chinese and a chat

had a really lovely night at beatrice's last night, i'm sure she said be there at 7:30 but i got a text at 6:30 saying are you on your way, so just rang a taxi and off i went, had a really nice chatting taxi driver too which always makes the journey more pleasent, her house looked lovely with all it's decorations up, val arrived shortly after me, and we ordered a chinese straight away and had a really good chat, val seems to be enjoying her new job and she gets christmas off which will be nice for her, it was really lovely catching up and we will have to continue doing it when i get back to work too,

warned beatrice that i will be back after my birthday so she better get the cupboards tidy LOL

left about 10:45 and had the same chatty taxi driver back, i had a really lovely night with two really lovely ladies, mind you they were naughty and had xmas presents and i hadn't bought anything for them so will make sure i get them a little something when i'm in edinburgh

computer panic again!!!!

doing the usual play about with the computer yesterday and using avg to scan it, avg flagged up a rootkit, which it then couldn't remove! so panic starts to creep in so i reran avg,spybot and windoes defender and they all come back fine, no rootkit to be seen, so i tries the avg history and try to remove said rootkit again, no such luck, so takes it over to ernie to fix, so no computer last night, i had to play with my ds or talk to dad LOL!!!!!!

anyway, ceri and joy popped in for a cuppa and a chat today which was nice to see them, after they left i rang ernie and my computer was ready, they have ran many scans and i have again and ther's no sign of the thing, hopefully that means i'll be ok, then heard that there is a problem with internet explorer so after advice from some of the girls on uks i have changed over to mozilla firefox, not sure about it yet but at least i have managed to get my google tool bar back so it looks a bit more familias now

at last some scrapping

it was the morpeth crop yesterday and i eventually got some scrapping done, the daisy bucket papers in the kit were lovely and i went with the stag photo i took up in glen coe, everyone else was doing xmas photo's so thought i'd be a bit different, bought some lovely little sets of stamps off maria too, xmas ones but they are tiny and worked out great for his antler baubles and also for little bits and pieces in my xmas mini book i had planned to make. of course all i got done was the class lo cos i spent most of my time chatting to heather, fi, beverly, cat and shirley !!! we had a secret santa and i got a lovely penguin yankee candle tart burner, it's lovely.

so today i got down to some serious scrapping, i finished my mini book which has turned out lovely and i also used my sarah's kits december kit to do a sprouts lo to put up on the any animal, veg or mineral social group on uks, that turned out great but i couldn't take a photo cos my craft light broke, the holder is broken so i can't get a bulb to stay in it, so tomorrows job is to go to b&q and see if i can get a new one, also thinking about calling into work so i don't have to ring, need petrol too so that'll me be busy for most of the day

sparkly decorations

was taking some photo's of the christmas decorations yesterday to go in the little mini book i'm making, the photo's came out really lovely so i thought i would share a few of them on here, i printed most of them out in balck and white but kept a few in full colour as they were so nice, think the book is going to turn out nice, mind you the cosmo cricket be good set i got for subscribing to the scrapbook magazine arrived today and is rather gorgeous, so may have to make another book using that.

snotty nose

well my sore throat is starting to go away but is being followed by lots of sneezing and a very snotty nose, hope i feel better for the morpeth crop on saturday, intend to do a mini book as well as the crop class, just need to take the photographs and print them out, they'll have to be black and white as i'm running out of colour ink and i can't afford to get another one, although i have just ordered some page protecters and an american crafts album from the scrapbook shop in durham (don't you just love that shop :))

have been using the free papers i got out of the scrapbook magazine to make my book but i'm grunging it up with lots of ink etc. think it'll look good full of xmas 08 black and white photo's

ooh how gorgeous are these>

went along to blyth yesterday to try and get a top for christmas, first thing i saw though was these gorgeous shoes, they are very high and i know i won't be able to walk in them but look at them, they're shiny, they're mary janes, they're copper and brown, i just had to have them, so i picked them up, and wandered round the shop looking for something to match with them. i know most peeps match their shoes to the outfit but not me, so anyway my luck was in, they had a coppery orange satin blouse in my size, it had a tiny click on the front and they didn't have anymore in so the shop lady took 10% off for me.

so that's christmas day sorted, i'll wear them with some jeans and might wear them for my 40th in edinburgh, keep putting them on and just looking at them as they are so pretty

on a more serious note, i had my assessment appointment with the clinical psychologist today, he was really nice, it was filling in forms and taking a bit of history and my next appointment is 15th january, which was a bit of a shock, i was hoping i would have had a couple of sessions under my belt by then.

had tons of snow today and i lost control of the car a couple of times, beginning to learn what to do in a skid now, hope it's all gone by tomorrow

it's the start of christmas

decided this morning to put the christmas tree up, it's a new one this year, black and only 6ft instead of the usual 8ft, also decided that i wanted some blue led lights on it so i went along to b&q and got some new lights and some new silver decorations, when i got the tree out of the box, i was a bit worried as it doesn't look as bushy as the old one but once i got it up it looks lovely, i'm really pleased with the lights too. also got the village put up and a few other things and will get the rest of the stuff out tomorrow, the tree looks lovely in the corner and i love the new decorations.

rang work today and obviously chrissie had just received my report from oc health and was reading bits of it to me from it, he expects me back at work by late january but chrissie kept adding no pressure, i think if all goes well at the cbt appointment on thursday i'll be ready to go back after my birthday holidays, i hope