My bed room redecorating is actually taking quite a while do to.  Really wishing I could move back in there now, the spare bedroom is annoying me now, being so small This week though I’ve finally gotten round to sorting out painting the walls Chose the paint and the border over the weekend but then not really done much since Came home yesterday from work, had dinner, put on some really old clothes and made a start on my bedroom! My sister wanted to help but made a bit of a mess with the walls as she was using this naff sponge thing while I used a roller I didn’t take too long to paint a layer one the walls, really tired me out though! Managed to cover myself completely in paint from it flicking off the roller as I put the paint on the wall! Took a pic of my hand all covered in specs of paint, although really should have taken a pic of the rest of me and it wasn’t just my hand covered in paint

Looked like a right muppet So anyway, here’s what my room my currently looks like!

   

really like the colour of the paint, goes really well I think! Of course will look a lot better once I get the second coat of paint on the walls, put the border on and then put everything else back in! Hopefully now it shouldn’t be too long!!

Started at my new job this week. It’s going really well so far! learning new things and getting on well with all the work they’re giving me! they’ve all said that they’re really impressed with me so far! There have been a few moments with I’ve not had much to do, but thats due to the fact that both my bosses are off on a buisness trip this week and next week so are having to prepare everything for their trip. They’ve got plenty of things left for me for next week though which is good! I like the fact there are only 4 other people in the company! easier to get on with everyone I think! Already love the hours I’m doing! although I wouldn’t mind if I didn’t have to start so early so I didn’t have to keep getting up at 6:30 every morning It is nice to leave work at 4 though and get home 15 minutes later! so much more time for things in the evening now! I did how my doubts yesterday, thought maybe it wasn’t the job for me, and got a little worked up about it, but after thinking it through I realised I was just being silly and that it was just nerves getting to me and that if I had been given the chance to do the things I’m doing now back at the old place, I probably wouldn’t be feeling like this! I’m overcoming those feelings from yesterday and feeling much better about things which I’m happy about.

Unfortunately I have to go back to OUP tomorrow and Friday to finish off my notice - which I really can’t understand! Would be nice either to have both days off or go back to work at PCS. It’s really tempting to not go in at all, but I’ve got to hand things back and pick up things. ah well, could always go home if I get really bored!

So new job, no where near Oxford and I’m finally happy to be leaving OUP for good! will no longer have to put up with Lyn being a pain in the bum and making me upset! I won’t miss that place at all!

Well after a few months of talking about redecorating my bedroom, it’s now finally going a head! Last week myself and my mum started to move a lot of the stuff out of my bedroom and onto the landing (as there is no where else for it to go)

I think I have far too much stuff so when I have to put everything back, I’m going to have to go through it all and see what I can get rid of. I know there are loads of stuff in my wardrobe that can go!

So anyway, after moving most things out last week, we started to strip the wallpaper off which took about a day to do (there was a lot of wallpaper and most of it was tricky to remove).  It felt strange living in a room with carely anything in it and nothing on the walls On sunday I went to Dreams and bought myself a new King sized bed! It arrives on Friday - although still don’t think my room will be ready for it then.

This evening I finally got round to moving all the rest of my things out of my room and into the spare room. Didn’t take too long as there wasn’t much, but it really drained me of energy for a while! I’ve managed to sqeeze a lot of my things into the spare room - where I’ll be staying until my room is finished it’s quite small conpaired to my room. although it is quite nice to be able to reach everything from the bed without getting up - I sound so lazy great net connection in here to, better than my room anyway :p

So here’s where I’ll be staying until my room is done

     

And here is what my bedroom now looks like with only the wardrobe in it. It’s so echoie (sp) in there now. Can’t wait to get it all finished!

     

On Friday, I went to see the Riverdance in Oxford at the New Theatre with my parents, my sister and Matt. I had been looking forward to this for ages and was getting really excited as the wait to see it drew closer and closer.  Matt was meant to arrive at mine for before 7 but wasn’t here by the time we wanted to leave so we said we’d meet him in Oxford. We got there and started queing up to get in, without Matt. He was stuck in traffic on the M40. We put his ticket behind the deskfor him to collect when he got here, but I decided I would wait for him as he didn’t know Oxford too well and I would have to help him get to where we were. 8 o’clock finally approached (the time the show was meant to start) and he still hadn’t turned up. He finally called me to tell me he had parked up - at last!! Like I thought, I had to give him directions from where he was to where I was. He found me and we went in. We had to wait a while to be allowed inside as the show had already started -  we had missed the start of it! When we were allowed in, we found our seats and began to watch the rest of the show. It was amazing!! The dances, the music and the costumes were all amazing! Hearing the sound of the dancers shoes on the dance floor, watching the dancers dance in unison in these wonderful outfits,  sent shivers down my spine and made goosebumps appear all over!

Act One
“In a primitive and powerful world, our ancestors knew fear and joy and fire, worked wood and stone and water to make a place they could call home. The first peoples knew the world as a place of pwoer, their songs and dances and stories are negotiations with elemental powers. The first half of this performance shows them coming to terms with the world and with themselves.”

During the interval, we sat and ate ice cream while we talked about the first act and how good it was. I could overhear the people around me talking with their family and friends with them about how they wished they could dance the way the performers could. I wished the same. My primary school used to run classes after school to learn how to Irish Dance. Many of my friends had joined the class and I wanted to too, I wanted to perform with them and enter competions. But the teacher running the class didn’t like me or my mum so wouldn’t let me join, which was really mean. I had to get my friends to teach me it during break times at school. least i sort of got to do it though!
People started to come back to their seats for the second act and quickly the entire room was full of cheering and clapping as the show continued.

Act two

“Watr, famine and slavery shattered the ancient bonds, between people and place. Forced dislocations marked and altered the histories of the native peoples. As we came into history we learned to guard what we valued, to accommodate ourselves to others, to learn new ways of being ourselves, to embrace new kinds of courage. Cast out and momentarily orphaned, we learned to belong to the world.”

At the end, the enture cast come out onto the stage and perform once more a small dance they had performed in the show and then began to dance all together, to the same tune, the same dance, the Riverdance. Everyone, including me loved it. We drowned out the music at one point by cherring and clapping so much. It really is hard to describe exactly how I felt whilst watching it, and possibly how everyone else felt watching it but it truely is amazing to watch. Beats watching it on TV or on video (like we have at home ). I would recommend to anyone to go and see it live if you get the chance, definately a must see!

http://www.riverdance.com/

Leeds Summer Ball! Something I’ve been looking forward to for a while! Had my dress all sorted (wore the one I wore to Ady and Chrissie’s MINI get together last year - it’s all about saving money ) and Matt had his tux sorted - at a pretty good price too! After shoppping around in Leeds on Friday we headed back to our hotel. Sorted out with Becky what time to go round hers to get ready. Started getting ready but had a bit of a mishap when shaving my legs in the shower.. I got out the shower and started drying off when I noticed large amounts of blood on my legs! I hadnt cut myself, my legs had been really dry and when shaving they had started to bleed. I looked like a right muppet, and even more so when I started sticking toilet paper to my legs to stop them bleeding. After about 15 minutes they eventually stopped and I could carry on getting ready. Packed up our stuff and then headed over to Beckys. We all started getting ready, us girlies in our dresses and the guys in their tux’s! took us a little while to get ready, put all our makeup on, and straightened our hair. Put everything back in the car and then we all headed off to the uni for drinks. Some pics..

              

About half 7, people started coming round to tell us that for the people that were sue to leave on the 8pm bus had to start heading over to the buses now. We gathered our things and headed over to the bus. We were lucky to get on a bus with about 7 seats left so as soon as we were on and seated, we were off to the Ball! :D  We finally got there and headed off to have some food and drink before going to have a dance and then watch the Automatic! The ball was great fun! wondered around having fun and taking loads of pics! As the night went on, I had to sit down for a while, as standing up for such a long time was causing my feet to hurt. Matt came to join me and we sat and watched everyone have some fun! We were soon joined by Becky and Jon who were in the middle of a very bad arguement Becky was in tears! She sat with me for the rest of the evening while I tried to cheer her up! Managed to eventually and we enjoyed the rest of the evening. The Ball carried on until 6 in the morning but I couldn’t stay that long as me and Matt had to leave early the next day! We got the bus back to the Uni and then got a taxi back to Beckys to pick up my car. Drove back to the hotel and realised I had left my only pair of jeans at Beckys house! what a muppet! I couldn’t go back and get them as no one was in as they were all still at the ball! So the next morning when we had to leave, we went back round Beckys, spent a while trying to wake her up so she could let me in! I looked rather silly though, will my dress round my waist like a skirt, a black strap top, trainers and socks! thankfully no one saw - I think! Finally got my trousers back and we were then set to make our way home! Was a great weekend, shame it’s over!
Here are the pics from the ball!

                   

So on the night of Becky’s Birthday I drove to the pub where we were meant to meet. The pub didn’t have parking so I had to find a side road to park down. I’m very much regreting parking there! After several hours in the pub, me and Matt walked the 2 minutes down the road to get in the car. As i reached the back of the car, I noticed something quite different about the back of it. It looked wet and lumpy! It looked like someone had been sick all over the back of my car! It was very hard to see as it was dark, so we got in the car and drove back to the hotel. I parked under a light in the car park, got out and studied the mess on the back of my car. I was relived to see it wasn’t sick! Instead it was bird poo!! Some bird must have had a very bad stomach as it was a right mess and every where! It looked awful! I was so ashamed! I wanted to clear it all off right away, but Matt said there wasn’t anything to clear it off with and it was very late. I wish I had cleaned it off then and there though. The next day, we ventured into the centre of Leeds to wonder round the shops. I bought some wet wipes to clean the bird poo off when we got back to the hotel. I hated driving around with it all on show on the back of the car - sounds daft doesn’t it?! Any way, we got back to the hotel and started to try and clear up the bird poo! By now it had solidified and was well and truely stuck onto the car! It was tough to remove but we got the majority of it off eventually. There was just one problem.. the bird poo had horrible hard bits in it and as I just trying to remove it from the car, I ended up scratching the paint work!! I wanted to cry when I saw it! I was happy that I’d finally gotten rid of all the nastyness off the back of the car but so sad that I’d just scratched the back of the car!! I’ve taken some pics of it, so you can see what I’ve done! going to try and polish them out in a little while - hope it works!!

31st May my best mate Becky finally turned 21 We had arranged that myself and Matt would go up to Leeds to see her on her birthday. I didn’t get her entire birthday off but instead got the afternoon off. Headed over to Matts to pick him up and begin our drive up to Leeds. Took us about 4 hours to get there, mainly becuase of the traffic on the M1 and the fact that it was raining so badly - could barely see! Got to our hotel at about 6. Our hotel was amazing. Matt had suggested staying there as he had worked on a hotel like it in Swansea and said it would be a cool place to stay - that plus the price was really good! http://www.village-hotels.co.uk/hotels/leeds/ Settled in and the arranged to meet Becky and everyone else at a pub. She was slightly drunk by the time we got there, but that’s allowed - it was her birthday Had a couple of drinks and some food before me and Matt went back to our hotel and everyone else went home to get changed. We all met up again a few hours later at a pub a few minutes down the road from the hotel I was staying in. They were having a karaoke evening in there. Everyone wanted to sing, except me. Singing’s not one of my best things and I’ve never liked doing it in front of people. It took a while but eventually Becky convinced me to sing with her. We chose something to sing together and waited for our names to be called. This never happened - thankfully! By the time it was our turn to sing, the pub was closing! Me and Matt headed back to the hotel and everyone else headed into town - apparently they didnt come home until around 4 in the morning!! Here are some pics from the evening!