Shoulda Woulda.....

As i write this i should be at Badminton down in Acton, but due to the fact i'm damn lazy amongst other things i'm not there, so now i've missed one i need to actually get myself to next week, the night before Reading......perhaps not a great idea? I should drive home tuesday night! ARGH that means 2 weeks not going, so i think i'll have to send an email.

So i will go to the gym tomorrow (don't know when as i'm going to dinner with Olivia and her pal Kayleigh, so can't really go after work. Before work? HA you having a laugh.

One bug bear i do have about sports is how uncomfortable all women's sportswear seems to be. I mean if you've not got the body of a 12 year old boy, it doesn't seem to fit/stay up/hide what you're trying to get rid of. No i don't want to wear lycra in the gym amongst the skinny minnies when it gives me nightmares, and that was at my smallest.

So basically, i'm not going to badminton because i feel a bid tired and self pitying and i feel like that because i like to eat and not run, and if i ran more i probably wouldn't.  Basically a vicious cycle.

So all in all, today i want a body like this:

But maybe not that particular dress or sunglasses. For a more fashionable clothes horse with an enviable figure

I'd take either, just a bit sick of being a short chubster.

It's what you got not what you want....

Wow a post about an ambition realised?! For your viewing pleasure; MY NEW HOUSE.

Say hello to my new little house in Kennington. Which although means i'll have to get up about an hour earlier, the benefits far outweigh that! Central location, near to friends (who now i suspect will all move away from south east london) and with my parents, which although that sounds sad, it means a cooked meal every night from Mummy dearest.

So no complaints here whatsoever, it can only get better than the current living situation where it's home from work, into room, watch crap TV all evening and have no one to talk to......joy.

So looking forward to moving in this weekend, when i will also be pondering the question of what the hell to take to reading festival!

Anyone for a cycle ride?

So I bought the coat from Topshop. What can I say, blame it on the weather! Cold, windy and rainy, it just seemed the right day to buy a cosy coat. If I hate it I’ll just return it at the end of the day. God I really need to curb my spending.


It looks like I won’t be homeless though, having left home for 4 years I’m now in a house share with my parents. We’ve been looking at somewhere rented out by the Walcot Foundation. Tiny cutesy place near waterloo and just near the imperial war museum, rather more rent than I might have initially considered, but I won’t be paying for bills or food and there will be food on the table for me every night as well as two dogs to play with.

I know I said I was trying to save, but having my own little place and having it to myself Friday morning-Monday night will give me freedom when I want it over the weekend. I’m looking forward to being back in with my family, saves me petrol money driving down to Dover every other weekend.

So with the thought of perhaps selling my car, perhaps some alternate wheels need to be considered. I’m quite keen on doing the London to Brighton sponsored cycle next year, and although I’d love a road bike, something a bit more stable might be appreciated. So options at the ready:

Tokyo Bike Sport:

It’s blue, it’s pretty, it’s 10.5kg and is kind of perfect for gadding around London. £520 quid, anyone got that kind of money to give away?

http://www.tokyobike.co.uk/index.html

Cannondale Bad Boy

This is a little more butch, so perhaps not ideal for someone trying to make their work wardrobe less tomboy more professional well dressed fashionable London lady, this might not be ideal. Would be pretty good for the London to Brighton though? 599 pounds though. Ouch

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/cannondale/bad-boy-2009-hybrid-bike-ec016535

Marin Alp Belvedere

This bike actively markets itself as a bit of everything, and even name checks the London to Brighton in it’s little selling blurb. It’s perhaps a nice compromise between the two, and the cheapest at 499. 

http://www.marin.co.uk/2010/bikepage.php?ModNo=10BE

  

Like a car though I need to find some time to test these things out, and time is definitely something money can’t buy!

Don't we all want one?

If i could justify one of these i'd definitely get one (with my lottery winnings naturally) but all i can think i'd use it for would be for watching movies and TV in bed. I like having actual books so wouldn't use the ibooks and i like real life papers and magazines too, so that's out. Typing is a bitch on it so email would be no good. Basically i want one, i just can't figure out why!

But we all would if we could right? Disposable cash is made for these sorts of purchases!

I've got the time but not the money

Why is it always rich people who have guestlists and tables in places. Those kind of places where it's grey goose vodka on tap and you don't have to reach in your pocket. Why is it always the rich kids who get these kinds of perks? I seems like you can't throw a stick in well-to-do circles without someone knowing a promo girl for that new club that it costs an arm and a leg to attend.

I'm whinging because my friends and i are still trying to find out place in London. You know that place where you always go which is open past 11pm (so that seems to count out most nice pubs, wetherspoons is not a NICE pub) and everywhere else just seems astronomically expensive or very exclusive. We just want somewhere chilled, and nice to go and have a drink on a friday night without paying out half a week's wages. Somewhere fashionable with nice people would be great, but at the end of the day somewhere that everyone likes and wants to go back to. Did i mention it can't be in brixton either....haha

Taking something back tonight. I really like it but it's so out my my style sterotype i just can't see myself wearing it day to day. I'll always choose something with clean lines, and I don't think i can really justify it.

http://www.warehouse.co.uk/WATERFALL-JACKET//fashion/fcp-product/301826?colour=light%20pink

 Ruffles are just not me at all. I know i should think outside the box sometimes, but i just end up feeling uncomfortable and looking awful!

This is what i really want, paraded in front of me by Olivia at Gone With The Fashion, it's £175 which is WAAAY out of my budget, but i tried it on and i'm in love. DAMN.

http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=20&viewAllFlag=false&catalogId=33057&storeId=12556&categoryId=209744&parent_category_rn=208526&productId=1882023&langId=-1

And that is what i've been thinking about today, instead of work!

A nicer form of torture

I am apparently keen or torturing myself, and sadly on the lowly salary that I currently earn, this torture comes in the form of things I would very much like to purchase. All girls love to shop, and i've always been on a budget, but getting to grips with being out of my parents home (and financial backup when needed) for the first time is causing two reactions; an inability to act like an adult and cook a decent evening meal, and another more startling sympton is thinking I have way more money that i think, setting my sights on some delightful item, discovering i can't have it and then mourning not being able to wear/hold/have the item by just looking at it online.

I won't say my taste is particularly fashionable, I err on the very casual side of life. But i'm trying to develop some work wear that at least looks semi smart. But i'll always come back to my scruffy roots.

So here's what i want but can't afford:

http://www.asos.com/Asos/Asos-Pow-Leather-Buckle-Crepe-Wedge/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=990129&cid=4172&Rf-300=1347,1349,1350&Rf900=1565&sh=0&pge=0&pgesize=200&sort=-1&clr=Blue

The ASOS Pow wedge, that i'm not sure would entirely work in real life but i really like the look of them anyway.....what i really need is a nice pair of flats, but everything i see i find horrifically ugly.....these boots are 90 down from 150 but this is still just out of my price range. A shocking check on my bank account today has really hit home that i need to stop being such a damn spendthrift.

http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&langId=-1&storeId=12556&catalogId=33057&parent_category_rn=208526&categoryId=209744&productId=1839019

Another on my hitlist is this topshop pea coat, which i have a nasty feeling would turn me into a football manager, but it'd go so well with the shoes....

Needless to say i could just afford one, but there is no way in hell i could have both without a serious talk from my bank manager. Which is probably already overdue anyway!