Ice Cream Heaven

Yes it tasted good - but very creamy so I may try to make it again but with alot less cream. Though Phoebe though it was great!

Today Phoebe and I went to the cinema to see Wall-E . Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class) is the only one of his kind of robot left on earth after a botched attempt at trying to clean the earth that has been overrun with garbage.

Ok get the message of the film? Then why the hell do idiots still litter the cinema with their popcorn, sweet wrappers and coke cups? feh sometimes the human race I despair of you.

Pressies!

At long last I am now the proud owner of a food processor! I spent my much long saved for Nectar points and just decided last week to spend them on a food processor. A much needed piece of equipment for my itsy bitsy kitchen. Yep I know the dude moaned "where are you going to put it" but I've made space in the tiniest room in the house (aka The Kitchen) and it now sits under the worktop next to the pots and pans - which I also need more of!

In fact I just need a bigger kitchen - NOW!



So here it is... ok it's not the much loved Magimix I was after but it was free and it's also got a juicer and some other extra attachments which means Phoebe can make her own smoothies.

At the moment we are testing out our abilities to make some chocolate cookie and vanilla ice cream - let you know if 3 hours if it tastes nice!

x

Odd Dreams

I had an odd dream last night that I had a miscarriage that looked like a runny egg. Sadly as it turned out this morning it looks like I actually did have a miscarriage. For those of you not in the know I found out I was pregnant last Thursday. Today I woke up and found some blood and in the proceeding hours I had some cramping, not unlike one of those nasty periods I rarely get. So I did another pregnancy test only to find the positive line so much fainter than the first one.

It looks like my little "poppy" aint staying.

Yep I'm bummed but I also know that my body is doing what it needs to do right now for what ever reason it has to. People who know me know I have been through far far worse and so this is just a little set back in our plans to create another beautiful child to cherish and love.

I've already spoken to lots of people today about it and I'm fine really - though I do appreciate peoples concern I think I'm done talking about it.

Some highlights for the week though - I managed to get a staggering 97% for my last TMA - yee haw! I'm amazed - though I think my tutor marked it too high :) I'm such a swot!

Just randomness today

I've been in a better mood today.
Moodiness levels reached an all time low yesterday. It was Wednesday and I was
pissed off severely.
Really didn't want to be in the office at all - nope not one bit!
Everything was just peeing me off big time, only thing that cheered me up was a
giant burger which Chris and I popped out and down the road for.
Now it's not often I get a hankering for something but boy the burger, salad
and relish really hit the spot.
Nice nice nice very nice indeed.
Tehehehehe xxx

ooh Cakes Glorious Cakes

I was told about this fantasic baking accessory shop in St Neots, called Sugar Daddy's, and I think I've discovered heaven! I went in last week and spent a small fortune buying some quality regal icing in red, blue, pink and green, along with some powdery stuff that I had to work into the icing to make it more pliable to mould into shapes. A butterfly cutter and some professional food colouring.

Tonight I used a Nigella fairy cake recipe and I had a go at making some butterfly shapes and wow I'm impressed at how nice these look. But I will be making several other attempts before Emily's birthday as I'd like to use butter icing and some of the food colouring just to see what they could look like.


So yummy looking !

Mighty Mouse Hunter!

Now Elvis I suspected for some time had been keeping the level of mouse activity in our garden to a minimum over the last 2 years, but he surprised us yesterday by appearing through the cat flap with a freshly caught (and thankfully dead or sleepy as Emily liked to call the mouse). I know this was a present and I rewarded him with lots of cuddles and much praising, but I did have to take the poor sleepy mouse outside so Elvis could erm play with it somemore and hopefully dispose of it without us having to watch him.

Pen washes off doesn't it?

Emily in the park having some juice whilst feeding the ducks

For my Children

I had 3 silver rings made to celebrate my children.

Top Kid Top Marks

Phoebe came home with her sats report this week. I still can't get my head around what all the numbers mean but apparantly most kids are at level 4 and she's at level5 (thinks she could be at level 6 but they dont teach that far at the school). So I'm pretty chuffed that she's come out at the top grading. I'm hoping her move to Longsands will give her the educational stimulation I think she really needs. I'm happy the existing classes will be split and I look forward to Phoebe making new friends and flourishing in a different environment.

Other things we are (or not as the case may be) is that I'm going to put a hold on Tae Kwon Do lessons. I feel bad about giving it up but for just now my studies are taking a lot of my free time and I really can't devote what time I really need to dedicate to the sport that it really deserves. I don't give up things easily and I tend not to do things in short measures either, if I want do do something I want to do it well! So this will be our last month. As for the studying (and I know some people are going to scream "Geek" at the top of their voices), but well I am enjoying learning about Object Oriented Programming with Java. Ok I do find it tough and once every 6 weeks I have to complete the dreaded TMA (Tutor Marked Assignment) but I do feel pretty chuffed when my code works and I can either make the damned frogs dance or split Maps into Sets. I can just hear those words slipping from your lips "Nerd!" - I say Ha!

It's been pushing the limits of my patience but it's also been stretching my brain which is a good thing a I haven't done this in a while. And I'm really focussed on getting an Open Degree, I can later attempt more coures to get a named Degree, and then if I feel like pushing that boundary some more then maybe a post-grad course.

What else is new - well about £106 pounds worth of school uniform for one! Yep I popped up to Longsands and spent what seems to be more money in one sitting than I probably spend on clothes for myself in one year. Phoebe now has 5 lovely Longsands polo shorts, 2 fleeces, some shorts, 2 sets of lovely red socks, and 2 red polo shirts. Oh darn and now I've realised that come the end of the summer hols I will have to take her shopping for school trousers, shoes, stationary and pens/pencils along with a calculator and some maths equipment - yikes!

Right I'm going to get back to my TMA and try to figure out how to return the values of a Map depending on the top value in the set.

Ciao

Another one!

so I spent 30 mins this morning typing a blog when Emily came along pressed one button and deleted the whole freaking lot - Sheesh! I'm already in a bad mood.