The week in review
Another week is over and what do I have to show for it? Well, actually significantly more than normal!
The parents have been away this week and so, being the lovely daughters we are, my sis and I have been doing a spot of redecorating. The bathroom and toilet are no longer hideously bright blue and the hall and the landing are no longer a dirty pink. The whole lot are now magnolia which *hopefully* will help the parents be able to sell the place. We're also well on the way to having the place looking tidy and have redone the front garden so it actually looks cared for!
All this has been accomplished while the two of us have also been working full time. Have I mentioned how much I'm loving having a 9-5.30 job which I can forget about when I get home?
And on the subject of jobs, i am really loving this one! I've been asked to work a few days in September over in france - transport and accomodation paid for by the company! This includes a coach tour of some parts of northern france. And this is work! I've been seconded permenantly to another branch of the company now too which I found out this week means £150 less a month in my pay packet as there are no weekends to work. Asked my boss about this and mentioned I could do with the extra money. Her response? 'No problems, we'll just up your wages by a couple of grand a year from next month onwards to make up the difference.' So that's the JM photoshoot and autograph paid for for October!
I have also booked my holiday for this year. It's happening in January. Ok, not technically this year but my friend and I were wanting to go to Cardiff and spend some time being fangirls (which I am not allowed to do when my sis is with me!) and January was the first time we could coordinate our calandars for. I'm not complaining because the travelodge sale means our hotel bill for the entire stay only comes to £15 each!
Of course this holiday in Cardiff, coupled with the two trips I already have planned with sis to see JB in panto and the visits we have to make to family over the christmas period means I won't be seeing GDL as Prince Charming. Fingers crossed for him doing panto next year though! I've already decided I'm not going to Glasgow to see John so if Gareth is doing panto I'm so there!
My descent into Buffy fandom has greatened this week. I'm now half way through series four and also halfway through the first series of Angel. Not liking Angel as much as Buffy although it's watchable enough; it just somehow seems darker and harder to get into. I've finally given up the fight against spoilers; it's far too difficult to avoid them when no one but me considers them spoilers! This has been very bad though as I've now got a huge stack of fanfics to read (mainly Spike/Buffy because I watched 'Something Blue' the other day and I'm now totally in love with that pairing! Angel/Buffy also has a few in there too - 'I Will Remember You' made me cry so much!!!!) The problem is that people keep finding me things they want me to do and it's all cutting into my Buffy watching time! At the rate I've slowed down to I'll still be stuck on season four at Christmas!!
I'm sleeping over with my GB posse tomorrow night. It's the BT Giant Sleepover - we're attempting to break the world record for the largest simultaneous sleepover ever. Youth groups all over the country are doing it. It does of course mean though that I have 19 hyper active 5-15 year olds to supervise tomorrow night. I'm on night watch between 12.30am and 2.30am. Apparently it's my job to get them all to go to sleep! Wish me luck!
Speak to you all soon if I survive the sleepover!
The parents have been away this week and so, being the lovely daughters we are, my sis and I have been doing a spot of redecorating. The bathroom and toilet are no longer hideously bright blue and the hall and the landing are no longer a dirty pink. The whole lot are now magnolia which *hopefully* will help the parents be able to sell the place. We're also well on the way to having the place looking tidy and have redone the front garden so it actually looks cared for!
All this has been accomplished while the two of us have also been working full time. Have I mentioned how much I'm loving having a 9-5.30 job which I can forget about when I get home?
And on the subject of jobs, i am really loving this one! I've been asked to work a few days in September over in france - transport and accomodation paid for by the company! This includes a coach tour of some parts of northern france. And this is work! I've been seconded permenantly to another branch of the company now too which I found out this week means £150 less a month in my pay packet as there are no weekends to work. Asked my boss about this and mentioned I could do with the extra money. Her response? 'No problems, we'll just up your wages by a couple of grand a year from next month onwards to make up the difference.' So that's the JM photoshoot and autograph paid for for October!
I have also booked my holiday for this year. It's happening in January. Ok, not technically this year but my friend and I were wanting to go to Cardiff and spend some time being fangirls (which I am not allowed to do when my sis is with me!) and January was the first time we could coordinate our calandars for. I'm not complaining because the travelodge sale means our hotel bill for the entire stay only comes to £15 each!
Of course this holiday in Cardiff, coupled with the two trips I already have planned with sis to see JB in panto and the visits we have to make to family over the christmas period means I won't be seeing GDL as Prince Charming. Fingers crossed for him doing panto next year though! I've already decided I'm not going to Glasgow to see John so if Gareth is doing panto I'm so there!
My descent into Buffy fandom has greatened this week. I'm now half way through series four and also halfway through the first series of Angel. Not liking Angel as much as Buffy although it's watchable enough; it just somehow seems darker and harder to get into. I've finally given up the fight against spoilers; it's far too difficult to avoid them when no one but me considers them spoilers! This has been very bad though as I've now got a huge stack of fanfics to read (mainly Spike/Buffy because I watched 'Something Blue' the other day and I'm now totally in love with that pairing! Angel/Buffy also has a few in there too - 'I Will Remember You' made me cry so much!!!!) The problem is that people keep finding me things they want me to do and it's all cutting into my Buffy watching time! At the rate I've slowed down to I'll still be stuck on season four at Christmas!!
I'm sleeping over with my GB posse tomorrow night. It's the BT Giant Sleepover - we're attempting to break the world record for the largest simultaneous sleepover ever. Youth groups all over the country are doing it. It does of course mean though that I have 19 hyper active 5-15 year olds to supervise tomorrow night. I'm on night watch between 12.30am and 2.30am. Apparently it's my job to get them all to go to sleep! Wish me luck!
Speak to you all soon if I survive the sleepover!