Rocking Your World Friday week 10

Yay – 10 weeks in and I haven’t missed one yet!  You know I’m really enjoying writing these little positivity round ups, especially at the end of a work week that hasn’t been all that great – it kind of knocks everything back into perspective just in time for the weekend – so let’s hear it for Virginia for having the fab idea in the first place :)

As for my week, it’s been so so, nothing horrid, just with more work and less rushing around having fun than usual

But at least it started with a nice weekend :

Last Saturday and Sunday we were in celebration mode, as it was Reece’s 13th birthday on Sunday.  It’s a real treat for us to see him on his birthday (he lives with his mum in the week and we only have him at the weekends), so we made the most of it.

As well as pressies, we laid on a few birthday treats (and one attempted treat)

Planned treat #1 : a photo op on the ice after Saturday’s hockey game (which, as an aside, was THE best game I’ve seen all season, brilliant!!) with his favourite player - #49 Nicky Watt   (This was cool as Reece had no idea this was going to happen until they called his name :) )

Unplanned but fun treat #2 : we didn’t realise there was going to be a fair this weekend, until we spotted it on our way to hockey.   A birthday weekend gave us the perfect excuse to visit after the game.  And while the boys whooped it up on the rides, I had fun playing with long exposure photographs.

Attempted treat #3 : we tried to go swimming, but everyone else in Swindon seemed to have the same idea and the queue was over an hour long!  So fast forward to

Planned treat # 4 :  an absolutely delicious meal at Cosmo, our local all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet restaurant.  Yummmmmmmmmmm.

And talking of yum – planned treat #5 : CAAAAKE!!!!

For the rest of the week, as I said up top, it’s been a bit all work and no play making Sarah a dull girl – but as ever there were a couple of little shafts of sunshine:

- I finished another CJ entry and sent it out into the world – that was the last one that I was pushing the deadline on, so I can relax a little now
- The next Rock CJ turned up in the post and it is gorgeous, I loved looking through what has been done in it so far

- My Korn tickets came- the gig is only a couple of weeks away now and I’m super pumped!!

- I got my first ever postcard from Vietnam – a pretty rare country on Postcrossing, so I was chuffed with that

- I’ve been going off Glee a bit recently, but their version of Smooth Criminal last night with the duelling cellos was a-MAZ-ing!  It really lifted my mood.

- I treated myself to a Waitrose sarnie for lunch today, Brie and Grape with Redcurrant Chutney.  SO good!

Th-th-th-that’s all for this week folks