I’m 100% behind on whats happened in my life that I wanted to write a post about, life still a little bit manic with working and commuting as well as desperately trying to see the people I love in all my spare moments. So whats gone on in my life this month? Well, lets see what I can tell you all about!
Si’s Birthday Surprise
Right at the begining of the month it was Si’s birthday and after me changing jobs and us having less and less time together I just wanted to plan something cute & special for his birthday. We’ve been together 2 and a half years now and during this time we’ve visited a fair few castles, we visit them when we’re on holiday and in our first year together I took him away as a surprise to Kenilworth castle and to stay overnight in like a hotel that looks like a castle but isn’t a historic castle. Si has a degree in history and really enjoys visiting them, I’m more of that opinion that their beautiful to look at more often than not, interesting to see and you can get some amazing pictures aha! So this year for his birthday I managed to get a sweet deal on GroupOn that was a 2night stay in Best Western Hotels Salford Hall (which is lush) including breakfast each morning, afternoon tea on one of the days and tickets to Warwick Castle. Now I can tell you straight up that Warwick Castle is nothing like the castles we usually visit, it was so commercialised but actually we had a really good day and were entertained by the Falconry shows and Trebuchet shows and Horrible Histories Maze. Si seemed to really enjoy himself and staying in a hotel and just getting a bit of time completely to ourselves was lovely! It ended on a not so great note as I started feeling super ill after our Warwick Castle visit and woke up on our last day full of cold meaning instead of doing what we had planned we headed back to Birmingham and I spent most of the day napping.. To be honest I’ve still not fully recovered as I still have some symptoms of my cold 2 weeks after first feeling ill!
Memory Walk
I’ve already mentioned on my blog about doing this memory walk, but in this post I want to say I had a really great day, I was still suffering from a cold but it was fun to be surrounded by family. I managed to raise 85% of my target thanks to some amazing people in my life donating way more than they should’ve, but it was so nice to feel the support. Me & Alex ended up walking ahead of everyone else and just having the loveliest catch up ever! Even though we’re living together again now we definitely don’t get enough time together but I have to be so honest, she is becoming one of my closest friends and I adore spending time with her.
Other than this my September has been a little boring and consistent mostly of work, work, work, work, work!! I have managed to squeeze in a couple of cheeky brunches with two of my faves, Laura & Lynsey but generally I haven’t really seen much of my pals incl Sarah which is sad as I miss all of them. I’m not sure yet whether this is normal for adults, to hardly see one and other, or whether this is just because I’m working 40+ hours a week as well as travelling for 10 hours.. but who knows! I’ll just see how my life pans out next week.
Ooo! Also its finally scarf season and I could not be happier about it and I dyed my hair a blacky-blue which I absolutely adore so have a picture of it with me in a snapchat filter because why not!
Sx
Samantha 