Some people love to go to the cinema

I'm not one of them. I can't stand the noise of people eating, get really frustrated at people who hold conversations on their mobiles and am totally paranoid about a mad man with an axe slaying everyone in the theatre (honestly! The first thing I do is check on the emergency exit!!!)

I may have to face my fear though. There are two movies out that I really would love to see on the big screen.

Firstly Memoirs of a Geisha. I read the book several years ago and loved it. I imagine it would make a fabulous looking movie which would be best appreciated on a big screen.

The second is obviously Brokeback Moutain. I don't need to give my reasons I'm sure. Apart from the fact that it contains beautiful boys enjoying themselves, it really looks like another beautiful film.

The only problem is getting to a cinema. Hubby doesn't have a day off for about 3 weeks and my lack of drving skills has scuppered me.

I need to first make a decision on which movie to see and then formulate how to smuggle a 20 month old princess in to a cinema and keep her quiet for two hours. Any ideas?

Seven

Seven Things to Do Before I Die
1. Learn to love myself
2. Make a difference
3. Write a book
4. Travel
5. Be a better mother
6. Be a better wife
7. Be a better friend

Seven Things I Cannot Do
1. Pluck my eyebrows regularly.
2. Have 'just the one.'
3. Have confidence in myself.
4. Sing.
5. Stop blogging.
6. Stop worrying.
7. Keep my New year resolutions.

Seven Things That Attract Me to Blogging
1. I enjoy the quality of the writing in other blogs - they make my smile and sometimes cry.
2. I love reading about other people’s lives
3. It helps me to think things through.
4. It helps me to be grateful for what I have
5. It’s anonymous
6. If I'm blogging, I'm not ironing.
7. It gives me the ability to see I really have changed, even if I don't feel as though I have.

Seven Things I Say Most Often
1. Right Then
2. Go on then, just one more
3. I love you
4. I’m so tired
5. Black please(!)
6. I’m trying to be good
7. Just a little one

Seven Books That I Love
1. Memoirs of a Geisha
2. The Lovely Bones
3. The Know
4. Life of Pi
5. A Million little pieces
6. Take it like man
7. I know why the caged bird sings

Seven Movies That I (would) Watch Over and Over Again
1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
3. Imitation of Life
4. Snatch
5. Muppet Christmas Carol
6. The Seven Year Itch
7. Breakfast at Tiffanys

2005

I did this same thing last year, so here goes.....

2005

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Start up random conversations with random people

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No but I will make new ones for 2006

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes

5. What countries did you visit?
Holland

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Sleep

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
May 12th - Lilly's Birthday

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Losing weight

9. What was your biggest failure?
Failing to get back to driving

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
A million colds but that's all!!!

11. What was the best thing you bought?
?

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My hubby

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Best left unsaid!

14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills and Lilly

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Lilly's development

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
James Blunt - Beautiful (still don't like it though)

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Enjoying the good times

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worrying

20. How did you spend Christmas?

At home with my family!!!!!!

A Star In The Making

This evening the Princess stayed up a little later than normal and we had the normal Saturday night rubbish TV on. This week is the start of Strictly Come Soapstar Dancing On Ice Brother or whatever.....

Anyway, the Princess loved it and was transfixed!!! She was skating around the room, dancing and lying on the floor to finish in the normal dramatic ice skating stylee. She applauded each contestant and thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. Star in the making?? Maybe!!!!

In other news, the past 48 hours have brought us news of two pregnancies and a wedding - what a great start to the year.

We have three (yep count 'em - THREE) holidays booked for this year and the Princess is getting cuter everyday - 2006 is going to be great!!!!

Life Moves On

Our little family spent our New Year in the depths of Cornwall. It was in turns fun, relaxing, exhausting and thought provoking. The Princess had a fantastic time and after a settlement period of a couple of days jumped into the new wild atmosphere with gusto (we were with three other couples and assorted children!!!).

The New Year is always a time of reflection and more excitingly a time of regrowth, planning and moving forward.

We hope to change many things in our life this coming year, some small and some potentially massive. Just because this is the life we have now doesn't mean it has to be this way always.......

We have lots of talking to do in the coming year(s) but Cornwall could have changed our lives!!!!!!

Christmas Fun

Identify these familiar holiday songs:
Colorless Yuletide

Castaneous-Colored Seed Vesicated In Conflagration

Singular Yearning For The Twin Anterior Incisors

Righteous Darkness

Arrival Time: 2400 Hrs Weather Cloudless

Loyal Followers Advance

Far Off In A Feeder

Array The Corridors

Bantam Male Percussionist

Monarchical Triad

Nocturnal Noiselessness

Jehovah Deactivate Blithe Chevaliers

Red Man En Route To Borough

Frozen Precipitation Commence

Proceed And Enlighten On the Pinnacle

The Quadruped With The Vermilion Proboscis

Query Regarding Identity Of Descendent

Delight For The Planet

Give Attention To The Melodious Celestial Beings

The Dozen Festive 24 Hours Intervals

Answers in comments!!!!!!

Our Angel

Our Angel
Originally uploaded by kazza70uk.

Just heavenly.

What A Guy!!!

Julio Iglesias Sr. and his wife Ronna Kneit are expecting their second child together. That's Julio SENIOR- Julio Iglesias' father and Enrique Iglesias' grandfather! Abuelo Iglesias is 90 and Julio Jr. just turned 62.



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I Want A Pay Rise

This Mummy lark is tough.

I have just had a VERY bad week.

The Princess has been very ill and it has in turns been exhausting, scary and plain messy.

I really didn't realise just how ill something simple like an ear infection can make some children.

Some kids sail through these illnesses with maybe a disturbed night and a minor temperature - they get a dose of calpol and continue causing chaos.

The Princess is not like that. When she is ill - SHE IS ILL!!! It's just they way some kids are.

I need to get used to it I suppose - we are going to have more weeks like this *buries head in hands and gently weeps*

I think we are on the road to recovery - although we are having a bit of a sleep issue now ie she won't go to sleep unless I am holding her hand. Oh well in the grand scheme of things it's just a minor problem and I am sure when she is back to fighting strength she will return to her normal ways (I hope!!!!!!!!!)

I Worry Too Much

I have spent the past couple of days reading up on 'toddlers and their feeding problems' as the Princess has been refusing pretty much all foods. I have been playing tough Mummy and not letting her snack between meals and only allowing unsweetened food (as I was worried a sweet tooth was developing) but last night we found out why she hadn't been eating.....

She has some kind of tummy bug and I spent most of last night cleaning up vomit. This morning the bottom end is going crazy and so hopefully whatever has been bothering her will soon pass.

I have learnt yet another lesson. Stop worrying about food issues. We have a little chick who loves veggies, adores fruit and always drinks her milk - so I need to chill out and realise that when she refuses food - it's for a blinking good reason!

Competitive Tiredness

I am sick (and tired) of everybody I meet telling me just how tired they are. It has become a modern day sport - I'm more tired than you - I have a much harder life than you.

BORING!!!!!

I have been guilty of having a moan but I chose this situation, I chose to have a baby and now tiredness is a fact of life. I have decided to shut up on the subject and I wish others would too.

RANT RANT RANT

No Surprises There!

You're a girl power mommy! You love to be girly,
but you're no pushover. Your kids are learning
that gender differences don't have to mean
gender inequality. You've taken back pink, and
you don't care who knows it!


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Party On

Tomorrow I am going to a Christmas Party with all my Yummy Mummy pals.  There will be much wine, laughing, talking and dancing going on and I will be feeling very glam in a dress *YES -  A DRESS*.  I feel very strange as I am a trouser girl usually but this dress is so beautiful I had to have it!!  AND for once in my life I reckon I look a million times better in it than the model in this picture.

Not only am I wearing a dress but also jewellry (that's spelt wrong!) and sparkly shoes.  So there'll be no dancing on tables for me tomorrow - unless...........

Actually, it's been about 4 years since I danced on a table/podium or even a chair - it could be time!!!!!!

I Know That I am Never Going To Change The World

and my blogging reflects this.

I just want to make you smile.

Try this - I love it. Type in whatever you want to say and it will sing the words back at you.

Good Stuff

I could get down in the dumps with hubby working so much and the Princess being sick but I am very happy. Life is good. Christmas is coming and everything else in our lives is fab.

We had some great friends back in the pre-princess days whom we had a bit of a falling out with (long boring story). They were really close buddies and we shared some fab times (and drunken ones!). They now have two children and we are back in contact. Looks like time has healed the rift and we are hoping to get together in the new year to laugh at how our lives have changed. This couple were party animals and we four were always the last to leave any party. Our friendship will never be the same but I am so hoping that we can rekindle that bond that we had only this time maybe not quite much red wine, g strings (there is a story there)and dancing will be involved.

Today we put up a couple of Christmas lights and I feel so warm and cosy with my hubby and princess.

Also - who wants to be my partner? I so want to do latin dancing. Strictly Come Dancing has finally grabbed me and I feel the urge to dance with a slightly effeminate man wearing far too many sequins!!!!!!! I am off to a christmas party on Thursday - look out dance floor I'm about to hit ya!

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It's The Final Countdown

This time of year is so busy. There are presents to buy, meals to plan, parties, meals, trips to pubs. That's without Sinterklaas, writing cards, seeing friends, wrapping presents, dealing with sickness, coughs and colds,getting hair, nails and legs sorted out. There are vistors to plan for, packing to go away on a break with friends to sort out and the small matter of eating and drinking to fit in.

With all this it's great to take a moment each evening to light our Advent candle, to take time out to reflect and to think about the season and what it means to us other than all of the above. For those few minutes every day - I am thankful.

Wet and Wild Weekend

The Princess has a cold and is currently coughing gently in her sleep. I am so hoping she won't wake up tonight but by the coughs I can hear, that's pretty unlikely. Oh well, as I have said so many times before 'sleep is for the weak'.

Despite feeling a bit under the weather the Princess is coming on in leaps and bounds. Her language is developing daily and she is a real mimic now. She copies everything she hears and loves to sing along to songs.

She is so clever and is doing things that we didn't think would be possible until she was three or so.

She makes my heart swell.

She is also now awake and crying - it's 21.45 - it's going to be a long night!

My Blog Has Gone All Weird

It's all in the wrong place. It's too late for my brain to sort it out - tomorrow!

QUESTION

Is it right to feel excited by THIS?.

ANSWER: Probably not!

But my real thought is will Howard wear THOSE chaps again? I do hope so!