6 Random things......

As I don't have anything exciting to post today, I thought that I would tell you 6 random things about me, that you won't already know!!
I thought that this would be very easy and wouldn't take much brain power to do, but actually it was harder than I thought ~ anyway, here goes ~

6 RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME ~~

1. I love eating raw jelly, as in the jelly cubes before you put it in boiling water ~ my grandma used to let me make the jelly when I was younger, it never used to set because I ate most of it (tee hee!!).

2. I am currently studying for a Foundation Degree in early years care and childhood studies.

3. I am asolutely terrified of needles, going for an injection or a blood test sends me into a hysterical frenzy!!! (yes, I am a chicken!!).

4. When I was little, I wanted to be an Air Hostess ~ unfortunately I developed my dislike of flying and that scuppered that career path!!

5. I love taking photographs, I am not very good at it though!! I keep promising myself that I will do a photography course ~ to date I still haven't done it!!!

6. I can knit!!!!(My mum taught me when I was little ~ she could have taught me something useful, like gourmet cookery ~ but no, she taught me to knit!!!!!).

Anyway, there you go!! (told you my life was boring ~ ha ha!!).

Hopefully something exciting will happen tomorrow (maybe George Clooney will whisk me away from it all ~ a girl is allowed to dream!!!!!!!).

Canvas

We have had a really great day today, usually I don't like Sundays, but today has been good!!

Daniel had his usual Sunday Judo session, while Lauren and I did the food shopping (the bill would have been half what it was, if I didn't have LITTLE~MISS~SHOPAHOLIC with me!!).

We then met up with my friend Jane (who we ventured to Devon with on holiday!!), and we had lunch followed by a very long walk through the woods and area surrounding where we live ~ the weather was like a summers day and it was truly beautiful (typically I forgot my camera ~ so there are no pictures (sorry!!).

Instead of that, I have posted some photos of the canvas of the children that I ordered a while back and collected yesterday. It is the photo that was taken squint and not the canvas (or my ability to hang it ~ ha ha!!). I am sitting looking at it and it is perfectly straight in real life!!

The photo doesn't actually do it justice, it is done on canvas with a sepia effect, but my camera just won't pick that up (I need my new camera to come ~ quickly!!!).

I used to have a large picture of a lighthouse (my most favourite things!!), hanging above the fire place, but my children have replaced it (my most most most favourite things!!).

Well, have an ironing pile the size of a mountain to do ~ and two children to bath and get to bed.

My feet hurt (tee~hee), because we walked so far and I had new trainers on ~ silly!!!

Hope you have all had a good sunday too!!

NOTE TO SELF..........

......Giving Lauren camera and asking her to take photos of new haircut ~ to post on blog ~ was probably not one of my best ideas to date!!!!!!!

I don't need wine ~ to have fun????!!!!!

In my quest for a new hairstyle, I found a website called www.dailymakeover.com and have had hours of fun trying out hairstyles, some of them were so funny that I nearly fell off my chair laughing.

The dark hair colour is as close as I could find to my hair at the moment, but I thought I would try out some blonde ~ just for fun!!!!!

I don't actually think I will ask for any of these styles tomorrow ~ but it gave me a real laugh ~ you could even have blue hair, think I will try that out another time!!!!

Friday!

For some reason this week has been a hard one, I blame the fact that we were away last week, it is school holidays and I spent yesterday doing nothing but cleaning (and that damn elf never turned up last night to finish the job!!!). All week I have been waiting for Saturday when I get to sleep in until 8am - 2 extra hours in bed tomorrow morning - yipppppeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

I have got a very quiet weekend ahead - Lauren does not have ballet this weekend, so I will only have to take Dan to Judo on Sunday, apart from that - the weekend is mine (all mine!!!).

I have booked a hair appointment tomorrow - a couple of hours to be pampered - and maybe a coffee and some adult conversation too - what a luxury -ha ha. This hairdressers appointment throws up the age old question that I ask myself everytime I go "Keep growing it or have it cut shorter??????" I have had this battle all my life, when my hair is shorter - I am desperate to grow it long, then as it gets longer - I get fed up and want it short again. The only time that this did not happen was when I was at Police Training College - basically it was short and that was it (long hair had to be worn in a bun and I wasn't even going there - I was 19 remember!!!!).
Hopefully I will come back from the hairdressers tomorrow with some compromise - somewhere between long and short (it is a long graduated bob at the moment!!).

Back to today and unfortunately all it did was rain - where has spring gone? (maybe it is my fault for spring cleaning!!). We made winnie the pooh cakes today and then decided to watch a movie (alvin and the chipmunks) and eat popcorn (I like childminding on wet days - we get to veg out and eat popcorn he he!!). I then spent the rest of the afternoon making pirate hats and crowns out of paper and the children had a great time colouring them in and dressing up.

Now everyone has gone home and I have to cook tea - there is no wine in the fridge (I drank it all last night - blame the cleaning!!!), and my own 2 children are in the bedroom arguing (sweet little darlings!!??).

Another week over and another weekend here ~ hope you have a good one ~ and any hairstyle ideas will be greatly received!! (within reason ~ remember I am a 37 year old childminder and don't want to scare the children - too much!!!!) X