So this is the story all about how my life got twisted upside down, so id like to take a minute just sit right there, ill tell you how my hand broke....
Ok that didn't work! Ah well I mite as well carry on.
So it was a normal Sunday where me and DB woke up to go to work, I was very excited as pay day was looming and I could get the iPhone 5 and lots of money! So after a relatively quiet day of work filled with silly customers and silly talks of what we were going to wear for the staff doo on the following Tuesday, I met up with DB to go home making a list of all the glorious food we could buy on Monday and also the prospect of getting a 40 inch tv for the living room XD
As we arrived home we remembered that it was time to put the bins out. So DB collected the kitchen bins and I the one upstairs.
We were merely chatting on the stairs as DB emptied the small bin from upstairs to the larger one. I grabbed the now empty bin and turned to run it upstairs when suddenly I was sitting on the top step cradling my hand and tears in my eyes. Thing is I couldn't stop laughing and crying at the same time! I was a blubbering wreck, it bloody well hurt!
But doing the ever faithful test of bending the fingers = not broken we declared that i must have just bruised it a bit.
So after this we put a bag of frozen sausages on it and thought it ouchie but good, we decided to have an Indian take away and it was wonderful! Accompanied by lots of CSI XD
I was happy, in pain but happy.
I couldn't get dressed in my pjs without help though :/
End day one.
^.^
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Monday, 7 January 2013
Healthy eating commercial.
So there is a new Healthy Eating Campaign going on tv.
Which is great....but its going about it all wrong!!
Ok yes we need to tackle obesity and general unhealthy living but what people need to realise is that its not about the food you eat exactly its about the amount of it that you eat.
Of course if you eat a fry up for breakfast, then crisps at 11, a mcdonalds for lunch, snack again at 3 then go home you have a massive dinner with no veg or healthy thing aka Pizza and then snack on chocolate untill you fall asleep from a food coma and repeat for the rest of your life then you are going to get fat!
but if you have a mcdonalds for a treat every now and again, or start up running or balance it out by having a healthy something in the day when you know youre going to have a pizza in the night.
Its about excess of fatty food that makes people fat, not the food itself.
Because if you go through life without having a few treats then whats the point in living.
We just had to be clever about it. Not have a pizza every night.
mind you you can have a pizza every night if you want...as long as you go running or exercise in the day.
Its all about balance.
And not give your kids shit foood!!!
yes its easy to just put chips and burgers or whatever in the oven, but in the world we live in today you can put veggies in the microwave., that is just as easy and you wont have fat kids!
Live well, eat well peeps!
Peace out!
Which is great....but its going about it all wrong!!
Ok yes we need to tackle obesity and general unhealthy living but what people need to realise is that its not about the food you eat exactly its about the amount of it that you eat.
Of course if you eat a fry up for breakfast, then crisps at 11, a mcdonalds for lunch, snack again at 3 then go home you have a massive dinner with no veg or healthy thing aka Pizza and then snack on chocolate untill you fall asleep from a food coma and repeat for the rest of your life then you are going to get fat!
but if you have a mcdonalds for a treat every now and again, or start up running or balance it out by having a healthy something in the day when you know youre going to have a pizza in the night.
Its about excess of fatty food that makes people fat, not the food itself.
Because if you go through life without having a few treats then whats the point in living.
We just had to be clever about it. Not have a pizza every night.
mind you you can have a pizza every night if you want...as long as you go running or exercise in the day.
Its all about balance.
And not give your kids shit foood!!!
yes its easy to just put chips and burgers or whatever in the oven, but in the world we live in today you can put veggies in the microwave., that is just as easy and you wont have fat kids!
Live well, eat well peeps!
Peace out!
Mind sort out #2
So I have been in a writing bleugh recently.
I just couldn't sit down and write when I was in a full time job and now that I'm in a better but less hours job I have plenty of time to write. but every time I attempt it, make myself comfy and get a panad I just can not conceive a good paragraph, maybe I'm being too critical of myself and I need to just write and not think about it again.
So with the help of the awesome art work from my amazing friend 'the little voices' Link to her deviant art here: http://little-voices.deviantart.com/
I just couldn't sit down and write when I was in a full time job and now that I'm in a better but less hours job I have plenty of time to write. but every time I attempt it, make myself comfy and get a panad I just can not conceive a good paragraph, maybe I'm being too critical of myself and I need to just write and not think about it again.
So with the help of the awesome art work from my amazing friend 'the little voices' Link to her deviant art here: http://little-voices.deviantart.com/
Artwork property of Hollie Simon and the character of Red is mine!
Isn't he handsome!?!
After receiving this gift my mind started working again and we talked for ages about plot ideas and various other and so it really did spur me on to write his story down. The thing is it is a saga, i realised that all 4 stories that id been writing separately would go well together and Red is the only constant in all of them and it was really his story, his life and meaning was to find those other characters and ultimately save the world. so now I've got to properly sort it all out and its a bit daunting really.
HB and BT are coming over on Wednesday night and were gonna play Risk: Legacy and on the Thursday we are gonna do Write-a-thon again. like we used to at uni and I hope we will be able to write lots and be jolly and get that love back again.
I decided to print all of them and get their own folders and so I can see them in front of me, to sort out what I need to put in or delete. I cant seem to do it on the computer, I prefer to have it physically in front of me so I can scribble on the paper and all that jazz.
I'll keep you updated!
Friday, 4 January 2013
Take 3 - The Revival #1
So yes,
I have decided to revive the whole blog thing
(seeing as i have so much more time on my hands now :/ )
So where do i start?
Well me and LT are finally in Cardiff!!! XD
Weve got the House that both of us have been dreaming of, well i have anyway. Its a house that just screams 'us'. Its a two bed and a study semi detached in its own little corner, in a slightly 'poshier' estate (i think its an estate anyway). Its not too small and not too big, its perfect.
And it has a garden!!!! I've always secretly loved the idea of having a garden, for the dog for one thing, and to plant veggies and flowers and herbs. I think it started with helping my nain with her garden that she loved, and now that shes passed away i really want to be at least good at it and i think I've inherited her green thumbs.
Ive managed to grow peppers and basil in our little flat and that was a little test to see if i would be able to grow something, and i can!! so I have big plans for that garden.
Tom has an amazing job that he loves and he is now the bread-winner (which makes his Nan breathe a sigh of relief) and i am happy in my new job but the only downside is that it is only 17 hours. ive been getting between 30-40 hours overtime because of Christmas but now that it is January it will go back down with the 'possibility' of overtime.
I don't know what to do with myself, but hopefully i can get over the 'hump' that ive found out about myself and that is i don't finish anything. and i hate myself for it! because its a horrid trait to have and i don't know where its come from.
I guess that's my new years resolution...hopefully.
Recently i have found out what has been making me feel miserable about myself. it wasn't just Debenhams and the evil that was but it was the unseen effects of the Pill i was on. I hadn't noticed it until, with the moving and everything i couldn't get the time to get a new set. so i went without for the month or so and this is what happened:
I lost weight (i was a 34 back now I'm back to a 32, and i don't have much of a belly any more)
I feel like i can enjoy things more and be more laid back. (how i used to be)
whilst i was on the pill my hair was all weak and horrible and tangly, now its starting to look like hair, not dangly bits of horridness.
Also my throat is less dry, and I'm not coughing as much any more as i had a lot of problems with my throat when i was on the pill (i was on it for about two years).
Need to find something better!
Christmas (where i made the dinner for LT and his mum) was brilliant this year and i spent the first day of the new year with my bitches 'LT and BT' for those that do not know! lol
I am happy with the way things are going, i just wish that money would start to calm down so that we can spend to get things for the house and actually live and not live to pay the rent. We just moved at a time where we needed money for other stuff too such as Venice! XD and Christmas so its been very busy and very expensive couple of months, nut it will calm itself down now i hope!
And so that's the catch up blog!
Expect gardening dilemmas and baking and gaming and awesomeness!
^.^
(seeing as i have so much more time on my hands now :/ )
So where do i start?
Well me and LT are finally in Cardiff!!! XD
Weve got the House that both of us have been dreaming of, well i have anyway. Its a house that just screams 'us'. Its a two bed and a study semi detached in its own little corner, in a slightly 'poshier' estate (i think its an estate anyway). Its not too small and not too big, its perfect.
And it has a garden!!!! I've always secretly loved the idea of having a garden, for the dog for one thing, and to plant veggies and flowers and herbs. I think it started with helping my nain with her garden that she loved, and now that shes passed away i really want to be at least good at it and i think I've inherited her green thumbs.
Ive managed to grow peppers and basil in our little flat and that was a little test to see if i would be able to grow something, and i can!! so I have big plans for that garden.
Tom has an amazing job that he loves and he is now the bread-winner (which makes his Nan breathe a sigh of relief) and i am happy in my new job but the only downside is that it is only 17 hours. ive been getting between 30-40 hours overtime because of Christmas but now that it is January it will go back down with the 'possibility' of overtime.
I don't know what to do with myself, but hopefully i can get over the 'hump' that ive found out about myself and that is i don't finish anything. and i hate myself for it! because its a horrid trait to have and i don't know where its come from.
I guess that's my new years resolution...hopefully.
Recently i have found out what has been making me feel miserable about myself. it wasn't just Debenhams and the evil that was but it was the unseen effects of the Pill i was on. I hadn't noticed it until, with the moving and everything i couldn't get the time to get a new set. so i went without for the month or so and this is what happened:
I lost weight (i was a 34 back now I'm back to a 32, and i don't have much of a belly any more)
I feel like i can enjoy things more and be more laid back. (how i used to be)
whilst i was on the pill my hair was all weak and horrible and tangly, now its starting to look like hair, not dangly bits of horridness.
Also my throat is less dry, and I'm not coughing as much any more as i had a lot of problems with my throat when i was on the pill (i was on it for about two years).
Need to find something better!
Christmas (where i made the dinner for LT and his mum) was brilliant this year and i spent the first day of the new year with my bitches 'LT and BT' for those that do not know! lol
I am happy with the way things are going, i just wish that money would start to calm down so that we can spend to get things for the house and actually live and not live to pay the rent. We just moved at a time where we needed money for other stuff too such as Venice! XD and Christmas so its been very busy and very expensive couple of months, nut it will calm itself down now i hope!
And so that's the catch up blog!
Expect gardening dilemmas and baking and gaming and awesomeness!
^.^
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Hello Lovelies!!
I know I've neglected you recently and it irritates me! Life just gets in the way sometimes. but anyway I have stuff to write and some much needed time out!! So bring on the writing.
I think I haven't properly written since my nan passed away- I guess its something everyone goes through in life where that immense grief just takes over and your creative juices just stops. But I'm trying my best to get on with it and write. She wouldn't like to see me struggle. So recently I've been racking my brain with the stories my granddad used to tell his kids and us grand-kids when we were little, perched on top of 'his' chair and lap all those years ago. When I was a child I reverentially believed that he went to Africa and fought with a tiger and found a possessed glove come to kill him in the night.
This feeling of immense adoration and respect is what I want to catch in short stories for children.
Its not what I usually write in but as they are stories passed down through the generations I think I can make it happen. So look out for that in the near future!
And I shall dedicate it to these lovely people!
On to another less sad point, things are a bit up in the air for us at the moment. We have a flat lease coming up in may, both of us don't want to be where we are now,were both so trapped in our jobs and we want out, but if we still want to live independently together without parents and all that comes with it then we have to make money some how! That's life unfortunately, you cant get what you want at the click of a finger, or straight away when you graduate, or when you wish for it. you've go to make things happen, you've got to work 9-5 at a shitty, life less, mind numbing, soul sucking job to achieve what you want.
Its complete shit but we want to live in a flat together some how, and the way to do that is get temporary jobs that has nothing to do with what we actually want to do.
I want to move to Cardiff or London now, I don't want to be in Carmarthen any more, even though its a great place there's just no jobs at all!!! whether there's jobs over there...well that's another thing up in the air as everywhere and everyone is struggling for jobs right now in this current climate.
Were lucky in the fact that we do have jobs to keep our independence and our gorgeous flat that I would be sad to leave.I just want to be earning more so that we can live more not just work, I don't want to be those people that constantly work and have nothing to say that they have actually done anything in their lives.
Everything is so up in the air at the moment its ridiculous!
Well thanks for reading! You never know I might post again soon!!
^.^
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Taid's Stories
Prologue
The sun sprinkled its glorious rays onto the pure welsh land, promising a day of magnificent sunshine. On a normal day this would be a blessing for the land and the people, on a normal day they would complain about the heat or pack the family up in the car to go to the beach, but today wasn’t a normal day. Today was a sad day. The sun seemed to be mocking the sadness, echoes of ‘How can there be sunshine when our world is missing a beautiful songbird?’ drifted from family member to family member.
The Jones family were in mourning. Today they had to say their final goodbye. Today had a strict routine and that’s all Caradog could think about. He blocked anything else out, it was the only way he would be able to cope. Today he could make her proud. He made sure that everyone was dressed smartly and presentably, he made sure everyone had tissues and was ready for the day, he stopped his little sister from breaking down in a heap of tears, and he made sure Eluned stayed by him holding tightly to his hand…
They all congregated at the small church, each holding their breaths, desperately wanting to just crawl into a hole where no one would be able to see their sufferings. They got through it somehow, clinging on their happy memories…so many to choose from; the strength of family pulling them through the dark river of grief.
When the ceremony ended, the family members were bombarded by ‘our condolences’ and ‘so sorry for your loss’ from complete strangers and long lost family members. This was the hard part. The staying strong for the family, keeping a straight face, striving to find the names of people in amongst the chaos of his dulled mind. Caradog couldn’t take it anymore.
He found a small bench a small way from the patch of disarrayed family members. He sat feet apart with his elbows resting on his knees, hands cradling his heavy head. He sat for a while in that same position. Not really thinking. Just being. He looked up and surveyed his family; all of them together in the same place at the same time. He couldn’t even remember the last time they were all in the same place. She would be smiling right now; he could see her face and hear her laugh. A small smile escaped his lips…the first time he had smiled in weeks…funny that.
His eyes ended up following a white butterfly that must have taken a fancy to the beautiful flowers laid out on the grass. Then he noticed another…then another. Two more appeared out of nowhere and joined the previous two. For some reason he took comfort from those tiny pure white insects, fluttering by with no care in the world.
A little voice came from nowhere beside him, detaching his eyes away from the dance of the butterflies. A tiny hand made its way onto his. Eluned…
Eluned had made her way to him with her little brother in the push chair. She looked at him with sad eyes; he couldn’t bear to see such sadness in such a small child.
“Daddy?” Gethins voice whispered from the push chair “Why is everyone so sad?”
The sun sprinkled its glorious rays onto the pure welsh land, promising a day of magnificent sunshine. On a normal day this would be a blessing for the land and the people, on a normal day they would complain about the heat or pack the family up in the car to go to the beach, but today wasn’t a normal day. Today was a sad day. The sun seemed to be mocking the sadness, echoes of ‘How can there be sunshine when our world is missing a beautiful songbird?’ drifted from family member to family member.
The Jones family were in mourning. Today they had to say their final goodbye. Today had a strict routine and that’s all Caradog could think about. He blocked anything else out, it was the only way he would be able to cope. Today he could make her proud. He made sure that everyone was dressed smartly and presentably, he made sure everyone had tissues and was ready for the day, he stopped his little sister from breaking down in a heap of tears, and he made sure Eluned stayed by him holding tightly to his hand…
They all congregated at the small church, each holding their breaths, desperately wanting to just crawl into a hole where no one would be able to see their sufferings. They got through it somehow, clinging on their happy memories…so many to choose from; the strength of family pulling them through the dark river of grief.
When the ceremony ended, the family members were bombarded by ‘our condolences’ and ‘so sorry for your loss’ from complete strangers and long lost family members. This was the hard part. The staying strong for the family, keeping a straight face, striving to find the names of people in amongst the chaos of his dulled mind. Caradog couldn’t take it anymore.
He found a small bench a small way from the patch of disarrayed family members. He sat feet apart with his elbows resting on his knees, hands cradling his heavy head. He sat for a while in that same position. Not really thinking. Just being. He looked up and surveyed his family; all of them together in the same place at the same time. He couldn’t even remember the last time they were all in the same place. She would be smiling right now; he could see her face and hear her laugh. A small smile escaped his lips…the first time he had smiled in weeks…funny that.
His eyes ended up following a white butterfly that must have taken a fancy to the beautiful flowers laid out on the grass. Then he noticed another…then another. Two more appeared out of nowhere and joined the previous two. For some reason he took comfort from those tiny pure white insects, fluttering by with no care in the world.
A little voice came from nowhere beside him, detaching his eyes away from the dance of the butterflies. A tiny hand made its way onto his. Eluned…
Eluned had made her way to him with her little brother in the push chair. She looked at him with sad eyes; he couldn’t bear to see such sadness in such a small child.
“Daddy?” Gethins voice whispered from the push chair “Why is everyone so sad?”
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
So yea...
Hey (if anybody really reads this!)
Wel im sorry i havent written in a while. and it has been a long while its just i have been so caught up in life and university that i couldnt just stop and write all those jumbling thoughts in my head.
So ive finished Uni now and weve got a flat and i have a job, in H Samuels wich is a surprise, and so now its life without uni. Its strange, ive been ill with the amount of stress ive been under what with getting jobs, getting a flat for me and Tom and finishing all the work ive had to do and then worring why ive been feeling sick, nauseous and dizzy with headaches and its because ive been under a lot of stress and my body just needed to have a rest.
People keep going on that i havent really done anything which annoys me because i have been doing so much these past few months and they arent in my body and mind that worries about everything, and i mean everything. everybody copes with stress diferently, just because it doesnt happen to you deosnt mean it doesnt happen to anybody.
So everything was looking up, we got a flat - got jobs - finished Uni - ready to graduate.
But i knew something bad would happen soon and it did.
My nain (nan, grandma whatever you call yours) is really really ill in hospital. shes had a brain hemorrage and i cant help but look up all i can on it but i dnt know enough yet to know what kind of one she had. shes under sadation right now aftre her surgery and shes been stable all night so shes getting another scan today to see how she is. its frustrating because it was so out of the blue and i live 4 hours away and mums telling me not to come up because id just be waiting around. i feel hopeless, but then again i would probably feel hopeless being there too. I can help but feel for taid and my mum. i dont know how to comfort them.
One of my fears is that nain would wake up and not know who everyone is and she hates hospitals anyway so she would be confused and i dont want to see that with nain. i mean you never really know how you deal with this kind of thing till it happens, and me being as nieve as i am i didnt think that this would happen to my nain. shes so strong and kind and wonderful, shes my nain. i wouldnt be able to cope with that.
All i can do is wait, keep positive and keep busy. I feel guilty though as weve just had the keys to our flat yesterday, so im excited about that so i feel guilty for feeling happy and trying not to think about it. im sure she wouldnt like me to do that though....she always wanted the best for me.
Caru chdi nain, Paid a dario mynd ok! fydda chdi yn ok!
Wel im sorry i havent written in a while. and it has been a long while its just i have been so caught up in life and university that i couldnt just stop and write all those jumbling thoughts in my head.
So ive finished Uni now and weve got a flat and i have a job, in H Samuels wich is a surprise, and so now its life without uni. Its strange, ive been ill with the amount of stress ive been under what with getting jobs, getting a flat for me and Tom and finishing all the work ive had to do and then worring why ive been feeling sick, nauseous and dizzy with headaches and its because ive been under a lot of stress and my body just needed to have a rest.
People keep going on that i havent really done anything which annoys me because i have been doing so much these past few months and they arent in my body and mind that worries about everything, and i mean everything. everybody copes with stress diferently, just because it doesnt happen to you deosnt mean it doesnt happen to anybody.
So everything was looking up, we got a flat - got jobs - finished Uni - ready to graduate.
But i knew something bad would happen soon and it did.
My nain (nan, grandma whatever you call yours) is really really ill in hospital. shes had a brain hemorrage and i cant help but look up all i can on it but i dnt know enough yet to know what kind of one she had. shes under sadation right now aftre her surgery and shes been stable all night so shes getting another scan today to see how she is. its frustrating because it was so out of the blue and i live 4 hours away and mums telling me not to come up because id just be waiting around. i feel hopeless, but then again i would probably feel hopeless being there too. I can help but feel for taid and my mum. i dont know how to comfort them.
One of my fears is that nain would wake up and not know who everyone is and she hates hospitals anyway so she would be confused and i dont want to see that with nain. i mean you never really know how you deal with this kind of thing till it happens, and me being as nieve as i am i didnt think that this would happen to my nain. shes so strong and kind and wonderful, shes my nain. i wouldnt be able to cope with that.
All i can do is wait, keep positive and keep busy. I feel guilty though as weve just had the keys to our flat yesterday, so im excited about that so i feel guilty for feeling happy and trying not to think about it. im sure she wouldnt like me to do that though....she always wanted the best for me.
Caru chdi nain, Paid a dario mynd ok! fydda chdi yn ok!
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