Not a lot really

Well AOL is either going capput on my computer or it's on a mega go slow in general and has been since tues...Am hoping it's the latter but knowing my luck it is the former...Anyways i got a letter on sat from my GP...The nurse was right and he was wrong and my results had come back quick...And they're normal, shock NOT, so he's refered me to gynae...How long that will take goodness knows...They're usually fairly quick in getting back to you with an appointment...Just the appointment is weeks or months away LOL...Oh and a big thank you to everyone who left a comment congratulating G :o) Do hope that any of you who had kids or grandkids or friends waiting for results in England today got the results they were after...I dunno if as a parent i could cope with the way it mainly works south of the border...In Scotland as you do highers a year earlier than A levels are done then if you've done well you often get an unconditional acceptance for uni or college...Having to wait and see what you got before you can get your place confirmed must be absolute hell...K had unconditional places but if G gets a conditional then next summer i will be unbearable to live with because of the tension.

Yesterday we went north to visit mum and my sisters...I feel real bad as it's end of the hols and we only just got up there...I'd have prefered to do more than one visit...Younger sis got a car yesterday...It's not a replacement for the one she had the accident in as they were going to get her a small runabout for going to college with...She's doing an alternative medicines course over the next college year...I really should have had her doing some reiki on me yesterday...She has done some at local evening classes and the college course is to get the qualifications...So they got a runabout and are still hunting for a replacement for the main car...I thought i may have found one but my brother in law is being all girlie and only wanting a particular colour...Poor mum didn't know we were visiting yesterday until i phoned her in the morning...I'd been trying to get a hold of sis for a few days to see which one was best for her...Midnight on tues she texted saying wed LOL...We had a pleasant day though :o) My newphew went to show me his quad bike but it wouldn't start for him to have a run about in the garden showing off...They live on a private road so he can go up and down it...Their garden is still as it was when the house was being built so he can go around on it...Him and the lads next door have made a track around the burn they live beside as well...Looks like great fun and i would have liked a go LOL...Now i need to go shopping for new jeans for G for school as his are all ripped to bits...Possibly new black trousers for M for school...I may be able to fix the ones he had that the fastening broke on though...He does need new white polo shirts...I will be buying cheap ones and not school logo ones...As they wear a sweatshirt i see no point in paying a fortune for ones with a logo...Not like you're going to see the logo and to be honest they're not that great quality...He has a new school fleece though...That is for his SEN school and was a new item of uniform they introduced just before the hols...I won't take the boys with me as school is a swear word just now <g> Besides i know the size needed....For G they have no uniform and basically he just needs a couple of new tops and some jeans or casual trousers...And i apparently am still allowed to buy him clothing as i buy cool clothes LOL...I just worry that i am inflicting a specific style on him....I tend to buy him kind of indy, rocky kind of stuff...T shirts and tops can be a bit of a pain at times as neither he nor me want them all plain and a lot with patterns or stuff on them are not really suitable...Like he won't wear one with a saying about beer or girls on it LOL...He says he can't as he's not 18 yet LOL

Once school is back am thinking of going up to business gateway to have a natter with the people there...I've been looking at but got terribly confused with domain names and how to go about that...I had loads of those small sticky labels with name, addy, phone number on them that a friend got me for my birthday one year...Many moons ago when i did craft fairs so i could put them on my goods...And i have very few left...But i don't want to get more yet as i a) want a name for the business b) get a new pay as u go sim for old moby so i have a mobile number on them and c) would like a website and email addy on them...Be same for business cards as well...My youngest sis eldest daughter is really good at writing verses...She made a fab card for her sister's birthday with a verse she made up herself...I half joked at her that she could write some verses for me and i would pay her for them...I askedher and my sis and my mum how much they would be willing to pay for the card i made for my niece...It was a more simple design with no wire embellishments...And they were all useless at giving me a rough price...Sis said to check out prices in shops and such like...I said i have and am still unsure...Am scared to put on too high a price but at same time i don't want to make them too low...Stuart wasn't much use about a price for card i did for him for J either...But he's male so he can be excused <g>  ...Waits for slap off stuart now <ggg> The glass painting will be easier...I've sold it in the past, been told off for low prices and bunged them up LOADS and got the vastly increased price...Now if i could find an outlet to sell some that would be great...But i couldn't charge as much as i would selling myself as the outlet have to make their money on them too...Am a wee bit miffed with Asda like...You know the filing cases you get...Well i have a couple of the plain usual sized ones that i use to store the different papers i have in...But they had small A5 size ones in groovy colours...I bought a bright pink one back in june...They don't have any now and i want at least 2 more...They are ideal for putting the cards in to show to people...Must go to another asda to see if they have any left at all...It could just be that the asda i normally go to doesn't stock them now...Anyways better go and see about what the boys want for tea...Probs not a lot as G is still recovering from meal out on sunday LOL...We went to one of those family friendly built to look old restaurants/pubs...One we hadn't been to before and we will be going back...Meals came on a 17 inch platter LOL...G had fish and chips and his haddock was the length of the platter and about 4 inches wide at the widest point LOL...Think him and me could have shared it and still been full up for days LOL...And it was cheap to eat in as well

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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

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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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