Saturday, 13 January 2007

Final Post......

I have moved blogs!!! My new address is...

www.katemyworld.wordpress.com

Friday, 12 January 2007

Fridays........

Fridays…… I find that Friday is the best day of the week. I’m sure most people must feel the same but I have to say that it is my favourite day generally. I feel that I am far more productive Friday morning because I know the harder I work I the quicker the day will go but after lunch I find myself counting the hours and minutes until the clock strikes 5. Friday night is like no other night of the week, no matter how tiered you feel from a hard week at work you can always muster up the energy to get yourself out. I have found myself on many of an occasion driving home from work on a Friday thinking how tiered I am and just a night in front of the TV with a glass of wine would be lovely, but when that all important phone call come from a friend asking you to go out, you just spring into action and get yourself ready for whatever the night may bring. It rarely matters how tiered you are on a Friday night because you can always have a long lie in on Saturday morning.

I am looking forward to tonight because I have a poker evening planned at my brother’s house. Myself, my good friends Sarah and Sophie are going round have a game or two. It may sound a little cheesy but it is great to finally have a group of friends who like to play poker. My brother and I have been playing on and off for a couple of years now, even though I am no means good at the game I really like to play. At the moment we don’t play for money but I think eventually we will make it a little more interesting and add a little cash to the pot!

I had an awful day yesterday; I really did not feel well at all. I managed to stick it out at work until about half past ten but I gave up at that point and went home to my bed. I had a really bad headache, stomach pains, heart burn and to top the list of nicely my leg (Which is broken and still in a cast) was giving me a lot of pain. I felt very sorry for myself. But having the afternoon in bed did me the world of good. I feel a lot more alive today and most of my ailments have subsided.

I’m not sure if any of you want to hear about this but I feel I must tell someone because it is something that is really ‘doing my head in’!! I started my first period in 5 years the day after Boxing Day. I was on the contraceptive injection from the age of 18 and after starting reacting badly to it I decided to stop having it about 4 months ago. The Dr said that it could take up to a year for my periods to start again and regulate themselves. So when it came I was a mixture of relieved and disappointed to have it back. Well, it’s coming up to 3 weeks now and I am still ‘on’. I knew things would be a little weird to start with but I didn’t realise it would last this long! I am very sorry, I am sure this is far to much information for you but I have to tell someone and if anyone has any advice please feel free to let me know.

Anyway, enough of the girly rubbish and back to work I think!

Until next time…

Thursday, 11 January 2007

Good Intentions...

Why do the best intentions in the world never work? I had the best intentions last night to do many of the things I have been putting off all week. I finished work a little early and went home with the goal of doing some washing, tidying the sty I am living in at the moment, making some nice but healthy tea and writing another Blog update. Well, Things didn’t go according to plan. My fatal error was that I sat in front of the fire at about 5 o’clock for a couple of minutes to warm up and relax. It would seem that I relaxed a little too much because the next thing I knew it was 8 o’clock and I had been past asleep for around 3 hours. By the time I got myself out of the chair I was really ready for some tea and didn’t actually get around to doing any of the jobs I had planned. It looks like I am going to have a busy night tonight!

After finally dragging myself from the chair I went to make myself something to eat, by this time I couldn’t be bothered to cook anything so I ended up just having some cheese and crackers, which by the way was very tasty. As I was preparing my culinary delight, my mother came in with a bottle of Champaign, there was no special occasion, someone had just bought the bottle for her as a thank you for something. Well the next thing I knew she had poured me a glass and we were sipping on Champaign. I did feel very posh!

I tried to get to bed relatively early in order to get as much sleep as possible so I could get up this morning feeling a little more alive than yesterday. Unfortunately this didn’t happen either. I lay awake until about 1 o’clock, and then woke up almost every hour after that. I am not the best sleeper at the best of times I have trouble getting to sleep and I usually wake up many times in the night, but I generally go straight back to sleep relatively straight away. However last I had a very restless night and lay awake for a while each time I woke. This morning when I woke for the final time (this time with help from my alarm) I came round to a very bad case of heart burn, it felt like someone had poured petrol down my throat and thrown in a lit match to follow. I had the feeling today was not going to be the best day of my life either. And it seems that Champaign with cheese and biscuits are not the best mix of evening meal for me!

I was chatting to my friends Kel yesterday; she started her Blog this week and has put lots of photos of her life on her site. I was having a look through some on these photos and I stumbled across a very dodgy picture of me and her. It was taken about 3 years ago on a holiday to Newquay. Myself and Kel decided to join her uncle and his partner for a week of fun and sun down south. Only a day or two after we arrived there we both thought it would be a great idea to go and get ourselves pierced! I had my lip done and Kel opted for a more subtle nose stud. Don’t get me wrong I loved my lip ring so much and the attention people paid me because of it was great. I wished I could have kept it in forever, but due to my parent hatred for anything pierced I knew this was not an option. It was a little silly but for that week it was great. My lip did swell to a very large size, drinking without the aid of a straw was not easy and I had to clean it with salt water around three times a day but like I say I loved it! We had a great time although we did have a rather large argument one night, but this was swept under the carpet after a little girly chatting and a sobering night’s sleep. The picture on Kel’s site shows me and her one morning looking a little rough and I’m guessing we had been out the night before for a shandy or two! We have made plans to go to the lakes for a weekend in the summer for a re-enactment of our Newquay experience! It should be fun, I’m looking forward to it and I hope she is too!
I hadn’t realised I had written quite so much, I better stop typing now or I will get less done today than yesterday.

Until next time…

Wednesday, 10 January 2007

Dreams...

Why is it that dreams can determine your mood for the entire day? I find a very strange thing to comprehend that the dreams I have in the night can have such in impact on my state of mind. I found myself this morning waking up in an awful mood. I’m not going to bore you with the details of my unconscious activities but I will say that my dreams were not full of fluffy clouds and Care Bears.
I went to bed last night in a very positive mood but awoke this morning feeling depressed and downhearted. This is affecting my working day, I’m feeling lethargic, unmotivated and I am sure that the clock has started to tick backwards!

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
Leonardo da Vinci

Although I had some not so pleasant dreams last night, I do consider myself one of the lucky people who remember a lot of their dreams. I do love the feeling of waking up in the morning after a night of wonderful visits into other worlds, when you get that feeling of contentment that can only come from feeling truly happy. Even if this feeling only lasts for a couple of minutes when you wake, you keep getting little reminders of it during in that day and this is a pretty big determiner for your mood for the that day.
All the good thought you try control throughout the day can come to life uncontrollably in your sleep and transport you to places your imagination could never take you. Dreams are very powerful and although I will probably never understand them I look forward visiting them most nights.
Now just by writing this post today I have managed to turn my mood around. I feel a lot more positive about my day now. Some times it just takes a little cheesy talk to turn things around!

Untill Next time....

Monday, 8 January 2007

Looking Forward...

Well it's been a while... Christmas has come and gone, I had a great Christmas. I was surrounded by my friends and family and we had a fabulous time, despite the fact that my leg was (and still is) in a cast! I received so many great presents none of which i can remember as soon as anyone asks the question "so... what did Santa bring you this year?".
I spent nearly my entire Christmas with my good friend Sarah, i know i may have mentioned this but she really has been a brilliant friend to me since i broke my leg. We went to a few parties, chilled out and had a good time.
I had a party on boxing say which was better than i expected it to be and ended up having one two many glasses of wine!!! Oh well it is Christmas after all!
New year was OK but it is never as good as i feel it should be. i went to a party with my brother and his wife, i didn't really know anyone there but it was giggle.

Anyway looking forward to the new year! I am determined to have a great year, i have some pretty big plans and am becoming increasingly excited about them as the day go by!
  • First and foremost i am planning to have this cast off my leg!!!!
  • I am continuing my CIM course (Marketing qualification) which is very hard work but hopefully lead to bigger and better things work wise this year.
  • I am going to Paris for a few days to expand my cultural horizons in February, I am very excited about this and can't wait to get out there!
  • My parents are going to the south of France for a month in September and I very kindly offered to keep an eye on there yacht on lake Windermere at the weekends, It's a grueling task but someone has to do it! Plus i am planning on spending quite a few weekends there throughout the summer months also!.
  • I am looking forward the festival this year, although i only attend two, I have recruited many more people to them and will hopefully have a wonderful time.
  • Finally, probably the most exciting thing is that I am planning to buy my first home this year!
I really can't wait to get started and look for a house to buy. I am so excited at the thought of being a home owner. I am not naive to the fact that it will be a shock to the system after having life so easy living with my parents but i think i am ready!
I am not planning to move far away from home, i would be really quite like to stay in village i live in or not to far away from it. This may sound a little unadventurous but i actually like the area, plus i work very close and a lot of my family are here.
I have to pay some money i owe back, which i am planning have all paid up by April and then start to house hunt! I did make a very large mistake the other night, i just thought i would have a look on a couple of websites to what kind of houses and prices were around, i found the perfect house, at the right money, in the right place but i just can't afford it yet!! Sod's Law!!

Well anyway, that's all for now, lets hope this year bring good fortune and happiness to us all!
Until next time...

Sunday, 17 December 2006

Thank God For Good Friends and Alcohol!

Well....
I'm sure you will all be glad to hear that i made it out on Friday night!! I finally got my act together and summed up enough courage to drag myself out for dinner with the girls. The journey was alright, the outside world was wondrous and my friends were so patient and helped me out so much. I nearly gave my friend Sarah a heart attack when i proceeded to slip on my crutches and nearly end up 'arse over tit' (Excuse the phrase). But after a few glasses of wine all was right with the world once again. The meal was very nice but as we commented on, during the journey home, we paid a lot of money for a meal we all felt was 'nice'. Personally i think that when you pay a lot of money for a meal it should be 'an excellent dining experience', leaving you wanting to return, but as you can tell it didn't really!! All in all the meal was good but the company and the fact that i got out the house with my friends was brilliant.

Toady has been a very strange day indeed. My good friend Haycox came round. He arrived at my house at about 10 am. As we both didn't feel the on top of the world, (Due to lack of sleep and the fact that he felt poorly) we decided to just watch some TV. We both fell asleep in front of the fire, while watching the A-Team. My friend Ally came round for an hour or so and cheered us both up a lot (She's a good mate and a made us laugh!!). After she left, the next time we looked at the clock it was about half 7 in the evening. We realised that we had been sat in front of the TV for around 9 1/2 HOURS or so!!! Well after ordering take away, opening a bottle of wine and giving in to the vegetative state we were in, more TV was needed. We ended up watching cheesy American sitcoms until around 2 am. While preparing myself to move away from the telly, to which i had been glued to for approximately 16 hrs, to go to bed, I realised that we had consumed about 2 and half bottles of wine! I have used the phrase "I haven't done anything today!" But never meant in such a literal sense before!!!!! All in all today has been a 'write off' of a day, But has been a good laugh at the same time!!! And i do have to thank Haycox for being a good friend and looking after me although he was suffering himself.

Christmas is only a week away and after breaking my leg and being generally crap and house bound, the old Christmas shopping has been a bit thin on the ground. Thank goodness for friends and family who have offered to get me bits and bobs while they have been out. I am going to have to apologise greatly to my friends as the presents they will get from me this year will have been given little time!! But due to the circumstances i hope that they will understand! I have done a little bit of 'Tinter-web' shopping but mainly books and DVDs. I saw and bought a great book, for Haycox, By Stephen Fry 'The Book of General Ignorance', However, when it arrived i was just flicking through it and realised it was a brilliant book and proceeded to read it myself!! I know this may make me a very bad and quite possibly stingy person but i have been honest with him and explained that i am going to finish reading his Christmas present before he receives it on Christmas day! He seems to be happy with this, although some would say its very wrong of me, but still quite amusing!!
Christmas cards have also been a challenge this year because although they have all been written, the people i haven't seen on my very limited travels won't be getting one due to the fact that my usual delivery trip being thwarted by my injury!! Sorry!

Thank god for good friends and alcohol!!

Thursday, 14 December 2006

Pain and Boredom......

Arthur Schopenhauer once said 'The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom'.

Well, today has not been one of the more interesting days of my life. My arm is feeling very painful today, which is making it very difficult to get around. I'm aiming for it to be well enough to go out for dinner tomorrow night with some friends Sarah, Sophie and Laura. I guess we will see!

I have been chatting to a very good friend of mine today. I have known for as long as i can remember. He has been there for me through the bad stuff and i hope always will be. I was just having a read through my post yesterday and i realised i forgot to mention him. On the Saturday i broke my ankle, while i was waiting for my brother come and pick me up. My good friend Haycox sat with me for how ever many hours it took (It was about 6 in the morning!). He hadn't had any sleep that night but still sat up with me chatting to me and trying to take my mind off things. He has always been a good Friend to me although he has always been a little unreliable when it comes to time!! He is almost always late for everything but i guess he can be forgiven!!

I am obviously off work at the moment due to the leg and all! Last week there was a party thrown for my department at work for all the hard work that people have done over the past few months, making sure all the 2007 catalogues are ready for print. unfortunately it was on Friday and i didn't think i would be able to make it. My friends at work called me and said that i should go for the meal. i thought that sitting at a table for an hour or two would be OK. But a couple of days before i received a phone call from my someone at work advising me not to go to the party as it wouldn't look very good for the company or myself to be there after being off work. I could see there point to a certain extent but only from a very petty point of view. About an hour after this phone call i had a visitor from work who had brought me a pile of paper work to complete while i was off! So as you can imagine i was not the happiest of people, They told me i could not go out for a meal after work hours but i could sit at home and complete work for them! I don't think so! Unfortunately the work has not been done! oops....

I am supposed to be in Newcastle this week, visiting a friend of mine, Kelly, who has just moved there. Kelly got married at the end of this summer, the wedding was so nice and she looked so beautiful, I was one of her bridesmaids and i have to admit i cried quite a bit that day. Due to the fact that her now husband is in the army, they relocated to Newcastle after the wedding. They have a beautiful daughter Leyla, who has just turned one. It would have been good to visit them and check out their new home but i guess this visit will have to be postponed till i can actually walk again!! I have been chatting with her today and think i may have inspired her to start her own blog! Can't wait to read it!

The boredom of being at home all the time is beginning to really get to me today. I would really like to get out and do something, even if it was just a drive out somewhere!! As you have probably guessed i am feeling very sorry for myself today! My brother is coming round tonight to watch a film so that should be a little more interesting than my usual evening entertainment of late!

Well, here's hoping that this evening and tomorrow will bring more entertainment than today, and maybe i can write some a little more captivating tomorrow!

Until next time.....