...so far I'm loving this month :)
It couldn't have gotten off to a better start really, Saturday 1st saw me attending the wedding of my best friend "J" & what a fantastic day it was. I was honoured to have been one of her bridesmaids, I ate, drank & danced like an idiot...great!
I had invited "M" along with me, he's was a friend of a friend, I'd known him for quite a few months by then but was still rather shocked that he agreed to accompany me to such an event (I mean why on earth would someone willingly spend the entire day in my company??!...mad man)...I'm very glad he did though. "M" & I had spoken quite often over the last few months & he was the person I knew could always make me laugh however my day had gone. It wasn't until recently though (well when I found out about "A" mainly) that we had become quite good friends.
I'll go into a tad more detail as I've not mentioned "M" in here before....I don't think :op The day that I found out about "A" I was a bit of a mess & "M" was in town so he invited me to join him to take my mind off things....we sauntered around a few estate agents (he's currently looking for a place for his dad....erm & himself) and had tea & toasted tea cake (yes I'm an old woman) nothing particularly exciting but I really enjoyed his company, just having someone I could sit & chat about anything with & not having to care that I looked dreadful from crying all morning was wonderful...& to be honest the whole time we talked "A" didn't really feature in my thoughts at all.
Anyway from then on we saw each other much more often & at the wedding, as I said above I ate, drank & danced like an idiot...& oddly enough felt entirely comfortable doing all of this while "M" was there (poor boy) which I would never normally do in front of someone who didn't know me extremely well...luckily he enjoyed himself too & was a big hit with my friends...which is a first as they normally have allot to say about anyone they see me with (usually with good right ) :s
The day after the Wedding "M" & I went to the cinema (which by that time had become somewhat of a Sunday ritual)...even though we'd seen each other a few times already that week we didn't find it hard to make conversation...I felt so comfortable being around him, so when the question was finally asked ( or rather when he hinted that may like me more than friends so I forced the question out of him...being the bully I am) :op I obviously said I'd love to take the next step & see how things went.
So here I am...it may only be 11/12 day's in but I'm very happy & honestly can't think of anyone I'd rather be spending time with right now...my parents think he's lovely...my brothers idolise him & my friends are all inviting us out...it's great, Slightly nervous that I'm about to meet his Mum on Tuesday though...I'm sure she's lovely so I'm not worried about that....just mainly about what she thinks of me, so fingers crossed everything will go fine :)
Well I'm pretty sure I've bored you enough by now so I'll end the post there...just thought I'd do this little write up to show I don't just come on here to whine & moan (well not all of the time)
...Ciao for now :)
Friday, March 14
Monday, February 25
New Year New Me??
...that's what I was hoping anyway!
Alas I have fallen back into the naieve way's of old *sigh*
I'm at work so this will be brief....I shall go into more detail at a later date.
2008 got off to a great start...I met "A" a little while before Christmas, we were just friends for a while, which was really nice then he decided he liked me a little more than "just friends"...I was very usure about the whole thing...I mean I liked the guy...but not in that way, anyway we decided to see how things went. Before long we were dating, he seemed perfect (maybe too much so)...I'd almost forgotten all the doubts that I had in the beginning, then it happened...not even two months in & I fondout he'd been cheating...& not just with any random girl...nooo that would have been too easy, it was with his best friends ex no less!
Needless to say I was devistated...it's the exact same way my last two relationships ended...well amoungst other things. Not devistated so much that I'd lost him just that I;d been fooled by someone I really trusted AGAIN!...I'm really going to have to give myself a shake...the fortune teller told me 2008 was my year...so far that is not ringing true at all.
Luckily something good has come out of all this...I've actually realised for the first time just how much my friends do care for me...I mean I knew they'd be there...but the way they picked me up & stopped me moping around was amazing....so I guess I really have got allot to be thankful for.
Hope your year's are getting off to a better start...I've decided to start mine again from now...so Happy 2008...I hope it's a good one!!! :)
Alas I have fallen back into the naieve way's of old *sigh*
I'm at work so this will be brief....I shall go into more detail at a later date.
2008 got off to a great start...I met "A" a little while before Christmas, we were just friends for a while, which was really nice then he decided he liked me a little more than "just friends"...I was very usure about the whole thing...I mean I liked the guy...but not in that way, anyway we decided to see how things went. Before long we were dating, he seemed perfect (maybe too much so)...I'd almost forgotten all the doubts that I had in the beginning, then it happened...not even two months in & I fondout he'd been cheating...& not just with any random girl...nooo that would have been too easy, it was with his best friends ex no less!
Needless to say I was devistated...it's the exact same way my last two relationships ended...well amoungst other things. Not devistated so much that I'd lost him just that I;d been fooled by someone I really trusted AGAIN!...I'm really going to have to give myself a shake...the fortune teller told me 2008 was my year...so far that is not ringing true at all.
Luckily something good has come out of all this...I've actually realised for the first time just how much my friends do care for me...I mean I knew they'd be there...but the way they picked me up & stopped me moping around was amazing....so I guess I really have got allot to be thankful for.
Hope your year's are getting off to a better start...I've decided to start mine again from now...so Happy 2008...I hope it's a good one!!! :)
Tuesday, December 25
Christmas Promise
Well this year I've officially sucked at blogging. Perhaps the years got a bit away with me. So next year, I really am going to make a concerted effort at blogging more.
...honestly x
...honestly x
Monday, November 5
Long Time No Blog :D
...but not as long as you would have liked I imagine :p
"It's the most wonderful time of the year" lalala...yes it's true I'm still in a sickly joyous mood at the moment...well it's November 5th what do you expect!
It's been a busy old week to be fair, old friends reuniting after 25 years, jobs ending, jobs beginning, A&E, plastic surgery Halloween, A limestone Soldier, Bonfire Night & Birthdays galore...not quite the usual (unless you live in Weatherfield).
I'll concentrate on the reunion as this will take a while, you'll have to wait for my next installment to find out about the rest! :D...I know I'm cruel like that.
As usual it all started with me geeking around on the "tinterweb" in a bleak attempt to add a bit of excitement into my otherwise very mundane afternoon. I had decided to update my Friends Reunited profile?!...think I was spurred on by a report on the news that they were trying to save my Old School building from being demolished after a fire as Stan Laurel used to board there as a lad & rightly so! I have allot of fond memories of that part of school...mainly of the boys in class lighting the gas taps :s....I'm going off on a tangent.
As I was saying after updating my ...very...very boring profile I had a scan around...after exhausting the search functions trying to locate my Friends from yest er year I decided to have a look on behalf of my mum. At this point you need a little background information on my mum, aged 16 my mum decided to move to South Africa with a friend (yes you know where I get it from now) anyway very long story short...they had a fallout & my mum ended up moving from Sassleburg(Transvaal) in the Orange Free State to North Cliff just outside Jo Burg. Here she lived in an apartment with about six other people (mainly students)...when I was younger she would always tell me about how wonderful her friends were & how she wished she'd kept in touch with them.
Me being me, I decided to do a search on a few of the main names I could remember from her tales...& lo & behold I found one of them!...without giving it a thought I sent a message which read something along the lines of "Hi, you wont know me but I believe you may know my mum..." I obviously added a few facts & dates to jog his memory...otherwise it would have been quite a random email indeed.
Later that day when my mum arrived home I told her all about the old friend I may have found & she couldn't believe it...but ever the pessimist she didn't want to get too excited saying "oh it wont be the right person" & "I doubt they would want to talk to me after all this time".
The very next day I received an email saying that "J" (mum's old friend) had replied to my message...my mum was panicking so much as I logged into the site to see what his reply was. I wish you could have seen her face as she read the email confirming that it was indeed the friend she had been looking for all those years, he seemed just as shocked & excited as my mum as he explained a little about himself & what he was up to now...we were shocked to find that he was now living in the UK with his wife & children & was extremely eager to find out what my mum had been doing all these years.
After many lengthy emails to & fro trying their hardest to summarise the last twenty five years of their lives (wow I've not even been alive that long!) marriage, children etc..they exchanged numbers and tonight "J"called!...my dad & I sat listened intently as my mum & "J" talked about the "good old days" in Jo Burg...why he & his family had to flee South Africa..where all the other house mates were now, you could make a movie out of it no lie!
Just before "J" went he asked if he could speak to me...with a puzzled expression I took the receiver from my mum, on saying "hello?!" I was greeted with a soft Afrikaans voice full of praise & thanks for making it all happen...I didn't know what to say...I didn't feel like I had done that much...I'd merely clicked a few buttons & got the ball rolling that's all...but the gratitude continued...I never realised what a difference I was going to make, I'm so pleased I was able to do this for them...it's true when people say you feel so much better when you do something for others.
All of our family's are now hoping to have a gathering sometime in the near future which will be great...I'll be sure to let you know how it all goes & hopefully post some pictures up here for you all to see :).
Anyway...I should go to bed now as it's after midnight...again! :p
Ciao!!
"It's the most wonderful time of the year" lalala...yes it's true I'm still in a sickly joyous mood at the moment...well it's November 5th what do you expect!
It's been a busy old week to be fair, old friends reuniting after 25 years, jobs ending, jobs beginning, A&E, plastic surgery Halloween, A limestone Soldier, Bonfire Night & Birthdays galore...not quite the usual (unless you live in Weatherfield).
I'll concentrate on the reunion as this will take a while, you'll have to wait for my next installment to find out about the rest! :D...I know I'm cruel like that.
As usual it all started with me geeking around on the "tinterweb" in a bleak attempt to add a bit of excitement into my otherwise very mundane afternoon. I had decided to update my Friends Reunited profile?!...think I was spurred on by a report on the news that they were trying to save my Old School building from being demolished after a fire as Stan Laurel used to board there as a lad & rightly so! I have allot of fond memories of that part of school...mainly of the boys in class lighting the gas taps :s....I'm going off on a tangent.
As I was saying after updating my ...very...very boring profile I had a scan around...after exhausting the search functions trying to locate my Friends from yest er year I decided to have a look on behalf of my mum. At this point you need a little background information on my mum, aged 16 my mum decided to move to South Africa with a friend (yes you know where I get it from now) anyway very long story short...they had a fallout & my mum ended up moving from Sassleburg(Transvaal) in the Orange Free State to North Cliff just outside Jo Burg. Here she lived in an apartment with about six other people (mainly students)...when I was younger she would always tell me about how wonderful her friends were & how she wished she'd kept in touch with them.
Me being me, I decided to do a search on a few of the main names I could remember from her tales...& lo & behold I found one of them!...without giving it a thought I sent a message which read something along the lines of "Hi, you wont know me but I believe you may know my mum..." I obviously added a few facts & dates to jog his memory...otherwise it would have been quite a random email indeed.
Later that day when my mum arrived home I told her all about the old friend I may have found & she couldn't believe it...but ever the pessimist she didn't want to get too excited saying "oh it wont be the right person" & "I doubt they would want to talk to me after all this time".
The very next day I received an email saying that "J" (mum's old friend) had replied to my message...my mum was panicking so much as I logged into the site to see what his reply was. I wish you could have seen her face as she read the email confirming that it was indeed the friend she had been looking for all those years, he seemed just as shocked & excited as my mum as he explained a little about himself & what he was up to now...we were shocked to find that he was now living in the UK with his wife & children & was extremely eager to find out what my mum had been doing all these years.
After many lengthy emails to & fro trying their hardest to summarise the last twenty five years of their lives (wow I've not even been alive that long!) marriage, children etc..they exchanged numbers and tonight "J"called!...my dad & I sat listened intently as my mum & "J" talked about the "good old days" in Jo Burg...why he & his family had to flee South Africa..where all the other house mates were now, you could make a movie out of it no lie!
Just before "J" went he asked if he could speak to me...with a puzzled expression I took the receiver from my mum, on saying "hello?!" I was greeted with a soft Afrikaans voice full of praise & thanks for making it all happen...I didn't know what to say...I didn't feel like I had done that much...I'd merely clicked a few buttons & got the ball rolling that's all...but the gratitude continued...I never realised what a difference I was going to make, I'm so pleased I was able to do this for them...it's true when people say you feel so much better when you do something for others.
All of our family's are now hoping to have a gathering sometime in the near future which will be great...I'll be sure to let you know how it all goes & hopefully post some pictures up here for you all to see :).
Anyway...I should go to bed now as it's after midnight...again! :p
Ciao!!
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