Spread your wings and fly away

Son has disappeared to bed, that is early for him during holidays! Now all I have to do is upset hubby and I get a peaceful night. Off now to do my worst!

Lets just save time and say it is doing the rounds and I am bored lol!

1. Initials:
SJH

2. Name someone with the same birthday as you:
Al Pacino, Oliver Cromwell, Ella Fitzgerald, Fish (used to be in band Marillion),Renee Zwelleger to name but a few

3. Favorite fruit?
Peaches and cherries

4. For or against same sex marriage?
If you love one another why not.

5. Are you allergic to anything?
Co drydramol

6. Are you bisexual?
NO

7. Have you ever slept in someone else's clothes?
No

8. How many U.S. states have you been to?
1 - Florida

9. How many of the U.S. states have you lived in?
None

10. Have you ever lived outside the U.S.?
Er read what I wrote before

11. Name something physical you like about yourself.
My eyes

12. Something non-physical you like about yourself?
My family

13. Do you have any pets?
2 dogs, 3 birds, several tropical fish

14. What is your dream car?
One that has four wheels and works

15. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?
Anywhere that had peace and quiet.

16. Are you bipolar?
Nope, just hormonal.

17. What dream car do you want your husband/wife to drive?
One that has 4 wheels and is reliable

18. Where would you want to go on a first date?
I have a husband!

19. Would you date the person who posted this before you?
Er no answered that previously.

20. Has anyone ever sang or performed for you personally?
No

21. Ever been kissed under fireworks?
No don't like fireworks

22. Do you like president Bush?
No

23.Have you ever bungee jumped?
No

24. Have you ever white water rafted?
No

25. Has anyone 5 years older than you ever hit on you?
no

26. Are you racist?
No.

27. What song are you listening to right now?
I am watching the telly no music on

28. What's your favorite song at the moment?
I have far too many that I like, depends on what mood I am in

29. What was the last movie you watched?
Pirates of the caribbean 2

30. Where was the last place you went besides your workplace or house?
Into town

31. Have you ever seriously vandalized someone else's property?
No why would I want to do that?

32. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex?
No but threw a pint of beer over them

33. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Smile and personality

35. What do you usually order from Starbucks
No

36. Say something totally random about yourself?
I broke my nose once

37. Do you have an iPod?
No

38. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
No

39. Do you have freckles?
Yes.

41. Do you love someone right now?
Yes, My hubby, someone has to

42. How tall are you?
5'5''

43. Do you speak any other language other than English?
NO, Have o level french and german but haven't spoken them since I left school

44. Have you ever ridden in a limo?
No.

45. Has anyone you were really close to passed away?
Yes

46. Do you watch tv?
It is usually on in the background but don't watch unless I am interested in what is on

48. What's something that really annoys you?
People who are too lazy to say thank you, people who don't indicate at roundabouts

49. What are some things you really like?
Cross stitching, reading, chatting with friends, My hubby and children

50 Do you like Michael Jackson?
No, can't stand the bloke

51. Have you ever surfed?
Only the web.

52. Do you know how to pump gas?
Yes,

53. What do you drive?
Vauxhall Vectra called Vecky

54. What's the latest you have ever stayed out?
til 4am

55. Have you ever thought that you were honestly going to die?
Yes after the birth of first child during a blood transfusion

56. Were you ever rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room?
No

57. Have you ever been dared to do something you didn't want to do?
No

59. What color is your hair?
Brown with blonde highlights

60. What color are your eyes?
Blue.

61. Do you have any special talents?
Play Clarinet

62. Favorite non-alcoholic drink?
J2O orange and passionfruit

63. Favorite city?
Haven't really got one

64. Have you ever ridden a mechanical bull?
No.

65. If you were working on a pirate ship, what would you most likely be?
The captain

66. Who do you work with?
Lots of kids.

67. Last thing you watched on tv?
Blue Murder

68. Do you wear glasses or contacts?
Glasses and contact lenses

69. Have you ever taken a roadtrip?
No

Does anyone else find it difficult to rinse plates, cups, glasses etc before putting them away in a dishwasher?

Does anyone else find it impossible to follow instructions?

Does anyone out there ever wonder why you talk to people, or ask them to do something when it would be a lot quicker to have done it yourself in the first place?

Let me explain.

Dishwasher as you know blew up this morning. Ask eldest child to wash up items in it by hand for me.

Cooked dinner this evening. Wash up, decide to make sure inside dishwasher is clean ready to be dumped at the tidy tip to find it is still full up with the things I specificaly asked to be washed up.

So I have just spent the past hour doing the washing up that was in the dishwasher. It shouldn't have taken this long, but unfortunately for some unknown reason, the dishes were put into the dishwasher without being rinsed - we had macaroni cheese yesterday which has gone very hard so the plates ended up being soaked. I must admit I am a bit fussy about these things and there is a certain order to how I wash up as well, and insist upon everything being rinsed etc etc, so it took a long time, not impressed and not happy that I ended up doing it as well.

Oh and the other thing, son gets washing in but doesn't fold it up just leaves it on the chair screwed up! Guess who will be ironing all his own clothes from now on and he has the audacity to complain about me being in a bad mood - I haven't even begun yet!!!

As I thought it would!

Went round to see a friend. Sat in her garden the pair of us sewing on our individual projects and putting the world to rights over several cups of tea. In comes her husband from work holding my wing mirror from the car!

Some bastard got so close they took it clean off!

I was parked half on the pavement as the road they live on is very busy and people have a tendency to park either side - however you can still get two cars down the road passing each other without too many problems.

So I am now a mirror short on the drivers side which is a bugger as I rely on my mirrors due to the fact that when I have back problems i cannot turn round in my seat.

Then got home to find that I no longer have a cd rewriter on my computer as today it decided that it was going to break down all the inside of it burnt out!

They say it comes in threes hope that is it!!

Got this as an email, it is very funny!

Letter home from a Farm Kid

(NOW AT San Diego MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING.)
Dear Ma and Pa,
I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled. I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 A.M. but I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing. Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till noon when you get fed again.!

It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much. We go on "route marches," which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks. The country is nice but awful flat. The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.
This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.
Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your loving daughter, Carol

Went to Town today. eldest needed some school trousers, I needed to find out how much money I don't have and drop eldest off to get his hair cut. So far so good.

Actually it wasn't that bad in town for a change, well a lot easier to get round than it was at Asda yesterday anyway. Manged to bump into two collegues from work and one ex collegue so it took just a long to get round in the end. Managed to find a pair of trouser to fit son, nearly 15 with a 26inch waist and 32in inside leg - it is so difficult getting trousers to fit him! Got the trousers in BHS in the end, only just fit in the leg, hope he doesn't grow much more as for some reason they seem to think if you need a 28inch waist trouser then the long length in the leg only needs to be 30in!!

Mum phoned while I was out. We still cannot believe we have lost another member of the family, but the coroner has now done his bit and released the body so funeral can go ahead next Wednesday. Stil can't believe he has gone and I admit it hasn't hit me yet, he was just the life and soul of the party.

He part owned a pub in Germany and they have announced his death on the front page of their website which is nice, done a copy of it for mum for her memory box, I know she will appreciate that. Couple of nice things said about him on the guest book as well.

Feel a little lost this week I have to admit.

Couldn't have gone better really - dishwasher has just blown up!! Now have the decision to make, do I get a new one to replace it OR do I buy another cupboard to go in that space. Decisions, decisions.

One part of me is saying get rid of it altogether and put a cupboard there. Save water, do your bit for the environment. Downside to that is I will end up washing up on top of everything else I have to do. Of course it is supposed to be one of eldest Chores but as most of it goes in the dishwasher there is very little for him to do thus he gets lazy. One of the reasons we got the dishwasher in the first place was because I was tired of getting dirty plates where he had supposedly washed up - it is one of my biggest bug bears. So stress levels, angry moments, do it yourself or save all this and get a dishwasher.

Oh decisions decisions!!

Mind you It couldn't have happened at a worst time. MIL dishwasher gave up last week so we ended
up with a huge amount of dishwashing tablets, salt and rinse aid in the cupboard. Also the fact we have no spare money at the moment to replace the machine either. Then there is the problem of if I can get a cupboard that will match the rest of the kitchen to go in the gap that will be left by the dishwasher!

Decisions, Decisions!!!!