Today went reasonably quick at work, we had BBC Essex on the radio for a change, so I could enjoy the Dave Monk Programme. :)

I left work at 2.15pm, went to Safeway, filled the car with diesel and then did the shopping.  Lots of bargains in the bakery department, and I treated myself to the Calendar Girls DVD.  I love that film!!

I got home and put all the shopping away, and got changed.

I made a curry for dinner, and we had mixed berries for dessert again..yummy I love raspberries.

I drove hubby up to the Football Club, so he could supervise the coaching/training, then I was able to come home and go on line.  I have really cut down on my on line time this last week.

I booked for my daughter and I to go and see Chicago the Musical again (in London), she wants to go instead of having a birthday party, because the dancer we like is leaving the show on 6th March, I managed to book tickets for Friday night (5th).  We have got 7th row.

It will be strange watching it without Kevin Richardson as Billy Flynn, I may even feel a bit upset, but Kevin Kennedy is playing Amos, now, so that will be new, and it will be a different Momma Morton and Velma will be someone new too.  So it will be interesting to see the new cast members.

I don't have any plans for the next couple of days, hubby has the staples taken out of his leg tomorrow, so he should be able to drive again.

Next week is half term, but with hubby home, I guess I should go to work.  He goes back to work the following week. (23rd).

I want to wish Neil good luck with his driving theory test on Friday.

Got up at the usual time, children went to school. 

Checked my emails.  But I didn't spend much time on line.

Got up at 7am, only got about 5 hours sleep, now (at 11.50pm) I am very tired.

I got the kids to school, walked the dog, made my packed lunch, I was supposed to drive hubby to Colchester today, then we realised our daughter was coming home from school early today, so I told them at work that I wouldn't be in tomorrow, because I have to drive hubby to hospital, but before I do that we will go to Colchester first.

Not too bad today, mainly boxing up cake boards, you know, the sort with silver fern leaf on one side.

Went home at 2.30.  Hubby had made a big deal of clearing everything out of the bathroom, but hadn't actually done anything else.  He did mop the floor before he walked up to meet our son from school.  It just annoys me that he makes such a song and dance about what he has done during the day.  He is obviously waiting for me to say "thankyou darling", but why should I?  Nobody thanks me for what I do!

It is Sunday night, or rather, the early hours of Monday morning.  I'm up late again.  My computer is doing something odd.  When I attempt a disk cleanup, the computer crashes as it trys to compress files.  I don't know enough about computers to be confident about resolving this.  I had a little look around the trouble shooters, but didn't find anything.  I did do a disk scan and repair thing, but it didn't look like it found anything wrong.  I'm baffled.

I was chatting with a friend, who dissapeared very suddenly, I tried to find out if everything was ok..but no response.  I'm baffled.

I got the laundry done today, spent too much time on the computer, but when hubby and daughter went out for the afternoon, I couldn't resist going on line.

Hubby needs me to drive him over to Colchester tomorrow afternoon, so I will have to leave work at 2pm.

So I guess I should go to bed.  I'm still baffled, I hope it wasn't something I said that made him log of like that....

I stayed up too late last night, I am used to hubby going to bed at an earlier time, and then I have my time alone, but, as he is sleeping in later, he is also going to bed later.  If I stay up later than him, I end up not going to bed until 2am.  I love having him home with me, but I do need time to myself.

So, yesterday, I took him into town and got him a couple of new shirts, one is blue with chinese symbols on it, that was one he liked most, and the other is black. Both are short sleeved.  The T-shirts were not in stock, but he liked the look of the picure so we will check back next week.

I took some parcels to the post office, I'm sending chocolate to friends in America, I tried some Hershey's chocolate when I went to New York, and it is the most disgusting chocolate I have ever tasted, (It tastes worse than the chocolate we give to dogs, here (hubby has tasted it *laughs*).  My friend Jeanne (California) was telling me she loves Hershey's so I told her I would send some good stuff.  I also sent Tim (North Carolina) some more chocolate, becasue he needs cheering up.  He is on a very low wage and has to move out from the home he shares with his mum, because she is going into a retirement place.  He is contemplating moving to Chicago.  It is a tough time for him.  I hope the chocolate makes him feel better.

After the post office, we walked down to the doctors surgery, and picked up the certificate.  The doctor wrote it out that hubby can return to work on 23rd Februaury.  So he will be home during half term, which means I will be free to go to work :( I was looking forward to having a week off with the children.  He said if I don't want to go, then don't, but it will be awkward, as they will know he is home for the kids.  I'll see, I might feel the need to get away to work that week.

I didn't go dancing last night, I didn't hear from my teacher, and I didn't want to risk a drive out in the dark if there was no lesson, but at this rate I will not be ready for the exams, which I believe are just before my birthday in March.

Today I got up at 9am, checked emails, got chatting, then downstairs comes hubby and made sarcastic comments about whether I had been in front of the computer all night, as that was where he had left me when he went to bed.  So I logged off.

But I'm back now, the kids have gone swimming, hubby has taken the train to Braintree to see his grandma, so I'm alone!! Peace at last!

I saw a lovely bed set in a leaflet I got recently, so I am going to order 2 duvet cover sets, plus curtains to match, in a burgandy colour.  Hubby says I need to clear out my corner of the bedroom, if I am going to spruce up the soft furnishings.  So I am going to try and throw out some stuff this afternoon.  I am a horder.  I have a box full of PS1 magazines, I think it is time they were thrown out.  There is alsorts of other paperwork that I must try to throw out, but we get so much stuff from the schools, that looks like we need to keep it.  I must be ruthless!!!  This house is too small, but we will not be moving, so I have to clearout anything unnessesary.

Happy Birthday Grant.

I hope you have a lovely day, that you get some of the solitude that you crave, and you enjoy many more healthy, happy years to come.

Love and hugs. to you. xx

When I was shopping yesterday I saw a new range of clothes in a local shop, clothes for men, there were some lovely shirts, but they didn't have hubby's size.  Also although I knew which one I liked, I wasn't so sure he would like the skulls on it, so I hope to take him into town today and show him.

There was a lovely long sleeve t-shirt in blue and black too, really nice colours, it made me think it would look nice on someone else I know, but it probably isn't appropriate for me to buy it for him...

I'm just about to take the dog for a walk and post a cheque off. (Sounds like a Russian, *laughs*) I'm in a silly mood today.

I might actually have a dancing lesson tonight!  I haven't been since before Christmas, I will probably have forgotten all my routines, and not be ready for the exams in a couple of months.  Part of me can't be bothered to go anymore, but the other part of me loves to dance, and since hubby doesn't (dance) then this is my only outlet.

I need a coffee, and hubby will be getting up, oh oh, I hear him coming now, I've been caught on line again..lol.  (Just had a sarcastic comment from him...I'd better log off)


Bye for now.

I started off today by over sleeping.  Not a good start, and it isn't something I often do, but when I do do it, it is usually spectacularly late.  For instance, when I was working in Local Governement, when I was first married (84), hubby used to set the alarm early for himself, and then reset it for me when he left for work.  One day he forgot to reset it, and I didn't wake up until 10am, I was due into work at 8.30am!  So I rang them and told them what had happened, and called for a taxi and got into work as soon as I was able.  Why I didn't phone in sick, I will never know...it didn't even cross my mind, as far as I can recall.

Anyway, so this morning I woke at 7.55am instead of 7.00am.  I woke my daughter, and told her I would drive her in to school, so she wouldn't be late.  Then I came back and took my son to school.

I came home and got some odd jobs done. I was going to Braintree, so hubby gave me some errands to run while I was there. 

We decided it would be nice to take advantage of having the house to ourselves...we made love...*giggles*, third time in four days, there are compensations to having him at home during the day.

I went to Braintree and took hubby's grandma to do her shopping.  She is great company, we can talk about almost anything, she is non judgmental, and I love her.  We had lunch at a lovely coffee house, I had jacket potato with cajun chicken and dill mayonaise, and a lovely coffee with Amerreto syrup mmmmm.

Having taken grandma's shopping home and helping her put it away, we sat and talked some more, it was starting to get dark by the time I left at about 5pm.  A very enjoyable time. :)

I came home, and cooked tea for the hubby and the kids, (pizza, by request) and they had a lovely dessert of pancakes (I cheated, I bought these mini pancakes, with chocolate sauce) but I served them with some soft fruits.  I just ate a few raspberries.

I then came on line, and a message pops up that Norton's discovered the virus MyDoom on my computer.  It didn't say it had quarantined it, then I found an email had arrived saying Norton's had deleted an email because it contained a virus.  This was all very different to the way my Norton's usually deals with viruses, so to be on the safe side, I did a full scan of the computer, and nothing was found.  So I haven't got much done on here this evening, because while the scan is running, everything else works very slowly.  So I wasn't really able to chat to Neil tonight (sorry Neil).

I was astounded to find this very blog (my blog), mentioned and linked to in another blog!  Here I sit droning on about my ordinary life, and it seems that what I say, gets other people thinking! Amazing.

I guess you must find something interesting here, if you keep coming back.  Thanks for reading this, I do read yours too, but I haven't felt confident enough to leave any messages, although I just might comment today after what I just read over there.

Now I wonder just how many people (who I didn't actually give a link to this place) read my blog.  So, if you regularly come here and have never commented or whatever...just drop a line on my tag board ok?  I'm curoius. *laughs*.

Gosh I have rambled on a lot today. I wonder what tomorrow will bring? :)

Goodnight.

I went to Safeway's after work.  I spent over £100, but I got some bargains.  Lots of buy one get one free offers. (or BOGOF's lol)  They had a lot of soft fruit reduced to clear, my son loves strawberries, I just gave hubby a bowls of strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, and I sat here eating raspberries, mmmm yummy.

4.40pm we went to the Junior school for parents evening, they are very pleased with our son's progress these last couple of weeks.  He is learning to control his temper, and stay away from those who like to annoy him.  His work has therefore improved, because he is spending more time in class, working calmly.  I just wish we knew what sparks these periods of bad behaviour in him.

We then went on to see the nurse, hubby had his dressings changed, which of course, disturbed the wounds, and the one at his ankle is seeping again.

He went to football coaching tonight, he was only supposed to watch, but he did too much and he came back in some pain.  Silly man.

I just saw the news and weather.  More rain is expected, and floods are in Wales and other areas.

It was nice seeing a friendly face tonight. :)

I am only working until 1pm today.  Then I have to go and get some groceries, with hubby at home we are getting through milk and bread like it is going out of fashion.

I got to bed a little bit earlier last night.  I really should try to get more sleep, I'm just hooked on this PC, my "other life", my on line friends, I get edgy if I can't get on line, sad..very sad. 

Not much else to say right now, I'd better get going.

It was a busy day at work, they brought out some work and told us it had to go out this afternoon.  We got it done.  Just in time.  But it's not fair when they do that to us.

I left right after we had finished, just after 2pm.  Came home and had a nice hot bath and washed my hair.

Hubby and son went to Colchester United football, so I took my daughter out to eat, which made a nice change, it was only Wimpy, nothing special.