The World of Siân

After starting this challenge I thought, great I will get to write a short story. Now I am thinking rats, it's rubbish and boring and shall be destroyed once the 100 days are over. I now know for sure I will never be a writer. Are we allowed to switch part the way through the 100 days? What else could I do? Also who would really know if I were to switch lol. Anyway for the time being here is a poem to keep you entertained:- Christmas What time of year to spread some cheer, Its peoples selfishness that I fear. Too busy to help others out, This is why in Human Kindness I doubt. Christmas presents and Christmas trees You should fall down on your knees To rejoice in what you have No poverty and a lot of love. Spread this good will Let your empty glass be filled Put a smile in someone else’s memory Forget you selfish needs. Deck the halls it’s Christmas Eve, Rejoice in your annual leave Remember your family, remember your friends And you won’t be lonely in the end.

Through a window I appear to gaze Thinking of a life before As if through a rose tinted haze Time has passed, was it better before In those almost forgotten days. Out of the Window I look It seems so ideal Like out of a picture book No marks upon it Until I stamp with my foot. I peer through a Window. The sun shines bright Over meadow after meadow. Then it hits my old friend The weeping willow.

Well I am taking part in the 100 days challenge, but I am not tending to blog about it (lol sounds like brag). I am finding it not too bad. I have decided to write a sentance to a book/short story a day. So far I am not doing too badly, however I think the story will be rubbish. Oh well, at least I am doing it. I have decided also to try and earn some extra money, this will definitley not be through my stories. Here is another Poem to keep you entertained:- The Tree You stand so tall and proud And then a guy shouts aloud TIMBER…………………. Your fall is not as graceful as a flower You are strong and hold the power TIMBER………………… You get chopped up into planks To the tree we give our thanks TIMBER…………………. A bed is made And here I lay I am comfy Thanks to the tree TIMBER……………………

Walnuts are odd Walnuts are strange I have never seen anything Look quite so much like a brain

I have a few poems I have written tucked away and I thought it would be about time to air them. Here is the first:- Bridgend My Home town Protected by a dome It doesn’t make me frown I don’t see any garden gnomes It is like a magnet Draws people back It doesn’t make me fret A bit off the beaten track No sun, no snow Only rain Why, who knows? It’s a pain From the old bridge it gets it name Good wishes it does send Some people from here have found fame My home town, good old Bridgend

Now there is one thing (of many as I am sure you have read) that I can’t stand, and that’s Chav’s!!!! I was thinking this morning, if you’re a chav, do you know that you’re a chav? Do you purposely pick out chavvy clothes? Do you think other people are chav’s? They seem to be everywhere, I was astounded when going into my local town during the week and seeing them cluttering up the streets. I did comment to himself and he said it’s as most of them are on the dole and so have nothing better to do. Which is true? Why should they restrict themselves to causing chaos on the pavements on a Saturday?!?!? When they can do it all week as well. Here is a link to wiki, to see what they say on Chav's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

Once again my beloved car is playing up, booo. I am starting to think it doesn’t like this time of year. Anyway, the garage can’t really find much wrong with it, so as I need a reliable car to get back and fore work I have decided to mosey along to a garage after work to see what they can offer me on a part exchange. I don’t really want a new car as I do love mine, but needs must!!!! As I am looking for a reliable car it would be interesting to know if anyone has any opinions on cars I really should avoid. Anyway enough of the car topic as it only depresses me…… We are nearly at the end of October and I am pleased to say I have a lot of my Christmas shopping done, woop woop check me out!!!! I am particularly looking forward to Christmas this year as my sister is expecting twins and they should arrive a few weeks before. Christmas is after all as they say for the children. It also gives me a good excuse to play with children’s toys. She has been told she is having one boy and one girl,

Lately I have been feeling rather restless and wishing for some event in my life that I can focus on. I need some new goals to focus towards. I have always been very goal orientated really, but didn’t ever really plan for them to run out, so I have always had direction. Now I have achieved most of the critical ones I am feeling a bit lack lustre. A couple of years ago I did start the 50 things list which can be found here…. http://www.my50.com/yourlistro.php?list=66eb5d8ed4da564c The only problem is I only have 32 things on it, so I am looking for ideas and inspiration to add to my list to get it to 50, if you can think of any please let me know. On this link you can see the things I have already completed as well, so you think of something you can check it on there to see if it’s a to do or a done :0) Also don’t be offended if I don’t add your suggestion, it just might not be right for me. Ooo I have just thought of a fab project for me to do…….. more on that at a later date. Whil

I really think that we should adopt the Mediterranean’s attitude of having afternoons Siestas. Instead of a few hours off in the afternoon and working again in the evening. Leaning more towards and extra hour added on to your lunch break or half an hour to have a power nap. I think this would work wonders and also increase productivity and performance. I always find afternoon’s a struggle, I think it’s because after lunch I become sluggish while my body digests my food. I find my brain becomes a bit gloopy as well, and not as responsive. Well the gloop is slowly starting to lift and I am feeling a bit more responsive. I think it was the little break from the norm and a little chat goes a long way.

Well lo and behold another wet summer for us. As usual the met office lied and said we would have a nice hot summer, I scough as I sit here at the end of July in my winter clothes!!!! Of course the met office is trying to back track now and say that the media misinterpreted what they had said. To be honest I don’t mind the rain that much but I do like to have a summer. One of my best friends is getting married in about 2 weeks and so I am hoping the weather brightens up (the sun shines on the blessed and all that), also they are having a BBQ as their wedding reception. Each to their own I suppose, definitely wouldn’t be my choice. I can see it now, sausages and burger grease all down your lovely outfits, eeep!!! I much prefer the idea of a nice meal or lot’s of different cheeses and breads, with dips and oils. On a different note, I purchased a lovely new bike the other week in a bid to get fit and as of yet I haven’t ventured out on it. I have been waiting for some nice weather

I am really not in the mood for much today and I can’t really place my finger on why. I am just going to put it down to the fact that it’s a Monday. I have to stay on in work until later today as I am helping lock up, not that I mind but I don’t want to do it today. Still at least it gets it out of the way for the rest of the week. Himself has actually agreed to go to the cinema with me this evening. This is momentous because we rarely go to the cinema as he doesn’t like it but then if I go with my friends or family he will sulk that I have been without him. There really is no winning with him. We are going to go to a late showing so there shouldn’t be too many children around; we both find them really annoying when they can’t behave in the cinema. Well, I have been ok most of the day but now I am resorting to clock watching. Booo!!!!! I hate doing that as it seems I am wishing my life away, which I am not really. Me and the girls did have a lovely weekend making and drinking co

Well, that's all of my previous ramblings that were typed out else where, I can now start getting up to date. When I am feeling inspired of course...........

Ok its November now and I am not much closer in getting my Christmas presents bought. This is due to my damn car!!!! I never have any money because of it grrrr. Well I have bought his nibs Christmas present which is a few bits and pieces and a mini break in London with tickets to an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Ooo how cultured are we? Luckily me, my mum and my sister have put limits on how much we are spending on each other this year for Christmas, this is great as I don’t have to worry too much then either. I long for the day when I don’t have to fork out loads of money on my car, or for the day when money isn’t so much of a problem. Why does it always feel like you are on a constant struggle against the world? It makes more sense now as Britain heads into a recession, that we’re going to have less money to spend and more and more people will be made redundant and loose their jobs. As reading back on previous rantings I can see I have had many a car trouble. After

I am so tired today, I feel like I have had no sleep, although I know I at least had some. Right it’s the beginning of October tomorrow, and knowing how I like to be organised, it’s time to start shopping for Christmas presents. I have no idea what to get his nibs; he has said he has already bought mine!!!!!!!!! This amazes me for a start that he has been that organised and bought it. I really need to get my thinking cap on. It is also his 21st next year and I have a few ideas what to get him for that. We have also started planning a party for him, which he doesn’t know about yet, I am hopeless at keeping secrets from him as well, and I am going to try my hardest not to let on what’s happening. I also have to have a big think what to get my friend, as I normally get her some sort of Archers product, but now she finds herself with child, obviously she can’t drink. It looks like I will have to resort to her second favourite thing, of pigs. There might also be an extra person to b

Autumn is upon us and yet I am amazed at the amount of people who refuse to believe it and are still wandering around in flip-flops!!! I mean come on……who in their right mind likes soggy feet? I know I certainly don’t and can think of nothing worse. Don’t they know they could suffer horribly and get trench foot or something?!?!?! I can see the point of little dolly/slipper type shoes, to make one look dainty or to go with an outfit, but flip-flops, when it’s raining, complete escapes me. I suppose there is an exception, if you are in hot weather, and all of a sudden it rains, like it would in say places like Florida, then I am sure you could quite easily find yourself in that situation and it would be no fault of your own. (September 2008)

Ok so it’s been heavy rain here for weeks, so I thought I would finally invest in some wellies. I thought there is a need for them considering mostly when it is heavy rain I am walking to or from work and get drenched. My jeans become like sponges and soak up all the water from the pavements within a certain diameter of where each leg is and I leave a trail of dry pavement behind me. So at the Eisteddfod the other week (yes, I was being cultural), I went into one of the hippy type clothing stores and there were some delightful wellies. Needs must, as I was also up to my knees in mud as trust me I went on the wettest day of the Eisteddfod. So I donned my wellies and was very pleased with myself. I have however tempted fate and it has been dry every time I have had to walk to work. I have found myself yearning for a heavy down pour and me to be stuck in it with my wellies. The time came this morning, I was walking to work and it had been dry all the way until I was 2mins from the d

Ok Today is not a Wednesday but a Thursday, much better. I am alone in the office all day, I find this most boring as not only do I have no one to chat to, and I have no motivation to do any work. Also I can not browse the Internet as it’s not working, much to my annoyance. Damn, I don’t think I have any rambling’s to put down either!!!!!!! What am I going to do?!?!?!?! Why didn ’t anyone tell me that as soon as you have a car you never have any money? It’s true and I would warn anybody thinking of buying a car that once this is done there is no going back as it seems a necessity and that you couldn ’t function without it. Thinking I was starting to get my finances back on track and my bank balance actually looking a bit healthier, POOF there goes the exhaust on my car, eeep !!!! So I decide to be very sensible and take it in to Kwik fit straight away. I get it there and not only does it need two parts of the exhaust done but also three new tyres and the tracking!!!!!! Soooo

Aren ’t dreams weird? I had the most bizarre one yesterday whilst dozing. I dreamt that I was a Chinese MAN of all things, and I was running my own Chinese restaurant. Then a door swung open showing what looked like the yard behind the Chinese with two big skip bins. By the side of the bins were two men, I somehow had a gun in my hand and shot the two guys and then door swung shut and I carried on running the restaurant as if nothing had happened. I have no idea what this means at all. The shooting I can imagine is from the fact that his nibs was playing a computer game at the time where he was a hit man, but the whole Chinese thing, I have no idea. I am definitely one for crazy dreams though. When I was younger, about 5 or 6 I had a dream I was in school and everyone apart from me had one normal leg and one pig’s leg. I was trying to get out of the school playground but there were people everywhere with a pig’s leg. Even my best friend at the time appeared and asked why I did

Well I must say it's an absolute delight to be able to eat crisps and I don't think there is anything wrong with it at all. My first packet was a delightful Roast Ox flavour by Real Crisps and then of course I had to try all the bizarre flavours doing the Walkers round. I will have to agree that the Onion Bhaji flavour is the best and tastes most like what it should. The builders breakfast is strange and you can definitely taste and smell the egg, I could also taste Sausage and tomato. The others are just really strange flavours and I am not sure I would recommend them at all. The Cajun Squirrel one is OK , but just tastes like curry spices rather than anything else, but then what would you expect them to taste like? At least now I can say that I have the will power to give something up, which I thought I never would lol.

We are in the final week of lent and I know it's gotten to me now. Last night I had a dream that I was eating crisps and worried as I had broken lent. I awoke in a cold sweat just to realise it was just a dream and it was Tuesday, with only 5 days left to go. I am planning on having a BIG HUGE bag of crisps. Any ideas yet on what flavour? Also any views on the new Walkers flavours, is there one I really shouldn't miss? I have heard the Builders Breakfast is good. Woop woop crips binging here I come!!!!!

Well, as I start coming into the last stretch of the mammoth task that came before me to give up crisps, I am pleased to say that the cravings for crisps started kicking in, about a week after I began. You might not think this is a long time but for me it is. I have still not eaten a crisp though, which I am very proud of and can't wait for Easter day when I will pig out on them. I have tried substituting crisps for other things, carrot sticks with a nice dip works well and even better salted popcorn. Nothing else works really :0( The difficulty now being what crisps and what flavour should I choose to break the crisp silent in my mouth and stomach? Any ideas? I long for the array of flavours and the crunchy texture as the wonder that is the crisp will cascade down my throat and swim in the delight of my stomach. I long for the tingle, taste bud explosion with mouthwatering sensation that you get from the salt and vinegar flavour. Or the heady dark aroma and taste of the Steak

As a personal challenge and part of lent, I have decided to give up crisps. To most people this wouldn’t appear that hard, however with me, crisps are like other people’s addiction and craving for chocolate. I can’t remember a time where I haven’t had crisps and they haven’t been in my life (dear me I am making them sound like a person). When I was in school I used to have up to 4 packets of crisps a day!!!! Since I’ve gotten older I have cut down on that amount. I am surprised I am not really that fat. When I was eating these 4 packets a day I was training about 3-4 times a week in Badminton, so I think I just burned it off. The first day without crisps yesterday went fine. I didn’t crave them at all and I was ok at lunch time as well when I normally have my packet of the day. Today is proving a bit harder. I would like to have a packet but I will say NO. One of the guys in work was ever so cruel and took two packets of crisps and waved them either side of my head, saying I

Well it’s been a while since I have been bored enough in work to type down the mundane thoughts that have been going through my head. I am not as such bored in work today, as in the fact I have practically done all my work and there is not much left for me to do so I am trying to drag out the last few things over today and tomorrow. I have as well found myself attached. Yes, even with my cynical ways, I have managed it. This guy at the moment is great but then we are in the honeymoon period as we have only been seeing each other for just over 3 months. I think give it time and we shall see. As previously stated if we are still together after 4 years then I shall be able to comment. For the time being he is brilliant, albeit several years younger than me, there is a lot to be said for the younger man. They have a lot more energy, are more daring and a lot more interesting. Also it means that you can act younger as well and they can introduce you to new things that you might have

I have just been sat here thinking, whilst I work obviously (I am a woman and can multi task), why do your non-single friends always say the same thing ‘don’t worry you’ll find someone when you least expect it, and you know when they’re the one’ complete rubbish. I mean it is very easy for them to say as they are with someone and everything is hunky dory. I was with ‘the’ ex for 6 ½ years do they not think I thought that he was the one. We had planned our wedding, what we were going to call our kids even the name of our sodding dog for crying out loud. I know that we got together young but still that is no reason not to think they are the one. They have only been in their relationships for about 3 years; I think they can comment when they have been with them a lot longer. I firmly believe it takes you 3 years to get to know someone properly and then you can make your mind up and see how you live with them, with the mundane and nothing surprising you about them anymore and that ta

All of my friends are now in a relationship of some sort and I am left the only sad single one, and to rub that in just a bit more my friend who is getting married has placed me on the singles table. Not that I mind entirely as I would do the same if I had sad single friends as its cheaper than asking them to bring a guest. I firmly believe that I am going to be alone and become the nasty cat woman you hear so often about. I am also going to get myself a walking stick or otherwise known as a beating stick, with a sharp point on the end. This is so I can beat naughty children with and also if their footballs dare to come onto my land I will stab it with my stick, bwhahahahahahaaaaaaa. I think this is already coming into place as yesterday I told off one of the children in my street last night. I was driving home and got into my street, I was most annoyed as I had spent an hour on a coach for a 20min journey as the damn trains weren’t running again. Anyway, I drove down and some c

It is the end of January already, and while I am freezing in my office my grandparents are on a cruise around the world. They are at this moment in Honolulu. I am hoping that I can look forward to an old age like them. This year is going too quickly for me already. Ah well, I have nothing to complain about I suppose. Apart from the dreaded Valentines Day is approaching and my first one where I am single in years. I am not sure whether to jump for joy or slit my wrists, joyful that I haven’t got to spend any money or sad because I am all alone in this cruel world. I think I shall concentrate on the first option. Well just doing some research and lo and behold Valentines Day originated from Rome. Typical another thing the ever so helpful Romans did for us. (January 2007)