Archive for August, 2007I am addicted to Lolcat pictures so I am going to try and post one a day. I will add links to the sites I get them from, these cats are just too damn funny and some of the captions are pure genius! 
This my favourite one, I just want to hug the kitty!!
*hugs* I spent part of today looking at www.facebook.com after a friend sent me an invite. It’s kind of fun and I’ve found a few people I’d pretty much lost contact with and hadn’t wanted to. Then I decided to log onto www.friendsreunited.com as I hadn’t even looked in quite a few years. I love the idea of it, to catch up with old friends from school, those people you spent so much time with and swore you would always stay in touch with. Why it makes me sad I have no idea. I do have some fond memories of school and the people I was closest to but the overall experience for me was not good. I don’t know if I was the cause or if just being me was enough for some people to hate me, but I don’t recall ever being nasty to someone just to make them feel bad. I also suspect it’s in the last few years of school (so when I was about 14), when Dysthymia started to rear it’s ugly head and I was very up and down and confused. I know that’s a common thing for most kids going through the change from child to young adult but I felt very lost. Maybe it’s because my behaviour was so erratic, that I became a target for the bullies. I wasn’t popular and to be honest I didn’t care, I had the friends I did, and I also liked to be alone, to read or just to think. By the end of my school experience, I just wanted to be left alone. Maybe I feel sad in part, because I feel I haven’t achieved anything since leaving school. I’ve tried various careers but bouts of depression usually ended my attempts. Or that I couldn’t be that go-getting high flyer with bags of energy and enthusiasm that people seem to want these days. I don’t use Dysthymia as my excuse for everything but it did take so long to get diagnosed and appropriate treatment going that really, it’s only in the last few years I’ve started to piece everything together and started to figure out who I am. I feel I lost the most important years that most young adults have to figure out where they are going in life, to depression. That being said, I feel proud of who I am now. I’m a wife, I have a home that I love and a husband who is my world, and not trying to sound overly dramatic, I am alive. That one word means so much to people like me because it is has been a very hard struggle to get to the point where I even wanted to be. I don’t think everyone will understand that, but if you do, feel proud of yourself too, and never give up. You never know what is round the corner. *hugs* I was talking to friends in our EQ (Everquest) guild (Yay Truly Naughty Troops!) and the discussion was about films that we so loved way back when. They left such a huge impression on us that we still quote from them, so many years on. I decided to post my list of MUST SEE iconic films that everyone should see at least once, even today.
I know I’ve forgotten some but these are off the top of my head hehe I will add more as I think of them. Some of the sequels for those films are ok, some are pretty good but others are completely abysmal and should have been left alone. It’s up to you to decide which they are ….. None for a year then 2 come along at once! I’d like to talk about gardening. I have a love/hate relationship with gardening, I love it when it’s nice and tidy and hate it when it needs attention. I’m not a very energetic person at the best of times, in fact some days I have very little energy courtesy of Dysthymia, but I have lots of enthusiasm, good intentions and of course, no skill When my back was at its worst, we paid someone to come in and mow the lawn. He did an OK job but then… he sacked us *sob*. Well not really, he had too many work requests and I guess since we were infrequent clients, it made sense to go for a regular contract. SO… the lawn threatened to turn into a jungle and the nice borders that were there when we moved in had turned into a wildlife sanctuary. We actually liked that but it was getting so the cat could hide in it and we wouldn’t see her. Fun for her I guess, not so much for us trying to get her in at night (I’m a soppy cat mum). Since I lost 5 stone (so far), my back had been SO much better, I was able to walk without my stick and while it still got grumpy at me, I could do so much more than I could before. Sooo I decided to test it one day and used the lawnmower we’d bought when we first moved in. Yes, we had very good intentions It went fine, I was stiff and sore the next day but I could manage it (I also lived in fear of mowing over one of the numerous frogs that seem to be attracted to our garden, even tho we don’t have a pond). The lawn was pretty much under control now, although we seem to have about 8 ant nests dotted around the place. Tony was very happy when he managed to drown one of them out. He should blog about that tho Then came….. THE BORDER WAR! I wish I’d taken a picture before I strimmed it all, but this one is after they were strimmed but before we launched our offensive.  We decided that us, being the non-outdoor people that we are, minimal maintenance was the way to go and save us having to do all this again in a year. We bought some lawn edging and Tony use a lawn edging tool to create a trench and bury half the edging to create a nice barrier betwixt lawn and border. In the photo you can see our trusty gardening tool that has been superb for the clearing task. I can’t remember the proper name for it but I call it THE CLAW!  Then came the clearing of all the grass/weeds/ex-plants/small trees that had taken up residence. THE CLAW made it really easy for me to dig everything up without putting too much strain on my back, using my shoulders and legs instead to supply force. The small cache of bird feathers I came across was a bit disturbing mind you, but I’m sure little miss Bubbles could answer a question about that! Here it is at the halfway stage!  And finally, we put down a layer of mulch into the border to help control weeds etc. We plan to put large pots with plants on the mulch rather than plant anything directly in the ground in the hope it will be easier to maintain. That will have to wait a little while tho – in the meantime I am enjoying it looking neat! Bubbles helps us show it off here.  To finish is a pic of Queen Bubbles enjoying the bed/litter tray her minions have created JUST for her  It’s certainly been hard work but I do like seeing it tidy. Now for the OTHER side *groan* Well! It seems after a good couple of years I finally had enough of my hair being out of control. I loved it long but it was starting to get ridiculous. It was posterior length and getting caught in places where it had no business going. Plus I was getting fed up of the time it took to wash, the amount of breakage or shedding and also having to dismantle the front of the hoover every time to unwind my cast off hair from the roller. I hadn’t actually had it cut for a long time and the last time I did, I only had it trimmed of a couple of inches. So this morning I decided enough was enough. I booked into my favourite hair salon (Altered Images, here in Long Eaton) and trotted down at the appointed time. I did keep wondering if I was doing the right thing, maybe I should just have a trim again etc etc. But I remained firm. Once I’d told the stylist that I *really* was sure (I put on a good ‘I know what I’m doing’ front), he suggested dry cutting the bulk of it first as it would just go down the sink during washing. A few snips later and on the floor was a LOT of strawberry blonde hair. Oddly it was a lot longer than I’d thought it was since I only see it from the front in a mirror All through the washing and rest of the cut people stopped by the stylist’s station to comment, even the guy who swept up the mound had to come and see who had left it all! I’ve never felt like an attraction before and it was odd I can’t stop bouncing it now and it’s still long enough to tie into a cute ponytail which I am really happy with. I should have gotten it done long ago (Yes, you were right mum So without further ado, I reveal the new ‘Do’. Oh yeh and forgive the cheesy grin please, my usual instinct is to run away screaming when a camera is pointed at me  |
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