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The last two weeks have been filled with me doing very grown up things! 

Okay, so most people reading this know that me and my boyfriend Alex are living with my parents right now whilst I study so we can save for France (hopefully Paris) and Spain (Valencia?) in a years time. This is cool because 1. My parents are my best friends and we have an amazing relationship, 2. They love Alex and he thinks they are pretty neato too, 3. Our house is by no means a mansion but its big enough for us not to feel muy crowded and we are lucky in that we have our own bathroom and little living space (as well as a bedroom, obviously! This isn’t a commune!) 4. My parents are avid fell walkers and take off to the Lake District every weekend they get the chance to.

Lets just backtrack to number 3 shall we? About that living space…well…anyone that knows me is aware that my organisation skills are practically non existent, lets just say I scatterbrain my way through life and I am messy! (please note, messy, not dirty. I love to clean!) Being in a relationship with a neat freak (dare I say borderline anal?) has worked out surprisingly well so far, but lets just say that the spare bedroom aka our living space, was like a jungle. It was filled with boxes of stuff that I hat yet to sort through from when I moved back home (I KNOW!) stuff I had moved out of my wardrobe to make way for Alex, my piano, and a single bed that never gets used anymore. It has been like this since November time, and we have been meaning to convert it into a little living/tv area ever since, but life has happened so quickly, and what with Christmas, exams, birthdays, holidays and then more exams, we just haven’t had the time ( or money) to pay workmen and get furniture. 

Last week Alex kind of mentioned how much its starting to bother him, and something inside me just snapped and realised it was Summer and the perfect opportunity. I mean, he works almost every day till 11pm and I’m free, so…here we are a week later and I have:

Single handedly cleared out the whole room (no mean feat let me tell you! I wish I had before pics, the floor was covered!) 

Hired a fitter to come and put a wooden floor down

Taken a trip to Ikea with Alex and purchased a sofa bed, coffee table, bookcase, lights, tv stand etc and set it all up. (The bookcase almost had me in tears because I had to do it alone and really you needed two people for that baby)

Booked a tv guy to come and put an aerial in and install Sky tv, woo!

Everything is in place but the tv now, and that should be done by Wed at the latest, so I’m pretty excited. Today the doors needed putting on and instead of waiting for my Dad to do it I just rummaged for some power tools in the garage and put them on myself! Now I just need to clean clean clean and then I will post pictures, but heres a little sneak peek of when it was half way done.

So yeah, I felt very grown up and practical this week! I even went to a posh salon and had my highlights done properly instead of being a control freak and doing it myself. What can I say folks? I’m growing up! Gosh that scares me..

Kathreya - the 'cookie monster' of BB9 UK

I have a new heroine, an idol if you will, to put a bounce in my step and a song in my heart. I’m talking of course, about Kathreya, a contestant on the ninth UK series of Big Brother. She is a 30 year old Thai massage therapist who is addicted to cookies and carries them everywhere with her.

If you are not lucky enough to live in the UK and see her happy face on tv every night I suggest you watch the following videos. You can thank me later.

OKAY

I feel like I have less time to blog now than when I was filling my days with exams and coursework. What gives! Well, I have been working working working to get moolah for my holidays thats what! This weekend was glorious so my grandparents came for a barbeque. Cue Nana and Grandpa discovering photobooth!

Today my car went to the garage to be serviced so I am literally marooned at my house, which is good because today is CLEAN GEMMA’S ROOM DAY. This is serious business.

YES IM KISSING THE POLISH.

I also recently got the info that I have sky high insulin levels! My body cannot break down white carbs at all so I am on a low gi eating plan which is working out great. I have so much energy and since I cut out potatoes and bread in favour of sweet potatoes and soya & linseed loaf I am never hungry. I have had bad headaches which I attribute to my body kind of going into shock but I can deal with it.

My hair was feeling a bit crap so I slept in this conditioning thing and voila, my head feels LUSTROUS!