It was my housemate's birthday on Wednesday so I spent a good few hours on Tuesday evening lovingly making her a deliciously chocolatey birthday cake. It was meant to be a surprise but it's a bit difficult to bake in secret when you share a house with someone. It went down an absolute treat though.



And I think it looked pretty damn good if I do say so myself, I made everything myself (apart from the smarties and chocolate letters of course). I had to wing the chocolate fudge icing as the mixture didn't do what I expected it to do when I was trying to make it, got there in the end though.

The sudden drop in temperature has meant that it's time to break out those hats and gloves, except one of my favourite gloves went walk about so on Wednesday I went on a mission to replace them in preparation for the Guy Fawkes festivities later on.

I eventually found a pair of gloves and matching hat without beads and sequins (a surprisingly difficult challenge) in Accesorize. I decided to splash out since I had a gift card and cashed in on the student discount too. I love my new winter woollies.

My drink and quesadilla

The portion size of the quesadilla was bigger than expected, I guess I have the tapas size from living in Spain in my head still. Not complaining though! Meant I didn't need to make myself any dinner when we got back and chowed down on some birthday cake instead.

And to finish off quite a busy week, I went to the theatre last night to see Rock of Ages with my housemate. We were way up in the balcony and annoyingly sat next to two people who would not shut up so I passively aggressively hushed them while staring straight ahead so they didn't know it was me. They definitely heard me though and decided that they'd just talk more. I wouldn't have minded had they just been getting really into the songs, but when they were loudly talking over the dialogue it really started to wind me up.

         

So we moved seats during the interval in the hope of hearing the rest of the story and so did everyone else sitting within a couple of seats of them. By the time the show started back, there was a massive void of where people had been sitting previously. Surprisingly the pair didn't show up again after the interval, I was on the lookout/hiding my face. We reckon they were either chucked out or missed the cue to go back in. Can they not let you back in if you miss the warning bell?

Anyway, the second half was much more enjoyable and I managed to get a few photos of the theatre before we left.

                           

Not done any running this week because of the weather, hopefully that doesn't impact on my parkrun time too much. I guess we'll see tomorrow.

Anna xx