Motivation...

I need some lol...I need to get on with my HAED as well as the design I want to do for my Mum for a Christmas present (now I know this sounds early but hey...it is July after all!) I haven't worked on my HAED for ages now. I need to start putting in a few stitches here and there or it'll NEVER grow... :0(

I also need to concentrate on losing some weight before my holiday to Magluf in September...74 days to go and counting! 20th September for a week - I'm very excited as I am going with my boyfriend Tom and it'll be LOVELY!!! I currently am 10stone, I'd like to be about 9stone - maybe 9 and a half stone when I go away. I have a lot of work to do. Today I have eaten a lot of fruit, drank a lot of fluids and had a small tea. I know that it is my exercise & overall fitness which lets me down though. I have a trampoline in my back garden, I know I need to use that more...and I should really walk more...I'm so lazy! I really must get that sorted out before September!!!

That's all I wanted to say, other than the fact that I am still here...I just haven't written in a while...
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Little Hedgehog finish...

:0) stitched on hand dyed evenweave...I'm very impressed. I'm waiting on a little metal hanger that I bought last night so I can finish it up and send it to my friend :0)

This is the first cross stitch finish that I have done in months :0) so I am very proud of myself. Hope my stitching pal likes it too! What a nice way to spend a Thursday afternoon though, the weather has been sunny but also very cloudy and a bit windy - so not warm enough to sit outside :0( 

I've also been playing on Bejeweled on my iPhone (small obsession) trying to always beat my high score...that's kept me entertained a lot of the afternoon...waiting on my boyfriend to come round now as he finished work at 7pm! I've missed him today...can't wait to chill out with him and watch some tv...all in all my day off has been very productive I feel :0) - also went and collected a parcel that was waiting for me at the post office, two new pairs of shoes!!! Can't be bad...

Fishtank, stitching and general stuff...

Things are much better lately I feel...:0)

I have a fishtank with a red fighter fish and 3 snails in it...2 of 3 snails have been in there a month on Saturday and the other 1 almost 2 weeks on Saturday. The fighter has been in there a month as well :0)!!! This is much more encouraging...

Here's some wee photos - 

 

One wee snail :0)

  

One wee fish :0) (who doesn't have a name yet!)

 

Don't know if you can see but he has lilac/purple scales along with his red ones, he's really pretty!!!

Another snaily pic...

 

The actual tank now. Looks a lot better with some real plants :0)

I'm also completing a Margaret Sherry Hedgehog design at the moment from CrossStitcher issue 226, I'll be sending it to a friend when it is done...just the back stitch to go and 1 bee. I'll put a picture up when it is done! :0) It feels nice to be back doing a small design, I think I've got a bit put off with my HAED but I'm sure that I'll find the motivation to start it up again soon...I hope :0)

Also bought some garden furniture this weekend when the weather was lovely - 28degrees on Sunday, positively Meditteranean...here's a photo of my boyfriend Tom enjoying the sun in my garden with it's somewhat newly laid turf...

I'm in a good place mood wise at the moment, long may it continue. Day off tomorrow so I am going to try finish my hedeghog design and hope that it is sunny enough to sit in the garden. I don't think it will be but I can only hope. Also Tom & I are planning on buying a house next year, that I am really excited about...I'm hoping we can find a nice small place within our budget which I'm sure we will. Just feel that I need a different job (can't stay in a call centre forever) and I'll be much happier but we will have to wait and see on that front...

Thanks for reading my latest entry...I think it is much happier than previous postings!

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