Pages 4 & 5

Here are the next two pages. David's going to write on the fifth (in the cloud) about our day :)

Lately, I haven't been up to much. I went shopping to Chester and bought a long red coat for Autumn/Winter and some nice paper and stickers from Paperchase. I really wanted to get shoes to go with my ball dress, but I couldn't find any I liked. I've been going to the gym every week day and I feel so much better for it. Now if I miss a day, I feel lazy for not doing any exercise :O Yesterday, I did 619 calories at the gym, or so the machine tells me, and this makes me happy because 1. it's my best score yet and 2. it's an ambigram, as David pointed out :)

Also, I've started, well taken a tiny step in the direction of starting really, the maths work I have to do over the summer. Yay...

Nummer Drei

It's about the day we visited the Louvre :)

Today I drove to my dad's house because my grandparents were coming over for lunch. Driving success. I went to the gym in the evening, then settled in to watch a bunch of BSGs with David and pizza :)

And the scrapbooking begins

First two pages done :)

1. Title page - Paris

2. Flight + Hotel arrival

I took photos on my phone, so I'll put them on here tomorrow.

I've found such a cute new hobby. It's like being at school and having a project to do, I love it. And it'll be good not to have random tickets and memories floating around, they'll be nicely organised and kept safe :)

Bedtime.

Hello student house

This weekend, we drove down to Oxford for the grand receiving of the keys. The street looked pretty dodgy and I heard my mum mutter "Please don't let it be the blue house" under her breath but ours is decidedly brick and not blue and luckily all is well on the inside. My room is on the ground floor, but I don't mind so much because it's much bigger than the upstairs ones. And we have a cosy lounge and a teeny concrete courtyard and a garden with birds and blackberries. I took some of my things down to make it more homely for when I move in officially at the start of next term and bought even more cushions from Primark. We had a celebratory Chinese take-away from a great restaurant down Cowley, then Eilise, Ellie and I went for a wander and ended up with a few interesting fruit-vodka+lemonade drinks in a Tapas bar. There are so many great-looking places to eat and drink. I'm taken by the Moroccan place with rugs and cushions galore. We took Camilla to B&Q and bought and hastily built a couple of bedside cabinets and put together the remaining chairs for the dining table and figured out where the mysterious beeping noise was coming from. While we weren't sorting out/admiring the house, we walked into town and I showed my mum around some of the colleges she hadn't been to before. Worcester is always a favourite because of the gorgeous gardens/lakes/old buildings/ducks combo. I think she was pretty shocked by how completely different St. Catz is. I don't much like it either. Oh, we looked at the castle too and I didn't realise the hotel actually uses the old prison cells for some of the rooms. Creepy. It's super posh though. Looked around some of the shops and bought a cute bag for £5 and a picture frame for mine and David's photobooth strips. My mum's trying a different flavour of Moo-Moos every time she visits, so it was Curly Wurly, pretty good. (Wow, this is a long post for me!) We had a pub lunch in Jericho and despite a pesky wasp after my J20, it was yum. Then traipsed all the way back to my house (I'm coming to the terrifying realisation that I might actually need to re-learn how to ride a bike) and set off home. My legs are tired, we did so much walking around. I think it was 3 BSG episodes tonight :)

Craft in a box

Oh my gosh. I'm getting the largest box of craft stuff I've ever seen for my birthday :) And I bought a scrapbook today. And drove the car twice. And parked successfully twice. And only one old man waved his fist angrily. Awesomeness.

I need to write a Paris post. Remind me :)

Panda Panda

Jess requested a felt panda and so I've spent this afternoon making him. He's holding a little heart. He was going to be holding a miniature toy version of himself but I didn't much feel like cutting and sticking teeny tiny panda features.

Also, I've worked my last shift at Debenhams until after we get back from Paris and David is safely returned home. Yay! Also also, I've got a hair appointment tomorrow that I must remember to go to. My hair's a bit long and straggly :| This evening I'm going to play pool in 147 with Harry, Will and his visiting friend. I'm quite looking forward to it because I've been sat on the sofa all day watching rubbish on iPlayer and I feel so very lazy.

Poppy

Today I made a red poppy and sewed it to a hair bobble, just for funsies. It's quite cute. I was supposed to walk into town to make a hair appointment this afternoon but just as I was about to leave it started pouring it down with rain. And typically now that I'm about to leave for work, it is bright sunshine again. Psh. I'm on the kids section at work for this shift, which is way better than the home department, but still so very boring. We did book our Disneyland tickets today though, so I am happy happy happy :D

[Damnit, I was on home again. And some crazy idiot high up in an office somewhere decided it would be a good idea to increase the price of every single pan ever by £1 and guess who gets to re-price? Fun times.]