Archive for September, 2009

It’s Saturday morning, the kids are at their dad’s place. I had a sleep in, and woke up at 9am. I lay in bed thinking about my life. I’ve fallen into such a rut. I’m overweight, uninspired; I feel as though I’m me living inside someone else’s body. Every day is the same…some time ago I lost ‘me’, my excitement for life. I’ve been spending years just trying to get through each day, and spending alot of it asleep to pass the hours.

So I was lying there today thinking this has got to stop, and the only one who’s going to do it is me. So I’m off to the shops to buy a dog harness and I’m going to take the dog for a walk. See that cartoon picture of the dog up there in the top of this website? That’s supposed to be Banjo, our black labrador. Well, picture him at least twice that big compared to me. He’s huge and very strong. The plan had been to take him for walks for me to get fit again. I only took him out once – he pulled me down the driveway like I was on skis. I managed to pull him back inside and haven’t dared take him out walking since. The neighbourhood here is not conducive to dog walking – there are too many dogs out on the streets that have escaped from their yards. Dogs in Australia don’t seem to be all that well socialised. As soon as they see another dog they think it’s an invitation to fight. Walking along with your dog on a leash is all fine and well until you come across a stray pit bull who wants to eat your pooch for lunch. It’s pretty scary. Banjo is huge, but a big old softie. I have no idea how he’d go if another dog had a go at him.

Anyway, I’m off to buy him a harness because apparently big dogs are easier to control with them. Then I’m going to take him for a walk. This may be the last post I ever make hehe…

In an effort to sharpen up my writing skills, I’ve decided to try and do at least one of these writing prompts from this site regularly.  I’m pretty tired and brain dead so I chose one that was fairly easy and didn’t require much brain power. Here’s  my quick attempt at one tonight:

You’re at a U2 concert when you receive a text from a friend that says, “You’ll never believe what just happened to me!” In the form of a text chat, find out what happened to your friend.

Well, I started writing this in texting language but texting language really pisses me off, so I’m writing it properly.

LYNNE:  You’ll never guess what happened!

ME: What?

LYNNE:  Guess!

ME: These texts cost me money & you said I won’t guess anyway.  What is it?

LYNNE: Guess who I saw on the way to the ladies?

ME:  Argh!  Just tell me!!!

LYNNE:  Larry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ME:  Larry who?

LYNNE:  erk you are so uncool – Larry Mullen – the cute drummer.

ME: from u2?

LYNNE: yessssss!!!!!! OMG he’s gorgeous!

ME:  I prefer Bono.  What was he doing?

LYNNE:  umm… actually, he had tools with him & started to unblock a loo.

ME: what?

LYNNE:  I dunno…Maybe times are tough?  Second job?

ME: U2 don’t need to unblock toilets for a living.  You sure it was Larren Mullen?

LYNNE: His mate called him Larry.

ME: There’s more than 1 Larry in this world you know.

LYNNE:  But what’s the chances of there being another one at a U2 concert?

ME:  You are so blonde.

There’s a book fair on this week at school, and I gave Maddy two $10 notes to take as she’s got her eye on a special notebook and pencils for sale there. She told me that they’re only allowed to take $10 at a time, so I suggested she leave one $10 note at home and bring it the next day. This is the conversation that followed:

Maddy: No, I’ll keep it in my wallet.

Me: I wouldn’t do that – someone might try to steal it.

Maddy: No, I’m not worried about that. They won’t.

Me: Well, it’s happened before, kids taking money out of other people’s wallets.

Maddy: They won’t steal it from mine – it’s got a peace sign on it.

Me: Erm, what’s that got to do with anything? That won’t stop them.

Maddy: Ohhh, yes it will Mum, believe me.

Me: How will a peace sign stop people from stealing money out of your wallet?

Maddy: Because people are afraid of it.

Me: What?!

Maddy: Peace signs scare people.

Me: What do you mean ‘peace signs scare people’???!!!

Maddy: People are afraid of it.

Me: But why do you think that?

Maddy: There was a kid at school who had a hat with a peace sign on it. Another kid came up, took one look at it, and ran away scared.

Me: Riiiiight……

Maddy: So my money will be safe in my wallet.

Me: O—-kay then…