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On being almost there...

Well, despite the thunderstorms and torrential rain going on outside my window, I am in a positive frame of mind today. Firstly, I have had the day off work (always good on a Monday!) Officially it was an INSET day, but 'unofficially' it was just a day off. Many people in school will have spent the day finishing off their reports, but MINE are already finished *smiles smugly to herself*. Anyway, the day started off like a proper summer's day, so I got up early and took myself off to the high street to do some chores. Then I met up with mum and mum's friend who were babysitting baby niece for a while. I tried to ring the solicitor but couldn't reach her, so emailed instead, pleading for information about the flat, in an attempt to avoid being made homeless in the next few weeks.

Anyway, there is at last good news! If all goes to plan (fingers crossed!), the flat will be ours at the beginning of August, which is when the lease on our current flat runs out. Now I can start planning the summer properly (hadn't even been looking forward to the end of term because it meant one step closer to becoming homeless!) So, boyfriend and I have decided to have his birthday party at the current flat the weekend before we're due to move out and then we've got a couple of weeks to sort the new place out before we're off on our hols. When we get back, we can have my 30th birthday party in the new place. Should all work out perfectly (I hope!)

COUNTDOWN TO THE SUMMER HOLS: 11 and a half school days

On wondering who the f**k stole summer?!!!

Hi, I'm back! Just realised how long it's been since my last blog! I've been busy, busy, busy over the last few weeks and now that my internet connection is finally working again and I have finished all 36 of my reports for school (round of applause please), I can sit back and enjoy the summer a bit. Except I can't, can I? Because the weather is quite frankly crap. Got a school trip tomorrow, so it's bound to rain. Today someone at school said that the weather is going to be like this all summer. That better not be true. I will not be happy if it is. At least I am going away for a week in August... The crappy wet weather is making my body think it's winter (or autumn at least), so instead of eating healthy fruit and salad (which I would be if the weather was hot), I am craving comfort food. I've got bikinis to fit into by August 20th and at this rate I'll look hideous in them!

Anway, here are just some of the exciting 'highlights' of the weeks since I last wrote:

• got absolutely soaked to the skin at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre a couple of weeks ago;
• had to fork out almost 150 quid for a new back windscreen when mine decided to spontaneously shatter into a million pieces for no appparent reason one day after school;
• have been to see several new movies: the new Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantastic Four and Shrek the Third - still to see this summer are: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Simpsons Movie, Transformers (the boyfriend's choice!) and The Bourne Ultimatum;
• played croquet on the lawn at boyfriend's brother and sister-in-law's one evening (all very civilised) followed by a more uncivilised drunken game of football (me and an over-excited seven-year-old versus two thirty-something-year-old men!);
• have had fun chasing up all the paperwork, but alas we are STILL waiting to move into our lovely new flat...

Can't remember any more at the moment. I don't really know where the time has gone. Will write again soon, I promise. x