Hi blogfan(s),
The concert last night was great!! Standing room only in a church with 800 person capacity. Incredible performing in such an amazing venue, and possibly the best we've ever performed most of the songs!!
Today I'm just absolutely shattered. Went to my friends' house for some lunch, delicious - thanks ladies! Just chilling at home now, watching Dancing on Ice, love it.
Checking out flights for Malaysia but I think the next the month or so are going to have to be sooo lean, as I also have to take the car for a service and MOT, and know one of the tyres needs replacing. Still, must take the rough with the smooth right?
I think it's soon time for some tea, bangers and mash tonight. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Long-overdue update!!
I'm too sleepy for an in-depth blog but realised it's been ages since I bothered to post!
The last few weeks have been super busy, I've barely had an evening to myself during the week, and have therefore spent weekends being pretty home-based. Not too exciting, but totally necessary.
Loving the new flat, it's really chilled and nice and quiet so I'm sleeping much better and having more will to go out. Choir's going well, we have a concert on Saturday evening, tickets are £3 so if you're around come down to St. Mary Redcliffe at about 7.30. Woo!
Have a couple of hard-work students,who are insisting they are a better judge of their own level and that we, the professionals, don't know what we're talking about nor do we have their best interests at heart. HA. We've also been really busy with cert students and lots of marking. Given myself extra work by persuading my pre-ints that it'll be a good idea to do a bit of diary writing every day. Yay, great thinking Jac. But it'll definitely benefit them and their spelling, sentence construction and that sort of thing.
In other, sad news I went home a couple of weeks ago and had a big old clear out. My parents have put our family/ childhood home on the market, it's SOOOO sad!!! :( :( But, life goes on. Fingers crossed I'm starting to settle down a bit now, I've been in Bristol for 9 months now, possibly the longest I've been anywhere, since I was 18!!!
Anyhooos, that'll do for now, not very insightful or profound I'm afraid... Hasta pronto!!
The last few weeks have been super busy, I've barely had an evening to myself during the week, and have therefore spent weekends being pretty home-based. Not too exciting, but totally necessary.
Loving the new flat, it's really chilled and nice and quiet so I'm sleeping much better and having more will to go out. Choir's going well, we have a concert on Saturday evening, tickets are £3 so if you're around come down to St. Mary Redcliffe at about 7.30. Woo!
Have a couple of hard-work students,who are insisting they are a better judge of their own level and that we, the professionals, don't know what we're talking about nor do we have their best interests at heart. HA. We've also been really busy with cert students and lots of marking. Given myself extra work by persuading my pre-ints that it'll be a good idea to do a bit of diary writing every day. Yay, great thinking Jac. But it'll definitely benefit them and their spelling, sentence construction and that sort of thing.
In other, sad news I went home a couple of weeks ago and had a big old clear out. My parents have put our family/ childhood home on the market, it's SOOOO sad!!! :( :( But, life goes on. Fingers crossed I'm starting to settle down a bit now, I've been in Bristol for 9 months now, possibly the longest I've been anywhere, since I was 18!!!
Anyhooos, that'll do for now, not very insightful or profound I'm afraid... Hasta pronto!!
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Sundays!
It's ages since I blogged (again)
I'm just sitting on the sofa watching Aladdin (CLASSIC!!!!). It's been a busy weekend really, Friday went out for a drink or three with some work colleagues, then yesterday worked all day at the IELTS exam. Last night, just passed out on the sofa and watched Britney Spears Glee from last week! My housemate made a curry, and then I pretty much went to bed!
This morning I had a chilled read of the news then went to the gym for an hour and a half!!! Longest gym session in history, I think! Pretty good but waiting for the burn tomorrow... Then spent a small fortune in Tesco but bought a lot of freezer and cupboard stuff, so hopefully that'll keep me going for a while.
Gotta start keeping massive tabs on finances though because I'm hoping to book flights this week... to Malaysia!! Hoping for two weeks off at the end of April, and so we've been planning a fantastic trip. We've been wanting to go there for about a year (since we planned a whole trip, I quit my job and came back to the UK!! Hehe oops.
All is good in general, back to choir last week, and we've got a concert coming up in about 3 weeks in the St. Mary Redcliffe church here in Bristol, super exciting. It's a great venue so I'll post all about tickets etc as and when I know!
Right so I'm gonna go and put the heating on for an hour and chillax to a brilliant childhood favourite film ;)
Chau!!
I'm just sitting on the sofa watching Aladdin (CLASSIC!!!!). It's been a busy weekend really, Friday went out for a drink or three with some work colleagues, then yesterday worked all day at the IELTS exam. Last night, just passed out on the sofa and watched Britney Spears Glee from last week! My housemate made a curry, and then I pretty much went to bed!
This morning I had a chilled read of the news then went to the gym for an hour and a half!!! Longest gym session in history, I think! Pretty good but waiting for the burn tomorrow... Then spent a small fortune in Tesco but bought a lot of freezer and cupboard stuff, so hopefully that'll keep me going for a while.
Gotta start keeping massive tabs on finances though because I'm hoping to book flights this week... to Malaysia!! Hoping for two weeks off at the end of April, and so we've been planning a fantastic trip. We've been wanting to go there for about a year (since we planned a whole trip, I quit my job and came back to the UK!! Hehe oops.
All is good in general, back to choir last week, and we've got a concert coming up in about 3 weeks in the St. Mary Redcliffe church here in Bristol, super exciting. It's a great venue so I'll post all about tickets etc as and when I know!
Right so I'm gonna go and put the heating on for an hour and chillax to a brilliant childhood favourite film ;)
Chau!!
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
So tired!!
It's Wednesday. I'm SOOOOO tired!!! I need to sleep, think I'd better have an early night tonight except I also have lots of marking to do!!
I haven't managed to make it to the gym the last few days either, I had a hair appointment yesterday and today I was on late at work so I couldn't get out until after 6pm. So I came home and ate dinner and now watching TV (instead of marking).
Tomorrow's back to choir and test writing. And so I'm gonna try to go on Friday after work. Phew.
Still, all's going pretty well, flat's good, and work is fine although it's still just getting towards being back in the routine of work. Effort!!!!
I haven't managed to make it to the gym the last few days either, I had a hair appointment yesterday and today I was on late at work so I couldn't get out until after 6pm. So I came home and ate dinner and now watching TV (instead of marking).
Tomorrow's back to choir and test writing. And so I'm gonna try to go on Friday after work. Phew.
Still, all's going pretty well, flat's good, and work is fine although it's still just getting towards being back in the routine of work. Effort!!!!
Saturday, 8 January 2011
2011!
So we're already one week into the New Year and this is my first blog of 2011!
The holiday was really great, so good to have some time off and hang out with my family. Unfortunately Adam couldn't make it for Christmas, but Granny came up and we had a lovely few days eating lots of delicious food, watching rubbish films and all the traditional stuff that goes with Christmas! On Christmas Eve it was really good to catch up with the usual suspects in the usual location! Also managed to meet the newest people in my friends' lives - not-so-little Cormac and placid wee William.
Unbelievably, Pete managed to get home without a single delay or problem, and we spent a few fab, relaxing, touristy days in London and Bath, ahhh. New Year was at my friends' house and it was good for him to meet a few of my oldest chums! We arrived back in Bristol on the 3rd to my lovely new flat!!!!! It was annoying having to go back to work while he was still around but we had a delicious dinner at the Cowshed, and then he headed over to London on Wednesday to get his flight back to the Middle East. So the countdown's back on! The end is in sight!!!!
Back to work, and good to be getting back into my routine. Settling into the new flat which is a great location, much more in the heart of things, about 10 mins from work, my friends' houses, the gym.... YES, the GYM!!! Today I joined the local gym, and I'm determined to make the most of it. The membership includes access to all the branches across Bristol, all classes, all facilities (so the one nearest me doesn't have yoga or a swimming pool, but I could go over to another site to do that if I wanted) - it's pretty small and it's a council gym so it's not pretentious like other gyms I've been to!! haha. So we'll see how it goes...!!
The holiday was really great, so good to have some time off and hang out with my family. Unfortunately Adam couldn't make it for Christmas, but Granny came up and we had a lovely few days eating lots of delicious food, watching rubbish films and all the traditional stuff that goes with Christmas! On Christmas Eve it was really good to catch up with the usual suspects in the usual location! Also managed to meet the newest people in my friends' lives - not-so-little Cormac and placid wee William.
Unbelievably, Pete managed to get home without a single delay or problem, and we spent a few fab, relaxing, touristy days in London and Bath, ahhh. New Year was at my friends' house and it was good for him to meet a few of my oldest chums! We arrived back in Bristol on the 3rd to my lovely new flat!!!!! It was annoying having to go back to work while he was still around but we had a delicious dinner at the Cowshed, and then he headed over to London on Wednesday to get his flight back to the Middle East. So the countdown's back on! The end is in sight!!!!
Back to work, and good to be getting back into my routine. Settling into the new flat which is a great location, much more in the heart of things, about 10 mins from work, my friends' houses, the gym.... YES, the GYM!!! Today I joined the local gym, and I'm determined to make the most of it. The membership includes access to all the branches across Bristol, all classes, all facilities (so the one nearest me doesn't have yoga or a swimming pool, but I could go over to another site to do that if I wanted) - it's pretty small and it's a council gym so it's not pretentious like other gyms I've been to!! haha. So we'll see how it goes...!!
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Snow!
It's the end of term - last day of teaching was on Friday, followed by a completely accidental night out. I nursed one beer for well over an hour and a half, then for some reason caved to a couple of glasses of wine. Food followed with more wine, then amaretto before I decided to go home at about 10 pm. However, on my way home, I bumped into a student who persuaded me (or should I say, invited me, to which I said yes), to go to the pub with her and a few other folk. Pub closed about midnight, and then we went onto some student digs in the centre of down, me attempting to give directions... and I got home at 2am. OH DEAR!!!
Felt rubbish yesterday but had to get up early to sign paperwork at the estate agents along with my new housemate. I felt so disorientated and strange that I actually corrected a punctuation mistake in the document without even realising. Went for a fry up which definitely helped, then spent the rest of the day feeling sorry for myself, napping, and watching stuff on iPlayer!
Today I finished reading Harry Potter 7, now just really excited for the second part of the film to come out!!! Only 7 months to go... I've also been packing up my room ready to move my stuff over to the new place, hopefully on Tuesday.
The weather's been pretty cold, and we've had a fair bit of snow in Bristol but other places have been much worse hit. I'm starting to get worried about Pete coming home - if he can even land at Heathrow (which has been closed for most of the weekend) it won't be so bad but Aberdeen airport's been shut for the best part of the last few days so just having to keep fingers crossed and we'll see what happens. I don't think I should have too many problems driving home, but Adam's not sure how easy it'll be for him and Nic to get down from Manchester, but again trying not to worry too much and we'll all just have to cross those bridges when we come to them. Stressful though!!!
Felt rubbish yesterday but had to get up early to sign paperwork at the estate agents along with my new housemate. I felt so disorientated and strange that I actually corrected a punctuation mistake in the document without even realising. Went for a fry up which definitely helped, then spent the rest of the day feeling sorry for myself, napping, and watching stuff on iPlayer!
Today I finished reading Harry Potter 7, now just really excited for the second part of the film to come out!!! Only 7 months to go... I've also been packing up my room ready to move my stuff over to the new place, hopefully on Tuesday.
The weather's been pretty cold, and we've had a fair bit of snow in Bristol but other places have been much worse hit. I'm starting to get worried about Pete coming home - if he can even land at Heathrow (which has been closed for most of the weekend) it won't be so bad but Aberdeen airport's been shut for the best part of the last few days so just having to keep fingers crossed and we'll see what happens. I don't think I should have too many problems driving home, but Adam's not sure how easy it'll be for him and Nic to get down from Manchester, but again trying not to worry too much and we'll all just have to cross those bridges when we come to them. Stressful though!!!
Sunday, 12 December 2010
mid December
More time passing! Just over a week until I'm on my Christmas hols, hurray!!
Last night was our work Christmas do which was fun, nice and sociable!! Spent the day in Bath with a friend and met my parents for lunch. Lovely day, the Christmas market was great too!!
It's been really busy at work so we're all looking forward to some time off. I'm looking forward to this week as I'm hoping to move out at the beginning of January, I haven't had a hot shower this week (boiler problems), and I've woken up a coupla mornings with no heating (housemates turning it off). So I've found a new flatshare, and will be sorting out the paperwork and money side of it this week sometime. HURRAY!!!!!!!!
2011 is going to be a good year I think.
Last night was our work Christmas do which was fun, nice and sociable!! Spent the day in Bath with a friend and met my parents for lunch. Lovely day, the Christmas market was great too!!
It's been really busy at work so we're all looking forward to some time off. I'm looking forward to this week as I'm hoping to move out at the beginning of January, I haven't had a hot shower this week (boiler problems), and I've woken up a coupla mornings with no heating (housemates turning it off). So I've found a new flatshare, and will be sorting out the paperwork and money side of it this week sometime. HURRAY!!!!!!!!
2011 is going to be a good year I think.
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