Honest blogging

After my post today I received a lot of encouragement and support via comments and emails.  I was invited over to Laoi’s blog (I think she actually said ‘ahem! please go and see my blog young lady’) so I went…and this was there waiting for me…..

along with these words….

* Speak our truth from the heart and tell it like it is.
* Share openly and honestly our true feelings without fear of judgement, Blame or shame.
* We write to share our achievements so others can also share our joy.
* We write about our bad times too, knowing that the love and support of others is around us and perhaps heal another’s pain in the process..
*We are human beings will real feelings and emotions and REFUSE to hide behind a mask.
* We dare to be different
* We are Free Spirits
* We realise that by spilling out, we lighten our load.
* We acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses and don't see them in terms of success or failure.
* We laugh together and cry together
* We are all following our own journey in our own unique way

Thank you so very much Laoi, I need to get all this stupid crap out of my head and my blog is really the best place to do it and I am so grateful that you have all made it clear to me that it’s ok to do that.   So this week I’m going to write it…all of it…even the horrible, ugly, ego driven stuff that I’m not proud of AT ALL.

Brace yourselves people.

Today’s news

I got the temporary position I was hoping for.  It starts next Thursday and is only for a month.  Which is perfect.   More about that in another post.

I had lunch today with some friends from my previous place of employment.  The girl who replaced me also came to lunch and I was gratified to hear that it’s just as crap as I thought it was.   Lunch was delicious, the company was excellent and the gin and tonic was perfect.

I did some grocery shopping this afternoon.  It was tedious.  I totally loathe shopping.

Then I went to the pet shop and bought the rats a wheel and a salt lick and I got Jack some pig’s ears and a rawhide bone.  He still chews everything he can get his teeth on so I’m constantly trying to distract him with things he’s actually ALLOWED to chew.

Steak and salad for dinner tonight.

End of another day.

 

Merry Christmas

Wishing you a Merry Christmas,
Solstice Greetings, Yuletide Blessings
and a very Happy New Year!

Thank you to all my blog friends for the entertainment,
laughs, tears, love, support, and kindness that
you have provided over the past year!

I'm looking forward to even more of it in 2009!

Sweet blog

A blog award with built-in tag from Lee at Solstice Dreamer - thank you Lee!!

7 things to do before I die

• Finish the effing website
• Own a Jag (S-type)
• Spend a year or two back in the UK
• Have my work published
• Draw and paint more
• Visit the Middle East
• Live in a house I actually like

7 things I do now

• Procrastinate
• Read emails
• Blog occasionally
• Work
• Sit at the computer too much
• Stress out a lot
• Complain about Christmas

7 things I can't do

• Speak Italian
• Domain map my website
• Understand Wordpress
• Sail
• Paint in watercolour
• Enjoy Christmas
• Stop procrastinating

7 things I find attractive in the opposite sex

• Sense of humour
• Shared interests
• Sense of adventure
• Faithful
• Spiritual
• Supportive
• Money (just kidding...kind of)

7 things I say most often

• Be quiet!! (I hate noise)
• Have we got any chocolate?
• Have we got any wine?
• F*&king Wordpress
• Hurry up! (everyone is so slow around here)
• I love you
• I hate Christmas (well I do, shut up)

7 Celebrities I most admire (you've got to be kidding me!)

• ...um.....(sound of crickets here....)
• I dunno...Judi Dench? Is she a celebrity or just a good actor? I like her acting and she seems like a good person....but....admire??
  
• Sorry can't do this one...
• I don't admire 'celebrities' really, I appreciate some are good at what they do though.
  
• Now if you'd just asked for people I admire...got tons of those...but none of them are celebrities.
  
• ...but celebrities? Really?
• Nah, sorry.
  

7 favourite foods

• Chocolate
• Wine (it is too a food)
• Watermelon
• Curry (all Indian food really)
  
• Tea (it's a food as well ok?)
• Coffee (don't even think it)
• Cake (most kinds)
  

I'm so healthy.

Ok, so I'd like to pass this on to......

Moy@ Journal of my Life at Home

Cathy@ Love and Madness in Suburbia

Dave@whatever his blog is called this week

Miss R@ Tales of Inglewood

But remember!!!! No pressure, only if you have the time and the inclination.

It's Friday!

My favourite day of the week.

Tom is on a field trip today so I dropped him off this morning at the pick up point where he'd arranged to meet his colleagues, then I took the girls to school. After that I went and had coffee with another Mum from their school. At her place. For 3 hours. We had a lot to say.

With half my day gone I headed home and on the way stopped at the PO box to check the mail only to find - to my great excitement - a parcel from my sister!!! I came home and tore it apart and found lots of Halloween goodies for the children (we don't really 'do' Halloween in this country so it's a big treat for them to get stuff from America). I got some Reece's peanut butter cups (I will not be sharing) as well as some hand knitted socks (she makes AMAZING socks) and some summer tops. Thanks again M!

I can't take any photos because Tom has the camera with him today. I tried the old camera and can't get it to work - it appears that it has finally died completely.

So as I sit here writing this I realise that I have to go and get the girls in half an hour and I haven't done any of the work that I'd planned to do today. However I'm not going to feel guilty because it's not very often that I shirk my duties by gallavanting about having coffee and collecting parcels. It's also not as if I won't do any work today...I have two children after all.

Muffin?

I had a lovely start to the week. Not only am I starting to feel moderately human again (apart from an impressive consumptive cough) but this morning a friend came over for coffee. I met this particular friend 8 years ago as I sat in hospital, bored to death, awaiting the arrival of my first baby. I'd had complications in my pregnancy and was facing a premature delivery. I was all alone in a twin room and the door opened and she was brought in, she too was having problems and her baby was scheduled to be delivered 3 days later. It was a tense and emotional time but within minutes of meeting she and I were laughing hysterically over something and we bonded. During the few days that we shared a room we got on like a house on fire and met each others families and visitors but there was never a time when our respective husbands were there at the same time so they didn't meet. After our babies were born we didn't see each other for a few days although we both had babies in NICU. One morning Tom and I were waiting for the lift to take us up to NICU and the doors opened and out stepped my friend, she and I greeted each other enthusiastically only to stop dead and stare in amazement at our husbands who were also greeting each other enthusiastically. Turned out they already knew each other. Small world.

Anyway, we've been the best of friends ever since, we even had our second babies around the same time (not deliberately, it was one of those 'guess what? I'm pregnant' and she said 'guess what? I'm pregnant too!') and she is just one of those friends that you can totally rely on, she's hilariously funny and always there when you need her. Today we had coffee and talked and ate some home made apple spice muffins that I'd made and talked and looked through House Beautiful and Country Living and planned the decorating I'm about to do and talked some more and we may have gossiped just a tiny wee bit (but not vindictively)...oh and we laughed. Our heads off. A lot.

It was great and it was just what I needed. Thanks Mish.