Playlist

Random post. Another one, I know. Sorry :(

Weather is supposedly raining on Tuesday, I hope not - please say that have it wrong. That's gramp's funeral day.

I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
Broken Strings - James Morrison and Nelly Furtado
Circus - Britney Spears
Beggin' - Madcon
One Step at a time - Jordin Sparks
Bruises - Chairlift (from the nano advert)
Let Your love flow - The Bellamy Brothers (from the Barclays advert - it rules, I'd love to get home that way!)

Other random things, I've watched TONS of Brian Conley adverts. Scary thing is, when some of the poems from the Larry The Loafer section (awww :heart: Larry!) I STILL remember by heart :)

My classmate Trev sat next to me
my god he didn't half honk
He had this really dreadful smell
which got right up my conk
His breath stank like raw onions
his feet like god knows what
His armpits ponged of mouldy cheese
whenever they got hot
But last week Trevor moved away
and went and joined class three
the trouble is, the smell's still there
which means it must be me!

Little Bo Peep couldn't find her sheep
when she woke up under a hedge
They were down at the shops, cut up as chops
next to the frozen veg!

Yeah, try and get me to learn "Monday's child..." poem while at school and I couldn't do it. Replay Brian Conley over and over til I wore out the tape, and 17 years later, I can still remember those poems from memory lol!
I'm off down nan's tomorrow, My mum went down on Thursday and she said all the adults (ie, gramp's biological children, and my nan's kids - my aunt, uncle and dad) have to be there at 1pm... and no kids (yes, we're still referred to as "kids" even though I'm 26 and my older cousins are in their 30s LOL) but mum mentioned me and I'm allowed to go.

I had a random idea of doing a sort of documentary of my family. I printed a ton of sheets off for my family but none of them have filled them in. This really upset me as there's so much about my gramp I never got to find out about before he died and I swore that wouldn't happen after I planned on interviewing my great nan and then she died.

Smile

Cos Brian Conley rules, I had a huge crush on him when I was 9 lol. The best bit is from 2:12, and you HAVE to watch the wong at the end. Laugh!



And Septic Peg with the real Mystic Meg :)

Saturday

It was nice to see everyone today, I saw Sarah down nan's house. But it didn't feel right.

I'm just waiting for a call so I can head over to mum's house and pop next door to get some shots of the baby nursery and then I can start on my nephew's scrapbook. Stewart started drawing the mural on the wall so it won't be "complete" if you catch my drift, but I helped him build the cot on Tuesday. We had to do something to keep us busy and I wanted to be with family, but I will show off the photos here :)

Oh and that design course I did back last year, I will have to remember to post a video up flicking through my folder for you all to see, as I won't be sharing all the layouts and I wanted to post like a "thank you" to our teacher, Cathy, as if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have all these memories captured. But oh boy! The album is huge and heavy lol. I tell you, American Crafts 12x12 albums are the way to go :) I love that system.

Love you gramp

4.30 ish this morning my parents had a call to say my gramp had passed away. He went in for his pacemaker to be fitted yesterday which he's been waiting for ages to have done.

I had a complete breakdown when my mum told me, she called me at 6.20am thinking that I had my alarm set for 6am, when it's actually 7am, but I immediately knew when I did 1471 and it was my mum's number that it couldn't be good news.

The last thing he said to me (on Sat) was asking me if I was happy (normally he quickly retorts: "we'll soon sort that out!" lol) but he just smiled and asked me how Gareth was, he gave me a big hug and kiss and I told him I'd see him on Saturday, as I do every single week.

Even Stewart is really upset. I'm just trying to keep myself busy between the tears and I've gone through all my old photos for any photo I could find with him in it. Waiting for a call from Stewart or something.

Snow :)

What a week everyone has had! Monday we awoke to lots of snow, Tuesday was more snow but it had melted by the afternoon. Wednesday was just very icey, Thursday there was more snow but quite a bit had melted by the afternoon and then this morning was just... wow.

I've been leaving an extra 20 minutes in the mornings all week, and this morning it was blowing a blizzard. I had the local radio station on who were basically saying that you probably shouldn't even bother going out lol. We had obviously run out of grit around these parts and the roads were just a complete nightmare. I rang work to find out who was in... I was so sorely tempted to ring in to work and tell them I was turning around because no one was moving anywhere. But I braved it. Only 5 minutes late, where the poor 9am starters were 20 minutes late.

All photos are from various days this week:






Even though I was peeved that I had no work to do and I had to stay at work, the drive home was a dream as no one was out! Apart from the snowy roads still though.