Back to work?
Don’t make me laugh! The government are apparently eager to get all of us malingerers off incapacity benefit and back on the work force – at least that’s the story..
Popularity contests
It seems life does come full circle – even when it’s a virtual life. I’m blaming Master K for this of course, he talked me into joining the twitter thing which in turn had me noticing a few other people on there, this in turn had me checking their blogs – which then had me [...]
Moving on up..
Sadly not in the ‘home’ sense of the word but I have taken the slightly scary first step of looking for work.
Karaoke
What a night – seriously, it’s been an absolute corker – I can’t even remember the last time i wanted to blog about a night in the Bull *grin*
In synch?
If this hits the right buttons you are. Cheers Steve AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. JAMES THATCHER
Banana cake
Today I have reigned supreme in the kitchen.. Only because himself wasn’t here of course, but supremely reigning I was indeedy. I have made the lightest, tastiest banana and pecan cake ever. Seriously – it’s to die for. It could be because I used half the sugar I normally do, it could be because I [...]
Go on then..
..Sum me up in 1000 words. Or not *grin* I was interviewed today by Sean (some of you may remember him, he was the filthy beast with whom I used to live before getting this here lovenest with my honey) he’s now studying journalism at Salford uni and has to interview ‘someone interesting’ apparantly my [...]
Attention mommy bloggers
recieved this via email from the lovely Steve.. Is it true? Birth order Your Clothes 1st baby: You begin wearing maternity clothes as soon as your OB/GYN confirms your pregnancy.
Mother in law wisdom
My MiL made an interesting observation actually, not about cfs/me etc but about the mindset of people these days.
Bugger.
So I didn’t get DLA, I’m not shocked, the medical assessment was hellish and I knew in my gut I’d be refused any more financial help. It sucks, just because I look normal and healthy i’m obviously faking it as far as they’re concerned, they don’t see me on the days i need to rest [...]
Jealousy
I truly am jealous of the new gaff Stefs sister and her boyfriend are in the process of moving too – it’s HUGE.
Sci-fi or fantasy?
I’ve just realised, I read Jamies blog a lot.
Oh what a beautiful morning!
It is absolutely gorgeous out there today. Bit cold still, but the front room seems so warm and inviting when the sun streams through like this – and to think I used to avoid the sun where possible (well, ok so I’m not planning on going outside in it for long, but i’m not hissing [...]
Devil man
I know, Rob Zombie is not the best artist to listen to before bed – especially that specific track – it’s all Stefs fault though. He’s playing CoH again and apparently they now have a streaming radio to listen to and he keeps asking me if i’ve ever heard of the artists on there *tuts* [...]
Isn’t life grand?!
In an abrupt change of mood from the last few days i’m going to bed full of the joy of life – no I don’t mean i’m preggers, I am however pretty happy right now.
Valentines day massacre
We climbed out of the pit around midday, slobbed around for another couple of hours then got in the car to sit in rush hour traffic and listen to steve wright and chris evans on radio 2, then we came home, ate take out, watched films and went to bed.
AHAHahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I’ve just found out that St. Valentines day is also national impotence day
A day in the life..
I wake up, distinct lack of enthusiasm for moving from the bed to the bathroom despite an insistant nagging from my bladder. I lie there almost dozing for a couple of hours, halfheartedly trying to convince myself it’d be a good idea to get out of bed – I know if I really push myself [...]
Procrastination at it’s finest
Seriously, how better to procrastinate than to read about ways of avoiding it. Genius
Flyyyy little wi-ing
Just listening to a few of the tracks we’re rehearsing – I just hope my throats up for it *sigh* ah well, I’ve a fair amount of time until we get together again.
The Anchor and horseshoes
We went to claires showcase and it was actually a cracking night, there are a fair few things I would have done differently had I been the promoter – not the least being select a more suitable venue, but at least there was enough parking for us all.
High school musical
I’ve seen this thing everywhere – and I do mean everywhere, Claire started talking about it tonight because apparantly all her kids love it (by ‘her kids’ I mean the ones she teaches music to) so I asked her what the deal was – this sparked off a huge discussion with her sister about the [...]
I dunno..
Can you believe the reason I cannot log into my web account is because my host took it upon themselves to change my log in details without informing me?
Dirty weekend in Durham
Well, not really a dirty weekend, but it sounds good *grin* One of Stef’s friends got married on Saturday, we had to go really – he made Stef do a reading at the wedding (which he got through in magnificent style despite his qualms about using the word ‘foibles’ *chuckle*) When we tried to book [...]
Latest on the ebay fiasco
okies, here’s what I sent to the paypal resolution centre about 2 minutes ago: I requested confirmation of shipping from the seller as I’d had no correspondnace and they were no longer registered on ebay. I gave them a little more leeway after they emailed me to apologise and state that a job offer over [...]
Bummer.
Figures really, I was still buzzing so much that even after I wen to bed at a fairly reasonable hour i was still lying in the dark, wide awake when him downstairs starts.
Happy dancy joy and goodness!
*grin* I’m a happy bunny. Not only did I get a really good nights sleep last night (I even slept through him downstairs according to Stef) But I’ve just spent 4 hours wandering round the Trafford center with Nic, I’ve been in every womens clothes shop there and tried on several dresses and had an [...]
It’s not fair!
I’m beginning to think someone somewhere doesn’t want me to start making these watch sets for ebay. I’ve given up on eBay itself as my watch face supplier and I’ve tried 4 different websites this morning – 2 of them didn’t ship to the uk (and they only tell you this once you get to [...]
I’m turning into Victor Meldrew..
When I was a kid I wrote into ‘the Gusher’ aka the Daventry Express, I wrote about the apalling lack of facilities around for kids who had no money and nowhere to go – I wrote it in response to a person who complained about the gangs of kids hanging around the end of their [...]
Arse.
I’ve had my first bad eBay experience and it smarts. I ordered a load of 4mm bicone crystals just before christmas and asked that they not be shipped until the new year, I only started worrying when the transaction disappeared from ‘my ebay’ without notice.
It’s a chocolate christmas
I woke up this morning after dreaming that i’d gone downstairs to open my gifts only to find everyone else had already opened theirs and half of the things we’d brought were missing – instead there were just hundreds of chocolate eggs – and all the ones i’m not too keen on, cadburys caramel and [...]
“We gotta get out of this place..”
I’ve been looking around for possible places to move to – as well as possible routes to getting back to work.
L’Italia e fantastica!
Well hello guys and gals *kiss* ahhhhm baaaaaack! What a fantastic holiday! I kid you not, Italy is basically the place you should all visit at least once in your life – especially the Vatican.
Loved up and loving it.
I really really love my man. I mean, totally – in a sickeningly gushy, want his babies type way. He’s an evil little fecker with a sadistic sense of humour, irritating as sin in an ‘always right’ kind of way and so handy it hurts.
Not a lot..
We were driving along in the car the other day, listening to radio 2, as you do.. Who should be talking but that national treasure of ours Paul Daniels himself. He’s a clever bod is our Paul. Not only is he renowned for his magic show, but he’s done a fair old few of the [...]
Looking back
I’ve spent the last few days being completely knackered, tonight – I can’t sleep.. wide awake, buzzing and more mentally alert than I ‘ve been in months. Obviously a good time to have a look through all my old text and word documents to clean out old unwanted files – which led to me deciding [...]
New neighbours
I hate that feeling when you’ve upset someone where it wasn’t intended, I get really worked up by things like that and end up shutting off from the person and situation completely to stop myself thinking about it.
“we’re having a heatwave.. A tropical heatwave”
It’s too damned hot! Yes, I’m melting – didn’t bother getting clothed today – yup, you read that right, I’ve been sat here NAKED reading your blogs and answering your emails HA! and there’s not a sorry lil thing you can do about it.
“I like driving in my car..”
I have good news. After my driving lesson today my instructor told me that not only was it the best lesson yet, but if I can drive like that on the next 2 lessons he’ll be booking my test *grin* there is an end in sight!
The letter ‘D’
I’ve been a bad girl.. Well, neglectful at any rate. Debambam tagged me a while back, so far back in fact she’s changed host and site since doing so.. But here we go, The rules are:
Now that’s just FOWL
I had a really nice time down at the in-laws, mind you, we always do. I went strawberry picking on Giulias allotment, managed to nearly kill myself attempting to water the beans and things (I’m so weak and pitiful *sigh* I’m also not really made for outdoor work – the first sign of any insectoid [...]
Introducing her geekiness.
ohhh.. I’m a happy bunny now I am, the nameserver change has finally gone through so yours truly can start uploading stuff to rosevibe.me.uk
Damn damn and double DAMN
My Pc is female and she has the hots for my man. It’s the only explanation. Now he has his own pc, it’s newer, faster, prettier and he spends his life on city of heroes with her (yeah, cheers for that K..) My little lady is throwing a hissy fit.
The apple of my eye.. Not.
What happens when technology finally understands a woman? movie link, needs quicktime to run
*sniff* *whimper*
I’ve been going through my cfs blog and quite interestingly it turns out that all the crapness I’ve been feeling physically the last few weeks are very similar to what I was feeling this time last year, who knows maybe I’m grasping at straws but it could be a pattern..
Just peachy
I’ve been feeling pretty crappy lately, drained, aching and generally under the weather – this has not made me an easy person to live with.
I love me some sean!
Quotes of the day “slugs come from fat people. Everyone knows that” “…and because it’s so quiet it’s the perfect crippling machine”
Seans trip to Ecuador
CIMG4192, originally uploaded by p_headless_g.
Books I’ve read
After laughing at her ingenious barbeque set up I saw this on dorenelorenz blog and thought I’d give it a go…
York and stuff
I’m a busy gal these days, seems like I’ve finally managed to turn the corner with this whole CFS crap because I have a life again.
I have clutch control!
I have clutch control! Seriously, today I drove the damned car with no problems – I even reversed around a corner flawlessly (on the 3rd try) Next week I’m onto 90 minute lessons so hopefully I can turn todays experience into an everyday occurrence.
Away to the lakes wi’ ye
I’ve been away since last wednesday – the majority of the week has been spent in the Lakes, It’s really gorgeous out there – even in the incessant rain. The caravans (well, static homes) were more spacious than my flat, so much so that at the bargain price of £29,950 it’s almost worth considering buying [...]
The 2 things meme
I got tagged way back in January and didn’t notice *blush* does this makes me a bad person? Well I’ve caught up on some of my reading now and if, Like Debambam, you’ve tagged me and I’ve not responded, I’m sorry… I’ll get right on it as soon as I see.
Just drive the damn car!
Death on the roads! Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yup, yours truly is now learning to drive. With 2 lessons a week for (probably) the next 2 months, funds allowing I should have my licence by the time I’m 30!! At least that’s the plan.
Visiting the chums
The one thing this weekend has shown me is how much I miss being able to go out and dance the night away. I’ve never liked going out just for the sake of having a drink, that’s never appealed. But I do miss being able to have a good dance. Once upon a time I’d [...]
Meeting the KI’ers
Just got back in, Claire and her mum are happily strumming away on the ol’ guitars and I’m nursing my throat *grin* Roll on 2007, the summer months.
happy happy yeah yeah
Went to the Trafford centre to see that new Heath Ledger film today – you know the one… Cassanova.
a quiz thing
How to make a rosevibe Ingredients:3 parts friendliness
Meh
My reading habit is slowing somewhat – I’ve only read 16 books this year – and at least half of those were teen books. My dvd viewing habits though… *grin* I love amazon, truly I do. now if only I could find some none strenuous work I could do from home to earn the money [...]
Good luck sparkybabes..
Sparx has a tidy idea: I’m announcing a new competition. I want to find something that makes people laugh yet will not upset or cause offence to anyone, anywhere, no matter their race, gender or faith. Not even, and I going to be totally strict on this point, not even if they still think Burberry [...]
featuring a pregnant pause..
I’m beginning to think someone somewhere is trying to get me to go down the pregnancy road. Seriously – the last 2 weeks have given me a vast selection of email junk, varying from the usual viagra and penis extension rubbish to the worryingly more frequent ‘find a fuckbuddy’, ‘sex addicts in your area’ and [...]
Swahili, my first time..
I have here an audio post, the idea came to me about 30 minutes or so after posting yesterdays challenge (which you are more than welcome to take up btw *grin* assuming you haven’t already of course…) Basically – you can all head over and thank daddy Mutta for this, quite frankly, pathetic attempt at [...]
fud and a request
This was going to be an audio post but then I figured I’d take pity on your poor ears and not bother – mainly because I started yawning after every other word and sitting silently for a few minutes attempting to think of something to say. Pants eh?!
Games
Stef has been kaning the online games thing for a while – usually concentrating on the likes of sudoku and text twist – but he’s now got me playing along. My head hurts *whimper*
dvd consumerism
*chuckle* internet retail therapy is bad. Truly, it is – amazon is… Well, lets just say they must love me over in the banking department *sigh* but I can console myself in the fact that my shopping basket this time started out at £114.97 and I whittled away at my possible purchases until it came [...]
quizica..
ok, I know – tonight I’m a quiz junkie – but blame Brandie for this one:
Calling Ireland..
I’ve been a bit weirded out tonight while checking my stats – can the dude (or dudette) searching for Chantelle Weir please email me? You’ve more than pricked my curiosity with that particular search.
blog traffic
I’m starting to remember why I stopped using blogexplosion. My stats are hardly worth looking at due to the hundreds of people skipping through in a mad click frenzy. I only went on there because I got an email about a message – then I thought I’d go check out the people I had blogmarked [...]
catch up
The police have gone, the tape is down – but not a snifter of a tale in any of the local papers. Seems this is so much the norm it isn’t news round here, after all 2 people got stabbed in Eccles during a riot saturday night and another family endured an arson attack… Isn’t [...]
an ongoing investigation
The house over the road is still swarming with police and forensics types, I have a feeling we’ll be reading about a murder in the papers at some point this week. The CID lass who knocked on today to interview us said the ‘incident’ happened at about 3am saturday morning, this means that somehow we [...]
murder?
The truly delightful nature of the place I live has been thrown in our faces again – I’m just so glad we were out last night.
charmed, i’m sure.
I was a bit disappointed in last nights episode of charmed. I hope the internal soliloquies were a one off because of the earlier sex in the city references, it ruined it for me though – I’m used to the characters pushing the story along through their acting and a generally well written script – [...]
The sun is out.. The sky is blue..
I’ve had a pretty good day today – even if it did suck when the alarm went off at the crack of dawn. Had to go to the hospital today to see the immunologist, he was lovely – he’s also referring me for CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy to you lot) In an attempt to help [...]
Spreading the love
Happy New Year Yup, if you’re reading this then you made it through all the crap that was thrown at us all last year, congratulations – have a big *hug* from me – and if you made a new years resolution then I wish you the best in luck and willpower and hope it wasn’t [...]
fancy that!
Trying to kick the sick one off the couch and into the bath is proving a task of such herculean standard that I’ve given up and gone to blog. Heading to the pub shortly to meet up with Kay and co. our new years celebrations begin at 7.30 and I’ve not even started on makeup [...]
new things
I’ve realised something very important this year. Pumpkin seeds are very tasty indeed. *grin* Can you believe that I never knew you had to crack the shell before eating seeds? I’ve always thought people who ate that stuff were loopy because it just tasted like dry nastiness whenever I’d tried them, I’d pick one up, [...]
Laughing it up
I had another strange dream. I was auditioning for the X-Factor, dressed as Lara Croft. The cameras converged upon me and when I was asked the question “Why are you dressed as Lara Croft?” I calmly pulled out my gun and answered “One way or another I will be getting through.” Don’t ask… My song [...]
Biblical creations
Seems to be my week for weird dreams. I woke up not fully remembering this one – which is odd for me, I’m one of those people who tends to have either complete crystal clarity in my dream recollection or nothing at all. It’s like I was watching/ listening to a conversation through a veil [...]
Awake and reporting for duty SAH!
Perhaps I should be wide awake and miserable all night more often *grin* I finally went back to bed at about 8.30am and slept through till 12.30 – and I woke up feeling better than I have for days – I’ve even done some cleaning (though the boy will probably scoff at that since he’s [...]
um..
I’ve been up since about 4am following a fairly disturbing dream. I woke up completely disoriented, I didn’t know who or where I was because my dream identity still had me in it’s clutches. I nearly died of shock when Stef started snoring because until that point I hadn’t even realised I was sharing the [...]
Perfect gifts
The boy has gone D.I.Y. mad! Gotta say though, the bathroom will look spankin’ gorgeous when he’s through!
Space cadets
The flat is looking fantastic the front room is all done, the bathroom is nearly finished and it feels like a whole new place!
I just *love* my gaff, truly.. :0s
Ok, since coming home I’m getting used to people hammering on the door in the early hours waiting to come in – the problem is it’s a toss up as to whether the first people we see are the builders or the police. *sigh* Seems Mr. Jason Boyd has been a naughty boy again. I [...]
Sensory deprivation – a dream come true!
The bloke has been dispatched to B&Q and hopefully they’ll have the shower in stock because our place is being ripped apart next week. Yup, we finally have a date for the council’s ‘upgrades’ on 30th november it’s our turn to keep the neighbours up with banging and clanking as the bathroom and kitchen get [...]
gotta have an avatar!
My newest avatar type thingys
the times they are a-changin’
I’ve been asked by the delightful Master K when my next ‘I hate Christmas’ post is going up.
looo-ser
I’ve just re-read the last of the Merry Gentry books by Laurell K Hamilton. I’m gutted that I have to wait till next year for the follow up – I want to see how she handles the Goblins and Taranis – and what nastiness Cel gets up to after he gets out, personally I hope [...]
*sigh*
and people wonder why I’m delighted at recieving a bunch of virtual flowers…
Flowers? For me?
I’m quite overcome. No – really. I’ve always dreamed that someday a handsome admirer would send flowers to my workplace (yes I am that sad, once again I’ll blame the early exposure to mills & boon) and look it’s finally (kinda) happened.
Smile..
I have to take back anything even slightly derogative I may have inferred (ok, outright said) about my dentist. The guy is not only lovely, but judging from the practically perfect smile I now have, he’s extremely competant as well. Ok, I may have been a mewling quivering wreck this time around but he and [...]
Awesome gadetry
This is COOL!!!! Seriously, Stef pointed me in the direction of this freeware I basically now have a dictionary on tap for you all *grin* go on, just double click on any word and see what happens. That’s assuming your pop up blocker doesn’t quash it.
fireworks and fancies
Ok, I’m back for a quickie *grin* I’m just not tired – well, not sleepy tired… I’ll admit to being a little nervous about thursday, I’m still having trouble with these temporary bridge things, thursday the permanent ones get put in and I’m worried that they’ll hurt too. *sigh* I’m such a wuss when it [...]
Dentistry sucks, take ‘em away!
Not feeling too clever at the mo. Was reminded yesterday why I hate going to the dentists. Mainly because I’m still in too much pain to eat anything solid. I have a couple of temporary bridges in and they HURT. I mean REALLY hurt. I’m not feeling too optimistic about my next visit in 2 [...]
society today..
This depressed me. I’m only 29 and I can’t even chew steak properly *sniff* as to crusty bread… If I attempted something like that I’d end up bleeding – or at the very least howling in pain. I should have been Chinese.
I HATE spiders!
Had a horror yesterday. We managed to avoid all the accidents along the M1 and the M62 – the main one we saw looked nasty several HGV’s crushed and battered – obviously nasty because they had the incident van there as well as the usual police and fire services… But awful as it was, that [...]
I’m just not a royalist
Just found this on the WAYN message boards – made me cackle so I thought I’d share: Royal Wedding
we gotta get out of this place.. really.
Another arrest warrant arrived today for Master Hyndman. Apparantly all my phonecall did was change the colour of the paper used. *sigh* The bailiffs have started arriving as well, gotta love council properties and the people who came before you to them…
sex and love
I wonder how many other people can relate to this?
I have to move. Soon.
Following another police visit today for the elusive master Boyd I’m hoping it’s knocked all further possible early morning visits on the head. The phonecall I made to the warrent office Re master Hyndman means no further action for him, now all I have to do is sort out the vaious bailiffs likely to arrive [...]
history
Ok. There’s definitely a history at this flat. I just shit myself – figuratively speaking of course. It’s rare anyone uses the doorbell here – but to have it going off at gone 2am on a saturday night/ sunday morning is definitely not the norm. Made me realise I need to get a chain on [...]
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