Sainsbury's at Christmas

Horrible!!

I am so tired it is unbelievable :(

Coming home after mum's work Christmas morning to sleep for a few hours before starting again at 7pm. :(

Plan Of Attack

Christmas Week Schedule

Monday
630-1030 Sainsburys
Tuesday
1200 Nail Extensions
715 Eyebrow Wax
730 Slimming World Christmas Party
Wednesday
900-600 Sainsburys
Thursday
630-1230 Sainsburys
Friday
700-1200 Sainsburys
Saturday
900-600 Sainsburys
630 McDonalds
730 Hot Chocolate and Christmas movie

Phewe!

My New DVD

I got Bambi today free using movie rewards on Disney :)

Raspberry Ruffle Cheesecake

BASE
10 oz Digestive Biscuits
4 oz butter
Desert Spoon Golden Syrup

Melt the butter and syrup.
Crush the biscuits,
Mix together.
Press into a tin.

TOPPING
300g Philadelphia
50g icing sugar
Medium carton of Double Cream
4 oz raspberry ruffles (4/5 ruffles)
1 raspberry yogurt

Whisk the Philadelphia and the icing sugar.
Add the cream and whisk.
Fold in the raspberry ruffles and raspberry yogurt.

Pour over the biscuit base and chill.
Decorate the top with fresh raspberries and crushed raspberry ruffle bar.

Hey Presto..Cheescake!!

Food For Midnight Munching...

As I am at Slimming World, even my munching has to be "free" or "super free".  This is something I have struggled with over the last few weeks, so I am going to make a short list of things I should be choosing instead of cookies and Quality Street.

Batchelors
-Cup a Pasta

• Chicken - 1
• Creamy Cheese - 1.5
• Roast Vegetable - Free
• Tomato and Herb - Free
• Bolognaise - Free
• Carbonara - 0.5
• Chicken and Mushroom - Free
• Chicken and Roasted Garlic - Free
• Creamy Chicken and Herb - Free
• Tomato, Onion and Herb - Free

-Pasta Pot Shot

• Chicken - 1
• Creamy Cheese - 1.5
• Roast Vegetable - 0.5
• Tomato and Herb - Free

Mug Shot

• Minestrone - Free
• Roast Chicken - Free
• Spicy Tomato - Free
• Tikka Style - 1
• Tomato and Herb - Free

Activia Fat Free Yoghurts
Mullerlight Yoghurts
Fruit
Superfree Vegetables

Christmas Quiz

What Is Your Favourite Holiday Movie?
It would have to be White Christmas every single time.  I enjoy everything related to Christmas but the ending of White Christmas makes me cry every single time I watch it.

What Is Your Favourite Christmas Colour?
Red and Green OR Purple and Gold - they both scream "festive season" at me.

Do You Like To Stay In Your PJ's Or Dress Up For Christmas?
Always wear jammies when opening Santa presents but then I get dressed around ten o'clock prepared for the arrival of my brother and his wife.

If You Could Only Buy One Person A Present This Year Who Would It Be For?
My parents.  They do so much for me during the year that they are the only important people when it comes to gifts, in my eyes.

Do You Open Your Presents Christmas Eve Or Christmas Morning?
As a child, I opened them on Christmas Eve and Santa gifts on Christmas morning as I received so many, my mum could never keep track of who bought me what for thank you notes.

Have You Ever Built A Gingerbread House?
Yes, last year I built one with my best friend Stacey while listening to the "Home Alone" soundtrack acting like children.  It was fabulous and must be repeated.


What Do You Like To Do On Your Christmas Break?
Shopping, relaxing, drinking hot chocolate and marshmallows and watching far too many Christmas movies.

Any Christmas Wishes?
Just to continue successfully on my Slimming World journey and get to my ten stone goal.

Favourite Christmas Smell?
Mulled Wine, Yankee Candle Christmas Scents, Christmas morning turkey cooking and anything with cinnamon in it.

Favourite Christmas Meal Or Treat?
Actual turkey dinner followed by a chunk of Christmas cake and a huge mug of tea.

Retro..

So, recently I have been wanting more 'retro' or 'vintage' style accessories for my iPhone and possibly my iPod, unlikely for my laptop though as it is rarely in a case!

I have found the most awesome cover for my iPhone..

Kate Spade New York Agenda £29.95

Followed by a gorgeous handset for my iphone...

$195

And lastly, even though its totally NOT retro,I would also really like to own a Kindle for when I'm commuting to university on the train, reading would be so much easier when I only have to press one button and not require lots of arm room to read a paper based book and be able to turn the pages :)

Amazon Kindle £89

Some day I will own all the gadgets my brain thinks I need to be able to live.. LOL

but until that day I shall try to content myself with what I already have.

Latest Purchase

I have just bought a Kate Spade iPhone 4 cover after seeing my aunts sister-in-law's cover.

She owns the arty version which is a whopping £35 inc postage, the dotty one is £14.99 inc postage!! I shall upload piccys when it arrives!! Excited.com

Weightloss Lines...

My target line looks oh so far away but it is only 4 stone 11 lb, which I could easily manage to have off by this time next year if i stop dilly-dallying :)

Slimming World Week 28

Well now m'dear, I got last week's 3lb off, am well chuffed! Even text Lisa when I got out with my news! 1lb more and I'll be back on track again!

Start Weight: 17st 1.5lb

Current Weigh: 14st 11lb :)

I cannot remember the last time my scales said 14 stone when I was standing on them..

The ups and downs may happen, as long as it keeps going down!

I have 2 stone 4.5lb off now, and it has changed my life.

Cannot get silly picture to rotate..so rotate ones head to see the boots!

I had gorgeous boots on tonight with a stiletto heel and usually this would cause me to walk "funny" and have really sore feet, but i am now able to stand in them all night AND walk "normally" :)

SW ALL THE WAY!!!

Ballymena "lingo"

Afeard - scared
Ballex - disagree with someone
Baltic - cold
Banjaxed - no longer fit for purpose
Bate - to hit or to win
Beg - wafer thin plastic vessel; good for carrying shopping
Binlid – a person who displays all the IQ of the cover on a refuse receptacle.
Boke - Regurgitate violently.
Boggen - mucked up to the oxters
Buck eejit - idiot
Brave - large
Brew - weekly benefit
Chat/Chaterina - A thingimmybob. Superb term which can be used in almost every situation.
Chaterina (the full dictionary version) is rarely used now but 'chat' remains commonplace. Example: "Reach me thon chat." The incredible thing is most people in Ballymena will be aware, in the context of the situation, exactly what item you require.
Cane - An untidy residence or a place of ill repute.
Chicken - child slang for "afeard"
Clabbered - To be covered in dirt - see 'Bogging'
Cove - A person. Not a geographical feature of the coastline.
Crater – This has nothing to do with the moon and is, in fact, a widely used term of sympathy.
Example: "Sure it's a pity of that crater."
Creche - not a nursery, but when 2 cars collide
Dab - A unit of currency.
Dander - a walk
Doner - female version of a cove
Dour - a door
Drawers - underwear
Dunt – To apply force. Example: "Hit thon crater a dunt and waken him up."
Eejit - means "Idiot"
Fadge - potato bread
Facing - to kiss someone
Footerin - to tinker or to loiter
Gammy - rubbish, useless
Ganch - one who is incapable of holding their tongue. More importantly, an indication that any contribution they may make to a conversation is totally without merit.
Gipe - Another word for an idiot
Givuz - give me
Gorb - A greedy person.
Gurn - How could we forget it? To complain (adult); to cry (child).
Gutties - new nikes from oxfam
Happy Days - that's good
Heel - not to be confused with the back of your foot, means end of a loaf
Heerzme - "And then I said..."
Houl On - please wait
Howl - To take a firm grip.
Job - activity usually carried out under the cover of night
Joken - joking
Lifted - arrested
Meat Wagon - RUC Landrovers
Messages - weekly shopping
Mucker - a friend or mate
Muller - Mother or "Ma"
McCooey - native of belfast
Nek it - drink that drink in one
Norman - bullying term for someone with no friends
Offees - alchohol retailer
Oxters - armpits
Paghle - pron.packle. A couch potato. One becomes a paghle through prughin'.
Passion - heavy rain in Ballymena
Peeler - a police officer
Prugh - a mix of crisps, sweets or chocolate, usually eaten on the sofa in front of the TV
Pruta's - spuds
Quare - big, massive
Rare - not to be confused with "scarce", means crap as in 'feel rare'
Reely - A catch-all phrase for an action or person of doubtful sense. Example: "See yer man - he's reely so he is. Sure his head's a marley." (From Mickey Marley's famed roundabout).
Samitch - mispronunciation of "Sandwhich"
Sammy - native of Belfast - see McCooey
Scallions - fancy leeks
Scunnered - A state of depression. Important note:-Those who have the misfortune to hail from the less favoured parts of Northern Ireland (i.e. not Ballymena and district) have the tendency to pronounce this words as 'scundered'. This is totally unacceptable and will result in failure of the oral module of this course.
Shap - shop
Shar - a shower
Skelly - To take a quick glance at something.
Shem - Basically anyone. Can be dropped into conversation at any point without fear.
Sicken' Ye - would annoy you
Skinned Ye! - Haha my good friend, I do believe I won that
Slabber - someone who makes bad comments about you behind your back
Snotter - An unmentionable substance which emanates from the nose during times of cold and flu.
Spoofen - lying
Spoon - someone with a low IQ
Stroke - To walk purposefully. Or, more commonly nowadays, to cheat.
Thon - commonly used pronoun used as a substitute for 'that'. 'That's a fair size of a head on thon crater'.
Tome - Excellent, wonderful. If one played a magnificent shot in snooker, for instance, it could be justifiably be described as 'Tome, Shem.' Important note - these two words MUST be used in conjunction.
Truth - A lie.
Wah Wah - native of belfast - see McCooey
wee'un - an alternative word for small child. 'I'm babysitting the wee'uns'
Wheek(er) - A unit of pressure. Example: "Thon Shem is tome at boxing. He hut thon cove a wheek dig." Trans. "That fellow is a prime exponent of the noble art. He struck that other chap a blow of considerable force."
Wheesht - as in 'houl your wheesht' aka, shut up.
Wick - not exactly brilliant
Wiredintillit -"Got wiredintillit earlee-er"
Yeegittin? - Are you being served?
Yoke - A mode of transport , normally a car
Yousens - When addressing more than one person

Things i would love to own...

Kate Spade - Karolina $325.00

Kate Spade - Park Row Karen $295.00

Kate Spade - $155.00

Kate Spade - Prize Ball Pop Top Mittens $75

Manolo Blahnik - Swan Embelished Satin Pump $1295.00

This list could go on forever...

Struggling...

Ugh! Slimming World was going so well for me but for the last month or so I havent been doing it properly and I'm getting myself so down about it that I'm eating junk as a pick me up :(
Last Tuesday I weighed in at 14 stone 11 lb, which was a gain of 1 lb. I have just weighed myself quickly upstairs and I weighed in at 15 stone 4 lb. a gain of 7 lb. disgusted at myself! Christmas was just a small goal of getting my 2.5 stone award and I keep getting further away instead of closer. Grr.

Taking a food diary tonight from Lisa to see if that keeps me on track any better. Hopefully it does!!

Graduate Jobs

I was looking through two careers books I'd recently received and out of them both the Royal Navy stood out the most! I think it would be a really rewarding job :)

Specifically Communications and Information Systems (CIS) Specialist :)

Shall have to enquire more!!!

First Fire of the Year...

Had a chimney sweep out to the house today, got the fire all ready for winter time and mummy said we should light it... So I did :). The house is oh so toasty now! I love winter time.

Slimming world tonight, hopefully I have my 2.5lbs off to get my 2 stone award but I don't know, only have 1.5lb off according to my scales upstairs- was so good all week when they didn't work! Fingers crossed eh :)

Syn Free Platter with Superfree Salsa

Herby Chicken Drumsticks

Smokey Fried Rice

Syn Free Chips

Superfree Salsa



Herby Chicken Drumsticks

Chicken Drumsticks

Chicken Bovril Paste

1 Chicken Stock Cube

1 teaspoon Black Pepper

and these little beauties:

Charbroiled chicken spice
Spicy hot spice

SYN FREE!

Basically all you need to do:

In a container or bowl sprinkle your herb mix and crumble the stock cube into the mix then add the pepper and give it a shake to mix

Remove all of the skin from your chicken drumsticks

Cover drumsticks individually in Bovril

Roll drumsticks in herb mixture

Stick in the oven for 45 minutes

For the Rice dish:

Cooked Rice

Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper

Red Onion

2 cloves Garlic

1/2 Chilli

1/2 tablespoon chilli powder

1/4 tablespoon paprika

Salt to season

Boil some rice at any time of the day, works much better if you’re using leftover rice or rice that has been cooked the day before so great for a leftover recipe!

In a pan, fry some chopped red onion, red pepper, yellow pepper, mushrooms and garlic for about 4 minutes then add your spices

After this throw in your cooked rice and stirfry until heated through

The Superfree Salsa

Tomatoes / chopped tomatoes / passata

1/2 red onion

1/2 red pepper

1/2 yellow pepper

3 slices cucumber

1 clove garlic

1/2 chilli

1/2 teaspoon basil

1 teaspoon chilli powder

Salt to season

Blogger App

Hello, I am writing this post from the iPhone Blogger app I found five minutes ago.

It seems to work ok but I do not like the bright orange skin it is sporting.. Black/grey with orange writing would look so much better :)

Bye for now!

Sex and the City...

Oh My Goodness..

I have just finished watching every single episode of SatC and I didn't want it to end! If only I had watched it when it was on tv, reruns should be started up again right alongside the Friends reruns!

I'll be watching the two movies ASAP :)

Time to start at either episode 1 again, or begin One Tree Hill Episode 1 :D

Saturday Jobs

Oh my days...

I hate working in Sainsburys on a Saturday :( it was so busy today it felt like Christmas Eve all over again! Totally not happy!  Was in Kiosk for 7 hours and didn't get my second break cause it was so busy and I had too much to do!

Glad to be home.  Had vegetable soup for tea and some bread- was so tasty.  Watching Law and Order now the. Going to have an awesome bubble bath before bed- remove the stress from my neck muscles!!

17 Days and Counting...

hi!
I start uni in 17 more days and i CANNOT wait!!! it's going to be a fabulous year, i just know it already! Going to work my butt off and get an awesome degree :)  Just need a fab bag and more "school things" :)

Got paid today too, lil £500 pay cheque.. gonna do me rightly, two more pay cheques and i'll be allowed my debit and credit cards back and might actually be allowed to go shopping for new clothes!!

oh have i mentioned, i'm down one dress size :) SO excited and oh so happy.. such a boost!  Seen a lovely top in Sainsburys tonight at work, so going to buy tomorrow with my allowance while i still have 15% off :)

SW this week.. want to reach my 2 stone target, need 2.5lbs off so really being hopeful and going to be oh so good, proper protions and lots of superfree food all week long.

Can you ever really forgive if you can't forget?

Just added my ex on Facebook ...

I can't get his big stupid pain in the ass face out of my head! We broke up in May.. It's September, and I still miss talking to him. Arghhh!!!!

Weight loss 30/08/2011

Well now, 1.5 lb off tonight, making my total loss 1 stone 11.5 lbs :D

I feel so friggin' fantastic for it too! 4 stone 2.5 lbs to go and I'll be at my target weight- actually cannot wait to be a size 10 :D

Home to a tub of Ben and Jerry with Stacey and some sweeties also. Back to butts tomorrow and I'll be flying along to the same loss next week :)

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Embarrassing School Picture

Jewellery Number 1

 

How awesome is this! if i had my belly button pierced id have this in it :D

Day 5

I can't believe it's been 5 days already! Only 5 weeks 2 days left and I'll be a happy bunny! Already looking at new jewellery for when it's all done!

I shall upload potential!

Had a quiet day today, hot water bottles, mugs of tea, some James Bond.. An interesting way to spend a Bank Holiday in August.

Watched Hall Pass tonight- what an awesome film! Laughed so many times! Left me feeling rather upbeat too... Dear only knows why/how!

Heading for some munchies now, 1am and I'm hungry!! Grrr :(

Family Drama

I have to live in the only house where everyone but me gets to do what they want on a Sunday an I get shouted at when I want to do something my way!

*sighs*

Thank goodness for tea and toast making the day bearable :)

Mental weather in the village today but not even slightly close to what NY got yesterday! Don't think I'll moan about a little rain ever again!!

Thursday Evening

Oh my, what a day!  The heaviest rain I have seen all summer- please go away again until about November time :)

Watching tv with mum and Rachel.  The show is on the royal family.  I've decided no one loves the monarchy, they love the drama that is associated with it. 

I was at the gym today with Diana- two weeks off exercising really does ruin your energy levels, we were fit for nothing after 20 easy minutes on the treadmill.  Totally got drenched walking back to the car but a warm shower was waiting for us both so we survived it.

Made an awesome spaghetti bolognese for dinner tonight- so many fruit and veg, this diet is a breeze!! Just need a "syn-free" bar of chocolate to munch my way through now...

Coleraine tomorrow with Stacey- can't wait, gonna be a fun days shopping then home to work at 7pm.  That's obviously not an exciting part of my day...

Must go- Law and Order awaits me!

Test Email Blog 1

Hello,
Emailing myself this blog post.
Bye.

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Blog Numero Uno

Hi :)

I've never had a blog before so this could be interesting or a complete waste of Internet space!

Lay on my bed watching Sex and the City talking about the Ward Park Eminem concert that I failed to go to... Apparently it was an amazing night too-excluding the thunder and lightening.

I was in work tonight 5pm-10pm. Such an easy night, all the rain in Ballymena kept a lot of people indoors- plenty of time for me to muck about :)

Gym tomorrow- burn off the naughty Snickers I had earlier on and the toast I ate as supper. 11 stone here I come!!

Oh potential blog posts each Tuesday night about Slimming World and my weightloss and possibly about my Image Therapy sessions!

This will have to do me for now...