Wow, I have updated in like for­ever, who knew work­ing full time would take every­thing out of you. So I started my new job role this week and I am cur­rently in train­ing, I am work­ing in a call cen­tre so lots to learn, I have worked in a call cen­tre before if any of my ear­lier read­ers remem­ber that (it was about 7 years ago now — car insur­ance). I am work­ing with my hus­band which is nice because I see him every day as we get the train and have lunch together.

It is going okay, I am just so tired, up at 6am and back at 7pm, long old day but I can­not wait for my first pay check, haha! It has been over two years since I have worked and over 6 years since I have worked full time due to being in edu­ca­tion for the last 5 years, eeek!

But I am learn­ing so that is fab! And I got to lis­ten to calls yes­ter­day and it wasn’t that scary, half my train­ing group were freaked out but I am quite relaxed about it, I think because I know what is going to hap­pen and I have done this before.

I have huge news and I have been keep­ing it a secret for the past nearly 10 weeks, and that is I AM PREGNANT!!! I am feel­ing con­fi­dent in telling my blog read­ers about it, I have had three scans so far and we had our last the other week and all is good — healthy and grow­ing lit­tle baby, we got to hear and see the heart beat!! It was amaz­ing, the last cycle of clo­mid worked for us by the looks of it, I haven’t felt so sick or tired in my life but it is all good. I have my 12 week scan in two weeks but I am too excited to keep it quiet now. (Please don’t men­tion on face­book as I haven’t told some fam­ily mem­bers or friends).

Here is baby Damita.

I will write more about how we found out hope­fully tomor­row, I am so excited!

Steal­ing this from thebabywife.com.

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?

Grad­u­a­tion! Never thought I would see the day!

2. Did you keep your New Years’ res­o­lu­tions, and will you make more for next year?

Goals for 2011

• Get preg­nant!! if not start post grad in teaching
• Pass my dri­ving test
• Com­plete sav­ing goal
• Get 2:1 or 2:2 at degree level

Well I did one out of four, I got a 2:1 at degree level, I didn’t reach my sav­ing goal as I was unem­ployed for 6 months eeek!!! and I failed my dri­ving test twice. Preg­nancy well still work­ing on it.

This year — preg­nancy, pass my dri­ving test and do my sav­ing goal.

3. Did any­one close to you give birth?

Yes one of my best friends gave birth in Spring to a lit­tle girl.

4. Did any­one close to you die?

No

5. What coun­tries did you visit?

None

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?

Money would be nice and enjoy my new job.

7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory?

Grad­u­a­tion, it was an amaz­ing day, I got tear­ful. Oh and find­ing out I have PCOS that will be in my mem­ory forever.

8. What was your biggest achieve­ment of the year?

Com­plet­ing Uni and find­ing a job.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Being out of work for 6 months, it was a hor­ri­ble time.

10. Did you suf­fer ill­ness or injury?

No I have been alright this year which is new for me!

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My iPhone 4, I love it to pieces!

12. Whose behav­iour mer­ited celebration?

My amaz­ing husband.

My fam­ily

My friends

13. Whose behav­iour made you appalled and depressed?

A few ex friends

14. Where did most of your money go?

Sur­viv­ing

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Fin­ish­ing uni.

16. What song/album will always remind you of 2011?

‘Gotta get thru this’ Daniel Bedingfield

17. Com­pared to this time last year, are you:

1. Hap­pier or sad­der? Hap­pier.
2. Thin­ner or fat­ter? Thin­ner
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer but not for long

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Enjoy­ing that time off

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Wor­ry­ing and stressing

20. How will you be spending/did you spend Christmas?

With my fam­ily <3

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
My hus­band, mum, dad and best friend

22. Did you fall in love in 2011?

Already in love

23. How many one night stands in this last year?

None

24. What was your favourite TV pro­gramme?
Ice Road Truckers!!!!

25. Do you hate any­one now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I don’t hate, I dis­like cer­tain behav­iour from people

26. What was the best book(s) you read?

Re-read Harry Pot­ter again

27. What was your great­est musi­cal dis­cov­ery?

New dance songs

28. What did you want and get?

Mostly — I wanted a 2:1 secretly and got it, and another surprise.

29. What did you want and not get?

Pass­ing my dri­ving test — booo!!!

30. What were your favourite films of this year?

Friends with Ben­e­fits

31. What did you do on your birth­day, and how old were you?

26 and I my hus­band made steak and chips, yum

32. What one thing would have made your year immea­sur­ably more satisfying?

Not hav­ing to deal with unem­ploy­ment for would be great

33. How would you describe your per­sonal fash­ion con­cept in 2011?

Relax­ing in leg­gings and long tops

34. What kept you sane?
My hus­band and my dad

35. Which celebrity/public fig­ure did you fancy the most?

None

36. What polit­i­cal issue stirred you the most?

Rais­ing of uni fees!

37. Who did you miss?

My best friend — wish she lived closer to me!

38. Who was the best new per­son you met?

Met some amaz­ing peo­ple on-line

39. Tell us a valu­able life les­son you learned in 2011.

Every­thing hap­pens for a rea­son and to stop stressing

Merry Christ­mas every­one! It’s been a busy cou­ple of weeks been in and out of hos­pi­tal with a cyst caus­ing me pain on my ovary so that is being mon­i­tored at the moment to make sure if it does get big­ger than it will have to be removed. So I am off the clo­mid for the time being, it’s nice to have some san­ity feel­ing back.

Other than that we have been dec­o­rat­ing the house and recov­er­ing from a cold which I caught from the hus­band. I am so excited for Christ­mas, can’t wait to see my fam­ily. My brother is home for the week from uni­ver­sity, my step-dad is home from Spain where he has been teach­ing and my uncle and aunt are over from Zurich. Big old fam­ily affair!

I did get a chance to do some bak­ing for my husband’s work, Christ­mas tree cupcakes.

These were fab! I made some much icing that I had to freeze it but will use it again on more cup­cakes as it was fab but­ter­cream icing even if I do say so myself.

Hope every­one has a great Christ­mas day!

Yay it is up! Nearly Christ­mas so excited!  Are your trees up?

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2. fan­ci­ful or capri­cious, as per­sons or their ideas or actions: We never know what that fan­tas­tic crea­ture will say next.
3. imag­i­nary or ground­less in not being based on real­ity; fool­ish or irra­tional: fan­tas­tic fears.
4. extrav­a­gantly fan­ci­ful; mar­velous.
5. incred­i­bly great or extreme; exor­bi­tant: to spend fan­tas­tic sums of money.

I am so happy at this moment in time, yes­ter­day I heard back on that job I have been stalk­ing and going to assess­ment after assess­ment for the last month and I got the job!

Hur­rah!!! It is the job I wanted and even if the role isn’t what I was look­ing for 5/6 months ago but it is a HUGE com­pany and I can escape into dif­fer­ent depart­ments in the end. I don’t start until Jan­u­ary the 16th so I have Christ­mas to relax and enjoy it.

Some­thing went right and I am so happy it did, the last 5 months have been mis­er­able so I was due a pay off.

Other news I went to the den­tist yes­ter­day and need to have four fill­ings! I can’t believe it, my teeth were good! He kept say­ing oh you are eat­ing too many sweets and sugar items, I was like I have PCOS I don’t eat sugar in the way of sweets or what­not in the last 3 months! Still wouldn’t lis­ten to me, any­way I have to go in to see him on the 20th of Decem­ber and have two fill­ings, I hate the den­tist it freaks me out!! Stu­pid teeth, so my reac­tion to all this was to run to Boots and buy spe­cial tooth­paste, mouth­wash and floss… my hus­band thinks I am para­noid. I just feel gross!

Oh and at last I have been referred to ther­apy, I called them up on Tues­day and was like it has been a month since I came in where is my refer­ral, and the recep­tion­ist said she would check with the doc­tor, never called me back! So I called up yes­ter­day and they had FORGOT to refer me! I am now referred and have an assess­ment on Mon­day. I am not that bad and feel so much bet­ter after find­ing out about that job yes­ter­day but I still need sup­port for the whole fer­til­ity issues.

Can you believe that it is Decem­ber? Crazy stuff, I am so excited for Christ­mas and have already fin­ished my Christ­mas shop­ping! Hur­rah! Hope every­one a good start to December.

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