It’s fair to say my blogging has been pretty slack of late. Well actually no that's a lie. My blogging has been non existent for the past 3months. If there was some kind of minimum blogging period needed to retain a blogger account I suspect I would have missed the cut off and been removed from the world of bloggers about 2 months ago.
I'm not sure exactly why I have been so remiss lately. I could pretend that the sheer devastation of Reading losing to Swansea in the play off final had forced me to abandon all elements of social networking but then I'd be lying, although have you seen our form lately (if you haven’t DO NOT look it up). I could say my life has been so utterly mundane for the past 3 months that I had nothing to blog about but again that wouldn't really be telling the truth (and besides if you've read my earlier blogs you would know I don't really need much of an excuse to crack on a write about pretty much nothing).
So to bring you up to speed without boring you senseless, here's a quick summary of what's been occurring since my last blog (its quick I PROMISE!)
1. I got promoted at work (yay!)
2. I went to New York for hols and ate real NYC cheesecake and pancakes (double yay!)
3. I had a brief encounter with a Canadian (not the kind you might think but that’s for another time)
4. I met in person an awesome friend from the wonderful world of twitter
5. I ran a 10k in less than an hour (triple yay!)
6. I went to watch Take That at Wembley *squeals like a teenager*
7. I put my house on the market (again)
I'm not sure exactly why I have been so remiss lately. I could pretend that the sheer devastation of Reading losing to Swansea in the play off final had forced me to abandon all elements of social networking but then I'd be lying, although have you seen our form lately (if you haven’t DO NOT look it up). I could say my life has been so utterly mundane for the past 3 months that I had nothing to blog about but again that wouldn't really be telling the truth (and besides if you've read my earlier blogs you would know I don't really need much of an excuse to crack on a write about pretty much nothing).
So to bring you up to speed without boring you senseless, here's a quick summary of what's been occurring since my last blog (its quick I PROMISE!)
1. I got promoted at work (yay!)
2. I went to New York for hols and ate real NYC cheesecake and pancakes (double yay!)
3. I had a brief encounter with a Canadian (not the kind you might think but that’s for another time)
4. I met in person an awesome friend from the wonderful world of twitter
5. I ran a 10k in less than an hour (triple yay!)
6. I went to watch Take That at Wembley *squeals like a teenager*
7. I put my house on the market (again)
8.I became addicted to Squares bars and for this I blame @burtshire @_sweenster (and in later weeks @justsj). I mean honestly its those bloody double chocolately ones - they just sit there and cry out to me in supermarkets. They need me.
Exhibit 1. Look at them - CALLING ME.
9. I met even more wonderful dudes and dudettes from Twitter in real life (quadruple yay!)
10. I ran another 10k (this was even faster but that was likely due to the fact I had to sprint to the start line on account of being late AND I was dying for a wee, works as quite some incentive you know (and no before you ask I did not do a Paula Radcliffe. Tsk))
11. I booked a holiday (I am blonde I can't think of the next form of yay so just erm Bigger yay!!??)
12. I took my house off the market (again)
13. My parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary (off the scale huge Yay!)
14. My brother moved house and is now 5 mins away, along with my sis in law and nephews (ok I need to find another word instead of Yay! Umm fandabbydosey? Ok that's RUBBISH as a replacement word, I might have to go back to yay!)
15. I ran 10 miles and I didn't hurt my foot (or back) - this is more of a miracle than a yay moment.
16. I went to Reading Festival with a very awesome bunch of people and had a totally wicked time.
17. I bought wellies (yes ok this should have preceded 15. Tsk I am blonde).
18. I played actual real life netball. In public. For the first time in about 10 years. My butt hurt the next day.
19. Oh and I went out once or twice and had the odd beverage, just to be sociable obviously.
10. I ran another 10k (this was even faster but that was likely due to the fact I had to sprint to the start line on account of being late AND I was dying for a wee, works as quite some incentive you know (and no before you ask I did not do a Paula Radcliffe. Tsk))
11. I booked a holiday (I am blonde I can't think of the next form of yay so just erm Bigger yay!!??)
12. I took my house off the market (again)
13. My parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary (off the scale huge Yay!)
14. My brother moved house and is now 5 mins away, along with my sis in law and nephews (ok I need to find another word instead of Yay! Umm fandabbydosey? Ok that's RUBBISH as a replacement word, I might have to go back to yay!)
15. I ran 10 miles and I didn't hurt my foot (or back) - this is more of a miracle than a yay moment.
16. I went to Reading Festival with a very awesome bunch of people and had a totally wicked time.
17. I bought wellies (yes ok this should have preceded 15. Tsk I am blonde).
18. I played actual real life netball. In public. For the first time in about 10 years. My butt hurt the next day.
19. Oh and I went out once or twice and had the odd beverage, just to be sociable obviously.
20. I over use the word yay. I am not actually sure its even a word.
21. My diet has been impeccible (kind of)
Exhibit 2: Health food. It includes all the essential nutrients - protein (nuts), Carbs (cereal ish) and calcium. What could possibly go wrong?
This is the abridged version. I could expand on most of these events and may well do so for one or two (I might save you from the house one though it’s just an endless saga of estate agent dreariness). I will also spare you the detail of the ridiculous amount of shopping I managed to do in 5 days in NYC. Put it this way, in order to avoid having to pay £60 of excess luggage I was seen unloading copious amounts of Underwear and shoes into what can only be described as a dot cotton style laundry bag at check in. Thank you nice man at the BA check in desk and yes if you were at JFK in early June and so some blonde sat on the floor in departures wearing Ugg boots (in 100 degree heat) flinging fluorescent pink smalls from one bag to another that was me. I am ultra classy you see.
Oh and also for all of you who knew about my slight Royal Wedding Obsession, I just know you are desperate to hear all about progress with that. Well I am completely over it now (mainly, well on good days at least). I may have been given some additional royal wedding literature from across the pond when I visited New York. BUT it was a gift from a friend and so it would be rude not to accept it and read every page right? I may have also been given a erm mug too. I have recently deleted (yes permanently removed) the coverage from my sky+ planner though. It was a touch and go moment and it took alcohol to get me through it but I got there in the end. And no @vicky1978 I did not order the official DVD or buy the hardback special edition photobook (OR sticker book) during this period. I was a bit tempted by the sticker I must say. I mean they are stickers. That's like a hobby isn't it? Like stamp collection or something? I am making this worse aren't I?
Anyway this was just a quickie to bring you up to speed. I will blog something of greater substance soon I promise. Well ok I promise to blog again soon, frankly I cannot promise it will be of much substance.
There is just one more thing I will say before I sign off. When I read that back it reinforces that I am a bit of an optimist really. There is nothing negative in the summary I just gave. The truth is my life is not perfect and there have been some sad moments in those three months too. I choose not to blog about those. I am a positive person and so I look for the good in everything, although sometimes that is very hard to find. For others there have been utterly heartbreaking moments. It is not my place to blog about these and so I shall not. I will just say this. There is one very special lady who I knew only through twitter who used to enjoy reading my clap trap (not entirely sure why mind you ;)). She is not going to be able to read my ramblings this time. She gave excellent twitter banter and just a totally awesome chick. She was the eternal optimist who never once moaned about being sick. She was the person who attempted to fix me up with a random Canadian via twitter when she was on her honeymoon there. Yes she actually approached people in bars and asked if they wanted to date an English girl. This was until she got hungry and decided a burger was more appealing than setting me up with a hot Canadian (with blue eyes obvs). She was also the person who ran the same 10k as me. Only she did this when she was very very poorly to raise a huge amount of money for Marie Curie. It is with her in mind that I can honestly say I am very grateful for what I have and that I promise to try to moan a bit less because life really is too short. Sleep tight chick xx To her awesome family I send lots of love. When I choose my running charities for next year I shall do so with her in mind.
Adios amigos. Be good and if you can't be good be careful. Catch you soon xx
C xx
P.S. I did refuse the offer of a royal wedding candle. This may have been based on the fact it was described as smelling a bit like talc but not of the old lady variety. Even so, I think this signifies immense progress if I'm honest.
Anyway this was just a quickie to bring you up to speed. I will blog something of greater substance soon I promise. Well ok I promise to blog again soon, frankly I cannot promise it will be of much substance.
There is just one more thing I will say before I sign off. When I read that back it reinforces that I am a bit of an optimist really. There is nothing negative in the summary I just gave. The truth is my life is not perfect and there have been some sad moments in those three months too. I choose not to blog about those. I am a positive person and so I look for the good in everything, although sometimes that is very hard to find. For others there have been utterly heartbreaking moments. It is not my place to blog about these and so I shall not. I will just say this. There is one very special lady who I knew only through twitter who used to enjoy reading my clap trap (not entirely sure why mind you ;)). She is not going to be able to read my ramblings this time. She gave excellent twitter banter and just a totally awesome chick. She was the eternal optimist who never once moaned about being sick. She was the person who attempted to fix me up with a random Canadian via twitter when she was on her honeymoon there. Yes she actually approached people in bars and asked if they wanted to date an English girl. This was until she got hungry and decided a burger was more appealing than setting me up with a hot Canadian (with blue eyes obvs). She was also the person who ran the same 10k as me. Only she did this when she was very very poorly to raise a huge amount of money for Marie Curie. It is with her in mind that I can honestly say I am very grateful for what I have and that I promise to try to moan a bit less because life really is too short. Sleep tight chick xx To her awesome family I send lots of love. When I choose my running charities for next year I shall do so with her in mind.
Adios amigos. Be good and if you can't be good be careful. Catch you soon xx
C xx
P.S. I did refuse the offer of a royal wedding candle. This may have been based on the fact it was described as smelling a bit like talc but not of the old lady variety. Even so, I think this signifies immense progress if I'm honest.
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