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@sharongooner wrote:
I refuse to wear boots until November!
I started wearing my boots again 2 weeks ago……
Sad as it may sound, there was a period of time when JC was my only interaction with the outside world during the day. I was housebound, friends were at work, and I was going slowly mental (no change there! :lol: ) As much as this place can drive you nuts sometimes, it also helped save my sanity (friends might disagree but they love me really :wink: )
There are some that say that people you meet in a chatroom aren’t really friends and you are deluding yourself to think otherwise, but I think I really have formed some good relationships here whether you call them friendships or not.
No doubt if JC hadn’t existed I’d have found something else…..just not sure what.
I thought I was hearing things this morning when the guy on the local radio said it may well snow in Sussex in the next 24 hours – then he repeated it! :shock:
Snow? Down this far South? In October? sheesh!
The family tradition was that whichever of us woke first would wake the others, we’d check out what each other had got, then go into my parents’ room to show them what Santa had brought.
One year I was the first awake – it was still dark outside, not unusual as we would usually wake up around 6-ish – and I woke up my brother and sister. We looked at our pressies then went into my parents’ room, cue two very sleepy parents. My dad said “it feels like we’ve only been in bed for half an hour” and sent me to get his watch to check the time – and it was 12.30, they really had only been in bed for half an hour! We got sent back to bed and told not to make a sound until 6am at the earliest :lol:
When I was older I had my first Christmas at my boyfriend’s and it was tradition for his gran to stuff the turkey while everyone else prepared the veg. There was a bottle of sherry on it’s rounds and gran rarely drank (good chapel girl!) but she joined in and had a few glasses, getting steadily merrier. She washed and dried the turkey, stuffed it and put it in the oven, then started looking around the kitchen….finally after about half an hour she said “has anyone seen the cloth I dried the turkey with?” Then we realised why there was so much stuffing left over…… :lol:
@forumhostpb wrote:
However, the bottom line is that you never stop loving your children no matter what the circumstances were of their conception.
If only that were true of all parents…..
Was I planned? Only in that it was the expectation of the time in our area and background that you got married and had kids, I don’t think that planning really went beyond that. My parents had been married for two years before I came on the scene, so I guess they’d been practising for a while! :lol:
They had seperated by my first birthday though, then a tangled story unfolded that I keep on being told should be in a book, so maybe I’ll save that for another day!
But I can quite honestly say that some parents do stop loving their children (assuming they loved them in the first place), and sometimes step-parents can love you more than your natural parents. And I guess that takes me back to the “people who inspire” thread…….
@reason wrote:
Oh i have to add,this ones not Human but inspires me to drool,M&S whole chicken breast Kievs…..the droolability factor is mmmmmmm,another thanks i owe to that someone :lol:
That made me laugh!
We always think of people inspiring by being positive, now here’s one who inspired me by being negative!
When I left school did one of these Youth Opportunity Programme things for 6 months, then that ended and I couldn’t get a job for a while, I didn’t want to go on the dole so I wangled a job on the checkout at Tesco (no barcodes, all cash payments cos we got paid in cash and no-one trusted banks, and time to actually talk to customers). My family were appalled, and I got all the comments about how I could do so much better etc. etc. but as far as I was concerned, at least I wasn’t on the dole.
Then one day I served one of the teachers that I had respected at school and who had encouraged me in my career plans, and he totally blanked me, looked down his nose at me and all but threw his money at me. My first thought was “plonker, your money’s no better than anyone else’s” then I got angry. His reaction inspired me to throw myself even harder into getting the job I really wanted.
Funnily enough, I got the job that I really wanted BECAUSE I’d worked in Tesco – I had shown myself to be trustworthy with money and able to deal with the public….. :-
Happy birthday Scribblicious!
Is it actually today? 19th? cos if it is, we’re birthday twins! :shock:
Spending 90 minutes with someone, talking them through how our room hire works etc., only to be told right at the end that she doesn’t think she’ll be coming as she doesn’t want the faff of sorting out her own insurance…….i told her she’d need her own insurance in the first 5 minutes fgs! :evil:
i didn’t really have anything else i could have been getting on with….mutter…..mutter
Not yet – mine’s in a couple of days time.
Glad you changed your siggy by the way – the last one creeped me out!
Happy birthday Hobby!
Can’t believe a year has gone by already, doesn’t seem that long ago we were having that joint birthday party in forum 3! :?
Hope you have a great day!