Families Collide!

Dan has had the event 'Families Collide!' in his phone calender for a couple of weeks, but now they have collided I thought I would tell you about the collision:

Although I have met Dan's family lots of times and he has met mine quite a few times, the families have never met each other or really even bothered to learn eachothers names, but as we're officially engaged and they will most likely be sharing a grandchild sometime in the next decade, we though it was about time they met.

We met in Southport where Dan's family live which by a weird coincidence is also where my mum grew up which meant we had to go a visit "auntie" Chris who is a fake auntie of my mum's that we only see at funerals...but because no one has died for a while we haven't seen her. I don't have grandparents so I've forgotten that old people exist, and this trip was a little reminder of what old people are like, which can be ok in moderation. So I remembered that old people have tea cups with saucers, and extra flowery wall paper and they have a trolley that helps them bring in the tea, and they have a very good selection of cakes and biscuits including Christmas cake...which was presumably still around because of their lack of interaction with the outside world. Bless...I hope they don't read Internet blogs in their spare time.

After our educational trip to "auntie" Chris' we carried on with the journey to Dan's house. I had given my family a few handy survival tips for example 'Dan's Dad can only make really milky tea, if you don't like milky tea don't ask for tea' but my Dad seemed to take this tip and turn it into a challenge. We all met and introduced ourselves and Dan's family showed my family round the church next door where we're getting married and then it was time for a cup of tea. 'Can I have tea with just a little bit of milk?' said my Dad, as I gave him evils. 'That might be difficult for me' said Dan's Dad in a jokey way.

What do you think is the correct response to this?
a) a polite smile
b) to say 'I know!'

and what do you think my Dad did? durrr. The tea was brought in on a tray with milk in a jug so we could pour our own.

Apart from that it went well. I was particularly pleased when the story of our gerbils tragic electrocution came out that the full ending of the story was not as detailed as it could be. All the way though I was wondering if the coffin made from a tampon box would come up, luckily it didn't. Phew.

My Long Term Underwear Strategy

I can't believe I've had my long term underwear strategy in place for around 6 years and never blogged about it. As my my long term underwear strategy has recently become my medium term underwear strategy I though it was worth a mention.

So the 6 years ago version me was similar to me now but I hadn't met Dan, I didn't have a blog, I'd only just got an email address (not because the technology wasn't there I was just was quite stubborn/lazy about learning new things) I was also quite angry about the middle east and was a bit less girly than I am now. Just setting the scene.

Anyway I've always been quite business minded and I think if I was a bit more money motivated I could be a good business person but the problem is I view fun as my currency for life and therefore I would only be interested in making more money if it resulted in me having more fun, and on balance I don't think it would. Most successful business people spend the Marjory of their lives wearing grey and and working in greyish rooms and I just can't take that lack of colour. So I use my strategic business knowledge in my everyday life decisions such as underwear purchasing.

My long term life goal (underwear wise) is to be able to wear matching underwear everyday when I'm married.

If you are a woman you have probably already spotted the potential difficulties arising here which is: you change your knickers everyday but you only change your bra every couple of days.

There are several ways round this problem you could choose to wash your bra everyday, you could choose to only wash your knickers every few days (but that's gross) you could buy all your underwear the same or you could do what I have done and implement a 3 to 1 ratio of knickers to bras. This means that instead of just buying underwear randomly I would buy it less often but I would always buy 3 pairs of knickers and one bra at any time I needed underwear.

This worked ok for a couple of years and I began to build up a good collection but then there was a few months when I lost my focus and was lured buy those nice topshop 3 really pretty knickers for £9 but they don't match any thing offers. So I got a bit lax but now that I will be married in 6 months it is time to reintroduce the magic 3 to 1 ratio and make my long term underwear strategy into a medium term one.

A special thank you to Helen and Rachel who have supported me in my dream from the very begining and have even invested a £20 la senza voucher to the cause. xx

Negotiations

After becoming engaged to Dan, we have started the nitty gritty negotiations of our future life together. The main things were discussed before engagement, we both want children we both would like to live abroad, neither of us want to eat mushrooms ect ect. But now the really negotiations have began...the stuff we don't agree so clearly on like I like semi-skimmed milk and he like full cream....we tossed a coin- I won which means we will have a life of semi-skimmed. Although now I feel a bit mean now maybe we could do a re-toss in 10 years time. We also negotiated that he would clean up all our future children's sick, in return he wanted me to clear up all poo but I think that's a bit unfair because poo happens more often than sick so we settled on me being in charge of plasters...I got off lightly I feel.

In other Han and Dan news, today he became my employee we dressed up like members of CSI and built an elephant.