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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 17, 2011
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I’ve been considering my life quite a lot lately, much of that about my gender transition but also about my life in general, work, relationships, health, lifestyle and so on. I suppose it is all to do with age and how I am reacting to the changes that come naturally with it. Some things I have no control over but over much of it I do maintain control. I know I am not able to do things as quickly as I once did, in all areas of my life. I am finding that I like the free time I get when not working and the fact that I can accept work or not. I have turned down a few jobs of late, mostly because they were too big to take on when I don’t want to work full days, especially as the work was highly labour orientated. I get much satisfaction in doing smaller jobs whilst still earning a decent wage, not that I actually need the cash but one day I might so I save what I can too. My health has been suffering a little lately, aches and pains in my back muscles for a few days forced me to take things easy for a while. I am generally quite a fit and healthy person and I do look after myself, eating the right food and getting exercise when I am able. All of my life I wanted to transition and there have been a thousand and one reasons for me not doing so early in life but when I did transition over nine years ago, well nine years since my operations, I was as happy as I could be. The change in hormones fuelled a change in my perceived sexuality which was rather confusing at first but I finally settled down to what is normal for me. These days I feel I am asexual, having no urges to indulge in any kind of sexual acts either with myself or with anyone else. I have never enjoyed self stimulation of my vagina but was readily aroused if someone else did it! I now have a vagina that gets no sexual activity at all so dilation is pointless and this is the way I want it to be. Some might say that is a waste of all that I have gone through to get where I am but life is not about sex, especially when no interest is taken in it. Yes, I could still be stimulated and probably, no, certainly would get aroused (I still get feelings of arousal but take no action on it) if I pursued a life that involved sexual activity. However and although I have a high but suppressed libido, I choose not to. Some things in life I can choose to leave without missing them, sex is one of them. I still get advances from guys though. How does the saying go? I would much prefer a pan of Scouse (similar to Irish stew in Liverpool for those who may not know). So where am I now? Well apart from my family and one or two friends I am quite alone, no relationships. no lovers and happy as I can be.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 14, 2011
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I have always been interested in the news and make every effort to watch reports on television or listen to them on the radio whilst driving. Over the years I have noticed the increased frequency in the reports of violence, especially murder and also of other crimes in general. In years gone by a murder was reported at national level but sometimes crimes of this nature are only reported locally or only given brief attention elsewhere in the country. Murder it seems has become so commonplace that it doesn’t shock us like it once did. This past week alone I have heard reports of three murders. As for lesser crimes most do not even make the news because there are so many of them being carried out. It is symptomatic of today’s society. Values have deteriorated, we as a society have become morally deficient and the result is an increase in the crime rate. Some people would blame that on a decline in work opportunities, too much taxation, insufficient remuneration or the rising cost of living, anything but a diminished personal morality. What is becoming of this country? Why does it seem to be getting worse? One factor could be the increase in drug abuse and the need to fund it. The cost of drugs forces users to a life of crime in order to pay for the habit but of course had they not indulged in the first place no problem would exist. The same goes for people who drink far in excess of what they should, they see a rapid decline in their living standards to pay for the alcohol they consume. It is down to individuals to take proper control of their lives and say no to things that will lead them down the wrong paths in life, maybe to a life of crime.
Shirley Anne
- Why violent crime is set to rise (traditionalchristianity.wordpress.com)
- Crime on the rise during recession (autonetinsurance.co.uk)
- Civilized Crime Today (misswhiplash.wordpress.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 5, 2011
I have never been able to understand why some people are so untidy and others are not. Take my ex. E for instance, as long as I have known her, which has now been just about 40 years, she has been an untidy person. She spends a lot of time sitting with her computer in the rear lounge busy doing her competitions, which incidentally wins her many prizes but at the same time she gathers around her quite a lot of paraphernalia.
And this is a good day! Now I have seen her bedroom and it is much worse. Don’t misunderstand me here, I am not criticising, believe me I have lived with her for so long and am used to it. It’s just the way she is. I am completely the opposite inasmuch as I do not like untidiness and therefore you will never see my bedroom in such a way or the armchair on which I sit cluttered and left that way. I have worked in many houses over the years, thousands of them in fact. I have seen places far worse than E’s minor untidiness and places so clean they are like show-houses without a blemish or anything out-of-place. One extreme to the other and many in-between. I like a house to be ‘lived in’, to show that people live there and are not being too fussy about their space. One house I visited was so bad but it wasn’t so much the untidiness of the place it was filthy too. The woman had about 12 cats freely roaming about, cat food all over the unswept floors, cobwebs everywhere, dust an inch thick, food left open on a table, unwashed dishes and much more. I think you get the picture. It is one thing to be a little untidy but quite another to be very untidy and also unclean. At least I can say that although our house is a little untidy in places (LOL), it is kept clean. There may be an excuse for untidiness but there isn’t one for being dirty and I cannot understand why people allow themselves to get into such a habit. Human beings come in all shapes and sizes and with all sorts of strange habits and persuasions don’t we? It is what makes us what we are. It is our differences which hold us apart sometimes yet the same differences can attract, up to a point!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 3, 2011
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I am quite an active person, when there are things to do I get on with them. These days my electrical work comes and goes and I find myself either with nothing to do on some days and at other times I am fully occupied. Now I am not getting any younger, like everyone else, so I cannot do as much now as I was once able to do but even so I do far more than most people I know of the same age. I get tired of course I do but strangely enough I don’t seem to be able to sleep for longer periods than 4 or 5 hours at a time. On Wednesday morning I planned to get up early and have a stint on my treadmill as I had no scheduled work. I went to bed at 11.30 the night before but watched television until around 1 am. I woke up around 6 but that is an estimate, I don’t have a clock in the room and I couldn’t be bothered to check the time on my mobile phone. I could tell approximately that is was 6 o’clock by the amount of light coming through the chink in the curtains. I closed my eyes again and went back to sleep. I didn’t wake up until 10.30. I really must have been tired. That happens sometimes when I need that extra sleep. It can be a bit awkward as we get older, not needing much sleep and therefore having more time awake but less to do in it! Physically I can only do so much but whilst I am still able I do what I can. The important thing is to find something to keep me interested. I spent almost half an hour on the treadmill before returning upstairs to bathe and dress and had the rest of the day to myself. Most of it was spent doing household chores and pursuing my hobbies. The exercising does help by the way!
Shirley Anne
- When will it end?! (familyphotographyandfood.wordpress.com)
- For the Love of Sleep (glimmerdesigns.wordpress.com)
- How Exercise Affects Your Sleep (sleepoptionsmattress.wordpress.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 30, 2011
Despite it being very windy, occasionally raining and unusually warm, it isn’t the weather I dislike. In fact I love Autumn, No, it is the approach to Christmas. I hate the advertising on television which promotes and encourages unnecessary spending. Assumptions are made that everyone is looking forward to the day and accordingly promotes good times using carefully selected music and filming. Many people will be feeling left out of things because they are poor or have no family to share the time with, maybe some will be living alone. Whilst I do not agree now with holding Christmas festivities when once I did, I do realise that I am in the minority. I have written about this on several occasions here in the past year or thereabouts so I won’t re-iterate again. Christmas isn’t about the birth of a saviour anymore, it has become a hedonistic and lavish experience for most people. People will say that Christmas is for children and they want to make sure that their children enjoy the now ‘magical’ time with plenty of presents and good food. That wasn’t the original reason for celebrating Christmas. The real reason for celebrating Christmas although believed to be sincere is probably debatable in light of what Scripture dictates but nevertheless even that is ignored in favour of the modern empty version. The atmosphere surrounding the approach to the day is full of hype and is all commercially generated. It is all so false and without meaning. Is it any wonder that people do not believe in the true message that Christmas was supposed to convey? They want the tinsel, the bright lights, the food and drink, the ‘good times’, the short-lived season of ‘goodwill to all men’ and then return to their hum-drum lives the following week where none of the ‘goodwill’ goes with them. I see signs in the back windows of cars which read, ‘A dog is not just for Christmas, it is for life’, in an attempt to curb the practice of dumping the animal at the RSPCA once the novelty has worn off. Well ‘Jesus isn’t just for Christmas’ either but how many even consider that, or even believe it?
Shirley Anne
- Screw the holidays! (blogsbyaloser.wordpress.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 21, 2011
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Throughout our lives we make choices, buy this buy that, save this or spend it, go here or go there, do this or do that. I could go on forever but making all these decisions every day do we miss out on something by the choices we have made? I often wonder about that. Scripture tells us to do all things in moderation and I think that is wise to do. A few days ago I was sitting at home in the afternoon with pretty much nothing to do and at such times I may open a bottle of wine and perhaps read or do something on the computer, maybe play some guitar, something to relieve the boredom! So what did I do? All of them! The question is which of them did I indulge in the most? Now you might be thinking it was the wine but in fact it was probably a balance between the guitar and the computer! Of course I had other minor things to do as well, not least of all preparing meals and such, oh and I did watch some television too. Whilst eating my evening meal, after drinking a full bottle of red wine, I was toying with the idea of opening another bottle! Now to be fair the first bottle was opened before three in the afternoon and my evening meal this night was after eight o’clock, more than five hours later. What did I do after my meal? Opened another bottle of course! Now don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t make a habit of doing this but it is nice to be able to make that decision whenever I might feel like doing so. As in all things in life we make choices and we balance our decisions so that we don’t overdo things. That sounds nice in theory but sometimes we get it wrong either accidentally or by choice. For those who are interested, no, I didn’t get drunk, I left half the second bottle for the following day. When this post gets published on Monday, that will be today, it will be my birthday. Actually that isn’t true, it is the anniversary of that day! No doubt I shall be imbibing more of the red nectar but again probably alone. Never mind, it’s just another day. Cheers Shirley Anne! By the way the waggon is called Shirley Anne……….click on the pic.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 20, 2011
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Sometimes I feel closer to you. Yes you dear reader! I get quite lonely sometimes. My family is spread afar, my sisters live in another country, my brothers live reasonably close but I only see one of them and that only occasionally. The other brother might as well be on another planet as he has pretty much alienated himself from the rest of us. Both my parents died years ago. My sons, well one lives with his wife, naturally, the other has taken it upon himself to leave recently to live in his mate’s house. My ex and I are not on speaking terms right now and the only friends I have either live outside of this country or too far to be regular visitors. I am not looking for sympathy here by the way, no but I just point to the fact that those I’ve ‘met’ through blogging give me more of their time than those supposedly closer to me! One way of looking at it, a philosophical approach would be to say things will improve or I’ll die first! I am not taking bets on this one….LOL I remain as ever cheerful and never do I get depressed. I am a strong person in that respect but I also have a ‘live-in helper’. I think you know what I mean by that but if you don’t then look at my ‘religious’ posts. I have a lot of time on my hands these days, not much work to do in a professional capacity and the domestic situation is on hold untill I feel inclined to move on it. I could be tempted to fall into bad habits but I fight against it all of the time, my trips to the pub have taken a back seat but that is more to do with my lack of interest than anything else. Another aspect of my personality that you may not be aware of is that I have always been what people call ‘a loner’. I’ve never enjoyed being one of the crowd, going with the flow, doing what others do sort of person but I do nevertheless enjoy conversation and mixing socially. I suppose in these situations I feel more in control, having the choice of walking away rather than feeling obliged. It may have resulted me in not having a lot of ‘mates’ but then I was never ’one of the boys’ now was I?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 10, 2011
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I did the jobs I had planned for Monday and throughout the day received more calls for work. I was rather tired at the end of the day. I had Tuesday free to myself and was able to grab a lie in bed until late in the morning. Wednesday saw me working again. This year has been quiet compared to more recent years as far as work goes but as we approach Christmas I can almost guarantee it will get busier. I have no idea why that is so but over the years that has always been the case. I shall be starting my 67 th year on this planet in a couple of week’s time and I still feel able to work, although I try to limit what I do not wishing to overdo things. With that in mind I am sometimes afraid of Monday mornings, a time when I get most of my calls for work! Life goes on and so I follow it as best I can and whilst I am still able. Songs have been written about Monday mornings and I guess many people have reservations about the start of a new week, having those Monday morning blues after presumably enjoying their weekends. When I worked for a company I always looked forward to Friday afternoons and the prospect of a weekend free from work but in reality I continued working over the weekend albeit at home. I suppose the thought of returning to our occupational duties isn’t so much that we’ve got to but because it takes us away from those things we’d prefer to be doing. Now that I have been self-employed for more than fourteen years the thought of returning to work on a Monday morning isn’t quite the same, or shouldn’t be because I can decide not to work if I so desire. However, the momentary dislike at the thought soon dissipates when I open my toolbox. Monday mornings can be switched to Tuesdays but the work still needs doing.
Shirley Anne
- Thank God It’s Monday!!! (mzmawissa.wordpress.com)
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- Manic Monday Mornings… (multipurposemom.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 5, 2011
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Regular readers of these pages will know that I have broached this subject in one form or another in the past. Looking at todays society and in particular the decline in moral standards and behaviour makes me wonder how and why things are they way they are. Probably many of us would be unaware of most of the things that go on around us if it were not for the news broadcasts or programs about police activities which have become somewhat popular lately. There are many reasons why our children and youth get into a life of crime and it is easy to blame them for their unruly behaviour and lack of morals. So if it isn’t a simple question of blaming them then who do we blame? Knowing the difference between what is right and what is wrong, what is acceptable and what isn’t is not necessarily why a life of crime is embarked upon however many youths don’t think that their behaviour is wrong. They may feel that it is their right to do as they please and react violently when apprehended. Lessons are sometimes learned but many return to their old ways after receiving and working out their punishment. There is a hard core of persistent re-offenders who it seems never learn from their mistakes. When I see these people being arrested I feel so sorry for them that they should waste their lives in this way. Of course I feel much simpathy for those whose lives have been affected by criminal activity. We have all done wrong things in our lives but it didn’t become a way of life as it is for some. So who is to blame? Is it bad parenting, being in a low-income family, living in underprivileged areas, poor housing conditions, peer pressure or lack of job prospects? Can we place blame on any of these things or is it a more fundamental problem concerning a persons natural inclination to do wrong?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 28, 2011
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I’m sitting here at home quietly enjoying myself and indulging in a glass or two of golden rum with a glass of diet cola on the side. The rum is called Cockspur and hails from Barbados. I was first introduced to it when in Barbados in 1980 but it only in recent years has it been available in this country. Not that I partake of the nectar too frequently, I don’t but it is nice to have some once every so often. An hour or so ago my eldest son and his wife, my daughter-in-law, came for a short visit. Actually they came to take E into town to sort out problems with her mobile phone but I am expecting them, as I write this, to return for a short while soon. I had a brief heart to heart talk with my son just before he left and talked about my situation at home. He is a great son (his brother is too despite his ability to wind me up) and I love him dearly as I also love my other son. I can see the problems facing them both as they live out their lives but it is hard to relay advice as they both have their own ideas on life. I hope that any advice I can give them is taken on board because I advise only through experience. I was awakened this morning (Wednesday) by a phone call from a lady I’ve done many jobs for and who wants me to look at some electrical problem she has. It was eleven o’clock! I had slept in again! I must have needed the rest as I have been working hard lately. Nevertheless I took the job but won’t be doing it until Thursday. I got dressed for a run on my treadmill and put in 25 mins. After cooling down somewhat I ate lunch before bathing and getting dressed. I have spent the whole day, that is the afternoon (LOL) and evening simply relaxing and doing my own thing. The rum is beginning to take effect and I am feeling great. I won’t drink myself silly, I promise but I will enjoy myself. I had thought of going to the pub for the afternoon but dispelled that idea and decided to stay at home instead. In fact I don’t think I will go to the pub until next week. I have work to do and I don’t feel in the pub mood right now. It’s great to be able to do as I please and I am enjoying another fine day in my life.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 24, 2011
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Once upon a time, sounds like a story coming up but no, not today, today I want to talk about transvestitism. The dictionary description: the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
When I was very young I always wanted to dress as a girl and I never lost that feeling for the rest of my life but as I grew into my teens I realised that what I wanted was not so much to dress as a girl but to be one. Throughout my childhood I desired to be female but knew nothing about it ever being possible. In reality I was already a female but was in the wrong body as the cliché goes. Dressing up for me was a way of fulfilling who I was as far as I could make that possible. Fear and self-denial, circumstances and situations prevented me from taking matters any further. In later life when I eventually became serious about transitioning I discovered many other people in the same boat but I also became aware of people for whom dressing was simply nothing more than a self-gratification and that gender identity wasn’t an issue for them. By far the majority of cross-dressers that I met were male but I did get to meet female cross-dressers too although in their cases they were all gender dysphoric, they were men in women’s bodies as I was a woman in a male body. For the male cross-dressers it seemed to me that dressing up was more of a hobby and as I said, self-gratification, whether that was of a sexual nature or not is irrelevant. I could not understand why anyone should want to do that but it showed a lack of awareness on my part that there are indeed many different people in the world all with differing views, sexual urges, fantasies, persuasions, call it what you will. Even though I now know these things I cannot understand them which brings me to the point where I realise that people who are not transsexual do not always understand that condition either. Ultimately education and time will correct this but I feel there will always be those who will not accept those who are different from themselves. All I can say is that I do accept that people are different for whatever reason even if I do not understand sometimes.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 20, 2011
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I base truth on what is written in the Word of God, the inspired word of God, The Bible and in the revelation of truth as given by the Holy Spirit. What others believe is a matter for themselves to consider. Having made a statement like that I have to admit and accept that not everyone believes the same. For those however, who purport to be Christian, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as written in the holy Scripture should not be taken lightly. Mis-interpretation is to be avoided as far is possible and the assumption that something is truth because certain passages seem to indicate that as fact should be avoided at all costs. Never take Scriptural passages out of context in order to justify one’s beliefs. The whole tenet of Scripture is to be taken into consideration over an issue for many passages may give a different view. All must be considered and weighed before making any assumptions as to the truth of the matter. As an example it says in many instances in the Bible that God is love. People therefore will use that as an excuse for their behaviour assuming that because God sent His only begotten Son to make atonement for our sins, all our sins are forgiven. They are indeed forgiven if we repent of them. Our lifestyles can be a reflection of our relationship with God through Jesus Christ or they can be an insult. If we knowingly continue in sin, against the will of God, there is no further atonement for those sins and we condemn ourselves. God is a loving Father to all mankind but He is a God who judges too. I read about homosexuality, bi-sexuality, lesbianism and deviant sexual activity which are not accepted as being wrong in the eyes of those who consider themselves to be of that persuasion. They assume that because it wasn’t their fault that they were born that way, which is in itself a debatable subject, that God accepts them when they live that way. He accepts them but not the things they do. It is one thing to be sexually attracted to the same-sex but another to actively indulge. God loves the sinner but hates the sin. The Bible is often used as proof that it isn’t wrong to love another person of the same-sex and it isn’t wrong to love another person but not in a sexual way. There are several verses in Scripture which show that God detests homosexual behaviour. It isn’t just sexuality either, there are many things that God detests and they are all written in His Word. Idolatry, fornication, mediums (as in fortune tellers and such), man-made festivals (and there are a few in the calendar year) and many other things which people tend to gloss over and forget. If you want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth then why settle for anything less? I am a sinner, I get things wrong, I do not deserve salvation from a loving Father but * by grace I have been saved, through faith and this not from myself, I couldn’t earn it, not by works or anything I have done lest I should boast about such things*. No, it is the gift of God and it says so in His word. It is all down to a willingness to walk as He expects us to walk and to beg forgiveness when we get it wrong. Not by the way we think we should be walking, not by a misguided interpretation of the truth but by the real thing.
*Ephesians 2 v 8-9*
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 16, 2011
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I have just read one of my daily ‘words’ from Scripture the essence of which tell me that even though I may strive to be perfect in every way I know that I shall never attain perfection for as long as I live. The reading points out that I should be telling myself daily that I know I am not perfect but that I am better than I was before. A good philosophy to be sure. There are areas in my life though where I struggle to get better for I will forget the promises I make to myself and over-indulge. On Friday I spent the afternoon, late afternoon that is, at the pub. I sat there for a couple of hours watching people come and go whilst I was reading a newspaper and having a drink. Eventually the pub filled to capacity but I remained seated and alone by choice. Later I began to mingle and before long found myself in the company of friends. Drifting along with the conversations, meeting new people and generally having a good time robbed me of my sensibility and I ended up shall we say, slightly inebriated! Horror of horrors I hear you say but it is all so easy to forget one’s promises not to get drunk when one has had too much to drink and therein lies the danger. Switching to soft drinks is the better solution and one that I should endeavour to embrace more often. Let’s hope I eventually learn my lesson and be a little more responsible in future. I arrived home in the early hours after the fifteen minute walk from the pub and was so hungry I rustled up a meal. Still not tired after my escapade I took to surfing the Web and posted comments on other folks blogs. I was beginning to doze off when I made my way upstairs at five in the morning! I remember looking at the clock at five-thirty and then fell asleep, in the correct attire for the occasion I might add and not in my normal clothes! I awoke at ten fully refreshed and most definitely not with a hang-over. I drink far too much water after drinking alcohol to end up with a splitting morning-after headache. Dehydration or lack of it is something I have under complete control. It only remains for me to keep myself under control when out enjoying myself.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 8, 2011
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It is Friday noon and at last the wind has died down a little but it is still blowing 22 mph or more according to the weather forecasters. The sun is out, that is dodging the clouds which seem to have the upper hand but life’s good and I cannot complain about my week. I did the last scheduled electrical job this morning and now have the whole weekend free. Maybe! Most people make plans for the weekend after being at work all week but in my own case that isn’t true. I can make plans for anything special at any time but that is only because I am self-employed and working part-time. As it happens I have no plans to do anything out of the ordinary. I was bemoaning the fact that I am currently going through a phase of being bored, not of anything in particular but everything! I am finding it difficult to get motivated but I am not neglecting my health. This morning I arose early and did a stint on the treadmill before breakfast. Later I had a small job to do. I have been busy most mornings this last week so I have not had an opportunity to run on my treadmill at the start of the day as I like doing, although not every day. So I make the effort to use the machine whenever I can. I don’t like using the treadmill at the end of the day as I am usually too tired and using it during the day is only viable if I am not working or expecting a call or if I take the time from work. This weekend I may visit the pub or not depending on how I feel. Anything might happen, who knows? And it did…I got a call to unravel the mistakes a guy had made in altering his lighting circuit on Friday afternoon. He told me his wife would rib him soft over the fact that it took a woman to sort out his problems. Well that is just about right isn’t it?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 19, 2011
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Well Saturday morning I had a good lie in bed for a change but somebody telephoned asking if I could do a job for them. It was an urgent job but as I was still in bed and didn’t feel like doing any work I declined. I had it in mind to go to the pub in the afternoon but later, when I was up and about I decided against going there too soon. Here in the UK it is the football (soccer) season and many pubs play live games on their television, my local being no exception. This means a pub packed with football fanatics all getting drunk. O-oh no way Hosea! I have been to these events before but not often and they are not the sort of events to go and see when you want a quiet drink with friends. I decided to go a little later but even when I went at eight in the evening there were still many guys milling about, most of them drunk. I sat with three friends for ten minutes but they left and I was alone for a half hour. Two more friends came in and we sat together in a quieter spot. Soon we had the pub to ourselves with only a few regular customers to keep us company. We had a great time laughing and drinking and late in the evening my two friends left but asked me to join them again on Sunday afternoon for an hour or so. I told them that it was unlikely that I would be there but they continued to ask. Well Sunday afternoons at the pub are similar affairs to Saturdays because they have the football on-screen again until early evening. When the weather is fine, as it was on both days, many more local people are often seen in the seating area outside, so much so that one can hardly find anywhere to sit. I didn’t go to the pub at all on Sunday as I thought I wouldn’t, well I just couldn’t be bothered! In fact I did almost nothing at all on Sunday but when I was sitting quietly watching some television in the evening I decided to pick up my guitar for the third time that day because a song suddenly popped into my thoughts and I wanted to play it a few times and get it down on paper. It took me ten minutes to produce. This is the way all my songs and poems come to me, on the spur of the moment and usually almost in one go. I have no idea why that is. It is another Christian song which I will add to my collection. So that about sums up my weekend, restful, boring at times, fun at times and productive at times.
Shirley Anne
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