Shaking My Car Booty

I went to do a car boot sale yesterday and very good it was too. It was very quiet because the weather was a bit cack....It was an indoor one but people didn't want to leave their nice dry and warm homes. I did OK though...I hit lucky and was found by a dealer who was stocking up and bought all of my videos and DVD's and most of my cassettes too...£115 altogether....which is going towards getting us a new fancy Christmas tree.

One of my favourite moments of the car boot sale was when a dark haired woman in a leather jacket came up to my stall, saw I had CD's and vinyl and asked "Have you got any Alice Cooper lurking in amongst that lot" and I thought that was highly appropriate as Alice Cooper has always struck me as someone who would lurk.

Look at this!!!!!

Oh my god look at this little beauty! £300 is maybe a bit excessive for a rabbit abode but wow!

Stressing..

I'm stressing about money, weight and life in general at the moment... not sure why. Well I know that the reason I ma stressing obout money is that I was overpayed in the early part of the year which means I am having to pay back loads of my pay every month... about £170.

I'm stressing about weight because the Tesco ediet website told me I was 4 stone overweight. 4 stone! The bastards! I don't intend to lose 4 stone because I know I looked wretched when I was that thin, but 3 would be good. I need to lose it more because 4 stone overweight can't be healthy. I've started walking for 30 minutes at dinnertime instead of sitting in the canteen. That has got to be better than doing naff all. I need to take my trainers to work though. I don't wear sensible walking shoes for work. I'd love to be a size 14 again. Whatever weight that is would be healthy. Looking back at photo's I think size 14ish is when I looked healthiest, 16 would be good to start with though.

Having said all of that I know that I shouldn't worry so much about stupid things. Today I heard that one of my mum's friends' 30ish year old daughter has been suddenly widowed, with two kids, a 2 and 4 year old. Makes you take a step back and think how much you value the people around you. I hope her friends are as good as mine.

So...I've REALLY given up chemicals!

You'll note that I didn't mention hair dye.... I have also just bought this cream for my feet because they were starting to look terrible, I've tried all sorts of moisturiser and it hasn't worked. This is Scholl Cracked Heel cream, it is supposed to fix cracked skin in three days. Yesterday was the first day, and it must contain some sort of magic pixie dust because it has already worked better than months of moisturiser. The only problem is that not one single ingredient isn't a chemical...not even any water. But it works, and if I only need it for three days then it's OK. It is magical after all.

Should I be...........?!

Ironing the bedcovers..... cleaning the oven...... hoovering again......baking.....checking if we have biscuits in.... doing some sort of pre-meeting preparation? Andrew clearly thinks not as he is watching the cricket parade. I

think I will iron the bedcovers...although is that essentially a lie, I would never do it normally. I've cleaned the oven door....cos obviously that's the first thing she'll be looking for!

I keep getting waves of panic...you know the 'stepped out in front of a car' momentary adrenaline rushes. I'm sure this will cure me of my interview fear, immersion therapy and all that.

Woo Hoo

Congratualtions to the England cricket team:

We've Just Won The Ashes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clumsy and jittery

Social Worker day tomorrow.... I'm jittery... I locked myself out of my PC today and then I sent a helpdesk call from my friend's PC with 2 letters in it and no message... I got in trouble for that. I'm nervous.

I know it will be fine and Andrew keeps pointing out that what ever we say as long as it is honest can't be wrong, it will just maybe mean that we aren't suitable. He's right of course, but I'm going to have to be sure not to do my usual Chandler Bing defensive stupidity and just limit it to my normal self....if I can find it! If I can just stop this jitteryness that would be good too.. I don't want to look like I have serious mental health issues, all twitchy and edgey.

Oh.. the shame of it!

We have some blokes round fixing some protector thingys to the roof. I have offered them tea...... about 15 minutes ago now actually............ but, God damn it, we have no milk. I have sent Andrew to get some. I am ashamed of my intolerable social faux pas.

Andrew has returned with the milk and I have handed out said tea... I have tried to make it strong, even though strong tea is horrid. I so much prefer when they say coffee.

The milk is out of date tomorrow too and he had to buy two pints of full fat, yack! Tomorrow though, It's outrageous! He had not choice, it was that or nothing. I'm just grateful that I am not goign to be remembered for all time as the girl that offered workmen a cuppa and didn't have any milk. I can't believe I wasn't prepared........... The shame of it!

At work....shouldn't be.

I'm at work... I'd like to go home. Actually, what I shoudl have done with my dinner, instead of sitting at my desk looking for a new phone, was to go to my sister's flat to help. My mam, who is still not recovered from her radiotherapy, has been painting and wallpapering for the last two days. I rang yesterday, and she sounded exhausted, I duly told her off, and told my sister off for letting her, although I realise that she would obviously have been wasting her breathe.

I know that she wants to get back to normal as quickly as possible and wants the flat to be ready for Jane and Jim to move into as soon as she can but... she only finished her treatment last Thursday...it hadn't even been a week. I should have gone this lunchtime, but now it is too late.

I'm going to become and obsessive compulsive

So I have the day off today, I've been for a scan on my stomach. There is apparently nothing the matter, which is good. I guess my stomach pains are just something that will keep coming and going, at least there is nothing clearly wrong.

I now have to go and drop a couple of disks off at Andrew's mam and dad's go to Sainsbury's to get some eco-friendly dishwasher tabs and rinse aid. It's my latest thing, reducing the un-necessary man made chemicals that we use. I've changed from washing liquid to an aqua ball and I've already started using my PitRok crystal deodorant...which is absolutely great, it has no fragrance but really stops you smelling, I actually like it better than any other deodorant because you don't get that stale deodorant smell when you are really hot. We're also using Ecover fabric softener and I want to try the dishwasher tabs and rinse aid. The dishwasher tabs are actually cheaper than Finish ones... I'm guessing they don't have glass protector and all that stuff...but as the whole point is to cut down on chemicals, I guess I can put up with dishwasher marked glasses.

That was a sideways track... but while I am on it... We are also trying to buy more locally produced fruit and veg and we have been going to W Fox and Son's at Elton Lane Gardens near Redmarshall. They have lettuces the size of your head, and it is far cheaper than getting it from the supermarket, the only trouble is that they are only open on Wednesday's and Friday's, but it's easier and less scary than getting parked to go to the market. I don't imagine it is organic... that will be the next step.

All this started after getting a leaflet with the update on my adopted WWF panda, Zhu Xiong, which said about tests that had been done on some "celebrities" which found that all of them had some harmful chemicals in them, which they were not aware of. David Baddiel was one, frankly the only one I was interested in, had traces of 36 man made chemicals in his blood stream. 36!

The locally produced veg thing came froma thing on the news about food miles. I also read this on the WWF website, The various ingredients of an average Christmas lunch may have travelled a total of 24,000 miles by the time they get to your plate. That is ridiculous! So at least even if it isn't organic it is less damaging to the environment for us to travel there and know where it is from, and obviously it is much fresher. I looked at veg deliveries, because I thought that would be better, but I think we would waste too much of it. We are definately better off driving there.

Jeeze.... I've been going on a bit again.... I'm off before the supermarket gets busy.