Sunday, 13 January 2008

Chuffed To Bits!

I checked my emails for any new comments yesterday and was completely stunned to read that i had been chosen as the Guest Editor's Choice. I just sat smiling and bubbling! lol. A big thank you to Lori for choosing me. You can find her at: :http://journals.aol.com/helmswondermom/DustyPages/ and for the other choices you can find them at:  http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/.

I was invited to my friends house yesterday for a meal, some wine and a sing song. What a fabulous time i had. Thanks L-A. You are a star. I had her homemade chicken curry which as always was astounding. The table was full with Garlic bread, popadoms, naan bread, and countless other goodies. It was Mr Man's birthday last week and mine next week so this was our treat. We then got presented with a huge birthday cake and blew out the candles together! Good job as there were loads! lol.

I was so pleased that we came home at 9pm sober, so i did what i do best, got over excited and poured a wee glass to celebrate, then another and yes! In true "me" style, I woke this morning to the feeling that riverdance was being performed across my pillow! Hmmm. One day I will learn! lol. I went to the shop and bought a paper and rolls and made a cooked breakfast for us all. Now as you can see from "D"'s fabulous picture, she has caught me in a superb light! lol  

I have taken it easy today and was pleased to be watching the new Dancing On Ice programme which has started again. Once it has finished, I will be retiring to bed. I hope you all have a good week.

Thank You to everyone who has left a comment. I am utterly thrilled and grateful.You are all pretty wonderful people ;-) Take Care, Back Soon. xxx

Thursday, 10 January 2008

Settling In.

                                                 Photo Shoot #124

                    

                                                               

                                                                              

Hello everybody, I decided to take a few pics of our new addition to the family and enter the above one in the "Close Up" Photo Shoot, (If I can figure out what to do! lol) as he seems to be settling in a bit more now. He seems to like the Remote Control! and camera! Hmm! lol.

We have come to an understanding at last, that he goes out to play and meets up with his street pals at night and I call on him just after 6am in the morning and he comes running back in for breakfast and a good long sleep. My wee treasure has said she doesn't want to change his name as it would be cruel, so the name Ginger Cat stays or to me, (G-Cat) lol.

                      

                          Take Care. Back Soon. xx

Sunday, 6 January 2008

Feeling Good

   Had a great lie-in this morning. G-Cat asked to leave the premises at 1am! lol. I heard him being let back in at 8am, so I turned over and nodded back off til 10.30!  Wow. Not done that in ages must have needed it. I had a cuppa then set to work dismantling the tree which by rough calculation had a minimum of four thousand decorations on it! My nephew arrived and cut my wee treasures hair. He is an exceptionally good Hairdresser. What a lovely job he made of it.

He is so talented and kind. He offered to cut mine aswell. I jumped at the chance seeing as i still resemble an African Bushwoman! lol He gave me a Graduated Bob. It took years of me. A whole lot shorter but so much better. I decided I would make a real effort with my appearance and pluck my eyebrows too. Trying my hardest to make them both even!! I just hope the redness goes away for the morning!  and that was with using loads of cream aswell! maybe should've done them a while ago! lol.  

Then into a bath to finish off. I was exhausted when i was done! Lol. Pampering is hard work! 

  I made a wonderful Roast Chicken dinner with all the trimmings earlier today, so I  popped into the livingroom a wee while ago with a chicken sandwich for Mr man. He was checking the lotto ticket and went pale, as he got the first 3 numbers in a row! lol. He should've kept going! lol. We are Totally chuffed to win £10 though.

 Getting closer to making my millions! lol.                             

                                                      Take Care Back Soon.

                                                                      xx

Saturday, 5 January 2008

Boy Trouble! lol

 

Thanks "D" for the pic.It describes my house so well at the moment! lol

I had a giggle reading the first line of some of my entries! I didn't have a clue what i was doing back in August when i started so i didn't have the dates for some. Maybe just aswell! lol. What with the rude chicken alarm and confessions of having too much wine then actually going out dancing! Hard to believe that was me! lol.

I have had a fairly quiet day today. Went shopping this morning, cooked lunch and dinner and kept on top of the dishes. Not in the mood for much tonight as I'm exhausted. Mr Ginger Cat is to blame.

I think he is having a laugh. Ever since we discovered he is a boy, he has been really misbehaving! Hmmm. He now wakes me up in the early hours, by launching himself on the windowsill and climbing behind the curtain and blinds!. I get up and let him out then when I get back into bed and i'm just drifting off, he launches himself at the front door like a springer spaniel and cries really loud to get back in!

I have tried everything to stop this, I even taped up the curtains, removed the blinds, kept him awake longer during the day, fussed over him more, locked him out the room as a final resort but he cried and scraped to get back in! lol Nothing stops him. My other half is at the end of his tether too. Funny how he didn't do this at all until we started calling him "son" and "wee man" etc!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm convinced this is him when we aren't looking! lol 

 

 
Take Care. Back Soon. xx

Friday, 4 January 2008

Heavy Snow

 Woke up this morning at 5am. The room was a lot brighter than usual, Peeked through the blinds and recoiled at the blanket of snow. Wow. looked amazing, but how on earth was I going to get to work? Not another bus nitemare journey! Arghhhh! lol  Nope. Thankfully. After a while I got a message along with the rest of the town, not to go anywhere unless the journey was absolutley necessary. The local news on the radio was full of Lorry's at a standstill, roads closed and buses being cancelled! The last bit made me say "phew"! out loud as I made my toast and tea.

I decided that I would tidy up, then make a pot of homemade soup. I put the fire on, woke my wee treasure then I had breakfast gripped by the latest weather news. Even though I was off, I was still concerned for other people who had to be out there. Snow Is beautiful to look at and play in but for me, personally, I don't like travelling in it. No thanks. It's far too scary for me.

Changed the bedding and did 3 loads of washing. There was enough there to frighten the french! lol. I did something I haven't done for so long, I went for a lie down at 1pm until 3.30pm and I felt so much better for it. I felt guilty for not being at work but this was the second day in a row when these decisions were taken out of my hands. I played a game with my wee treasure and we had a laugh which was nice then I found myself lost on here adding pics to my profile and I have thoroughly enjoyed It. As I fast approach the 1000 mark on the counter, I'm loving J-Land so much. Take Care. Back Soon. xx

Team Spirit

Had an absolute nitemare journey home from work last night. We had been told there was a severe weather warning in place stating there would be a heavy snowfall. Yes! they were correct! lol. I left work and headed round to the bus stop and waited and waited for over an hour on the bus but even though I could no longer feel my feet, I was so grateful to be going home. I had heard that my town had been brought to a standstill with the traffic lights jammed on red and black Ice and huge tailbacks.

In the bus shelter I spoke to a young girl who had been waiting there an hour before me, poor wee soul. Another girl arrived and an older man who was an ex bus driver started putting us at ease saying there had to be at least one more bus still to arrive. there were very few tyre tracks on the road and enormous snowflakes almost blinding me. We all kept each other going and I reassured the younger girl not to panic as I had earlier won some cash on a scratch card that would cover a chippy! lol, she laughed but was so cold.

I felt part of a group as we all stuck together in the eerie silence looking out at the empty streets. I was secretly scared and very cold but I couldn't change It, so I had to just stay calm and wait. Three buses appeared all going the other way. I thought the wee girl was going to cry so I offered to persuade the next bus to change the name to our destination and pay the ex bus driver to take over! My heart skipped a beat when our bus finally showed. Our spirits lifted.

I did everything but kiss the driver. We were all sighing relief when my happiness was short lived, he decided to take off like a rocket, bearing in mind, we were on black Ice and couldn't see the road properly for the snow, he kept that up all the way home!. The ex bus driver who was sitting in front of me was lost for words also. I hid my eyes on several of the roads and over a bridge. Thankfully we arrived safely although I'm quite sure how. I bid farewell to the wee team and tried several taxi numbers before being successful. I arrived home at 7.40pm and got dried off, jammies on, something to eat then went to bed. Hope I never experience that again. Any wonder I need hair dye? lol. xx 

Tuesday, 1 January 2008

Happy New Year

 

That's the first picture I have added to one of my stories lol! I am going to try and brighten up my pages from now on. Well folks, 2008 eh? I wonder what joys will bestow us this year! As long as we have our health, then that's the main thing, Family, including my 3 little darling cats are of course a very close second.

We all spent an amazing night last night doing our own individual thing in the run up to midnight. My other half was chatting away online, My wee treasure was watching dvd's in her room and I was singing my wee heart out to the singstar discs in the livingroom. Fot those of you who don't know what singstar is, It's basically karaoke with the object of the game being to earn the highest score and name, thus being "singstar"which I happily achieved a few times! lol

My wee treasure and I had made up some lovely party food and set it all out in the kitchen in case we had visitors. We also got tucked in! lol. I paced myself with alcohol, sticking only to bacardi and loads of diet coke.

My eldest Sister, Nephew and Niece arrived around 10ish and we all had a great time singing, while my other half entertained us on the guitar, which I must say, was extremely impressive! We all gathered in a circle and joined hands at 12 for a heart warming rendition of Auld lang Syne. It was one of the best night's in a long time.

Today has been quiet, The dinner is cooking in the oven and the table will be set shortly, Only really two things to do now. One is to wish you all a Very Happy and Healthy New Year and the second is to find a new name for Ginger cat! It was mentioned last night that "she" looked far too big to be a girl! I laughed as I insisted she was definately a girl until I said "Okay, I will double check" and G.Cat is now my little boy! lol.

I did wonder why my other male cat called Oscar was always being chased! and my wee girl Purdie was less than impressed! I just thought madam was trying to be the boss! Well "Madam" is now " Monsieur" and if anyone has any suggestions for a "wee boy's" name then please feel free to share! lol. Take Care. Back Soon. xx