busy day off

I spent today trotting around from one place to another.

The guy who was supposed to be turning up to do the last bit of plastering didn't.

I went over to see one of my old friends.
I met her over 24 years ago when i first started in my job, and we've fallen out of friendship a couple of times over the years, got back together, supported each other through bad times, got pissed together, had good times, lost touch and got back.
But every time I go and see her its as if there has been no time between visits.

She has another dog since I last saw her, a big black rottie, as daft as a brush and very placid, with only one eye .
He's a rescue dog, having lost the eye when he was used for dogfighting.
you wouldn't know from his nature, but her husband said although he's be fine with most of the people he's been introduced to he had a problem with an electrician who came in to do some work wearing a three-quarter length leather jacket.
I assume it was a look that he associated with his past life.
It's so sad.

Then i shot over to my mum's.
It was supposed to be a quick visit.
They always are.
:D
And they never seem to be that way.
This time we got sidetracked by what she'd been doing with the house,what she was going to do to the house.
She'd found some of my old LP's too, and amongst them was a copy of through the past darkly in its original octagonal cover, but in SUCH a bad state.
I suppose nothing else could be expected given how much play it got and how many parties it got taken to.

Happy times after that when i had tea and silliness in the coffee shop, though i was pissed that i hadn't got there earlier so i could have spent more time with everybody, but i treated myself to pocky and reeses pieces at cybercandy and soon felt happier.

Then back to mums to collect said album and supposedly to leave straight away.
So an hour later i'm still there.
:D

see what sugar highs do to you...

I got so bored I rejoined an old site.
Well, i had the gift membership, so it had 3 months to prove itsself different, not that i hold out much hope, but i'm going to stay clear of the worst bits and see if the stuff that used to interest me is still there.
if not i will wash my hands happilly, this time making it clear that i'm doing it because i want to, so no-one will buy me another membership.

Audible

Recently I've taken to listening to books on my way to work, and today i've started the Jane Austen Book Club by Karen joy Fowler.
Its strange, i really don't find it all that interesting, but I can't stop listening.
I'm playing spider solitaire while i listen, getting less and less interested with each moment, but unable to turn it off.

I feel jumpy too, but i think thats something to do with the fact that i've just eaten a bag of Marks and Spencers speckled eggs for tea and nothing else.

I think i'll go and take my laptop to bed and do some writing....or maybe not.
I dont know.


actually, this bloodybook is now beginning to really irritate me. so i'm switching it off and i'll leave it for a while.
Maybe I'll listen to The Sacred Cut by David Hewson to change the mood.
Or maybe I'll just veg out.

I meant to do this days ago....

But as per usual i got sidetracked.

However, since emma is now warbling away in her room, and i seem to be being left to my own devices for a while......

I read Alex' version of this and thought I'd drive you to the brink of boredom with my own.

1. whats the one character in a book movie or television who reminds you of yourself and why?
I guess the one that always springs to mind is Rizzo in Grease, mainly because i always associate my teenage self with the character singing THAT song.
:D

2. If you could have any superpower what would it be?
It would have to be the ability to shapechange.

3.What kind of person do you find yourself romantically attracted to ?
Its almost always those goodlooking guys who know that they are gorgeous, but who have enough of a sense of humour to be able to take the piss out of themselves.
Physically, there are 2 types, the tall blonde blue eyed norse god type, all muscles and pouty lips and flippy hair, and the small, slim, dark haired manicured types who look great in suits.
but they all have to have good mouths....non of these thin lipped guys , good full lipped smooching heaven types thank you very much.

4.how do you think you've matured over the years?
Crikey, where to start?
I know that what you have is often worth millions of times what might have been.
that you have to accept a persons bad personality traits as well as their good.
that its no good fretting over what you've done. its done.it can't be changed, so get on with living with the consequences.
I don't know that that's maturity, its just experience.
Oh, and i also know that you have to live for now, because it might be over any time.

5.whats the freakiest experience you or a friend have hadinvolving ghosts, ufo's of the paranormal.
Erm....my childminder once made a coffee for an old man she chatted to on the stairs of our house [we often had odd people staying] only to find out that there was no one but her and me and my brothers in the house. and that his description matched the previous owner according to our neighbours.
and a friends house was haunted with a ghost that regularly folded back the covers very neatly on all the beds when the occupants were asleep.

6.whats the one opinion that someone can express that makes you want to bitch slap them.
I don't know..there's not much riles me enough for that.
General predjudice on any level mixed with stupidity?
Though if you want to get me going, tell me I'm lying ....does it every time.

7. which family member do you get along with the least and why?
The eldest of my 2 younger brothers.
He has many good point though, but when he gets off on one, i could slap him easilly.
I have to add that he probably thinks the same about me though :D

8.whats the one guilty pleasure that you indulge in?
Hell, i have loads of pleasures that I indulge in, but none of them make me feel guilty.

9. what ethnicities other than your own have you dated?
God, I had to think about this one, mainly because I don't catagorise people by their etnicity :D
I've been out with a turkish guy, and snogged people of more or less all races, but actually I've 'dated' very few people. its what happens when you're married for 13 years and then get into another serious relationship after only a couple of years of being single and wanting to date.

10. what is one political/social issue you might contribute time/money towards?
political?...nothing springs to mind.
social?...ditto
Iam a bad person i think :(

11. whats one of the most superficial things about you?
I have a deep need to be average.
to fit in.
so i keep quiet if i dont agree with things untill i know people well enough to feel comfortable arguing.
and i like firm arses and muscles.
:D

12. what is one of your best qualities?
Erm....i don't judge.

13. when was the last time you yelled at someone?
let me think..have i shouted at the girls today?
yes, when jo was whinging about gettign dressed.


14. whats the crappiest gift you've ever received/given.
I don't know.
I usually love the stuff i'm given, if only for the sentiment, and i only choose things i like or know that the recipient will love to give as presents.

15. what was the crappiest job you've ever had?
working in a newsagents with a lech of a boss who always groped you when you had to climb up the racking to get the fags stored high up.

16. have you ever stolen anything and if so what?
when i was about 8 my cousins [who were 13] used to nick stuff from the shops in scarborough when we wre on holiday, and i pinched a pair of sunnies, then got scared and put them back.

17. whats your favourite pick up line?
I don't have one, but generally i find if you catch a guys eye, smile and look away, then look back and catch his eye again and smile longer, then they come over and give you THEIR best chat up line :D

18. what should a guy/girl do to pick you up in a bar?
Smile, be nice and talk.

19. what are your opinions about the french?
That they're the same as anybody else.

20. do you think crash should have gotten the best picture?
Ask someone who might have an opinion.

21. why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?
Do they? i hadn't noticed, but then i normally walk around with blinkers on.

22. whats something that you wish people would automatically know about you?
that i've heard all the jokes about the size of my gazongas so many times its sad.

23. what's one misimpression that you think that people who don't know you have about you?
That i'm sensible.

24.whats your best physical feature [and don't say eyes].
Erm.....the above mentioned gazongas.

25. whats one quality you dislike in other people.
i hate bullies.

26. what are you doing today?
getting neck ache doing this.

27. .....can you tell i'm gettting fed up now?
......... what do you hope to do this weekend.
Gett eh garden dug.
such an exciting life i lead.:D

28. whats one of your fave movie quotes.
oh, hell, its a test now?
my minds gone blank:(
the only think that springs to mind is 'how did you know who i was?'
'from the letters he wrote you'
'I never got any letters'
'he gave them to me to post'
'oh'
from saving grace, when brenda blethyn meets her dead husbands mistress .
oh, and 'you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off'
but that can hardly count .

christ.
If i'd realised how long that would take i would never have started.

sunday, mothering sunday

Well right on time Mothers day has arrived all over the UK.
And this glorious morning I was greeted by, well, snoring mainly.

Yesterday the girls had there annual Girls Brigade display, which meant that they spent all day at a local church rehearsing and then putting on a selection of funny/silly/excruciatingly awful bits of display for the edification of the local officers/ministers/parents and grandparents.
It always seems to go on for ages, and always includes a selection of hymns that sre far too high for anyone to sing, and some pep talks from the local vicar.

this time they excelled themselves with not one but TWO vicars.
the current rather strange one who always seems to glare at me while pretending to smile if ever i catch his eye [and who my almost mother in law says smells], and the previous one who was all joviality and bluff cheeriness.

Luckilly both of the things that my girls were in were both short and funny [ a sketch based on cant cook wont cook which involved throwing stuff at the audience, a piece very loosly based on singing in the rain complete with brollys but thankfully no water, and a silly thing about what they would do if they weren't in girls brigade which involved some carefully timed squatting and bending to stop a couple of them being sloshed with paintbrushes or slapped.

So basically we were all completely knackered this morning.

Or at least, THEY were.

I was wide awake and twiddling my thumbs waiting for them to get up, since i'm not allowed to get out of bed before they've given me my pressies and coffee and toast.

so i did a couple of sudoku, and then poked Dave to make him get up and wake the girls.

Em bought me a pretty glass bracelet to match the green amber necklace i wear loads, and jo got me the tarantino episode of CSI and the starsky and hutch dvd, so i am feeling pampered and all that stuff.

:D

then of course I had to hit the shops .

And get hold of my mum to say happy mothers day too.

And get hold of Daves mum to do the same.

And cook.

And stuff.

and now I'm being hassled by Emma who has sorted out a load of her clothes that she doesn't want and seems determined that I go through them all with her, even though she can see that I'm busy!!!!!!!!