I took this picture on Monday of a group of “rebels” outside my shop.

As was well documented in the media our local council went on strike in opposition to the change the retirement age, and the alteration in pensions plan for its workers!

They set up their picket line in front of the local offices and all was going as planned untill this lot appeared and ran off with thier placards, Much to the amusement of myself and a few others!

The kids ran around town and probably brought more attention to the cause than a line of old women standing outside the civic buildings with a cup of hot chocolate to keep them warm! They didn’t hurt anybody and in all honesty raised more smiles than they did frowns, So you can imagine my amusement when, whilst in work today, a local council worker came into our store and during a conversation about the strike started complaining that “their strike had been ransacked by some young hooligans”, and demanded to know “why the hell weren’t they in school anyway??”

WHY WEREN’T THEY IN SCHOOL???…BECAUSE YOU LOT WERE ALL ON STRIKE MORON!!

What a few days I’ve had. I’m exhausted, but still smiling.

Friday I flew up to Glasgow for Catherines’ hen weeknd and had an absolutly amazing time!! We shopped and talked and drank. Walked for MILES, went to see a stand up comedian, crippled myself with new shoes, drank Coffee, ate bagels, took photos, insulted scottish lads (well that was just me the others were far too polite!) walked, partied and walked some more!

Considering I had only really knew Cat and had only spoken with Nicky a couple of times with just a brief introduction to a couple of the other girls before I went away with them, we all got along marvellously! I couldn’t have hoped to go away with a nicer group of people HOSPITALITY was everyones middle name and they were all so accomadating when I was in ABSOLUTE agony all day sunday with my foot!! (yes stupid me wore new shoes to work the week before, THEN wore new shoes out in Glasgow friday night and NEW boots Saturday night, blisters weren’t the word for what went wrong with my feet I couldn’t walk and STILL can only wear backless shoes!!! DOH!!). Flew home Sunday evening feeling very happy about the whole weekend even if i was extremely tired with sore legs from dancing and limping all weekend!

Monday night I accompanied James to see Imogen Heap at the Acadamy2 in Birmingham SHE WAS FANTATIC!! I love her music, but there is nothing more gratifying than watching any performer live and watching Imogen was a treat (even if I did have to spend most the show on aching feet and on tip toes) You could tell she was really enjoying herself and its always nice to watch somebody having fun!!

Tuesday night was just as much fun I had James, Al and Steve round at varying times throughout the evening, eating food drinking coffee and chatting/catching up but hey ho, other than waking with a head ache this morning that I STILL CANT GET RID OF, I feel in a much better frame of mind….I have a plan which involves getting a decent solicitor, getting a new job and having as much fun as possible in between!!

I’m currently sitting on Catherines floor in the middle of Walsall waiting for a lift to the airport 6 girls, one city, god help Glasgow…

Hen weekend here we come watch this space!!!!

My doctors has caught the technology bug and has installed a touch screen system for booking yourself in fro appoitments.

The reasoning…to make the whole process quicker, The result…to completly confuse the old people who couldn’t work out how to use the damn thing with a whole queue of frustrated patrons behind them (including ME)!

Now while I’m a BIG fan of technology and am all for its use in making life simpler, easier, quicker etc, maybe just maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to install something so tech savvy with no instructions of use and NO ONE around to help the poor saps who have been deprived the age of computers because of ther age!!!

We waited in vain for the now non-existant receptionist to offer some assistance while the queue just kept on getting longer. I was 4th in line behind these poor confused people and they were getting more and more flustered, so, obviously I stepped up to offer my help and show them how to do it.

I’d like to say I was just being helpful. That my kind heartedness was an act of sheer unselfish generosity but I’d be lying!! The fact is I was becoming more and more convinced that I would miss my appointment if they didn’t hurry up and figure it out and decided if nobody else was willing to help then I would so I got to book myself in as an example to the ever so grateful people and hence jumped the queue!! HA!

My sister NEVER mails me anything of any substance or of any real interest, Its usually the pass this on to 10 people or you’ll drop down dead/lose all your belongings/suffer a great deal in the next 24 hours if you dont., Which get dealt with a swift click on the DELETE button however I usually always have a glance through JUST in case by some miracle she emails for something important and I miss it.

Today I’m glad I did take the time to have a look, because after scanning through all the rubbish I spotted this paragraph at the bottom of her latest lot of junk…

“As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken, probably more than once, and it’s harder every time. You’ll break hearts too; so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You’ll fight with your best friend. You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did. You’ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you’ll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you’ve never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you’ll never get back.”

…and never a truer word was spoken!!

Spent all yesterday afternoon in the pub with my mate Phil (who I dont see enough of) Where I took up the role of agony aunt Steph disecting his relationship and the position he’s found himself in!! Now I dont condone drinking to forget but sometimes just sometimes its called for!!

7 pints of Stella a bottle wine, 1/4 bottle of vodka and then more wine later I was SMASHED (and thats the polite way of putting it!!) Then spent the evening in the company of Mr Eccles who laughed at me dancing around my living room and attempting to cook in my inebriated state.

Woke up today and most definitly got out of the wrong side of the bed!! Arose still feeling exhausted from the nights activities and made my way to work where “agony Aunt Steph” made another apperance to put the world to rights for my assistant manager this time!!

Why are people in a relationship never just happy with what they have and are always on the look out for the next best thing?? (I have a strange feeling of de ja vue typing this having just had this conversation over the phone!) I dont understand why there are 1872896723489 ways to mess up a relationship but only one way to get it right, and instead of working at whats going right they’d rather focus on whats going wrong/gone wrong/could go wrong!! So I then spent the rest of the day pondering this point and winding myself up in a right state about my own situation!

I seem to have spent the whole day in limbo of perpetuated terror and overwhelming joy at the thought of even giving a little of myself over to someone else again! I’m terrified of it all going to shit AGAIN but know that unless I try it wont make an ounce of difference to what I think because I’ll never know!!

Trying to get my head round that one was a nightmare I managed to avoid biting anyones head off (luckily) and stumbled through the day with my head firmly buried into my revision to avoid holding a “proper” conversation untill I got home!!

All is ok now as I think I know I’ve been over anaylising myself and everything plus ITS GOOD TO TALK!! 😉

The worlds longest running flu hasn’t killed me off (although thanks to James its still long running as its back again), Dislocating my finger and nearly bleeding to death when I cut my toe open (slight exageration) hasn’t killed me off either!! Drinking lots and sleeping very little over James birthday weekend hasn’t had too adverse an affect on my health neither I’ve just been minus t’internet access and far too busy to bother blogging!!

Too much time has now passed to blog everytjhing I’ve done so I’m just going to say its been, Interesting, Strange, Confusing, Nice and MUCH FUN!! As well as a little miserable and upsetting at times but hey THATS LIFE!!!