Friday Five

Friday Five

When were you the coldest you’ve ever been?
When I got up in 1984, at 4 Oclock in the morning to queue for Simple Minds tickets, outside the PLayhouse in Edinburgh. We got there at 5, and queued til the doors open at 10. It was March, and it was freezing. Some buggar was selling watered down soup. Got my tickets and then went to my mate Alan's shop in Cockburn street to thaw out.

When were you the hottest you’ve ever been?
In Miami, 1986, looking for Amex office to report my bag stolen. Walked about 5 blocks in extreme heat and found a coke machine, just like the US films, got a ice cold Coke in a Bottle and drunk it like it was manna from heaven.

When were you the tiredest you’ve ever been?
About 8 weeks into working in Shenanigans in Glasgow when we had just opened. I did Office - banking and Cash -so I was there to open and answer phone, and there to cash in at night. I was leaving at 2, and getting back up at 6 to get up for 7.30. (I stayed an hour away by car). After 4 weeks of 7 days, I fell asleep doing wages. I went home and slept for 2 days solid.

When were you the most stressed you’ve ever been?
1988 when I crawled inside a continental quilt cover and got into my cupboard and cried for 2 hours, before facing the doctor and not having the strength to laugh when they said "are you pregnant?" Then spent the next few weeks crying at both episode of neighbours, hoping the tea time repeat would improve on the lunch time one. And Going out with Si with my head up his jumper, thinking people would be less likely to notice me. (That wasn't really stress was it? Just completely cracked?)

When were you the dirtiest you’ve ever been?
I can't actually remember a time when I was That Dirty. I'm not the tidiest person ever, but I tend not to get REALLY dirty. Just untidy. Sorry. - Oh I just remembered wet? Does wet count. One new year, we went to beach to look at storm and stood in it while the waves crashed over us. I was soaking. We just took clothes off beside washing machine and dripped.

If you wanna know if he loves you so

Shoup Shoup Song.

In honour of the fact I had a plate of soup last night, but strictly speaking (as in the dance), It doesn't count because it came out the other end about 10 minutes after it went in. Excellent!!

I felt so bloated after I ate it, but I think it was the salt wash which flushed it out. It was just so cold and wet and wintery yesterday I felt Soup was needed to make me feel warm and cosy. And it did do the trick.

Darling S is much better this morning. Was not roasting up last night - and seems to have slept thru the night.I woke on and off but was able to drop back off again quickly. Got up and did No One Son's paper round - he is on all over the weekend - so that gives him a break, and now I'm sitting with salt water wash and lemon drink almost ready for work...

Must dash, Hair to dry, bum to empty.

DWNB

Counting all the Ripples on the Sea

And there are a lot today. Is very blowy. The Flags outside are blowing very straight. And judging by the direction, I'd say it was a westerly wind....

i can't believe that the temperature has dropped again. On Tuesday it was bitterly wintery cold, yesterday was really really warm, and today has dropped back down again. My feet are freezing.

I am currently corresponding with John Lewis Partnership. One of our new boat owners is equipping the boat via their Gift List. So far they have lost the list, shredded the credit card details, (before taking payment), lost my phone number, forgot who was ordering the things... how difficult can it be. "here is a list, this is what I want, here are the credit card details", but no. It has been a struggle every step of the way. They are mad. Today's statement which was quite worrying was "does she want the stuff". I am hoping that was supposed to be "when does she want the stuff", but when I asked, ,"is it not on order". And she replied well, " it's a big list you know, Give me a call in a couple of days and I'll see how we are getting on? "

Good job the boat isn't finished eh?

DWNB

PS - Still not eating. Now over 60 hours of starvation, but strangely not hungry. Must have really needed it!

You said I must eat so many lemons

i have eaten about 10 lemons now I think. I can't remember, but am definitely fitter. (See the next lines in the song).

Yep, still detoxing. Have not ate anything since Monday 10pm. My body is a temple. Lemons and Maple Syrup are doing just great.

There was a point this morning I thought... I should eat something, I feel crap, but I didn't. I had a cup of juice, a breath of fresh air, made my decision and I felt better.

I'm totally jumping tonight, full of energy.... and jumped about all thru tap. I can't believe how awake I feel for not eating.

Made the right decision today, and my head doesn't ache any more. I'm happy doing what I do.

DWNB

Gets Switched to Overload.......and nobody

So I had to make a stop at the School this morning because I decided last night that Tool should give up her musical instrument because she stresses out too much over it. But this morning as she looked at it one last time, burst into tears. What is a mother to do?

I went and confronted Teacher. Which did not make me happy, but had to be done. She was also distraught. Can't believe that she is so scarey! Told me to take instrument back home, and tell Tool it should be played for enjoyment, which it should. Grabbed Tool in the playground and told her, and she looked confused and as sad as I did! Did I do the right thing? Who's to know? What I do know is, that she'll play it again for a while and then we will have the trauma again!

So now, I'm sitting in office, trying to reconcile, both accounts and my mind - have too much going on, and I'm still not eating. I haven't had anything now for 36 hours. Amazing eh? Not hungry, but feeling like crap, which I suppose you would when you haven't ate anything for that length of time.

To relieve the pressure (sorry si), I poked a pen top in my ear, which was joyous. I sat for quite a while just poking it in. Didn't break anything and didn't burst my eardrum this time which was quite good.

DWNB

She took me to a cafe I asked her if she would stay

It's been 24 hours since I last ate.

Not Hungry. Seriously not. Not feeling brilliant either, but that's to be expected.

Si is all snotty, I probably feel crap because he does, and also because I haven't eaten. I truely hope that this helps my bum.

Got an offer tonight......

DWNB

It's only half past twelve but I don't care

So, there you have it.

I have had nothing solid since 10 pm Last night. (two bourbon biscuits - you'd really think I'd have had something more exciting eh?).

So, 14 hours... and counting. Not hungry. Have to admit it. Was feeling a bit tragic earlier, but that has passed. Si is not well this morning. Really high temperature and a very sexy voice, so I'm thinking that my grotty feeling has more to do with waking up next to that, as opposed to reacting badly to detoxing.

It is So Cold today. officially Winter. It was actually frosty this morning. I can't believe it, the temperature has dropped about 10 degrees in a couple of days. I wish I'd put socks on.

DWNB

I've got another confession to make...........

I started Detox this morning.

Failed at first step. 2 Pints of salt water???? I think not.

Am I not supposed to be detoxing from the top down. Drink 2 pints of salt water, and it's all going to come up the other way, and I don't want to see what I'm detoxing.

Lemon and Maple Syrup tea is fine. I had a glass last night, and couldn't eat another thing all night. It must swell up in the stomach. Lets see how long I last.! Hopefully this will clear my system out, and Colonic Irrigation will NOT be the last best option.

dwnb

Before I fall any deeper. ......

Too much pink wine last night. Couldn't really fall any deeper than I am right now.

Decided to have a glass of wine with dinner. Boys arrived home about 5.30, after a good days climbing in Wales. Fed them, did a bit of the Ironing (sorry Nant, I didn't finish it all!), enough to get us all dressed this morning and then sat with my knitting and a glass or five of wine.

I lay in bed this morning til 805 and then got up and flew like a looney to get ready. So here I sit, hair all askew, nose running and feeling generally poopy. I'm starting detoxing tomorrow hopefully to find out what exactly it is which irritates my back end. So cleanse all food stuffs out of my system, and then start feeding them in slowly. Maybe getting a bit tipsy last night wasn't the best way to start.

Mmmmm

Respect Your Elders!

My nunk says I write too much in my blog for people to read.

I give too much away about myself.

But if you didn't know me, I doubt that you would know this was me. Very few people actually see the me behind the face I present to the real world.

I panicked when he said that and wondered if I had written some booze addled diatribe (like Wee-Devil), but I read it back, and actually, it just reads back like the last week of my life.

If I wrote ALL my thoughts, then we'd really have a problem.

Tool is horrified at the prospect of Gran (my mum) having sex. Not just on the living room carpet mind!.


DWNB

That doesn't mean my eyes will soon be ......

There is a British pre-occupation with the weather.

I'm very distressed that everyone I meet in the office says "humph, British Summer,,,, where was it this year". Now I don't know about you, but I've not been wearing a jacket to the office since March, and I've only had frizzy hair due to misty rain twice, so that in my mind constitutes a very nice summer. My kids played outside, our holiday in a little island was idylic with heat stroke, and my garden doesn't look half bad. A wee bit of rain never killed anyone (with the exception of the biblical floods, and I'm not that sure that's true).

Today however, it is not summer, yesterday wasn't really either. Is very windy and yesterday although not freezing was definitely Autumnal. It has rained all night and my dining room patio doors have been leaking. I have a puddle.

I have just noticed a wee badge lying on the floor next to the puddle. Is a Sad Cafe Badge. Remember them? I only remember one record. Everyday hurts. I remember I bought it in Speed Records. I didn't understand the name of the shop - Speed - then? I thought it was a reflection on the turning of a turntable.... ie. 45 or 33, or 78, even the mushroom in the board above the shop didn't give me a hint. I was honestly the most innocent teenager in the world. (or stupid). Glenn worked behind the counter, and apparently he was gay. I only knew this because my worldly wise friend had an uncle who was gay and had told her gay speak so she recognised gay guys. He gave me the badge. He used to give us Promo Singles which he didn't want. We loved Glenn. I think he made us cool, because he spoke to us on friendly terms.

The records he gave us were all crap. He probably thought we were the most annoying kids in the world and hoped that if he gave us records we'd piss off out his shop!

DWNB

Ain't No Mountain High Enough.....

Boys are away, up another hill.

Look at it. Looks kinda pathetic next to the sight that was Ben Nevis eh? Also very concerned about the number of people milling about! I thought Wales was Supposed to be deserted? Maybe is all Scottish and English People chanking up hill before Welsh come and chase them all away.

Have discovered that Wee-Devil is still in land of living, although I believe she was four sheets to the wind last night (nautical term). She was leaving one project and moving to another, and seems to have been well tanked up prior to getting home. Just hope that she woke up alone!! Not saying anything else on that subject!


Okay - Something went badly wrong with wee-people-covered hill. Look at cliffs now. I hope my honey is going to be okay. He was housebound after Nevis. Couldn't work his leggies any more. Scaefell was better, but if he has to do this to the top, not looking good.

Have already been up ages this morning, achieved very little. Did paper round, (suppose that was achievement in itself), dropped Eilidh at Hockey practise and then came back for a lie down. Picked Eilidh up, picked up Steven's blazer - all beautifully embroidered now. Am impressed with my childrens ability to dedicate themselves to their chosed pastimes! Something I could never do.

Am about to jump in shower, after Eilidh, and then we are going to go hockey stick shopping.

DWNB

Don't Call Me Baby

I'm in trouble.

Big Trouble. A very good friend of mine lent me a book. It was a very funny book, a very very funny book indeedy. And I read it, and passed it on, cause that is what I do. I normally get them back, but I don't think I've got this one back. Now Am panicking, cause I can't find it, and she wants it back, to take lessons from, to write a book of her own.

Oh My Gawd. I can't remember the author to order a new one.... any suggestions please.

DWNB

Thursday,,,, I don't care about you

It's Friday i'm in love

Am always in love on Fridays. And Mondays, and Tuesday, Sundays and Saturdays, and Wednesday. and Also Thursday.

Am just very lucky at having met the right person at the right time.

Today tho, am sad. Love of my life is going away up a hill. I won't get home til after he has left, and neither he nor Stevo will be back until Sunday night. Boo hoo. They are climbing Snowdon. This is the third of their three peaks. I cuddled in last night for ages. I do miss him when he isn't there. I've actually missed him all week. Both of us have been out doing things, or dropping kids at their respective clubs / sports /school things. It fair takes it out of you, and you just don't get to chat. Still not to worry, I'll see them both on Sunday night and chat All night. Meanwhile I have Tool to keep me company.

DWNB

I'm So Dizzy... my head is spinning

Had a migraine this morning. Has been building all week, and I went to bed early last night after tap to try and clear it before morning, but it always has to out.... always. I've had 4 painkillers since 7 this morning, and am slightly woosey now, but without pain. Is all good.

Is very quiet in the office today, everyone is away to boat show, with the exception of skeleton staff... .me, lynn and ruari. The phone has barely rung today. We are unloved and unwanted. I am filing, and archiving which depresses me.

At least the year end is over.

DWNB

hey World.... Here I am.....

Just in from Tap.

Amazing. I was feeling like poop when I went, and now I feel fantastic. However am stinking, Eilidh is fascinated by how hot I get, but she doesn't realise that she is 30 years younger than me, and fitter by far! What she does to break a light sweat causes mild cardiac symptoms in me.

However was easier this week than last, So I presume that I am doing okay.

DWNB

Lighter Shade of Pale

Is how I am feeling right now.

Took a painkiller, have a weird head, being a migraine coming on. Sometimes, they come, sometimes they just start, and then go. So I took it half an hour ago, and about 2 minutes ago, it felt like my spine unwound and bounced off theback of my head. Weird.

The first time I took these painkillers, I panicked and then thru up all over the place.

Wow. Everything is moving slowly. Amazing.

DWNB

It's a beautiful Day, Way Hay.......

The levellers are very noisy people but enjoy their music.

I do enjoy life, and songs add something to it. a good song can change your whole outlook on the day.

When I was at college, six of us in the flat used to listen to Go West, We Close Our Eyes before we headed out to do a day's work. ha ha ha ha ha, that is like, work in student's term. Breakfast in the Union, a couple of lectures, hit the pub, and then home. But we needed fired up to get ourselves going.

I need certain songs in the car. St Elmo's Fire was the first song I listened to when I was driving the car for the Very First Time. Straight after I passed my driving test. Amazing. I still am taken back to 1986 when I hear that, and I tighten my grip on the steering wheel a wee bit.

I won £10 off Si on one of our first dates because of Bruce Hornsby so that always makes me laugh. My mum said I was bad for taking his money off him - but hey, was a poor student at the time!

Here's a weird one tho... When I was pregnant with Stevie, Bryan Adams, with Everything I do, was number one, for the majority of my pregnancy. I still feel sick when I hear that, and I don't think it has got anything to do with the song. But when I was pregnant with Eilidh.... Love is All Around, Wet Wet Wet..... for another long term sit at the top of the charts. I fall asleep to that one. Both pregnancies, both long term number ones. Bit of a coincidence eh?

mmm Bop - hansen. Lovely Holiday in France in a caravan with the kids. Brilliant.

jermain stewart - we don't have to..... holiday in Miami. Open top cars driving past with that blaring out of it.

But then there are sad memores too. When my dad died, I was listening to U2, Wire. I switched it off as soon as I walked into my room, because I didn't want a song to take me back to that place, but it was too late. Ingrained in my mind for ever. The chords strike up, and I'm back there in my flat in Edinburgh, distraught.

DWNB

Kick off your shoes and sit right down.............

Let me pour you a good long drink.

I need one, I haven't had anything to drink since I came in tonight, and before that it was a cappuccino at work. I ran Tool and her pals to Guides. Eerie silence in the car., always is. Weird. Then got petrol for Si, and came home. Went to loo. Had a painful experience there, and now am just sitting here to recover.

Busy day at work. Accountant was in reviewing years accounts. Was pretty damn quick. There wasn't too much to move around and alter, for which I'm glad. As I mentioned before I had my Reiki symbols drawn, on my wrists and my boob. It definitely helped. I sat and smiled all day, and repeated my mantra's often.

Have to go and reiki again. This time its the music room for tomorrow.

DWNB

Heaven is a place on earth

Its true.

I'm thinking about a tattoo. Straight up. I think I need one. Just a little one, or two, but definitely one. Have to break this to Si, don't think he will be overly impressed, but I can't keep drawing things on myself .

Summertime...... summertime

The sun is shining today which is nice. I've been reading http://www.janeygodley.blogspot.com/ very funny lady. I wish I could tell her some of my stories, and she could recount them.

I'm sure she'd love the one about Si's family. I don't condon that name calling but we used to get letters from Si's gran which detailed the happenings in the household, and EVERYone was listed, mum, dad, the three girls, the one boy, the boy who wasn't there because he had committed suicide, the three dogs named after the three girls, the other pets and always ended with ..... and the two mongols.

I forgot about them until we went to visit, but o m g every one in the household was completely barking. No wonder we managed one night with them, and drove off without a backward glance.

DWNB

ooops he did it again

So 16 years ago, last night, my son kept me in a state of anguish all night, and last night. He did it again!

he, and nine of his friends, 20 bottles of bud, 16 bottles of bacardi breezer, and two bottles of cider (and whatever Cat brought), were consumed as they sang, danced and fell over all round the house. I escaped with Eilidh for a while, but then came back in to be under siege in my bedroom. Thankfully they peaked around 1015, ran out of drink and started to quiet down.

Surprisingly, Steven got up this morning in time for his paper round, but because we are great parents, we did it for him!

Push it Push it .....

16 years ago, I was wandering around the Queen Mother's Maternity Ward waiting for the arrival of Son No 1.

I had had the "gel" applied the night before, at midnight. It sounded like a gentle experience, but it wasn't. I knew it wasn't the minute the nurse lay over the top of me and held my shoulders. I glanced at what I thought was a plumbing instrument, and realised then, that the gel was in fact inside a capsul, and the capsul was going to be applied to my cervix internally with the plumbing instrument. Jeeeeesus. Could it have been any more painful?

yes, and it was, the next morning when they did it again.

ha ha ha ha.

I remember phoning mum at 11.15 am telling her, "if this is labour, it's a dawdle". I sat and watched, like the one from friends, as expectant mother came in dropped their sprogs, and I sat with the new borns as they went and showered.

At 3.30, Si got bored and went for something to eat, and then ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE.

DWNB

You don't have to stay forever..... I will understand

Wee-Devil has identified a DURTY boy. She is after him. Gawd help him. The only thing good about it, is that she won't stay for ever, and hopefully he won't need to understand. He won't have to say he loves her either, just meet her at the appropriate time in the appropriate place, and say NOTHING to NO ONE!

I know you wee-devil, and how you operate!

DWNB

Give Us £70,000

Hoi, I really need lots of money. I won the Euro Lottery on Friday night, but unfortunately only £6.50.

Its a really nice day, and working in a place like this you can see how beneficial it would be to have money, and buy a flipping boat, and enjoy the sunshine, while sitting on the deck with a glass of rose.

If someone could just give me £70,0000 that would get me a REALLY REALLY nice one. I wouldn't sk for any more. That would make me happy.

Especially since I'm not getting a cat.

DWNB

Cafe Andaluz

After the play, we went for eats! This is kirsty's best part of an evening. In fact, is best part of Kirsty's life. (Ppsssst, Kirst, bought a ginormous Creme Brulee out of M&S Food Yummy).

We went to Cafe Andaluz in Glasgow City Centre, was scrummy. We were a tad concerned that there may not be a pud Menu, but not to fear, was one and it was great!!! I have pictures on my phone, but I havent as yet found a method of extracting them. Ah Well, at least I can look at them and enjoy!

The Bacchae, and Alan Cumming's Buttocks

Last night was the Play! Not the Scottish one, but a Greek one, written in 450 BC. Heavens above. What a treat. Alan Cumming returns to the Scottish Stage, I 'm not sure he's been on the Scottish stage since his Victor and Barrie Days, prancing the boards in Broadway to great acclaim tho, nice to hear that he hasn't lost the accent.

Eilidh was terrified that Kirst and I were going to stand up half way thru and sing Piff Paff Poff. Love that Song. Love Alan Cumming. Could have just sat there entranced all night, if he had been on stage the whole time. But he wasn't. Mores the pity.

Was quite entertaining, and we got to see his buttocks which we adored.

DWNB

Piff Paff Poff

Wee Devil sings Gang Bang, I sing, Piff Paff Poff.

Am So excited, really I am. Alan Cumming tomorrow night, with his bottom hanging out.

Is a proper Greek play, but I'm going to see Alan Cumming's bottom. Truely I am . I care not a jott about the play or the meaning behind it, but I am interested very much in what's behind Alan! namely his buttocks! Imagine.

Wee Devil and I are contemplating whether we should wear long or short togas, and we did contemplate whether or not a reading of The Bacchae would give us any indication of when to stand up and sing "Piff Paff Poff". How happy do you think he would be to hear that. Afterwards, we are going to stand at the Stage Doors like hookers, and if he doesn't agree to take us both on (hardly likely as he's batting the other way at the moment), then we'll just go t' food place.

We both like food. Kirst does tend to love it more than me, and I am quite quite envious of her. She has an ability to throw galleons of food down her throat without growing podgy around the middle. Quite quite amazing.

Must dash right at this moment. I have son No 1 to pick up from Volleyball.

DWNB

And I think to myself

It is, it is, a wonderful world. Look at the sky from last night. We are getting more and more sunsets that look as gorgeous as this, and if this is global warming then am all for it.

Am very tired tonight. Had very stressful evening. Had to walk thru the town centre of a town near where I work, and this is not a pleasant experience at 5.30 in the evening. Christ knows what it would be like at 10 pm at night. Put it this way, am never going to find out. Anyways, got thru that trauma, and then.... a flipping hairy seagull pooped on me. Not just a little one, but a flipping great big manky sloshy one. I feel physically sick telling you this, but am hoping the opening my heart about it is going to wash it from my system. (Emotionally speaking, I've already washed it from my physcial being).

Red Roses Too. I see them bloom...

It's not really , I think it is 28th. I missed blogging last week. Have been v. busy. Kids went back to school and afterschool activities. Spent the week running round after them. Still doing that this week, but have a night off tonight.

Wanted to remember 23rd, cause that is 21 years, twenty one, say it again. since I met Si. I can't believe it. I can remember 23rd 21 years ago, like it was yesterday. What I was wearing, what he was wearing. Who I was with, who he was with, where we stood, what we said, and when I knew.

He sent me big bunch of roses. gorgeous. To my work, which made it even more gorg. Aren't they spectacular.

DWNB

I gotta Get out of this place

I've been trying since 4 pm to get out of this place. .

Customers keep walking in when I'm half way round from my door to the front door, and I don't have the heart to tell them to piss off.

The last one took the biscuit tho. Crawled in thru the shutter. Yes, I had the shutter down, and she crawled underneath it. What was I doing at the time? Trying to set the alarm. Yep. So I was. Can YOu believe it. I think I need to take some time out to meditate. Rapidly feel myself loosing control.

Is this burning, An Eternal Flame?

I love my husband, oh yes I do.

This morning, he sent me an email from the Scouts discussing an upcoming expedition to Malawi, I said, "yeah", go for it". He came back and said he was only showing it to me cause he wanted Steve to have the opportunity.

He joined the Scouts. I think he should go too. Don't you? They are going to be fixing huts and classrooms for little malawi people. What a chance eh? All good.

Me and the Tool and gran can all go to Shuna. Oh Yes we can.

DWNB

It's A Beautiful Day Way Hay

Well, it's not raining. It rained ALL day yesterday. Big heavy blobs of rain all day.

My bunnies got soaked, so at 1030 last night we brought them in and gave them a rub down and filled their bed up with fresh clean straw. I think Blue could have stayed in all night, he looked SOO comfy. Thumps on the other hand was fleeing around like demented dervish.

Am working today. Not particularly happy about it, but I had Friday off which was lovely. I think I need to work a four day week and have 3 day weekend. Would be lovely. Except I think I would vary the third day. Sometimes Fridays, Sometime Monday.

Kids go back to school tomorrow. I've done very well. I bought them shirts / blouses/ trousers / skirts / shoes / pens /pencils. I think that they have everything else.

I hope that they have everything else.

DWNB

Deeply dippy

I took my pills this morning, but the big one stuck sideyways across my throat and the little ones stuck in behind it. I was going shopping and I figured that it would move as I got there. By the time i got to TESCO I figured that It wasn't going to happen! I had to flee in and buy a bottle of juice... drunk the bottle of juice. nothing. still there. The top two pills started to dissolve and I got really bad taste in my mouth. I started to gag, and tried desperately to find something to eat to scrape it down my throat.

I had to flee to the toilet and gagged. Hoping that I could cough them up. I was very very sick. My bottle of water and my cup of tea came up. But the pain was still in theb ottom of my throat. I tidied myself up and washed my face and then I went and did the shopping as fast as I could. And now I'm home and I can still feel the silly pain in my throat. I feel bowf.

Cause we're all in this together.....

Tool is watching High School Musical - LIVE. OMG. I think I know all the words to all the songs.

Wee-Devil hinted at this thing called BIMBO today, and I tried it, but I don't get it. Maybe I'm not blonde enough? I should go and do more blonde in my head!

Years ago I lived in the top floor of a three Storey flat - A skin head who was constantly doped up lived on the Ground Floor, and We stayed on the top, along side an old lady who lived on the opposite side. That's all there was. In the 5 surrounding blocks - no one. It was empty. Derelict. Glue sniffers used to use the communal bag close to come and stick their head inside bags of Sunblest emptied of their Bread and full of Copydex and then run around in a dazed haze usually with their trousers down. Packs of dogs used the communal gardens too. Always bonking each other. All sorts of dogs. I saw many mongrels being created, some of which were actually in defiance of the laws of physics.

Bloody hell. See when I think back. Flipping hairies. It was a bit scarey. But hey you live with it don't you!

DWNB

O M G I Can't Believe it

I had a car spin yesterday!!!

Yeah, I know, I think I maybe used that one before, but seriously it was freaky scarey!

We were driving along North Shore Road, just turning into the corner which takes us up to Kilmarnock Road flyover, and my steering locked, stuck, fast, hard to the right, the car was still travelling forward but spinning round, from the back end, spinny spinny spinny, until crunch. We hit the kerb on the other side of the road and bounced up on it, and ended up perfectly parked on the pavement on the opposite side of the road, and facing 180 degrees the opposite direction we had been travelling it.

Eilidh kept saying "what are you doing what are you doing", I was saying, "shit shit shit shit shit". Now before you say anything I was not doing any more than say 27 miles per hour, I reckon I was going slower, because the rain was heaving down, and I was keeping well away from the car in front, which was a flipping good job. I was just really grateful that the traffic coming the opposite direction was far enough to see me getting into trouble and stay short of me. The chap in the car in front stopped and came back to see me and make sure I was okay, which was brilliant - THANK YOU SO MUCH WHO EVER YOU WERE IN YOUR RED CAR. I'm VERY GRATEFUL. I was very shaken afterwards, but apart from a bit of grass stuck in the alloys there was no damage. I doubt however Eilidh will ever drive with me again!

DWNB

Raindrops keep falling on my head

Is totally pouring today. All over the place. Not just light and fluffy rain, but heavy wet drops which are splishing everywhere.

I've just been down the town to post my latest Ebay sale, it cost me £1.84 to post, and I charged £3.00. So that was okay. I think overall I lost out tho, cause the shoes cost me .... oh no., they were £1.99, I sold them for £0.01, so I made.....1.01, cool.

O M G EIlidh just pulled her jumper up to let me see her belly button,,,,,, flat belly button and wee tiny waist. I'm just going to measure her. 34" 27" 34". Isn't that amazing. Gorgeous Shape.

And long hair too. She is just quite perfect. I did a good job there.


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Comic Strip Presents.....

Friday..... I'm in love

I got to the end of another week. Am knackered. Seriously knackered. I've worked really hard all week, and I'm not quite thru all my work, and I've still got stacks of things to do which aren't in my tray. Bummer.

I just remembered there that I threw a wobbler in the Papershop while Steven was away, I was getting phone calls saying that people were complaining that they weren't getting their papers... but I knew there were all, so I was demanding names!! tee hee. However, I went round and spoke to all his customers on the Monday night, and everyone of them was so nice about Stevo that I was nearly greeting with happiness when I got home. It is so lovely to hear people say nice things about your kids!

Eilidh is having hormonal trouble just now. She is pocessed by the spirit of a big blood demon and hates people coming near her, however I have told her if she just gets out there and forgets about it, it will be okay - Act happy, and she'll be happy. Is very difficult. She won't tell her pal what is up with her, so when they left there, I screamed out the door after her. 'are you sure you don't need a painkiller', and she glared at me, and then I shouted, 'it's perfectly natural' and her pal finally realised what was happening!! Hopefully Eilidh will be a wee bitty more relaxed now.

have just been away ..... there is like a twenty minute gap between that paragraph and this one. Si is away to a Scout Leaders Meeting and wanted a run, just in case he was going to go to the pub afterwards! Ho Hum. So here I am all on my ownsome.

Just emailed Lil-Devil see if she wanted to come out and play. Since we live about 37 miles apart, it doesn't seem likely.

Wonder if she is seeing Elephant Man tonight ?

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Lets Hear it for the Boy

He Came Home last night at 1030pm.... and look see... .He gave his sister a hug.... this was probably after about 2 minutes, because I couldn't get the camera to flash, hence he looks a little strained!

I think he has spent the week outside.. look at the colour of him!

Anyways... Why are we cheering??? 3 x 1 and 5 x 2 Standard Grades! For a Chap who as good as duffed mosted of them in February at prelim, I think that's pretty Damned Fantastic!

Go No One Boy! Yeahhhhhh!

Welcome Home!

Jesus Bids Us Shine

But Lil-Devil won't approach him.

She see's him nearly every day on the bus. Once he had a banana and stopped someone from missing the bus - I doubt the two were related (the banana and the action, nor Jesus and the person who was helped), but that was all on the same day. I think this was maybe the day she started reporting the Jesus sightings.

She says, "he's watching me again, I had to look at my magazine", and I tell her, IF HE IS JEsus, he knows what you are thinking, so you should just go over and speak to him anyways. But she declines.

He was in the same shop as her one day, I told her to approach him then, but nope. Is very strange, if I was sure I had spotted the Second Coming, I'd be well in there. Think of the Questions!

But I have to ask myself, if he is the second coming, why is he travelling daily on a Renfrew to Glasgow City Centre Bus, and why is he calling himself Roddy?

Huh? DWNB

Didn't We Have a Lovely Day the Day we went to

Edinburgh!

No Lunch on the way, but a couple of Starbucks Mocha's (For Me), because Kerry had problems with her train and we had to wait for her so I drunk hers too. Kirst and Me sat in George Square for a bit and got a suntan and then we were squished up close and personal with a gang of lads going thru to Edinburgh for the Fringe all the Way. NO Seats, So Kirsty's pack lunch (M&S Muffins, Cappucino Bars, Percy Pigs and M&S Crisps were all wasted [at that point]). - More of that later.

Edinburgh was lovely. As always. After getting off the train, we contemplated the Dungeons but decided against it because we were too scared.

The Royal Mile was brilliant full of Street Entertainers and a Flat Rainbow. Seriously. Look at it. Isn't that excellent.

We went up to the Castle and took the tour. After We got searched!!! Seriously, there was a big trailing queue (with no one in it), and we had to open our bags and let them look in. Bummer. Anyways, we got in and joined the group for the guided tour. John Was our guide.

This is him leading another group up to the castle once we were on our way out. He was hysterical. Doesn't think much of the Governments ideal of Political Correctness! tee hee. He was VERY knowledgeable about the castle and told us everything we needed to know. After the tour we headed in to the Crown Jewels Exhibition and were duly impressed. What impressed us even more was the Birthing Room of Queen Mary..... there was graffiti on the wall... but dated 1817... I asked the guide and she said "yup" was indeed graffiti dating back to 1800's. Soldiers used to be barracked there. I can't believe it. I thought graffiti was a late 20th Century thing.

After the castle we headed back down the Royal Mile and wandered down to the Grassmarket, and headed to the Last Drop Pub and had a bowl of Soup and some bread while I threw a vodka down Wee-Devil! Had to be done. Was very warm.

After the Grassmarket, we headed for cocktails back up on the Royal Mile. Filling Station got our custom and we were fascinated by a woman bringing in a bag of chips and a bottle of coke to eat beside her husband who was in for a pint!!


Can you believe the cheek of her! We had two jugs of Cocktails - Fun on the Beach, and something else. The first one was best!! Can't remember was the second was.

We went down to the Dungeons after that . O M G How could we have been scared. The only thing I'd be scared of if I went again, would be not having a clean pair of pants to change into after pee'ing myself. Seriously, it was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. I thought I was going to expire listening to the lunatics behave like characters from Scotland's History. Absolutely Brilliant.

next we went to Mary Kings (Or Kiani, as Wee-Devil calls it), Close . It was interesting, but not half as entertaining as The Dungeon. The Close is a city beneath the city. Closes up to 12 stories high were built within the walls of Edinburgh. No space for the city to grow out, so it grew up. But the Closes were sealed off after an outbreak of plague and the City Chambers knocked the top few storys off and were built on top. Underneath the City Chambers now, is a maze of closes (wee narrow streets, separating 12 story high buildings - no further apart than perhaps 5 feet. The neighbours could probably have reached out their windows and touched each other!

There was a lovely cold spot in one of the rooms, but unfortunately, moving round with a group of 20 people and a guide, who was trying VERY hard, but not succeeding in winning us over, coupled with the pain in the arse 10 year old know-it-all-yank, it wasn't the best circumstance to stand and examine it. The Closes were much better before they were open to the public - when you had to squeeze thru the archive room of the Council to get into it. Aw Well Progress eh?

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He's a Star..... On the TV

Looky Looky....... My No 1 Boy on the TV.... Yeah. Is a TV Star....... Bit Muddy, but still my boy, and still on TV......

I haven't seen him for a week. I'm so pleased to see him.


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Holding out for a Hero.....

So Lil'Devil held out for a hero, and then took loads of photos of her Bus time Table instead of the Smeatonator.

He was drinking in the same pub as she was last night, surrounded by a bevvie of publicity girls.. and photographers, if she just went over and told him that we had bought him a drink on www.johnsmeaton.com I'm sure he would have bought her one back, and maybe taken her out for a nice meal? Do you think. Waaaaa. She was texting me asking me what to do, I can't believe she just didn't go over. Tell you what! If we see anyone famous on Saturday in Edinburgh and she doesn't physically attack them, I will be soooo distressed!

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And So We Face the Final Curtain

O M G Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I can't believe it.

Am finished. Am glad am finished, and Sad at the same time.

I will have to start all over again!

Hey Smeaton is on the Telly! He went back to work.... www.johnsmeaton..com

Brilliant.

That's cheered me up.

Baby... we were born to run

Aha! I've been out this morning and got slut nails on. how gorg. Eh? Eilidh got hers done. Very nice and elegant, but I just thought, no I want the full monty. I mean if you are going to get extensions get the extensions that everyone will notice!!! ha ha ha

Is a gorgeous day. Sun is shining and the breeze is gentle. Eilidh and me are just away out birthday shopping. She likes that.

Si is down at the Scout hut, playing at DIY. Sad sad sad. Hey ho, such is life.
Stevo Still away.... coverage on the TV tonight..... wonder if we willl see him?

Bye Bye Baby, Baby Bye Bye

i HAVE No Plans pour les Weekends, well excepting for the No. One Daughter's manicure at 9 am and my extensions at 11.30, and Harry Potter about 4 pm, and something loverly to eat on Saturday evening.

No One Son has gone away to Scout Jamboree which I'm exceedingly happy about. He has already text me and informed me that he has played Brazil at Football and won 1-5, and had a concert with Lemar and Liberty X and JK. Does life get any better for a 15 year old?

My wee Danes have gone home. Maja and Celine have been staying with us prior to attending the Jamboree, and although since monday we haven't been able to jobby or fart in the house, it does seem very quiet without them. Maja and Celine are lovely people and are heading off for wherever the Jamboree Is (is that a sign of a bad mother , that I don't actually know where my son is?), I've told them they can come back anytime, and that they can infact bash my son when they see him! Tee Hee.

Aw.Isn't life good. I think so!

ooooh Heaven... Is a Place on Earth

Called Shuna, and apart from the Ticks. it most certainly is. West of Scotland main land is too noisy and full of people for me. I need outside fresh air. Defo. I never coughed once while I was away and I threw up this morning like normal for here. Not pleased. Obviously something in the house getting to me, but not the Cat, because She died last year.

Buggar, just had a thought, no 1 Son has been away last two years, and both years, one of our cats died, he's just away last night. Hope the Rabbits survive til he comes home, or he is seriously going to believe that we are killing his pets. He is away for 2 weeks at the Scout Jamboree. We had a lovely Going Away for them Last night at Eglinton Country Park. We took our Danes (Maja and Selene) and they were able to meet up with their friends - with much laughing and hugging and kissing (which they seem to do a lot). There was a buffet laid on. Initially I thought it was only Flat Sausage and Rolls with Irn Bru, but they actually had Oatcakes, pate, Cheese, Shortbread, Haggis!! Yep, Neeps and Tatties" Potato Scones and Cake. Two very very large cakes! Amazing. We stuffed ourselves and then headed home. No 1 Son left with the scouts at about 9.30. Scream abuse at Leader that he had booked too small a coach for them, and to be honest, it was. About 20 of them, each with 4 foot long packs and 4 foot long rucksacks squished into a Mini Bus. It was too much. They were swapping buses at Motherwell, so hopefully a better bus was organised for them. He text at 7.30 this morning to say they were officially the FIRST ARRIVALS. Is all being televised on Saturday night, so maybe I'll see my boy on the TV!

Anyways, been back at work 3½ days now. Is killing me. So Tired. Really looking forward to the weekend. Is No One Daughter's birthday weekend, and on Saturday, am taking her for a manicure at 9 am. Then we will do a wee bit of shopping, maybe lunch, or perhaps we will wait til Tea Time to take her out to dinner. She doesn't ask for much, just love and attention, like a wee flower and then she blossums. My wee petal.

Lil Devil, is on holiday herself this week, and is spending much time, sniffing tablet. I posted her some to make her happy. She is pining for Totyl, or maybe she is pining for the BAD boy from last week! I know not, she is quite quiet about what bothers her, but something is. Maybe I need to send her something else. She also wants a boob job as she has declared that her boobs are like pyramid teabags! Bit strange. Haven't seen them naked so can't possibly comment, but they look fine in clothes. Maybe is over-reacting.

Lil Devil also sent me a wee parcel to make me happy upon my return from holidays. In it were two little men, called Bob and Graham. (Seriously they were called Hans and Mike, but that sounds a bit too foreign eh? Bob and Graham far better). This is them both here. Graham was visiting Bob in his box (Bob's box is blue), but normally they live in separate boxes but do pop in to visit each other quite regularly. Normally they are quite friendly, but on the odd occassion punches have been known to be thrown. Normally after one or the other has poo'd or farted on the other one. Is very amuzing. So much so that I had to take them home or I would have spent all day watching them playing with each other and not done any work!

I'm Back, I'm Back, As A Matter of Fact.... I'm Back

From Shuna.

What a joy. Now, there are too many people in my street. We moved here because compared to where we were before, it was lovely and quiet. Now, here, with 15 Houses, there are 14 too many.



Idylic cottage on the shores of a Loch, 7 minute walk (no cars) to the next cottage, another 7 minutes til the next one, and even further for the third one. Was perfect. Wanted to stay.

Have sun burn. Hole in my nose, head and cheek. Is all gorgeous! Bunnies are pleased to see us, and we are pleased to see them. We could take them with us. No foxes in Shuna.

Every Time You Go Away

To a wee island off the coast of Scotland. Am soo looking forward to it.

Wee-Devil has been a Bad Person. Tee Hee. Boy does she keep me amused. I can't tell you what she did, but is tres amusing! I'm sitting here grinning at the thought of it. Hee Hee.

Ha ha - She has just warned me not to mention it. I think seriously that she is having me on. A BIG wind up. She does that sometimes. You are never sure where you are with her. She says everything with the same expression.... kinda, demented you know?

Bet that you look good on the dance floor

Heh Heh.... were's the link. Arctic Monkeys!



We were at the Zoo. What a brill day we have had. Totally knackered now. I had to get up at 7 to pick mum up at 8 to take her to the airport.

She is heading to Canada for a Troon Reunion. Excellent Fun All Round. When we arrived at the Airport, I was keeping my eyes open for The Smeatonator but I couldn't spy him anywhere. Loads of Hi-Vis Jackets, but none with red stripes! Could see the door where the stupid terrorists tried to blow themselves up. We found out that mum's flight was delayed for 1½ hours, and then it was delayed for another hour. So we sat with her and had a coffee and then she went to the departure lounge. Me and No One Daughter were glad to be getting out of the airport!
So we headed off to Edinburgh Zoo. It was an easy ride... no hold ups anywhere, straight into the Zoo by 11.30.

We seen everything I believe, my feet are flipping killing me, my legs are aching. Some of those animals are the cutest ever. Seriously Cuteness. We need to actually buy the zoo and have them all. They have Koala's now. They were sleeping up the tree, but they were most defo Koalas. I'd love to have a cuddle, but the Koala expert says that it stresses them out. In London Zoo all the Koalas they allowed folk to pet, died of stress related illnesses, so I decided to leave them where they were. Awww. So Cute.

When we left.... a good 5 hours after we arrived, we headed back to Livingston to trade-in some of the things Eilidh bought on Sunday and then changed her mind about. it was very quiet when we arrived, I was quite worried that maybe it was closing, but it wasn't it was all good. We flew into the shops, and then doubled back on ourselves, when I realized Mad Israeli woman was still there selling Dead Sea Salts. So we had to run 3/4 of the way round the centre, because the shops we wanted to return to were only round the corner from her!

Eilidh traded in the trousers which she felt were too tight (not), for a pair of dungaree shorts, and traded in the Dungarees for the trousers which she thought were too tight! Brilliant eh? So we swapped the same things round in different shops! All good. Eilidh's happy, and that's what counts.

So I uploaded the photos, I'm off to have a cup of tea and then I'm heading to bed early!

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Rip It Up and start again

Oh Wow. How drunk was I last night? I've even discovered I've been on Ebay bidding for dresses! Flip. Hope I don't win them!

Feeling slightly rough this morning, but I think I'll be okay shortly. Am just going to hit the shower, and then I'm going to head over to Dobbies Garden Centre, see if they have water trainers. We were trying to get them yesterday in Livingston, but didn't have them in the size for No 1 Son.

We have to organise the bed for the HOHO people this week. Mum is going to Niagra this week and we'll have to get Iain's help to move the bed over from her house!

I can't believe I've got two weeks now... lovely. I'm going to enjoy every minute.

DNWB

I love the sound of breaking glass

Except when it's my wine glasses, I always break my wine glasses and I hate doing that. I love my wine glasses.

We went to some retail park today.,,,, I can't remember it's name, McArthur Park, McArthur Glen, O jeesus, don't know...... And we shopped and shopped. I nearly bought within the first two minutes thru the door. A lovely Isralie woman stopped me and washed my hands with Dead Sea Oils. ... was lovely, Si text me and said, "DONT BUY ANYTHING FROM THAT WOMAN". I couldnt' believe it. Madmad. I was going to buy a bottle. Treat my feet.

Then the kids bought tops, trousers, shoes, tops, etc. etc., and Simon bought ts and shoes. All good.

I bought a pair of earrings, and I've had to take them out cause my ears are sore. I just felt. A pair of earrings, That would be nice, But no. My ears are still sore. They've been sore, ever since Wilf Bird touched my ears and said "fancy earrings", that put me off wearing earrings ever.

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We Don't Have to take Our

First Day of Holidays. Am so excited. Nothing planned, except a visit to Xscape, and Edinburgh Zoo. Rest of the time taking it easy, til we go to Shuna next Saturday. Am sooooo looking forward to it. No Electricity and catching fishes for our tea! Fantastic. Can't wait!

No 1 son has just come in from 10 mile cycle, I reckon.... all the way to Irvine and back. Him and his mate have been out every morning this week, either Cycling or Running. Wish I had the energy, although am going to make it a priority when we come back from our holidays!

dwnb

Lets Face the Music

and dance.

Up at Centrestage tonight, helping behind the scenes with Sacrifice. What a joy it is to be with these kids! I wasn't really feeling like it, but once you are there, their enthusiasm wins you over.

They all knew exactly what they were doing, where they should be and what they should be wearing. Great Kids. A credit to their parents... and to Heather and Ian's time.

And now, I just logged in to check my email after doing a 15 minute distant healing for my Nant. She isn't sleeping too well. It felt like I made a good connection. Hopefully she'll have a great nights sleep and she'll maybe have a proper session.

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The Tide is high

And the boaties are all bobbing about in a gentle breeze.

I've got 2 days and 6 hours of work left and then nothing for 2 weeks. I can't believe it. Also - I'm sitting doing this when I should be trying to catch up on all my work. My tray is still full to over flowing and I have cheques to write and invoices to produce. Still I'm positive I'll get most of it done by the time I finish.

Wow - just had a hot flush there. keep forgetting to take the hormones. Must remember tonight.

Have just sent 422 letters out in a mailshot. Have had 36 back, 25 undeliverable, 1 potentially dangerous, 1 returned, 3 out of offices. 1 mail System error, 1 mimesweeper, 4 Mail delivery failed. Pretty Cool eh, which means only 4 of them were poor addresses. The rest are being blocked.

What ever did we do without electronic mail?

We Don't Need another hero....

Unless it's John Smeaton......

Who seen the Terrorists Trying to attack Strathclyde Police, and "mon, ye dinnae dae that, so ah jist whacked im like"

Check out his web site! http://www.johnsmeaton.com/

Buy him a pint! I Did.

Just another manic Monday

Wish it was Sunday, because then I wouldn't be going to work in the morning! Excellent!

Anyways, Mondays are always a bit manic. Too busy for words, and a pile of paper which just seems to grow and grow.

Husband still away, missing him like mad. Am pathetic creature. I was sitting at lunchtime really sad because he wasn't around to talk to. Then I thought, I don't talk to him while I'm at work anyways.

Oh My Gawd, I can't Believe it.....

Wasn't a jolly jap gone wrong. We have terrorists in Glasgow. Not Good. Apparently another bomb was diffused outside the hospital where the injured terrorist is being treated.

I'm having great fun imagining what the nurses and doctors are doing to him and his burns. "oops, that dressing needs changed" .... and ripping it off like a fresh plaster. Pouring Salt on maybe?

Why is he being treated, should he not be sitting in a police cell living with the pain his actions have caused? He wanted to die, so let him suffer a wee bitty more before he gets to Nirvana with his 52 virgins!!!

Yeah, and I betcha he was living the life of a true devotee... no alcohol... or woman. Yeah, right!

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Talk about things you like to do.........

Weird old world.

Two guys have driven their car into Glasgow Airport - alight. Not very amusing. Poor Lil-Devil
is sitting in her flat not 20 minutes away from Glasgow Airport wondering if it (the flat) will still be there tomorrow morning.

I think someone was just trying it on, and tomorrow morning, what seemed like a brilliant Saturday night jape is going to turn out to be not so pleasant sitting on a runway to Guantanamo Bay.

Terrorists in Glasgow? Seems unfeasible..... Would Taggart say "thurs been a terrorist attack". I think not.

dwnb

Ground Control to Major Tom..........

So in the last three days I have spotted 3 Spacehoppers abandoned by the side of the road. Two were in Bouncing condition, the other was slightly deflated. Personally I think we are under attack by forces unknown, well not unknown is obviously being headed up by Space Hopper Force, but I'm just not sure who is controlling them.

It maybe the drums calling them to action and these poor abandoned volunteers have not made the grade and have fallen by the wayside.

At least we can be grateful that it isn't the cybermen. I only feel threatened by Space Hoppers when I see the evil Rabbit faces.

The Money Is Here. My Money has Come Back! I am saved. Terry is not a kid-on dealer. He is real!.

dream to sleep.....

I am so tired.

Mentally exhausted. I "lost" 1.9 million euros today. It left work bank account and whirrled around the ether for a couple of hours before it showed up where it was supposed to, but it was an hour too late for it to come back to me again.

I hate banks. Trying to make me feel small while they are doing the go slow. And on the other end of the phone, was a foreign exchange broker doing his best to calm me down as I started pondering whether he was actually valid dealer or just a fly by night who had just phoned me on the off chance.

So now I need to sleep.

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Palpitations

O M G

Have just seen an email confirming my son's guests for the Jamboree Ho Ho (Home Hospitality - where we make visiting Scouts welcome in our house for a couple of days).

We debated about where to put two boys....... and now I discover we are getting 2 girls. O M G. Two Danish Girls....... Will have to work extra hard to keep them entertained and away from the Hormone Mountain that is Steven. Wah.

Who said Boys were easier? Not at all.

Sun is in the Sky....

But I do wish I was somewhere else. The kids are so busy right now, I barely have time to think.

No 1 Kid Clay Pidgeon Shooting and Indian tonight..... No 2 Kid Drama rehearsals, then Alton Towers, No 1 Kid to Paint Balling tomorroow, No 2 Kid still at Alton Towers, Then No 1 Husband going to Scout Camp, Me going to Reiki 2 course, Then 5 more days of work, and then........... H O L I D A Y... Celebrate.......

It can't come soon enough. But hey, that is living outwith the precepts. Live in the Moment....... Mindfulness. Don't wish my life away.....

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Amazing...... What your kids do when you aren't watching........

I'm So Excited. And I just Can't Hide it

New Blogger... in Draft.

Makes Videos. I can have so much fun with this......... keep watching. I forget all the things I have on my phone....

They Look Far Drunker in Mine!

Wide Awake,.... I'm not sleeping

I'm definitely in a Bono mood this week. Wide Awake... I'm Wide Awake... I'm not sleeping..... Love that song.

But I'm not really wide awake. I'm very tired. I came in, had tea, took Eilidh to Next Clearance.... then Tesco and now I'm home. Si has lost a CD for the PC and is having a loop trying to find it.

Eilidh has just painted her money pig. Lovely. Is a bit colourful, but exactly how a pig should be.

So now, I'm going to go and have a wee bit of meditation.... is Distant Empowerment night. I always feel better after it. More awake.

The mad woman phoned me at work today to apologise for phoning me at home, I said I thought she should have, it wasn't right. She then wanted to tell me all the behind the scenes family problems, I asked her to stop and told her that I really didn't want to get any more involved, and I was going. Bit blunt i think, but had to be done.

http://mathsnet.net/puzzles/cubilus.html - Eilidh is playing this game. Heaven's about I can't do it. Si and Her are bashing thru it. I defo need to sleep.

Sorry's Not Good Enough

Argh.

Got personally involved with a customer at work, just trying to help them out of a situation. Passed the situation on a couple of weeks ago, and thought that was the end of it, but unforunately no. A party to the problem phoned last night about 10 pm, wanting information....... not impressed. Phoning me at home. Not Good.

They called this morning to apologise, and started to try and tell me the background of their problems, but I just told them "not interested".

it's not nice being blunt, but sometimes you just have to be.

You can't shoulder everyone's problems.

Pop-U-oo-Lar

I'll teach you the proper ploys
When you talk to boys
Little ways to flirt and flounce
I'll show you what shoes to wear
How to fix your hair
Everything that really count

I think it will have to be Broadway...... to coincide with the US Preview Of Freestyle Voodoo Baby

Risotto

Guess What Lil'Devil.

Am having Risotto on Thursday. Have planned my menu out that far in advance.

Sunday Rainy Sunday

When I think of Bono singing Sunday Bloody Sunday, i think of the Red Rocks concert, and Sunday nights in the wee pub round the corner from our Flat in Blackwood Crescent. They had a big screen and every other Sunday night they would play U2 at Red Rocks, and I'd go and nurse a half pint and sit entranced by Booni, as my dad called him.

I liked that year. Flat was minging, and behaviour of flat mates was sometimes minging, but we had a ball, a real year of student living. Mad nights, parties, too much drink and too much fun! The neighbours hated us.

Keep Saturday Sacred....

They are so right these campaigners. Saturday should be special. Especially for people like me.

I've been in work since 9.10 (I slept in,being as it was a Saturday), and I am working, and I still have one hour and ten minutes to go. I am so tired. My eyes are rolling about in my head. I will have to drive home with the windows wide open so that I don't have an accident.

I should be allowed to piddle about ALL day on a Saturday and a Sunday. I wasn't cut out for weekend working no way no how.

I've been very busy. I've written very detailed notes about everyone who came in - a few notes about people who were just passing and were wearing v. bad clothes, and I've posted invoices and taken many many phone calls. So it isn't as if I've just been sitting being bored. I'm just really needing to be horizontal for a long while on a Saturday.

Shock and Awe

No 1 Daughter went to see No 1 Son and I think was also shocked that Brother could sing!

No 1 Daughter has always been the Stage Star in our house. She gave up Ballet classes because they only had one performance a year.... she needed to be on stage more! What a kid. No one would believe that No 1 Daughter could do the things she does on stage. In "real" life she is so quiet, polite and shy to the outside world. Then you put her on Stage and she is quite happy to become someone else. She astounds me. Absolutely Astounds me. The first time she sung on Stage by herself, she must have been...... 10. O M G She played Oliver. Then she was Prince Charming, both times sitting there all alone on Stage singing away.

This is the worst thing about being a mum. I spontaneously burst into tears when I see my kids be brilliant.

Thunder

I don't do thunder and lightening.

I should really go home. I may get electrocuted.

X-Factor

he has it. My son has X Factor. Defo. I was almost in tears as he sat on Stage and comforted his "aunt" on the phone, and then sung her a wee song to make her smile.

I cannot believe that my son could get up on stage and do that, like it was second nature to him. Amazed and sooooooooooooooooo proud.

This is him with Kathryn, who ends up his wife.

Nerves Nerves Nerves

No 1 Son is performing in school Musical Mame tonight!! Am very nervous for him! Am sitting here shaking waiting on either (a) his imminent return, or (b) a phone call from the Gran or the Nant and Nunk to advise me on the progress of the evening.

I can hardly breathe am so nervous. Swept my bedroom floor, put some more books on bookshelf, and wet dusted my room. THAT's how nervous I am. Waaaaaaaaa

Big Boobs

I have big boobs because I have a big heart.

That is what Lil'Devil told me.

However, I secretly believe it is because I need to loose some weight!

So Anyways

I'm thinking that there is this building in Troon up for rental, and I'd love to have it and make it something spectacular. Like a Tap Dancing School. I love tap dancing.

Hey Lil'Devil, how do you fancy being a Tap Coach? Or you could do Freestyle, I know how much you like that.

Am sitting here, bored to tears at work. Shouldn't really be I have a tray which has now reached the heady heights of 1½ feet. I really need to get stuck in about it, but I can't be arsed. Too busy a weekend. What I need is a day off to recover after the weekend. I still think that I should join the Monster Raving Looney Party and petition for a 10 day week. Still work 5 days, but have 5 day weekends. Doesn't that sound much better.

It cost £500 to submit yourself for an election, I could have Lil'Devil as my Campaign Manager and together we could take over firstly Renfrew (I think they'd vote for me there), and then the rest of Scotland.

o m g

I had to start again, because I'm commenting on Wee-Devil.blogspot.... and someone is bound to come over and check up on me.

I am friend of Lil Devil. We eat together and bitch. It's what we do best.

I will come back and tell you more later.

Ta Da! Sunday

Today, Sprog 1 and Me both got up and did the papers, I drove cause it was really wet.

Then we had breakfast, and I went back to bed. I was soooooo tired. So I had a wee sleep and then we got up went and picked up cakes and headed to the footie. Sprog 1 was playing a re-match of a cup match which tied last week. We were laying on a buffet for the opposite side - I was doing the cakes. Oh No. We plastered up Sprog 1's side. We had taken his plaster off and forgot to put a new one on before we left. I picked up a first aid kit at Superdrug and we stuck it together.

I left Sprog 1, at the football and went back to the house to wait for Sprog 2 coming back from Guide Camp. She arrived back about 2. 30. Exhausted. Got her in the shower, and half unpacked, made her a cup of tea and headed back to the football. They were at a 2-2 draw and there was 20 minutes to go. The other team scored, it went to 2-3 and then Cale brought one back. It finished at 3-3 so it had to go to extra time. After extra time it finised at a draw so it had to go to Penalties. It was awful. They both scored 2, then both lost 1, then scored then lost, so it went to 6, then 7 and then 8. We won on 8. It was amazing. The boys set off after the goalie... chasing him around the other pitches. Steven took Penalty 7 and scored beautifully.

Was excellent.

Came home, Sprog 2 okay dokay but tired. DH came home and also being tired. Had a shower, I fed them all. Was lovely. I have my family back.

Shivering Saturday

Sprog 2 at Guide Camp, DH at Scout Camp, Sprog 1 out with friends. I've never had so much quiet time for a long while. I'm taking it very easy and laying around, and snoozing. I love sleeping.

Me and Steven and Gran went out for lunch, which was lovely. We went to Scotts and ate far too much. It was actually quite cold in the restaurant -we were sitting in the sun lounge. everyone wants to sit there, but there isn't actually a fixed roof, it is one of these wynding things, so the draft gets in. There were patio burners and blow heaters on, but there was a definite breeze blowing. I was fine. I was sitting right on a patio heater, so I was great. But some folk were sitting with their coats fastened up tight. I think I would have asked to get moved inside.

Then I took Sprog 1 to Ayr and I got him a couple of jumpers. Well Jumper and an tank top. Very cool. (apparently). Now I'm just sitting here, waiting to have a wee nap. So enjoying the quiet, but missing them at the same time.

DWNB

Reiki - Level 1

Am now Reiki - Level 1.

Is all a bit strange. I have a breeze on my right hand. Cool gentle breeze, is there, but I don't understand it. The teacher said to not try to understand it, just accept that it is there.

I will carry on with my meditations and see where it takes me, but other than close family and friends I don't think I'll be touching anyone. I wasn't particularly happy touching a man I didn't know at the weekend.!!!

Steven was playing football in Edinburgh yesterday. me and eilidh went into the town and Spent a little time at the Museum - Scottish National .. I love the gold fish there. I told Eilidh I used to spend hours just looking at the fish. I'm not sure it's the same fish. Could be. they were pretty big, and they all swim around with their mouths sticking out the water, and you can see right into their mouths,,,, well bodies actually. Lovely.

Also - they have dolly the sheep there. All stuffed. Was a bit perturbed about that... she was a lovely sheep.... Eilidh thought they had cloned the stuffed version. Was a bit perturbed by that. I explained what cloning was all about and that they had stuffed her after she died. But she was lovely, and so clean. Didn't have much of a life tho, I think they prodded her all her days!

Poor Dolly. That makes me sad.

Funny February

haven't got used to writing 2007 yet, and now its February... How did that happen so fast.

Am spending too much time on Blogs, and talking to imaginary people. Well I know that they aren't imaginary, but like we discussed on one... Do we really know each other? There is a hell of a lot of going back and forward between us all, and my page is open as a book for anyone who wants to read about me and mine, but apart from the names that we use and the issues we bring up, do we really know each other??? I wonder?

Tonight, Si is taking the Scouts. As opposed to helping out. He is very worked up about it, but I'm sure it will all be fine. Eilidh is away to Grangemouth for the day playing volleyball. She was all worked up about that too, and she's just been on the phone to me to tell me that a second year was staring her out for "laughing at her", and did Eilidh know that she had been selected for the Under 16's Scotland Squad. ..... Oh My Wee Wean. She doesn't take these things very well. Steven is away to School, and to night has Orchestra...... I think the concert is next week... however he has a wee operation on Thursday, and may not be up to it on Thursday night (if that is when it is - I have a very funny feeling it is).

Tomorrow is my Reiki course. I am So looking forward to it. Really very very much. The morning will be discussions and enlightenments... Its all so strange, I have no idea what it will be like but I am really looking forward to going. I'm thinking I will stay in tonight, and not do the shop so that I am rested up. I'd hate to wake up tomorrow morning with a migraine and not make it.

Can't focus on work today and I have a load to do. I had got pretty much caught up the other day, and now my tray is near to overflowing again. ARGHHHH.

Got my hair cut and coloured last night. Is very nice. Am very pleased with it. I got some highlights but she insisted on putting them under my hair so that I didn't look "brassy" ha ha ha. Oh well. By the end she says she really liked them and she wished that she had put them on top!! Ho hum.

Anyways, Thats me for now.

31st January. Flip, a whole month of the new Year Gone......

I cannot believe we have gotten to end of January ALREADY. It seems like it only just started. I've not been keeping up with this, cause I've been keeping up on www.mid-life-me.com , but I try to remember.

Good day so far. Accountant was in (poohy), answered all his questions amid much huffing and puffing.

had an absolute ball over on Moose's blog www.ifyougiveamooseamuffin.blogspot.com , coming up with other *&^% on a plane. I used a Rhyming Programe on the Web to come up with as many rhymes with Snake as I could. I had to stop, cause I was making myself snigger too much and I was getting funny looks round here.

Tap Dancing was Ace last night. actually felt like I was getting to "dance" as opposed to banging my feet. Don't get me wrong. I love banging my feet, but last night there was definitely a wee bitty of butt shifting as well. GREAT FUN.

Reiki coming along nicely. Si had a lovely treatment on Monday night, after I tuned in for the remote enlightenment... so looking forward to Saturday when I get the full treatment my self and get "empowered".... oooooo wooww. So excited. Life is good eH?


DWNB

Thirsty Thursday

In work. Nearly end of week. Good. Am tired.

Woke last night in a panic because I couldn't remember what no 1 sprog was doing tonight... he has such a busy timetable is hard to keep up. Tried popping dearly beloved, but he was having none of it. After about an hour, I remembered. And was able to go back to sleep, but this of course left me really sleepy this morning.

Funny old blog going on over at BBC2. We are being picked on because we are chatting to each other and not about CLP. Weird old world.

DWNB

O M G - STUNNED

i'm working this morning, which is initially a bit of a bummer. Like my Sunday's in bed so I do, however I'm here, and completely stirred up.

I have a 17 mile drive to work. It's not really that far... one stretch of dual carriage way broken by 5 roundabouts.... Had just left first round about behind and was looking ahead at dark snow clouds in the north, and noticed a blue flashing light ahead, so slowed my speed down (not that I was speeding) and tried to guage what had happened. NOT A CHANCE!!! As I got closer I noticed second police car, with policeman waving frantically at me. It was at this point I glanced to either side of me and noticed with some surprise, the snow on the ground...... strange, there hadn't been any before the last slip road.... then I realised I was actually driving in tyre tracks left in the snow... What the hell...... It wasn't snowing before... Was confused. Where did the snow come from. Not only that, but there were three cars totalled. One lying on it's top (please ptb that they were okay), one lying smashed against crash barrier, and the other on the entry slip with its front all smashed in. I was going slower and slower, conscious of the fact that at any minute I could swerve and be all over the place too, there was another couple of cars on the opposite side of the road smashed too. And then... as I drove past the on slip the snow vanished. Not a thing. Where did it go? Why was it there? And only there? How could it have come and gone only in one wee place? eh? explain... answers on a post card

Flipping Global Warming.....

Flipping blowing like mad again last night. There I was standing in the garden at 3 am this morning trying to drag stuff around the garden to make sure that the rabbits didn't blow away. Heaven'ts it was wild. At least there was no fence left to fall down, it all fell down last week.

Got up at 8 helped Steven with his paper round... we did it in about 15 minutes, after I had finally dragged him out of the shop... was gossiping.!! he is off to Edinburgh this morning to play volleyball.

Si came home about 9.30. He was staying out last night with the Scouts. They were supposed to be camping but they couldn't because of the wind. So they had 20 Scouts stuck in the Scout hut all screaming until 2 am this morning, at 3 am they were moving Scouts around to try and break up the noise.

Steven also got up about three, and said "i'm going back to bed, it isn't time to do my paper round". I think he was sleep walking!.

Eilidh dragged herself out of her pit at 1030 just as I was going shopping, she is away having a shower now and getting dressed.

I'm going to do some house work and then meditate!!

Tapping

Oh oh oh - And forgot to mention. The Tap Dancing. Shuffle Hop, Slam, Shuffle Change, Slap. Am loving it. Kitchen floor isn't. Husband Very amused.

Reiki Power

Have been reiki'ing myself ... which has been inspiring to say the least. Had migraine from hell yesterday. Used the Reiki......and was up an hour and a half later and completely recovered! Can't understand it. Not going to try to analyse it but merely work in the minute, and become more mindful about everything.

Is amazing. Can't wait for enlightenment... See where I go from there.

DWNB

New Year New Me

Yeah, So it's taken me til now to decide that this is a new year, and I'm going to be brand new this year.
To this end, have taken up Tap Dancing... Yeah Man. I'm going to reach the heady Heights of Eric Morecambe. When I'm banging my feet on the floor I just think of him dancing around with Angela Rippon and I think..I'll keep going.

Additionally I've taken up Reiki. Currently studying at home in preparation for Attunement / Enlightenment in March. I'm thinking about bringing it forward, so desperate am I for the energy.

DWNB

middle of january

Oh Woe. Is middle of January. And I'm tired. The weather is grinding me down. Windy Windy Windy and wet. Is so dark too. It's almost like the earth has slipped its thingy..... what do you call it.... revolution thing... orbit... is that what I'm looking for? And we are facing further away from the sun now. Is very depressing.
On a lighter note. I also have a sore bum. I've had a hysterectomy for Endo, but occassionally it flares up again...and it has today. I had to lay down on the floor in the office for a while there, it was so bad I couldn't properly function.
i'VE TAKEN painkillers tho, and it's started to subside. Steven has done his paperround since he was away at Lochearnhead. I havent' done it once. Which is nice. BUt I'm going to give him a day in bed at the weekend. He needs a lie in Once in a while.
Is almost dark out side, and is only 1553. Far too early. I'm sure the sun is rising later, and setting earlier, and isn't it supposed to be going the other way now? Is very strange.
Need to go home and sleep for a bit.

It's flipping January now.

I can't understand where the time goes. Although most of it I record www.mid-life-me.com so If I haven't been here, go there.

Weather has been atrocious the past couple of days. And I'm stuck with my son's paper round while he wanders the shore of Loch Earn. Mental child. I think I'd prefer the paper round andgoing back to bed! ha ha

O MG IT'S DECEMBER

I can't believe that we have reached December - the middle of it and I haven't been back.

Just had to visit the loo very quickly there. Something not good happening in my belly.

Yeuk.