Day 4-Your parents, Day 5-Your siblings, Day 6-A picture of something that makes you happy, Day 7-Favorite movies, Day 8-A place you've traveled to

Well i will explain why i haven't been here for a few days, well it is a but of a 'too much information' problem that you really don't need to read about so i will spare you the gory details but all you need to know is i am feeling better. So here is the update.

Day 4-Your parents

First we have my dad, Mark, he is a truck driver and we love to take the mick out of him as you can see from the pictures.

Now here is my mom, Debbie, we work together and she is my best friend, we love to mess about at work with sweeties like the teeth below, we are on the twilight shift and we had there fangs in the sweeties so we decided to take pictures like we were from twilight, lol. I know this is sad but you need to do something.

Day 5-Your siblings

I am not going to fill this with all of my so called siblings as 3 out of the 4 are arse-hole bitches and don't deserve the blog space. So here is my younger brother, Thomas.

Day 6-A picture of something that makes you happy.

This picture always makes me happy just how comfortable we are together and to think in this picture me and Dave had only been together about 3 or 4 months, even then i knew i wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.

Day 7-Favorite movies

My favourite movies change all the time but i do have lots of favourites and here is just a few.
Juno, Labyrinth, My best friends wedding, Beauty and the beast, Freddie got fingered, Willy wonka, Wizard of OZ, Paranormal activity 1 and 2. There are so much more.

Day 8-A place you've traveled to.

In 2008 we went to Florida for our first holiday together on our own. It was awesome, we went to all the different parks.

Day 3-your first love.

When i was in school i had a few boyfriends who i thought at the time i loved. It was only when i agreed to meet up with Dave that the feelings were so intense that i realised that i felt very strongly for the other guys (who in their defence were awesome guys but it just didn't work out i was never cheated on or anything like that and i still talk to them) but the feelings were so much different this time. That's when i knew i was going to spend the rest of my life with him.

Day 2-Meaning behind your blog name

Well the meaning of my blog is pretty self explanatory, it is a blog (mostly) about my big day in preparation, i wanted somewhere that i could have my little rants and ideas all on one place and just so that maybe not now but in the future people will want to take inspiration from it.

Day 1-Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts.

Here is my second 30 day challenge.
Day 1-Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts.

Right, my name is Amy and i am 23 years old, i live in Dudley which is in the UK. I currently live at home with my parents and little brother younger brother, (i keep calling him my little brother but he is not so little any more he is taller than me). I have a puppy called Mimi, a rabbit called bob and 2 chip monks called chip and monk. I am engaged to an amazing guy and we have our wedding booked for September 2012 3 days after i turn 25. I love to read, i have done since i was very young i ready the hobbit and lord of the rings by the time i was 10 and i like to read at least one book a month but sometimes if i have a busy month or it is a very log book i wont pressure myself too much. I also love watching American shows like 18 kids and counting and just started watching a new one called 'quints by suprise' it isn't on TV over here yet but i watch it online. I also love food shows like 'diners, drive-ins and dives' and 'man vs food' i think this could be the reason i find it hard to lose weight as i love cooking.I enjoy taking my dog for a walk but hate it when she wont sit at the kerb, i think its because its too cold on her but, lol.


Here is a recent picture of me:

This is me, obviously, me and my mom did a midnight walk for the Mary Stevens hospice which my grandad has been helping with for quite a few years and they like it if people would dress up, well me being me i had to go out and get me a new costume so i decided on a bee, my mom went as a hula girl (with leggings and a tshirt underneath as it was the middle of the night and we are not that into showing our wiggly bits lol.). it was so much fun.


Now my 15 interesting facts.


I am ever so slightly addicted to Pepsi max, i drink it everyday.

I was paralysed from the waist down for 2 days when i was 18 after a car accident.

I keep it a secret from most of the people i know that i am infertile and am waiting for IVF (so if you are reading this and know me please don't say anything on facebook, i don't want everyone talking about me any more than they already do)

I am debt free!

I have an OCD that irritates me so much, i cant help but sing a song if just the mention of it comes up, or a TV advert, or just a saying from a movie, i just have to do it and i get annoyed with myself about it.

I am a very emotional person but i don't really show it.

I am a secret nerd, geek, swat, dork, you get the picture.

I have read the bible in full, (not in the right order but i don't feel this is necessary)

I plan on going to uni after i am married to do forensic science.

I wanted to do my work experience in a morgue where they make-up the dead people. but they said they couldn't just in case we were emotionally scared from it, lol.

My mom is my best friend.

I love Lillie's.

I enjoy working in a factory, yes i know that sounds weird but i do.

I haven't seen my bedroom floor so much in the past 10 years than i have in the last 2 months since getting my dog.

I proved the bra show wrong when i was measured for a bra. they measured me as a 40D, when i tried it on it was too big round but way to small in the cups so i went back to my usual size which is 36/38 FF/G this all depends on where i get my bras from and what style they are.

Day 30: a dream for the future

Wow i am done with this challenge already. I have found another one which i will post this list after this final day then start either tomorrow or Monday.

Day 30: a dream for the future.

My dream for the future is in most part for the next 2/3 years, i am dreaming for the successful IVF, (or the miracle of natural conception) for my wedding to be the great day i am hoping it will be and to be settling into life as a wife, mother and not quite so crazy lady lol.

Day 1-Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts


Day 2-Meaning behind your blog name

Day 3-Your first love

Day 4-Your parents

Day 5-Your siblings

Day 6-A picture of something that makes you happy

Day 7-Favorite movies

Day 8-A place you've traveled to

Day 9-A picture of your friends

Day 10-Something you're afraid of

Day 11-Favorite tv shows

Day 12-What you believe

Day 13-Goals

Day 14-A picture you love

Day 15-Bible verse

Day 16-Dream house

Day 17-Something you're looking forward to

Day 18-Something you regret

Day 19-Something you miss

Day 20-Nicknames

Day 21-Picture of yourself

Day 22-Favorite city

Day 23-Favorite vacation

Day 24-Something you've learned

Day 25-Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs

Day 26-Picture of your family

Day 27-Pets

Day 28-Something that stresses you out

Day 29-3 Wishes

Day 30-a picture
 
There are a few points on this one that will be similar to the 30 day challenge i have just finished but there are a lot of different ones too and it gets me blogging even if i don't have much to blog about.

Day 28: whats in your handbag/purse and Day 29 - hopes,dreams and plans for the next 365 days

Day 28: whats in your handbag/ purse.




Love this one as i have so much in my bag that it may take a while, lol.




My handbag is a juno cross body patent bag in electric blue. (below is a picture from google not my actual bag.)

This bag it awesome its like mary poppins bag.

3 hospital letters (appointment, SA info, IVF guidelines)
a pay slip
a cd with pictures i had printed at boots
tum tums
purse
small bag with tampons (forgot to take out now i have moon cup)
anti bacterial hand wash
deodorant
perfume
eye drops
small bottle mouth wash
small tub face cream
small empty tub
concealer
organic detoxing foundation
breath spray
nail file
house keys
half pack halls soothers
3 lolly pops
bra extension
4 used cinema tickets (inception, sex and the city 2, the last exorcism and devil)
17 used bus tickets
4 boots weight receipts
7 doggy treats
doggy poop bags
I didn't realise just how much i do have in my bag, lol, wow.




Day 29: my hopes dreams and plans for the next 365 days.




This for me is mostly focused around fertility treatment, there will be normal day to day things like spending time with my family and that sort of thing but i am trying so hard with my weight so that i am healthy for IVF, i am also trying to read as much as i can so that i know as much as possible so that there are no nasty surprises around the corner. I am debt free now so i am concentrating on paying for my wedding too which isn't in the next 365 days but if i was asked this again after the 365 days is up then i think it would be different as i am hoping and praying that and treatment we are given will work in the next 365 days and so after that i wouldn't have as much to be stressed about, but i know from statistics and other peoples blogs that the hoping and praying doesn't always come through.

Day 27: your worst habit

Before i get on to day 27 i just need to explain about where day 26 is. well its on where, i decided with the week i have had i can hardly remember if it happened last week or 3 weeks ago and i really don't want to try to remember it all and put it on here, i know i am sort of cheating on the challenge but i have managed them all so far so i think i am allowed.
Day 27
I would have to say my worst habit would have to be putting myself down, i cant help it i have done it for so long now that i don't realise i do it, i do it all the time. i don't think there really is any thing else i can say about this as it is quite self explanatory. My other worse habit is the exact same thing as my OCD which is bursting into song or spouting of a quote mid conversation when a word or phrase sets me off.

Day 25: your day in detail

Here goes (there is a few things i left out like using the bathroom and things like that as nobody really wants to know that):
    I woke up this morning at about half past 8 with the dog whining to go out so i got up took her down stairs and gave her breakfast and opened the back door. i went back up to bed just for another hour as it is a Sunday, i ended up sleeping till 12:05, its OK my mom was making dinner, i was woken by the woman next door shouting over the fence saying something about a dog then my dad leaving the house and then coming back so i started to get dresses when my mom called me on the intercom (yes we have intercom phones in almost every room in the house as its better than waking the babies next door by shouting up stairs) to say my dinner was done, so me and the MR got up and went down stairs, it turns out it was my dog that had gotten into her garden, so she had to be shut inside, i sat down to have my dinner, pulled pork, stuffing, cauliflower, sprouts (yes i love my veg who'd of though) roast potatoes and gravy. Then i did the dogs dinner. Then we worked out where the dog had got through to next door it turns out she is small enough to fit through the little gaps in the wire fence then through the bush the other side. So we got a long piece of rope and linked it to her harness and tied it in the house, she really didn't like it as she couldn't go very far. Then my dad said about calling the guy to get new fence, i asked how much just the stuff would cost to do it as we have done my brothers fence before so it shouldn't be too hard but he was adamant that the hedge would have to come out but i dint see why as it in on next doors side so she can sort it. but he was having none of it. Then me and the MR watched some movies. Then we gave the dog a bath and sat in the living room drying her, she isn't allowed in the living room unless she is on the sofa as we have new carpet and my dad doesn't want 'mess' on it. Then it was time for the MR to head home so i took the opportunity to take the dog out so we walked to the bus station then back home, do you think she would sit at any road i came across on the way back, erm no i had to hold down her butt. When i got back i gave her supper and came on the net and checked my AOL email and my yahoo email, then facebook then came on here to update you guys. When i am finished this i will be copying it to stick on my other blog that i am also doing the 30 day challenge and then read all the updates from everyone. Then i will settle down and watch TV before taking the dog up to bed and go to sleep.

Weight loss page

As you can see i have places a new page near the top of my blog with the heading weight loss. I know i have said that i wasn't really that bothered about losing weight just wanting to tone up, well i went to my fertility specialist on Thursday and we found out some not so great news, the MR's results were not so good, meaning the clomid treatment cannot happen and IUI would not work so we were referred to the IVF specialist to be put on the waiting list. They gave us a form with all the criteria that we had to meet before we could have IVF, this was we had to be over 23 (i just turned 23 nearly a month ago) we had to be trying for over 3 years (its been nearly 3 and half years), we have to be non-smokers (neither of us smoke or have ever smoked), neither of us could have children already (neither of us do), and one main thing is my BMI can not be below 19 or above 30, if it is then they will turn us away (i am currently 29 but different scales tell me different things). Because of this i am aiming to be a BMI of at most 27 this way i will be well within the limits. This shouldn't make much of a difference to my wedding dress if i stay at that weight but right now if it means my dress doesn't fit but i have the longed for baby then i would get a different dress, the dress will be there for one day but the baby is in my prayers everyday.

Day 24: where i live.

I live in a town called Dudley. it is in the West midlands, right in the middle of that little red bit above.


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I live in the house right at the end of the block witht he blue door. I have lived here for nearly 11 years now.

 I live 5 minute walk away from the town centre which is right next to Dudley zoo and castle.

After living here all my life and seeing it from my door step its only when i see it in a picture that i realise just how lucky i am to have something like this right on my door step, it really is beautiful.

Just down the road from the zoo is the Black country living museum, i used to love going there when i was younger, it isn't like other museums they have taken old buildings and transport them to there, it is like a little town, they have an old style fish and chip shop, traditional sweets all made the same way they used to in the 1800's with the little metal presses. The people who work there are all in period clothes, its so much fun.

A short drive from my town is Merry hill shopping centre where you can get almost everything.

Then finally not too far away (about half an hour due to the heavy traffic) we have the world famous Bullring centre in Birmingham.

Like i have said, as i have lived here for all my life i don't always appreciate it but really i am quite lucky to live somewhere that has quite a lot of character