Dont you just hate washing

Oh dear god i can't beleive how much i hate washing!! Its funny how doing other peoples washing is 10 times worse than doing your own.

I was sorting out Deans washing earlier and isnt it funny how even the slightest thing winds you up. I couldnt believe how much underwer he goes through, i mean what is that all about...i guess i would moan more if he didnt change them very often...but it seems like i do a load of his every other day (which is an exaggeration of course) but there appears to be 20 pairs of boxers, how frustrating...its like he must wear a few pairs every day somehow!? And then i yank out what feels like dozens of shirts, yes i have an amazingly big washing machine...and all that goes through my mind is, great i now have to iron these once they are dried. Its very anoying, i hardly iron anything of my own but i have to spend agggesss ironing shirts for Dean and Liams uniform, what a life eh?! and who said it would be easy being at home looking after the kids and doing the housework...me before i actually did it!! oh my god and then so many socks, hardly any of them pairs, how did that happen i say to myself...blame the washing machine...we all know they DO swallow up socks...oh and its thier fault when colours run too...nothing to do with me honest!! There are some great hints and tips here i just found this and thought it may be helpful!! Certainly taught me a thing or two.

X Factor The live shows episode 1

So who watched X Factor on Saturday...or should it be who didnt watch it!!!

I thought it was a little dissapointing actually, there wasn't anyone who really stood out for me...they are all averagley good but definately no stunners...YET! I reckon there is alot more to come from most of them, my hot favourite Jamie AFRO i think could have done better but i reckon he will grow and become better as the weeks go on. I really think he needs to be given a better tune really, i wasnt mad about the song found it boring he sung it ok but hey i definately think he will go much much further.

I was dissapointed with Ricky Looney, his song was a terrible choice and to me he is not that great a singer...hopefully he ups his game i can't see him carrying on much further if he doesnt get better songs and he needs a bit more of a personality as i think he will struggle against the other two boys in Cheryls group. Joe is at the moment far better and i think he also has more charm which wins over many votes, also teenagers go for the good looking charming chappy and lets be honest young girls VOTE in thier hoards!! Although the extremely young Lloyd is also a heart-throb amongst those youngsters..wil the votes be split between the two...who knows!

 

What we do know is people do not vote for half dressed girls that cant sing very well?! sorry Kandy Rain but you should have strayed away from the lap dancing image...i know some guys vote but no where near as the female sex....! I think they thought they would stay true to thier image but really i think they were trying to deter from the fact they can't sing very well! Saying that i have heard them sing alot better...mainly when they sing slow songs when you can really hear the harmonies...good luck girls im sure you will continue and get some gigs.

Moving on to that "comment" from Danni Minogue to Danyl....i don't read the papers personally and if i did i wouldnt beleive everything i read and certainly wouldnt mention things that appeared in them on live TV, mainly because i wouldnt want the papers to know that we believe anything and everything we read. But okay she appologised and i do think she was being genuinly humourous and not meaning to be nasty or hurtful towards Danyl. So is Danyl Gay/Bisexual or what...well im not sure and to be honest i don't care...hes a singer and thats it! Surely whether hes gay,straight,bisexual or even a Star Trek fan...does it matter!? Well hopefully it won't affect his votes im pretty sure it won't as i have faith in the British voters....apart from when they voted for those gastly brothers Grimm to stay in.

What is that all about!!! I think they are fun, and entertainers they could be...but singers??? really!!!  I give up, i reckon itll be Chico all over again...although i did grow to think he was pretty amusing and i beleive he is doing better than quite a few of the X Factor previous finalises.

Its CHICO time! lol

This weekend Subway and much more!

Teething baby so tired this weekend as Scarlett is going thorugh it yes the dreaded teething stage so she has been waking earlier than usual...also in the day she has generally been harder work! I have tried bonjela, which works but not for very long. The only thing that seems to work at the moment is Nurofen for babies, those syringe things that you get are fantastic, im not sure how i would get the medicine in her if i didnt have one of those...strong suggestion get one...it comes free in the Nurofen for babies :-) Calpol is great and she certainly enjoys drinking it but it does go everywhere as i only have a spoon to feed her that...oh well...sort it out Calpol!! :-)

Anyway apart from being very tired this weekend was a very good one, Friday me and Dean stayed in Friday...realised that there is nothing at all on the TV Friday night...you think you pay for TV whenever with Sky but sometimes we really really struggle and its annoying as on Saturday everything clashes. Anyway because we couldnt find anything we wacthed a film called Dutchess with Keira Knightly. Now for my film review....

It started very slow and i was beginning to think oh dear im bored, Keira was gorgeous as usual and was a brilliant in it...she never fails to suprise me i think shes fab (although not as good as Pirates of the Carribean). So althoguh the acting was very good all round i thought the plot was weak and like i said it started very slow but picked up as it went on and did get more interesting. I would say it does leave you with a sad feeling at the end, and it doesnt finish as well as it could...its as if you've missed a chunk and it ends very quickly. Also during near the beginning it does skip a huge chunk and i got very confused thinking it was like the next day and then realising it couldntve been for big obvious reasons. My advice is to watch it especially if you fancy an easy watching Jane Austin type film, however i wouldnt go out of your way as it may dissapoint.

On Saturday we didnt do much actually higlight of my day being the Subway i had for lunch...yummie yum yum! I had the Teriyaki Chicken with all the trimmings bar olives...what are they all about!?  I usually go with Italian Sausage but thought i would try and be healthier...not that theres probably much difference! Anyway loving Subway at the moment...not loving the price though i think they can be a little bit of a rip off!

Went out Saturday night for a few drinkies, was very nice but found ourselves in a  weatherspoons chatting away for hours feeling very comfortable and then we didnt move until we got chucked out...so by then we could only get into the worse place in Staines to end up in...so we stayed for a couple it was pretty dia music trance stuff i think, and to be honest it is just not my sort of music. Luckily when we went to go home a cab was litereally outside...fantastic, i cant remember when ive ever been so lucky although saying that Staines was so dead that there was possibly an abundance of cabs just hanging around. I appreciated it anyway, if we wouldve waited i would have only popped over to Topps Pizza and grabbed a take away from there...seriously i need to stop eating so much.

The Slim Fast diet - does it work?

With slim fast you have a shake in the morning and lunchtime (dinner in northern terms) and a normal meal for dinner ( aka tea ) then you can snack on either slim fast bars fruit or low calorie snack. Its pretty good, although wine is not in the diet damn...is there any diet that does include wine????!!! somebody please sort one out! Anyway, the shakes are nice ready made up...the ones you have to mix yourself are pretty ropey unless you add tonnes of ice and whizz it up really really well. My advice is basically buy the ready made up ones, my fave is the fruits of the forest type ones, close second is raspberry which is quite nice. All round the diet is pretty easy really, the snacks are actually quite delicious apart from the pretzel ones yuk yuk!! but thats personal taste. The big question is do you lose weight??!! well i lost a couple of pounds in one week which is not brilliant but as the diet was easy it was okay...better than i expected actually cos i didnt felt like i had been that good.

The good thing about slim fast is that it is quite easy to do...although it is fairly expensive if you get the ready made up milkshakes and snacks. I mainly eat fruit as my snack so that works out okay and good for you nutritian wise. I am off the diet now as i say that im scoffing into a fat chelsea bun, yum yum...see my problem is when im off diets i just scoff my face even though i know straight away i will regret it...moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips and all that :-)

Which degree should i do

I have been thinking for the last few months that i would love to be a teacher, i know its hard work but i think it would be so rewarding. I have bee researching this anyway and find it really difficult to find out the best route to go. I am qualified AAT which means if i went for a degree i could get 60 points towards it so i would only need to gain 300...only, this takes quite a while. I was looking into becoming a maths teacher as i really do enjoy maths, especially at GCSE level, it was my only GCSE A that i received, and this was mainly because it ddint bore me silly like most subjects did at school.

To become a maths techer in secondary school i would need to get a degree then do a PGCE, both these together doing part time could take up to around 6 years part time...and even longer if i fail parts or take breaks.

Im quite confused at the moment as to what i want to do but have been thinking about this for a while now...and the more i think about it the more i like it. So how do we know if it is the best thing to do?!

I believe there is no certainty in life and if you want to go for something then you should go for it, however with this comes lots of regret, i regret quite a number of things i have done. Because i enjoyed maths i thoguht it would be wise to get into accountancy, a good few years later after many breaks yes i am AAT qualified but i dont enjoy a single second of it...thats not life is it? i mean do we work just to put food on the table or do we work to be happy and enjoy ourselves at the same time. I think i have been quite lucky in my life never struggled too much to make ends meet and i am fairly intelligent with 2 beautiful children and loving partner (soon to be hubbie) so why am i not happy?! I think the answer is inside me and i think really it is obvious. Home life could not be better...well unless i had a cleaner, but my work side of me is where i stuggle....really struggle.

So i need to ask myself do i take a leap of faith and go with the Maths degree, which will cripple us slightly financially but in the end should make me happy...or shall i just think sod it im gonna sepnd as much of my time with my family and work when i need to work to "bring home the bacon".

If anyone is out there listening to me rant i would love some opinions on this.

Lauren

X Factor the final 12

What do we think then of the final 12. Well I did think most oft he ones that got through deserved to get through on thier amazing voices and personality etc etc. However there were a couple that i was really annoyed about, the twins John and Edward they are the most annoying two people in the world. Louis reckons they are likable and different and he can work with them...but does he not realise they can't actually sing very well. Okay they are not the worse singers in the world but come on there were so many better than them, but because they are annoying and apparently "marketable" they have got through. Lets hope the general public are behind me on this one and chuck them out as soon as possible!!

I do also think Danyl, who gave us the best first audition ever...is not gonna be as good as people thought. don't get me wrong i do like him and i think he has a good voice but however he has not delivered since that first audition and im pretty sure that if he carries on doing medioka performances he will be outta there fairly quickly, which would be a shame.

Another lot i am doubting will do very well is Kandy Rain, and again this would be a shame i like them but i can see that the voters will pick Miss Frank over them as they have stronger voices and they are better all rounders. This will really split the votes and you will get a limited amount of people going for Kandy Rain, unless of course they totally pull it out of the bag and do an awesome performace to outdo the other girls.

Looking at all of the under boys in Cheryls group, i really can't see a winner there. The best one i think is the 16 year old Lloyd, he had such a grown up voice especially for his age it is very refreshing. The other two im not too sure about but thought they were good singers, i don't think Cheryl will win this year to be perfectly honest. I have a strong feeling about the overs this year, Simon had 6 fantastic people to choose from it must've been hard for him but i think he is very confident he will win this year.

Police and councils fail again!

A mother and her disabled daughter commited suicide in October 2007, Fiona Pilkington felt it better to take her own and daughters life after being terrified by youths for many years. They were discovered in a burning car on the A47 near home in Barwell.

Fiona had contacted the police 33 times for help, did they do anything?? er no doesnt look like it! I bet she felt she was all on her own when it comes to these heartless thugs. We have heard the apologies and apparently they have tried to action anti social behaviour orders on the youths, but apparently they didn't work. Surely the police could have done more. I hope it has not got so bad in this world that a mother and her disabled child feels "under siege" in thier own home. This story absolutely sickened me, i know nobody forced her to commit suicide and people will say it was her choice, but she must have been really desperate to do that. There must be someone to blame, the polioce, the council, the parents of these youths. Combined all these three helped this poor lady feel truely unsafe, i would love to hear from these parents to hear thier story. Did they know what thier children were doing, did they care, do they feel guilty....these questions i would love to know. As parents i feel we have a duty to the public to make sure our children are polite and respectful, and that is to anyone and everyone.

The Simmons family, what a lovely bunch of inbreds these people are, drunk parents and four sons 20,16,15 and 12 year olds. Apparently Alex the 16 year old was shouting abuse at Fiona just a few hours before she commited suicide...do they have any remorse for the torture, i doubt it. I really hate this sort of behaviour, why should people feel threatened walking down the street, or have stones thrown at them just because it seems like fun to some people. Disgusting if you ask me i cannot beleive there are people in the world like this.

When reporters came to questions them, they took no blame what so ever or showed any sort of care and consideration for anyone but them selves. This is a family that has a 3 bedroom council house, oh i suppose they deserve that don't they. It is extremely hard to get a council house there are people living in b&b accomodation because they cant get one. I know its harsh but i would chuck them out if it was me, why should they get it over another family, this world is messed up....where is the gratitude eh?