season premiere......

Well not really, but I thought it was about time I showed my face :)

What have I been up to?
Cant say I can think of anything extra exciting really ( At this point I should maybe make up a fancy tale, but lack the imagination)

A quick run down:

• Still going to the gym,Got a hott body,6 pack,Smaller boobs (barely a handful) and larger but less wobbly legs, according to WP anyway....Still my pants are getting looser even if I cannot see any difference. I haven't been going to Yoga for a while, I must get back into it soon, I was thinking about Pilate's as well (Monday evenings)
• WP has had another birthday, still waiting for one of his pressies to show up (dam you ebay T shirt seller!!). I was going to burn bake him a cake but he was off for a few days so I couldn't fill the house with smoke bake without him knowing...So he got off lightly this year.
• Went to see Oceans 13 yesterday, aside from the Brad Pitt on the large screen obvious attractions the film was ok too. What was not ok was the concessions costing as much as the tickets...No time to stop off before hand to stock up on goodies.
• The Sopranos, yes I know this has probably been disscussed to death but I have to add my 2 cents....At first just like everybody else I thought the cable was out, you got to hand it to David Chase love him or hate him he got everybody talking. The next morning the amount of hatred on the HBO forums was unprecedented Hee. As for me, well I am glad ole Tony didn't die, (or did he????) I like to think he lives on...I hate when things end.But really what is there to look forward to now on a Sunday night?
• I have sorted out my PC to within an inch of its life, its so organized now(well it was, little files are creeping in here and there where they are not mean to be...I will get to them soon)
• I have a number of emails in my in box which I still need to reply to, If you are one of them I haven't forgotten you I have just been lazy.....
• I had an urge the other day to re-read the Flowers in the attic series so am hunting them out on ebay as I type (3 down 2 to go)
• MUST make arrangements to either pre-order the last Harry Potter( sob) or get some kind person to take me on release day (July 21st) Another thing I hate to end.
  

Gosh, I am having trouble thinking of things I have been doing, we have had meals out, fights, meals in, watched movies, its (nearly) July and I haven't even been down to the pool yet.
I have to babysit tomorrow evening for TM woman, I still haven't gotten my $100 from the old neighbours ( who I have now found out they have moved just over the boarder to Illinois) Bah!

Bloody Hell! This post is full of mindless, useless drivel, still at least you all know that I haven't pissed WP off enough (yet) for him to have killed me and buried me in the basement.
I will try and make a real effort to visit everyone and post some more on here, If I don't see you I wish all my American pals a happy 4th, and now my friends I will leave you with this song( a current fave) Off to bed now.

Randomness#318314

The extent of my gardening skills, ok so the people before planted the actual bulbs and shrubs but I did go out there on Friday and weed it all.
The tulips are on their last legs now and thanks to the huge downpour on Saturday evening they are all bent forward.
We have some lilies (my Favourites) coming up though.

Sunday I babysat for the kids up stairs most of the day. It was the boys birthday the day before and he got a new X-box game which he was itching to play but their X-box is very temperamental (I think its on its way out myself).
So he wasn't happy that he could not play it, when they are not happy they tend to fight with each other.

We decided to watch Eragon (which I took up with me) WP had said it was rubbish, I really enjoyed it! And yes I was a little moist eyed at the end....

Then it was time for lunch and of course they both wanted something different, He had canned spaghetti hoops and meatball, she had tomato soup and grilled cheese.

I managed to turn out two perfect grilled cheese sandwiches for once, took my eye off the soup and it decided to boil over....


Then I took them to my place because I had some work to finish up on the PC, It was great, no fighting no arguing.

He got to play his X-box game on ours and she went on the internet on the other PC.
They then swapped over and he went on the internet and me and the girl played a bit of Super Mario.

Even better when I went upstairs I discovered that their Mom has now moved her treadmill into the living room!! I thought I had just got used to sleeping through it.

Thats was Sunday.

This morning I was at the Gym (although my thighs ache like crazy still) did 2 miles on the stepper whilst watching Jerry Springer. Then I moved onto the machines.

Should be doing laundry today but I may put it off another day ;)

Happy Monday.

Randomness #23651

We went to see Wild Hogs on Friday, it was pretty funny. We got there a little late so everyone had taken the good seats and we had to sit on the lower levels. I hate sitting down so near to the screen because fast action scenes tend to make me a little dizzy when I am that near. Thankfully there weren't many of them!
Overall the film is worth a watch but not one to rush out and buy on DVD.

Then last night I babysat for treadmill woman, she said 5.15 so I was there on time, they left at 6.00.
Her new BF is a biker with long grey hair who sat on the coach and didn't say a word to me, it was a little intimidating.
Anyway after they left we wrote a play (the little girl always wants a play when I go) this time the theme was Easter. We came up with the Easter bunny pissed off because Santa gets cookies & milk and he gets not so much as a carrot breaks into the egg factory and steals the chocolate.
Lame I know but it kept her happy for an hour or so.

Then we played a bit of X-men and then watched home Alone 2. They fell asleep on the floor and on the sofa.
She came in alone and pissed off so I had to put on my "relationship advice" hat (me dishing out advice what a laugh).I can always give it out but I never follow it myself!

So then by the time I got home WP was in bed asleep, so I gave him a little kiss on the cheek and turned over to go to sleep...

He woke up later though and remembered to give me the "Ass bustin" he had promised via email earlier in the day- An except from said email.Enjoy.

When your (my name) is bad, hiding in the bed,

Who ya gonna call, Assbusters.

If she's something strange and it don't look good

Who you gonna call?

Who you gonna call?
Who you gonna call?
ASSBUSTERS!



Bustin makes me feel good.

He has quite a talent that guy doesn't he ?


Just before I go I want to say I am so Glad Pissy and her family are OK after the terrible Tornado that ripped through her town at the end of last week.

I have misplaced my mojo....

...and become a TV addict.

I have looked everywhere, behind the sofa, in the fridge, even under the bed.
Its around here somewhere I am sure....

Last week saw me mindlessly staring at VH1's Americas next top model marathon, all 7 seasons, no I did not watch every one but I sat and watched a pretty good chunk of it.
Even worse I enjoyed it!

Onto my next TV discovery...Survivorman, gosh he is kinda cute in a rugged unwashed sort of way. He has a nice voice too, still sounds American to me (he's Canadian) but Canadians will always sound American to me, get over it.
Basically he is left in random places around the globe with to quote:"No food, no shelter, no fresh water, no tools... no camera crew. One man - alone in the wild for seven days with only his wits and stamina to sustain him."

Go Les!

Other then that my week has been pretty uneventful, a trip to Walmart, stocked up on some Hanes underwear, scoop back Bikini style to be precise, a Chinese take-a-way, looked after the kids upstairs which involved the little girl & I pretending to be on test drives for fancy cars whilst the boy drove them around on the X-box game. She had her checklist which we had to agree on colour (the most important thing when buying a car I find), bumpyness and if it couldn't make over 110MPH we were not interested.
We then had to buy said car with a home made check made out to "Mr car dealer" I think we bought a tricked out Ford F150 in violet for the bargain price of $1400, a steal or what!
Of course in the interests of safety we wore seatbelt s (which were in fact Brats sleeping bags) Safety first folks!

That is my week more or less and today is laundry day - Oh joy.

I will look far & wide for my lost Mojo and make a real effort this week to get it back and visit everyone.
Promise.

More Christmas and a moan.

I have caught the Christmas bug!

This first song I dedicate to Orhan because like him I get sick of hearing it,but it takes me back to the time in my life that I was Wham crazy.
I was totally in love with George Michael, he was the greatest person to walk the planet. My God what was I thinking! I even had my hair the same as his and wore the gold hoop earrings. When this song came out me and an Ex's brother recorded ourselves singing it ( Hey I was a teenager). He put it on cassette and we had a photograph of the two of us wearing Santa hats which he made into a cover for the box. Yikes two of my worst fears a photograph of me and even worse the sound of my voice on tape! I am pretty sure he has it to this day, well he certainly still had it a few years ago.

Wham- Last Christmas
I played this song to death, so much that I am still sick of it today.

And who could forget Band Aid, I love this video simply because its so good to look back and see all the bands that were a big part of my life back then. The video also has one of my favorite ladies on there- the late Paula Yates (married to Bob Geldof at the time before she ran away with Michael Hutchence)

Band Aid - Do they know its Christmas

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Now to other good news, Thank God that Melrose didn't win last night on Americas next top model. I had this sinking feeling as soon as it was down to her and Carrie dee. But all was good in the end.

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Now annoying news, I am owed money! I looked after some kids a while ago - in fact the people who had this apartment before us, they both worked nights in the medical field and their shifts clashed on a Sunday night- sometimes on a Friday too.
They have three kids aged 10, 3 and 5mths, They asked me if I would sleep over on said nights for a pittance really $25 per night. But I did because they were stuck and had no one else to do it.
Not only were they terrible payers but the house was always a disgrace- I don't mean just untidy but often filthy.As in dirty diapers on the living room floor, on the bedroom floor and the toilet...Well you can imagine.
More often then not I would load their dishwasher and clean the kitchen simply because I needed to get to the sink to make the baby's milk or clean some bottles( which were rarely made).
Added to that the 3 year old would never be in bed - This is 11pm I am talking about, they would let him nap late evening so then he would be up till 1 am often. Which is not good if you want to get some sleep before the baby wakes up at 4am.
Then they would rarely be home on time - 8am which meant I would have to make sure I got the girl up for school.
Anyway they have since moved up the road, still owing me $100+ I have tried to call several times but I show up on their caller ID so the phone never gets answered. I have been round and knocked on the door - no answer. I tried to call again the other day and the eldest girl picked up, just as I was asking to speak to her Mum or Dad the mother came on the phone:
"Who is this ?"
"Hi It's Pixie"*
"Who?"
"Pixie"
"I don't know who this is "
"Is this "Mother"** I am speaking to?"
"No"- Liar! It was her, I recognised her voice and the little boy in the background! You can also wager that she doesn't get that many people with a British accent calling her up either.
She then hangs up saying "I don't know who that is" !!
I tried to call back at once- you guessed it no answer.
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* My real name
** Her real name

Sappy Moment...

I watched the Lion King last night with the little boy across the hall. I forgot how damm sad it is...

I had a tear in my eye by the time little Simba was being held high for all the animals to make their bows. *sob.

Then it was bed time we put his Thomas the train to bed wrapped in pink tissue paper and he fitted just nicely into the pink Victoria's Secrets bag. (don't say I never recycle).

Then the bag and the boy went off to bed, peace at last.

Sand in my shoes...

Today I was full of good intentions, go to the pool early and actually swim. You know move my arms and legs rather then just wallow and mess about in the pool. However the first hour there was spent talking to this guy who lives the other side of the pool. He had just finished a night shift so was relaxing on his lilo ( do you call them that here ? ).
After he went I was already looking like a prune but I did do a few half hearted widths.


Then Wp's bro said (to me) he was going to make Taco salad for dinner. A few minutes later he asked me to cook the beef. So guess who ended up making his taco salad( just like I knew I would)





Then this afternoon I took my brother in laws two kids and the nextdoor neighbours girl to the small playground up the street. We walked, much to the disgust of the littlest one, all the way up the street I got "Are we there yet ?" Of course once there he was in his element , shoes off in the sand using his baseball cap as a shovel. I had a hard time getting him to come home again...And in the bath for him.




Other then that I am trying to stay cheerful despite there being crappy poker on the TV and the fact that men can be a complete pain the ass at times. I did however find a very handy little prayer on Reneas page...

Just goes to show you theres always a positive side to see, just in the nick of time...

With that I will leave you with these thoughts :

Thoughts for modern living

10 - Life is sexually transmitted.

9 - Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

8 - Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see one without an erection, make him a sandwich.

7 - Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

6 - Some people are like a Slinky... Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

5 - Health freaks are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

4 - All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

3 - Why does a slight tax increase cost you 50 quid and a substantial tax cut saves you 50p?

2 - In the 60s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and People take Prozac to make it normal.


AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

We know exactly where any untaxed car is located among the millions of cars in Britain. But we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the DVLA* in charge of immigration...

*DVLA = Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency