Alaina Chesney Online

My mate sarah bought me the coolest present ever. Its a cup to put my milk and cereal in for the morning for work.

Being on WW i like to have skimmed milk, but we only have semi at work and i have to less stuff in my office so i don’t want my cereal box here anymore. So, I knew sarah had one of these nifty things already, i phoned her up to ask a favour. As i explained that if she could be so kind to purchase one for me next time she sees it I would repay her. She was very tentive on the phone, not suprised really when i found out she had already bought me one as a present that morning!!

Just need to wait for my milk to defrost!

At christmas Sarah also got me tonnes of presents - some absoulety pointless ones (make your own four leaf clover - no four leaves i could find :o( ), some funky like my mittens and others just becuase she knows I have blue peter moments and like playing with playdo. This is one of the reasons why i think we get on, as she doesn’t buy me cuddly toes, oranaments for my house that don’t go with my house or style, things with cats one - i hate things with cats on. I have 3 cats yes, but i dont want my house to have 101 cat things. Luckily most people understand my dislike of this taste of stuff. I lie. she had bought me cat stuff. However, usefull cat stuff and not ornaments for my house like a ms kitty shower gel and pen… useful stuff honest ;o). Anyway i diverse from my point. I don’t like presents that are pointless. I may sound ungrateful, but what am I suppose to do with 14 cuddly toys, 6 cat statues, hand cream that i cant use????

Huw got me a great christmas present - a dilbert a day calendar for work. Simple, realitvely cheap and effective.

Dave has bought me a couple of lovely presents in the past - digital photo frame, sunshine buddy, moon beam, hot diamonds bracelette - some not so cheap but even the little cheap gifts are of use. He had however bought me cuddly toys. I will train him one day, sometime soon.

My USB memory stick is being held captive. Bad optimash prime.

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5 points to anyone who can guess where it is?

Went to Jimmy Eat World gig on sunday night with Dave… very cheap for me as he bought the tickets ages ago, and I went for free to support his love for a band I had never heard of till 2 months ago. It was good. I tapped my toes, and even had a boogie - didn’t have a clue what they were singing half the time.

But still it was a good night even thought the attack of the 7foot men were in force!! I couldn’t see jack for a large portion of the night! Luckily dave could see it all and he looked like he was having a superb time which made me very happy as he does lots for me which he don’t like doing and puts up with my odd trips out. So why not - after all i loves him lots and lots and lots and lots.

Oh, the support act - Styrofoam. Not a good deal about them to be said.

I am clearing out my office today, to have a nice fresh look on it. I have take all my toes out (into my Ikea big bag I for once remembered to bring to work!). I brought in my digital photo frame. It is wasted at home as there isn’t a good place to put it, but its nicely sitting under my monitors now, so i can see my lovely puddy cats, dave and all our trips out all day. I am going to update the photos at lunch with all my new favs from flickr too. My walls look bare, no posters or artwork on them now, just magnolia with the interuption of white boards - snore.

I lost 3lbs at fat club last night :o) WoooHoo. I also handed my notice into bannatynes on Sunday boohoo. Lorainnes face was a picture she of course asked why i was leaving - to which i responded with its too expensive what you get. I then said with April the new council tax rise, water rise and as previously blogged gas/electric bill rise I am going to be £63 worse off a month - ouch. So the £45 on my membership can be better of spent on the bills. Not easy with fuel increases and rates, when you techincally live by yourself with one income. I do have a splendid housemate who pays me each month of course, and this money goes in the ‘fuel for car, fuel for ally’ pot. Allowing me to save what little money after bills etc but pitfully this sometimes only £10 a month :o( .

I get quiet annoyed at people who say they are skint near the end of the month. Like a lass at work who has a car and only drives it to work - a £14,000 car! Or like my boyfriend for instace. He was skint this month - but its his own freaking doing! He has a fancy TV on credit, a fancy mattress on credit, ps3 to pay off,  has a pension and pays £100+ into an mini-isa every month. This is the same person who owns a psp, nDS, viao laptop, sky+ and so forth. He wouldn’t be skint if he either saved less or bought less. Wow wouldn’t it be nice to have over a £100s to put in an isa? it would be nice to have £10 to buy petrol, let alone put into savings.

Car Tax this month too - oh joy.

Sorry rant over. God am bitter today. Anyway, to chear myself up;

So I lost 6lbs last week. I was very happy as i have already said. But I couldn’t gauge how much 6lbs really was. So I looked on a few sites to get a good mental image. 1lb is roughly 450gms. So thats about a pack of large butter. Well 6 packs. I have downloaded a pick of a 250g image of lurpak butter. This is going to be my measuring tool.

250gms? why not the 500gms? I know there may be weeks where i only loose half a pound, or a pound and a half. So i need it to be more realistic. So here is what i have lost so far (hopefully all from my stomach).