Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear blog,
Happy birthday to you!
The 100th entry on this blog and what better way to celebrate than with the news that the secret of a happy marriage is recognising that sometimes it will be miserable.
Well I never realised that! How many times have I said that when our expectations are too high we end up with problems? How many times have I commented on self-sacrifice and humility being fairly important in all relationships but especially in marriage?
How much do we pay people to come up with these findings? Is there a University of the Bleedin' Obvious somewhere that churns out these studies? Will they pay me a load of money if I spout self-evident conclusions on not very important stuff too?
Oh, I do that already...could someone please just send the cheque to...
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32 comments:
As ever, cheque's in the post!
Happy 100th Blog :o)
:o) Jo
PS. Kinky Afro
Happy Birthday Blog!!
Jo-- cheeky! NC1 for you my dear I fear ;¬)
ps. it's the Roobear's 100th birthday (in doggy years) next week!
Luv
Lyndyloo
-x-x-x-
Happy 100th Blog - yippee!!!!!
Lyndyloo - happy birthday to Roobear for next week (I'm bound to forget) xxx
jollygit xx
Well happy birthday to the blog!
Just to remind you of the Symptoms of being over 25!
1. You leave clubs before the end to 'beat the rush' (worst still you don't go to the clubs)
2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going clubbing the night before.
3. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the roperty section.
4. All of a sudden, middle aged people are not 46, they are only 46.
5. Before going out anywhere, you ask whether there is anywhere to park.
6. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be alright for the DIY or in the garden.
7. You buy T-shirts without anything written on them.
8. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of most of the things that are in it.
9. You start to worry about your parents' health.
10. You have more disposable income, but everything you want or need to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.
11. You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or a Wallace And Gromit bubble bath,as the sales assistant assumes they are for your children.
12. Pop music all starts to sound the same.
13. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they do a really nice half-bottle of house red.
14. You always have enough milk in.
15. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing, you instead frequent trendy bars and restaurants in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.
16. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in. Grand Designs also appeals.
17. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.
18. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q.
19. You wish you had a shed.
20. You have a shed.
21. You actually find yourself saying 'They don't make 'em like that anymore' and 'I remember when there were only 4 TV channels' and 'Not in my day....'
23. Radio 2, play more songs you know than Radio 1 - and Jeremy Vine has some really interesting guests on.
24. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus, you tut at rowdy school children.
25. When sitting outside a pub you admire their hanging baskets.
26. You find yourself saying 'is it cold in here or is it just me'
Or is it just me?
Keith the BigUn
xx
P.S Happy birthday to Roobear, x(lick)x I am pleased she is feeling better!
Keith - that's far too close to the truth for me ......
I went to the M supermarket on Friday after work and bought a bottle of vino ... as the assistant scanned it, up came the usual question on their little screen of "is the customer over 18?" I said to the assistant, "go on, ask me if I'm over 18, you're not sure are you?". Honestly, no sense of humour some people!!
jollygit x
Happy 100th birthday Blog! Time goes fast when you are enjoying yourself, eh?
Moose, where did you read this fascinating news about the key to a happy marriage? After 31 years, I am still struggling at times! No-one said it would be easy!
Jollygit - Steel Magnolias - just wonderful when you need a really good self-indulgent weep!
Quite a l-o-n-g morning, but maybe it's just me.
C xx
Keith,
While I was writing my comment, you must have been submitting yours - "is it just me" - aaaarghh!
C xx
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6705541.stm
As a sweetie eater is it wrong to want to eat a car?? Takes the whole meaning of Pimp my Car to another level
:o) Jo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/
hi/health/6711071.stm
Squashed tomatoes and stooo tooooo eeeeeeeeeuuuuuuooooooooo!
Too many questions Moose. Lets see now. 12. 173. £11.09 per hour. Yes, in Slough. No, don't be so stupid, you are in the wrong job.
One hundred. Ooda thortit eh? You'll be getting an Antlergram from the Queen.
...and all different...
love
hazel
x
and apropos of b8gger all...On her way to HA, my friend saw the (real) tallest man in England the other day, at the petrol station. Filling up the tank on a stretch Hummer. She said that when she walked past him, she only came up to about level with his trouser region. He allegedly said 'while you're down there' but we didn't believe her.
...and I thought YOU were tall Moose...
Soooo glad we've got a water cooler in NC1 now. It's gonna be a long summer...
I may be tall but 2 points:
1. I'm not that tall.
2. I doubt I'd ever say something like that!!!
and because I can, 3. I will never be seen dead driving a Hummer of any variety.
...addendum to point 2. Not even to Hazel Blears.
Did anyone else think it very demeaning and 'shortist' for them to make the DPM candidates all stand up behind those lecterns? She can't help being short and it's nothing to do with her ability to do the job (even though I've yet to work out what the DPM does and what abilities one therefore needs...) and it seemed to me a deliberate ploy to make her look stupid. Similarly the debate in the paper about how much her and Harriet's handbags cost. Where was the article about how much the male candidates' briefcases cost?
I'm so pleased to hear that you're a man of taste when it comes to vehicular transportation Moose!
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!
Oh Moose, you are a wag. Or a card. Not sure which.
No folks the Moose isn't that tall. XXXXXX CENSORED XXXXXX
(I was going to let Bad Hazel take over for a bit there, but I've taken the tablets today, so she's well hidden.)
Thank heavens
love
hazel bleary
x
Hazel - I'll tee em up, you knock em in...have always played the straight man!
Anyway Keith.
The boy took me to Pizza Express last Monday, just for a treat. I had a rather nice half-bottle of Peeno Evil. The look was somewhat spoilt while we were waiting for our food, as the boy was trying to find our table on his new GPS system on his phone.
Ooooh, jezza's playing my song!
l
h
x
HAZEL - SPOOKY!!!
Well chapsters. We are not doing very well at all for Moose's 100th Blog are we?
For the meanwhilst, 100 candles. Or for analog, four candles...
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If anyone fancies a blow?
...or for the harmonica owners amongst us, a suck?
I forgot to tell you all that I had fork handles (one for each decade) on my birthday cake. I foolishly made the obvious comment - have you ever tried explaining that to a 6 year old and a 3 year old?
Go on then, stand back, I'm gonna blow...
Congratulations Moose, a good job blowing all those candles out (I couldn't bring myself to do it!), I find that ironing things helps to get rid of wax marks, although not sure about
a)Whether you can iron velvety antler fluff
b) how you would iron your own antlers, unless someone was to do it for you?
:o) Jo
...and we think we might be badly off...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/
articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id=459526&in_page_id=1770
...and Jo, told you!...
What about this one then?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=459578&in_page_id=1799
I hope they double-checked the mother. She could have been just pretending....
Timing is everything. The possum mother, not the pregnant one!
Jo - DON'T LOOK AT IT!!!!!
jollygit x
Hello all
Ooer, that lady, what a horror she went through! I'm so glad I'll never be pregnant again!
Jo - look away, close your eyes..step away from the computer!
Honestly you lot, a poor innocent could be put off for life, with all this horror pregnancy posting articles(actually giving birth should put one off, it did me!)
Am I allowed in the 100 club? Have not had access to computer over last 4 days, and before that, was spending time with mum and birthday daughter, so could not get to computer for enough time. Will a retrospective note from my mum do?
Moose, I understand what you're saying about marriage, it is hard, and sometimes it's cr*p, but I wonder about the alternative, (which for me at least would be cr*pper - if there is such a word)
I think it's worth sticking at it, but in your heart you will know.
Love to all
Caroline xxxxxx
P.S Bizzarely (sp?) it is a local holiday in Galashiels today, so schools off....Lucky me - just now i have to cram in 5 days work into 3, oh well.
Happy 100th Blog.
Hope everyone is well.
Susan S - good to see you back at the end of last week.
EG
Jo - and everyone - I must apologise for putting the link to the pregnancy article on here ..... I only saw the headline and before I could read the article in full, my temporary boss came in and I had to exit t'internet toute suite. That's why it didn't have me name on it - I was in such a rush to exit! Had I read it in full (which I've now done) I wouldn't have even mentioned it.
I'm so sorry and am now going to stay in the naughty corridor until someone tells me I can go home.
jollygit
Happy 100th Blog Moose, and so say all of us. And such a timely blog, my inconsistent blogging (incase you hadnt noticed) of late is largely due to challenge and upward facing hills. My marriage is as strong as could be, and yet on so many levels its a challenge.
Not helped by the 30th birthday present i received (early, not 30 till Thursday) a tumbler. (of the drying variety... as opposed the glass variety which frankly would have been more welcome!) Ungrateful? Maybe, probably. But still. A tumbler?
I'm being flippant and dont mean to be really, its been a tough few weeks.
Hurragh for roobear. Hurragh for Susan S. Huraagh for Big Un (tho all pop music does sound the same. Doesnt it?!). And howdy caroline.
Am on my own this evening, i feel a glass of vin rouge coming on.
happy blowing one and all.
xx
Can I go home yet? I said I'm sorry ....
jollygit x
go on, nick off jollygit. so long as you have thought about what you have done.
;o)
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