Back to reality

Boo hoo. I officially hate this country and I've only been back around 2 days...

Malta was amazing, 40 degrees most days if not more on some, very nice and tanned now! Spent a lot of my time chilling by the pool and enjoying doing nothing but relaxing. Had a lot of laughs with the gang, saw my Dad quite alot which was nice. His flat that he's renting is fabulous! Absolutely gigantic, wish I could pick it up and plonk it down somewhere here its so huge and new and lovely!

We went to the beach, ate out every night, went to Sicily for the day, visited Comino (sister island to Malta), had fun at the pool and took the gang to some of the typical tourist sites as they haven't been before.

I'll post a selection of photos but I took about 1200 in total! Whoops!















































A good time all in all!

But since I've been back its all stress again. This flat hunting stuff is driving me nuts, and job hunting. I had an interview offer before I went away, they wanted me to come the day before I left. I asked for a time to check I could do it, and never heard back. Then with flats there is a particular new block of flats near the station which we've been trying to view for the last couple of months, but there is never anyone in the office to talk to, or when I get someone the places have already gone! Don't know what more we can do. I finally had a viewing for this set of flats today and the guy rang this morning to cancel as the flat had gone! I've now rang two other agents with flats in the same place, both busy so said they would get someone to ring me back. Have they? As if. Bloody ridiculous, don't know how anyone manages to get these places... :(

Nearly there...

There being Malta! Been super busy this week planning for my holiday next week, and was working mostly too. Been driving around a bit which has been fun! We had some friends over for dinner on friday to try out some Gordon Ramsey Fast Food recipes. We still haven't got rid of the fish smell....

Sat I worked, sunday I got up at 6am to drop Steven at the station, came back and packed a bit then went off to the crop, back again at 5, then straight out to staff meeting and someone's leaving do! Very hectic. Had a good night out though, my work lot are a bit loud and crazy so it takes some getting used to. We went to a pub, then a cheap chinese buffet, then onto another bar, then tearful goodbyes at the station (Stephanie is going back to France so not just a leaving do for another job, but for another company). I made her a little mini book to remember me by and the things we got up to:










Now I'm finishing packing for the holiday, can't wait for the sun. Particularly helpful that today is cloudly and a bit pants so makes me wanna go more! Beach, pool, heat! Yay!!

See you when I get back!

More Mr Bloom

Ok so I went back to "see" Mr Bloom last thursday, got in the front row of crowds waiting outside hehe. When he came out, he was in front of me, so I bundled up my courage and asked a question! When I went to the Kingdom of Heaven premiere I had a huge pink banner, when he spotted it he stopped and thanked me for it, said it was really sweet and asked if he could sign it. So on thursday, I asked him if he remembered a big pink banner at the KOH premiere. He said "I do, yeah" and I said "well that was mine!" (maybe I was expecting a medal??). He looked at me with a big smile and said "thanks, it was really sweet" and he looked like he was considering what to do next (hug, kiss??). Then he put his hand on my face, like cupping my side of my face and said "thanks love." I nearly died. I just stood there grinning away. Didn't get many good pics cos they were all up his nose due to him standing in front of me! Then he said "have you seen the extended version of KOH?" To which I replied "yes I have" and he said "what did you think of it?" I said "its really good, much better" and he said "I think so too." I then said "i'm glad they released it, and he agreed.

How cool is that? My own little chat with him hehe. AND, I was the only person he stopped to have a chat with. Everyone else he still said hello, how are you etc. Woo hoo!! Oh and when he came out, because there were so many people he was like "were all of you guys in the play?" as he knew and he was smiling when he said it. He was really lovely once again. I might go back before he finishes in Sept with a mini pink banner which says "another pink banner to remember" and push my luck for a hug or kiss. Worth a shot I think!











Apart from that I've been holiday shopping for clothes and bits and pieces. Got my hair cut today and I'm really happy with it for once! Felt very cool driving home in my sunglasses with my new styled hair. Could get used to that...





Thats all really, nothing else to report as its been normal.

Swoooooooon!

Wow, Orlando Bloom is still gorgeous as ever, even with his funny facial hair for the play. I had brilliant seats, was very pleased! I was in the Royal Circle, right in the middle and three rows from the front of the balcony, so had a clear and excellent view. Could see all his facial expressions well and he looked lovely! the play was quite good, thought he did a really good job. It was an odd play, at times I was completely baffled as I didn't quite follow the story, but it had good laugh out loud moments.

Afterwards I headed to the stage door, and it was already jam packed! The whole street was filled with people, luckily I still got near the front. I was very impressed with the crowd though as they didn't give him any trouble when he came out. There was no hysteria so he stayed and signed for people, he tried to talk to us too which was really sweet, asking things like "how are you?" etc etc. When he got to me he looked at me as he took my programme and smiled, I smiled back, and when he handed it back he looked at me again, I said "thank you" really calmly, and he said "no worries". He was very lovely, again!

So here are my pics, sorry about the tags...

Celebrating the good times!

Its a beautiful day, and even more brilliant because this afternoon I passed my driving test, first time!! Woot! Its been a struggle for me as I found some things so difficult, I feel a real sense of achievement having conquered it. And breathe, its over! I am also excited that I'll have that extra money for meeeeeeeee!

Now roll on Mr Orlando Bloom this evening, hope I manage to get some snaps!

Also, thanks to Jules for the comment RE: images, will try that next time! (Hopefully with Orlando pics... mwuahahaha!)

Where does the time go?

Seriously? What happened to this month???

Well, lots of things to update which I can't remember...

I didn't get a second interview at Oxford, was very disappointed but there we go. Went for a placement interview but wasn't particularly sure if I liked the place, waiting to hear from that now.

Been flat hunting and stuff, lost two flats in one day which was fun. First one was nice and spacious and lovely, but by the time we got to the agents to put our deposit down, the flat had already gone to someone else. Then we saw another that afternoon, it was smaller but in a better location, and when we put our deposit down we were thrilled. They rang me the next day to say it had already gone with another agent! How infuriating is that? Not had much luck since then.

Then we had graduation, that was cool! It wasn't as long as I expected, so it was a nice day.

Then I had a party to celebrate which was great fun. Finally, a chance to let my hair down and party!

Also spent that weekend reading the last Harry Potter book. Loved it, bawled my eyes out but loved it! I then went cropping on the sunday and done a few new layouts which need scanning at some point.

Then it was work work work. Went to see the new Harry Potter film, and then saw Transformers last friday. Transformers blew me away, I thought the special effects were incredible and loved the whole thing. Awesome!

My little cousin Max came to spend the night with us on sat just gone, he's soooo cute!

Then yesterday me, Steven and Luke went to the Arsenal stadium for the Emirates Cup. We had the most amazing seats, 4 rows from the side of the pitch! We saw PSG vs Valencia and Arsenal vs Inter Milan. The weather was gorgeous and I'm looking a bit pink today as we thought it was supposed to rain and were not prepared for 5 hours in the sun... One thing I was gutted about was that my favourite player/player I fancy alot, Tomas Rosicky, was out with an injury! If he had played he would have been right in front of me for 45 mins!! Dammit. We did spot him sitting near the dugout on the opposite side but he just looked like a blob, only knew it was him because he has longish hair!

Pleased to say Arsenal won the cup! Woot!

Today I'm chilling at home with Steven, then tomorrow I'm off to the theatre in the evening to see Orlando Bloom *swoon* in "In Celebration". Can't wait!

By the way, is there an easier way to insert pics with this thing???? Everytime I add an image it puts it at the beginning of the post so I have to drag them all back to position, then fix all the line breaks...not impressed!