Musings of a lone biscuit

Happy Birthday shippyflo
Have a great day

It is ages since I've written here, to be honest I'm not even sure anyone reads it anymore, but I guess I hate to let go of things I've got used to and LJ is part of my SG1 fandom which is still very dear to me because in truth was the first one I really got involved with. Now people have scattered and found new interests but I still treasure this little part of my life and the people I got to know through it.

Starting with fandoms then I have been spending more time than it is healthy reading Spock/Uhura fics. I had no idea what to expect of the new ST film so went with no expectations and certainly no spoilers and it was a revelation. Fell in love with the film and the characters, specially those two although Bones is a close second :-) I just love the intensity, the angst, the subtlety of their relationship. It's official, Spock/Uhura are my new Sam/Jack!

At home things are ... interesting. Between a grumpy,overworked mr jafacakes, a hormonal, rude 17year old daughter that thinks the sun revolves around her, a growing 15 year old son with a particular view of the world and a 7 year old that doesn't understand she is not a teenager and certain attitudes will not be tolerated by me not matter how much she "cries" or shouts or pleads unfairness , life goes on throw all the bumps and occasional muddy patches.

Things are good too , after spending a week free of minijc2 , who was at ccf camp (combined cadet force, in other words , playing soldiers through school) I realized life is so quiet and calm without him around it doesn't quite seem real, and while I enjoyed the stress free week I missed him terribly and couldn't wait for him to come back.
Minijc3 achieved a milestone while (because?) he was away, finally she can ride her bike.


Umm, time to start the school run , so the rest will have to come latter. Hope you are all well, flist :-) , I enjoy your virtual company :-)

Call me a sheep, I've got an account, not sure if I'll used it for anything different than here but so many started going there I thought at least I want to be able to follow my flist adventures there. I've kept my jafacakes name there so please add me there, I'm very slow and know several of you have a different name there so that would make it easier for me :-)
Have some spare invite codes if anyone wants one just ask.

I have been feeling pretty low recently and as a result my garden is looking a mess, grass uncut, borders full of weeds, vegetable garden a depressing mess ... but my azaleas, bless them, thrive on neglect and this year they have been particularly good.
Not only are they covered in flowers, they smell wonderful too.






The only red one



And now a view of my neglected garden taken from the tree house (yes I climbed up there :-))



And my veg patch, such a jungle, my soil is heavy clay and will need vast amounts of manure so we put up the raised beds so that at least we'll have something this year,



I feel I've achieved something at last, planted all the broad bean plants I raised from seed on the smaller bed.

It's been a long time ago, probably since my late teens but tonight I went to the cinema by myself. No husband, children or friends wanted to share with me the pleasure of watching Star Trek, ... losers .
It felt a bit strange buying just one ticket and seating on my own but once there I forgot about it. I'm still a bit peeved that noone could make the effort, god knows I've sat through enough films not my taste just to please someone else but it's done so...

Start Trek, loved it but can I just say time travel gives me an head ache :-)?
I'm left with more questions than what I went in with but I don't want to spoil anyone, so if any of my flist has seen it and like to chat I'd love to be able to talk about it with someone who doesn't make fun of me ... I totally failed on my family's education ...

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Of all the mind types, yours is the most mellow. You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles. Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

The minijcs 1 and 2 are going to install wireless so, if I'm not around anymore you know why ...

I feel quite sad and irritated after watching Grey's anatomy's 510, "All By Myself" because of how they have portrait a doctor who's supposed to have aspergers syndrome, Dr Dixon.  She is hardly functioning as a doctor and excuse me but I know enough people with  Aspergers to know one when I see one and she has  full blown autism. If you are going to portray someone with a disability then do it well  and don't just grab a  handful of stereotypes , it does more harm than good.
I could say so much more but I'm just frustrated atm , I'm just glad my son wasn't watching it , he would tell me that is the reason he doesn't want anybody  to know he has it, he doesn't want his friends to think he his a "retard" , his words, not mine .
 
Because I've been without tv for a month I haven't seen the previous episodes and of course I know we are behind the US so I don't know if her condition is addressed before or after this episode, but really people, do your research right.

Sometimes I wonder how anything happens in this country, I mean, there are so many rules and regulations and friking stupid guidelines it's a miracle things move at all. I'm all for safety rules and the like but sometimes...

I'll start my rant with my oven, it stopped working about 5 weeks ago. It was still under guarantee so we call the service people who came about a week later, he came pulled it out of it's casing (it's a built in oven) and the lights came on, duuuuuu I thought, he put it back, it stopped again, turns out it was a loose wire in the junction box behind the oven, the thing was, he wasn't aloud to fix it , he could fix the oven but because the problem was in the wall he couldn't do anything at all, we could do it, as he told us it was the same as wiring a plug, and he used to do it all the time until the health and safety rules changed...

So, about 3 weeks ago our sky box stopped working, not really surprising as it must be 10 years old and never gave us any trouble. Without it we can't really see tv because our reception of terrestrial tv is so grainy and the sound so crappy it just grates the nerves. After a few days of internal debating we opted to change to sky plus as it gives us the option of recording digitally and watch and record different channels at the same time. Finally the day came to have it installed, the engineer came, looked ,shook his head and told us he couldn't do it because the dish is on a wall but he had to go on a flat roof and now health and safety rules don't allow it anymore :-(  Apparently this was his third job today that he couldn't do because of this rules. It's crazy, we live in a bungallow, the flat roof if over our entrance hall, it's not a falling down outbuilding.  So the solution? well next friday (yes another week without tv) a two man team will come and move the dish to the chimney , it will be higher than it is at the moment, they will have to work balancing on a ladder leaning on the roof , but aparently , it will conform to the new safety rules.
He told me he is fed up with his job now there are so any things he can't do , it's crazy, I'm all for safety in the workplace and in general but surely the people who actually do the job should have the discretion to determine what is and is not dangerous, not someone who sits in a office thinking up this rules .RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Ok now I'm going to the school quiz night to have my general ignorance rubbed on my face ...

Taken from jo_siris  and others on my flist

You Are an Ocean

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     Hope you had a good day annerbhp</lj> , thank you for giving me so many hours of reading pleasure  :-)
On a side note, you share your birthday with my son :-)

We had minijc2 parents evening today.
He's brilliant :-)
He doesn't believe it.

Spent almost two days filling forms for which I had to fing Ordenance Survey and national grid field numbers , but nowhere can you just go and get them, oh no you have to generate them out of a formula  of two lots of 6 digit numbers :-( . I was so proud of myself and then go and make a mistake nine entries from the end, head-desk.  Still, it's done now but the headache still lingers.

On Sunday our sky box broke and the tv with it, I was fed up I couldn't watch the Oscars, minijc2 comes home from school yesterday turns the tv on and lies down in front of it as is his usual routine, nothing happens, oh no, he goes, when will I know when to have my weetabix?
bless...  

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I had the most bizarre shopping experience of my life today.
Minijc1 went to London today with some friends and on the way back discovered she got the wrong train the station before ours, so while I was waiting for her to finally arrive (we live 20 minutes from the train station so there was no point going home) I popped into Waitrose, the supermarket that borders the train station, just to get a magazine to pass the time. 
Once there I thought I might as well see if there were any bargains as it was almost closing time. I got some yogurts, baking potatoes, several packs of leeks and a few other things, got to pay and it came to 5p, yep 5p!
I had over 10 items so I knew it was wrong and told the cashier so, she checked, doubled checked, called a supervisor and yes it was right , the total for everything was 5p!
I seems there was an offer on the leeks that they hadn't canceled when they reduced them (from £1.99 to 19p per pack)  and because I 'd bought 5 packs the money back offer canceled the cost of the rest of the shopping and if I had bought  just 1 more pack they would actually have to pay me, how crazy is that , lol.

     Hope you had a good birthday Strix :-)

I love it, the children love it, everything looks so prety ,  after I have to drive on it I may revise my opinion ;-)

Sometimes ideas come to your mind out of the blue, maybe a combination of bits and pieces of information and memories that jumble together in your brain and blurt out in the oddest of times.
Well this happened to me today as I was driving to the bus stop to pick up the minijcs, I thought of a photo of my grandmother and her two sisters taken on her 85th birthday, it was a happy occasion, lots of people with everyone dressed up, which was quite unusual for us as birthdays tend to be a very casual affair.
Anyway as I was thinking of this photo, it came to me that she wasn't my grandmother, she was really my great-grandmother because my mother's mother died when she was 4, and then, in a quick succession, that my  mother died when I was 5 and that minijc3 is 6! Well, you know what I got thinking ... yes well I have 3 more months until I'm out of the loop ... creepy or what?!