Next generation of bloggers

Maybe it's me but god I am feel old sometimes, a whole new generation of 14 to 16 year old bloggers are about, I know that was the age I started blogging but god does that feel like such a long time ago!

I do love to read the younger blogs, all the problems makes me giggle as I've been there, I have to resist leaving grown up advice comments... ha ha, I think I might get booed!

Not much is going on, had to do a presentation for my program design class which went well we got the full 15% so I am pleased about that, gotta pull the bull by the horns tomorrow in our meeting so that we get all of this stuff done, but gotta figure out what we gotta do first.. hmmm

Okay I'm off to track down some more people to do my HCI questionnaire... saying that if anyone visiting this wants to fill it in I would be super happy!

1. How often do you use a computer to purchase goods?

? Every day
? 4 or 5 times a week
? 3 or fewer times a week
? First time

2. How would you rate online book stores?

? Consistent high quality
? Generally good
? Quality varies daily
? Poor quality

3. Where do you generally buy books?

? Online
? Specialist shops
? High street bookstores

4. How would you rate availability of online book resources?

? Consistent high quality
? Generally good
? Quality varies daily
? Poor quality

5. How do you want to purchase a book?

? Immediate full download
? Download per chapter
? No need to download
? Prefer a paperback

6. How long do you currently spend reading online material monthly?

? Less than 1 hour
? 1 to 3 hours
? 3 to 5 hours
? More than 5 hours

7. Why would you not use or purchase e-books??

? Too complicated
? Worried about Eyestrain
? Cost
? Not enough choice
? Prefer printed books

Thanks ;)

Btw I so need to change my smilies... urgh!

Sunday Morning!

Good morning internet! Boytoy was feeling better last night but feels like shit now, poor boytoy!  I personally believe it is just a cold but you know how men are with colds, its like the whole world is falling apart.

I was thinking about starting my driving lessons again this October when I get my uni money in as I've been stuck in the house all day so I need to drive.  MIL is coming over today to drop off some food shopping as I haven't been able to get out and get some food :(

I really really want to go and work with MET weather, I was looking at their jobs online and their work experience should be online soon, but they are placed all the way down in Exeter so I am going to look for places to do work experience close to home until I finish my degree but after my degree me and boytoy will move to where ever I need to go :)

I am thinking when I have my year off after my degree to have an offspring that maybe I could do a Maths alevel... maybe as employers might want to hire me more ha ha!

I really need to wash my hair and get out of my fantasy world, then put make-up on and wash my kitchen floor.... oh don't I lead the life

Crappy weekend

So I am trying to do my uni work since the boytoy is very ill, he took yesterday off work and has been in bed all day yesterday and now he's on the sofa sleeping,  little bummed as we were suppose to go out tonight to the cinema and dinner but I guess we will have to wait till the 20th of March as uni is hotting up as we are nearly finished for this term.

I have been applying for money for next year, fingers crossed I get a pass this year, well if I don't I will be so disappointed in myself, anywho because I'm poor and I'll be married I can get an extra 3 grand onto of my 3 and half grand which is very nice!  Plus another 2 grand from the uni will give me more money than when I was working part-time :)

Urgh this weekend is really shite! Haven't been able to do anything and I don't want to go out and leave boytoy alone as he won't cook or get himself lemsip when hes on his own..

Urgh I would rather be at uni...

Happy V-Day (belated)

Well I had a super v day with the hubby, he brought me a t-shirt, perfume, flowers and a cute teddy, we didn't do much our new 42" telly came and we got the xbox on the internet also we fixed the car yay!













I honsetly don't know if he knows how to fix it but we did get my next door neighbour to help, what is it with men and cars?











Yay! Okay I have to go and do my weekly (delated by two weeks) spending diary and then finish programming that's if Arthur ever gets off my lap so I can work!

Happy Friday 13th!

Why is that once I have updated wordpress to the newest version another comes out, wtf! Seriously give me a chance!  Mmm I might have to do that when I ever have time to go for a poo!

Uni is driving me crazy, last Computering Machine assignment mark came out today and I have 1 mark of a pass which pretty much pissed me off but oh hum, the assignment is only worth 12.5% (don't ask!) , and I have another 3 to do and then an exam to get my final grade, joys!

I need 90 credits to pass this year so far I have erm.. 24, I should get another 12 once I have done one units exam and I only need 9 marks :)

This is my subject this year..

1	AUTUMN	Core course	Foundations of Computation (Only need 9 marks!)			12
		Core course	Introduction to Computer Systems (30% cw 70% exam)			12
		Core course	Introduction to Programming			12
		Core course	Technical Communication Skills (cw only!)			12
	SPR/SUM	Core course	Further Programming			18
		Core course	Program Design			18
	SPRING	Core course	Computing Machines			12
		Core course	Introduction to Human Computer Interaction			12
	SUMMER	Core course	Mathematics for Computer Science Applications (cw only!)			6
		Core course	Professional Issues in Computing (cw only!)			6

The bold ones are the ones I am doing now, Computing Machines is kicking my arse up and down this house, driving me nuts, I am working on assignment 2 which has to be hand in Monday.

Plus Programming needs part 2 done by Thursday which I haven't even started yet and everyone keeps telling me that this part is a bitch to do!

Then there is group work with my program design work to do and I swear we haven't done everything for one part of it but will they listen to me, no! And HCI there is an informal chat on Monday for my group and we have done fuck all so that should be fun!

Other than that dribble, I have been buying everything for the wedding, saw BM once to get some food shopping done and to get my xbox online which should be super fun whenever I get chance to play it, maybe in the hols? Pleaseee???

Next week is half term for some people but not for me, I am suppose to be seeing the BM on monday night but need to change it as I don't think I will have all my work done, then seeing my hair dresser friend on Tuesday to talk about my wedding hair, Wednesday should be a FYEO shoot with BM and her photographer mummy, Thursday I am going to get my wedding dress fitted with my mum and the weekend erm.. uni work more than likely as we are entering week 6, ekk!! Only 4 weeks left of this term.

Exciting news my new 42" telly comes tomorrow!! Yay! About time really, the telly we borrowed from my mum keeps losing the sound so this so exciting!!!

Okay back to finishing this assignment, the boytoy went to the cinema with his best man tonight so I have time on my own :)

Food, food & more food

Okay so found my online orders so I'm going to put them up here so I can see what I am buying and maybe get it down to one set list.

Qty	Description	Size	Price	Total
1	T Value Smoked Back Bacon 250g	Each	£1.38	£1.38
1	Tesco Value Butter 250g	Each	£0.84	£0.84
1	Tesco Value Fromage Frais 6 Pack 360g	Each	£0.49	£0.49
1	Tesco Tomato Puree Tube 200g	Each	£0.48	£0.48
1	Gia Sun Dried Tomato Puree & Olive Oil 80g	Each	£0.63	£0.63
1	Gia Garlic Puree 90g	Each	£0.44	£0.44
1	Tesco Value Jaffa Cakes 24pk	Each	£0.60	£0.60
1	Oxo 6 Beef Stock Cubes35g	Each	£0.69	£0.69
5	Tesco Crusty White Farmhouse Bread Mix 500g	Each	£0.65	£3.25
4	Heinz Cream Of Chicken Soup 400g	Each	£0.85	£3.40
1	Quorn Chicken Style Pieces 300g	Each	£1.94	£1.94
1	Quorn Mince 300g	Each	£1.99	£1.99
2	Quorn Simply Fillets Chicken Style 312g	Each	£1.93	£3.86
1	Tesco Value Dishwasher Tabs 30's	Each	£1.72	£1.72
1	Tesco Value Wrapping Foil 300mm X 15m	Each	£0.60	£0.60
1	Kitekat Giant Mix In Jelly 12 X 400g	Each	£4.79	£4.79

1	Cucumber Whole Each	Each	£1.28	£1.28
1	Market Value Carrots 1kg	Each	£0.69	£0.69
1	King Edward Potatoes 2.5kg Tray	Each	£1.98	£1.98
1	T Market Value Whole Chicken 1.10-1.80kg	Each	£-	£1.90
2	Tesco Value Mozzarella 125g	Each	£0.47	£0.94
1	Tesco Healthy Living Half Fat Red Cheese 250g	Each	£1.48	£1.48
1	Tesco Value Eggs Minimum Weight Box Of 15	Each	£1.00	£1.00
1	Tesco Value 4 Cheese & Tom Pizza 660g	Each	£1.81	£1.81
1	Nestle Dairy Box 200g	Each	£1.51	£1.51
2	Kp Hula Hoops Classic 12 Pack	Each	£1.94	£3.88
1	Tesco Value Oats 1kg	Each	£0.58	£0.58
1	Tesco Fruit & Fibre Cereal Bars 5x27g	Each	£1.08	£1.08
1	Tesco Bigger Pack Better Value Sage & Onion Stuffing Mix 340g	Each	£0.97	£0.97
1	Tesco Value Dried Mixed Fruit 500g	Each	£0.65	£0.65
3	Tesco Pineapple Slicesnat Juice 227g	Each	£0.35	£1.05
1	Tesco Wholewheatfusilli Pasta Twists 500g	Each	£0.78	£0.78
1	Tesco Light Choicesstraight Cut Oven Chips 2kg	Each	£1.28	£1.28
2	Birds Eye 4 Chicken Burgers 227g	Each	£1.00	£2.00
1	Birds Eye 4 Crispy Chicken 380g	Each	£2.99	£2.99
2	Birds Eye Seaside Specials Fillets Inbatter 240g	Each	£1.00	£2.00
1	Tesco Value Vanilla Flavour Ice Cream 2 Ltr	Each	£0.70	£0.70
1	Tesco Value Toilet Tissue 12 Roll 2400 Sht	Each	£1.17	£1.17

Also from my local shop - cheese slices, rolls, sweet potatoes and a red onion.

Am wondering if I have brought anything I didn't need maybe the ice cream and the chocolates other than that I can not see it...

Spend from the 1st to the 8th Feb 09

Well it was naughty this week just because I had to take the bus as it was really icey due to all that snow, other than that I did manage three no spend days (NSD) so I am pleased.

Goals for this month is to stop smoking well at least stop buying them and just smoke baccey at home which is the hubby's and then stop all together.

Also stop buying so much food, that is where my money goes on at the moment as I pay for all the food in the house.



My budget is £40 a week so if I haven't of got the bus or brought lunch that one day and stop buying fags I would be at 42.72... oh hum hopefully next week will be better being able to look at it like this makes me notice where the money is going.

I want to start writing up all my food shopping and seeing where I was wasting money, I can do that for this week as I just did a tesco delivery yesterday.

Other than that it has been uni, uni, snow and wedding buying.  Nearly everything is brought for the wedding just need a couple of bits, I also managed to get my £121.00 cheque back from my old job and my grandma gave me £100 so it is all good strainght into the bank account that goes for the savings.

Luckily I have nealy 4 months of savings so that should keep me going until the end of June then I'll get a full time job for the summer and back to uni for the second year with my grants of course (get more next year due to the fact I am married) and hubby will have a raise by then :)

January Spend

Well I went over budget by £30 last month, hopefully it will be better this month, I hope anyway.







If  I haven't got a take-away or gone out I would of probably be alright and maybe not taking the bus as well...

Snow, snow and more snow

Well the snow has hit us hard in the South East of England, not only are there no trains to get to uni but the roads are horrible so boytoy is at home as all he trains to his work have been cancelled.

South and South East

Some 255 Berkshire schools are now closed. In Hampshire, 540 schools have shut for the day.

Heavy snowfall has caused major disruption on roads in Kent and Surrey and closed at least 240 schools.

The M25 is closed clockwise between Reigate and Leatherhead, junctions 8 and 9 and there are reports of several vehicles becoming stuck in the snow. There are three lanes closed anticlockwise in the same location.

First Great Western (FGW) services between London Paddington and Reading, Berkshire, and the West Country have been disrupted due to "adverse weather conditions".

South West Trains is running a reduced service from London to Hampshire and Dorset.

There have been no inbound or outbound flights at Southampton airport. Five flights have been cancelled.

It is crazy here in England, we are getting more snow for the next 5 hours... crazy!













Off to do some programming work and take more piccies

Arugh snow...

My garden with a little bit of snow... 45 minutes later, I do not lie it was like this:







My poor kittens are scared as they don't know what snow is... poor Arthur..

Britain set for heavy snowstorms

Snowstorms from Russia are expected to hit south-eastern England through Sunday night and into Monday morning, forecasters have warned.

Bitter easterly winds will cause snow to drift, with falls of 5cm (1.9in) to 10cm (3.9in) predicted over many parts of England and Wales.

The BBC Weather Centre said conditions could be "at least as bad" as in 2003 when motorists were trapped on the M11.

Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to be less badly affected.

Apart from a few light snow flurries in the east of England, conditions would mainly be dry during the daylight hours of Sunday, the BBC Weather Centre said.

Extra care

But after dark on Sunday night and through to the rush hour on Monday morning, "disruptive snowfall" is expected across central, eastern and southern England.

Icy winds heading for the UK will also make temperatures feel "sub zero" as the coldest winter in 13 years continues.

Night-time temperatures are set to drop to -2C (28F) as a blast of cold air sweeps in from the North Sea.

On Saturday, winds began gusting at up to 70mph (112km/h) over the hills of northern Britain and snow could fall as deep as 20cm (7.8in) over high ground in the coming days.

BBC weather forecaster Alex Deakin said: "Temperatures during the day will reach one or two degrees above freezing but with the significant wind chill it will feel sub-zero everywhere."

The AA have warned motorists to ensure they keep warm clothes in their vehicles if they were planning to go out.

The organisation's Andy Taylor said: "People often treat their car as an overcoat.

"But when you break down you are suddenly vulnerable to the weather.

"If you break down on a motorway, the safety advice is to get out of the car and wait behind the barrier. Unless you have extra clothes you really are flirting with hypothermia."

Slightly milder air will move in during Tuesday, with snow mainly confined to hills and in other areas precipitation is expected to turn to rain.

Noooooooo!! I don't want the snow... maybe I could get someone else to print of my work for me??  it's really snowing outside now... heavy!

Weekly Spend

Again spent over but did buy the favours for the wedding which are blue smarties and mums making a little something special, alright week saw the BM and ask my other best friend if she wanted to be bridesmaid she was really touched :)  Gotta have a wedding meeting with them both this week.

Maybe I should stop smoking then I would save myself loads of pennies!

Other than it's just been uni uni and more uni, just typing up my Computer Machines assignment but it looks like it is going to snow and I am really worried that I won't be able to getto uni and I HAVE to go in tomrrow just the fact I have to hand in this assignment by 4pm and we have a HCI group meeting.

That little red circle is where I live (kind of !)..

Nooo snoooooow!