Spread your wings and fly away

An invite comes through:

Hi really like your blog hope you will add me to your friends list.

So I check them out and guess what?

Yes Swarmmmmy the troll and desperate friend collecter is on this person's list.

I have declined the invite, not going to go there

My youngest son visits highschool today. He gets to spend the day there, meeting his new form teacher and getting used to his new classmates ready for September.

He is very excited.

I have thought of every obstacle imaginable. As I won't be here when he leaves for school, I have to be at work by 8 and as the high school is only round the corner he will not be leaving until 8.20, his brother is going to walk him to the bottom of the road and make sure he is facing the right direction to get to high school. This is a necessity as he gets lost going to his bedroom sometimes (ok slight exaggeration, but anyone who has a child with dyslexia that has dyspraxic tendencies will understand where I am coming from here )

Knowing the school is going to be undergoing building works in September, under the Building schools for the future scheme, thus becoming portacabin city for at least a year, is not helping to ease my fears. Oh I know he will get on fine and find his feet and work his way round and I am just being paranoid. I didn't go through all this with my eldest probably because he is the confident one,nothing fazes him, whereas the youngest gets confused easily, comes across as confident but really is not that confident at all.

It will all be fine, he will be ok, but I wouldn't be a mum if I didn't worry

In other news, it is far too hot to work in a very hot classroom all day, not looking forward to that at all. Yesterday I was dripping, which is not a good look. I hope it is like this over the summer holidays though, nothing worse than working in weather like this and finding that it rains for 6 weeks! Weekend isn't looking too good though!

have a good day xx

So there we are, cuddling in bed watching film this morning.

Me: Eric Estrada hasn't changed much has he?

Him: Who?

You know Eric Estrada!

No

Chips? cops on motorcycles with David whatshisname?

No never watched the programme.

So I point him out to him.

No he says, no idea who he is.

Bit later on:

Have you noticed that women in adverts only ever have small tits?

On the internet, chat forums were awash with Jackson tributes from people who were convinced he was a pervert and wanted him strung up, but who were now desperate to tell the world that he was a victim of the media and that Thriller was a ground-breaking work of genius.

here

The hype surrounding Michael Jackson is so totally ridiculous.

A shame he died so young, no one would want that, and it must be hard on his family and children.

However, he wasn't the greatest ever musician. He had a couple of good songs, he was an entertainer, but he obviously had a very unconventional childhood which caused him to behave the way he did as he got older. Inviting children to his bed was stupid, the parents of the children that allowed it were stupider still. Michael Jackson set himself up for ridiculed, to be vilified, and for a big major fall. He didn't know how to live and even if it was because of his upbringing that made him act like a big kid, there is no reason what so ever to put him on a pedestal and blow his death out of proportion.

I woke up to the news this morning. It is like nothing else has gone on in the world. All day long there has been celebrities, Uri frigging Gellar and any one else who claims to have known him personally, been best buddies with him singing his praises and making out that due to his untimely death it will be a sadder world without him.

It will not.

He was never the greatest. No one deserves that title. Some people were not fans and don't need to hear about it 24/7.

I am just waiting for all those 'fans' that got their tickets on the internet, from various touts to start bemoaning about money they have lost as there is no longer any show to see and they can't get them refunded.

Please before you slate me, remember this:
it is my blog,
it is my opinion
I can write what the hell I like, if you don't like it don't read it!!

I am so fed up.

Yesterday I walke 1/4 of a mile to another school to collect 5 children who had been visiting as part of their transition. I walked them the 1/4 mile back.

10mins after getting back, my eyes start itching like mad.

3.30 and children were asking "Are you alright miss your eye is very red!" or "Miss your eye is swollen, have you got hayfever?" or "Have you been crying miss?"

Get home and one eye has calmed down the other is still very red, very sore and very weepy. I bathe them both several times and add some eye drops that sting like mad. I eventually go to bed I can't take it anymore.

This morning I look like I have been badly beaten. One eye is itchy the other is swollen and very very red. It took 5 mins of bathing to get it to unstick and open. It is very sore.

I am so fed up with it all, daren't go outside and so want to after wanting some sun all year.

I really could cry if I thought it would do any good.

This is where my youngest son has gone for the week. He will love it.

I will miss him it is so quiet here, each doing their own thing without the chatterbox!

Edest son is currently online researching universities.

He already has us booked in for an open day at Aberystwyth in October which means I will have to ask for time off work to get him there.

I have no idea what he wants to do yet but he has always wanted to go to Wales and sees this as his chance. Mind you if we wrangle it right and are nice to my aunt and Uncle when we go to visit them in July, he may be able to stay with them which will save on residency fees I hope. If not, on top of tuition fees and everything else I can see us going bankrupt in the near future!

He is going to have to get a job!

My mother is a great believer in Manuka honey. She uses it for everything - you have a cough have some Manuka, there is a boil on your neck - have some manuka.

My eyes are still sore, my throat hurts, my nose drips, I feel rough. Yesterday I slept most of the day in between packing a case and ironing. Today I take more medication, drop youngest off at school and say goodbye as he heads off on the coach to Kingswood for the week and then go shopping. I found some Manuka honey all £12.99 of it for a small jar and desperate for anything to work now buy it.

I have had two teaspoons so far and realised why I hate honey so much. THough very sweet it has an aftertaste. But I shall persevere, yes I am that desperate. Hayfever I may have but I think I may have an infection as well as I am so lifeless, and feel fluey though I have none of the symptons of flu (if that makes sense). Mind you it is probably too late to do anything about the hayfever but if it eases the soreness and metallic taste in my throat when I cough then I will be pleased with that.

Right enough rambling better do something more constructive!

Have a good day xx

In a few weeks time the quiz group are getting together to do a Murder Mystery evening.

We have the game and are in the process of sorting out parts.

Yesterday the women picked their parts out of a hat.

It is set at a golf course and I have the part of the barmaid, Ivana Tip who gets angry if she doesn't get a tip.

I am awaiting instructions for costume ideas, though am trying to get ahead with that, something sexy to accomodate my large frame.

Any suggestions?

So I come home from work and find a letter waiting for me.

Or rather hubby but he never opens anything addressed to him.

Anyway I have been nagging hubby for ages about phoning Virgin and having our system upgraded to V+ but as he has no idea what I am talking to and the bill is in his name therefore they will not talk to me, it has never happened.

So the letter today informs hubby that he is a VIP customer (in other words we pay the bill on time not difficult to do as it is one of the few things on direct debit) so we qualify for a V+ box, an upgrde to our broadband and unlimited talk time (as long as I put the phone down after an hour and redial) on the phone for the princely sum of £88 per month. Ok we have to pay an installation charge and I will have to put up with the sports packages for a year, but at least I get my V+ box and, surprisingly, even looking at the small print I will still save money our phone bill is astronomical!!

So hubby phones them, clutching the letter in his hand.

"Hello I would like a V+ box please"

He waits with the occasional oh and ok and yeah thrown in.

"What's our password?" he asks - I tell him

"Hmmm yes Isee hold on" He looks at me "He says it will cost us £150"

"no it won't"says I "Tell him about the letter"

"Err well it says here that we can have it for £88" he says back into the phone.
I am getting impatient - Tell him about the letter I mutter to him

"Err yes but it says £88"

Make it clear what you are talking about!

"No the letter says VIP package £88"

FFS let me speak to them will you!!!

"Hold on a minute!" turns to me and says "I am trying to concentrate stop shouting at me!"
Turns back to the phone "Sorry about that, not this letter says I can have the V+ box for £88. Yes with broadband, errr yes, umm, yes, er Yes we want that as well please, err yes, um yes please, Saturday? Yes that will be great"

He then starts telling them about the second line we no longer want because all we get are those silly people who try to sell you something but when met with the answer machine they hang up. Today 10 messages each one blank, it is frigging annoying. They are going to remove it and put a barr on the other phone.

A result there then.

So he hangs up.

"Are we going to get all the package?" I ask

"Yes" he says "V+, broadband, phone and we get to keep our other box so we can put that upstairs isn't that great?" He says.

So I got there in the end only taken a year to get this far hooray!!

Kissed any one of your blog friends? No

Been arrested? No

Kissed someone you didn't like? No

Slept in until 5 PM? No

Fallen asleep at work/school? No

Held a snake? No

Ran a red light? Yes

Been suspended from school? No

Experienced love at first sight? Yes

Totalled your car in an accident? Yes

Been fired from a job? No

Fired somebody? No

Sang karaoke? No

Pointed a gun at someone? No

Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? No

Laughed until something you were drinking or eating came out your nose? Yes

Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Yes

Had a close brush with death? Yes

Played spin-the-bottle? Yes

Sang in the shower? Yes

Smoked a cigar? No

Sat on a rooftop? No

Smuggled something into another country? Does Scotland to England count? No

Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? No

Broken a bone? Yes the one in my nose

Skipped school? No

Sleepwalked? No

Walked a moonlit beach? No

Rode a motorcycle? No

Dumped someone? Yes

Forgotten your anniversary? No

Lied to avoid a ticket? No

Ridden on a helicopter? No

Shaved your head? No

Played a prank on someone? Yes

Hit a home run? No

Felt like killing someone? Yes

Cross-dressed? No

Been falling-down drunk? No

Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? No

Eaten snake? No

Marched/Protested? No

Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? No

Puked on amusement ride? No

Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? Yes

Been in a band? Yes

Knitted? Yes - well tried unsuccessfully

Been on TV? No

Shot a gun? No

Skinny-dipped? No

Gave someone stitches? No

Eaten a whole habenero pepper? No

Ridden a surfboard? No

Drank straight from a liquor bottle? Yes

Had surgery? Yes

Streaked? No

Taken by ambulance to hospital? No

Tripped on mushrooms? No

Passed out when not drinking? No

Peed on a bush? No

Donated Blood? No not allowed to

Grabbed electric fence? No

Eaten alligator meat? No

Eaten your kids' Halloween candy? No

Killed an animal when not hunting? No

Peed your pants in public? No

Written graffiti? No

Still love someone you shouldn't? No

Think about the future? Yes

Been in handcuffs? No

Believe in love? Yes

Sleep on a certain side of the bed? Yes