Man In The Mirror

I am soooooo excited! 4 more sleeps till I go to Ayia Napa in Cyprus for my two week holiday!!!!

Also my brothers wedding lol which is on the 6th July in Ayia Napa, I am soooo nervous about doing my speech though!

Rachael xx

Hey all,

Wow I have been absent from here for a while lol, quite a lot been going on really.

Stu and I are in our house, I totally love it, I am so proud and pleased that we have a house like we do, I never thought we would be able to buy a semi detatched 3 bedroom house as our first house, so I am very proud of that! I totally love it, its brilliant having our own space and doing whatever we feel like doing!

We are going to Cyprus 3 weeks today YAY, my brother is getting married out there, so that is going to be totally awesome! I am my brothers best wo(man) so thats really scary, I need to write a speech which I am not looking forward to! I am wearing the same dress as the bridesmaids but in the colours of my brother

Stu and I are also trying for a baby YAY, I am so excited about that, I am hoping it wont take us long but you can never tell these things lol

Love Rachael xxx

I think its amazing when you don't listen to a song for a while (and I mean years) and then you listen to it and you fall in love with it all over again.

I am working overtime, and I have a Hanson - Through The Years playlist on my MP3 player, it has all their albums on there

And A Song To Sing just came on, and wow I forgot how amazing that song is!

You know, I am all happy as larry, me and Stu are moving into our own home on thursday, totally over the moon, and can't wait to start our life in the house together.

And I know my mam, is bound to get stressed and worry cos I am leaving home and she is going to be left alone

But fucking hell she is stressing the fuck out of me

She wants to sell the house and move to the area I am moving to to be close to me, which I want too.

So she wants to get her house all nice and decorated for when she puts it up for sale.

But imagine this, I have a lot of stuff, Stu has a lot of stuff, we basically have lived at Mam's house for the last two years, so we have a lot of stuff.

So there are boxes everywhere, in the garage, in our room (so many boxes that the only thing that you can see really is the bed) there are boxes in the spare room, our new TV is downstairs behind Mam's sofa

So I appreciate the house looks like a bit of a tip at the minute and its making mam panic and worry that she is going to have loads of stuff to sort out when I move out, no matter how many times I tell her I WILL come back and decorate and help her out.

No matter how many times I tell her that she needs to stop stressing, she cant decorate the spare room till all the stuff is out of there, which will btw be tomorrow.

Its really getting to me, I should be totally excited about moving out and should be totally excited about having our own place

But she is offloading all her stress off on me, I cant take it anymore, I have my own house to think of RIGHT now, I cant get it into her head that I WILL be back very fucking soon to help paint the fucking rooms!

I mean hell, I would even paint them tomorrow after we have moved all the stuff into our house, but she just wont accept it

I said to her last night "seriously I know you are stressing and you want the spare room decorated but WHERE do you think all the BOXES are going to go while you paint the room and wait for it to dry???"

Totally ranting I know but its my first house ever and I should be totally excited and I am not, I am stressed and full of stress from mam's head too :-(

I had a PM from Zac about my cross stitch of him!!!! He is just the coolest!!!!

He said "wow, its really good, it looks real!"

Made my day lol

Hey everyone

Some of you may remember me doing a Cross Stitch of Zac Hanson, well I got in a magazine cos of it and I won £50 worth of Cross Stitch things YAY

I was at Slimming World last night and I lost 4 pound this week!!! YAY

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

( The Books )

Well I went to Slimming World last night and I lost 1/2 a pound.

I am pleased with it, cos my mind hasnt been in it since I got back from my holiday

I am 100% motivated this week, lets see if I can get a killer weight loss!

Stuart and I have bought our first house!

I am so excited, we got the mortgage agreed on tues, put an offer in on a house we have loved for a long time, and managed to get £5000 knocked off the price YAY

We went to the estate agents yesterday and signed the paperwork, so all the happens now is the mortgage company send out someone to value the house and do a report to see if its all ok.

Once the report comes back, we then have to arrange a move in date, then its up to the solicitors to exchange the funds.

Its a empty house, the guy who owns it has already moved out (he moved in with his girlfriend) so we can be in quite quick I think

Its a 3 bedroom semi detached house, with a nice big kitchen and a lovely huge lounge and a very nice big garden as well

We cant wait to move in!!!!

Rachael xxxx

I have some of them uploaded now, my god it takes a while lol

I have uploaded Hanson with David Ryan Harris and Sister Hazel @ The Palladium, and all the videos I have from the Lido Show, I still have about 15 videos of Hanson @ The Palladium to upload, I am working on it lol, its just going to take a while.

I dont know how to embed videos here, sorry lol

Here is Hanson with David Ryan Harris & Sister Hazel http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=djMAi2CGBIE

And here are the rest of my videos (so far)

This Time Around & Blue Sky http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LRjrmBGxi2g

Under The Sea http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JC6wQFC6CzE

Running Man http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2CaCvaFG_w0

Never Been Spain http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rnP90xKwk3A

Great Divide http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DWb9ZJ5DYlU

Got A Hold On Me http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFr0O_3fRk

Goodbye from Hanson http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aIh123M6ZaU

So there you have it, IMO my Palladium videos are better, better camera and a better view, I will be getting them all up ASAP

Thanks for Looking

Rachael x

Well this is it, tomorrow I head off for Miami and off to see Hanson and have the time of my life on a cruise around the Bahamas

I am stoked cos I just found out there is to be a Hanson walk on the island of Half Moon Cay, I am so pleased I get to go on a Hanson walk!

The only bad thing is ... Stu, I am going to miss him so much, it hurts so bad when we are apart, I dont know how I am going to cope withouth him for 10 days!!!!!

See you all on the 25th

Rachael xx

7 days!!!!!!

I travel to Leeds on the train this time next wed to meet up with Lisa, then we get the train to London together, then the 3 of us (jo is getting a lift down off her dad) are staying in a Travel Lodge, then we fly to Miami on the 15th!!!!!!

2 nights in the Marriott, then onto TRB on the 17th YAY!!!! soooooo cant wait!!

Leave TRB on the 22nd, spend one more night in The Mariott and fly home on the 23rd, land in London on the 24th at 7.30am

Then catch a train back to Newcastle and back into the arms of Stuart (which I will totally love!!!)

I am so excited!!!!

But also sad about leaving Stuart for so long!

Rachael xxx

Hello everyone,

Well its took me a while to get online, we spent Christmas at my Aunty Dots house and she has no net *gasp*

My Mam, me and my brother Michael all went to Aunty Dots house on Christmas Eve (Stuart went home to his parents, I was very sad about that) we bought some nibbles from Asda for our tea, like Spring Rolls etc

The we got all the presents from the spare room and put them all out in the sitting room, we had to put them in piles of people as it reallty takes us a while to open them all (we have a lot of family)

Then off to bed we went (after quite a few ciders lol) at 12.30am, then what felt like two seconds later Mam came in the room and woke me and Michael up at 5.55am (gah lol) and we all trooped downstairs to see if Santa had been ;-) lol

Well he had lol Santa had been very good to me this year, I got so much, I am really pleased with it all, people spoil each other so much at Christmas in my family, but you know what, why not? we all work really hard all year so why not endulge once a year.

( So here is what I got (LJ Cut for people who dont really wanna know lol) )

So there you have it, a fab Christmas

The best present by far has to be to Stuarts reaction/face when he opened one of my presents.

As a child he had read The Hobbit Graphic Novel which was made in 1990, he's read his copy so much its falling to pieces.  Well I found a new book, in perfect condition (well not new lol it is from 1990), I emailed the artist David Wenzel and asked if he would sign it for me, he said he would love to, so I sent the book to him in America and he returned it to me signed:

"To Stuart - The Hobbit was my favourite book even before I illustrated the graphic novel - I hope you enjoy my vision of Tolkiens World"

And he drew a picture of Gandalf in the bottom left corner as well.

He loved it so much, I cried lol to see him so happy was just brilliant.  I love him so much, and I was very pleased that he liked the present.

I hope everyone had a fab Christmas and here's to 2009

Love Rachael xxx

Gah

I am loaded with cold, and I have sinusitis.

Gah, Christmas is in like 3 days, and I am ill

I am sitting at work, just wanting to be at home so bad :-(

Doubt I am going to last the day!

Rachael xx

Hello Everyone

I  am pleased to report I have lost 1/2 a pound this week yay

I got my club 10 award which means that I have lost 10% of my body weight, yay

I am really pleased cos I Have had a very iffy week, I am going to only have 10 syns a day this week instead of 15 to combat any delayed weight gain and also this week coming is star week so I always gain on star week and I dont want to lol

Rachael xx