Scrabble and Quality Street

For the last week it is fair to say I have mostly been just playing Words With Friends OBSESSIVELY and eating a lot of Christmas sweeties. We are almost out of chocolate from Christmas now except we still have loads of Quality Street, both at home and at work. Although I would previously have hailed them as among my favourite chocs, I think I am a bit sick of them now. I have even started to munch on the pink ones, despite not liking fudge at all, just for a bit of variation. 

And the other thing I have been doing far too much of lately is playing Words on my iphone. I got it a few months before Christmas, but for some reason my old iphone 3G didn't seem to like it very much and I often had to give up because my games wouldn't load. Now I have my lovely iphone 4S however, I have got about 20 games on the go at once. The thing is, I am getting a bit annoyed with it really because I have barely won any games at all. I don't mean that as big headed as it sounds, but I have a good vocab, and I play good words, but I am rubbish at putting them in the right places to get loads of points, and I always leave the board open for others to get a load of points off the back of my words, like in this example:-

My friend Chris there got over 120 points for a 4 letter word!!! That would never happen to me and one of my aims over the next few months, has to be get better at this bloody game!!!!! Do any of you have any tips for me?

Christmas post (with photos)

So I realise I have missed the boat a little bit with Christmas summaries but as I was AWOL at the time, it seems a bit rude now not to just catch up with the things I did and the presents I got. First up, I was away in Barcelona for Dave's birthday on Mad Friday (the night when most people break up from work for the holidays and everybody ends up in town drinking. Whilst I wasn't too sad to miss this, I did miss the office visit from Santa Claus, the elf and the present fairy so when I returned to work the following week I got my "Secret Santa" gift which I was thoroughly chuffed with!

somebody knows me far too well and got me this from Urban Outfitters

And then Dave started raving about how much he wanted a onesie (I think he was basically just jealous of my slanket!) so when I was out Christmas present shopping and saw this one on sale in Primark, I had to get it for him, even though it is technically a woman's!

Dave, always happy when he is cross-dressing!

Then of course, once it hit the evening of 23 December, it was time for me to travel down to my parents on the coach, alone because for the 7th year in a row we spent Christmas day apart. This is because his family don't have much of a Christmas routine, so I am reluctant to alternate with my huge family, all who make a massive effort over Christmas and we have a lot of traditions. I don't expect Dave to come down with me as this would be unfair, but equally I wont give up a Christmas at my parents to not really do much here in Leeds. Anyway I digress. The first Christmas tradition we always hit up is the Carol Service at Coventry Cathedralon Christmas Eve afternoon. None of us are religious at all but it is a lovely service aimed at the kids mostly, so they all dress up and sing along, it really is lovely. It gets me right in the Christmas mood and who couldn't feel uplifted somewhere as beautiful as Coventry Cathedral.

some instagram shots of the inside of the cathedral

And then it was Christmas morning, which I really love at my Mum and Dad's house but miss my Nan a lot - she used to be so excited just to see me open my gifts that she'd be up at 5am!!! I got some amazing presents, I was really spolit this year, here is a selection of the things I woke up to.

Clockwise from top left - Build your own pinhole camera from my bff (I will do a post once I have built it), a gorgeous leather doctors style bag from Dave - love it, an iphone 4S from the parents - I actually could not believe this, they buy us so much throughout the year, my jaw hit the floor when I saw it, then there is the crap family gift, which I got off my aunt Tracey this year. It is basically a stick with a light up Santa on, covered in rubbish tinsel that plays a tune but sounds like it is dying constantly. I will have to pass this on next year - target is Uncle Barry.

First post of the year!

I am literally THE worst blogger ever! It has been like 7 weeks with no posts from me! And my last one was a bit political so that's not good. This is meant to be my fun place. Anyways, I have an iphone 4s which I got for Christmas and I am using it loads to take photos for instagram and stuff so I am really going to try much harder this year. I will be spending this weekend in, alone as Dave is working so I will dedicate myself to blogging - meaning a catch up of Christmas, some New Year's "positive changes" (not resolutions as these seem to be all broken by Feb 1st!) and some photos of mine and Dave's trip to Barcelona for his birthday - hoorah! For the last 2 weeks I haven't done a lot really other than get used to being back at work properly. I did take a trip to the new Lomo store in Manchester last week with Louise from work and met Darren and Becky there. This was a really great day and I got a new viewfinder for my LC-Wide as the one that is built in is hugely out (thanks for that LSI).

Taken on my LC-Wide outside Urbis in Mancheter

Then this week I feel as though all I have done is care for Dave, his brother and his brother's best friend Andy who is having a hard time as his dreams of moving to New Zealand forever fell through and he had to come home after just 3 months or so. This has involved a lot of drinking and movie watching. And nowhere near enough time spent with Dave, or with my cameras!

Taken on my LC-Wide after a hangover breakfast at Maria's this week

Anyway as they have now returned to their respective parts of the country, normal service can resume here in LS6 - hoorah!!