Sunday, 8 June 2014

The big 3-0 #5 May and June

Thursday 1st May- beautiful sky
Friday 2nd May- This is just impossible
Saturday 3rd May- flowers are starting to bloom
Sunday 4th May- Can't wait to be on one of those in 5 weeks!
Monday 5th May- Dreaming
Tuesday 6th May- Reflections
Wednesday 7th May- watching this again, so important to watch
Thursday 8th May- first tap class tonight, loved every minute of it!
Friday 9th May- my 3 year old has fallen in love with this snail- she's named it Lucy so I guess we have a pet snail now!
Saturday 10th May- one of my favourite nights of the year
Sunday 11th May- being sweet 
Monday 12th May- evening drive with my mum
Tuesday 13th May- Stump
Wednesday 14th May- spent the evening doing the window display in work
Thursday 15th May- Through my peep hole
Friday 16th May- Wagamamas with my girls
Saturday 17th May- grey hairs and bad roots, thanks 30!
Sunday 18th May- #25 paint the Amoty Island Billboard
Monday 19th May- healthy dinner
Tuesday 20th May- Hubby inspecting his freshly mowed lawn
Wednesday 21st May- Mummra, Slug and I
Thursday 22nd May- New tumblers
Friday 23rd May- cloudy
Saturday 24th May- New shorts
Sunday 25th May- new jumper and new phone case
Monday 26th May- Cpt. Jack Sparrow
Tuesday 27th May- one of my most favourite albums of all time. 
Wednesday 28th May- 🍄
Thursday 29th May- crafting with my girls
Friday 30th May- Nibbles
Saturday 31st May- Layers
Sunday 1st June- boobs or knees?
Monday 2nd June- baby drunk too much ice tea
Tuesday 3rd June- Southerndown 
Wednesday 4th June- it's raining again
Thursday 5th June- goodbye greys, hello red
Friday 6th June- Wagas with my loves for early birthday dinner, I had a spray tan earlier in the day!
Saturday 7th June- new album by my favourite band
Sunday 8th June- That's it, I'm 30. No more 8pm photos, horray! (Still going to wear clothes with skulls on!)

This was fun but also a bloody pain in the arse! Can't believe I kept it going the whole year though.

It's been a pleasure!

Saturday, 7 June 2014

The big 3-0 #8 no chocolate for a week

This was harder than giving up cigarettes!

My wonderful friend Liz challenged me to a week without chocolate, what a wonderful friend.

I'm one of those people that has to have chocolate at least once a day otherwise I get really cranky.

After I agreed I soon realised pretty much every sweet thing in my house had chocolate in it, unless it was stupid fruit, bluergh! Hell.on.earth!

Luckily, last night I went for dinner for a pre birthday treat and we realised it had technically been a week since I had eaten chocolate so I got dessert and man, it was the best god damn cake I've ever had.

One more off my list. Can't wait to have a galaxy bar tomorrow ooh and a dairy milk. Maybe a wispa, definitely a kitkat chunky. Maybe the new orange flavour...

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

The big 3-0 #28 raise money to get a memorial bench for my sister

My wonderful sister passed away 13 years ago today. Sometimes it feels like yesterday, others it feels like forever. 

The pain never leaves us but after time you learn to cope, you pick yourself up and move on. 13 years is a long time. I miss her every day but the anniversary is always painful mostly because it drudges up the memories of that awful day. 

The rest of the year I can conjur up happy memories in the blink of an eye but June 3rd is always painted with bleakness. 

I wish I could block out some of the memories yet I never want to forget a single shred of her.

Natalie was wild and care free. She hated being static, still or caged. When we had to make the decision of where to lay her to rest there was no question in our minds that she want to be cremated. We scattered her ashes into the sea at Southerndown beach, one our favourite family places.

We go there every year and lay sunflowers down there but we don't have a plaque or anything. I know this is really painful for my mum so for the past year I have been in contact with many different people to request a bench or a plaque on an existing bench down southerndown.

Unfortunately, I haven't been granted one. I completely understand why and, although disappointed, I'm not angry about it. Due to the place being a hotspot for suicides and motor accidents they actually have a high level of requests for this. They don't want the place to become a shrine of the dead, which I completely understand. 

So, one of my list is failed but I tried. We will still go there and lay down those sunflowers. That beach will always be precious to us and Nat. 

More than anything, I would just like her back.