I haven't posted for a while

Why?

I simply cannot be bothered, it doesn't help that today I uber grumpy, anything is setting me off at snapping. Well snapping or the fact I could cry at something even more ridiculous, I guess it's normal for me at the moment being 38 weeks pregnant but I wish the mood would just fuck off... I need to be in the right state of mind because I have things to do.

I am going to try a proper blog post eventually, it's for the cake I am making for my best friend's murder mystery birthday party - she is an actual blogger where as I am a here there and everywhere sort of blog! You should check hers out though (if anyone read this her blog is Bee's blog ). I just have to remember to take pictures but I can't blog about it until after Friday (when the party is!), just wish me luck that it turns out how I want it! I am trying something which has been tested but I wasn't too impressed just hoping I will be impressed with the end result...

Feeling emotional

Today has not been overall easy for me, not due to any particular reason just one of those emotional up and down days! At this moment in time I am fighting tears so I don't go to school to pick my son up looking like a prat. I reckon it’s a combination of feeling ill, being in pain, work things, home things and most likely hormones.

 

I started off yesterday feeling proper rough - headache, nose running and sore throat. Basically caught Tom’s cold! I went in to find that work had decorated my desk; I got a balloon, flowers, chocolates and lots for the baby! They reckon I won’t be there till Friday the 24^th when my Maternity leave starts because I look big (which I will come to later). I came home, couldn't do any house work due to lack of energy but feeling okish. Then Tom and I opened the gifts work got for the baby, there was outfits, shoes, milk, juice, a record book, a voucher for mothercare, hand/foot print, bath stuff, even a big brother top for Josh and more! I then go bed early and sleep.

 

So I went and got Josh, meaning I am not loner battling tears before going to get him – I am also not crying!

 I wake up without headache (which I am glad of since I work with computers and the lights on them irritate the fuck out of me when I have a headache. However I still have a running nose and sore throat with cough. Go to work, talk to my friend about the package I received and how much I loved it. To which she replied that everyone at works loves me, I said I was surprised to how much I got and she said she collected a total of £150! I was a little overwhelmed but I just got one with my job and went to my midwife. She tells me the baby is back to back meaning I have to try and turn him before he comes out! It’s not a bad thing but can prolong labour, just got to spend a lot of time on all fours! This comes to my bump size, I am measuring fine and she is not worried about my size at all! My bump looks different recently and bigger because of the way baby is lying, she even estimated (but couldn’t say if she was definitely right) that the baby would weigh about early 7lbs right now.

 

So I feel a bit worried about the fact the baby is lying the wrong way purely because I don’t want prolonged labour but there is things we can do to resolve it! She made me get on the weighing scales too (which I will ALWAYS hate) but was surprised when she told me that I have put on less than the recommended (also made me feel happy). But I have sugar in my urine, she’s not worried but will check in 2 weeks! I am just so uncomfy and sick of puking when the indigestion/heartburn appears. Then I worry about how I will cope, with a newborn again, money and other things too… It’s easy to say take each day as it comes but my brain doesn’t process like that. I am not asking for people to comment, in fact if you want to comment -  please don’t give me some sort of patronising comment about what I can do! I know what I can do I just want to talk because it helps me stop worrying to get it all down. As one of the saying goes “A burden shared is a burden halved” 

Not a fan of mint chocolate? Think again!

It’s come to that time again where I review one of the bzz campaigns I get! In case you don’t know what a bzz campaign is check out www.bzzagent.co.uk, they basically send you free samples and you review them – it can take a while to get one or it can be really quick. As long as you follow what they say like doing all the surveys (if you keep on top of the you only do the odd one every now and then) and review products in different ways (blogs, pictures, twitter, Facebook etc) it doesn’t take long at all.

This time I got to review mint aero bubbles, I am a chocolate lover (a huge chocolate lover) and mint chocolate is not my favourite (I am more of a plain chocolate but do like the odd flavoured one). So bzz sent me 6 packets of mint aero bubbles, a few lucky people got a packet to themselves and I had one too. I did give some to mint chocolate lovers and they seemed to like them, my partner who is not that bothered about mint chocolate stole a second packet (very cheeky of him) but that usually means he likes it!

 

For me, I would not choose mint chocolate over normal chocolate and I tend to find mint chocolate a bit too minty which over powers the smooth chocolate taste. So I tried one to start off with, I do tend to let the chocolate melt in my mouth rather than crunch it so I was surprised when I let the aero bubble melted away in my mouth. The taste surprised me as well, I was expecting to be overwhelmed by mint but it was the perfect combination for mint and chocolate for me.

The packet although normal size you would not expect to get as many bubbles in as you receive, because of the taste as well I didn’t feel like I had to put the packet down and come back to them. In standard supermarkets at the moment you can get a big pack (135g) for £1 but they are normally £1.59, which I find considerable cheap since most bags of chocolate are now reaching the £2 mark if not over! The small bags tend to be the same price as a chocolate bar, which I find sad since the price of chocolate bars these days upsets me!

Mint aero bubbles are well worth the buy, especially for mint chocolate lovers but also those who want a fresh smooth minty chocolate taste without an over powering mint taste. If you are not too sure, please just give it a try, buy a small packet and be surprised!

Halls Bzz Campaign

I have been getting quite a few campaigns recently, which has been lovely since I have been rather bored with my computer, so yeah not been blogging as much. In case you have just looked at this blog the brief overview is I review certain products for www.bzzagent.com – I love it because I get to try new products as do my family and friends (when I get samples!) I would seriously recommend joining, even if you only get the odd campaign it’s still worth it!

I got to try Halls Lemon and Hall Peppermint, they came in small packets which my partner found hard to open. However, if he read the back of the packet rather than just tearing into it he would have realised how to open it with ease. The Halls were very small, just a bit bigger than a million (if you remember those sweets) but they were quite affective. You would have to put more than one to feel the effects on your throat which is a shame since a normal size you would need just one. Maybe that is not what they are for however because of the brand I assumed it was. The Lemon is a lovely flavour and my favourite, I have never been a huge fan of Peppermint but it makes me feel like I can breathe.

 

 

With bzz pack they sent me a pen and some sticky notes which surprised me but I found useful (even if my son claimed them for himself!) Pens are something I never have enough of and use at work so in a way I suppose it’s a great way to advertise, which leads to people asking questions then me giving them the story of being a bzz agent!

 

If I am honest, I would rather buy a pack of normal size halls than these mini boxes because I just want the ease of one rather than a couple of the little ones. Plus the regular packets are 45p where as these boxes are 55p in standard supermarkets, however my partner really enjoys them so I wouldn’t feel like it was too much of a waste of money (it’s cheaper than a regular size chocolate bar these days!).