Wow what a crazy crazy few months...
Things have definitely changed. Sam started big boy school and for the first three weeks this was was an absolute nightmare, the first week we had to go mornings only,same the second week, the third week was afternoons only. The first week wasn't too bad but the second week we had five hours in the morning of him saying "are we going to school yet" every minute, ARGHGGGHGH. Even walking to school is weird, Realisation of how old I am. I pray every day that it's not raining, not because it is getting us wet but because when we get to the school there is a flock of 50 parents holding umbrellas, yet none of them know how to use one, I personally think that umbrellas should come with a manual, Every time a mum bends down to pick up the what a child has dropped they end up poking someone in the face with those really pointy sharp bits. The other day I had the experience of one of those pointed things getting stuck in my hair (after two pokes to the eye) I said excuse me to the lady but she didn't hear me, it then forced me to bend down as she was bending down else my hair would have been pulled out, umbrellas… They need to come with manuals Because people have no common sense When they're scurrying in trying to get their kids ready. I would just like to express that i think umbrellas are in fact the worst invention ever, a hood was invented to protect us from the rain, lets look at this from my point of view of why this hate has built up over the years.
As a child you are given a stupid umbrella that probably has one of those green frogs on it or those stupid lady bird ones, so already you look like a clown.. it can't be cute as it has metal spikes as weapons in at least six different places..... as you are walking along the street your mum is SCREAMING at you 'WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING' yet you cant because you have this big stupid thing over your head blocking where you are going! so your petrified because your mum is screaming at you, and your petrified one of your friends might see you with a big stupid ladybird device over your head.
Then you grow older yet your skills for using and umbrella don't seem to get any better... in fact they make you look even more stupid... its windy and its rainy outside, whilst the umbrella was built to protect you from the rain, it most certainly does not protect you from the wind..... you walk down the street the rain is still going in your face because the wind is blowing it under the umbrella... and then the umbrella does a magic trick and turns itself inside out and you weren't expecting it... so now you have to battle again with looking like a complete nob whilst getting wet trying to put your umbrella the right way round. Lets face it never have you once drove past someone and not laughed, and never are you that person that wants to look like your converting into a bad scene from Mary Poppins taking off with your inside out umbrella.
You get the umbrella home.... and if you managed to avoid getting wet well done, but it doesn't last long does it... nooooo, you have to shake your umbrella to stop it going mouldy and its like a wet dog shaking themselves all over you! so you were dry but now you are wet from head to toe!
And then as you become a fully grown adult and have children of your own, you go to the school to pick up your kids but you have to battle with the army of umbrellas that are trying to save someones hair from getting wet... yet not one person has their hood up! and these parents are shouting each other and whipping around to see who called their name forgetting that they are holding what i consider to be a lethal weapon... theres spikes flying everywhere! getting caught in peoples eyes and hair... and have you ever stood next to someone holding a umbrella... you may as well be standing next to a water fall.
So its not very often i use this word but i actually hate umbrella's. I see no purpose for them at all rather then to try and save a bit of vanity from the user. I think they should at least come with an 18 certificate, after all the health and safety shit we have to do in this country, women are allowed to walk around with umbrella's. It is absolute madness to me!
School;
Sam doesn't normally come home saying much about what happened at school except for this week. He told me on Monday that he had a girlfriend, I couldn't believe it, my little four year old boy had a girlfriend. He is always talking now about her now. This week we had a screaming fit because he wanted spiky hair so he could ask Ella rae to hold his hand, but it was windy that Day and it blew it down a little, he was so upset he said he was never ever ever going outside ever again because he doesn't like the wind and now we couldn't ask Ella rae way to hold his hand. He then came home that night and asked if he could have pocket money, I said why do you want pocket money he replied so I can take Ella rae
Well that was the start of the love story... two days later he came back saying 'Ella Rae' annoyed me today because she kept saying my name :/ I actually think at four however young this may be, he has his first crush. I spoke to Ella Raes mum and we have decided that they are a perfect match and their marriage is being arranged now.
Speaking of first crushes, totally weird going back to the school that I had my childhood sweetheart, and funny enough I seen him at the school, made me realise that life goes by too quickly without us knowing and I am only 26, but I do know that time goes too quick for everyone and we shouldn't be wasting a minute of it.
So on the business front its busy season, Halloween and Christmas approaching and the time in the day now just seems to go with a blink. I hope i learnt a thing or two from last years rush and know how to deal with it a little better. well organised this year which last year the hype was just sprung upon us. With the Launch of Flexiwear around the corner it should be a good end to a tough year.
This year i have most defiantly needed more sleep than i did last year and mentally challenging rather then physically demanding. I like to keep myself extra busy its the only way i function, If i am busy rest assured i fit everything in... Feel like superwoman ( or just that of a woman on too much redbull and energy drinks). Get me to a level where its just getting through and i fail miserably at being a human. I had a injury to my ankles and legs this year which has meant no running which is one of the things i enjoy the most. Sometimes for some reasons things happen and you are unable to do what you did before, it's OK for change, i just needed to find an alternative exercise, with Sam being at school though and childcare in the evenings it has thrown me all off balance. This is no ones fault but my own if i really wanted to do something i would, i believe that anything is possible and everything is dependant on attitude. I have no one to blame but myself.
When people say they have no time.. its not because they have no time, its because they would rather be doing something else with that time that they do have. When people say they have no money, same principle, they might not have any money to go out and get drunk but they have the money for the holiday or phone they have been saving for. Time and money are the two things we battle the most with, i know for sure that when you feel like you have neither times can feel like they are getting tough. Having no money and no time is not an issue, the issue is when you have no imagination to fix the no time and no money.
So i could find the time to do different exercises, but i have other things going on... that fill up that space.
I am learning sign language something that has been on bucket list for many years! I love it, If you don't know by now that i am a massive geek that enjoys learning then you certainly do now. I learn things for fun.... yes i am well aware that i sound like a A* looser right now, I wish i could have focused more at school but now that i have it now i don't want it to go to waste, so i embrace the inner nerd!
I also signed up for a volunteer job, I will soon mentor a young person between 11-19 that has come from a difficult back round or is struggling in school.
I got involved with this because i gave up tying to change the world., i have met some wonderful people in my life but I am aware of the not so wonderful people. People who say one thing to you yet another behind your back, people wishing and wanting you to fail, people who are just so angry they take their moods out on other people, there are too many people like this that i will never have a influence on, nor do i want to. I was in the petrol station the other day and some man was screaming at the woman because of the length of the que, and the fact he was going to be late for a meeting... I do not understand these actions from people. Everyone gets stressed out, we are adults, take some time to reflect on the situation before screaming out in a tantrum like my four year old son. The fact is he was late because he didn't get up early enough to deal with what may have happened that day, he may have run a flat, there may have been a que.... its not the ladies fault its his own. he then made this woman feel so small though and insignificant which is so awful. I take on board that everything is my fault if its not going to plan, i am tired ( i haven't slept enough... its no ones fault but mine... even if i was working late because i want to earn money to take my son on holiday, that's not his fault, that is my choice). people that don't like their partners, continue to stay in a unhappy relationship through choice even though they will blame the other. Loosing weight, i lost 3 stone, before i did though i blamed everything for being bigger then what i wanted to be other than the fact that , hey actually i eat too much bad stuff not enough good and i don't exercise enough... i blamed working late and having to pick up a take away ( if i really wanted too i could have organised the weeks meals at the weekend) the fact i didn't have time to exercise (I sat in front of the TV for hours per night) We all have choices, we just don't always make the rights ones, which sometimes frustrates us and then we take it out on others. We all have the ability to change its whether we have the confidence, determination and passion too... Which is where i hope to come into play with my mentee, i am going to get the chance to change one persons life so drastically, I get to listen to them, not judge them and fill them with everything all humans should be told, that someone believes in them, has their best interest at heart and will help them any way they can in order for them to be happy. So i am muchos looking forward to this next little adventure i have going on there :D.
I had an overwhelming feeling the other day whilst driving home in my car because i was content. My boyfriend is my best friend and he makes every day exciting, again i know i sound like a douche right now but its true and its nice that i have someone that loves me as much as he does, my mind was suddenly distracted back to the time when i was single though...because of how clever you have to be to be single and i feel like my intelligence is now lacking.
Differences being in a relationship to being single;
when he does something i disapprove of i make a hgggmmgmgmgmgm sound....when i am happy i smile and when i am angry i do not talk....
I look like general dog shit on a daily basis because it doesn't matter who i may bump into.
Instead of avoiding take aways i look forward to eating one at the weekend
Being single
you have to look like something they put on a magazine, you have to buy the best push up bra available on earth especially after you have had kids, you have to have the best make up and you most defiantly on fb change your profile every week and have a 'sexy face' by sexy face everyone will know what I mean, the angle of the camera has to be at 90 degrees pointing down to miss the double chin, you have to have a non expression face so there are no visible wrinkles and its prob best to add on an effect to cut out any of your facial hair you may have going on.
As a singleton you have the intelligence of a algebra genius.... for examples...
Text 'Hey how are you x'
Reply 'Yeah good thanks just busy'
To some that may read a simple conversation, which i used to think it was until i got into the land of singleton and my good friend Pete used to spend many hours with me decoding messages.
from a reply of five words it could lead to hours of conversation like.......
"So what does that mean from a guys point of view?"
"Well... theres no kisses there so maybe hes like saying it like... i am good leave me alone? and he didn't ask
a question back so maybe you should leave it... i can't believe you put a x on your message"
"yeah i regretted the x as soon as i put it"
"your an idiot"
"yes i am... i put a x... have i screwed this up?"
"not sure....
maybe he is going to play the 48 hour game with you? "
I replied "what the fuck is the 48 hour game.... "
you know the 48 hour game... "
if i knew what it was i wouldn't be asking you."
So for those of you that do not know then this is what it is .. apparently if a guy really likes you, he will not reply to you for 48 hours to see if you text him in that time, if you don't, he assumes your not interested but be careful because if you text more then twice ( even if you are genuinely concerned for his safety) you automatically go into the 'bunny boiler' list... and once you hit that list there is no getting off it, its worse then the STD list, if your on a bunny boiler list you have just disappeared off all future men's radar...it is dating suicide.
I laughed my head off wen i heard this, i was like so, if you genuinely really like a person, you don't text them back..... that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, what if you don't like someone... you text them all day long? Its so screwed up. I am glad i stuck with if i like you i will tell you and if you reject me then so be it, it is life and it happens. If i don't like you, i will tell you because i do not want to lead you on. To me that is simple... but oooooo nooooo and lets not even start on the smiley face... there is a smiley face with a wink, a sad face, a no expression face...when i first received a message with a smiley face i thought... dork, and yet everyone talks like this and i have jumped on the band wag on, i have to stop myself writing emails to people that do not include a stupid smiley face. the only thing is this then leads to another two hour conversation of over analysing a smiley face.... ohhh no you got a side way smiley face... that's not good... bluegghhh.. bothered!
So its a very tricky game to be playing the single game, and lots of head games and cryptic codes, you have to have a urban dictionary next to you to understand what they are saying because in the 21st century dating world, your a bunny boiler if you ring them ( and no one wants to be on a bunny boiler list) so its text only... how can you be funny, Witty or charming over text message?
There are many differences between the two worlds and I have enjoyed them both equally each one teaching me new things in life!
All in all life is really good, although it is more of struggle this year with my Best bud in Aus sometimes i really miss that hug and just need her happy cheery face, but shes there over and i get to talk to her every week :) . I do have great people in my life that give me a lift when i need it.
Although i would love to be much further advanced in business then what i am now, i am happy that it is all going in the right direction and i will learn from the hurdles and challenges i have been facing. When you are faced with a hill, you step on the gas... which is what i am currently about to do.
My goal is to earn enough money for a flight to go and get one of those hugs, which looking at the prices is going to take a while lol. Life, its all about the dream!
That is it for now, been a little behind in the blogs, no excuse just lost the creative writing for a while. I will use it while it's here. I feel a few stories coming up for whats in the rest of the years pipeline, no drinking though, after going to a wedding and thinking that you can do the lift from dirty dancing i was started to get concerned for my general well being....
As you can see below we have the before intoxication and after intoxication.... hence the band waggon...
For now,
Cheerio
Laura xoxx
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