Good Day all, how’s life?

Can you believe it’s already August? The summer will be over in the blink of an eye and then Christmas is just around the corner.

So in recent news – Gav and I have not moved in together yet, we are struggling to find any where in the area we want to be in. We’re viewing two places that look promising this week though so fingers crossed we’ll be sorted by the end of the month.

There’s a billion and one things to organise for the big event but it’s frustrating because we can’t really start buying things like furniture until we know where we are going to be living, so it’s like being in limbo at the moment. One thing we will need to stock up on for sure though is migraine tablets for me, hay fever tablets for both of us and Burnshield dressings for all the burns Gav seems to come home from work with on an almost daily basis.

And speaking of medical supplies I think I should get some sort of shares or a special valued customer discount in them given how many medical supplied I have bought recently – as well as the above mentioned items I have also purchased a truck load of compression bandages, ice packs and supports for various parts of the body.

I took up running about 3 months ago -I just completed the couch to 5k running plan (woo, I can run for 3 miles without stopping ) and then had a wee stumble because I was distracted by some hot guys

I’ve twisted my knee and ankle and have hardly been able to walk for almost two weeks now and I certainly can’t run on it. Sad times because I actually really enjoy it and miss it a lot.

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If you had asked me a few years ago if I would ever get any cosmetic surgery done the answer would have been “No, no way, no how, not ever!” – but if you asked me now the answer would probably be; “Heck if I had the money, I’d probably spend half my life at the cosmetic surgery”.

I suppose that’s what getting older does to you, you hit 30 and start wishing you’d done more in your 20s and thinking you look like an ancient old fossil.

I was just watching some cosmetic surgery video guides from The Victorian Cosmetic Institute to see if I would actually be brave enough to go there and I am pretty sure that I would be, but again it would be if money were no object.

As much as I’d love a little lipo I can’t imagine spending thousands of my own hard earned money on it.

But if I win the lottery – cosmetic surgeons here I come.

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I was just reading some ancient old posts here on Swaymyway.com, and I am highly amused.

I can see why this blog used to be popular back in the days when everyone had a personal blog and the only reason we ran them was for the shits and giggles – not to milk them for every penny we can as we all do these days.

Neon wee, falling off various workout equipment, my dramas with various ginormous spiders – I didn’t half talk about some crap.

It’s also interesting to see the change in my use of language. I have posts from back in the days that I didn’t use capitalisation, apostrophes or spell check – cringe.

Still, it was fun to get nostalgic for a while

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Has anyone been on the new Ghost Ship at Morey’s Piers yet? It’s supposed to be really good from what I have heard, sounds a bit like a combination between a regular swinging ghost ship ride and something like the York Dungeons.

It’s ages since I have been to an amusement park and I really want to go now, I think the last time I went any where was Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the fireworks and that must have been at least 5 years ago now.

I definitely need to get somewhere before the summer is out

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I don’t claim to have the perfect diet, but I eat pretty darned healthily these days – you don’t lose almost 7 stone by eating cheese sandwiches and chocolate every day.

However the main focus of my diet is ‘low calories’, which means I will often turn my nose up at food that’s actually good for you because I know I can feel fuller with something that is much lower in calories.

So I am always on the look out for cheap supplements and vitamins and the like to help me make sure I am getting all the nutrients I need.

I was definitely missing out on vitamin C for a while a few months ago, I had terrible skin and was bruising like a peach – which is ironic as it was a lack of fruit that was causing the problems. I’ve never been a huge fruit fan – but I started taking some multivitamins and have slowly introduced more fruit (Pineapple juice, grapes and a satsuma every day) to my diet and now the issues are gone.

I have also recently started looking at whey protein. Whey protein can help you perform better when you are working out, and anything that can help me run longer and burn more calories during a work out is good by me

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One of the down sides of losing weight is that I always have to buy new clothes.

One of the up sides of losing weight is that I always have to buy new clothes

I do love shopping and am always on the lookout for bargain ladieswear to get my sticky paws on, so it’s not the shopping I object to, it’s the fact I will buy something new that I love and then only get the chance to wear it a few times before it doesn’t fit any more. I have all but given up buying ‘going out’ clothes because I probably only go out where I have to wear something nice and pretty once every 3 months so the gorgeous dresses I buy end up not even getting worn!

I need to buy a swimming costume for the first time in…erm…well probably 15 years, because I am going on holiday in August and I plan to start going swimming regularly when I move away – there are some right now that look perfect in the Summer Shop for Holidays on Damart.co.uk and actually there are loads on the highstreet as well because it is summer holiday season.

But I can’t buy one now because it won’t fit come August – yet come August when I do want to buy one everyone will have stopped selling them for the year!

Basically, they need to invent clothes that you can shrink as you lose weight.

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I’ve been doing some serious gambling the last few days – well OK not serious, but loads of online sports betting sites have had killer world cup deals and offers on and combined with cashback sites I have placed about 6 free bets, in fact I am already up money wise and only one of the bets is settled.

I put money on England to win yesterday on one site, and money on them to lose on another – can’t lose that way, right? Well no, wrong. Silly me forgot to take into account the possibility of a draw – how very annoying.

I have a long list of Free Casino, betting and bingo sites that I love. I am definitely boring when it comes to it though, I’d rather try and win a tenner by playing 10p games than blow my entire deposit on one game and try win a hundred.

One of the world cup betting offers was to deposit £20 and if you win, you win but if you lose you get your £20 back – no risk basically. Other people were putting on these crazy accumulators where if they win they win a few grand, I just shoved mine on the most likely event to happen and if I won I’d get £5 back.

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I always wore eyeglasses growing up – I think I was about 5 when I was told I had a ‘lazy’ eye and had to wear a patch on the good eye in order to try make the lazy one get off it’s butt and work a little harder. I unsurprisingly got teased mercilessly and hated wearing the blasted thing, I was thrilled when they gave up on the patch and just made me wear glasses instead.

I wore them until I was about 20 when I was told I didn’t need them any more as I’d basically given up using my ‘bad’ eye so they were doing nothing for me- that made me sad. I had grown so used to wearing them that it took me a long time to get used to life without.

I often thought about just getting some fashion glasses but even those are still expensive – or that’s what I thought until a few months ago when I came across a site that sells them for as little as $8. I snapped up a pair of slinky little black ones with plain lenses and they are great, just as good quality as any I’ve paid £100s for in the passed – they’ve hardly been off my face since I got them

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I created a folder called ‘moving out’ about 6 weeks ago and it already has…erm…over 100 links. Anyone would think I was a little bit excited.

It has every thing from a bargain bedside cabinet I liked the look of to guides for first time renters and every thing in between. I really ought to keep it up, a lot of the furniture items are already out of stock or higher priced and I imagine 100% of them will be gone when the time actually comes that we will need to use them – it was a daft idea.

One of the bookmarks is for the house removals company because when I do move I will have 30 years of my stuff to get from the North of the country to the middle – at first we thought we’d just do it in cars over a few trips but have since realised how unrealistic that is – a man with a van or at least us hiring a van will definitely be required.

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And so in my final ‘exciting update’ from the last few months – Gav and I are now actually starting to plan our wedding. We’ve been engaged for over 4 years now I think (how bad is that, I can’t even remember when we got engaged!) and although that means the plan was obviously to get married it was always just ‘at some point’ as neither of us have been in any rush.

Now don’t get me wrong we are not about to rush out and purchase the dress and some wedding insurance this week, it’s still going to be a long way off (most like June 2011) and as we are not planning a big extravagant wedding it’s hopefully not going to take too much planning – I’ve watched too many of my own female friends turn into Bridezillas over the years – don’t want to become so stressed that I turn into one myself.

The fact I even know we need to get wedding insurance says a lot as to how far I’ve already come because if you had mentioned wedding insurance to me a few weeks ago I’d have looked at you blankly and asked what the heck I needed that for!

So yeah, lots of changes afoot in Starlet’s world
(bonus points awarded for anyone who remembers Starlet’s world!)

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