Hi! I’m back……well for a bit anyway. I have really enjoyed my time away and want to continue with living my life and not worrying about having to take a picture of everything I do! I have been keeping up with your blogs when I can and think I’m up to date with most of your goings on. For the moment I think I’ll be blogging when I have the spare time like now as Tim is watching football and I am watching TV in our bedroom. I am so busy with work at the moment that I have been working 9 – 10 hr days and waking up at 5.30am in the morning thinking about it! I am very stressed this weekend as I not sent back some large sections of the programme to the client and they need to see them asap……not looking forward to Monday at all. But for the moment I thought I would update you with some photos that I have taken recently to keep you informed about what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks or so………..
Me sprinting towards the finish at the Race for Life – 29.31 mins oh yes!!!
The cakes I made for work’s second attempt at a 20th birthday party – Summer Upside Downer from Baking from My Home to Yours and a Pound Cake from the same book, sandwiched with jam and covered with icing. For the one I made last time see here and here. I also made some biscuits covered with whipped cream and a strawberry half – these went down a treat – and a swiss roll filled with whipped cream and raspberry compote.
The director of our company making a speech at the party.
My view of the England vs Slovenia match at the party – the bush was huge!
Free ice cream at half time from a real ice cream van – I had plain ice cream with chocolate sauce and a flake – NOM!
A new piece of furniture for all my baking stuff. It is a trolley with wheels at one end so I can drag it into the kitchen for more work space. I’m so pleased that all my things are out of the box, maybe I’ll use them a lot more now!
We watched the England vs Germany match in the pub and were so disappointed that we lost. I saw this poster on one of my friends Facebook profile and thought it was brilliant! (Not sure if you will understand this if you aren’t from the UK!)
It was my sister;s graduation from Reading Uni on Wednesday so I had a half day at work then met up with my family to see her graduate. It was a good day and I was so happy to see them all, even if it was for a day.
I hope you’ve liked a pictoral post today and thanks for sticking around to see if I would make a return!!
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July 3, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Ameena
Your work schedule sounds really difficult!
I must say that I love London and would take any job that would allow me to live there…any work schedule is worth the awesome scones you have at your fingertips.
July 3, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Faith
Hey! Wow, congrats on the amazing 5k time! Get it, girl! That fruit ring looks sooo amazing.
Try not to let the pressure of coming up with posts stress you out. I’d much rather read a few inspired and happy posts like this than a bazillion ones that are only driven by a feeling that something has to be written.
July 4, 2010 at 9:12 am
Little Bookworm
Congrats on running the Race for Life! Hope you feel less stressed soon!
July 4, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Jill@MySoCalledHealthLife
Good for you for not photographing every little thing! I used to do that when I started my old blog a million years ago but it become too time consuming and overwhelming for me! Now I do what I want and enjoy the process much more
July 4, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Helen
It has definitely made life a lot easier as I don’t have to snap pics of things before I eat them, I’m usually too hungry. You are right, it has really made the blogging process more enjoyable.
July 4, 2010 at 5:48 pm
sensorydefensiveness
I agree with faith ^^. 70% of the blogs I read are not updated regularly. Some only once a month. But I still check them.
Congrats on your race. I haven’t been running regularly in almost a year, but thinking about races like that is giving me the itch to go bust out a mile or two.
July 5, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Lauren @ Health on the Run
I’m sorry life has been so stressful lately. Your work days sound extremely tiring. I can’t imagine having much motivation (or time) to blog after that either. But don’t worry — I agree with the other commentors. I would much rather read posts that are inspired than those that you know someone just put up really quick because they felt like they HAD to blog everyday. Maybe I’m just biased because I DON’T update my blog daily OR snap pictures of everything I eat/do (haha). But I think that would get overwhelming for me. I’ve definitely been sort of an irregular blogger this summer, and sometimes it’s hard not to stress about it. But ultimately, blogging should be enjoyable. And if it’s causing you more anxiety than anything else, then I think there’s nothing wrong with taking a break.
Anyway…on another note: those cakes you made for work look great! And I love your new furniture. Those pieces with wheels are definitely great to have.
July 6, 2010 at 3:39 am
Katie @ peacebeme
Glad to see you back. I’m sorry you are so stressed. My advice is not to feel obligated to blog, just do it when you want to de-stress or feel like it. Sometimes you can always talk yourself out of stress when you type I think (cheerlead yourself). Thats what I do.
Hang in there!