January - February - March
I started the year with my first A Day In My Life, showing that my New Years Day was just an average weekend, nothing special! The previous year I'd bought James a stone to lay outside the Arsenal Emirates stadium. It was so hard to choose what to have inscribed, seeing as it's going to be outside the stadium for a long, long time! We finally got the chance in January to go and see the stone in it's final resting place after I'd bought James Red club membership and tickets to a match for Christmas.
February was pretty quiet apart from the one whirlwind trip we had to Nottingham to see Russell Howard. With only one holiday day to spare from work we took one afternoon and one morning off. It was so tiring but I wouldn't have wanted to take any time unpaid from work, so it was completely worth it. Russell Howard put on an amazing show and we had a lot of fun.
The biggest thing we did in March was take a week's holiday and go to Disneyland Paris! Finally, I was there - I'd wanted to go for so many years and we picked the perfect time to go. Although the castle was partly covered for renovations we had a really great time and the weather was unseasonably warm. As well as the Disney parks we took an afternoon out and saw some of the Paris sights as well. We have to go back, our poor aching feet couldn't make it everywhere we wanted to go.
April - May - June
I finally got the office I'd wished for after having the time to organise all my things into the shelves I'd had since the beginning of the year and fitting curtains to make it cosy. I blame that stupid eBay seller for messing me around. James had a top secret work trip to Manila at the end of April, during all the Easter and Royal Wedding bank holidays. I was at home off work on my own for quite a lot of that time, so I ordered myself some pretty flowers to brighten the house up. They lasted for weeks, very impressed with Interflora. I also got a promotion to supervisor at work, a very welcome surprise and pay rise!
May was a month of just chilling out and doing nothing really, lots of Formula One races to enjoy as well. We did take a trip to Cambridge for the last May bank holiday seeing as James had missed the others at the end of April/beginning of May. It's a city that's so close to Norwich and our hometown of Boston, but we'd never visited. I did keep track of my spending knowing I had a couple of expensive events coming up and No Buy May seemed to be a success!
A very expensive month was June, with my birthday and a trip to Dublin to see Take That's 'Progress' tour at Croke Park. I don't think I've recovered financially from the expense of a trip to Ireland! We did enjoy our time in Dublin and we got to see the sights, but it wasn't a city that we connected with and doubt we'd go back (unless it's for work). As for the Take That show? Our seats were high in the stands, but we still had a great view and Robbie Williams' performance was out of this world! Must buy that DVD!
July - August - September
At the beginning of July I met up with my Uni friends in a 'half-way point' of Peterborough. It was a very sunny day so we spent a lot of it lounged on the grass outside a church/cathedral just chatting and catching up. Another week off in mid-July was for our holiday to Copenhagen during the Elephant Parade. We'd spent a few days in London during the Elephant Parade there and really enjoyed seeing the city in a different way as we worked our way around with a map of elephant locations. It was the perfect way to combine a visit to a new country and a new city, it gave us some kind of direction on where to go and what to see because the elephants were strategically placed. Another holiday with perfect weather, couldn't ask for a better trip.
August was another big fat nothing month. I did try and start another Project 365, but that didn't really work out. I did bake some cupcakes at the end of the month for a friends' birthday, though!
September was the month we rejoined a gym, we went hard for a few weeks and were there 4-5 times a week. All was going so well....
October - November - December
October was the busiest month we've ever had with gigs and events to go to. It did all start with Lee Evans in London at the very end of September, from there we saw Noah & the Whale at our local university (UEA) on October 19. Quickly after was a long weekend away in Liverpool to see Jessie J play at the university there. We also got to have a day in Liverpool going round the docks, the museums and Liverpool One - I even did A Day In My Life for one of the days we were there. One week's rest and we were back on the road down to London for a Britney Spears concert! We didn't take the train and stay over in London in our usual style, too many events meant we could do with saving the cash for Christmas - so I drove down to Epping and we 'tubed' in from there.
Wrapping up a long month of travels and events was the Tinie Tempah show at the O2 on November 4 - the best show I've ever seen in that venue. I have never seen that building so freaking hyped! Amazing. We also combined the Tinie Tempah show with a hotel stop over in Stratford and a theatre trip to see Wicked - an amazing show as well! From there November was pretty quiet, full of Formula One, shopping and X Factor. Oh, and fun with my new iPhone!
December was full of more shopping, this time of the Christmas variety, and a last minute trip to Milton Keynes for the Red Bull Racing celebration for their Championship victories of 2010 and 2011. The Red Bull cars were on display in the city and the drivers took the cars on demo drives up and down one of the main streets. I did manage to get a blurred picture of David Coulthard driving the Red Bull Nascar but there's about it. In December I died my hair brown after being a blonde for so many years! We also managed to stay until the end of the office Christmas party this year, something we'd not managed before. And, I spent far too much money, hence No Buy January!
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