2010 in a nutshell =)

*Looks sheepish*.

Hello.

Shall I do my updates?

Jennifer Testa

Well, as you can see from previous updates, we sadly lost Manda’s mum to cancer. I attended her funeral with Chris and supported Manda. It was a really nice service and it was obviously really sad as well. In fact, I can’t believe it’s been nearly a year since she died already! Manda seems to be coping well and has got on with her life although not have her mum there in person for Christmas was really hard for her I think that’s what I was going to say on this.

Chris

I can’t remember lol. Does that make me a bad girlfriend? This was all the way back in June!

Work

I finished at Open Door but Jackie is trying to get me back there! I was told I hadn’t been allowed back because the guy in charge of payments knows me.

Birds

In May, we got an Avery with cockatiels and with Jack, that makes 8 altogether!

Glasses

I got a pair of Transitions lenses. Yep.

Weddings

This really should be the big one tbh. In June, my cousin Steven got married to Donna:

And in September, Martin and Stephanie got married:

Other things that happened (in no particular order):

Sadly, a few days after this picture was taken, we lost our beautiful boy. His health deteriorated rapidly, he fell asleep and he died at 2am. I regret not doing a separate entry for him as I don’t remember the exact day he died RIP old boy, we love you and miss you.

We decorated the bathroom (yes, that is a very bright pink):

Daniel’s 18th birthday:

Got pretty drunk on Jacques cider and brandy. Also had some weird wine stuff that looked like Rosé but tasted like red wine. Bluergh. We also let off chinese lanterns.

Infest:

Got to Bradford at around 8:30am and it was a pretty good weekend. I think we were a bit put out because it was all so different! On the Saturday, we weren’t allowed into the town centre because of riots. When we got to the uni, there was extra security and we could hear the helicopter over the city (which is about a mile away).

London Film and Comic Con:

This was a brilliant day!!! I met the Cigarette Smoking Man and the cast from Being Human! I lost my favourite belly bar though

Museum of London:

Our original plan was that Chris had a meeting with an employment agency in Farringdon and as it turns out, we went for a wander and discovered that the Museum of London was a few minutes walk away! So we went off and it was good! I’ve been there before and it was only the bit about Celtic Britain that reminded me of what it was like when I went there. The Victorian section freaked me out a little as it felt like I remembered what it was like. Chris described it as deja vu. The little Vauxhall exhibition freaked me out even more because it was so familiar.

Leysdown:

We went to the Isle of Sheppey the week before Halloween and it was good but cold. The sea was really high so the beach was closed. Dunican knocked his pint on my lap and I felt tipsy on lager for the first time ever. Um… that’s about it lol.

Buffy/Angel:

This year, I got back into Buffy and Angel in a big way. Collecting stuff and I have all the DVD’s now too. Loads of books! Buffy’s silver cross. Just finished the Buffy DVD’s and have a whole season of Angel left. I am sad about this. I need to get a big shelf in my room for all my stuff :p

THE HAIR:

White blonde, pink, fruit salad, pink and blonde, Katie Weasel, golden mahogany brown, Rod Stewart and now darker golden mahogany brown. My hair has seen a lotta colours this year.

Burlesque:

NotmuchtosayotherthanIhaven’tseenityet #badstan

Snow:

We had a lotta snow this year! On three separate occasions; January, November and December. If it had snowed like that at the same time, it would have been the same amount of snow we had in February 2009! It snowed the week before xmas and disappeared yesterday after a few days of ice rink.

Christmas 2010:

Nothing spectacular happened tbh. I got Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, The Titanic Experience book, loads of chocolate, Hello Kitty brush with my name on it, Buffy silver cross necklace, Snuggie, slippers, 2 china Geisha dolls, Buffy Watcher’s Guide vol. 3… um… I don’t remember what else lol.

I think that’s about it to be honest. 2010 has been a bit crap lol. Hope 2011 is better I’ve got a few plans tbh.

Do an 8-week pre-Navy training training course (I wanted to join the Navy but thanks to Labybloodyrinthbloodyitis, I can’t!

Start my Interior Design Courses with the National Design Academy. It’ll start off with Diploma then I’ll go onto Foundation Degree and then BA(Hons).

Finish learning to drive.

They’re my main goals!

But yeah. That’s all for now.

Tippy x

Oh yeah.

I found this in my draft folder. lol. I was going to write ages ago but I was struck down with a migraine and then viral Labyrinthitis!

Still suffering now but the doctor has prescribed me with prochlorperazine tablets to take three times a day to help ease the dizziness. Think I’ve got over the worst of it tbh. Basically told him how I was feeling and told him of my symptoms but he asked what the main ones were. He looked in my ears (which he said weren’t too bad) and checked my throat. To check my balance he told me to stand straight, feet together. Obviously I tipped a little. Then he asked me to close my eyes and do it. I went sideways He said that if it hasn’t cleared up in a couple of weeks to go back.

This is the list of symptoms I was/am having. Not all, but an awful lot of them!

The tablets I’m on really give me a dry mouth! it’s annoying. But still, am feeling better and a bit more ‘human’ – i.e. I almost feel normal and in my own body again!

March has been pretty interesting so far.

Went to my Nan and Grandad’s yesterday as it was my nan’s 82nd birthday. We walked there and took Rio with us even though on occasion, it was pissing down with rain! Nan and Grandad were really pleased to see her too. She was very good most of the time even if she did growl at my nan when she came home from up the road We got there at about 1ish and left at about 3ish.

I really, really, really, really want a Blackberry Curve 8520!!!!! My contract is up with Orange and I found this but I’m hoping that Orange can do the same cos I like them (never had any issue with them!) and the most important thing for me is the unlimited internet! Saves me taking my laptop on holiday with me Loads of people I know have Blackberries too. Gah. I wanted one when I first got my contract but then I found a purple Viewty… lol. Can’t believe how quickly those 18 months went!

Oooh! Selsey is on Google Streetview now! So I can see Selsey whenever I miss it now. It only goes as far as reception though. Also covers Brighton, Leysdown, Colchester…

Anyway, bored now. Sure you enjoyed my little update

Tippy x

Really?

Oh, can’t be bothered.

I got this email today:

11th January 2010

Dear Charlotte.

Re: Interview

I am very pleased to inform you that you have been successful on your initial interview with Open Door.

You have been offered the position of office administrator, and we will be contacting you shortly with an employment start date.

Regards,

********** ******

Project Manager

Soooo… do I has job now? I went to the interview on Monday and really wasn’t expecting anything from it! LOL. So we shall have to wait and see. Don’t even know what the job is for! Well, I know what the job is for but it might not even be there! Still, I liked the building and the area it’s in. Feeling really bleh atm. Quite sick and tired – literally.

Still no news about lappy. Hoping it’s home by next week.

Might be going to St. Osyth in Clacton this year rather than Leysdown. Been looking on the Wiki and it says that the town was witness to witch trials and has some ghosts :O that’ll be interesting. Leysdown is alright but it’s a bit boring – there isn’t much there and both times we’ve been, it’s been really quiet and empty! Plus, we’ll be going to ChazzyD, Connie and Dillon land – ESSEX! feel sorry for Dillon as Colchester is about 12 miles away from Clacton and he’s gonna have to drive all the way to ours and back again! Twice! That was like when we went to Leysdown in the summer and we got the trains there. You can almost see Colchester from the beach he said it would’ve been quicker to swim across the Channel from there! Lololol. Gonna take my laptop with me so then I can use it in the clubhouse when we get there so I can go on MSN and be like, “hi! I’m in White Stiletto Land! Gonna have a drink now and try not to spill it on my laptop, bye!” Ooooh! Could do a blog from there as well as tweeting from Tweetdeck as I ran out of internet usage when I was in Leysdown. Dunican will prolly come with us and OOOH! Maybe I’ll be driving by then. Hope so. That’ll be goooooooooood! Looks like the swimming pool is a better size one and apparently, there’s a pier nearby so it’s like a proper little seaside town! WITH PUNCH AND JUDY PUPPETS ON THE BEACH! Wife beating bastard but hey! English seaside traditions and all that!

Anyway, bored now.

Tippeh x