My Place

...and though I loved it I'm also disappointed with it.

I always refuse to watch a movie based on a book until I've read the book 1st and this is seriously my downfall as I can't help but compare the two against each other and always end up extremely disappointed and annoyed about certain things.

Why did they leave this out and why did they include that were all the questions hubbie and I were throwing at each other as we drove home, but overall we loved the movie even if it did leave things out Potter fans would think necessary.

...and I'm looking forward to it, I think.

I didn't get as much done during the holidays as I was intending to do so I've got a lot sitting waiting on me when I get in, including some stuff for the equality commission I wanted to get done during the holidays so I could get it sorted in peace and quiet, but now it's going to be a bit of a nightmare trying to get that done.

I'm looking forward to getting my routine back on track but I'm not looking forward to the early mornings again. I loved being able to have a lie in and reaching for my book as soon as I woke up so I'm going to really miss that.

The clever little bunnies digging on the Newtownards Road opposite our street have hit a water pipe and they've had to turn our water off to get it fixed.

Great fun.

Just as well hubbie and I have already gotten washed and dressed, but it means we can't put any washing on, we can't wash dishes that we used late last night, and I can't make a cup of tea!

Dunno when they'll have the water back on and we're going out for shopping shortly so we'll probably have to ring the water board when we get back to see if it's back on or not.

It's been a crappy day so far and this is just helping it along.

Thanks Mummy!

Mummy isn't ready to be a Granny yet so she doesn't sigh and keep saying she can't buy anyone such cute baby clothes anymore like my Mother-in-Law does. So nice to spend time with my Mummy.

It was a good days shopping, I got a suit jacket that was £60 for a tenner (great bit of shopping that) plus the skirt and trousers as well that match, got a couple of shirts in Matalan and a new handbag. Mummy bought me a gorgeous chocolate brown knit jumper for driving her about though she didn't really need to I like being able to take her out and about the place. It's one of the few things I'm able to do for her.

After the Abbey Centre we went to Tesco and got some shopping.

It was a good day, I look forward to our next one out.

Not a normal thing for a cat to eat but at least I know if we run out of cat food one night I can always cook some pasta for her.

...I can see what I'm doing wrong and that's by not eating breakfast.

Everything else seems to be ok apart from missing breakfast far too often, but I'm generally not hungry in the morning so that's the only reason why I don't eat breakfast. It's something that I'll work on though.

I have just spent I don't know how long with my mother-in-law and I have managed to avoid killing her.

She has had a bit of a cold/chesty problem for a fortnight now, and managed to get an appointment with her doctor this morning so I said since I was still off work I'd take her to the surgery and afterwards I'd take her to get her shopping as she hasn't been out of the house since last week.

No she doesn't have swine flu, and if any of us mention it again I think she might swing for us but we can't help but wind her up about it.

She was given stronger anti-biotics as she does have a chest infection, she won't/can't bring up any phelgm and if she could it would help her greatly, I got her a cough bottle with Linctus in it to try and shift it but she isn't taking it blooming woman that she is.

We went to Connswater for her shopping and she spent I dunno how much on clothes for the 2 grandsons, trying to convince her that the boys are growing so fast and if she wants to leave these clothes until Christmas then she'll need to get a bigger size than what they're wearing at the mo was so knackering so fater a couple of tries I just gave up and let her do what she wanted.

She kept throwing lingering glances at the baby clothes and baby things in Peacocks and Dunnes but you learn to ignore those after a while, she won't give up dropping hints they are as subtle as a brick through your window!

Left her off at home with her shopping about an hour ago and I'm shattered now, it takes a lot out of you shopping with your mother-in-law especially when she keeps getting you to check every item in Tesco for the sugar content when it's the fat content she should be most worried about. She bought some stuff today that she should avoid like mad but there's no telling her. Oh well.

...it's causing havoc with my washing!

Cause I'm off work at the mo I thought I could catch up on all the washing and get it all sorted for me going back on the 27th, but I haven't been able to because of the rain.

We don't own a tumbledryer and there's no room to have one anyway so we have to rely on a short washing line out the back or the radiators, but because it's so stuffy and warm at the moment our heating hasn't been on so we can't hang the clothes over the radiators. Each time we put clothes out on the line we're either bringing them straight back in again or else just not bothering to put them out because the grey/black clouds could open up at any second.

At this rate I can see me taking our wet washing up to mummy-in-laws or down to my mummys to get put into their tumbledryers. I'm running out of socks here!

I love the rain, I love being out in the rain and I love watching rain as it falls, just staring out the window at it but can you just disappear for a couple of days so I can get my washing all done. Pretty please.

As soon as I got to bro-in-law's on Sunday night I just felt so bad, really really awful - was scared to eat anything and hardly drank anything, couldn't enjoy being over and didn't even get to see the bonfire being lit as hubbie brought me home early as I felt that bad.

Yesterday wasn't much better, everything completely emptied out of me again so I didn't get to go see the parade with the rest of my in-laws so wasn't too chuffed about that.

Am having some bad days with the tablets and I'm really not sure what it is that I'm eating that's making me feel so horrible and yucky, I haven't really eaten anything all that fatty, I've been double checking everything I eat before I cook it. Dunno what it is that's making me feel so bad.

I could deal with the running to the loo so much, that's no problem, it's the cramps and general unwellness that comes with it I'm having trouble with.

I go back to the nurse on the 3rd of August so hopefully she'll let me know what I'm doing wrong and help me get on the right track. If I haven't lost any weight in the last month I'm going to be seriously miffed, it feels like I've lost half my body weight just with running to the loo so much!

• 1 glass of irn bru
• macaroni and meatballs
• cup of tea
• sparkling water

I know I ate very little the whole day but I didn't eat breakfast was intending to eat something when I got to Mummy's in the morning but I ended up taking the dogs for a walk then heading on to the garden centre almost straight away and by the time I got back to Belfast my head was banging so I crawled into bed and spent the next 8 hours almost sleeping so didn't get anything to eat until near 9pm. Very bad of me but head was just so banging and sore I wasn't able to eat anything.

• blackcurrent juice diluted with sparkling water
• snack - pumpkin, sunflower and flax seeds
• bottle of water
• cup of tea - no sugar, green milk
• chocolate custard (wee pot)
• slimfast chocolate milkshake meal thingy
• chicken salad, 2 slices of brown bread with bits, light mayo
• 2No cups of tea

the chocolate custard was the highlight of my day!!

• bottle of water
• chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, boiled egg, red onion, mangetout, honey and mustard sauce
• 2 muffins with sliced ham
• irn bru

• chicken salad sandwich on brown bread with bits
• bottle of coke
• chicken biryani and nan bread (only got to eat about a quarter of it)
• glass of coke
• snack - mangetout

• cup of coffee - green milk, no sugar
• 1No rice cake
• Tayto cheese and onion crisps
• Turkey burger sandwich on brown bread with bits and red sauce
• lucazade

I didn't have band and Mummy was in the house by herself (little bro was in bed but we don't take him into account as he's a pain in the bum, but that's another story), Daddy was away for the weekend for a bike race, he marshals the road races, so thought Mummy could do with a trip out and I can't remember the last time we had spent anytime together just the two of us.

I drove down home to pick her up and then drove back up to Belfast to go to Hillmount Nursery. Love that place. It's more than just a garden centre it's full of bits and pieces and lovely present ideas, that's the place I'm going to if I need to buy an anniversary present or wedding present, that sort of thing.

We spent well over an hour there just walking up and down the plants, we just couldn't make up our minds there were so many to choose from. In the end Mummy got a few gorgeous white rose plants, they were called patio roses but they were larger than that, an orange lily for my wee bro, and a chopstick bamboo plant. I got a celery plant and a pink patio rose.

The pair of us could've gone completely mad if we had had the money so think we'll have to save up and just go back up again. Christmas at Hillmount is supposed to be amazing with the stuff they have out on display, Santa's grotto and all the trees and stuff so we'll definitely be going back up near the end of the year.

It was nice to spend some time with my Mummy just the 2 of us, we don't do it often enough. Might see what she's working over the twelfth and see if she wants to come up to Lady Dixon park for rose week with me. I'm going to go anyway and I don't think Mummy's ever been up so if she's not working I'm sure she'd love to see all the roses in full bloom.

There's always a cake (or 2) when someone in here leaves and we think more people should leave, or at least threaten to leave, so we can eat more cake!

Chocolate and lemon - both oh so yummy, but more is needed!!!

Warning there will be talk of bodily functions!

They are disrupting my life so much they'd need to bloody well work or I will seriously  not be a happy bunny at all.

I was meant to be at band practise last night for 8pm, hubbie drove me down and we called into Mummy and Daddy's to drop part of Daddy's birthday present off (the rest of it will arrive in the post next week), decided while I was there I'd go to the loo before I left the house, my tummy was cramping so much I thought I needed to go but couldn't. Well on Wednesday night my tummy was really really crampy and painful and I needed to go so I thought it was something the same as before only it wasn't. The cramps continued and I was too scared to go to practise incase I needed to go desperately and it's not that easy to put an accordian down quickly especially with my hands still in their tubular bandages so I couldn't go. I spent the next couple of hours at my Mummy's not able to settle cause of the cramps.

There wasn't enough fat in my lunch yesterday to make me the way I was last night and my tea from the night before I think I only had about 4 mouthfuls before I had to run to the loo so I can't really blame that.

I've been on them for a fortnight now and it's only since last weekend they've started 'working' and I've to keep on them until I go back to the nurse on 3rd August, if I haven't lost some weight by then I think I might cry!!

I'm almost scared to eat I'm cramping up and feeling so awful with it.

Thank goodness Wednesday finishes work for the 12th fortnight so I can suffer at home by myself without it affecting my work like it is, and who knows another week and it might settle down somehow, fingers crossed!

Hubbie's car was sold last night so that means he can now get the Vectra on the road which he is looking forward to, but he's a bit upset about the Clio going. I can understand that, I get very attached to my cars as well and on the odd occasion when I change them i always end up in tears.

I asked him if he was going to book a back massage for himself as he was talking about one but he's refusing to spend any of the money on himself, he said he was going to spend enough of the money on getting the Vectra on the road but that's about it, he wants to keep the money for going to Haven.

As much as I love him for providing the spending money for us when we go to Haven I would like him to treat himself to something, it's been a long while since he's been able to do that, and without a treat now and again we all go a little crazy.

Why do the men in my life have to be so blooming awkward!