My week in Instagram photos #2

1. Pitch invasion after Reading's promotion! 2. Monday morning traffic
3.  Mint leaf and chocolate ice cream  4.  Delicious salad
5.  Tiniest orange segment in the world  6.  Bromance

Weekly wishlist #1

Clockwise from top left: Stone effect bathroom accessory set - Next, £16, white towel bale - Next, £32, 'I can only please one person' metal sign - notonthehighstreet.com, £7.25, doggie doorstop - notonthehighstreet.com, £37, white tulip rectangular bundle - Next, £40

As I mentioned, I have a couple of new features planned for the blog - a weekly wishlist being one of them!  I thought that home items would be the best place to start this week since I'm spending almost all my time perusing for items to put in our new home!

I've always loved the home sections on both the Next website and on notonthehighstreet.com so I'm literally dying to move in to our house so I can get buying.  Above are just a few items that I'm particularly lusting after at the moment, especially the dog shaped doorstop - how cute is he?  I definitely think I'm going to have to get him to tide me over until I can persuade Danny that we need a puppy!

My week in Instagram photos #1

1. Feasting on Ben & Jerry's at the cinema  2.  Gorgeous boy  3.  My DrawSomething skills  

4.  Sunday walks  5.  Back to blogging  6.  Favourite flowers

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Looking at the date of my last post makes me ashamed.  11th February?  Has it really been that long?  That said, a lot has happened in that time, and while I haven't had time to do a photo a day and keep up with my project 365, I do have lots of news to tell you all!

Promotion

My manager left at the end of January and after angling after his job for some time followed by speaking to my boss about it, I got promoted!  I'm now assistant manager in my department, which means no more travelling to clients in far away places for weeks on end.  Bliss - my credit card is very much appreciating the reduction in petrol costs!  It also meant a pay rise, which leads on to my other (and more exciting!) news.......

Photos from weheartit.com

House

We've bought a house!!!  Only a month or two after first starting to look, we found the one!  A cosy 3 bedroom semi detached house just around the corner from work and only 10 minutes drive from the town centre.  I'm so excited about moving in!  We've been busy buying bits and pieces but still have quite a lot to get - mainly kitchen appliances and the sofa.  Is it a bit sad that I'm really excited about buying a sofa?  We're hoping to move in towards the middle of May and when we're settled, I'll be doing a few interior posts (and possibly exterior when we get the garden sorted) per the request of Emily.  I can't wait to get decorating - I've got so many ideas about what to do and I can't wait to get started!

50+ hour weeks combined with frantic mortgage and life insurance arranging (I feel so old!) has left little time for blogging over the last two months but I can assure you all that I'm fully refreshed and have got my mojo back now!  I plan to do a couple of new features on here too, so watch this space! :)

Project 365: #147 Man v Food

These are no ordinary chicken wings. They're Las Iguanas' "vivo" chicken wings, cooked in a habañero sauce. Danny is a big lover of spicy food (I am not!) so when he saw these on the menu he just had to try them. I opted for much more sedate nachos - I have no desire to cry my way through dinner! I did, after persuasion from Danny, dip my finger in the sauce and try the tiniest bit. Can I just say, even a tiny bit (about the size of this → O) was more than enough and I had to have a drink! By the end, even Danny had streaming eyes and the sniffles, but he said he liked them and he'd have them again (crazy fool!) It reminded me of a Man v Food challenge, if any of you have seen that - not the usual way to spend date night!

Project 365: #146 Nephew number 2!

I had an unexpected message from Danny this morning.  Naomi, his sister in law, had gone into labour - a little bit of a surprise since she was only 28 weeks!  After a couple of hours of watching the phone, we got news that she'd had a gorgeous baby boy, Harry, weighing 3lb 1oz.  It's hard to imagine a baby that small!  As he's so early, he's in an incubator and on a ventilator to support his tiny lungs but all the tests that the doctors have done so far have been positive and he's apparently doing as well as anyone could hope :)

Since he's in intensive care until he gets a bit bigger (precautionary for newborns that small), we can't go and visit just yet but welcome to the world little man!  Can't wait to meet you!

Project 365: #145 Droooooooooooooool...........

Apparently I'm really difficult to buy presents for, or so my best friend tells me every year around my birthday.  And every year, she gets me a collection of goodies that are spot on!  This year these Reese's white chocolate peanut butter cups were included.

For those of you who don't know, I lived in San Francisco for three months in 2008 (I got an internship over there through work) and fell in love with Reese's while I was there.  My best friend came to visit and got hooked on them too and now we always think of each other when we see them.  White chocolate is easily my favourite chocolate and the combination of two of my great loves together was nothing short of amazing! (So amazing that I polished off both cups in one sitting!)  I'll definitely be hunting these down in the supermarket!