The witterings of an Essex girl

I had my first driving lesson today since my test. I was a little nervous as I hadn't been in a car since 10th November! It went really well. I did cut up a man on a mini roundabout near my house though! Eeek sorry- learner! Not to mention women drivers!

My instructor was teasing me about my white Christmas tree- apprently they are tacky and it shouldn't have come as much of a shock as I am from essex after all! The cheek of it! I'm paying this man good money to make derisory comments of my origin of birth! It's okay though- I'm proud to be an Essex girl and I give him so much more stick than he could ever give me!

My little boy is going to be cross with me when he gets back from school. He's going to be playing a sheep in the school Christmas play and I was meant to buy him a pair of black tights but I forgot! It does annoy me though that just expect you to go out and buy these things- it's not like I have a pair of black tights in his size lying around the house. He is the eldest child in the house and a boy after all! His sister has a pair but they are aged 3-4, much too small for him! Never mind I'll ahve to remember for tomorrow- I'll ask my friend to remind me.

i had an encouraging start to my dissertation. I emailed my tutor the first chapter the other day and he has said it's good but needs a bit of work. i was worried I ahd done it wrong so it's good to hear that I'm on the right track. 2000 words down another 8000 to go!

anyway I better go and sort my housework out.

Take care and have a great day.

tomorrow is Fat fighters so fingers crossed pleased that I have lost 1lb to reach my 2 1/2 stone. thank you

I have just got back from the party and we had a great time. It was meant to be fancy dress- pirates and princess. Red went as a pirate and Lila was meant to be a princess in her chinese dress. They were so excited about going to the party that they got their outfits on as soon as they woke up! I warned them not to get them dirty and they did really well. Actually, Red did really well, Lila did well until just before we were about to leave and then got ketchup down it! She wasn't even menat to be eating ketchup- she had taken it out of the fridge while I had gone upstairs.
She really wanted to be dressed up and wouldn't go in her normal clothes. She didn't have any other princess dresses so i had to use one of Red's that I had bought him for Christmas. I got a bundle of 5 outfits- Lila gave him one for his birthday and I was keeping the others for Christmas.
So that was it Lila Bean had become a racing car driver princess with her costume a tiara and a pretty bead necklace she had made at the childminders ages ago! She did look very good in it though.
Ah well, at least she wasn't going to be the same as any one else! She does like to be different after all!

The party was really good- my friend made a belle from beauty and the beast cake (made it all by herself- I just got Red a Power Rangers cake for his birthday last week from the supermarket) she also make a pinata for the children to open and had lots of pictures of princesses and pirates that she had drawn! She's so very artistic.

Red won a few of the games- well he was the oldest there! He doesn't like losing though and tends to sulk. He had already won a few treats on pass the parcel (but not he main prize- Lila won it once though), musical statues and musical bumps and was was bit upset that he didn't win the dancing competition. He sulks so much when he loses. One day I was playing matching pairs with him on the living room floor and I was beating him (I won't let him win- that doesn't teach him anything) so he threw a tantrum and put all the cards away. Then we played snakes and ladders but Lila was winning and he landed on the same snake 5 times so he put that away too.
I don't know where he gets it from- I know I don't like to lose but I don't show my frustration at losing to anyone. Maybe I was like it when iw as little! I'll have to ask my mum.

Oooh speaking of Mum I haven't phoned her today and she'll be ringin me in a bit to see if I'm okay!

Take care.

Love and sunshine,

Laura x

My life is sooooo exciting. Weekends are just a blur for me. I can barely remember what I did over the weekends!

Actually that's because it's so mind numbingly dull! Today I made the children tidy their things in living room to teach them about responsibilty (honest- I wasn't being lazy!) for their things and respect. Red was brilliant and did it without any moaning what so ever. Bless him he really is growing up now he's turned 6. The girl needed a kick up the bum to do it but they managed it in the end. They even had a fight over who got to take Lila Bean's unicorn upstairs- Red won. He was pleased with himself too.

I tried to get some studying done- I read a little from a book on the Weimar Republic and was planning on doing some more ot the essay but then When harry met Sally was on tv and I haven't seen it in so long it would have been rude not to watch it. It's a classic after all! Although it does create the awkward question from the boyfriend about whether I have ever faked an orgasm with him I refuse to diginfy that question with an answer!

I then watched Match of the day which in my house has had it's name changed to Day of the match as my fiance (yes I know I just called him my boyfriend a minute ago but we are engaged!) mistakenly called it that once and it seems to have stuck.

I tease him about his English but my Albanian is awful- he laughs at my poor attempts to remeber words and my very English accent when pronouncing them! What I'd like to know is why these languages feel the need to have male and female words for everything! What about equal rights?! Surely women have the right to be treated the same as men and therefore it is unfair and unequal to have masculine and feminine words! or is that just my rotten ability to grasp the concept of another language? Actually I'll have you know languages (written in plural but I only learned french at school. I say learned but we had in class exams and I think one girl did the work and we all copied. Hey I came out with a B at GCSE grade) was my best subject at school- my French teacher (who was actually French herself) thought I had an ear for languages. Clearly she is wrong and will realise that when trying to listen to my half arsed attempts at Albanian. I have only just mastered the way of saying the letter dh which apperently is like our th as in the word 'they'. It is actually a lot harder to say than it sounds! As a result I can now count past nine! Result!

Anyway I have a party tomorrow- see I do have something interesting to do. It is for my friends little girl who is very good friends with my two children and we will all be going to her birthday party. It's fancy dress- princesses, princes and pirates. Lila Bean will wear her chinese dress (which is slightly too big for her despite it being aged 3-5. She is 4 in a month!) and I have sticks to put in her hair too. Red is going as a pirate- Lila Bean bought him a pirate outfit for his birthday last week- wasn't that lucky!

Have a great weekend too.

Love and sunshine

Laura x

I haven't been on here in so long. I guess I figured my life had got boring- driving and losing weight. Not really exciting. things haven't really changed though.

I ahve now failed my driving test twice as I re took on the 9th November and someone walked out in front of me and the examiner put his foot on the brake a split second before I did and I failed I only had 5 minors!

Actually that isn't strictly true. It was completely my fault that I failed I accpet that now. They didn't excatly walk out in front of me. They were on a zebra crossing and I didn't see them. Totally my fault I know.

My weight loss has started to slow down I ahve now lost 2 stone and 6 pounds. It's a bit frustrating but I'm going to start all over again this week and see where I can change- I know I need to do more exercise. I walk about 15 hours a week but I need to do something a bit more energetic. I'm going to try aerobics 3 times this week.

My wedding plans have been put on hold as we have legal issues to deal with and I want to finish Uni first. There's no rush after all.

Uni is going well. I have a lot of work to hand in before Christmas but I'm on track with it. I have already written one essay, my first chapter of my dissertation is almost complete and I have just started an essay on the Weimar Republic. After that all I have to do is an essay on crime and society in Early Modern England and then a 1000 words on the Berlin conference. Then it will all start again in February with the start of my last semester- it sounds soooo scary.

Wow actually I have loads going on. And to top all that my children are sick today! they are driving me mad because they are off school and want to eat everything they are not allowed!!!!!!!!!

Anyway I better get on with that essay sadly these things don't write themselves- would be good if they did.

Take care.

Love and sunshine.

It's nice to be back!