This song reminds me of our group holiday to Turkey. It was the last holiday that our big group of friends from school took together. We were already starting to split into our different groups from uni/work etc, but this holiday had some fab memories. Only me and Maureen could go to a holiday destination full of clubbers and glo-sticks and find the only indie, rock and metal pub for 200 miles. We were found bopping along to this on the tiny dancefloor every night for 2 weeks in the 90’s, and poor maureen bopped a bit too hard one night and cracked her head off the huge speakers above the dancefloor. Good times!

I know he’s a cocky wee bastard, but Tre is starting to grow on me. He won’t win though, there is too much winging it where he’s concerned. I have a horrible feeling that Kristina might go quite far, but that changes on a week to week basis, so here’s hoping she gets a chance to let her nasty streak out next week.

Still loving siralun.
Am tired tonight so that’s as much as I can muster. What a pathetic post.

A few years ago, I had a cyst on my neck. It started as a slight lump just where my thyroid gland is, and grew and grew, until I had to go to the doctors and get it seen. After many visits to thyroid clinics, scans then a needle biopsy, it turns out it was a developmental fluid filled cyst, and just “one of these things”. I had about 6 months before my initial doctors visit of varying stages of panic and worry about it, but there was always some excuse as to why I couldn’t go to the doctors. (It’s not bothering me, it isn’t that big really, I’m too busy at work etc etc) During my braver (stupider?) moments I’d sit online and Google “lump on neck”. Worst.Mistake.Ever. I was convinced I had all sorts of crazy neck and thyroid cancers, and death was imminent. It didn’t matter that 98% of people who contracted this particular type of cancer were men over the age of 75 who had prostate problems, I had it and I was going to die. Netdoctor is EVIL!
Anyway, the reason I was thinking about this today, is that my best friend is having a scary time at the moment. She has been experiencing numbness in her legs and pelvis for a couple of weeks now, and has been to see umpteen doctors, had scans, been to chiropractors, neurologists, and still nobody knows what is causing it. After she told me about it I was sitting online, and received a text from her “DON’T GOOGLE IT”. So obviously I had to, as she had obviously done before me. We are both so similar, and our sensible heads know it’s probably bruised or damaged nerves from over zealous sex or something, but I know exactly what she is going through at the moment. I just wish they’d find out what is causing it.

After reading Claire’s Musical Monday posts over on her blog, I decided it’d be fun to join in, and do a musical post every monday.

My first video is really to get it over and done with. Leonard Cohen is my musical and poetic hero, and has been for over 10 years. I first heard him when we all piled back to my friend Martin’s flat in Glasgow after a night at Rooftops club in Glasgow, I must have been about 19. He pulled out one of his old Leonard Vinyls and played it to us, and from that night on it was all we played when we got all together for post night out chilling.
I wanted to post “So Long, Marianne”, as that was our sing-along-at-the-top-of-our-voices favourite, and we might even have all stood in a circle swaying to is at some point too. (did I just write that?). Anyway, I couldn’t find a video of that, so here is “Bird on a Wire” instead, from the same album.

I was just testing out putting YouTubes on my blog for a friend, but thought I’d leave this here as it’s my fav one ever LOL.

Laziness doesn’t pay
Especially when applying Johnson’s Holiday Skin.
Especially when you only apply it to the lower 2/3 of your legs as you would never bare any further than your knees in public anyway.
Especially when you forget that you take your child swimming on Tuesdays.
DOH!