I have woken this morning truly feeling sore and slightly battered. We went tubing/skiing yesterday at the local dam. Deciding to make the most of the dwindling summer days. Ordinarily I sit on the side lines and watch. Enjoying the day of being by the water something I have truly come to miss since moving to the country. I read, watch and clap at the tricks performed and falls of the boys as they have fun on the water although if I’m truthful I have just always been too scared to go tubing. The speed in which they travel behind the boat, flip and fall into the water terrified me. Yet yesterday my soon to be sister in law said to me…come on with me? Our relationship has had a rocky past but we have with age and understanding of each other have turned a corner and to show her that we were united in this family and that I like her so much that I was willing to put my neck on the line for her. So in the spirit of wanting to try new things and all that stuff; I swallowed my fear and with my own advice went with the flow.
So what can I say? Pelting along behind the back of the boat on the water at 45 kilometres an hour riding the waves on a piece of blown up rubber…was so much fun. Yet like all most things that are fun (one too many red wines: hang over, dancing until 3 am: tiredness, chocolate: weight gain..you get the picture) there is a throwback; I have muscles I never knew I had that god intended me to never no about. I have skin off my elbows from trying to grip the biscuit with every inch of my body; although given the raised eyebrows at school drop off today I don’t think they really believe me. I look like a mess but the falling off part was the just as much fun..Why I was frightened I have no idea but isn’t that always the way?
So whilst I whinge and complain about how sore I am here are my few things for the week:
1. My teenage girl leaves this week. I shall miss her; well she only lives next door but it’s been excruciating and fun all at the same time. I now know what I have to look forward to and I can’t wait seriously..
2. My mother arrives this evening after we discovered we had enough frequent fliers for her to fly down from Darwin. I can’t wait to see her.
3. My husband’s cousin the one I signed up to E-Harmony has started a ‘conversation’ with a young lady named Yasmine. She is 33 and happens to live in my small town..freaky but despite there only being 600 people here I don’t know her. I have with his permission hacked his account to have a squiz. She is cute and her profile is great and I am resisting the urge to face book her..That maybe crossing the line…
4. My B3 has started talking about the Defa Dog we put to sleep the day after B3 was born; we had too. Defa was suffering from dog dementia (yes true) and had bitten us many times and we finally come to terms he was sick not getting better and couldn’t risk him biting the kids. It was the hardest thing we have ever had to do and I had asked my husband to do it when I was away. Defa was an amazing animal when he was well and too when he was sick. A border collie he was so smart often too smart for his own good. So for B3 to be talking about Defa almost four years later like he knows him, its freaky but I believe in those sorts of things. I know many don’t believe and feel free to call me crazy but it makes me feel better that Defa Dog knew we were doing what was best for our family which of course included him. I know he knows that because B3 told me yesterday as I buckled him into the car that Defa was barking all the time and was happy.
5. Do you decorate the house for Easter? I don’t but it seems thanks to pintrest it could be an emerging trend..Is spot light pintrest major backer I wonder?
6. Stay at home mum is my newest website to stalk head here for some GREAT money saving recipes.
7. Due to my dating of many dubious men *sigh* yes what can I say I was young and stupid I have seen my fair share of blue movies, porn , movies with adult content whatever you want to call them. It’s not my thing at all I don’t have an opinion at all but having said that do think they give men a unrealistic idea of women and sex; so when I came across Melissa Murphy ‘the makeup artist to the porn star’s’ before and after images I couldn’t help but look. And ladies you will be pleasantly surprised that they really do look like you and me. Gentlemen the fantasy is just about to end..thank god. Images here.
8. Ten years ago I went to Amsterdam and took a wonder through the red light district and even went to a sex show (it was part of the contiki tour don’t judge me it was not what I thought it was) it was the most surreal thing I have ever been to in my life. I thought it would be a little strip, slap and tickle. No it was not. It was sex on stage in front of me. I had paid to watch people have sex. OMG. I have never laughed so much in my life. These sex shows, sex shops and prostitutes are common place in Amsterdam, they are so comfortable with it and more so with themselves. It was normal to see young children wonder around the red light district with their parents like it was a family outing. So reading that Louise and Martine Fokkens two 70-year-old twins who are believed to be Amsterdam’s oldest prostitutes and after more than 50 years on the job — and approximately 355,000 men between them — have decided to retire does not surprise me. Apparently some sexual positions were causing their arthritis’s to much pain. Yep that’s when I would give it up. Read more about here.
9. Fourteen patients have had their HIV go into remission. How exciting is that? Read more about it here.
10. I don’t know what’s more important to post… Kym Kardashians vampire facial (she can’t Botox while pregnant so why wouldn’t you cover your face in your own blood?) or the fact that Katie Price is pregnant again…
And just because it’s important and I did consider putting it up as Support Sunday but for those who are having trouble dealing with the fact that the twilight series is over there is now a UK hotline..Phone number is here.
Do you believe in the after life? Ever been to a sex show? or when was the last time you tried something new? Tell me in the comments would love to know.
So that’s it my friends. Have a fantastic Monday,
xxDeb
