August 31st - Whoo!

Off to Walt Disney World in the morning!

So there wont be much blogging from now.

August 30th - Holiday Mode!

Finished work 3 hours early!

Didn't pack.

But I did sort most stuff out, going to pack in the morning.

I was going to go out tomorrow but now I can't even remember why or where!

August 29 - 3 days to go!

First off.

Volcano. Stop it.

My Mam washed the last of the clothes i'm taking this morning.

And I found my flight socks!

I was at work all afternoon and then spent the afternoon planning, planning and doing even more planning!

We still have no transport sorted though.

But anyway!

Its my last shift tomorrow!

I think we've added a trip to Beaches & Cream onto our first day plans now.

I just NEED the mini Mickey sink.

Hopefully I can get away early tomorrow and get my packing done so I can go out on Sunday!.

I'll probably have last minute things to get while I'm out.

August 28th - Planning!

I spent the day starting my packing.

Charging my cameras.

Clearing memory cards.

etc!

Back to work tomorrow!

August 27th - Day Off!

Day off!

I sorted loads of holiday stuff out during the day and then went into Newcastle with my fiancé in the evening to pick up some of the last bits we needed.

August 26th - Work!

Long, strange and surprisingly easy day!

August 25th - Bank Holiday

Its been a long day.

August 24th - Exhausted!

So so so so tired.

After work today my fiancé and I went to the cinema to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

It wasn't very good.

Definitely not worth having missed my two weekly episodes of Dog the Bounty Hunter!

8 days to go!

August 23rd - Tired!

Extremely tired right now.

9 days til Florida!

Lets hope Bardarbunga doesn't effect my flight!

August 22nd - Back To Work!

Back to work today!

My next day off is Wednesday!

My mam picked up a few more things I need for my holiday and went into the loft and found some things I was missing.

So the new luggage scales I bought were pointless as my digital ones have been found!

Still can't find that purse or my flight socks though!

Hopefully my Dad can fix my suitcase tomorrow, if not i'm going to need a new one!

Or my fiancé will, because I'll use my other case >:)

I set up my new external hard drive tonight and started moving some stuff over.

Tonight has gone over fast so I really didn't get much done, and i'm on late shift tomorrow.

I should be going out on Sunday after work, Monday night after work I might get some stuff done, otherwise it'll be Wednesday/Thursday/Sunday!

I can't believe i'll be down to single digits tomorrow!

August 21st - The Day Off

Today was my day off between London and work.

I unpacked.

Did nothing.

Did stuff.

And went to Newcastle with my fiancé.

I have the majority of my holiday stuff now.

And I got a 3TB external hard drive to move all my photo files on to so I can use my iMac properly again!

I haven't had time to set it up today though.

Hopefully I will after work tomorrow.

I don't think i'll have another day off until Wednesday.

August 20th - Last Day In London

Last day in London.

Up at 7am for breakfast again.

We stayed in our room until 10:30 today, packing and resting mainly.

Today we headed over to Tower Hill to see the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.

We've never done these touristy sights before.

The Tower's moat is being filled with ceramic poppies in honor of the people who died during WWI. 

We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around Picadilly Circus and Leicester Square.

We picked up some sweets from Cyber Candy, and had an icecream before heading to M&Ms World to buy our final bits - our breakable Christmas ornaments and heading back to the hotel to pick up our cases.

When we got to Kings Cross it was around 6:15pm.

This was the Platform 9 3/4 queue!

We got back to Sunderland at 10:51pm.

And as usual, there was NO power in the sockets on the train!

It was around 1am before I got to bed!

August 19th - London Zoo and Platform 9 3/4

Up around 7am for breakfast.

My brother hadn't slept well again so after breakfast we let him sleep some more before heading out to the Zoo around 10am.

We spent most of our day at the zoo, so had to get food at some point, and the ordering/queueing system in there was crazy!.

On the way back to Camden Town station I popped into the Vans store, I only wanted two tshirts, but left with one of the tshirts, a jacket and a new hat! It cost me just under £100 and I still need to get that other tshirt!

Since we had to pass through Kings Cross on the way back to the hotel we went to visit the Platform 9 3/4 shop.

I was planning on returning after the shop had closed and the queue had disappeared for my photo but it was so cold in London this week that I decided against it, but I definitely wasn't going to stand in a 45min queue for a photo! Especially when the ones i've seen online weren't very good.

Anyway, we had to queue for a few minutes to get into the shop.

I bought a keyring, magnet and chocolate frog.

I would have loved the Gryffindor sweater/cardigan but they're so expensive!

They did have a tshirt I wanted though, but not my size!!

We stayed in the hotel for a while before heading out for food and to do our M&Ms World shopping.

I spent over £60!

August 18th - Off To London Again!

Off to London for the second time this year.

I got up around 5am and was tired for the rest of the day, obviously.

They messed up our seat reservations again, and gave us two seats together and one on the opposite side of the train (so we were all in a row (XX   XO).

At least we had a table seat though, but we were in the worst seats on the train, the first row of Coach B - furthest from the luggage racks (thankfully there was seat storage on this train) and our row was absolutely freezing. The opposite side of our table onwards was warm!

My brother had only had two hours sleep, but only decided to try and sleep on the train 10minutes before we got to Kings Cross!

After dropping off our cases at the Royal National Hotel, we headed over to Leicester Square and grabbed Burger King for lunch.

We just love the Coke Freestyle machines they have!

We also wandered in a couple of shops (Cool Britannia, and M&Ms World) before heading back to the hotel to check in.

One we got into our room we let my brother sleep for an hour or so before going back out.

First stop was Covent Garden, where I ran into the Moomin Shop and bought a magnet, pencil and keyring.

I looked in the Disney Store but they didn't have any vinylmation.

We then walked over to Trafalgar Square and had a look around before going to get some food.

After food we headed to Ripley's Believe it Or Not.

We've never visited this before, but got free tickets with our booking.

It was good, but not amazing and there wasn't anything nice in the gift shop!

After that we headed back to the hotel.

August 17th - Quick Post

Quick post because i'm up at 5am!

Probably won't be posting again until Wednesday/Thursday as i'm off to London in the morning.

I found out tonight that my mac is FULL.

1TB of space all used except 5GB.

I can't even back up my iPhone!

Turns out my new camera produces HUGE files.

My airshow file is 25GB alone.

From Thursday i'll be sorting all of this stuff out.

August 16th - What a day

Exhausted.

Cold.

Hibernation time.

August 15th - SLEEP

Very very tired.

Easy day at work.

But thats all I really had time to do today.

A new carpet was being put in this morning so I could barely move in my room with all the extra furniture being stored in here.

I also finally gave my work friends the cakes they'd been asking for for months!

I can't post a photo until tomorrow because a couple of them still haven't seen them.

:(

This evening I counted my Disney tin and my Nan gave me £64 towards my spends too!

:D

17 days to go!

Two days til London.

I'm hoping to get away early tomorrow and pack so I can still go see my fiancé on Sunday after work.

When I got home from work I discovered I had post!

Quite a bit of post!

The main two things being the main anniversary present I bought for my fiancé and my little book of magic has finally arrived!

I ordered it about two months ago and its finally here!

Just in time too.

I am feeling ridiculously motivated as I write this post.

Although I'm really tired and am heading to bed as soon as I publish this!

I'm always the most motivated as I go to bed nowadays.

I need to fix it.

After London/Florida I'm going to:

- Go through the year check list and finish of some of that (hopefully get the blog back up again after it was hacked too)

- Go back to learning Japanese (set actual time for this!)

- Upload! Upload! Upload! (I've got loads of videos for Youtube, but my internet probably can't handle those until my brother is back in school. I also need to get stock done up!)

- Websites! (Secret project, portfolio, & selling!)

- Studio! (By the end of September we should be able to empty the spare room and set up my studio!)

- Wedding! (Hawaiian flights are released early October)

- Decorate! 

- Anniversary (Part 1 is next week, our engagement anniversary, Part 2 is in September, our 9th year!)

- Christmas Cards! (see selling & stock)

- Look into Etsy.

- Buy Newcastle Comiccon tickets

- Decide if we're going to MCM October or not!

- Restart my old Disney blog (relocating to blogger)

- Enter more photography competitions

- Family Kitchen Magazine (My old, final year BA project. I did intend on continuing from the day I graduated, but it didn't happen. I'll relocate the blog part and start fresh.)

Well. Thats enough listing and procrastinating for one night.

Goodnight!

August 14th - Haircut

I finally got my hair cut today!

I had four inches taken off, removing most of what was left of all the damaged stripped hair!

Although when I got home I realised I still have split ends! not entirely sure how that works or how the hair dresser didn't pick up on it.. but still.

I can finally think about getting it styled again!

I met my fiancé in Newcastle this afternoon.

We got some food and hot chocolate.

But thats about it!

Another boring day!

What else is there to do in the region?

This evening I decorated some cupcakes for work tomorrow.

I'm not showing the decorated version yet because its still secret!

August 13th - Left Handers Day

Day off!

This morning I hula hooped for an hour before breakfast and then tidied my room up.

I've got a hairdressers appointment tomorrow, I was going to a place in Newcastle but made my appointment before I went out.

Strangely enough though when we walked passed the place we discovered that my fiancé's friend works there!

I hid a present for my fiancé before I went out to meet him earlier.

It was an arc reactor octocat github tshirt.

There wasn't much else happened today.

August 12th - COLD

omg.

Its so cold right now.

I thought it was summer?!

Today has been a weird one.

Really easy day.

I ordered an anniversary present for my fiancé before work.

My shift went well.

I even helped out on two other departments.

Came home to find a secret present I ordered has arrived.

The envelope gives it a way a bit!

August 11th - Monday!

I was at work all afternoon.

I then had a lazy evening.

I'm feeling pretty tired and think i'll head to bed now ready for work in the morning!

Hoping to fit in getting my haircut this week.

About 4 inches of it is basically dead from having the dye stripped a couple years ago.

The weather has taken a real turn recently.

Its quilt and hot chocolate weather right now!

August 10th - Sunday!

Two more days until two days off!

The weather was really bad today so we decided to cancel our plans this evening.

I watched the first Harry Potter movie before listing some items on eBay.

Thats pretty much what happened this evening!

August 9th - Hyygn

So tired.

It keeps feeling like i'm off tomorrow.

But i'm not.

I'm not off until Wednesday!

My fiancé and I are busy planning a European tour and we've not even gone to Florida yet!

August 8th - !

Its going to be a long few days.

Just made some plans for Sunday night.

Hopefully the weather wont ruin them and the weather warnings are removed.

Next day off is Wednesday so making some good plans for Wednesday and Thursday soon!

I really want to go to Chester Zoo.

But I doubt it'd be this week.

Plus we're still supposed to be going to the Life Centre on a Thursday!

August 7th - Edinburgh Zoo

Up early this morning!

Waited for our coach for ages - it was 30min late!

Then by 12:30 we finally made it to the Zoo!

We ended up waiting in a queue for 10min before realising you could just go in if you prebooked your tickets!

A lot of the animals werent out which was a shame.

And we only had four hours there so had to miss quite a bit anyway.

On the way back someone had blocked the toilet on the coach with paper and it stunk!

There'd only been like four people go in there so I don't even know what they were doing!

Someone changed a nappy on the bus too, it was horrible.

And the people in front of me put Let it go on like five times and sang.

But it has been a really nice day.

I'm exhausted now though.

August 6th - Day Off!

I really didn't do anything during the day except an hour of hula hooping.

I was supposed to go out with my fiancé but once I got to our house it started thundering and raining really heavy.

The Nexus Metro goes off a lot during heavy rain so thought it was best to stay in.

I made cookies while I waited for him to get home.

Then we ordered Dixy Chicken and watched Red Dwarf.

We also counted our Disney tin!

August 5th - Work!

Back at work.

Hectic.

Thats about it!

August 4th - Day Off!

I didn't do too much during the day.

Hooped for an hour.

Met my fiancé when he finished work.

We went around Newcastle.

Bit of a bad day as he had his wallet stolen on his way to work on the Nexus Metro.

August 3rd - Blah

I am very behind with this.

I was at work all day.

It was pretty stressful.

Then I came home and listed on eBay!

August 2nd - Exhausted

Today.

Oh My God.

No.

Exhausted.

Tired.

Work again tomorrow.

Goodnight!

1st August - What a Day!

What a day!

I didn't really do anything this morning..

And I was at work all afternoon.

But after work we finally booked our

- Kennedy Space Center tickets and transport!

- Memory Maker

- Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets

So pretty productive day really.

Oh and I got my holidays approved for Newcastle Film & Comic Con!