Week #47

Welcome to Week #47

Finally back on track with My Weeks, so let's get on with the show.

Monday - Wednesday

 This week was a busy one.

Monday me and my partner went to see 30 Seconds to Mars at the Metro Radio Area (we were standing and got such a great view).

30 Seconds to Mars - Metro Radio Arena

Tuesday, we had my stepson for the night.

Wednesday was time out at work (the surgery closes for a half day and we staff go off and do training).

Thursday - Sunday

This week was Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary, and we managed to catch up with Mark Gatiss's docudrama An Adventure in Time and Space (which was fantastic and had me crying by the end). I also went round my friends for a nice catch up.

Friday, we had Thomas so that was spent doing my nails for Doctor Who (In the Navy - Bourjois). The World Book Night books were also released today, a day early and there are some great ones.

Saturday was The Day of the Doctor and we went to our local Cineworld to see it (I have never seen it so busy and people were dressed up as Matt Smith, was fantastic)

Sunday, meant to be a lazy day but I had some retail therapy using my boots points (Boots Points Haul)

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Gemma
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Week #46

Sorry for my late posting of my Weeks but I had such a busy week I never had the time to do anything.

So here goes for week 46:

Monday - Wednesday

Monday was quiet, had the monthly QOF meeting (Meaning more work to be done ready for April 2013).

Tuesday was the yearly Inter-Surgery Quiz (this is all t;he surgeries in the area join up for a local quiz night in aid of local charities) and this year we won, both our teams came 1st and 2nd (Carmel Sutra and Sore Losers)

Wednesday I had a hospital appointment for an ultrasound so spent 6 hours fasting.

Thursday we went to see Lumiere at Durham (as well as Sunday, we took my mum and dad with us)

As you can see there were some great installations (Full blog post coming soon)

Friday was quiet.

Saturday was my nephew's 21st party so Saturday was a mad dash of getting nails done, sorting hair out.

Sunday was Lumiere again to catch some of the things that we missed the 1st time around.

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Gemma
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My Week #45

Welcome to my Week #45

Week 45 Part 1

The first half of the week was busy, I had three days off of work, so it was spent, in the local town centre shopping (naturally).

Tuesday we went to a furniture scheme to have a look for a new bed frame as ours broke and we managed to pick a nice one up for £60 and it doesn't have wooden slats its a metal mesh which is fantastic.

Wednesday, was spent in Middlesbrough shopping, and we went to see Thor: The Dark World, brilliant movie (review to come soon).

Week 45 Part 2

Thursday, and it was back to work, but on the evening I had to get myself sorted out as I was going out on Friday night, so I needed to find my hair straighteners and straighten my hair, and paint my nails (My Vampire is Buff - O.P.I) to match my outfit.

Friday was spent at work, and on the night I went to my partners work do, it was a leaving do for one of their staff and partners had been invited. We ended up leaving at 10PM as my partner was feeling under the weather and he just wanted to curl up in bed.

Saturday was spent having a lie in before we had to go and collect my stepson, and try to keep him entertained.

Sunday has been spent just having a really lazy day of doing nothing, barring blog write ups, blog planning for the week and typing up my blog posts.

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Gemma
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Week #44

Welcome to week 44

Week 44 (Monday - Wednesday)

 Monday to Wednesday was somewhat quiet, me and my partner went to see Bad Grandpa on Wednesday, I painted my nails for Halloween (Cloud 9 - Artstix Nail Art Pen).

Week 44 (Thursday - Saturday)

Thursday night was spent at Boots in Middlesbrough taking advantage of the instore events that they have going on for Christmas ( I made a massive dent in Christmas and gained £24 worth of free points from my purchases and another £12 from my partners).

Blackpool Tower

Trams

 

The TARDIS

Friday night I repainted my nails ready or Blackpool on Saturday, where we went to see the illuminations (the weather was crappy, and we spent 2 hours in traffic from Gynn Square to the end of the seafront.

Week #43

Welcome to Week 43.

Let's get on with the show.

Week 43 - Part 1

The start of the week was quite quiet, had the regular tuesday meeting, and was scanning all day Wednesday.

The last part of the week was busier I started earlier on Thursday as we had time out so it allowed for me to finish earlier which is always good.

Friday I changed my nail polish colour and put on Essie's After School Boy Blazer (A review will be going on my sites Beauty Skool Dropout and Nail Polish-ed).

Saturday and Sunday were spent with my stepson, we ended up in Clarks getting his feet measured (he has grown so we need to get him some new shoes).

You may have noticed through my week I had little post it flags, I have added these as a reminder for blog posts that are due during the week, it's to help keep me blogging regularly, and not leave really long gaps between my posts.

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Gemma
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Week #42

Welcome to Week 42.

I'm getting back into the swing of posting on a Monday, but for the next couple of weeks I'm gonna try posting my new weeks on a Sunday (it means I have more time to spend on the post)

Week 42

As you can see again Week 42 was an empty week. It was flu week again so massively busy at work but Monday afternoon I started to get a sore throat and on Tuesday I ended up with a full blown cold, so Tuesday onwards was taken as sick days from work (so expect my next My Week post to be completely packed with work to do's and blog posts to do)

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Gemma
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Week #41

Welcome to Week #41, Sorry it's so late life has somewhat caught up with me, and then I was sick as a dog for a couple of days, but on with the show.

Week 41

As you can see my week was somewhat empty, it was because it has been so busy, we started flu weeks at work (this is where we have clinics of 100 appointments for patients to come in and have their flu jab)

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Gemma
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Week #32

Welcome to My Week 32,

Week 32 Part 1

Monday to Wednesday was somewhat busy especially at work, we had a holter test that had to be downloaded and sent off but due to scheduling conflicts between me and the HCA it had to be moved a couple of times

I also decided that I need to update my book journal (I take a notebook with me at all times to write up notes about the book so that when I come back to do a write up I always have notes about the story and the characters) Am way behind with updating it so that was a main priority on Tuesday. I have been using an ARC notebook as my book journal but I have read 70 books so far this year and it just can't take anymore pages so I was needing too buy some A5 poly pockets at the weekend and a A5 lever arch file to fit it all in.

Wednesday, me and my partner went to see Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (I will be doing a review soon on this) It was absolutely hilarious go and see it if you havent yet, I was crying with laughter.

Thursday was a quiet day the cats had an appointment at the vets for their boosters and a couple of treatments.

Friday was spent worrying about needing to program a holter test as the HCA who does them is on holiday and there was a request from the GP for a patient to have one done. I also had a meeting regarding an information package that we are putting into use at the surgery, and at lunch time I was told I shouldn't have been in (I actually had the day off and totally forgot about it), but instead of wasting half a day I just stayed in for the rest of the day and added it back onto my hols.

The weekend was spent relaxing as last weekend was quite a stressful one, I headed into the town centre and at the Art Shop I came across some Alice in Wonderland Stamps and I stood there for 5 minutes thinking wether I should buy them or not (as you can see I did and they look fantastic). We took my stepson to see Newcastle Diamonds vs Redcar Bears (a huge win for us 58-37)

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Gemma
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Week #31

Welcome to My Week 31:

Monday to Wednesday

The start of the week was quite quiet (this was mainly due to the fact that payday was on Wednesday, and both me and my partner were both skint)

To celebrate pay day we decided to do an Orange Wednesday and go and see The World's End (The final in the Cornetto Trilogy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) - A brilliant movie and I will do a review on that soon.

Shopping List for the Metro Centre

On saturday we were heading for the Metro Centre, so I had to keep a shopping list of what I wanted (i got everything but these kraft stickies from Paperchase, they seem to have stopped selling them, and I have lost the pack I had - so so so gutted)

Thursday to Sunday

Thursday was my partners birthday, so we had a little celebration with a cake, and then we were back out the door as we had to head to my friends to get my partylite order (may post re partylite, their candles and especially their melts are fantastic).

Saturday was spent at the Metro spending a small fortune, and Sunday was the biggest day of the Doctor Who calendar, Who was going to be playing the 12th Doctor. This was later revealed to be Peter Capaldi (I am honestly looking forward to what Peter Capaldi can bring to The Doctor, don't get me wrong I loved David Tennant and Matt Smith, but Capaldi can take this into a whole new direction)

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Gemma
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My Week #30

Welcome to My Week #30.

I am now somewhat back on track with posts (More to come of the Filofax Photo-A-Day, Weeks 3+4)

This week I am calling my Skeggy Week (due to the fact that I was in Skegness most of the week)

Welcome to Skegness

Week 30 - Part 1

The weather was fabulous (we did have some thunderstorms, but they cleared really quickly which was fantastic), so on Monday we headed towards the beach to relax (I read Amy: My Daughter - Mitch Winehouse, a very sad book regarding Amy Winehouse's life and her battle with drink and drugs).

We also took Thomas to a dinosar themed park called 'Lost World', it wasn't too bad but me and my partner think they were still building most of it while we were there (this theory was confirmed by news report on the local news when they were opening).

Me on Skegness Beach

As you can see the sun was out in full force. We did spend some of the week at Fantasy Island due to Thomas having a weekly wristband

Week 30 - Part 2

The holiday camp we were staying at had their own arcades that dealt out tickets, so we spent some time acquring tickets for thomas to get an Angry Bird cuddly toy (2,000, but we ended up getting 2,876 tickets overall)

On the Friday, us adults got day wristbands and managed to get on some of the rides at Fantasy Island, I was overjoyed to get on the Millenium rollercoaster as the last time I had been on that was with my grandfather years ago.

We came back on Saturday, but spent some time on the sea front as the local RNLI was having an open day and were launching their rescue boats at 3pm

RNLI Skegness

We had a good last day, my mum won a bottle of wine, we watched the launch of the rescue boats, and had a last ice cream of the holiday.

Overall last week was a great week.

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Gemma
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My Week #29

I know my Week 29 is a bit late but I was away last week with family, so better late then never:

Week 29 - Part 1

Most of the week was spent packing for our trip, so it was a very quiet week. I did go to a Partylite Candle party again and roped myself in to having my own party as well.

You can also see that I have used the travel checklist from Lime Tree Fruits, this was brilliant as it made me excited for my holiday and allowed me to make a list of things that I was going to need.

Week 29 - Part 2

We went Saturday morning to Skegness, and spent the time in a caravan (wasn't as bad as I thought it would be). The camp where we were staying had pantomimes on every night so we took my stepson to most of these. We also spent some time at Fantasy Island (a theme park), where we got my stepson a weekly wristband for him to go on the kids rides.

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Gemma
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Week #28

Welcome to my Week 29:

Week 29 in Birdie

Week 29 was quite quiet, managed to catch up on my reading, caught up with a gossip with one of my friends, and my partner took his son on his first ever nursery trip.

It also came out at the weekend that actor Cory Monteith has passed away, I'm a latecomer to Glee but that show is addictive. It is very sad news and at only 31.

Smudge's kittens are over 2 weeks old and getting huge, on Wednesday, it was very upsetting as we lost the last of Maggie's kittens and one of Smudge's so a very sad day for us all.

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Gemma
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Week #27

Welcome to My Week 27:

Week 27

As you can see I am using 'Birdie' (An A5 planner from Paperchase), and I am using Paperchase inserts that came with the planner.

Last week was a busy week, I spent a lot of it covering at work, so it was nice Friday being able to catch up with my own work.

Our other cat Maggie gave birth to kittens on Wednesday, but we lost 1 which was quite upsetting, and on Sunday we lost another one of her kittens due to the heat, so we are doing as much as we can to keep them warm but not too warm.

Close Up of Saturday + Sunday

Sunday we went to see Newcastle Diamonds vs Sheffield Tigers, where we won 62-34.

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Gemma

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My Week #26

Welcome to another installment of my week 26:

Week 26 (Mon - Wed)

The start of the week was really quiet, I was off Wednesday due to my ankle sprain a couple of weeks ago, so spent most of Wednesday catching up with the TIVO box.

Week 26 (Thurs-Sun)

The rest of the week was busy, went to see 5 mini plays at Middlesbrough Library, where my partner was part of 1 of the plays.
At work I had UPS coming to pick up some boxes from a previous research team, and on Saturday, me and my partner, with my friend, goddaughter, and stepson to get my goddaughter her birthday present. I got a call from my mother on Saturday to say that 1 of our cats had just given birth to a kitten, so it was a surprise as we thought she might be we just weren't sure.
Sunday we headed up to Teesside Park and had a look at Hobbycraft (post is coming soon)

Smudge's kittens

Here are Smudge's kittens, they are so cute.

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Gemma
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My Week #25

Here is my week #25:

Monday

On Monday and Tuesday I was off work ill, I had a chesty cough (that my mum decided she wanted to share with me), so spent most of Monday and Tues in bed catching up on TV and watching movies.

Blog plan for Week 25

I'm finding that having these blog plans during the week helps push me to blog, so I'm gonna keep these up.

Tues + Wed

Wednesday, I was back at work, which was manic, we also had a form to send off recorded delivery. We managed to get to the cinema to see The Iceman starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, and Chris Evans (review coming soon).

Tues

Tuesday, I was off ill and as you can see I caught up with some movies and some TV

Thurs to Sunday

Thursday was quiet, but I ended up going to the docs on Friday as I still had my cough. My parents went to London for the weekend so me and my partner had the house to ourselves so just vegged out infront of the tv.

Thurs

Thursday close up.

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Gemma
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My Week #24

I know I'm late with my week, but I was off work on Monday and Tuesday this week due to sickness so was unable to get to a computer.

Mon + Tues

On Monday as I was walking to work last week my foot went under me and I sprained my ankle so last week wasn't that much of a good one.
I managed to catch up with some shows on the tivo box and I bought myself A Good Day to Die Hard (Really good film).

Wed + Thurs

Wednesday I went round my friends so my partner could watch Imaginarium from Nightwish (he's a BIG Nightwish fan)
I did an order from washitapes (I finally bit the bullet and ordered from there)

Piglet

I had a problem with checkout as it didn't register my sale so I emailed washitapes and it construed that nothing had been received and because of the trouble it took me, I was given a 10% discount on my next order. I will be shopping there again in the future.

Fri + Sat

I spent most of Friday evening updating my filofax and updating my book journal, i also managed to get a hold of Neverwhere (BBC Radio 4 play starring Natalie Dormer, James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, and many more), It was very good kept me enthralled for 3 hours straight.

Sunday - Father's Day

And as you all know Sunday was Father's Day.

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Gemma

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My Week: Week 22

Welcome to My Week 22.

I didn't post that much last week as I was away from Thursday to Sunday. So lets get on with the show:

The first half of my week consisted of me catching up with the TIVO box to clear off some shows ready for it recording at the weekend.
I also went to the hairdressers and had my hair cut and re-dyed (It's a dark purpley colour, £69 eeek) but it looks good.

The above is the Millenium Stadium when the track has been laid and below is a sticker of who I was supporting (Tai Woffinden).

We started first at Swindon, which was rained off so we never got to see any racing and ended up in the hotel bar.

Friday we headed towards Cardiff and went to the Doctor Who Experience (and with the news breaking that Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who at Christmas it was much more of a special visit, Pics coming soon).

Went to the Grand Prix on Saturday, the atmosphere is fantastic, and even though Tai didn't win another favourite of mine did (Emil Sayfutdinov).

Tai Woffinden (He had a crash in Heat 14, and had to be taken to Hospital)

1st: Emil Sayfutdinov, 2nd: Niels Kristian Iversen, 3rd: Krzysztof Kasprzak

Emil Sayfutdinov with his trophy.

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Gemma
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