I'm making soap today! They are for my friend's hen night on Saturday, goodie bags are being made for everyone and I said I would make some soaps to go in. I've done some strawberries, and some clear round soaps with red hearts in them. Just waiting for them to cool and finish now and then I will be packaging and photographing them, of course.

Someone in the local area has lost their cat, I feel so sorry for them, I keep looking for it as it's only from two streets away. They have put adverts on the lampposts and I just heard it read out on the lost pets section on Radio Lancashire, so sad, I hope they find her, I will keep looking!

I've been entering magazine competitions again, just puzzles in the weekly magazines. I like to fill them in anyway, so I may as well send in the answers and see if I can get some cash out of it, costs nothing to do as you can enter online! May send in some 'tips' and some photos to see if I can get on those pages too! I shall take over the world of women's weekly magazines! That reminds me, it's Thursday, My Weekly is out today, I shall have to ask Stu to pick it up for me on his way back from work. I have a story in my mind that I'm going to write and send in, would be nice to see my writing in a magazine, don' know what name to use though, hmmmm?

Stu is off work this week and it's going quite nicely! Mum stayed over on Sunday night and she spoiled us with Dominos pizza and a bottle of red wine! Monday was spent in Wigan, sadly another trip to the dentist for a drilling of the face, but that's it now for another six months, and hopefully that will be just a check up with no work......hopefully!!! Anyway, as normal I got compensatory books, quite a few in fact, but The Works have another sale on so they were super cheap! I do love it there, I miss the one we used to have in Preston, I hope it will come back, the Wigan one re-opened so there is hope for it!

Saturday was meant to be a day rest for me, however that morning I got a letter from the hospital telling me I had an appointment that day! So off we went to the eye people and spent a fun filled three hours in Royal Preston Hospital. My eye sight is great I have no problems with the usual glasses type stuffs, and they did my eye pressure too which is weird! They put numbing drops into your eye and then touch your eyeball with what can best be described as a giant ballpoint pen. It's so strange as you don't blink or move away or anything! So, I'm going back in two months time, and in the mean time I will see (pardon the pun) some other eye folks, to test for micro squints, dyslexia, Irlen syndrome and various other randomness. It's looking like I do have some sort of eye/visual type rubbishness, but what it is still remains a surprise! :)

We are having some friends over for dinner tonight which should be nice. Stu is cooking as I'm half dead, honey and mustard chicken, which I'm looking forward too, it's something I quite like! I'm going to make a chocolate torte, but Stu is going to have to do the whipping of the cream, under my direction of course! ;)

Cat related news: Lucy likes Doritos, Eddie likes chocolate, so we have to hide these things now to stop them getting ill, and both cats can't be fobbed off with crushing worming tablets into their food!

Death and Garlic

Discovered two of our fish have died today, and the others are seriously not looking good, severe fin rot has set in! I blame Pets at Home, the tank was fine, we buy two new fish, and *poof* death and destruction in an aquatic type manner! As I type Stu is wondering the aisles of Pets at Home with a sample of the tank's water and a generally saddened and annoyed manner. Let's hope we can save the others! Stu has threatened to get rid of the tank if they all die, I would find that quite sad though as I do like the fish, but it is a lot of work for Stu, cleaning them out and things. Anyway, we shall see how it goes.

I have done a tiny bit of gardening today, not too much though as I feel rather off at the moment. I trimmed back the nasturtians and hanging tomatoes, I'm hoping to get quite a few tomatoes in the next couple of weeks, it's full! I also re potted the garlic, as it has been slowly drowning! I took the bulbs out, which have come on loads, emptied out the waterlogged soil, popped two holes in the bottom of the trough and replanted with new soil. Hopefully, they will come on a little faster now they don't need armbands!
I rehomed some caterpillars too, they are most welcome to chill out on the nasturtians as there is an abundance of them, but they get forcibly removed from anywhere else! After looking at a website I have found out that I moved two cabbage white butterfly caterpillers, one drinkermoth and another spikey one that seems to be 'helpfully' labelled 53, ahhh well!

In cat news, Lucy has decided she is partial to coffee cake! *sigh* Part cat, part Labrador!

University and presents

I got a letter yesterday telling me I've got into university, so in September I shall once again be gracing the corridors of UCLAN. I'm really looking forward to it and wish it was next week I was starting! I hope the funding won't be a problem, it shouldn't be, I know I'm eligible for various things, but the worry is always there. I will fill in the forms soon, most of them aren't available yet. And yes, me being me, I have even started my book list, I think it's good to be organised and I just knew that I wouldn't be able to afford lots of books all in one go at the start of term, plus if I know in advance I can keep an eye out in the charity shops, and hopefully save some money, which I always need to do!

My friend has given me lots of soap making things, so I have been playing with it all and I have to say I think I'm addicted already! Practice is the key to these things, and if lots can be put in, then I'm hoping to be able to make some to give out as presents at Christmas.

Another thing that I'm thinking of as an option for presents are notebooks. I bought a cheap, very tack notebook the other day and yesterday I backed it in a lovely poppy print piece of material, that incidentally cost me nothing as it was part of the free sample horde! I'm very pleased with the way that it has come out, well, except the fact that there is an image on each page, I didn't know this when I bought it as it was plastic wrapped! Lesson learned; check pages!

Fleas!!!!

They are driving me mad!!! Both of the cats have fleas at the moment and seem to be determined to share them with anyone and anything! The house has undergone a severe deep cleaning in an attempt to kill off the little buggers. My poor ankles are bitten to bits, I don't seem to react well to bites either, they puff up in big lumps. We seem to be getting on top of things now though, so hopefully a fleafree end is in sight.

University is still a situation of great stupidity! I decided that I want to English so I went to tell them this and found out that the course I had applied for wasn't running now, so I would have had to have chosen something else anyway! So, I'm now awaiting news of a place on BA English Language Studies! *sigh*

I blame Stu

for my lack of posting! I have to share the laptop with him at the moment as his has sadly keeled over and died, so I haven't really been spending that much time online, so I'm blaming that for the HUGE gaps in space between posts :D

I'm still waiting to hear from uni about if I have a place or not, but it has been exams and results etc so I was kinda expecting them to be a bit slower than normal, but I would still like to know! I'm starting to panic too as to whether or not it's the right choice for me, I'm sure it is but if it isn't and I really hate it I can always drop out or simply swap over to something else.....again! I just wish I could do Medicine, that would make things so so much easier, but I can't and so I have to do something that in the back of my head I will always know is something I wouldn't be doing otherwise, it's second best and will never have the whole of my heart behind it.

In other news, I may be getting a charity shop! I have emailed the muscular dystrophy folks and told them that I would like to start up a charity shop and they have said they will have discussions about it, so there is a glimmer of hope there! I'm not too sure how I will cope with all of this but I have decided that I will be a behind the scenes person. I don't think that it would be fair to put me on a rota for work as I can't say when I would be able to do it.

I went to watch the Sally Naden show on Monday with Mum at BBC Radio Lancashire and it was really good! We are most certainly going to be going again, and they even asked me if I would like to be a guest on the panel! I think I will wait for that though until I'm back at uni and/or have a charity shop, that way I actually have something to talk about! :P

Well, I've been told I have mitochondrial myopathy, not been tested exactly or been told which version of MM I have....but this is what I've been told to write on forms and stuff, so we shall go with that :p There's a link in the side bar bit if you wish to know more about it.

In other news, I hate summer!!!!!!!! I hate the heat,, I hate the clothes, I hate the way people turn into idiots in beer gardens etc etc......

As for uni I'm still no further on, should fill in some forms though really, in fact I may well do that now!