Happy Valentines Day!!!

I thought that seeing as love is all around today I'd share one of my favourite verses about love:

Love is a temporary madness,

it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.

And when it subsides you have to make a decision.

You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together

that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

Because this is what love is.

Love is not breathlessness,

it is not excitement,

it is not the promulgation of eternal passion.

That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,

and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,

and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches,

they find that they are one tree and not two.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernieres

Internet Dating? Count me Out!!!!!

So, as I mentioned a couple of days ago, I have been 'officially' single for about 10 years.  One of my best friends who I'm sure would love to remain nameless, has been actively seeking a gentleman partner for dates and such like.  She has tried Speed Dating, Internet Dating, Random Men, friends of friends, blind dates and do you know what suited her best?  Absolutely nothing!!!!  For the last 5 years I've used this as an excuse for the fact that there is no point me even trying!!!!

However, I figured that I would secretly join an internet dating site as my favourite American brother met his wife this way and she is full of the awesome....why would it not work for me???  (you can visit her awesome home schooling motherness over at http://www.overactiveovaries.wordpress.com/ but she makes me looks like such a terrible mother that you are not allowed to compare us!!!)  All I can say is that my bro must've had his Fairy Godmother shining on him the day he joined 'cos my matches have gone something like this:

Me:  What I'm looking for: Single Gal looking for genuine outgoing 30/40's man who likes to travel and find adventures!!! I would appreciate an educated man who can spell and that earns equal to/more than me!!!!

(Just to clarify......Yes my grammar may be crap but I can spell when most English men don't seem to be able to......when I'm looking at a future partner if he cannot be bothered to use spellcheck then why the hell would I even bother to e-mail them?  Seriously people how hard is it?????)

Matches: (e-mails) Hey there large lady, Me love you long time....you wanna have sex????

Erm....so yep that's not the kind of adventure that I had in mind and why I'm all done with internet dating and deleting my profile at the same time as typing this!!!!

Baby Steps and Love Hearts

I have lots of things swirling around in my brain today that I feel the need to write about but I'm not sure that I can find the words.  We could talk about how it's Valentines Day this week and I'm officially single for roughly the 10th year in a row but that would make me sound bitter and twisted and that sucks. 

We could talk about how much my promotion has sucked so far except I know that people from work read my blog and I guess it's not very professional to talk about how it's affecting me when I work in HR (I'll just e-mail you all separately!!) 

We could talk about the fact that I'm avoiding Chick's Teacher so she can't tell me yet again that Chick is back chatting.....I'm not a bad Mother (honest) I just get sick of telling Chick to toe the line over stupid stuff that doesn't really matter!!  So instead of all the stuff that sucks let's talk about baby steps!! (Not actual babies before any of you start panicking....my baby days are well and truly over!!)

Today I actually made it to the gym at lunchtime for the first time in about 3 months.  This may seem like a ridiculous thing to be excited about but a) I got a lunch break and b) I went to the gym!!!!!  That's right the Kilimanjaro training has commenced....thankfully I have 10 months to do the training 'cos I would never have made it up there today.  The first 5 minutes on the cross trainer I figured I was doing pretty well.....by minute 15....well let's just say I was looking rather flushed.  Then I thought that I'd climb uphill on the treadmill which again lasted about 15 minutes until I decided that my blisters (from running last week) were so bad I'd have to stop and do weights instead!!!  Baby steps are the way forward and at least I got off my ass!!

So, back to the Valentines Day thing.  I have no problem with being single on this particular day but it's rubbish that I miss out on presents.  These are some of the things I may treat myself to just to let me know how much I love myself and that I am worth it:

 

Gotta lurve me some Krispy Kreme

Shoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More shoes!!! No, I don't have enough pairs but thanks for your concern ;-)

Mulberry Bayswater......ok yes I'm dreaming now!!!

So, yep I'm totally worth it and I am obviously capable of buying myself love related presents!! I'll keep you posted on how the training goes!!!

* I have not been paid by Krispy Kreme, Office or Mulberry for the above mentions however if any of them should feel like offering me freebies I will gladly write about them every day for a year!!!!!!

We're so screwed!!!!!

I don't know if you know this about me or not but I'm a complete and utter News junkie. I have CNN and BBC News open on my PC at work all day just in case I miss anything but twice today the news has made me cry. Even though I'm a news freak I only read stuff that I think I can handle and try and steer away from anything that will keep me awake at night since I already have enough trouble sleeping!!! In todays paper there was a story of a man who killed his wife and 18 year old daughter because he couldn't handle the debt his business has got into. Normally stories like this I would skip but foolishly today I read it and the daughter was an extremely intelligent girl who wanted to become a Doctor. Nothing worse than any of the stories we all hear every day but it just seems like such a waste!

Then I accidently caught a news program about the earthquake in Haiti which was so horrendous I sat and cried the whole way through. Yes my t.v. remote does work but I couldn't tear myself away partly I think because I'm helpless to do anything apart from donate money and it seems almost heartless to just look the other way!!!

One news story that has had me hooked this week though is the weather in America. As a good ol' English girl I like nothing better than to talk about the weather but this has been keeping me awake at night!!!! A couple of fellow bloggers live in Washington or similar areas that have been worst affected and they are having to live on the food that they already have in the house as they are stranded. So yeah this is where I got todays blog title from.....if that happens to us? Chick and I are soooo screwed!!!!

Whilst we were in Australia my Brother stayed at my house and one night when he was drunk he took some food out of the freezer and didn't shut the door properly. The whole freezer therefore defrosted and when we got home I had to throw away our whole stash of backup freezer food which I haven't yet replaced. Ok so, the organised amongst you may think that's not so bad, we must have food in the fridge right? Do you want to see the contents of our fridge?????




OK so we have a bottle of vodka, a bottle of rum, a bacardi breezer, some lager, a bottle of wine, a tub of margarine, 3 yoghurts, a bottle of milk, a couple of home made cakes and one out of date ready meal!!!!!! On the plus side I'll be drunk enough not to notice the lack of food and I have plenty of body fat to keep me going for a couple of weeks but poor Chick is definitely screwed!!!!! Let's hope that we can plenty of warning for any major snow storms that head this way!