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Posted on May 27, 2009

Another week another trip– Wal is off to Tunisia this week. I think we are both bone tired off all this travel and are look­ing for­ward to it eas­ing up a bit.  This after­noon it was ridicu­lous the shenana­gins we were up to just try­ing to get him to the air­pot.  I dropped him off at work as he had to pick up a few things and make some phone calls.  I ran some errands, picked him up and we headed home to get his suit­case.  We pull into the dri­ve­way and he remem­bers he for­got the posters at the office, the poster were the only rea­son he needed to go into the office to begin with.  We grab his case and do the usual check­list.  pass­port– check. wal­let– check.  phone– check. briefcase/computer– check. All’s well and we head BACK to the office to pick up the promo posters and then the air­port.  He opens the boot/trunk and asks me where I put his suit­case.  I look at him funny and say I never touched it.  We pile back into the car and head back home. Thank god we only live about 10 min­utes away.  We real­ize that he took the case out­side but never actu­ally put it in the car.  We groan and hope that it is still there– we’ve been gone about an hour so we’re wor­ried.  The house comes into sight and no suit­case. We rush in the house hop­ing and pray­ing that we left it in the house.  I check with our next door neigh­bor and she doesn’t have it so it’s a mad dash inside to gather some things together. Up in the loft for another suit­case and run­ning around try­ing to find dry socks and box­ers.  Give him my travel tooth­brush and my razor (w/ the dull blade from shav­ing my legs) and run out the door again.  Weirdly we had plenty of time and he still got to the air­port w/ an hour to spare. 

It’s now 1:21am and I am para­noid that the per­son that took the case is going to think no one is home and try to break into the house.  I’m soo tired but can’t get to sleep– too jumpy!

Onto hap­pier news. My flight is booked, I fly out a week from today and should arrive at Logan around 2pm. 

This past Sun­day we drove out to the York­shire Dales.  It was very pretty and we had a good time.

 

Blogging Blues

Posted on May 21, 2009

Do you ever have those days when you just don’t feel like doing much of any­thing?  I’ve been lurk­ing around read­ing blogs, back­ing up my pho­tos and doing things with Squidge.  I haven’t even attempted a post.  I can’t remem­ber why I am blog­ging.  Who the hell cares that I went to the ceme­tery w/ Squidge– blech! I hate this feel­ing.  I have so much to do and I just chip away at it. I’m ques­tion­ing my pho­tog­ra­phy, won­der­ing why I’m even both­er­ing.  I didn’t even sign up for pho­tog­ra­phy club this term.  What the hells the point!  I need to snap out of it!  I think it all started when I read a flickr dis­cus­sion where a woman who has pay­ing clients doesn’t even know how to use her cam­era! Aper­a­ture, depth of field, shut­ter speed– noth­ing she doesn’t know how it works and peo­ple are PAYING HER.  Are you kid­ding me?!?!  Grrr will get over this lit­tle pitty party I’m in the mid­dle of soon I’m sure. 

On to other news.  Wal come home Sat­ur­day night and flew out 5am Tues­day morn­ing.  He’s been bust­ing his ass try­ing to get a huge order in Turkey.  Ten­der sub­mit­ted and every­thing looked good.  They received news that they had won the ten­der and the pur­chas­ing man­ager just needed to sign it. A week goes by and noth­ing hap­pens.  He hears some­one else came back with a lower offer so they counter offer.  In the end they lost out to the other com­pany.  A com­pany that doesn’t even have a prod­uct to sell!!  I’m beyond pissed off as it’s been so so many weeks spent in Turkey work­ing w/ them and doing tri­als on trucks and doc­u­men­ta­tion and just all the leg work that goes into it.  The fact that they didn’t lose fairly just makes me angry– the only way this com­pany could have won was with bribes and kick­backs.  How can you award the con­tract to a com­pany that doesn’t have a prod­uct to sell? How are they going to develop, man­u­fac­ture and deliver some­thing w/ a 2 month lead time??  Any­hoo I prob­a­bly have some of my facts mixed up but the main gist is no big con­tract and lot’s of wasted time.

On the dieting/walk/run front it is not going well.  I haven’t run/walked in over a month– just haven’t been able to while Wal  has been out of the coun­try.  I thought about leav­ing Squidge sleep­ing in bed and going out for 30 min­utes but what if some­thing hap­pened? House burns down.  I get hit by a car. An air­plane crashes through our house. A gas leak.  I know some of those are far fetched but I just haven’t  been able to do it.  I’ve been try­ing to walk more but it’s  been rain­ing for weeks here.  I am get­ting more and more used to walk­ing in down­pores but it isn’t fair to Squidge to keep her cooped up in a pushchair.  I know that last one is an excuse. I could do more I should do more. I will do more. *sigh*

I’ve gone on a reduced gluten diet.  I’ve basi­cally given up bread and pasta– I have a list and it is so much more than just pasta/bread but I’m not going to list it all here.  Let me tell you that is sooo hard. I usu­ally have 2 slices of toast for break­fast and pasta a cou­ple of times a week. No more!  I’ve been strug­gling w/ what to have for break­fast. I’m eat­ing oat­meal which is a gluten item but it’s one of those that is bor­der­line w/ docs.  I’ve also started to meal plan. We are going to eat 2 fish dishes a week with the hope that it will be increased to 4 soon.  I’m mak­ing steamed red snap­per on Fri­day and am really look­ing for­ward to that.  I made salmon w/ can­no­linni bean mash on Mon­day– it was alright.  I hate cook­ing salmon at home it just makes the house soo greasy– salmon is such an oily fish. 

I’ll end this downer of a post w/ some pho­tos– Enjoy!

 

 

While at the park the other day the skies just opened up and it rained buck­ets for about 20 min­utes.  Squidge and I ran and took shel­ter under a mas­sive tree.  I spot­ted this cou­ple, they just con­tin­ued on with their pic­nic.  It is the typ­i­cal British atti­tude about rain– just keep on truckin cos it ain’t gonna stop rain­ing!  Unfor­tu­nately I waited a smidge too long to take the picture

The day after. The day before

Posted on May 15, 2009

Thanks for all the birth­day wishes. I had a really good mel­low birth­day– Vic and Byr­ney came over for some pizza and vino (none for preggo Byr­ney– wine that is, the pizza she was able to han­dle) and a nice chat on the sofa.  good.mellow.quiet.  

This after­noon I headed over to Head Over Heals.  I hadn’t been there in over 6 months but since I wanted to go to Uni­corn I thought I’d give it a try. I have tried to go a few time but the car park/parking lot is sooooo small that if I can’t find a park­ing space I end up leav­ing. I just kept think­ing it’s kind of crap so why stress out try­ing to find a spot.  Speak­ing of crap I must have said as much the last time I tried to go because when we pulled up Squidge says to me– ‘Antz in yer pantz is bet­ter mamma this one is crap’ LOL.  So I told her we were going to check it out to see if it was still crap. So a happy Squidge told me after­wards that it wasn’t crap any more.  Oooh yah my 3 yr old uses the word crap cor­rectly in a sen­tence.  A proud moment for this mama.  Now on to the many ways to use the f-bomb.  

Any­hoo back to HoH.  The last time I went they had just raised the price and the place was falling apart so I decided to give it a bit of a break.  I was pleas­antly sur­prised when I walked in there today. New paint job, the soft play area mats had been replaced/recovered and they have a ‘disco’!!  LOL they announced that tod­dler aer­o­bics was start­ing so I herded up Squidge and we climbed to the top of the ‘thingymabob’ to a plat­form that was cov­ered in can­vas.  It had a disco ball and every­thing!!! Squidge was in HOG HEAVEN PEOPLE HOOOOOOOOOOG HEAVEN.  Although I did bring my cam­era I didn’t take any pho­tos.  I mean how many times do you want to see Squidge slid­ing down a ‘super’ slide?!?!  

While there I did bump into a cou­ple of mums I met on Mon­day.  They were very nice and we chat­ted for a bit and they invited me to sit w/ them.  I did but felt like I was impos­ing.  I’m sure that is just my own hang up and if it’s not and I really am para­noid oh well. Which reminds me  I took a ‘quiz’ on Face­book to see which Friends char­ac­ter I am, turns out I’m ROSS!!  I’m shocked and amazed and well, dis­mayed but this highly sci­en­tific result.  ROSS!!!

So on to the day before– Wal comes back tomor­row.  Can I hear an AMEN peo­ple!!  Not that Squidge has been dif­fi­cult this week– she hasn’t.  It’s just 7 days on top of the pre­vi­ous week long trips has really worn me out.  I’ve men­tioned before that I don’t sleep well when he’s gone.  Every lit­tle bump and noise and I’m away think­ing some­one is kick­ing in my door again. The ratio­nal park of me thinks that my lit­tle old VW is older now and there are newer cars on my road and they’ll try to steal those first  and and and… but in the mid­dle of the night it’s dif­fi­cult to lis­ten to your head and just sleep.

All the Love in the Uni­verse, Ross Lindy

Oh Oh It’s mah birfday!

Posted on May 14, 2009

So this after­noon I went for a walk w/ Squidge to our local ceme­tery.  The weather here has been soo odd– blus­tery winds, grey skies and chilly.  It had been threat­en­ing to rain for days but we took our chances– we hadn’t been out of the house in a cou­ple of days and I was get­ting a bit loopy.  The rain held out until we were almost back home– Yay!  When­ever we go for a walk to the ceme­tery we always stop off and pick up some moons.  While choos­ing out moons Squidge told me that my birf­day was her favorite and that she wanted a bicy­cle!  I offered her a lol­ly­pop instead and she agreed. I think I was suck­ered– she’s a crafty one. 

On the way home from the ceme­tery I walked past my favorite Chi­nese restau­rant then turned around and went it.  Hell it’s mah birf­day and I felt like hav­ing spicy pork w/ green beans and steamed rice.  Can you say yum­my­li­cious??  Squidge and I sure can!  Squidge is always so good at restau­rants and we had a nice lunch. I took some pho­tos because I wanted to remem­ber my mother/daughter birf­day lunch and because I read a post yes­ter­day that made be cry a lit­tle bit.  If I die tomor­row I want Squidge to remem­ber me.  I don’t want her to won­der why there are 25K pho­tos of her and 1 of me and that one has a cam­era pressed against my face!  They’re  not the best in the world but it’s us– Es & Me!  (LOL– those that know Squidge’s real name do you get it?!!)  

Transformation

Posted on May 12, 2009

This is how I enter­tain myself when Wal is out of town.  I turn my beau­ti­ful brown eyed girl

Into a blonde w/ green eyes.

Kind of freaky– innit?!?!?!  All this was done in Lightroom2.

All the love in the uni­verse – Lindy

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