In my own little world.

Kids Go Back To School Tomorrow 🥳

2021-04-18T20:54:55Z

So I'm already tucked up in bed with my kindle.

Currently reading Death in Perugia: The Definitive Account of The Meredith Kercher Case. Probably not the best of subjects to read before bed I must admit. I've also stuck some Sellotape between my eyebrows to hopefully lessen my rather deep frown lines. I got the idea off YouTube and it appeared to have worked the next morning. And a lot cheaper than Botox!

No bathroom fitters this week - at all. They can't get the new bath till Thursday at the earliest. It sucks and I'm not happy with living with a skeleton bathroom for another week but it is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️. It'll be finished before the end of the month let's put it that way...🤞🏻

🥱.

Animal Crossing Hiatus.

2021-04-17T21:02:12Z

Okay you don't have to rub it in Pashmina!

There's been lots of updates since I last played. My post box is overflowing. I'm kicking myself for missing the winter snow ☹

Saturday Night is KFC night!...sometimes.

2021-04-17T18:33:14Z

Or was. Funny that my icon features Mr Bean as we watched Mr Bean Goes On Holiday as we stuffed our faces 😊

She arrived!

2021-04-16T20:30:44Z

My BJD! (ball jointed doll)

I must be going through my second childhood or something. I want to give her a name but finding it hard to think of one that suits her 🤔 I'm leaning towards Suzanne...or maybe Emilia? I ordered two randoms from Wish (I know, I'm feeding the monster 🙄) so you don't know exactly which ones you'll get. I received one with light pink hair (the one in the pic) and the other had purple/silvery coloured hair. My daughter who was never in to dolls when she was little went crazy over them when she saw them so she has the other one now. I paid just £5 for the two. Some of the more detailed and flexible ones can be over £1,000! Expensive hobby.

The Bathroom Installation - Day 9: Disaster Strikes!

2021-04-15T12:13:25Z

So first they couldn't get the pump to work and now *drum roll*....the tiles fell off around the window and chipped the new bath! 🙈 And just as I was typing this I heard something falling again in the bathroom and rushed in to see that one of the wooden poles that's being used as a wedge between the tiles around the top of the window and the ones on the sill had some how moved and fallen in to the bath! I'm not sure how it did that but I think I've secured it again pretty well so if it happens again then I'm calling an Exorcist! We often have odd things happen in this house. I've long felt there's a negative vibe and I've voiced it a few times to my husband who of course thinks it's nonsense.

Chips. And not the yummy kind.

So we're looking at a Thursday finish now when it should have been Monday. The only silver lining is that replacing the bath should mean that the pump problem will no longer be an issue.. And also we'll have the house to ourselves tomorrow as I don't cope well with having ~~strangers~~ trades people in the house.

Was the pole on the right.

LiveJournal is 22 today!

2021-04-14T21:08:07Z

Domain LiveJournal.com was registered on April 15, 1999. The same year, the cult movie "The Matrix" was released, the 6 billionth inhabitant of the Earth was born in the city of Sarajevo, and Britney Spears' debut single Baby One More Time topped the world charts.
On April 15, 2021 LiveJournal turns 22 years old! LiveJournal celebrates its birthday and gives you a card with a bright event that happened the year you started your blog!

What happened in your life the year you started your blog?

Well it's clear I was obsessed with Smallville...and Batman Begins.

The last lesson I had was before the first lockdown. I'd decided to go with someone new who apparently deals with "nervous drivers" but I wasn't really feeling it. She sounded a bit irritated after the third time of reminding me to check my mirrors - something I'll admit I'm bad at. But anway don't advertise the fact you're understanding with nervous drivers if you're not! Maybe I was too much for her! 😆 Anyway it was awful. I was too panicky (which I did warn her about in my email 🙄) I made stupid mistakes and I hated it. I couldn't wait for it to be over. I've just basically lost all my confidence on the road and I just think I'm not a driver. I don't think I'm meant to drive and I think I'm just not going to bother. Unfortunately that means not being able to move out in to the countryside like I'd wanted to. I'll be stuck having to live within walking distance of parents and a convienience shop. But hey, better than killing myself ot someone else. Out on the road I mean. I don't know....it's just all really disappointing. I have some not so intelliegent friends - one who didn't even know where America was on a map and who's life in general is an ongoing disaster - no matter how much I repeat advice but even she can drive! and has been for years. So why can't I??? 😩

The Hills, the hills...oh no that's the bells the bells sorry

2021-04-14T20:31:32Z

Had a walk up the Malvern Hills today.

And then I found these fairy houses. I've been back there numerous times and haven't been able to find them since.

Super Mug!

2021-04-14T20:06:52Z

Loving my new Supergirl mug.

My Breakfast This Morning.

2021-04-14T19:53:30Z

Don't you just want to dip the tip of your knife in to it? 😛

The Bathroom Installation - Day 8.

2021-04-14T16:07:07Z

Ta-da!

Unfortunately there's a problem with the pump...that powers the jets...that makes the bubbles! Why?? That's the best bit!
Anyway an expert on pumps is coming to sort it out and hopefully fix it on Monday. Wednesday finish my butt! It's all good though. First world problems.

Ch-ch-ch-changes, di do di dooo 🎶

2021-04-13T06:57:52Z

So we're having the bathroom done — the whole thing this time. The wall dividing the toilet and bath has GONE, along with one of the doors. The new bath is in though! 😀. I had my first bath in it the other night. Maybe a little bit too shabby chic for my taste at the moment.

Will try and stay on the ball and update my LJ on as regular a basis as I can 👍

Hope anyone, who's still creaking around from my Friends list, is doing okay and didn't get affected too badly by Covid. Shops, hairdressers, gyms, pubs and cafe's are now open in the UK, as of yesterday. I completely forgot. Going to take me a while to get my head around it I think.

Better get ready before the bathroom fitters get here. I'm excited about the new bathroom but not so keen and having to be up and dressed in the holidays before 8:30 😁

PRAWNS.

2019-07-18T13:51:53Z

For dinner: Salmon in a chilli marinade with garlic king prawns and watercress salad. Following Jillian Michael's diet advice and saving the carbs for breakfast.

Ha!

2019-07-15T20:22:22Z

ditzyfish @ 2019-07-12T16:06:00

2019-07-12T15:33:49Z

Right so today I did Jillian Michaels - 30 Day shred. It's been gathering dust for some years in our dvd cupboard but I'm very much in a determined frame of mind of late so bring it on! Then I did my Carmen warm up after...should have been the other way round but it's all good.

I'm also attempting a keto diet. I had bacon, avocado, tomato and eggs for breakfast with only water to drink. Was feeling pretty pleased with myself until I did...

THIS ⬇

😔

because OH MY GOD did my body know it hadn't had carbs today! And I ordered a chocalate gateau from Iceland!, although I'm not sure it's edible anymore after finding Samuel almost head first in it yesterday 🙄. It's like I have a split personality - one eating healthily and downing pints of water and the other buying chocolate and sneaking mini cheddars upstairs. But that's it! That'll be the only carbs I have today. Because I WILL look like Alicia Vikander in Tomb Raider 💪

Words to Try and Live By.

2019-07-09T13:43:55Z

So I bought a Prayer book today. Inside the front cover was a little booklet called Just For Today.

Inside it reads...

Just think it so nice that someone thought to leave it in there. Felt like I was meant to read it.

Also I did more kettlebell today. Worked on my core this time. Threw in Carmen for an extra warm up. An hours worth of excercise all together. Feeling good.

Talk about being thrown in at the deep end.

2019-06-04T11:02:47Z

So my course work from Hypnotic World arrived yesterday and already had a brief read through. Wasn't quite expecting to be reading about oral and anal personalities on the first page but there you go. Actually my reaction face was not to dissimilar to Maisie's.

Pretty! 😍

2019-05-30T11:43:44Z

Took this in my garden this morning. Thought it unusual colouring for a rose....if it is a rose 😕

My First Felting Kit

2018-05-23T21:05:50Z

Here be it's contents...

and this is what I have made so far.

It's just a ball clearly - not very impressive but it took me three attempts to get the felt in to a rounded shape. Gets quite addictive prodding at the felt with the little needle - I was up till half 10 doing it.

Bought a colouring book 🖍

2018-05-21T19:59:42Z

A 1980's themed one to be precise.

...

And who didn't have a go with a pair of hair crimpers?

...

This one though looks like it should be in Back to the 70s 😕

I was given a cat colouring book a few years ago but a lot of the drawings were taken up by repetitive patterns which I got bored with quite quickly but I'm eager to get started on this one.

Anyone else in to colouring books? :-)

📚 I Like Biographies

2018-04-29T14:39:42Z

To be more specific - actor biographies.

Top of the list being most recent.

Coreography by Corey Feldman (love that title)
Brave by Rose McGowan (thought provoking and inspirational)
A Life In Parts by Bryan Cranston
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (did not want this one to end. Has everything I want in a
book - cults and Hollywood tattle)
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder
There Was A Little Girl by Brooke Shields (another one I was sad to finish)
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (emotional when finishing this knowing it's her last book...but she saved the best till last)
Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed (picked this because it's supposed to be one of the more truthful accounts but I was still left without an essence of who Marilyn really was. Author seems much more concerned with places, names and dates)

Before these there's been rather a gap in my reading. I think I'd been feeling so down I'd even lost enthusiasm to read. I still prefer factual books over fiction these days to.

Other bio's I remember reading over the years are Michael J. Fox's Lucky Man (first I knew he had a problem with alcohol), Rob Lowe's Stories I only Tell My Friends (never answer the door to him in your pyjamas!) and Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero by Garry Jenkins (wish I had the John Book cover though 🤤)

I'm struggling with what to read next - I've got so much stuff on my Amazon wish list. Final decision is between River Pheonix: Last Night at the Viper Room and You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation by Susannah Gora. Think I'll most probably go with the latter.....bit pricey though.

Anyway I have to finish this up now - school run in the morning - meh. Nite zzzzz.

ditzyfish @ 2018-03-19T14:49:00

2018-03-19T14:56:10Z

You Are a Black Panther

What Big Cat Are You?

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You see through people. You understand others' motives and plans.
You have a knack for predicting the future. You just know what people are going to do.

People are attracted to you. You are naturally able to influence other people's thoughts.
You have the charisma to be a beloved guru or dictator. It's all about how you handle it.

Answer for question 4288.

2015-04-01T20:26:15Z

That would have to be....

hands down. Other favourites were Jem and The Holograms, Dungeons and Dragons, He-Man, Thundercats and Super Friends! They just don't make 'em like that anymore :(

And yes I still watch cartoons because I have a five year old. Some of them I'll admit I quite enjoy like...
Ben and Holly - because of the snark between The Wise Old Elf and Nanny Plum.
Abney and Teal because I think Neep is cute.
My Little Pony! the new version, which at first I hated because of their new look but I find myself giggling at it with my daughter now. I bought her The My Little Pony Monopoly game for Christmas which we enjoy playing together.
Cannot stand Team Umi bleedin' Zoomi though or what ever it's called. You can tell it's American or Canadian but it's dubbed by the most wooden British Child voice actors and it's just excruciatingly painful to listen to. We speak the same language so why the dubbing??

Aww I always liked Snarf.

2015-01-25T11:48:06Z

Which 'ThunderCats' Character Are You?

and we watched 'I Give It a Year' with Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall, which wasn't too bad. I thought Anna Faris looked bored in it though....probably becuase she was wearing a bad wig. We talked through most of it as usual so that's why I always make sure I put on something I'm not really that bothered about seeing. It's good to have her input about raising boys as she has two of them and one daughter so she knows her stuff obviously and also nice to have a good moan with someone about the perils of pregnancy. I think she would have liked to have stayed up longer but 11:15 is the absolute limit for me. Not that I slept well having cramps again or mini contractions or whatever they are. Seemed like I waking up every five minutes to drink as my mouth felt like a budgie cage. I really do feel like I'm going to have this baby early....like in March. I dunno....will probably end up being overdue again. Just getting fed up now.

Just because....

2015-01-19T11:29:48Z

Done my housework so I'm bored and then found this. Cheered me up.

Margot Interview - People Magazine 1981

2011-02-09T20:09:15Z

Something else I discovered whilst trawling the web for my Margot fix.