My Birthday Wish List

Have you ever had a manicure or a pedicure or even a facial?

Do you have a preference?   

Me I have never had any of them but would love it have a foot message at some point and maybe a facial would be nice, if only I could afford to do either of these things…………………lol

I do make suggestions of gift vouchers for these things when my birthday, Christmas or Mother’s Day come around but so far I have not been lucky enough to ever get a gift voucher for any of these procedures.  Maybe one day I will be lucky enough to receive a gift voucher all I can do is keep add it to my wish lists…………….lol

In fact my birthday is coming up in November and I am making my wish list for that, I will be 50 this year…………….so this is what I have on my wish list so far:

Gift Voucher for foot massage or facial

Small slow cooker

Gift Voucher for Miller’s Store

Slice o matic

 I wonder if anyone in my family will take notice of this I guess we will just have to see what happens next month when my birthday rolls around..............

Unnoticed Mistakes

How often do you notice mistakes to late to change it now I am not talking about mistakes in life but mistakes in blog posts or blog comments. You write a post and publish it and then notice that you have made a few spelling mistakes or gramma mistakes but can't be bothered to go back and change them.............or you leave a comment on someones blog and after you hit comment you read it back and you notice a mistake, or even worse you don't notice till much later like you next visit to the blog and you think how could you have not notice the mistake.......it happens far to often to me so much that I felt the need to write a post about mistakes.....................lol

I have also had times when I am writing letters to my penpals that I have made mistakes like forgetting to change the name or I leave in a paragraph that has nothing to do with who I am writing to. You see I do my letters on the computer and change the name and add or remove bits when I do each letter, so it is annoying and embarressing when I notice that I have made a mistake but it is even more annoying when I don't notice and send a letter off to someone with mistakes in it..............it makes me feel terrible and sometimes people say something but at other times they don't.

Favourite Things.............

Do you have a favourite saying?

Something you add to your letters and such for me it is this: “Life’s too Short to be Miserable” and you know I don’t remember when I started adding it to my letters but it just something I do now. I also like to add the words “penpals are awesome”

Do you have a favourite time of year?

Mine is Christmas I love Christmas I like to have heaps of decorations around the house much to hubby’s annoyance, I am in the process of updating my Christmas decorations I wish that it didn’t cost so much to buy the stuff I want mostly because I hate listening to Tim complain about how much I spend on the decorations……….hell I hate how he complains about how much I was spending on Christmas in general………………lol

Do you have a favourite season?

I was born in spring and I prefer the in between seasons spring and autumn when it isn’t too hot or too cold. In fact most people I know prefer the season they were born in, not everyone but most I wonder why that is………….

Do you have a favourite theme of TV show? 

For me it would have to be crime I love crime shows both fictional shows and real life crime shows, my favourite channels are CI channel and 13^th Street both channels dedicated to crime shows. This would be closely followed by the History channel I love shows about history also.

It's Wednesday and that means I visit my nanna

 As everyone knows I go and visit my nanna every Wednesday at the nursing home now there are times when she will have a blank look on her face when we approach but after we speak to her her eyes will brighten and she will appear to know who we are.

Me and mum and my uncle Frank and aunt Pearla visit nan every week in fact Pearla pops in a few times a week after she has finishes work and will help feed nan her breakfast but there is another uncle who rarely visits nan. 

I have always had a close relationship with my nan and I don't know if others get this but when I see her I just see nan how she has always been, I do not see the old and frail woman who is no longer able to walk and who's memory has gone due to alazhemiers. 

I often get very annoyed when I think about how an uncle of mine doesn't like to visit her because him and his wife say they prefer to remember nanna how she use to be and don't like how she has become...............they stopped visiting her when she started repeating herself. 

Last year they turned up on her birthday but not this year last year however I did send them invite the family gathering we had at the nursing home this year I didn't, why not, well they know when her birthday is.................

If for some reason me and mum don't get a chance to visit nan we worry about how she  is and feel bad that we couldn't visit her.

A Fat Failure....................Not Really..............

I think I am fat ok I know I am fat and it took me a long time to get used to being fat, my grandson Blain often calls me his “fat nanna” and Little Leo will tell me I am “round” as his mum told him it is not nice to call people “fat”. Now this bothers my daughters when they hear their sons saying such things but I think they are just being honest and telling it how it is.

I am happy with me I know I am a good person and have a good heart and I try not to be spiteful and nasty but I am also larger then I have ever been but that means there is more of me to love. Children often tell it how it is so I do not understand why some people get so upset with children, if a child says something that can be seen as mean or nasty then the parent to talk to the child and try to make them understand that it is not nice to say such things. As my daughter does with Little Leo she tries to get him to understand that some people may be hurt by being called “fat”

I also have a problem with thinking negative things about myself like I am a failure as a mother, this I think is brought on by being put down by one of my daughters, I know she doesn’t mean it but she does have a habit of saying things that make me feel like I have failed or let her down in some way.

When she is pissed off with me she has a habit of calling me “mother” with such a tone that applies that I have done something wrong. It is easy to think negative thoughts they seem to come so much easier than the good thoughts, why is that?

Getting Older But Not Ageing

Do you worry about getting older?
Do you look in the mirror and think you look older then your years?
Do you think your best years are behind you?

My answer to these questions is NO, I don't worry about getting older and I will be 50 in November but I have no fear about ageing maybe that is because I come from a family of women who age well I do not think my mum who is 72 looks her age and my dad will be 70 in a couple of weeks time and I think he looks good for his age as well.

That said I think it helps that I look after my skin I use moisturiser every day and do not spend a lot of time out in the sun.

Now I have a couple of sister who I think look older then their years in fact it is a family joke that they often look older than they are, I do not know why that is maybe it is because they both smoke and drink a lot more then I do me I don't smoke and I don't drink much either.

I think many young girls don't give much thought to skin care because they are young and think they will always look good when in truth smoking, drinking and not taking care of their skin can make them look older then they are when they hit their 40's.........................