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July 5, 2014, 3:56 p.m.
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I haven’t updated for SO long, I don’t really know where to start!

In 11 days I will be turning 29! I can’t believe I am actually this old!! I’m very nearly in the last year of my twenties. My life is very much not how I thought it would be at 29! Overall I am happy with how things are going at the moment, there’s a few things that I’d like to change. Hopefully I can work on these over the next year so that I can be happier going in to my 30s! Although my age is freaking me out a bit, I am really looking forward to my birthday, I’ve got some time off work which I am hoping the weather will be nice for and the weekend after my birthday Paul is taking me away somewhere as part of my present! Where we’re actually going is a surprise but he’s told me I’ll need my passport so I’m excited!

I am loving the summer at the moment, I spent a couple of hours at the beach yesterday as it was my day off and it was so lovely just to be able to lie in the sun! I burnt my face a little bit though so I’m looking a bit lobster-ish today! About a month ago I started counting calories and managed to lose about 9lbs in 2 weeks. I’ve gotten off track over the past couple of weeks though which is a bit frustrating so I’m sure I’ve put at least a couple back on. I’m determined to get back on it from Monday though. I worked out my BMI at my heaviest and I was shocked to see that I was/am ‘overweight’ I don’t know why I was shocked really as I am clearly a lot heavier than I should be, the other thing that shocked me was that on the BMI scale I was closer to being obese than I was to healthy! Also I’ve destroyed at least 3 pairs of jeans/trousers in the past few months by rubbing holes in them where my thighs have been rubbing together! That’s never happened before so I really need to sort myself out because I can’t afford to be replacing my trousers every couple of months!

Cuban Fury, one of the Nick Frost film I absolutely love came out on DVD in June, I pre-ordered it and have watch it 4 times since it arrived! Last weekend I had all my family round to watch it and it made me so happy that they all loved it just as much as I did (well, apart from Robyn who walked out half way through!) There was one part in particular that really tickled my mum and then everyone was laughing at how much she was laughing! Even Grandpa loved it! It really makes me wish I could dance though, unfortunately I have no co-ordination what-so-ever! It kind of makes me tempted to go to Zumba classes but I really miss the old lady class I used to go to with my mum! It was easier to follow and we still went wrong quite a bit! I did one at my gym fairly recently but I couldn’t keep up at all and it made me feel a bit rubbish! I might try and see if a different instructor might be easier to follow! Also Kayvan Novak is in Cuban Fury, he’s the guy that did phone jacker and face jacker. He’s really handsome and SO funny in it! I would definitely recommend the film if you haven’t seen it!

Another Nick Frost thing which I LOVE is Mr Sloane which was on Sky Atlantic over the past month, it’s just finished and it was so lovely, quite bitter-sweet but I really liked the way it ended!

Percy, my parents (but really Beth’s) cat died a couple of weeks ago, he was quite old and really poorly so they decided to have him put down. Beth was SO upset, it was awful. They waited for me to finish work before burying him in the garden which was really nice. Dad and Drew dug a hole and made a wooden box for him, before they filled the hole in Dad took a flower from Percy’s favourite bush to sit under and put it on top of his box, which I thought was really sweet. Dad always pretended not to like the cats that much but you would sometimes see him being sweet to them when he thought no one was looking! Now they just have Cecil who is Percy’s brother, he’s turning in to such a grumpy old man in his old age, it’s quite funny. Beth says that he doesn’t really seem to be bothered about Percy being gone except for being cross that he doesn’t get as much food now because he always used to finish Percy’s dinner!

Drew and Robyn are still driving me slightly mad but I did pluck up the courage to ask them to keep the work surface clear (I cleared out an extra cupboard for them to keep their stuff in) I’m going to have to talk to them about paying me a bit more rent as well because my council tax has just gone up… They’re in London this weekend which is really nice! Paul came round last night and we watched The Internship together and got to sit on the big couch and then we got to have a sexy time without having to worry about making a noise! it was goooood

I’ve been missing Cape Town a bit lately, I don’t know if I’ve said this before but I really wish that I had known that the last time I was there was going to be the last time when I was actually there! I would have made sure that I went to all my favourite places! I’ve spent so much time there that I did kind of think of it as a second home. But Paul would never want to go there and there are so many other places that I want to go it would kind of seem silly to waste a trip on somewhere I’ve been so many times before. Plus the fact that I can’t afford to go anywhere at all at the moment! I follow Willows’ girlfriend on Instagram (she seems lovely, I’m really happy for him!)so I’m always seeing places that I loved or people who used to be my friends on her Instagram which is kind of weird…

I haven't heard from Andrew for ages though which is nice! Not since he broke up with Melissa. They went from being each others 'one' to being broken up within about 2 weeks I think!

Also I have A LOT of photo albums from when Andrew and I were together. I don’t want them anymore but I feel kind of weird about throwing photos away, I need to go through my facebook albums as well and sort those out but again, it feels weird just deleting them altogether especially when I don’t know if I have copies of anything anywhere. Any advice?!

This has been a bit of a weird and rambley entry… I’ll finish with a photo dump :)

Lying in with my little! africa