the happy little world of miss ktp!

....do they make Chinese restaurants so quiet and prawn crackers so loud?! i always feel self concious when eating prawn crackers anyway cos you can't really eat them very politely cos they just crumble everywhere and you're left with bits sticking out your mouth, down your clothes, on the table (or is this just me?!) and as if to make them even worse they're so blimmin' noisey. you always walk into a chinese restaurant and it's all peaceful and relaxing and then you get a group of people sounding like they don't know how to eat as they crunch and crisp their way through a basket of the noisiest (but yummiest) snacks ever. answers on a postcard! xxx

Well it came and it went and I actually enjoyed it – wearing a dress that is, and the wedding was fun too! :P A RARE SIGHT - KTP IN A DRESS! Adam’s mate from uni, Phil, was getting married on Saturday so the dress got it’s first official outing. After getting used to the fact that I felt like I wasn’t wearing anything cos I’m used to jeans and t-shirts I went out and strutted my stuff. I still had to look down every so often to make sure! The service was lovely, so was the reception and I wish the happy couple all the best. Sad to say I didn’t catch the boquet but the token gay guy did which was ace and I think he appreciated it much more than any of the girls would have done anyway! ANOTHER HAPPY COUPLE! Well not a lot to post about this really but the fact was I went out in a dress, in public, and didn’t make a spectacle of myself! Woot woot! There’s hope for me yet! :P xxx

why don't they invent an easy way to eat muffins on the go?! i was at the train station yeterday morning and i saw a muffin just calling out to me and i thought yeah why not? so i paid a stupid price for it and was about to eat it and the train came. so i got on a busy commuter train still clutching my pricey muffin. instead of being patient and waiting till i got off the train to eat it i decided to start tucking in. what i hadn't thought about was HOW i was going to eat it. i started to take the top off first which was fine cos it wasn't too crumbly, then i got the middle bit that was just crumbs and i started to struggle. i had my arms pinned to my sides and tried not to drop muffin crumbs over everyone suits. most people would have just given up but it was open and i couldnt wrap it up again and the only other choice was the throw it away. now im on a budget this month so i'm not going to waste half a crumbly muffin cos i cant manage with it so i struggled...

i got a dress! i know i couldn't believe it either!! i suddenly found out i might have a few weddings to go to soon so needed a back up dress ready. poor adam didnt really know what to do at the prospect of a dress hunt again but it wasn't too bad really. i saw one i liked in the 1st shop but it wasn't very weddingy so carried on looking and found one in topshop later on (i know everyone will have it but i'll look the best! :P of course!) so i'm happy and i own a dress! wow! i went home for easter for 4 full days of mum and dad and it was nice for adam and i to get away from london for a bit eventhough it was snowing and cold. had a really nice one with them and it's a shame it's back to the grind stone now! boo! ah well 4day week! :) xxx

i don't know what's wrong with me at the moment, well i say wrong as if it's a bad thing....... i'm happy ALL the time! now i know people who know me will say that i'm not exactly the glumest of people but this is different. i have a spring in my step. i wake up happy, i go to bed happy, i smile to myself on the bus and tube. i'm sure people think i'm mad when i'm out and about! i've just got a bubbly, happy feeling inside. yay. there are quite a few factors for this but i won't go into them cos i'll end up sounding smug!! just thought i'd let you know all's well with me and my little world! :) xxx

Well Valentines day came and went and yes I was one half of those sickly sweet couples who make the most of it! Adam took me away to Paris for 3 days which was very sweet! J I was surprised at how quiet it was and all the couples you saw were mainly English, the majority of the visitors were school kids which made it slightly annoying but hey! We spent the 1st night sitting at the Sacre Coeur looking out at Paris while a random drunk guy played the guitar and sang. It was slightly more romantic than it sounds! :P we also did all the typical touristy stuff and made the most of being away for a few days from work! My last surprise was on the way back we travelled 1st class on the eurostar! That was ace! We had a 3 course meal and of course the compulsory champagne! :D woot woot hehe. I’m now sitting at my desk wishing I was still in Paris, hoping that payday will miraculously be changed to the 27th Feb, nibbling on French toast with champagne marmite (valentine’s day limi...

well the hunt for a dress was in vain, i found nothing and i may have even lost a shopping partner in the process! i was in one of those moods that meant that nothing looked right - it had too many frills, not enough frills, was too baggy, was not baggy enough.....i think you get the message! i'm not usually THAT bad at shopping but when i'm in the wrong mood and it's for something i don't really want to buy then god help anyone who comes shopping with me. adam's never experienced that before and probably never will now as he's vowed never to go shopping with me especially for a dress again! yoink! when i realised i wasn't going to find a dress i decided to go for the 'narnia' approach instead and hope that when i opened my wardrobe i'd find something amazing at the back of it that i didn't realise i had! it kind of worked cos i looked in and delved to the lefthand side where i hang all my skirts and managed to find one that hadn't...

there's nothing like the panic you get when you try on something that you know isn't going to fit in a changing room and then get it stuck....... i'm sure most of you know what i'm talking about, it's the last one, and is a size too small but you think 'oh it might fit, i'll give it a go' it also doesn't help when you ask the assistant if they have anything bigger and they say no but it's big for its size! sorry?! then it wouldn't be labelled a medium it would be a large wouldn't it?! but gullible as i am i was like 'oh ok cool i'll try it.' those fatal words! i went into the changing rooms and they were so small i could hardly fit in with myself, my bag and the garments i wanted to try on. So i got said large that was disguising itself as a medium and put it over my head. i struggled a bit and at this point most people would think 'nah, it's ok it's not going to fit.....' oh no, not me, i think that if ...

wishing she could stop thinking about her daily life in a facebook way! Everything she does she thinks of herself in 3rd person and so whenever she does interesting all, Katie is…..springs into mind! Don’t worry if you don’t get this blog, only fellow facebookers will know what I mean!! I’ve not blooged for a while cos ive been jet setting off to far off lands. I had a weeks holiday in New York with Adam and it was fab. We had such a great time! It was about -11degrees with the wind and it snowed lots J we even went ice skating in central park in the snow! How romantic?! Bleugh! Hehe! :P we did lots and lots of walking and shopping and we didnt want to come home! It was Adam’s birthday while we were away and so I surprised him with tickets to an ice hockey match. There was only one fight the rest of the time they were slamming each other into the walls! I really enjoyed it actually, wasn’t sure I would! Not really got much to say apart from it was great and we loved g...

Ok ok i know i decided to live in london, one of the most expensive places yadda yadda yadda but when, oh when did a small packet of chewing gum cost over 50p?! The evidence is above, both the offending packet & my change from £1! Madness! In my day it was always around 30p. Im shocked & i bet the mintiness doesnt last as long anymore either! :-P X x x

oh to be a kid again. i was sitting behind a group of school boys this morning on the bus and they were all chatting about money - one guy had 10p that he wasn't giving to ANYONE and on the other extreme one of his mates was said to be 'loaded' seeing as he had £4! now if we go by this rule then i might be classed as a millionnaire seeing as i have the treasured value of £8.60 in my purse. i wish shops could appreciate this new value of money - if they did, im sure i could be owning a penthouse on regent street and a lovely rx8! i think we should listen to kids more and take on their ways of thinking! i want to be rich dammit!! btw, still on the subject of money i was quite impressed that my poppy total this year only reached £3! i managed to keep the same poppy for the full amount of time tho i did find myself buying another one from 2 really old men at waterloo station cos i felt sorry for them and the other was for adam cos we were going to a rememberance sunday ...

Well ive got my 1st poppy of 2007. Lets see how long this one lasts. I always buy them early so i can wear it for a while but the plan usually backfires, cos the little poppy that i thought id donate a pound to get, ends up costing about a tenner cos the thing falls off too often! I had heard that theyd brought out a sticky poppy so you dont need the pin & so in theory doesnt fall off, but then it doesnt feel as traditional as when you either look down & see just a pin where your poppy was or you stab yourself on the pin! Cant win really! :-P X x x

well it's that time of year. the gloves, funky hats and scarves are out. It's flipping freezing! today was one of those lovely winter mornings where it's sunny but bitterly cold - my favorite part about english weather. there's nowt better than wrapping up warm (looking like the michelin man! :S) and then waddling out the door into the cold! now im usually fine about all my winter accessories but this year is the 1st year since i was tiny that i've worn mittens. they are soo hard to do any general day to day activities. they need an instruction manual! goodness knows how kids cope. There must be a gene or a brain cell or something that small kids have when they're small to help them cope in mittens, then when you're an adult this gene disappears and you can't function as soon as all of your fingers are bound together. i tried to read a book - impossible. i tried to hold more than one thing at once in my hand - impossible. i kept dropping my ca...

just a little observation when i was wandering round london the other day. why do you never see pigeons with both feet intact?! they pretty much all have at least one mangled foot, if a foot at all! bit minging i know but its one of life's great mysteries. well, not really, but it sounds more interesting that way! :P on other news W.I.T played 2 great gigs this weekend. one at the Plough Inn for Oxfam where they headlined the Oxjam gig. check out the link below to a video of the crazy kids! (sorry the sound isn't very good, i'll hopefully get a better one on here one day!) http://youtube.com/watch?v=CxutiAhHlxI also hopefully one day i'll be able to post a link properly, not just a website to click on! :S their 2nd gig was at The Comedy near Leicester Square which was great fun! I got quite a few of my mates down to see them and they had a great turn out of their mates too. both gigs went really well and the 2nd one should hopefully lead to them gett...

just to let you know that yes i do still exist on this planet! i haven't been blogging cos i haven't really been doing much thats worth blogging!! it's been the same old work, sleep, eat, see adam, sleep, eat, sleep, the odd beer, eat, i think you get the message! :P i'm just really leaving this as a courtesy message to say i haven't been abducted by aliens, i'm still in london wowing the shirt industry and i'll be back doing more exciting things in the not to near distant future! xxx

Now for the pervs among you this post isnt going to be what youre expecting! Meet peanut. The new addition to adams family. He fell out of his drey & adams sister is a vetinary nurse so she brought him back to look after him & here he is. Hes gorgeous! :-) he sits outside the back door waiting to be let in the nibbles on grapes on the kitchen floor! Aww Hehe.

Peanut kept trying to find somewhere to burrow! :-S thankfully he didnt succeed! Hehe. Infact you should feel privilaged to see me out & about. Since my 2 birthday presents (an ipod from mum & dad & a nintendo ds from adam) ive turned into a teenager again who mainly grunts! Ok its mainly sudoku im doing & with something stupid like 2million puzzles its gonna take me a while! But hey i love a challenge! Hehe. Adam & i even find ourselves sitting on the tube playing on our ds' if youre lucky we might be competing against each other! I dont know, Modern relationships today! :-P at least its keeping us out of mischief! Hehe. Oh one other thing, why do all the buses ive been on today smelt of garlic?! Random! X x x

Now I've reached my actual birthday! Mum and dad came up on the Monday (the day before) so that they could spend the whole of my birthday with me in London seeing as I’d book the day off work. On the Monday us 3 and Adam went out for a meal at an Indian called Mela on Shaftsbury avenue and was amazing. The best I've probably had outside of India tho a little rushed at times! They did their own version of a Malai Kofta and they had Roomali Roti so I was chuffed! If you ever get a chance to go, go! (Nothing wrong with a bit of promo!!) On my actual birthday I met up with mum and dad at their hotel and they whisked me off for a day of surprises. After breakfast our 1st stop was Buckingham palace which was beautiful and even though I’d seen it from the outside many times before, you can now go inside. so we went round the mews where all the horses and carriages are kept and also went into the state rooms and they were incredible. Just to think that that's someone'...

A couple of weekends ago was the very exclusive 'P-fest.' So exclusive many people won't have even heard of it! It was held at mum and dad's house so I couldn't really invite loads of people, so sorry if you didn't get an invite, it was purely for space! I do still like you!! :P THE FLYER THANKS TO ADAM'S CREATIVE-NESS! Adam and I drove to Leicester on the Friday afternoon and then Dan and Kat (2 other members from the band W.I.T.) travelled down by train. Friday was nice and relaxed and we all chillaxed in the hottub together. I'm such a groupie!! Saturday was when the excitement started......the band spent the day rehearsing ready for their Leicester debut! At 7:30 the guests started to arrive and the nights fun began. Unfortunately it was raining so in reality it was very authentic festival weather, but seeing as people were coming to enjoy themselves and not get caked in mud we decided to move everything indoors. Everything that is except...

As you can probably tell I still don’t have internet in my new flat hence no posts on my blog! So I'm writing this offline and will post it when I get somewhere with internet! A lot has happened recently so I'll start writing from a few weeks ago and will eventually catch up to date with what's been going on. I don't want you all falling asleep at your desk as you try to read one huge post from me! Just imagine....the whole of earls court was turned into a pub. wow, heaven!!! That's right it was time for the great British beer festival in London, it was great fun. you could buy 3rd of a pint for about 70p so it was a great way to try lots of different beers and not get too drunk in the process! :-S you could also chat to a badger on the badger phone - don't ask, it seemed like a great idea when we were there! honest! Not really got much to say on this cos it was literally a huge pub and lots of real ale! After that Adam and I staggered to Brixton to...