.........On A Cold & Frosty Morning......
Saturday arrived with an icy blast, so glad the day I actually did have my Gin & Tonic seizure (Tonic Clonic technically but my way sounds better) or more accurately, flapping like a fish outta water whilst peeing myself in my front garden. The garden was white, crunchy & sparkly but bloomin cold out there. I fed the birds, cracked the ice on the pond and got ready to hit the town.
Tony had to bank the karate club's takings for the month and I was shopping for our friends who are having their baby girl Tuesday by c-section due to her enourmous size already and the fact the mum is tiny. Lara came with us (clever girl that one) and we headed straight to H&M that only opened last week. I found a cute pair of pink dungeree's for new baby and Lara found a new coat and a jumper, I also bought Tony some much needed socks (the sock monster has been working overtime in our house) and Jack another new shirt and jumper that are smart enough to wear for Sixth Form. We went into Boots and there Lara found a black semi-permanent hair dye, a new blusher, new makeup brush and light up compact....me, I got some nail glue. Exciting eh, but I have broken my thumbnail WAY below the skin level and am just too chicken to pull it off, it will hurt and then I'll have a short nail which I can't paint 
With everyone shopped out (well I wasn't exactly but Christmas is coming and the bank manager is getting fat!) we headed to the Water Margin for lunch. It's a huge all you can eat Chinese buffet style restaurant. While we were stuffing our faces with various dishes I noticed the time, the time I woke up in my garden......oh this is a much better plan than that LOL Several courses and two coffees later, we were stuffed and it came to £30 something....not bad and a great way to celebrate me still being here two years later.
My actual day of being told I had a brain tumour came 4 days later, so I wonder if I can persuade Tony we need to celebrate again 
I might be pushing my luck and my waistline!!!!! Home and I dyed Lara's hair for her.........it's really black now but she is happy and it will wash out in 24 washes (which is about two weeks the way she does it). We spent a lazy Saturday afternoon, I messed around with my graphics programme, Tony & Sean played Call of Duty: Black Ops and linked up with my sisters boyfriend online (doesn't take much to make my men happy - just a gun lol). Lara went off to watch some makeup tutorials on YouTube and apply copious amounts of her new goodies! Jack was ensconced in his bedroom making digital music, he's had one track signed and needs another for it to be released as a mini ep apparently.
Dinner time came and I didn't want to cook, so Pizza Hut stepped in and delivered an assortment of pizza's & side dishes - very handy! We then watched the film Taken with Liam Neeson, very very good. I really enjoyed it, except it wasn't quite long enough and finished before Fix Factor did. This mean't I had to watch it and make my opinions known on Facebook at the same time! However I do admit to being a I'm A Celeb Get Me Out Of Here junkie.
All in all a MUCH better day than I had two years ago......hospital food and three old ladies snoring very loudly or yelling out they need to "go tinkle" all night doesn't compare LOL
early morning walk to Tesco's via the fishing lake
Thought for today
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
Sydney J. Harris
