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CLIVE OWEN...MMMMMM
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
UP...UP....AND AWAY !!!
I'm not quite forty yet, although sometimes i feel ninety. My bones creak like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, except he runs on oil where as i run on wine!!! I get out of bed, trying to be quiet and the noise that my body makes is worse than the floor boards. I finally make it to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and gasp, it's my Mother staring back at me...(mum if you are reading this, please don't be offended, but i'm not meant to look like you just yet, a younger version yes...). I realise that no amount of creams are going to help with the engravings on my face, whatever they say. A quick check for grey/white hairs, relief sets in, thank god i don't have to worry about that yet!!! It's bad enough having to have my eyelashes/brows dyed each month so i don't look like and albino, could not afford the hairdressers too.
AND no matter how organised i am (or try to be), whilst half running and dragging the kids after me, i have to do it all backwards as i've usally forgotton something, or lost my keys/purse/tissues/phone....!!! and of course MY HEAD!!!
It's no wonder you want to punch the air/do a silly dance once they are behind those school walls. The relief the emphoria!!! The fact that you love your children 'more than space', but you really need some of your own......Then you get in the car and drive, the silence is deafening, the windows down, the breeze in your hair and you can sing...and it's not Old McDonald....!!! You drive on auto-pilot, so busy thinking about what you're going to cook today
a) something quick and easy.....as you are going out for coffee
b) something quick and easy...as you are going to be at home cleaning/on Facebook
(all fresh of course, and healthy....!!!)
that you realise you are outside your front door and you've forgotton to stop at the supermarket, butcher, greengrocer....baker!!!....so off you go again!!! Back to the butchers where the men are talking about (the football results), the greengrocers (where the women are talking about the delights they are serving up at lunch time) and the bakers...where any gossip goes!!!
You finally make it home (again), laden down with the bags and the receipts...which of course are piling up and taking over your drawers....cupboards...and...houses!!! What we are actually going to do with them who knows, another aim from the Greek Government to make sure nobody is fiddling them??? I even got a petrol receipt yesterday, the first time ever.....!!!...I'm not sure our accountant is going to be too happy when i give him the suitcase of receipts i've collected so far....and thats just milk and yoghurts for a family of 6.....!!!
PART 2...will follow....Coffee Mornings....Afternoon frenzies and BEDTIME!!!
SO enough of my mornings....lets talk about....???
What't in the news??? Ummm again scandals, politics and possibly World War 3. I sat watching a debate on Greek TV last night comparing the Prime Minister of Germany, to Adolf Hitler....!!!
They've really take the Acropolis comment to another context....!!!
FASHION bold colours are in so, avoid block and go for patterns if you are on the larger side, helps confuse the eye...It's that time of year when you wished you started your diet earlier, because it won't be long until we have to get our arms and legs out. Scary experience, and daunting for a few days, and you feel completly naked without layers and lycra!!!
ITS 25th MARCH TOMORROW - INDEPENDEANCE DAY IN GREECE
(It's also a religious day too - Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, Evangelismos Day)....
A National Holiday, on this day in 1821, the Greek Flag was hoisted in defiance to the Turks.
It is a day where there are church services, parades and wreath laying in memory of those who lost their lives for their country.
Today in the schools children sang about the Revolution, poems were read, and history is remembered!!!
My daughter read a poem today, a comment was made by the ladies in front about a boy wearing short sleeves....(it was a beautiful day)....how 'dropeeeeee'!!!! (terrible) it was, my daughter was also the other one....the fact they only told us the day before what they needed to wear wasn't exactly ideal.....it was lucky i found something white!!! (which didn't stay white for very long, must get some Vanish!!!)
I'm hoping to get the other computer working as now it's officially Easter Holidays in Greece, and i doubt i'll get much chance to be blogging....far too many things to do and make!!! Traditional cheese pies, biscuits, dying eggs....and of course Hot Cross Buns!!! Will cover all the reasons why they do this in my next blog, all i know is that usually my next door neighbour brings me the cheese pies, which i manage to pass off as my own.....the biscuits we've made and eaten several times so there is never any left by Easter, and the eggs i've not only dyed every wooden spoon in the house red, my hands, and usually every saucepan in the cupboard!!!
I LOVE EASTER IN GREECE.....It really is wonderful....(especially if you try and forget about all those fluffy lambs and sheep you've been feeding for the last few months)...that you'll be serving for Easter Sunday. I always make Lasanga....!!! A big cow seems soooo much less vunerable!!!
Lots of Love
Tracey XXX
AND no matter how organised i am (or try to be), whilst half running and dragging the kids after me, i have to do it all backwards as i've usally forgotton something, or lost my keys/purse/tissues/phone....!!! and of course MY HEAD!!!
It's no wonder you want to punch the air/do a silly dance once they are behind those school walls. The relief the emphoria!!! The fact that you love your children 'more than space', but you really need some of your own......Then you get in the car and drive, the silence is deafening, the windows down, the breeze in your hair and you can sing...and it's not Old McDonald....!!! You drive on auto-pilot, so busy thinking about what you're going to cook today
a) something quick and easy.....as you are going out for coffee
b) something quick and easy...as you are going to be at home cleaning/on Facebook
(all fresh of course, and healthy....!!!)
that you realise you are outside your front door and you've forgotton to stop at the supermarket, butcher, greengrocer....baker!!!....so off you go again!!! Back to the butchers where the men are talking about (the football results), the greengrocers (where the women are talking about the delights they are serving up at lunch time) and the bakers...where any gossip goes!!!
You finally make it home (again), laden down with the bags and the receipts...which of course are piling up and taking over your drawers....cupboards...and...houses!!! What we are actually going to do with them who knows, another aim from the Greek Government to make sure nobody is fiddling them??? I even got a petrol receipt yesterday, the first time ever.....!!!...I'm not sure our accountant is going to be too happy when i give him the suitcase of receipts i've collected so far....and thats just milk and yoghurts for a family of 6.....!!!
PART 2...will follow....Coffee Mornings....Afternoon frenzies and BEDTIME!!!
SO enough of my mornings....lets talk about....???
What't in the news??? Ummm again scandals, politics and possibly World War 3. I sat watching a debate on Greek TV last night comparing the Prime Minister of Germany, to Adolf Hitler....!!!
They've really take the Acropolis comment to another context....!!!
FASHION bold colours are in so, avoid block and go for patterns if you are on the larger side, helps confuse the eye...It's that time of year when you wished you started your diet earlier, because it won't be long until we have to get our arms and legs out. Scary experience, and daunting for a few days, and you feel completly naked without layers and lycra!!!
ITS 25th MARCH TOMORROW - INDEPENDEANCE DAY IN GREECE
(It's also a religious day too - Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, Evangelismos Day)....
A National Holiday, on this day in 1821, the Greek Flag was hoisted in defiance to the Turks.
It is a day where there are church services, parades and wreath laying in memory of those who lost their lives for their country.
Today in the schools children sang about the Revolution, poems were read, and history is remembered!!!
My daughter read a poem today, a comment was made by the ladies in front about a boy wearing short sleeves....(it was a beautiful day)....how 'dropeeeeee'!!!! (terrible) it was, my daughter was also the other one....the fact they only told us the day before what they needed to wear wasn't exactly ideal.....it was lucky i found something white!!! (which didn't stay white for very long, must get some Vanish!!!)
I'm hoping to get the other computer working as now it's officially Easter Holidays in Greece, and i doubt i'll get much chance to be blogging....far too many things to do and make!!! Traditional cheese pies, biscuits, dying eggs....and of course Hot Cross Buns!!! Will cover all the reasons why they do this in my next blog, all i know is that usually my next door neighbour brings me the cheese pies, which i manage to pass off as my own.....the biscuits we've made and eaten several times so there is never any left by Easter, and the eggs i've not only dyed every wooden spoon in the house red, my hands, and usually every saucepan in the cupboard!!!
I LOVE EASTER IN GREECE.....It really is wonderful....(especially if you try and forget about all those fluffy lambs and sheep you've been feeding for the last few months)...that you'll be serving for Easter Sunday. I always make Lasanga....!!! A big cow seems soooo much less vunerable!!!
Lots of Love
Tracey XXX
Friday, March 19, 2010
BRAIN FOG /DOCTORS & POLITICIANS!!!....
OMG i forgot completly my actual hotmail address and password for this.....what is wrong with me? Then of course i couldn't find my little black book where all this info is written down....and now i'm running out of time as my two teenage daughters will be home any moment with friends in tow wanting to go on MSN.....ahhhh, and my two smaller children are actually drawing nicely instead of tearing each other apart or terrorising the cat!!!
It's been another fun filled week in the life and times of theNOT so Greek Goddess...it has been spent at The Doctors, where i seem to have spent looooooong hours waiting, and missing out on valuable coffee time. My children aren't really sick (just snuffles), but I was told one had a 'mass' (i almost fainted), but translated basically meant some meat in her passage!!! (enlarged adenoids).... having sat for 2 hrs waiting for x-rays, with most of the island. My children kept the masses entertained by sticking their fingers up their noses and singing xmas carols....ahhhhhh and all i could think about was how i could distract the large lady in front (who needed everything done) so i could push past and ... Of course i knew this would be like trying to cross a barbwired electric fence, and i had no chance....especially as she had come all the way from the village (10 mins down the road!!!)
I then spent hours at another Doc...and then another....and then another.....!!! Finally getting an appointment in a months time, with a Doc which I later found out can't help me anyway. Funny isn't it, we live on an island where medicine was born, The Island of Hippocrates....and the first hospital, and from most angles they don't seem to have actually progressed very far....shock treatment, instead of snakes seems to be the use of a sharp instrument before the anaesthetic has had chance to work!!! (Also met another British lady who had encountered the same nasty surgeon who removed my mole...she had her stomach slashed open though....even worse...ouchhhhhh!!!!)
As for politicians....(especially candidates for elections hoping to get votes) well, they certainly know how to dodge questions and smile alot when the camera is around! They may not be 'Harry Potters' and create magic, but they do seem to know how to suck blood out of most of us (and money), so wouldn't a vampire be more appropriate? Or is that comparison too nice, perhaps a tick would be better!!! WE HAVE WAYS OF MAKING YOU VOTE.....!!! (Tea & biscuits and they think we are hooked!!!)......WE HAVE THE MONEY.....!!! Really surprising, considering the scale of the economic crisis, has the local council being playing the 'Stoixima' too??? Everyone else on the island (male), seems to have a mad obssesion about it, and it won't be long before there are no Cafe Neons....and only gambling outlets....they are the only ones making money....whilst the Greek population are losing theirs hoping for a miracle!!!
I actually got out to attend a meeting this week, and not only realised that when the cameras for the local television were around, i was caught talking about the joys of Blue Vodka...and then went on to spill all the hot water over the counter, and tried to mop it up with napkins, and managed to knock over the coffee too, and then after all that there was no milk left!!! You see, i don't get out very often, so i was even more amused that my friend had saved me a seat ( right at the front....and there was me just wanting to blend into the background and have a sleep), but no, next to the oldest swinger in town.....who kept asking me personal questions and getting up all the time to refill his cup and plate. Guess, i would have been joining him, had it been wine on offer and spring rolls???
So an eventful week, followed by a wonderful treatment, an aromatherapy massage. A beautiful present from my friend the therapist herself. Where i could stretch out and be pampered and tell her all my woes. I was there for a while!!! Infact, Miss P should actually charge extra for this service, not just a massage bed, but a couch too.....she is not just excellent with her hands, but a great listener and would make a great shrink!!!
I had a fit of the giggles though, when i realised i could not actually move my arms and turn over quite so easily or daintly.....and could see myself having to explain that one to the teachers at school why i was late again....Instead, i just arrived flushed and greasy from the beautiful smelling oils......!!!
I must admit i did shave my legs and put some moisteriser on before hand, incase the bristles attacked her hands, and i am very shy about taking my clothes off infront of anyone....and spent half an hour trying to find some decent nickers that weren't grey/saggy and with holes. I did notice that they have become soo big lately that they really should be ironed!!! I also considered wearing an all-in-one and refusing to take it off!!!
It's been another fun filled week in the life and times of theNOT so Greek Goddess...it has been spent at The Doctors, where i seem to have spent looooooong hours waiting, and missing out on valuable coffee time. My children aren't really sick (just snuffles), but I was told one had a 'mass' (i almost fainted), but translated basically meant some meat in her passage!!! (enlarged adenoids).... having sat for 2 hrs waiting for x-rays, with most of the island. My children kept the masses entertained by sticking their fingers up their noses and singing xmas carols....ahhhhhh and all i could think about was how i could distract the large lady in front (who needed everything done) so i could push past and ... Of course i knew this would be like trying to cross a barbwired electric fence, and i had no chance....especially as she had come all the way from the village (10 mins down the road!!!)
I then spent hours at another Doc...and then another....and then another.....!!! Finally getting an appointment in a months time, with a Doc which I later found out can't help me anyway. Funny isn't it, we live on an island where medicine was born, The Island of Hippocrates....and the first hospital, and from most angles they don't seem to have actually progressed very far....shock treatment, instead of snakes seems to be the use of a sharp instrument before the anaesthetic has had chance to work!!! (Also met another British lady who had encountered the same nasty surgeon who removed my mole...she had her stomach slashed open though....even worse...ouchhhhhh!!!!)
As for politicians....(especially candidates for elections hoping to get votes) well, they certainly know how to dodge questions and smile alot when the camera is around! They may not be 'Harry Potters' and create magic, but they do seem to know how to suck blood out of most of us (and money), so wouldn't a vampire be more appropriate? Or is that comparison too nice, perhaps a tick would be better!!! WE HAVE WAYS OF MAKING YOU VOTE.....!!! (Tea & biscuits and they think we are hooked!!!)......WE HAVE THE MONEY.....!!! Really surprising, considering the scale of the economic crisis, has the local council being playing the 'Stoixima' too??? Everyone else on the island (male), seems to have a mad obssesion about it, and it won't be long before there are no Cafe Neons....and only gambling outlets....they are the only ones making money....whilst the Greek population are losing theirs hoping for a miracle!!!
I actually got out to attend a meeting this week, and not only realised that when the cameras for the local television were around, i was caught talking about the joys of Blue Vodka...and then went on to spill all the hot water over the counter, and tried to mop it up with napkins, and managed to knock over the coffee too, and then after all that there was no milk left!!! You see, i don't get out very often, so i was even more amused that my friend had saved me a seat ( right at the front....and there was me just wanting to blend into the background and have a sleep), but no, next to the oldest swinger in town.....who kept asking me personal questions and getting up all the time to refill his cup and plate. Guess, i would have been joining him, had it been wine on offer and spring rolls???
So an eventful week, followed by a wonderful treatment, an aromatherapy massage. A beautiful present from my friend the therapist herself. Where i could stretch out and be pampered and tell her all my woes. I was there for a while!!! Infact, Miss P should actually charge extra for this service, not just a massage bed, but a couch too.....she is not just excellent with her hands, but a great listener and would make a great shrink!!!
I had a fit of the giggles though, when i realised i could not actually move my arms and turn over quite so easily or daintly.....and could see myself having to explain that one to the teachers at school why i was late again....Instead, i just arrived flushed and greasy from the beautiful smelling oils......!!!
I must admit i did shave my legs and put some moisteriser on before hand, incase the bristles attacked her hands, and i am very shy about taking my clothes off infront of anyone....and spent half an hour trying to find some decent nickers that weren't grey/saggy and with holes. I did notice that they have become soo big lately that they really should be ironed!!! I also considered wearing an all-in-one and refusing to take it off!!!
TIP OF THE DAY/WEEK
If you have one of those awful spots, that you've tried everything to cover....concealer, foundation, powder....and a paper bag, then just count to ten and get a big pair of earings....i mean huge the bigger the better. No-one will notice your spot believe me (or the paper bag!!!)
CAN YOU TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER, OR THE STATE OF A HOUSE BY SOMEONES HANDS????
Seriously cracked & bleeding, split nails & smelling of chlorine
Obviously a house that is spotless and should be featured in 'Beautiful Homes'....you can eat your food from the windows and floors!!!Slightly dry with reasonable nails.........generally clean and tidy, but cleaning is not the major priority and perhaps coffee mornings and social networks are!!!
Smooth, manicured and smelling of roses....
they've obviously got a cleaner!!!....The house is waxed and polished to perfection .....ORthe women of the house couldn't care less and you can write your name in the dust and she never cleans..............????
So if you can tell (possibly) the state of house by your hands then, what about your car???.....God, if that was the case anyone who's seen mine would not even step across the threshold....Infact I could hold a car boot sale with what's in it, not even intentionally.....!!!Children are back....so back to the ironing board for me....catch you later.....
Headlines....Britain is hotter than Greece.....??? I can believe it, it's been freezing here the last few days.
Lots of Love
Tracey XXX
PS MY SPELLING CHECKER IS NOT WORKING AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL !!!
DAVID BECKHAM
Girls, girls, girls (I think this was before he graffitied his entire body?)....he's not one of my favs, but i know you like him....and i do feel a little bit sorry for him with his injury and all......and being married to Victoria!!! So to you with LOVE XXX
Monday, March 15, 2010
zac effron
Looked great at the Oscars, now he's matured a little....(obviously this is not him at the Oscars!).....but even better???...
Sadly, i am old enough to be his mother.... :(
Sadly, i am old enough to be his mother.... :(
Sunday, March 14, 2010
SUICIDAL BLONDE???!!!
I've spent most of my day in my dressing gown (although i did apply make-up), moping around not feeling 100% (and nothing to do with a wild Saturday night)...& just slightly sulking that no-one remembered Mothers' Day in our house. Ok, ok i know I/we live in Greece & they don't 'celebrate' until May...but....and..well....I wasn't expecting gifts or cards....just maybe a lie in. Is that too much to ask once a year??? So i guess i'm not in the best moods to Blog, and i've just cried at Marley & Me too and sat wishing i had legs like Jennifer Anisten and that i hadn't had second helpings of roast dinner today...
OMG is that i found the best 'hottie' video clip with all my favourites in one room....i've watched it soo many times and it brings sunshine & smiles, amongst other things!!! (and pleasant dreams). Take a look, it's on Youtube 'The Handsome Mens Club'......you're watching it...first comes McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey...and then and then and then and then.......!!! and it's funny too.
TUPPERWARE
My week flew past with the usual flow of coffee and great friends, but with the added addition of plastic!!! I cannot believe i now get excited about little boxes that seal and gadgets that do amazing things (and yes it was tupperware party and not an Ann Summers one!). When you start getting enthusiastic about such things, you suddenly become aware of how much you have matured, both inside/outside...well that's if you didn't keep getting told of for talking/fondling items/& making rude jokes!!! You also have to be pretty well off to be able to afford it these days...
The diet was going remarkably well (day 2) until the chocolate tarte came out....well it did have fruit on the top, possibly could be counted as one of my daily 5???
FOOTBALL
It seems to have been on every night this week???..................which is fine when you've got a good book but not when you just want to veg on the sofa and stare mindlesly at anything other than men in shorts however fit they are....running around chasing a ball. Sorry but those days are over for me, i have lost all enthusiasm for this sport, they get paid far too much money!!!
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I finally finished the last book in the vampire series....and dozed off to sleep dreaming of floating through forests & being surrounded by them.....Isn't it strange that since Twilight, instead of women having nightmares we now have fantasies....and instead of running away, we now want to be bitten!!! "Yes bite me, bite me....arhhhhhhh"!!!
I have hundreds of books upstairs on the 'to read' pile, but nothing i doubt that compares to these....I am feeling at a loss now, you can't wait to find out the ending but when it's finished you feel like all the air has gone out of you, deflated and depressed and wanting more.
NEWS IN BRIEF - actually it will be (brief) as i am now laptopless.....(another reason for feeling slightly suicidal)....the 'ghost' dropped it, and the monitor is now damaged, so it will only work via another screen on a desk.....just not the same is it? Once you've had one, it's kinda hard to go back to the desk....i got used to 'working' in the 'field' /reading newspapers online all over the house, but especially snuggled up in bed & i miss it...sob, sob.
So quickly, entertainment wise, because everything else is soo bloody depressing....(i.e all the new VAT and prices in Greece)....and all the men who can't keep their pants on and.........
So I'm pleased to announce that it's not too long away till Sex in The City film no 2 will be released (ok another 2 mths)...but something to look forward to in bleak times, and plenty of hot men of course!!! Chris North, Jason Lewis and Max Ryan...and many more.
Also for Robert Pattinson (Edward) fans, in his latest film he appears 'steamy in the shower'!!!
and whilst we are talking of men, the average British male is said to be spending 13 hrs a week as a domestic god, that is quite impressive......with taking out the rubbish as the 'top' job & carrying the shopping from the car....Helloooo, since when is that a domestic job....what about the real heavy work....and how many hours does the average 'man' spend in the bathroom....but does he ever clean it???
Also articles i quickly looked at were 'How to transform your outfit from school run to working mum'....??? Well that's easy, just take off your heels & put on some rubber gloves....!!! (in my case)....
OMG is that i found the best 'hottie' video clip with all my favourites in one room....i've watched it soo many times and it brings sunshine & smiles, amongst other things!!! (and pleasant dreams). Take a look, it's on Youtube 'The Handsome Mens Club'......you're watching it...first comes McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey...and then and then and then and then.......!!! and it's funny too.
TUPPERWARE
My week flew past with the usual flow of coffee and great friends, but with the added addition of plastic!!! I cannot believe i now get excited about little boxes that seal and gadgets that do amazing things (and yes it was tupperware party and not an Ann Summers one!). When you start getting enthusiastic about such things, you suddenly become aware of how much you have matured, both inside/outside...well that's if you didn't keep getting told of for talking/fondling items/& making rude jokes!!! You also have to be pretty well off to be able to afford it these days...
The diet was going remarkably well (day 2) until the chocolate tarte came out....well it did have fruit on the top, possibly could be counted as one of my daily 5???
FOOTBALL
It seems to have been on every night this week???..................which is fine when you've got a good book but not when you just want to veg on the sofa and stare mindlesly at anything other than men in shorts however fit they are....running around chasing a ball. Sorry but those days are over for me, i have lost all enthusiasm for this sport, they get paid far too much money!!!
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I finally finished the last book in the vampire series....and dozed off to sleep dreaming of floating through forests & being surrounded by them.....Isn't it strange that since Twilight, instead of women having nightmares we now have fantasies....and instead of running away, we now want to be bitten!!! "Yes bite me, bite me....arhhhhhhh"!!!
I have hundreds of books upstairs on the 'to read' pile, but nothing i doubt that compares to these....I am feeling at a loss now, you can't wait to find out the ending but when it's finished you feel like all the air has gone out of you, deflated and depressed and wanting more.
NEWS IN BRIEF - actually it will be (brief) as i am now laptopless.....(another reason for feeling slightly suicidal)....the 'ghost' dropped it, and the monitor is now damaged, so it will only work via another screen on a desk.....just not the same is it? Once you've had one, it's kinda hard to go back to the desk....i got used to 'working' in the 'field' /reading newspapers online all over the house, but especially snuggled up in bed & i miss it...sob, sob.
So quickly, entertainment wise, because everything else is soo bloody depressing....(i.e all the new VAT and prices in Greece)....and all the men who can't keep their pants on and.........
So I'm pleased to announce that it's not too long away till Sex in The City film no 2 will be released (ok another 2 mths)...but something to look forward to in bleak times, and plenty of hot men of course!!! Chris North, Jason Lewis and Max Ryan...and many more.
Also for Robert Pattinson (Edward) fans, in his latest film he appears 'steamy in the shower'!!!
and whilst we are talking of men, the average British male is said to be spending 13 hrs a week as a domestic god, that is quite impressive......with taking out the rubbish as the 'top' job & carrying the shopping from the car....Helloooo, since when is that a domestic job....what about the real heavy work....and how many hours does the average 'man' spend in the bathroom....but does he ever clean it???
Also articles i quickly looked at were 'How to transform your outfit from school run to working mum'....??? Well that's easy, just take off your heels & put on some rubber gloves....!!! (in my case)....
AND last, I cannot believe it is a whole year since Jade Goody died, how terribly sad, but on a positive note 400,000 women have been screened for cervial cancer, many of these women wouldn't have if it wasn't for her....she has saved no doubt, hundreds of lives & has continued doing so after her death. My thoughts go out to her family and her little boys.....
AND ON A HAPPIER NOTE...WELL....I HAVEN'T GOT ONE.....IT'S MONDAY TOMORROW AND I HATE MONDAYS...........!!! XXX
Lots of Love
Tracey XXX
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
I'M A BARBIE GIRL!!!
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Yesterday, was the above...a global day for celebrating economic, political & social achievements of women past, present and future....(since 1911). Thousand of events are held throughout the world to 'inspire' women......some have a theme....
Just Like ours.....a good excuse to go out,(and not do the ironing), eat 'erotica' pizza (and generally stuff our faces), drink carafes of wine (actually i think i was the only one on my side of the table actually drinking it, and that's why i have pink eyes today, nothing to do with conjunctivitis!!!) ...and talk about Facebook. A friend said we spend most of our day on it, and then come out and talk about it....true, although, i haven't got a farm/pond/or a zoo (and don't want one.....so stop sending me gifts)!!!
Oh, i forgot & have raffles (which i never win.....)and play quizzes which makes me realise how utterly 'thick' i have become, as the only answer i got correct (for the other team), was where would you find Wisteria Lane.... i mean why weren't there any medical questions???....i've become such an expert having watched McDreamy....i could probably do brain surgery too!!!
So, today i have spent hours draped over encyclopedias, history, geography books and general knowledge questions & tonight i will be revising trivial pursuit answers. All so that i am well prepared for the next time!!! Or maybe we can just have a quiz on the programmes i watch whilst ironing (please???)
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH....
I'm always telling the children to be more organised.....don't leave everything to the last minute....but there i was running around last night trying to find a mini market that sold 40 denier black tights...i ended up at the supermarket, BUT no way was i going to wear American Tan, but the only ones they had were footless, so i think i looked like s'thing out of the 80's.
I also thought i could squeeze into my M & S faithful black trousers of circa 1990's, but the button popped, and i had to resort to a skirt, one in which had gone 'furry' in the wash. By this time i had forgotten about the sparkly green eyeliner....that didn't go at all with the purple ......
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and why is it my children wouldn't go to sleep when they were supposed to, could it have been they're mothers behaviour, i.e. throwing things out of drawers, and complaining she didn't have anything to wear at the top of her voice!!!??? Thank god for Barbie.....so at least i could get out the door unnoticed. Of course what you wear doesn't really matter....especially if you've put your 'booster' on, nobody actually can see anything else!!! ...and once you've had a few glasses of wine you don't care anyway.....!!!
OSCARS
My favourite dress (because that's what it's all about...haha)...had to be Cameron Diaz, and of course as soon as i saw it, i went up to my wardrobe to see if i had anything remotely like it....i did, a clutch bag...(my sister bought it for me)...one that would only just cover my chest...if that!!! But still...
Plenty of hotties at the Oscars too many men too little time....most of them 'divine'...!!!
Must say though Sarah Jessica Parker....what were you thinking?, ....she's waisted away....and looked like she was wearing an expensive sack of potatoes. I mean there was me thinking it was just me struggling with bulimia/anorexia the only difference is i can't seem to be sick after all the binging!!! ...
FACEBOOK
Can become an addiction...but it can also become a life-line....(obviously not for the ones who have been stabbed to death or shot by jealous lovers/husbands)....but for us...most of you reading my blog. For me, especially when i've been 'stuck at home' with small/big children that are ill or if i am, or the weather is to bad....or just because. AND thanks to Facebook, i now have a life......instead of cleaning/cooking/all morning, i now spend my time either talking to my friends on here.....or arranging to see them....it's GREAT!!! Wonderful also to be in touch with soo many friends from the past....i possibly am an addict, but rather Facebook than E-Bay, at least i don't spend any money!!!
Although today my retail therapy was very 'economic' it involved filling up imaginary trolleys at Asda & Tesco's....for about 2 hrs......You really miss BIG supermarkets when you live 'over-seas'....and pickle & gravy...amongst others.....(creme eggs and caramels too- although i'm trying soo hard not to think about chocolate today..!!!...)
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
is officially starting....although have not been able to do any exercise today, due to excess food and drink last night.....but have walked up and down the stairs many times today as i keep forgetting things.....and thinking i'm in this room, but why???
I keep opening the fridge too, an automatic motion when entering the kitchen.....and getting depressed when the only sweet thing i can find is diet yogurts. This is it though, fed up with everything being too tight, and summer is coming, and although it's too late for the bikini diet (would of needed to start that year's ago), i am hoping to get rid of a few 'extra' kilo's. My wii instructor has probably grown a pony-tail and i'm still trying to reach the goal i set for myself a year ago!!! But nevermind, I have been inspired though by other Facebook friends who are doing so well ......
Need an early night and my head is so full of 'information' (that i won't remember in the morning) so....night night
Lots of Love
Tracey XXX
P.S. Can't find my Thesaurus that's why there isn't many loooooong words today!!!
Yesterday, was the above...a global day for celebrating economic, political & social achievements of women past, present and future....(since 1911). Thousand of events are held throughout the world to 'inspire' women......some have a theme....
Just Like ours.....a good excuse to go out,(and not do the ironing), eat 'erotica' pizza (and generally stuff our faces), drink carafes of wine (actually i think i was the only one on my side of the table actually drinking it, and that's why i have pink eyes today, nothing to do with conjunctivitis!!!) ...and talk about Facebook. A friend said we spend most of our day on it, and then come out and talk about it....true, although, i haven't got a farm/pond/or a zoo (and don't want one.....so stop sending me gifts)!!!
Oh, i forgot & have raffles (which i never win.....)and play quizzes which makes me realise how utterly 'thick' i have become, as the only answer i got correct (for the other team), was where would you find Wisteria Lane.... i mean why weren't there any medical questions???....i've become such an expert having watched McDreamy....i could probably do brain surgery too!!!
So, today i have spent hours draped over encyclopedias, history, geography books and general knowledge questions & tonight i will be revising trivial pursuit answers. All so that i am well prepared for the next time!!! Or maybe we can just have a quiz on the programmes i watch whilst ironing (please???)
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH....
I'm always telling the children to be more organised.....don't leave everything to the last minute....but there i was running around last night trying to find a mini market that sold 40 denier black tights...i ended up at the supermarket, BUT no way was i going to wear American Tan, but the only ones they had were footless, so i think i looked like s'thing out of the 80's.
I also thought i could squeeze into my M & S faithful black trousers of circa 1990's, but the button popped, and i had to resort to a skirt, one in which had gone 'furry' in the wash. By this time i had forgotten about the sparkly green eyeliner....that didn't go at all with the purple ......
......
and why is it my children wouldn't go to sleep when they were supposed to, could it have been they're mothers behaviour, i.e. throwing things out of drawers, and complaining she didn't have anything to wear at the top of her voice!!!??? Thank god for Barbie.....so at least i could get out the door unnoticed. Of course what you wear doesn't really matter....especially if you've put your 'booster' on, nobody actually can see anything else!!! ...and once you've had a few glasses of wine you don't care anyway.....!!!
OSCARS
My favourite dress (because that's what it's all about...haha)...had to be Cameron Diaz, and of course as soon as i saw it, i went up to my wardrobe to see if i had anything remotely like it....i did, a clutch bag...(my sister bought it for me)...one that would only just cover my chest...if that!!! But still...
Plenty of hotties at the Oscars too many men too little time....most of them 'divine'...!!!
Must say though Sarah Jessica Parker....what were you thinking?, ....she's waisted away....and looked like she was wearing an expensive sack of potatoes. I mean there was me thinking it was just me struggling with bulimia/anorexia the only difference is i can't seem to be sick after all the binging!!! ...
Can become an addiction...but it can also become a life-line....(obviously not for the ones who have been stabbed to death or shot by jealous lovers/husbands)....but for us...most of you reading my blog. For me, especially when i've been 'stuck at home' with small/big children that are ill or if i am, or the weather is to bad....or just because. AND thanks to Facebook, i now have a life......instead of cleaning/cooking/all morning, i now spend my time either talking to my friends on here.....or arranging to see them....it's GREAT!!! Wonderful also to be in touch with soo many friends from the past....i possibly am an addict, but rather Facebook than E-Bay, at least i don't spend any money!!!
Although today my retail therapy was very 'economic' it involved filling up imaginary trolleys at Asda & Tesco's....for about 2 hrs......You really miss BIG supermarkets when you live 'over-seas'....and pickle & gravy...amongst others.....(creme eggs and caramels too- although i'm trying soo hard not to think about chocolate today..!!!...)
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
is officially starting....although have not been able to do any exercise today, due to excess food and drink last night.....but have walked up and down the stairs many times today as i keep forgetting things.....and thinking i'm in this room, but why???
I keep opening the fridge too, an automatic motion when entering the kitchen.....and getting depressed when the only sweet thing i can find is diet yogurts. This is it though, fed up with everything being too tight, and summer is coming, and although it's too late for the bikini diet (would of needed to start that year's ago), i am hoping to get rid of a few 'extra' kilo's. My wii instructor has probably grown a pony-tail and i'm still trying to reach the goal i set for myself a year ago!!! But nevermind, I have been inspired though by other Facebook friends who are doing so well ......
Need an early night and my head is so full of 'information' (that i won't remember in the morning) so....night night
Lots of Love
Tracey XXX
P.S. Can't find my Thesaurus that's why there isn't many loooooong words today!!!
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