Stop Running in the Corridors!!

Today's Prompt:
What were your favourite subjects in school? (This can be at multiple stages, such as primary school through to university.) What do you still love to learn or study or read about? What do you wish you had learned or studied?

HHmm this is a hard one, well primary school I dont know what was my favorite subject, I think there are 3 things I will always remember from primary school, firstly, the little bottles of milk and the little red straw!! I dont know why but that is the first thing that ALWAYS pops into my head when I think of primary school, for some crazy reason I used to love that milk, where as I have an intolorence to other milk!! go figure LOL. Secondly, After school club, sometimes my parents were not always able to pick me up dead on time, so I remember going into the little annex off the corridor with Mrs Pink, loved her she was lovely, one of those people that are warm and always cuddled you, but we used to make little cushions, and table decorations, my mum still has the christmas table decoration, modified but it still has Claire aged 7 on the base !! oh the memories, and finally in primary school I will always remember the playground, from all us girls running along the painted lines, to "whats the time Mr Wolf" to ballsy up against the wall !!!

As for secondary school, I suppose my favorite subjects were History, Art and Dance, they were the ones I loved going to school for, and again, I have fond memories, just the odd small snippets, and it was even more strange as someone that used to go to my school started a website for ex pupils and teachers alike to visit memory lane, and there is one picture from the top of our school stairwell looking down, bearing in mind our school was 5 floors tall!! the caption is "and we never battered an eyelid" knowing full well if I had to walk one flight of those stairs now I would be panting like a gooden!! but the little snippets are, the drama room, god it was so dark so black so erri, the many stories of the assembly hall and under the stage being haunted!! oh, how I scared easy back then (who am I kidding im no different now LOL), and the Chelsea Smilers were on their way to our school to put perminent smiles on our faces with CFC on our foreheads LOL, and me trying to be so cool jumping over a fence in front of a load of boys and getting my skirt caught on the railings and ripping my hem, and that was on our 10am break, how long that day was, or trying to bunk off school knowing full well that the whole post office in my area knew what I looked like and would immediatley get back to my dad (he worked on the post) but trying to get away with it was the whole thrill! or fancying the new young assistance school caretaker (holds her head in shame!!)

School all in all was fun, not sure if I would go back now, if I could go back to when I was there then yes I would, I had many days of fun and laughter, hissy fits and tantrums when my hair wouldnt curl anymore, looking like poochy was my aim!! or running out of my second can of hairspray that morning!! and I think I would pay more attention to subjects and appreciate that my english essay was not the biggest stress of my life!! or not knowing what tetonic plate California was on wasnt going to be the most humilating thing ever to happen in my lifetime!!

I know I kind of sidetracked a little on the prompt but I couldnt help sharing my humilations with you all, oh and remember Dont Run!! Walk that was such a grown up thing to say, just cos the grown ups couldnt run without panting a puffing (sound familiar ;-))

Dream a little Dream for Me!

Prompt for today:-

Dreams, goals, fantasies, whatever you call them: Describe FIVE things you’d like to accomplish in your (future) lifetime. How do you plan to do them? What are you doing today to prepare for/do each of them?

Interesting, each new year I vow never to make resolutions, but what I do instead is write on a peice of paper what I want to try to achieve for that year and place them in my diary, sounds great doesnt it!!

Thats until the end of the year and find all the little slips that had my goals on are placed into December LOL, so looking at life goals are different to me I cant push my goals any further, so here is my list......

1. As im now 31, and have finally found the man of my dreams, my first goal is to share my life with him and get married, we have found a really nice venue to get married, and now just have to set a budget and then just save..............there is no date, probably wont be for a few years or how ever long it will take to save.
2. Children, as mentioned in a blog a few days ago, this is a hit and miss subject, I suffer from PCOS and really want children, but like normal other things have pushed that back and we now hope to start a family in the next 12-18 months, we are not fussed which way round we go marraige then children, or children then marriage, its something that is out of our hands, firstly we have to overcome the PCOS problem and then also fit it in with our money, in not saying I have to be rich, but I know the next 6 months at least will not be good timing!
3. Now for the supposidly easier things to gain in life, I want to lose 4 stone in total before I get married............so a nice long deadline there LOL
4. Go on a fantastic holiday just Roger and I
5. And become a good scrapbooker!!

See I only have 2 huges goals in my life, and have plenty of time to get there, but I want them now, as for what im doing to get there, its just a case of saving and listening for signs. I am waiting for my dad to relay next weeks winning lottery numbers LOL

I will let you know as and when I tick off my goals!! I hope you are all still around in 10 years time hehehe

Me x

Concerns!

Just a brief note for tonight. Came home from work early today, felt a little under the weather had a real pain in my right side, it kinda felt like in the region of your ovaries! its calmed down now, so I decided to come up onto my computter and surf and say hello to all my lovely friends, and I found another thread on UKS saying about someone losing their nearest and dearest.

It is something that really scares me at the moment, I recently lost my dad back in may to Phenomonia he was 65! but im reading on UKS and seeing photos of people that have just passed away and they are so young, what has this world come too, I know you have to expect it, but for heavens sake the people I have seen recently are now older then 45....and another site I am registered on a lovely wonderful family lost their son he was no more then 5, it breaks my heart to see such young people being snatched away like that.

So my thought to ponder on is....love the ones in your life, for all their flaws and good points, love them for their good, their bad, their funny and their tantrums...all that is bad has an equal good, and that is why you love and cherish the people in your life, they have etched a mark on your heart, and graced your life for a reason, so love and cherish every day.

(Dad I miss you and love you always x)

A Trip to Trumpton?

Janes Promtp for today, and a good one at that:

What’s your dream holiday destination? Why? What would you do on your holiday? How much time would you spend there? Who would you take with you?

All aboard to Trumpton then!! ok seriously, again this is going to have to be a lottery win or money no object blog today, I think I would have to go along the lines of a couple of places for short periods of time.

Firstly,I would head for San Francisco, its just somewhere I have always thought looks lovely, never been so I could be totally wrong, but its somewhere I would love to go, and I think I would do 5 days there, a perfect way to get work out the system and chill, before moving onto New York, and it would have to be Christmas time, to me that would be ideal, walking around NY's Macey's and Bloomingdales buying loads of pressies, hopefully it would be snowing, that real christmas feel, there is no better of a feeling! then in between Christmas and New Year I would fly to Sydney and spend New Years Eve in Sydney Harbour, I have seen how they celebrate over there and it looks fabby, spend a couple of days there and to finish my holiday I would then fly to Venice, winter in Venice is stunning, it seems even more beautiful!

So in total it would be just over a month off, going to the places I would love to go, and to be truthful and one of the best times, I would be able to see 4 cities at Christmas time, and as that is my favorite time of year its a perfect holiday, and there is only 1 person in my life I would share those moments with and thats my partner Roger.

The reason for my holidays lately are mainly to spend quality time with Roger, we both seem to be really busy with work and the stresses that come with it, so anytime we can spend together is a dream, so this would be perfect!! Im chilled just thinking about it now.

Talking about Chrimbo has got me all excited!! on 86 days to go woohoo

Favorite Things!!

Sounds like a song more then a prompt hehe!!


Ok so Janes prompt today was: - What are your scrapbook ‘buttons’? What item(s) do you find you can’t enough of? Have too many of? Can’t find ‘the perfect one’ of? Sets you in a rant about? Disappoint you the most?


Well im new to scrapbooking, I have only done 6 LOs and even then it was a few months ago, you see I am an avid card maker too, I enjoy making cards as more people see my work, and its building my confidence alot, I had a real knock back in my confidence a few years back so slowly but surely its coming which is fab! so taking the card making into consideration and the LOs I have made, I can confirm my downfall is BRADS, BRADS, BRADS oh and BRADS and some buttons and some ribbons LOL!!


I love Brads (even Brad Pitt ooo fab link!!) I just think that there are so many fab brads out there from around the block, to the general stars and coloured ones, there are just too many to list, but on top of that I have just got into buttons and ribbons, they give such a fab finish to everything, im making a load of Chrimbo cards at the moment and the ribbon is just finishing it off perfectly, and the reaction is great!!

I also have a great Tote bag, I got it from a site on line, the name has left me, but it was only £9.99 my OH brought it for my birthday in July, and as I go to a monthly craft meeting it has become a life saver, and the amount of boxes you get in there is amazing, it was like the never ending storage bag, I kept pulling more and more out, I felt like Mary Poppins hehehe.

So we have figured out I love allsorts of colours, shapes and size brads, ribbons and buttons, but if there was one thing I could not live without in my crafty life it would be.................hhmm this is hard....................probably my crafty tool, the one I use for everything, picking up peel offs, making holes, pulling back D/S tape backing, scoring you name it my little tool is a valuable thing in my life and I hold it dear to me LOL I know only my crafty friends will understand how a tool is so important in my life, I know my other friends will just think im barking!

So for now, until I get into scrapping more those are some of my Favorite things, im sure after making my next few LO my list will grow a little more....................


Me xx

Rule for all excluding the Boss!!

HHmm ok so how is that!! How does it work, there is a rule for everyone in life but each rule seems to exclude my boss, amazing really how on earth can my boss get away with everything, she has just come back from a 2 week holiday, and has left early.....go figure that one, and she also happened to mention that she is going to be late on Thursday as she has Osteo!! my god I have never known someone to have so much therepy! in fact where does she get the money to go to the Osteo every other week, I remembered when I had to go to the Chiropractor and that was £25.00 a shot, I fell like im the only mug around at the moment, and truthfully I feel I have had enough (not that I am every going to leave LOL)

Ok rant over will think of something positive to say in my next blog.....thanks

Me xx

A Blissful 24hrs

Sunday blog prompt!

So many of us rush through our days - Not letting the little things that usually mean so much to us get a look in, we fill our time doing things for other people, and putting so many people before us.If you could spend a day, doing everything for yourself, with no indulgence spared - what would you do.... 24 solid selfcentred beautiful hours!

So I can pick anything for me to do in 24hrs...The whole thought of just having 24hrs to do whatever indulgence is mind blowing, as it depends on my mood, today im very chilled and relaxed....but im tempted to say spa, and relax by the pool, but I know I would just get bored! so for me I think it would have to be:-

Up reasonably early around 8-9am wake Rog up and tell him we are having a day to ourselves, so the night before I would have organised from somewhere for someone to deliver a no expenses spared breakfast, so we could just get up and walk into the garden, and there waiting is our wonderful breakfast and coffee, the sun would be out and nice and warm on our freshly woken skin, then I would go and have a nice shower, in time for a knock on the door which would be a chauffer for the day. Showered, dressed and ready for my 24hrs of pure selfish bliss!! from that moment on my mobile would be off and left at home, and then here comes my day of pure heaven, I keep saying to Roger I would love to take him to Vience so for me that would be my perfect day, a private flight to Venice, have a light bite to eat on arrival, take a slow Gondola relaxing and still feeling that lovely warm sunshine, im chilled just typing this what heavenly thoughts!!

So my basis of a perfect day so far is me and Roger in Venice no mobiles, no interuptions, many people dont realise that Venice has a beach too, so I think I would spend some time chilling on sand looking at the horizon, and have some lunch brought to us, there is something about looking out at the horizon that too me I find fascinating and very relaxing, just thinking of many silly things like I wonder what bla is doing now, while im staring at the most amazing view hehe, after having some lunch I would go shopping (I had too hehe...) taking slow walks in and out of the wonderful Italian style shops being waited on hand and foot!! and spending like this 24hrs period is the most richest ive been (oh what a thought...ponder on that one for a little longer.....) ok so where was I oh yeah shopping, and I think just for a little bit I would go and have my make up done and manicure that would be the most I could cope with....and in true fashion the day draws to the evening and Venice in the evening is the most astounding sight ive seen.......

As soon as the night begins to fall I we would be taken to a lovely resturant that shows the best of Venice and there we would eat, drink and be entertained till its time to be taken to the hotel (hey I have 24hrs which means 9am tomorrow hehe) and there I would end a perfect 24hrs of no interruptions, just me, Roger and Venice, oh and 24hrs of being rich!!

So thank you Scrapfairy for putting this lovely thought in my head for today, it was a great Blog prompt and has made me think lovely warm chilling thoughts........I know its not a fab 24hrs but to me that is heaven, thanks for letting me share it with you all

For now love ya all
Me xx

UKS Blog Prompt

Today's blog prompt is about friends and friendships: Do you have a true friend? What is a true friend, after all? Are you a good friend? Describe your friend(s) or perhaps need/wish for one. I found two quotes that might help: ‘Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things’ (Author Unknown) and ‘A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.’ (Grace Pulpit).

I know I know I am a day late, but I just did not get around to finishing off yesterday, I was all too excited about having a blog spot!

Anyway, friends, yes I do have a select few that I cherish and hold close to me as friends, I have some friends that ok, due to busy work schedules and married lives we are not in as much contact, but I know those friends are always there and never frown or moan if we do not chat on a weekly basis, and friends like that are hard to find!! Those are the ones that I have made friendships with over my entire life, from school, college, and work.

But those I adore and cherish are the ones I see regularly and make me laugh on a daily basis, people like Nikki, Lisa, Alison, Jim, Ric, Amanda, Suzy these are my friends that I see and speak to on a very regular basis, and hold very close to my heart, these are the people that honestly look at me and take me for who I am, they never question why I might be down but instead make me laugh and try to take my mind of whatever it is!

Jim always makes me laugh he has the ability to double me in laughing, he has a natural ability to make people laugh!

Nikki is crazy bless her she is the sensible teacher through the week and turns into a dancing and giggling machine over the weekend, she never fails to put a smile on my face, but at the same time listens to me should I need a rant.

But I suppose if I was to say I have a ranting buddy then its the one and only Lisa, she is someone that has only recently become a true friend, this is someone that I have worked with on and off for nearly 2 years now, but have got to know her more in the last year, and I suppose I could say that out of all my friends she is probably the one that knows more about me and my past and future plans, she has left now to have her little sprouty (her words), she left yesterday, and I will be honest I am going to miss her loads!

Amanda, she is someone else that I have worked with in the last year, and to be truthful, someone I did not think I would click with as much as I have, not because there is something wrong with her, its just we are totally different to one and other, she is lucky enough to have her little family unit, which im please to say Gemma has just recently joined her little family, she was born in August weighing a hefty 10lbs (I bet you winched!!), anyway we did click and she is a very good friend and I think the world of her! but I still think she is selfish, I mean taking 6 months off to be with her little ones and not being with me at work lol only kidding!! cant wait for her to come back I have missed her infectious laugh.

Ric, I suppose out of my friends outside of work he would be the person I turn to first, I know I could tell him my deepest darkest secret but I know that would go with him to his grave! but he would laugh at me in the meantime! Its the type of relationship we have, we always take the mick out of each other, I call him Caveman, and he always calls me allsorts, we are both very much alike, we are both very hard exterior but as soft as mush on the inside, but very few will see that softer side, its just how I was brought up!

Alison, she is Rics wife, feels strange typing that, as its a recently thing, they got married at the end of August, and its these that I think the world of and because of this, I have have decided to to probably the biggest craft project ever which is to make a scrapbook of their wedding! in a way its a thank you for asking me to do their invites, in my eyes they believed in me that much that they gave me free rein over their invites and they were chufted so this is my way of saying thanks for believing in me!

Suzy, she is the last of my friends that I work with, she has recently come back from having a little boy, and he is truthfully the cutest little boy you have ever laid eyes on, its nice to have her back to have a laugh with even tho' she is miss stressy head!

But the final friend that is not listed, is someone that I have had the pleasure of knowing for 5 years, a true friend, someone that loves me for me, expects me for who I am and what I stand for, and is the biggest influence and supporter of my craft addicition, and is the one person who I owe my life to and thats Roger, my parter for 5 years, he is my love, my life and truely without sound corny my best friend.

Mex

A Cruel World

Ok so I have had my blog now for less then 6 hours and im just blogging away, whilst I have been messing around sorting this out, and finding important links in my life, I come across a couple of sites in my favourites that mean alot to me.

Im talking not about my crafting life but the fact that I have PCOS, Poly Cystic Ovaries, nasty little thing, I was diagnosed with it when I was 18 and at the time it was a thing not greatly known about, I was told that 1 in 5 women suffer with this but had very little information, apart from 1 of 2 things! 1 I probably wont have children, or 2 if I do I will hit many heartaches along the way, and at 18 I was no where near ready for a family but when your told that you begin to think "hey I want a family now, I have done everything I want" but I suppose thats the kind of mind your in when you get hit with a bombshell like that!

It wasnt until a few years later I thought hold on I need to find out what this is all about, and basically in a nut shell, its a condition that can bring on weight gain, missed periods, Diabeties, its a problem caused by insulin in balance along with a few other things, and the long and short of it is 'its not something that can be cured' you have several levels some are not so bad and some people have it terribly bad.

Aparently, if you are a lucky one at a certain age your body can try to level out, and if you are lucky enough to have children that can also start to balance your insulin and hormones out. My level is in between good and bad, I took a radical choice to stop any meds and let my body sort itself out, and slowly my cycles are a lot more regular then ever before. But im not saying all PCOS sufferers should stop then meds, its something that I discussed with my doctors and went from there under close watch.

I have fallen pregnant in the last few years, but it never worked out, the doctors blamed it on the slimming pill at the time, so in my eyes there is hope, maybe but maybe the world is not that cruel!!

Watch this space

Mexx

Friday Afternoon

Well here I am again!!

I have finished messing around with my new blog for now, been having so much fun, the possiblities are endless!!

Sad day for me today, my buddy is leaving to have her little baby, really going to miss her, we have such a laugh and she is my mailing partner! but im glad she is off now she needs the rest, I have mentioned to her that im doing a scrapbook for my best mates wedding, and I am looking forward to it, just pooping myself as im my own worst critic, but I think most crafters are the same!

So im thinking over the next few months after I have done this wedding one, I might start one for her littlen get things prepared and give it to her so all she has to do is sticker of photos in there, or if she wants I can do it for her, so then all she has to do is journal.

Been to the pub for her farewell drink, its raining and its look very much like winter, I do like this time of year, its a real snuggle time, you know close the curtains and snuggle on the sofa love it, I also get very excited for christmas and that......only 93 days woohoo

Right I suppose I should contemplate some work hehe

Mexx

My first Blog

Wow - I finally have a blogger!!

I felt I was missing out on a fantastic phenomen and thanks to a lovely lady Panicmum on UKS I have now gone and got my own blogger!!

So more from me soon

Claire