Happy Birthday Nikki Hope you have had a wonderful day so far and may many a good day follow you.
Love Ren
With the best of wishes for the rest of your birthday
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toomuchfandom's flist so copying the meme.SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
1) mummy....Mummy....MUMMY.... (the sprog obviously)
2) Real name (dad and hubby)and I generally sign emails as this when I write emails to close friends,rather than Ren.
3) Kags (family)
4) Ren (flist)
5) Mrs E
6) K1mono (LJ)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1) jeans
2) purple tee shirt
3) beige socks
THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1) Sprog (he's on a coach bound for home at present)
2) Hugs from said sprog
3) Winning lottery ticket
THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT
1) Went to visit my brother
2) Played on Farmville (to check on Sprogs crops)
3) Endeavouring to watch all 6 of Harry Potter films
THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1) Sprog (on coach from Heathrow to London Victoria)
2) Hubby (On coach from Heathrow to London Victoria)
3) Sprog (On coach from London Victoria to Liverpool)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1) Take hubby to coach station for trip back to London
2) Spend time with Sprog
3) Recover from day with sprog/get ready for sprog returning to school
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS:
1) Tea (the darker the better)
2) Earl Grey tea
3) Any type of tea to be honest.
THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:
1) My desperation at making sure Nat's crops on farmville are ok(what I do for my child)
2) Nat chatting to me on his way back from visiting in laws,and telling me that he is looking after his dad on the trip up,
3) Nat's bet on horse which won the Grand National.
thats it.... :)
Birthday Greetings for maubast
And Easter will soon be upon us. Nat breaks up on Friday, and Col will be arriving Tuesday night on the national express coach from Victoria Station. He wil be staying with us for the week and Nat will go back with him to see his other grandparents for a few days. we are both looking forward to seeing Col. Nat wants to show his dad his new school. Job hunting up here is on Col's agenda too. He wants to move up as quickly as he can but is realistic about it. So we ctually may not see him permanently up here for some time yet.
Sorry Nakeisha for the really odd email I sent you, it was in relation to an email I sent previously that you obviously did not recieve, apologies for the confusion. I have sent it out again and hopefully it will explain it all.
Everyone has the sniffles here, and Nat is appearing a little tired too, he was wandering round my bedroom about 6am this morning snuffling and feeling sorry for himself. However he still appears well enough to check his Dragons, and "FarmVille/Farm Town" thing on my Facebook account. Oh yes and still manage to play on his DS and Wii. Yet still expects his mother to drop everything if he so much as sneezes. He can think again if he believes he is staying of school for the rest of the week.
No sign of a job yet, got a few rejection letters. I am still looking, still applying but not having much success. As mum doesn't want me to give her any money for mine or Nat's keep, she is saving some for me.
My step-dad's son who is dabbling in the property business has told me to start looking for a place, but of course it all depends on how much I get from the government/job to see how much rent I can afford to pay. I really want to work but it looks like I am on the job seekers for now. I am also looking into what I am entitled to at the present time.
Nat is settling in very well. I went to a parent/teacher meeting and I got more information out of Nat's new teacher Ms McDermant at his two months there than I ever did at his old school. He is doing excellent at this new school, and is excelling at his lessons.
Thanks to my wonderful and thoughtful friends the_cornettist, toomuchfandom and amythest_n_ice for the lovely virtual gifts, much appreciated. Sadly at the min I can't return likewise.
My live journal account has gone to basic as I have cancelled my paypal account etc etc at my bank as I didn't want to incur charges re unpaid direct debits. Hopefully I can resume it when I am better of.
I admit I miss Beaconsfield a bit, due to the fact that I left Wirral 15 years ago to discover new things and I feel a bit of a failure that I have returned. Unsure as to why I feel this way, Wirral is a lovely place, it has its ups and downs of course like everywhere else. However I am happy to be back lovely to live by the sea again and visit old haunts. Most importantly its better for Nathan. He is loving it because of being surrounded by more family members.
On a completely unrelated note I finally managed to get a better signal to get online. Nat's bedroom in the front of the house gets a fantastic signal and so I find myself lying on his bed "surfing the net". Finally this means I can actually reinstall yahoo/msn to chat to my flist yay :))) big smilies.
Happy Mothers Day to those on my flist who have kids/dogs/cats, or anyone else who depend totally on you for guidence/feeding/grooming/taxi service/waitressing/housekeeping/cleanin
Car off to scrapyard this week. All they offered is £200 which is pretty low but beggers can't be choosers and I definately can't afford to repair it. It is 9 years old so it was never going to be worth more than a £1,000 anyway in good condition.
So Nathan and I are sad to see it go, however Nat has purloined the numberplate to remind him of the zafira.
Things going ok, still job hunting, still being kept by mum, so really need to get a job so I can contribute.
On a really good note I got £125.00 back on my car tax as it still had 7 months to go.
My dad who has been helping me with the car troubles has bought himself a caravan, which he hopes to keep in Malpas in Cheshire, as somewhere for the weekend. Its in great condition for its price, and he was thrilled with it.
He has said that Nat can go along with the other grandkids to stay for a weekend in the caravan which sleeps 4/5. Boy are my Dad and step mum looking for trouble with three grandkids and a hyper active border collie in a caravan for a weekend.
Nothing much else happening here.
Hope everyone in LJ land are doing fine and are in good spirits.
XXxx
I had to go to the lower site first to register Nat and buy a school jumper (lovely St George and the Dragon design), they said the upper site school was closed and I had to ring in after lunch to see if it was reopening for Tuesday 5th. Plus all Nat's stuff to sign was at the upper site. (So once it opened on Monday 11th finally I filled in all the appropriate forms etc.)
Durning that first week of January I rang up the school on the afternoon of the 4th to ask if it was reopening, but they said it was closed Tuesday and I would have to ring Wednesday after 2pm to see if it was reopening for Thursday.
Anyway of course like everywhere else in the country on Wednesday the 6th we got snow, not as bad as Holtspur was before Christmas but heavy nonetheless. It of course stayed and Nat was off for the rest of the week.
What with missing his last day at Holtspur and missing his first week at St Georges, Nathan thought it is his birthday.
Anyway we are nearly at the end of his first week of his new school and he has done very well,thanks to my step dad who has been letting me use his car to take and pick up Nat. It appears Nat enjoys the school but like the CIA it is very difficult to get any information out of him, but he hasn't been in tears or demanded to stay at home so he must be doing well.My weird offspring no doubt has traumatised his new classmates.
Nathan is used to a small class of 23 and only one year group, the new school has 3 year 5 groups and 34 in his class, despite this he is coping very well. He loves the school uniform of a polo shirt and blue sweatshirt, having had to tolerate a shirt and tie and proper school (expensive) jumper at his old one.
Although I have access to my step dad's car I haven't been out in it much especially over the last week with the snow fall. I am a bit hesitant in this weather as a result of smashing my own car, I don't want the same to happen with another car. The thing I worry about is braking and the brakes locking and ending up smashing that one too. I am not afraid to drive, but am not as blase as I used to be.
My car is likely to cost over £1,000 to repair and seeing it is about 9 years old and unlikely to be worth over a £1,000 anyway, I think it is headed for the scrap yard. Hopefully I will get a few bob for it, especially as the airbags didn't go off so it may go for a bit. I can then save up for a small runaround, that however will entail me getting a job, I am perusing the local papers and sending of for applications forms etc etc.
Hopefully things will go well this year, fingers crossed :)
Hugs to all.
Ren xxxxxxx
Yes I know I am 2 days late with the merriment, but what with moving from Beaconsfield it's been a frantic week.
Arrived at Mum's Monday 21st,my old Zafira crammed full of Nat's stuff and a few things of mine, besides the obvious lugguge. Glad to get here after the snow and ice, weather in Wirral better, cold but not snowing. Got settled in etc etc. The next day I decided to visit dad, who lives a few miles away from mum's.
Half way to dad's house it started to hailstone, the roads were covered in hailstones in seconds and as I got closer to dad's I noticed that there had been an earlier fall of hailstones, so I took it slow.
Unfortunately it didn't help as I was nearing a junction and my brakes locked,and wouldn't release. I had a moment to react and as I didn't want to end up careering towards oncoming traffic at the junction I had no alternative but to hit a brick wall.Thankfully no-one was behind or in front of me either on the road or the pavements. I wanted to stop before I hit the main road.
Nathan was ok, the wall was ok but my car is badly damaged, not sure whether it is a right-off or not, my brother's friend will check after new year.
Added to that I only had third party insurance, cos its far too expensive for fully comp and I couldn't afford it after paying out MOT, and car tax at the time so I can't claim for it.
But I am so bloody glad that Nat was unharmed, I must have been going slow not to knock down the wall, but the zafira took the impact, there asn't much impact inside the car, the airbags didn't even go off, Nat was shaken, but I was more concerned with him than the car.
It's sad if it is a right-off but it did its job of keeping us safe, but apparently that day was bad and icy roads everywhere.
A couple of cars were involved in a collision with each other (on the road I was avoiding hitting) a few minutes after I had my collision and a member of my family hit the back of a taxi in her car. My dad nearly went through red lights after sliding on the road on his way to rescue me, so all in all I think me and Nat had a bloody good escape, considering what would have happened had we not hit the wall and carried on to cause probable mayhem on the main road.
Anyay after all that a good Christmas as had by all and I hope that all my flist have a VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR :)
Love Ren xxxxxxx
