Stressed is Desserts Spelled Backwards - Coincidence? I think not.

I WASN'T GOING TO POST TODAY'S BLOG POST ON HERE.

BUT THEN I THOUGHT "FUG IT. IT'S MY BLOG & MY BLOG IS ALL ABOUT HONESTY AND BEING ME. AND THAT MEANS THE 'WHOLE' ME.

EVEN WHEN I'M NOT FEELING THE BEST.

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Some of you might find this VERY had to believe but for most of the time I am actually not that funny. I know I know. Surely I can't be serious!
I have a weird brain. Most of the time it just sits there twiddling its invisible thumbs, yawning and then suddenly jumps up & exclaims "I just thought of something funny to write about! Quick Vicki to the computer!!"
Then I have days like yesterday when my brain says "Stuff this for a joke. I'm over it I'm shuttin it down for a while. If you can't treat me right I'm off.!" DOOR SLAMS.
I get very stressed. very easily. I'm freakin' sensitive ok. When I'm super stressed it's like a thousand radios in my mind all going at once and my thoughts overlap.
These are the things that are stressing me at the mo (in no particular order)

My Dad - he has dementia now and has recently been put into a nursing home. He is 63. He sounds really depressed. I wish I could see him more often & help him.
Work - I am so sick of working for someone else.
IVF - I don't know if we should do IVF again. After spending time with my neices & nephews I have gotten the urge again.
MONEY - That ole chestnut. I'm so sick of being a povo and being paranoid about where every bleedin' cent goes. Stoopid bills.
TIME - There never seems to be enough time to do things. Work, Sleep Eat.
BLOG - I put myself under alot of pressure to not only write my blog but I feel that it has to be 'funny' and entertaining. I suffer from writer's block a bit.
WEIGHT & EXERCISE - The constant thinking about what I should & shouldn't be eating. Planning next weeks's menu. The guilt of not doing enough exercise etc.

I feel like crap that I am even stressed about these things because there are people out there who have REAL trauma & stresses.

Yesterday on the way home from work I got the beginnings of a panic attack. I broke into a cold sweat & was very shakey. I had to get fuel though.
What else did I buy?
A MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE pack of peanut M&Ms.
200g. 28pp !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ate them ALL on the way home. Just shovelling them into my mouth like a deranged starving looney. When I got home I broke down sobbing in TBF's arms, had a hot shower and went to bed. I couldn't eat dinner. I was asleep by 6.30pm and didn't wake until my alarm went off at 5.30 this morning.
Today I am feeling much better. Still a bit wonky and I think my brain has come home but is sleeping in the spare room.

I need to get my $hit together.
You see these movies where when people are losing it they just leave their jobs, sell their house & movie out to the country or to a seaside cottage where they write or paint freaking water colour paintings and HEAL.
Jeez I wish I could just take a month off and go stay at somewhere like The Golden Door health retreat and just eat natural foods, meditate, swim & sleep and have daily counselling sessions on stress control. Sigh.

Thanks for listening.

22. Frankenweenie (2012)

Sigh. Tim Burton animation is always just SO good. I just love that in this day n age of CGI and computer animation that stop-motion still exists.
This movie is excellent. I loved that it is black and white and is such a great homage to old horror films. It's not REALLY a rollicking comedy but it does have some great laugh out loud parts.
As usual, it is the side characters that are the best.  The best, in my opinion is Weird Girl and her cat Mr Whiskas. I would just LOVE to have her as a doll. She's so awesomely creepy.

WEIRD GIRL & MR WHISKAS

I also loved Edgar E Gore the little creepy hunch-back kid.
Tim Burton has, once again, done a great job. I really liked how that even though the characters are stop-motion (the film took 3 years to make) they still look kind of hand drawn. Like sketches that have come to life.
If you loved "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "The Corpse Bride" you are sure to love this.
Tim Burton at his dark gothic comic best.
Note:  I probably wouldn't let little kids watch it as it IS a bit scary in parts.
4 STARS

Let's just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV.- Homer Simpson

BLOODY GAINED 800g.

Now I will admit this was not totally unexpected. Even though I have been a total princess when it comes to tracking & staying within my points, this past week I have done Sweet Fug All exercise.
ZERO ACTIVITY POINTS.
My excuses:
We got a new fridge. It was drizzley. My cat's lip swelled up so I had to stay home & pat him. I had to sew a dodgy sci-fi top. TBF looked at me with his big blue eyes and telepathetically told me to stay home & watch MASH with him. 
Who am I kidding? I was a big blonde lazy slobby McSlobervich.

But still..... I thought maybe I would stay the same weight. Jeez Louise.
I couldn't stay for the meeting last night which was a bummer but couldn't be helped (must have been a quiet meeting without my lewd comments).
Well, the true reason for my weight gain came a knockin this morning.

"Youuu Whoooooo! Hellooooo is anyone home?!! It's meeeeeee. Aunty Flo".  OH GREAT.
"Well helloooooo dear. I've bought our friends Uncle Excruiating Ovarian Pain & Cousin Great Ripping Cramps. You may have noticed that Brother Excessive Fluid Retention arrived yesterday. Don't mind us while we set about making your lower body scream and moan for a couple of days. Toodle Pip!"

I ALWAYS gain .5kg to a kilo at TTOM. Stoopid woman bits. Pass the mega pack of Naprogesics.
Mmmmmm my little blue wonder drugs.
SO..... My plan for this coming week is:
TRACK. STAY WITHIN MY POINTS. EXERCISE ON MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. (Thursday is WW meeting night).
I WILL DO IT GAWD DAMMIT.
I WILL.
Shut up I will.
mumble mumble mumble
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Have a rip-snorta of a weekend everybody. My Mummsy is coming to stay so I can see us doing noice long walks along the waterfront & 100 litres of Mocconna coffee in my future & solving all the world's problems.
Mz Vicki

It's Life Jim, but not as we know it.

Tuesday night was the final sewing class of my 6 week block. I have LOVED IT. The next block starts in about a months & I'm chewin' at the bit to start. Next block I will learn how to make a blouse! Squeal!
I was surfing the net, as I am want to do, and I came across this picture:

 

ERMEGHERD! I thought PIECE OF PISS ! I CAN MAKE THAT!

TOO EASY KAMPEEZI!

 

So after a quick trip to Lincraft, last night I set about sewing up this fabulous creation.

I only got slightly cranky *cough*  because I think I chose the wrong sort of fabric. I went for the Cotton Suiting fabric because it doesn't require ironing and it doesn't wrinkle. It's also a frickin NIGHTMARE to sew. Slippery bloody shit. TBF was trying to relax and listen to his Henry Rollins radio show which me shouting random expletives "Farrrrrrrrrrrk. Just friggin stay.......... Bloody hell! Arrrrrrr Son of a..............."

4 hours later I had finished and I was ready to try on my incredible masterpiece.

OH MY LAWD ALMIGHTY BEAM ME UP SCOTTY.

It was perfect.

Except.

It was too big. Had no shape. Exposed side boob AND back fat and the shoulders put Tracey Grimshaw's shoulder pads to shame as they stuck out & up.

All in all I looked like a reject extra from an episode of Star Trek.

It took almost another hour for TBF & I to stop laughing.

 

 

 

I think I might just stick to ACTUAL patterns from now on.

EPIC SEWING FAIL.

 

Happy Birthday Nanny!

On Saturday TBF & I headed up the Toowoomba range to my Nanny's 80th birthday party lunch.
My Nanny is great. You would NEVER think she is 80! She's had a number of health issues over the last few years but she's still as sharp as a tack.  I think I take after her alot.. in that I'm very lucky as I have inherited her great skin and her sense of style.

Nanny on the left in the 1940s

For the 40 years I have known Nanny I have never known her to be without matching shoes, handbag, necklace & earrings. She would never DREAM of leaving the house without being 'dressed'. She's always worn minimal makeup but would never step outside without lippie & blush on.
Nanny has been known to hit a Lifeline store with $5 and come out with a complete outfit that looked like it come straight out of the latest issue of Marie Claire.
I'd never known Nanny to say a bad word about anyone and she certainly would never swear. That is until the day she shocked the family by announcing "I don't like that Karl Stephanovic. He's a dickhead!".

Nanny & Grandad off to a dance in the 1950s

It was such a lovely day & we got to catch up with all the family which was awesome.
Happy Birthday Nanny!

EIGHTY YEARS YOUNG

As part of a gift to Nanny everybody was asked to submit a fond memory of Nanny which was then put into a gorgeous coffee table book for her.

I decided to write a poem.

When I was but a wee little girl

My favourite time of all
Was having lunch at Nanny & Grandad’s
We’d always have a ball.

 The family would gather on a Sunday

The children would stay outside
But sometimes if I was really good
Nanny would pull me aside

 “If you have a look in the fridge” she’d say

“You’ll find some Violet Crumble”
So none of the other grandkids saw, she’d smuggle me one
“Fank yo Nanny” I’d mumble.

 I’d sit in front of her beautiful dresser

Admiring all her things
Her lovely little porcelain figures
Her jewellery, brushes & rings

 Always well groomed my Nanny

Her secret Oil of Ulay.
Handbag, shoes, earrings & slacks
Co-ordinated all the way.

 Every year on my birthday

I never wanted a cake

A nice big slice off Nanny’s lemon meringue

Was all that it would take.

 

I love my Nanny very much

She’s the true essence of a lady

She’s still so beautiful and lovely now

You’d never know she’s Eighty.

 

 

21. Little Voice (1998)

This is such a lovely movie with a fabulous cast. Michael Caine, Ewan Macgregor, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent & Jane Horrocks who play LV or Little Voice.  All the way through I was wondering if Jane Horrocks is actually singing or if she is lip-syncing. At the end credits tell you that it is actually her singing which makes this film even more impressive.
Brenda Blethyn  is, as usual, fantastic as LV's horrific loud mouth alcho abusive mother. Her character is funny-as hell but just awful.
Funny quotes include:  "Bangers and bubble and a fuck hot tea, ta. Twice."  "Listen. Then it's down to the harbor for a pronto snog. Oh, lip-lappin' like old hell. But at least he knows how to slide and dart and take a throat. And at least there's the thick wad of his wallet...Up against your tit for comfort."
And Michael Caine's character isn't that much better as the sleaze ball agent who wants to exploit LV.
I really enjoyed this movie. It's not a big expensive budget film but if you want a nice film to watch this a great. Fabulous soundtrack of Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey and Marilyn Monroe.
I would suggest to watch it with the subtitles on though because their pommy accents are very very thick.
3 STARS

20. Waiting for Superman (2010)

WOW.
If you are thinking "Gawd why would I want to watch a film about the public schooling system in American?!. Borrrrrringgggg" Think again.
JUST WOW.
I got dry mouth watching this doco because my mouth was constantly gapping in between exclaimations of " Bloody Hell!" "HOLY CRAP" and my sobbing.
SCARY SCARY STUFF.
It's funny how sometimes the most horrific movies are documentaries about REAL LIFE.
Personally I admire anyone who could be a teacher. I couldn't do it.
I would LOVE to hear the opinion of a teacher who has seen this film.
Thank God there are some people in America TRYING to change the system. A system which is... to put it bluntly... a total fuck-up.
I don't have any children so I have no experience with the schooling system here in Australia but even though I'm not a religious person I  friggin' PRAY it's not like the system in American.
HORRIFYING & COMPELLING.
I couldn't stop talking about it for an hour afterwards and even now when I think about it I feel like crying. Crying for the poor children & families who just want an education and to make a better life for themselves but because of 'the system' can't and crying for joy for the people who are slowly but surely forcing the change. True heroes. AMAZING.

EVERYONE MUST SEE THIS DOCUMENTARY.
5 STARS

 

YOUR THOUGHTS?