Laughter is the best medicine

I am still immersed in the dreaded lurgy.

I dutifully coughed and spluttered, with my hand over my mouth, but fingers splayed. in the waiting room at court yesterday so I just know that there will be quite a few people waking up today feeling like they are dying!! Well maybe that's just the men!

I finally was able to give my testimony as a witness. I was surprised by just how much I remembered considering it was nearly 2 years ago. It was a strange experience, one I am not in a hurry to repeat I have to say. The case was only part heard because the victim wants nothing to do with the case as she is still with the defendant and doesn't want to give evidence. Luckily her evidence is not needed.

So hopefully my bit is done now and I can move on as the whole thing was truly sucking my will to live!

Holly came home from school yesterday covered in little green stamps, all over her face.  She had been on the school sponsored walk and they get a stamp each time they reach a certain place in the route. Holly decided that she would get her face stamped this time, only she didn't think it through cos when she tried to take it off, it wouldn't budge.

Not good when we later had to nip out to the shops. I couldn't stop laughing and she was not impressed when she realised that it could be permanent! (This was me winding her up, tapping into her paranoia telling her that she would look like a goblin for quite a while!).

Tee hee hee, I am so bad but really, I can't help it, she is just so easy to tease.

After our purchases, she dragged me to Thorntons for an ice cream and we sat outside enjoying it. After a while she commented that "we must be nuts, sitting outside in the cold eating ice cream" and I laughed and said "it's not cold, it's roasting hot".  She gave me such a look and then said "well, duh, are you having a flush or is it one of your temperature spikes, cos you are still unwell ya know". I was most indignant at the "hot flush" reference and she fell about laughing as I then went into a coughing fit.

Within an hour of being out we had to head back cos I was feeling a bit dizzy. I hate feeling unwell, I hate that feeling of having no control over this body. I am sure it is a side effect from when I had chemo even though that was years ago.

Holly's boyfriend David was staying over last night. Usually he sleeps in the spare room when he comes to stay but now that room is where Diana sleeps. So last night he slept in Holly's bed and Holly kipped with me.

She was really starting to feel lousy by this time and tearful with it so I rubbed some vapour rub on her back and neck. Once I'd finished she just rolled over with her back to me.  "Eh, what about me" I spluttered and she turned her head and looked at me as if I had grown an extra head! "I thought that you were able to do it yourself" she laughed. "Yeah" I said "if I was a contortionist I could do my own back but I'm bloody not, so get on with it".

More giggling and then finally sleep. Not for long though as I woke to a hand slapping me on the side of the face. Then it's fingers ran around my face like a spider, finally stopping at my ears and one finger was unceremoniously shoved into my ear, waggled about until I yelled. At this point the hand, belonging to Holly withdrew and lay still.

This is why I hate it when she kips with me cos I usually end up being woken with a slap, an elbow to the face, being crushed as she ends up lying practically on top of me or she steals the duvet. The waggling of my ear is a new one which made us fall into heaps of giggles this morning when I told her all about it as she never remembers a thing.

Laughter is the best medicine don't you think?

Ugg!

Jack has totally smitten me with his dreaded lurgy!

All I can say is, if he feels anything as bad as me then he is such a little trooper. Holly now has it. We are dropping like flies in this house! I feel so bad that even chocolate tastes yucky! Now where's the fairness in that?

Today I have court again.....Grrrr!  My dad is looking after Jack til about 1pm so if the case hasn't been heard by then, I am not staying another minute longer. I am so fed up of the whole damn thing and I have lost all faith in the judicial system at this point.

So the only thing that is keeping me going at this point in time, is the amount of people I can pass my germs on to! Wicked eh?

Have a good day my little gigglers.

Little Miss Grumpy

I spent last night arranging child care for Jack this afternoon as I was going to be in court again.  I also had to rearrange my appointment for parents evening tonight as I knew that I could possibly be in court all day.

This morning, I hit the ground running so that I would get to court on time.  I arrived at court, windswept and interesting (very windy today) only to be told that the trial I was a witness to, was not on the list.

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I couldn't believe it!  The court official went off to find out what was happening and came back about 15 minutes later to say that the case had been cancelled and rescheduled for JULY!!! I could have screamed!

This is the second time I have had to attend court only for the case not to be heard.  It is frustrating to say the least and I am seriously beginning to wonder why I bothered.  It is no wonder people don't take our judicial system seriously when the courts themselves don't even bother to let witnesses know when there is a change of plan.  I am so annoyed! Can you tell???

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I am sure this is a ploy to make me forget what I saw but that makes me all the more determined to keep it at the forefront of my mind. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Now Lynne, calm down girlie.  Repeat after me - in with the love, out with the hate, in with the love..........
Phew, I feel better now.

On a happier note, it's Pancake Day today  (nom nom nom) and I will have to wait til about 9.30pm for mine as Holly is home at 3.45pm, just in time to get changed then out again from 4 til 9.15pm.  Busy busy girl so of course, I can't have them without her cos she would kill me!  Or maybe we will just have them tomorrow as Wednesday night is one of the times that Holly doesn't have to head out again.

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That'll be something nice to look forward to :-)

A Day In Court

Yesterday I spent the day in court.

OMG you say, what have you done?  What? Who me? As if!  For those of you that know me well, no, my badness has not caught up with me, I am far too clever for that, not been caught yet ya know.

No it was something much tamer than that.  I was a witness.

Now it should have been a simple process, get kids off to school and then walk to the court which is ten minutes from my house but then we had snow, heaps and heaps of the stuff and the schools were closed.

Shit shit shit, what to do?  Holly wasn't a problem cos she is 16 and fairly self sufficient but Jack requires 24 hour care so needs someone looking after him who can administer rescue meds for seizures and give cpr if necessary.  

To add to the fun, I had arranged for Loki, the puppy, to get spayed and she had to be at the vets before 9am.  Not a problem normally but my car is, as we speak, buried under a mountain of snow and there is no way there was time to dig it out.  I had a hard enough time clearing the paths again and I only possess a wee spade! And I mean teensy weensy!

So I had to get on the phone and speak nicely to Granny Mac who thank god was able to help me out.  We ended up with two back up plans to cover the school closed and school open scenario and I wasn't able to let her know which plan to put into action til 7am that morning. 

Thankfully the schools did open so plan B was put into operation.  This involved Granny Mac walking to my house (because her car doors had frozen shut) and the roads were so bad, then picking up Loki and walking her up to the vets.  Even this wasn't straight forward because Loki had been booked for the op once already but it turned out that she'd a false pregnancy so we had to wait until her hormones had settled down.  So even getting her there didn't guarantee that she would have the op so Granny Mac had to phone me to tell me that yes, the op was going ahead and that she'd to call back at 2pm. Did I mention that Granny Mac is 71?  She's such a star.

Jack's bus was late because of the weather so it was nearly 8.55am before he got on the bus and that then ate into my beautifying time.  Believe me this is a huge problem cos, I am scary looking in the morning.  So much so that the auxiliary on Jack's bus, Ann, gives me marks outta 10 every morning for how rough I look!!!  Sometimes I even get a minus figure.....wtf! It really gives me a laugh though and I know when I get a thumbs up that no matter what the day throws at me..........I'm looking damn good...........cos Ann told me so!

In my defence, there is no time for me to get dressed never mind put make up on before Jack goes to school, so she does see me in my pjs and  fluffy dressing gown,  really not a good look.

So apart from throwing myself into the shower, there was no make up put on just dressier clothes cos hell I had to make a good impression.  I don't know why I bothered cos everyone there turned up in jeans!  My mum would turn in her grave if I turned up wearing jeans to court, that would be the biggest faux pas ever.

After trudging through the snow, the thin black trousers I had on were letting in so much cold that I couldn't feel the top of my legs.  Thank god Granny Mac wasn't around to witness my shivering as she would have probably pulled out a pair of thermal drawers outta that tardis of a handbag that she carries with her everywhere. I swear that woman has everything in her handbag, all you have to do is ask and "poof" it will appear. I am far too young to wear thermal drawers so don't go thinking for a moment about about buying them to me for Christmas guys. I love presents but not that kind :-)

After all my efforts to get to the court, I had forgotten to get money for Nancy. 

How to explain who Nancy is?  Nancy is like my surrogate mum who comes and helps me out once a week with the housework and the ironing.  My life without Nancy would be a lot harder, she is brilliant and just cleans the house like it is her own.  She comes in every Wednesday and with the weather being so bad I hadn't managed to get to the bank so had forgotten to leave any money for her.  Eek!  So I text my dad asking could he drop some money off to her but alas my poor dad had a cold and was feeling lousy. He said he needed flu/cold sachets so I said it would be later before I could get them to him. Well there was little I could do then about Nancy but hope that I would get out of court in time to get home and pay her, not that Nancy would mind, she is that lovely but I would.

Court was so boring!  We were put into one of two witness rooms and there was very little to do but listen into other peoples conversations......well they are quite riveting, especially in court! or read trashy magazines and there are only so many of them you can devour.  I have to confess that I nearly followed a few guys outta the witness room as their case was postponed, cos they were talking about something that was SO INTERESTING!!! They were also quite hot, so ya know, a girl has to follow her instincts!

One bonus was, it was lovely and warm but that just made me sleepy and I couldn't stop yawning which then set other people off.  Luckily we broke for lunch so I went to the bank, then nipped to the chemist and jumped into a taxi up to my dad's with his cold medicine, ran in while the taxi waited then back into the taxi to mine in time to catch Nancy who as I thought wasn't too bothered!

After a quick lunch, back trudging through the snow, freezing my bits off to the court.  Sat there for a further hour until a policeman came to tell us that the trial before was still ongoing so our one wouldn't be heard today and it would probably be March before we were needed again. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Oh joy of joys, I so wanted this over with cos it's not my idea of fun going to court.  There is so much more I want to say here but I am not allowed but when this is over, I will dish the dirt!

By this time it was just after 3pm.  I had arranged for Granny Mac to be at my house for Jack coming home so I nipped to the shops for a few more supplies before trudging home.  I arrived back at 3.40pm to find Granny Mac up to her eyes in shit, no understatement people, I could smell it before I saw it and that was AFTER the clean up!  Phew was I glad to have missed that lovely present from Jack.  He was, of course, lying there with a wee smirk on his face cos he'd gotten a load off don't you know and I, equally was smirking, cos he didn't save it for me!  

I did of course, give Granny Mac a wee hand, fetching clean clothes etc but then it was time to get a lift from Granda Mac up to the vets to collect Loki.  And oh my poor wee pup, she was NOT a happy puppy at all.  Was most pissed off with the cone on her head and kept walking into stuff which made Holly and I laugh hysterically!  Other peoples misfortunes are ever so amusing at times and even my Loki wasn't exempt from our mockery!

I had to have something to laugh about after the vet stinging me for £185. Pick me up off the floor! People you are in the wrong jobs....you need to be either a vet or a dentist.........cos they are the ones raking in the money!

Poor Loki had a miserable night and didn't feel much better this morning, after going out in the snow and me laughing at her when she came back in cos her cone was covered in snow, it was just like adding insult to injury.  After watching her try to eat with this cone on and struggling I adapted one of Jack's old t-shirts and she is now wearing that instead and she seems to be much happier, looks daft but hey she's none the wiser!

Aww isn't she sweet?  If she takes a chunk outta my butt when I bend down at any point in the next ten days I think that I will so deserve it! Ha ha ha ha ha ha