Feeling neglected much?

Life is just so busy right now!
I'm not complaining in the slightest, i couldn't be happier!


So, where i left off i was just going to Reading festival....It was awesome!  The camping was surprisingly fun!  The toilets however where not, put it this way, me and baby wipes became very good friends over the weekend!  I got to see quite a few bands, when i look back i didn't see that many but when your there your allllll over the place, back and fourth from one tent to the next and it feels like hundreds.  I burnt off a lot of calories that weekend!!

So, me and The boy...Things are going so well!  We are still spending our weekends together and its a 50/50 split between staying in and chilling out together or going out for dinner!  Its a happy medium!  So this Sunday it is the 3 month mark, somehow it has worked out that were going to London on Sunday so were going to spend the day in Spitalfields (which is where we had our first date) and have a few too many drinks and RELAX!!!!  omg, I'm so on the go all the time atm that i just can't relax!  So hopefully a few drinks with him at our place will fix me good and proper!!

Work again is going so so well!  I have my first assignment with the media team coming up in November, I've also been asked to assist on a big event called Salon International...which is a big thing for hairdressers! 

So, to sum it all up things are great!! Although i have seriously been neglecting my derby life, i can't remember the last time i went to practise!  Not good, i miss it!!!

I need to get my skates on!!

Love, Sassy

This is supposed to be my week off right?

Day one of my official week off work...so far i haven't stopped!
I've only got one day left to get my stuff together before i leave for Reading Festival.  Thats just not enough time!

Had Mr. Stretton over this evening for dinner and jelly, can you remember the last time you had jelly?  Me either, it was lime, it was epic!  Anyway, we discussed stratedgys and what we needed to bring etc, etc.  Totally pumped!  I have been to a festival before, but that was V festival way back in 2004 and i went with the most dullest person EVER!  Reading is going to be epic!  Full on cmping, full on drinking, full on rocking *air guiter*
The line up!!!!

I just hope my enthusiasim lasts for the duration of the weekend!

This is Inkwork.  She is my beautiful tortoise shell kitty.  She will be joining the Pussy Palace soon!

Catch ya later Bill and Ted!

Love, Sassy

Brought to you today by the sounds of Adele - 21

I dont' necessary have a topic for my entry tonight but i need to get myself back in the habit of writing on a
regular basis.  But saying that, I have just finished watching the final chapter of Secret Diary of a call girl and having just popped out to the shop found myself narrating my journey through the store just like she does...well i found it entertaining but others just insane....ops!

Me and The Boy are going strong, we have found ourselves into a nice routine of seeing each other only at the weekends as we don't live in the same city.  Despite that, during the week I love the countdown to the weekend knowing that he is my reward for all my hard work that week and that my weekend is finally here.....this week has been excruciating.  I just can't wait to see him!  I hate it when he has to leave me on a Monday morning so he can go to work, i always find myself moving over to his side of the bed and breathing in his scent and falling asleep swiftly as if in his company.

We have briefly talked about the topic of "Us" and although i feel satisfied with how it went, there are still a few things that i feel need to be discussed.
As we are both very vocal about how we feel about each other, at no point i have i felt in the dark and so don't need to know where this is going, it's just one of those relationships that turn into a relationships without the need of "the talk."
I think for you to know truly where someone is emotionally, you need to know where they are coming from emotionally, so in a nutshell......the ex file.  I'm not talking about how they met what they did together i don't give a fuck about that shit, just about how they are feeling emotionally.  Basically, i wanna know if were in it to win it (as they say) or if I'm the rebound girl.  Simple.
Even if its based on real feelings, it's horrible feeling second best and I've been a rebound girl and I'm not going there again. Simple.

Anyway, we shall leave it at that for today.
Love, Sassy

The Boy.

Not wanting to get all gushy and stuff, but merely just to document how i'm feeling right now so someday i can look back upon it and remember.

I got a message from a guy on a well known dating site asking if my tattoos on the back of my legs were real, I took a look his profile before deciding whether to reply or not and I thought he looks ok and his profile was a nice read so i replied to be polite, not expecting another reply.
Then a few days later I got another reply and again I replied. Soon enough we found ourselves talking about our mutual love; carbs and sex, as you do.

After a few weeks messaging online, it offered me his number, now I will admit I sat on that number for a week not really know exactly what to do. Before I committed to him having my number I wanted to be sure that I liked what I saw. I asked him for some more picture just so i could double check.....Yeah, so what if I'm a little shallow but the physical attraction is what draws you into someone and then the personality is the colour that fills the outline! If anyone disagrees with that, then your lying!!! Anyway, after seeing his updated pictures I soon thought 'This guy needs my number in his life' and swiftly texting him...

We started off sending random texts for a few days and then one evening he text saying he had just got home (at 22:30) so i thought that the last thing he would want to do is text on a small screen, so I rung him.....we was talking for 2hrs! Then an hour the next night and the next...it was pretty clear that we got on well and i was impressed to find how much we had in common, so when we said about meeting up it already felt natural.
I had a week holiday coming up (for my friends wedding) and we arranged to meet up in London.

It didn't started off how i planned, but it ended perfectly. He was 1hr 1/2 late (but genuinely not his fault as the tubes were down). I sat myself down and read my book texting him all the while when suddenly I pair of legs appeared in front of me and when i looked up it was him, and by god he was gorgeous (better then the pictures!) he greeted me with a hug and smile and he was instantly forgiven. 

We wondered around Spitalfields and he guided me through the markets like a pro gently touching the small of my back, i took that as a sign that he was interested.  So when i was given the opportunity, i returned the gesture.
We went down into this little underground vintage market and it was full of once loved little trinckets.  We found this little shop that had some vintage magazine adverts, hairdryers and a Harry Potter book?!  Hmm, strange.  Anyway, The Boy found an old Brylcream advert that he really liked and decide to purchase it so he could frame it.  I chose that moment to ask him if he was ever called an abbreviation of his name and he said no, so i tested my Italian accent out (he's italian did i mention?) and said his name and i just rememeber his eyes glowing at me and him then kissed me....It was perfect!
He grabbed my hand and with my head rested beautiflly on his shoulder, we walked out of that vintage market grinning from ear to ear.
The rest of the afternoon was a blur of shopping, talking, laughing, drinking prosecco, dumplings, more prosecco, kissing, a trip down a dark alley and my favorite part; the banter!  Best date ever! 

And now almost 5 weeks on, its like our first date everytime i see him and for the first time in a long time, i'm taking it slow and getting to him from the inside outside.

Watch this space!

Love, Sassy
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So it's taken some time to finally get here....

I can't believe how out of habit i have gotten, I enjoy writing so much and yet it i haven't written in a month!

Now I'm trying to think what i have to write about, where to begin!

I went to visit Little Miss Lola a few days after her arrival and she is just so cute, so tiny at 6lbs 4oz (I'm thankful for that, considering the horrid pregnancy Kerry had).  

I'm so happy I get to spend Mondays with them now because my roller derby team the MK Concrete Cows have finally arranged another practise on my day off :)  So no more stress at trying to get to practise on Fridays evenings after work. 

Now in the world of derby, i have finally popped my cherry....well, my bout virginity that is (the other one was lost years ago...).  I was playing on a mixed team with players from teams all over the UK which made up two teams, the Bed Heads (most awesome team ;-) and the Night Owls.  It was hosted by the Northampton Shoe town Slayers as it was there first match too.

I had a few visitors come and watch me play Mummy Scissorhands, The newlyweds and The Boy (you'll hear about him later).  If your just tuning in, go back to one of my previous posts and it will educates you about Roller derby, go on.....go!!!!

So here are so action packed shots from the day. 

Sadly my team lost by a mere 8 points but it was such a great afternoon that i really didn't pay much attention to the score and was very excited to have had my cherry popped...again! ;)

Love, Sassy

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Love, marriage and babies.....

It has been one hell of a Fantastic week!!

I kicked my week off by starting with a date with a lovely guy by the name Nikos with whom I spent the afternoon eating sushi and drinking wine spritzers with talking about art, movies, books and culture! It was probably the most intellectual conversation I have had in a long time and I was surprised that I was able to keep up! Although we had much to talk about there was no spark and I didn't feel the desire to rip his clothes off.....what? On my imaginary check list that is a must to make me want to see them again, it doesn't mean I want to rip them of there and then....ok, sometimes it does!!

I spent the rest of the week in Leeds helping my friend Lizzie prepare for her upcoming nuptials. I met this girl about 3-4 years ago when she was a client in the salon I work At and straight away we got on!! Similar sense of humour, same great taste in fashion and generally coolness...lol. I soon met her fella again in the salon and I could see how they were drawn to each!
Rewind a year from now and I was getting sent a picture message of her hand (which first I looked at her nails) and then noticed the beautiful sparkler adorning her engagement finger!!!
She asked me to do the hair for the wedding, but not before asking me to be a guest first. I accepted both offers.
Fast forward a year and we are standing in a church for the rehearsal and 2 days before the wedding they are both asking me to be bridesmaid....what started off as joke very soon turned serious. I was so happy that they had asked me...even though it was a few months late but better late than never, lol!!! Best part, I got to go shoe shopping the next day!!!

The day itself went without a single bump in the road; the hair was perfection, the dresses fitted perfectly and the groom was waiting at the church, result!!!
They chose to walk down the asile to a personal favourite song of mine by Jimmy eat world and I could already tell that it was going to be a special day!!!

Now I have been lucky enough to have been to a mixture of family and friends wedding before but this was the best one I have been too!!! I measure that by the fact that I cried for the first time at a wedding numerous times during the course of the day; once when they kissed for the first time, during the speeches when her papi was talking about love and his late beloved wife and when Lizzie herself took the stage and gave a speech and could only muster a thank you to her bridesmaids through her own tears, and now again as I relive it....*breathe Sassy*

Everyone in the circle around the bride and groom have really formed a bond with each other, we are all looking forward to a reunion and an eagerly awaited dinner at little tokoyo!

It was also a very important day for someone else too, my best friend Kerry had a beautiful little baby girl called Lola. I received the text just as I got in the wedding car leaving for the church and it just made it an even more fansptasic day!! An Aunty and a bridesmaid all in one day!!!

And if i wasn't already a big ball of love and happiness, it seems on the way I have found a little piece of happiness for myself too!

Love, Sassy

Waiting....

So here I am, sat in my not so local Starbucks enjoying a fabulously cold mocha frappacino waiting the arrival of a practically blind date.

I was contacted by him on the ever so popular plenty of fish, god I hate the name. Completely ignoring the actual profile and heading straight to the pictures to check him out, he passes the first step. Next I actually read his profile and see what he has to say. Not a lot is written but too much can be off putting. So he warranted a reply.
We spent the evening sending messages back and urth when finally he offered me his number and we have been sending niceties since.
It turned out we both have this week off so we decided to meet.

Now this is my first experiance of dating again since the ex, and although I haven't explained much about it, we all know how that ended!!!!
So I'm starting the next chapter into my single life again!

Feeling nervous and excited at the same time is a odd combination of feelings that I always forget when I go on these "blind" date. But hopefully I will have a pleasant afternoon with someone that can hold a conversation (and actually looks like the picture)

Wish me luck!!

Love, Sassy
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