Time has flown! The last week has gone by very quickly, yet at the same time I struggle to remember the start of it as it also feels like a month ago.
I spent last weekend visiting the beach and staying in the caravan with the family dog. An activity that is not enjoyed as often as I would like, but one that is treasured a little more due to it's infrequency. Even though it was raining/grey the sea was still warm and me and my sister still paddled and swam. :) However the rain got more persistent on the Sunday so we travelled home, to glorious sunshine!
On Tuesday I did manage to catch up with my best friend Angie, and we spent the day shopping. Mostly window shopping, but I did treat myself to a bathbomb from Lush, a new pair of jeans from the sales and some wonderful cheese from a great delicatessen that I will be visiting every chance I get. :) (Thank you Angie for taking me there!) Most of all it was nice to spent some time with Angie and talk as our busy lives don't always coincide as often as we would like sometimes.
The rest of the week was then taken up with gardening, the most notable achievement of which was getting the paths done of course. Yet the other, which I forgot to mention, was the de-weeding of the driveway. Weedkiller had been used, yet there was little to no effect on the persistent plants. So a little bit of elbow grease was called for, so I decided to attack it with a combination of tools, mainly being my gloved hands. A few hours and a sore back later the driveway was weed free! It also helped me to distract myself as my Nan was in hospital and I was getting stressed waiting to hear the news that she was okay. Hopefully that will not happen again, but if it does gardening like that is a good way to relieve said stress and knacker you out enough so you sleep quite well.
This weekend however has been spent taking a small brake from the house and the garden and spending time with my other best friend Louise. Who is now also engaged! :D This does all tend to happen at the same time it seems. I am so happy for her and her husband to be, having known both of them for some time, they make a good couple. :) She drove all the way up to see me, we'd arranged this visit a while ago, and by chance it just happened to be after she became engaged.
So Saturday was yet again spent shopping, but this time most definitely window shopping as we were looking at wedding dresses. Now this is a whole new world to me, having never been a girly girl, and it is intimidating and scary, and there are many bridal shops that I am now going to avoid as they are also very snooty! (I am still much more at home in model/game/tech shops!) However we did get to try a few things on, and we now both have a good idea of what we would like to wear. Which is a good thing, as it now means we can start making plans on how to make our dresses. Or more accurately how Louise is going to make them as she offered as a wedding present to make mine. (Though brides-maids dresses are going to get interesting as we are each others, and I did cry when she asked as I thought it was a great honour.) She is a lot more organised than me when it comes to wedding things, mine is much further away at the moment, and unlike her I have not set a date yet, but I began to realise how many things are needed to be done. This scares me slightly and makes me want to just say "Let's elope!" (Which is not happening as both my father and husband to be are not in favour of this idea!) :)
Anyway it was really nice having her down to visit and I really do miss her and my friends back where I used to live. However it isn't that far, and I am where I am for very good reasons. Waving her off today in the car I felt that she still did live round the corner, I'm not sure she felt the same with the long drive ahead of her! :) But in this day and age everyone is around the corner in some fashion thanks to the internet, and with friend like her I am reminded that all my friendships are special. They take so much time to develop yet can be so easily spoilt or broken by sometimes the silliest of things, so the friendships that do last deserve all the effort and time I can possibly give them.
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