Just a Wonder....

Do you ever just sit there doing something like watching tele, driving down a road, listening to a boring presentation and suddenly your mind is whisked away to your past and thoughts just suddenly appear in you mind? Please tell me its not just me. I think I have an ability to remember things in the past quite well. Dont get me wrong, I deal with things, and move on and I generally think I dont get that hung up about things, but everynow and again I suddenly have a thought about a person or situation and wonder how if the coin had flipped differently how things would be or if perhaps i had made a different decision at the time. These thoughts are usually about ex boyfreinds, freinds or life situations nothing in particular, but sometimes I just wonder. I think we have all just wondered about ex's and old freinds as that is partly what makes us people who care. You care enough to wonder. You are a person who has feelings. Now dont take that wrong, for I am married and 97% of the time happily married. There are times where I could happily kill him as he sleeps, but mostly I think I have choosen my husband well. He is hard working, tall, strong, good looking (well i think) caring and I do believe we have an excellant connection. He is someone who matters to me and someone who I want to share stuff with. Someone I know will be there and listen to me yet at the same time will being me back to earth and not let me be a pre-madonna. Oohps went of track there, anyway........
So every now and when your in a boring situation and your mind starts to drift off, i wonder what you'll wonder about? enjoy your thoughts, and each day make happy memories for you to wonder about tomorrow x

One Week to go.....

Yes one week till Christmas Day. This time next week the big day will be here - CHRISTMAS DAY. and I for one am looking forward to it. There will be 7 of us for lunch and I looking forward to cooking for everyone and and having a lovely day. This year our Christmas day will start a little later then usual at 2pm but that is fine, means we can have a chilled morning and a bit of a lye in!
This week is kinda cool as its the week before christmas and we have a few nightsout planned and getting together with freinds, still a bit of last minute shopping, not to mention wrapping. My works Christmas meal on the 21st and Secret Santa - which I luurve every year. Then at some point must hit the supermarket to get a few last minute bits of shopping for the big day, but lucky I have bought the main bulk online and my waitrose delivery gets delivered between 9 - 10pm! one of the last delivery slots in our area - phew!
After the big day, we are not back at work till the 2nd January, so will have time to chill out, see freinds and be merry.

MERRY CHRISTMAS - ho ho ho

Hello, its me again

Hello Bunny Corner readers, sorry I havent posted in a while, been busy doing this and that, you know how it goes at this time of year.

I am nearly done with the christmas shopping and started wrapping the gifts last night - by goodness, its takes ages to wrap dosent it?
We have been doing the old christmas drinks and making plans for christmas & new year. Its a nice time of year to catch up with friends but i do feel the pressure of having to do something and go out. Why is it we all feel like we SHOULD be going out on New years eve, like we have to party? dont get me wrong I love seeing my friends but I am not keen on new years eve at all. So not sure what we are doing, we wont be seeing the usual lot and have been invited to another freinds party so well see. maybe its age creeping in? that means I am not that bothered? oh well

I am Looking forward to christmas day where the family will be coming to us for christmas. There is only five of us so essentially its not a huge hassle to cook dinner. I like cooking and preparing the table etc. I try to do things a little bit differently to how my mum & dad do as it my house and I want to do christmas my way and make my stamp on it. for exmaple after the meal, I like to do tree pressents which my mum & dad never did. They were surprised last year and loved it. I guess its about making my own family christmas traditions. Something that when I have kids they will be able to hopefully like and remember.

We are having a silent fued with out ugly, thick neighbours. Mainly because they are rude, inconsiderate, thick & stupid! they seem to think its perfectly ok to park across the drop kurb to our driveway and making getting on and off our driveway near on imposible! marc seems to think it becuase they are thick that they havent got a clue how there parking affects us! I think its because they are wankers! the ugly sporty spice daughter i caught walking backwards and forwards across our driveway because she was taking a shortcut. when I asked her not to, she was very verbal and insulting to me. the next week a fence went up down the side of our drive, obviously she is so thick she needs it pointing out to her where her parents property ends and ours starts! Tis the season of goodwill to all men - huh!

Anyway apart from that all is hunky dorey, and Im smiling. Not sure if I have any new years resolutions, oh maybe just one - but Im not telling you! - ha ha oh and the usual, eat healthy, lose weight, save money blah blah

Good festive season to each and every one of you x x x

Doing Your bit for the Environment

With the Environment featuring so heavily in the media the moment and general talk abuot the fast decline of our world and asking us all to stop and think before using endless amounts of energy. We have already started to make some minor changes in and around the house. for example, turing the tele's off at the wall instead of leaving them on standby. Using two instead of 3 lamps in the evening in the lounge, turning down the central heating (with out freezing).

Yes I do feel slightly guilty having just recently purchased a new car that fits into the sports car category and is such not very fuel economic or cheap to run! However, we will only have it for a year or two and we are trying to over compensate in other areas. we are making a huge effort to recycle, infact if the bin collection went to every two weeks it wouldnt bother us at all. infact today we didnt put our bin out as it wasnt even half full!. I also take reusable bags to the supermarket instead of using new bags every time I go. so we do try.

This year, as a mark to measure our little commitment to doing our bit for the environment. We have decided that we will NOT be putting up outiside christmas lights. We dont normally have the hideous giant santa's etc but about 3/4 sets of white twinkling lights and icles around the house. I think it looks very pretty and tasteful and I generally quiet like it all. But i do think we should perhaps make an extra effort to help the environment and make up for having the car and this is our little contribution.

I do think it would be good, if other people focused on the amount of energy that could be saved around christmas time instead of competitions to see whose house can look the brightest or hold the most decorations. I am not being a bar-humbug, I love Christmas and all the lights. I apprecaite I might sound like a hypocrite and its not my intention too. We are making a compromise in order to help where we can.

Merry Chritsmas x

What NOT to do with bright orange Soup!

Drop it all over one's cream carpet!!!

Ouch - the mess, soup goes everywhere and creates one big awful orange mess - Big time!!!

There is was just going to go to work, carrying my lunch through the lounge to put in my bag and i dropped it! all I can say is thank goodness I have a VAX. i maged to clear up most of the mess asap and with some 1001 carpet cleaner manged to limit the damage. There is a slight mark so will have another go with the vax!

we've only had the carpet a few months - eek, thought for one moment this morning I was going to have to claim for another lounge carpet - eek! (note to self, if we had of gone for a wooden floor, then it would have easily wiped up) oh well, all is fun and games, just gotta keep smiling :o)

How much???

So our Sony surround sound system one day suddenly decided to just stop working! it looked like a power problem, so we (Marc) did the obvious changed th efuse, check the plug socket etc. anyway, none of that worked. so we took the unit in to the Muppet Shop, oh sorry the Sony shop in basingstoke. We were told you can get a diagnosis of the fault for £35 and if we go ahead with the repair they will take it off the over all cost. Fair enough, we took in the big box and the head unit and was told they only needed the big box. Someone would call us in the week to let us know the fault. Ok................. so 3 weeks later we start calling them .....urm hello......oh yes, they repair centre said they need the head unit! - arghhhhhh how annoying, we had the head unit with us the day we took the blooming thing in! anyway, i take in the head unit, rant a little at the muppet in the shop.
A week later they called Marc to say they had diagnosed that fault and it would cost £590.00 to repair - do we want to go ahead??? what do you think? NO NO NO NO apparently a PS something board had gone and as they dont make that model anymore, they would have to make another one! for that price, we wont get it fixed and well buy another system from somewhere else . the thing wasnt cheap to start off with but i have to say being without it makes for dull film watching so I would be keen to get a new one asap!. i might get marc one for christmas!

Anyway, want to know why I think Basingstoke Sony Centre should be renames the Muppet Shop! here goes:- (this is just my observation and interpretation)

when you go in there on a saturday its normally has about 5 or 6 schoolboys doing there saturday. normally the are all standing around chatting and not paying a blind bit of notice to the customes. Erm hello, I want to spend £2000 on a tele !!! when you finally do get someones attention the schoolboys know diddly squat (you dont actaully expect them to know much apart from how much it costs, but then you can see that from the label on the thing anyway) then you have to wait again for one of two blokes who knows something to finish up!
its the same every single time I have gone in there. Also there are a Sony franchise and not a part of Sony, (so I understand) which means why bother?

I have said to Marc that when he decides what new system he wants (i dont have a clue about that sort of stuff - thats boys stuff) if he wants a Sony System, under NO circumstances are we going to the Muppets in town! I dont care how far we have to drive I REFUSE to give them any money, for shoddy school boy customer service!

Taking Peoples name in vain

My name is L I S A - a fairly short in-offensive name to both say and write. It has two syalballs and is only 4 letters long.

So why is it some people call me Lis - are they two lazy to say the "A"?

Now there are some people - (close friends and family only) who I dont mind and actaully quite like them calling me Lis, Lissy, Lise etc i take that as a term of indearment. it means we know each other on a freindly basis and acceptance each other and therefore shorting the name is accpetable.

However, there are people who just choose to shorten my aleady short name because they just do! now is this me being over sensitive or is this them being rude by not calling me by proper name? I do take offence to near on strangers calling me Lis when they dont even know me!

I have some friends who's name is shorten by their choice or they choose the introuduce themselves using their short name - for example:-

Jessica - is jess /jessy/ jesse
Andrea is Andy /Andi
Richard is Rich
Simon is Si
Robert is Rob

see the pattern????? all these poeple call themselves by the short name there fore it is acceptable to call them that too!

I know a David who hates being called Dave, so therefore you call him David, otherwise that is just being rude!

I am LISA - as in LISA ..............

Now the dilema I have is a new person at work has started calling me Lis, which is really getting my back up! how do I tell him to please call me LISA. ? I dont want to upset him, yet at the same time I really think its rude of him not to call me by my proper name. I dont know this person, so why would he assume its ok? no one else in the office calls me Lis. I really dont want to make a fuss about this, but one day I could turn round and smack him with a large folder right across the face! this might seem a tad over the top, i admit. but how I do i gently ask him to start using my proper name! before my wild side takes hold of me!??