and now for something completely different

I was messing around with my digital camera and decided to take some random images. So allow me to introduce inky Dog and inky teddy. So called as they were in the incubator with me when I was born. So yes folks thats right their both as old as me. Scary init?

Living in 2006

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 when...

1 You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting yourcoffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this listAND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

Go on, forward this to your friends. You know you want to.

Round and round and round we go, where this is gonna stop no one knows!

It might have sucked to be Robinson Crusoe. Stranded on a desert island miles and miles from civilization but at least he had one or two advantages. No work, could always get a good spot on the beach for sunbathing and there was absolutely no annoying family members around to drive you so crazy you want to KNOCK THEIR HEADS TOGETHER IN A EFFORT TO GET SOME SENSE BACK INTO THEIR HEADS!

Guess what everybody, I'm currently feeling a bit stressed. Well it's my half sister E's wedding on Saturday and as far as I'm aware to this point Mum still hasn't told Grumpy that she's not going and yet he keep's asking me if she is. I really don't want to get in the line of fire here so I keep trying to avoid the question as I really, really don't want to be the one who has to tell him. I'm also worried that she might not tell him at all, and so he'll find out some other way which will seriously set him off, especially as the pair of them are actually communicating fairly okay at the moment. Oh well, I guess we'll see what happens there.

We had a YSA fireside on Sunday. Wow lots of activities, and now firesides. Anyone would think we had a pair of quite keen YSA ward reps. Oh wait! We do! Although both Boss lady and Smooth really, really need to work on their salesmanship. This is how their sold it in the YSA Sunday school class,

" We have a fireside tonight. We won't tell you what it's about or you'll probably not turn up"

See what I mean? For those of you who haven't been able to figure it out yet through that 'interesting' selling pitch, the fireside was about Marriage and relationships. Actually near enough the entire Loughborough YSA turned up, I think at most we were missing one or two people. It was at the Mcreynolds house as in M + S not the Stake President and yet again the 'curse' held firm. I got their okay but got totally lost on the way home and ended up going on a magical mystery tour of the countryside.

Okay, to be honest the main reason I got there with no problems getting there was that I was following Engineseer who has Satnav. The only problem was that he seemed to forget that I didn't have a handy gizmo to warn me when a corner or intersection was coming up. So following him was a hair raising experience to say the least.

Well it's institute again tonight, and hopefully, touch wood, pleads with Fate etc, I'll get to stay for the whole night this time. as I missed it last week due to all of the 'technical problems'. :-)

well that's all for now.

later!

A week I would rather forget

I always wonder when seeing the equations that scientists work on to see if they can prove that life on other planets exist if they bother to also work out the chances of these races having those own equivalent of sod/Murphy/irony.

Yes in case you haven't guessed I have had what most rank as one of the worst weeks ever. Don't believe me? Well lets review the last seven days shall we children?

I put my car in for a service and they then discover that the oil sump has gone porous and is leaking. It has to be replaced so the bill for the sump and service comes to £450.

I go to a YSA activity at engineseer's which has been organized by boss lady. As the car was still in the garage he had to come and pick me up. However absolutely nobody else turns up, including Boss lady who had organized the whole thing .

my watch strap breaks.

The best of my two rear tires gets a very bad puncture and goes completely flat. I change it for the spare but I'm going to have to go and buy a new tire.

The car insurance was due. After much searching I finally find the best quote at £560, although I can pay monthly fortunately enough.

due to a miscommunication ( not blaming anyone in case they read these, just one of those things) the W's mum didn't realize I would be coming for dinner on Wednesday when I was being the taxi for them so they didn't do any dinner for me. did get a nice mousse though.

On the way to institute the car started to excessively rev, even when I've come to a stop. I had to call the RAC out who discovered that a important throttle sensor in the engine had gone, so the car needed to go into a garage asap. I had to leave institute early and the W's with Bro H who gave them a lift home.

My local garages idea of fitting a car in for a emergency/urgent repair would be to see it next Wednesday.

I had to take the car to the original dealer for them to fix. Costs £150

I discover that they had given me the wrong MOT certificate, so the Car had the MOT six months before it needed to. All I get from them is basically 'oops sorry' .

Discussed all of the problems with the Car with them and the impression it has given of their business. Only response I get from then on this is " nothing we can do It's just wear and tear" They miss the point.

Grumpy has managed to loose the invitation, wedding present list, and directions to my half sisters wedding. Yet he's refusing to ring and ask for the details as he doesn't want to admit he screwed up

The light bulb blew in my bedroom and we currently have no spares. Last night I had to get ready for bed in the dark using a touch.

I opened a bottle of sprite and it quite literally 'blew up.' most of the kitchen tops, floor, and me end up covered in sprite. Despite my best efforts the floor is now very sticky.

The insurance company have some managed to insure the car twice. Once in my name with Grumpy as a named driver, and once in Mums name.

despite leaving 20 minutes early for work so I could catch up on some work that I couldn't do yesterday as I couldn't get to work with the car being broken, I got stuck in a huge traffic jam which meant I actually arrived 20 minutes later then usual.

making grumpy's lunch I discovered that he's been helping himself to stuff in the fridge, so no fillings left for my sandwiches

I only have one other thing to say. Arggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what have I done to deserve all this.

I think I'll do the only sensible grown up thing that I can do. I'll go back to bed and hide under the duvet.

later!

I will get something constructive done; it’s just at this rate it will take about 40 years.

This is a backdated post by the way in case anyone gets real confused. It should have bee posted last sunday, but the computer decided not to co operate :-)


Well which of these is the most heavy?

A) Car b) house C) the pile of work I will have waiting for me when I return to work tomorrow.

Well I have the depressing feeling it ain’t gonna be A or B. Yes I know the posting on the blog front has been less then stellar this week, but I figured after yet again failing to do half of the constructive tasks I had planned because I was seduced by the brain rotting selection of shows on digital TV, subjecting you to several days of describing in detail the complete lack of things I managed to get done would not do my chances of actually keeping the handful of regular visitors I actually have interested and visiting this blog. However a number of slightly interesting and events did crop up and I will do my best to bore you with them………………now.

The digital channels. Some of the stuff is good, other stuff is complete tosh, especially the stuff they play mid morning. One channel in particular is apparently a highly rated comedy channel playing 24 hours a day. However this is only if you pay for the channels. On freeview the channel only plays 9am to 6pm and you get the same shows , Less then perfect, 8 simply rules, home improvement and scrubs playing in a loop. Which is annoying but obviously as they only have a finite number of these shows sooner or later then going to have to start again. Which means they have long since given up even attempting to show the shows in order. Which does make for some entertaining viewing. In a way.
BE WARNED SPOILERS AHEAD
The actor who played the Dad in 8 simple rules died, but the show continued for a little while and introduced two new characters, the grandfather and CJ who dropped out of the army, went back to college then got a job teaching at the local school . So watching all of the episodes they show in the order their showing them in can mean that this happens, The dads alive, he’s dead, he’s alive again, Cj is working at the school, he’s just arrived, he’s finished his college course, He’s just started it, he hasn’t arrived, the Dad’s alive again, etc, etc, etc. There’s a similar theme with scrubs. She’s pregnant, now she isn’t, she’s just had the baby, she had the baby ages ago, she’s pregnant again. etc, etc, etc. Although I have got over the new and shinyness syndrome of having the freeview channels after I found myself watching Judge Judy and may have then spent a few minutes running around the house gibbing insanely to myself about “ What am I doing” as I realised I was quite probably rotting the few shreds of brain I actually have left.

The car, or as I am currently referring to it as “ Money pit on wheels” until I have actually worked through some of my spitting rage and anger went it for it’s service and as you may have guessed something went wrong. It came through it’s service fine apart from the one tiny problem of the oil sump going porous and leaking oil. So it had to be replaced. Suffice to say with the service and the sump being done together it was as expensive as it sounds. Fortunately as I have a credit card for emergencies it’s not going to hurt as much as it would have paying ‘cash’, but I am going to be paying it off for two or three months now. Oh well. Although one word of advice for everyone, if someone you know owns a car and they’ve just had to pay out a lot of money to get it fixed, saying things like “ Ouch, that’s bad” or “ That was unlucky is fine” Telling the person, “ Oh well that’s part of owning a car “ is a bad idea as not only is it obvious and a little condescending it does sound like you been sent by Sod to gleefully rub it in their faces. However if you insist in telling them this, I would try and make sure that there are n sharp objects within easy reach of the person J

LDS Linkup update. 21 friends still, only 3 comments. CP has now signed up to the service now and is up to 35 friends and eight comments within two weeks. Am I bitter, no of course not. Now excuse me while I go and crawl under the table and cry.

Institute this week and as if I’m not good enough projecting the image of looser, I got a helping hand with the activity after the lesson. We had to try and draw two other people and they draw us etc. So not only did everyone see my terrible drawing skills I then compounded the very bad drawing I did of one girl by then forgetting her name. In the words of that great 20 and 21st century philosophy Homer J Simpson D’OOOHH. I did have dinner at the Ws as I was off and had to let Dad borrow the car so he could pop to the doctors straight after work. It was still fun despite going on a magical mystery tour on the way back when we discovered that the off ramp for their junction was shut. But oh well.

Well that’s about it for now I have some more ramblings, but I’m sure I’ll get to them tomorrow.

Later!

and I thought last time was bad!

My two words of the week.

Ouch and Expensive.

Yes folks it has been one heck of a expensive week for yours truly. Firstly the cars service and subsequent oil sump replacement cost £450. Then one of the rear tires was punctured. So I'm going to have to buy a new tire and finally I had to sort out the car insurance which will be £560 for the year. However there is still a drop of £1000 since the last time I tried to get insurance with me as the main driver. Also I don't have to pay all of it in one go, I can pay installments monthly thank goodness!! So now you see why my two words of the week are Ouch and expensive!

Well I'm playing taxi again tonight. Yes it's Institute time again!! Ya!! It's actually turning into the highlight of my week at the moment, which I think demonstrates how boring things are in my life at the moment. Doesn't it?

It's been raining quite heavily here all day, so my feet are likely to get very, very wet on my way to the car. We're about to have a office move here at work and yes before you ask I am indeed drawing a mental blank. For some strange reason I am finding it really, really difficult to say anything. Maybe because at the minute I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop as it were. I'm really not in the correct frame of mind to go into it here, but regular readers really wouldn't need three guesses to correctly guess who is one of the main people involved.

If I'm in the right frame of mind I'll try and explain tomorrow.

later!

in a holding pattern

Okay,

This is just a quick blog post and isn't actually a proper blog post. confused? Well let me explain. I did write a nice long blog entry but due to the computer at home being cranky. I couldn't post it. So this is just a quick post, which I will replace latter with the actual blog post, so the blog post I wrote at home will still be in it's correct 'place'.

Confused??

me too.

from the mists of time

Well I went back to the Doctors again today, as my knee was still hurting.
Well goods news first, as the pain as been lessening in my knee she's not that concerned, and doesn't want to refer me to the psycio as it isn't that bad and is improving. Besides apparently he has a 6 month waiting list. That’s right Six whole months and hopefully at the rate it's been improving it should be okay by then. Downside, I have to keep an eye on 'it' as it were because she fairly certain I’ve damaged some ligaments in my knee which is what's causing the pain. If my knee doesn't get any better I'm going to have to go back and she's going to have to refer me anyway. So keep your fingers crossed for me guys

Well I'm not in work this week. I have the whole week off. Ya!!!! Yes yours truly, managed to mess up his calculations for time in lieu good and proper so I had much, much more then I thought and as it's a use it or loose it deal, I decided to opt to use it :-) Tough choice right? Now all I've got to do is to think of something constructive to do. Isn't life tough :-)

Well we go a new TV. A all new, all singing, all dancing digital one with the digital channels built in. ( okay I might be fibbing about the all singing and all dancing part but that would be groovy though to have a TV that could do that right? although it might be a bit hard to see a clear picture and oh look I'm rambling again). Of course ironically instead of now sitting there and gripping that there are three things I wanna watch on at the same time, there’s now like 12 or 15 instead. Argghhhhh!!!!!! Oh well I suppose it's another one of those " Just can't win scenarios"

Institute was as good as ever last week. We've had a new student join the class. She's an American and is over here for a year studying Victorian history. The cars going in for it’s major service at the end of this week. It’s going to be expensive but can’t be avoided. L Unless I want the engine to fall out of it, and I’ve been told that’s never good.

oh well, can't think of much else to say for now.
so later!

Wanted. One replacement knee.

Yes, I'm afraid so Sports fans, the anti-inflammatorys appear to have had bugger all effect, so it's back to the Doctors I go. I'm thinking I might have a bit of a problem here :-( Please Keep your fingers crossed for me, I'll keep you posted as to how it goes. On the plus side as I've finished the course of anti-inflammatorys I can know start taking some ibuprofen for the pain, so I should feel a bit more comfortable now.

The TV is definitely buggered. No two ways about it. So We've currently swapped it for my TV from my room. However it does look rather ridiculous and like we left the old TV in a puddle of water or something and it shrank. I'm not sure if Grumpy is going to spring for a new TV because he was moaning last night that there's nothing ever on I wanna watch anyway" oh and he seems to have managed to get something stuck on the iron so when he's been trying to iron some of his shirts, he's been leaving nice black marks on them. So when I suggested that he should buy a new iron his response was " A new iron and TV, I'm not made of money!" Because of course a new iron costs the same as a new TV. That comment did make me ponder what exactly the hell he is doing with his wages each month.

It's institute again tonight, so it's time for me to play taxi again. I know it sounds sad but it is a lot of fun to be able to drive and have some people to talk to. Also Brothers H's lessons are extremely good as well :-) I have also discovered from Nemesis why the message didn't get through to the Elders. It seems JH is currently out of the country. D'ooh! Why did no one mention that before. As if facing the elders this Sunday wasn't going to be bad enough. Well I suppose one bad bit of news deserves another and I'm sure that Nemesis will be delighted to hear that Lilly Allen is moving to the USA in a attempt to 'crack the American market'. Now how did Nemesis put her her opinion of her again? Oh yes I think it was " Lily Allen, whose accent makes me want to jam a skewer in my ear".

Right Umm what else? Oh yes LDS linkup update, I'm all the way up to '19 friends', still only three comments though. Again I'm fairly certain this goes back to the whole 'people don't know me that well' but I guess we'll see if that changes as the year moves on.

later!

Chris

I've got some happy pills, hap hap happy pills

Oops where does the time go? You forget to do one blog post and before you know it you've missed four. Whose a naughty boy Saxon? that would be me :-) Right so where to begin.

I went to the Doctors to get them to have a look at my knee. Her best bet was that I did sprain it while at the YSA convention and it had healed sought of, but I then aggravated it and managed to turn it into a really bad sprain and before any of your ask I have absolutely no idea what I did which managed to aggravate it! So I'm currently on Diclofenac tablets, which are anti-inflammatory pills which I hope will sort it otherwise it's back to the doctors and a visit to their physio.

Institute was fun. Especially playing taxi again. It's nice to drive with someone else other then grumpy. Although I had a full car with Traveler and both of her Brothers J + G and they were able to witness first hand my terrible taste in music :-) The institute class had about 25 people all told in the end ( various people were coming in during the evening) and was to it's usual high standard with brother H teaching. The activity afterwards was speed-meeting. It's like speed dating but as there weren't equal numbers of guys and girls they couldn't call it speed dating it had to be speed meeting ( well I think that was the name they finally decided upon I'm not sure. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was fun getting to talk to some of the young ladies from Leicester way more. I also posted some pictures from Nemesis's leaving party up on the main board which people seemed to like. Brother H has said that they want to do a 'competition' to find the best photo. I also agreed with the girls who objected to photos at Nemesis's party that it would be okay to take photos in future, as long as they got to see them first. So result there me thinks.

I was supposed to be helping at the helping hands day on Saturday but seeing as my knee, and not to put too fine a point on it was buggered, I thought it was a really really bad plan, especially as I was going to have to work at a 'huge' event for work the following day. So I got hold of JH's phone number from cordeila and I tried to ring her several times to let her know I couldn't make it and that she needed to organise a alternative lift for the elders. There was no answer but I left a couple of message. Unfortunately it appears she didn't get it as I got a call Saturday afternoon from the elders asking me where I was. I know, I know before you all start yelling at me that I should have checked with them but I didn't have their contact number but I thought JH as the organizer had sorted it. Trust me regardless of what you say you have no chance of making me feel worst about what happened then I already do. Especially as one of the sets of Elders only moved into the ward last week. Not quite the 1st impression of the ward they should have received. :-(

Well I had to go to bed early on Saturday. Really earrrlllllllyyyyyy. 9pm. Well that's early for me as I had to get up early for the big work event the following day. However it didn't do me much good as I'm fairly certain I lay there for nearly a hour and a half before I went to sleep. Oh well ..But I then had to get up at 4.30am the following morning. Yes you read that right, I can attest that there is such a time as 4.30am on a Sunday morning and I firmly hope that I do not see that time again until next year. So after creeping round the house on tippy toes not to wake grumpy I headed out into the night/very early morning. The radio wasn't much help as they only seemed to be playing soft/easy listening style music which is now what you want to hear at that time of the morning when you'd much rather be in bed. However I got to work with no problems only to discover I had arrived nearly half an hour before I had to. Mental note, traffic will not be a bad at 5am as it is at 8.30am. Can you say, " Saxon is a Muppet" I think ya can.

Well the day went very well, even if by the end of the day my feet were killing me ( new gel insoles so did not work!) and the only thing keeping my knee working was the support bandage I was using. However it was a good day and the main thing I was grateful for is that I don't have to do it again for another year. I got home however to discover that grumpy had been really kind and considerate and left all of the washing up from that day for me to do. Arrgghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I swear he has some inbuilt genetic trigger or something which means he is incapable of cleaning up after himself.

Grumpy became a little less grumpy this week as Engineseer came over and fixed his computer which means he can now get email again. However the first time he downloaded email it took him nearly two hours to download the backlog. Over 1500 emails and ironically only three were actual emails he wanted. The rest were all spam and junk. I think you can all imagine how he took that.

However as one thing was fixed, something else decided to break. I was watching the TV before I came out this morning and the picture started to flicker accompanied by a distinct smell of burning. So as quick as a flash, or as quick as a flash of my size could move which in fact would be that quick of flashy I turned the TV off and unplugged it from the wall. I then pull it out so it was well away from the curtain and I guess we'll have a look at it tonight. My money's on us having to buy a new one.

Oh well.

Later.

Call me a taxi. Okay your a taxi!

Well institute starts again tonight and I have to admit I can't wait. I didn't think that I would miss it as much as I did, but I did! It was nice to have a definite time to meet up with the YSA during the week and outside of church. Also to be honest it's not like I was doing anything majorly constructive with my Wednesday evenings anyhow. I'm still Librarian. Hurrah, always wanted a suit of power amour and psychic powers. Oops wrong sorta Librarian. Always keep getting that confused :-) Brother H told us on Sunday that there should be 30 people there today. If that does actually happen ( remember dealing with the complicating life of YSA here) that will be awesome as I think that will be the largest class ever. We're doing two courses this year, Doctrine and covenants and " Studying the scriptures ( I think that's what it's called).

I'll be playing taxi for most of the course, which I don't mind in the slightest. It's actually really nice to be able to do some driving with someone to talk to. It makes a nice change :-)

My knee's started to feel sore again so I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go visit the Doc. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I haven't done anything serious.

I had a bit of a argument with grumpy last night over the car. He wanted to know if he could borrow the Car on Saturday, which he couldn't coz I'm out. He wanted to know if he could borrow the car on Sunday, but I'm out working this big event our company does every year and it's written into our contracts that we have to do it so he couldn't then either. He then asked about Friday night, but I didn't know if any YSA thing was going on so didn't answer immediately . He then got all annoyed and said that if I was expecting him to pay some money towards petrol and the like then he should get a change to use the car sometime. So anyway to cut a long story short I took the cowards way out and rather then things escalating into a full blown argument I said he could have the car on Friday. You watch they'll be a really good YSA activity on now and I won't be able to get to it.

argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I just can't win sometimes

later!

I know what I'm doing, but if you see me running away do try to catch up

Well one of those days again today. You know the type, the same old, same old and nothing really memorable happens.Well almost. I've signed up to this new web site LDS Mingle and one of the things you can do is to take this personality test thingies. Apparently I have a 'white' personality what ever that means. But it was a quite interesting breakdown and I thought I'd cut and paste some of it here to see if the one or two of you who read this agree or disagree ( feel free to leave comments, sarky or otherwise (looking at you fraggle and engineseer)


Congratulations, chris, you are a WHITE personality. The Core Motivation that guides you through life is "Peace." This is not referring to a political agenda or the absence of war. It is, however, an absence of inner conflict, much closer to the idea of serenity, and an acceptance of oneself and others. You have a strong and compelling need to keep things in balance in your life so as to maintain an internal feeling of tranquility and comfort.

As a WHITE, you seek independence and require kindness, especially from those with whom you are in a relationship. You resist confrontation at all costs. (To you, feeling good internally is even more important than being good.) You are quiet by nature, process things very deeply and objectively with great clarity. Of all the colors, WHITES are the best listeners. You respect people who are direct but recoil from perceived hostility or verbal battle.

You need your "alone time" and refuse to be controlled by others. WHITES want to do things their own way and in their own time. They ask little of others and resent others demanding much of them. You are probably much stronger than people think, but are not often seen for your strength because you don't easily reveal your feelings

Why You're Hot
You Are A Superb Listener
Have you ever heard your friends complaining about how their (boyfriends / girlfriends) don't listen to them, not understanding how this could be? It's because you listen so naturally. This is such a turn-on, because your partner will feel your interest in them and know that you hear even what they are not saying.

You Make Others Feel Comfortable
You have a way of putting people at ease. You don't try to intimidate or make things too formal. In fact, you prefer creating a very relaxed and open atmosphere, which works to your advantage, because the (men/women) in your life like to know that you are accessible and approachable, and that they don't have to put on a big show to be with you. In fact, they know that they can be more real with you, because of your accepting nature.

You See Things Very Clearly And Objectively
You Are Very Adaptable
You Shine When In Your Element
You Are Calm Under Pressure

Why You're Not

You Tend To Be Too Accommodating
As a WHITE, you have the tendency to accommodate what others want instead of having to tell them "no". Consequently, you tend to get overloaded with what other people expect of you and soon you can become overwhelmed or end up doing things that you do not enjoy. What happens is that you allow others to take control of the direction of your life instead of you driving towards the life that you and your partner desire.

Your Dislike Of Conflict Blocks Honest Conversation
WHITES do NOT enjoy conflict in the least. It is the opposite of what you crave through your Core Motive of Peace. Rather than get into an argument with your partner, for example, you would rather pretend that everything's okay, or you would rather lie in a conversation rather than tell her what you really think and risk the potential resulting conflict. So you don't say anything, until it bugs you so much that a month later it comes out. Let's be clear... dishonesty is not attractive especially when a severe case of "lack-of-backbone-itis," lies at the heart of it, so don't go there.

You Are Notoriously Indecisive
You Can Be Hesitant To Engage Others Socially
You Do Not Voice Your Opinions Well
You Don't Communicate Well Or Often
You Can Be Lazy

Your Needs

You Need To Feel Good Inside
As a WHITE, feeling good and comfortable on the inside is more important to you than being good or doing the right thing, so you should look for a partner who does two things for you. One, they should not create unnecessary conflict or confrontation, and two, they need to be able to help you become comfortable confronting the necessary issues and not allow you an escape route through dishonesty.

You Need To Be Allowed Your Own Space
You enjoy being with people, but you do not need constant social interaction by any stretch of the imagination. You like your alone time which allows you to process thoughts and to daydream. You should find a partner who is able to allow you to have your release time.

Your Wants
You Want To Withhold Your Insecurities
You feel insecure about your various inadequacies, and feel embarrassed and confused about what to do when such things are exposed. Therefore, it is your tendency to guard those feelings of insecurity and inadequacy very tightly even from your significant other. This is not always appropriate nor does it facilitate growth, so you should find someone with whom you are able to open your heart and be vulnerable to.

You Want Kindness From Your Partner
WHITES are the nicest, kindest people in world. You don't like conflict, and usually see it as being unnecessary when it manifests itself. You don't like mean people and what they stand for.

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Well that was it. Apparently I can get a fully comprehensive report which runs to 28 pages for a mere $100 dollars but my main thought on that was . erhhh no! I wonder if that thought would have any affect on my analysis :-)

later

spekease engalish?

I saw this, this morning on a news website and could not believe the sheer 'specialness' of it. A defense company is working on " environmentally friendly" Munitions ( I.e bullets and bombs) including lead free bullets. But the best part of the story had to be the quote from the companies website that stated " lead used in ammunition can harm the environment and pose a risk to people". Yeap you read that right, that lead used in munitions can prove to be a risk to people, but apparently the explosive used in the munitions and the fact that they tend to leave large holes in people is perfectly okay. As long as we don't damage the countryside. Words now fail me...........

But not for long. Okay mild rant over. I'm baaaccckkkk! Yes after a weekend of no internet due to the computer at home being bust still, I'm able to get back onto the net using the computers in the canteen at work. Just in case the one or two of you who actually read this thing was wondering where I was.

Well I was right and there was a YSA activity on Friday. Unfortunately it was all the way across in Peterborough and I felt tired enough just driving home from work. It was a hard decision as I did want to go but for once I decided to listen to my common sense ( I do have some it's just very, very small :-) and not go. As a hour and a half drive each way just seemed like a recipe for disaster.

I was not a happy bunny on Saturday morning. Well as I'm sure most of you will guess Grumpy had something to do with it. As he was going out in the afternoon and evening he wanted to get into town early to do the shopping. Which is fine, however his idea of 'early' on a Saturday is far too early for me. I like to have a nice lie in when I can, however that's a totally different thing for grumpy because as he usually gets up at 4.30am a two hour lie in for him would only take him to 6.30am, and so on and so on. Which usually means muggins here, only gets a very short lie in when compared to him! However I suppose it could be worse and that I was having to get up at 4.30am each morning. As that would play havoc with me attempting to have any sort of social life. not that I have much of one anyway ( example for the prosecution! my Dad was out on a Saturday night and I was at home with the TV. Which as interesting as it is, you can't have a decent conversation with it. Although I suppose if it did start talking to me that would mean I have a whole other set of problems then not being out on a Saturday night :-)

We had a CES broadcast + Institute sign up last night. The talk was by Elder Eyring adn was very good. Although It was slightly amusing at the beginning as the YSA displayed a impressive example of MMT when they arrived in dribs and drabs. During the broadcast some lads came into the car park and were smoking and sitting on Brother H's car. He went out to have a word with them and asked if there was a problem with his car. The Lads sitting on the car literally jumped a foot and seemed totally flummoxed as Brother H stayed calm and polite the whole time. It seemed like they just couldn't deal with politeness which was a fascinating thing to observe. Also I'm going to be a taxi again for Institute but this time rather then SW it will be her sister Traveler and her brother. ( Haven't thought of a code name for him yet) going to have to I suppose.

I had a sorta bad news/good news kinda day at work today. Bad news, the boss doesn't want us to be shut over News years and Christmas like last year, so I'm going to have to come in for at least one possibly two days . Good news I have more holiday then I thought left so over the next two and a half months I get three weeks of with full pay. Woo hoo! Result! Just not got a clue what the heck I'm going to do. ( yes life's tough isn't it :-)

Nemesis is home and she's checked in on her blog. It is still a very strange thought that she's gone from being a few minutes down the road, to the other side of the world in what I think is the furtherest possible time zone. However I think the views of the countryside round her parents house look amazing. Maybe it's the whole familiarity thing, where you get used to the countryside around you and don't think anything of it but views from other countries look amazing.

who knows?

later!

I'm all confused

Well it's hard enough to wake up and get out of bed at the best of times. Unfortunately this morning wasn't the best of times. I woke up and tried to move to discover my lower right leg had cramped up during the night and in almost the same instant I tried to move it, it started to hurt. A lot. So as the pain hit I flung my arm out and being the clever person I arm managed to whack my hand on the edge of my wardrobe right on it's edge, right across the center of my palm. So after finally managing to hobble out of bed I tripped on a bag I had left on the floor and banged my head on the door frame. So within 2 minutes of waking up this morning, I couldn't walk very well, had almost managed to break my hand and had given myself a headache. I don't know if that qualifies me as 'special' or a 'Klutz'. You decide.

I didn't help my headaches when I got to work this morning and tried to figure out where Nemesis is currently. If my very bad math's is right I think she's just about landing in Alaska now if not already home. Argghh this is so confusing trying to figure out timezones! Well I don't think anything YSA is going on this evening. Well emphasis on think but knowing the usual YSA organizational skill they probably won't decide until this evening anyway :-)

Also ironically I've now misplaced my Sunglasses just as the sunny weather comes back. I'm sure I've probably put them in the same safe place that I put my pen from YSA convention in. I'm just hoping that considering the general state of the house that I don't put more things into 'safe places', such as my keys or wallet. Coz then I'll have a big problem.

Well we're just about to have a big office move round at work, so I'll be loosing my current desk with it lots of space :-( On the plus side I will get a desk in a corner so I wouldn't have to try and struggle to hear customers when there are loads of people yakking behind me and also no one will be able to see what I'm doing. Ya!!!!!! Oops, said that one out loud didn't I? Got to stop saying the loud things quiet and the quiet things loud!

Well after the interesting chat I had with Banana on Sunday I had two very interesting chats with Joey and SL who I shall henceforth refer to as Sage at nemesis's leaving party. I wasn't able to take many photos at the party as a couple of people complained and the owners of the house 'warned' me not to take any photos with out asking permission. So as soon as the first person said no that was that as I really didn't want to risk being chucked out of the house. However LS volunteered to help and he went round taking photos instead and unsurprisingly the people who objected to me taking a photo had no problems with him taking photos. Maybe he was asking permission who knows? It's just I never like 'posed' photos, I prefer to take 'action' shots, if you guys now what I mean?...............................................

Right sorry what was I saying? Yes the talks with Sage and Joey, both were very interesting and got me thinking again. ( see I've actually been thinking about things for the best part of a week. Must be some sort of record, better be careful here, people might start thinking I actually have some small amount of intelligence next :-)

Right so what was the point to all this pondering and thinking I hear you ask? ( well at least the one or two of you I'm think read this thing from time to time might be). I've realized that no one in the YSA truly knows the 'real me' anymore, they are know one of the sort of 'mini-mes' ( please bear with me, I've not finally lost my marbles, it does make a twisted sort of sense if you let me explain) It feels like their are three 'mini-me's. A Work me, A church me and then the 'actual me'. Most people will see the first two, but I don't think there's anyone anymore in the YSA who knows the third me. Which to be perfectly honest is something I don't like. Well I now feel more accepted as part of the YSA, I suppose it's time I start opening up more, so they get to know the real me. Lets see how they goes, shall we? ( i hope that makes at least a sliver of sense)

Well I suppose if there's nothing onto night it will just be me, the TV and the DVD player once again.........................*sigh*

I really need to get out more.

later!

The time is far spent, theres none left.

For the attention of all US friends and Families of Nemesis,

The shipping company more commonly know as the Leicestershire YSA are pleased to announce the dispatch of your package 1Z59ABCDEFGHIJK657 more commoningly known as Nemesis which should be with you soon. Please see attached photographic proof



Please note the Leicester YSA offer no guarantees for returning her in the same state of mind or sanity in which she arrived and we deny all responsibility for any crazy sounding words or phrases, which seemingly make no snse to you such as " I'm going to put the rubbish in the bin " or " I'm going to put the shopping in the boot" , she may have picked up while she was over here.
We also disavow all responsibility for the method of transportation once we dispatched her and any bad food, crying babies, smug know it all flight attendants, chatty people in the seat next to her, long queues, bad movies or any lumps in the seat which may result during her trip.

We also deny any accountability for the condition of Nemesis upon arrival and any tiredness, crankiness, short temper, chapped lips or general zombie like acting which may have resulted from shipping.

If at any point you would like to return her to us for a visit please be advised that we will accept her back like a shot.

So say we all.