Ok, a tune, this is an old one, but I've heard it loads this week on the radio and it's one that amuses me no end....
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Midweek music to melt to....
Well not really, but it's rather warm here... my house used to be owned by an elderly couple who took their insulating seriously. Which whilst that means it's easy to keep warm in winter it's a bugger as soon as it gets warm out... particularly as I can't have the upstairs windows open properly as the cats will stand on the outside of the window ledges, or attempt death defying leaps towards them......The windows are cracked open a bit... but all that means is that my home appears to have been invaded by spiders, there are eight legged we beasties everywhere..... it's going to be a long night of hunting for the cats I think
Ok, a tune, this is an old one, but I've heard it loads this week on the radio and it's one that amuses me no end....
Ok, a tune, this is an old one, but I've heard it loads this week on the radio and it's one that amuses me no end....
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
So.....
There may be a new arrival at the mad house shortly....
My cat population may be increasing by one....
Basically, the person who allowed me to become the slave to Gina & Hugo is having problems with one of her other queens... she's not agreeing with the rest of the household and being a complete pain in the arse... she basically needs somewhere quieter with less cats/children/chaos.... so naturally she thought of me...
Yes, I need another cat like a hole in the head, but then again, it's no real hardship....... I am trying to be sensible (I know I have a bad habit of acquiring new additions to the family when I am depressed) but I don't know if I can turn this one down. Her owner is going to have a long hard think about whether she wants to let her go and if she does I have first refusal....
So possibly this will be my new addition (yep another of those cats only a mother could love/ugly naked cat)
My cat population may be increasing by one....
Basically, the person who allowed me to become the slave to Gina & Hugo is having problems with one of her other queens... she's not agreeing with the rest of the household and being a complete pain in the arse... she basically needs somewhere quieter with less cats/children/chaos.... so naturally she thought of me...
Yes, I need another cat like a hole in the head, but then again, it's no real hardship....... I am trying to be sensible (I know I have a bad habit of acquiring new additions to the family when I am depressed) but I don't know if I can turn this one down. Her owner is going to have a long hard think about whether she wants to let her go and if she does I have first refusal....
So possibly this will be my new addition (yep another of those cats only a mother could love/ugly naked cat)
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Because life is...
Short, cruel, and sometimes a complete bitch..... it's always a really good idea to tell someone how much they mean to you.
This afternoon I got some news about an internet friend I've known for going on ten years now (let us call her AP) she was a member of an on-line forum dedicated to the books of a Girls Own author, a talented writer and really wonderful genuine person. In around 2005 a smaller group of us from that forum developed a really close friendship and a lot of our day was spent e-mailing back and forth between us.... we supported each other through some traumatic times in all our home and work lives, including AP's first battle with breast cancer.
As life moved on, jobs changed, one of us got married, one was forced into retirement, teenage children went through horrible times etc we gradually drifted apart, not completely but that close relationship the small group of us had had for around 18 months wasn't ever quite the same.
In October 2010 we were told that AP was again seriously ill, a secondary tumour having formed on her spine. Radical chemo and radio therapy treatments were done and she recovered well, we all managed to get together and catch up, but since then we've drifted, not least because AP's vision and ability to concentrate became difficult because of the drugs. But that was 18 months ago, and I think we all got complacent and believed that she was better and all was going to be okay.
Her husband e-mailed yesterday to say that the tumour has returned, this time in her brain and they have told him she has a matter of days. AP knows she's ill but doesn't realise how bad it is.
AP is one of the kindest, wisest most caring people I have ever met. I just can't believe that she is going to be taken from us. My heart goes out to her family and closer friends. She is going to leave a very big gap in all our lives. I just wish that I had had the opportunity to tell her how much I valued her friendship and support.
This afternoon I got some news about an internet friend I've known for going on ten years now (let us call her AP) she was a member of an on-line forum dedicated to the books of a Girls Own author, a talented writer and really wonderful genuine person. In around 2005 a smaller group of us from that forum developed a really close friendship and a lot of our day was spent e-mailing back and forth between us.... we supported each other through some traumatic times in all our home and work lives, including AP's first battle with breast cancer.
As life moved on, jobs changed, one of us got married, one was forced into retirement, teenage children went through horrible times etc we gradually drifted apart, not completely but that close relationship the small group of us had had for around 18 months wasn't ever quite the same.
In October 2010 we were told that AP was again seriously ill, a secondary tumour having formed on her spine. Radical chemo and radio therapy treatments were done and she recovered well, we all managed to get together and catch up, but since then we've drifted, not least because AP's vision and ability to concentrate became difficult because of the drugs. But that was 18 months ago, and I think we all got complacent and believed that she was better and all was going to be okay.
Her husband e-mailed yesterday to say that the tumour has returned, this time in her brain and they have told him she has a matter of days. AP knows she's ill but doesn't realise how bad it is.
AP is one of the kindest, wisest most caring people I have ever met. I just can't believe that she is going to be taken from us. My heart goes out to her family and closer friends. She is going to leave a very big gap in all our lives. I just wish that I had had the opportunity to tell her how much I valued her friendship and support.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Fun Filled Friday Frolic....
Who says I don't know how to have fun *roll eyes*
Actually I do, just my version of fun - which usually involves either books, knitting, and occasional trips to the pub, or sometimes a combination of all 3 - isn't everyone's idea of fun... but hey I'm old!
Tonight was not living the high (ok, well just above ground level) life... tonight was playing taxi service and responsible adult ... my sister has scuppered her shoulder, the right one, somehow, she doesn't remember falling, hitting anything with it, landing on it, having her incredibly overweight cat sit on it etc... my sister is the sensible one, she doesn't fall over things, down things, injure herself or blow stuff up .... but today it was so painful that she couldn't drive and actually was sick.... cue tearful phone call at 6pm - can I take her to the Hospital's minor injuries unit... sure no problem... so off we go
But no, they won't see her there, because she can't remember actually doing anything to it to case the injury... so off we go to the A&E department at the main hospital (right on the other side of town) .... nearly 2 hours later, they prod her shoulder and tell her it's probably arthritis (which she doesn't have) and to go home and take pain killers which she can get from the chemist, but just take double the dose.....
She was the one that hurried me out of the hospital at that point before I opened my mouth as she could see that I was highly unimpressed with that advice.....
I've taken her home and handed her over to her other half who had just arrived back from work... hopefully she will be okay... by the time I got home there was just enough time to walk the dogs round the block (in the pouring rain again!) before bed time....... so that's the first part of my weekend gone!
Actually I do, just my version of fun - which usually involves either books, knitting, and occasional trips to the pub, or sometimes a combination of all 3 - isn't everyone's idea of fun... but hey I'm old!
Tonight was not living the high (ok, well just above ground level) life... tonight was playing taxi service and responsible adult ... my sister has scuppered her shoulder, the right one, somehow, she doesn't remember falling, hitting anything with it, landing on it, having her incredibly overweight cat sit on it etc... my sister is the sensible one, she doesn't fall over things, down things, injure herself or blow stuff up .... but today it was so painful that she couldn't drive and actually was sick.... cue tearful phone call at 6pm - can I take her to the Hospital's minor injuries unit... sure no problem... so off we go
But no, they won't see her there, because she can't remember actually doing anything to it to case the injury... so off we go to the A&E department at the main hospital (right on the other side of town) .... nearly 2 hours later, they prod her shoulder and tell her it's probably arthritis (which she doesn't have) and to go home and take pain killers which she can get from the chemist, but just take double the dose.....
She was the one that hurried me out of the hospital at that point before I opened my mouth as she could see that I was highly unimpressed with that advice.....
I've taken her home and handed her over to her other half who had just arrived back from work... hopefully she will be okay... by the time I got home there was just enough time to walk the dogs round the block (in the pouring rain again!) before bed time....... so that's the first part of my weekend gone!
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
If only falling over was an Olympic sport....
Last night's blog post never happened due to another moment of well, accidental stupidity, on my part..... you remember as a kid you were always nagged to take things upstairs and not to just abandon them on the stairs.... well what do you know there is a good reason for this.
I got in from work last night and threw the dogs chicken wings at them then went to pacify the cats with offerings of edible things (I'd even remembered to buy some biscuits for them in the vain hope they'd stop screaming at me about how starving they were)....So, I safely negotiated the babygate at the bottom of the stairs (despite no babies, I seem to have more babygates than the average baby owning household for goodness sake) and got four steps up, whilst carrying a new sack of cat litter and the biscuits. I was carefully negotiating with the cats on the whole "let me get upstairs without treading on you" thing when I put my foot on some papers I'd left on the stairs, slipped and crashed in an inelegant manner back down the five or so stairs I'd managed and crashed into the babygate.
I was very impressed I didn't manage to smash through the babygate being as I am no lightweight... I do have some impressive bruising, only impressive as it's an imprint of the stripes on the babygate up one leg, oh and an on my left arm but that one is just a boring splodge. I think from the looks I was getting my efforts didn't earn me high marks from the onlooking cats or dogs, for either technique or artistic merit......in fact I possibly lost marks from the cats for delaying the arrival of their food!
Mum finally had her surgery today - despite the hospitals promise of "you will be first on the list" she didn't actually go down for surgery till 2pm. My sister visited her this evening as she was back on the ward if rather groggy still. She is hoping to be discharged tomorrow evening...... she is obviously the member of our family that does optimism as my sister and I think it will be Friday. Just pleased it's over and done with though now.
Monday, 14 May 2012
Sometimes nothing actually happens....
Which would be more or less the case this weekend.
I think, having dealt with the whole work fiasco, stuck 5 days work into 4 working days and with my sleep pattern being somewhere on another planet I was probably due a break from, well everything really.
So, this weekend there was housework (when isn't there), a little light dash round the supermarket (seriously, I must remember not to do this (a) without at least one large coffee first and (b) at a time when small children will with zero manners will be being forced to shop with uninterested parents - cos I love being followed round by the little sods whilst they point and laugh), some laundry (with the bonus of being early enough to mother's with said laundry that she made me breakfast) and a whole lot of reading and falling asleep at inappropriate times at the kitchen table.
So whilst I felt like I had had a weekend and a break from work I had done, well, bugger all really...... except possibly buy more books for the Kindle... bad me!
I have the housework to do list from hell as I have less than 2 weeks before my friend and the half daughter invade (yes, invade, not come to stay, that implies having to be polite and make them cups of tea etc... invade is much better - the half daughter takes over the guest room and plans world domination with the cats whilst her other half mother (ok, well her real mother if you want to get technical) and I put the worlds to right over tea, pepsi max and possibly vodka whilst knitting, reading and writing....... we know how to have fun)
I also have a short story to write for the May photo prompt on the YA GLBT Goodreads group - the bunny has spoken and is now just waiting for me to get my finger out and write it...... I also want to see if I can plot out a possible adult M/M story - no idea how long - whose main character showed up in my head last week and refuses to go away.
Who knows, at some point, I may actually find something interesting to blog about....
I think, having dealt with the whole work fiasco, stuck 5 days work into 4 working days and with my sleep pattern being somewhere on another planet I was probably due a break from, well everything really.
So, this weekend there was housework (when isn't there), a little light dash round the supermarket (seriously, I must remember not to do this (a) without at least one large coffee first and (b) at a time when small children will with zero manners will be being forced to shop with uninterested parents - cos I love being followed round by the little sods whilst they point and laugh), some laundry (with the bonus of being early enough to mother's with said laundry that she made me breakfast) and a whole lot of reading and falling asleep at inappropriate times at the kitchen table.
So whilst I felt like I had had a weekend and a break from work I had done, well, bugger all really...... except possibly buy more books for the Kindle... bad me!
I have the housework to do list from hell as I have less than 2 weeks before my friend and the half daughter invade (yes, invade, not come to stay, that implies having to be polite and make them cups of tea etc... invade is much better - the half daughter takes over the guest room and plans world domination with the cats whilst her other half mother (ok, well her real mother if you want to get technical) and I put the worlds to right over tea, pepsi max and possibly vodka whilst knitting, reading and writing....... we know how to have fun)
I also have a short story to write for the May photo prompt on the YA GLBT Goodreads group - the bunny has spoken and is now just waiting for me to get my finger out and write it...... I also want to see if I can plot out a possible adult M/M story - no idea how long - whose main character showed up in my head last week and refuses to go away.
Who knows, at some point, I may actually find something interesting to blog about....
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Attack of nerves......
It has been decided I am a professional whittler and fretter....... and neither of these jobs have anything to do with woodwork.
My LiAW story is being looked at by the proofing/editing team and there are "questions" ... which is fine, but I am now paranoid (oh yes, again) about how bad it is......... I have been given cyber reassurance by my beta readers (also known as a cyber slap upside the head and being told to pull myself together) ... but as I got notification that there were "questions" some 9 hours ago and I am still waiting for an e-mail with them I am driving myself nuts....
I wonder sometimes if I would cope at all if I wasn't worried about something?? It seems to be my ground state!
I think I shall go lie down in a darkened (well not that darkened I need to be able to read) room and try and chill out for a bit....... I'll probably be up at 1 am checking my e-mail.....
My LiAW story is being looked at by the proofing/editing team and there are "questions" ... which is fine, but I am now paranoid (oh yes, again) about how bad it is......... I have been given cyber reassurance by my beta readers (also known as a cyber slap upside the head and being told to pull myself together) ... but as I got notification that there were "questions" some 9 hours ago and I am still waiting for an e-mail with them I am driving myself nuts....
I wonder sometimes if I would cope at all if I wasn't worried about something?? It seems to be my ground state!
I think I shall go lie down in a darkened (well not that darkened I need to be able to read) room and try and chill out for a bit....... I'll probably be up at 1 am checking my e-mail.....
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