25th September 2014 - Home Office.

Did not want to get up this morning. It wasn't nice. We had to though, as work rests for no person.

Another long and crazy day in the office. Didn't get anywhere near as much done as I would have liked, so ended up bringing a load of stuff back with me to get on with. Grr.

At least I didn't have to be anti-social whilst doing work as Paul was going out to a black tie do. Yep - another night when I didn't really have time to socialise with my husband!

Doing his best impression of a bouncer there!

As soon as Paul left, I headed up to my office. Yeah, it's also my bed. I spread out the files and got cracking. Barney helped.

He's very good at being a paperweight.

I decided to have some background entertainment while I worked so I finished watching 'Saving Mr Banks' that I started on Sunday. It was very good. I then had to decide what to watch next. I decided to start 'Orange is the New Black' on Netflix. It wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be. I was curious to keep watching though, and got through about 4 episodes.

Barney got bored of working.

The lure of the belly was too much for me. I gave up and gave him big belly tickles!

It was after 10:30pm and Paul still wasn't home. I made myself a peppermint tea and watched another episode of Orange in the New Black. It was then time for lights out as I was getting tired.

Still no Paul.

However, someone felt like guarding me and taking care of me while Daddy was out.

Barney came and cuddled up in the crook of my leg. Sweet.

The baby next door was being a noisy so and so, banging on the walls and yelling at the top of his voice. Sleep was going to be difficult. I put a pillow over my head to muffle the noise and managed to doze off.

I woke to a start when I looked up and found Paul at the bottom of the bed. He scared me!

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24th September 2014 - 4 Years of The Beep!

I can't quite believe we have had Barney for 4 years today! It feels like we've always had him! I can't remember what life was like without him! Well - Maia was the naughty one. We've had Barney nearly half her life! That's weird.

I sent these pictures to Paul as a good morning while he's away. Aren't I nice?!

I managed to haul myself out of bed after a pretty poor sleep and get myself to work. I couldn't complain about a crap sleep though. T had been out with a friend for her birthday and had polished off 2 bottles of wine...to herself. There were 2 of them out and they got through 4 bottles of wine! On a school night! Shocking behaviour!

I guess that shows she's meant to be my friend! :)

The system was down first thing. Again. It's not too bad for T as she can do the typing into a word document and copy and paste it into the system once it re-connects. Me, on the crappy computer, could not do a thing.

So I cleared out J's old desk as it's never really been done since he mysteriously left last November.

Loads of crap paperwork which is irrelevant now. Loads of multi-colour highlighters (we're only supposed to use yellow) and a bouncy ball. WHAT?!

When my Mum used to go gardening when I was a kid, when she attacked the bushes at the bottom of the garden, chances are she'd find a bouncy ball. I found one in a pen tidy. Random!

After work I headed home and prepared for Chris to come over for #Whedonsday! Paul had kindly cooked us a curry on Monday night so we didn't have to starve or eat Beans on toast or something.

We watched some Angel, which was good, and as we were waiting for Paul to get in (he just about made his train!) we prepared to watch Shield! Yes - it's BACK! Very enjoyable indeed!

After Chris left, we cleared up and headed to bed. Barely managed to speak to each other! I didn't have anything exciting to say, so no loss there!

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23rd September 2014 - There are 2 4:30's in a day?!

The alarm went off at 4:30am. Yeah. That's a real time. Not sure I approve of it being appropriate wake up time!

Paul had to get up and shower. I tried to sleep through all his getting ready but it was really difficult.

He left at 5:30am. I could have got up and gone to the gym but we all know I'm far too weak to even think about doing that! Instead I tried to get more sleep and failed miserably.

I somehow got myself into work and made it through a really busy day. Luckily for me, the day went really quickly! I guess that's the joy of being busy!

After work I came home. I REALLY wanted to sit around and do nothing, but I thought I should probably get the ironing done. I thought there was loads but there really wasn't! This made me happy!

I also treated myself to my new favourite soft drink!

I love this. I know soft drinks are bad for you but everything in moderation - I like it!

Once ironing was done, I had dinner of the meat from yesterday's tagine. It was getting late and I didn't fancy cooking rice, plus the sauce was quite rich - just eating the meat was my compromise!

I then went to bed, after speaking with Paul, and watched a couple of old episodes of Veronica Mars.

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22nd September 2014 - Tasty Treats

We decided not to gym this morning. I had a REALLY bad nights' sleep and was not in any way willing to get out of bed! Paul was working from home so I realy had to get myself up and really wasn't enthusiastic about doing so!

I also remembered that today is a special day in TV history! It's 10 years since Oceanic Flight 815 disappeared on it's way from Sydney to LAX! *Nerd Alert*

Yeah, I have Walt's ticket. It was a gift. True story!

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LOLZ

It was a very busy day in work today. I got my desk back for all of 5 minutes but then T's computer broke. Completely decided that it didn't want to work any more. So I was kind and generous and gave T my machine (as it has dictation software on it for her) and I went onto one of the crappy spare machines we have that are the office equivalent of a Commadore 64 I think! The internet connection is dial-up slow!

The day was very slow and uneventful. I miss my desk! Looks like I'm going to be homeless again for a week! Meh. Means I can't gossip all day I suppose so I might get my voice back!

Paul picked me up from work (I like it when he works from home) and I sorted a few things out around the house. He had cooked dinner whilst at home and as it was slow cooked it was ready at the right time!

We had a meal called Pork Adobada, cooked in our tagine!

We haven't eaten this for years. It didn't take like I remembered it. It was far more rich than I recall and a bit too tangy for me to eat very quickly, but it was tasty and I ate it all!

Doesn't half mess up the tagine though!

We watched some tv, then Paul had to pack as he's going away tomorrow night. Boo. Which means we have to be up really early tomorrow morning. Double Boo.

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21st September 2014 - Day of Cute

I had another lazy morning because I could. Barney approved of this.

He also loves it when Daddy gets up nice and early to make tea. He gets extra tickles then!

He sure does love his Daddy. I don't get this reaction from him!

Paul got dressed and went for a nice long run with Iwan and Ben. I did a few chores around the house and casually observed just how much Barney loves his Daddy.

He curled up and went to sleep on Paul's shorts. He was purring his little head off for a while. Barney doesn't often purr so that's just how content he was, snuggled up to Paul's shorts!

Maia, on the other hand, was curled up next door in the spare room. I had the Dri-buddy going in there, drying the washing, so it was nice and warm.

Tiny little babba!

I got some chores done while waiting for Paul. Maia didn't want to keep me company.

It's hard being a Maia! I love cat yawning pictures! She just looks so happy, doesn't she? Iccle kitty toothypegs!

She is not impressed with the flash constantly going off in her face. Beautiful girl.

Back to Barney. I tried to measure him. He curled up smaller so I couldn't get an accurate read!

He was so offended, he curled up underneath my laptop table. He then commenced more cute.

Paul came back from his run and we chilled for a while and Barney loved on his Daddy some more! He REALLY loves his Daddy!

He even put his paw on Paul's heart! AW! So cute to watch. I'm only a tiny bit jealous he doesn't love me as much!

I did some washing up and Paul watched sports. The sports weren't going so well, so afterwards we headed to the pub for a couple of drinks in the sunshine. We started looking at houses to buy as I want a bigger pad. We found some quite nice ones at not bad prices...but still more than we can afford right now. Oh well. It's nice to dream.

We came home, had some pasta for dinner and watched TV. NEW DOWNTON! WHOOP!

Sadly, it didn't finish until 10:30pm which is quite late for me on a Sunday night. Yeah, I'm old. Deal with it!

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20th September 2014 - Lazy Day!

I made it to bed around 1am. Then was wide awake from about 6. This isn't fun!

I did try to get some more sleep but it just wasn't happening. So there was me complaining about last week being up at 8am. Today was usual work o'clock. On a Saturday. Hmph.

I did the washing and a few other things but we decided early on that today would be a day of nothing. We would do as we pleased and rest as much as we could. So we did!

Paul did some shopping and then watched sports. I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Again. It's good.

After the sports, Paul had bought us some BluRay delights to watch. We settled on 'Catching Fire' as we haven't seen it since we went to the cinema to watch it!

It was just as long as I remember it but very good. Mockingjay Part 1 is out in November, so that's good!

We also ate pasta and vegetables (Paul is running tomorrow) and watched X Factor.

We both were getting tired. I headed to bed and Paul watched Match of the Day then came up too.

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19th September 2014 - Presents!

Paul was up at silly o'clock this morning. I didn't sleep well and whilst I could have got out of bed nice and early and got to work to get loads of things done...I stayed in bed and dozed until I couldn't justify dozing any longer! I had the best intentions...but they didn't seem to come off!

I got to work and had a mental day once more. Sadly this one didn't seem to go very quickly at all!

It's our last day with work experience. I'm a bit sad about it as she has been useful and has (apparently) found it very interesting and has learnt quite a lot! I hope she has got something out of it and hasn't been put off the legal profession for good!

The only good thing that came out of today was that we got a brand spanking new Franking Machine! Our old one has been nothing but a pain in my ass for years but I was even able to give it a kick before it left.

The technician guy was a bit creepy and a little bit of an old flirt, but I suffered through it and got my beautiful new machine!

It may not be exciting for you but it is for me! Look how clean and new it is! It works perfectly as well! :) :) :)

After work I came home and treated myself to a nice long relaxing bath...only to discover later that Paul had been calling me and was concerned when I didn't reply or pick up. Oops.

We had a relaxing evening, sharing a bottle of wine, in front of the tv. I fell asleep. Paul started watching a film with The Rock in it. I have no recollection of this. I was sleeping. Where I stayed when Paul went to bed.

Yeah.

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