back to routine!

Hello,

tim and I are slowly getting back into our little routin in our flat, still have washing to catch up on but we're getting there. Tim has now changed my blog layout for me for fun! I love it! I may also change the name of my diary as it is clearly no longer a diet diary!

I am however going to join a new gym this week. It's a cannons one in leam, I need to get back into doing exercise as I have done nothing for months and am feeling tired and chubbly wubbly again! It will do me good having something for myself to keep me busy in the evenings when tim has to do work. He is working hard this year and needs time and peace (and quiet without me whittling on wanting attention!) so will be perfect!

well no more gossip from me, I am off to plan for my staff meeting tomorrow!

chat soon, Gemma x

more photos of wedding one of six

The beautiful gazeebo thing, was brilliant weather!
The ceremony Sarah and her dad, her bouquet was stunning, red roses, bay leaves and these little sprigs of dangly white flowers that apparently cost £2 a sprig! The bridesmaids bouquets were gorgeous too with white roses and bay leaves. so stunning!
Close up of sarah - she really did look stunnign!

Wedding one of six being that we now have five others to go to this year and counting if anyone else gets themselves engaged!

wedding one of six!

So tim flew back from america on friday morning, friday evening we drove down to tim's parents in Kent, then saturday we had a wedding to go to in tenterden. It was sarah and ryan's wedding (tim's ex housemate and boyfriend) .
Was so so so beautiful!
it was so sunny they did it outside, under a beautifully decorated gazeebo in the gardens of the hotel. She had 5 bridesmaids (I never thought I would want lots but it looked amazing when they were all walking down the isle two by two!) Her dress was stunning and there was a harp playing in the background who played all sorts of classical and modern songs!
The wedding was quite a quick service then there was pimms whilst the photos were being taken. The food was then all in this gorgeous circular room with chandeliers and a bar, the tables looked stunning with red rose petals all over them and bubbles to blow and fun quiz question cards all about weddings (celebrity and movie ones!) and all the children were given colouring books and crayons, the favours were lovely little boxes full of love hearts!
The food was piping hot salmon parcels, followed by gorgeously cooked beef on top of sweet potato and then helping yourself to veg and roasties, pudding was profiterols then wedding cake!
Sarah and ryan did a lovely fox trot dance to a slow song which I can't remember what it was called, not one I knew very well.
All in all was a great wedding!
will blog spot again soon but after this mad weekend I just need to go and cook dinner then do my planning!
hugs to you all,

Gemma x

more photos

Funky sculpture in New York city at the Rockefeller centre
Central Park
Alkatraz the prison cells! spooky! Tim needs to watch the rock again now to see if he can recognise it!!
Manhatten Beach, LA
Universal Studios, Hollywood
Rhodeo drive in LA
View of new york city from anna's flat (my cousin) (tim stayed with her in the city, it is four blocks from times sqaure!)

Tim's USA photos

New York city from the top of the empire state building Tiffany's in San Fransisco
San Fran
San Fran
San Fran looking down over Alkatraz
Sea Lions in San Fran
Tim at the conference standing in front of his poster!

I had to chose a few photos to put on my blog from loads of tim's photos and just could not decide which ones to put on cause they were all so good! It looked amazing and it sounds like he had a great time, but he did say he missed me lots and wished I was there with him!

tim back tomorrow!!! YAY!

Hi,

yes beth I am going to be very busy tonight shaving my legs and plucking eye brows and pampering myself so I look pretty for tim!

he gets back at 7am and I am going to pick him up from the airport! I won't get long with him before I have to run to school as I don't want to be late!!!

Will be so hard being at work tomorrow knowing tim is at home waiting for me...


Beth as for your fun questions - I really do love this game!

chicken

tomato sauce

photos

skirts

kissing for sure! (the other option wasn't there??) (sorry mum!)

cider

Meal out

HUGH GRANT!!!

You?



Chat soon, I have to go tidy and clean my flat to make it look lovely for tim too. We are off to a wedding on saturday down in kent - one of tim's ex housemates! will be fun!

hugs, gemma x

hello

hi,

grandma and grandy are now with me in leamington making me feel better without tim.

We have been to stratford and lots of walking around leamington parks and botanical gardens, I have cooked some lovely meals and we went out for sunday lunch today. We also had drinks with dorethy our upstairs neighbour who is lovely and loves company. She did however give us far too bigger glasses of sherry!!! I had to come back and do my planning after drinking that...!!!!

now we are watching antiques roadshow and getting really depressd about these rich people who can spend £190,000 on a table! God that is more than an entire house!!!! It makes you sick some people in the world are so incredibly rich and others are starving to death...

I am still missing tim loads but lian has been so sweet and is making sure i am ok every so often, my friend katie cooked for me on thursday which was so sweet of her, and tracey is cooking a salmon for me on wednesday! I really am thankful for my friends. I also get to meet up with my friend kate on Tuesday as she is in leamington for a work conference! I am going to see her on warwick uni campus, so strange to go back there after a few years of being away... will have to get a pint of purple!! shame the students won't be there yet! we could have pretended to be students again!

then on thursday I will be shaving my legs, plucking eye brows and genraly making myself look and feel beautiful for tim!!! YEYYYYYY! I am so excited to see him!!! we have the wedding on saturday though so will be a busy one with not much tme for just the two of us until sunday evening then it's back to work! It will be nice just to have tim safe back in my arms no matter how busy we get!

best go now i am sure I have bored you enough, whoever 'you' may be!!!!

hugs, gemma x

getting excited about the weekend!

Hi,

I had my first ever senior management team meeting today!!! ARGH!! was really quite successful and am starting to feel like I know what it is going on but may take a while before I have got it all under control! I still feel a little overwhelmed by it all...

I have got home and have tidied, hoovered, cleaned my kitchen floor and the bathroom and dusted everywhere... cause my grandparents are ocming to stay and arrive on friday. I am out tomorrow night with a freind from work - my new best friend to be exact! She is an NQT teaching the same year as me at school in the classroom next to mine, we get on really well and it has made such a difference to have someone to chat to and have fun with at school during the lunchtimes! She is very similar to me, really arty and creative, it's so much fun to plan with her too! She has offered to cook for me tomorrow with her three children, her husband (also called tim) is at football so we can have a proper teacher chat! Great!!

Then friday grandma and grandy arrive, they are on the boat now then are going to take it easy and drive up over the next two days. Seeing they are used to going 35 miles per hour in guernsey they thought it would be best to stick to the little roads.

So friday night I am going to cook for them, then on saturday we are going to stratford then sunday warwick castle and I will take them to the saxon mill I think fo rlunch. It's a really gorgeous pub in warwick next the the river with a great big working water wheel next to it with lovely walks round fields behind. I can't believe we didn't discover it at uni it's fab!

well no more gossip from me, tim sound slike he is still having a great time. He was going to go across to alcatraz today! scary!!! I hope they dont get stuck int he cages like what happened in the rock! At elast sean connery and nicholas cage can save the day if that happens...! (I love that film!!)

well best scoot and clean my oven - I tell you having guests is the best for having a spring clean!

hugs, Gemma x

p.s. did britney actually have her baby or not? can't work it out?

working too hard...

working hard and very tired so won't chat for long today...

I had a brill weekend with lian - we ended up chatting so much and drinking three bottles of wine on the friday night that we forgot to have our fajitas!! It was 2am before we realised how long we had been chatting for!

saturday we shopped all day and then watched a girly film along with our long awaited fajitas and a lot of ice cream!!

sunday I met up for a drink with tracey from work which was lovely, everyone has been very sweet with checking that I am ok without tim.

He sound slike he is having an amazing time and has been so sweet and called me every night.

He has got my camera beth so you will have to wait a few weeks before I can updat emy blog spot any more! Thanks for reading it, that is so nice of you to take an interest in my life... even though I usually talk crap on this site!!!

well I am off to have another glass of baileys and watch some more girly stuff on tv , maybe a bit of friends/will and grace maybe even birth stories on living tv (I wouldn;t dare watch it infront of tim again cause he got rather green in the face last time I put it on when tim was in the room!!!)

chat soon, Gemma x


p.s did I mention how mad work is right now... ARGH!!!

feeling blue.... tim is the other side of the world...

tim is gone... he is on his second aeroplane now from newark to san fran... I miss hims already... i had a little cry this morning...

He had a lovely card waiting for me back home, he said some romantic things and gave me a fat face voucher! (to keep me occupied for a while on saturday so i don't miss him so much!)

Lian is due to arrive any second to keep me company which is so kind of her. We are having a lot of wine and fajitas tonight then maybe going into town for a few drinks with some school friends. I had better go and get ready.

hugs, a moping gemma... x

First day of school!

Hi,

my first day of school was great! I have a really nice class this year - a few children that I may need to keep my eye on but I think they will settle down after a few days.

It was a busy one and my voice is going a little! I set up loads of activities around the room and at the end of the day a mum came to see me for a playground gossip (which I love with some parents, the nice ones) and said her daughter had told her that she "hadn't done anything all day, just had fun!"
I love it when children don't even know they are learning, I feel like I have done my job right when that happens!

I am just so pleased I chose a job that gets loads of holidays and also that I love, I feel like I am buzzing at the moment and am actually looking forward to the rest of this week, that is up until friday when tim leaves... :-(

(I may cry a little)

My friend lian is coming up to keep me company and get me drunk, then I am meeting up with school friends on the sunday and hopefully grandma and grandy are coming to visit too. I hope the weather is ok cause I would love to show them our little flat and around leamington and warwick! Will be good fun and keep me busy from worrying about tim!!!]

well chat soon, Gemma x

Ikea, turtles and weddings!

Here are my 'good sitting' cushions! For children in my class to sit on during whole class teaching time, I will choose two children doing 'GOOD SITTING' each day who will get to sit on these! Here is my interactive white board! We are going to have so much fun on it this year!! The tent type thing is my reading igloo (£4.99 from ikea!bargain)
Another view of my classrom

Hello,

I went to ikea yesterday with fiona and laura, we chatted lots and bought loads of fun things for our classrooms, was a good day out!

Diet not going well, I realised I hadn't mentioned my diet in a long time and seeing my blog spot originally started as a diet diary I guess I should mention it once in a while! I am enjoying my food too much at the moment to care about putting on weight however, when the term starts back I am going to try and get back into my exercising at home (seeing I can't afford the gym anymore!) and eating a little more healthily (after a summer of yummy food and lots of wine!).

School preparation and planning going ok. My classroom is now ready, books are now ready and planning is underway... I will try to concentrate more tomorrow when tim is at hockey to get stuff done for school on monday! I can't believe we are back already... my goodness 6 weeks realy does fly by!

Tim is off to america in less than a week so he is running around trying to sort out travelling stuff and getting his US dollars!! He is very excited!

we also got yet another wedding invitation yesterday so it is now up to six weddings this year we are going to go to! I guess we are at that age...! (maybe I can get ideas from each one for when it's my turn!!! don't tell tim I said that..!!) This one is right up near durham!

well no more news from me, chat soon, Gemma x