I own too much black - said no one EVER!

So I've given up on making lists after now having 23 notebooks for which I can now use to make my lists. Instead I have become proactive ok a week late but I've started and it was on my wardrobe. I swear I have nothing to wear so am always wearing the same top / jeans combo and that's when I'm not in my pjs (which is a lot / the perk of working from home).


My wardrobe - where do I begin 
I seem to have numerous amounts of shoes / boots in tan or beige
numerous amounts of handbags again in said tan or beige
(and who said I didn't like Magnolia at least I'd match the walls)
Sandals again quite a few but at least in the summer I seem to go for black or white.
Clothes I went through a phase of liking really bright bold prints and (cough) brought a few and didn't wear them so the charity shop will enjoy as most still have labels on them but I really haven't the time to take pictures of clothes onto Ebay or Facebook and then be haggled down to £1 for the item and find myself waiting in all day for them to collect (ok I don't leave the house but still thats not the point)
3 bags of clothes & shoes off to the charity shop (no bags what does that say about me). Feeling lighter my chest of drawers are sorted out and now open able I find I have plenty of clothes left to wear different outfits in the summer for hmmm maybe several years. MUST curtail my spending!!
Now I have a few minutes left before I need to get ready as I'm off out with some girlfriends tonight for a huge catchup as its been a bloomin age since we last saw each other. But ...... at the moment
(thanks wardrobe) I can barely move my neck is aching and my back is bust and on hubbys instructions I didn't do too much spoon theory and all that 
(linen cupboard tomorrow) so I might have to crawl to the restaurant but a few wines later (hopefully)
 will be the tonic I need (pain killer accelerant) to cope  oh and that's before I even get started on my fat club which I started 4 weeks ago now and I'm officially bleesed as punch to say so far I have lost just over 1 stone. Now I get 30 points per day on the weight watchers smart points system so today breakfast (cereal) lunch (cereal) trying to save my points as you do when you need a drink (or should that be need to drink) haven't had a drop of alcohol in 5 weeks now someone hold me up! so I figure if I get a jug of wine too I can try to drink just 3 glasses of wine (really good for me as I'd like more) and then the food remembering that 15 has already gone on the wine. Oooops just started doing my points for today to see what I had left and remembered I snuck 3 Maryland cookies into my mouth while I was doing the wardrobe :(. 2 points for each cookie and as I had 3 they whacked me on with 7 points no fair! so for dinner I have 13 points left and my 3 glasses of wine are 15 (although no doubt I'll get penalised for that little manoeuvre) so down to minus 2 points (going well) now what to eat. Points wise the best option is to go for the half portions which start at 14 points (WTF) I may as well sit outside with my wine watching everyone eat. So what shall I eat - TBC
 
TTFN!! x

Work is Hard, Distractions are Plentiful and Time is Short!

 HELP!!!
I am seriously not getting anything done, I am very very easily distracted or is it that going off into a bit of a moving dream world is easier than the truth of the move itself. So I did (you'll be pleased to know wrote a small list just to get me started) and that's all I've done.

I like shopping and as I'm on a ban from shopping for the business and buying stock at the moment as it comes from China and most likely would arrive after we move, instead I am living in a dream world of things that I'd like to put in my new home or what I'd like my new home to look like.

So the Living Room - Blues, Greens, , Beiges (to go with the magnolia) Duck Egg - Sea theme.
The Dining was going to be (obviously just in my head) Shabby Chic romantic looking and I was going to do some furniture painting but ................ the previous tenants have left all of their white goods in the kitchen (its a kitchen diner) and the white goods are quite a dark silver (not sure what colour that is but too modern for my look this year anyway ;).
So thinking more warm hues as I have red / orange / pink artwork and a large glittery type fluffy rug (warm beige) so will work around those colours and with the furniture I already have or............ as I'd started preparing (aka buying) for my dream rooms I'd already got a great set of curtains in pink & lime so might be a mix up between the 2 and the bedroom or hallway who knows.
Will make up my mind once I'm sat on the floor of the dining room no doubt but its always good to have options.!!

So the removal boxes have arrived I brought a 4 bed house set 60 boxes, 5 of the boxes are 6" x 6" 5 of the boxes are 9"x 6" must start reading descriptions better so we're thinking a mug could go in the smaller boxes A mug and maybe a packet of biscuits in the larger ones. Ok I'm being a tad harsh 2 packets of biscuits. Hubby does seem to find living with me rather funny!


Back to other news went to Warner Brothers - Harry Potter Studio Tour yesterday with my eldest son and although its my 2nd time going there I was beyond excited. Its was crammed with people and I'd imagined 1pm on a weekday it would be quite quiet. Was I ever wrong but looking around the adult surrounding me were all beaming looking around at the giant pictures surrounding the hall and the gasps when the great halls doors get opened it truly brings tears to your eyes.
A question was asked on arrival how excited out of 10 are you to be her and I answered 9 3/4 correct Potter Geek that I am and then I fist punched when I realised I was right very breakfast club :). Younger readers will never realise the greatness that was the Breakfast Club and when I had a Saturday detention I was waiting and waiting for the dancing, running around the school, deep in depth conversations and most of all the kiss by Emilio Estevez. That's how easily I get distracted please excuse me.
Had the best time and this time got to taste the Butter Beer top is fab as its just keep foaming up and tastes delicious,  beer heigh ho, but its all about the experience.
Whilst I'm trying to write this Hubby has been talking to me, constantly talking to me. Now don't get me wrong its nice but we do work all day together too so its not like he hasn't seen me and he says 200 words when 10 would do! So far (just the last 15 minutes he has told me about  the spaghetti, my son talking to him about his day - that was child talking to adult about their day not the other way round I kid you not, football tickets, adopting a child that had sadly been murdered, scrabble words and now he has just said and you have talked to me about nothing which means I am doing zero in the conversation department. He also said something rude but I won't repeat that don't want to give him an audience. .

Best go someone is in need of attention!

TTFN! xx

To do ......................List!

So we start and I got hubby to finally phone up and book our removals company and no they aren't packing for us wouldn't that make life so much well better ...................

So after starting up the blog once again and reaching the point that no I can't ignore the inevitable that yes we ARE moving ..... Yikes!! I have to start with the basics because right now I'm like a headless chicken (and yes you'd think I'd be able to handle a little move by now wouldn't you).

Lists!! Have been thinking about writing lists to get my plan into some kind of ordered calm for the move but hit a minor flaw that thanks to my constantly scribbing notes for my business and then double lapping the pages I have NO notebooks. A mad dash to the web to order some notebooks so I can hmmmm start preparing my lists so I can think about the lists before I write them if that makes any sense ;).

I'm writing this at the same time as talking to my daughter and she has just gone to her room and come back with a light up Tussauds notebook and hmmmm 10 x A4 exercise books so shall start writing um in a bit.

So as I didn't have the notebooks I have been internet web window shopping is there a word for that?? Browsing? I have no idea, I have only just brought a smart phone and my limitations on that are taking a few pictures and playing words with friends. Don't like playing with the hubster though and he doesn't seem to appreciate my high vocabulary of 2 or 3 letter words.

So my idea of the perfect seaside home is a shabby chic seaside decor...................unfortunately as we are still renting we are pleased to announce that are house has just been repainted (up to down) in YES 

14 years I've been renting and for 14 blooming years I have had to see 4 magnolia walls around me come on people live a little. Splash of colour, bit of wallpaper on just one wall of the hallway would be great ..........................maybe one day. There was a time when I last owned a house my first and only time and I had lovely sanded original wooden floors, a fireplace that I had huge amounts of candles inside and in the summer I painted the room yellow and in the winter red. I had lots of different cushions obviously in fact that hasn't changed I still buy cushions just wish I would buy the covers rather than the cushions themselves as I have 2 recycling bags full of them. 

To out on list declutter before the big pack. As for decluttering I get a little excited about moving and buy a few little things to make the new house well more of a home as you do. So today I had 2 of my photos arrive that I'd purchased on canvas as hey I can see how great they'll look on a magnolia wall as dur I already have magnolia walls hee hee.

As you can see I'm going full on with the seaside theme but just in the living room for now anyway :).

Right shall start my to do lists now!!

TTFN!! xx