Lovely weekend

This weekend (& second half of the week really) has been really lovely. Wednesday I had my exam - not great but now it's done. Wednesday evening I went to the cinema with one of my best mates which was lovely - it was great to catch up after a fairly long time of not seeing her. Lovely to have a great girly night out too - not done that for ages! Friday was another girly evening for me - so much for the promises I've made to my hubby that I would see him more after my exam was over - sorry! I went out with my mum - another fab evening - we met at a cocktail bar for a couple of drinks first then for lovely burgers at Annie burger shack and finally onto the theatre to watch Dirty Dancing. It was really good! I was amazed at how much they managed to stick to the script and story (and even scenery) of the film.

This weekend has been an awful lot of nothing really (after Friday night) but that has meant that I have had enough time to spend doing a lot of the things that I have wanted to do for a long time. Saturday morning I spent with my mum watching Dirty Dancing on DVD. we had to compare it to the show after all! The house is also now pretty. I have spotless from top to bottom - proper spring clean time always feels good.

Henlow has also been out today and we've had a first from him too. I know it doesn't seem like such a big deal really but I feel like a v proud mum today. We cleaned out his house while he had a good run around the front garden - it's always nice to see him really enjoying the fresh air and nice weather. But then when we did come back in we left his door out of the side of his house and for the first time ever, he walked straight back out again, along the hallway and back to the front door asking me to go back out in the sun again.

I know it sounds a little pathetic (ok, a lot!) but he's never climbed down from his house before - the furthest he's been is to put 1 foot out onto the door before. He's then got a bit scared before and gone back onto his mud. I'm not sure what it was today - maybe the new floor we had just put in was slightly different and a bit colder than he's used to or perhaps it was the prospect of the sun on the front lawn luring him out. Either way, I am really proud of him. Perhaps this will be the start of us being able to leave his door open while we are at work and letting him roam the hallway all day. This is what we had always planned for him to be able to do and is why we put his house out there. He is still just about small enough to fit under the sofa so the door to living room will have to remain shut for a while. I think we may otherwise find that we come home and he is in the corner all the way under the back corner of the sofa.

This was a little while ago - a few weeks ago - but the last time my mum and dad came over (this Friday was just my mum) he put some brackets on the wall for me so that my guitars could hang up in there and look pretty,. Let's face it, they don't really get used very often anyway - they may as well look nice while they are waiting to be used.

This is something that I have planned for when I have some time off. I have just been offered a new job - I start in a couple of weeks - and hopefully, due to the travelling distance and the fact that they offer a flexible working policy, I will hopefully be able to work 4 long days per week (most weeks) and then have a day off to do as I please. I have a nice long list of things that I can do with my time on these Friday's. One of which is to try to learn to play these again.

I have also been for a run yesterday (I've never done this before as it's not something that I have ever been very good at). It is something that I would like to keep up ever if this doesn't happen much more than once a week but hopefully eventually I might get to be ok at it.

There are a number of other things that I would like to do with the free time that I will hopefully be getting - at some point I will try to write up a list of these for you. A few of these are gifts so I won't be able to tell you about all of them but there are a number of things that I will be able to mention.

Speaking of gifts, I have got to the point of being really close to being finished with a big project that I have had on the go since January but that is a Christmas present for someone for next year.

This week has also been the start of a new month of the temperature based table runner that I am making. I have changed the ranges on some of the colours slightly (which I will tell you about in more detail at the end of the month) but it is looking very bright and colourful so far this month.

Life is really looking good at the minute. Happy weekend everyone and have a great summer - enjoy the lovely weather while it's here.

Ooh. Just one more thing. I had a feeling that I will really struggle to fill the time now in the evenings. Now that I have no college to be working on for a while, but I have managed to fill this week fairly weak really. I have been very lucky to have some lovely people to see. I think that I may have also found another solution for the next few weeks as well as we have started to watch Breaking Bad again. We watch the whole series' before and found it to be really good but we have just started to watch this again in the last couple of days. Now we've started again I'm sure it's going to be just as difficult as the first time to stop watching!