Shameful beyond all belief!

Who needs a driving license!?!

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I am aware that I haven’t yet posted any pictures of myself on my site and that this may not be the best first one to choose, but I love this video as it shows me doing what I do best…….me making a damn fool of myself!

I’m seeing it as a good sign that I’m comfortable enough to post this on the internet where anyone (gulp!) can see it, so laugh, point and laugh, but please don’t be mean if you leave comments, I’m a delicate flower.

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N and I had a conversation a few days ago about how he can’t understand how I can love so many crappy films. We have the movies option on our Sky and so there are always a tonne of films on everyday and I can always be counted on to sniff out the crappiest, cheesiest film to watch.

So in keeping with revealing stuff about me that isn’t the most flattering I thought I’d give you a list of the most embarrassing films I will always watch given half a chance.

Please don’t judge me!

Piranha
Kickboxer. In fact any Jean-Claude Van Damme film, shameful I know.
Short Circuit and
Short Circuit 2
3 Men and a Baby
3 Men and a Little Lady
Labyrinth

And that’s just for starters, if I listed them all; I might actually spontaneously combust from the shame!

I think that’s enough shame for one day so I’m going to go now and let the judge fest begin.

The sound you can hear is the tumble weeds whistling by….

Where has the time gone, can’t believe it’s been so long since I wrote anything! I’d like to pretend it’s due to my hectic social life and jam-packed calendar, but nothing could be further from the truth – sorry to disappoint those of you who thought being so young as I am that I would be out every night painting the town red etc, but I’m just an old fogey.

It’s been a long few days in the LannyLee house, I typically have been poorly again and N has been an absolute saint in putting up with my whinging & moaning and going to bed at 8.10pm (see told you I was an old fogey) and basically just ignoring me (trust me he’s not being mean, it’s the only way to deal with me when I’m feeling sorry for myself) and so nothing much has happened, but I feel guilty for not updating so you lucky people get a ‘non-entry’, better than nothing I suppose, although you’ll probably disagree me with me once you’ve finished reading this page of drivel.

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Due to the typical British July weather our last few weekends have seen our plans scuppered, although we’re going to Hunstanton even if it means taking a snorkel and flippers. I love the seaside, eating fish & chips out of the paper with your fingers with candy-floss for dessert and wandering down the pier trying not to get blown side-ways by the gale-force winds coming in from the North Sea, while shopping for novelty tea-towels and key rings for your nearest and dearest.

Then afterwards going to spend a small fortune in the arcades to try and win a cuddly toy or some other worthless piece of tat. Reminds me of holidays when I was a kid, my mum and dad must have spent a fortune trying to keep us happy, but come to think of it they used to give us a bagful of two pence pieces and we’d be happy for ages playing on the Grand National Derby game not winning a penny back, probably breaking several gambling laws as we were both under 10 at the time, but this was about 1989 and no one really bothered with stuff like that then.

God I miss being a kid, being happy with a quid’s worth of shrapnel and a luminous blue Slush Puppy drink that would be guaranteed to dye your tongue and teeth bright blue for at least the next four hours.

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We’ve had some action in our greenhouse, we have about half a dozen lovely green tomatoes, I’ll post pictures soon when our stupid camera decides to let me download the million pictures we have being held hostage stuck on our memory card.

More soon, hopefully a nice entry when we get back from the seaside with pictures.

Phew!!

I can stil see you there…

Originally uploaded by LannyLee

Phew, we’ve had a rough few days. Our little furball hasn’t been eating at all, nothing for about four days and as she’s still only four months old, it worried us a lot. We had started to feed her sardines about once a week for the fish oil and we think a bone got stuck in her thought so she couldn’t swallow properly, luckily she was still drinking plenty, but we were still worried.

She’s all better now though. I don’t know how people with children cope, she’s only a little kitten and I was so worried about her all last week I hardly slept thinking something was really wrong. Parents are God damn saints; I’ll never think anything bad about my mum again!

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I had a tonne of things to say, but now I’ve actually got the lap-top open I can’t remember any of them, so I guess I’ll just have to wing it.

We went shopping today for wallpaper and got two great ones for the bedroom and living room for only £5 a roll, total bargain. So we managed to paper two rooms for just £35! We just need to choose the paint colours for the contrasting walls, which is easier than it sounds.

We’ve picked a really warm fuscia for the bedroom with gold flower pattern and a great bold print in green and silver for the living room. We’re thinking about red for the kitchen as well on two walls and a creamy colour for the other two walls. I’ll post pictures once we’re done.

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Sometimes…..well actually all the time when I’m updating I think “Why bother?” as I truly think why would anyone want to read about what I do everyday, it’s not exciting or even interesting, but I guess no ones life is, but I still like to read about what other people get up to, I guess that’s just human nature to want to read about other peoples lives. Everyone has a bit of a voyeur in them. So I guess I’ll just carry one boring everyone to death until something really interesting happens to me or until I get so bored with myself I can’t be bothered to update!!

Roswell puppy

Roswell puppy

Originally uploaded by LannyLee

Had to post this picture courtesy of MSN , this is ‘Baby’ 3rd prize winner in the 2008 Roswell Festival pets costume competition – how sickeningly cute!

Very productive weekend!

Very proud!

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Well I think I’ve had a very productive weekend, although those of you who where expecting a heartfelt and introspective entry about my relationship with my father are going to be disappointed.

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So moving on, this weekend the beautiful July weather (note the intense sarcasm, as it did nothing but piss it down all weekend!) I was inspired to bake a yummy carrot cake – see above picture.

Apart from that nothing much was done this weekend and in order to put off writing the entry about my dad I found tonnes of things that really needed to be done, right now, this instant, like filing our documents, ie, bank statements, phone bills etc. Very important work, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Not an awful lot to say today to be fair, feeling very apathetic at the moment, work is getting a bit hectic as one of our sales managers has been fired and I was sort of his admin person, (as well as doing my own job I might add!) but now he’s gone I have taken over his workload, despite the fact that he is 2 grades above me, so now I’ve got my own stuff to do, as well as his work and also another part of the business that used to belong to my old boss and seeing as they still haven’t replaced him, I get to handle that as well.

I’m such a lucky girl!

Very busy at work, but I’m quite looking forward to the next few weeks as we have a guy from our South African office coming over to work in our office for a three month secondment. I really like him, he’s down to earth, funny and can take our sarcastic sense of humour, which is a good thing as you can’t really survive in our office if you can’t take the piss out of yourself as well as have others do the same.

I’m going to go now as we’re about to watch Legionnaire with the fantastically cheesy Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Brand new shoes for my holiday.

Brand new shoes for my holiday.

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I have caved and given in to rampant consumerism and purchased another new pair of shoes, however I can’t feel too bad as they were only £7 from the children’s section at ASDA (sometimes I love having small feet!) and so I reasoned that for seven quid I couldn’t have even bought a nice bit of steak for that, or a decent bottle of wine, well not in our house anyway, N is a bit of a wine snob as he lived in France for about 6 years and so is used to buying bottles fantastic wine for about £1 direct from the vineyards. You basically turn up with your own bottle and fill it up from ‘wine pumps’ for next to nothing!

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This weekend N and I will be cooking up a storm in the kitchen making yummy carrot cake and also maybe some honeycomb courtesy of (the V sexy) Mr. Gordon Ramsey.

It’s going to, hopefully, be a nice quiet, relaxing weekend. We did the shopping last week so we won’t need to go out to the supermarket, which at the weekend is my idea of HELL on earth.

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I’m hoping that this weekend will give me some time to start writing the entry I hinted at doing about my relationship with my dad, it was pretty complicated and will probably be quite tough to write, raking up some unpleasant memories, but as I mentioned I’m hoping it will be quite a cathartic experience for me so I’m going to see how I go and take it from there.