Three Holidays

We've got three holidays rolled into one here, starting with Valentine's Day, then Pancake Day, and finally Chinese New Year. So lets get started.

Dixon and I celebrated our Valentine's Day slightly early with a holiday I like myself, Friday the 13th. So he gave me his gift that night and we went out to dinner to our favourite spot, David Bann's. I have posted about them so many times because since the first time we went it has always been amazing. I also now realise that I basically wear the same thing each time, stripes, strips and more stripes. But hey don't mess with a good thing! The food again was fantastic, its always great to look at a menu and be able to order anything I fancy off of it.

Dixon got me a beautiful necklace from the fabulous, Bloody Mary Metal, I have been ogling their stuff for sometime, maybe he noticed. I don't usually wear jewelry, but it is so nice! 

I was off my photo game for Chinese New Year, but I snapped a couple, Hayley went to such an effort to make the room look amazing and all the food was great as well. It was really fun celebrating something that we haven't done before. Not to mention we lit lanterns, which I have always wanted to do since I first spotted them in the sky. So I am really happy Hayley put it all together to make it happen.

It was a wonderful evening together.

And last but not least, Pancake Day. It falls between our previous holidays on the 17th this year, and since that day I have been obsessed with making pancakes. I think in the last week I have had pancakes for 5 meals, that might be a bit weird, but maybe I was going through pancake withdrawals. 

Traditionally known as Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day started as a way to use up your fats you have in your cupboard for the start of Lent. Now in the UK at least, everyone just goes daft for pancakes. Pretty well everyone I know ate pancakes that day for one of their meals. So its a bit of fun and delicious!

100 Days Happy 50-56

So I had a weeks worth of holidays to use up and so use them up I did, so this weeks worth of happy has been especially good because its also been very relaxing. I didn't have too many plans but still got out and did stuff too. So its been a good week. And we are past the half way mark for 100 Days Happy, so that is also pretty cool. I can't help but wonder if it is helping me relax and feel happier and notice happy things, this week it would have been hard not to.

1. Started using my Valentines Threads for my cross stitch

2. Bath bombs!

3. The ever growing camera collection, they got some use this week.

4. First photos back from the Pentax

5. Roslin Chapel

6. Botanics greenhouses

7. Dr Sketchy's is back!

August, Thus Far

 So its been a rather exciting week, first of all Blackpool and the rebellion festival, second, moved into our new place, third it was mine and Dixon's anniversary on the 16th and we also got very exciting parcels! Now normally I would split this up into a couple of different posts, but knowing me you would never hear about any of it so its going to be a monster of a post today!

Blackpool was really good again, its just really nice to get away and only  think about what band you want to see next, should I have another pint, ah go on, I'll have another pint! And we ended up seeing basically every band that we set out to see. So that was really good! Unfortunately I got really sick on the Saturday, we went for a Chinese and just after I finished eating I really needed to be sick so I walked extremely quickly back to the B&B and made it up to the room and then threw up for then next couple hours! Luckily there were no bands me or Dixon wanted to see so he stayed with me and we watched crap telly til we fell asleep. Cause Sunday was the best day, it was basically band after band after band that was great! We got to see The Stitches and they were awesome, bought all the merch! and when we came back for the Adolescents (yay!) we met the guitarist and singer! One of Dixon's favourite bands so it was really fun!

We didn't see too much of Blackpool, just a bit of the promenade but it was really windy so we just bought some rock and went back.

 

 

We got back on the Monday and had a bit of a lazy day and we both took the Tuesday off so I finished sanding and staining the chest of drawers for the bedroom and that night we moved in! So it was all very exciting until about nine at night when after a weekend of feeling a bit dodgy turned into a 9 hour puking marathon, so I got no sleep our first night in but on the bright side if we hadn't moved in yet I would have had to run up and down stairs all night to make it to the toilet on time so whooo hoo new house! So I had to stay home from work on my first day back from holidays, but at least I caught up on my sleep and slept all day, Dixon however started to feel ill on the Thursday night just when I was starting to recover. So he stayed home from work Friday, our anniversary!

So it was a romantic first week in our new home but we are still pretty excited to be in the house!

 

 

And the exciting parcels, well I got the one I was waiting for from my Grandma, she sent us an amazing afghan blanket she made, it has a tartan pattern, and I can't believe how awesome it is, a scarf for me and a wooden box for Dixon, and some sweets I have missed and the peppermints were a godsend for my upset stomach this week! Made me miss them loads, now I just need to get my hands on some Wilhemina Peppermints! An the other parcel was from Sarah, who is amazing as well, she stood in line for hours 7 if I am correct, to get a signed copy of Neil Gaiman's new book The Ocean at the End of The Lane and a surprise signing of The Sandman; Preludes and Nocturns! So excited!!!

 

If you've made it this far, congratulations! It has been a brilliant week for me even with all the sickness! Hopefully more regular updates, August is usually a pretty hectic month for me so ttfn!