Standing Out in the Cold

I've spent the day bloody freezing!

Mam, my sister & I went to a market in town & were selling jams, cakes & brownies - all homemade! The wind was terrible & the cold bit into us. My feet were sore, as they had turned into a pair of icicles. I ended up sticking hand warmers into my shoes in order to hear them up a bit - it didn't work overly well.
We didnt really sell much. I mean, we did better than a lot of stalls, but people were more interested in the horses (the market was part of a thing were they were selling ponies) & didn't even bother to give us a glance. Not exactly encouraging. Especially if you're freezing.
I did, however, get my Year Head (the teacher that looks after my year group at school) to buy 3 brownies. She's awesome!
Overall, apart from being freezing & ignored, I think I had a good time. The women at the stalls around were good humoured & really nice to chat to :) Like there was a group of elderly & middle-aged women next to us & they were such good craic! Because we were so cold my sister & I started jumping & sort of dancing to keep warm. I looked over & one of the women was dancing! She saw me smiling & started laughing. There was small moments like that throughout the day. It was really nice :)

So, I feel that it was worthwhile, apart from the cold :)

Today...!

Today, I got up at 8am and, as usual, I served breakfast to the Bed & Breakfast guests. Afterwards, I talked to some elderly guests from New Zealand.
They were lovely! Sometimes, it's sad to say goodbye to some people. I'll probably never see most of them ever again. Only a small number actually come back repeatedly.
I then proceeded to clean the an suite bedrooms upstairs with the help of the young French woman works in our B&B a few days a week. She's really nice and humorous! Her English isn't the best, but it doesn't hold her back - she could basically be a long lost family member! However, I had to go around the place after her to make suree she hadn't forgotten anything... Which she had. I hate having to tell her she did this, that and the other wrong. I feel like such a nag. She won't learn if I don't, though.
Then, after lunch, Mam made us cut up plums for the jaam she's making tomorrow (she sells some in the local shops). Three freakin' boxes! It took 2hrs 30mins to 3hrs - no exageration. I now hate plums. The jam better feckin' turn out well tomorrow!

I had two proud moments today.

The first moment was when my best friend IMed me over Skype while I was cutting plums. She fucking kicked ass in her National Tests!!! All As! I felt she could do it from the amount of work she said she was putting into it all, but it's even better that she did get the marks thaat she deserved! 300 out of 320 points... It makes me smile. I'm so bloody proud of her, you'd swear she was my own child! Haha!

The second moment was when I was just having a chat with my little sister. And, Oh my God, she's growing up! No more is she stealing her twin brothers tractors and cars for herself (she was a Tom boy - still is a bit). No. Today I was trying to get it out of her did she like a lad at school. She didn't, but she caught on to all my dirty double meanings. When I was 12, I got hardly any of the stuff she gets. I think I'm a bad influence. Haha! So, I tried to catch her out.

Me:"Okay. You like none of the lads at school... So, how about actors?"

Sister: *Turns bright red* Gale from The Hunger Games. Liam Hemsworth. He's good looking.

We now plan to marry a Hemsworth brother each. Liam for her. Chris for me!

I love to see that I can joke with this sort of stuff with her now!

The day was alright after that, not too much jobs or whatever. I got time to breath! Oh, and to drop a few jokes about Liam on my little sister. She's currently not related to me! Lmao! XD

Anyway, t'is late and I've to get up at 7am to serve breakfast tomorrow. Dad is away at work, so can't help mam in the morning.

Nighty night! :) <3