Well my flowers didn’t last very long, they were doing fine yesterday but when I got up today they looked in a real sorry state

I had a little freak out a while ago at the prospect of turning 30 in just around 3 weeks time, I don’t want to say goodbye to my 20s just yet.

It’s a good job I am an idiot and I soon realised I don’t need to, because it is not my 30th birthday in a few weeks time but my 29th — I still have a year of being in my 20s left. Woohoo.

Time to start thinking about what I want as present(s), I always struggle with my birthday because it’s only a few months after Christmas and I usually find there’s nothing I want.

This year I know one thing for sure, my mobile phone stopped functioning properly on Monday so I will need a new one. It’s still usable but the up and down keys don’t work so I have to navigate either using the number pad or the buttons on the side. I only want a cheapish one as a replacement, I don’t need a fancy one so I will probably ask my parents for that.

I also need some new work out gear, I need both indoor and outdoor clothing as well as some good quality running trainers. I have decided the time has come to give running a try, I have been using my elliptical for a year and a half now and can run 10 miles on that with ease — but I want to see how different it is to actually run, out on the mean streets, really pounding the pavement. I know how important it is to have proper gear though, the right clothes and footwear and high visibility stuff, so I have been putting it off because I couldn’t afford it all.

So my birthday seems like the ideal time to get kitted out

My lovely fiance brought me flowers a few days ago, as he arrived I could see he was trying to hide something so being a typical woman I spun around him for a look, hehe, I am such a spoil sport.

He got me a dozen gorgeous pink roses to make up for not being able to get me any on Valentines day. I wasn’t bothered he hadn’t got me any for valentines day because I don’t expect them — so that makes it all the sweeter.

It has also given me the chance to use the ‘Soil Balls’ I ordered several months ago but kept forgetting to use. They are really neat, I used some blue and clear ones and the fill the entire vase. I hope they last at least as long as the flowers

I just signed up to a new bingo site, I do love these offers — you deposit £10 and get a £20 sign up bonus, plus you get £20 cashback through a site I am a member of so all in I am a minimum of £10 in profit and that’s before I have even played, who knows what I will win?

I don’t know what I would do if I lived in the USA where it’s not entirely legal to have online casinos! Thankfully there are still some top usa internet casinos you can play in, but it’s not nearly as free as here in the UK

Well how annoying, it seems that I don’t just need a new video card but a whole memory upgrade also. I got my new memory card today and it didn’t improve my computers performance much at all so I had a tech friend of mine look at it and he recommended I need more memory.

Well I can’t afford it right now, plus I will be too busy the next few weeks with the whole moving house thing — but at least I know what needs doing to fix it when I can

Moving van is booked and every thing that can be packed has been, we move house on Friday. Eeeeeeeep.

It really is so stressful, and we are only going from one small place to another one a few miles away — I don’t know how people who are moving a long distance and live in big houses cope, really I don’t.

Getting my computer up and running is a top priority, but I still expect to be without for a few days so if you don’t hear from me, you know why.

I need to get a new video card, it doesn’t seem like five minutes since I last needed to upgrade it but the time has already come again — I do a lot of video editing so need to keep it tip top so that I can continue to use the latest and best video editing softwares I get given for work. It’s a pain and can be expensive, but what can you do? I will sell my old one on EBay, they usually bring in enough to take the sting off the cost of the new one!

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I am really glad that I did go shopping the other day even though I didn’t really feel like it, I got some nice stuff at bargain prices — and because I was in a rush and not really wanting to spend ages, I made snap decisions which is not something I usually do — I usually think for ages about if I want something or not!

I got a nice hoodie, 2 sports bras, some jogging pants and some frilly underwear. Yay

My dad needed to find some really great motorcycle accident attorneys a few years ago when he was involved in a smash on his bike that was not his fault. He’s got rid of the bike now because my mums nagging about how dangerous they are finally won out — I am glad he got rid of it too, though I don’t really think bikes are any more dangerous than cars, as long as the person riding it knows what they are doing and my dad did. It was the only crash he had ever been involved in and he’s been riding since I was a kid!