Admittedly, the perfect dress is usually "in the right colour, in your size and in the sale".
Not bright green and 50 quid.
I have decided that this is the perfect birthday dress because it's my favourite colour (forest green), it's unusual and I can wear it to Christmas parties.
I didn't mean to buy it. I just loved it too much to put it back on the rail!
Today I had physio for my wrist and an osteopathy appointment, both an opposite sides of the town.
I stopped off at baila for a cuppa and some macaroons to kill time and hide from the weather. Well Earned too as I walked 17,000 steps today, my poor feet deserved a break.
Baila also sells records, they have some good looking 90s grunge records so it's lucky I haven't been paid yet or I would have been really broke.
Ray and I spent the evening watching harry potter and party prepping. We split the responsibilities up. That's pretty much as far as we got tbh...
Sunday is adventure day!
I'll be honest and say that i'm a bit out of sorts today.
I found out from facebook that a friend of mine had died. After lots of research I found the report in the paper of how he met his untimely demise.
That is the problem with living in the internet age.
When I die, please can someone just update my status with exactly what happened, after texting everyone in my phone?
It would be kinder.
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/14817910.UPDATED__Man_dies_after_car_smashes_into_bus_shelter/
Anyway, Traff's recipe for cheering up is largely fresh air and crazy golf based. And I do feel better for hitting something hard with a golf club.
Although I did lose 70 to Traffs 62.
Watch this space,but I might be rather more busy than usual soon- i've been offered a sound engineering opportunity.
Now I just have to figure out how a whole theatres worth of kit works.
I always did enjoy a challenge. Or something like that.
Traff washed his fluffy wrestling boot covers in the machine with his kit today after his match last night.
Normal he hand washes his accessories as they're pretty niche so they're mostly handmade custom bits of kit and therefore a bit delicate.
He came running upstairs wetting himself laughing with them out of the machine as they looked really sorry for themselves "like when a cat falls in the bath".
Fingers crossed that they recover when dry...
Traff and I are having a leisurely day today as tomorrow night he is going to see Rob Zombie in Camden, so Ross (who's going too) is arriving from Cardigan today.
As he's at the mercy of rail replacement busses we really don't know when he'll get here so,our Sunday adventures were limited to the farmers market by the shopping centre.
I got some heritage carrots, which probably taste like normal carrots but look awesome. I think i'll have some as a work snack with hummus and make an epic looking carrot cake with the purple ones for the Halloween party (or the party prep gathering).
I considered buying a squash to make adorable Halloween lanterns from but decided they would be better for eating. I will get some next time and make roasted vegetables as per my Autumn activities list!
I also got a peanut butter and chocolate cupcake, which looked fancy but did not meet my exacting expectations.
It was a vanilla cake with chocolate and peanut butter frosting. I think I could do it better with a chocolate cake and peanut butter frosting. I.might try it and see if i'm right...
Right, i'm going to be good, and start rebuilding the muscle strength i've lost whilst my wrist has been recovering.
This is my new gym routine. Fingers crossed it helps me to get fitter stronger faster quicker!
The first proper fog of the year! It feels a bit like we skipped Autumn and went directly to winter.
Today I spent the day on a course, learning how to coach others in order to support them in making progress and unlocking their own potential.
It was really interesting but I do feel a bit information overloaded.
Coaching is all about listening to people and teasing out the solutions from them. Then identifying their next steps to meeting that long term.goal.
Just listening and not offering a solution or comment is really difficult. Honestly, try it. It's totally alien. It feels really rude.
But strangely if you give people time they kind of untangle things mentally and can identify what would help them.
I'm looking forward to trying it out at work!
Today Traff and I went to lydiard millicent and had a mooch around the cemetery. We found a really interesting headstone-'erected to the memory of John Strange by his master.
An interesting piece of local history.
Ray, Kirstie, Tracey, SJ and I went to try out the roller disco at the meca.
We got there a bit early (early enough to see the ambulance sorting out the injuries from the children's roller disco session).
We went to rudis for a drink before hand. They sell kracken rum shots in hot chocolate!
Amazing.
Although hot chocolate was probably the wrong choice as the disco started at my usual week day pj time. We were all sat in the bar yawning!
The disco was pretty good. The music was mostly awesome, it wasn't super busy so there was plenty of space to skate. A decent bar and plenty of seats.
My only complaint was that the staff didn't seem to care a whole lot. Speed skating super close to people and trying to spook them... not classy.
Still overall an awesome night for £6!
I went a bit crazy in accessorize earlier. I guess i'll be a leopard for Halloween then...
Orange and purple colour change nails! Now I.need some stickers or a sharpie to make them into carved pumpkins!
Halloween here I come!
As per my list of autumn activities, i'm making a speedy start:
Halloween cake!
