Friday Five!

Casual sexism noted.

Man, we haven't even had our honeymoon yet, because pneumonia ruined that for us and we haven't managed to suck it up, plan it or spend the money

We haven't either.

We didn't plan a honeymoon at the time because of losing job and knowing the visa expenses coming. And now it took 6 months to find a job, I have to visit family back in the states on our next trip cuz they are all quite elderly and not doing the greatest, and am too tired at the weekends to even plan a little getaway. My husband is buying me an air filter so I can survive in the office... Nothing beats spending all your "fun" money on the things needed just to survive!

If it helps, just know you'll eventually get there with the honeymoon. It took us 5 years! After we got married, we went to New Hampshire with my ENTIRE family and slept in side-by-side twin beds lol (we took the mattresses off as we couldn't get the beds pushed close enough together as the wooden frame left a gap so we just slept on mattresses on the floor for the entire trip). Being a newlywed, crammed in a house with your entire family isn't the most ideal situation but we tried to just take it in stride and enjoy it because I knew I wouldn't be in the country much longer. We thought about it and we've not been outside the country more than once alone on a holiday. We are always with friends or family, with the exception of a road trip we took for our 1 year anniversary and a trip to Paris when I first moved here for a long weekend as a birthday surprise.

The two of us, completely unaccompanied, will be in Japan in the month that I hit 5 years in this country. It took 5 years to save and get the time for a honeymoon but we are sure as hell going to treat this like a honeymoon! You guys aren't alone in not having taken honeymoons right away!

Maybe it's not so much that he 'looks American', but more that he doesn't look Scottish!
He's young - early to mid 20's, I'd say.  Has short back & sides brown hair and BIG brown eyes.  Slightly podgy, but not fat... kinda like puppy fat.   He looks a lot like Kevin from the Wonder Years, if you remember that TV show?

Awwww, darn.
I was wrong.
He is Scottish.  My 'jock-dar' clearly needs recalibrated.    Or maybe it only works when I'm abroad.

The other one still hasn't spoken yet in my presence, so not 100% sure, but doesn't seem likely.

Awwww, darn.
I was wrong.
He is Scottish.  My 'jock-dar' clearly needs recalibrated.    Or maybe it only works when I'm abroad.

The other one still hasn't spoken yet in my presence, so not 100% sure, but doesn't seem likely.

Maybe he's lived here a long time and has picked up the accent? 

Casual sexism noted.

Show me!

Show me!

I'm guessing it was me, asking if they were cute. 

1.  OK, so the Wonder Years Kevin turned out to be Scottish, and the other guy still has not spoken, even when I blatantly said 'Good morning' directly to him... so he's probably not an American either.  However... there are 2 guys that have been in the training room all week, who I haven't clapped eyes on yet, and rumour has it that one of them is called 'Caleb'.   Biblical name... could have potential?

2.  Don't know what's up, but when I left home at 6:00 this morning, our street was all blocked off at one end with police looking very serious...

3.  And the ambulance was here for my neighbour twice last night.  I think they took her away with them after the 2nd time.

4.  It's OH's payday today... thank goodness!!!

5.  Another day, another Starbucks Iced Tea! 

I'm guessing it was me, asking if they were cute. 

sexist, schmexist.

Not really got a lot to report for this Friday..lol

1. I need to go grocery shopping but haven't had a chance. We have no milk that wasn't "best before 10/07". Husband is still drinking it but I just can't bring myself to do it...which means no coffee for me so I'm struggling to wake up (thinking I'm just going to have it black)

2. Working from home today as is husband as we are getting a new router delivered finally (over a week late). He just told me his laptop keeps crashing so they (IT) raised a ticket and entitled it "laptop got crashed" and for some reason that's made me laugh.

3. Because Im working from home, I got a bit of a lie in before having to get up to walk the pack of dogs (slept in until 7:30 before the pupper alarms went off). On the way over to the field, there were 3 horses coming up the road. They escaped from the farm up the road for like the 4th time this month and then they noticed the dogs and started walking over to us so I had to go back in my garden and shut the gate as I knew my dog would want to play and would end up kicked in the head against all 3 of the horses. lol It was hilarious as I was looking at the ground and my husband stopped ahead of me and went "ah...that's..interesting." and Iooked up to see 3 horses coming our way, trotting up the pavement haha

4. The puppers leave Sunday! I love them but I honestly cannot wait to have my home back and not smelling like dog. I try to clean but it gets ruined again almost instantly with hair and dirt.

5. Going out to dinner tonight with my friend. Not sure what we're going to eat but she's having a trial for her wedding with a stylist and we thought we'd grab some food after so that should be good.

**Bonus number 6. Working from home is awesome as I work in the front room with a Bay window so I can watch people walk by and some people just make me giggle

Show me!

See the other thread where I show you my bottom.

Let us know when you learn what's going on at the end of your street, Albatross.

KoD, if you have any vanilla ice cream, a spoonful of that takes care of the milk and the sugar for your coffee.  And it makes the temperature instantly drinkable.


My five:

1.  We destroyed our previously best non-stick pan recently by carbonizing barbecue sauce on it.  But while I was in Aldi on Tuesday, I saw a non-stick pan with a nice thick base for £15, and picked one up.  We used it Wednesday night for Mexican platter, and we were happy enough with it.  Then I used it last night for fried potatoes to go with our Mexican salad leftovers, and my husband declared them the best potatoes ever.  I had to give credit to the amazing Aldi pan that was so non-stick the potatoes glided all around.  It is amazing!

2.  My husband and I were sitting in the lounge just talking about random $h!t on Friday night when I mentioned that I had been in Mensa a long time ago, but I let my membership lapse because I didn't feel like Those People, and I wasn't using the organisation for networking so I didn't see the point. My husband asked (a lot of questions including) if I could join again.  I said it was 20 years ago, and in America... but I looked into it.  By Wednesday, I became  a member of British Mensa.  I'm a dork, again!  But my husband is amused/happy, and that's all I ever wanted.

3.  We're out of amaretto and the weekend is nigh.  Coffee may be boring this weekend.  But we still have Frangelico, so that's something, I guess.   Problem is Aldi sold us some rather nice amaretto last time we needed to replenish, but they haven't had the 'good' stuff in since we started to notice we were running low.  Now we're out, and looking at paying the big bucks and ordering Disaronno because coffee, man.  Coffee.

4.  We decided to rearrange the workshop last weekend.  Now everything is in the middle of the room and stuff is piled everywhere.  I liked it better before.  (Hopefully the job is only half done...)

5.  I made the Inventables CEO jealous with the speed of my super mega jumbo internets.  I now kind of understand why some people measure their happiness by comparing what they have to what others have. His envy did make me smile a bit.

1.  Our tenant gave her notice last night.  She's buying a new build.     Major decision time.  Do we continue to rent or do we (try) to sell and use that money for our extension and pay down our existing mortgage?  I vote pay for the extension and pay down our mortgage.  My husband is really keen to keep the rental.

2.  My grass seeds put down in the back garden are starting to sprout!  We have had to water them every evening, like naughty naughty people, but at least they are germinating after only a few days.  It's supposed to rain today (they've said this before), but I am genuinely hoping that it rains!!!

3.  I start teaching dance tomorrow morning!!  Literally need to dig out my shoes in the garage and dust them off tonight.

4.  I would like to win the EuroMillions tonight.

5.  I feel a bit down today.  Not motivated.  I think it's the news from the tenant and a friend repatriating today.  And the clouds.  I'm a bit like Eeyore with the dark cloud over me.  We did just have our 10 minute stand-up meeting about Love Island though so that's perked me up a bit.

4. The puppers leave Sunday! I love them but I honestly cannot wait to have my home back and not smelling like dog. I try to clean but it gets ruined again almost instantly with hair and dirt.

See, you could have a houseful of cats and not have that problem! 

1.  Our tenant gave her notice last night.  She's buying a new build.     Major decision time.  Do we continue to rent or do we (try) to sell and use that money for our extension and pay down our existing mortgage?  I vote pay for the extension and pay down our mortgage.  My husband is really keen to keep the rental.

I've seen suggestions in the news of a housing market slowdown.  Prices aren't going up as fast, and houses are taking longer to sell.  Judging the market is tough, though. I don't know if you should get out while you can still get full value or hold on and hope for appreciation while you continue to bring in rental income.  I think I lean toward get out while you can, personally.  Then, if there is a crash, you could buy again in the dip if you wanted.  But I've always been extremely (overly?) risk-averse.