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