Friday, December 31, 2004

Aberdeen's Big Brother

I was doing a bit of surfing around on our local council website tonight and came across something I'd almost forgotten about.

The council buildings have three cameras sitting on top of it. These are all connected to their website and point at three parts of the city centre Castlegate, Union Street & the Harbour.

They only update once a minute but they give you a good idea of what's in our part of the world.

James

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Christmas!

It's been a few days since either of us posted, so here's the weekly baby bump picture first of all. I'm now 27 weeks, so hopefully on the downhill slope!

James and I had a nice white Christmas here in Aberdeen, it started snowing on Christmas Eve and snowed most of Christmas Day then thankfully (don't fancy falling again!) just melted on boxing day. We had a pretty quiet Christmas day - just the 2 of us in the house, but it was nice all the same, who knows when (if??) we'll ever be able to do that again!

On Boxing Day, my mum and her boyfriend came up to visit. We got more pressies, and lots of baby things! We went into town shopping yesterday, which is getting more and more exhausting for me, and annoying for others when I can't go much faster than a snail! (Those of you coming to visit over the next month, please note, shopping is NOT on the agenda!!)

Last night mum took us out for a meal. We went to our favourite restaurant so that I could get my corriander "fix". It's an Indian in Aberdeen called Shahbaaz. Afterwards we went to get ice-cream from Baskin Robbins, yummy!

Not done a lot today, got up and took mum to visit Hannah and Holly who is now 6 days old! She's soooo cute. Now mum and Tom have just headed off down the road. Next........

Julie.x

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Friday, December 24, 2004

Passing the time

Well I'm currently sitting at work waiting for Julie to come and pick me up so I thought I'd pass the time by writing a wee entry.

Julie, Bunny and me would like to wish you all a great Christmas and a fantastic New Year. Lets hope Santa brings you all the presents you wished for ;)

(*whisper*) 42" Plasma, 42" Plasma, 42" Plasma (*whisper*)

James

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Sunday, December 19, 2004

Baby Update - Week 26

James here for a change.

We thought it was about time that I did a bit of a baby update on the blog as that role to date seems to have been given to Julie.

Emotionally this week seems to have been quite quiet. Saying that we've still had a few 'ups and downs', quite literally in fact. The infamous Scottish ice kicked off this weekend and has left most of Aberdeen as an ice rink.

Last night we decided since it was Saturday night to pop out and get a chinese take away. We also decided to "kill two birds with one stone" and drop off a christmas card on the way. Julie unfortunately had a bit of a fall on the way to the door. No damage done apart from a couple of a mud marks on her jeans and a few scratches on her mobile but still a bit of a hairy moment.

She was a bit shocked but it wasn't anything that the chinese couldn't sort out 30 minutes later ;)

James

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Friday, December 17, 2004

All tied up for Christmas

Bit of a busy "Spring" clean this week.

Had the dry cleaner round yesterday to gut all the carpets followed by the "new" couch v2 turning up this morning. Quite nice timing actually.

Thank god that it actually fitted this time as well. I was quite nervous when they first turned up with it.

Here's a wee picture of what all the fuss has been about. Great for those cosy nights in :)

Now that we've got that out the way we can look at putting the Christmas tree up (hooray, says Julie).

James

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Addictive Santa Game!

I've been playing this really addictive Santa Sling Shot game all morning!!

Have a go!

http://www.learn4good.com/games/action/sling_shot_santa.htm

My best one is 310.5....beat that!

Julie.xx

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Monday, December 13, 2004

Clever Froogle - Racing Frogs!

I thought it was about time I put something on here that wasn't about my bump! So the other obsession in my life just now is my virtual frog!

I've had my frog now for a few weeks (age:165 in frog days!) and am sooo impressed with how clever she is and how well she is doing!! I have bought her a helicopter and a landing pad (along with all the other things like computer, mobile phone and scooter) for one of the ponds, and am about to buy her a second landing pad.

Having a happy Froogle seems to work, as she has won every race for over 2 weeks now, winning me lots of gold and medals. She has 23 medals now, gaining 2 in the Superfrogs race on Sunday!!

She is 615th out of 119200 frogs in her region, and 38th of 7900 in her age catagory, which is amazing!! Just another few things to get her and she'll be winning the superfrogs race!!

Sad? Me? No way.......

Julie.xx

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Sunday, December 12, 2004

Baby Bunny - Week 25

This week has been a boring one....got all the Christmas shopping finished, finally!!

The week coming up is going to be busy....have work at the start of the week, then having our carpets shampooed on Thursday, so have to get all the furniture moved out of living room and bedroom. Then James will finally let me put up my Christmas tree!! Yippee!!

Then I have my work office party on Friday....have bought my secret Santa present, but that's a secret!

Bump is moving around loads now, he's starting to have a wee personality. He responds to James voice now and kicks him which is funny. He has had a bit of a growth spurt as well I think this week, and is driving me nuts in the middle of the night.

I feel totally exhausted most of the time...and increasingly frustrated at myself not being able to do things I am used to doing. Downhill from here on though....17 weeks at the very most to go!!

Julie.xx

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Saturday, December 11, 2004

Happy Birthday Kelly!!

Well it's my little sis's birthday today. Oh it only seems like yesterday that we were both sitting at home chilling out with our pants on our heads.

Happy Birthday Kelly :D

James


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Thursday, December 09, 2004

The (almost!) Finished House!

Well that's my parents 'hoilday' home in Cyprus almost built, and just in time for Christmas as well.

Here's some pictures that were taken at the beginning of the week.




The house still needs to have the electricity turned on and the railing put in around the swimming pool. Apart from that though it's just about there.

The furniture is now on it's way out there with my mum closily following next Thursday (16th). My dad's out on the 23rd and the two are spending Christmas day sitting in the Med' in front of the swimming pool. Ok for some!!!

I guess the only disadvantage of it all is they've got to unpack everything once it's turned up. It's a hard life :)

James

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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

The things people do for charity

Well I've had some strange days at work before but this one has to take the biscuit. Today, my boss got arrested. Yeap you heard me ARRESTED!!!

I always thought he had a bit of a dark side to him :)

But seriously though. As part of a fund raising event for one of Aberdeen's local charities Northsound's Cash for Kids, Jeff was arrested at 14:40 by two genuine policeman for "Abuse to Office equipment" (it's a long story!!). He was then taken downstairs, hand chuffed and thrown in the back of a police van.

He was then whisked over to the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre and locked in their tower with other local businessmen and celebrities. The idea from this point on was to phone as many contacts as possible and aim to make at least £1000 each for the charity.

The group managed to raise around £14,000 with Jeff making approxiamately £2,500 of that total. Nice one Jeff!!

James

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Monday, December 06, 2004

Bump Update - Week 24

Thought I better put this on before all you people get annoyed!! I was asked a few times today why there was no bump pic on a Sunday!! How impatient!! It's not a great pic, it was taken after one of my many crying fits, so ignore the face!!

That's me 24 weeks tomorrow, only 16 to go....or so folk keep telling me. 16 weeks seems like an eternity. Can't wait till he comes out coz then I won't be pregnant any more and I can return to being Julie and not this evil cow!! I think being pregnant suits some folk, but I certainly am not one of them!

As you can see, we have a new location for bump pics - in the baby's room! Seems appropriate!

He is now kicking like mad 24 hours a day and driving me nuts, I couldn't get close to my desk at work today because every time I did, he'd bash into it and hurt me!!

That's all folks!

Julie.xx

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Saturday, December 04, 2004

Baby's Room Finished!


Today we finished the room for Bunny....everything seems so real now!! It took us a couple of days to paint it (it was a dark blue before so we had to hide that first!) and then today we put up the border and the curtains and I have to say I just love it!! The cot is full of "stuff" for him, and I didn't realise how much we had collected already!!

The pictures don't really do it justice I have to say, might take some more in daylight and see if they are any better. Now all it needs is wardrobe and chest of drawers and it's sorted!

On other news, tonight we were at Sarah's birthday party.....was good fun and I even had a glass of wine :o) Shame it was only one though!!

And another really sad thing, I bought baby monitors in Boots that I am well excited about.......they are Tomy ones and they were on special offer with £10 off which was fab. My friend Jenni had given me a friends of staff members voucher which entitles you to 10% off too. Then on top of that I got triple points as well as 500 bonus points for spending over £25 in the baby section. So all in all I got 1000 from it, ie another £10 off really. So the monitors were almost half price....bargain!!!

Having a nice quiet day tomorrow, been a busy few days and I am knackered!!

Julie.xx

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Thursday, December 02, 2004

Lottery Winner in the family

Got a bit of news from my little sister last night.

She's managed to get 5 numbers on the National Lottery and won herself a nice little sum just under £1500. Nice timing just before Christmas.

The sad part of this story is that the 6th number was apparently one away from the bonus ball. What a shame!!!

Not sure what she's going to do with it yet but Kelly, since I know you read this blog daily, I REALLY need a new 42" plasma screen if you fancy being generous this Christmas :D

Love your darling sweet brother,
James

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