MONDAY 1ST DECEMBER

I had the day off from work today, but was up early (around 7ish). I had a couple of parcels that needed to be posted, so I booked them in with DPD and dropped them off at my work, who are one of the delivery drop-off/collection points in my area. Once I had done that, I walked home and had a coffee before making a start on doing some cleaning and tidying in the house. I scrubbed and mopped the floors after vacuuming and cleaned the kitchen. I also did some admin work and changed my name on my banking app and on my work things. My boyfriend came home from work around 6ish, and we spent some time making some Christmas Snowflakes to hang in the windows. We had Butternut Squash & Sage Cappellacci with Italian Menu Tomato and Mascarpone Sauce with Ciabatta Garlic Bread, which we added some cheese to (proper yum!) and had that with cheesy veg that was left over from our Sunday Roast.

TUESDAY 2ND DECEMBER

I was off from work as I had an appointment to have an injection of steroids into my shoulder for an injury I sustained years ago when I moved into the house. I managed to rip my rotator cuff muscle and had an injection into it to stop the pain. That injection has slowly worn off, and the pain has been getting worse and worse, to the extent where I had trouble getting dressed, putting my hair up, and movement in general was painful. My boyfriend came with me to the doctor’s surgery where I had an injection of 80ml Cortisone into the top of my shoulder. It was quite painful but bearable and quick. I was told I couldn’t do any lifting or strenuous activity for a few days, as the injection needed time to take effect. I didn’t do much after my injection because of this, but I did play on my Switch on Animal Crossing and worked on some more blog ideas. We ventured out in the evening as we wanted to get some things for crafting, so we visited The Range near us and bought some bits and pieces that we needed.

WEDNESDAY 3RD DECEMBER

I worked in the morning, and my shift went quickly. I like working the morning shift as there is always a lot to do. We have a bread delivery first thing and needs to be worked. We rotate the stock with the newer being put at the back of the shelves, then I look at sweets, crisps and chocolate, tidying the shelves and re-stocking any items that are running low. I then look at the shelves that house our seasonal and promotional items, re-stocking and tidying as needed. Between this, I work the tills and serve customers. If there is time, I then look at our battery shelves and restock these. When I got home from work, I made my boyfriend (who was working from home) and myself hot chocolate with a double shot of espresso and squirty cream. In the night, we had a cute, stay-home date night and did some Christmas crafting, which was lush! We decided that we were going to make Christmas cards, so I taught him some techniques to use for card making including stamping using some Christmas Gnome rubber stamps that we had purchased from The Range.

THURSDAY 4TH DECEMBER

I had the day off from work. My shoulder was still a bit sore from the injection I’d had on Tuesday, so I didn’t do much but spent the day doing my nails, catching up on some tv shows and cooking. I made a vegetarian sausage ragout for us to have for tea with rice. I made the ragout in my Ninja Foodie that has a slow cooker function, so all I needed to do was prepare the vegetables and chuck all of the ingredients in and leave it to do its thing!

FRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER

The photos we had ordered last week for our scrapbook got delivered today. I’m really impressed with the quality of them! Can’t wait to start making our scrapbook memory pages with them! I had a shift in work from 6pm to 10pm. I didn’t do much in the day other than a bit of housework and pottering in the house before my shift. Once my shift was over, my boyfriend and I had some more sausage ragout, a couple of beers and watched some Christmas films before bed.

SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER

I had a morning/afternoon shift starting at 10am and finishing at 3.30pm. Work was busy with online orders coming in thick and fast due to the rainy weather. I did nearly 10000 steps in my time working! After work, I came home and changed, then we headed out to the local town centre to visit a craft shop and Asda for some more craft stuff. We needed some bits to make some gnomes and some food shopping too. After we had hit the shops, we headed to the local Wetherspoons for a pint. It was busy and loud, but I managed to find us some seats outside. We only stayed for one drink, then headed home to make a start on our gnomes (I was super excited to start these!!!). We ordered Arthur Christmas on DVD as it’s one of my favourite Christmas films and wasn’t available to watch on any of the channels/streaming apps that we use, and I really wanted to watch it!

SUNDAY 7TH DECEMBER

I had the day off today, and after a lie-in (til nearly 10am!) we got up and had coffee. The weather was pretty bad, lots of rain and really cold too. We decided to stay in and have a craft day. We made the house all cosy and warm, stayed in our (matching) pyjamas and made a load of Christmas cards that we are going to write and send out to our friends and family. The DVD that we had ordered arrived and we settled down to watch it with some food – jacket potatoes with cheese and beans! We also watched Over the Hedge, and we started watching The Grinch. I had tired myself out by being so excited about crafting that I fell asleep while watching it!

What have you been up to this week? Leave me a comment and let me know!