I’ve been on my own the last few days , my better half has taken the boys to visit friends near London and I’ve been getting a few of those things done that seem to get neglected. I have to say I’ve enjoyed myself, just having the peace and quiet, My husband has rung me about three times a day, telling me all about what they are doing and where they are Aaargh! I think he worries about me but I’ve got you lot so I’ll be alright.
I haven’t been running myself into the ground but I feel I achieved a lot and I managed to get a certain degree of order restored.With the Menopause I have little energy one day, lots of energy the next. I sweat like a navvy and keep having regular breaks.Oh stuffit! the world won’t stop If things aren’t perfect.Catch you later . . . .If I have the energy.
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Money doesn’t grow on trees, if it did I’d have an orchard. If you have kids, a car, a house, or all three, you’ll never know what you’ll be paying out for next. With us at present it’s the kids and new school uniforms they seem to be growing overnight, they make me feel like I’m shrinking. The way the politicians are talking, things aren’t getting any better, money wise is going to get tighter.
In that case you need a “Plan B ” (I’m assuming you don’t have rich relatives of course) and that involves considering a Payday Loan If you have bad credit that’s not a problem, providing you have a steady income, a bank account thats open and you have ID. You may never need a loan, but if you do . . . it’s nice to know they’re there.
Having spent most of my life built like a stick insect, the thoughts of me ever having a weight problem was beyond my ken, although I suppose I had a weight problem in reverse, seeing as I couldn’t put any on.
All that changed though when I married in my thirties and had a couple of kids, putting weight on happened naturally from then on. Before, I could eat all I wanted without gaining an ounce, now, I can gain weight just by smelling food. As I got older and the menopause reared it’s ugly head, the cellulite fairy visited again , well, she not so much visited as set up base camp on my hips.
My next move was to do what most of you reading this have probably done, I started collecting exercise equipment, first it was the belt that you put around your waist to make your stomach muscles contract (I’ll draw a veil over that one) then there was a thing that helped you do sit ups (another veil needed there) I got more sophisticated after that, with a ski type thing that counted calories, increased the resistance, counted mileage and had a timer, everything bar the defibrillator pads. Last but not least I bought a “Total Gym” which uses you own bodyweight to get you fitter and to be honest it’s pretty good, so as you can tell I’m slim and gorgeous with the body of a . . . .Oh who am I kidding. The various diets came next, there was the low fat, no fat, high fibre, high protein, low protein. . . Humph.
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There’s something in me that activates an invisible button inside me, whenever I encounter snobbery in any form, I turn into a mischievous child. I want to fart and do strange antisocial things that under normal conditions I would never do. Perhaps it’s a North of England thing.
At the turn of the century when everybody was worrying about the millenium bug, We knew all about it -we had em.
The kids were a lot smaller and there was an outbreak of headlice in the school and we were one of the lucky families who had them,Oh joy! It was such a bad outbreak, that even my husband who is “Follically challenged” (OK going bald) had them. I already felt like a bag lady, most of the money we had went on kid’s clothes,I’d put on weight etc etc . . . but I enjoyed visiting shops and dreaming of having a “Spendathon”
I remember going into one shop that was a bit more “upmarket” to me at the time, a good shop, good value, but frequented by more than a few snobs who looked at me like I’d dropped out of the dog’s bum, I got my naughty head on, that was it, I followed this one particular woman around the shop willing her to catch my headlice. I hovered around her hoping that I would be near enough, praying that one of these little nibbling bastards would be of olympic standard and would jump the void from my head to her perfect blue rinse. At one point I wanted to stir up their perfectly coiffured lives and announce loudly “Ladies and gentlemen I have headlice . . . . now YOU DO . . .Happy new year” -but I didn’t.
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It looks like we’ve opened the house as beach resort.It was a scorcher today and Phil put up the Pool for the kids to keep cool in, I think most of the kids in the street were in our yard,I declined from putting on my cossy that would have cleared the pool.Here are a couple of snaps. The boy in the red trunks with back to us, is son #1. the man is my husband, the boy in the white shirt with blue stripe, is son #2 Everybody else is neighbours.
I’ve moved house about six times in my life , thats five times too many as far as I’m concerned but that’s all in the past now. here’s some advice.
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Here is the forecast for today.My thermostat is stuck on flush, I’m hot sticky, grumpy and although I have laundry to iron etc I’m going to wait until I feel better cooler. I have big trouble with guilt when this happens.Damn you hormones. if I was a car I could at least get an oil change.
Somedays I could sleep the clock round, then I have an energy boost and I get a lot done. Housework is going to be done at night for the time being. Cmon Janice stop beating yourself up the world won’t stop because you didn’t do something . . .now I’m talking to myself, but…. at least I’m making sense.
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Sad news for those lovers of the Golden Girls, Estelle Getty who played Dorothy’s mother Sophia Patrilo has passed away at the age of 84 years. She had been suffering advanced dementia in recent years, the world will be a poorer place for her loss.My condolences to her family. RIP Estelle,you were great!
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As usual I got up to send the kids to school, the eldest who is Special Ed.was mumbling at me about the summer holidays, while I nodded and told him not to dawdle and get ready to catch the bus. More mumbling followed, the bus was late, nothing new there, (more mumbling ) “Keep looking Andrew” (mumble mumble) After a few more minutes and lots more mumbling, I finally caught on, the school closed for the holidays YESTERDAY I thought it was today, WRONG! I have finally lost the plot,I am running on automatic pilot. The moral of all this is . . . drink stronger coffee and . . .LISTEN to the mumblers.
Has anybody used speech recognition on their PC? I discovered that on this laptop it’s already installed. Mmm I thought, must have a go at that, because although I can type a bit faster through use, I really am quite slow, I know, you couldn’t tell could you ?
So any way, I trots off to PC World, forked out for the right headphones and started the tutorial, it really is funny learning the basic commands saying “Listen” “Stop listening ” etc and If the PC overhears anything else It flashes in orange “What was that?” of course #2 son is a little devil, he keeps making fart sounds and up comes an orange flash “What’s that” we’re all ROFLAO it’s like having a little deaf old lady “I heard that, pardon” obviously I need to practice when there’s nobody around because I’ll get nowhere with an audience. Just so you know. . . I typed this s..l..o..w..l..y.I’ll be back tommorrow and my computer will be with me.
It’s a much better day for me today, apart from getting the meds I needed - Sudafed. The kids are back at school. Yes I know I should enjoy my kids and I really do, but when my husband is off work and their off school . . . .well I can’t get to grips with the house.
In a couple of weeks Phil is taking the boys on a jolly boys outing for a few days and doing a bit of male bonding in London. Having lived there for two years, I decided to pass on that one and seize the day. . . . and the washing, Ironing,a dash of painting and of course blogging. Yes I will be resting and enjoying myself as soon as I restore some order around here. Since I entered my “Special time” I find there are days when I have neither motivation nor energy so I’ll be making lists (not too long) this’ll keep me on target and give me a sense of achievement. Yee Haa.
I’ll miss them all off course but I’ll enjoy the space. I will be partaking of large doses of the Golden Girls, I got a full series for my birthday and I haven’t watched any yet, they’re brilliant of course and I may even overdose on them LOL. Better than drugs( unless it’s Sudafed)Catch you later.
My head is banging today, Unfortunately I’m one of those people who pick up atmospheric changes.Yeah! I know it sounds crazy, but I’m Atmospherically challenged,whenever the clouds gather and there’s any evidence of thunder . . .I get headaches, I also creak when it’s gonna snow, I should work for the meteorological office.I live on WD40. In an attempt to feel a bit better I went into “Boots” (Drugstore) to collect my prescription.
Dressed like a baglady with my head pounding and my eyes looking like p*ss holes in the snow, I was greeted by a young chirpy shop assistant with perfectly coiffured hair a flawless complexion smiling widely at me. Now I feel WORSE knowing I looked like roadkill.
There isn’t anything in the world that will stop the ravages of time OK going under the knife would ….for a while, but do you know thinking about it, younger women should THANK us, it’s older women looking as we do, that make younger women look good.I really need medicating now.
A much better day for all of us today #2 son’s mouth is improving after the tooth pulling and he’s had a goodnights sleep, which means we ALL had a good sleep. My sister in law has just got off the phone wishing us a happy 16th wedding anniversary, as she was talking I remembered something that happened to her and her husband a few years back.
They moved out of Manchester and got a house with a canal towpath out back, very nice in the summer months being able to watch the canal boats passing by, but unfortunately for Sharon, there was more than boats going down the canal on that particular day.
A policeman called at the house and asked if she wouldn’t mind opening her back gate for him “Sure no problem” five minutes later she found out why he’d asked, when he dragged a dead body onto the lawn, holy crap, CUE scream.
After he had finished contacting everybody needed, the officer suggested she might like to make herself scarce, (I bet she hadn’t thought of that one) her mother who is a bundle of nerves, was due to arrive at any time, if she did and saw what was happening . . . it was a cert the body count was going to go up. They met in town instead and arrived home two hours later to find that the body was no longer on the back lawn… it was now laying out on the front lawn, albeit in a body bag.
Eventually everything got dealt with,and we tried to see the funny side of this ” body on the lawn scenario” but it was a teen suicide and was really very sad. It’s funny how we handle things by laughing about them, I guess it’s a coping mechanism that is peculiar to human kind.
I’m a middle-aged woman, with one husband and two sons. . .or maybe it’s the other way around, I forget so easily these days and once you lose concentration. . .anyway, welcome to my blog an extension of the twilight zone, don’t forget to leave a comment.
I’ve been on my own the last few days , my better half has taken the boys to visit friends near London and I’ve been getting a few of those things done that seem to get neglected. I have to say I’ve enjoyed myself, just having the peace and quiet, My husband has rung me about three times a day, telling me all about what they are doing and where they are Aaargh! I think he worries about me but I’ve got you lot so I’ll be alright.
I’m giving out my own award today to say A BIG THANK YOU to all of you who have visited regularly and left comments,helping to raise my page rank from 0-2 Whoo hoo Hear my applause, CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP. (If your reading this post,
