Visiting Stoke and Birmingham with Rich and Gem - The other Gemma that is. Not talking about me in the 3rd person - not yet anyway!

Rich came down to pick me up from Stoke on Wednesday. We went back up t'North on Thursday and went to meet his mum and dad as well as Jack the lab who was adorable, even if he did try to head butt me. We went to the pub quiz and came 4th out of about 30 I think. Though I hasten to add that I think my participation was more detrimental to the score than helpful. I hardly proved an asset when I got the Artist of a songs name wrong... and I thought I was right... I was more than sure, I was definite!! Next time I'll bite my lip on the song round I think - oops! Had a really fun night. It was the first pub quiz I'd attended since uni when it was a girls vs. boys tournament. Girls won - obviously!

Then after I got up ridiculously late and felt like I'd half slept the day away (queue sense of extreme guilt) we baked some cupcakes from Gemma's Halloween party and went to Trentham to the monkey forest. They were truly awesome. I couldn't stop taking pictures of them. There was a few guides wandering round the park spouting general info about makack monkeys (not sure how you spell that) and Rich and I seemed to be the only 2 interested. I asked about breeding and stuff - probably a bit inappropriate but I like to know the facts!!

We went to Trentham shops too which had the most amazing coffee shop with hot chocolate to die for. I think that chocolate took about 5 years off my life for its sugar content alone. There was also an immense garden centre that sold everything non- garden related. Lots of Christmas decorations and general house stuff that I love. We were kind of exhausted so went back and flopped in front of the TV. Or rather I did while Rich slaved away making chicken pie, which looked awesome. Like something from a Gastro pub. It rose so much I thought it might erupt.

I am going to by-pass some other pretty major events and I'm not sure I want to recollect them otherwise they will forever tarnish Halloween in years to come. But anyone who knows me will guess it was kind of the usual story.

Had a good old rest following it anyway and got dressed up and ready for Gemma's Halloween do. Couldn't believe how much effort she'd gone to with the house. Just looked amazing, cobwebs everywhere. And most people went to quite a lot of effort with their costumes which was awesome to see. Rich has to be the winner though. He had these zombie contact lenses that were properly scary!!! He said that's why I went and got petrol early because he didn't want to walk into the petrol station with the costume and contacts in. Might have freaked a few people out haha.

Went for Frankie and Benny's the next day with Gem and Rich and had a good old chin wag. Had some laughs which I always do have with those guys and said our goodbyes. Rich drove me alllllllllllll the way back down south, such a sweetie. Will definitely get the train next time as its so far for him to drive.

PS. I didn't check this over for spelling or grammar mistakes so sorry lol, it will be done at a later date

Laura Ashley Sofa's

I bought the sofa -
Told you so. I cant help it. When I'm in love, I'm in love

Short blog about not a lot - Oh yea , some Laura Ashley sofa's

What to tell, what to tell!! I had loads stored up to blog about and as I type this none of it is coming to mind. After last weeks ongoing stress regarding the GP and all that jazz, I started to perk up and bit and decided to just suck it up and get on. I'm still having my moments where I'm getting really worked up about it but as they say 'no point worrying about things you can't change'.

Have got a few plans for the coming weeks. Am going to visit my buddy Richard next week for a few days. Quite looking forward to my little break away. Gemma, my other buddy lives not too far from there so we are going to her halloween party on the Saturday, should be a laugh. Will do some cupcake baking in preparation.

I've seen a sofa I really want in Laura Ashley and its half price so I'm trying to talk myself into buying it but finding it hard to part with that amount of money !! But it is very pretty! Next time I blog I'll probably have caved in and bought it, I'm weak when it comes to buying stuff. And to be honest I've been spoiling myself a bit too much this week. I bought a car at the weekend so I think that's quite enough spending for one week really.

Not much else to blog at the mo as I'm in a bit of a bad mood and not feeling too well so I will keep it brief. I don't want to bleat on about miserable crap.

To end on a high note, Victoria Tremlett finally got her transplant after 4 years of waiting so am delighted to hear that news. Get well soon Tor :)

What a shite few months - not apologising for swearing either

My GP has been a compete cow since I had to move to her surgery back in January. She has called me in relentlessly over mix ups with medication and I've always felt she doesnt really take me too seriously. She's always making comments like 'you're too young to be on all this medication' and 'you shouldn't be around other ill people, it will make you feel iller'. What the hell?!!? I got referred to the Brompton heart and lung hospital (probably about 10 years ago now) and they have been investigating the respiratory stuff since then. They've (until now anyway) been really good and have referred me onto some ENT people and Gastro people as they think a lot of my breathing issues are complicated by something called laryngospasm where my vocal chords slam shut and stop me breathing in and out. But my GP goes and interferes and starts telling them all she doesn't like me seeing so many Dr's or having all this medication with me being so young. Why does she mess everything up. I have cancelled my registration with this Dr since finding this out obviously and am going to move elsewhere but she has already made an impact on some of the specialists that were so close to helping me out. I thought after I had the gastro op things would start improving, even with regards to my respiratory stuff but she has qui-boshed that now. I'm so upset and angry. I just feel like doing an escape mission to a dessert island somewhere and screaming!!!!!!!!!
And why the hell shouldn't I be friends with people with similar problems? I've actually found great support in other people who go through similar crap - more so than the people who are fine and dandy. Not sure where she thinks she got her qualification in psychiatry from to be making such a judgement! Dicks!