After spending a good 90% of the week in an AWFUL mood courtousy of an argument I enagaed in, which actually started last Wednesday and finally came to head this week, It’s nearly the weekend and I’m feeling much better.

I got an apology (which I KNEW I deserved) from the person I was arguing with, I haven’t got into any trouble at work for drinking Jack Daniels on my dinner break (which I KNEW I should have) and I’ve nearly finished my christmas shopping so in short…I’m almost there.

Tonight I’m going to meet Al, Steve and Kelly in town where I plan to consume MANY MANY jack daniels and Cokes, Then tomorrow I’m up bright and early to meet Mr Clarke in Birmingham to behave like a child ALL day round the German Market drinking out of boots, and then I have a party to attend in the evening. So busy weekend ahead, then its Jordans school play Tuesday and his birthday Friday of next week so another busy week then too….Better make the most of the peace and quite while I got it.

P.S Note for Gy who I know reads my blog: I’m presuming from your absence online and around about here that Teresa has finally gone into labour so congratulations, and remember that they dont bite!!! (Not till they’re a lot bigger anyway!!!)

Today it came, and then some!!

It snowed for hours and in typical British fashion everything came to a stand still, 1 hour 45 minutes I had to wait for a bus to get home tonight, AND THEN it took another 45/50 minutes to complete a journey that usually takes 20. The queues at the station were MILES long, I did have my camera in my bag and contemplated taking some photos BUT I then realised to get a decent shot I’d have to loose my place in the queue so decided against it!

Never mind I did keep everyone in the bus station amused even if I couldn’t feel my toes anymore. We laughed and joked the hours and minutes away. The lady in front of me (Hello Bev!!) actually thanked me when she got off the bus for keeping her spirits up, her words went something along the lines of “Thank god you were there tonight I think I’d have cried if you weren’t, Thank you” and another man did ask “Why are you so happy?” my response….”No point in complaining about something I can do FUCK ALL about.”

It did help that I’d been bought a box of choclates today from another “satisfied customer” at Ernest Jones, and I shared them with the people at the front of the queue, who’d been waiting the longest with me! They were less impressed when I tried to instigate a sing along, Nobody appriciated my rendition of “Let it Snow” Not surprising considering the circumstances really!

One of the women/girls who I was joking with in the station sat next to me once we’d finally got onto the bus and as we pulled away from the stand we grinned and waved at all the unfortunates who there wasn’t enough room for on our bus, we couldn’t feel too sorry for them as they hadn’t been waiting as long as us AND there was another one coming along any minute…I’m sure!!

So bring it on Mother Nature give it your best, you cant break my spirit! Give me frost bite in my toes maybe….but I’ll still be smiling when they all drop off…

…oh and for anyone catching the 559 tomorrow night or any other bus at the adjacent stands come to think about it, you bring blankets, I’ll bring the whiskey and the Trivial Pursuit, if it carries on snowing like this we may be there a while!

Look at some pretty pictures instead!!

The rest of them are at my flickr page, see my links section!

I have decided that living alone and being single ain’t all its cracked up to be. I’m bored I have no one to talk to, I have no one to watch telly with and no where to go.

70% of my friends are in relationships so can’t come out and play like they used to.

The remaining 30% live too far away.

90% of my friends are male and aren’t allowed out to play with me now I’m single, their girlfriends are fine if i have a boyfriend but apparently he/me/we cant be trusted if I’m single (fucking possessive morons).

Since I split up with my ex I have found out who my friends really are, It turns out that in reality I know lots of people, LOTS of people but actually dont have that many people I can say are friends anymore. I have countless numbers in my phone but very few people who I can actually call….

…That is a very sad state of affairs to be in!

…what a shame lets all stand and give the man who pissed his talent up the wall a minutes silence…

…

…Or maybe not!!

Now not to be disrespectful to the dead BUT the bloke knew what he was doing to himself, He’d been in and out of hospital for years. Everyone warned him what he was doing but he didn’t WANT to help himself and threw away a second chance at life in the form of a transplant, that SHOULD have gone to somone who would have appriciated and NOT abused it, so Mr Newsreader/Anchorman/Sports presenter now he is dead please let him, AND the rest of us RIP stop putting him on a pedestle that he doesn’t belong on!

I’m spending a ridiculous amount of time alone just recently so am watching more news coverage than I normally do, hence the reason I think I am being more vocal about the media than I am usually.!

Yesterday I went into Birmingham, nothing new there for me, spent the whole day drinking coffee wandering around and eating fish finger sandwiches and wearing MITTENS i have new green mittens and they are COOL. I REALLY REALLY wanted to go ice-skating on the open air ice-rink BUT nobody wants to go on with me or cant because of health reasons and its only fun if you have somone to giggle with on the way around and laugh at you whan you fall over!

I took some photos of the wheel all lit up in the dark and some scary ones of the spooky santa on the german market and some pretty ones of the lights on the helter skelter, I will endevour to post them onto flickr soon!

I’ve been stood up AGAIN…by my darling sister!!!

Tonight I was supposed to finish work at 3, meet her for coffee then go back to my moms for food and help her look for a PSP on the internet. I finished work to find a text message telling me to meet her at moms’ only she was running late. So I went to my moms and waited, and waited, and waited, finally I get a text message telling me she’s not coming as she’s going out with Toby (her boyfriend).

I’m a little upset to say the least, I’ve turned down invitations for tonight so that I could be here to help her as I’d promised to, and now she lets me down again! I missed out on coffee, I have yet to eat and now I have no plans for the evenning!!

THANKS EMMA!!!

BUT it would all be ok if it would only SNOW and snow LOTS.

The man on the telly promised it and its still NOT HERE, My uncle from up north has lots of snow and friends in random places have snow so WHERES MY SNOW!!! a foot deep and HUGE flakes to run around in like a child, throwing snowballs, building snowmen and making snowangels, I want it to snow and then I’m going to (time permitting) to phone EVERYONE to enjoy it with me!!!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!!!

…I have a lot to say for myself today BUT I was just watching the news and I’m sick and tired of the hype the media put around certain subjects…emphasising problems and creating a panic culture around them by making them seem immenent threats or telling us about issues that have been problems for years but are only now an issue because they decided to print about it…

For example “Bird Flu” and the whole “WERE ALL GONNA DIE!!!” crowd, Yes a few birds got a bit ill, and how many people in Asia actually died?? a hand full out of a county of 100’s of millions?, so why did the british press predict a death toll in the 1000’s if it hit mainland uk, a county of 10’s (not 100’s) of millions…somehow I dont think the maths works out somehow..

Another example 24 hour drinking, according to the british press were going to have “Streams of alchopops and lakes of vomit in our streets”, creating uproar within communities, Now hang on a minute…how do we KNOW this to be the case?? How can we brandish something as a ridiculous idea without trialing it fisrt, and i dont mean condeming it after the first weekend/bad incident, let it run its course and then see where we stand.

Now the real reason for my rant…The BBC have just conducted a workplace survey to find out how satisfied people are with their jobs, and if the right people are in the right positions in the work place, and there findings have been jumped upon by the goverment as it has found that 90% of working single parents are in positions that they are over qualified for and are under valued as employees! The goverment have jumped on it by saying that they are “looking to impliment more schemes to helpparents back into the work place” and the media have decided that this is a problem as the workplace yes, but in what positions..

…I have something to say to Mr Blair, the BBC and all other corperations etc who have a stand on this….TELL ME SOMETHING I DONT KNOW!!!

I am a single parent, I have 9 GCSE graded A-C I have a Btec National Diploma in Media and Communications, a Btec National Diploma in Performing Arts (the equilivant of 4 A levels) and A NCFE in photography. I am now stuck working in a shop for minimum wage and struggling to juggle work, school, home life, chilcare etc…and when I decided I’ve had enough and actully want to do something that I’ve wanted for a long time and train as a Teaching Assistant KS2 and started looking into it, I realise that regardless of my suitability and qualifications I CAN NOT follow this path as the amount of obstacles I would need to overcome would result in me never seeing my son, as i would be studying at college in the evenings, while attending onsiter training in schools 4 days a week and I’d also have to work part time weekends to just keep a roof over my head!!

So just because the media have taken up on thi sissue, just because the goverment responds does not make this situation a new one, and it doesn’t mean anything will change!!