fun few days

Hello girls. I've had a fun few days since I last blogged. On Monday evening hubby and I went to the pictures to see The kings speech with dishy Colin Firth. We both really enjoyed the film it was interesting to watch so we were glad we went, me especially as I do love Colin Firth.
Yesterday morning my mum came over on the bus and then we walked down to the train station and caught the train to Leeds where we walked round to Crown Point which is a retail park about ten minutes from the city centre. We did some shopping had lunch in M&S, a toastie and a piece of victoria sandwich yum yum, and then hubby came down after work to pick us and my nephew who works across the road from Crown point up. After a look in the last few shops we set off home, thats where the fun stopped as we were caught in a tailback from some roadworks and it took us nearly two hours to get home, normally it would have took us abour 3/4's of an hour.
Today hubby was going snowboarding for a couple of hours after work this afternoon so as he was doing something fun today I thought I'd do something fun too and get my beads and tools out and have a play. I had some new beads and things I wanted to use including some cameo and flower cabochons. The cameos and flowers only needed a bit of glue and either a ring, brooch or pendant base added so they didn't take that long to make, after that I made a few bracelets and two necklace bracelet and earring sets.
Please excuse the photos being all over but I still can't work out how to add them neatly.

Another exciting blog

I'm back girls with another exciting installment in Andies world, Who needs dallas, dynasty and desperate housewives for excitement and entertainment when theres my blog to read eh ?????
Yes I am being sarky there, I know my blog is pretty boring and dull and defo not in dallas standards, no shouder pads around here and definately no men coming back from the dead  in my shower.
Well we went to ikea yesterday and spent an enjoyable couple of hours opening drawers, looking in cupboards and sitting on sofas. We didn't buy much as we'd only really gone to browse but still it was a nice trip out.
The car park was a nightmare, absolutely jampacked, everybody and their mother must have decided to go to ikea on sunday, well me and my mother had so I suppose why shouldn't they. After ages sitting in queues in the car park we gave up and left ikea and parked in another car park belonging to some more shops nearby and walked back to ikea. We shoud have done this in the first place as the ikea car park is always chocker but as it had been a long time since we last visited we'd forgotten, next time wewont even try the ikea carpark.
The shop was really busy too but we could still get to most of the displays to play. Hubby and I are terrible at trying everything, my mum who came with us will ask us 'do you have try every sofa?, open every cupboard?' errrr YES mum whats the point in coming if your not going to try everything????
I saw her open quite a few drawers in the kitchen display and once we got to the wardrobes she was inside them all drooling at the internal drawers and space saving fittings. She likes a good nosey and try out herself if she's honest.
The queues at the checkouts were humongous as always but eventually we got through them and out of the shop passing by the takeaway food counter, we werent tempted to indulge as the food always looks like plastic pretend food to us so we stopped off at burger king on the way home.
Big mistake in my case as I decided to try a chicken ceaser tendercrisp burger, I love ceaser salad and if I have dressing in at home I often put a smear of it on my bread when I have chicken or turkey sandwiches so I thought I would like it. Oh no, it was horrible, as soon as I unwrapped the burger the smell was terrible, the sauce smelt really vinegarey and when I took a bite it tasted really sour. I tried wiping the sauce off but the burger coating was sort of soggy and not nice so after two bites I left it, I wont be ordering that again.
After a chat and watching a bit of tele we took mum home and got back just in time for dancing on ice. I watched the first half hour on the exercise bike as I hadn't done my half hour for sunday yet. I did 30 minutes at an average speed of 20 kmh, went just over 10km and burned 117 calories according to the display.
I'm not very good with gauging distances so this got me thinking about how far 10km actually was, I decided to look up how far it is from our house to somewhere so I could get  better idea. I logged onto the aa route planner put in my address and as we had just taken mum home I put in her address as the destination. It said it was 10.6km from our house to mums, so in effect I had cycled almost to my mums . If I'd stayed on another few minutes I'd have been there. Well this set my thoughts off on a tangent and I have now recorded my distance etc from yesterday and I'm going to keep doing it and see how far I travel in a week and where I could get to.
Of course this will only ever be a virtual cycle journey as I can't even ride a proper bike and even if I could I would never attempt to cycle to my mums as its very hilly round here and I'd need to go up some to get to mums starting with the road I live on. Its very rare you see anyone riding a bike up our road, they usually get off and push at least part of the way, only the very dedicated cyclist attempts to ride up it and even they slow down so much they're in danger of going backwards as they near the top.


Not so much taking a bike ride as taking your bike for a ride



Happy Weekend Girls

Morning girls.Well its sunday and the weekend is half over but I hope you are all enjoying it, I am. Not that I've done anything exciting, just the normal weekend trip to the supermarket yesterday and then a relaxing time at home with a bit of tv and my knitting so it was quiet but enjoyable day. We might go for a look round ikea today cos we haven't been for ages. My aunt mentioned she'd been last week and it got us thinking we might fancy a trip out there too. Besides that I've no plans for the day except watching dancing on ice tonight and fitting in half an hour on the exercise bike sometime today.
I'm still cycling my way to toned thighs (hopefully) although yesterday I only did 20 minutes instead of my half hour target. I know I know thats how you start on the slippery slope to giving up doing it and the bike becoming another unused dustcatcher but I just couldn't manage anymore. I was sat next to the radiator and the heating was on and I was flipping melting. To be honest I'm surprised I managed 20 minutes even as I was melting and ready to give up after 10 but I managed to push mysef to 20. I should have gone on later for the other 10 when I had cooled down but not long after mum needed taking home and then it was teatime and after letting tea settle it seemed a bit late to be doing exercise.
I will try to make sure I do the full 30 minutes today, maybe even do a few minutes more to make up for the 10 I missed yesterday. I have managed to do the full 30 minutes every other day since we bought it, in fact on thursday I did 35 cos I forgot to get off lol, so hopefully I'm still commited to doing my exercise. I feel like I'm commited to it anyway .....or is that  I feel like I should be commited.... to an institution lol.
Well thats my news, not very earth shattering was it, but what can you expect from a yorkshire housewife,  we don't exactly live the life of a rich and famous movie star round these parts. A trip to morrisons, a bit of knitting and a go on the exercise bike is about as exciting as it gets lol. I think I'll sign off now and go get showered and dressed for a trip to ikea, I might even blog about it tomorrow so prepare yourselves for the excitement girls.

ger on yer bike lass

hello all. I hope your all well. Nothing much to report or say today but thought I'd come and do a quickie anyway (ooh I say.. cheeky nudge nudge wink wink lol)
I went off to meadowhall with my mum for a look around the shops yesterday which was a nice way to spend the day. We both bought a couple of new tops and mum also got a new bag and purse too. Hubby came and picked us after he finished work and then we went back to mum for a cuppa. While I was there and waiting for mum to make a drink I popped on her exercise bike for fifteen minutes and then just before coming home I popped on again for another 7 minutes. I managed ok this time although my bum did go a bit numb it wasn't screaming for me to get off and I didn't have any spasms down my leg either. I had a go on sunday evening too which waas fine so I think my leg spasm the other day was hopefully a one off.
After mums we called at tescos which is not far from mums cos I wanted to pick up a few new laundry bins and while we were there we noticed they had lots of exercise stuff on special offer. We stopped to look at the exercise bikes which had been reduced to £40, well it was too tempting an offer to resist and fresh from my 22 minutes combined ride at mums I succumbed and bought one.
Now this may be a bit of a bad idea as I have a tendency to buy exercise equipment and use it a few times before leaving it to gather dust and not be used again. I think during our married life hubby and I have bought almost every type of exercise equipment going including a thighmagic, rowing machine ,fold up bike, fold up gym, two different types of steps for step aerobics, at least 3 ab rollers, an aero walker, a spinning disc for stomach toning, stretchy elastic shapers, a leg toning circle, numerous excercise videos and dvds. At this very moment languishing in our porch is an abswing, a leg toning thing that I call a leg spreader, and a fold out body shaper thing, in the dvd drawers are a few left over exercise dvds plus we also have wii fit, wii fit plus and ea active wii workouts, so we are probably a gym equipment manufacturers dream client lol and yet we are also probably two of the most unfit people around lol.
But still that being said I think I'll send my other gym stuff from the porch to the charity shop and concentrate on using the bike and trying to stick to it for once,not literally stick to it you understand, I don't mean I'm going to superglue myself to the seat, now that would be just silly, no I mean stick to using it. At the moment my plan is to do at least 30 mins a day on the exercise bike and then once or twice a week also do a wii workout for my whole body. I'm mainly bothered about the bottom half of my body and I don't seem to be doing to well with the lower body exercises on the wii workouts so I'm going to try the bike see if I can move the fat and wobble along a little bit,well move off rather than move on would probably be better I mean I don't want slim toned thighs but huge fat wobbly ankles and feet now do I???!!!!  Lets hope I keep at it and it works.
I went on for a bit over 20 minutes this afternoon and then went back on for the other 10 mins while dinner was cooking so I have managed my quota on the bike today lets see how I do tomorrow. Fingers crossed for me girls and soon we'll be able to bounce 20p's off my toned thighs.

Hubbys exciting day

My hubby went on a little course for a few hours yesterday to practice Ollies, 180's and buttering on his snowboard. He took up snowboarding a bit over a year ago and loves it, he has been wanting to learn a few tricks for a while and so when he saw this course for a few hours on Sunday he signed up and went. He's not a pro yet bless him but he managed an Ollie, a few 180s and lots of buttering. It's all gobbledy gook to me but here's some photos of him doing ollies.
Here's a few photos of him
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Here's a little video with him and the three others on the course doing some ollies he's on video near beginning a few times hes all in black with a green and a purple boot binding on a white board.

I THINK I might have fixed my slideshow

THINK being an important word as I don't really understand why I suddenly had images of chrissys cards appear in it in the first place, but I think I have sorted it out now. When I went into edit my slideshow this morning I noticed I'd set it to use the keyword 'dreamaid' to look for my photos  in  web albums and I thought maybe it was finding any photos with dreamaid in the title and putting them in my slideshow.
There wasn't anything else in the search to direct it just to my albums so I changed the album title to something I thought would make it personal. But when I changed the keyword on the sideshow editing page to match my new album title I got even more pictutres that werent mine and I realised that as my title had two words when I put this in keywords it wasnt looking for the two words together but it was either only looking for the first word or both words seperately so it was finding lots of photos that weren't mine as my keywords must have been quite popular individually. I've now merged the two words into one for my album title and used this as my keyword and so far it seems to be working and only using my photos. Fingers crossed it continues.
I have two slideshows on my blog the other one is my jewellery sideshow and thats working fine (touch wood). I noticed that I search for photos on that one using album not keyword and it asks for my username and then has a drop down menu with my albums in to choose from but it only gives me the choice of two of my web albums. One is the jewellery slideshow album I have on display and the other is another album of mine but it doesn't give me the option of picking my dreamaid album at all which must be why on the second slideshow I used keyword to search rather than album. I can't understand why it doesn't show all my albums under my username but I've managed to get my slideshow reworking with a keyword so lets just hope it stays that way.
Why oh why are computers so confusing?????????????????????

Strange happenings in blogland

OOh there something strange going on with my blog tonight. I just loaded up my blog ready to sign in and write another little rambly blog when I noticed that down the side of the page was a pic of one of Chrissys cards, thats odd I thought ,have I put the right page address in? am I on chrissy's blog not mine?  but then I noticed that the rest of the page was pink and definately mine.. ..Huh??? I thought, whats going on here then ???? For some odd reason one of my slideshows (the one named my dreamaid store) was showing some pictures of Chrissys cards as well as the 12 photos of things I actually have in my dreamaid store.
I can't figure out why it would suddenly have pics of someone elses things in my slideshow. I've checked my web album that I uploaded the photos for the slideshow into and it only has my 12 photos in and no pics of Chrissys cards, so how come its showing them???
I wondered if maybe myself and Chrissy both had web albums with the same file name and somehow, even though they'd be under two different accounts, they had become merged and were thought to be one big album not two seperate ones. I can't see how that would happen though and its only including a few pics of Chrissys cards not all the ones she has shown in her slideshow on her blog.
Its a mystery to me it really is, so until it fixes itself, I'm sorry Chrissy I'm not trying to take credit for your beautiful cards and pass them off as mine, I didn't put them there and I honesty have no idea how they ended up in my slideshow.

Totally confused by computers