Essentially Steph

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Sex in the swimming pool like it’s 2013

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I loose my mind every Friday and am incapable of doing any meaning full work. I now owe loads of hours for next week ffs

I think I should start going 10 hour days and take Friday off.

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i'm actually curious, what trinkets do you guys have on your keychains? 🗝️

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The crispy M&Ms are so good 😭 I found a very old empty packet in an unused compartment of my bag yesterday before going to work so I got myself a new pack and UGH god tier snack.

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Could not figure out what to pack because I don’t really know what I’ll need and when, but I’ve filled a 10kg suitcase with stuff.

And now I’m like huh how am I gunna bring everything back because my room is very full and I’ve only emptied half a drawer 😅

Can’t remember how many times I added extra luggage when bringing stuff over but I really don’t wanna have to do the big suitcase more than once, cause it obviously means paying to send it empty one way each time too…

Guess the stressing officially starts today?!

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Another fun office day! I was in a section on my own cause the office was booked out (ac, hot weather, etc) and I only thought to book yesterday, but I was getting on with my work and people kept coming to visit me for a chat! Like sometimes work stuff and sometimes just hi, I’ve never felt popular before lmao.

I have eaten lots of treats and I am so bloated I really think if I hadn’t got a seat on the tram, someone would have offered me theirs. I was also rubbing my belly because sore, but it looked like protective mum bump rub hahaha anyways, dunno if im alone in this, but I though it looked cute with this dress?? I don’t know if that’s weird to say as a non-pregnant person but I enjoyed the little belly pop!!

I left early and have 2 hours of work to do at some point but I’m just sorting my room first, doing washing, and need to pack a suitcase because I am travelling back to Alicante, with luggage 👀 for the first time since I moved over! Can’t decide what to take back as I still don’t know how final, or when work stuff is gunna resolve, but I kinda need to make a start. I booked my flights last night… for tomorrow after work. Hectic.

Final note, I am finally feeeeeling my hair!! It is a bit of effort to style but I love it when I get it right!! Still want a perm but am now questioning sticking with/experimenting with this kinda style for longer.

This post is all over place. So am I. I am looking forward to knowing more details about work because I am not really internalising the fact that I will be leaving soon…. because it’s not certain that i am and I don’t know when. But I think with everything else changing so much it almost doesn’t matter, but it also does. I’m not ready to feel things about it yet!!

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Greggs stake bake, innocent energise smoothie, feelin gooood

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Rolling out of bed, realising my makeup is basically fine, retouching it slightly. Redoing my hair with my mini straightener to add some texture back in, body shower to wash off yesterday, hwfg agaaaaain!

Lmao the lighting in the last one - looking like rabbit from Winnie the Pooh when he’s wired with anxiety (and feeling similar).

Outfit was cuter yesterday but I dreamt this up last night and cba to try anything else.

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It is now bed time and I’m so happy I met my housemate cause it was a goood chat and I think she really needed it, but boy am I upset about having to go to the office tomorrow because I left my laptop there 🥲 I mean on the flip side there is aircon and I’m currently boiling which doesn’t bode well, but I have to look put together for a second time because most people are staying over and working from our office again!! So many people separately complemented my outfit today which was very cute! So now the stakes are high to also look good but different tomorrow 😅

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Today was so fun because people from Edinburgh office and some from London landscape team came to Manchester for this lady who has been with us 22 years leaving drinks - so fun to see people in real life who I’ve only seen on teams, then we did a scavenger hunt around Manchester that my office buddy organised then drinks and electric shuffle, and I’ve just scooted off to meet my flat mate although staying out would have been fuuun too but dunno when the trams stop so would rather have one more in Chorlton and go to bed 😌

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Scratch that, I got a halumi salad at spoons AND I’m gunna have breakfast here. Girl gotta eat.

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12 hour work day, been in Liverpool then 3 sites split across 8 locations in Birmingham 😅 hotel here tonight, didn’t realise the parking wasn’t free and it’s cost me £15!? I will expense it but the budget is tight so think I’m gunna go to bed without dinner and get a hotel breakfast in the morning instead.

Glad I squeezed in the 3rd Birmingham site today because the one I have tomorrow can take ageeees, and I usually get driven around but will have to walk it. And if by any chance I whiz around, at least I can get on the way back home quickly.

On the other hand, if I can get another half day in TOIL then I should be able to bank another day of annual leave which I’m gunna neeeeed!

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Oh woopsie I got a few good tattoo scratches in last night while I was asleep 😬 the Big Itch is starting!!

Took yesterday off because Andy was off and we went to glossop for a walk but the route was closed because of fire risk and we tried to walk a different way but didn’t get very far and decided to go to the pub which I was thankful for because I am still not feeling 100% with this cold and I was struggling.

When we got back home we decided to go out for dinner at Hungamaa which was yum but we took some home cause we couldn’t finish it so have lunch today!

Met Sahema + Jess + new housemate Alex for a drink after, he seems so sweet I’m really happy we chose him. Caitlin is also moving in this week so hoping we do something altogether on Friday - especially as the rest of the house are due back then too and it’s been a little empty this week!

One line from last night that absolutely cracked me up and I couldn’t even tell if he was joking was from Alex asking “wait, how many ovaries do you guys have??” 😭

He’s an aeroplane engineer and Andy came to his rescue with “women are so much more complicated than planes” lmao

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I used my brothers gfs Dyson air wrap on the weekend and even though I don’t have very much hair and it’s probably not the ideal tool for me and the styles I would actually aim for, it was so fucking fun to use and I think I really want one?!

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I went to asbestos site yesterday morning, didn't really know what I was doing, now have to write a report and again, dunno how I'm meant to structure it and what exactly I'm suposed to write about?! But everyone is off on leave or off sick.

But yeah, was walking around and asked the guy are you sure we shouldn't be wearing masks? (Having just walked past a barrier that clearly said everyone should be wearing a respirator beyond this point - but the way it was chucked to the side made it seem like it wasn't relevant right now, but given that the idea of being on site around asbestos while it's being disturbed has me on edge, thought it was a good time to bring it up.)

He was like no, all this ground (exposed, 300mm topsoil removed, chunks of random material sticking out) has been scanned, this is fine. I was like ok, what about that, pointing to the big pile of topsoil that is to be removed from site because of the asbestos containing material that was found on the playing field and in several other samples around the school, and which in that moment has a massive digger on top of it dropping a bucket full of soil which was just billowing into the air and catching on the wind :) The guy was like yeah we should probaby stop here. Ffs I swear to god if I die for this job I'm gunna be so annoyed.

I’ve also been a bit ill since the weekend and I just wanna log off, but I booked tomorrow off last minute so will look weird if I take today sick (I took the day before my holiday the other week off sick so looks like a pattern y’know) just gunna firm it for today, but frustrating because the work I’m meant to be doing I can’t access because the person who needs to send me links is… off sick.

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Reasons I fell in love with my tattoo artist

- she called me several pet names including my sunshine and my squirrel (!!) within the first 10 mins

- the consent form was full of little errors that gave away the polish origins of the 2 main artists of the studio than no one has had the heart to point out, and why should they, they are so heart warming

- she kept telling me how excited she was to do my design and that her daughter was ill last night but she begged her husband to stay home from work to look after her as she didn’t want to miss this tattoo!

- She told me “you are never wearing white pants for a tattoo again ok. I am shitting myself.”

- She did the first few strokes of the piece and went “nearly done!”

- as I uncovered pieces of her life story in the wrong order I found out that she moved to Ireland from Poland because she was a troublesome teen who had stolen a car and crashed it into a lamppost and her parents refused to bail her out “this time” (what an earth did she get up to before!?) so she went to work in a hotel to make the money she needed to pay back.

- She told me about travelling “about 20 years ago” and I was like excuse me how are you old enough to have done anything 20 years ago?? Looks soooo good for being 40 something! (Try not to obsess over stuff like this but damn)

- she was talking about me getting plenty of rest while it heals and was like that’s ok because you’re staying with your mum tonight right? And then she remembered I was actually staying with my brother and was like oh wait oh no you are not going to rest at all are you. Ok, it’s ok. 😂

- Lots of other little things, she was just so sweet and I really enjoyed the session!!

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Black and white to even out skin tone works a TREAT. Need something that works in real life though.