31st October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

Halloween! Although we only got 1 bunch of kids trick or treating so we have the majority of this bowl left (well I’ve ate most of the chewy ones!).  Busy day at work today as there was only 2 of us in and there was a shed load in! Pierre picked my car up for me so it’s fixed and running well again now which is good news!

30th October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

I was up early this morning as I couldn’t sleep so I thought I’d get some reading done downstairs without keeping Pierre awake, whilst searching in the chest in the living room for a snuggly blanket to lie under I found a dinosaur colouring book and some pens (I got them from a secret friend swap!) and thought it an awesome way to spend 10 minutes!! I did try and read some but I was tired and ended up dozing off! I had a bit of work to do in the afternoon so I spent most of after lunch being glued to my laptop. My mum popped over for a while to say hello and drop off some things from my nana and then Pear made some stacked enchilada’s for dinner, they were awesome, he’d been slow cooking the pork all afternoon so it was super tender and tasty! I was going to exercise today but my ankles feel really really weak and just wrong, I think I need to do some strengthening exercises before any more jumping around doing aerobics! My car is back in the garage tomorrow so I’m keeping everything crossed that it’s not too expensive!

29th October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

I’ve been working today and had a fairly busy afternoon so as soon as 3pm hit, I did a work out (Level 2 of the 30 day shred!) and then Pierre came back with wine and some beer so I partook in a Bishops Finger which was yummy! 

I’ve decided the 30 day shred is bad for me, not because it makes me work like a dog whilst doing it but because my ankles and knees are getting weaker and weaker the more I do it, I just don’t think it’s physically good for me so I’ll be doing another form of exercise I think and maybe every other day rather than every day as I like the recovery period you get with skipping a day. 

Pierre then made a super awesome dinner of slow roasted veg and chicken with “secret recipe” sauce that I’m now privvy to! It was one of those dinners that just makes you feel like you’re loved by the end of it 🙂 

28th October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

Still in Pierre’s car today, I took this whilst waiting for him to come out of work! Today was a super busy day at work, and I also had the headache from hell most of the day which must have been a Pierre withdrawal as I was ok as soon as we got home! We had a cheeky pizza for dinner and then flumped on the couch with a bottle of red and watched Tucker and Dale Vs Evil which was ace!

27th October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

Sooooooo. Today, picked my car up from the garage and drove it to pick Pierre up from work (as I’ve been using his car!) and it broke down on the way back home, the engine temp light came back on (although it’s not lit in this picture!) and it started smoking/steaming like crazy so I called the RAC out as I didn’t want to damage the engine by driving it anymore. After an entertaining wait (where I got treated to 2 chocolate bars!) the chap came. The engine had cooled down by that point so it wasn’t as crazy as before but luckily when he followed us home, it started doing it again and was super hot so I’ve booked it in with the garage again on Monday. Randomly whilst making small talk with the RAC chap I found out he used to work with my uncle before he emigrated to the states, so what a small world!

26th October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

Jam! So yesterday my car got an engine temp warning light and today after work I dropped it at my mechanic’s so he could have a look at it, I also had a doctors appointment and had to drop a prescription off, as we didn’t have any food in, Supermarket prescription service it was, hence the picture of the supermarket jam. We like Tiptree jam, Pierre especially likes the sweet tip raspberry jam so we’re trying all other raspberry jams to see if there’s a better one (but we’ve always got a tiptree in reserve just in case!)

25th October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

I was up all night last night on a job and got to bed at gone 4am this morning so I was a leeeetle tired! I went into work as I felt being around people would help me stay awake, if I’d have worked from home I think I would have just flumped on the sofa and felt worse. Anywho after dinner Pierre suggested a wonder around a supermarket so we went to Asda and bought a bunch of things, todays picture I took because the disinfectant missed the “t” off the end and it made me laugh so I took a picture!

24th October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

Today’s picture is probably an obvious, I didn’t have time photo. Well maybe I had time but no energy/inspiration! We got the new Empire and as I was flicking through I thought, what a good shot of Viggo as Aragorn. We were watching the animated version of LOTR on SyFy over the weekend and I was saying since watching Peter Jackson’s films, the characters and actors are now permanently linked in my brain! 

I had another really pants sleep last night, no work call outs but just too hot, too cold, too achey, too awake, too light, to thinky, fell asleep then next doors baby started screaming it’s head off at 4am. All that followed by a 10 hour day at work and being on call again tonight = a sleepy caroline. 

23rd October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

Another crappy night’s sleep, well not crappy sleep but wide awake at 7am isn’t fun when you want to sleep in. Come on body it’s the weekend and you didn’t have to work throughout the night, sleeeeeep damn you! 

Anywho! After breakfast we went to my least favourite shop of all, B&Q, Pierre makes it slightly more bearable but man I get bored in there. The picture today is the contents of our basket which includes some insulation tape stuff for the front and back door to make it a little more snug and also a letterbox brush thing to fix on the inside of the door (You can tell I know all about DIY terminology right?) 

Whilst Pierre was doing all of that, I did day 7 of the 30 day shred (woop), I use some heavier weights this time as the small ones I had didn’t really do much for me. Then before showering we did a major clean up of all the floors, hoovering & mopping agogo! (that’s like another workout in itself surely!) 

22nd October 2011

HTC Wildfire – Vignette – Diana

I had a super rubbish sleep last night, I was on call but that doesn’t generally keep me from sleeping (well unless I get called out!) but I woke up at 3 then just kept dozing. I finally got up at 830 to do day 6 of the 30 day shred (well day 5 really as I skipped yesterday!). Once we’d had breakfast we then started to assemble to two new shelves in the garage and had a really good sort of all the things in there, along with a general sweep out so it’s a much more Caroline friendly place to go now! Pierre made an epic lasagne for dinner which I ate far too much of and now I’ve sat down I’m feeling the tireds catching up with me!