Insomnia

I don't normaly get this but over the weekend I could not sleep.

I stayed up as was not tired at my normal bed time, which is normaly between about 10-11pm. Even my husband went to bed before I did. In the end I dragged myself up at 1am but still could not get to sleep.

I watched some anime, which for those of you that don't know is a Japanese form of animation. I got though almost a half a series and normaly when I do this I will get about 3 episodes watched before I fall asleep. But no luck this time.

I even went on twitter to see who was up. I think that night most of the people I follow were asleep. So not much going on there.

I even when dream house shopping on one of those property sites. I saw meny lovely properties but nothing that if I had the money I would buy.
Even this didn't help the getting to sleep.

Counting sheep was my next call as maybe I was getting too much stimulation from watching, tweeting and dream house hunting. This still didn't work.

I have also found that my hubby snores and so do both my cats who had gone to sleep at my feet.

By this time it was getting light then the next thing I know my alarm is going off, so I must have been so excusted that sleep just happened.

I still got it!

Well the other day I got wolf-whistled! I was coming back from the school run, it was sunny but cold so I still had my winter coat on. I can only think it was because I have dyed my hair a cherry red colour.

It kinda felt quite nice to have the attention. I know some women will find it sexist but it gave me a spring in my step. As you can tell this hasn't happend for quite a long time.

Think I'm starting to feel old. I was looking through some old photos I had taken for an acting agent, one of them below, and it feel like a lifetime ago. The other is a pic of me with my new hair colour.

Bread Making Again

Well I seem to have got into this habbit of making bread.

Today is my second loaf this week. I love that I know what ingredients have gone into it. None of these extra bits you get in normal packet bread. Don't get me wrong we do buy packet bread as it is easier all round to use and doesn't go hard as a rock after 24 hours.

But fresh baked bread is sooooo yummy.

No Hospital for a Year

Yesterday I had my 6 month pacemaker check up and all is well and nothing needs to be changed.

I was told that it has paced me over 1700 times and is working for about 6 hours a day.
All I can say to this is wow! I was also told that if it works at its current rate the battery will last 8 years now. It was 10 years at my six week check, they only had the six weeks fully working data at that point but now with 6 months data. It is amazing just how much data the pacemaker collects about me.

But before we went to the hospital we, hubby and the children, went to the Science Museum. As good as it was I think the children were a bit too young for it. Maybe in a few years we will go back and try again. The only thing that my son liked was the cars and the space part. Daughter was just bored and not very impressed.

Back to the hospital. It feels nice not to have to think about going to the hospital for a whole year. I never thought I would get to this point. I am a new woman and have even changed my hair colour. Just need a new proper hair cut now.

Don't you just love Twitter

I love it and have met some very friendly, lovely and all round nice people.

But there is a dark side too, things that come back to haunt you, so to speak. I am very careful with what I say and I work to the moto if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all.

If any one looked through my tweets you will find that I am very sweet to all. I try to help where I can, give moral support or just have a friendly chat. I do love to chat and my husband can confirm that I like to talk.

I have a love of musical theatre and I am lucky to be followed by a few people from this industry. Most of them are people from my fav musical The Phantom of the Opera,
they have either been in or currently in the show. It makes me smile when they follow me and it brightens up what have been some dark days. Especialy while I was collapsing all the time before my pacemaker was fitted.

I am also followed by a very lovely young lady who has a rare form of cancer and I have been following her tweets about her treatment in Germany. She has a very good out look on life for someone so young and I hope that this experimental treatment she is having works for her.

There have also been a few very sad stories, another child who I follow with the same condition as the young lady died not that long ago from the condition. It was with a very sad heart that I read what his mum wrote about him. His account is still active and run by his mum, I think it was always his mum who tweeted from the account, as a tool to help other people with the type on cancer her son had.

That is the thing about twitter you met some very lovely people who can inspire you. I'm not one for following celebraties but there are a couple who I do. One is Stephen Fry, well I think most people follow him. The only problem I have is that I follow about 400 people and sometimes if I don't regually check my time line I miss some tweets. These seem to be the funny ones too.

So I love twitter and would miss it if it ever went away.

Blackberry and Banana Muffins

Today I decied to use up the remaining fruit in my fridge. Looking in there I found some blackberries and then lookin in the fruit bowl on the kitchen top there was a banana.

I deceided to make some blackberry and banana muffins. Using a recipe that my sister gave me I replaced the chocolate with the blackberries and banana. The mixture was wetter than normal so I added a bit more flour and that helped very much. The colour is a very bright purple which all comes from the blackberries.

In the oven for 25minutes and out to cool down.

Easter

Well that is it over with for another year. Lots of chocolate eaten, see pic of my son below, still have more to eat though! Also see Easter Egg Corner pic below too.

As most of you know my daughter goes to a church school, which she loves. She has been telling me all about Holy Week, where Jesus has dinner with his friends, then is put on a cross with nails in his hands and feet. Also that he dies and then comes alive again on Easter Sunday so she can have chocolate eggs! Not sure she quite gets it but she is only four.

Now we have two weeks off school and I need to think of things to do with them. Could use some ideas.

One day I must repaint the bitumen on the bottom of my house as some of it is peeling off and I don't want any water getting in under my house. So that is one days job.

I would like to get the house painted but it is still too cold.