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Good morning.
I am so tired today no joke.I hardly slept at all kept thinking it was time to get up.Woke at 5am and have been awake since.I hate days like this.The good things is that its a lovely day and I got a wash on really early.
We went and got our eyes tested for lasek,Good news is we are both suitable for it but the bad news is that it's going to cost £2900 for Noel and £2650 for me.That by the way is for 10 minutes work. Of course the ad says from £395 per eye.I wonder is there anyone who gets their eyes done for £395 per eye big joke.
I took a notion to bake yesterday and made some muffins. I ran out of caster sugar and just added light brown sugar instead then added mixed spice ginger and nutmeg.took some of them to my in-laws for tea and everyone loved them.
Going to make some homemade pancakes tomorrow for pancake Tuesday.
Lent starts on Wednesday and we are going to try and go of all sweet stuff ,so we will see how that goes lol.

Waiting,Waiting and Waiting

Another lovely day today,although it was very misty and frosty this morning.
Went to the Doc this morning. My appointment was for 10a.m. and after waiting 1hr and 25mins I eventually got to see him. so while I waited I did one of my fav things to do people watching.It seems that where I live now has become very cosmopolitan,lots of foreign names called out and such.It used to be that you had to go to big cities like Dublin to see loads of foreigners for want of a better word.I think its great though that of all the places that anyone could choose to live they chose here.
I also noticed the people who can't sit still or have no patience ,dare I say it they were mostly the males! The male of the species especially the older generation seem to think that they shouldn't have to wait ,that their time is more importent than a womans.You will find them fidgeting back and forth tutting when it's not their name being called and even going up and down to the receptionist to see why their name hasn't been called. You feel like saying just sit down and wait will you.
Anyway when I eventually got in to the doctor He was very understanding and didn't dismiss my request which I took to be a good sign.My Blood pressure was quite high though but that was because the more I waited the more anxious I became.There was a survey done recently that said that the majority of patients with high blood pressure could have been missed diagnosed because the longer people had waited the more anxious they became. They had called it white coat syndrome.I can totally agree with their findings going by my experience today lol.

womanhood,weight, hair and me

Good morning.It's a beautiful sunny day here and have to admit it puts me in a better mood.
The nearer it gets to Thursday and my doc appointment the more nervous I am getting. I need to loose this weight some how and so far I've tried weight watchers,slimming world,appetite suppressents,and tablets for to stop the fat staying in your body (which have to say were very unpleasant in the loo department,well the fat has to go somewhere)I weighed myself this morning and I have put on 4Lb since Friday and that was with me eating healthily.It is so frustrating,seems that no matter what my body wants to keep the weight on.I'm 43 in September I want,no need ,to loose the weight so I see my 45th birthday in 2 years time the rate I'm going now I wouldn't see it.
On the subject of age,all those women out there as you get older have you noticed hair growing on your body were it shouldn't and the hair we do want i.e. on our heads is getting more grey. I feel like a yeti sometimes,the incredible hairy woman at a freak show.I know I have P.C.O.S. and that doesn't help with the weight either.The joys of woman hood Not! We Women seem to have all the joys don't we? periods,pregnancy,birth,menopause not to mention the breast exams and the dreaded smear test. I don't know anyone who hasn't had a dose of trush or cistitis thrown in for good measure too.It definately seems like a mans world.
At valentines weekend my friend and I went to one of our local coffee shops which was having a breast cancer awareness day. They had specially designed take a way pink coffee cups with the slogan "don't be mugs check your jugs" I thought it was a fun way to get the message across.There were competitions on their facebook page too.I entered and won a lovely red teapot and bag of tea.Hubby is enjoying it more though he is a tea drinker were as I love my coffee.
Well I better go and do some housework, us domestic Goddesses have to earn our keep somehow :)

I forgot to say I have been doing loads of knitting to. Over Christmas I knitted loads of hats.I just finished 2 slipovers for my nephews and nearly finished a cradigan for my niece all in green ready for St. Patricks day.
I've also been doing loads of baking mostly muffins although I did make 3 Christmas cakes as well.
Last week we went to the museum with my friend Bronagh and her little boy Liam. There was an exhibition of dresses from the 1920's absolutely gorgeous designs. I loved looking at all the old jewellery too such detail in some of it.
we took a picnic with us I made my pasta salad which is
cooked pasta any shape
a tin of Tuna
a tin of sweetcorn
3 table spoons of mayonaise
1 table spoon of mustard
and just mix it all together.
you could also add peppers,onions,prawns,peas anything like that really very tasty for a picnic.
We are hoping to get to the aquarium or the planetarium over Easter.
At the minute I'm feeling a bit fed up.especially with a so called friend of mine.She is always trying to compete with me but in a sneaky way.she tries to have more friends than me on facebook,makes remarks that seem to be aimed at me on her status. the last time we visited everything I said was wrong ,if i said I liked a particular programme on tv she would say she hated it. I'd say that we had gone out to a restaurant at Valentines she had M&S meal for 2 but it was better than any restaurant food etc etc. she also has to prove that I am wrong even to google something that we had been discussing and when we had gone text me about it to prove she was right. Very annoying as if I were to text her anything she can never text me back and it supposed to be because no credit etc and she never visits us either its always us who have to do the running.It's really annoying me at the mo.So have decided to not visit/phone ot text to see how long it will be until she gets in contact.Hubby says to not let it annoy me but I can't help it.I don't treat people like that and can't understand why I'm being treated this way. grrrrr.

Can't believe I haven't been on here in so long.I'm going to try to write most days if I can from now on.
So what has been going on in my life? My Daughter started high school last September and so far she likes it ok.
My dad died last April nearly a year ago I miss him so much even just to talk to. I Can't believe he is gone and I can't describe the feeling of him not being here ever again.I guess you have to go through it to know.I'm trying to get trough it one day at a time as the song goes.
I'm going to my Doc on Thursday to ask can I have a Gastric band fitted. I've looked at sites that describe it and have thought over the decision to do this for my health. It really doesn't annoy me being so very fat other that now it's holding me back from doing things with my family at the weekends because I am in pain if I walk to far.My back aches and my knee gets really sore after a while and I am fed up with it. I wear size 32 clothes I don't want to get any bigger.So fingers crossed that my doc listens to me and refers me for the operation.
I'm also going on Saturday to get an eye examination to see if I am suitable for lasek surgery.Don't know if i have the courage to go ahead with it though I can be a bit of a chicken with things like that but I am trying to change myself and my attitude to at least give things a go that I wouldn't normally do.I'll keep you posted lol.

Well haven't been on for a while because I've been quite busy.My Daughter has just gone back to school on Tuesday (1st September).It's her last year of primary school. I can't believe it she has just grown up so fast.I'm missing her quite a bit.
I've been feeling very emotional this week don't exactly know why!
I'm dosed with the cold at the mo coughing and sneezing all over the place and generally not feelin the best.(hope it isn't swine flu!).