Someone kick my bum ta :o)

First i want to apologise for severe lack of entries over the last couple of months...As i told my doctor on monday my get up and go has packed everything including the kitchen sink and is half way to mars by now...Basically i have been tired all the time and not depressed or down...I just thought it was the rather crap weather but it's not...I had blood taken by the nurse to check my iron levels...HA they will be normal they always are except once briefly whilst pregnant with G...I was tested for early menopause when i was either 30, 31 or 32...Can't remember which sorry...Well back then it wasn't early menopause and i got an operation after several months that was quite new at the time...Not a hysterectomy but classed as a mini sort of one...Then things were great for a couple of years and gradually disintegrated again...In june 2006 i was tested again for early menopause...Nopes not that and fine...On mon i got blood taken again to check...This time if am normal again then doctor is refering me back up to gyne to see about having my previous op repeated...HURRAH...Over the last 7 years every GP i have seen at my practice has said hysterectomy...Well i can't have one much though i would love one...Time in hospital is a no no...Recovery time is a no no...I ain't got time to go in as more than a day patient and i ain't got time to spend recovering from some operation...This op i can be in and out same day and there's no recovery time...Then again if it's early menopause then i can get chucked onto HRT...Be a miracle if it works as ever since i was 16 any medications to do with 'womans troubles' has worked for about 3 months then stopped bluddy working LOL...Anyways reason am tired and lethargic is am all over the shop and to be blunt losing too much blood from my body...Apologies for being so blunt, especially to the male readers but there you go.

I've spent all of this evening cutting, creasing then folding card into cards...I did go to the bead shop and it's very nice with lots of stock...Not much suitable for my purposes in card making but still a nice shop...A bit expensive but i still bought some beads LOL...And i MAY start doing some jewellery again...Combine cards with jewellery...Like nice earrings attached to the card as part of the design...So hey a pressie and card in one LOL...The beads and stuff in the shop have kinda got me interested again...They don't have the size of swarovski crystals i need though and to be honest the price they are charging for them is way too much IMO...I can get cheaper elsewhere and that's without buying online...I did buy some green glass beads that will make fab leaves on one of my design :o) ...My glass is still sat in the kitchen in the place i made for it unpainted...Mainly due to lack of energy...Someone kick my bum for me please :o)

G says thank you for the congrats as does M...You know i've been more excited about G's higher results than he has...He's so laid back about them he is positively horizontal...Typical aspergers reaction when he opened the envelope...'They're what i was expecting'...Me i've been dancing about and all hyper and excited and phoning people and everything LOLOL...It's almost as if he is embarassed and not bothered at same time...Like they're no big deal...But that is his aspergers and i know it's that so i have to just live with it...But it's time like this that the difference is noticeable...Anyways am going to quiz and then get some sleep and tomorrow i am going to make a big attempt at doing something productive...Like think of a suitable card to wish some lovely people good luck in moving to Australia <sniff> ...Oh and phone garage to get car in to get wing mirror fixed and say i'll pay my bill next week...As it is OUCH...Well £214 worth of ouch for getting the suspension fixed

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WOOHOO Exam results are brills

Well am one very proud mum today...It was exam results day today in Scotland...M doesn't sit exams as such the work he does is assessed over the whole year by the school...But he passed the SQA Access stuff that he was doing...Next may he will be sitting the standard grade maths exam so he will hopefully have a standard grade on his award letter next august...G as you know if a regular reader was doing 3 subjects last school year...Usually they do 5 in 5th year but the boys in the base need base time as well as mainstream time...Anyways he has as follows:

Higher Maths                               A

Higher Graphic Communication    A

Higher Technological Studies        B

Highers are like A levels and we don't have the A* and A is the best grade you can get...Am very proud and chuffed to bits...Those grades should hopefully get him an unconditional acceptance to university...The tech studies am presuming but will be checking that the school will appeal his grade...He got an A in his prelim so they should appeal it...So WELL DONE to G and M did well to...Right am off out to the new bead shop that has opened up here and i will do my damndest NOT to spend any money in it LOL

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what a div lol

Car was supposed to go back in today to get wing mirror replaced...I woke up with a stinking migraine and was barely able to phone them let alone drive it round...So i've spent most of today asleep trying to shake dratted migraine off...Am blaming the heat...Yesterday the temp gauge thingy in my car was up at 36 degrees at one point...When not being driven it sat at around 33 degrees even in the shade...When being driven it was mainly at 27 degrees...That was with ALL the windows right down...I finally set up my printer...Feel a right div like...It wasn't printing pics properly on the photo paper...So i took it back to where i bought it and they did a straight exchange...Pics still weren't printing right hmmmm...Now on the printer you set a button for photo paper and yes i had that set there...I scoured the instructions in the book and the ones that are on the computer from the installation disc...And the only instruction LISTED is to set that button...Hmmm not quite enough as it happens...You also have to make sure that when you go to print that in the print instruction properties window it is set for whatever type of paper you have in the printer...So set it to glossy photo paper and hey presto pics print right...I don't actually like glossy photo paper but it was a packet i picked up cheap...All gone now and most of it wasted on trying to get the thing to work like...I've always prefered matt or satin finish photographs...But hey it's all working now so i just need to try and use the scanner on the printer LOL...I also want to take a decent photo of each of the boys...Then i will print them as large as i can...Am going to print off the posh pic of K done in studio last year....Then find frames and get them to ex mother in laws...So either she or my ex's wife can take them to america for him...Belated 40th birthday pressie...His wife is over for august i just hope she doesn't decide to come up here to visit...Sleeping combined with painkillers has got rid of the migraine...But as ever i feel washed out and knackered from one...Better go and try and do some tea...Enjoy the nice weather whilst we have it

Toodle pip tc xx

Cars back but going back in again <sigh>

WAHAY i have my car back...BOOHOO it has to go back in next week...It is fixed but needs more fixing...I was mortified on tues...I went to go and collect the boys from club...Had to phone them to tell them to take the bus home as i was sat in middle of a junction broken down...A very busy junction :o(  Two nice fellas came and pushed the car over to the other side of the junction at the side of the street...They asked me to put on my warning lights...Said i can't as i think it's the electrics...Anytime i put on the indicator, tried to close the windows (electric) or did anything to the radio the engine cut out...So i switched off the radio, left the lights well alone and didn't dare touch the windows and got it started again...Fortunately it was that way to my garage...Drove round and parked it and said the electrics are capput to one of the mechanics...Garage bossman wasn't around but then he just drew up...So i left that loan car to get fixed and he said he had good news and bad news about my car...Good news being that the part had finally arrived at place he was getting it from and i should have car back yesterday or today...Bad news was a lorry knocked my passenger side wing mirror...But he had got the name and details of the driver and he'd ordered a new wing mirror...He's sending the bill to the lorry company...The wing mirror isn't here yet which is why it needs to go back in next week...I LOVE driving but i am beginning to HATE cars just now LOL...Oh well hey de ho life and cars are sent to try us all LOL.

Yesterday was hot hot hot and then around this time the sky went black and the rain came down...Today has been hot hot hot again but the heavens have been threatening to open all afternoon...What we really need here is a good thunderstorm to clear the air but it's not happening...My pots of flowers are a disaster...Plenty greenery but no flowers...One of the lilies looked like it was going to flower but it's gone very sad looking now...The two other lilies both have at least 2 flower heads on them...Fingers crossed they do actually flower...I still have some pots just floating with water :o(  I don't have any houseplants because i have the greenfingers of death with them...Looks like am the same with anything outside too...Well i tried at least which is main thing...Sadly i didn't get any pics of the californian lilac as the flowers have all gone in the last week...It was raining too much to go out and take any pics...Apart from that nowt much been happening...Hope everyone is ok and not flooded or anything...Also hope no-one is off to the areas of europe that are affected by the extreme heat...It's sad seeing all the floods in the UK but it's also sad seeing what the extreme high temperatures over there have done to the land and people...100's dead in the heat :o( 

Am still alive honest

Well that's end of 2nd week of summer hols and am fed up already...The weather has been so up and down...One day glorious sunshine, the next pouring down rain, the next dull and muggy, then back to sun again...If you watch the golf at carnoustie then you'll have a rough idea of our weather...We're about an hours drive north of there LOL...My car is in the garage...It's been in the garage since last thurs, as in not yesterday thurs...Really annoying not having the car as it means we can't go north to visit or south to visit K...Garage man is beginning to think the part is being sent direct from citreon factory in damn France...He gave me a loan of one on tues evening so i could take G paintballing on wed...Then i got another one to go take him home...He's giving me a loan of another one tomorrow for a few days...My mobile went capput on me too...It had been going weird for a couple of weeks and did it in town on tues...I was just beside the mobile shop when it happend LOL...Popped in and i was due an upgrade anyways so got a new phone...Gave M the old one as it is the robbie williams one...Guess what...Yeah it is working FINE for him grrrr...I liked my flip phone and they had no flip phones i was allowed to upgrade to for free <sob>

G really enjoyed the paintballing...Some of the lads in his year and in the year that just left school organised it and asked if he wanted to go along...First time he has ever done anything with the mainstream kids in his school outwith school...Only taken FIVE years but hey ho...Took about an hour to get to the site...It's a relatively new one only having been opened just over a year ago...Cheaper than the one i know that is closer and not as much to offer...But they all enjoyed it which is main thing... We may look into it for his 18th next year instead of a party...Dunno yet as it would eliminate a few of his friends from celebrating...We'll see...Both the boys have been invited to an 18th in sept...It's at one of the local bowling alleys but is from 7-midnight...So i'll see how that goes because if it goes well then i may consider there for a party instead...So family and all friends can come along...I do feel bad though as K never had a party for her 18th...She's 21 next year too...If she doesn't want a party then i may just give her the dosh instead...YES darling i KNOW you are reading this, i don't know what i will do for EITHER of YOU yet <ggg> It's all musing and ponderings for now :o)

Last week on tues the boys went to playscheme...That is only day they were able to go...Having seen the group they were in with i am kinda glad they aren't going along...Very less able and not all their usual group...Reason they can't go the rest is that their Triple A team is meeting on a tues...They are making a film in conjunction with a local cinema...It's a cinema that doesn't just show new films but old ones and foreign ones and arts type ones...Much more fun than playscheme by a mile i can tell you...That is all they have on though...G may be going karting at some point...They were talking about doing that when they were paintballing...The karting place here closed about a year ago...The whole area it was in was flattened so BP could build new headquarters...But they have now reopened elsewhere...£25 is cheapest price for karting but G is paying for it himself like he did with paintballing...So up to him how much he spends...M is over the moon as he got his acceptance letter for his link course at college yesterday :o) ...It doesn't say which subject out of his choices he has been allocated for the first session...Presume that school will let them know as they are back at school before the link course starts...Better go and see about tea but do click on the link below...This has been on the scottish news today i don't know if it has been on the funny end story on national ITV news but it is hilarious

BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Seagull becomes crisp shoplifter

 

Think i need some rubber gloves

Oh well i ended up making a new MySpace because they didn't get back to me grrrr...But good thing is i found my old school friend to add him again which is cool :o) And i have a really cool black dragon background on it...It's similar to my AIMPage thingy so not much point in linking it on here really...I like my AIMPage thingy too but AOL need to get some dragon themes.

Well you may ask why rubber gloves...Bit kinky really LOL...I bought some marbling inks/paints the other week and a basin...So tonight whilst watching House and Question Time (get to that in a bit) i decided to marble some stuff...Just sheets of white card and some white card blanks...Consequently my fingers and under my nails are all covered in red, blue, black, white, yellow and green now DUH!!!!...So methinks i need to buy some rubber gloves for next time don't you LOLOL...Not think yellow marigolds but those fine whiteish ones...I did see a packet of like 100 or 200 for £1 somewhere but i can't remember where...I just love all this craft stuff...I get covered in paint, glitter and glue LOL...Spray glue because the nozzle on each of the cans i currently am using have both gone squint.

Question time tonight was the schools question time...Some of it was interesting...They asked the panel about vote for 16 year olds...One girl in the audience said it was a good idea as councillors etc were all OLD...Now i know the English system for councils is different to Scotlands but even so there was a few 18 year olds and others in their early 20s voted in at the recent English council elections...As one of the panel said to her 'well stand as a candidate then'...To which the look on her face said it all...Now am not much of a one for politics as such but you can't go around moaning they're all 'old' and then not be willing to do something about it...Or is that sensible????? ...Same with anyone seriously moaning about anything really and am just as guilty as the next person...We have a deputy Lord Provost who is only 18 and his sister who is only 21 is also a councillor and head of education on our council...It's interesting to see that Gordon Brown seems to have jumped on the Youth Parliaments almost like he is claiming them as his own...Erm but cooeee Gordon the SYP is older than the Scottish parliament...I dunno how long the Welsh, Northern Irish or UK youth parliaments have been around...Nor for that matter the european one...From what i know of K being an MSYP Gordon would appear to be copying what is already done up here...The SYP regularly invite MSP's along to meetings, they have been along at Holyrood, they were involved in last saturdays opening of the parliament, they do try and get their voice heard by various holyrood committees...Gordon Brown wants to invite the UKYP along to westminster...Hmmm see does sound like copycat doesn't it...If young people can legally leave school, work full time, pay taxes, get married (with parental permission in England, without in Scotland), join the army then why not be allowed to vote...Do think the question time would have been better if it hadn't been full of young people from schools or uni who were doing politics though

Right am not getting into a rant...I need to try and get my hands in some semblance of non multicolouredness LOLOLOL...Oh and school finishes tomorrow here ARRGGHHH...Speak about that laters

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I don't exist LOL

Hmmmm not happy...I went to add on Sara as a friend on my MySpace only to find that my page was all wonky...My friends were there and not a lot else...I couldn't log in as i kept getting that my password was invalid...So i tried to email them...Oh joy they didn't recognise my email addy!!!!! So what a pilaver to go through to contact them and ask what on earth was going on....Then tonite when i try to click on the link to my MySpace i find that my account has been deleted...No informing from them that they have done so...Now who the hell that would want to hack into and mess up my MySpace i dunno...It's not like i had loads of people on it as friends or anything...What really annoys me is a very dear friend from high school and college found me again via it...He was one of my best friends and we lost contact after i married my ex...He didn't like my ex much LOL...Ok so he was right in the long run but that's all water under the bridge now...I was just so chuffed to bits to be back in contact again after so many eyars had passed...He's very happily married and living part in Scotland and part in Colorado...I have now contact MySpace again telling them precisely what i think <ggg> Politely of course LOL.

Am so so porud of M...It's going to sound really silly as to why like...He went to the small barbers round the corner yesterday and got his hair cut....First time he has been to a hairdresser since he was around 2...I have always cut his with clippers but he decided last oct to grow it longer...Well i can't cut with scissors so it was getting out of hand...So when he got up yesterday he asked to go to the barbers after school...I went with him of course as i was very wary as to what he would be like...But he sat there good as gold and let her cut his hair...With scissors and then with clippers to finish off and tidy up the back and around his ears...I said to the other woman it's a pity you can't go and train to cut mens hair only...She said you can...I said well everyone i've asked has always said you need to do full course...But no you can go to evening classes for a year at the local college to learn to do mens hair only...So i am going to look into doing that after the summer...If it's available then i will sign up...Yeah i could get a job being a mobile mens barber for boys with special needs....Am sure there is a big market for that here as i know loads who won't go near the hairdressers...See years ago when the boys were both little the hairdresser i used also went into one of the local SEN schools for severely disabled kids and did their hair...So he was brill as he didn't put pressure on either of my two and knew wot to expect...G let him do his hair but M wouldn't...It was after he left this area that i got the clippers and started doing theirs and their fathers myself...Also at teatime tonite me and M went to the information evening at the local college about his link course...It sounds great...Possibly a bit too easy for him but he will learn about coping with doing college or work instead of school...Good transition scheme IMO...Actually once the woman in charge was finished showing her slides and talking about the various sunjects they offer for the link course she answered questions...And M being M wasn't afraid to ask LOLOL...She was well impressed with that and said well at least he knows what he wants and isn't scared to ask stuff...One of his friends from school was there with his mum...Neither of the two of them wanted their mums with them ROFL...This course is treated as part of school so if we have any problems we contact the school...They also inform the school if they don't turn up <ggg> So no skiving off for no valid reason <ggg> The other lads mum i was asking how her business is going...She went to art school to down in England...Her hubby is from up this way and they moved back up here 4 years ago to get better and appropriate schooling for their son...She does caricatures and does them for weddings...I mentioned my wedding favours ideas to her and she said go for it...Last wedding exhibition she had a stall at the one next to her was favours and they did a roaring trade...And that was just the tiny boxes wrapped in ribbons etc...SO here's hoping by end of the week my womens problems have naffed off for another 6 months and i feel fit enough to do a big search of the flat to find my crochet stuff LOL...My GP is off this week so no chance of seeing him...Found that out yesterday when i phoned to get an appointment with him and for the practice nurse to see M immediately...We ended up in A&E instead grrrrr...Bleeding noses runs on my mums side of the family...Bearing in mind my mum had 8 brothers and 1 sister and some of them have big families too there isn't a single family who hasn't someone who gets them...Both K and M get them...K has had her nose cauterised umpteen times...M hasn't ever had his done...Well just after he got up yesterday and announced he wanted the barbers and he'd been and washed himself he started shouting from his room...What a sight, his white polo shirt had a huge red streak down it...I know they can look worse than they are though...But this time it just wouldn't stop...Like a fountain just pouring blood everywhere :o(  Can't phone surgery until 8.30am...Still pouring then 25 mins later...Before when that has happened with K she's just gone to the practice nurse...But no no take him to A&E...What a flaming pilaver...We got there at 8.45am...2 people in front of us waiting for triage nurse...She didn't see anyone until 9.15am...Whilst that woman was in his nose stopped gushing everywhere...Triage nurse did his BP and said she;d ask for minor injuries to see us even though technically he didn't fit the criteria...We had to wait quite a while to be seen by a doctor there...And the doctor asked why i hadn't taken him to the GP practice ARRGGHHH...Told her what they said so she wasn't impressed...By the time he was seen at A&E there wasn't anything they could do...His colour had started to come back...He'd lost a lot of blood and he should have been lying down not sitting in A&E FFS...That's 4th bleeding nose in 2 weeks but the worst he's had since he was little...When he was little they tended to happen in his sleep...He'd waken up to a pillow & duvet drenched in blood...So hmmm they break up for summer hols on 6th July...I will get him to see our GP ASAP after that and ask him to cauterise that nostril...He was making everyone else giggle as he was moaning about missing school....Bless most kids would be jumping for joy to be missing school...One of the women waiting was a teacher and she said she wished her pupils would be unhappy missing some time from school LOL...Going to see if i have had a reply from these MySpace people yet <sigh> Also i do pray that none of your are flooded out...If you are then i really can't express my sympathies enough for you...Yorkshire looks dreadful on the news :o(

Toodle pip tc xx