All excited

Several weeks ago M took it upon himself to send off an application online for Britains Got Talent...Today he got a letter from the TV comapny...He has a first audition next thurs in Glasgow at the SECC in the middle of the afternoon...So he's gone off to his YAC meeting high as a kite...He said i'll get to meet Ant & Dec...No said me they're in Australia...Well i'll get to meet Simon Cowell...No i don't think so said me as this is just an audition to get to the next stage...God help me if he doesn't get through to the next stage in January...Anyways we're still all excited about it...He has to learn a verse and chorus of whatever song he is chosing to sing...Think it's Take That rather than Robbie for just now...He has different songs planned for every stage ARRGGHHH...Hey ho keep everything crossed for him please :o)

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Well after having full blown flu M gave me his cold...Which for me turned into a rotten stinking one and gave me an ear infection...So antibiotics and antibiotic ear drops...I hate eardrops they dribble out unless you keep your head on it's side for about 15 mins after putting them in LOL...Apart from when i had all the 'tummy bugs' (which were actually my gall bladder) a couple of years ago i haven't felt this miserable or poorly for years...I wanted to have my christmas cards all made and am torn between two ideas...To either glass paint them ALL or a different idea i have...Basically using the masking fluid and watercolours again...I got new watercolour paints back at end of sept...Can't remember if i mentioned them...They were really cheap and dead cool...They're metallic/pearlescent...It gives a lovely sheen to what i use on the cards...K had me make a card for her to give to her b/f to celebrate their 2 year anniversary of being together...Well it's hard to do a card for a young lad for that type of thing that isn't mushy...I have a metal stencil that is hearts and not overly flouncy and mushy...So i used the masking fluid over the stencil...Then i used the copper watercolour paint over it...Peeled off the masking fluid and then used the stencil to draw the outline in copper pen...Then i got a black card blank, put copper paper on it then the watercolour paper over that with the design...And put on a 'just for you' tag...So blokey and sentimental but not mushy :o) He liked it she said.

Our weekend away at Ks was a nightmare...The forth road bridge has roadworks on it every sat & sun just now...They've been going on for a while and the queus are horrendous...So me in my wisdom decided to detour via kincardine bridge...And on the motorway it says you can use that alternative route...What it doesn't say is that there are roadworks there as well that are WORSE...Put it this way just as we entered kincardine itself i phoned K to say we would be late and we were stuck in a queue at kincardine bridge...50 mins later i phoned her to say we had finally crossed the dratted bridge...I know no using mobile whilst driving...I didn't as such i phoned when we were staionary...50 mins to travel ONE mile ARRRGGHHHHHH...Ever since i've had a mobile phone i never used or answered it whilst driving...Eventually we got to her fellas flat and loaded the car up with half her gear...We left the boys with her fella and drove out to her new flat...Then we went back and collected the rest of her stuff, the boys and her fella...Although she is out of edinburgh the flat is lovely :o) There are a few details they need to sort out with the letting agent though...Like the kitchen door being slightly squint so doesn't shut properly, a slight leak from under the toilet cistern, the drier part of the washer/drier NOT working...The freezer was being a pain but they found out why and fixed that themselves...It was set too low LOL...What i still can't get over is the kitchen has hob, oven, microwave, washer/drier, dishwasher, fridge, freezer and there is some crockery, pans, utensils, cutlery etc...BUT NO kettle!!!!!!....Oh and the oven has a grill but no grill pan...But NO kettle i find so strange...It's a BASIC requirement...the lad she's sharing with bought a kettle...K has bought a toaster and taken all her kitchen stuff she already had...She's bought a TV stand and waiting for coffee table to be back in stock...I told them that rather than sharing the costs better that they share the buying...As in each of them buy something outright...That way when they part ways there's no arguements as to what belongs to who...She has the double bedroom and the lad has the single bedroom...Not because K has a fella but because it is the only room that is carpeted...So it's better for her when she gets up...She's still got all the ongoing health problems so a carpet is easier for her mobility...I took them shopping to asda...And again the next day to argos, poundland etc...The lad she's sharing with has never lived away from home before...He's having to realise he has to make adjustments LOL...He'll soon learn...We stayed with K as there is plenty room for us to stay with her...We also came home via the forth road bridge LOL...Times for waiting on the electronic signs said 80 mins...Funny that we queued and got across the bridge in 25 mins LOL

K is going into hospital on wed until fri...This is for the tests that they didn't do earlier on in the year...The tests she was refered for LAST november that her neuro thought she'd get done in January or the spring at the latest...The tests she went over to Glasgow for in may or june that she was only there for an hour for!!!!!...She'll be in glasgow and wired and hooked up to these machines...So basically she's gonna be confinedto bed for 3 days :o( Not like we can just pop in to visit her either...She's taking uni work in with her to do but still she's going to be bored silly...As she will be hooked up to machines then using her mobile will be out of the question...Wonder if they have normal Tv or that stupid patientline thing that costs an arm and a leg.

Anyways that's all for now folks toodle pip tc xxx

erm DUH

Ok she has opened her present from the states...Now tell me what parent in their right mind buys as a present an external harddrive for a computer for one of their offspring who is not into computers as such??????

Chuffed to bits

I'll write about the weekend later as i am over the moon today...This morning i had M's annual review meeting...The head teacher, class teacher, careers scotland woman, educational psychologist, autism outreach, speech therapist (shock), head of SN at the mainstream school and the deputy head teacher were all present...And me and M of course...As Mrs F from the mainstream school had to leave quickly she gave her report first...M is doing exceptionally well in his mainstream maths class...He is top of the particular class he is in :o) He would be capable of doing maths at a higher level but the classes for the grade she reckons he is capable of aren't suitable for him to be in...IF he had been staying on at school next year she would have had him back doing that stage...As it is because he will be leaving to go to college full time she has said to ask college for him to do intermediate level maths rather than the SEN level...They'll have to or there would be NO POINT as he's already beyond the SEN level anyways...I did mention that he'd refused to bother to get me an appointment at parents night with his maths teacher...They all laughed and said yeah lots of pupils are like that regardless of SEN or not <g> So she left and we went on to his class teachers report...Well she is as pleased with him as the mainstream school...She is also concerned that in some subjects he will already be beyond the level of the SEN course...At college they work on SQA access 3 level and he is doing that level for a lot of stuff at school this year...So they will be looking closely and asking college what they can actually provide...Apparently college is more flexible than it used to be...I didn't like to ask but i am wondering if their may be a possibility that he can mainly do mainstream stuff and then move on to a proper course...The SEN one is very very basic i have been told, which really isn't suitable but he needs qualifications to do a regular course...And as that's what the school seem to be after as well fingers crossed...The last thing i want is him to be bored and repeating stuff again...We had that in his first SEN school he went to and that is why he is where he is now...I always maintained he wasn't thick or stupid and that he was well capable of doing the national tests they do in Scotland for the 5-14 curriculum...But naaa they didn't do them unless pushed into it by bolshy parents like me LOL...Even then they dragged their heels so much it was yonks before he did any...Spending 2 years on the same maths book that is only like 30-40 pages long would bore anyone to tears...Spending months or years on same English books, same history stuff etc etc would bore anyone rigid...End result of that was he got so bored he tried to run away from that school more than once and hated getting up in the morning to go to school...I won't put up with the same from college...He's got a brain and he's being allowed to use it and i don't want that to stop...He's good at music, he's good at maths, he's good at other stuff as well...He's behind because he was drip fed for 3-4 years of his earlier education, he won't stand for that happening again and neither will I lol...He's in charge of taking the minutes at the Prefect meetings and the Student Forum meetings...He's also in charge of making sure they are typed up and handed out to everyone before the next meeting...The head teacher said he's quicker at doing that than she was LOL...He's matured a lot this last year :o) They said they believed it was because he was also going to the mainstream school...That may have played a part but i believe it is more to do with his being part of the Triple A Team group that both him and G are in now...Them making the DVD that they did to help to raise awareness of pupils and kids like them has given M a more grown up and different perspective on life...It's mainly because of that he has joined YAC and wants to become and MSYP like his sister...He WANTS to make everyone more AWARE of people like him, his brother and his friends...To EDUCATE people and to make people realise that they are not stupid or thick or retards ( i LOATHE that word)...To make people realise that kids and adults like him are intelligent and that they just see the world different to most other people...That seeing the world differently doesn't mean you are daft or stupid, just different...Besides to them we're the ones who're not normal <G> ...He told everyone at the review he is a member of YAC (youth action committee) and that he wants to be an MSYP when there is a vacancy for our area...They were very impressed...All in all it was an excellent review and one of the best he has had :o)  Just as well considering it will probably be his last one...On that note am going as i am full of the cold...Oh yes just after i recovered properly from my flu M, who never gets anything, saw fit to pass on the stinking rotten cold he had LOL...So i feel crappy again and worse than i did with the flu...My poor immune system has taken a battering LOL...And am also off to wish K a Happy Birthday on MSN...Am feeling old as she is now no longer a teenager

 

Toodle pip take care xx

I am alive although i feel half dead

Well am still alive although i feel like only just...Last monday (not yesterday) i woke up feeling like death warmed up...I had gone to bed feeling fine and woke up with the flu...Proper flu not pretend man flu LOL...Although i may have appeared online most of the time i had away up and wasn't actually at the computer...When i was i was sat here doing not a lot trying to stay awake...Great oct hols we've had NOT...We were supposed to visit mum on sat for her birthday...Had to call off as i wasn't fit and certainly didn't want her getting it...Luckily the boys haven't caught it off me...Just as well as G hasn't had his flu jab yet...Yesterday and today we were supposed to be in Edingburgh visiting K...Had to call off that one sunday as i was still far from fit to drive...Today i have managed to actually walk to our wee coop which is just down the road without too much huffing and puffing...So we're now visiting K over this weekend coming...Have to fit in visiting mum as well...And G has a sleepover and i have no idea what they're doing with their club and on what day ARGHHHH...I've still noit heard anything from the hospital about an appointment which is really narking me off big time...Anyways normal service will be resumed as soon as possible...Hope everyone else is well out there

Toodle pip tc xx

Joke <g>

I found these rather amusing but the males who read this may not <g>

A biker was riding along a california beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head, and, in a booming voice, the Lord said, "because you have tried your best to be faithful to me in all ways, i will grant you one wish."

The biker pulled over and said, "build a bridge to Hawaii so i can ride over anytime i want."

The Lord said, "your request is materialistic, think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking. The supports required to reach the bottom of the Pacific! The concrete and steel it would take! It will nearly exhaust several natural resources, i can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that would honour and glorify me."

The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally he said, " Lord, i wish that i could understand my wife. I want to know how she feels inside, what she's thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she says nothings wrong, and how i can make a woman truly happy."

The Lord replied, " You want two lanes or four on that bridge?"

 

Pregnancy, Estrogen and Women

Q: Should I have a baby after 35?
A: No, 35 children is enough.

Q: I'm two months pregnant now. When will my baby move?
A: With any luck, right after he finishes college.

Q: What is the most reliable method to determine a baby's sex?
A: Childbirth.

Q: My wife is five months pregnant and so moody that sometimes she's borderline irrational.
A: So what's your question?

Q: My childbirth instructor says it's not pain I'll feel during labor, but pressure. Is she right?
A: Yes, in the same way that a tornado might be called an air current.

Q: When is the best time to get an epidural?
A: Right after you find out you're pregnant.

Q: Is there any reason I have to be in the delivery room while my wife is in labor?
A: Not unless the word "alimony" means anything to you.

Q: Is there anything I should avoid while recovering from childbirth?
A: Yes, pregnancy.

Q: Do I have to have a baby shower?
A: Not if you change the baby's diaper very quickly.

Q: Our baby was born last week. When will my wife begin to feel and act normal again?
A: When the kids are in college.

"ESTROGEN ISSUES"
10 WAYS TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE "ESTROGEN ISSUES"

1. Everyone around you has an attitude problem.
2. You're adding chocolate chips to your cheese omelette.
3. The dryer has shrunk every last pair of your jeans.
4. Your husband is suddenly agreeing to everything you say.
5. You're using your cellular phone to dial up every bumper sticker that says: "How's my driving-call 1- 800-".
6. Everyone's head looks like an invitation to batting practice.
7. Everyone seems to have just landed here from "outer space".
9 You're sure that everyone is scheming to drive you crazy.
10. The ibuprofen bottle is empty and you bought it yesterday..

TOP TEN THINGS ONLY WOMEN UNDERSTAND
10. Cats' facial expressions.
9. The need for the same style of shoes in different colours.
8. Why bean sprouts aren't just weeds.
7. Fat clothes.
6 Taking a car trip without trying to beat your best time.
5. The difference between beige, ecru, cream, off-white, and eggshell.
4. Cutting your hair to make it grow.
3. Eyelash curlers.
2. The inaccuracy of every bathroom scale ever made.

AND, the Number One thing only women understand:

1. OTHER WOMEN

whoops

Eeeks am really sorry i didn't mean to be so long in posting again...And this is just a quickie as i have to rush to Asda to do weekly shop before the rugby comes on...Mum got out of hospital the wed after she was taken in...We did rush up to see her on the sunday evening...The journey was horrendous with roadworks and sunday drivers dawdling along at 35 mph...A journey that should have taken about 75 mins took almost 2 hours :o(  We also went to visit K on the monday and it was almost as bad a journey...But both were worth it to see mum and to see K :o) Mum got sent home to my younger sisters and then went home to her own place last sunday...Older sis got back from hols on the tues so found out then about mum being in hossie...To be honest mum looked awful :o(  Am hoping after her birthday in a couple of weeks she stops not caring or wanting to do anything and perks back up again...Her own mum died when she was 75 and mum is that age now...Mum always dreaded being the same age as her mum was when she died...Am no psychologist but i swear that has affected mum to the point where she just couldn't care less about life anymore...In a couple of weeks she'll be 76 so over that dreaded number...Can but hope eh

M is thoroughly enjoying his one day a week at the local college...It's an SEN link course and next year he will go there on the full time SEN course...But boy is it making me feel my age as he's all grown up...G went to the open day at one of the local universities on wed and was well impressed with the engineering dept...He'd also been along to the offshore europe exhibition a few weeks back with his tech studies class...After speaking to several of the companies who had stands there he is now undecided on if he wants to do mechanical or electrical engineering...More on that later though...He's being a classroom assistant again this year...It's same class as he helped out with last year and his wee 1st years who are now more grown up 2nd years are chuffed to see him back with them :o) K is back at uni this week and also has a birthday this month...As she needs new glasses then i said i'd buy them for her for her birthday :o)

Promise i will write more later tonite or tomorrow i MUST go stock the fridge and larder before the rugby comes on :o)

Toodle pip tc xx