21st Jan 2012

I overslept. Can you believe it? I blame a couple of things, I dropped my good alarm clock in the week, rendering it useless, and so I was relying on the dodgy one. (Yes... I do have two.) Due to hardly sleeping on Thursday night, I decided I didn't trust myself to get a good nights sleep last night, despite being really tired, so I took a sleeping tablet. I woke early, but thought it must be around 4am. My heating usually comes on around 4am and goes around 5am. I heard the click and thought it must be coming on, ages after that, I was still wondering what time it must be when I checked my alarm clock and it was 6am! The coming off click I thought I heard, must have been the heating switching off click, and my dodgy alarm clock hadn't gone off so I was running late, typical.

I swiftly made a coffee then jogged for just 20 minutes, better than nothing I suppose, I overdid the butt and thigh moves in the week so the backs of my thighs are killing me, I was glad it was only 20 minutes. I showered, had breakfast and another coffee and ran around to get out on time, which I did... just.

I got to J&G's one minute later than planned, so, not bad considering. G showed me his new phone which he is absolutely over the moon with, (app central and driving J mad with it,) then J appeared and got us all out of the door by 8.20am. So... G took my car to be MOT'd and J drove moi and herself to Warrington and a Starbucks... to begin with.

It was the first time I'd seen J since the New Year and we chatted over coffee. Our catch up was long overdue and she told me all she had on her mind, over coffee and fruit toast, it was lovely and a little sad, tissues were required. After that, we headed for any shop that had a sale sign in the window. It's probably the last weekend of the sales.

I told you J&G had got me a halogen oven for Christmas? And that the one time I used it to cook frozen fish and veg, I gave up after an hour and put it in a pan? Well, I told J that I really thought it was a fabulous idea, potentially, but that she should take it home and practice on it as I only have one hot meal a day and I didn't have the time to work it out. Anyway, she did take it home on Monday, put veg in it to cook on Tuesday, it still wasn't cooked on Wednesday. Neither of us know what we're doing wrong. I'm sure it will be fabulous when we figure it out, but in the meantime...

So, we hit the shops. Almost got a shirt in H&M for £5 but it was a tiny bit too small, one size out, could have got away with it but it was a teensy bit too snug for me. Then, we went into Zara and J made me try on a coat. It wasn't what I would have gone for practically, it's a light navy blue, (I usually think black or dark grey,) bubble, (think continental quilt), with a fixed belt and gold zip and trimmings. Anyway, I tried it on, it looked good, I was positively toasty as opposed to frozen as I usually am, and J decided that this, half priced coat in the sale, would be my Christmas present instead of the oven. Never in a million years, would I have thought one of these would have looked good on me, but J assures me that it does and does not make me look enormous. So, that's my Christmas present, J wanted me to use it for work but it's too nice for work and I think I may use it for my days off only.

I was really on the look out for boots for work. I'm desperate. I have some Sketchers that I've had for years, like... at least 12 years, which are a Godsend in the snow and ice and which I've been wearing as I didn't have anything else. Only trouble is, they're miles too big and seem to be getting bigger. As I lift up my foot, they seem to fall off a bit and I've tripped a few times this week alone. Anyway,  I had a voucher for Debenhams so we hit their shoe sale. J had vouchers too and so I ended up with these, "distressed" look, mock lace up, (they have a zip at the side,) ankle boots which were £65, reduced to £19.50! They are so comfortable, and they're by Faith. I will take a pic and work out how to post, I promise. I also got some over the knee socks for £1 from Topshop too which I didn't even realise were reduced. I do realise that you're probably green by now my chick... so sorry.

As if all of that wasn't enough... I passed! Well, the car passed, I only had one illegal tyre, which was swiftly replaced and then I really passed. Can't believe it and by the time J and I got home, G had even washed it and then told me off for my windscreen being so dirty, consider myself told off.