when the sun shines

Having last posted that there is no excitement in my life
I have in fact been unusually active in the last few days.
Saturday saw me taking OJ into town so he could take part in the monthly snooker tournament before rushing back to collect ET then walking to the bank to get his bank account upgraded now that he is 16 so he can use his account much like a current account. I had just got back home with ET when I got the expected text from OJ to collect him. Once I had dropped him off it was time to dash across town to Asda to do my weekly shop. As I knew I had more money in my account than I had had for weeks and I get my first full salary pay on Thursday I went mad and spent more than usual re stocking the cupboards and treated myself to a new skirt and top to wear for work that would also be ok for going out. I did consider walking up the road to the nearest pub for a quiet drink in the evening just to get out but in the end I stayed home and had a glass of white wine and chatted online instead.

Sunday I woke up with a headache took some pain killers and went back to sleep. When I woke up JA was cuddled up with me wrapped in his duvet like a big blue slug.
I did intend to make a long overdue trip to the local household waste tip then go to the gym as I now want to make it a regular Sunday session at the gym while its quiet. JA helped me to load up my car and came with me. when I got back he ran back inside to his computer games while I re loaded my car for another trip to the tip. I decided to forgo the gym for the day. The sun was shining and it was such a nice day. Then I walked up to the local parade of shops to unload a bag full of bottles (mostly non alcoholic wine) noisily into the bottle bank. I had got the spring cleaning bug by then so cleaned out a couple of kitchen cupboards before preparing a chicken and veg casserole for my tribe. while that was cooking I even got out my Computer course work and began some studying which I had neglected for a few months. It must be right to do it now as it made much more sense than the last time I tried to read it.

Monday

Another long day at work. I managed to spend most of my half hour lunch break sat in my car on the phone organising my car MOT in a few weeks (I usually end up leaving it until the last minute then panic that I can't get it booked in before it expires), my boiler is also now for booked a service on the same day ......now I need to book the day off work. But I also managed to organise myself a loan to pay off my debts with a bit to spare so I can then start with a fairly clean slate with my debts wiped out. I wasn't sure if I would be able to do this as I have a bad credit rate and no security. But I was pleasantly suprised at the repayments.
I also went to the gym on my way home. It was very busy today, so I did a turn on the treadmill upstairs then managed to get on one of the rowing machines in the main gym (timed that right they were very soon all in use). weighed myself after my session as monday is weighing in day for those of us on the diet. Slowly but surely it is decreasing about 1/2 lb this week not much but at least it was a loss.
When I got home I could smell chips, it seems that OJ had decided to cook dinner for all the boys including DC who was home from work before me. So I just made myself a curry with the chicken left over from yesterday's casserole, adding lots of veg and some chopped potato to make it go further.

maybe I shall take things a little easier tomorrow

another day in my life

The sun is shining in my world today ;-)

On the whole it has been a good day although it could have been better

I didn't get to sleep before 1am

woke up at 2am feeling horny thinking about my imminent adventure

woke up again at 4am (kids were still awake!!)

6.15am got up made breakfast and blogged.

found an off line message from Forest

'we never seem to be here at the same time'

I reply I am here now

then realise his message was sent at 10pm last night (I was on computer then but offline)

I text him that I seem to have missed him again

not much later and he comes on line and we have our first msn chat for about 2 months
it is sooo much easier than text. But all too soon I have to shower and go to work. I am leaving earlier today as I am taking my computers to be looked at. I have got a good deal. One pc gets a full health check, the other I believe needs a new hard drive (I was told last year that the hard drive falls over and will do this more and more frequently, this seemed to be the case). It turned out that the hard drive is fine but one of the connections on a cable attached to the hard drive has sheared off. I had a second RAM installed, some drives which were missing were downloaded ie sound. I had all this done while I was at work and collected them on the way home. Total cost a massive £67 so I am well pleased with that. even if I was left with a mere 70p in my purse.

On the down side although it had been very grey all morning it was dry however this changed in time for me to get wet leaving work. By 5pm it was dry and even sunny!!!!
computer is working well, wireless adapter is working but just wont connect with router, I phoned my broadband provider....they dont support this adapter I must contact the supplier. But by this time the supplier was out of office!! so I still dont have a wireless connection.......oh well maybe tomorrow or the day after or the day after or some day.

Oh and a big suprise to me my son told me last night that he doesnt like his car he wants to sell it. He only bought it in march!! so he spent last night looking for cars online this morning he went to look at a peugot 106 (he has 206) but he rang me on my way home to tell me that hes found a new car.....hes swapping it for his current car. He is getting a Suzuki Vitari estate (better for carrying equipment for his band Jaimison)

I wonder how long this one will last before he decides to change it