Not Alot!!!

Hello there

Yes i am alive (just), and i know it's been 4 weeks since i last posted (although not that many of you care!) but to be honest i hadn't done, seen, been , anywhere, anything or anyone, but now that i have done something i can blog about it!!!!

I did have some news about a week ago, Kieron's mate Stuart and girlfriend Becky are having a baby, so good luck to them!!!

Now with my main blog... I will start last Thursday 24th May, well i had booked the Thursday and Friday off from work 'cos i decided i needed and deserved a long weekend (seen as though yesterday was Bank holiday Monday - again!). I got up in the morning had a shower and promptly waited for mum to pick me up. First i had to go to the Dentist, which was a journey in its self. We arrived only to be told that we would have to wait 10 -15 mins as they were running late. I hate waiting for Dentist appointments its always that uneasy, on edge wait. It's always quiet nad all you can hear is the sound of the dreaded machines anticpatingly waiting for their next victim!!!

I was shortly called in and i had the usual "8's good, 7, 6, 5 is good, 4".. etc etc , then my dentist decided that i deserved to be put in some agony!!! He used this mini hook thing which was made of thick wire which he then proceeded to rake my teeth out of my gums!! I'm still in pain now!!!

So after my wonderful dentist appointment, i was off to the hairdressers. I arrived and my hairdresser (Katrina) took one look at me and offered me some water as my gums were pouring with blood, no seriously i looked like Dracula after he'd just had lunch!!!

I was only in there for 30mins and i had a nice chat with Katrina, my hair looks good which was something to put my mind off my aching gums!!!

My mum was meeting up with a load of people she has met off a chatroom at Becketts on Saturday and she needed something new to wear., so we took a trip into Kings Heath. We looked in New Look, B-wise, Bon Marché and Evans and there wasn't really anything there that we liked. Mum was loosing her patience so i told her that if she wanted something really nice she would have to go into town. She was a bit reluctant at first, but we headed off anyway!

I took her to a couple of shops that are, hmmmm, a little up market! I took her to Principles, Oasis, where there were some lovely clothes, Warehouse but they didn't do her size and then finally Wallis where hit the jackpot! She bought a lovely cream camisole and a cream lace cardigan to go over it, it looked really good on her! So we left town and went back home for something to eat, i saw Gaz for abit when he came home from work but then i needed to go home to get the tea on for Kieron. Thursday evening Stuart came round for abit to play Command and Conquer 3 with Kieron, and that was about it!

So Friday, a little less quiet, Rosey and Dan came round as Dan wanted my speakers and my petrol tank from my car before it goes to the Scrap people. The speakers were no problem, but he started to have problems with the petrol tank. Firstly he forgot his spanners and secondly it started to rain. We went to my mums to borrow some spanners and we called into Sainsbury's to get some lunch. By which time the rain had stopped so we quickly had lunch and Dan carried on with the petrol tank. Although he ran out of time as Rosey was at work that afternoon so they called it a-day and said they would come back tomorrow morning to finish it off!!

All afternoon i sat and watched a bit of tv and tidied up the flat (as it was a bit of a disgrace!). That evening me and Kieron had a bottle of wine each and sat and watched tv.

Saturday morning me and Kieron were up bright and early as we were going over to Car Craft in Wednesbury. We had decided that we wanted a newer car and we had seen a new Ford Fiesta they had got. 1.4 Zetec, 3dr Fiesta '03 plate and only 35000 miles on the clock. After being slightly delayed on the M6 ('cos of the bank holiday traffic and they had road works!!) we arrived and were greeted a friendly chap who told us to go and see Chris at the far end of the showroom.

We soon found him and we went to look at the car, which wasn't parked where it was supposed to be, so we went round the corner to the valleting section and there were no signs of it there, hmm, so Chris told us to wait at his desk in the showroom while he found what was going on. He soon came back to tell us that the car had a slight sratch under the headlight and it had been sent to a company down the road to get it professionally done and re-sprayed. He said that they did have a simialr model there which we could look at to get an idea and it was very nice!!

So we decided to put a small deposit down (on the Fiesta that was missing) to secure the car so we can go next Saturday to have a test drive in it and if we don't like it we get our deposit back!! So i'm very excited about going to have a test drive!!

We came back home and Rosey and Dan were there trying to get my petrol tank out. Kieron gave Dan a few extra tools to make it easier and within 30 mins it was out, drained, cleaned and put into the back of Rosey's car.

After they had gone we had a fairly peaceful afternoon, Kieron was playing Command and Conquer 3 and i was doing some sudoku (don't laugh!), until Kieron decided to scream at the TV. I looked at the TV and his game had crashed, so he re-loaded but it crashed. So he tried getting onto the main dashboard and even that crashed - not good news. If you have an X-box 360 you'll probably no what i'm talking about but basically 360's have a tendancy to go wrong/faulty after a few months. So we think Kieron's has failed, as we have had this problem before. Luckily it's in it's warranty period so he can get it replaced, so he will be on his third one when he gets it!!!!!!!!

Saturday night we decided to get a takeaway - we opted for an indian! We also popped by Kieron's mum and dad's to borrow some dvd's. He had a copy of Shrek 3 so we watched that (haha to all of you that have to wait till June!!).

Sunday we went shopping etc etc and then lat afternoon Kieron decided he wanted to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3. So we made our way to Rubry for the 6.15 showing, we got there but it was sold out, so we decided to take a trip to Touchwood, we got there for the 7.15 showing and that one was sold out!!!!

So there was no choice but to go to AMC in Birmingham, the next showing was 7.30pm and it 6.50pm!! We ran back to Kie's van and he drove furiosuly to town, parked up and ran to the cinema and we were in luck, they were showing it on about 5 screens!!! It was really good and i though Keith Richards did a fab job!!!

So Bank Holiday Monday, and it was a miserable day (as usual!) we didn't really want to do alot seen as though we had had a busy few days, kieron was on his PC and i was watching the cheesy day-time tv crap they always put on.

Soon enough it was lunchtime and i had a phone call from Gareth asking if Kioern wanted to have a go on the Halo 3 Beta (which of course he did!!) So Gaz came round about 2pm and we played Halo on Gaz's 360. It wasn't long though before we were all feeling hungery and decided to venture down the road to The Packhorse. Gareth and Kieron both had steak, and i had BBQ ribs and chicken. The food was good and we had fun chatting away about random crap!!!!

A little bit later we told Gaz to invite some of his mates round (as they didn't know what to do and they wanted a cheap night!). So about 9pm Carl and John arrived. We sat playing a bit more Halo 3 but it wasn't long until we had my Wii on. We played some multi-player games and they were hilarious!!!!

But it was getting late and me and Kieron had to get up for work the next morning so we booted them out at midnight!!!

So it was back to work and here i am typing this in my lunch break, so i have filled you lot in and i will leave it there for now!

We need more Bank Holiday Weekends!!!

Hello there people

Well last week at work, one of the partners (David) went on holiday, he has gone to Australia for 3 weeks to see his daughter. She went to Australia last July/August for a 1 year travelling experience and David and Diana have gone to visit her before she comes back home in the next couple of months.

So lucky for me i have been left in charge of all his stuff, i've been phoning Council's (that has not been fun!!), organising applications and drawings and all sorts of stuff that i've never done before. It's a nice feeling that someone trusts you to do all this yet it's nerve racking to think that if it all goes wrong - it is all my fault *gulps*!!

So last week was very busy at work, the phone didn't stop ringing, i was all over the place!!!! The week went very quickly, and before i knew it, it was Thursday. That evening i was meeting up with Rosey, Dan, Emily and Jim for a nice drink at the Heron's Nest. I had never been there before, so i was looking forward to it. Rosey came and picked me up about 7.30 and we slowly headed over to pick up Dan.

When then headed off to meet Jim and Emily. It is a nice little country pub, very peaceful although they could have had better lighting, as all we had was a candle, but it was all good. We found a table and Emily quickly spotted the dessert menu! Rosey and Em had cheesecake and i had a chocolate brownie, it was very delicious!!!

We had a good old natter, but before long the evening was nearly over. I was very tired by this point, so we headed off...... to Tescos!!

Yes it is a favourite past time of ours, we do love to mooch round Tesco in the evenings when there is nothing better to do. Mainly because you can look around all of the stuff without being pushed out of the way by grannies and parents with screaming children and also because you can always find a good bargain!!!!

We didn't stay long as i wanted to get back home, it was a good evening, and it was great to see Jim and Emily again (it has been awhile!!!).

Friday was very dull at work so i was deffiantely looking forward to 5pm. I had to leave ontime as me and Kieron were going to see Spiderman 3, we were both looking forward to it. So on my way back i picked up a chinese takeaway for quickness, got changed and we headed off. We were going to the 7.45pm showing at Rubry and we knew it would be busy so we wanted to get there fairly early 'cos we wanted a decent seat. We got our tickets and whilst Kieron was paying for the sweeties i went and joined the ulmighty queue. They had 2 screens for Spiderman 3 but neither of them were ready for people to in. So the queue was for both screens, and it was never ending. Luckily i had timed it right and i was just under a quarter of the way down the queue, but basically the line began to snake up and down the corridors before eventually it ended up in the main entrance where people were buying their tickets!!!

Kieron managed to find me, we waited another 10 mintues before a member of staff told us we could go in. Everybody started to run into the cinema so they could get a good seat, and we did, thanks to kieron!! We were in the middle halfway up, it was brilliant!!!

The film was really good (apart from the stupid ooh look i'm proud to be an American parts!!) and i am deffinatley looking forward to the 4th one!! We got home and just sat and watched tv for bit before going to bed.

Sunday was a slow day, we got up and tidied up the flat as we had a lady coming round from the Cat Protection Clinic, (Gareth if your reading this don't tell mum yet, keep as a little surprise!!) we went the other weekend to the clinic down Packhorse Lane, to arrange for a home visit. I thought she would be at the flat for ages poking her nose round and asking loads of questions, but i was wrong! She came in, asked us a couple of questions abouth the area then explained to us the process of everything and then left. Kieron cooked a lovely chicken sunday roast and we decided to watch some movies for the rest of the evening. It was good fun, we got some wine and we chose 2 films each and we sat and watched them. Kieron chose Matrix and Start Trek Nemesis and i chose 80 days around the world and Polar Express.

Bank Holiday Monday - i decided i was going to do sod all!!! Well i had had a busy week at work and i didn't feel like doing anything. I mainly sat and watched Kieron play the computer and it wasn't as dull as i thought it would, he was showing me how to play World of Warcraft and it is very good.

I had a good relaxing day which i think i deserved, so until next time cheerio!!!

Argos - The Devil's Betting Shop!

Hello there people, well it's May already! I can't belive how this year is flying past!!!

Anyway well after i came back from my ski holiday not alot happened, work was just the usual stuff, i saw Rosey and Dan a couple of times but that was pretty much it! So i will skip straight ahead to last weekend. Kieron had invited round his good friend Alex and girlfriend Jade. We haven't seen Alex for sometime now as he is living in Rugby. They have two kids, Shannon (who i think is 2) and Teagon (who is about 9/10 months old!?!?!)

Seen as though the weather was gorgeous we decided we would do a Barbeque, only problem was we hadn't got a barbeque. So me and Kieron got up Saturday morning tidied up the flat ('cos it was a mess!!) and then headed off to Argos in Kings Heath. We only wanted a little thing (not one of these monstrosities that you can cook a whole cow on!) so that we could easily put it away in our shed. There was one for £25, very simple and basic but it came with a starter kit, all the utensils and a small bag of charcoal - brilliant we thought, so whilst Kieron filled in the little slip I decided to purchase some new garden furniture (nothing fancy just the standard white plastic 4 chairs and a table!). We waited for a bout 5 mins and all the stuff arrived at the collection point.

Kieron went back to get the van to save us trundling up Kings Heath high street, we picked up the food from Somerfield and headed off home.

It wasn't long after we arrived home that Kieron had paper, packaging and screwdrivers everywhere in the garden putting together all the stuff. The table went up no probs and the chairs were soon put out. But then came the fun part - the BBQ!!!

Within seconds, bits of BBQ were flying everywhere, and Kieron shouting his mouth off. Good old Argos had forgotten to put the bolts in that held the BBQ together - Clever!!! But luckily Kieron being an Engineer he has lots of screws and bolts in his van so off he went scrambling away like a squirrel on caffeine finding the correct size bolts. 20 minutes later he came (looking quite smug) with the bolts and in no time the BBQ was put together.

Not too long after that Alex, Jade and the Kids arrived. The BBQ was already underway, so we quickly showed them round the flat and we then went into the garden to start tucking into the grub. We had plenty of food, we had bought sausages, burgers, garlic and herb chicken pieces and chinese ribs, and Alex bought some BBQ sausage and more burgers (although his burgers were the size of a small dinner plate!!).

We had a great time, Kieron did a wonderful job of doing the food . We sat in the garden for ages just chatting away, but Alex and Jade decided to go as their little ones were getting tired. They left about 7 so me and Kieron cleared up (whilst watching Doctor Who!!).

For the rest of the evening we sat and watched telly.

Sunday was the usual, we went to Tesco's to do the shopping, we called in on Kieron's mum and dad for a bit as Kieron had some engineer manuals he needed for work. We got home put the shopping away and sat and watched War of the Worlds on DVD. A little bit later Gaz came round to pick me up so we could go to nan's.

And that was my weekend so see you next time