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!!
Sunday, 17 December 2006
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.....
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.....
Day 1, I Guess.........
Well this is my very first blog!! The reason i have decided to enter the world of blogging simply came from the shear boredom i have been facing over the past week. I have stupidly broken my ankle and two toes!! I have been house bound for just over a week now due to the pain and swelling that came along with the broken leg!!!
I was chatting to a friend of mine, Ally, on the great 'Messenger', after telling her about my misfortune she suggested setting up a blog, she then sent me a link to hers and after reading it i thought, why the hell not!! So here we are!!
I went to a wedding of some friends in Stoke on Trent. Everything was so nice and we were all having a great time. i then proceeded to fall over and brake my ankle. i then spent the next few hours sitting in casualty with my mate Louise! when we finally got back to the bed and breakfast we were staying in i realised that i couldn't get up the stairs to our room. i was in a lot of pain and to be honest i just wanted to go home to my own bed and wallow in my own self pity!!!
I called my brother and explained what had happened and he very kindly came to pick me up! I cannot thank him enough for what he has done for me over the past week. He has come to see me most days, taken me to the hospital and rescued me for boredom with DVDs and trips to B&Q!!
I have had to move into my brothers old bedroom for the time being as mine is at the top of our cast iron spiral staircase!! not exactly the easiest thing to master on crappy NHS crutches!!
My friends have been great. My close friend Sarah has been to see me about every other day and even escorted me to the hospital on Monday, which is when i had my new pot put on. I opted for a bright pink cast!!! on the way home from the hospital i pulled a muscle in my arm and haven't been able to put any weight on it since. this has made moving around very difficult indeed. i have had to hop to where ever i wanted to be and it gets pretty hard work after a while!
My arm does feel a little better today so hopefully I'll be up and running by the end of the week!!
Right, that enough for now I think!!
Until Next time.......
I was chatting to a friend of mine, Ally, on the great 'Messenger', after telling her about my misfortune she suggested setting up a blog, she then sent me a link to hers and after reading it i thought, why the hell not!! So here we are!!
I went to a wedding of some friends in Stoke on Trent. Everything was so nice and we were all having a great time. i then proceeded to fall over and brake my ankle. i then spent the next few hours sitting in casualty with my mate Louise! when we finally got back to the bed and breakfast we were staying in i realised that i couldn't get up the stairs to our room. i was in a lot of pain and to be honest i just wanted to go home to my own bed and wallow in my own self pity!!!
I called my brother and explained what had happened and he very kindly came to pick me up! I cannot thank him enough for what he has done for me over the past week. He has come to see me most days, taken me to the hospital and rescued me for boredom with DVDs and trips to B&Q!!
I have had to move into my brothers old bedroom for the time being as mine is at the top of our cast iron spiral staircase!! not exactly the easiest thing to master on crappy NHS crutches!!
My friends have been great. My close friend Sarah has been to see me about every other day and even escorted me to the hospital on Monday, which is when i had my new pot put on. I opted for a bright pink cast!!! on the way home from the hospital i pulled a muscle in my arm and haven't been able to put any weight on it since. this has made moving around very difficult indeed. i have had to hop to where ever i wanted to be and it gets pretty hard work after a while!
My arm does feel a little better today so hopefully I'll be up and running by the end of the week!!
Right, that enough for now I think!!
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