Sunday Stuff

Today is my birthday and I have been thoroughly spoilt already. This week has been filled with food: curries, sweet potato fries and apple pie to name a few and I have a beautiful cake and a meal at Wagamamas to come. Why is it when you are happy life has to figuratively kick you in the balls by giving you the nastiest cough?!?! I sound like a 40 a day male smoker and last night clubbing was made much more difficult as everytime they set the smoke machines off I nearly died!!

I am so lucky that my parents got me a new camera. I have a Fujifilm Finepix S6800 which I believe is called a " bridge camera" (not quite as many options as a DSLR but a few more things you can control than a standard click and point) Today's post's pictures were taken with my trusty iPhone as usual but hopefully you will start to see some improvement and if you have any tips then I am really willing to learn!!

Because of this nasty cough I also haven't been to the gym this week. Bad me!! I must get back to it this week but getting the motivation back is always hard. Do you have any tips to get back into exercising?

The card pictured above was sent to me from one of my best friends from uni in Lincoln made me cry. I miss her so much and one of her comments in her beautiful letter has inspired a post which I will be sharing with you this week.

This week I made flapjack, lemon drizzle cake, rocky road and chocolate brownies for work which all went down a treat even though I managed to burn the brownies and my lemon drizzle didn't really work :( Will share recipes during the week!!

This card from my sister made me laugh more than it should have, she knows my sense of humour too well!!

Sunday Stuff

Getting back to work after a long weekend off was very difficult. While my body clock still woke me up at 7.30am each morning, that Monday morning alarm hurt my soul.

On the theme of giving up this week I have recently felt like giving up my small Sunday job but to be honest the money is helpful and the people lovely so at this moment in time I feel that sacrificing those three hours on a Sunday is still something I can do. Recently I have struggled to find the balance but after reading this blog post I have felt much better.  

I have been to the gym zero times this week. I have too many excuses but most of them involve the fact I am too lazy and too tired. I have heard a lot of people talk about the Insanity challenge and looking at these people's results is amazing but I lack self motivation so I think this would be a big waste of money for me.

On the food side I have done much less cooking than I intended. I cooked this dish but had little success mainly due to the fact that I tried to cook this with very little measuring of the ingredients involved. I also think that as I was cooking in a bad mood this also didn't help. It will definitely be one I try again but once I have invested in some good ol' American measuring cups.

This week I treated myself in New Look to some new boots, new heels and and new pink jumper. It's typical that I finally decide to buy boots as the weather starts to warm up. I'm also not sure pink is my colour.

Next week is my birthday and I'm not even excited yet. Who am I?!?!?  

What have you been up to this week?