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  • Quality time with Hubby

    It's good to know that nearly 10 years later I still love spending time with my other half. There's nothing I look forward to more than 5pm on a weekday as it means I can leave the office and rush outside/home to see my man again.

    We're still soppy and I love him loads. I'm glad we still have so much in common, and still are able to take the mick out of each other.

    Tonight straight from work we met up and walked to town for a bevvie and dinner. We went to our usual pub, and sat chatting. You know sometimes there is an awkward silence? Well not with us, we still do all those sickly puppy eyes at each other.

    I love his voice, and i love listening to him talk. Today he talked about our plans for the future, and how we would go about getting there. I just listened and butted in from time to time.

    Dinner was really nice, and we came home after just one drink. Now we've sat companionably sharing the laptop with his music playing in the background. Shame about his love for his new tv and his X Box!

  • Good music...

    I'm just listening to a recording from the radio this morning, with hits from the 90's. It takes me back to those carefree days when all I had to do was get myself up, to school and home again with a bit of homework in between!

    I wouldn't want to go back to those times - I'm happy with how they shaped me to the woman I am now - but I have some good memories and this radioshow is bringing it all back.

  • Healthy comfort food.

    I'm currently very upset and trying hard not to reach for the chocolate I know is two foot away from me. Instead I'm going to make myself a fruit smoothie. Yum.

    Healthy, fruity and full of vitamins. They always look disgusting (at least when I make them) but they still taste pretty damn good. I'm gonna use one banana, some blueberries, yoghurt, maybe some orange juice and some grapes.

    It tastes so good going down, shame I can't add icecream to it! :))

    How can I make hubby enjoy them? oh, nearly dinner time I think I need to cook summat as I'm thinking about food far too much.

    x

  • Barbados

    We watched one of those tv programmes today, place in the sun or something. A repeat on one of those digital channels. Anyway, they were showing a couple who were looking to buy a property in Barbados, and just hearing the accents and the beautiful properties reminded me of where my heart lies.

    I almost cried out 'I wanna go home' but I certainly thought it. This was probably filmed a little while back but there was a run down 4 bed villa for £92,000 and I wanted it. If only dreams were as easy to find as dandelions and daisies.

    Anyway, looking over to hubby he agreed that he still also wants to move out sooner or later. So, we are agreed that although we may move to the US at some point if we can get transfers, our ultimate goal is a place in Barbados, at least to retire in.

    Sweet joy! It's good to know that We dream the same dream and we want the same thing still.

    I'm gonna be booking another holiday soon I think for next springtime.

    Yippee!

  • Barbecues

    Ohmigod. I can't wait til the weather improves. I LOVE barbecues. Or at least having them at home. We cheat a little, in so far as we have a gas BBQ but the food is cooked better than with charcoal ones.

    Anyway, its great coz basically all the while the weather is good hubby will cook most every night. We eat in the garden and its absolute heaven. We used to do burgers and sausages and not much else, but last summer we got into slightly more interesting things. We still primarily do sausage and burgers though.

    We've had some nice smoked haddock, pineapples, peppers, corn, mushrooms, ribs, bananas and all sorts. I love barbecues. Bring on the sunshine!

    Happy
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  • Bad one liners...

    I got these sent from hubby and as some are pretty funny thought I'd share.

    Happy
    x

    1. Two blondes walk into a building..........you'd think at least one of them would have seen it.

    2. Phone answering machine message - "...If you want to buy marijuana, press the hash key..."

    3. A guy walks into the psychiatrist wearing only Clingfilm for shorts. The shrink says, Well, I can clearly see you're nuts."

    4. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.

    5. I went to the butchers the other day and I bet him 50 quid that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. He said, "No, the steaks are too high."

    6. My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in.

    7. A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I've cut your arms off".

    8. I went to a seafood disco last week...and pulled a muscle.

    9. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. They lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your Kayak and heat it.

    10. Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.

    11. Man goes to the doctor, with a strawberry growing out of his head.Doc says "I'll give you some cream to put on it."

    12. 'Doc I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home' "That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome." 'Is it common?' "It's not unusual."

    13. A man takes his Rottweiller to the vet. "My dog is cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him?" "Well," said the vet, "let's have a look at him" So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then he checks his teeth. Finally, he says, "I'm going to have to put him down." "What? Because he's cross-eyed?" "No, because he's really heavy"

    14. Guy goes into the doctor's. "Doc, I've got a cricket ball stuck up my backside. "How's that?" "Don't you start."

    15. Two elephants walk off a cliff...boom, boom!

    16. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.

    17. So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your Oyster, go for it.'

    18. Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. There are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my Mum or my Dad, or my older brother Colin, or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. But I think its Colin.

    19. Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other "Your round." The other one says "So are you, you fat bast**d!"

    20. Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid,and the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

    21. "You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said, 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice."

    22. A man walked into the doctor's, he said, "I've hurt my arm in several places" The doctor said, "Well don't go there anymore"

    23. Ireland's worst air disaster occurred early this morning when a small two-seater Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery. Irish search and rescue workers have recovered 1826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the night.

  • Bookshops and books

    Just had a wander around our town and traipsed in and out of several book shops. It's been absolute agony as I had (see the past tense there?) stopped buying books in favour of the local library to save money. It worked, in one month I saved more than £30.

    Today my resolve bent, weakened and then snapped. Ironically the book I bought is about how consumerism is taking over the world!

    So, after buying this in the first bookstore I had to be so strong in the second one. As hubby walked round picking out his latest reading material I slowly walked round staring at all the books on display. It was worse than being in a sweet shop on a diet! All those pretty shiny covers, that new book smell and so much choice, all laid out in alphabetical order.

    A (well stocked) library is a wonderful place, for my bank balance at least, but nothing can compare to that new book smell, the different cover textures, pristine pages just asking to be folded down. It was almost a sensory overload.

    My book list is now getting as long as my film list and with a full time job there just isnt enough time in the world. I could've spent another hour just walking round, reading the different blurbs, admiring re-covers of books I've already read. I wonder if they'd mind me moving in for the weekend?

    Happy
    x

  • Rambling on about Walking...

    Coming back from Sainsburys by taxi (with the last of my Christmas groceries Thank goodness :yes:) the lovely driver pointed out how many local accidents there were this morning, and how he was taking me "the only way home".

    I looked out the window to see traffic at a standstill in most every direction. Don't get me wrong, driving lessons are at the top of my 'to do' list for 2008, but it seems to me like this nation so often forgets to leave the car at home.

    The sun was shining and it was quite mild. I'm sure many of these bored looking drivers could have been walking where they were going.

    I love the feeling of the sun on my face and the wind too (I just wrap up warmer). Knowing that I have got where I'm going under my own steam really makes me glad. I'm sure there will come a time (when I can drive) when my first thought would be to jump in the car instead of taking a walk, but I hope that it doesn't happen for a good long time yet.

    I may have callouses on my feet, but they remind me how lucky I am to be fit and healthy and have the strength to get around.

    Happy
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  • Swimming... Oh yeah,

    A year ago I struggled to complete a length, I swam really close to the edge of the pool as I felt panicky when my feet couldn't reach bottom. Now, thanks to my mums encouragement I have been swimming regularly (at least once a week) for about 5 months and am so much more confident (and a little fitter).

    Today I swam 20 lengths. I will never win awards for style, but I am proud that I can do it. I have started doing back stroke and today did 3 lengths of (very bad) front crawl. Swimming has built up my confidence except for when the schoolkids have their lessons and I see 8 yr olds swimming twice as fast as me! :p

    Swimming is so relaxing. Nobody pays any attention to me and I can free my thoughts up to daydream. I have become more and more competitive, checking my times against the clock, against different strokes and am not as scared as I was.

    Recently too I have started trying to jump and dive in to the water from the edge of the pool, and to see how far I can swim underwater.

    Swimming is fab, and when I have kids I will be sure to take them. I want them to have the confidence I lacked for all those years.

    If you haven't been swimming for a while I would definitely recommend you give it a go. It soon comes back to you.

    Happy
    x

  • Playing board games

    This can be so much fun. It's a form of entertainment that is so easily brushed aside with so many modern ways to amuse us. As a child it was always great getting out Monopoly, Cluedo and all sorts of other games like Mousetrap. As you get a bit older there doesn't seem to be the time for frivolity.

    I'm gonna make time. Last night, with the TV switched off we had a good laugh for 4 hours. Bring back some of the old fashioned ways!

    Happy
    x

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