Pop Personal Quiz

So, I've seen this on a few other blogs recently, and thought it would be fun to do. This time, the questions are for you. Humor me, here, people - make me laugh at my ridiculous questions and cheer me up. Thanks to Carmen at www.momtothescreamingmasses.com for this one :)

1- What was the last thing you ate? And had to drink? I ate pasta with salami, fennel and parmesan sauce last night. And have a cup of coffee on the go right now. Sadly the pasta made a reappearance because I was sad last night.

2 - What was the last movie you saw? The last movie I went to see was Brave, an awesome Disney film. And yes -I cried. I need to get to the movies with my boys more :(

3 - Am I the only person who doesn't like mojitos? Yes, I like them but only one as a starter drink. Otherwise I feel like I have Worzel Gummidge teeth all night. For any readers (as if there are any!) who don't get this check him out on Youtube.

4 - Do you feel guilty if you run a red light? Or do you just feel like you've gotten one over on the man? I don't drive, but I am positively against 'the man'.

5 - If you could only take one kind of vitamin, what would you feel was the most important? Erm, bad Deborah, I don't take vitamins. I eat fruit and veg.

6 - Are you wearing socks right now? Yes I am, thank you for asking.  And no they don't match.

7 - What kind of gas mileage are you getting lately? None, my legs are getting less exercise than they should. 

8 - Even though this is the absolute longest Christmas season possible - i.e., we had the earliest turkey day possible - who among us already knows that she'll be scrambling last minute?? I didn't have turkey day - I'm British, for my sins - but Christmas feels like it's been almost upon us for ages now. People near me have decorations in the window since mid-November. Mine might go up on the 1st December, if I can be arsed. I'm already rushing round like a mad thing, the money's tight this year and isn't forced to stretch t  much more than my kids and parents' gifts.

9 - If someone does something nice for you, how do you repay the favor? Send a thank you note? Make cookies? Or just do nothing and hope karma will even it out for you? I say thank you over the phone or face to face. And then do something nice for them when they need it the most.

10 - Are you a liquid or bar soap person? Liquid all the way. God, that sounds wrong in my head. Ha.

11 - What was the last text message you received?'You have to do what makes you happy, and I don't want to see you hurt or miserable. Don't make any decisions when you're upset. xx' This was from my closest friend and cousin Suzie. I'm having a tough time in my new relationship. It seems I'm the only one making any effort. But he is 22, and still lives at home so I make exceptions for him when I shouldn't. He needs a dose of reality one feels.

The Fabulous Return of....well....me.

So two years have miraculously flown by and I'm a very different girl to the one who sat at this same keyboard in July 2010.

I guess I don't stick to much for very long which always goes a long way to explain my blogging frequency. I flit from one thing to the next always searching for something. I don't know what that something is, and it's proving to be awesome at hide-and-seek. Haha.

I didn't finish university. It was my precious sanity and my children or my degree, and no education is more important than my health and kids. I spent a long time, like a year and a half, in the grip of a non-relationship. I was in love, he wasn't, but continued to take full advantage of the fact.

Lesser factors include needing to nap more than blog, struggling and making progress in becoming a better parent, and building a series of bridges with old friends and family. I also lost my best friend in a silly one-sided (her side!) argument that to this day I have no knowledge of.

Ah well. So it goes.

Now here I sit/stand/crawl, depending on the day and my frame of mind. My mental health is fabulous, my kids are well-balanced, healthy and happy (unless we talk about how computer time is enough!) and I'm in a new relationship. That is a whole other post.

I'm cooling down from a full-on blubbering rant/paddy, caused by my less than sensitive other half. He loves me I know this much, but damn boy, send a  text it makes me feel all included in your life and shit. I hate being ignored. It really grates on my nerves. So i had a small meltdown. More Eyjafjullkull (Icelandic ashcloud causing volcano) scale than Vesuvius, but i felt justified. As ever, I was proved wrong. My new catch sleeps like a sloth - often and loooonngggg. I, on the other hand, sleep about six hours if that, and once I'm awake, I'm up. It's like negotiating with terrorists sometimes to get the lad to wake up. And yes, I have tried sex, bacon and that other thing that wakes every other man on the planet up. No dice. GRRR. 

My head hurts now from the spilling of long forgot crap and newly acquired headaches. 

So, welcome back me.