Spontanaity
Yes folks, I can now be as spontaneous as I like. This is my first official day off as a retired person. I am not 65 yet, a few years to go on that score, but I am now retired. At least until I maybe find something else to do after I get all my health problems sorted out.
First thing I did was lie on in bed. Well, after all, it is my birthday as well. My wife brought me a nice cup of tea. There is nothing like a nice cup of tea in bed in the morning to start the day off. I did, of course, eventually get up. But I didn't get up to go to work.
I did a couple of jobs around the house. Spontaneously of course. After all, I can! I also sat down with my new games for my Nintendo DS. I tried my hardest to get them to work. But the feckers, for some reason, just wouldn't work. Never mind brain training games, one needs a feckin' mastermind genius level of intelligence to get these feckers to work. Calm down here. No doubt I am doing something wrong. Idea! Sit down with a cup of tea and read the instructions. Of course. That's what they are there for. Let you know later how that worked out.
I spontaneously went out and cleaned up the front of the house. Due to bad weather recently I haven't had a chance to do any work outside. Now that that's done the front of the house looks good. One thing I haven't done yet is clean up the cat puke that I put my hand in. The wee fecker's. They come into my garden and leave all this mess for me to clean up. I think an air rifle would maybe be the answer. But then again, no. A catapult maybe. But then again, no. I know. Poison. That's it. I could lace my entire front garden with poison, keep the dogs away from there and let the cats get it all to themselves. Do you get the feeling that I don't like cats.
As I mentioned earlier, it's my birthday. Now my wife gave me those Nintendo games. So far, and it is 3.10PM in the afternoon, I have not received a single thing from either my son or my daughter. Not even a card. Not unless, of course they are going to present me with something at the dinner table. I know that I am probably the world's worst person to buy for but even a card would have been nice to waken up to. I can forgive my Dad as he is in the early stages of Alzhiemers, and my Mother gave me an early Birthday present to go towards the cruise. A card please from my own children is not too much to ask, it it?
I will let you know what the outcome is, if any!!!!
I will go now to check how my sales are doing on Ebay. (my new form of income is going to be through selling stuff on Ebay, wish me luck)
Cheers
Don't forget to sing now, altogether **** Happy birthday to****
Posted :: Monday 3/31/2008 7:42:00 AM
Whats happened this week?
Let me think. I have been to one funeral. I have been to a leaving party for one of the German volunteers. I have paid the full amount for the cruise. Yes. That's it. i have paid the outstanding balance for the cruise that my wife and I are going on to celebrate our Silver wedding anniversary.
I have also bought a Dinner Suit for said cruise. Why? One, because it's cheaper than hiring one for the two weeks that we will be away. Two I will need one because there are going to be maybe at least 5 formal nights on board ship. And also, I got it at a knock down price of £99.00. It was £300.00 But I went to my favourite clothes shop in town where they sell designer stuff at knock down ridiculous prices. They had only one Dinner Suit in the entire store. Guess what.? It fitted me perfectly.
All I need now is a dress shirt. I will keep my eyes open for that over the next few weeks.
I have recently been putting stuff onto Ebay for sale. Out of about 70 items I have sold nearly 40. Not bad. The money that i get from the sales of these items will mean that I can keep on buying more and more Rolling Stones stuff to add to my collection. Because i am giving up the Volunteer work soon I will need to put up more stuff for auction to cover the loss of money that I received as expenses. I will have to start going around the car boot sales etc to find stuff to sell. All good fun. Eh?
I will have another funeral to attend this week. This one was more of a relief than sudden. But still sad all the same. He was the father of friends of ours. He was also very well known in the area for many things.
I also have 2, yes 2 Easter Eggs to eat. This year I have done well. I got a chocolate Easter Bunny from my wife. I bought myself a Cream Egg Easter Egg when we were out shopping the other day. The supermarket were flogging the eggs off at £1.00 each just to get rid of them. They had thousands of them. Serves them right if they end up with them unsold. They will end up with egg on their face alright.
I am off for the next two days. Great. I can maybe get a few jobs done around the garden. That includes getting a mate in with a chainsaw to cut and log up the feckin' tree that has come down in our back garden. A bit of a nuisance but at least I will get a seasons logs out of it. It also means that i will have to replace the feckin' fence that it brought down with it. No peace!
I have promised myself that I will get into the garage to tidy it up. My tools are all over the place. I can never find what I am looking for. That will probably take the best part of a day. So between the fallen tree and the garage it looks as thought the garden will have to wait, again!!!!
Another thing I am trying to work out. Can i get over to London to see the new Rolling Stones film. I know I will get it on DVD, but I really want to see it on the big screen. It's like watching Lord of the Rings. On DVD it is OK. On the big screen it's bloody fantastic. So, can I get to London or not? That is the question. The reason of course for going to London is that it's cheaper than going to Dublin. I have a strange feeling of Deja Vu about this that I have mentioned this in a previous blog. But, it needs telling again only because it is the Rolling Stones.
Buy for now
Posted :: Sunday 3/23/2008 1:36:00 PM
Well, I've done it
I've done it. i have made up my mind. After nearly 17 years doing volunteer work I am packing it in. At the end of this tax year I will be a free man to do as I wish. What do I wish to do?
I am going to become a Househusband!!!!
Yes folks. I am going to do the housework, at my pace of course, and have the dinner on the table in the evening for the family, at least the ones who still wish to sit at a table and eat with their family. Not only that. I am going to earn a few pennies selling odds and ends on Ebay. I have done this before and have calculated that if done correctly i could make a few hundred squid a month. Of course all that I make will have to be spent on my rolling Stone collection. What else can I spend it on. I gave up smoking years ago. I think i have given up drinking as i don't really care if I don't go to the pub or to parties anymore.
So, the Rolling Stones gets the pleasure of my dosh. Talking of the Stones. They have a new film coming out in April. It is called Shine A Light. It is being shown in only 100 cinemas nationwide. In Ireland, and I mean the whole of Ireland. Where do they choose to show it. Feckin' Dublin of all places. As much as I would love to see the movie, there is no way i am going to feckin' Dublin, 100 feckin' miles away, to see a movie. Not only the cost of the ticket to get in to the cinema, but you need the train fare and overnight accommodation. It would be cheaper to go to London and stay with a mate. Mmmmmmmm! Food for thought there.
Speak to wife about a trip to London
This morning my daughter came into our bedroom. She was crying. i thought that it was something that pertained to the fairer gender of out species. But no.
It turned out that a VERY sad event had happened. One of her girlfriend's father had just died. Very suddenly. He was out walking his dog and arrived home and collapsed. Dead!! I knew the man and was very fond of him. He helped me do work on this house of mine when we moved here. He was a very decent genuine sort of guy. He was only a couple of years older than myself.
Another very good reason for taking things easier. I am not looking forward to this funeral. He had 4 children. All lovely kids. His wife. I don't know how she will cope. He did everything for his family. He was truly a very nice person all round.
It puts a different perspective to things when this happens.
Other things, important issues, have been going on in this house all week but this outranks them all. Although one thing that has happened that i think I will mention. My son got another job. It means that he can come off the dole, which he hated being on , and he can also start saving for his ticket to go to Oxygen in the South of Ireland during the summer.
We will wait and see. Money and saving in the same sentence don't really work with my son
Ta ta for now
Very sad indeed
Posted :: Sunday 3/16/2008 4:45:00 AM
A Really Strange Thing
Strange indeed.
The other night, as in last night, my wife told me of a really strange, but funny, incident that happpened to her the other day.
What it was beggars belief. She was reversing the car into our drive, not driving straight in as she usually does, and she got out of the car as one does. While she was locking the car up she noticed our elderly neighbours looking intently at her. The husband came over to her and started to say / mumble at her.....
Eh, er are you ah! Are you Mrs er ah , You are Mrs er ah, the lady that live....er ah.
All the time that this was going on the wife of the husband was really staring at my wife with a really puzzled look on her face. Eventually my wife discovered what all the questioning was about.
I have a new lover!!! At least that's what they thought. They have been thinking this for some time now. All because my wife has changed her hairstyle and because she reversed into the driveway. They were thinking all sorts of things
Is she ill? Has she got a sister moved in to look after her? Is she the new girlfriend?
There was laughter all round when my wife told him that, yes, she was the Mrs that lived next door to them and has done for the last 6 years.
It is so funny, even now as I am writing this I am laughing, and my wife. I would love to have been a fly on the wall next door over the past couple of weeks to hear what they were coming up with as per the situation next door.
Poor wife, dirty man, what about the children, I don't think he would do that sort of thing etc. etc.
Such is life. I have noticed the husband looking at me over the past few weeks with an odd stare. He hasn't been his usual jolly self. Maybe now he will speak to me again.
My sons birthday yesterday. What would you like son for your birthday. "I don't know"
We didn't know either. He is worse than me to buy for. He doesn't read. He doesn't need clothes. He doesn't need any music / games. He doesn't need deodorant etc. etc. What the feck do you buy him? we ended up giving him cash. He will most likely piss it all up against the pub wall. Kids today. No interests. Not like me. I have my books and of course, my Rolling Stones collection
Still laughing with the thoughts of above
Cheers
Posted :: Saturday 3/8/2008 5:42:00 AM
