Pretty sure no one reads my journal but me so it's a good place to just let it all out really. Over the last 8 years or so, I've made some friends through the kids school. Some have been great and I would like to think they are life long friendships, others have been taxing, dramatic and filled with stressful moments. I often wonder if I am ( Read more... )

Finally seeing a Chiro who has helped me immensely with my chronic back problems. He is the first person to actually take an interest in what's going on with my spine, and I can't tell you how much I appreicate that. I am a bit worried about the money we're spending on him at the moment, but he's making both of us feel really good. Richard had some ( Read more... )

Today would have been my Dads 91st birthday. Tonight, we all sat around the table talking about our memories of him and Sarah got upset because she couldn't remember anything. I had to hug her and tell her that it was ok, there are photos of her and Grandad and that he will always be in our hearts and in our memories so he will never truly be gone ( Read more... )

Apparently I cannot escape the bad genes in my family, especially from my Mum. It's not her fault, she didn't gift wrap them and give them to me, she passed them on hoping that they would remain healthy as I grew. Well, today, I got the bad news that my back is pretty much screwed. The arthritis has worsened, I have a curvature in the spine and ( Read more... )

Time for some more therapeutic writing. This time, my trip of a lifetime to the UK, France, Abu Dhabi and Thailand last year. This trip took five years of planning, saving and missing out on a lot of things to make it happen. When we arrived at the air port, it suddently hit me that it was going to happen. My family were all born in the UK apart ( Read more... )

So I've been helping out with the schools P and C for about 5 years now and this year decided that it was time for a break and let someone else step up and take over as Secretary. After having an executive meeting, it was decided that the current President would step down and a new one would take over. Well, weren't we in for a shock. The AGM on ( Read more... )

So now Sarah has come out of Liams room with an armful of uneaten recess food that she found under his bed. I have no idea what to do with him anymore. He says he's not eating anything at school but do I believe him, and if I do, that's a worry in itself. He won't take lunch because it's 'uncool' to eat a sandwich infront of friends and I'm NOT ( Read more... )

My son likes to play Call of Duty online on his PS3 and boy do I regret purchasing it for him for Christmas. He sits on the floor in front of the tv, which is right next to my computer, and rants on about absolute crap to the other teenage boys that he plays with. The most common words I hear are "Oh what??!!" and "Oi guys! Guys!" IT DRIVES ME NUTS ( Read more... )

It's late at night, Richard has just gone to bed and I'm starting to get sick again. My body just gives me the shits these days. I'm overweight, in pain and sick all the time. I know it's my own fault and I'm the only one that can do anything about it, but my brain thinks one thing and my body doesn't respond. Motivation and self confidance just ( Read more... )

I think I'm kind of back.....................

Well, I'm back in the sense that I think I need to write things down to get them off my chest and not use face ache to do it.

So much has happened since the last time I posted here, I really don't know where to start and probably should just bypass all the crap in between. I doubt anyone reads this shit ( Read more... )