We all need to be heard for a little while.

lostinrates

I think I have stopped to day at the right time. Its hard to know. I was cutting the grass and started to feel tired. I finished the 'chunk' I was doing then called it a day. I have had ' lots of beans' today though, have been jigging around with kiwi, dancing with fir, and still feel I could do a bit more ....but the idea is not to push, right?

Also noticeable......I have stressed less today. I don't know why or how or what, I just didn't. Difficult to know which is chicken/ egg.....have I been more full of beans because less stressed, or less stressed because less idle/ more full of beans and better body chemistry?

I did sleep in ridiculously mind you. Fir did animals and came back to bed, I woke again when he got up, and he brought me breakfast in bed ( an egg!) and I was a bit confused about what day it was.....shamefully.

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Oh, and I treated myself to a small hairdryer with a diffuser. After years of straightening my hair only for it to bounce into waves an hour later I have decided to embrace my bouncy hair and help the waves along.

Well, you can't be Waves and Smiles with straight hair, now can you?




Lostinrates, chickens and eggs all over the place! Who cares, if you're feeling good!


I did a little bit more paperwork today, not as much as I would have liked, but am going abroad next week for a few days, and had to get my suitcase organised with what I need to take. It's an AmDram thing, not a holiday as such, although it will be a sort of a hol, I suppose!

Would you believe I have never ever been to Spain! I tend to go to Italy, so that I can practice what I have learned at Italian classes! It's going to be frustrating not quite knowing the language! I hate not having any knowledge of the country's language! Even though the hotel website is fully English, I feel it's insulting not to even have the basics!

I will be taking my iPad, but probably won't be able to go online till the evening, and then only in public areas, which will be a pain! So don't worry if from Wednesday I don't post much!

purpleshoes_2

Im pretty much rubbish at languages, I have my Higher French and German and O grade spanish, but am still rubbish. My mum is fluent in all 3 and taught herself to speak Italian and Russian as well, she has a french degree, I did want to do languages when I was at school, but it dawned on me I was very much average.

In my defence I would be passable if I ever spent enough time in Spain etc to pick it up, but not gifted like my mum is.

I can read languages much better than I can speak, I can read novels in French, but thats it.

Im off to Majorca 7 weeks yesterday, the countdown has started already.

lostinrates

Pyxis wrote: »

I did a little bit more paperwork today, not as much as I would have liked, but am going abroad next week for a few days, and had to get my suitcase organised with what I need to take. It's an AmDram thing, not a holiday as such, although it will be a sort of a hol, I suppose!

Would you believe I have never ever been to Spain! I tend to go to Italy, so that I can practice what I have learned at Italian classes! It's going to be frustrating not quite knowing the language! I hate not having any knowledge of the county's language! Even though the hotel website is fully English, I feel it's insulting not to even have the basics!

I will be taking my iPad, but probably won't be able to go online till the evening, and then only in public areas, which will be a pain! So don't worry if from Wednesday I don't post much!

You'll be ok. For has never studied Spanish but can understand a lot. His brother married a Spaniard and made the swap from Italian speaking to Spanish quite easily ( though they have decided not to bring up their child trilingual). I find I sometimes offer a Spanish word in Italian because I had some Spanish years ago, and it comes more easily at times because of my memory.. Sometimes fir turns the word right back round at be and asks me to find another, others he asks if I mean 'x' word in Italian.

Pyxis

lostinrates wrote: »

You'll be ok. For has never studied Spanish but can understand a lot. His brother married a Spaniard and made the swap from Italian speaking to Spanish quite easily ( though they have decided not to bring up their child trilingual). I find I sometimes offer a Spanish word in Italian because I had some Spanish years ago, and it comes more easily at times because of my memory.. Sometimes fir turns the word right back round at be and asks me to find another, others he asks if I mean 'x' word in Italian.

Just so long as I don't ask for 'burro' for my toast! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

purpleshoes_2

I go to a place called S'illot which is the opposite corner from Magaluf and I landed there a few years back after getting a 30 quid flight and finding a cheap hotel. The reviews were awful, but the hotel was great and I feel really at home there, which is odd, as I dont feel at home pretty much anywhere apart from my own little corner of Scotland.

Its a German speaking resort, when I went there last year I think I heard one scottish voice and that was on the way back to the airport, but given that for years I was too terrified to be on a plane, Im happy that I made it.

I have a story about being en route last year and meeting some very drunk scotsmen who thought I must be a lesbian for travelling on my own



One set off the alarms in the loo because he couldnt go 30 mins without a cigarette, thats the short version of the story.

Pyxis

purpleshoes wrote: »

I go to a place called S'illot which is the opposite corner from Magaluf and I landed there a few years back after getting a 30 quid flight and finding a cheap hotel. The reviews were awful, but the hotel was great and I feel really at home there, which is odd, as I dont feel at home pretty much anywhere apart from my own little corner of Scotland.

Its a German speaking resort, when I went there last year I think I heard one scottish voice and that was on the way back to the airport, but given that for years I was too terrified to be on a plane, Im happy that I made it.

I have a story about being en route last year and meeting some very drunk scotsmen who thought I must be a lesbian for travelling on my own



One set off the alarms in the loo because he couldnt go 30 mins without a cigarette, thats the short version of the story.

Oh, do, do, do, please tell the long version! I could sooooo do with a funny story right now! Pretty please? :rotfl:

purpleshoes_2

Pyxis wrote: »

Oh, do, do, do, please tell the long version! I could sooooo do with a funny story right now! Pretty please? :rotfl:

I get on the plane, think it was a midday flight, anyway, these half a dozen guys get on (50 something) going on a golfing holiday and its pretty obvious they are sozzled. Anyway, we get chatting, kind of and he asks me where Im going and I tell him the resort and he asks me who Im going with and I say just me and he says, are you a lesbian (I need to point out that Im a very polite person but when someone cheeses me off, they kind of know it) and I say no, then he tells me when he was 23 he travelled all over oz on his tod, but because Im female and going to spain on my own, I must be gay

Anyway, they are clutching these bottles of cola, you know the 500ml ones, filled with voddie and the guy says to me, I cant go half an hour without a cig and Im saying to him, you had better not and given that he was more than half cut at the time, all he kept repeating was, I used to go on planes and you could have a cig mid air, Im trying (bearing in mind hes been rude to me ) to be nice and say please dont do it when he goes in the loo and then the alarms start sounding, yes you guessed it, he lit up a cigarette

So, the stewardess (jet 2 and they can be scary) marches towards him and makes him sign a disclaimer to say they wont drink on the way back (or he wont), or he'll be arrested

And all this time Im thinking actually !!!!!!!!!!! And even after they presented him with this bit of paper saying he was in big doo doo if he got drunk on the way back, he moaned all the way to Palma about how unfair it was that he couldnt have a cig

Im going to burst the bubble now and say that I actually accepted a swig of his voddie and coke in the plastic bottle (the least he could do)

Btw, I dont care about anyone's sexual orientation, I just thought it was a tad much that a girl cant go on holiday on their own without being called a lesbian

Plus Ive been on so many flights at all hours of the day and night, but seriously, these 50 something guys were absolutely blootered

Scottish people, you'll know what that means (very drunk)

Georgiegirl256

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Oh, and I treated myself to a small hairdryer with a diffuser. After years of straightening my hair only for it to bounce into waves an hour later I have decided to embrace my bouncy hair and help the waves along.

Ooo I'm jealous you can get waves and keep them! My hair is that straight that curls/waves drop out so quick. I need nearly a whole can of hairspray to keep them in place.

Your social worker sounds lovely btw. Glad things are getting sorted and that you've had a nice relaxing day.

Re languages, I can count to 20 in French and German, and that is the extent of my learning of foreign languages....that, and asking for chicken and chips in French! :rotfl:

Purpleshoes, I'd love to hear the long story! . Eta: I see you've now posted it!

purpleshoes_2

Oh aye and I actually swapped seats on the plane so he could be with his pals in a row!!!!!!

Lmao, they get on, ask me to swap seats so they can all be in a line and 5 mins later hes calling me a lesbian.

Too nice for my own good, thats me.