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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 8, 2012
They say there is nothing new under the sun and for the most part that is true. It says as much in Scripture. Anyhow, I was thinking a lot about changes in life more than re-visiting old paths. I am currently getting over some minor illness and when I looked into the mirror on Monday I saw quite a dramatic change in my appearance. After a serious bout of laughing which caused me some abdominal pain I have to say, I finally managed to apply my make-up. I had made an appointment to see a doctor and was getting dressed for the day. I remember a movie from a few years back called Police Academy, I think it was the second in the series where lieutenant Mauser had lost his eyebrows because of a prank played on him. One of his side-kicks set about making some adjustments to his appearance and when we, the audience got to see what he’d done it was hilarious. He had eyebrows pencilled on, eye make-up and false eye lashes. At first he went ballistic but after a few seconds he smiled and said, ‘Oh, I don’t know, I quite like it!’ Or words to that effect. He certainly looked different! Getting back to my make-up I began to think of what I would look like if I changed my usual war paint regime. I do alter my make-up occasionally, depending on what I will be doing that day. I have one style I use in my working day and maybe another if I am out for the evening or at a function. I also change my make-up according to the season. Now all this is fine but I began to think of other changes I might make if I’d a mind to do so and what I would look like if I went through with them, like a completely new hairstyle, a fringe, short hair, that sort of thing. I like my hair to be long, I always have and I would never cut it short. Presently it reaches well below the shoulder line and well on its way to the bosom but it has taken a very long time to reach there. Should I cut it for any reason it would take years to get back to length. E has wonderful hair in that hers grows back quite quickly after being cut but it tends to be greasy and needs washing two or three times weekly just for that reason alone. However, I think greasy hair is often healthier despite it needing more attention. My hair tends to be dry so it benefits by not being washed too frequently, a little awkward when trying to keep it clean too! All these things are quite superficial though and we can make changes as and when we feel we need a change. Looking at my slightly disfigured face after it had swollen made me wonder how I would cope if my face was like that permanently. This is something new that I would not like to experience of course but for some people it isn’t a choice is it? It is all vanity of course and we have grown up thinking that looking good, looking perfect, is the only acceptable thing. I never leave my bedroom without my make-up on but what about the poor souls who are so disfigured that they cannot change what they look like and have to face the world as such? Beauty isn’t skin deep as we are told but that is the way most people treat it. Beauty is inside a person and reveals itself by what they say and do. Something new? This is the sort of beauty I want. I may be nice and perhaps attractive to look at but it is what is in my heart that counts.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 31, 2012
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Whatever age we are we will have experienced something in our lives and obviously the older we are the more we will have done so. I was thinking about my life and the choices I have made over the years. Many of us would admit to having regretting something that happened in our lives, an unfulfilled desire, a wrong choice, a failure, a lack of courage, a wrong decision, a bad relationship, it could be almost anything but there will be something. I can think of many things that I’ve regretted in my past but one that I feel I could have seen through but lacked the confidence to do so was to transition whilst still young. It is easy to re-assess our lives and past mistakes afterwards of course and we can all say ‘if only’. One thing is for certain though, had I done so many other things would not have happened. I most certainly would not have married E or had children. I suppose my career would have been vastly different too. I wouldn’t have done the many things I ended up doing nor doing them with the people in my life. I wonder what my life would have been like today had I done things differently in the past. I have no regrets regarding the life I’ve had but as it turned out even that life hasn’t been perfect. I had the power to change things but that didn’t prevent my life turning out as it did. Whatever choices I made had no real influence on the outcome. If my choices had all worked out then my life would have been different so even if I made what I thought to be the right choices really only served to change the course of my life. I had no real control. No matter when I transitioned what followed would have been entirely different from any other time I decided to do so. Looking at life this way you could say there was an unlimited number of possibilities any one of which would have been right. Through it all though I would have been the same person inside. When I transitioned it only changed my physical appearance. If my life had been different it would similarly only change my circumstances and not myself. This is another reason for not regretting my life as a whole but only perhaps certain things in it. Can any of us say that we have made the wrong choices in life? At the time we made them it must have felt the right thing to do. We can only regret doing something because it didn’t turn out as we expected.
Shirley Anne
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Posted in Philosophy | Tagged: Happiness Is a Choice, Lifestyle (sociology), Philosophy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shirley Anne on January 30, 2012
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Sounds easy doesn’t it? I want to challenge my readers to make someone happy this week, someone who perhaps isn’t close to you or someone who comes into your life for whatever reason. Some of my readers will be doing this already and probably without thinking about it, others may find it a challenge. Not everybody appreciates what we do for them I know but it shouldn’t stop us trying should it? I personally do not like surprises but I do like being treated well, that is respectably. Sometimes in my working day I get unexpected rewards, for example a bottle of wine over and above my fee. Little gestures like that are pleasant to receive and they do make me happy. It is nice to know that we are appreciated now and then. Making someone happy doesn’t have to be a well thought out event, indeed it is far better when we are spontaneous for then it is likely to be more sincere I feel. Small things go a long way. Be kind and considerate when out in the world and always be ready to help those in difficulty. A lot of people live out their lives aggressively and are often selfish with it too. Some never wish to ‘get involved’ in situations and others are quick to jump in and help. Having the right attitude to life and indeed to others makes for a better person in my estimation. I will go out into the world today and forget what I’ve written here but then I know I do not need to be reminded to be nice to others because it is in my nature to be that way. I know in my heart that I will be ready to make someone happy if the opportunity arises because it makes me feel better too! I am not suggesting to my readers that they are anything else but nice people. I only suggest they might remind themselves that they are. I hope all my readers have a happy and wonderful week and along the way make someone else feel happy too.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 20, 2012
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I don’t know if my fellow bloggers on WordPress have the same problem but for those who are on WordPress, have you noticed how long it takes to open the page for a new post? I am often kept waiting before the new post page turns up. During that time I am thinking about the post I am about to write and also getting a little impatient for it to open. Having arrived in such a state for this post I am wondering sometimes if it is all worth the wait. Probably many of my readers might be thinking the same but I hope not. I do try to write about interesting things and for me the most interesting things are to do with my life and I am sure other people’s lives too. We do all live out our lives in a similar way except that we will have differing views, interests and lifestyles but all of them interesting in their own way. So when I write about things it is only from my own standpoint and usually because they apply to me but equally they could apply to anyone’s life and often do. I could write only about specific things, specialising in one subject as many do who write blogs and indeed I do have such a blog myself (http://wwwminkyweaselsmusings.blogspot.com/) but this blog has no such theme and is open to any subject. I think that there is nothing wrong in specialist subject blog themes but they do limit who will read and comment. My other blog has a few readers, not many but I know that they are interested in the subject. This blog however doesn’t specialise and consequently attracts many more readers. I refuse to specialise on any particular subject on this blog but hope visitors will be encouraged to visit my other sites too. I write on my blogs for one reason only and that is to reach out to others. I have nothing to lose but everything to gain from anything I do online and all that I do is merely an extension of what I do in real life. I am grateful for any response both here and in my daily life of course and hope that whatever I write proves interesting to those who make the effort to visit me here or on my other sites.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 8, 2012
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I had the day to myself on Friday as I was released from my jury service until Monday. Not wanting to let the opportunity pass by to enjoy myself for the day I invited E out for an extended lunch, well they are always extended when I dine out. I love the experience of wining and dining out and generally socialising and it is nice to do that with friends and family but it is nicest when in the company with someone very special. In my case that would be my ex partner E whom I love dearly. I take the opportunity to dine out with her as often as I can so that not only do I get to enjoy myself but that she can enjoy life more than she usually does. As is the case I often ask her if she is happy so that I can help her to be happy as much as I can. She is hard to reach sometimes but I persevere for I don’t want her to feel unhappy if I can do something to change that. I wonder sometimes what makes her tick, what it is she wants out of life because I feel she is missing out on things when she should be getting the most out of life. I know she enjoys her outings with me but she is often reluctant to show that. So it was that we both went to one of our favourite haunts in the next town on Friday and had a carvery lunch with dessert and drinks. I polished off a full bottle of red wine and later had a liqueur coffee with a cream topping, similar to the picture on the right. We both had soft drinks too, she was drinking Pepsi-Cola and I was drinking the diet version in-between my sips of wine. I like the taste of the cola following the wine and sometimes I mix the two in the same glass when I am tired of drinking the wine neat, which isn’t often (LOL). We arrived at the restaurant/pub at around 1.30 and we left just before 5.00 stopping off at the supermarket for some rum, whisky and cream. I wanted to enjoy another glass or two of a liqueur coffee! I am off to work on Saturday morning which will be yesterday by the time you read this so I will not be able to have a drink, if I want one, until late in the day. I probably won’t indulge as I value having a healthy liver which needs a break now and then! I might have a drink today, Sunday but then nothing until the end of the week when I have finished my jury service. Mind you, I may get on a case that lasts longer than this coming week but in any event I will enjoy a drink or two at the weekend. I might even surprise the staff at my local pub by paying them the first visit for over six weeks. I love life and I love people who are prepared to enjoy it with me. Life is too short not to enjoy it.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 7, 2012
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I don’t have to remind my readers just how windy it has been these last few days. There has been little or no respite. Of all the weather elements wind is the one that I really dislike. Rain can be dealt with by using an umbrella or waterproof clothing but the wind sometimes defeats the use of an umbrella. Snow isn’t a problem until it becomes too deep or until it turns to compressed ice but having the correct footwear helps considerably and of course nobody moans when the sun is shining. It is the driving wind which gets me down. There is an old saying which has to apply and it goes like this: Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not. A good spelling exercise for children but having an element of wisdom too. It really doesn’t matter what we think about the weather, nothing we can say will change it so we have to endure it when it is bad and be grateful when it is fine. Although I have been feeling somewhat windswept these last few days I know it won’t last, there will be better days ahead and so it is the same in life. We can be feeling down and thinking the whole world is against us. We can be feeling the pinch in these hard times. We can be experiencing bad relationships or having none at all. Many things in life can make us feel not at our best but they do help to build us up and give us the strength to go on. Wind or no wind, it doesn’t really matter but like the wind we must plod on regardless. Put on a smile, grin and bear it for things will surely get better and so will you.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 5, 2012
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I was watching Sister Act 2 on Monday afternoon. Ok, ok, I was bored but having seen the film once before and knowing the story made no difference, I like the sentimental things in life, besides I had nothing else to do. For those who may not know the story it is about a nightclub singer who goes back for the second time to the aid of a Catholic run school to help them with their pupils. Part of the story involves the trials of the schoolchildren in their quest to enter the interstate singing competition for the best choir, which incidentally they won. Well it is a movie. Just prior to the choir going on stage they were watching one of the other contenders and began to lose what confidence they had when the choir leader, the nightclub singer played by Whoopi Goldberg, gives them a small lecture about not giving in to the fear of losing. Paraphrased, she told them that nothing in this world was ever achieved without effort and if they were to run away from problems in life they would continue to do so all their lives. How true a statement is that? Throughout our lives we are challenged and tested but if we give in to defeat we will never achieve our true potential in life. This is true for anything that presents itself as a challenge before us. The most successful people in the world have a stream of failures behind them but because they persisted they finally won through and became successful. The motto should be, let no-one stand in your way, let nothing defeat you without you try your best to overcome and to reach your goal in life, the desires of your heart. You must stand your ground and not be swayed by anyone else.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 4, 2012
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I remember about 45 years ago when I was driving through Birmingham on my way, together with my parents, taking them to visit my grandma. She was living in Edgebaston at that time. It was a time when there was no such thing as a SatNav so it was a case of map reading and asking for directions as we got nearer or when we lost our way. Even in those days driving through Birmingham was a nightmare especially if driving through the ‘Bull Ring‘. It was easy to take the wrong turnoff the roundabout. I hadn’t been driving for too long and found it quite easy getting lost! We needed to stop and ask the way which we did. We asked several people for directions and none of them were caucasian. They were either ethnic Caribbean, African or Asian people that we came across. I remember saying to my parents, ‘Don’t white people live here any longer’? So even as far back as 45 years it seemed that there were more people other than native caucasian people living in some places in the country. Obviously far more live amongst us now and indeed some towns have practically no Caucasians living in them at all. When driving through Preston last Sunday I noticed the town was filled with people from other ethnic origins, so much so it felt as though we were in another country. Can we still call this the same England as it was long ago? We, like many countries in the world, have become a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic country. If we can all live together in peace and harmony that is wonderful but unfortunately this ideology is hard to achieve due to the prejudices of some people. Multiculturalism has been the cause of many disturbances and unrest within our society as a result. I am not about to preach about religion at this point nor am I advocating racialism but one thing I remember from Scripture is the story of the Israelites and their acquisition of the land that God had promised them after their forty years of wandering in the desert through their disobedience. Before they could take the land the were told by God to drive out all the Peoples that were there else they would be a thorn in their side but they failed to do that and consequently a thorn in their side they became. The descendents of some of those people (the Philistines) still live in the area today. They are the Palestinians. So it isn’t always desirable to live in mixed cultural societies simply because of the differences between us. I get the feeling that this country is slowly being taken from us because we are so passive in not stemming the tide of immigration. Suggestions have been made to lower the immigration rate and indeed laws are planned to be in place this year to do just that but are we closing the barn door after the horse has bolted? The future of this land may not be in danger but on the other hand it could very well be.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 1, 2012
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Being as it is the start of another year I am wondering just how long it will take me to get used to writing 2012 instead of 2011? In the past I have taken a few days to get used to the change to the year number when writing cheques or letters and such but I have never had a problem with the month change. To me, the first day of the year is no different than it was yesterday, is no different to all the other days but it sort of interrupts a routine. The daily name changes and the monthly name changes seem more finite than a simple number change at the beginning of what we accept as a new year, so we initially make mistakes. Although today is no different from any other day it does mark the beginning of changes in my life. I will not be doing anything today or tomorrow but on Tuesday I will be starting my jury service as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. It has been about twenty-five years since I was on jury service and no doubt many things have changed since then, for one the venue. I remember little about the procedure but having read the booklet that is supplied I shouldn’t have any problems adjusting to my responsibility. All I remember about my last duty as a juror was the one case I was involved with. My electrical work is on hold for the next two weeks depending on my duty as a juror. There will be other ongoing changes in my life. I just hope they will be for the better for all around me I see changes in the world which are not. Whatever happens I will have to make adjustments according to my own circumstances and try to accept the things I cannot change elsewhere. How long it will take me to adjust to changes I will have to wait and see. I have an inkling what some of those changes might be both in my personal life and those in the world around me but I live from day-to-day and do not worry about such things.
“What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of a year.”
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 27, 2011
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Another year is almost over and many will be looking back to see where they went wrong or where they succeeded in life. Perhaps they will be thinking why they didn’t really get to grips with last years resolutions with perhaps making a better attempt this time round. It is really about a mind struggle, overcoming one’s self, being determined but also being disciplined. Nothing was ever completed without effort. So what are the things which are most important to you? Is it a real desire to finally lose weight and more importantly keep it down? Perhaps you want to finally give up the weed? Is it a determined effort to make more of your life? Is your desire to help others more, pay more attention to your family, get those jobs finished, or even started, you know, the ones your wife has been asking you to do for years? Do you think that whatever plans and resolutions you make will succeed? Well they won’t, not unless you make the effort. So you have the next twelve months to make those dreams come true or at least make every effort to make them so. This time next year you may be finding how pleased you are with all that you’ve promised to do and succeeded or you may find yourself making more promises that you cannot keep. I do not make new year resolutions, not because I am afraid that I might fail, not because there may not be any to make, for I know that my life is far from being perfect, it is because I won’t make promises that I might not be able to fulfill. Any decisions I make will be on the spur of the moment, when I see a need and out of love. I won’t wish you all the best for the new year as the ‘new year’ means nothing to me but what I will wish is that your life will change for the better from this day forth and without the need to make resolutions, unless you absolutely swear by them!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 4, 2011
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It was around this time ten years ago that I decided to go for full transition. I had been out for three years to all my new friends and some others but not to my family although by this time they were aware of my dressing. I started the ball rolling by making an appointment with a laser clinic in Liverpool and the first session I think was on 19th December that year, 2001. I had much more to do and to make decisions about and all of that is recorded in one of my pages above so I won’t go into detail here. As soon as the Christmas and New year celebrations were over I set about doing what I had to do and I then had the daunting task of telling my wife and family. That too is detailed in my page above. I am in my tenth year now as a fully transitioned female and although many things have changed about me I remain just the same inside. The real me, my spirit, the person writing down all of this is the same one that used to play in the street with other children sixty years ago, who went to school, who was bullied, who made something of a life, got married had children, got divorced and is still plodding along as best she can. Yes, nothing has changed inside for me over the last ten years or even over the last sixty-six years but the outside has changed dramatically. I live my life differently in some respects than I did ten years ago but the basics remain the same. I sit here reflecting on what has happened in my life and I wonder if I could have made a difference to the way things turned out. Probably yes, I could have but would it have made any real difference to me, the person inside? To the outside world we change, we fit in or we adjust so that we are happy with life. With me, ten years ago I had to make another of those changes so that I could remain happy. In doing that though made changes to other things, not least of all relationships. Not my marriage, that had died five or six years earlier and for other reasons but relationships with others did change in some cases. I never had many friends throughout my life. When I was young I had one friend but I moved house and we lost contact. He tried to re-establish that friendship some seven years or so later but I wasn’t interested, I had become very anti-social. From that point onward I never had friends by my own choice until I got married when we both shared the new friends we had made during the previous two years. Again, we moved on and lost those friends due to the pressures of life. When we divorced I had no friends apart from the one girl I had met in Spring of 1999 whilst out socialising as Shirley Anne. We have remained friends ever since but we don’t see much of each other now. Other friends either live too far away or have dropped off the radar. My family is dispersed and for the most part out of contact. I wrote a letter to one of my sisters some weeks ago but she couldn’t be bothered to write back. My children have flown the nest and I get to see them quite often but fleetingly. Basically I have nobody at all except my ex who for the moment is not very close at all. Am I better off now than when I was ten years ago? In some ways absolutely! In other ways no! That’s life and try as I may to change things it doesn’t always mean that it will improve. A happy and sad Shirley Anne at the same time.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 27, 2011
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Do you find it easy to say the word no? Well obviously you don’t but if it was a question of letting someone down would you reconsider or would that depend on circumstances? I always remember my pastor saying ‘there is nothing wrong in saying no’. In church life you will find many people offering their services freely to benefit the church or the members in it and sacrificing their own time to do so but there comes a time when it is right to say no. At the other end of the scale you will also find those in the church who cannot find it in their heart to say yes. Overdoing things isn’t really a good idea for anyone, we all need time to ourselves to recharge our batteries as it were so that when the time comes to do our bit we are capable of doing it! I am at that stage in my life whereby I can say no more often in my occupational work which theoretically makes me more available for other things. I have to decline work for fear of burning myself out. People telephone me asking if I will do some electrical work for them and I have to make a quick decision as to whether I will take on the work or not. That depends on a few factors, one, the location; many people live outside my catchment area, that is the area in which I am prepared to work for it to be cost-effective or even desirable. Two, how much work I have scheduled. Three, how much work I have already done during that week; I need to find time for myself too. So sometimes I say no and have to make an excuse for saying so. When anyone asks something of me I have to make a decision one way or the other and that is true in anything in my life and no doubt in yours too. The thing is, do you feel guilty when saying no or can you justify your decision to yourself for saying no? Family members are sometimes the worse offenders for asking favours and making demands on your time but we make exceptions for them, sometimes to our detriment! So saying no shouldn’t be a problem for any of us and we certainly shouldn’t feel guilty for it, unless we are just being lazy!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 25, 2011
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I used to be a person who despised watching soap operas on television but in more recent times I find myself watching one or two of them. The most striking thing I notice in these programs is the way they portray how people deal with each other, more specifically how they treat each other. They say that soap operas are not true to life but in fact they are very much true to life. Admittedly much is crammed into the episodes and much is going on between the characters but when we analyse it all we can see that the things that go on are the same things that most of us experience or have experienced in our own lives. I wonder why people treat other people the way they do. Some people get along with almost anyone, others find it difficult to get along with anyone at all. People can be horrible toward some and yet at the same time be nice to others. Why are people horrible toward others and what pleasure do they get out of putting another down? As human beings we can be both nasty and kind, selfish and unselfish and we are selective in which is dealt to whom. What makes us hate one person and like another, be kind to one person and leave another out of it? If we analyse our behaviour we might find that we treat others in a way which is dependent on what we might gain from it. If someone is different from us we are often cautious in dealing with them but all the time we are looking to see what effect they will have upon us, whether beneficial or otherwise. We may not think about these things, they just come naturally. So when I look at soap operas do I see aspects of my own personality being portrayed or do I feel that I act in a completely different way? Do we think we have faults that should be worked upon or do we feel we are not behaving badly? Do we really treat our neighbours as we would have them treat us? Do we really love as we ought or do we select whom we should treat preferentially?
Shirley Anne
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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.
Shirley Anne
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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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