Smiley Badgers and 2013

I've been blogging a bit more frequently recently that is because I don't have a lot else to do at the moment, but let me share with you some of the things I did when I had things to do. My proudest achievement was facilitating the creation of this:

a badger with a side smile cheers everyone up right?

What's even funnier than that is Dan's impression of the side smiling badger.

Last time I wrote a blog I never got round to saying what I set out to say, and again I have been distracted. Damm those smiley badgers and their powers of distraction!

So 2013 that's what I was going to chat about. 2013 is going to be the best year ever because I declare it! and because I have been super stingy my whole life but 2013 is the year we have chosen to convert money and to super fun adventure times.

Here are some of my top most stingy things I've done.

• saved 50p a day out of my lunch money all through secondary school by not drinking.
• for 2 months I lived on a budget of £5 a week for food.
• I didn't go to see Atomic Kitten when they came to my school because it cost £1
• I virtually never buy cards, I always make them - it's not because I'm thoughtful it's because I'm tight.
• When my old work told me I needed smart office trousers, I found some age 10 school uniform trousers for £2.
• I use free wallpaper samples for wrapping paper
• this year I've made my own Christmas crackers from toilet rolls
• I've had my current phone for about 3 years- it was free with a £10 top up.
• in my whole life I've had a desktop computer and 2 laptops, the combined cost of all of these is £20

I've done generous and extravagant things too but I won't list them.

But the point is I've been very careful with money my whole life, and since we've been married Dan has been working very hard commuting to a job he doesn't like in southport (by bike and train because it's the cheapist way) BUT 2013 is going to be the year of adventure and fun where we take 2 months out from working to travel by folding bikes, interail, planes, and a sailing boat through 14 different countries to Kuwait. 

It's going to be massively epic!

55 Years Left

In December I always feel a bit of nostalgia looking back on the year and thinking how grown up I am now. When I first stared this blog I thought it was absolutely unnecessary to clean your bathroom every week and now I feel a little bit guilty when it's not done once a week, that just shows how I have matured since 2009.

According to Wikipedia if I am the average woman in the uk I will live 82.1 years and therefore at 26 years and 11 months I have only 55 years left. Me and Dan would like to live in another country though, one of the countries we are considering is Lebonon but if we live there then I will only have 43 years left.

Anyway I'm not going to get sad about it, I had a midlife crisis when I was 14 and rebelled by still continuing to wear big baggy orange t-shirts and no make-up when everyone else had suddenly got "grown up." It was great to get the midlife crisis over with early though. Last year I set myself a list of things to do before I'm 30 You can see that here:
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/10-things-to-do-before-im-30.html

 and I pleased to say I did manage to do some stand up comedy

(Here is my latest: http://youtu.be/3zip2VBhL9k)

and I tried putting cheese in a glue gun. which you can view here: http://youtu.be/r9NMIJFOVDo

So all I've got left to do in the next 3 years is:

•  make a mosaic in the garden, 
• go on an amazing adventure to kuwait (which is happening in August and Sept) 
• learn to cook a proper roast, 
• Try laminating some ham (for no reason other than to see what happens.)
• and have a baby. Easy peasy lemon squeezie.

I've also achieved my list of things not to do before I'm 27

• I have not started listening to radio 4 (although someone from radio 4 was once interviewed on radio 2 and this was a bit of a moral dilema for me)
• And I have not started saving for a pension. - that was a pretty easy goal to achieve.

I've just got to focus on not buying a bread maker and not becoming a national trust member now. You may think that having goals of things you your not going to do is stupid, but you need to set yourself boundaries or you might accidently end up being someone who paints water colour dogs for a hobby. I've not even got onto what I intended to write about today I'm like a old person nattering away to nobody. Oh well I will save the rest for another day. x

Vintage of the Future

My rock and roll husband is a a gig right now (10.30 on a Tuesday night) but I have stayed in done the washing up, had a bath a made this on MS paint. In case you can't tell it's a cake stand made from a ipad a ipad mini a iphone and a ipod nano (which is by the way too small to put a cake on and therefore useless.)

You may laugh now but I'm telling you this will be all the range in 2042.