365: Day 105

Flossie loves the boy, and I think the feeling is mutual. They could happily spend the day cuddling up together, no problem.

365: Day 68

This little sweetheart is Flossie. She is a lovely little lady, and she has been looking after my Mum, who has been ill over the last few days. For me, a house is not really a home for me, unless there is a cat or dog present. (Preferably a cat, as I’ve never not had one…but dogs are growing on me now.)

Goodbye Sweetheart.

This morning, we had to put one of our beautiful cats to sleep. She was an old cat, just 18, but it is still such a hard thing to do. When we got her, and her brother, I was 4-years-old, and I’m now 22, so I pretty much grew up with them. Last year, in July, we had to put her brother to sleep, and later tonight we’ll be putting her to rest beside him in the garden; it’s going to be hard. Just trying to remember all the good memories, all her silly little characteristics and quirky ways. She loved shoes, we’d be forever finding her asleep on top of shoes, or even in the shoes sometimes! And she adored cardboard boxes for the last year or so, and she loved one of them so much that it became her bed. She was the kind of cat who loved being around people, and got very lonely, so she would always be with us; I used to love having her in my room all day, she would sleep the whole day on my bed and if I went out of the room she would follow me. Oh, damn, I’m really going to miss her so much. Here are a few photographs of the beauty…

Rest in peace, sweetheart, you will be missed terribly. I hope they have fish paste up there, and cardboard boxes and shoes too. Be nice to your brother! Love you so much, always will. Sweet dreams Georgie Lady, sleep tight x

Sleepy Cat

Hugs and Love

Good Morning Sunshine

The sunshine has come out to play this morning…and so has the camera!

Happy Inside

Saw this advert on TV last night…absolutely love it.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

P(urr)ondering…

I think I would quite like to be a cat. They curl up, wrap their tails around themselves and shut themselves off from the outside. Our three cats seem happy to sleep anywhere and everywhere! All three of them are so lovely…lovely, lovely, lovely. Whenever I’m getting ready to step out, I glance at them and wish I could just snuggle up with them all day long – although they probably wouldn’t like that, independent little things! (Sorry for the randomness, I’m feeling pretty random at the moment…)

Happy Days and Nights

Ready, steady…GO!

Let’s make December a good one. It’s the month when people start smiling at one another in the street…or at least, it does in London, when normally, Londoners avert eye-contact. Having said that, recently, the kindness of human nature has been surprising me…a lot. And I’m glad because it means that when you least expect it, someone will help you out. Today, for instance, le mere was trying to sort out her finances so that she has slightly heavier pockets ready for Christmas shopping…and the man she spoke to on the phone about her credit card payments, was, quite honestly, absolutely lovely with her. He advised her to do this and that and not to worry about the card payment, just to cancel the direct debit and focus instead on the mortgage and other bills. And this was coming from a well respected Bank, which is saying something Maybe we overlook the kindness of strangers sometimes because most of us were brought up with a “don’t speak to strangers” attitude, and up until recently, I had been following that rule – but mainly because it’s rather embarrassing when someone asks you for directions and you haven’t a clue what they’re asking for – maybe this is actually a PERK of being deaf though?

Yesterday was one of the best days I’ve had in ages. For a while now, I’ve been thinking about the old Uni bunch, and how much I was missing them and wanted to catch up with them – yesterday was this day. About an hour or so before we met up, I was getting slightly scared to be honest, because I hadn’t seen them in so long, at least not altogether, so was worried it’d be a bit overwhelming but it was absolutely lovely in the end. Just as I walked in to the theatre we went to, they all seemed to JUMP on me and cover me with hugs, forward, backward and side-ways! Seeing them, made me miss them even more but I’m not so sure if I miss the course though, despite them all saying that they’re enjoying it a lot more this year – but at the end of the day, it all comes down to personal experiences and the simple fact was, that I didn’t like the course itself, not the people though, and I hated being away from the friends and, most importantly, the family I had back home. Going away for University isn’t for everyone. But it’s nothing to be ashamed of! It’s important that you do whatever is best for you. I don’t, however, regret going away last year because I’ve met some amazing people and some of them will be friends for life. So, no, I don’t regret it one bit. I only wish that I had the courage to bite the bullet sooner and decide to leave before the summer term ended, because then I wouldn’t have been worrying throughout the last term about whether to leave or not – I would have just made my mind up and enjoy the last term. But, y’know, life is funny like that!

Today is my big sister’s 25th Birthday – Happy Birthday! Hope you get a lot of chocolate, and enjoy the company of the cats We’ve mainly been drinking tea and playing with the cats…it’s been nice so far…and tonight we’re either getting a Chinese take-away, or opting for a cheaper version from ASDA or Sainsbury’s and settling down to watch Coco Before Chanel, the men are just going to have to watch it – Birthday girl gets the dibs anyway!

And now, I’m feeling awfully hungry, so I think it’s time I went and got a bowl of pasta – what else?!

Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days… – Romeo & Juliet

(the meaning is referring to her Wedding night, but I like to think it’s also to do with finding happy nights and days…but hey, hum, everyone interprets things differently…)

Tell me facts…

Yep, listening to Bloc Party again…no change there. Really can’t wait to see them this month, it should be good. It’s a bit of a trek to get there but if it’s Bloc Party, I don’t mind at all. May see some old friends up there too.

Yesterday was an interesting day, for many reasons. Got started on the course I’m doing, so have been writing and making notes about work and when the best times to work would be…la la la. Then I decided to snap some more photographs of the jewellery stuff for the etsy.com website but I may post some of them on the wordpress blog (www.starsandrainbowsjewellery.wordpress.com). Used a pink background this time, it seems to show the colours more than the rainbow striped background, but I’ll still use that one from time to time.

Last night I got talking to an old friend. We had been out of touch since 2006, since we left secondary school (well, I left but most of my school friends stayed on for sixth form). It’s strange, whilst I’ve lost touch with the majority of friends from school, there’s a handful that I’ve managed to keep in touch with because of the wonders of online networking (facebook at the moment, used to be hooked on myspace though). But with this friend, for some reason we just completely lost touch which is a great shame I think. We were very close throughout the school years, she was my confidante and constant companion. She’s deaf too, so sometimes it helped to have someone in the same boat, we went through a lot of similar struggles at school, fighting others against our deafness – we were determined that being deaf made us no different from our hearing peers; at one point we had the slogan: I’m deaf, not dumb. Dumb seems to have changed meanings over the years. Originally it meant that you couldn’t talk, at least using speech, but these days a lot of people seem to use it as an alternative for the word stupid. So you may catch someone saying “You’re so dumb.” Which is strange considering what they really mean is “You can’t talk.” Years and years ago, deaf people used to be called “deaf and dumb” (in reference to the can’t talk meaning). If you were to call a deaf person “deaf and dumb” today, it would be politically wrong. I can recall coming across that description in a science text book at school once and we scribbled out the dumb bit.

It’s nice to catch up with old friends sometimes, to find out what they’ve been up to and what they’re doing with themselves. Sometimes it’s as if things change so much but yet some things stay the same. Does anyone else notice that? Especially with some friendships because sometimes daily life means you’re too busy to keep up with all your friends all the time, which means it may be ages before you see some of them but when you do it’s as if nothing has changed, despite the amount of time that has passed. But then again, as Lizzie In Wonderland has said before, there are some friends that just don’t seem to be fluent in conversation when you meet up…maybe because you’re not that close or just don’t feel that open with one another. Friendships can be confusing sometimes but at the same time, they’re pretty good. If you’re not arguing that is!

Last week I spent hours sorting my room out…but when I woke up this morning, it was messy again. Mother (I suspect) has moved boxes into my room. *Sighs* This sorting out just never seems to end. The cats don’t seem to mind though, the girls are fast asleep on my bed at the moment, lucky them. Have shifted through the majority of university stuff now, just a couple more boxes to go and then my room should be sorted once and for all! But there’s no room left at the moment, looks like I’m going to have to sort through some old stuff and see if there’s anything I should chuck out. Maybe a car boot sale would help?

Thought I’d post This Modern Love again…

To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
You’ve been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
I’ve been paid
I’ve been paid
Don’t get offended
If I seem absent minded
Just keep telling me facts
And keep making me smile
Don’t get offended
If I seem absent minded
I get tongue-tied
Baby, you’ve got to be more discerning
I’ve known never known what’s good for me
I will be yours
I’ll pay for you anytime
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Jump right on
Baby, you’ve got to be more discerning
I’ve known never known what’s good for me
Baby, you’ve got to be more demanding
I will be yours
What are you holding out for?
What’s always in the way?
Why so damn absent-minded?
Why so scared of romance?
This modern love breaks me
This modern love wastes me
Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Tell me facts, tell me facts, tell me facts
Tell me facts
Throw your arms around me

Have a great weekend everyone, where I’m off to, there’s no internet connection so this is the last you’ll be hearing from me until next week I think… Let’s keep our fingers crossed for good weather this weekend…or maybe I should just take my coat…and a hat…and scarf…and gloves. Oh, and boots.