My Place

Brunswick haven't taken into account that I've done half my HNC in Newtownabbey, so as far as they're concerned I've done my 2nd year but not my 1st (that doesn't seem strange to them for some reason).

I've had to ring Newtownabbey and spent ages on hold there only to be told that they don't have any record of me at all, I then got put on hold for ages again to be then told that I would have to ring University of Ulster as the HNC was in collaboration with them.

Right so I ring them. Had to speak to 3 different people before I got to the right department, only to be told that their systems were down, she had to take my details to post out a transcript request form, and that I'd have to pay for the privilege of seeing results that I never even got in the 1st place! The lady was really nice though and very helpful so the phone call itself wasn't too bad but just the fact that I've to pay for something I never got is bugging me!!!!!

All this just for a bit of paper that says I've finished the HNC and that I've passed the course.

Millionaire' Contestant Makes Worst Use Of Lifelines Ever

NEW YORK - Idaho  resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her friends and family Tuesday when she set a new standard for stupidity with her appearance on the popular  TV show, 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.'

It seems that Evans, a  32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on the first question, and  proceeded to make what fans of the show are dubbing 'the absolute worst use of  lifelines ever.'
After being introduced to the show's host Meredith Vieira,  Evans assured her that she was ready to play, whereupon she was posed with an  extremely easy $100 question. The question was: 'Which of the following is the largest?'

A) A Peanut
An Elephant
C) The Moon
D) Hey, who  you calling large?

Immediately Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic as she realized that this was a question to which she did not  readily know the answer.
'Hmm, oh boy, that's a toughie,' said Evans, as Vieira did her level best to hide her disbelief and disgust. 'I mean, I'm sure  I've heard of some of these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be.'

Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50. Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was  bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly easy question, Evans still remained unsure.
'Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!' exclaimed Evans. 'Darn. I think I better phone a friend.'

Using the second of her two lifelines on the first question, Mrs.  Evans asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office  assistant.

'Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I'm on TV!' said Evans,  wasting the first seven seconds of her call. 'Ok, I got an important question.  Which of the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15  seconds hun.'
Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon. Evans  proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.

'Come on Betsy, are you sure?' said Evans. 'How sure are you? Duh, that can't be  it.'

To everyone's astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend's advice and pick 'The Moon.'

'I just don't know if I can trust Betsy. She's not all that bright. So I think I'd like to ask the audience,'  said Evans.

Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98%  in favor of answer C, 'The Moon.' Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then  made the dumbest choice of her life.
'Wow, seems like everybody is against what I'm thinking,' said the too-stupid-to-live Evans. 'But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let's see. For which is larger, an elephant or the moon, I'm going to have to go with B, an elephant.  Final answer.'

Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience, the only one  waiting with bated breath, and was told that she was wrong, and that the  answer was in fact, C, 'The Moon.'

Caution...they walk among us!

• cup of black coffee, with sugar
• packet of crisps (bikers)
• 2No rice cakes
• bottle of coke
• gravy chip
• cup of tea (no sugar, green milk)
• 1 muffin buttered with lurpak (eugh!!!!)
• a marshmallow biscuit thingy

I was intending to do better for tea last night but I had to suffer a car auction and it was the least greasy item they had on the menu! Think I might take a picnic sort of thing with me tomorrow night to avoid the chippy van if I can.

I spent over an hour and a half at a car auction tonight because hubbie wanted to go. That's an hour and a half of my life that I'll never get back again.

Have to do it all over again on Wednesday night cause he's taking his car up on Wednesday so I'll have to be there to bring him home incase he gets his car sold.

I had a book with me tonight so I managed to survive the terror but I don't think I'll ever be the same again.

...especially now I've got the widget on my blog.

Never know what to write though.....

Saturday 27th June 2009

• tuna and onion sandwich, brown bitty bread and golden cow spread and low fat mayo
• cup of tea - green milk no sugar
• cherryade - 2 glasses
• 1 large bottle of red wkd
• 8 southern comforts
• 3 tins of sprite

Sunday 28th June 2009

• mash, green beans, and a gammon thingy
• mini box of cheerios
• a sukie ice lolly
• pot noodle, curry flavour
• cup of ovaltine
• 1 pancake buttered

On Watch I think and I had forgotten how gorgeous all those prospective Josephs were.

Oh so yummy!

It's a travestiy, and it's also a fix cause the girl who won was told before she came in last night that she was going to win so none of us stood a chance at all. She was the only one of us that was tall, pretty and skinny all at the same time so of course she was going to win, but a complete and utter total fix.

It was a brilliant night regardless of that will post some pics in a wee bit and I'm checking the mid antrim website to see what pics they put up there as someone couldn't use my camera properly (hubbie!!) so I didn't get as many pics as I was hoping, but between my Daddy's camera and mine we got a few good pics.

• water (riverrock big bottle)
• 1 rice cake
• 2 kinder snack bars (the wee ones, but at different times)
• bacon and mushroom risotto with salad (no dressing and no cream or butter)
• 1 cup of tea (no sugar, green milk)
• 1 mango and passion fruit smoothie

Far far to warm yesterday to eat at all during the day but was all pleased with the risotto, I made it myself!! and hubbie even ate it!!!!

A good shock. A scary shock. One of those shocks you immediately believe they mean someone else and not you because the news is just so good.

I passed that fucking exam I was so annoyed about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With distinction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sitting here still  not quite believing it and I won't believe it until I get the results page infront of me but holy fuck I've passed the exam and finally finished the HNC Business and Finance I started I've forgotten how long ago!

Can't think of the words to describe how I'm feeling but I might need to knock my blue inhaler in me as my chest is now tight after all the jumping up and down I just did in excitement

• water - big riverrock bottle
• one banana
• cup of tea, no sugar, green milk
• apple sponge bun
• snack - sunflower, pumpkin and flax seeds
• honey chilli chicken and boiled rice
• tin of coke
• coffee frappacino

we were in town yesterday after work and that would explain the coffee frappacino drink, it's not something I would normally drink but it's a brilliant wee treat now and again!

My hands are stingy now. The skin is lifting really badly and it's catching on stuff so I'm wearing the tubular bandages almost constantly to avoid that happening, I don't want to hurt myself further than I already am.

Thankfully the new cream I got on Monday is helping. Palms are clearing up but the fingers aren't, they still feel horrible and scaley and bumpy. They get unbelievably itchy at times, though it's not as bad as it was it can be if I let myself scratch; it's killing me not being able to scratch!!!!

There's no way I could drive down home, carry, and play an accordian the way they are but I feel guilty for this as I can't quite explain what's wrong with my hands to the band leader and I don't want him to think I'm using this as an excuse to get out of practise and there's a chance because I can't go tomorrow they'll have to cancel band; they've done this before because of numbers.

I'm really hoping my hands will be better by next week as we've a concert on the 3rd July and I really need to be there, without blowing my own trumpet they can't afford to not have me for some of the parts I play.

Not a happy bunny.

It's for ASOS, they are considering a plus size range of clothing which I think would be absolutely wonderful considering most of the clothes on their site that I love only go up to a size 12 or 14 if I'm lucky and there's no way any of those tops would go past my boobs at all so a plus size range would be ideal.

http://community.asos.com/post-details-forum/?contentid=9079825394530519582

There more interest in the survey the more likely they will seriously consider doing a range and that would be brilliant!

Thanking you xXx

...but more people seem to be interested in Michael Jackson than in her.

She has lost her battle with cancer.

• Water - big bottle
• snack of sunflower and pumpkin seeds
• one banana
• bottle of coke
• thai sweet chilli crisps
• a bag of minstrels
• 2No glasses of blue milk
• boiled rice and sweetcorn
• 1No plain chocolate digestive

I intend to do better today! but yesterday was so warm I just didn't feel like eating and ended up nibbling most of the day instead until I got home and ate my tea.

...it is quite possible.

Very un-ladylike of me I know but I'm sweating.

I very kindly gave my fan to hubbie as he works in a room that's so hot and stuffy he's come home from work a couple of times sick, but now I'm wishing I still had it. Think I'll have to buy another one tomorrow if I can get one, I'm sure they're flying off the shelves at the moment.

For once I think I may be glad our shower is busticated and will only give us cold water instead of warm, I'll be diving in once I get home.

• diluted blackcurrent juice (in the riverrock big bottle)
• one banana
• one muller fruit corner yoghurt
• chicken and bacon salad with mayo
• tin of organic cranberry fizzy drink
• boiled rice and beans
• diluted blackcurrent juice - one glass
• 8 square of dairy milk with nuts chocolate

There could've been more chocolate ate than I remember but I was feeling poorly and the chocolate made me feel better.

• frosties - one handful
• 2No rice cake thins with dark chocolate
• water - one of those big riverrock bottles
• roast beef, yorkshire puddings and gravy
• diluted blackcurrent juice - one glass
• solero ice lolly
• piece of granary bread toasted with butter

Not an exciting day for food but better than what I normally eat I suppose.

...so I probably shouldn't be nibbling on the sunflower and pumpkin seeds that are sitting on my desk then.

I'm seriously not looking forward to this at all cause I can't have the blue milk, I'm stuck with the green milk and though I drink green milk just the thought of not being allowed the blue stuff is depressing in itself, but I'm not allowed Dromona butter and if someone tries to make me eat marg I might have to throw something!!!!!

Hubbie was going to put on chicken nuggets, chips and beans on for tea tonight and now he can't for me as I can't have the fatty foods. I'm still allowed the baked beans so that's not so bad I suppose so instead I'll be having boiled rice and beans. I know it may sound odd, hubbie was a little wary of it but it's something I would eat when I'm feeling down as it's comforting and it's also filling so that'll help me avoid snacks like the sunflower and pumpkin seeds I like to snack on.

Not sure what I'm going to live on other than just vegetables and chicken as everything else seems to be very fatty according to the website I was reading this morning.

...my blood pressure is high again so that means I'm back to monthly visits.

My weight is creeping back up again so I'm back on weight loss tablets as nothing I'm doing seems to be helping me any, she did question my carb intake cause I eat a lot of pasta so I've to cut down on that and if I must eat carbs try and go for a baked potato or something like that instead of pasta. I'm a little heart broken at that advice as I love pasta but if I have to for my weight then I'm sure I'll manage somehow.

As for my hands she's speaking to the Doctor for me and they should have something else for me to try by this afternoon so I'm looking forward to that!!!! It helps that the Nurses daughter has the same problem on her hands as well so it's easier for her to relate to it and understand what I'm going through with it so I'm hopeful about the new stuff I'll be getting to use.

Am dreading the new weight loss tablets though. Some nasty side effects which I'm really not looking forward to.

USING ONLY ONE WORD Not as easy as you might think! !

Where is your mobile phone?
Table.

Your significant other?
Work

Your hair?
Wet

Your mother?
Home

Your father?
Loopy

Your favourite thing?
Book

Your dream last night?
Didn't

Your favourite drink?
Tea

Your dream/goal?
Kids

What room are you in?
Lounge

Your hobby?
Reading

Your fear?
Lonely

Where do you want to be in 6 years?
Here

Where were you last night?
Home

Something that you aren't?
Sensibe

Muffins?
Please

Wish list item?
House

Last thing you did?
Bath

What are you wearing?
Jammies

TV?
On

Your pets?
Sleeping

Friends?
Important

Your life?
Iffy

Your mood?
Annoyed

Missing someone?
Yes

Drinking?
Tea

Smoking?
No

Your car?
Cynthia

Something you're not wearing?
Socks

Your favourite store?
Waterstones

Your favourite colour?
purple

When is the last time you cried?
Dunno

Where do you go to over and over?
Connswater

Five people who email me regularly?
Yes

My favourite place to eat?
Mummys

Favourite place I'd like to be at right now?
Bed

I've been searching online for a group or something for our Czech worker to join or even people to talk to to help him with settling into Belfast a bit easier.

I can't find anywhere for him.

I like the fella and I know he's lonely, he spends his evenings and weekends either going through his books to help him learn english or watching the grand prix when it's on.

I found the northern ireland centre for ethnic communities but that's about it, can't find anywhere else.

He's getting his National Insurance number in the morning (well hopefully cause they've asked for a lot of info I know he doesn't have so not sure how tomorrow is going to turn out, but it should be ok) and they'll have someone available who can speak Czech and it'll be the 1st person since he's moved here that he'll talk to that will understand him properly without any repeating or trying to explain what he means. Would be nice if I can find someone he can talk to now and again that understands him and understands how he feels.

Will try the nicem when I get into work tomorrow but not sure that'll lead me anywhere.

...cause of my hands and I'm not a happy bunny.

We I probably could drive but I'd be itching and scratching every couple of mins and that's a bit too distracting to be able to drive sensibly so I'm better off avoiding it.

This means I'm not able to go down home to take my Daddy his card and some of the chocolate and orange muffins I made yesterday and I can't put Office 2007 onto his computer for his Father's Day Present but at least it won't be going anyway and I can do it at anytime.

Rang my Mummy to tell her I won't be down and I got told off slightly for doing the dishes last night when hubbie is more than willing to do them but he wasn't in and I needed to clean up what I was using for baking so I could use them again. Didn't get as much done as I was hoping as my hands went bad again so a lot of the baking got ignored. Was really looking forward to baking yesterday too so I'm quite annoyed about it all.

Oh well, there's always this weekend I suppose.

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Feeling quite mean laughing at them but some of the pics are just made to giggle at.

Makes me wonder about any of our family pics!

When I get paid this week I was thinking of going shopping for something to wear on the 27th maybe going to Matalan, New Look, Primark someplace like that for something cheap but cheerful.

Think I'll buy myself a denim mini skirt and a cartoonish t-shirt possibly the animal from the muppets t-shirt that New Look has, team that with a pair of heels and my hair straightened and I'll look ready for a night of partying.

Really looking forward to next Saturday night and I'm looking forward to wearing some new clothes as well, though I'll be wearing opaque tights I can't remember the last time my legs were on show!

Last night I went to bed with socks on my hands. I'd read that children who have eczema on their hands sometimes go to bed with their cream and damp tubular bandages on their hands so that's what I did last night and to stop me making damp patches on the pillow with the damp bandages I put socks over as well.

As I lay waiting for sleep to come I didn't feel the urge to scratch once as my hands stayed nice and cool, shame the itchiness is killing me today though!

It worked and my hands are a bit softer than they were before, the eczema patches are really drying up badly and the skin is starting to peel so being able to type and not feel the skin really stretching is a bit of a relief at the moment, I hope it lasts for a wee while.

Think I'll be avoiding putting the cream on until lunchtime, but in the meantime I'm going to slather my hands with E45 sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't but I need to get my desk cleared this morning and I can't do that if I've got the steroid cream on my hands as it's very greasy even with me wearing the tubular bandages.

Apparently that's what I am.

Cause I'm feeling so wound up and full of tension I just want to dance it all out of me, when I told hubbie this his reply was 'Blues Brothers then'.

Am I that predictable hubbie knows exactly which music I'm thinking of when I want to dance about?

I asked my best friend about this and her text back was 'do you not remember you singing along with T-Rex  while you drove us somewhere a few times' so yes maybe I am that predictable.

Maybe it's not such a bad thing to be this predictable, I mean at least it's always easy to find the cds that'll help ease the tension out of me as I dance about our living room and if it makes me feel better then it must be a good thing to be this way.

There are worse ways to be.

Vehicle insurance, employers liability insurance, commerical combined insurance, contractors all risks insurance, asbestos - ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My head is ready to explode with stuffiness and I just want to run screaming from it all. Too much information and concentration involved and today I'm not the sort of person I should be to go through all of this.

Think if my head was sore from it all I could handle it better but instead it's starting to feel bunged with responsibility and the terror of it all cause that's what it is, terror. No other word for it.

The Big Boss has done it again and left me alone to sort this stuff out. I'm not surprised to be honest, he's good at the disappearing act so I think from now on I won't warn him these people are coming in and just surprise it on him when they arrive and if he's here well and good if he's not well it's something I'm used to.

I don't want to be in work, I want to be learning the ins and outs of my new laptop, I want to get all my pics put on it and maybe ogle my wallpaper of triple h looking all gorgeous and yummy.

The new laptop will be a complete distraction for me today, definitely!

We took our laptop to PC World tonight to see whether it would be worth while getting it upgraded and improving it along with maybe getting the screen fixed as well as it was going a little bit wonky and instead we ended up coming home with a brand new Compaq laptop as it worked out more or less the same price and we also got Microsoft Office 2007 which I'm very pleased about and with it having 3No licenses on it so I can take it down and put it on Mummy and Daddy's computer as well, that's Daddy's Father's Day Present sorted then!

I'm all pleased with the new laptop, but hubbie keeps saying that it's just mine and not ours as he can still use the old laptop but I see the new one as ours. I know I spend more time on the computer than he does and I put all our photos on it and do bits and pieces with them but that doesn't mean we can't share the new laptop does it? We shared the previous one why not this one?

This may be something hubbie and I never agree on but it won't stop me our laptop instead of my laptop when we're talking about it.

Maybe I've have too much sugary popcorn in me tonight and I'm a little hyper almost but the webcam amused me for ages with the different frames and effects that are available, I spent about 20 mins just giggling apparently. Well I was having fun discovering all the features and everything so it was understandable I think.

So hard to buy anything for my Daddy, he's impossible and can get quite cross if we spend money on him. Daddy-in-law is the same almost, he's impossible to buy for also unless you get him a bottle of vodka then it's easy but there's only so many times you can buy him vodka as a present before it gets a bit boring.

Will probably give Daddy-in-law some money that way he can buy whatever he wants but for my Daddy you can't give him money as he'll make you take it back. The bus at the end of the month is £10 per person and I could pay for  his seat and Mummy's as well which would make it easier and would probably be more appreciated than a present but still dunno. Will have a talk with Mummy about it and see what she can suggest, although asking Mummy for present advice for either of them is hardwork as she won't tell me and would rather have a small bar of chocolate than anything else, she's another who doesn't like money being spent on them.

Would be so much easier if either Daddy was into football or had a specific hobbie, Daddy-in-law likes football but wouldn't thank you for a football related present really, my Daddy loves bikes but everything costs so much for bikes it's hard to buy anything bike related.

Why can't they be stamp collectors or something!

...seeing as I can't, well I suppose I could if I wore plastic gloves but it's much more fun making him do it!

Am thinking of chocolate and orange muffins but am undecided whether that's what I really want to make or if I want to make something else. Definitely want to make muffins or wee fairy cakes anyway but it's the flavouring I can't settle on. Too many options!!!

Will post pics once they're done.

...have to continue with the steroid cream for another couple of days cause it's too early to tell whether or not it's doing any good or not. I've been using it since Wednesday night, I would've thought that would be long enough to see whether something was working or not but apprently not.

I'm giving it until near the end of the week and I'm at the nurse on Monday anyway about my blood pressure and weight so if my hands aren't improving by then I'll speak to her about it and see what she can do for me, she might not be able to give me a prescription there and then but she can check my hands out and send me round to the nurses to get tests done or do something which could explain why my hands are doing what they're doing. She can also talk to the Doctor for me and between them they might be able to suggest something, I would say fingers crossed at this point but if I did I'd start itching again!!

I'm not a happy bunny but at least I'm still able to avoid doing the dishes which I'm still happy about at least!

...got those tubular bandages and they are helping slightly but it's not getting better, I'm still scratching like mad though at least I'm not lifting the skin the way I was before and I'm able to do some things as I'm not covering everything with the cream but I'm still unable to do anything about the house which was okay for the 1st wee while but it's really driving me crazy now.

It's still moving up my fingers and my thumbs are starting to get affected also. Using the laptop is fine as it only involves using my fingertips and as of this moment they are fine but for everything else it's hilarious watching me do stuff as I can't use the palms of my hands for anything so lifting and carrying stuff is a bit awkward.

Even making a cup of tea is hard work without being able to use my hands properly.

My hands are getting worse!

The eczema is creeping my my fingers now on the underside and the itching is getting really really bad.

I'm trying not to scratch but the temptation is slightly overwhelming and when I do scratch it's painful. Am very close to tears and I'm not sure I'll be able to hold them back for much longer. Am hoping it's one of those things that'll get worse before it gets better; fingers crossed.

Needless to say I won't be going to band practise tomorrow I'll be sitting at home with a pair of socks on my hands to try and stop me from scratching or rubbing my hands against something that could lift the skin no matter if it helps the itching or not. I'm not able to drive anyway cause at the mo I'm just using my fingertips to get along, can't use my whole hand.

If it doesn't improve any I can see hubbie driving me up to the hospital but I don't think they can give me anything the doctor hasn't already so would hate to waste their time, but will see how it goes 1st.

...and it's driving me crazy!!!!

http://www.eczemaguide.com/eczema_basics/images/eczema_4.html

The above link should show you a pic of what's on the palm of both my hands and it's a complete nightmare really really itchy and it's now gotten very stingy and burny almost.

I'd rang the doctor's yesterday but the only available appointment was next tuesday which would've been a bit long to wait for someone about to chop her hands off to stop the itching but I told the receptionist what was wrong with me and the creams and stuff I've tried to control the itching and swelling with and that none of them had worked. Was hoping there would be a prescription waiting for me at the close of the day but instead the receptionist rang me back and said because I've tried so many things the doctor would need to see my hands so she'd given me an emergency appointment. Normally I hate having to use the emergency appointments and would rather wait but yesterday I didn't care cause the itching was just so bad!

Can't believe I've got eczema on my hands, quite often I get something like a heat rash on the top of my hands and I always just assumed it was just that a heat rash but now I know that those bumps are eczema as well.

I've a stronger cream to use on my hands than I'd use for my arms and this one only needs applied twice a day so I'm hopeful it will go away very soon, but in the meantime I'm enjoying not being able to do the dishes or any housework for that matter. I've a very attentive husband who'd rather I didn't do any housework incase the cleaning products aggravated my hands further. He's such a darling! and I'm probably taking too much advantage of this but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.

...apparently.

Just can't keep up with her, no-one can!

She had a chat with her mum and she moved back home yesterday afternoon. Hope it lasts.

I agree

It's really sore now!!

It went weepy and then really dried up hard, the skin has cracked and is still weepy a bit and everything is irritating it.

Have tried to keep it dry and clean, have been putting savlon on it and I'm taking Clarityn incase that can help, it's helped the heat rash that appeared yesterday on my hands so at least something is working.

Dunno whether to go to Boots later to get something or the wee independant chemist round the corner from work as sometimes they can suggest something slightly old fashioned that your Granny swears by and it works better than all the new creams and stuff they have out now.

Can't wait to go down home later after tea time, yes I will be voting, but am going to get my Mummy to look at my foot, there's nothing a Mummy can't fix!

...is there such a thing?

I'm the only person I know in work and at home (including some of my in-laws houses) that's capable of changing a loo roll.

There's nothing scary about it is there? I know we could get pretty deep and talk about the end of something's life and purpose and all of that but by putting a new loo roll on the holder we could talk about new life etc thereby bringing hope rather than loss.

Ok going to go now before I really start talking nonsense!

Niecey has finally done what she's been threatening to do and has moved out.

Thankfully she's only gone round the corner to her Granny's so she's not that far from her parents but AG is in a bit of a state, she's stuck in the middle between niecey and TG (niecey's dad and AG's hubbie).

The problem is that niecey and TG are too much alike, their personalities are clashing badly and niecey has been spoiled her whole life, she's the only girl in the family, she's the only niece/granddaughter and they've created a monster practically in her.

I'm not sure what to do for her or about her.

It's me she turns to to talk to, to moan to, to rant to. She wants me to be on her side and find fault with everyone but her and though I can see her point in all of this I'm not all on her side. I'm trying to be balanced in all of this and not show any favouritism or bias on her part, but I can't turn round and tell her why her parent's have the rules they have without her turning completely against me and if that happens AG will worry all the more cause I'm the only one who gets to find out where she is and what she's doing because it's me she tells no-one else.

All of this makes me appreciate my parents a lot more.

...just picked him up from the train, he's left work early.

Not sure what's wrong with him though the heat isn't helping to be honest.

Just left him up at the house and he's going to crawl into bed and try to sleep for a couple of hours and then have a cold shower/bath to see if that will help.

We are meant to be going to his mummy and daddy's tonight so he could talk to his dad about pensions and get a few forms explained, don't see that happening somehow but we'll see how he's feeling after a doze and shower, he might be feeling better by teatime.

I would print pics for my family when I'm in work, I buy the photo paper etc so that's ok.

Didn't realise how many pics my sis-in-law had until I looked earlier and near passed out but that could've been the heat making me feel that way I dunno.

Thankfully there are an awful lot of blurry ones that can't really be seen so it's pointless trying to print them out and it's a waste of ink as they'll end up getting binned so that number got halved straight away and then there's a lot of pics that are just too dark you can't see anything so that's another lot culled.

Normally I'm not so ruthless when it comes to printing the pics out for my family but I've had to get different photo paper today and am having to enter the paper size manually instead of just selecting a pre-set option and I can't be bothered doing it over and over and over again. If I try and print them all in one go my computer freezes, it's almost died on me once today and I don't fancy it doing it again because I'm overloading it with stuff to do.

Some good pics though, will have to go through them and put some up on my facebook page for niecey to nick and put up on her facebook and probably her bebo also.