I'm In the Middle of A Chain Reaction....

Do you think that life is hard work just to keep us going? 

We all have to push and make that extra effort just to achieve... but for what?

You either believe that there is something better at the end of the day, or just trying to make thing better for your children, and your children's children.  I like to think a bit of both.  There are stranger things on earth, than the though that something fantastic is going to come together at the end of all your efforts.  

I'd like to think the Mother Ship will be there, and I'll get beamed back up... and we can all laugh at the effort we put in! 

From Misery to Happiness Uhuh

Ha ha - I really enjoyed that last meme.

Is funny how questions spark memories, and yes, the instructions were right, the urge to answer the questions was amazing.

I would like to clarify something, the arrest, did not lead to a conviction, and was more of a police intervening before i got into big trouble with toooo much alcohol.  I got sent home, with orders to get on the train back to my edinburgh. My drinking associate at the time, was not so fortunate, she was locked up in a cell over night.  I suppose tho she maybe shouldn't have been so vicious to the police concern.

Everything else is good and well.  Life is Good, and is a big book waiting to be written!

Yes No, No maybe

The Rules:

1. You can ONLY answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. 2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone comments you and asks—and, believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming. Nothing is exactly as it seems.

The questions:


Kissed any one of your blogger friends?  nope

Been arrested?  yes

Kissed someone you didn’t like?  yes

Slept in until 5 PM?  yes!

Fallen asleep at work/school?  yes

Held a snake? yes

Ran a red light? yes

Been suspended from school? nope

Experienced love at first sight? yes

Totaled your car in an accident? yes

Been fired from a job?  yes

Fired somebody? yes

Sung karaoke? yes

Pointed a gun at someone? nope

Did something you told yourself you wouldn’t? nope

Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? yes

Caught a snowflake on your tongue?  yes


Kissed in the rain?  yes

Had a close brush with death (your own)?  yes

Saw someone die? yes

Played Spin-the-Bottle?  yes

Smoked a cigar? nope 

Sat on a rooftop?  Yes


Smuggled something into another country? Nope

Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes?  Yes

Broken a bone?  Nope

Skipped school?  Yes

Eaten a bug?  YEs


Sleepwalked?  Nope

Walked on a moonlit beach?  Yes

Ridden a motorcycle?  Yes

Dumped someone?   Yes

Forgotten your anniversary?  Nope

Lied to avoid a ticket?   Yes

Ridden in a helicopter?  Nope

Shaved your head?  Nope

Blacked out from drinking ?   yes

Played a prank on someone?  Yes

Hit a home run?   Nope

Felt like killing someone?   YEs

Cross-dressed?  Nope.

Been falling-down drunk?  Yes

Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry?  Yes

Eaten snake?  Nope

Marched/Protested?  Yes

Had Mexican jumping beans for pets?  Nope

Puked on an amusement ride?   YEs

Seriously & intentionally boycotted something?  Yes

Knitted?  Yes

Been on TV?  Yes

Shot a gun?  Nope

Skinny-dipped?  YEs

Given someone stitches?   Nope

Eaten a whole habenero pepper?  Nope

Ridden a surfboard?  Nope

Drunk straight from a liquor bottle?   YEs

Had surgery?  Yes

Streaked?  Nope

Been taken by ambulance to a hospital?  Yes

Passed out when NOT drinking?  Nope

Peed on a bush?   Yes

Donated Blood?  Yes

Grabbed electric fence?  YEs

Eaten alligator meat?   Nope

Eaten cheesecake?  Yes

Killed an animal when not hunting?   Yes

Peed your pants in public?   YEs

Snuck into a movie without paying?  Nope

Written graffiti?  Yes

Still love someone you shouldn’t?  Nope

Think about the future?   Yes

Been in handcuffs?   Nope

Believe in love?  Yes

Sleep on a certain side of the bed?  Yes

Beneath the Winter Snow or So I have been told....

Is winter, officially winter. 

I don't notice the time passing because I am so busy all of the time. There ARENT enough hours in the day, and that is the truth.   Weeks are busy with work. I'm out of the house from 8.30 til 18,00, and in the evenings I have an assortment of  part-time work, children going to Volleyball, hockey and Guides, and reiki practise.  Weekends arrive and I have matches to watch, children to ferry and shopping and housework to do.   Sunday night has arrived before I have even sat down.

I take so much pleasure now if I have 1 hour where I can sit and do NOTHING.

Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing: The Tell Me About Yourself Meme

1. When is your birthday?

The Anniversary of the Day I was born, which was in April.

2. Where were you born?

I was born in a nursing home, in a town called Kilwinning.  The nursing home is still actually a nursing home, but for lives at the end, rather than the beginning

3. Where do you live now?

I live 15 miles down the road from the Nursing Home I was born in. However, since being born in the nursing home, I've been in Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Glasgow, Inverkeithing, Symington. 

4. What is your heritage?

Quarter English, Quarter Scottish, Quarter Irish, Quarter Me.

5. Tell us about a weakness.
One of my Ankles is a bit weak. ha ha ha. But seriously, my weakness is Tiramisu, and merangues.  My weakness is sweetness. 

 
6. What's a goal that you'd like to achieve?

I would like to get fit, in all honesty.

7. What is the most overused internet phrase?
LOL, ROFL

8. What was your first thought this morning?
Yurk, I don't feel brilliant.

 
9. When do you usually go to bed?

About eleven oclock.  I'd prefer to be in my bed at 10, but I always end up staying up too late. 

 
10. Do you smoke? If not, did you ever?

No not something I have ever felt inclined towards. 

11. Do you like your current relationship status?
I do. I love my husband with a passion. 

 
12. Do you (or did you) get along with your parents?
Yes.  I think when you reach an age when you can be considered adult, your relationship changes ... there isn't so much reliance on adult appropriate-ness influencing you, and the person who provided that becomes an equal.  In my case, I think my parents became more adult like at the age of 40, and I was able to relate to them on my own level from there on in!  (Do you see what I did there)

 
13. How often do you drink alcohol?
Less and less often these days.  Seriously. Can't do it any more.  Prefer to wake up awake and alert.

 
14. Have you ever tried drugs (that weren't prescribed)?
No, despite being open and willing... no stranger ever came up to me and offered me drugs no matter how much i looked willing.  I have a longing to grow a canabis plant and bake cakes to make people happy. My husband says "no".

 
15. Have you ever gone skinny dipping? If yes, do tell.
Yes, in the summer of 1983? maybe, 82?  Can't really put a date on on, it was a good summer. Long late nights, drinking on the beach after the disco, lightning storms, sometimes not going home at all.  Skinny dipping one night about 1 am, after the Anchorage. There must have been about 30 of us, all stipping down to our undies or less and charging into the very still water, and then suddenly, the stillness was shattered by loud rumbling and the heavens opened. It was amazing.

 
16. If given the choice, how would you like to die?
Quietly, sitting on a hill in GlenCoe. 

 
17. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Teacher.   And I was for a while. 

 
18. Have you ever been dumped?
Yes. Indeedy.  Better to have loved and lost and all that pish.  Dumped for my mate, dumped for being too good for them, and then there is the joy of walking away from the one who thinks he is doing you a favour, and thinks you should accept a slap now and again.

 
19. What's on your pizza?
BBQ sauce Beef, chicken and Fried Onions.

20. Have you ever shoplifted?

Yes, at a cafe in town. We asked the Old lady who owned the shop for individual sweets, over and over again, and ever time she turned her back for something else, we pocketed one or two of the items on the counter.  When we thought we had enough, we waited for the total, thinking she'd look at what was there and go "20pence", however we miscalculated how old and dittery she was and totalled everything she had already put on the desk... no mistakes! Damn.  Crime doesn't pay. It costs!

The Friday 5, Courtes

FRIDAY 5
What television series finale did you particularly enjoy?

Quantum  Leap.  I loved Sam's jumping into other people, I was distraught when it finally finished, and my husband and I sat for hours, contemplating the pro's and cons of being trapped forever fulfiling the will of what Sam believed to be God and that there was no fixed outcome which would release him from his destiny.  I miss Sam and Al. I do. But I see Sam in Enterprise, and I see Al in Battlestar Gallactica. 

What television series finale did you think was a disservice to the series as a whole?
 Dead Like Me!  How you could end a series like that, with no conclusion. Oh My God. I just remembered another one... Now and Again.  How awful was that ending.... he escaped, they were after him he was with him family they knew who he was.... it had the potention to be such a different ending, but they left it hanging in the air. I LOVED THAT PROGRAMME!



What is your favorite dessert?
Tirmamisu. Most definitely. Mine, Sofia Lorens, My husband, Frankie and Benny's . It matters not a jot. give me sponge and marscapone and I'm happy!



What were the circumstances surrounding your most dramatic exit from a room? My dramatic exit was not from a room, but from outside, into a room. I got up to help my neighbour fit a baby seat in his car, and as I stood there talking to him, i looked down at the puddle forming between my legs, and looked up and said to him, "oh bloody hell, look at that I'm pee'ing myself, and I can't stop.  His realisation was quicker than mine... and he ran off to get his mum, screaming "helen's in labour".  I turned and ran quickly into the house...



If you could choose any symbolic way to end 2009, how would you end it?

A Big party where I burnt all my bank statements and credit card bills, because I won the Christmas Lottery and paid everyone off!

I Can't Believe the News Today, I can't close my eyes and make it go away.

Is life.

There is only one why are we wasting it on stupid things.  Bills, bank charges, stressful times.

Love, Dance, and Chat.  That's all we should be doing. To hell with the worrying.

Sunday Stealing, on A MOnday.....

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1. Name someone with the same birthday as you.
 Violet, who was in the same class as me at primary school. We had the same birthday!  Kirstin Dunst, Merril Osmond! Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Willie Nelson!  That's quite a nice list eh?

2. Where was your first kiss? 

A Room in the Taurus Park Hotel, Magaluf. Right hand side of the rooms directly against the bar roof.  When I was 10, yes, read 10.  My sister being more Sexually advanced than me, was sneaking out of an evening, to meet with boys, at the terribly grownup age of 13.  A friend of the boy she was meeting that evening, turned up "looking for them", and came in. Asked for a kiss. All lovely and polite. And yes, I did quite enjoy it, but then he spoilt it by saying "can't i have a feel of your tit", There it ended, for about the next 3 years!

3. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex? If yes, why?
Yes, I beat my husband (to be at the time), to a pulp. So loudly and alarmingly that my flat mates simultaneously had on the washing machine, two tvs, radios in both rooms and the hoover.   They then had the cheek to say, nothing he had done warranted the assault! Hmmm, I beg to differ.  Suffice to say it had to do with his availability to have a relationship with me!



4. Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people? When?
 
Yes, on holiday, a beautiful French campsite, inhabited mostly (thank goodness) by French people, who I love with a passion. (frequently, ha ha ) at the entertainment nights, we cheated at games, and laughed loudly, not being able to speak to each other very well.  Then came a night of compared entertainment, one person nominating another when a forfeit fell.  I made an exit to the "toilet", and came back to find them "looking around", I knew with a horrified heart that they were looking for me, and dragged me to the stage. 

There I had to answer a series of questions on French Chart Hits, in French, I had not a clue other than Claude Francois, who seems to be the biggest thing in France, despite the fact he was dead 20 years.   I answered Claude to all questions, all my answers were wrong, and my forfeit, I had to Sing to the Audience! Hmm. Luckily I reckoned on the love of Village People, and launched into a fantastic ha ha ha version of YMCA which thankfully EVERYONE joined in with, so I was not singing alone for long!


 
5. What's the first thing you notice about your preferred sex?
Their personality. Their Eyes, their smile, their bum. ha ha ha ha Their laugh. I love to laugh!

 

6. What really turns you off?
SCHMOKING
 
7. What is your biggest mistake?
 Hmm, difficult one. I don't like to think I've made mistakes, maybe poor judgement, and every poor judgement leads to a new adventure!  biggest error of judgement was trading one job in for another, which turned out to almost be the breaking of me, but I survived, and learned from the mistake!  Live for the Day!

8. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
See Above answer. At my worst, I almost ate the skin from my fingers, and contemplated a jump from a hot air balloon.  Then I realised I had to stop and take account. So I did. And left.

9. Say something totally random about yourself.
Hmm ,I like being me!

10. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
Hmm, only once. A wee kid with Down's syndrome was telling everyone they looked like celebrities, one chap was John Travolta, (not), Someone else was Olivia, (not), and I was someone from Hairspray. I think she was confusing the weight issue, with actual looks!  It was a very polite way of saying "jees but your fat" 

11. Do you still watch kiddie movies or TV shows?
Of Course. My daughter is 15, and adores all types of pump which I will gladly sit with her and watch.   Pony Club, or something stupid, like that, with these squeaky girls, and the same squeaky girls, in babysitters club, or overnighters club. What else. Wizards of Waverly?  Yes, with another squeaky girl, and Hannah Montanna, with a horrible midget in it.

 
12. Are you comfortable with your height?
Hmm, I always was. I used to be 5'5.5, but now I'm 5'4.5 I lost an inch after birthing.  I think my hips swung apart, and my spine dropped a bit. Would explain the sore back I was left with!

13. What is the most romantic thing someone of the preferred sex has done for you?
Hmm, my darling husband, when I had just had my hysterectomy, held my stomach hard as I threw up all over the floor so that my internal stitches didn't burst. He then washed me all down, got me clean jammies, and then had to do it all again when I promptly heaved again. 

Another time, when love was young, he sent me 12 red roses from Holland, while he was in the Gulf, to remember our 1st anniversary. For the first four years, I got 12, then 24, then 36, 48, at 5th anniversary I got 5.  Now when I get flowers, I get so emotional I cry.
 
14. When do you know it's love?
Hmm, when your heart still flips everytime you see him, and that includes, when you turn over for a night night kiss, and when you wake up in the morning and he's laying beside you. 
 
15. What's something that really annoys you?

Hmm, schmoking.