Short and sweet.

Hi!

Just catching up on a few personal administration matters ( as Sd calls them) and although I don't consider my blog to be in the personal administration category - I thought I would check in quickly to say Hello! and also to tell you that I am getting my life back on track slowly - so soon will be able to post regularly and read your blogs regularly again. Yippee!!

I am getting the hang of being a mummy - the sleep interuptions are less than ideal(!!) but surprisingly I never feel too bad the next morning. Although, I must stress that I have gone from being a woman who is partial to one coffee a day to some kind of caffeine desperado who starts to climb the walls if no coffee has been had by 10am. There is now a compulsary afternoon coffee as well as the obligatory morning one.
A round of applause for the coffee bean please!
I can assure you our coffee machine has never worked harder...

So, as the 3.30am feeds continue to kick my arse, I want to assure you that I am using that time wisely to think up all kinds of lovely posts that once I find the time - I promise I will write for you.


Have a wonderful Monday! ( I'm pretty sure it's Monday... :)


xx

Hello lovelies!

Like some of the other bloggers that I follow, recently I have become sick of the sound of my own voice. Strange that it is happening to a few of us at the same time. So, I've not posted for a while - I needed a bit of a break from hearing about and thinking about myself!!!

I've been thinking about what I'm doing here with my 'Box of Tricks' and I have decided what this is and has always been is my diary - for me. But you get to read it too.

I love love love hearing from you and reading your blogs and so I think I will continue with my/our diary and see how it goes.

Anyway, it would be a bit pathetic to give up after only 52 posts. Lets try for 100!

xx

...and a bit more about yours truly!

A few more questions.

My mother and father always told me...
My mum always told me not to get married before I was 29. I must have really taken that on board because I didn't get married until I was 34. My dad has given me many many words of wisdom, some of which I wont repeat now as we are just getting to know each other...one of my favourites was something along the lines of 'people are shit'. On occassion, I have agreed with him.

I wish I had...
been a singer and dancer on Broadway.

I wish I hadn't...
been so nice to people who weren't nice to me.

My most humiliating moment...
hasn't happened yet. Is that a good thing?!

My happiest moment was...
1. realising that I had met the person I wanted to be with for the rest of my life 2. being told there were 2 embryos for transfer.

Friends say I am...
A bit strange.

My last meal would be...
a four course meal at 'Le Cheval Blanc' in Sept Saulx , Burgundy, France.

The book that changed my life is ...
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

It's not fashionable , but I love...
British television programs from the 70's and 80's.

The song I would like played at my funeral is...
I don't know exactly which song it would be , but you would have to be able to dance to it.

My greatest fear is...
a global catastrophe

If only I could...
start taking lessons now to prepare for my glorious Broadway career.

The hardest thing I've ever done was...
live through 2 years of infertility.

The last belly laugh I had was...
on Tuesday, talking to my mum on the phone.

What I don't find amusing are...
racist or homophobic 'jokes'

Cat or dog?
Cat then dog.

If I wasn't me I'd like to be...
Miss Marple.

At the moment I'm reading...
Can't remember the title but it is a true crime novel by Anne Rule.

I'm always being asked...
Do you have any Tamiflu?

Ok. Enough about me. Let's talk about something else.

Let me introduce myself..

Even though this is a little bit self indulgent, I thought it would be nice to tell you something about myself. About what kind of person I am. I read all those quirky questionnaires that celebrities answer in magazines and always want to answer them myself. I have to stress here that I don't wish to be the celebrity, I just want to think through and answer strange little questions about me and my life. Just to see what I would say.

Well, no time like the present.

My earliest memory is;
Going for a picnic with my mum and dad and my little sister (who was a couple of weeks old) when I was two. We sat under huge old palm trees and there were lots of magpies. I can even remember what I was wearing. Must have been a great great day!!!

At school I...
was quite happy and content. Not too much rebellion or teenage angst at all really.

My first relationship was...
with Jamie Gardener, in Kindergarten. Lasted the best part of a week.

I don't like talking about...
infertility with people who (thankfully) have not experienced it.

My most treasured possessions are ...
my cats - Renold and Franko.

Well, here we are then!

I think 'we' may be a little premature, but nothing like a little bit of optimism to begin with!
I have a vague idea of what this blog will be and hopefully over the next few weeks it will reveal more of itself to me. Got a bit of exploring to do to work out the customising thing - so will be back soon with more of a clue!! x