Fields so green and vibrant
as far as the eye can see.
The beauty of our landscapes
is miraculous to me!
~
For the Life Through the Lens Challenge.
Life Through the Lens – Miraculous
In the Dark!
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decided it was going to be another weekend of blowing up over stupid little things whether it be force feeding me out of date chicken before I had even had breakfast or a full on melt down over fucking wheelie bins, you name it, it irked her and I got caught in the crossfire.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
For all my photo friends out there, this is one for you. Get your pics out for the girls :)
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
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
CCC – Memories of a Childhood Vacation | The Indecisive Eejit
CCC – Memories of a Childhood Vacation
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.
The 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.
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.
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!
Week 7 of Seven Weeks of Weird!
So this is it, the last ever post for Mental Mama’s roller coaster challenge. It’s been enjoyable, but it’s also been hard, because even though you might think you are weird when someone asks you why, it makes you question if you actually are. Turns out I am not as bad as I thought I was, but best of all, I now know I am not the only weirdo on the planet.
Out of all the questions I probably found this one the hardest, because after all my life is not that exciting. But here we go anyway.
Weirdest Random Fact About Yourself.
I’ve got nothing. I’ve thought about it for most of the day and I’ve got nothing. Plain and simple. I then started to think about what other people might say or think and the only thing I could come up with is that I am shy and self conscious. Let me explain. For most of my life I have been called a variety of names like header, wingnut, eejit and goofball. Although each word looks different, they all mean the same thing, I am a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic. If there is mischief to be made I am usually never far away and if there is raucous laughter, I will either be the subject of it or the cause of it . I feel comfortable in my interactions with people I know, more so if they do not know me very well.
For all the reasons above, externally I appear to be very outgoing and the life and soul of the party, so people are genuinely surprised when they find out the extent of both my shyness and self consciousness.
I know it’s not all that weird, but honestly it’s all I’ve got.
Thank you Mama for running this challenge, and believe me, challenge was the appropriate word for it :)
Other things to Note
I know I’m really behind on both my reading, writing and commenting but you’ll have to bear with me. I’ve been running on full steam for the last 4 weeks and mentally I think I am at the end of my tether. I’m going to take a couple of days breathing space (which probably means I will be back tomorrow night ffs!) and try and get my head together. I’m even trying to negotiate a day of work. What I wouldn’t give for a full day of having to do nothing at all!
So on that note, I’ll probably see you tomorrow ;)
Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Week 6
Good evening …. hmm what shall I call you all, it would be unfair to call you eejits as the Cartoon Craziness Challenge is a collaboration between myself and Mental Mama…hmmm…M…ok let me start again.
Good evening meejits, (see what I did there, good right!?) it is that time of the week again, and by that I mean time for another exciting installment of doodling disasters, speaking for myself of course!
This week 10 amazing people showed us in a variety of ways what ‘Happiness’ meant to them, I’ll add links at the bottom, should you have missed any entries.
This week, the theme for the challenge as suggested by the lovely Deborah from Container Chronicles is ‘Memories of a Childhood Vacation‘. Ever since she suggested it I’ve been turning ideas over in my head, I even put pen to paper at one stage but drawing a pictures of yourself getting stung on the arse by a bee is not as easy as it sounds!
You have until Sunday to complete this mission, should you chose to accept it! The only requirement is that you create a link back to this post when making your own, this in turn creates a pingback, which in turn alerts me to the presence of your drawing, how simple is that!
Entires for the current week will be updated as they come in (ish) and you can find them up there ^ on the Cartoon Craziness Challenge Page!
Happy Drawing Meejits :)
Last weeks amazing entires
If It Makes You Happy… | Steve Says…
tuesday update | Mental in the Midwest
Complete Cartoon Happiness Crudely Attempted | JED’s Playhouse
Cartoon Craziness Challenge – It’s All Fun and Games until a Goblin loses an Eye | Green Embers
Evil Squirrel’s Nest Comic #119 — 8/7/14 | Evil Squirrel’s Nest
CCC5: Happiness | Dean’z Doodlez
Cartoon Craziness Challenge: Happiness | Eyes and Words
Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Happiness | The Indecisive Eejit
Cartoon Craziness Challenge – Happiness
There are lots of things that make me happy, but the sad reality is that never in a million years would I be able to draw them. I don’t think that Udders and Monkey would appreciate being stick people, but lets face it, adding meat to dem bones would be a disaster, I am not good at drawing people.
If you hadn’t guessed, Happiness is the theme for this week. There are a lot of things I would be happy about, but I try not to think about them, because they are never going to happen. Things like getting my free time back, being able to go out without having to put a 25 step plan in place and only having to do my own washing and ironing.
So I racked my brains for a little while longer, and narrowed it down to just 4, of the many that make me happy:
Peace and quiet, I would love just one weekend of peace and quiet. No cooking, no cleaning, no having to field arguments, dodge temper tantrums and no feeling guilty about doing the things I NEED to do on my weekend.
For anyone who is not a Lord of the Rings fan you will have no clue who this is. To be fair, even if you are a Lord of the Rings fan, the chances are you would still wouldn’t have had a clue if I hadn’t written his name on it. Seeing Legolas on screen always makes me happy. I used to dream about him at night, and that made me really……oh never mind!
Photography is another one, I love getting out and about with my camera. I am certainly no David Bailey, but I am snap happy. It’s not as easy as it used to be though, the addition of Alien Leg into the mix makes for getting those out of reach shots a little more difficult.
By far the thing that makes me the happiest right now is this blog. I love all the amazing people I have met, and feel very blessed to have become a part of the community. New things to read, means something to smile about every day.
Now it’s your turn, show us in a doodle what Happiness means to you! These people did:
If It Makes You Happy… | Steve Says…
tuesday update | Mental in the Midwest
Complete Cartoon Happiness Crudely Attempted | JED’s Playhouse
Cartoon Craziness Challenge – It’s All Fun and Games until a Goblin loses an Eye | Green Embers
Evil Squirrel’s Nest Comic #119 — 8/7/14 | Evil Squirrel’s Nest
Week 6 of Seven weeks of Weird!
Only two more weeks to go of Mental Mama’s weird quiz…..thank goo….I mean awwww, these questions are so easy, said no one ever! Woman, what were you thinking :)
This weeks question asks: Weirdest way you’ve earned money.
This is going to be a short post, because I don’t think I have ever earned money in a weird way. I’ve was a waitress, a shop assistant and a petrol pump attendant before I discovered the dizzying heights of the role of an Administrative Assistant. Promotion would see me promoted to an Administrative Officer and then my recent sideways move to a Personal Assistant, albeit still at the same grade.
Nothing weird there right?
I also worked as a phone operator for a taxi firm, where although I had a few clientèle who were weird, the job was relatively normal.
So all I can do is tell you about the weird job offer I once got. I have mentioned it before on this blog, although I am not sure how many of you were with me way back then. So because I am lazy, I have copied and will now paste it for your pleasure.
By far however the strangest request I have ever had, and believe me there have been many, was a gentleman one night asking me had I ever though about branching out on my phone operator career. What do you mean I asked all ears, thinking he was opening a new firm and trying to poach me. When he told me I had the perfect voice to be a phone sex line operator, there was a stunned silence from my end of the phone. Sensing I was not too keen on his idea, he proceeded to tell me it paid £10 an hour, which in those days was really good money. At that point I might have given a small ‘Hmm’, and seizing what he perceived to be an opening he continued by telling me I would be able to work from home….wait….WHAT!!?? I had a quick mind flash of how this would pan out:
“Oh yes baby, it’s getting really hot and steamy now.” – He doesn’t need to know I am doing the ironing.
“Mmmm honey that’s right, my lust is boiling over, oh actually wait, I’ll brb it’s the feckin spuds.”
I started to laugh at that point and told him I didn’t think that I was suited for the job, but thanked him for considering me.
Till next week eejits…..
Updowndate!
I was thinking today.
It hurt.
So I stopped!
Only kidding, here’s what I came up with, in a list, cos people like lists and to be honest I am too tired to string it all together. If it’s not legible, think eejit speak and you’ll be grand!
- I’m still not loving the job, in fact after today I wanted to hide under the desk and cry. I’ve been made permanent in the position though, so there is no backing out now, even though that was never an option in the first place. My boss and the other bosses are dead on, it’s me that’s the problem. In my next life I swear I want to be neither a PA or a Party Planner because I suck at both!
- Someone was asking me about my blog today and when I said how many followers I had, they asked me if I thought I was successful. My answer was no, I’ve not been successful, because most of the time my writing sucks, but what I have been is very fortunate in the people I have met, because it’s them who make this whole blogging malarky worthwhile.
- I know I have a load of comments to catch up on and that’s what I should really be doing right now, but I had things to tell you so had to write. That’s my excuse and I am sticking to it. I’ll be with you all shortly!
- Mama and I are still loving the Cartoon Craziness Challenge and all the support you have given us. Your drawings have been amazing and unbelievably entertaining, whether you think it or not.
- I’m still liking Blog Lovin as a reader. It’s much better than the WordPress one (sorry guys but yours misses posts) and I rarely miss posts, even if I don’t get to like them all. The WiFi on the train has been a little sketchy of late making connections a tad temperamental.
- Last, but certainly not least. I’ve put up a couple of posts about myself and homelife etc, and people have commented that they like getting to know me a little better. It’s not that I intentionally hide who I am, it’s just not something that comes up in general commenting. So in an attempt to help you all get to know me a little better, I am going to let you ask me one question. Now I’m not saying I’ll 100% answer every question, because it does rather depend on what you ask, but I’ll try and come up with something. Thank you to Dean from It’s A Wee Bit Wordy for letting me pinch his idea, he has his own Q and A posts on a Tuesday if you’d like to question him as well!
Well that’s all for now….I think.
Till next time eejits :)
The Indecisive Eejit 