Well, wouldn’t you just know that i can never let a thing lie…
Last week, after the very unsatisfactory phone call in which i protested against Wonderboy being given 15 unauthorised absences, i wrote an exceedingly long email to the school. Today it resulted in a 15 minute telephone conversation with i think, the deputy head [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 30, 2008
Wonderboy update
June 29, 2008
ketch-up!
I’m kind of in denial that i have a blog to maintain at the present.
There’s a lot going on, but even when there isn’t, frankly i feel less and less inclined to blog. I think it’s just a general feeling of being overwhelmed combined with a little bit that i am thinking yet again of [...]
June 24, 2008
Getting plastered.
I waited. Nobody came until almost 11am. And that was to tell me that they would not be working today.
Then, just to confuse me, at 2pm they came back and said they might work for an hour or two.
Then they went to sit in their white van for 30 minutes.
They stayed for 1.5 [...]
June 23, 2008
Fun Day!
Oh what a jolly time i have had today, my friends!
Waiting in the house for the plasterers to arrive…
9am came and went
so did 10am
so did 11am
I called their supervisor, the one with the unbuttoned shirt and the grey chest hair…
I left a message asking him to call me back
12noon came and went
so did 1pm
and 2pm
Did [...]
June 21, 2008
Oh Happy Days!
Little did i know of the gastranomic delights I would be exposed to since the work on the house meant that almost the entirity of our meals would be heated in the microwave that has now become a as much a fixture in our living room a my nice Masons Ironstone oranamentals previously were.
On our [...]
June 19, 2008
Sanctimonious squabbling
Just a few thoughts before i go to bed….(so i hope they have some semblence of clarity about them).
1). I don’t care which way you cut it , slice it and dice it…I will never accept the skewed viewpoint of those Catholics who propose that it is better or somehow superior to attend a TLM [...]
June 18, 2008
Let’s talk about sex (Adult Content, kinda)
O my goodness!
You know how I told you that the workmen were coming in today?
Well actually they should have been in on Monday but it was delayed as there has to be an asbestos check on the house…so some other work is being started as of today. Well, at 8.10am the first guy came [...]
June 17, 2008
Any literature giants out there?
Copyright of Debbie Scalise 2008
Paul posted F. W Faber today and it sparked something in my mind. Many years ago, when I was involved in the cult…(23 years ago to be precise)… I made a little encouragement card for myself, using a coloured pencil, a pen, a scrap of card and a poem that [...]
June 16, 2008
It’s because she loves me of course, but…
Ah…chocolate hob nobs!….I saw some in the supermarket the other day and was just about to put a pack in the trolley when my daughter discouraged me from buying them. I tell you what, supermarket shopping with my daughter is like shopping with the grocery police! And do i ever feel like a naughty [...]
June 15, 2008
The Ten Minute Meme
Many thanks to Esther and to Cathy for the tag.
The Rulez…name 10 People you’d like to spend 10 minutes with:
Well my responses are largely predicatable!
1. Jesus
2. Pope Benedict XVI
3. PJPII
4. Henri Nouwen
5. St. John Vianney
6. Myself as a teen….maybe I could talk some sense into me?
7. Steve
8. G. K. Chesterton
9. St. Bernadette
10. My [...]
June 14, 2008
Bloggy Giveaway Time!
Well, it’s been a while since I ran a giveaway on the blog, so how about it?
Are you up for it?
I especially wanted to do this now because I am so very appreciative of the encouragement, support and prayers of all my dear blog readers. It sounds cheesy to say that it means more to [...]
June 12, 2008
Bamboozled
It seems like i’m whining a helluva lot lately.
I’m sorry about that.
So many things are going wrong in my life at the moment. It feels like everything is completely out of control for the most part and to make matters worse, I’m feeling utterly gutted that something that looked like it had the potential to [...]
June 12, 2008
I’m hooked, on Facebook
I’m going to take a leaf out of Adrienne’s book and say that Facebook can be a lot of fun.
I’m also going let you in on something… lots of bloggers have signed up to Facebook in the last week or so and we’re all having a scream over there!
So if you aren’t on Facebook already, [...]
June 11, 2008
On my mind this morning….
My son’s hospital appointment came through…but wouldn’t you just know it….it was for a date when we are going to be on holiday (vacation) so i telephoned the hospital to see if i could change the appointment to a day before the holiday….well, there are a lot of sick kids unfortunately, so unless it’s an [...]
June 9, 2008
Primadonna’s tip to domestically challenged,unmarried women
I admit that I’m not the most meticulous housekeeper in the world and I make no excuses for it because as i’ve said before, I never have liked show homes and prefer the more lived in look…and that’s maybe just as well because the latter, my family achieves rather effortlessly.
However, sadly all my attempts [...]
June 8, 2008
Sifting the wheat from the chaff
During the last year or so I have made a considerable amount of changes in my life.
When I first became aware that I needed to make these changes, it came as something of a shock because as a creature of habit, change has never been something I have welcomed. At least, not the big changes [...]
June 8, 2008
Novena to St. Therese
Therese is encouraging us to pray the Novena to St. Therese for bloggers intentions, starting tomorrow. I created a couple of St. Therese E-cards a while back, so I thought it would be nice if you could send a friend this e-card during the 9 days of the novena.
Click the images to visit [...]
June 6, 2008
The First Theme Meme
Jean tagged me for this meme.
Just write down what you did first today…
The first thing I thought today: “ugh!….dog butt”
The first thing I ate today: a cheese sandwich
The first thing I drank today: a cup of tea
The first thing I said today: “Shift Bella!…to my dog who had unbeknownst to me in the night, [...]
June 4, 2008
Photographs of Lillies
I shall never marry unless my future husband accepts that I will always love my camera, my laptop and my photo editing software more than I could ever love him. He must also understand that it is absolutely essential to let me fiddle around with all three of these for many hours each day, because [...]
June 4, 2008
If I climb to the heavens you are there….
Copyright of Debbie Scalise 2008
To send this as an e-card, click above image to visit my E-Card site.
June 3, 2008
Bouquets of Love
The above snap is of some of my beautiful birthday flowers.
Fortunately for me there were so many flowers in the bouquet I received…but rather unfortunately (when will I ever learn!) …I had all to few vases to put them in (I’m NOT complaining that I was sent an abundance of flowers, mind you!).
The [...]
June 1, 2008
Forty is a Fabulous Number!
I’ve heard all the jokes and jibes about becoming 40…and I’ve smiled and listened good naturedly, all the while not worrying that I was going to be of an age that many women dread….and d’you know why I’m not worried about turning forty today?
It’s because if I’m getting older it means I’m still alive!
It means [...]
