We spent the Friday evening raiding Amber's clothes and came up with various tops and trousers and skirts. I had already re-warned Steph that I had had a bad week so planned on doing a lot of chilling (for those who don't know I suffer with Borderline Personality Disorder)
Saturday saw us going to the HMS Sultan summer show, its an annual event that has all sorts of things.. it can be a good day out or a boring one depending...I've never had a bad day so always enjoy going. We got there about 12 pm and went straight to the beer tent, a friend of mine was doing a set (Badger is one half of Arcadance and they sing modern stuff and swing the other half) so going up to the bar and ordering cokes and then topping them up with my snuck in Vodka. The weather couldn't make its mind up, I was glad I took along a cardi as it was cloudy and chilly when the sun disappeared. They had two animal displays, one was the usual petting zoo, in which we petted some unwilling donkeys, goats, sheep etc.. and the other was a unusual animals one which had snakes, a tarantula, scorpion, meerkats and some birds of prey. We hung around so that we could have a chance to hold the animals. I was ok with the tarantula until it started to move up my arm... I was then glad to get rid of it. I was gutted I wasn't able to hold the meerkat but as they can be vicious the guy wouldn't let me, so I had to be happy with a stroke and some pictures.
We had a look around the craft stalls, they had some fab home made jewelery one stall only got a fleeting glance as the next stall was olives and very overpowering.. I know Steph managed to buy some fab little items and I enjoyed browsing, wishing I had the money to buy the things I saw. We then had another trip down to the beer tent for Taz's special coke and lunch. We had a look around the funfair bit, managing to win Steph a little Zebra. We also managed to get some RAF lads come over to us for a chat, one of them soon departed ( i think he was trans phobic the weirdo)
We ended up leaving about 5 ish, and by this point I was knackered, we did a lot of walking, I had caught the sun a bit and I hadn't slept well so when we got home we just chilled!
Sundays in my opinion are chillout days.. you don't do anything on a Sunday so I don't think we did much worth reporting!
Monday I needed to go to Fareham so herding Steph on a bus that's where we went... after taking forever to get our butts in gear and getting ready, well we are two girls after all! In Fareham we did some window shopping, trying on shoes in new look and browsing in a few other shops. I didn't need to do much persuading to get Steph into Claire's we spent ages looking at all the jewelery on sale, and as Steph had brought me lunch I brought her some clip on earrings (one day she will be brave and get her ears pierced!)The evening saw us chilling out and playing with my then 4 week old kittens.
Tuesday I felt I spent most of the day on a bus. I had to leave Steph to amuse her self for teh morning as I had therapy.. I was really looking forward to it (not) though I was able to talk about Steph's visit and it went down on my 'positive' list which I was told I had to do as my homework. I then got the bus back home, picked up a Steph as she had an appointment down the salon for an eyebrow wax! this was the first time she had ever had this treatment and I think she was a bit nervous.. Steph was meant to be going home too but after looking at train times we agreed she could stay an extra night so after dragging her bag all the way down town we managed to convince Amber to take it home for us so that we could have a walk through Town. Unsure of what to do and it was extremely hot I said how about going down to the sea front, I was feeling a bit down from therapy and I think Steph realised this. We walked through town, looking at a few bits on sale at the market, and as we were wandering through I bumped into my biological mother (she is one of the causes of my illness) I went into flight or fight mode, I somehow managed to keep my cool and I know that if I was alone things would have been a lot different. Steph and I went into New look as I was on the lookout for a particular pair of shoes that a London friend had seen, they haven't reached this end of the world yet! After looking at more shoes and accessories we left for the seafront. We sat on the wall and faced the sea, the breeze was lovely and I got lost in my thoughts, it wasn't until that I saw my mother again that I realised I was ignoring my guest. However I was able to open up to Steph a little and I felt a lot better. I allowed Steph to eat her lunch while I just sat enjoying the sea. We had planned on going to the beach but by the time we got the bus these two lazy girls decided nah lets just go back home!
Wednesday was time for Steph going home. I think she was a bit low at the prospect as she wouldn't be able to be herself for much longer. So giving Steph the opportunity to play with my shoe collection again I did my usual morning stuff of going on the net etc... and all to soon it was time to get the bus to the train station. I shoved Steph onto a train and made the journey back home. Once I got home and had to do the clean up I started to miss my house guest. It seemed very quiet and far too quickly I got lonely. I was happy to hear that Steph got home safely and I am pleased to say that while she was down for her visit a very good friendship formed.
Since her visit to me Steph has changed her name to Kara, just to confuse people and in just over a week I will be sharing a room with her at Sparkle.. my turn to travel! and I have promised a certain pair of my white sandals will also be making the trip :o)
as usual thanks for reading hugz to all xXx
