Payday!

I am so excited it is payday, well not my payday as I have to wait another 20 days before I can get my money from paid blogging but it is my husbands payday which counts as my payday :P  So with my husbands bonus we are now up £1122 in our savings account, I happy and it should hopefully fingers all crossed be up to 2k by middle of April, 2 months ahead of what I thought we would be able to get it up too.

I had to rearrange my bedroom yesterday due to our council house scum neighbours who think it is okay to argue until 3am sometimes 5am in the morning and we can heard everything! And I mean everything, so we reported it to our local council and they have now sent them a letter and we have to do a noise diary for the next 14 days, I thought with out beds being along the same wall as theirs it might make the noise louder so I moved it around to put us on the other side of the room, I do like the new layout and it only took me 40 minutes to do :)

(Sorry the picture is so dark)

Other exciting news other than me doing a 3 point turn and reserving around a corner in driving!!!!! Yay, go me and all that, I had the carpet man just here to measure up our stairs, bargain price so I think we will have to go with it, I like this sample, hope the husband does as well :)

Okay I'd better go back to revising, also I think I am ovulating today but am going to test later :)

Hallway/Stairs

Before I start do you call the place where you have stairs a hallway or stairs, according to my husband the little bit after my kitchen and before my bathroom counts as a hallway but I don't think it does and he thinks I can't call the stairs a hallway, anywho what do you call it? Please let me prove him wrong.

Now I have mentioned about my loft being turned into a room but after looking at the prices it is more likely going to have to wait till the end of the year so I can save up the money for it but in the mean time we are going to work on the hallway/stairs area and all of downstairs (kitchen might start in a couple of months, I am so excited!!).

Okay this was my stairs before I moved in:

Then my husband thought it would be a good idea to paint our stairs black:

So now after we both decided that we hated the black so we are onto carpet, the man is coming to give us a quote on Friday, fingers crossed, we will be able to afford it.  I thinking wool cream hard wearing one..

Okay I haven't even started revision today so I'd better get onto that...

Ovulation Test Stress

So I found my camera wire, it was hiding behind the sofa in the living room, so I have been testing my ovulation for the last 6 days, and according to my monthly cycle tracker I am suppose to start ovulating today but my test is only a little bit darker than the last five days and my temperature seems to be staying the same either the tracker is wrong or I am not ovulating or I missed which is hard to think I have missed it when I started looking for the lines on CD14 (cycle day 14).
This is very annoying, 4 months to get this right, maybe in the next month or so I'll buy some of the expensive ones that give you a smiley face if you are, Hmmm, who knew trying for a baby would be confusing and hard. But my husband has been cheering me up looking like this:

Ha ha bless him, okay back to revision and waiting for Freya to come around with her boyfriend to tell me how much it is going to cost to get my loft board so we can get some of the husbands stuff up there to give me some space.

Holiday

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So I am now officially on holiday for the next 4 weeks!  I plan on revising for my 9 exams and doing a load of driving lessons, I think I am going to hit between 12 and 16 in 4 weeks.  Life is good down in this side of England, husband is getting a new promotion and the savings is collecting nicely, we have worked out we will only have to save 7 grand which is do able by next Summer.

I wanted to show you some pictures of my ovulation tests but I have lost my camera wire (no idea where it is I spent the last hour and bit looking for it), I have also been charting my temperature which is weird because not a lot is happening with it I guess I am not ovulating yet, the test themselves aren't doing much yet but I  thought I would do them for a whole month to see how it all works, a girl on the forum I post at (babyandbump.com) said she did charting and testing for 3 months before and within 11 days she was pregnant when she was trying to conceive (TTC) so fingers crossed it will be like that for me and my husband.

In reality more like this...

There might be a few paid blogging appearing more this week due to the fact I have loads of work on (I really need the money for the savings account) so I am sorry for this :(

Any good new TV shows out at the moment? I watched the first season of the Good Wife which is pretty good, it has the main guy from Sex and the City Mr Big,  surprisingly good.  I might have to give Brother's and Sisters a second go, anyone else seen it?  Off to revise :)

Weight

Today we brought bathroom scales, I have not been on a set of scales for about two years, so I got on them today and I am 9 and half stone, which isn't my heavy weight but like my normal weight.  I know I am in the top of a normal healthy BMI scale but still I have been really good lately well in the last week (porridge for breakfast plus fruit, yogurt, special K bar and fruit for lunch and a nice yummy meal but I have addiction to croissant and pastries at uni), smaller portions and not snacking as much :(  I would like to be 8 and half or just 8 stone.

Any tips of losing a stone and half in the next couple of months, I am going to start getting back on my exercise bike every day but anyone else give me some good tips to lose weight and what I should eat?  I would be so grateful.

Are blogs too personal?

I wanted to talk about this topic "Are blogs too personal?" for the last couple of weeks and even more so after one of my closest friends closed down her blog due to the off-line world finding it. After going through my blog roll recently more and more blogs are becoming blogs written about a certain topic, for example, mine normally is being frugal and green which I think is a great idea and I love to see different views but then again I like to see some personal content as well, what's happening in their lives.

I started thinking whether or not my blog is too personal and I discussed with my husband and my best friend yesterday, I don't really write like I use to about the going ons in my life well not the really personal ones because unless it is out in the open then why put it on the internet where anyone can see it at the end of the day I know my blog is on the internet so it is pretty much public and yes I do go by a nickname (same one for the last 10 years) but I now have twitter and a lot of my off-line friends have twitter now so they have access to my blog, plus if you know my nickname you could pretty much just find me straight away.

I realised also I don't think I have ever refer to my husband by his name in the whole three years of being with him which is pretty impressive as I forget quite a bit that I haven't unless I have added you to facebook then you know my own name and his name, he has read my blog now and then but isn't really that interested in it unless I am talking about the money I have made from it :P  My parents know of my blog, I don't think they really read it.

I really respect the ladies like Jenn and Amanda who don't hide anything and for that reason reading their blogs makes me feel like I know them better.

Anyway I am rambling and I have to eat before my driving lesson, I am curious where do you draw the line on your own blogs?

Busy busy busy....

I wrote this last week but totally forgot to post it so I will added this and a quick update on this week:

Not having the best week at the moment, it started off okay went to university on Monday which this stupid cold but my mother was late picking me up so instead of getting home at 4.30pm did not get home till 6pm. Tuesday I did not go in due to the fact I am running out of money and half my lectures were cancelled, but I did manage to get the website I have been working on for the last 6 weeks to be completed, it is a to-do list web application made up of css, php, javascript, jquery and sql, I am really pleased with it and I hope I get a good mark :)

Wednesday was a waste of a day had to go in for this stupid career development for a couple of hours which was a complete waste of time and I do not know why we had to go, after this there was a protest at university, 50 students had got into the management building protesting the cuts in informatics, about 6 police vans, several police cars and a police dog later.  In the end 2 students were arrested and 6 students were suspended :(

Thursday to Sunday my husband was off so the bathroom was being done and now it is nearly done, apart it from it needing to be painted.

I had a really embarrassing time on the train this morning, I was on the train, my stop was coming up so I stood up waiting for it to stop but it never came, the train went speeding pass and I ended up at a totally different station 20 minutes later. Lucky for me I already know that area quite well so I managed to get back to the university stop.

I am sorry I haven't posted other than green related topics, university is so busy and they already have me choosing next years modules.  It is a little too much right now, feel like I am going to explode with all these exams, group work, driving, house and baby related items.

Saw an amazing film this week, Valentines Day, so cute!