Was walking down Stephen's Green yesterday when suddenly something distracted me from my thoughts and from walking. Took a minute to figure out it was a sound. Then it took a few minutes to figure out what the sound was.
It was a man walking behind me who was carrying a dry golf umbrella in his right hand and the sound was of the umbrella chafing against his suit.
I just think it's funny when a random distant sound grabs your attention among the whole spate of sounds that take place walking through the city centre with the people, cars, shops, etc.
That is all.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
End of Semester
What i hope is my last semester of teaching has ended and now i can go back to writing and the next month is to spent on conference work and local and Euro watching-My state of play is currently here
Worried about the swine flu? I think I've got the answer:
Pig in a Bottle. Yummy!
Fancy some?
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Pig in a Bottle. Yummy!
Fancy some?
http://tinyurl.com/ccbu4s
Monday, April 27, 2009
Book Club May 09
You might not know but i have been trying to get a little book reading club going on Twitter so far so good last month we read 'The Brief History of the Dead' by Kevin Brockmeier , which was chosen by me , this month it will all change and people are going to have a go at choosing the book for all of us.
This is how it will work. Below I will list all the books that people have tweeted to me as an option, I will then ask people, and it can be random to choose a book and then direct message me with the choice. If a choice is picked by more than one person then that is the book we shall go for. If none of the books are chosen outright I shall randomly choose two books off the list and then tweet somebody with the titles and ask them if they would choose for us - this person is likely to be not a person in the book club.
The book club is totally for fun you can choose to read that month's book or you can choose to skip any month or never read one of our choices again, you can also take more than a month to read the choice if you wish.
We shall be tweeting online on the last day of the month about your thoughts on the book just read and then towards that date I shall once again ask for choices for next month and so on .
So here goes the book choices for the month of May are
The Aviary Gate - Katie Hickman
How To Talk To A Widower - Jonathan Tropper
I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Righteous Men - Sam Bourne
Footnotes To Sex - Mia Farlane
The Finest Hour And A Half - Lissa Evans
My Life On A Plate - India Knight
So there you go, DM me with your choices - which we need to have by Tuesday 28th April 9 p.m. GMT
and if you are not following me and want to, you can on Twitter @anjeebaby
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Changes
Sorry Shan for being allusive!!
It's been a mad few weeks...have handed in my notice at my job and heading back to Ireland. Some may think I'm mad but would you believe three opportunities have already rear their heads. Now none may come of any of them but my self esteem has been done wonders!
I've been reading tweets from Zig Ziglars son on Twitter and at times I've wondered did he know me, sign up for his tweets if you can, you won't be disappointed.
What am I looking forward to...being a student part time for a while, catching up with friends and having a rest. The last year has been tough, mentally and emotionally but am out the other end. Bring it on!
It's been a mad few weeks...have handed in my notice at my job and heading back to Ireland. Some may think I'm mad but would you believe three opportunities have already rear their heads. Now none may come of any of them but my self esteem has been done wonders!
I've been reading tweets from Zig Ziglars son on Twitter and at times I've wondered did he know me, sign up for his tweets if you can, you won't be disappointed.
What am I looking forward to...being a student part time for a while, catching up with friends and having a rest. The last year has been tough, mentally and emotionally but am out the other end. Bring it on!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
End of an era
Wednesday my little boy starts full time school, no more the baby much as i may have subconsciously tried to keep him that way children grow up too quickly these days and much as i try to keep them sweet and innocent i know from experience that once they go to school you lose a little bit of them, of course going to school must be done but no more the carefree days of just playing and having fun, from now on it will be what level is he on - is he reading enough is his writing up to a level? has he got enough friends do other people like him?
The little man is terribly excited of course and thinks that he is the big boy by going to proper school and i am doing nothing to discourage this of course, enthusiasm is always to be encouraged.
Me I am sad, no more babies no more dependancy an independent person in the making on the way.
Of course I am looking forward to the free time and to the fact that I can get so much more done in the day.
The house i am hoping will be tidier than it has been in the last almost nine years of small children and i am looking forward to new friends for him happy times in and out of the school.
But i have to be honest I am going to miss my little man he has been very good company.
I also feel terribly guilty about the fact that when my daughter went to school i didnt feel like this, but at the time i guess I had a one year old at home so didn't feel the empty nest feeling quite so much
I should take pleasure and reassurance in the fact that she has indeed with the aid of school blossomed into a lovely lovely young lady.
I shall try my very hardest not to cry at all on Wednesday morning but I am not promising anything
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Small pleasure
I've done it so many times over the last ten years or so but I still enjoy it as much as the first time....
..going under the M50 function at Blanchardstown. It's the one where you pass under about 10 bridges/pipes etc. And they're currently adding a few more fly-over things.
I thought to myself yesterday that people on the Navan Road route who come on and off at that function must always miss out on the fun.
..going under the M50 function at Blanchardstown. It's the one where you pass under about 10 bridges/pipes etc. And they're currently adding a few more fly-over things.
I thought to myself yesterday that people on the Navan Road route who come on and off at that function must always miss out on the fun.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Mutterings #1
Isn't it funny how things you really dread, like the kids school holidays actually turn out to be good
and then other things that you really look forward to like a night out with the girls turns out to be crap
Give the blogger? a kick start
So I check my mail and find wat at the bottom in a very dusty corner, a message stating " get your ass in here and post or I will hang your kitties by their ears on the clothes line and shave their tails". So needless to say here I am!
Ok well the above may not be an exact quote, but I can read between the lines just like the rest of you ;o) So with my cats safely in the cat protection program here I am, oh not to worry I have nothing brillent or earth shattering to post about, infact if I just keep on typing I can make a whole entry about having not made one in longer than I care to admit to.
How wonderful would it be to have a great excuse, when all I have is laziness. I would love to say, oh so sorry darlings I was on a whirlwind trip somewhere, or maybe hello everyone just back from saving the endangered flying 2 toed earwig. but alas, all I have is ,um well the dog ate my homework? Who wants to read that.
Surprisingly ,I do! It dawned on me the blogs I read and enjoy the most are just regular folks living fairly regular lives, no glamour, no news worthy excitement, just the everyday things that connect us all. Now needless to say some do it with much more flare and humour than I could ever muster. In my dreams I am a great writer stiffeled by societys constraints and expectations, in reality ,I am lucky to spell my name correctly and come up with my address when asked.
However a commitment was made, a challenge to myself. So Shan do not feel you have been pushy by sending a reminder. I personally may often need a good kick start to get moving, but please leave the kitties alone ;o)
Ok well the above may not be an exact quote, but I can read between the lines just like the rest of you ;o) So with my cats safely in the cat protection program here I am, oh not to worry I have nothing brillent or earth shattering to post about, infact if I just keep on typing I can make a whole entry about having not made one in longer than I care to admit to.
How wonderful would it be to have a great excuse, when all I have is laziness. I would love to say, oh so sorry darlings I was on a whirlwind trip somewhere, or maybe hello everyone just back from saving the endangered flying 2 toed earwig. but alas, all I have is ,um well the dog ate my homework? Who wants to read that.
Surprisingly ,I do! It dawned on me the blogs I read and enjoy the most are just regular folks living fairly regular lives, no glamour, no news worthy excitement, just the everyday things that connect us all. Now needless to say some do it with much more flare and humour than I could ever muster. In my dreams I am a great writer stiffeled by societys constraints and expectations, in reality ,I am lucky to spell my name correctly and come up with my address when asked.
However a commitment was made, a challenge to myself. So Shan do not feel you have been pushy by sending a reminder. I personally may often need a good kick start to get moving, but please leave the kitties alone ;o)
April 17th 2009 the day in my opinion Twitter dies.
Some readers here may not be aware that the rejuvenation of this blog all came from one place and has been made up by people who share one very common interest, Twitter.
For those of you reading who don't know what twitter is, I am amazed. Now when I started in 2007 on twitter I did not get it but it has evolved in something fantastic but alongside this evolution has come all sorts of problems.
When I began on twitter there was only a handful of people using it, Facebook was still the big thing. Trying to explain what it was all about was equally as hard, "its like facebook status updates", "yeah I am following people and they are following me back" the amount of times people laughed at me and told me there was no future in twitter, was huge.
Well all that has changed every Tom, Dick and Harry has found themselves on twitter. Stephen Fry was one of the very first celebrities to pick up on the value of twitter, he amassed a huge following and also followed everyone back engaging with people as much as he could. It was incredible for us ordinary Joes to gain an insight into his day.
But of course this became the trendy thing to do. Celebs found out about twitter and they started to join up in their droves. Jonathon Ross, Philip Schofield, Mc Hammer, Shaquile O Neal, Russel Brand the list goes on and on and on. The difference with a lot of these guys compared to Stephen Fry was that they did not communicate as much with the community. They did not understand twitter the way early adopter Stephen Fry did.
With this onslaught of celebrity talking about twitter at every available opportunity, twitter was now mainstream and its growth was phenomenal, over the last 6 months twitter has struggled with this growth. Just last night Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to see who could hit 1 million followers first and the winner would donate 10000 mosquito nets to underdeveloped countries. This brought twitter to its knees last night, ruining many a folks evening, making tweeting impossible, all to boost their egos! The sickening thing is that this was a top news story for CNN, like come on, fuck off.
Today though I am fearing the worst for twitter, Oprah will have Evan Williams and Biz Stone the co founders on as guests, aswell as Mr ego himself Ashton. She will also be putting her first tweet live on the show! WOW
At present Oprahs account which was set up yesterday has over 70000 people following it even though she has not typed one word. I feel though today when she eventually decides to write some useless 140 character message like "hello im Oprah" or "testing this twitter thing out" Twitter will finally collapse.
Over the past month and and half every evening at 6pm GMT, a lag appears where tweets are updating sometimes 30 minutes or more behind. With this sort of ego coming on stream and with the power she has over so many millions of Americans I am dreading the thoughts of what sort of lag times we will have to deal with.
This though, could be the final nail in the coffin that I need to see to get me away from twitter, it will be emotional to leave now, but come on the machine for once aint growing as fast as the humans this time.
For those of you reading who don't know what twitter is, I am amazed. Now when I started in 2007 on twitter I did not get it but it has evolved in something fantastic but alongside this evolution has come all sorts of problems.
When I began on twitter there was only a handful of people using it, Facebook was still the big thing. Trying to explain what it was all about was equally as hard, "its like facebook status updates", "yeah I am following people and they are following me back" the amount of times people laughed at me and told me there was no future in twitter, was huge.
Well all that has changed every Tom, Dick and Harry has found themselves on twitter. Stephen Fry was one of the very first celebrities to pick up on the value of twitter, he amassed a huge following and also followed everyone back engaging with people as much as he could. It was incredible for us ordinary Joes to gain an insight into his day.
But of course this became the trendy thing to do. Celebs found out about twitter and they started to join up in their droves. Jonathon Ross, Philip Schofield, Mc Hammer, Shaquile O Neal, Russel Brand the list goes on and on and on. The difference with a lot of these guys compared to Stephen Fry was that they did not communicate as much with the community. They did not understand twitter the way early adopter Stephen Fry did.
With this onslaught of celebrity talking about twitter at every available opportunity, twitter was now mainstream and its growth was phenomenal, over the last 6 months twitter has struggled with this growth. Just last night Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to see who could hit 1 million followers first and the winner would donate 10000 mosquito nets to underdeveloped countries. This brought twitter to its knees last night, ruining many a folks evening, making tweeting impossible, all to boost their egos! The sickening thing is that this was a top news story for CNN, like come on, fuck off.
Today though I am fearing the worst for twitter, Oprah will have Evan Williams and Biz Stone the co founders on as guests, aswell as Mr ego himself Ashton. She will also be putting her first tweet live on the show! WOW
At present Oprahs account which was set up yesterday has over 70000 people following it even though she has not typed one word. I feel though today when she eventually decides to write some useless 140 character message like "hello im Oprah" or "testing this twitter thing out" Twitter will finally collapse.
Over the past month and and half every evening at 6pm GMT, a lag appears where tweets are updating sometimes 30 minutes or more behind. With this sort of ego coming on stream and with the power she has over so many millions of Americans I am dreading the thoughts of what sort of lag times we will have to deal with.
This though, could be the final nail in the coffin that I need to see to get me away from twitter, it will be emotional to leave now, but come on the machine for once aint growing as fast as the humans this time.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Cunas Whingebags
I'm sick to the back teeth listening to teachers whinging about their fucking jobs. If you don't like it fuck off and get another job.
You're fairly well paid considering the short days and the amount of holiday time you have (which a lot of you use to earn off the books money). You've got high job security, and you will be well looked after in retirement.
Of course you'll wheel out the educational reasons as being the reasons for your complaints, but you're a bunch of liars. You're only concerned about your take home pay.
If you keep the money what happens to other sectors? Will we take from health to give to education? Or from social welfare? Yeah that's a good idea. Lets take from the most vulnerable people in society so the recession doesn't affect us.
I'm using the teachers here as an example, but there's nurses sitting on their holes in Cashel hospital which was closed in 2007, and they're still getting paid. Lets wheel them to the front of the next bitch fest on Kildare St. and ask them some hard questions.
We're a country full of whingebags who are still living in a FF utopia of low taxes and easy money. Of course they didn't cause the recession, but neither did I and I'm getting fucked by it too. If everybody would bloody well pull together we might get out of this mess quicker.
You're fairly well paid considering the short days and the amount of holiday time you have (which a lot of you use to earn off the books money). You've got high job security, and you will be well looked after in retirement.
Of course you'll wheel out the educational reasons as being the reasons for your complaints, but you're a bunch of liars. You're only concerned about your take home pay.
If you keep the money what happens to other sectors? Will we take from health to give to education? Or from social welfare? Yeah that's a good idea. Lets take from the most vulnerable people in society so the recession doesn't affect us.
I'm using the teachers here as an example, but there's nurses sitting on their holes in Cashel hospital which was closed in 2007, and they're still getting paid. Lets wheel them to the front of the next bitch fest on Kildare St. and ask them some hard questions.
We're a country full of whingebags who are still living in a FF utopia of low taxes and easy money. Of course they didn't cause the recession, but neither did I and I'm getting fucked by it too. If everybody would bloody well pull together we might get out of this mess quicker.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Ireland's new national disaster : vertical flooding
I've decided that we have a new elephant in the room and no, it's not the economy. Its what the government terms rain but if we had to be honest, and face up to it - we are in the process of being vertically flooded. It's not as dangerous as the horizontal kind - true - but it's fairly awful all the same. (apologies to horizontal flooding victims but I'm a victim too).
I've been sitting looking out at the back garden and the grass that has started growing but that I can't cut because it's so waterlogged. I know, I can dig draining ditches. But I can't for fear of getting trapped in the quicksand that the clay under the grass has become and getting trapped there and or drowning. I can't watch TV because every show is either set in the USA (during summer) or it's a show for Brits on where to holiday, or where to buy (somewhere sunny no doubt) or what they're doing while on holiday.
The weather in Ireland is making it hard for me to want to go on living here. The politics don't help. And seeing as we all could become unemployed soon, moving could be come imperative for some people. Which the government seems to think is a rather good idea (like wtf?)
Am I gone rain-mad if I believe the government should do more? What happened to those innovative missiles the Chinese at had at their disposal during the Olympics - no, not those ones they sold the Koreans, the other ones - the anti-rain ones. Yes, those...They didn't need them. But we do. Desperately.
Why can't we have a national government funded/created no-rain week? Let the country dry out for God's sake. So we can all have outdoor BBQ's and get drunk in the streets. Lets bring Ibiza home to Ireland in 2009. Why should we be selfish and keep all the water here for ourselves while they are experiencing sun-drenched-droughts and hose bans across the little pond in Britain. Don't even get me started on the heat-waves that the French and Germans are experiencing. People are dying just so we can have lush green fields. Let's share the love. If trees and vegetation encourage rain - which they are I'm told - then let's cut down these rain-magnet forests - in the name of a better balanced environment. Why can't houses automatically come with perspex-covered back gardens? Why bother building open air shopping streets ? In warm countries they have covered walkways at the airports to protect people from the one thing we don't have - why don't we protect our citizens from Vertical Flooding?
What can you do? Get onto YOUR local politicians and tell them that you're fed up of the rain - if they promise to buy missiles and more perspex from the Chinese/Koreans/Russians (look, anywhere we can bloody get them) - then WE will vote for them. :) Enjoy the rain.
I've been sitting looking out at the back garden and the grass that has started growing but that I can't cut because it's so waterlogged. I know, I can dig draining ditches. But I can't for fear of getting trapped in the quicksand that the clay under the grass has become and getting trapped there and or drowning. I can't watch TV because every show is either set in the USA (during summer) or it's a show for Brits on where to holiday, or where to buy (somewhere sunny no doubt) or what they're doing while on holiday.
The weather in Ireland is making it hard for me to want to go on living here. The politics don't help. And seeing as we all could become unemployed soon, moving could be come imperative for some people. Which the government seems to think is a rather good idea (like wtf?)
Am I gone rain-mad if I believe the government should do more? What happened to those innovative missiles the Chinese at had at their disposal during the Olympics - no, not those ones they sold the Koreans, the other ones - the anti-rain ones. Yes, those...They didn't need them. But we do. Desperately.
Why can't we have a national government funded/created no-rain week? Let the country dry out for God's sake. So we can all have outdoor BBQ's and get drunk in the streets. Lets bring Ibiza home to Ireland in 2009. Why should we be selfish and keep all the water here for ourselves while they are experiencing sun-drenched-droughts and hose bans across the little pond in Britain. Don't even get me started on the heat-waves that the French and Germans are experiencing. People are dying just so we can have lush green fields. Let's share the love. If trees and vegetation encourage rain - which they are I'm told - then let's cut down these rain-magnet forests - in the name of a better balanced environment. Why can't houses automatically come with perspex-covered back gardens? Why bother building open air shopping streets ? In warm countries they have covered walkways at the airports to protect people from the one thing we don't have - why don't we protect our citizens from Vertical Flooding?
What can you do? Get onto YOUR local politicians and tell them that you're fed up of the rain - if they promise to buy missiles and more perspex from the Chinese/Koreans/Russians (look, anywhere we can bloody get them) - then WE will vote for them. :) Enjoy the rain.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Facts from a working class Dub growing up in 70s/80s
I got £15 for my communion and £30 for my confirmation. My ma got me a sleeping bag from the communion money - as she did for all of us. Out of the confo money I bought a whole pile of orange summer clothes from Penney's and a feast of sweets/choc/crisps for a week.
Our local shop was a van, one of those iron crates they use for long haul freight. In the mid 80s we used to get food 'on tic' and pay it back on Wednesday's - dole day after my dad was made redundant. Wednesday was great cause there'd be a big shop with special treats, like thrift-brand yogurt and crisps.
The shop would sell 'loosie' cigarettes for the kids and the local chipper would give half-portions of chips if you didn't have enough for a full single.
My secondary school trip was trip was to the Burren in Clare.
My primary school trip was an Aer Lingus flight to Shannon, a trip to Bunratty castle and the train back to Dublin. Getting on a plane at this stage, it might as well have been a trip to Mars.
Career guidance in my school was primarily to go do a secretarial course. My two best friends did. They didn't last. A sister of a girl in my class had to fight for the right to apply to do medicine.
Only 1 girl from my primary school class went straight onto college. Most went back to college later on. I was second to go back, 8 years after leaving school.
Two past friends of my siblings have since been murdered. My sister had a junkie boyfriend who killed himself.
My brothers and sisters and their friends all smoked hash. As a kid I wanted to join in and so I sometimes rolled the joints for them.
Anyone showing signs of wealth was a subject of intimidation, like the girl in primary school who got a television for Christmas, or the secondary school girls who went on foreign holidays. I remember joking with them about the way air hostesses had to point to things, pretending I was cool with the whole flying thing, when really I'd only seen this on my one flight to Shannon ten years before.
Our local shop was a van, one of those iron crates they use for long haul freight. In the mid 80s we used to get food 'on tic' and pay it back on Wednesday's - dole day after my dad was made redundant. Wednesday was great cause there'd be a big shop with special treats, like thrift-brand yogurt and crisps.
The shop would sell 'loosie' cigarettes for the kids and the local chipper would give half-portions of chips if you didn't have enough for a full single.
My secondary school trip was trip was to the Burren in Clare.
My primary school trip was an Aer Lingus flight to Shannon, a trip to Bunratty castle and the train back to Dublin. Getting on a plane at this stage, it might as well have been a trip to Mars.
Career guidance in my school was primarily to go do a secretarial course. My two best friends did. They didn't last. A sister of a girl in my class had to fight for the right to apply to do medicine.
Only 1 girl from my primary school class went straight onto college. Most went back to college later on. I was second to go back, 8 years after leaving school.
Two past friends of my siblings have since been murdered. My sister had a junkie boyfriend who killed himself.
My brothers and sisters and their friends all smoked hash. As a kid I wanted to join in and so I sometimes rolled the joints for them.
Anyone showing signs of wealth was a subject of intimidation, like the girl in primary school who got a television for Christmas, or the secondary school girls who went on foreign holidays. I remember joking with them about the way air hostesses had to point to things, pretending I was cool with the whole flying thing, when really I'd only seen this on my one flight to Shannon ten years before.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Ooops TV
Right......There is a new show on Sky1 called Ooops TV. It is your standard run of the mill out-take funny clip show
I generally love these shows, no brainer stuff, having a giggle at kids falling off bicycles, brides falling into cakes etc etc.
I have a huge problem with this show. ..
Justin Lee Collins
I love this guy!!! Alongside Alan Carr he is fantastic, his show "Bring back" was a major success and really enjoyable...
However his commentary on Ooops TV is deplorable. That is the only word that fits. His tone, his wording, his feeble attempts at humour in this endeavour astound me. Is it just me?? Am I the only one who struggles through thirty minutes of this?? If anyone has seen the show please let me know what you think.
I generally love these shows, no brainer stuff, having a giggle at kids falling off bicycles, brides falling into cakes etc etc.
I have a huge problem with this show. ..
Justin Lee Collins
I love this guy!!! Alongside Alan Carr he is fantastic, his show "Bring back" was a major success and really enjoyable...
However his commentary on Ooops TV is deplorable. That is the only word that fits. His tone, his wording, his feeble attempts at humour in this endeavour astound me. Is it just me?? Am I the only one who struggles through thirty minutes of this?? If anyone has seen the show please let me know what you think.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Boredom
I am sorry for not writing but since I took volantary redundancy I have been getting more and more annoyed.
At the end of feb we were told we had to cut down on staff and as I was last in I felt it was only right that I should be the one to go. However anyone with a bit of a brain could see that the shop could not be run with just three staff , what happens when there are holiday's sickness or even in some cases when children have day's off school.
Now I come to my rant, a couple of weeks ago I heard that they could'nt manage with three people so an add went into fas for a part time worker now as far as i am aware that is illegal but our manager is a young girl who thinks she is above the law . I have never felt so hurt and annoyed so much so that i have written to our head office which anyone who know's me is way out of character .
So now iI have got that off my chest I am listening to the budget and getting more and more depressed . To hell with the economy I am off to Teneriffe for a week to get a tan for my daughter's wedding . Thanks for allowing me to get this off my chest
At the end of feb we were told we had to cut down on staff and as I was last in I felt it was only right that I should be the one to go. However anyone with a bit of a brain could see that the shop could not be run with just three staff , what happens when there are holiday's sickness or even in some cases when children have day's off school.
Now I come to my rant, a couple of weeks ago I heard that they could'nt manage with three people so an add went into fas for a part time worker now as far as i am aware that is illegal but our manager is a young girl who thinks she is above the law . I have never felt so hurt and annoyed so much so that i have written to our head office which anyone who know's me is way out of character .
So now iI have got that off my chest I am listening to the budget and getting more and more depressed . To hell with the economy I am off to Teneriffe for a week to get a tan for my daughter's wedding . Thanks for allowing me to get this off my chest
Giving up smoking
Today at 12 midday April 7th 2009 I have not smoked for 13 hours and too right I am counting.
I have wanted to stop smoking for quite a while but never seemed to find the right time to stop.
I started smoking when I was 11 years old I am now 39- ridiculous.
I have two beautiful children that if i continue to smoke I will not see have there own children that's a fact - its really bloody hard and feels like it is killing me to stop but its not killing me as quickly as continuing does.
My reasons for stopping are a daughter that watched the advert have you all seen it ? that says " I am not worried about bullies , I am not worried about school, I am not worried if my friends like me etc etc but I am worried about mummy dying from smoking" -my daughter looked at me and said Mummy I worry about that too-
I am a bit neurotic at the best of times and since my mum died of cancer I cannot stop thinking about the fact that I might get something and die too, I told this to my Dad who hit the nail on the head and said "you worry yourself sick about things you cannot change but then continue to do something that is killing you and you can change"
I hate myself for the fact that something stinky, stupidly expensive and dangerous has such a hold over me .
No more the fool - I want to see my Grand-kids x
Spectacular
Do men make passes at girls that wear glasses? I jolly well hope so lol
Ive had glasses for reading and computer for just under two years. Around two months ago I noticed when driving that my long sight vision was slightly blurred. I took myself off to a well known chain of Opticians, the ones that do the offer on two for one, and had an extensive eye test. I remember when you just sat in a chair and had a card over one eye and had to read off the letters/numbers of a card on the facing wall. Its all gadgets and gizmos now.
One of the machines takes a picture of the back of your eye and you can see it on the screen, looked like something out of a medical text book. Eyes all healthy, which is good. However, eyesight not so great. Now have to have glasses for driving and long distance, and another pair for reading and computer work. My original pair of glasses are now too strong for me, as my eyesight has altered.
What was really fun was choosing two new frames. I collected my new glasses on Sunday and have been showing them off. But they dont look like the ones in the picture lol
x x x
Monday, April 06, 2009
Is this blog a bit ill?
I have noticed lately that the blog is running into all sorts of problems lately, people are struggling to get their comments to post and feeds work sometimes and sometimes don't work at all!
I am seriously thinking of going back to the old standard yucky green look that Someone Living once had this blog in, I hated it but it worked!
There is of course the other option which is to move from here (blogger) to wordpress, which would be a big leap for a lot of folk on here!
So what do you think should I go back to days of yore or should we leave the hell of blogger and move over to the nice guys at wordpress?
I am seriously thinking of going back to the old standard yucky green look that Someone Living once had this blog in, I hated it but it worked!
There is of course the other option which is to move from here (blogger) to wordpress, which would be a big leap for a lot of folk on here!
So what do you think should I go back to days of yore or should we leave the hell of blogger and move over to the nice guys at wordpress?
Friday, April 03, 2009
The Question you can never answer..
I got asked this question earlier..
Are you in a bit of a bad humour?
When I say "no I'm not", it's automatically taken is a stroppy tone and that you're in an even worse humour than they thought you were in the first place.
Then you do get annoyed at the fact that they don't believe you that you're not in a bad humour.
No win.
Are you in a bit of a bad humour?
When I say "no I'm not", it's automatically taken is a stroppy tone and that you're in an even worse humour than they thought you were in the first place.
Then you do get annoyed at the fact that they don't believe you that you're not in a bad humour.
No win.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
FANCY A CRISP?
As much as I love food, (eating, if not more than cooking), when I go out for a bite I'm not big into all these gourmet restaurants. It's not really my style of food although I did train in this type of cooking. I like to go somewhere casual and if it's cool, bonus. We were meeting up with some friends a couple of weeks back and they had heard of some new hip, in, too cool for school restaurant near us so off we popped.
A lot of places like to throw around phrases like 'Pan-Asian' or 'Cal-Med' or in this case 'Asian-fusion'. Who gives a shit? I'm hungry! It did look pretty cool though. Fire pits, open terrace, lots of chicks (it is LA after all). Anyway lets take a gander at the menu. A major red light for me is when the menu doesn't have any prices on it. This isn't fuckin' Spago and it certainly ain't Ramsay.
You see now you're faced with a predicament. Do I act like my shit doesn't stink and order away in the hopes of being able to pay my rent this month or do I look like Shylock and ask how much everything is?
Listen, I have no problem paying for good food but A. this place just opened and 2. I don't know what the food's like so you bet your ass I'm asking how much it is.
Lucky I did 'cause it was way out o' wack. $18 for 2 pieces of sushi, huh? The fuckin' iron chef himself better be back there massaging the fish for that price.
As I was 'perusing' the menu what really caught my eye and the reason for this is to show you how some chefs think they can do whatever the fuck they want on a menu and people will pay for it.
Whoever this chef is they spent that whole time designing a menu and needed one more dish to top it off.
"Right I have some fresh tuna, a little avo and cucumber, great. What can I put with that to make it pop? Hmm lemme think. Oh I know.............DORITOS".
I shit you not. 20 odd bucks for some tuna and doritos.
And yes I did order it and in my infinite wisdom did not take a photo but there it is, black 'n' white.
Genius or Lazy, you decide!
A lot of places like to throw around phrases like 'Pan-Asian' or 'Cal-Med' or in this case 'Asian-fusion'. Who gives a shit? I'm hungry! It did look pretty cool though. Fire pits, open terrace, lots of chicks (it is LA after all). Anyway lets take a gander at the menu. A major red light for me is when the menu doesn't have any prices on it. This isn't fuckin' Spago and it certainly ain't Ramsay.
You see now you're faced with a predicament. Do I act like my shit doesn't stink and order away in the hopes of being able to pay my rent this month or do I look like Shylock and ask how much everything is?
Listen, I have no problem paying for good food but A. this place just opened and 2. I don't know what the food's like so you bet your ass I'm asking how much it is.
Lucky I did 'cause it was way out o' wack. $18 for 2 pieces of sushi, huh? The fuckin' iron chef himself better be back there massaging the fish for that price.
As I was 'perusing' the menu what really caught my eye and the reason for this is to show you how some chefs think they can do whatever the fuck they want on a menu and people will pay for it.
Whoever this chef is they spent that whole time designing a menu and needed one more dish to top it off.
"Right I have some fresh tuna, a little avo and cucumber, great. What can I put with that to make it pop? Hmm lemme think. Oh I know.............DORITOS".
I shit you not. 20 odd bucks for some tuna and doritos.
And yes I did order it and in my infinite wisdom did not take a photo but there it is, black 'n' white.
Genius or Lazy, you decide!
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