Every day should be a Saturday

Except of course when one has a hangover.

Bleugh, am hopeless, I have a little drink, and I really mean a "little" drink glass of wine, and a little measure of...Arran something. I lay in bed until 11 am, because I just couldn't move.  

But even now, sitting here watching the end of the Revolution, am still feeling a bit crappy.

Bleugh.  No drink, no more.

Friday Fun day

Friday would be good, if it weren't for the fact I've got to get thru it before I can get home and CHILL.....

Sunday Stealing... Long Time No Here.

Have you ever clicked on an ad on the side of your screen by accident?:      Oh god yes,frequently, however I get more and more perturbed that all of the adverts relate to things that I have recently looked at on line.  Most embarrassing when "Mature Men for Luscious Ladies " pops up.

When was the last time you were disappointed?:    Yesterday, I realised that a friend was in Scotland, and I wouldn't be on the same coast and we would miss each other again.

Do you like the smell of rain?:    Adore the smell of rain.... The grass when it is wet smells soooo alive.

What was the last thing you took a picture of?:    A family on the beach see !

When you go to McDonald's, what drink do you usually get?:   Strawberry milk shake.No that is a lie.  I would like to get Strawberry Milk shake, but I find the milk fills my belly up  so I opt for Seven Up which makes me burp.

What were you doing today at 2:15 in the afternoon?:   It's only 1046.... Haven't got to2.15 yet. 

What's the nickname of your home state?:    Burns Country.

What's the worst type of weather in your opinion?:    Muggy, damp heat.

Do you have a Kindle, Nook, iPad or none?:    Kindle, Ipad.

Would you rather read or write?:    Write. for sure 

When was the last time someone took a picture of you?:    Mmmm, last week.  

Do you own a pair of slippers?:   Yes I do, funnily enough, I just found them 2 weeks ago. I actually discovered that I had two pairs exactly the same.

Name something negative that you hate about yourself:   My lethargy

Is your house currently hot, cold or just right?:   Currently Hot. AS UK in in middle of heatwave.

Is there a Dead End road near where you live?:   There are several Dead End Roads.  We live in a little housing estate of which there is only one way in and one way out, and they are not the same.   There are five dead ends, or as we prefer to call them "Cul De Sacs" with in shouting range.  Always possilble to find children.
 

Do you roll your eyes often?:   When I read Audio books, and the story says, "Claire rolled her eyes", I tend to roll my eyes at the same time. 

Growing up, did you see your cousins often?:  I did. More often than my children see theirs. 

Where was your first job at?:  Washing pots in a restaurant. Yeuk.

When's your birthday?:   April.

Is life a party to you?: Sometimes, sometimesnot.

Who are you tired of seeing in the news a lot? :  It used to be Princess Diana.  Now it is David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Milliband, and most espcially  Alex Salmon. (wee Eck)

When was the last time you flew a kite?:   Last Saturday :-)  The smallest kite in the world. 

How long have you had a blog?:   For bloody years.  I started one when I was 40.  Mid-Life-me it was called, mid-life-me.com  I had it for four years, and then I flipped over here. 

Have you ever had to call and complain about a product you bought?:   I always phone and complain, or write and complain.  My most recent complaint was not about a product I bought, but one which I was refusing to buy because of it's cost.  They sent me a £50.00 off voucher. 

Name something positive you love about yourself:     I really try hard. 

Love is all around me....

No it isn't.

Wahhhh.

Grey hair.


Oh My god.

Colouring.

Dearie me.

The colouring.

the roots.

Dear god.

Just another manic today....

Yesterday, mum was sunbathing in the garden and was looking at her kindle, and her chair collapsed backwards.

Her head hit the step of the patio, and her bum got stuck in the chair.

Unwilling to let the young, gorgeous next door neighbour witness her plight, she rolled around low, until she could creep in the house - all the while bleeding profusely from the wound on her head.

She phoned me.and said "are you busy".  I said "I am at work, I am always busy".

"oh", says she" That's okay.

What's wrong?

"I had an accident".

Thinking she had a car crash (because she's done it before.... a few times), I said "Oh god, where are you".

"In the house, I fell off the deckchair, my head is bleeding but it is at the back and I can't see it, and I wondered if you could come round and have a look, but if you are busy".

"Mum, I will get someone, I 'm on my bike... Please go and sit down, until I find someone".

"I'm going for a shower, I don't want anyone to see me with all this blood over me!!!"

Mothers!

Husband and Daughter got there, within minutes of each other and both made the same diagnosis.

Hospital

5 stitches later and an local anesthetic, and she was out having fun meeting with family .

Dearie me

Back on the Chain Gang...

Back on the bike after a two week absence... wow did my knees feel it.

I couldn't work out last week, why my knee was so sore!  It wasn't the fall from the previous week, but my god, i could barely bend it.   I hopped down the stairs, and filled myself up with painkillers, and muddled through the day.

It was only when I got in the car and the pain re-stressed itself, I realised it was the monumental amount of driving I had done on Wednesday which had set it off; so prompted stopped driving and refused to give anyone lifts.  Much better .

But anyways - back on the bike this morning, I couldn't not - it is a glorious day, and it would have been a proper shame not to use it.  I took my time, cause I left in plenty, and I still made in in 29 minutes.  My longest time, (when I started) was 36 minutes.  I've been as fast as.... 26minutes, so I haven't lost it!

Bella Bella, the bike, was happy for me to be back... She doesn't want to sit in the shed.  I think it need to blow her tyres a bit!

Strange but interesting

For three years, I have had a virtual relationship with J.

Friends, no more no less; he writes, I comment.  I write, he comments. Sometimes he proffers advice, but in the main, he laughs with me, and offers humour to my woes.

yesterday he told me "tomorrow I retire".

I couldn't understand how he could be retiring on a Sunday.

He works all over UK, and the world, on examining boards, but it turns out this is only a part-time job.  His other job, is a minister.

three years, of my declaring everything nul and void when it comes to  faith, and three years of not judging.

I do like him even more now.

Sunny Saturday Morning...

Well is afternoon now I suppose.  I have been quite productive already.

I checked the freezer. It has lots of chicken in it.  As Wee Devil says, I could have a street party for royal baby.

I have completed two washings and hung them out...

Had some coffee.

Cleaned the juice bottle rack. Put some rubbish in bin.

And developed a sore knee.

What is wrong with my knee...

Bending is a bit sore.

And again

Someone left me a comment yesterday, and I can't find it today.  No idea where it went.

But thank you very much for reading.

I am exhausted today.... I was at a Holyrood garden party yesterday... much excitement.  it was very lovely.

But I drove so much., home to edinburgh, (75 miles), Edinburgh to calander, 52 miles,  78 miles, plus a detour when I nearly fell asleep and ended up in Glasgow City Centre, instead of staying on the M8... ARGHHH
 Added half an hour and 5 miles to my journey.  Raging.

Collapsed in a heap last night.

Still sleepy today.

Sometimes

you get days when your brain just ticks and ticks and ticks until it could possibly explode.

I have one of those days to day, and I am trying desperately hard to make my hard working brain contribute to something useful. like TIDYING the house.

Living on the ceiling

Would be easier considering the mess I have all over bedroom floor and bed and tables 

1. How many songs are in your library?  Multo, Multo  - hang on til I check..1148.  Probably not as many as some people, but I like to think I'm selective. 

2. Do you like Christmas music?  Depends.... Really, really depends  I like Chris Rea, Driving home for Christmas.... I like, The Waitresses, Christmas Rapping. ... I hate Cliff Richard, but I don;t think that is a christmas thing, I just hate Cliff Richard 

3. What magazines do you have subscriptions to?   None, I don't have enough money. Can you lend me some? 

4. What is your favorite scent?  Today, I am mostly wearing, Anais Anais, by Cacharel, I love Paris, I love Bulgari, I love DKNT

5. Do you give money to charity?,  Yes, but charities of my choosing, NOT people who randomly come to my door

6. What is your theme song?
 
7. What's in your wallet?
 
8. Do you generally think before you act, or act before you think?
 
9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?

10. Do you have a good body-image?
 
11. How are you spending your holidays?

12. What have you been seriously addicted to lately?

13. Tell us a secret?

14. What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?
 
15. What’s your favorite item of clothing?
 
16. Do you think Rice Krispies are yummy?

17. Is Santa real?
 
18. What should you be doing right now? 

It's a Cold, Cold Country

Relief all round when I managed to get in touch with the energy supplier yesterday and sort out my number dyslexia which seen my Energy consumption for the month triple from the month before.... they didn't question it, they just upped my monthly payment, by three.... I didn't question that, I just thought it was as a result of their prices increasing.

So laughs all round at both of our incompetence. 

Is freezing this morning, but having analysed the bills so intently over the last couple of days, I'll be damned if I'm going to put the heating on in the morning.

My Best Holiday

My Menorca Villa are running a competition to find the winner of the "My Best Holiday" competition... it got me thinking, which was my best holiday?

The last holiday I spent with my Mum and Dad could arguably be my best holiday.  It started off as what I thought was going to be my worst nightmare.

"We've booked one last holiday for you to come with me and your dad", said mum.  "two weeks in a hotel in Menorca - a room for three".  At 17 the very prospect of two weeks in a tightly enclosed place with both my parents was the stuff of nightmares!


Mum worked part-time in a little travel agents and had gone to great lengths to book the cheapest flights, and phoned the hotel personally to organise it.   We set off on the day, my heart was half happy at the prospect of sun, half terrified at having to share with both parents....   The plane was delayed by 3 hours.  Good Start.  When we arrived, of course we had no agents to direct us to buses to get us to the hotel... We got in a taxi and my Dad spoke in the Local Tongue to get us to Punta Prima.... by local tongue, I mean his version, shouting at 10 decibels louder  that required in broken English.  The taxi driver looked in his mirror and raised his eye brows.   I looked out the window and wished I was somewhere else.

When we arrived, we were so late, the hotel had decided that we weren't coming and had let our room to someone else.   They had no other rooms.  We looked so dejected they started to phone round and find something for us; but then the manager appeared and advised that due to their error, he had found something that we hoped would be suitable.   He walked us a little way across the road from the hotel, and into a beautiful lush garden, he guided us to the side of a building and up a flight of stairs, dripping in clematis... and honeysuckle.  And opened the door to the two bedroomed villa which he "hope would suffice" for the holiday.

Suffice?  This was luxury beyond anything we could have dreamed of.  There were balconies running round the whole building, there were two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and dining room, and our own bathroom.    We tried to look "slightly" disappointed at not being in the hotel.... and waited until he was gone and then jumped around like children.

The rest of the holiday was a dream, a wander to the hotel for coffee and bread in the morning, a walk onto the beach for some sun and some swimming.  Lunch on the beach side restaurant which played "J'taime" on a regular repeat.

An afternoon siesta, a wander to the hotel for evening meal, and drinks on the balcony listening to the crickets in the garden.

A great holiday, and great memories of time with mum and dad.

Sunday Stealing......

1. Where was your profile picture taken?   My profile picture is Dogwithnobrain.... Dylan, long gone from us, was a lovely, lovely doggie, with very little, in fact, absolutely no brain. He broke his back, and was paralysed for 6 months, wore a brace, had multiple operations, and eventually walked a little wobbly until the end of his very happy and contented life :-)

 
2. Name someone who made you laugh today.  Vic Reeves.  Well Jim Moir actually.  Jim being the person behind the creation of Vic Reeves.   He has always made me giggle in the way that Eric Morecambe did - I think he is cut from the same jib.  I watched Hebburn, and he did make me laugh, and then I cried.  I did actually cry.

 
3. Do you believe exes can be friends?  My husband has an ex-wife. and they are most definitely not friends. And she hates me.  And she made his daughter hate me too, even though she doesn't know me.  My ex's never made it quite as far as marriage, and no, I'm not friends with them.  Mostly because I carry a grudge as big as a boulder :-)

 
4. How do you feel about Dr Pepper?  I don't like Dr Pepper, I think it is an evil name like Willy Wonka, and I have a suspicion that it tastes like Cherry.... and I don't like cherry.  Bleugh.

 
5. Who was the last person you took a picture of?   My Daughter... As she got on the train to go home .... She is gorgeous is she not?

 
6. Are you upset about anything?   I try not to be... negative emotions and all that stuff.  Keep my head calm.

  
7. Do you think relationships are ever really worth it?  Yes,  the good that comes from relationships is worth all the shit that goes along with it. 
 

8. Are you a bad influence?  I used to be... I so used to be... and I loved it.  I took a bank full of married / engaged ladies to a strip show for a Hen NIght and I was branded "Scarlet Woman".... And the husbands/ partners were terrified of me. :-)
 

9. Night out or night in?  I'm getting old.....  Night In :-) Thank you.
 

10. Has anyone ever called you perfect before?  Yes. I call myself Perfect frequently.  My husband does not call me Perfect, he calls me gorgeous!
 

11. What song is stuck in your head?   Kylie frikking Minogue, "Can't get you out of..."  every time I head "In your head..." I hear that song. Thanks for that.
 

12. Someone knocks on your window at 2:00 a.m., who do you want it to be?  Not the bogie man.
 

13. Do you smile a lot?  Yes, I smile all the time. I am a happy person.

1. Have you anything to confess today? I confess that I love my husband probably as much as I ever have. 
2. have you ever broken a law? If so, what was it?  I don't believe so.  If so, I must have done it under the influence of alcohol and forgotten.

3. have you ever committed an act of betrayal against a friend or family member? explain.  No.  I am a good person. But that doesn't stop people committing them against you.
4. Has someone else done something that, to this day, makes you cringe when you think about them committing the act?.  I saw someone on the TV the other day, playing with meat and then eating raw fruit with unwashed hands.
5. Have you ever found yourself sexually aroused by someone that you absolutely should not have been?  Yes, I had a very bad dream last night I am still wiping bleach thru my hair.
6. have you ever cheated at school? how so? No,I told you before, I am a good gal.
7. What if you came across a backpack stuffed with one hundred thousand dollars. Would you keep it?Yes, I bloody well would.
8. What if you were the most powerful person in the world. How would you use that power?  For good.  I repeat. I am a good person.  I might also make sure that my family were okay.
9. What if you found a magic lamp?  I would keep it and cherish it for a while, and then set the Genie free, only after ensuring he wasn't a bad bastard confined in it for being EVIL.
10. What if you could change one thing about the world. What would that one thing be?  Borders, racism.
11. What if you could take one thing back. What would that one thing be?   I would like to take back, every apology I have ever made. 
12. What if you were stuck on an island forever but had all the water, food and shelter you needed. What would you do?   Dream.
13. What if the internet didn't exist?  I wouldn't waste so mch time.
14. What if you never started blogging?  I would still be writing a diary.
15. What are your November 22 Thanksgiving plans?  I am in UK we don't do Thanksgiving. I will be sniggering at my son, celebrating Thanksgiving. 

CAPTURE THE COLOUR

Capture the Colour

Travelsupermarket are running a competition to let us display the colour in our world.... to display this, you have to publish a blog which shows the five colours.  Blue, Green, Yellow, White and Red......

I love my colourful pictures, and I hope you love my colours too!

A beautiful Blue Sunset over the West Coast of Scotland.... Could sit here all night watching this.

 

A gorgeous dandelion  - I never understand why people think these are weeds! They are lovely!

  

Now - White - I think this was a weed, but it wasn't stopping this honeybee enjoying its flowers!

 

Red, red raspberries from the garden!  Now steeping in a bottle of vodka, to make me Raspberry Infused Vodka for the winter nights!

Green Apple from my Apple Tree which is going to give us beautiful apple crumbles to go along with the Raspberry Vodka!!Lol

  Sunday Stealing

 

Have you felt that life is like being on a roller coaster? 

As Ronan once sung..... Life is a Roller Coaster, Just Gotta Ride it.  I   See no real similarity between life and roller coasters.  I don't have to examine every single experience in life, six times before i embark upon an effort.  I don't feel sick to my stomach as I reach a crescendo, nor to I pee myself at each corner.

 

Favorite year so far? 

1986, I met my husband.  The music was grand, it was the 80's, I was a student. Life couldn't get better, and was no where like any fairground ride. 

 

 

Do you consider yourself religious? 

Mmm, there is a point.  I say not. I don't believe in the "gods" to whom all religion is accredited. How can one religion be "the god", and another not be the god?   I think there is a greater power, probably tucked inside the mother ship.  Like Spock, Or Captain Picard.  Oh Yes. 

Have you ever been to Connecticut?  I'm not from America, I'm not even sure where Conneticut is.  My son is at Uni in America - He is in North Carolina.  Is that near Connecticut?   Dearie me.  I've been to Coatbridge.  is that the same as Connecticut in terms of Scotland?  Coatbridge is quite scary.

Do you eat sushi?    You know, I have once or twice, and there were bits that I really enjoyed, and bits that i didn't enjoy at all.   I liked the rice, and the sesame seeds, and the seaweed covers, but know what?  I wasn't that fussy about the fish.

Would you smoke pot providing there was no risk or driving involved?    Oh yes indeedy.  I'm very sad that Amsterdam has decided not to sell dope to tourists any more... because it's always been on my list of things to do, to go to Amsterdam and try some druggies.

What do you think of Idol Winner ......?? Again, I don't know who this is. Don't watch it, I think the Idol winner here... Oh no, we don't have Pop Idol, we have X-Factor....   And the X-Factor winner was mmmmmm let me think.  Little Mix, Little MInx?   Something like that. 4 little girlies.

Do you believe that animals have souls? Yes I do.  They have the souls of people who have passed on.... and stay around to keep you happy!  My dad is in a Buzzard!

Who did you last talk to? Share, if you dare. My Husband and Daughter, my constant companions.

What is one thing that always annoys you?   Liars. 

Do you believe in a higher being?   You asked me that Already. Spock. 

Have you ever fallen in love with a neighbor?   No, but I had a neighbour in Edinburgh who developed a penchant for weeding, and gardening all the time, when he realised I had moved in. 

Any plans for this weekend? The weekend is gone..... Next week is a whole new adventure.

Would you like to rule your country, if you could?  Yeah, but only in conjunction with other people.   Gareth Malone for starters, so that he could teach everyone to sing, and we would started every day with a song. 

Do you like watching films about the nature of animals?   Yes, indeedy.  I was watching bears and tigers cubs only last week. 

What's the difference between lust and/or lust? Lust and Love?  Lust and Lust....   No difference.... Lust and Lust.. I don't know.  Isn't it the same?   Lust and Love.  I love my husband, I lust after him.  But it's not quite the same thing.  

Do you have a soul?   I do, and I am exceptionally fortunate that I have a good soul.  I want to make people happy, and be happy.

One best friend or many good friends? One very, very best friend.... my husband above.  I'm also blessed with being friends with my children and my mum and my aunty, and have good friends I went to school with, and worked with. 

Do you believe in spontaneous combustion? Shit yes!   It was my fear when I was little.  Between that, and  nuclear war, I actually believed that I might explode from combustion before a nuclear war. 

Sunday Stealing, on a Monday Evening

www.sundaystealing.blogspot.com 

Have you ever peed your pants as an adult?   Yes, I have.  I’ve had two children, I have asthma, weak pelvic floor, combined with severe coughing has caught me short a couple of times -  Not in need of Tena lady; I’ve been practising my pelvic floor exercises. 

Who do you have a celebrity crush on now? 

Celebrity crush.  There is a question.  If Gary Barlow was to sing to me, I would float away on a cloud.  If Gary Barlow was to sit down and talk to me, I’d run away.  I love his music, I could listen to him sing, but when he starts with that Brummie accent.  Dearie me. 

Would you date someone you met online?  

No I don’t think so.  My friend married someone she met on line, not for love, but for comfort.   Another friend went on several blind dates with men she met on dating sites, and to be honest, I’m surprised she kept on with it. 

Do you wear underwear always?  No I don’t.  Sometimes I quite like no panties.  NVP you know.  Bra – well the size of mine I need something to keep them under control.  

Do you hate yourself at times?  I hate myself right now.  I’ve not been feeling well, and I’m not coping with normality and shouting a bit. 

 

Do you like dirty movies? 

How dirty?  I’ve seen a few horrific ones, and see some which were laughable.  But none that have really set me thinking, “this is a genre I could really get into”. 

Could you believe Josha Ledet was voted off Idol?   I need to change this.  Not being State Side, I have to say  “Can I believe that someone was voted off “The Voice”, and I’d have to answer, Who?   I start watching these programmes, and then drift off into unconsciousness.  Boring. 

When was the last time that you bought a car?  Bought a car.  How about “got”.

Have you ever been camping? 

Camping??? I am married to a Boy Scout.  We live in a Tent.   Well, actually that is a big fat lie.  We don’t, but we do camp, and I adore it.  The cold, the hard floors, the rain on the canvas.  It’s all amazing. 

How many times a day do you go on facebook? 

As many times as I can get away with without being fired. 

What was the last movie you saw in a theater? 

Christ, I can’t remember….. Harry Potter, the last one? 

Have you ever worried that you'd cut off a limb? 

Yeah, the last time I was rock climbing in the Grand Canyon. I got stuck between a rock and a hard place, and thought after 4 days I was going to have to cut my hand off to escape, but then I woke up. 

Where did you get your last email from? 

Some competition website, I enter competitions til I get sick of typing…..

Favorite website? 

Blipfoto, second only to Sunday Stealing. 

Are you down with ghetto? 

Am so far down in the ghetto, I can’t find my way back.

Will the world end in fire or ice?

Ice, I think, but then the atmosphere will rebalance, and life will begin again. 

Do you believe in the afterlife? 

I do. I watched Colin Fry this afternoon, or was it John someone…. Who ever it was,  he insisted he was talking to spirits.  And they were all in the afterlife, and not in the drinks cabinet. 

Would you be upset if facebook stopped working?

Would I be upset?  I’d be distraught.  No actually, I think I would be fine. I wish someone would break it, and then I’d have more time to do my work. 

How did you start your blog? 

I used to have my own website.  www.mid-life-me.com,  and I  got bored, and came over here, and it gives me the opportunity to create and revise when ever I felt like it, and then I got bored again, and then I found Sunday Stealing…… and started up again.

Sometimes, It's Hard to be A woman.

I felt the urge to write tonight.

I haven't been feeling well for a couple of weeks.  It started with a cough, and developed into pain in my chest.  I got an emergency appointment and was prescribed anti-biotics.  I took the anti-biotics, and took a Friday afternoon off.   I went back to work on Monday, and felt okay. By Wednesday, I was coughing again, worse than before. 

I called the Doctor, and asked for another prescription.  He prescribed me different anti-biotics and I started them.  Friday morning- a week after my half day, I was back in bed again.    

I've been poopy all weekend, and now It's Monday, and I was in bed still.   I think I'll go back to work tomorrow, but I'm not right.    I have an appointment on Friday for the doctors, andn I've also got an appointment for the nurse, for my asthma check up, and a bloody smear.  Shit It's great to be a girl!