things like, i have to pick up the shopping, get jess from swimming, cook the dinner, bath the kids and get the marking in before tommorow; Every time i see a woman in a frenzi like this i feel i should make some type of extravagant gesture like bow to her or curtsy to show her some aprietiation as she is running past me ( she is being smacked by every twig and leaf on the way down the path but due to her being into her tasks she barley notices the whip lash of a branch!).... women i applaud you for fitting it all in! 

My home work life balance was a new years resoloution; i feel forever torn between this because it is my end goal of the projects; ( End goal To be able to run businesses that allows me to have flexible working hours to pick up sam from school, take him there and spend time with him at the weekend doing exciting fun things) For that to happen i need time and i need money. There is a very precise structure to this, and lots of sytems to put into place, it has meant me and my family have had to make massive sacrfrifices with our time and money in order to learn the processes of how to achieve this, some days are tough, but if it was easy everyone would be doing it. Theres short term plans, medium term plans and longer term plans and no matter if it takes me 10,000 ways of finding out what doesn't work i am 100% sure i will find one way that does work.. and works well!

Sam;
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As always a character, the best thing he said this month is  Nanna you said a naughty word, your not allowed to say naughty words, but sam i am a grown up... no nanna your just old!" & 'Mike do you have a long neck and are tall because you are a herbivore dinasour' Endless running around at the minute with school trips, teddy bear picnics and meetings! he is starting the feisty fours and we have some attitude issues some days, all stories for the memory bank! He is so excited to be going school and making new friends, can't wait to see what the next 12 months brings!


Personal life; JUNE

I've not had much chance to spend time with my friends and family recently other than a rushed evening  meal or a late night cinema viewing, ( i have been like that woman i was talking about earlier, whip lash by branched without having the time to notice the pain) my own fault on this front i am training for a marathon so three nights a week and a weekend day are taken by this, the others are for SAM, its just a difficult juggle at the minute. i do however have a few stories from these events;

Cinema Trip with Spence

You have to love a 241 orange Wednesday mate date, I am probably the poorest entrepreneur you will meet as i keep spending money on what i think are 'great idea's', we went to watch snow white, absolutely brilliant! slight issue to begin with, shortly Into my journey we realised i was heading toward the wrong cinema so quickly re routed to the right one. So we get there all is well, ordered the largest popcorn and coke you can get , had a slightly uncomfortable but pleasant conversation with the man serving the popcorn ( him not speaking English very well caused me and Spencer to slow down our speech and pronounce our words a little more than usual, I'm not sure if she picked up on this but i do remember thinking talking slower is not helping right now). So we get into the cinema and picked a seat,  8 rows down still premier seats....we had standard seats but slipped into these premium seats as i wasn't prepared to walk any further, i had popcorn screaming EAT ME in my hands.. we got away with it ... for 5 minutes until those people come around with the shiny torches, anyone would think they were holding a knife not a torch the way we slumped into our seats. Then she came, her big bloody torch in our faces making us feel like we had commited the crime of the century! Tickets... 'erm yeah ok' (handed over the tickets)  No your tickets please.... 'that is the tickets' ...no it is not that is your receipt.... ' oh....( then Spencer does the whole I'm looking in my bag but not really looking in my bag because we all know right now that we do not have premium seats. The lady then shines the torches in our direction asking us to move ( then moves her torch to an area of which we can sit). I have to be honest, i felt a little awkward because the light of a torch in a dark cinema attracts attention from other people so i knew as soon as i stood up people would be looking at how 'bad' we were sitting in premium seats when we only had standard seats.Well the situation went from bad to worse as i was wearing white trousers tried to get out my seat as quick as possible and picked the giant coke up by the lid... big mistake.. i soon found myself just holding the lid! but a clever person would have let it just drop.. no not me, i tried to save it, by grabbing it and pressing it in towards my body.. what an absolute idiot, i was wearing white and due to that lady waving her torch around in our direction the whole cinema potentially saw that! well anyway we laughed about it, good job i wasn't on a first date! Snow white is defiantly worth a watch, there was a really elongated part where a hottie is on the screen with fire behind him, not sure if it was suppose to be serious but I'm pretty sure Spence and I found the cheesiness of it hilarious. Love a orange wed mate date!
My first trip away with Sam and Mike

Trip away camping with SAM and mike.... Well where do i start with this one!
The night before we were suppose to be going mike had the car all packed up and i was in work overload and wanted to get some work done before i left so was working at home, i was going to drive over to his and go from there, except when i got off my chair, my foot seemed to have forgot it was attached to my leg and decided to buckle, i heard the snaps and fell in heap of human mess on the floor waiting for my dad to come and rescue me, which he did, for a 59 year old man he still responds to his daughters screams in record time! before i knew it there was a pillow under my head a cold compress on my foot and my leg elevated... pretty sure he thought i broke it, in fairness, i thought i had! so trip to the hospital ( had to hop up 8 stairs with a bunch of youths outside laughing, highly embarrassing, but what was even worse was when i got to the top a nurse came out with  a wheel chair! i thought you have to be kidding if i just have to hop up those stairs and you rescue me while i am at the top and Ive done the hard work, you can do one, so i stubbornly refused the wheel chair on principle. ) anyway turn out it wasn't broken it was torn ligaments nothing a bandage wont fix. On the way out i needed toilet stop, slight drama here, hoped into the toilet, light wouldn't turn on, it was a massive loo think it may have been a disabled one, i stood there thinking, automatic then, it will come on soon, nah it didn't but i was desperate so decided to go in the dark, so i threw my bag down and hopped over to the toilet, when i got there, light came on, brilliant, light, except everything in that bathroom way automatic and i had thrown my bag into the sink, and the tap exploding with water was going straight into my bag where my phone was! Have you ever tried to stop a pee mid way through going? near enough impossible, add that to a ankle you can't walk on and its a recipe for disaster! so the hospital trip was an experience itself, an Oman that Weymouth should not be attempted! So I Get back do some ankle stretches and we are packed ready to go at 6am the next morning except from mine not mikes and missing a few things i was suppose to do.

 We had a lovely day when we got there, sun was out SAM built his first sand castle, then we left mikes family and went to our campsite.. then i found out that trying to pitch a tent with your partner is a major relationship test! He is asking me to peg in the tent, but i can't get them in so he is following me around shoving in the pegs harder and huffing at the same time, it did not help that it was windy and was flying all over the place and as he's giving me direction the tent is smashing him in the face, ( I now know i should not laugh during the task of pitching a tent) painfully a hour later the tent is pitched and he said a cup of tea will sort you out..i wanted to say its you that needs sorting out not me but thought I'd let him have this one, so I'm getting all excited about a hot drink as its bloody freezing outside and what happens.. he can't get the lid off the gas, he's at it for ages trying to BE MANLY and get the lid off and I made a suggestion I should just make friends with the neighbours and ask to borrow their kettle, well little did I know that this is a massive dent to a macho man ego because he got all uptight and frustrated at the thought, "just give me a minute I can do it", but he must have got a little pissed off and hit it with a hose, I have no idea what the piece of apparatus did but it broke, mental bits flinged in the tent and i was then in hysterics. This did not help our mardi situation and it started to go down hill after this. We couldn't drink hot drinks or cook the food. I think we had our first ever argument over flipping snakes and ladders too, I was so mad! it had been a long day and it was defiantly bedtime.

 I was rudely awoken though by SAM pissing on me, actually on me, i had two jumpers for three days and he just peed on it, and the sheet, and the bed, i wasn't happy. This didn't set me up for the day too well at all. Then that morning we had the poo situation, SAM wanted to go with mike to the mens toilet, but he didn't just want a pee, mike has never dealt with that before and is out of his comfort zone which is fair enough and he asked what to do, i shouted in, he is four he can handle this situation, he always does at home.... 15 minutes later i am still outside and i see mike, he comes over grabs me by the shoulders looking traumatised and walks me through the gentleman's toilets to SAM... who was covered in poo. I have no idea how it happened but it went on my *why camping is not so fun list, along with the piss and being shouted at* Then SAM had about 5 toilet incidents and peed himself during the trip, all the excitement i think because he doesn't do that at home! Then SAM dug up donkey poo on the beach .... i spilt the sugar in the tent and we had ants, i spilt tea down my other clean jumper so i was freezing!A BLOODY NIGHTMARE- not being ungrateful because we laugh about it now...


Another one of me and ' i told you so' moments is when we stood in a Que for swimming for 20 minutes and i said there is  not enough room in that pool for all these people lets come back later, i lost this argument and i made it obvious by having the most miserable face slapped on me, all the way in the Que i was saying this is pointless its too full! whinging like a tru trooper! after what felt like a lifetime we get to the front of it and the woman turn around to us and say "sorry its one in one out now"...... the look i gave mike was mean and the returned look of fear he gave me we hilarious! I did feel married, wanted to give him a big fat i told you so cake in his face! ha. Lots of other little thing happened too and it became a running joke if we were going to survive weymouth, but we had a soloution, i bought cigarettes and he bought chocolate and our relationship lives to tale the tale!

What killed it and made us come home early was when we were arriving back at the tent one day and we said "that doesn't look like our tent" oh.... "its our tent but wheres the rest of it, oh that's our clothes outside" our tent had half blew down in the wind and my underwear was fully on show to the whole of the camp site! i found the situation hysterical and i couldn't help fix the situation because i was trying to hard on my pelvic floor excericises trying not to pee myself, i was bent over with tears steaming down my face at the thought of not having one piece of dry clothing, and obviously videoing it all! .......only my stuff got wet! mikes were fine!
We decided we should perhaps go home first thing in the morning rather than stay around, and my parents found the whole story halarious! not  as funny as what they told me about my dad falling underneath the grass bin and couldn't get up but thats a whole other story!

Cant wait to see how Aug camping trip goes... im in a tent,charlotte and family in a motor home.... i am starting to think i may have lost some brain cells in my life by doing this all again, the rule is we are only going if its not raining :/

As it is now july and i wrote this in june hoping to post but never got round to it much more has happened, Including a move, a workshop and a absoloute halarious hen weekend to blog about) but for now i have splurted enough so until i get some more time  i am done;

Well thats June's stories, hope everyone reading this has enjoyed the sun! Muchos Loves;

LG @ MLT headquaters
PS G-day mate to my best buds who have travelled to live in aus now, love and miss you muchly! love skyping makes me feel sophisticated ;D......lol x

Well there seems a lot going on at the minute so updating the online diary. I  Just a pre-warning you if your reading that its a long one and you will most definatley be bored before the end but it starts off light hearted.... ( Thankyou by the way i have had over 1000 reads and i am blown away )  . X

My brain is quite active at the minute, different idea’s all the time, I have been brain dumping a ton of idea’s, I am pretty sure it’s because the sun is poking out and seeing as I am like a little solar panel and it charges me up I finaly feel like I am coming out of my hibernation mode.

So I want to talk first about the most challenging part of my life- The parent bit

Now to any of you that have got kids I am sure you will appreciate what I am about to say ....... car seats and seatbelts... can be the start of a good day or the start of a bad day.

Trust it to be suicide Sunday that my bad day started to happen. I had been to Asda on Sunday, (Asda and Sunday should never be said in the same sentence let alone attempted to actually do this task), that task should be avoided like you are going to catch the plague from someone in there, but seeing as Sam had been extra good recently I promised him a new game... the whole asda trip wasn’t too bad and Sam wasn’t in his usual run as fast as I can up and down every isle mode. The queue to pay was ridiculous but we got through that and I didn’t even get too frustrated doing the shuffle ( you know when there is so many people in front of you that you don’t have any room to put one front in front of the other  and it’s just shuffle shuffle until you see the light outside). Then we get to the car and the game is open, the concentration from Sam has gone and he turns into a mute, I talk to myself, 6 or 7 attempts of ‘please can you put your seat belt on’ before I decided that today I was backing down and doing it myself, I got out the front and went to the back to try and sort it but as I pulled the seat belt.. it locked... the gentler I pulled the more locked it became, I must have tried to release it the nice way for a good two minutes before I started to get angry and start yanking on it talking to it saying things like come on come on... then I climbed into the car, as I did a gust of wind came and blew the door shut and the child locks were on ....I stared at the door for a minute, (who knows why I did this, maybe I thought I had some type of physic power to open the child locked door)...but the door was still in child lock mode and still the seat belt was having none of it, by this point I had a thread of patience left and asked Sam to climb into the front whilst I tried to do some yoga type of move to change the child seat to the other side of the car.... I still couldn’t get it out so I decided force was the only way forward.... in preparation for my final yank I lifted one leg up to the middle seat ( a lunge type movement) and then....................my jeans ripped front to back...... obviously this was not a good situation to be in and I handled it pretty well until Sam decided to laugh his head off,  had it been the other way round I would have been crying laughing but... I am the mature one and the parent has powers, so the first thing that came out of my mouth was ‘do you want me to take that game off you that I just bought ... no? Well then stop laughing’ ... he continued to mock me which made the whole situation a little more hostile until I finaly rocked up at the HQ ... 15 minutes in the asda car park wrestling with a seatbelt with my a rip in the most undignified place is not my idea of fun.

And then a little later in that day... I was printing off some paperwork and whilst doing so I realised in the split of a second the crashing of cars had stopped just like the loud shouting of I am sonic speed... release the fire ball,  the house was silent...to the story down and to give you the ending without the middle.... Sam had decided to play hide and seek but forgot to tell me we were playing that game, let me tell you that game is no fun if you don’t know you’re playing it. That will be a story for the greasley books for a long time, just like the one when my brother locked my mum out in the snow, except that was funny because it happened to her and not me! From now on hippie Hq is a fort knox!

Business..The goal;

In Life I believe we need a goal, it’s like sport, if there wasn’t a goal there would be a ton of people running around a field with no direction and nowhere to score. I want the goal I want to score and I want to win, even if I never scored I will always have my focus because I know where my goal is. It’s a very clear and defined goal of what I want to achieve, how I will get there and what needs to be done.  I was under no illusion that last year was going to be the hardest, this year still as mentally challenging but with a little more sleep. The structure of the businesses is really starting to take shape now and with us being 100 percent dorks the automated programs we have installed save us a ton of time.  On a personal and business basis I really feel like I am structured and well organised, the stress of everyday life is getting much better, it’s all automated, all I have to do is remember to put it my special app and then it does all the thinking for me. One goal has been to make it so the businesses can run from anywhere, today proved that, I was giving blood and still actively working on the business, ok there will always be dispatch days, but actually having specific dispatch days adds to the foundations of the businesses.  The techno we have now is so amazing if we use it properly, I am amazed by what my family has learnt throughout the projects and I am proud that we continue to learn and up skill to unlock the rest of the potential, we keep surprising ourselves in what we are doing, so who knows what the future holds for GMC. The learning process and understanding the systems has been very time consuming and frustrating but all worthwhile

because it has streamlined it all. I always tell myself Richard Branston, Alan sugar and all the other leading entrepreneurs had the same time as anybody else, they just chose to manage their time more efficient and be very pro active rather than re-active, bad attitude gets you no where, a open mind and positive attitude gets you everywhere even if your still standing still.

I feel like the structure and foundations are set for my personal and business life, someone very close to me has always said;

 The little piggy’s house that was built on sand and that was made out of glass never stayed there long did they... Think...watch ... learn...evaluate...and then you be the little piggy that builds the house that will not fall down.

Must admit them referring to me as the little piggy didn’t go down too well but we all have to take things on the chin.

Mentor

Currently undergoing some mentoring to help with the almighty fear of public speaking, this mentor is brilliant and i would recommend him to anyone. Its the last fear to overcome before i go and throw my big pitch around to the world. Its a working progress but it always feels good to tackle a fear head on.

Pub golf- Gayer group

 Absoloutley hilarious, love the gayer group go to emense amounts of efforts, score cards, tee’s, golf clubs, cried laughing so much that night i felt like i had been hit by a bus the next day, what people must think, last year 12 pirates on a canal boat, this year 14 golfers doing pubs instead of holes. I had tried to keep up with the boys, epic fail got to hole ( pub) 13 of downing every drink before i lost the vision and was unable to mark my score card anymore, thats where the stubborn side of me is a serious disadvantage, i should know when to quit by now. It was great to see everyone having a good time and getting together, we all work so hard its nice that when we go out its like playtime. The next day was hell on earth though, every part of me malfunctioned and i went to mikes parents for lunch, how embarrasing that i nearly chocked on a peice of bread,  my mouth was so dry due to the hangover from hell that i had completley forgot how to do the chewing tecnique i have been able to do since a toddler, there was urgent need for water.. a little akward for his family to have to watch me struggle to eat bread. I really thought i was playing it safe having bread.... life one BIG learning curve.After the sliht near death experience i went to see them egg roll :D The family have an egg rolling tradition which i loved, even with the hangover from hell i had a great time watching the family run down the hill after their eggs, i am enforcing it on my family next year too!    

Boyfriend;

Like i said.. the tecno we have available is amazing, syrill

Still both as annoying as each other for now, no drama to report!

The come dine with me experience is brilliant i am really getting into this! Mike’s friends go to so much effort too, its brilliant, and the idea’s we come up with for the next event are hilarious, get me wanting the months to come quicker and i hate wishing time away too! I can’t wait for a weeknight when we decide to wing a flinstone night, fred, Wilma, betty, barny, pebbles and bam bam, i am pretty sure the was talk of the dog coming as dino too :D

Ending the blog with a shout out to the Andrews;

 

I have had some amazing news from my friends. When I heard the news I was on the phone to her screaming jumping up and down and telling her to jump and down with me.  After five years of trying to get there, they have! Aussie in less than 6 weeks... 13 years ago it all started in a pub, we were waitressing and pulling pints and dreaming of these days, to see someone work their ass off and give everything they have got and finally reach what they see as their end goal makes me very proud, endless sleepless nights and relentless work ethic and talking about their dream everyday all contributed to this becoming a reality. It is NEVER too late to be what you might have been, even with so many people telling them they couldn’t they still did and I’m glad that their true friends supported and encouraged them through the whole thing. I am very proud of you rach, your life for you and your family is going to be so much better and you deserve it all. I will skype you every weekend and I will miss you a lot but the party’s going to be AMAZING when I see you next! You will find everything you have ever dreamed of sitting in the palm of your hand in 7 weeks and that is amazing! Well done!

xxxxxxxxxxx

Muchos peace loves and happiness, Laura @ the Hippe HQ

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April-

Looks like keeping on top of a diary isn't going too well this year.

While I am in the zone thought id drop down in my diary a few things we have been doing this year. I know I am in the zone because last night Sam went to bed and whilst I was working it wasn’t until a hour and a half later I realised the postman pat DVD was still on the -PRESS PLAY MODE and the theme tune was on repeat... it’s amazing what our subconscious takes in, without realising I keep shouting (it cannot be justified as singing) Postman pat postman pat postman pat and his black and white cat.... then I got to thinking... that’s really good marketing that.. Maybe I need a catchy annoying theme tune!

Sam
As always being a parent is still the hardest job I have, I am getting some attitude now and he has developed an angry face and makes a grunting noise... I have no idea where this has come from... if he is really angry he even charges towards me,  ....( I am not so sure he will be doing that again though because I moved the other day and he went flying, as a responsable mature parent the following words came out my mouth 'serves you right') if he doesnt stop that i will have to embrace it and buy a red towel and pretend I have a bull rather than a boy. Words like 'whatever' and 'I don't wanna' (yep he has the Leicester accent already) are regular words in his vocabulary now. Other than the slight attitude issue that we have at the minute he is still as lovable and as funny as ever. Yesterday in the car it happened again, I thought I had an admirer in the car next to me ( as you get older it really doesn’t matter that the people you think are waving at you are 60+) this man was smiling and laughing away at me, threw in a few little waves ( then i did the whole usual ooops I dropped a cd in the foot well trick) until I caught a glimpse in my wind mirror on the way back up and seen Sam in the back with his hands on his head sticking his tongue out and pulling faces at the man. I said what are you doing... he said i'm teasing that man that looks like grandad, i asked him why he looked like grandad and he said because his face is scrunched and wrinkley... then I was in hysterics ... that was, until I remembered that my reflextion has these wrinkle things now and that shut me up pretty quick.

Business
Me and Auntie Sam are running our marketing campaigns (the next stage of learning) and organising the real time media so it’s all automated giving us time to do other tasks, Pretty nifty and geeky to be honest, we regulary look at each knowing we have passed over from sheek geek to major dorks, I am amzed i understand these dorky abbrievations when less than twelve months ago it would have sounded like the darlic language. I have been learning some new programs, feel like we are making the steps between amateur and intermediate business owners, we have taken on board the learning from last years, taken the positives for what they are and looked at the negatives and how we can improve our skills, we are currently up skilling and as a result (if we pass) will be qualified social media practitioners. As always there is exciting and new progressions within the company but I am learning how to hold a lid on it until the i is dotted and the T is crossed. There has been frustrations this year with various tasks, it does seem sometimes that no matter how hard you try, people make it extremely difficult for the little man ( and women) to earn a living. The tax man, the rules and regulations behind selling, and most frustratingly suppliers that do not do the work you ask them to do, even though you are paying them. Sam did a brilliant job in moving us from a website company that really caused us some issues, working with them has been one of the most challenging tasks of this project yet, the attitude of one employee in particular is just shocking, you can really tell with some people that they think they are above and beyond you, all that guy could do is talk shit and there was so much of it I think he may have been able to start a manure manufacturing company rather than a professional website company, but every cloud has a silver lining and again from that we had to turn the negative into a positive. As for my big project, the skills I am learning now will all play a part in the launch and campaign for it, I cannot wait to get that one certificate that says I designed that and its right fully my invention, the process takes so long, but I suppose with any legal documents it does..... The law is frustrating, time consuming and to be fair boring (sorry for my friends that work in legal services). Patience is something that I have most definatley got better with, however I have had no choice in that matter, No where in my powers Can I speed up the law, I just know it will all be worth it and its allowing me to chase the dream. I am sure there will be plenty of excitement in businesses on the next blog.


The Boyfriend
Well this is a whole new experience for 2012 and was not in my five year plan but seems I am adjusting to it pretty easy. I managed to do the whole meet the parents, family and friends ( all in the same night, now there’s being thrown in at the deep and there is being chucked into the ocean without a life jacket, I was definitely in the ocean...) as a reaction to meeting all these people in one night I may have had rather large quanties of wine and as a result of that I did a twirl for his mum and dad, and pointed out during the twirl that this is me, it just happened, it seemed completely right at the time but I have since lived to cringe in my skin about that but it has left my friends and family with some rather good amo against me. I also learnt something that day.... Actions have consequences, too much wine = Very embarrassing memories.
Went to London for a birthday trip which was hilarious Mike got pulled into a street act not long after he had told me that he doesn’t like being the focus of big crowds of people, so obviously when the man comes and pulls him into this act that has him doing loads of crazy things in front of a crowd that must have been 200 plus I was in tears of laughter, he fully embraced it.
We have got involved with come dine with me and it was our turn to host last weekend, which no one said in the beginning that it would be a relationship test.. The first test was the shopping at Tesco... have you ever tried to shop with your partner? I said before we went in, it needs to be like super market sweep... in don't even place it in the basket, chuck it in and lets get out, i am not sure he ever seen super market sweep because this did not happen, we spent 20 minutes at the fruit and veg section of tesco looking for a aubergine, first we were going in blind because neither of us knew what the aubergine looked like and then we googled it, so we had a picture to go by but it was obviously not there, i dont know what it is with males but he refused to believe it wasn't. Rather than ask someone though if they sell it (which is what intelligent women do) he continued to walk around in a circle. Not going to lie, this is where the frustrations began. The whole 'its not there' conversation began 'it’s got to be' ... 'well if it was there ... wouldn't you see it?’.... 'it's got to be' that was my limit, we decided to look for the other stuff on the list ( that was his job to write a list but we ended up doing the list ten minutes before we went to the shops). The rest of the shopping went a little better ... until right near the end he says ... I am just going to have another look for that aubergine! he returns fifteen minutes later ( by this point I am at the ice-cream isle looking for some type of sugar fix to lift my mood,, debating whether to go for frozen yogurt or Ben and jerry’s) and I ask so, any luck. the response was Nope... at that point we looked at each other in a way we never had before, the look said with no words 'get to the check out and get out of Tesco before we kill each other'. Again a learning curve, I never should have not shopped online. The next task the next day was the cooking, I'm not even going there, but I have to say the stress was worth it because we had such a brilliant night I cried laughing so much I had no makeup left on by the time everyone left, it’s amazing how much fun a piñata can be after tequila slammers and tequila sunrise. I managed to fall over , I hit the piñata, managed to hit my knee and then my head on the way back up and then the piñata swung back and hit me in the head which caused slight of balance, add that to an already wobbly drunk person and i stood no chance!

Still try to continue to prove that Imagination is more important than knowledge :)

Life’s short have fun!
Laura @Hippie Hq