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!

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Muchos peace loves and happiness, Laura @ the Hippe HQ

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http://www.more-lingerie-today.com/

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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