January 2010
67 posts
oh-sarah:
why is it even snowing?
The rabbits and i chose to just carry on & ignore it, and it stopped. Phew!
I put too much water in my cous cous so now it’s just cous mush.
Sad day.
“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.”
– Swedish Proverb
Grown ups need to grow up.
A family from the estate are currently packing their stuff into a moving van after finally having enough of the abuse they’ve received from neighbours. It includes paving slabs being thrown, tyres being slashed, baseball bats, broken windows, fights and verbal abuse. It’s been horrible, and seems so unjust that they should move.
Yesterday at Kids Club one of the parents, who is a...
“I’ve just had your timesheet through for this month Amy. We need to...”
– Sam
- eeeek!! He’s gonna tell me to give something up…
quartkneelove:
I just got very, very, very sad news. :(
:( oh no. I’m sorry. xx
When i read or hear someone use the word ‘infernal’ i think either ‘inferno’ or ‘eternal’, and then whatever the person’s super frustrated about gets lost in the confusion that is my brain.
I am soo not up for paying £75 for a bit of wood to hit balls with (or pool cue to others) - seriously, that’s ridiculous! Especially when you need 4!!
Martins Money Tips
Have (Has?!) just sent me an email telling me that i can get 20% off at ASOS.
Must.resist.
BBC News - Rich-poor divide 'wider than 40 years... →
…the biggest factor in this is ‘unknown’
Also, women are being paid less than men (surprise) and those from ethnic minority groups seem to be getting a raw deal too (surprise).
It’s getting worse, and i think that at some point, it’s going to crash…
Car!!
My car is trying to be like walsall flippin illuminations (for those who don’t know, basically, lots of lights).
My indicator does double time if i’m breaking.
My power steering broke when doing a 10 point turn out of a friends tiny road. I can’t park without power steering. Or do a 3 point turn in a regularly sized road.
Now the engine light’s on, and i put oil in...
My days are very long.
Today, my day feels very long.
That makes it even longer…if that’s possible
Yesterday i was told by my lovely friend Tobias that whereas i was once crazy and bubbly and energetic, i am now mellow and chilled, and that he was wondering if it was because i was tired or not.
I don’t really know the answer to that.
I was/am tired. I need to be more sensible about my time management. So is that why i’m not as energetic as i once was? Or have i lost some of...
Green Gables Review →
Haha! Just what i thought…only most definitely not in those words.
And there’s pretty much a whole paragraph of musical lingo in there i don’t understand.
I’m just not music-geek enough…
Today
i’ve invited in total around 100 girls (about 60 we’ve met and 40 friends) to come to The Underground (my youth club) and have some fun/let me know what they think of youth provision in the area (which is basically my charity) & what sort of stuff they’d like to do.
Girls are NOTORIOUSLY hard to engage. I’m expecting 10% of that group to actually turn up, even though...
Ashley Banjo
of Diversity, is great. Him i rate. Why?
He’s an amazing, naturally talented dancer and choreographer
His troupe have inspired a generation to dance
He’s still pushing and challenging himself, he’s not settled
He is a genuinely top bloke who doesn’t seem to have let it go to his head at al
He just went backstage on Got To Dance to a kid who didn’t make it and...
Once a month, being a woman really, REALLY sucks.
That is an understatement.
It should be the law that we get time off/free chocolate/to walk around with our duvets/something pretty amazing. For real.
Ugh…
Hello Sun
I’ve missed you. Please stick around for a while…
I wish
I didn’t need sleep. I’d love to not go to sleep tonight. There are other things i’d much rather be doing…
oh-sarah:
Today, I sold 131 cupcakes to my collueges… I had made 150. 6 were for a meeting, and i dropped one… so I have 12 left. Anyway, that’s not what I care about. What i care about is the ONE woman that came up to me, told me her cupcake was stale, and when i suggested she tried another, she turned away said she was completely put off now and threw her cupcake dramatically in the bin,...
Crazy Money
In my life, i’m well chuffed if i’ve got a spare fiver. Bonus points for me, thank you very much. Spending more than £10 on a top makes me think at least three times. Spending money, even £30, is a big deal for me.
In my work life, i’ve just looked at a funding bid and thought ‘oh, only four grand’, and yesterday won us two grand and didn’t even feel it was...
“Doctors. Cat. Vet. Dog ate my homework. My grandma died. My grandma died. My...”
– A colleague expressing his frustration at the lack of reliability of young people, their lack of engagement with things that will actually help them make a difference in their lives, & their excuses.
These moments are always fun to watch.
OH
roll on 5pm, roll on.
& quickly, pls. Thnx.
My Strengths
oh-sarah:
amysian:
Connectedness
Responsibility
Positivity
Adaptability
Communication
They do sound like you. I have none of these…. although Adaptability used to be my top strength five years ago, and now it doesn’t feauture. Which basically means my strength totally condradicted itself.
Haha - Sarah, that’s brilliant! How interesting that yours have changed though…i...
An all new low for our rapist empathising culture →
barefootinthewoods:
Five men have been cleared of raping a woman after it emerged she had spoken online about group sex fantasies.
Judge Brown told the jury: “This case depended on the complainant’s credibility.
“Not to put too fine a point on it, her credibility was shot to pieces.”
I’m sure I’m not the only one who felt sick on reading this article. This has moved on from a woman’s outward...
Today i am ‘Amy 4 layers and a scarf Kirby’…and still cold.
Shlomo's Boxed Production →
- got a great review from The Times.
I knew it would, the guy is amazing and his Vocal Orchestra are so tight. Gutted i was too late to go see it :( another time maybe…
My Strengths
So, i’m feeling rough. Too rough for work tonight…think two hours in the cold would have deemed me unfit for work tomorrow :/
This did, however, mean that i had time to take the Strengths Finder test. I’ve not read into it loads - read their brief description, but now going to have to stop focusing on a screen, lol - flippin’ head.
But anyway, my strengths are…
...
Cold seems to = hungry for me.
I just want to eat ALL the time!! Not ok.
Imogen Heap
is ‘pop’ in itunes.
…i feel like this isn’t right…but don’t know enough about music categories to suggest an alternative. Surely she’s some sort-of alternative something?!
Ugh
The head is not happy. It was giving me grief yesterday, and is apparently looking to do the same today. Cheek of it.
I would like today to be a bed day please.
Crumbs.
I used my blanket from my bed in kids work today to
a) make a well-cool den
b) have drinks and biscuits on
I just remembered b), as i threw said blanket on aforementioned bed.
Crumbs. Sad day.
Green Gables
Green Gables are one of Birminghams finest new outfits. They combine the post punk in telligent, haunting melodies of Joy Division with the finest 80’s underground pop to create a unique sound of which they deliver as if they were playing an arena. Mute Existance mix the folk side of Led Zeppelin with the blues soul of Peter Greens Fleetwood mac to create a blend of 70’s blues rock...
Red hair, Sushi and Cake.
the-kate-james:
I like today
photo please! (Of the hair…not the sushi & cake…)
Tumblr Ask - Some thoughts
mrsteveheyes:
*geek* ;)
Ask me anything... →
mrsteveheyes:
I’m trying out the new ‘ask’ feature on Tumblr. Want to to see what it is. So please help me in my investigation and ask me a question.
How would it work once this post with the link on it vanishes into the pages of tumblr? Would there be a constant question box on your blog?
All i want to do is snuggle up with a blanket, book, hot chocolate & fire. Near a snowy window. Soo dozey right now.