Author: The Indecisive Eejit

Strange but Funny. Funny but Strange. Proud to be an Eejit!

And Breathe…..

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I’m going to put the past week down to experience. I’m glad it’s over, although the repercussions are still carrying on. I’m tired, and I’m going to have to start getting early nights or one of these days I am going to fall asleep and not wake up, it’s not that long till three score years and ten, assuming I even make it that far.

I’ve not been here much this week, there has just been no time, my laptop lay in work redundant for most of last week. Lunchtime, what’s that, couldn’t tell you, cos I spent most of the week working through mine. I did however make a bit of an effort and catch up on my reading, so it you saw one like after another on your posts then it was your turn.

I still feel overwhelmed a lot in the job, however there are moments of clarity and it’s these brief glimpses that give me hope that at some stage there will be a turning point and I will no longer be afraid to call myself a Personal Assistant. Time is a big thing, there are tasks to do but before you have completed the first one another three have been added to the list. I have notes about notes and to do lists about things …to do..duh! I’m realising that my brain is not the efficient filofax it used to be, my capacity for knowledge retention is being seriously tested.  Thank goodness for pens and paper or all would be lost.

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On another note, I was having a chat with someone today and he asked me what I do in my spare time. I laughed and said what’s spare time and then regaled him with tales of the Xbox and also that I was a blogger. Thankfully he knew what that was, and even more thankfully he chose not to ask what the blog was called, because at that point I broke into a cold sweat and started to panic. I not ashamed of my blog, not in any shape form or fashion, but I still feel that people will read it and go ‘what a pile of shite’. That being said, there’s not been very much writing of late that would allow anyone to form any kind of opinion. At which point do you feel like you can tell people you’re a blogger and believe you are deserving of the title.

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Lastly, despite the fact that some eejit thought that this week was the last Cartoon Craziness Challenege forever, it’s not, but I do however need to extend the deadline by a couple of days, because, I haven’t got mine done yet and that’s just disgraceful!! An update will follow.

This is the current challenge: CCC – Week 8

If you have any suggestions for themes, please let either myself or Mama know, they are always welcome.

Till next time, ya bunch of randomers that I adore :)

Song of the week and well worth a listen!

The write stuff…

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In the week or so when I didn’t feel like writing, or felt I had nothing to write about, I went wandering through blogsphere looking for inspiration. I came across the Daily Post writing challenge and thought, oh ello, I’ll have a bit of that. It’s been a long time since I have written any fiction, excluding May Dupp that is, she’s a law onto herself.

The challenge involved picking both a photograph and a first line, before letting your imagination take over and for some reason I wanted to use my character Polly Carmichael again.

It’s a big world out there. Those were the words engraved on the back of the compass.

Polly Carmichael sat on a wooden seat. The wooden seat was in front of a tall building that gave poor Polly a crick in her neck as she tried to count the floors for the umpteenth time.

Teddy sat beside Polly Carmichael on the wooden seat. He too had a crick in his neck from looking up at Polly, who was looking up at the building counting the floors for the umpteenth time.

Passers by looked at the strange combination of the young girl and her Teddy bear sitting on the wooden bench.

“Why are we here Polly?” asked Teddy.

“Because this is where the compass brought me” said Polly holding it towards Teddy so he could see.

That was as far as I got. For two days I wracked my brain trying to think of a punchline around which I could build my little story, but nothing came and I was disappointed, because although I am not too good at it, I quite enjoy penning some fiction.

That’s why I like the May Dupp site, I can craft a life around her that is infinitely more exciting than my own and make her do things that I would never dream of, although to be fair I would be afraid of making her bungee jump lest she broke a nail.

I used to like the Daily Prompt’s, but more often than not these days, I look at them and think what the feck is that all about. I used to love the ‘Okay What If’ weekly challenge, but time was a factor and it was difficult to enter every week.

Perhaps one day out of the blue I will just start to write little works of fiction again and we can all find out what happened to Polly and Teddy and the mysterious compass!

Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Week 8

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I am sooooooooo behind, I’m afraid you are going to have to put up with this being the last two weeks and next week all rolled into one!

Let me section it off to make it easier for you me.

Last Week – Mythical Creatures

I started to draw a couple of mythical creatures and then I couldn’t stop, so I have about two pages worth to share with you. Without further ado, here they are:

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I drew a sort of weird type Mermaid thing, I mean they are meant to be pretty, sirens of the sea and mines more like an laugh of the lake. So then I redrew the Punk Penguin, he’s marginally better than the first time and if I could have been bothered he would have been coloured all black leather and tarten.

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Nest I started to draw a cat, which I gave a tail, wings, a kangaroo pouch and duck like feet, meet the ‘DinoCatyPlatyPus’, it’s all right, I have no idea what it is either! After that things got a little but stupid, the rest of the family includes a ‘Wall-a-Bee’, ‘The Harry Potter Fish’ and a ‘Door Mouse’. Mo more mythical creatures for me I think!

These other eejits also drew their own versions of the last theme, check them out:

The Piglapossumcorn | Evil Squirrel’s Nest

CCC7: Mythical Creature | Dean’z Doodlez

I have lived to tell the tale of my people | Mental in the Midwest

Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Mythical Me | trying to make things right

Cartoon Craziness Challenge – a Thing, redux | heretherebespiders

Mythical Creatures | Somber Scribbler

Week 8

So this week, it’s a little bit of a change from the norm, it’s called ‘Build a Burger‘, basically you have two buns (steady now chaps) and you can put whatever you like between th….in the middle. Your ultimate burger. It can be food, a person, whatever you choose.

You have one week for this challenge which will end on the 7th September, all we ask is that you create a ping back to let us know your post exists. More information can be found on the Cartoon Craziness Challenge Page ^ up there.

Happy Doodling :)

 

I got the smarts…sometimes!

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Sometimes I have flashes of brilliance, sadly however, they are few and far between. You also must remember that I am rating myself in accordance with my own scale of brilliance, which to be fair, neither starts or finishes very highly.

I suppose rather than being brilliance, it would be better to say I experience seconds of the smarts. In that instance I know what to do, I do it, I don’t flap about it, I am reasonably pleased and the whole incidence passes without too much worry being attached to it.

That’s rather mediocre for having been in a job almost two months, but I am taking comfort from the fact that having seconds of smarts is just the beginning and that full A* status will not be achieved until I have been in my new position for at least six months. Well so those in the know tell me anyway and assuming I am not sacked before that!

If you asked me if I liked the job I still wouldn’t be able to answer, it all depends on what day you ask me. Some are good and some are bad. I like the challenge, but not when it pickles my brains and leaves me feeling like I want to throw myself face first onto the floor and kick and scream. Meh, perhaps that’s just me and nothing to do with the job!

I need to get more organised, both at work and home. I feel that I should have lists and schedules and plans, and ways of working things so that I get more time to do what I want to do, like blogging. It’s a sad state of affairs when your parents have a better social life than you do!

I’m actually blogging this at lunchtime, only I left it too late and didn’t start my lunch until 1.30 and now time is up and I have to go type things for other people instead. So forgive me all my spelling mistakes, and grammatical errors, today I shall blame it on being in a rush.

Remember too, you still have until Sunday to send in an entry for the Cartoon Craziness Challenge, and yes I do know that I still have my own to do!

Just a note to say…

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Every now and then there are changes in the blogsphere.  As in life, nothing stays the same for ever. People come, people go and in this process only one thing is certain, the writing never stops. Regardless of whose fingers are at the keyboard, the alphabet is assessed, assembled and added to a blog somewhere on the world wide web.

I’ve found this blog invaluable for all manner of reasons, but it’s hard work and devoting time can be problematic in an already busy schedule. Every day I carry my laptop to work with the intention of  writing during my lunchtime, but it never happens, something always comes up, or somebody somewhere needs my attention and before you know whats happened the hands on the clock have crept around and stolen 30 minutes from my day. Even as I sit now, my conscience is telling me there are beds to strip, ironing to do and things to prepare for the working week ahead!

Feck it! I’m writing.

Being the owner of a blog brings with it a responsibility of sorts. There is a reasonable expectation that I will post, comment, read and entertain, I have after all tried to trick you into believing I am funny. Last week I didn’t feel funny, I didn’t feel like writing, in fact I didn’t feel like much of anything and I felt guilty for neglecting both you and my little space. This had the knock of effect of pushing me further into the doldrums than I already was.  So that begs me to ask the question, did I fail your expectations, or my own!

The truth is I need this space. Aside from work and home life there is not a big pile going on, mainly because between those two there is very little time left. I have nothing but admiration for those of you who read almost every post, comment on probably twice as many, yet still find time to write on your own blog as well. That takes perseverance and dedication.

I’ve thought about giving up many times, but the truth is I don’t think I could, not at the minute anyway. I’m actually surprised, if I am honest, that I have lasted this long, I’ve usually run out of steam within the first month. The main reason I am still here is you guys, because my rambling filled pages on WordPress would be nothing without your interaction.

So forgive me if I do not get to read, like or comment on all of your posts, you have to believe that it is not a lack of interest on my part, but a lack of time. Forgive me if I do not post as often as I would like to, and also if I rant, I am a woman heading for the menopause, it’s bound to happen! and for those of you with meat and two veg stop making faces, you lot are prone to off days as well!

Thank you for sticking with me and my little place on the world wide web and thank you also for being part of my 500 followers :)

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In the Dark!

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Turn the fecking lights on, it’s dark in here!

Sometimes you want to write about things, other times you want to just bury your head in the sand and hope it all goes away. I sort of adopted a half and half approach to this particular funk, I didn’t want to write about it, but there was too much going on for me to walk to the beach to bury my head in the sand, so I stayed quiet and hoped it would disappear.

Sometimes I get cross and need to vent, you have no doubt experienced a few on here if you are a regular follower. Usually though when I get the funk I won’t write at all, mainly because I don’t like sympathy or comments. It’s hard to be funny all the time,  and it’s hard to maintain a smile for 8 hours a day when the reality is you just want to beat someone senseless with your shoe. For explanation purposes, I picked a shoe because beating someone with your handbag is such an old lady thing to do and I am feeling old enough as it is!

I’ve been so tired,  a combination of too many late nights, a more stressful job and an increased workload in the house. I find myself nodding off in the chair when I finally get to sit in it, which in turn makes me fall out with myself. I hate the idea of wasting the couple of precious hours I get to do my own things, like blogging, falling asleep in a chair.

I hadn’t had a day off for 6 weeks (excluding the weekends of course) so I booked a days leave on Friday because basically my hair looked like I had been playing with balloons and static electricity, I kid you not, it was so wild I half expected to find birds nesting in there. From the moment I stepped downstairs on Friday morning, the Mothership decided it was going to be another weekend of blowing up over stupid little things whether it be force feeding me out of date chicken before I had even had breakfast or a full on melt down over fucking wheelie bins, you name it, it irked her and I got caught in the crossfire. By 11am I was wishing I had gone to work.

When you’re already in a funk that shit doesn’t help, it’s mentally draining. By Saturday morning after at least 10 interruptions while I was trying to get some work done I was ready to jump out a window, backwards, because I did not want my body’s built in air bags to save me!

There is no escape from it. I used to love taking days off, now I dread it, but at the same time I need them.

Thing is though, it’s not just me in a funk, so many of you are feeling exactly the same way. I wonder what’s causing this general feeling oh mehness that hangs over us all like little rain clouds, is it something to do with the fact that Brussel Sprouts are out of season and we therefore have no fuel to blow the blues away?

It’s time to banish the meh, say goodbye to glum, dispense with the doldrums and get our happiness heads on. So for just 2.39 minutes crank up the volume and sing along with Little Voice, it’s time to Get Happy! :)

Life Through The Lens Challenge – Miraculous

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For all my photo friends out there, this is one for you. Get your pics out for the girls :)

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http://mentalinthemidwest.wordpress.com/ http://mentalinthemidwest.wordpress.com/ This weeks Life through the lens challenge is – Miraculous. Display a photo that you have taken or a drawing that you did, which illustrates something wonderful and miraculous to you. This theme will be open to submissions until next Tuesday August 27th, at which point it will close and a new theme will begin. When you are done with your post just do a pingback to here and at the end of every theme i will list all who participated.

This past weeks Life through the lens challenge was fear i want to say thank you to those who participated you did great.
http://mommyx4boys.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/life-through-the-lens-challenge-fear/
http://theqwietmuse.com/2014/08/13/enemy-within/
http://frillthrills.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/life-through-the-lens-challenge-accepted/
http://mentalinthemidwest.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/creative-friday/
This is going to be a weekly challenge done every Tuesday, there will be a theme with which we are supposed to pick out a picture or create a drawing that we feel illustrates the theme. This challenge will last for…

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Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Week 7

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It seems I am not the only one in a funk this weather, it’s spreading like wildfire and turning into Meh! Beware people, only a few days left and then we are going to tell the funk to get to feck. The time has come!

Last week in the Cartoon Craziness Challenge we asked you to draw us Memories of a Childhood Vacation. We had some brilliant entries and to ensure you don’t miss out on a single one, I will add links at the bottom of this post.

On a side note my blog buddy Rob shortened the name of the challenge to what he likes to call it C with a baby 3 after it, I might have to pin him down and ask him how he does it (yes Rob this is a hint!) and then pin Mama down and show her how he does it (the baby 3 that is) and see what she thinks.

Anyway for this weeks challenge the theme is another suggestion from Somber Scribbler. I like the idea of this one and my imagination is already running wild, after a short discussion with MM we’ve decided to give you two weeks for this one to allow you to unleash your awesomeness, so instead of being under the funk, it’s time to get your funk on and design yourself a Mythical Creature. Be it fairies, fire breathing dragons, two headed dogs or your boss, the choice is yours to interpret this anyway you choose.

You have until Sunday the 31st August to complete this Challenge, all that I ask is that somewhere within your post you create a pingback to this one so I can see your entry. Happy doodling dudes!

Last Weeks Entries

Evil Squirrel’s Nest Comic #120 — 8/14/14 | Evil Squirrel’s Nest

Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Memories of a Childhood Vacation | heretherebespiders

creative Friday – or – Mama gives a twofer | Mental in the Midwest

Memories (Cartoon Craziness) | Somber Scribbler

Cartoon Craziness Challenge: Memories of a Childhood Vacation | Rob’s Surf Report

Not a Punk Rocker

CCC – Memories of a Childhood Vacation | The Indecisive Eejit

Give Me S’More Time! | Container Chronicles

CCC – Memories of a Childhood Vacation

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I’m still not feeling like writing an awful lot, this case of Juls got the funk is lasting a little longer than normal. Hopefully normal service will resume shortly. I figured it would be bad if I missed my own challenge though, so here goes.

This week Deborah gave Mama and I the theme of Memories of a Childhood Vacation. When we were younger my sister and I were lucky enough to go on many vacations, some I remember bits of, some not so much. I classed vacation as the two summer months off school and skipped out with delight on the last day knowing there was no more learning for at least seven weeks.

I have many memories of summer vacations riding around in the back of trailers perilously stacked with bales of hay, hanging off the back of a tractor which a baler munching along behind me, playing tennis on the open air courts or walking 5 minutes down the road and spending the day on the beach.

Some of the best memories I have are when my Dad used to give us old tubes from tractor tyres. Sometimes it would be the small ones, sometimes the huge ones from the back. I am sure we looked a funny sight rolling them all the way down to the seafront.

CC6 - 1The small ones were perfect for single sailing, the big ones held about four of us. Minimum effort was required as you could just lie back and drift at your leisure watching the world go by.

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However if you got to carried away with your daydreaming, there was always a chance that you would float towards the rocks. I was told stories of there being rats and monsters there, hanging around the rubble that used to be an old Castle. One day on drifting too far I put my legs down to kick myself back to shore, and felt something wrap around them. I believe I started squealing like a banshee thinking I was going to be dragged below the surface to a watery grave, before actually having the sense to look down and realise it was seaweed, not the ten thousand tentacled octopus of my imagination.

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When I made it to shore I rolled that tyre home as fast as my now knackered little legs would carry me. I gave myself such a fright, first with the seaweed and then thinking about the possibility of drifting out to sea, that I believe that was my last adventure on the tyre! But it was fun all the same, especially looking back on it now, from the safety of my chair :)

There is still today if you would like to join in with this challenege. To see who already has, check out the Cartoon Craziness Page!