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Well, today was the first exam. It went so much better than I'd hoped. Actually, and I'll probably fail now I say this, but it was EASY! I rambled on for eight pages easy. The hard bit was counting the ceiling tiles with 30 minutes to go and not letting the examiner know I was doing it lol. Then my classmate made me almost giggle out loud when she had to stick down the flap with her signature on. She licked it and flailed about a tiny bit because (she said later) it tasted nasty!
One down, one to go. Politics. That's going to be the fun one. NOT!!
I realised yesterday that the module I've chosen to do in September has now been rewritten to include no exam. HA! Ha! NO exams next year. YAY!!! But I really need to knuckle down in September. Laze about this summer then crack on with coursework properly next year. First years have it so easy. I didn't think that when I was one but in hindsight its dead on. I shall be nice to the year below us though, they'll have the deer in headlights look most of us had this time last year. A friendly face who kinda sorta maybe knows what they're on about will help lol.
Ooh summer. Time to start thinking how much lazing about I can do and get away with it! I can play on the trampoline all day long, watch TV, read books, or do nothing at all. The kids don't finish school while end of July, so I have May June and most of July to myself all day between 9 and 3. What a fascinating thought.
Snot fair. How can the sky have so much water left in it?!! I want it to be summer already. I have decided that pale is too pale. I look ill most summers, so I have indulged and bought a bottle of the gradual tanner moisturiser. It's okay I suppose. No one will ever mistake me for a sexy Spanish senorita but at least now I don't look like Ive escaped from my coffin!
Oh no, ten to seven, time to get kids beds sorted. One wet his bed last night so sheets are in the dryer. And I hate bunk beds. The spawn of Satan to make a bed. Ufff.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Ive Joined Summat Fun!!
Ive joined the secret post club! I love getting post and so I saw this while surfing. Looking forward to doing the first one!
Thanks to http://notesfromlapland.blogspot.com/
Monday, 1 March 2010
Quarter Of A Century
Well, I finally found time to blog. Life has been mad what with uni, reading, lectures, essays, and the house and kids. Mr Sunshine has decided to make a welcome appearance today. It must have been ordered specially for today. My quarter-century.
When you say it like that, it seems a long time. Ancient. Dragging up an image of a wrinkly old crone, like Macbeth's witches, dragging a leg, and cackling along to herself. You wont be far wrong! Apart from the draggy leg, and wrinkles, tht's exactly what I feel like. Old. Past-it. Well what a shelf-life I've had! I've been through more than most people at my age could imagine. I survived it too, which is more of a surprise!
All joking aside, I don't feel old, but I don't feel young either. I feel ageless. I still think and move and feel along the same track as I did at 17. Some of my thoughts are more mature, and add in the stretchy tummy that I can tuck in my jeans. But roughly the same. I took a long trip down memory lane last night with the aid of Wikipedia and music downloads. Some of the songs I remember from being little were from the 80's. Jesus Christ. I survived the 80's 90's and the Noughties.
I've been feeling a bit depressed lately, probably to do with turning 25, and being at the stage of life I'm at. NO man, but to be prefectly frank, I don't want one. I'm not saying never, just not right now. Or for the foreseeable future. To say i'm an academic, my sentence structure could use some work!
I have had plenty of birthday messages and my family came down the other night to give me cards and stuff, but being alone save for your kids on your birthday is a bit depressing. I have to remind them to say Happy Birthday because they're too young to realise i'd like them to say it in the morning.
And I'm slightly teary. Repeat after me: I dont need a man, even to say happy birthday to me. Repeat until I dont care anymore. This could take a while.
I have a politics lecture later, which by the way should be illegal on birthdays. I'm glad the sun's out because if it wasn't I know I'd be feeling much more down. My moods are interlocked with the weather. The snow made me sink low. I had to drag myself out of the funk it put me in all alone. No big deal, I've done it before. More than likely at some later point in my life, I'll have to do it again.
I think because I'm avoiding my reading for politics, and it IS my birthday after all, I will take the next few hours to myself and watch Tv from the 90's. Cybill, Roseanne, Friends. Entertainment was different then. Bitter, dark, but real. Just like me at times.
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear meeee, Happy Birthday to me!
Well noone else is going to sing it are they? So I might as well.
Oh, by the way, this is what i want for my gift. No substitutes will be accepted lol. Has anyone been watching Glee? It makes me have wrongful thoughts about someone who's supposed to be 17/18.
When you say it like that, it seems a long time. Ancient. Dragging up an image of a wrinkly old crone, like Macbeth's witches, dragging a leg, and cackling along to herself. You wont be far wrong! Apart from the draggy leg, and wrinkles, tht's exactly what I feel like. Old. Past-it. Well what a shelf-life I've had! I've been through more than most people at my age could imagine. I survived it too, which is more of a surprise!
All joking aside, I don't feel old, but I don't feel young either. I feel ageless. I still think and move and feel along the same track as I did at 17. Some of my thoughts are more mature, and add in the stretchy tummy that I can tuck in my jeans. But roughly the same. I took a long trip down memory lane last night with the aid of Wikipedia and music downloads. Some of the songs I remember from being little were from the 80's. Jesus Christ. I survived the 80's 90's and the Noughties.
I've been feeling a bit depressed lately, probably to do with turning 25, and being at the stage of life I'm at. NO man, but to be prefectly frank, I don't want one. I'm not saying never, just not right now. Or for the foreseeable future. To say i'm an academic, my sentence structure could use some work!
I have had plenty of birthday messages and my family came down the other night to give me cards and stuff, but being alone save for your kids on your birthday is a bit depressing. I have to remind them to say Happy Birthday because they're too young to realise i'd like them to say it in the morning.
And I'm slightly teary. Repeat after me: I dont need a man, even to say happy birthday to me. Repeat until I dont care anymore. This could take a while.
I have a politics lecture later, which by the way should be illegal on birthdays. I'm glad the sun's out because if it wasn't I know I'd be feeling much more down. My moods are interlocked with the weather. The snow made me sink low. I had to drag myself out of the funk it put me in all alone. No big deal, I've done it before. More than likely at some later point in my life, I'll have to do it again.
I think because I'm avoiding my reading for politics, and it IS my birthday after all, I will take the next few hours to myself and watch Tv from the 90's. Cybill, Roseanne, Friends. Entertainment was different then. Bitter, dark, but real. Just like me at times.
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear meeee, Happy Birthday to me!
Well noone else is going to sing it are they? So I might as well.
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Long Time No Blog
SO it's been roughly two months since my last post. That's in short due to the extremeness of uni life, the essays are brutal. The presentations are worse than bad and the friends I have made are fantastic!
These past eight weeks have left me emotionally and mentally bruised not to mention physically exhausted. My kids have been putting me on a guilt trip as is their right. Which hasn't helped AT. ALL. The good things that have come out of the past few weeks is that my money FINALLY came. Yay!! Just in time to spoil my sons out of utter guilt for having to leave them with a childminder and at nursery, even though they secretly loved it. And my time managemnet skills are off the charts.
I managed to get Sky+ installed a week or so ago, and it is the best babysitter on the planet. Some of you may shield your eyes and whine 'but what about your children's developmental habits, blah, blah, blah'. My short sweet answer to that is:
If you are a) single, b) have MY specific four old son living with you, and c) my workload to deal with,
you may well understand my need to plonk the littly in front of the box for an hour or two while I do essential things like cook, clean and write essays to put food in my fridgefreezer. For that is what the deal is here. I go to every lecture, attempt the reading even if most of it reads like chuffing Swedish!) and write the essays that my lecturers ask me to complete in return for my loans and grants. If I were tossing it off and sitting on my arse like I did on benefits last year (for the full benefit of gaining maximum financial help this year) I could not receive money for attending and doing nothing. It wouldn't feel right. although there are those students who do this. And do it well as I have observed. That's not me. I am learning and there to do just exactly that.
And as I only get 85% of childcare paid for me, I have to supply the remaining 15% and the kids are in childcare for 2.5 days a week, which is half the time I use a week to do uni work. I spend more than eight hours a day reading/writing/learning on a uni day, and about four hours on uni work at home.
Which explains why the ironing pile was scaled by a Japanese team with sleds and huskies last week, I gave them coffee and left them to it!
END OF RANT
Now it appears the time of year has come to make resolutions I have no intention of keeping,and resolutions I have every intention of keeping.
1. Pass this year at university.
2. Finish decoration of the house (been here 6 years and not finished lol)
3. Learn to drive
4. Lose weight, and stay that way
5. Start exercising
6. Spend QUALITY time with kids, not QUANTITY time.
7. Keep up on housework (this one will fall by the wayside in day three lol)
8. Watch a movie once a fortnight by myself
9. Treat the kids once a week to a movie/meal out/small toy
10. Treat myself once a week, whether it be new nail polish, a magazine, a driving lesson or a bath on my own with alcohol chocolate and bubbles.
Updates later on the resolution front.
Hope everyone hada great Christmas or December 25th and a great new year!!
These past eight weeks have left me emotionally and mentally bruised not to mention physically exhausted. My kids have been putting me on a guilt trip as is their right. Which hasn't helped AT. ALL. The good things that have come out of the past few weeks is that my money FINALLY came. Yay!! Just in time to spoil my sons out of utter guilt for having to leave them with a childminder and at nursery, even though they secretly loved it. And my time managemnet skills are off the charts.
I managed to get Sky+ installed a week or so ago, and it is the best babysitter on the planet. Some of you may shield your eyes and whine 'but what about your children's developmental habits, blah, blah, blah'. My short sweet answer to that is:
If you are a) single, b) have MY specific four old son living with you, and c) my workload to deal with,
you may well understand my need to plonk the littly in front of the box for an hour or two while I do essential things like cook, clean and write essays to put food in my fridgefreezer. For that is what the deal is here. I go to every lecture, attempt the reading even if most of it reads like chuffing Swedish!) and write the essays that my lecturers ask me to complete in return for my loans and grants. If I were tossing it off and sitting on my arse like I did on benefits last year (for the full benefit of gaining maximum financial help this year) I could not receive money for attending and doing nothing. It wouldn't feel right. although there are those students who do this. And do it well as I have observed. That's not me. I am learning and there to do just exactly that.
And as I only get 85% of childcare paid for me, I have to supply the remaining 15% and the kids are in childcare for 2.5 days a week, which is half the time I use a week to do uni work. I spend more than eight hours a day reading/writing/learning on a uni day, and about four hours on uni work at home.
Which explains why the ironing pile was scaled by a Japanese team with sleds and huskies last week, I gave them coffee and left them to it!
END OF RANT
Now it appears the time of year has come to make resolutions I have no intention of keeping,and resolutions I have every intention of keeping.
1. Pass this year at university.
2. Finish decoration of the house (been here 6 years and not finished lol)
3. Learn to drive
4. Lose weight, and stay that way
5. Start exercising
6. Spend QUALITY time with kids, not QUANTITY time.
7. Keep up on housework (this one will fall by the wayside in day three lol)
8. Watch a movie once a fortnight by myself
9. Treat the kids once a week to a movie/meal out/small toy
10. Treat myself once a week, whether it be new nail polish, a magazine, a driving lesson or a bath on my own with alcohol chocolate and bubbles.
Updates later on the resolution front.
Hope everyone hada great Christmas or December 25th and a great new year!!
Monday, 26 October 2009
Stolen Meme
Right, so I owe you guys a post, and the issue I'm dealing with right now is still way too fresh to have salt poured over it by me typing about it just yet. I will get to it but not today.
I have come across a blog today called Sunday Stealing, it rocks! They steal meme's from other bloggers who beg/borrow/steal from other bloggers and so on, and so forth. Here's one from ages ago. It was on Sunday Stealing, who borrowed (!) it from Carmen over at MomtotheScreamingMasses. Check them both out! Especially Carmen's archives, that woman is too funny!
1.What is a nickname a former lover gave you? Er, embarrassing moment here. Wench. It was wench alright. Not too sure why I was bequeathed that particular endearment. He had other names for me. Fluff, Baby, and later on, my personal fave - Jealous Evil Bitch. Which I was at the time. So I did my personal best to live up to the label.
2.How do you style your hair? Well, it depends what occasion I'm going to, how much time, whether I can be bothered, etc. I generally wear it blowdried and straightened with GHD's ( I puffy heart my straighteners), and then whack in a ponytail or a few slides. Then on special occasions, I might curl it with my straighteners, do a quiff, plait it, im currently trying to grow it long enough for a proper plait. The one thing I wish i could do on my own hair is a french plait. My sister does a mean french plait. I also never dye my hair. Ever. I have a colour that is hard to cover but noone else has my colour hair.
3.What's your least fave Christmas song? Rocking around the Christmas Tree. I can't stand forced jollity. My fave however is any of the original<<<< Chipmunks Christmas songs.
4.How many colours are you wearing right now? Er grey t shirt grey n pink socks, black thong, black bra and er, is denim a colour? lol
5. Are you an introvert or extrovert? I'd say both depending on time, place and how well i know the people i'm with.
6. What was the last book you read? Breaking Dawn, for the bajillionth time.
7. What's one piece of fiction that changed your life? The twilight saga. It made me realise that somewhere out there there is the perfect man (or vampire) for me, so I refuse to settle for any crap man beforehand.
8. If you are attracted to someone who is already in a relationship (or married), what might do you do? Suffer in silence.
9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy recently? Yes, being single has made me unhappy in ways I can barely imagine. Yet, it was the best thing that could ever have happened. That's another story on it's own though, and the post I'm currently working on, but can't share just yet.
10. What's your favorite dessert? Anything with sugar and chocolate and you're onto a winner with me.
11. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? Anything from five minutes to two hours depending on what I have planned that day, who I'm going to see, where I'm going , and my letdown - how many times I'd pressed snoooze when the alarm rang lol
12. Name one website that you visit daily. Why do you read it? there are a handful I visit daily, for various reasons. University email, in case I have anything that needs tending to,Student BlackBoard, for the same reason, Facebook, because I simply can't help myself, I'm an internet curtain-twitcher! MomtotheScreamingMasses, because a few years ago, I sat for three weeks and read her entire archive, and she made me feel so happy for her and so sad, I rooted for her for stuff that happened before I read it, she's ace, Better Now because i feel like we may be kindred spirits if we ever met, and my student loan company account, because they need to get off their collective arses and PAY me already.
13. What was your last job before either you are at home or at another job?? I was at home before going to uni, and I was a health trainer before that.
14. Do you like to clean? I used to hate it, but I must be turning into my mother, I actually like it now that it doesnt take over my life. I never used to clean, so when I did it took ages and was totally soul-destroying. I turned my habits round after kicking my ex out two years and havent looked back, except to kick the door shut behind the useless idiot.
15. What was the last song to get stuck in your head? Gavin Degraw, the one tree hill theme song.
16. What's the last movie you saw? er twilight at the pictures, god i need to get out more, and funnily enough twilight at home too. What do you mean, do i have a problem?
17. Pirates or Ninjas? Pirates. Hello??? Johnny Depp??
18. What is your least favorite thing to do that you have to do everyday? Make decisions and deal with everything, money, tantrums, housework, cooking on my own.
19. Best time of your life? Right now, baby!
20. What are you most looking forward to in the coming year? Christmas, for the looks on my sons' faces Christmas morning, my cousins wedding, because its about damn time he got settled, Halloween, because a reader of mine is celebrating her birthday (shout out to K! I love you! U rock! xxx) and I'm dressing up as a cheerleader, a dead one.
I have come across a blog today called Sunday Stealing, it rocks! They steal meme's from other bloggers who beg/borrow/steal from other bloggers and so on, and so forth. Here's one from ages ago. It was on Sunday Stealing, who borrowed (!) it from Carmen over at MomtotheScreamingMasses. Check them both out! Especially Carmen's archives, that woman is too funny!
1.What is a nickname a former lover gave you? Er, embarrassing moment here. Wench. It was wench alright. Not too sure why I was bequeathed that particular endearment. He had other names for me. Fluff, Baby, and later on, my personal fave - Jealous Evil Bitch. Which I was at the time. So I did my personal best to live up to the label.
2.How do you style your hair? Well, it depends what occasion I'm going to, how much time, whether I can be bothered, etc. I generally wear it blowdried and straightened with GHD's ( I puffy heart my straighteners), and then whack in a ponytail or a few slides. Then on special occasions, I might curl it with my straighteners, do a quiff, plait it, im currently trying to grow it long enough for a proper plait. The one thing I wish i could do on my own hair is a french plait. My sister does a mean french plait. I also never dye my hair. Ever. I have a colour that is hard to cover but noone else has my colour hair.
3.What's your least fave Christmas song? Rocking around the Christmas Tree. I can't stand forced jollity. My fave however is any of the original<<<< Chipmunks Christmas songs.
4.How many colours are you wearing right now? Er grey t shirt grey n pink socks, black thong, black bra and er, is denim a colour? lol
5. Are you an introvert or extrovert? I'd say both depending on time, place and how well i know the people i'm with.
6. What was the last book you read? Breaking Dawn, for the bajillionth time.
7. What's one piece of fiction that changed your life? The twilight saga. It made me realise that somewhere out there there is the perfect man (or vampire) for me, so I refuse to settle for any crap man beforehand.
8. If you are attracted to someone who is already in a relationship (or married), what might do you do? Suffer in silence.
9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy recently? Yes, being single has made me unhappy in ways I can barely imagine. Yet, it was the best thing that could ever have happened. That's another story on it's own though, and the post I'm currently working on, but can't share just yet.
10. What's your favorite dessert? Anything with sugar and chocolate and you're onto a winner with me.
11. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? Anything from five minutes to two hours depending on what I have planned that day, who I'm going to see, where I'm going , and my letdown - how many times I'd pressed snoooze when the alarm rang lol
12. Name one website that you visit daily. Why do you read it? there are a handful I visit daily, for various reasons. University email, in case I have anything that needs tending to,Student BlackBoard, for the same reason, Facebook, because I simply can't help myself, I'm an internet curtain-twitcher! MomtotheScreamingMasses, because a few years ago, I sat for three weeks and read her entire archive, and she made me feel so happy for her and so sad, I rooted for her for stuff that happened before I read it, she's ace, Better Now because i feel like we may be kindred spirits if we ever met, and my student loan company account, because they need to get off their collective arses and PAY me already.
13. What was your last job before either you are at home or at another job?? I was at home before going to uni, and I was a health trainer before that.
14. Do you like to clean? I used to hate it, but I must be turning into my mother, I actually like it now that it doesnt take over my life. I never used to clean, so when I did it took ages and was totally soul-destroying. I turned my habits round after kicking my ex out two years and havent looked back, except to kick the door shut behind the useless idiot.
15. What was the last song to get stuck in your head? Gavin Degraw, the one tree hill theme song.
16. What's the last movie you saw? er twilight at the pictures, god i need to get out more, and funnily enough twilight at home too. What do you mean, do i have a problem?
17. Pirates or Ninjas? Pirates. Hello??? Johnny Depp??
18. What is your least favorite thing to do that you have to do everyday? Make decisions and deal with everything, money, tantrums, housework, cooking on my own.
19. Best time of your life? Right now, baby!
20. What are you most looking forward to in the coming year? Christmas, for the looks on my sons' faces Christmas morning, my cousins wedding, because its about damn time he got settled, Halloween, because a reader of mine is celebrating her birthday (shout out to K! I love you! U rock! xxx) and I'm dressing up as a cheerleader, a dead one.
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