enrollednurse/hypochondriac annie. And life, good or bad? - life_good_or_bad_

Hello.

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:31:00 +0200

Hiya. Nearly a month since I last wrote in my blog.
Hands up those who have missed me.
Anyone???
No?
Ok. :<(

Very nearly a year since I had my last cig. It was the night of 29th Sept 2007. What a year. Many a time I was going to have a cigarette. But kept thinking that I would wait a bit longer to have one. Had good days and not so good days. Craves came and went. Sometimes they were really bad, especially at the beginning. I mean, after 3 days there is no nicotine left in the system. So it's all in the mind after that.

I used to wake up and think, "Is all this worth it? Misery and a kind of boredom."
But I must say I am so pleased that I kept it up. So now in 3 days I will have made that year. But the trouble is it has been a leap year. I will mention the site that has helped me so much once more. www.stayquit.com
Thanks to all the members on there who have helped me through.
It's a free site, all you need is a user name, your real name or a silly name or like me, intitials. Also a e-mail addy. Just be honest in your comments about your quit. After all, no one knows you. There are other people's diaries to read through too, they show you that you are not alone with many of the things that may crop up in your quit.
Also you are allowed to rant and rave on the site. (Keeping it clean, lol) Saves arguing with the family!

No work this month. I have been asked to go but always seem to have something else to do. Now that isn't an excuse, it is true. In December I will have to re-register, not worth it at my age. So I just don't think it is worth it now. After all, I am not far off 65 now.
I have enjoyed being a nurse. You can work with the same staff, the same patients and on the same ward and no day will be the same.

Anyway, the weather has been good for September and I am trying to make the most of it.

X XTake care everyone. X X

I think this plane is a Lancaster Bomber, it flew over our house a few weeks ago!

Midland Hotel. (Again.)

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:30:00 +0200

Morecambe.

I wrote a little while ago about the Midland Hotel at Morecambe. How it had been renovated after falling into rack and ruin. I said it looked really nice which it does.

A lady commented about her son who works there, he wasn't being paid. (Has now received some money now but not all.)

Just to say, although I am sorry this has happened and I know jobs are so hard to get now, but I don't really want to get into this discussion.

I was just chatting about the hotel and how, after being a eyesore for years, how nice it is now.
I don't want suing by Urban Splash.
Ok, I am a coward! lol

Oh, just to show off before I go, 10 months off the cigs tomorrow, 27th July. Hee hee.

Bad Customer Service.

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0200

On Saturday we went to buy a digital top box for TV.
Now me and himdownstairs don't know much about them. So, off we went to a well known electrical store.

Took ages to get someone to help. Now why is it that if you are just looking, people flock to ask if they can help you??? But when you want advice and stuff they are on their break Maybe dodging the two old codgers eh???
Anyway this young man whose customer skills were nil grunted at us, gave us no advice or even smiled. Ok, may have had a hangover from Friday night. Himdownstairs and I had been polite and didn't expect that kind of treatment.

Anyway, I took a piece of useless wire thing back to the store today, Young lady told us we would need it but we didn't. Surely they should know whether we needed it or not!?!? Do they not get to learn the basics?

Different staff but same bad attitude. Grrrr. There were a few of the lads having a fag behind a wall. Maybe this is why they are a miserable bunch eh? Not enough fag breaks.

It wasn't Comet, it wasn't Dixons or PCWorld by the way.......................

Anyway, topbox ok and now we are ready to go digital!

All the time!

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:40:00 +0200

We hear of people being stabbed or shot, we hear about soldiers getting killed in foreign parts, just kids bless them. Whatever age anyway, it is so sad.

Then important documents left on trains.

Then we hear that some "High Ups" are going to do something about it. I want to know when?

All this stuff going on and yet nothing much being done to stop it or is there?
I am an ordinary woman, I live an ordinary life. But things are getting much worse than they were.

Please do something someone. Please.

13th. Friday the..................

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:55:00 +0200

Hope everyone had a good day yesterday. lol I wonder how many people are suspicious? I like to think I'm not. But I think I am not fooling anyone at all.

If I see a magpie I do a little wiggle of my fingers, not a full wave. I mean, people will think I have lost it. Ok, I have but don't want the world and his wife to know. Fingers crossed when I HAVE to walk under a ladder.
I am sure there must be other things I do. Can't remember at the moment. Yes, there is another, salt, not to pass it to someone, place it on the table so they can pick it up. If I spill some, never remember which shoulder to throw it over.

I give up now as I will start to think of loads of them.

Good luck everyone!

X X X X X X X

Families and stuff.

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:00 +0200

I am really fed up. The following characters have found their dads and a mum.

Emmerdale...............Gen + Shadrack.
Corrie...................... Gail + Ted.
Eastenders...............Chelsea and her dad.
Holby City ……........Maria, just found her mum. (I think.)

I am not at all jealous, no, not me. lol
I do know they are only soaps and are not real life. (Maybe slightly based on real life as I am sure these things do happen.)

Me………dad located.
He is deceased and his step daughter, now 69 – 70 doesn’t want to know. Her brother who is my half brother doesn’t seem to want to know either. I have spoken to him once, seemed a really nice man.

Good luck Soap Characters, hope you get on better than I did. Also, everyone out there who is looking for their relatives, good luck to you too.

I have a granddaughter who will be seeking her half sister and brother one day.
If she manages it, I wish her all the best.

My Natural Father........

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:20:00 +0200

I wrote this in 2005.

Hello again.
I notice that I have had a few visitors today. I wonder if you too, are searching for a natural parent? I have looked through "Missing Persons" sites and I could cry. People looking for the mother they never knew. Wanting to know about their fathers', so sad.
I actually "found" mine. Ok, he died in the '70's. He was a Canadian, but he died in the USA.
But out there, I have a half brother. I will not name anyone here. I have spoken to my half-brother, sounded a lovely man. Told me a bit about his/my "father". But due to me telling his step-sister that I thought "Father" knew about me, nothing since!
I live in England so it's not as though I could just turn up on their doorsteps is it? This lady (step-daughter of "father") will NOT speak to me now. (Hope you are following this!!!!) Have tried ringing her.
Her e-mail address has changed too. lol I just wonder why????

I miss a man I'll never know,
Died in a place, I'll never go.
All my life I'll feel quite sad,
As I believe, he was my dad.

There are people out there, who knew him well,
His family, with tales to tell,
What kind of man he used to be,
I wonder if he knew of me.

My childhood dad was good and kind,
So why, the need to look behind?
But it's still with me, night and day,
Will it ever go away?

Yesteryear is far away,
I should only live life for today.
So if I'm brave, maybe I'll find,
The memory will fade, from my mind.
Written on the 25th September. 2005.

Bad......................

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:25:00 +0200

Today I have been really fed up. I am bored, I am still not smoking. Nothing to look forward to. Bah.

But, if I stop and think about it, I am being silly. I have my health, I don't have to worry about paying my way. Summer is on the way, good or bad we will have to wait and see.
Just a touch of depression then? It will soon pass. I hope so anyway.

No work this week up to now. After last week's shifts I don't care either.
Not to worry, today is another day in another month. Never know what nice thing might happen eh?

Happy April everyone.

Not fair, my birthday.

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:17:59 +0100

It should be my birthday tomorrow but no, it is leap year again. I have to wait an extra day. Not fair is it?
I suppose it could have been worse. I might have been born tomorrow, the 29th.

Happy birthday to all that have a birthday tomorrow. I wonder whether next year you will have it on the 28th or like me, the 1st March. St. David's Day????

There would be a lot more candles on my cake than this, in fact the Fire Brigade would be on standby. lol

To the USA.

noreply@blogspirit.com (annec) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:10:00 +0100

Have a really great Thanksgiving Day please. An order, not a request.

Luv from England and me. X X X X