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Idealist? Perfectionist? Princess & the Pea?

Too many peas. Doesn't matter that there are 83 (?) mattresses.

♥

Am annoyed.

Lies/half truths annoy me.

This house is soooo calm though. Am enjoying it, apart from that stupid annoyance.

Friend left envelope with dosh in for me. Too much, I only need bus ticket. Will return it.

I've done nothing to offend a particular person. Wish they'd get right off my case and leave me alone. I wonder if they ever question themselves? Gooooo awaaaaaaay.

Please, no-one else get involved. It's not yer business, I just had to get that off my chest.

HATE

VISTA

The video thing went ok. Nervous boy. Nervous mum, watching TV screen in other room.

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A week ago I spent the day with my friend, she's also called P but not the Starbucky one. This one owns a lovely collie that I've dog-sat for before. I'm doing that again tomorrow, Tuesday and Thursday. Afternoons, as I'm guff at mornings. This time there'll be a puppy to look after. She kept one from the last litter. About 5 months old now. Very bouncy and playful. I'm looking forward to it. Last Saturday we did the throwing thing ...

I throw a stick, they race each other, the mum wins, they both hurtle back to me holding the stick in their mouths looking a lot like chariot horses except they're dogs and I have to wrestle with both of them to get it back. It sounds tedious, but is very funny ... just for the serious collie faces of concentration Eyes like heat-seeking missiles

Might take the lappie, might not. x

I just like the photo ...

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Just saw this on lolcatz

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Have any of you been watching LionMan on Sky 1 ?

I hated all that crocodile/snake stuff that Steve Irwin used to do. This programme shows a lion & tiger sanctuary and how they deal with the animals day to day. I think they have about 22 big cats on the site. It's excellent, well worth watching if you happen to catch it

I remembered seeing a dress that I really liked (!) in the Grand Arcade. Didn't stop or go over to look, just thought 'ooh nice'. It's not normal for me as dresses aren't my thing ... unless they're like this one.

A magazine dropped through the door, with the usual junk mail, and had a list of shops for Grand Arcade. After googling G-Star Raw, Gant, Quiksilver, TM Lewin and a few others, I found All Saints. That's the dress section.

I bloody LOVE them.

But

They only go up to frickin size 14

*gutted*

P.S. They're too dear anyway

Here

Very sweet

Used and abused by just about everyone. Scroll down and check out the story about the guy who dressed as Spiderman too. V sweet.

My 'going into town' pal couldn't yesterday as she's not feeling great

I didn't get to Pilates as the lad was in pain with his back, so had a bath as soon as he got up, then had the day off school.

I went into town today myself for a treat as I had a little bit extra dosh. Lunch in Starbucks, via Boots cos I forgot to put hand cream on and my hands were like sandpaper. Guess I must be a bit dehydrated

Sat there for a while with my humous & roast veg wrap, blueberry cheesecake and grande latte. I decided it would be too cheeky to have skinny latte today reading ... Radio Times Classy or what?!

I've been after an exercise ball for a while.

Well, I've kept considering it every time I saw one. £4 in the cheapo bookshop! £20 in frickin John Lewis

I'd asked the Pilates trainer last week if I could buy a stretch band.

Found one today in the cheap sports shop with extra 'stuff' for £12.49 - ace!

It's this one ...

... and is the same price as on the web - yay!

The 2 smaller balls are used as weights I think, and they're filled with sand or summat. Also 2 different strength stretch bands

Oo-eee *joy*

Here's the link if you wanna get it.

So all in all a worthwhile day.

Next in the series ... The Joy of Socks - one woman's eternal quest for bargain stripy footwear.

Ok. Had a mad couple of days.

The assault against Mini that happened the other week ... police want to go ahead with charges. The boys are still threatening. He's struggling with it.

The PCSO assigned to him has been frickin amazing. He's only a young lad (19, left school last year) so he bonded with Mini really well. Brought round a slimline personal alarm for him today. It's very loud. The police woman I spoke to on the phone was fantastic, very down to earth and considerate of the whole situation.

On Friday morning a car will collect us to go to a nearby village station for a video statement.

Apart from that, all's well.

I've removed the toons in case anyone thought I was posting them in a passive/aggressive way. Yes, I'm a paranoid wreck

Here's the link ... www.chalkboardmanifesto.com

A year ago today I did this ...

Mauve baboons and interspecies erotica

Saw Clerks II yesterday - Paddy, that's bizarro and funny

Lazy day today. Wandered around for a while *clickclickclickclick* down by the river and such. Many had the same idea. Lovely lunch of baked camembert, salad, bread & apricot relish in a cute riverside pub. Saw a rat by one of the uni grounds (I've not seen a rat here before)

Did Starbucks ... well wadya expect? This is me yer reading

Limped home (pesky hip) and was molly-coddled by da man I could get used to this

Did you watch Big Fish? I've seen it before but I forgot how lovely and sad it was.

Haven't heard from the bairn today. I imagine he's battered his dad's windaes wi' snowballs though. It's traditional, eh?

Another first

Now that was a good day.

I couldn't show the year before cos I'm mistress of the deletedness

Line breaks have disappeared

Hopefully it'll fix soon, as it has done the other times recently.

They must be fiddling with scripty stuff.

Fuck Molty's gone

The grudge hasn't stopped. Hitting hasn't happened but catching-the chinese-whispers has and a fast pelt back home from school

I'm getting angry. Mum angry.

Have decided to use online grocery shopping as it's such a hassle to get to the supermarket and even harder to get back with tons of bags.

Between 9pm and 11pm tonight.

*drums fingers*

D'you know some Scots folk don't say fingers with a hard G? I say it so it rhymes with singers.

Last month we ran up £26 on mobile calls. These weren't massive conversations. There were 4 pages of 17p calls. It costs just to ring them even if they don't answer! Must get him to be careful or we won't be saving anything at all by switching providers.

My hip hurts.

That's all

Happy Birthday

Mrs F

Have a good one, hon

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What I'd never predicted was ...

the comedy of teenagers

Of course they have to be yer own kids or their friends or summat

otherwise they can be cheeky wee gits

I opened the door to two of them, looking for Mini. They stood in the doorway chatting nonsense for 10 minutes. It was like a Cheech 'n' Chong short.

Very funny.

That's all.

Tonight

BBC4 @ 10pm till 11.30pm

It is the adrenaline, and the being-in-a-crowd.

Just pull the bike over, sit on the bench for a wee cry. You know you want to.

No elements to struggle with today. No wind, no rain, bike brought back to me last night. Sun shining.

Kept cycling, forced myself up the hill ... even the bit that screams it's too steep, get off for a bit.

It's nearly the top, it's flat inna minute, it's still sunny, keep going.

I was 20 minutes early in the pool. Went into the wee pool to wait. OMG it's a huuuuge bath. So warm and yummy. The big pool wasn't.

Favourite bit - using the weights, as it's astounding how heavy foam weights become under water!

I shall return.

From here

1. To celebrate the first day of spring, an ice cream parlour in America are giving away free ice cream all day Friday. What is your favourite flavour ice cream?

Lemon. Pistachio. Vanilla. Walnut. Oh I don't know

2. Today is officially the first day of spring in the UK. When you think of spring, what is it that comes to your mind first?

Ability to move about easier ... heat.

3. Do you wish that daffodils, snowdrops and other spring flowers would flower all year round??

No! I like the cycles, changes in surroundings, colours etc.

4. Have you got your garden looking all spring like yet?

No. It does it by itself, usually hampered by me

5. What will you do today to feel all spring like (keep it clean you smut monsters out there!!)??

Go to AquaFit. Yes ... I'm gonna get the bike working today. The sunshine was so needed for this.

Someone gave me some music. I deleted all the stuff on my MP3 player and stuck it on. Now Mini wants to delve around nicking music from me

Am loving Missy Elliott. Oooh and Divine Comedy ... and loads more

In other news, I have to attend a meeting tomorrow at 8.30 A.M.!!!

I don't do morning.

Early night + Valium?

Was looking at Google Maps a minute ago. I saw my house from a few feet away! I saw the thing on my bedroom windowsill!

Yes, the windows need a good scrub.

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Weather was sweet.

Caution.

Went to Pilates this morning ... phew ... needed that. At the moment it doesn't make my back any better or any worse, but some of the stretches make me feel pain-free while I'm doing them so that's gotta be good. Once I go there regularly it'll help more.

P and I drove into town to park. "Is that my phone?"

Oh-oh! Mini has been head-butted in the face and wants to come home

Further investigation revealed that he'd been punched, knee'd and head-butted in the face. Marks on his neck and lumps on his head too.

An older lad at school had attacked him because of an ongoing problem between him and one of Mini's friends. Mini decided to ignore it and take it in his stride but the boy came back with another lad who screamed in his face and started punching.

"Mrs M_______, I want to go home please"

P turned the car round. We sighed in stereo (we didn't know how bad it was at this point).

The long and short of it is (weird phrase) that my ex is furious. He chatted with some teachers then phoned the police.

They've been & gone. Mini doesn't want the boys charged. He doesn't want them expelled. He'd get more grief if either of those happened

He wants to move schools.

The police woman said she'd get some plods to go speak to the boys and their parents, and the school. I dunno what will come of this.

I moved schools when I got battered by 2 girls at school. I was on the waiting list to get into the Grammar anyway *shrug* ... it does feel a bit iffy moving 'the victim' though. I guess sometimes it's the easiest and safest way to deal with it.

P.S. The doctor gave him a good check-over and it's soft tissue injuries. No concussion. He had felt a bit wobbly but is just achy now. Day off school tomorrow, till I find out how the school have dealt with this. These kids are known to carry weapons in organised fights.

Hello, yooz

Am not answering a gazillion comments ... cos I'm a lazy git

We had a lovely week, wandering, wondering, basing every venture on how my frickin back was feeling.

Visited a trio of bloggers on Saturday and Sunday, which was very relaxing and just wonderful. Best hosts ever and a right good laugh.

I got my cat-fix too. Was missing cats. Still am now. Will I? Won't I? *arg* Job first.

Anyroads, had lovely time and I'm slipping back into normal routine now. Mini will be back with me tomorrow. Gives me time to tidy up and get back into my normal sleep pattern - staying in bed till 11.30 Ah shurrup, I can do early when I have to.

It seems awfully quiet round here. I know there have been some 'issues'. Hope it gets sorted soon. Also some folk having a break. Hope yooz feel better soon.

Why am I tired? Early night, I think.

*mwah*

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Used my maiden name

Gyp, Blue, Trigger, Tiptop, Sunny, Sultan, Tommy, Spock, Buck, Tottie, Lady, Bach, Tara, Luxor, Missie ...

The names of the horses at the stable I worked for ... when I was fourteen!

Why my brain thought it was urgent to remind me of this at 2.45am I'll never know. I have made a casserole. At 3am. It's in the slow cooker. I need to wash my hair, my head feels that sauna-heat way. An 8.30 wake up is gonna be tricky

*dread*

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???

One arm IN dressing gown sleeve ... one OUT. It's sorta too hot when you drink hot choc but also cold

And my feet are feckin freezin.

I pity Andy, really do.

He doesn't yet know that I woke myself up, snoring, the other night

He knows I snore but waking yerself up takes it to another level altogether.

Bored. Should I wake Mini up? He's not going to school so ...

Snigger. It's cool, just kiddin.

OMG! What if I'm going through 'the change'!?

About Mini anyway ... he's not very mini anymore. He's about 5'8" (is that how you write it? No matter, that's how I wrote it)

His friend, Maxi, who is 18 months older ... he's 6 foot 6.

Six foot six!

He's 15 years old FFS!

Really waffling now. Time I tried to sleep again.

One more half a sleep left ....

Well I didn't get round to slogging my guts out with housework (teeheehee)

Woke feeling v happy. All worries and nasties cast aside (see music blog for details)

I'm lovin that cheapo speaker set I got for the MP3 player. The reason it was only 97p is that it doesn't have a wire connection, you have to use batteries *shrug* the wired one costs a tenner.

The school phoned at lunchtime to let me know the boy was in loads of pain again with his back *eep*.

Phoned ex. No answer. Damn. He said the other day about his phone being lost. Took a deep breath and phoned his girlfriend. Well, fiancée. She didn't know he'd lost his phone. But I guess she'll soon find out that he tells lies ... and gets caught *cough*

Aaaanyway. He phoned then collected the wee yin after his work meeting. Took the boy to the doctors (I almost wrote Vets )

He's sprained a muscle in his back (which I knew) so has Ibuprofen 3 times per day now. Quite a cool doc, haven't seen him before. He was ace chatting with Mini, really put him at ease.

Pilates tomorrow morning, then town with P, then a mad dash home to tidy up the house me before Andy arrives at teatime - woohoo!

We shall be visiting some other bloggers of this parish on Saturday, all plans going well. Very looking forward to that too.

Wish I hadn't called-off a previous mini meet with Soy (having a mad head and expecting post-tooth-surgery-pain) so hope her and Vicky have a good piss-up

Happy me.

P.S. Twitterers ... there's a site that you can buy a red nose from, for yer avvie ... here

P.P.S. I'll be cooking at midnight. Last night I cleaned the bathroom floor at midnight

Click here to get it done

Anyone else been flagging all these porn blogs that keep popping up?

Andy calling Mini an honorary Devonian.

Then changing it to step-Devonian

Link

When will there be a break-through in sorting the symptoms of PMT?

The last two months have been ridiculous. The day before is always the worst.

Some folk don't get it, d'you think that's why it's not prioritised?

It's exacerbated, for me, when there are a load of things biting.

Some months I don't get any symptoms, well a bit less patience and some bloating but nothing traumatic. (December was fine as Andy was here)

I feel like a different person today.

P.S. I've tried many and varied remedies, none work. Apart from Andy

I reckon you'll be in the right shape to read that

toons

These are so not the funniest ones. Loads of sick humour. You'll love it

Name thingy

From here

1. subz

a girl who can drink most men under the table without them knowing it, also characterised by being seductive and very influential. a broad.

2. Subz

1. an extremely sexy girl who every guy wants to fuck.
2. a girl who likes to party hard, she'll dance with you all night.
3. a girl you makes you hard than a cinderblock.
4. a girl who's quiet but loud with her friends, usually a blonde, is sexy and every guy wants her and she make you hard. she also is a party girl.
5. a girl who makes you jack off or have a boner.

3. Subz

Subz - Name ranked 115th in popularity for females.

4. Subz

chronic boob sweat; usually girls that have this problem need to wear a deodorant of some sort on their cleavage; some side effects may be salty, smelly, or wet boobs

5. subz

A beautiful and sexy girl that is generally attracted to assholes. Although it is not on purpose for her to be an "asshole magnet" Subz is a nice girl and doesn't realise she deserves more.

6. Subz

When a woman rips all of the testicles off a male’s body and consumes them. Usually, this is performed by a female that is gene-related to the hippo.

etc

BOL!

Mini's been off school for mosta the week. He was sent home with a 'bad back'.

It's still hurting him. When he walks sometimes his leg buckles under him

I tried not to go all hypo about it ... he sits twisted at the PC/Xbox when he's up in his room. I reckon he's pinched a nerve.

He used a heat pad yesterday for a while, but when it got too hot it stressed him a bit. He refuses to take Ibuprofen

Dunno why I'm blogging this ... nothing else to blog about.

Here ... have a toon

Clikkit

I'm so tired of being on the defensive, worrying, serious, you'll never take me alive, back-to-the-wall, etc.

It's exhausting.

Fukkit.

I shall close my eyes to nastiness

and it shall go away ...

Tooth out.

She did it really fast. I was in there about 30 minutes and she took an x-ray!

Anyway ... phew.

Got the MP3 player I'd ordered for Mini. *chuffed for him*

Sat in Costa, watching P have a nice coffee. Most painful bit of having tooth out. No tea or coffee for ages, just chewing down on a cotton thing filled with what tastes like summat Madonna would live on during a detox.

Time to fire up that Earl Grey intravenous drip.

Head is starting to bump. Time for a short nap

Never mind, me.

Only 6 more to go.

Miscounted ... 7 more from this day.

I found something particularly interesting.

Click here.

It IS safe for work!

Found this on my RSS feed.

If you're thinking of getting a new mobile, you can trade-in your old one.

Click this link to find out how much your phone is worth.

Mine was only worth A QUID

P.S. I'm not a spammer

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Got up early. Early enough to go to gym. Ran my bath, whilst browsing emails and such. Spoke to OH on phone. Had bath. Brain tussled about it being such a nice day. Too nice to be in the gym. Plenty of time on other days to go to the gym

*sigh*

Walked into town, well - limped with stick. Felt un-intimidated by town as I had money for a change. I've been hibernating, trying not to spend. It paid off.

Lounged in Starbucks, reading. Bliss. I'm easily pleased.

Browsed some frilly shops. Rejected all. Looked for Zen Stone (MP3 player), I already have one but Mini's MP4 player is useless so I'm gonna get him the Stone. Couldn't find one anywhere but ... found speakers for the Zen Stone for *snigger* ... 97p

Ninety seven pence! Joy. They work really well too.

Splashed out on 2 DVDs. Burn After Reading & Dark Knight.

Dropped prescription request into chemist, bought foody things and got back here at 4ish.

Ex appears at door. "Where were you 10 minutes ago?"

Damn! Parents evening. Forgot.

*dread*

It turned out far better than I'd expected. Last parents evening it felt like we were being rebuked and I came away feeling like crap. This time it was fine. He's doing really well in R.E and History, English & Geography are improving and the rest ... he needs to contribute a bit more. Phew.

Home. Feeling sore but really good otherwise.

Twitterers

you might want this ... it's been bothering me for a while.

Sizzled Core read my mind

Frozen pancakes

in the micro for 1 minute and 20, each

top with Jif Lemon and golden granulated

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