Meandering

As the title says this will be a meandering one, a bit like my life. Like a crazy pinball, bouncing from this to that with no rhyme or reason.

Had a lovely couple of days with my daughter and the babies, my son and his girlfriend also came over for the day.  They are expecting their first son on 10th October, can't wait:-)  My youngest came this week and stayed over. It's so lovely to see them all.

My youngest bought me a beautiful bonsai tree, pic to follow. I love it and have placed it near the Buddha she also bought me. I'm thinking of having a little shrine type place, with some orange silk material to place it all on. Must go look to see what else I need.

Isn't that just a beautiful way to bring nature indoors.  Next time you see it, it will hopefully look a little like the picture below, but with the added extra of my bonsai tree.  On a side note aren't net curtains so last century!  It's either that or clean the windows, no contest.

Having been told not to speak of washing machines, I'll just creep a little one in here and hope it's not noticed. The bloody thing is a couple of weeks old and it stopped working. Now waiting for repair guy.

Another bummer, well worse than bummer, is that I've lost my precious photo's after deleting a programme that had nothing whatsoever to do with my pics. I'm hoping my son will sort it when he comes tomorrow.

On a more positive note, my therapist seems pleased with me, even if I'm not pleased with myself. Well, to be honest, I do think I may have improved a little, but still a long way to go in some respects.

Mental issues like anxiety and phobia's just seem to take for ever to get shifted. I guess it makes sense as they took a life time to arrive. Fingers crossed for me anyway!

Oh, and my youngest has always loved James May, even before I had my twitter obsession with him, mind you, I like good looking intelligent men so you can see why I like him.

She painted him one summer, oils on canvas, she showed me the other day when I proudly exhibited @fiatpanda on my followers list.  It's a terrifically good likeness, I hope you like it, Mr May.

The green hued face could be the result of driving with Jeremy Clarkson, but it adds to the appeal, and the hat, well, it was probably Christmas and not the summer. This is why I will never write for a living, my facts get seriously distorted and evidence is non existent, although I guess the biggest drawback is lack of writing talent.  Maybe I could write for the rags, seems I have all the qualifications for that job!

I've also ordered @MikeGunn1's CD, can't wait to piss myself laughing, as it promises.  Tena Ladies at the ready!

The gardener and the window cleaner came and spruced up the outside. I always love it when the garden looks neat. I'm having a sand pit in place of the fish pond for next year when I'll have three little ones running around:-)

My vision board is one stage nearer, with cork tiles and glue ready to be afixed behind my pc where I have a little bit of bare wall. I can't bear those cork boards that hang as they never hang level and you're always putting them straight.

I needed some photo's of uplifting, awesome and inspirational people, but could only get hold of OK magazine.  Oh my, what inane rubbish they write and the celebrity colomns, well, a five year old could do better. There were a few photo's of Simon Cowell in there as you might imagine, but then I had a dream about him last night, wonder what that means?  Maybe it means he's going to imminently follow me on twitter.

Trying to drag myself back to studying, shouldn't be hard as the subject matter is my all time favourite of crime, welfare, and psychology.

Trying to keep in the 'now', throwing old guilt and bad feelings away with my general de-cluttering. It's hard to shake off years of negative thought patterns.  I've always been a 'glass half empty' kinda person, the one who believes everything bad but never the good stuff, but times they are a changing, oh yeah, and I'm going to get there.

err hopefully!

PS, don't forget to feed the fish!

I love James May

Lots more to follow on this but my family are here now and I have to go.  

I'm  back to tell you the whole story about this James May guy. He's actually got a twitter account in the name of @fiatpanda in which he denies he's James May, he says he's Mames Jay, well, seems a funny thing to me to have a twitter account not in the name of James May but then have 'I'm not James May, I'm Mames Jay' all over the background of your page, and a blog stating the same thing. Why would people think he was James May in the first place if he hadn't written that?

I guess I could try and go back to his first tweet, if they're kept that long, but so far I haven't tried.  I've gone back a little way to see if there's any clues I can jump on and retweet back to him, saying 'yeah baby, look, you must be James May, look here what you said!  Sadly so far I can't find any clues.

He's got 10 thousand followers and you don't get that many unless you are indeed someone, but then another twitterer told me they follow a 'celeb' who has the same amount and they also are fake.  That kind of baffled me, why would people follow a fake unless the fake was interesting enough in their own right to follow even if not a celebrity.

This will be the case with James May I think, if he really does turn out not to be James May, then I will continue to follow him as he's a funny guy and a great writer, from the few blog posts I've read and his very witty tweets.  He must be a professional writer at the very least, but for now I'm content he is, in fact, James May!

I've followed him for a long while and I'm what calls a 'denier', which basically means I'm a bit stupid and gullible, but I can't help it, no, I can't.  I've read his blog and I see some people have left comments agreeing that he's not James May.  I, though, will still live the dream.

Anyway, yesterday we had a long twitter conversation about pooing in space, mothers, and the fact he wasn't James May, and the upshot was I asked him to follow me, he said not if I kept banging on about washing machines, which made me laugh, to think of the great man reading about my mundane rubbish.

I promised to desist on washing machine talk and lo and behold he gave me a 48 hour trial period and then followed me!!!

I was so excited and have page printed the fact and offer it here as proof.  In fact, when I had a message to my email stating that Mames Jay was following me it also said Stephen Fry was following me!  I rushed back to twitter, scanned through my followers and it was indeed so.  I don't know how I missed this but it was back in the day when the blog was about higher education, so thank you Stephen for following me, and his is a verified account.  He does follow a lot of people though but this has my celeb count of followers up to a mighty 3!!

And here is the proof, Mames Jay/James May nestled between two strange random followers!

PS.  At least we now know who the Stig is for sure.

Edited to add I have looked round the @BBC_TopGear page on twitter and they do indeed out him as not being James May but with all the stuff surrounding the Stig, I guess I'm not paying too much mind to that.

What a nice start to the day!

After a pretty abysmal day yesterday, I have to say today has started much better.


Well, apart from one selfish person who spoiled my nights slumbers, but put that to one side for now.


I have my first celebrity follower:-) Yes Sir, I have!! The famed stand up comic Mike Gunn no less, him who dallies with the likes of Deborah Meaden, amongst I guess, many others. We have a couple of things in common I see, pessimism being one of them, and I love a dry sense of humour. I guess the commanalities end there as he's young and famous and I'm not!


Here is proof on my growing wall of fame. Thank you Sir, you sit well here.

Settles him in the comfy seat so he can watch the wall grow.

click pic to see in big!

Find below the beginning of the awesomeness of being followed by Mike Gunn, from a slow start, building to the crashing crescendo of excitement.

I won't tell you how it really started because it puts me in a bad light lol, so we will go from when I apologised for the thing that put me in a bad light.

And then tra la tra la  .. drum beats  .. loud applause please ..

There you see!!  I told it was worth waiting for.  A particularly in depth and telling discussion between myself and Mr Mike Gunn.


I've included @Victoly as she is a star to me:-) xxx

Howdy world

Well, off we go.  I'm starting another new blog, to join the others I always mean to keep up but don't.

I've decided this will be a different one, full of optimism and silliness, to make my mind change from being negative and pessimistic,  to make my mind and body DANCE as my good friend Mudd Lavoie would say:-)

Here's my first little bit of silliness.

I've saved all the lovely celeb replies I've had on twitter and I'll post them here for your gratification.  I was so thrilled to get a reply from Richard Madeley who not only replied but retweeted as well!!  The next day I was honoured to have a reply from James May and then. Duncan Bannatyne  My cup runneth over with celebs:-)

Oh you see the picture above here, that's my open road and that's where I want to be, oh yeah!!

I digress, here are the twitter pics I promised.  Ohhh the excitement!!

Starting off with .. drum roll please .. ta da  .. I give you Richard Madeley.

Next my first one, yes first one, from James May! I've had two replies from this kind sir.

and the next one

and his reply

                               
and last but by no means least is the Dragon himself Duncan Banatyne telling me most emphatically that Theo is not on twitter.

Haha, well there we go, my first post on my brand new blog.  How excited I was to get my first celeb reply in over a year on twitter:-)


Oh if you click the pics, you will see them in big, so you don't have to squint and you get full on pleasure of my famous friends. 

More silliness to come!