Happy Anniversary!!

It's my Mum and Dad's 26th wedding anniversary today. 26 years that baffles and amazes me at the same time.

I love my parents, and I know you have to seeing as they created me, but I truly do. My mum is my best friend, she's the one I go to to talk about anything and everything, she's the one that can bring a smile to my face, or make me laugh when I'm down. She's more than a mum, more than a friend, if there is a word for what she is to me, I don't know it. I just know I'm the luckiest girl in the world to have a mum like her.

My Dad is my superhero, (though he'd deny it). He's the one I go to if I need to cry (which doesn't happen very often). He's the one that when I'm sick will come over, give me a cuddle and tell me he'll take all the bad bugs away if I give them to him...yes even now when I'm 22 and I'll bet he'll still be doing it when I'm 40!! He's the strongest person I know, and every day I aspire to be half the person he is, to have half his strength, to have half his understanding and loyalty, half his capacity to love and forgive.

My parents have been through a lot together over the years, from my fathers mother disliking my mum, moving houses, living with said grandmother, caring for my nan, bampa and now my great aunt. Even going so far as to have my bampa (before he passed away) move in and now my great aunt lives with us. And yet, no matter what has happened in the past or what is still happening, I know they can get through anything as long as they have each other.

I only hope I get to experience half of what they have, in the future. That I can meet someone who will fight for us when the going gets tough, who will be; faithful, loyal, compassionate, and to hopefully still be as in love after 26 years and when we first me.

So happy anniversary Mum and Dad, congratulations on 26 years and here's to many many more :D

xoxo

I should be in Starbucks

I'm currently writing this blog from the Holiday Inn Express hotel bar/lobby. I kinda feel like I should be in Starbucks; with a chia tea latte, soft jazz playing and other bloggers/writers and the such like.

I've been feeling really grown up today. Two friends that I went to university with, have come down to Swansea for the weekend, and they too are in the bar/lobby. One writing and the other doing the puzzles  in the 'I' paper (never heard of it but ah well), she's enjoying herself. It feels very grown up to be sitting drinking tea and working on projects together, something we haven't done in about a year. And it feels really good to be working together, even though were all working on separate things, it feels good to have them back and to being grown up together, can only imagine how it'll be in another couple of years! I can't wait!!!

We've had several cups of tea, bottles of water and ice tea, feeling a little worse for wear after last nights antics but we've all agreed it was well worth it, even if I currently can't move my neck! But even though I can't move my neck, am dying for a fag (yes I haven't kicked the habit yet) and have work in 2 hours, I really don't want to move from this spot. I'm with two of my best friends; who are absolutely amazing, the sun is shinning (just about), I have tea and couldn't be or feel happier :D

Hugs and kisses and I hope your with your besties just like I am

Lisa xoxo

Men and their toys!

So I am currently writing this whilst sitting in my dressing gown, pretty much in naked underneath having been summoned by my dad to help sort his phone.

Why do men insist on getting top of the range technology, e.g. iPhone's, laptops, TV's etc. (like I said toys) if they can't work them!?!? My bampa was the same, constantly buying the newest and latest things technology had to offer and then he'd call me up asking if I could pop round and set it up!!

My Dad is exactly the same. He's currently trying to sync his AOL (don't ask, we live in the UK and have no need for AOL) account to his phone so he can connect with icloud. Sounds simple enough right? Wrong. He can't receive any e-mails on this account. He can send them out, as he's proven by the 10 new e-mails in my inbox, he just can't get any. I've told him it's probably because of the different programs each site runs on and that it'd be easier just to set him up with a Gmail account but he wont listen.

And as I'm typing I'm hearing the constant questions of "what does that mean?" or "what's an IP address?" or "what the hell am I doing?!?" to the final acceptance, "I don't understand any of this!" All I'm saying is if you don't understand, go to a professional not your daughter and not at half midnight when she's just got home from work and hasn't had a cuppa yet!!

Wish me luck!!

XOXO

Lisa


Oh now he's found out he can personalise his e-mail page! Lord help me!!

New Me Day 1

So I told you I'd write and let you know how I've got on so here we go. New Me Day 1. 






Total Cigarettes smoked : 5 (we'll call it 6 as I may have one later before bed)



Total packet of crisps eaten : 3 




Exercise done today : does cleaning/sorting my room out count? No? in that case, none...oops!!  




Ok, ok, so that didn't go exactly to plan, but on the other hand, 5 fags is pretty good for me, but I wasn't at work or the pub so that's probably why :/ 




As for the exercise, I really was going to do sit ups today but didn't get out of bed till 2.30 pm and have been working on my other to do list, which involved sorting and cleaning my bedroom among other things. 


And yes I am currently curled up in bed with a DVD and a box of Milk Tray but I'm watching a film...I'm allowed right?! Ah well I will do double the amount of sit ups tomorrow to make up for it. 




Here's to a better day tomorrow 


Lisa 


XOXO

Quote of the week 2

I know I said I'd post an inspirational quote every week, but I forgot...SORRY!!! 




As usual these quotes will reflect things that are going on in my life at the moment, so if you've read my previous post you'll understand why I've chosen this one :) For everyone else, I hope it helps. 




"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living". - Gail Sheehy (writer) 

Happy growing :) 

XOXO

Lisa 

New week New Me!

So it's currently Sunday, (well technically it's early Monday morning but who's checking!?) so yeah, it's Sunday and I've decided that I going to create a whole new me! Well not new, just improved.

So here's my list of what I'm going to do as of tomorrow to Improve myself :) 

1) quit smoking (having smoked for over 8 years it's going to be interesting)

2) get fit (were talking sit ups, zumba, swimming, possibly running)

3) get into a proper skin care routine (I always start off well and then stop..oops!)

4) do something different (join a club or something, meet some new people)

5) become inspired again and find an outlet for that creativity. 

So this blog is now going to be a 'Bridget Jones esq diary' I will hopefully blog every day, or at least once a week on my progress (I guess that's number 6, blog about all the above! haha). Tell you all how many fags I've had, what I'm doing to quit, what exercise I've chosen to do that day etc. And just tell you about my daily life...not that it's that interesting but ah well we'll soon find out! 

So here's to the improved...not new.....ME :D 

Here We GO!!!

Wish me luck!!! 

XOXO 

Lisa

Quote of the week - week 1

So I'm thinking of starting a quote of the week post that will go with whatever I personally am going through or ones that have helped me in some way, shape or form. They won't always have an author and you may or may not have read them before but I hope they help.

'Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about those who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance take it, if it changes your life let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it'd be worth it.' - written by anonymous

Hugs and kisses

Lisa xoxo

Leg room needed send assistance

So I'm currently on a Great Western Train headed to Portsmouth. Now to get to Portsmouth from Swansea you have to get an arriva train Wales to Cardiff and then change to G.W. Being a London train the A.T.W train not only has leg room (i know crazy right) but fancy toilets you know the kind with the electric automated door thing and a buffet car no trolley system on those trains.

This one however has crappy toilets where you feel like your about to fall under the train (ladies you know what I mean), a woman who, bless her is attempting to sell things off a trolley that looks like it was around when my great grandparents were around and the leg.room well I'm 5ft 11 so I'm used.to not having much leg room or any at all but even those who are a.lot shorter than myself are complaining, if you don't believe.me here's a.photo 

See I wasnt lying now I have no idea how.that turned.out as I'm typing this on my phone on the train so fingers crossed its not too bad.

So if your having a crappy day just think you could be having a day like mine where your dying for a fag, stuck on a train with no room and the horrible smell of baby food/soiled nappies

XOXO lisa

Boys and their toys

I don't think I will ever understand fully what men/boys see in cars/gadgets etc but more than that I can 99.9% be sure that I will NEVER understand the appeal of fantasy card games!!


I'm currently crashing at my old uni housemates's new place and since leaving them  over a year ago they seem to have moved on from ps/xbox games (they are game design students FYI..I know explains a lot right?!?!) to these weird fantasy card games that tbh I've never really seen the appeal, personally. Now don't get me wrong, each to their own and all that, but seriously what ever happened to just playing regular card games like snap, rummy, pairs etc? Since when did we have to start including magic, monsters, spell casting etc in our card games? Though I will say one good thing about these types of cards and that is the illustration/graphics on most of them are pretty good :) But seriously, guys take these types of games way too seriously to a point where I half expect them to pull out a wand all Harry Potter style and start 'magically' shooting spells across the room. 




               
                                                                (see said the graphics were good)



So as you can tell from the pictures above the game is called Magic: The Gathering. Don't ask me how you play it or what happens because even as I am typing this blog their playing it in the lounge, which means that I have to listen to them going into in depth conversations about it when I all I want to do is go to bed, so instead I'm forced to blog/rant about it instead. So if you want to know more click on the link and you can find out about it (http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Summoner/). 


If you do play this game/type of game, please don't take offence it's just not my cup of tea and something that has seriously baffled me (and yes before you ask I have tried to play these types of games but they just aren't my thing). 


Hope your having a more interesting day/night than I am :)
Hugs and kisses
Lisa XOXO

That awkward moment

When you meet your ex's new girlfriend is an experience most of go through and all of us dread. I recently went back to Portsmouth to visit some friends and as I'm on pretty good terms with my ex (i'll no doubt divulge more info on this in another blog), this meant seeing him too, what I wasn't prepared for was meeting his new girlfriend.
To say I was little nervous would be an understatement of gross proportions. I didn't know what to expect; would we get on or not, what if I don't like her and the big one....what if they start making out in front of me?! But alas none of that happened, well they did kiss but that's about it, we got on really well, turns out we have a similar sense of humour. Was it strange seeing him kiss someone else of course, but the worst part for me is knowing that even as his best friend, when things kick off or go wrong he wont turn to me anymore but its a case of either get used to it or let it effect everyone so what can I do?

My 3 top tips for surviving the meet the new girlfriend moment

1 - smile, regardless how your feeling don't stop smiling, even if she is a total Bitch

2 - if you can avoid being caught alone, especially with her you'll no doubt have to endure the patronizing, I'm the new girlfriend but he still cares about you speech

And

3 - if you can arrange to meet her in a group setting that way any awkwardness can be covered by the group, same goes for awkward silences.

Oh and no matter what she says/does etc just remember you were there first and no matter what you probably will never want to go back, if you do well that's a blog for another time :)

Hugs and kisses XOXO
Lisa

The Single Girls To Do (Resolutions) List

                                                         NEW YEAR NEW YOU!! 

So it's that time of the year again; where the winter blues are almost behind you, the xmas/nye parties are done, your resolutions have been made and life gets back to normal. Your back to work, your social life goes back to seeing friends once or twice a week (if your lucky) and your bank balance is virtually non-existent...so what do you do to make the weeks go by, attempt to stick to the resolutions you made on seeing the new year in. Now we can probably all admit that were guilty of not keeping to our resolutions for longer than a month or two, and I'm one of the worst, to a point where I haven't really made any in years because I never stick to them. This year however I will!! And thanks, in partly to this blog, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I will. So here goes my Single Girls To Do List - Resolutions style. 

1.           Join and stick to going to Zumba every week
2.           Eat breakfast every day
3.           Upload more videos/blog, at least 3 a month! 
4.           Find a job that I actually like
5.           Find a flat/house and move out of parents place
6.           Take a course in first aid
7.           Take a course in sign language 
8.           Finish Anna Karenina (especially before the film comes out)
9.           Travel more
10.           Smile more :D

Ok so I know 10 resolutions seems like a lot, but really the only ones I will actually be sticking to are 1,2 and 3....the rest are more things to do but they are on my list anyway so tough :) (see I'm already sticking to no 10) So as for how I am going to stick to them...well here is my plan.....


Number 1) Go to Zumba - the best thing you can do when thinking of joining a gym or losing weight etc is to do it with friends, people you know who will motivate you to get off your back side get up and go work out, or if you really can't make it for whatever reason, someone who will make you work double to amount the next week to catch up on the week you missed. It also helps to have someone with you who you can bitch/moan/mock other people at the gym with...after all they say laughing helps you lose weight :) 


Number 2) Eat breakfast everyday - So as this is more of a solo task my plan is to start a breakfast diary, whether or not I do a blog post on it I don't know, I may do a weekly breakfast post with photo's of what I've had...to keep me going or if not I may keep a food diary of what I've eaten or plan on eating to make sure I do. 


Number 3) Upload more videos - So for those of you who don't know I do beauty videos on youtube and if I'm honest I've failed at it since I joined. I haven't really got into a regular pattern with it, and have only uploaded videos every now and then so this year I want to get better and properly use my channel, if I don't then I will take it down as its pretty pointless :/


As for the rest, well like I said they are more to do list type of tasks than actual resolutions but who knows, I will keep you all informed on what is going on but for now I am going to finish my cup of tea, read for a little bit and go to sleep as it is 1:07 a.m right now.


Hope you all had a lovely time over the holidays and that this new year brings everything you could hope for :) 


xoxo