Things To Make Me Smile (and a few things that annoy me)
Sorry for not posting in a while. The smallest of brief summaries with something a bit more in depth over the next few days.
* Small bout of slight depression which was the main cause for length of time I’ve been absent.
* My one and only niece was born on 20/08/08
* Holidays in Paris – how glorious?!?! since the 26th August.
It’s not too much but I’ll have updates on the events of Niece & Paree.
I will be going to visit my grandmothers – they live about 2.5 / 3hours away. This time I’m going to be driving some of the way with my mother – eek! What am I letting myself in for? What is she letting herself in for??? I know that the joke in the family was that it took my sister nearly 5 hours to do the journey for the first time and when she got there she had to have a lie down ’cause she was exhausted – well I don’t plan on doing THAT much driving – my grannies are old we don’t need unneccessary delays. Anyway if I do do a fair amount of driving I will have a bed all to myself when I go for my lie down.
Mmmmm! Bed all to myself. That really is the up side to this weekend – and the seeing of various aunts and cousins – BUT bed to myself is a very rare luxury and will be enjoyed for as long as possible – money on I wake at 7am. I’ll have to practice rolling over and going back to sleep – maybe I can convince myself that I’ve work? That should have me feeling tired really quickly.
Ok now I’m waffling – I’m going to bed as I really do have work tomorrow 😦 Warm cuddly bed 😀 I think I’ll take little buttons with me (my teddy is a present from a few years ago and is just one of my favourite things EVER) Actually I might take little buttons to Waterford with me – something to cuddle while being on my own.
Goodnight
I’m having a lovely morning. Himself has gone to the bookshop for the day so I’m home alone. Yesterday we put up the net curtains in the front windows of the livingroom – as himself said it only took us four years! (ok not strictly true) So I’m uploading CDs to my iTunes/iPod and while that is all happening I’m sitting in the living room in my PJs with the curtains open and working on THE blanket while Sunday Life is on the telly to be followed by Country File.
I know I have a few things to do around the place during the day but I think the first piece of ‘work’ I’m going to do is clear my desk completely and pick a jigsaw to work on. After that the housework will fit in between the jigsaw pieces.
You know I have to admit that the day I have planned for myself sounds just lovely – the big question will be will it turn out that way.
(Inspirational idea – I can watch a DVD on the computer while doing the jigsaw – it’s always nice to have something on in the background)
Our broadband went last Wednesday so we had not internets. Well until I remembered that my little baby, the iBook had dial up on it! Ok how did we ever survive with dial up? I know that the pages were a lot more basic and didn’t have as much to load up but there were times when I was convinced that it was broken! There are a few blogs that I read and they can be photo heavy and take a while to load with a high-speed connection so the last few days I’ve been reading the blogs but it’s only now that I get to see the pictures that go with the stories.
On the other hand I realised that we tend to spend a lot of time on the computers and the week off so to speak was a bit of a relief. It’s like me on a Friday – I tend to turn my mobile off. Generally I don’t turn my phone off as that would mean finding it and all that but I do it on a Friday – my way of welcoming in the weekend and making sure that nobody rings me on Saturday morning. Ha ha when you think of it – nobody would ring your landline too early as that would wake the whole household but they would blithely ring you mobile. Anyway I’m wandering now – yes a few days off did us no harm but when it came back on Monday (for my Birthday and because I’d just arranged for an engineer to come out) I just couldn’t wait to get home after work just to see how the world functions without me. Apparently just fine it seems but I’m glad to be back.
I will be 33 soon, this morning I have to go to the funeral of somebody who had only just turned 31. When I heard the news I couldn’t believe it – my flabber was completely gasted. The news of the death of somebody you know will always draw you nearer to those you love – almost physically. The first thing you want to do is grab hold of that person just so you can confirm that they are here and real and in turn while they hold you and confirm your presence to them you also confirm it to yourself. Does that make sense? All of a sudden the days are brighter and your troubles are only a slight nuisance – it tends to swing your sense of proportion – normally it’s the doom and gloom of everyday life but hey you have life so therefore everything really is fantastic. While this is unrealistic if we could just carry forward a snippet of that new found optimism it could change our whole outlook on life.
Unfortunately before any of that can take place a funeral must be attended and a friendship must be remembered. Of all the deaths recently (since about 2001) none of the bodies have been like the person we knew so I think that the viewing of the body is no longer an option for me – I like my memories of people to be of them laughing and living and not of them dying and dead.
Sorry it’s a little bit down but I’m off for a cuddle from himself as it’s going to be one of those days and like breakfast you should always start the day with one (both breakfast & cuddle)
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