Life so far!

Mmm it's been a while since I put anything down.

So I am sitting here, taking a well earned break from my coursework, (no don't ask how it is going.. the answer to that is slow >.<) and munching on chocolate =).

The long awaited day of my mother moving in, finally happened over a week ago. So far it has been a learning curve, for both of us. After so long that we didn't really talk, it is amazing how quick you can catch up. Of course my children think it's brilliant that "Nan" is living with them right now. And she's making up for lost time with them as well. Children are perceptive, and I have been "taking my lead" from them. They seem comfortable around her, and at the moment that is good enough for me. If they have accepted her, then who am I to argue?

The thing is, two adult females in the house..hormone overdrive!
LOL

No, it isn't that bad. We have had a few tearful moments and a few giggles and lots of coffee's at the local Starbucks, (come to think of it.. they must be getting rich from us right now)and a few meals out together.

It hasn't turned out to be the "dreaded mother syndrome" that I envisoned that it would be. It is nice, so far, to see that she isn't a "meddling parent/grandparent" and she actually has quite good taste when it comes down to buying things for the children!

I have taken her around to help her settle in. Helped her sort out the usual things that accompany any move, like changing banks over and sending off documents and such like. We seem to make agenda's of what we have too do tommorow..and trust me there is always something that hasn't been done as yet!

One of the things we had to do was register her car for a parking permit. Outside my house the road is a "controlled parking zone". It is supposed to be a deterrant for the commuters NOT to park in the roads during the working week. Don't work though.. the road is always full of "non-resident" parked cars.

So anyway off we pop up to the office on Friday at about 2pm. We filled in the forms and then waited. There was a rather polite gentleman also waiting, and my mother decided to ask him how long he had waited for.

"Forty minutes" came the reply.

My mother was horrified. What about picking up the children from school..? We was sitting debating on what to do next, as the school is a fair distance from the office, when her name was called!

All in all it only took about ten minutes for her permit to be issued!

On the way out, my mother turned to the gentleman and said "I think you must have the wrong colour eyes, cause I already got mine!"
"What?" He said and stormed towards the window!
We then proceeded to leave!

The first time she went to the shop on her own, (which is 5 mins away) she managed to have the owner ask her out for a drink! And I thought I was bad when I went places with my friends..We went into a shopping centre, and there was a youngish guy promoting Paintballing. He was Canadian. And as soon as he spoke, my mother kept asking him to speak some more.. she was in "love" with his voice!!

This weekend should be interesting. I have one of my brother's visiting. Again, we havn't spoken in a long while. So I will let y'all know how it goes.

For now, I am going. I have eaten to much chocolate and am starting too feel quite ill! LOL

2007 is here..

Well the new year is here. Welcome to 2007.

Just another year older. That is what sprung to mind on New Year's eve, when a friend of mine asked what this year is going to be like. She then relayed to me all her plan's, (just like she does every year) of what she hopes to do this year. Truthfully? They are the same as last year, with maybe a few new ones added.

Why do people do that? Go to all the "fuss" of thinking about what they want to change "next year"? I mean, I live each day as it comes. If I don't like something, I try not to do that again. I am not going to think to myself "ummm ok I will make that a New Year's resolution not to do that" Why wait a whole 12 months?

Another friend of mine is trying to stop smoking. She has had several very sucessful attempts. By this I mean she quit several times for periods of time. On 24th of December she rang me very stressed out. She had "slipped" and had smoked a cigarette. Trying to reamin calm for her, I said don't worry it was only one, we won't concentrate on it.. just carry on as you was doing.

Her reply saddened me.

"There's no point my trying to stop now until after Christmas. It will be the only way I will be able to cope with Christmas. I am to stressed out now. I will make it my New Year's resolution to quit again"

In this world, nothing is certain. You can wake up like always tommorow, go to the corner shop like always tommorow, then have some fool in a car run you down as you leave the shop.

Granted, there are something's that need "forward" planning, I have a few things planned myself for this year such as holiday and maybe decorating..I am not talking about those things, what I am talking about are the things that you can change NOW.

It really annoy's me when I hear that people are afraid to do something different. Why put your life on "hold" if that really isn't what you want?

For example, I have always had the desire to want to take a cruise. Then I had my first son. I have not put my life on "hold", I have merely moved the event along. It WILL happen.

I say this and look back over the blog I have just written. I then stop and think about what it is that I could change at this time in my life. To be honest, there is nothing that I CAN change. But there are a couple of things I would LIKE to change if I could. As I said early, I try not to do the things I didn't like first time around!

But, yeah, New Year's Resolution's.. Why change next year? Why not start as soon as you can? The whole idea that you can just do as you please 'cause it's the end of the year, well, it just winds me up!