Sunday

It was so lovely to sit on the sofa and blog, so I thought I'd write another one...
We've had an extremly lazy day today. I woke up about 9.45am and got up and dressed warm and then I went for a quick run and bought some breakfast on my way home. I had a shower and made some hot drinks and got all the breakfast ready and then I woke the Italian who was excited to get something to eat.

After that he went back to bed and I gave myself a mini manicure and watched a swedish film that my parents sent me - Stenhuggaren, which is based on a book from Camilla Lackberg that I've read.

After that had finished I woke the Italian again and we went to Sainsbury's before they closed and bought the mackrell for dinner etc.
And then I went to PC world and got tricked into buying the modem I didn't need. Spoke to mum and dad on the phone and now I am waiting for dinner to get ready.
After dinner I think a film and some chocolate is in order.
Back to work for both of us tomorrow again....

WI-FI

Finally, after a year and a half with Sky Broadband, I have sorted out my wireless internet. I asked the italian to come with me to the shop because knowing me the sales people will force me to buy something that's twice as expensive as it needs to be....

Went to PC world (with my current modem) and said to them that i would like a router that works with this modem so I can have wireless internet, he looked at my modem and picked up another modem (exactly the same) for £99.99!! He took my modem with him and said - I am just going to double check with my colleague in tech if this is compatable.

He came back and said, yes this works perfectly. I said ok what about this one? (one for £74.99) he went away again and came back and said that's fine as well. I found another one for £49.99 and asked the same thing and he said yes that one is also ok... I said  -ok so far i have gone from £100 to £50!! He just laughed and said yes it seems like it... O-kay.....

Any other ones that are cheaper that I can use? No this is the cheapest one. Ok I'll have this one then. We walk to the check out and I see the exact same one I've got in my hand on sale for £39.99 so I bring both of them with me and the guy at the counter says that yes you can have that one for £39.99 as well. So that's the one I bought. I came home to plug it all in and when I went to look for my password with all the other Sky things I realise that the modem I've got is already a wireless modem!

So I called Sky and spoke to the sweetest girl, who probably thought I was a bit insane because I got sooooooo excited when it all worked after just two seconds of trying. And now I am all up and running and I am sitting on the sofa while the Italian is making dinner for us - mackrell with mashed potatoes and salad:)

So tomorrow I am going to go back to PC World and get my £39.99 back. I thought I was doing so well, for the first time I managed on my own to get the price down from £100 - £40...( I know I needed the Italian with me for support, but still, I did all the talking on my own), and then it turns out that they tricked me anyway since they looked at my modem and probably realised the whole time that I didn't need to buy one at all...

The Italian's birthday

is coming up next week. We have just booked in here for the night leading to his birthday. There are worse places to wake up on your big day....;)

Vision vs. Reality

Vision: Me, cycling along the canal in the sunshine, with gorgeous theme music in my ears, flowers in the basket, meeting smiling people on a nice walk with their dogs or babies, making me feel like I have the lead role in a nice feel-good film.
Reality: Me, cycling along the canal in the pouring rain, meeting grumpy stressed people on their way to work, no flowers involved, all the puddles I cycled through ruined my suede shoes, and I am now sitting at the hair dressers and I can't feel my toes (trying to dry my shoes with a hairdryer). The only thing that matched the vision was all the good music in my ears, having my iPhone on shuffle.

Quiet night in

Just catching up on some tv series that sky recorded for me, even though I hadn't realised that they had started again after Christmas. Love it:)

I finally have a day off tomorrow, but no lie in unfortunately, I am going to get up when my man goes to work at 6.30am ,and go for a run before getting ready for my day that is involving lots of beautiful, gorgeous people which makes me happy.

First I am going to cycle along regent's canal all the way to the Swedish Embassy to pick up my new drivers licence that has been delivered there (actually, I don't know what anyone looks like there, but I am sure there will be someone beautiful) Then I am going to see my mega gorgeous friend Cat and her super cute son, quickly, before cycling back to the canal and back up to North London to go and see my beautiful hairdresser S.

After that I am meeting my lovely, gorgeous friend M, who is 7 months pregnant, for lunch in Camden.

And then I am going to cycle home, by the canal again, to have some me time with a nice dvd or something I think. Back to work again on Saturday, which means that I am now off on Sunday with the Italian:)

I am very happy about that, because I really miss him. I got used to having him here when he was off for three days in a row...

Now it's time for bed. Good Night.

Good morning.

It's my ninth day in a row at work and my second day of you-know-what so I am everything but cheery this morning.
But at least this start to the day made it a little bit better a cup of hot chocolate and a bit
of a read in my book. This book is all about Hollywood glamour rather than blood and murder and that's what I need to read about this morning, something light and fun.

Something wrong...

I had a three course dinner before the match, a massive disgustingly calorie filled (yummy) chocolate cake in half time and now when I got home I want hot chocolate and toast.... There's just no stopping me... Nearly got ran over on my way home when I cycled down King's Road and window shopped in every window I passed.
But I managed to get home safely and now I am going to watch Desperate Housewives on Ch4+1, yes that's right we are finally going to find out who Mike married. We are a bit behind here in GB....

Football

I was going to show you the top from Anthropologie in a different light so you could see the real colour, but it didn't turn out very well. And you can't really see the nice neck line either.... ah well, another time.

I am wearing it with my favourite jeans, that I got for christmas, and a black vest top underneath to make it a bit longer, also a christmas present, both from Vila. The beautiful bracelets were also a present from C and it goes perfectly with the ring she gave me (that I am also wearing) the necklace is one of the two I bought in Camden.

I am sure you have realised by now that I am a bit of a fan of knee high socks and these ones are from H&M, and the purple in them is exactly the same colour as the top, and the boots are just normal plain, black boots from Office I think.

I am also wearing a massive long cardigan today because I am finally off to the football for the first time this season. Every time a match has been on that I was supposed to go to, I had other plans or were working. But not today... So very excited, but it is going to be cold....

Please enlighten me

OK so I have one more moan about the cinema last night. We arrived just before the film started, but we had time to buy a bag on munchies (love them) and take our coats off and sit down before the light got turned down and the adverts started.

10 minutes later a guy arrives, that is obviously sitting next to us - usual luck. He has bought so many sweets, drinks, popcorn that the poor usher, showing him to his seat, has to carry one of his drinks for him. So he squeezes past us to get to his seat. Yes I know, the actual film hasn't started but it was still annoying, the adverts were on and he was really interrupting my munchies eating...

Ok, so he settles down after standing there for maybe two minutes taking his coat off trying to put his girlfriends/dates sweets on her seat (the seat folded back up - he had to move them) and then tried to put her drink on her seat (the seat folded back up - he had to move them).... Anyway, you get the picture. During this whole time the poor usher is still standing in front of him, waiting for him to organise himself, so she can give him his drink back and go back to doing what she is supposed to do. After what feels like a year and a half, he finally sits down...

...only to get back up two minutes later and squeeze past us again to go and get his girlfriend/date. A few minutes later they arrive back again to squeeze past us to finally sit down and stay there - or so we think. Half way through the film guess who needs to go to the toilet? Yep that's right, so he sqweezes past us again and then a few minutes later once again when he comes back.

Am I the only one that felt like I just wanted to trip him over the 75th time he came passed? He wasn't a small guy either so squeeze is the key word in this story...

What a steal!!

Oh right, yes, now I rememeber why I don't go to the cinema every day even though i absolutely love it! Twentyeight bloody pounds for two tickets!!
But the film was good, very funny.

Tuesday night.

I am lucky enough to have the lovely company of the Italian tonight again. So I am dragging him off to the cinema again and this is what we are planning to see. It starts at 5.40pm and I don't finish until 5.30pm so I have to rush, rush, rush down to Leicester Square. Wouldn't mind to have time to buy some chocolate as well....

Who ate the last magnum...?

...the Italian asked... What? Who? When? Oh no. Can I blame C even though she clearly said that she doesn't like them when she was here?

Holiday

The italian and I wanted to go to Italy for a week. So we both requested a week off from work in the middle of February. Mine came back fine.
The italian was told that they would get back to him. A few days later he was told that someone else had requested this week after him and got it approved, but he could have the week after. He explained that I couldn't go that week because I was needed at work.
We managed to find a week in March that worked for both of us and we both had it approved and booked our holiday.
The other day the Italian notices that on the board of everyones holiday he has been marked off as being on holiday on the week we first requested off that he couldn't have.
Am I the only one that is confused?? Bless the busy restaurant people that never have time to finish one though before another one comes along. Hopefully we are still ok to go the week in March.... Fingers crossed.

Up In The Air

I really, really enjoyed it. It was a beautiful and feel good film all the way through and it made me feel very privileged and lucky to have so many loved ones around me. And then when we left to go home it had started raining and the italian tried to squeeze me into the hood of his jacket so I wouldn't get wet on the 30 second walk home from the cinema.

Sleepy girl

Oh the ambitions I had for tonight, then reality kicked in and I fell asleep. This is what really happened... I went home, I was starving, I cooked some dinner - pasta (off course) with Olive oil (italian-off course) and that was it. Fridge empty, Sainsbury's closing early on Sundays. Sat on the sofa with the Italian and thought - great an hour and a half until the cinema starts, and then my body and mind just switched off. The Italian didn't want to wake me up because he knew I was tired so I woke up 10 minutes after the film had started... So I half-watched The Terminal with the Italian that was on TV, well to be honest I slept mostly... And now I have woken up and googled the cinema time and realised that it starts in 10 minutes again so we are now on our way to see Up in the air. Yay:) Review coming later... xx

Early night...

I am off to bed soon. Got stuck at work until after midnight last night and then back in at 7am this morning.
Had to go to my opticians after work, but as soon as I got home I just went for a quick run (which my body protested about big time) and then I had some dinner and watched Coco before Chanel that arrived from Lovefilm the other day, and I LOVED it:)
And now I am getting ready for bed to have some energy for another 7am start tomorrow.
The Italian is off tomorrow so maybe, if I don't feel too tired, I'll drag him to the cinema after work. There's quite a lot on that I'd like to see. My friend N went to see Up in the air the other day and said it was amazing, but somebody also said that the Meryl Streep film was really funny and it feels like quite an easy Sunday afternoon film. Who knows, maybe I'm too tired and just want to relax at home.

Lovely evening

I had a great night last night with my friend L and her boyfriend A. A mentioned that he had been a bit dissapointed when he had been eating steak out lately, so I invited them over to ours for steak sometime, and said that the Italian would be more than happy to cook for them. So basically I solicited out my boyfriends cooking skills just like that, even though I know how hard he works. The things you do to spend some more time with lovely L & A. But my lovely, adorable boyfriend just looked at me, when I told him last night when he came home after 17 hours of work, and just said - off course, when are they coming over? Aw he is amazing my man:)

This morning that was supposed to be lazy and quiet ended up being a bit stressful, rushing into town with the Italian for his meeting and then back home to get ready for work, a quick shower and off I went. But while I was in town I had time for a bagel and hot chocolate at a cute little cafe in Kingly Court:)

Lie in

I have to work tomorrow night but just found out that i don't need to start until 2pm. I was very excited about having a lazy morning and spend some time with my prince on his day off, only to be told that he has to be somewhere at 10.30am..:(
He said I could come but I started sulking and said that I won't be going anywhere... But I knew all along that off course I will go with him... I am just a grumpy cow sometimes.

Outfit

Off to see my friend L tonight and this is what my brain put together for me this morning, with three minutes to spare, after pilates and before rushing off to work. Usually I know what I want to wear but this morning I couldn't think of anything. So it had to be a spur of the moment outfit.

This is the cardy that I bought at H&M this weekend and it was on sale and a real bargain:) I bought a larger size than normal which makes it really cosy, but I wouldn't have minded if it was a little bit longer still. The lovely big ring was a present from C when she came on Saturday, from a shop in Madrid, and I love it. The small ring was a present from the italian when we were in Italy this summer.

Weirdo on a bike

I am trying to learn italian at the moment and I got a cd thingy from my parents for christmas that I have downloaded on my iphone and I am listening to it on my way to work. Normally I'll just mumble along with the lady in my ears so that people won't notice my weird behaviour too much. But there are times when I get so frustrated with myself for getting it wrong, when I am 100% sure that she is about to say something and then she turns around and says something else...
At these times I get quite annoyed and repeat it very loudly for myself so that I will remember. I then look around and realise that I am standing by a red light and people in their cars and on their motorbikes, pushbikes or mopeds are looking at me as if they would like to phone somebody and have me sectioned. Ah well, we can't be perfect all the time.