After a bad week I'm having a break......

Good for you! all sounds very positive. You go girl! and im dead jealous you're seeing Pink, I am so out of touch with whats playing.... Glasgow I presume?? have a good one!

Oh gills sounds like you really need a break - I think you're definitely doing the right think by just clearing your mind of it all for a while - I don't think you really stop planning as you'll always get ideas through your head (well thats what its like for me) but there's a difference between that and it being all-consuming so to speak . (is any of this making sense?...)

what was OH having a go at you for?

anyway I think it would be good for you and for your health to make some space between you and WP - before you go insane!

I have never made minestrone soup so not sure about recipes - Delia is always a safe bet for me. Making veggie soup today with some leftover pumpkin I froze - think I'm going to make like a spicy rustic thing - though the sun has just come out !

Thanks Nona. Yeah shes at the SECC. We've been to see her twice before and she is fab. We missed out earlier in the year because her concert was the day after we went to Florida - I was so disappointed but then she added an extra date which was in October - perfect!!!!!

Aw, sounds like a cr*ppy week. You're quite right to give yourself a wee break!

Also very jealous you're going to see Pink. I was going to ask you to sneak me in but now they scan all tickets on the way in and out! Boo, ruining everyone's fun! ?

I get what you are saying 100% - I'm looking forward to clearing it all from my mind.

My OH initially had a go at me for provisionally booking the buses this week cos he said that he was going to find out about buses through his work - now this was weeks ago and he hasn't done anything about it or mentioned it since. This quickly lead onto the fact that we don't know how many people will be getting a bus (but this is normal) which then lead onto the fact that the guest list hasn't been finalised yet. My side of the guest list has been finalised - hes sat for months not making decisions about who he wants on the day list and the evening list. I keep asking him to do it and he wont. I've asked and asked cos I've needed to know when I ordered the stationery and when we are making the invitations at the end of the month and he hasn't done it and now hes giving ME a hard time cos the guest list isn't finalised!!!! I told him that I can't make his decisions for him and all the things I've asked him to do like ask his family if they might want a room at the hotel, if they would be interested in buses, if his BIL would video the wedding, decide on his wedding ring, finalise the guest list he hasn't done. Soooooo frustrating!!!!! lol

Thanks Tango and I'll have a look at Delia's stuff for Minestrone soup

Oh yeah, forgot there was something else yesterday - we were planning to go to Dublin for my hen do and my BMs were sorting this out - I told them a few weeks ago I wanted the flights booked cos its through Ryanair and the flights don't stay cheap for long. I spoke to one of my BMs through the week and they hadnt really done anything else with it and said they would look at it next week. Yesterday I checked and the flights and they are away up in price which means that we wont be doing that for my hen any more. I know its not the end of the world but I was really looking forward to it and if it had been left to me to organise I would have had it all booked by now.

Right, thats enough - sorry, I'm going to shake it all off ️?️

Enjoy your day, and have a good ole break from it all.

Oh Gills just hget it all out of your system - we'll call it a 'cleansing exercise'!

about your OH - well tat sounds pretty damn familiar! lol, my OH is the same, I have to keep on going about things until its done or do it myself. usually comes don to "I'm doing x NOW and whatever is not finalised I'm going to just make it up" - then he either panics and does it himself - or leaves me to it and knows he won't be able to complain later, but I know exactly what you're talking about.

Shame about the Hen weekend! can you move it to a different date or is that not an option?...

I'm not sure I want a hen weekend at all... there was an idea of going to Rome, but I don't know, money is tight and it just seems like an unnecessary indulgence at the moment.

Thanks (again) Tango

I know that your OH and my OH are v similar in the way they do (or don't do) things!!!! lol Am going to sit mine down tonight with the laptop and make him decide or, as you do, tell him I'll just make the decision if he doesn't!!!!

I'm the same with the hen weekend - I was trying to keep the costs down as much as possible. The return flights were £10 to Dublin including taxes and checkin which I thought was great - now its about £30 plus checkin so its just getting too much. We'll do a re-think. The weekend was just for me and a close group of friends. I'm having a dinner locally at then end of March that hopefully everybody will be able to make.

Hi Gillsy

Sorry to hear youve had a bad week - it sounds like you def need a break and its really good to have one only afew weeks ago I was snowed in with work opening three new centres and I just didnt have time for ANY wedding plans and although I thought I would miss it - it was actually a nice break and once I got back to it Ive done loads of boring tasks that I was putting off just coz they were abit boring and not as fun as the other tasks - a break def does you good!!! esp when you think about it most brides are planning their wedding for a year, year and a half even two years plus - thats alot of time!!

Hope you have a good break hun!!

xx

? aww Gillsy! Bless ya, it does sound like a crap week for ya!

Just go and see Pink and think of everyone that's jealous of you for it! Then take a while to clear your head, and come back fresh with the excellent tips and advice that you always give ? Hope you feel better soon!

About your hen night, have you checked out chilisauce.co.uk ? I was looking at them yesterday...thinking of going on a pamper / clubs hen do with them!

Take Care xxx