….bloody marvelous!!!

Have spent the few days in the company of good friends and family, with good food and fine wine. The sun is out and as of and hour ago I have another new hair cut!

I’ve spoilt myself with a new floaty skirt and the blonde kids school report (which I received last night) is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, never has there been a prouder parent then me, although I’m sure we all think like that!

Spent all this morning watching five, six and seven year olds running around with bean bags on their heads and balls balanced on spoons at the schools annual sports day which was a very pleasant end to a week that started with me as an hormonal wreck, Biting everyones heads off and sulking profusely (God damn being a female, but at least I have something to blame my tantrums on!)

Oh well whats next?? Only a few more weeks untill the kids summer holidays, although I wont see Jordan for most of it as he’ll be away with his father and then his grandparents, again….I swear that kid travels more than an air hostess at times!! And other than that it just work work work spaced out with just a little play for me!

I keep forgetting to blog, I’m useless i know but it seems that at the moment I have far too many “other” things to be doing than sitting in front of the computer…Watching football matches, going for food with friends, working, spending time with family, drinking LOTS, SEEING THE FOO FIGHTERS TWICE IN ONE WEEK!!!

OH YES after all my tantrums last year about not getting tickets to see them at the NEC in Birmingham I’m seeing them twice this week, HURRAH!!

First gig was Wednesday at the Victoria Apollo Theatre acoustically. They were amazing and although we had seats up in the gods the sound was FANTASTIC also we could see everything, i.e. NO idiots standing on chairs and waving banners directly in front of us. It was brilliant I cant even think what my favourite song was IT WAS ALL AMAZING!!

THEN tomorrow its back down to London to Hyde Park!! Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stoneage, Angels and Airwaves, Juliette and the Licks…. the list goes on, I’m looking forward to them all except Juilette Lewis..I saw her perform last year at Reading and by god did she suck, the only upside is she couldn’t possibly have gotten any worse since then….could she???

Never mind the whole day is goijng to ROCK from start to finish, spending the day with some great people (well I would say that wouldn’t I being than a little on the biased side) travelling to one of mmy favorite cities to watch one on my favourite bands perform AGAIN, it cant really get any better! Well, it could if I won the lottery but then I suppose It’d help if I bought a ticket first!!

Hell I’m not complaining…Whoever has her can keep and leave this replacement in her place!!

Jordan went away last Friday for a week with his dad and what a week I have spent it almost in its entirety in the company of my sister, Emma…Who by normal standards would have blanched at the thought of socializing with me, but not only has she actively partaken in Steph type activities she’s even initiated it!!

Friday 27th we went to the Cleveland to meet with some of her work colleagues and and a drink. And drink we did, LOTS, I ended the night stopping 2 fights and walking my sobbing sister back to my house to confront her “twat” of a boyfriend who’d been sending her abusive text messages all night!

Saturday 28th I spent with Penny visiting craft shops in Lichfield, surprisingly spending not a great amount of money considering we were two women loose in shops and no place to be in a hurry. Spent Saturday evening at James house eating Fish and chips with Penny and Rob while waiting for James to get back from filming a friends wedding.

Sunday and Holiday Monday we spent “starting” to decorate my house, By starting I mean procrastinating to the point that come Monday evening we’d managed to clear the bathroom and paint one coat on a room less than 6 feet square!! Impressive no? BUT the pizza we ordered because I couldn’t be bothered to cook was LOVELY!!

Tuesday! 1st night of madness with Emma and it was back to the Cleveland to watch to football COME ON ENGLAND!! Didn’t get home till silly o’clock and I had work the next day!

Wednesday, It was James brother “Stat” birthday and we went to join him for drinks in Walsall, Much fun was had by all, Emma ACTUALLY enjoyed herself with MY friends, something I never considered possible before AND she held conversations with people I never imagined her even voluntarily sitting next to let alone TALKING TO! We both lost track of time and stumbled home late again.

Thursday and it was chinese night….Off to the Imperial in Wolverhampton with Al and again Emma, ended up in the Royal London, (The place Em refused to come to on my birthday and ended up not seeing her at all) Where we discovered that they sell a ridiculous amount of alcohol in something called a sourz tower for a silly low price and decided that as we ALL had work again the next day we would have to a return the following night to experiance them to there fullest.

SO Friday we returned again to the Royal this time in the comapany of Mr Clarke, Mr Eccles, Mr Sullivan and later in the evening Mr Steve (Steve doesn’t get the use of his surname because I cant spell it!!) and got very very drunk!!

Saturday was football day again so feeling not so much hungover BUT incredibly tired we headed to James’ to watch the match and then in the evening to Mike and Nickys for a BBQ, Although I think we could have all done with a sleep after the football as come 11pm we were all flagging!!

Sunday, Jordan came home from his hols so I spent the afternoon listening to his tales from Scotland, then it was Ed Harcourt at the Wulfrun Hall on the evening…and get this EMMA OFFERED TO BABYSIT!!! Which in itself completely baffled me as this girl has not looked after my son since he was a baby in nappies…He’s now 6!! BUT she also offered…YES OFFERED to give us a lift in to town to save us catching the bus! Then when we returned home she sat adn talked and laughed with us till the small hours of the morning!!

Long may it last I’m quite enjoying have a socialable sister for the time being!