We all got a payrise at work, so that was a nice turn up for the books. Aside from working I've done a few things, and caught up with people. I saw Ashleigh and Ethan a couple of weeks ago; Ethan is sooo heavy now, and just a darling as always. He's good at leaning forward and grabbing things now, and he had a good play with my phone (by 'play' I mean sticking my phone in his mouth and dropping it on the floor). Liam and Ashleigh recently did another photoshoot with them and Ethan and here is my favourite one of my lovely nephew - isn't he just flawless???
Susie and I went out for a dessert date and a catch-up. We delighted over Leo Dicaprio finally getting the Oscar he's deserved for years, talked about how crazy Tom Hardy looks, and updated each other on our lives and happenings. It was so good to see her, as I hadn't for literally 5 weeks, and that is unacceptable. We plan to go to the cinema at some point to watch Hail Caesar, and we're also going to go out for Prosecco and giggles. We still need to plan going back to Bristol, which I'm hoping to do around my birthday (which is suddenly only a month away, what the hell??).
On Saturday I got Mum some flowers and baked her a cake. I was also loving life when I popped to Asda for ingredients because they have 8-packs of Pepsi Max Cherry on offer for £2 - NICE.
On Mother's Day, I also gave Mum a box of chocolates and a cute card, and Nan came over because Mum was cooking lunch for her. We had a prawn cocktail starter, macaroni cheese with bacon and leek, and trifle - it was absolutely delicious, and the Prosecco and wine flowed. We also tried the cake I had made, and it was divine if I do say so myself.
I also helped Nan to print, sort, and file a bunch of her legal documents etc and she gave me £20 for doing it, which is really sweet of her. I would've done it for free, but she felt I deserved to have an incentive because it was 'boring' (her words, I quite like organising documents - which is weird, I know, but it's strangely therapeutic).
Today, I'm taking Mum to Ed's Diner for lunch as another Mother's Day treat because I lurve her, and Ed's is our favourite place ever. I'm so ready for some cheesy fries!
I have decided that I must make some kind of plans for my birthday - I'm tired of never doing anything fun for it. And I'm beginning to think about my Yearly Purge. Basically, every year since 2011, I've spent a good week or so completely gutting my room, sorting through everything and chucking stuff out, rearranging, reorganising, etc. It's long and sometimes tedious, but at the end of it, I have decluttered and my room is tidy, and it really is very good for one's mind to have a tidy space. I will probably start doing that after my birthday/towards the beginning of summer. That's when the Yearly Purge usually happens, and I find I have a lot more energy and motivation when there's more daylight (I mean, who doesn't?).
Just a last note on something ridiculous that I bought because I found it cute - this Iwako eraser that we've been selling with our Easter products at work. You can even take the chick out of the eggshell and I simply had to have one. I'm a sucker for cute stationery. Iwako also do a hamster eraser, and I am determined to get that too.
P.S. Bonus Sirius (eating cupcake crumbs):
Followed the link from twitter.
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