MY TOP TEN THINGS I HAVE COME TO HATE ALMOST AGED 40
NUMBER TEN: NOT HAVING A SINGING VOICE LIKE KAREN CARPENTER,
NUMBER NINE: PEOPLE WHO JUST STOP WHEN YOU ARE WALKING BEHIND THEM ESPECIALLY IN TOWN SHOPPING.
NUMBER EIGHT: NOSE PICKING.
NUMBER SEVEN: MEAN PEOPLE.
NUMBER SIX: TWO FACED PEOPLE.
NUMBER FIVE: LIES.
NUMBER FOUR: UNTIDINESS.
NUMBER THREE: TOWELS LEFT ON BATHROOM FLOOR. (Hang on that does not count as it could come under untidiness) So we will change it to:-
NUMBER THREE: BAD MANNERS AND RUDENESS.
NUMBER TWO: PEOPLE WHO KEEP YOU WAITING COS THEY ARE LATE.
NUMBER ONE: NOT HAVING A SINGING VOICE LIKE KAREN CARPENTER!
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Day 317
Well it is almost a month now since I began to take my new meds, to switch of my Immune System and to keep me immuno-suppressed and one of the down-sides and effects is high blood pressure and over the last few days this has been a problem for me. Not as bad though as when I was rushed into hospital time and time again seriously ill and my blood pressure dropping quickly. That was a awful feeling of floating up and down and feeling really ill and sick. This is more of a fuzzy head feeling warm and light-headed. I find when I am active it can get worse. Cleaning for example when you are picking things up and getting up and down. After vacuumning I feel like I have done a full work-out. And today something as simple as changing the bin-bag and the lid dropping in the bin, resulting in me wrestling with the bin, did not help!
So I have been resting whenever I can. I think once I get use to these new meds then hopefully, things will settle down. I do have my blood pressure checked every week and my bloods. In fact yesterday having my bloods done I felt nothing, and I thought any moment now the nurse taking my blood will say she can't get any blood from my vein, and after start messing around for another vein. But no she took my bloods so well I never felt a thing. I have had that many done now I know which is my best arm and it always works. I am just use to it.
Next week I am back seeing my specialist and pretty soon I will not have an Immune System. I also saw my allergy specialist a couple of days ago too. So I am being well looked after now and I feel I am in good hands!
People keep asking me what will happen if you catch a cold? Well yes things could be serious for me and not just colds but other infections too, but it is no more dangerous as it was me being rushed into hospital all the time. So I see this as a positive and I am not dwelling on what could happen. My skin is clear and I do feel so much better.
But blood pressure is one thing I will also have to watch. That could be a big thing for me too, that could make me really ill too. But all in all things are looking up! Not felt this good in ages! Be dusting down my roller-skates in no time!
Evening all x x x
So I have been resting whenever I can. I think once I get use to these new meds then hopefully, things will settle down. I do have my blood pressure checked every week and my bloods. In fact yesterday having my bloods done I felt nothing, and I thought any moment now the nurse taking my blood will say she can't get any blood from my vein, and after start messing around for another vein. But no she took my bloods so well I never felt a thing. I have had that many done now I know which is my best arm and it always works. I am just use to it.
Next week I am back seeing my specialist and pretty soon I will not have an Immune System. I also saw my allergy specialist a couple of days ago too. So I am being well looked after now and I feel I am in good hands!
People keep asking me what will happen if you catch a cold? Well yes things could be serious for me and not just colds but other infections too, but it is no more dangerous as it was me being rushed into hospital all the time. So I see this as a positive and I am not dwelling on what could happen. My skin is clear and I do feel so much better.
But blood pressure is one thing I will also have to watch. That could be a big thing for me too, that could make me really ill too. But all in all things are looking up! Not felt this good in ages! Be dusting down my roller-skates in no time!
Evening all x x x
Saturday, 11 January 2014
Day 310
For sometime, dear Reader I have noticed that some post has not been arriving to my door. Brought to my attention by friends and family who have posted letters, cards and gifts to me, I have been a little slow to do anything about it. We are still getting post but it would seem we have lost quite a lot now over the last year.
So when I almost missed an important specialist appointment, due to me not getting the letter with the appointment date, I felt now was the time I must act and do something. So I decided to give the Post Office a call and report it.
Now the Post Office have one of those annoying and frustrating systems that when you call, you don't get to chat to a human for ages. Menus and pressing a number to select the option which is relevant to you follow, followed by more option menus and pressing numbers. Followed by more option and menus... You get the picture, dear Reader! It takes quite a while to get through the system until you get to a human voice.
But I knew I had to do this in a polite and calm manner. Never easy to complain about anything, so when I finally got through to a human, I had decide be nice and friendly. So this is what I did. Only for it to become clear to me that the customer service person I was chatting too was actually really grumpy and to put it politely A COMPLETE ARSE! But I stayed calm and friendly while he asked me to provide dates not of only when letters went missing, but to when the person had actually posted them out. Telling me I would have to call them and ask them for the exact date. I could give him even those dates as family and friends had told me not only the date they had posted it but where they had posted it, and most of them who they had seen in town and with whom! All done by me in a lovely polite and lovely way. Even my nurse had told me when my specialist letter was sent out too.
Only for Mr Grumpy (who never did tell me his name) to reply as I went through the dates "YOU ARE JUST SAYING THAT" And he promptly hung up on me!!!!! I was really shocked. You just do not expect this type of behaviour from such a well known brand and company do you? I felt ill straight away, probably down to it affecting my blood pressure as I do get stressed the thought of missing my appointments and it could lead to me not getting my medication and them running out so I found this most upsetting.
But knowing I needed to sort out my missing mail problem. I knew I had to call back. So again I did. Having to go all the way through the system again. When I got through this time to get through to a lovely girl called Jane or Jayne however she may spell it! The difference she was really friendly and nice. I too stayed calm and although the last person had made me feel cross. I was polite and explained to Jane/Jayne what had happened. She even gave me an apology. She sorted out my problem fast and listened carefully to everything I explained to her. So hopefully the case of my missing mail will soon be solved.
But it does makes you question how do these people get jobs and then still keep them? I think of all the people trying so hard in the current climate to get jobs and have no luck. Yet people like that get them and seem to be able to keep them. I am so glad people like Jane/Jayne are good at their jobs. But to the W*****R that dealt with me first very clever not giving me your name... However after a chat with high Post Office it turns out ALL CALLS ARE RECORDED! So lets hope this turns out to be a fare exchange at the Dole Office, a person who is willing to work and be good at their job for an arse who needs a wake up call and a spell of unemployment to change his seriously bad attitude!
Evening all x x x
So when I almost missed an important specialist appointment, due to me not getting the letter with the appointment date, I felt now was the time I must act and do something. So I decided to give the Post Office a call and report it.
Now the Post Office have one of those annoying and frustrating systems that when you call, you don't get to chat to a human for ages. Menus and pressing a number to select the option which is relevant to you follow, followed by more option menus and pressing numbers. Followed by more option and menus... You get the picture, dear Reader! It takes quite a while to get through the system until you get to a human voice.
But I knew I had to do this in a polite and calm manner. Never easy to complain about anything, so when I finally got through to a human, I had decide be nice and friendly. So this is what I did. Only for it to become clear to me that the customer service person I was chatting too was actually really grumpy and to put it politely A COMPLETE ARSE! But I stayed calm and friendly while he asked me to provide dates not of only when letters went missing, but to when the person had actually posted them out. Telling me I would have to call them and ask them for the exact date. I could give him even those dates as family and friends had told me not only the date they had posted it but where they had posted it, and most of them who they had seen in town and with whom! All done by me in a lovely polite and lovely way. Even my nurse had told me when my specialist letter was sent out too.
Only for Mr Grumpy (who never did tell me his name) to reply as I went through the dates "YOU ARE JUST SAYING THAT" And he promptly hung up on me!!!!! I was really shocked. You just do not expect this type of behaviour from such a well known brand and company do you? I felt ill straight away, probably down to it affecting my blood pressure as I do get stressed the thought of missing my appointments and it could lead to me not getting my medication and them running out so I found this most upsetting.
But knowing I needed to sort out my missing mail problem. I knew I had to call back. So again I did. Having to go all the way through the system again. When I got through this time to get through to a lovely girl called Jane or Jayne however she may spell it! The difference she was really friendly and nice. I too stayed calm and although the last person had made me feel cross. I was polite and explained to Jane/Jayne what had happened. She even gave me an apology. She sorted out my problem fast and listened carefully to everything I explained to her. So hopefully the case of my missing mail will soon be solved.
But it does makes you question how do these people get jobs and then still keep them? I think of all the people trying so hard in the current climate to get jobs and have no luck. Yet people like that get them and seem to be able to keep them. I am so glad people like Jane/Jayne are good at their jobs. But to the W*****R that dealt with me first very clever not giving me your name... However after a chat with high Post Office it turns out ALL CALLS ARE RECORDED! So lets hope this turns out to be a fare exchange at the Dole Office, a person who is willing to work and be good at their job for an arse who needs a wake up call and a spell of unemployment to change his seriously bad attitude!
Evening all x x x
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Day 306
There is nothing more frustrating, dear Reader, than having to chase things up, and this is what I have found myself doing over the past few days. Unable to see my usual GP due to the Christmas holidays, I went and visited a different one. It was important I went as some of my repeat prescription was on review, and it is vital that I do not run out of my meds. So as I had not seen this GP before I explained all this to them. I did think it was unusual because usually I am given a prescription straight away so I do not run out. So thinking that they just wanted me to do this myself by ordering what I needed on repeat, this is what I tried to do, only to find to my horror that the doctor had not reviewed my meds, put it through (even though they said they would do this) and I could not order or get my much needed meds.
So another quick dash to the doctors and I am told there is nothing they can do for a couple of days. Then a couple of days later I get the prescription only to find that my local chemist do not have my meds in stock! I feel quite cross about this because finally things for me have improved a lot on my new drugs and this can really set me back and it is just so unnecessary.
Not only that it makes me stressed! And my blood pressure goes up! (Something that in my condition is checked weekly and needs watching) The thought of myself getting ill again just because of something silly just like this! Most of the doctors are very good and always make sure I have plenty of meds, but during my time being ill I have seen a couple who, well lets say if I was in serious difficulty and they turned up to help me, I would be inclined to say "No thank you" "I will take my chances!"
Evening all x x x
So another quick dash to the doctors and I am told there is nothing they can do for a couple of days. Then a couple of days later I get the prescription only to find that my local chemist do not have my meds in stock! I feel quite cross about this because finally things for me have improved a lot on my new drugs and this can really set me back and it is just so unnecessary.
Not only that it makes me stressed! And my blood pressure goes up! (Something that in my condition is checked weekly and needs watching) The thought of myself getting ill again just because of something silly just like this! Most of the doctors are very good and always make sure I have plenty of meds, but during my time being ill I have seen a couple who, well lets say if I was in serious difficulty and they turned up to help me, I would be inclined to say "No thank you" "I will take my chances!"
Evening all x x x
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Day 304
Well last night, dear Reader, I could not sleep. I blame a late night Chinese take-away and a Lucozade I consumed too, far too late at night. So sponsored by Lucozade I did what only one can as you lie awake at night unable to sleep... I made plans! BIG plans. And I problem solved at the same time!
I decided to swap my teen's bedrooms. At the moment Mr L as the bigger room and all he does when he is in there is either sleep or on his media desk, computing, or watching TV, or on his Game consoles. He now does not have as much stuff as Miss C, and Miss C would benefit a lot from the fitted closet in the room too. Both bedrooms are now in need of decorating so as we have to empty the rooms to do this anyway, it would be the perfect opportunity to swap them rooms and for them to have a great big clear out too.
So there I lay all night measuring up mentally fitting thing in the rooms in my head, making sure everything would fit. Miss C would now have more room for her group of friends to fit in her room, and for doing her wonderful drawings etc. While Mr L as long as he as a bed and media desk he will be happy.
The trouble is with me is that when I come up with these bright ideas, I really want to crack on and get it done A.S.A.P. I could have easily got the kids up and begun to empty a room, and as soon as B&Q opened been down there (letting the kids choose their own paint colour of course) and had a room done and painted by the end of the day. Realistically I know this would be impossible and I will have to wait, made harder because due to my allergies I can't actually do half the work anyway!
So when my hubby awoke. I presented my ideas with a powerful plan... All I needed was a power point and I had given it my all. What a presentation! But what usually happens when I have my brilliant ideas is that the hubby is not always convinced, and I have to really present my case well. "It will never fit" "No we can't do it" Will be the kind of things that I will hear. Now sometimes it can take me a hour, sometimes a week, sometimes a month, sometimes a few months, or sometimes a year or even years.... But eventually the hubby will see that I am right and that it really was a fantastic idea! Not however when he gets grumpy doing the D.I.Y and the painting. This will be when it is all done and dusted and the hard work forgotten about!
Evening all x x x
I decided to swap my teen's bedrooms. At the moment Mr L as the bigger room and all he does when he is in there is either sleep or on his media desk, computing, or watching TV, or on his Game consoles. He now does not have as much stuff as Miss C, and Miss C would benefit a lot from the fitted closet in the room too. Both bedrooms are now in need of decorating so as we have to empty the rooms to do this anyway, it would be the perfect opportunity to swap them rooms and for them to have a great big clear out too.
So there I lay all night measuring up mentally fitting thing in the rooms in my head, making sure everything would fit. Miss C would now have more room for her group of friends to fit in her room, and for doing her wonderful drawings etc. While Mr L as long as he as a bed and media desk he will be happy.
The trouble is with me is that when I come up with these bright ideas, I really want to crack on and get it done A.S.A.P. I could have easily got the kids up and begun to empty a room, and as soon as B&Q opened been down there (letting the kids choose their own paint colour of course) and had a room done and painted by the end of the day. Realistically I know this would be impossible and I will have to wait, made harder because due to my allergies I can't actually do half the work anyway!
So when my hubby awoke. I presented my ideas with a powerful plan... All I needed was a power point and I had given it my all. What a presentation! But what usually happens when I have my brilliant ideas is that the hubby is not always convinced, and I have to really present my case well. "It will never fit" "No we can't do it" Will be the kind of things that I will hear. Now sometimes it can take me a hour, sometimes a week, sometimes a month, sometimes a few months, or sometimes a year or even years.... But eventually the hubby will see that I am right and that it really was a fantastic idea! Not however when he gets grumpy doing the D.I.Y and the painting. This will be when it is all done and dusted and the hard work forgotten about!
Evening all x x x
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Day 300
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Dear Reader and welcome to the year 2014!
My New Year Resolutions.
1. To stop worrying. ( I do worry a lot.) (Although not as much as I use to.)
2. To stop being annoying. (I think sometimes I can be annoying.) (Just a feeling)
3. To stop talking so much. (I think the reason I can be annoying is that I talk too much.)
4. To stop waffling on. ( I think a long with the talking I may waffle on too.)
5. To get back to the gym.
6. To know you can't please everyone all the time and to just walk away.
7. To work with my specialists to have a much healthier year.
8. To read and review over three hundred books this year.
9. To spend as much time with my family as possible doing fun and family things.
10. To stay positive and happy.
Evening all x x x
My New Year Resolutions.
1. To stop worrying. ( I do worry a lot.) (Although not as much as I use to.)
2. To stop being annoying. (I think sometimes I can be annoying.) (Just a feeling)
3. To stop talking so much. (I think the reason I can be annoying is that I talk too much.)
4. To stop waffling on. ( I think a long with the talking I may waffle on too.)
5. To get back to the gym.
6. To know you can't please everyone all the time and to just walk away.
7. To work with my specialists to have a much healthier year.
8. To read and review over three hundred books this year.
9. To spend as much time with my family as possible doing fun and family things.
10. To stay positive and happy.
Evening all x x x
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Day 299
New Years Eve, dear Reader. It would always be between Christmas and the New Year that growing up we would go visit my grandparents. We would always travel to Scarborough where my grandparents lived by train. I would always have my walkman with me for the journey. In fact back then I permanently had my walkman on anytime anyplace, anyway. The journey would take us about a hour and half from where we lived on the train to get to Scarborough station. Now when ever I listen to Nik Kersahw's album The Riddle I am transported back to those train journeys, as for a while it was the only cassette I had to play on my walkman.
My grandparents loved Christmas and always made it special. All the family would meet at their house. Spare chairs would be taken out of the shed and put around the dining table so we could all squeeze in. There was always plenty to eat. I have to say that it was not only my grandparents that made a big thing about Christmas but my parents did too. My dad would always trim the house with bright trimmings hung from the ceiling and mum would buy a lot of presents at Christmas. We got loads and loads of presents when we were children at Christmas time. People thought we were spoilt. Not through the year just at Christmas we were!
When we would arrive at my grandparents house as soon as the door opened the dogs would run to greet you, making a real fuss of you. There was a lot of love from my grandparents and it always felt a safe environment to be in and was filled with a lot of love. Back then in the 1980's I thought these Christmas get togethers would last forever, not knowing how fast the clock was ticking, and that for me then the time spent with my grandparents was precious and to treasure every moment. All the extended family filled that house and we had the best of times.
For today those days are over. Those family times now gone, but happy memories remain. Ironically for two people who simple adored spending time with family at Christmas, and who both really loved Christmas, both my grandparents passed away at this time of year. But I do not choose to make it make me feel sad at this time of the year, knowing this would never be what my grandparents would want, instead I choose to continue their tradition and make a big thing of Christmas. and to make it as special for my family as they did for me.
When I got older I moved away from my family and due to bad weather it was impossible to drive to North Yorkshire at this time of year. So we had to miss out on a visits. We often did try hard to drive but North Yorkshire snow is a difficult task to get through. I feel at this time sometimes my family may have been disappointed with me and felt that I had let them down. But with two small children back then it was simply too dangerous to risk driving over the motorway and when we did risk it for me and the husband it was a really scary driving experience at times.
So I do wish I could have lived nearer. I do wish we had not ended up so far away, but I also know I did my best to get there when I could. I also know if people have not experienced the drive for themselves how they would not understand just how dangerous it gets. Living where we do now you have to cross the motorway over the Pennines and that is the worst part of the journey.
But when we did make it we would have such a good time and my grandma always bought presents that she knew you would like and she put a lot of thought into those gifts. I miss those times so much now and if I am ever lucky to be a grandma I hope that I will be just like mine.
Evening all x x x
My grandparents loved Christmas and always made it special. All the family would meet at their house. Spare chairs would be taken out of the shed and put around the dining table so we could all squeeze in. There was always plenty to eat. I have to say that it was not only my grandparents that made a big thing about Christmas but my parents did too. My dad would always trim the house with bright trimmings hung from the ceiling and mum would buy a lot of presents at Christmas. We got loads and loads of presents when we were children at Christmas time. People thought we were spoilt. Not through the year just at Christmas we were!
When we would arrive at my grandparents house as soon as the door opened the dogs would run to greet you, making a real fuss of you. There was a lot of love from my grandparents and it always felt a safe environment to be in and was filled with a lot of love. Back then in the 1980's I thought these Christmas get togethers would last forever, not knowing how fast the clock was ticking, and that for me then the time spent with my grandparents was precious and to treasure every moment. All the extended family filled that house and we had the best of times.
For today those days are over. Those family times now gone, but happy memories remain. Ironically for two people who simple adored spending time with family at Christmas, and who both really loved Christmas, both my grandparents passed away at this time of year. But I do not choose to make it make me feel sad at this time of the year, knowing this would never be what my grandparents would want, instead I choose to continue their tradition and make a big thing of Christmas. and to make it as special for my family as they did for me.
When I got older I moved away from my family and due to bad weather it was impossible to drive to North Yorkshire at this time of year. So we had to miss out on a visits. We often did try hard to drive but North Yorkshire snow is a difficult task to get through. I feel at this time sometimes my family may have been disappointed with me and felt that I had let them down. But with two small children back then it was simply too dangerous to risk driving over the motorway and when we did risk it for me and the husband it was a really scary driving experience at times.
So I do wish I could have lived nearer. I do wish we had not ended up so far away, but I also know I did my best to get there when I could. I also know if people have not experienced the drive for themselves how they would not understand just how dangerous it gets. Living where we do now you have to cross the motorway over the Pennines and that is the worst part of the journey.
But when we did make it we would have such a good time and my grandma always bought presents that she knew you would like and she put a lot of thought into those gifts. I miss those times so much now and if I am ever lucky to be a grandma I hope that I will be just like mine.
Evening all x x x
Friday, 27 December 2013
Day 295
Happy Christmas! Dear Reader, sorry I have not been around for a while. I have been busy starting my new treatment to have my Immune System switched off. So things health wise should improve a lot for me, with the only downside is how long can I fly solo without an Immune System? I have bought plenty of soup and even invested in a woolly hat! All to help when out in the cold weather, so I don't get a cold, which to me now would be a big thing and could make me really ill. I have to have my bloods and blood pressure done once a week too. Blood pressure and a high heart rate are side effects of the tablets. So it is important I avoid stress too.
Now back to Christmas. Did you have a good one dear Reader? We did. A nice quiet Christmas at home after last year shenanigans! Never again! Was no need for that at all. But I guess lots of people experience that sort of thing at Christmas. So a lovely quiet Christmas, with some nice presents exchanged and time spent with my own little family.
Did you watch the Queen's Speech, Dear Reader? I thought what she said made a lot of sense, alot of her speech matched my year too, when she talked about the man stuck in in plaster and not able to go out. I too have been stuck in ill most of the year too. In fact I think today it is a year since I started to feel really ill. And she is right, our Queen! It does make you reflect on life and it makes you think about life a lot. I think it changes you for the better. It is like a learning curve and you learn what is important and to give priority to and what should be left and is not worth worrying about. I am also grateful to do the job I do and that it is reading as without my books I do not know what and how I would have filled my time.
So now with all this thinking and reading, dear Reader, I am hoping that I am now more wiser and intelligent!
Evening all x x x
Now back to Christmas. Did you have a good one dear Reader? We did. A nice quiet Christmas at home after last year shenanigans! Never again! Was no need for that at all. But I guess lots of people experience that sort of thing at Christmas. So a lovely quiet Christmas, with some nice presents exchanged and time spent with my own little family.
Did you watch the Queen's Speech, Dear Reader? I thought what she said made a lot of sense, alot of her speech matched my year too, when she talked about the man stuck in in plaster and not able to go out. I too have been stuck in ill most of the year too. In fact I think today it is a year since I started to feel really ill. And she is right, our Queen! It does make you reflect on life and it makes you think about life a lot. I think it changes you for the better. It is like a learning curve and you learn what is important and to give priority to and what should be left and is not worth worrying about. I am also grateful to do the job I do and that it is reading as without my books I do not know what and how I would have filled my time.
So now with all this thinking and reading, dear Reader, I am hoping that I am now more wiser and intelligent!
Evening all x x x
Saturday, 21 December 2013
Day 289
Well it is almost here, dear Reader, CHRISTMAS! So my much a waited appointment with the specialist is now only days away. I have been putting quite a gallery of pictures together on my gadget thingy of my skin at its worse, so the specialist can zoom in and have a good look. So hopefully he will not need to examine me then. Quite handy these gadget things are they not?
I wonder if Santa will bring me another gadget thingy for Christmas this year? I would be happy with some Wonder Woman slippers actually! I cannot work anything with a touch screen anyway, much to the entertainment of my teens, who find it highly amusing and entertaining watching me struggle with such a device and the mayhem I cause like deleting loads of my friends of my social media accounts by accident.
I only use my Kindle to read books... I know it can do a lot more wonderful and fascinating things but I do not know how. I will have to be adventurous and have a play to see just what else it can do. But with loads of books to read and review it is finding the time and if I a honest I just do not dare risk loosing all the books I have on there, as I know this would be the most likeliest thing I would do.
So all the presents are wrapped. The turkey is in the freezer and... I know I have forgot something... But what? I have got the crackers and champagne... But I cannot think what it is I have forgot? I even tried that storing reminders to myself in my gadgets but I never set them right to go off and remind me.
What were we talking about dear Reader?
Evening all x x x
I wonder if Santa will bring me another gadget thingy for Christmas this year? I would be happy with some Wonder Woman slippers actually! I cannot work anything with a touch screen anyway, much to the entertainment of my teens, who find it highly amusing and entertaining watching me struggle with such a device and the mayhem I cause like deleting loads of my friends of my social media accounts by accident.
I only use my Kindle to read books... I know it can do a lot more wonderful and fascinating things but I do not know how. I will have to be adventurous and have a play to see just what else it can do. But with loads of books to read and review it is finding the time and if I a honest I just do not dare risk loosing all the books I have on there, as I know this would be the most likeliest thing I would do.
So all the presents are wrapped. The turkey is in the freezer and... I know I have forgot something... But what? I have got the crackers and champagne... But I cannot think what it is I have forgot? I even tried that storing reminders to myself in my gadgets but I never set them right to go off and remind me.
What were we talking about dear Reader?
Evening all x x x
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Day 285
It's the most wonderful time of the year dear Reader, Christmas time! I love it! The run up to Christmas; the putting the tree up; the Christmas decorations; the Christmas shopping and everything!
I love watching Christmas films too and I have discovered this great channel on Sky for Christmas films called Christmas/24.
And now with only days away to my appointment with the specialist. I am on my way to getting the best Christmas present ever... my health back! Although I am about to have my immune system switched off to improve my health. I am really looking forward to been much healthier next year and to actually be able to do simple things like going out more and getting back into life.
Been stuck in watching my Christmas films, I have noticed a pattern to plots to these Christmas films, they always have a hidden meaning and you can count on a Christmas films to make you feel good! Most of the plots involve things like people who hold a grudge, even when they themselves have not behaved in an appropriate way and have expected people to forget their mistakes they cannot do the same themselves for other people. Or business type people finding out what the more important things in life are. And it all turns out for the better at the end!!! I love them!
Evening all x x x
Evening all x x x
I love watching Christmas films too and I have discovered this great channel on Sky for Christmas films called Christmas/24.
And now with only days away to my appointment with the specialist. I am on my way to getting the best Christmas present ever... my health back! Although I am about to have my immune system switched off to improve my health. I am really looking forward to been much healthier next year and to actually be able to do simple things like going out more and getting back into life.
Been stuck in watching my Christmas films, I have noticed a pattern to plots to these Christmas films, they always have a hidden meaning and you can count on a Christmas films to make you feel good! Most of the plots involve things like people who hold a grudge, even when they themselves have not behaved in an appropriate way and have expected people to forget their mistakes they cannot do the same themselves for other people. Or business type people finding out what the more important things in life are. And it all turns out for the better at the end!!! I love them!
Evening all x x x
Evening all x x x
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Day 276
Well it was the invasion of Primark bags in our town centre yesterday. We now have our very own Primark store. Newly opened this week. All you could see in the crowds of Christmas shoppers was Primark bags. Nearly everyone had one, two or even ten of these brown paper bags. Town was heaving already with Christmas shoppers and the grand new opening of Primark I think made town even busier. It was packed!
We usually walk into town but we had decided to take the car. Now parking was difficult, there was no parking spaces anywhere and now on the local retail park you can only park there if you are only shopping at the retail park or you risk being fined one hundred pounds! Why they do not just have a parking charge like ASDA I don't know.
Almost giving up on the parking and by now been prepared to head back home with the car and to walk back into town luckily at the last moment we found a space. But next time I am walking, dear Reader. It was like going on a mountain expedition! Pushing through the crowds and tackling the queues! I did not even make it into the famous store as the image of sardines packed in a tin came to mind!
Evening all x x x
Sunday, 1 December 2013
Day 269
Growing up in the 1980's there was some amazing films to come out like the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi and Rocky and ET. Now ET was one of the most popular films and the town I lived in had plenty of pirate videos. Which is how I first came to see ET.
We all packed into my Aunts house and we were all excited to be seeing ET. So the film was put on and it was very dark--so dark in fact you could hardly see what was happening. It was so dark that when the TV metre ran out and needed another fifty pence it took us all ages to realise!!!!
Evening all x x x
We all packed into my Aunts house and we were all excited to be seeing ET. So the film was put on and it was very dark--so dark in fact you could hardly see what was happening. It was so dark that when the TV metre ran out and needed another fifty pence it took us all ages to realise!!!!
Evening all x x x
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Day 261
I am getting caught up in all this Doctor Who 50th anniversary hype dear Reader. I would not even really call myself a Doctor Who fan either!
Tom Baker was my childhood Doctor Who--and Peter Davidson. I remember being really scared when Tom Baker regenerated into Peter Davidson. More frightening than the Darleks or Cybermen to me.
Then I watched the new series with my children when they brought it back. But I did not get into it until the great David Tennant took over the role. Then to me it became good old fashion family entertainment. He was a hard act to follow and I could not get into Matt Smith when he became the Doctor--even though he did do a fantastic job I just liked David better.
And tonight he is back! Mr David Tennant is in a special episode of Doctorr Who along with Matt Smith. Two Doctors, it is going to be interesting. And Billie Piper back as Rose who now since marrying into the Fox acting dynasty has taken to talking rather posh! Golly!
Evening all x x x
Tom Baker was my childhood Doctor Who--and Peter Davidson. I remember being really scared when Tom Baker regenerated into Peter Davidson. More frightening than the Darleks or Cybermen to me.
Then I watched the new series with my children when they brought it back. But I did not get into it until the great David Tennant took over the role. Then to me it became good old fashion family entertainment. He was a hard act to follow and I could not get into Matt Smith when he became the Doctor--even though he did do a fantastic job I just liked David better.
And tonight he is back! Mr David Tennant is in a special episode of Doctorr Who along with Matt Smith. Two Doctors, it is going to be interesting. And Billie Piper back as Rose who now since marrying into the Fox acting dynasty has taken to talking rather posh! Golly!
Evening all x x x
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Day 259
At last! A big day today, dear Reader, well for Miss C anyway as she has had her braces removed!
Aged eleven when we first went to visit the orthodontist I was under the impression that it would be an eighteen month process for Miss C to have her teeth fixed and now almost three years later and worringly into her GCSE we were still having appointments and brace adjustments. Miss C started off with a retainer then was fitted with the metal train track braces we all know.
But today at last the orthodontist cut them off and we thought we were free of the appointments and me springing Miss C from school not that I think for one second that Miss C minded being sprung! So the braces were gone. So Miss C showed us her new beautiful smile and I have to say that her orthodontist has done a really good job. Her teeth look great!
So we were all excited thinking that Christmas had come early for Miss C and no more long waits in the busy waiting room. This private practise is always busy. When the orthodontist said that he was going to take moulds of Miss C teeth so she could come back and have another retainer fitted!
Why I do not know. How long...I do not know!
Evening all x x x
Aged eleven when we first went to visit the orthodontist I was under the impression that it would be an eighteen month process for Miss C to have her teeth fixed and now almost three years later and worringly into her GCSE we were still having appointments and brace adjustments. Miss C started off with a retainer then was fitted with the metal train track braces we all know.
But today at last the orthodontist cut them off and we thought we were free of the appointments and me springing Miss C from school not that I think for one second that Miss C minded being sprung! So the braces were gone. So Miss C showed us her new beautiful smile and I have to say that her orthodontist has done a really good job. Her teeth look great!
So we were all excited thinking that Christmas had come early for Miss C and no more long waits in the busy waiting room. This private practise is always busy. When the orthodontist said that he was going to take moulds of Miss C teeth so she could come back and have another retainer fitted!
Why I do not know. How long...I do not know!
Evening all x x x
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Day 258
One of the questions I am asked a lot, dear Reader, is do you prefer books or a Kindle? As a book reviewer I do have a Kindle and I still get sent a lot of hard copies of books too. I don't really mind to be honest dear Reader. I think there are good and bad points for both. I do always carry a paperback in my handba, as I am always worried I will spill something on my Kindle in there or lose it. I also like my collection of signed hard copies given to me by authors. They are something I will always treasure.
I like what Stephen Fry did by making the point about stairs and escalators when he was talking about Kindles. I love how you can go on Amazon and download books for free. I have many books in my 'To Read and Review' pile but I can not resist adding a few on my Kindle that are free!
Evening all x x x
I like what Stephen Fry did by making the point about stairs and escalators when he was talking about Kindles. I love how you can go on Amazon and download books for free. I have many books in my 'To Read and Review' pile but I can not resist adding a few on my Kindle that are free!
Evening all x x x
Friday, 15 November 2013
Day 253
Today the hubby joined the 39 club, dear Reader, yes he is younger than me! I was thinking that maybe next year we might have a joint 40th Birthday party in our hometown. A Start Trek meets Grease party. Where the guests can dress up as either... 'beam me up Scottie' or... a wella wella hoop!
Sounds like fun to me it is easier to have it over there as most of our families and friends are still living in our hometown. We will have a party where we live now too and then on my actually 40th I am taking my family out for a meal and on a special day trip out. Not sure what the hubby wants to do on his Big 40th--twelve months from today. I know he would like to go watch the Formula One, so I hope it is some location hot near his birthday and it will make a change from the cold November here in England. I of course would need all new clothes, shoes and handbags for such an event!
Our son Mr L, also turns eighteen the same year we hit the BIG 4-0 so maybe we will make it a triple party! Oh how he would love that a party with his parents!
Evening all x x x
Sounds like fun to me it is easier to have it over there as most of our families and friends are still living in our hometown. We will have a party where we live now too and then on my actually 40th I am taking my family out for a meal and on a special day trip out. Not sure what the hubby wants to do on his Big 40th--twelve months from today. I know he would like to go watch the Formula One, so I hope it is some location hot near his birthday and it will make a change from the cold November here in England. I of course would need all new clothes, shoes and handbags for such an event!
Our son Mr L, also turns eighteen the same year we hit the BIG 4-0 so maybe we will make it a triple party! Oh how he would love that a party with his parents!
Evening all x x x
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Day 252
Shaun Ryder on UFOs, dear Reader, that is a bit random isn't it? What next Professor Brian Cox on flower arranging? What an unusual pairing that is. Shaun most famous for his ahem... Happy Monday days claims to have seen a strange bright light while at a bus stop in his home town of Salford.
As a paranormal investigator I am always interested in alien stories, and this I found just fascinating to watch. It is as good as the recent one I watched on telly were a woman claimed to be abducted every time she ate Kentucky Fried Chicken!
Evening all x x x
As a paranormal investigator I am always interested in alien stories, and this I found just fascinating to watch. It is as good as the recent one I watched on telly were a woman claimed to be abducted every time she ate Kentucky Fried Chicken!
Evening all x x x
Day 251
My water is cloudy today, dear Reader, No! not 'MY' water--I mean my TAP water. We did get a card through from our water company telling us they were working on putting new pipes in all through the night and if we experienced any cloudiness to simply run the tap until it runs clear.
And run that tap I did dear Reader! All day long. But it is still cloudy. Leaving me without water all day. No cappuccino; no green tea; no water and I was so thirsty. No joy from the water company either. So had no chose but to hit the bottle. Go on to bottle water. Which I pooed out to the supermarket especially for only to get distracted by the apple-pie and custard and I completely forgot to buy bottled spring water!
Evening all x x x
And run that tap I did dear Reader! All day long. But it is still cloudy. Leaving me without water all day. No cappuccino; no green tea; no water and I was so thirsty. No joy from the water company either. So had no chose but to hit the bottle. Go on to bottle water. Which I pooed out to the supermarket especially for only to get distracted by the apple-pie and custard and I completely forgot to buy bottled spring water!
Evening all x x x
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Day 250
The Mystery of the Missing Marigold
It begun as any other day, the nightmare of getting two teens up and out of bed and ready and off to school in time. When this task was done, I then turned my attention to doing the big pile of clumsy washing up--left in the sink. So I reach out for my marigolds. Much needed at the moment due to my sore hands from my skin condition.
I only see one marigold so I look on the units; and in the sink; on the draining board and still no luck. So I look behind the kettle and microwave and even then still no luck! So I look in the microwave; in cupboards. Nothing. How can I wash up with just the one rubber glove? So I check the washer, dryer; Spook's box--I even look in the fridge. NOTHING.
The thing is, dear Reader, they are easy to spot too with their bright yellow colour. So where could it have gone. I have now wasted almost a hour on such a simple task that under normal circles would not be even worth mentioning. After all once done washing up is soon forgot about.
So in the dish washer everything goes. Now I am obsessed with finding my missing marigold so I lose another hour searching the rest of the house.... I am determined that I will find it... but NOTHING!
A move on to doing much more interesting things throughout the day and soon my little glove friend is soon forgotten about... until it grows dark and the hubby decides to close curtains and pull down blinds. I hear him call my name, so I rush into the kitchen. Look what had got rolled up and tangled in the blind when it must have been opened this morning... he says.... a marigold!
It begun as any other day, the nightmare of getting two teens up and out of bed and ready and off to school in time. When this task was done, I then turned my attention to doing the big pile of clumsy washing up--left in the sink. So I reach out for my marigolds. Much needed at the moment due to my sore hands from my skin condition.
I only see one marigold so I look on the units; and in the sink; on the draining board and still no luck. So I look behind the kettle and microwave and even then still no luck! So I look in the microwave; in cupboards. Nothing. How can I wash up with just the one rubber glove? So I check the washer, dryer; Spook's box--I even look in the fridge. NOTHING.
The thing is, dear Reader, they are easy to spot too with their bright yellow colour. So where could it have gone. I have now wasted almost a hour on such a simple task that under normal circles would not be even worth mentioning. After all once done washing up is soon forgot about.
So in the dish washer everything goes. Now I am obsessed with finding my missing marigold so I lose another hour searching the rest of the house.... I am determined that I will find it... but NOTHING!
A move on to doing much more interesting things throughout the day and soon my little glove friend is soon forgotten about... until it grows dark and the hubby decides to close curtains and pull down blinds. I hear him call my name, so I rush into the kitchen. Look what had got rolled up and tangled in the blind when it must have been opened this morning... he says.... a marigold!
Monday, 11 November 2013
Day 249
Hello, dear Reader, Spook here--you know the star of this blog! This blog has a lot about me and I know you have noticed that my human owner has not wrote a post for a while,because she simply cannot use the laptop due to her hands being swollen and in bandages so after I had a little 'Paws for thought' I thought I would share with you my recent alien abduction story.
So here goes... SPOOK IN SPACE
It had started off as just another day, there I was minding my own business when suddenly out of no where I was suddenly ambushed and handled into a mini space craft. The vessel then took off and elevated at a gentle speed into the air and I was transported into the mother-ship.
They must have known what a tough cat I am. Because they kept me in my tiny craft, and we then set off on a very bumpy and rough journey. I felt like I was on a boat out at sea. In very rough waters. Only I know what was happening to me as I am now thirteen years old and wise, very wise.
I had been abducted again by aliens. This happens to me every year, oddly at around the same time every year. I have learnt just to stay calm and just give a couple of growls now and then just to let these little spacemen know who is the boss.
On the journey they try to tempt me, pushing biscuits through the small air holes in my craft. But I am not having any. I have heard stories from the other cats, such tales as that they were turned into dogs and started to chase their own tails! Well this is NOT going to happen to me!
The mothership is stopping now and out I fly in my little craft and land at my destination. The planet I have come to known as... VETS. Here I am in a small space with other kidnapped animals some are physically shaking with fear.
Then my little craft takes off and lands on a table and a big bright light is shone over my craft as the alien opens my craft. The alien has one big shining light of an eye on its forehead and he wears a blue space suit. He tries to call me out. But I am not having it, so he removes my lid and begins his experiments on me. I try to remain as still as I can. But if I can I will get a quick bite in on his rubber tasting hand like I did last year.
I look around the room and I see he has also kidnapped my humans--well only three of them. One of them is ill so they must not have been good enough to be experimented on and left behind. Then it happens out of nowhere I am injected. What with who knows? I am then poked and prodded about with and even my poor little mouth is looked in.
Before long it is all over and I am placed back in the craft. And transported back to the mothership and off we go again on a journey and I remarkably find myself back home.
So I jump back up at my window and fall into a very deep sleep.
So here goes... SPOOK IN SPACE
It had started off as just another day, there I was minding my own business when suddenly out of no where I was suddenly ambushed and handled into a mini space craft. The vessel then took off and elevated at a gentle speed into the air and I was transported into the mother-ship.
They must have known what a tough cat I am. Because they kept me in my tiny craft, and we then set off on a very bumpy and rough journey. I felt like I was on a boat out at sea. In very rough waters. Only I know what was happening to me as I am now thirteen years old and wise, very wise.
I had been abducted again by aliens. This happens to me every year, oddly at around the same time every year. I have learnt just to stay calm and just give a couple of growls now and then just to let these little spacemen know who is the boss.
On the journey they try to tempt me, pushing biscuits through the small air holes in my craft. But I am not having any. I have heard stories from the other cats, such tales as that they were turned into dogs and started to chase their own tails! Well this is NOT going to happen to me!
The mothership is stopping now and out I fly in my little craft and land at my destination. The planet I have come to known as... VETS. Here I am in a small space with other kidnapped animals some are physically shaking with fear.
Then my little craft takes off and lands on a table and a big bright light is shone over my craft as the alien opens my craft. The alien has one big shining light of an eye on its forehead and he wears a blue space suit. He tries to call me out. But I am not having it, so he removes my lid and begins his experiments on me. I try to remain as still as I can. But if I can I will get a quick bite in on his rubber tasting hand like I did last year.
I look around the room and I see he has also kidnapped my humans--well only three of them. One of them is ill so they must not have been good enough to be experimented on and left behind. Then it happens out of nowhere I am injected. What with who knows? I am then poked and prodded about with and even my poor little mouth is looked in.
Before long it is all over and I am placed back in the craft. And transported back to the mothership and off we go again on a journey and I remarkably find myself back home.
So I jump back up at my window and fall into a very deep sleep.
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