Blog Challenge (13): What is your earliest memory?

I find it hard to remember the past, it usually needs prompting by photographs but one memory that I recall quite vividly is that of a holiday with my late great-great Aunt.

I must have been about 5 or 6 and we went to Morcambe for the week. Baring in mind that this was my great-great Aunt, she must have been about 70! Pretty good going looking after a young child on her own for a whole week! She was a lovely woman; I remember that she always wore a 'tabbard' and she rode a mobility scooter whilst her dog Sheba ran along beside her! She looked like Santa in his sleigh, bless her! Anyway, I digress: I vividly remember walking along Morcambe front with her and going on the 'Polo' ride.

"We do not remember days; we remember moments." Cesare Pavese

This is SO true. I don't remember much of my childhood. I've not got many photographs to help jog my sketchy memory of my childhood. I don't remember many specific days however; I vividly recall being happy and loved and I suppose that's all that matters. I am safe in the knowledge that I had a great childhood. I will do everything in my power to ensure that I remember the moments of my son growing up; these are memories that I would hate to lose. I will capture the smiles, the frowns, the moments and store them in my heart!

Blog Challenge (12): What's inside your fridge?

You'll have to excuse how bare it looks; the 'big shop' day isn't till a Monday!

1. Butter 2. Fillet Steak 3. Condiments 4. Strawberries 5. Lemon & Ricotta cheesecakes 6. Lots of Carlsberg Export (Mr C's!) 7. J20's 8. Non-alcoholic Baveria 9. Cupcake 10. Asparagus 11. Stuffed mushrooms 12. Potato & caramelised onion potato rostis 13. Bottles of Vimto

Blog Challenge (11): List 15 of your favourite things

In no particular order...

1. Fresh bedding 2. Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir Candles 3. Mushrooms 4. The Sun 5. Estee Lauder Make-Up 6. White Zinfandel wine 7. Cuddles 8. Clean washing 9. Pink & Blue bottle sweets 10. Kindle 11. My baby bump 12. Full English breakfasts 13. Watching soaps 14. Cherry Bakewells 15. Long hot baths

Blog Challenge (10): What's your best physical feature?

This is a hard one. I think it's simply human nature to think of the negative things about ones self rather than the positive so I asked Mr C for his help. Surely he could come up with one?

Cue me trotting into the living room disturbing his half hour of 'Call of Duty'... (It's his birthday and I was feeling particularly nice!) and randomly asking 'babe what's my best physical feature?'.  I could practically see the cogs ticking in his brain trying to think of an answer that wouldn't get him into trouble! His response: 'Everything.' Now I don't no whether he just couldn't be bothered to answer or it was a typically male response and he didn't want to get himself into a 'does my bum look big in this?' situation! Anyway, that was his input but if I left it to him, there wouldn't be much to write about haha!

Personally, I quite like my eyes. They say they are the windows to the soul don't they? I don't know about that but they are a nice shade of blue and look nice once I've got a fair bit of mascara and a scouse brow going on!

Exciting Times...

I sit and cradle my poor arms as I write this... Not that they are sore but I am STILL feeling sorry for myself! Yesterday, I was an actual human pin cushion. I had to have my GTT test.

Now, normally this would have meant 2 1/2 hours at the hospital and 2 blood tests. No, not for me. 5 1/2 hours, a phlebotomist, a doctor and THREE anesthatists it took to get 5 sodding vials of blood. Cue me being sick and very, very hungry! Apparantly I have 'tiny veins' (as described by the Russain doctor who was also very disturbed at the 'orange substance' coming off my skin as she scrubbed away with alcowipes! They musn't have false tan in Russia as she thought I was an alien from Mars!).

So anyway, i'm STILL licking my wounds, all 9 of them! (Not literally, that would be wierd!) I keep reminding Mr C how brave I was. If I was a child, I would have most definitely got a sticker or a lollypop or some sort of treat so Mr C kindly took me out for chinese buffet to make up for the fact that I spent the best part of my day been proded and poked!

That was one part of this pregnancy malarky that I definitely don't like HOWEVER exciting times lie ahead that make it all worthwhile. Tomorrow, we get to see Baby C in 4D. I can not wait. I feel like a child on Christmas Eve! Will he look like me or Mr C? Who's nose does he have? Does he have my round bouncy ball shaped head or a long horse - like one like daddy? All these questions will shortly be answered!

How exciting!

Blog Challenge (9): What are your worst habits?

My worst habits have to be:

1. Biting my nails - As much as I try, sometimes I simply cannot resist biting my nails. Lots of pretty (and expensive) manicures are helping me to stop. I have 'man hands' with sausage fingers so my short stubby nails make them look even worse!

2. Checking my Facebook too much - A message, a piece of juicy gossip, a 'poke'... I simply cannot miss a thing! Sad i know!

3. Clearing my throat - This is a DISGUSTING habit that i've only developed whilst pregnant. In the night, I often feel like I cannot breate and my throat tickles which leaves me trying to clear it and sounded like a demented horse. Pregnancy has made me so attractive!

On the topic of animals:

4. Snorting like a pig when I laugh - Not content with sounding like a horse

 

5. Worrying too much... I worry about EVERYTHING. I even worry that I have nothing to worry about!

Blog Challenge (8): Whats in your Handbag?

My handbag is always bursting at the seams. Mr C always says I am the 'organiser' in our house; I sort the bills, birthday cards, events etc etc. If I left it to him, we'd probably be living in a wheely bin bless him! I simply cannot do with being flustered and thinks cropping up unexpectadly whereas Mr C is a more 'go with the flow' type of person. With his laidback attitude and my uptight regimented style of living, we have a happy medium and meet in the middle somewhere!
 

So my handbag contains:

1. Purse

2. Diary - Being a bit of an obsessive compulsive, I cannot bear my diary to have messy handwriting in it! Mad, I know! I have about three or four diaries throughout the year and i'll neatly write all of my plans up in them time and time again.

3. Mobile Phone & charger - I simply cannot be without this! I am constantly checking my emails, Facebook, Twitter etc. I can't even begin to imagine how I lived when I had my trusty Nokia 3310!

4. Random scraps of rubbish - I said I was organised but I never said I was tidy haha!

5. Make up/Body spray

6. Sunglasses

7. A random half melted chocolate bar - In case i get peckish!