Wednesday 13 July 2016

Midnight Musings ...

There are a few things I would like to sit and write about; thoughts to untangle and make some sense of but its late already so maybe not. I went through my 'Blogs that I follow' list earlier. Very few people are still posting. If I had been asked a few weeks ago, before I came back to Blog, to name three or four Bloggers who I thought would still be posting on a weekly or daily basis, I would have been spot on. They all either keep chickens, grow their own fruit/vegetables or tend to animals/people/gardens and blogs. Some manage to do all of the above ... and more. Reliable and consistent spring to mind. Hmmmm.

There are days when I tick almost everything off of my 'to do' list. Other days, in fact most, I'm more likely to add to the list. I do seem to be rather all or nothing, which is possibly why I wouldn't be very sucessful at growing my own veg/flowers/chickens etc. It may well explain why I quit smoking for a month or so, swear blind that I will never ever touch another stinking rotten cigarette ... and then, well we all know what then. Ho hummm

I'm going to change the description on my header, not only is it out of date and pretty badly written; who starts a sentence with a word in brackets ?... but it kind of pisses me off when I read it, for obvious reasons. Not badly pisses me off, I just get a quick glimpse of all the hope I felt as I wrote it. And how I seriously imagined it would track my progress leading up to my wonderful, clean, sociable 50th birthday party. Ha! hmmmmm

Now, something that really does get on my nerves is the amount of  people using the term 'rocked up' as in 'arrived' or 'turned up'. I'd heard younguns say; you rock that cap or shades etc. as in 'wear them well'  but 'rocking up' is being used by middle aged tv presenters and the likes. I dont know when it arrived, but I'm hearing it everywhere, casually thrown into sentences as if its always been there. Why rocked up? Who rocks up anywhere, unless they are on a rocker, or off their rocker?  I just don't get it. I couldn't casually throw it in even if I dared myself ... maybe its just me.

And finally, because its almost 2am!! I learned today that to benefit from using a walking stick or cane, it has to be used on the opposite side to the injury, pain, replacement joint etc. I had no idea! ...  I've had a nasty evil burning pain in the top arch of my left hip for nigh on a week now... Dr Google tells me it Bursitis, which I had never heard of until now. We shall see what 'Dr please don't Google it' says on Thursday when I rock up rocking my stick!  On the right side.

Goodnight Lads n Lasses xx

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  1. I had bursitis of the hip early this year. You are right about the pain. There were a few days when getting dressed required tears and bad words. Exercise and drugs helped. On the bad news front my doctor told me that if you get it once it WILL reoccur. I hope he is a liar. For me and for you.

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  2. Hi E's Child, I suppose I better let the real Dr give his diagnosis before I say I have it, but it certainly sounds like it. And yes, from what I've read so far it will be a recurring nightmare. Ouch.
    I almost slept through the alarm this morning. I have to give myself a Blogging cut off time at night. And then try and stick to it ...

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  3. I hope you feel better. I've been following your blog. Please keep writing.

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    1. Hi Bees, I will keep writing. Thanks for the encouragement and for being here.

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  4. Ow!! Hope you 'rock up' to your doctor and he can help!! I hate going to my doctor at the moment because every single time he talks about my weight. Hey I don't need weight loss advice, what is it about doctors.....do they have an agenda, are they selling weight loss medicine! Now I know I've developed a bit of a middle aged spread since I gave up smoking, but I'm not huge. why is he not congratulating me for giving up and staying off the ciggies!! Surely more newsworthy than the extra 5 (O.K. 10) k.g's I've picked up ;)
    Good luck, let us know how you get on.
    Laura

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    1. I'll congratulate you Laura because I know how damned hard it is, to stay away from those things ... I keep giving up and then slipping back, foolish behaviour! So well done you!! and yeah, whats a few extra kilos? Bugger all, at least you can breath!
      Same with my Dr, he brings my H addiction into everything; he will no doubt work out a way of connecting it to my hip pain, which is, thankfully, not as bad today. I will still go see and him tomorrow though. And, yes, I will let you know bless you :)
      Good night Laura, except its not night there ... enjoy your day, sending love xx

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  5. Oh it's working! I had a hard time seeing your blog....using my iPad I can't get there, but my phone or my laptop do the trick! Now I need to get caught up! ❤️

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    1. As long as you get here, I dont mind how :) Thinking often of you and your girl, hoping life is good for you both xx

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  6. Rocked up? It hasn't arrived here. Yet. Maybe it's soon to come? Who knows. But with the arrival with Pokemon Go, the kids don't do much talking these days. They just stare at the phones like zombies!

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    1. I kind of imagined it had come from America. I was obviously wrong, I wonder where then? I will find out.
      Oh Pokemon Go is crazy over here too ... All over the world I guess. X

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  7. I thought rocking up was something you did with cocaine. Anyway I know I haven't been posting so often these days but a few things have happened recently that I should probably ( I was gonna say put down on paper ) document. I vaguely remember when you started your blog you said you had 2yrs till you know what. That's me now, it's just over 2yrs till for me now. I know getting off gear is no slow process especially when its been 20yrs + a few. So thanks for inspiring me to start tapping the keys again. x

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