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Me and Jay are having a New Windows Party. It was his mate Rob's idea, and who are we to turn down a party? He invited all his friends and I said I would invite all my friends from Loughborough, ...

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I am so bored of work. Every day I do exactly the same thing. Raise purchase orders, book hotels, book flights, consolidate credit card statements, transfer phone calls. Is this really what life ...

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So I suppose I should jump on the bandwagon and mourn the loss of Open Diary. To be honest, I gave up on it months ago. I was still cross posting over there since I signed up here in the vain hop...

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I've spent the last two days ensconsed in a single room in our house, with no heating save from a small oil filled electric radiator with me covered in blankets. Seeing as though there are workme...

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We're off to Amsterdam in March! My friends from Loughborough are going for Sophie's 30th birthday and we were invited to join them. It's a long weekend Friday-Monday and we booked it the other d...

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Week one of my gradual switch to vegetarianism and I ate meat for six meals out of 21 (three meals a day for seven days). This might sound like a lot but we normally have meat for about 16 meals ...

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It's only January 5th but I'm quite pleased with my 2014 aims already. Staying dry for January One weekend passed and not a single drop of alcohol passed my lips. I was quite tempted as we got l...

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I didn't write for the entire month of December and I've probably forgotten a lot of stuff that went on, so here's what I can remember. On 6th December me and Jay took a day trip to London beca...

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I've only written in here once so far this month. Sorry about that, I lose my blogging mojo every so often. I think the slow death of OpenDiary has greatly contributed to this. Apart from my sist...

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There's a Slade song on a TV advert at the moment called Everyday and I've become a wee bit obsessed with it. I think Slade are underrated these days, they have some great songs and were very...

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On Friday me and Jay went to the German Christmas market in Birmigham, as we do every year for his birtday. We looked at the stalls and decided that everything is far too expensive and we could g...

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Last night 12 of us went out for Jay and his best mate's birthday. We went to an American style place called Smokey's. We went last year and really enjoyed so we thought we would go again. Our ta...

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I clearly fail at NoJoMo this year. I'm currently enjoying having the cold that Jay decided to share with me, but I'm being much less of a wuss about it than he is, clearly because he's a man. Ho...

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I'm stuck for things to write today so I'll do the prompt. What job would you most like to have? What keeps you from getting it? I would love to work with animals and make them happy. So, my id...

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I can't think of anything to write today. I'm so sick of work, feeling like I'm the only one who does anything and not getting any support from anyone. I asked my boss for help today because I di...

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We went to Birmingham yesterday evening to watch the Christmas lights being switched on. There was a children's choir which was really good and then they had the countdown for the lights. They di...

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Today's entry is early because we're going out in a bit to watch the Christmas parade and the lights being switched on in Birmingham. I know, it's really early, people were having bonfire parties...

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I'm so cold. At the moment I'm wearing: vest, t-shirt, cardigan, scarf, jeans, socks, dressing gown. The central heating is on plus an electric heater. And it's only November. This is what happen...

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Oops, I didn't write yesterday, I didn't even last a week of NoJoMo. I have an excuse, I was REALLY busy at work all day then went straight to the cinema. We went to see Thor 2. It was ok, with s...

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Prompt for day 5: What job would you never take? Why? Anything involving vomit, so a nurse, because I'm emetophobic and wouldn't be able to do it. Anything involving animal cruelty, so intensive ...

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I made soup! Butternut squash and sweet potato. Although it's delicious, butternut squash is the hardest vegetable in the world to peel and chop. It took me half an hour just to do half of one an...

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I've wasted today :o( I woke up really early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so I stayed in bed dozing until after midday because I was so tired. I'm really annoyed! I had plans of ma...

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Today I cut down my tomato plants and put them in the bin. It was very sad, I've nurtured them since they were nought but an seed at the end of February. About half of the fruit went rotten and f...

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Well it's only the first day of NoJoMo and I can't think of anything to write. I got stuck in a traffic jam for half an hour on the way home from work because someone's car was on fire. It's now ...

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I'm joining the Prosebox boat before I miss it and lose everyone, although I'll still also be posting identical entries in OD for as long as possible; I've been there for nine years and the thoug...

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