Spread your wings and fly away

Stolen from Maddogs who stole it from.....Ohh you know how it goes!!

What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Meet some wonderful people from Blogland for the first time

Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any reolutions as I usually fail at keeping them. Instead I made up a plan for the year and still failed to keep to it!

Did anyone close to you give birth?
No not that I know of

Did anyone close to you die?
If they did no one told me

What countries did you visit?
None

What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
More money

What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
October 1st my first car accident in 16 years

What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting through this year in one piece and finishing that darn cross stitching project

What was your biggest failure?
Not sticking to the plan made at the beginning of the year

Did you suffer illness or injury?
usual back pain and now Neck/whiplash injury

What was the best thing you bought?
My new car thought could have done without having to get another one

Whose behaviour merited celebration?
I don't know

Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
All the politicians who think they are doing us all a favour while lining their own pockets and doing bugger all

Where did most of your money go?
On a new car on the kids as usual

What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Meeting up with bloggers on mini blog meets (I really am sad)

What song will always remind you of 2007?
Bon jovi Livin on a Prayer

Compared to this time last year, are you:
a)happier or sadder? Happier
b)thinner or fatter? Fatter
c) richer or poorer? poorer.

What do you wish you'd done more of?
Exercise.My back is really playing up now

What do you wish you'd done less of?
Comfort eat.

Did you fall in love in 2007?
No. I am already in love

How many one-night stands?
None I am married and happily at that

What was your favourite TV program?
House

Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No

What was the best book you read?
None of them were very memorable.

What was your greatest musical discovery?
Hmmm finding my old Metallica discs lol
Seriously I like some of the songs by Newton Faulkner, Josh Groban, though I usually listen to my old faithfuls - Bon Jovi, Snow patrol, Foo Fighters

What did you want and get?
a Vauxhall Zafira

What did you want and not get?
Dogma DVD (apparently no one is selling them now!)

What was your favourite film of this year?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Worlds End

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was working on my birthday. I was 41

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
For my husband to get the respect he deserves in his work

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
comfortable

What kept you sane?
My husband as always

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Jon Bon Jovi

What political issue stirred you the most?
Far too many to choose from but let us start with Education because it really is the bloody pits!

Whom did you miss?
My Grandfather

Who was the best new person you met?
Everyone that I have met from here on the two mini blogmeets I attended

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Doesn't matter how much or hard you work, no one will appreciate it when you are dead

Love and Marriage

A man took his wife to the rodeo and one of the first exhibits they stopped at was the breeding bulls.
They went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said,

'THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR'

The wife playfully nudged her husband in the ribs and said, 'He mated 50 times last year.'

They walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said,

''THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR'

The wife gave her husband a healthy jab and said, 'That's more than twice a week! You could learn a lot from him.'

They walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in capital letters,

'THIS BULL MATED 365 TIMES LAST YEAR'

The wife, so excited that her elbow nearly broke her husband's ribs, said,'That's once a day.You could REALLY learn something from this one

The husband looked at her and said, 'Go over and ask him if it was with the same old cow.'

The husband's condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and he should eventually make a full recovery.

This morning I have been to town and back. This was a lot quicker than normal as I hate the sales. Even getting into town early this morning you could see people queueing outside Next waiting in anticipation of that bargain or not depending on what side of the fence you are on. We avoided our usual breakfast in Debenhams, instead went to the bank, Wilkinsons then home again. Town was beginning to get full.

Now Christmas is bad enough. People running around like idiots, buying whatever is on the shelves as though the shops will never open again, but this is nothing compared to the January Sales. A few years ago I had the dubious pleasure of visiting town during the first day of the sales, mainly because of when Christmas fell and the fact that I needed to pick something up urgently. So I wandered into Next where some woman was just pulling items of the shelves and dumping them into her basket.

"You're not a size 10" said the man who I can only assume was her long suffering husband/partner

"yes but at 25% off you can't pass up a bargain like that, someone might get into it at home" she replied

And yes that is the mentality of some of these shoppers who think they are getting a bargain, because a few days before hand the price of that item was astronomical just so that the retailer can say that they are trying to sell them in the sale at 25 or 50% sometimes 75% off. Let us remember that the retailers, whoever they are, are still making a profit of this, after all they probably only paid £2 for the item originally as it was made in some sweatshop somewhere!

Cynical aren't I?

I make no apologies for that, I just think it is total madness. of course there are bargains to be had but personally I would rather wait until the madness has died down before I go out there and have a look to see if there is anything worth buying - not that I have yet, afterall, I , like most people, am strapped of cash at this time of year, so bargain or no, my mortgage has to be a priority, the bills have to be paid, food has to be purchased and fed to my children before they starve, then if anything is left over, I will put away for a rainy day or towards my holiday. I have enough clothes for now, I just have to lose weight to get into them again

In other news, birthday party went well yesterday. After my indecisiveness as to what to wear, I settled for a pair of plain black linen trousers and a strappy top I got in the Sale at Sainsburys - tsk did I say sale? Well I needed to go out for milk and to buy some Whiskey for the birthday boy, and this top was a bargain at £4 so I couldn't pass that up could I lol

Have a good day everyone xx