Well my intention to record 2008 expired by 4th January! As for my great plans to organise, tidy up, get on track, be creative, become thin and do something special - some of it happened, and some of it didn't. In so many ways I'm still stuck in a rut, yet in many ways I've had a ball. A year of Fizz,Bomb and Splat!
Cheerio 2008- bring on 2009!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
366 - A Journal of 2008
I don't usually keep a diary. This year is going to be different though. This year is special. Next December, God Willing, my Darling Husband and I will celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary (surely not, you are clearly so youthful, I hear you cry. Yeh, yeh, I was a child bride. Kidnapped by West Bromwich Albion fans at the age of 12 and sold into marital labour for a cheese bap and a Firkins mock cream chocolate eclair, brainwashed and hypnotised into thinking I was 10 years older!)
Anyway, I don't want to miss the moment so have decided to big it up and have 'A Year of the Silver Wedding'. This entails forcing DH to take me out lots, attempting to reduce my vast girth so that I can go on a cruise up the Fjords without the Captain insisting I stand stock still in the middle of the ship to save overturning it, to look back at our journey so far and to record the coming year together. I hope this will be a time of reflection, of taking time to really appreciate each other and sharing a new level of physical and spiritual togetherness as we embark on a new stage of or relationship.
Or I might just tell him to f*@! Off!
I'll record our year, and my attempts at finding a greater sense of personal well being here. I'll be inspired by the 365 Day Challenge set by Anna Louise Bowkis. Anna will provide prompts and challenges for photographs and journalling each day this year.
So here goes...
Prompts 01.01.2008: "A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charles Chaplain
What are your goals for 2008?
My Goals.
I aim to :
* Look younger,feel fitter and be healthier on 01.01.2009 than I do today
* Get rid of the huge amount of blubber I'm dragging around with me once and for all ( see A-Z Of Dieting)
* To be creative, rather than just thinking about being creative. This will entail using some of that precious stash which in turn may require some sort of therapy if the resulting trauma of cutting up my beautiful papers (as opposed to just stroking them) proves too much to handle.
* Sort out my flaming finances
* To appreciate each day
* To get our house in order and make it truly my home
* To give time to nurturing my marriage
* To celebrate our marriage in a significant way
* To find inner peace and recognise me as the woman I once was
Well- can't be sitting here all day. Need to get going on the above
xxxxx
Prompt 2- 01.2008
It's been a good day today. Quiet, with family relaxed all around. If I could just stay here, listening to the laughter, and not looking at the undusted surfaces and shut out the demands of real life everything would be alright. I can pinpoint the exact moment I became so scared. The milisecond when my life changed forever and I knew that it's not always alright in the end. Even so, 6 years on- it really is time I pulled myself together.
Peace and hope
-Gabby xxx
Anyway, I don't want to miss the moment so have decided to big it up and have 'A Year of the Silver Wedding'. This entails forcing DH to take me out lots, attempting to reduce my vast girth so that I can go on a cruise up the Fjords without the Captain insisting I stand stock still in the middle of the ship to save overturning it, to look back at our journey so far and to record the coming year together. I hope this will be a time of reflection, of taking time to really appreciate each other and sharing a new level of physical and spiritual togetherness as we embark on a new stage of or relationship.
Or I might just tell him to f*@! Off!
I'll record our year, and my attempts at finding a greater sense of personal well being here. I'll be inspired by the 365 Day Challenge set by Anna Louise Bowkis. Anna will provide prompts and challenges for photographs and journalling each day this year.
So here goes...
Prompts 01.01.2008: "A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charles Chaplain
What are your goals for 2008?
My Goals.
I aim to :
* Look younger,feel fitter and be healthier on 01.01.2009 than I do today
* Get rid of the huge amount of blubber I'm dragging around with me once and for all ( see A-Z Of Dieting)
* To be creative, rather than just thinking about being creative. This will entail using some of that precious stash which in turn may require some sort of therapy if the resulting trauma of cutting up my beautiful papers (as opposed to just stroking them) proves too much to handle.
* Sort out my flaming finances
* To appreciate each day
* To get our house in order and make it truly my home
* To give time to nurturing my marriage
* To celebrate our marriage in a significant way
* To find inner peace and recognise me as the woman I once was
Well- can't be sitting here all day. Need to get going on the above
xxxxx
Prompt 2- 01.2008
It's been a good day today. Quiet, with family relaxed all around. If I could just stay here, listening to the laughter, and not looking at the undusted surfaces and shut out the demands of real life everything would be alright. I can pinpoint the exact moment I became so scared. The milisecond when my life changed forever and I knew that it's not always alright in the end. Even so, 6 years on- it really is time I pulled myself together.
Peace and hope
-Gabby xxx
Fizz- New Beginnings!
New Years Eve. and I'm buzzing!
My enthusiasm and sense of anticipation for the wonders 2008 may bring swelled with every thunder clap and flash of the amazing crescendo of fireworks surrounding us at midnight. For the fifth year now I stole a moment away from the throng and raised my glass to toast my mum and dad, their loss no less sharp now than then, and with eyes cast skyward smiled and told them out loud that this year would be one to cherish.
It felt fresh and new, this 2008. I felt good. FIZZ !.
Oh, here it is. New Years Day.
All real and pretty much looking like 2007- but in the cold light of English January daylight, even worse. There is not a room in the house that isn't in chaos, the bills are still mounting up on the side, the bathroom is still not fitted, the dogs still bark way too much, I still have to go back to work on Monday, I'm still very, very, fat and worse still, much worse, I look so old!
SPLAT!!!
WARNING: A middle aged woman located in Central England exploded today. The unidentified device, located in her head, went off completely without warning, causing havoc within her immediate vicinity and minor injury to any one within screaming distance. A spokesperson for the family said:
" After maintaining a suitable distance for some hours we distracted her by reminding her she had a three course meal to cook for visitors whose arrival was imminent. By peeling the spuds and sneakily refilling her wine glass when she wasn't looking, further mayhem was avoided. However, it should be noted that further explosions in the future cannot be ruled out . The woman has been relabelled as 'Volatile' and any person suspecting possible incendiary activity should leg it'- pronto."
2.1.2008.
After having what I can only describe as panic attacks all night long, I started the day feeling sick and with a terrible pain in my left buttock and going down my left leg. Took horse type pain killers and got on with the day. Despite yesterdays outburst, when I realised the true enormity of the uphill struggle of getting my life on track is, I actually had had a productive evening.
I like to be productive - creative and have for three years now tried to develop some creative skills. I believe everyone has a talent, I just haven't found mine yet. While I'm looking I have been trying to develop some creative skills. I have found that whilst I really am not very skilled the act of creating things is the most therapeutic and rewarding activity. I can lose myself for hours once I get into the zone. FIZZ!
On the downside it is really easy to buy lots of stuff ( known in the trade as 'Stash') and not find time to use it. Funnily enough, there is always time to buy more. More beautiful papers ( which are too exquisite to cut), more glorious embellishments ( which are too precious to use)- more paint, stickers, glues, tools, templates, rubber stamps ( oh my , rubber stamps! Do you have any idea how many rubber stamps there are in the world? And I simply must have all of them)inks, magazines, brushes, sponges, books, albums, canvasses. This is okay if you're a LRB (Lucky Rich Bitch) but if you're a JIC (Jealous Impoverished Cow) like me you've soon bankrupted the whole family and filled the entire house with (very pretty) clutter. So much so that even if you had time to use it you couldn't because you can't find what you need in the European Craft Mountain.(ECM). Yes it's true. I am a craft retailers dream. A shameless, pitiful addict. SPLAT!
Yet there is light at t'end of tunnel!
This year I will try to keep three creative journals. These journals will give me the chance to improve my skills, motivate me to be creative ( yes I may start to chisel away at the ECM), help me set goals, record a very important year in my life (I'll tell you why it's important another time )and open up a whole new world of cyber friendship. FIZZ!
I 'll try to upload photo's here and to record stuff for my journals here. I'd like to have three separate sections but that is much too technical for me (don't even know if it is possible!). As I say I am old and obviously a Luddite.
My Journals will be:
Now I'm off to start on the physical journals.
See you soon
xxx
My enthusiasm and sense of anticipation for the wonders 2008 may bring swelled with every thunder clap and flash of the amazing crescendo of fireworks surrounding us at midnight. For the fifth year now I stole a moment away from the throng and raised my glass to toast my mum and dad, their loss no less sharp now than then, and with eyes cast skyward smiled and told them out loud that this year would be one to cherish.
It felt fresh and new, this 2008. I felt good. FIZZ !.
Oh, here it is. New Years Day.
All real and pretty much looking like 2007- but in the cold light of English January daylight, even worse. There is not a room in the house that isn't in chaos, the bills are still mounting up on the side, the bathroom is still not fitted, the dogs still bark way too much, I still have to go back to work on Monday, I'm still very, very, fat and worse still, much worse, I look so old!
SPLAT!!!
WARNING: A middle aged woman located in Central England exploded today. The unidentified device, located in her head, went off completely without warning, causing havoc within her immediate vicinity and minor injury to any one within screaming distance. A spokesperson for the family said:
" After maintaining a suitable distance for some hours we distracted her by reminding her she had a three course meal to cook for visitors whose arrival was imminent. By peeling the spuds and sneakily refilling her wine glass when she wasn't looking, further mayhem was avoided. However, it should be noted that further explosions in the future cannot be ruled out . The woman has been relabelled as 'Volatile' and any person suspecting possible incendiary activity should leg it'- pronto."
2.1.2008.
After having what I can only describe as panic attacks all night long, I started the day feeling sick and with a terrible pain in my left buttock and going down my left leg. Took horse type pain killers and got on with the day. Despite yesterdays outburst, when I realised the true enormity of the uphill struggle of getting my life on track is, I actually had had a productive evening.
I like to be productive - creative and have for three years now tried to develop some creative skills. I believe everyone has a talent, I just haven't found mine yet. While I'm looking I have been trying to develop some creative skills. I have found that whilst I really am not very skilled the act of creating things is the most therapeutic and rewarding activity. I can lose myself for hours once I get into the zone. FIZZ!
On the downside it is really easy to buy lots of stuff ( known in the trade as 'Stash') and not find time to use it. Funnily enough, there is always time to buy more. More beautiful papers ( which are too exquisite to cut), more glorious embellishments ( which are too precious to use)- more paint, stickers, glues, tools, templates, rubber stamps ( oh my , rubber stamps! Do you have any idea how many rubber stamps there are in the world? And I simply must have all of them)inks, magazines, brushes, sponges, books, albums, canvasses. This is okay if you're a LRB (Lucky Rich Bitch) but if you're a JIC (Jealous Impoverished Cow) like me you've soon bankrupted the whole family and filled the entire house with (very pretty) clutter. So much so that even if you had time to use it you couldn't because you can't find what you need in the European Craft Mountain.(ECM). Yes it's true. I am a craft retailers dream. A shameless, pitiful addict. SPLAT!
Yet there is light at t'end of tunnel!
This year I will try to keep three creative journals. These journals will give me the chance to improve my skills, motivate me to be creative ( yes I may start to chisel away at the ECM), help me set goals, record a very important year in my life (I'll tell you why it's important another time )and open up a whole new world of cyber friendship. FIZZ!
I 'll try to upload photo's here and to record stuff for my journals here. I'd like to have three separate sections but that is much too technical for me (don't even know if it is possible!). As I say I am old and obviously a Luddite.
My Journals will be:
- A-Z Of Dieting -A Weight Losers Journal featuring my Big Bum!
- 366- A Journal of 2008 with prompts and challenges set by Anna*
- A-Z of Simple Pleasures- An Art Journal**
Now I'm off to start on the physical journals.
See you soon
xxx
Friday, December 21, 2007
First the Fizz & Then the Splat !
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