Tanith

We call him ‘murder cat’ as he always looks so pissed off, sleeping in the most weird places and it seems like due to his angry look, he is plotting our demise constantly. Behold; our own little Garfield!


And here below, as you can see, he is very busy plotting!

* Please note, this entry contains strong language *

Unfortunately I live on a busy road and sometimes there isn’t parking space for my little Betty in the small, not ever busy road next to our scrappy house, therefore I sometimes am forced to park on the busy road. Unfortunately my passenger side mirror got knocked about a few times, but never really seriously, we always managed to fix Betty right up.

Previous Monday I had quite a shock though, I, once again, was forced to park my precious little Betty on the busy road once again the Sunday before, this time with the drivers’ side to the road. Some complete and utter twat (I swear better in Dutch but as my blog is in English), went so fast and so close past my wonderful Betty that he/she/they knocked off her drivers’ side mirror off completely! I couldn’t find back the glass/mirror and the casing was just hanging to the side like a limb arm…

I was devastated, */rant mode on* I lost count of the times they trashed my mirrors but it was never as bad as this. I even park sensible; I am so far on that damn pavement that it is fucking easy to go around it is un-fucking-believable! I am nearly positively sure that it’s those fucking bus drivers who just push those damn busses through a to narrow passage and just refuse to wait 2 seconds until the car coming towards them passed. They should be fucking strapped up vandalising people’s property like that! Everybody who is vandalising other’s peoples property should be fucking locked up and their houses destroyed in the mean time! */rant mode off*

I am terribly sorry for this ‘rant’ but god, I had to get it out, and England just really is full with the rudest people I have ‘encountered’ as I never met them. Luckily one of Liam’s friends is good with cars, we went to a car graveyard today, picked up a new mirror for £10 and fixed Betty right up, she is as good as new. Unlucky for me though the little ‘never busy’ road was filled up with parked cars once again and Betty is, as we speak, parked on the busy road…

I am definitely too much into reading books, mostly fantasy books. I just finished the third book of the Inheritance cycle, only to discover that another book has to be written! I already knew towards the end that he just wasn’t able to finish the story without a really rubbish ending and I really hoped he wouldn’t do just that. I am disappointed that the fourth book still has to be written (so another 2/3 years waiting, perhaps even longer!) but very happy that Christopher did not rush off the ending.

I waited for nearly 2 years for this book to come out; when I finished the second book, Eldest, the writer only just started writing the third (and at that point; last) book and when finally finished in September 2008, Liam got it for me as a Christmas present, and now I have to wait again, for another book to be written… I have to confess that I am not a very patient person, and this is driving me near my limits…

I heard the movie Eragon (The first book) was rubbish so I am not even trying to watch it until Christopher finally finishes the last book. I want to read all the books before I watch the movie(s). However, if you wanted to read the book but have been put off by watching the movie, please get yourself a copy of these books because they are just about the best read I have ever had, their brilliant.

I received the first book of The Black Magicians trilogy from Liam for valentines, as he knows how much I love to read. I have to say, next to Christopher (and a few others), Trudy is now one of my favorite authors! The way she writes just made it impossible for me to put down the book and do some of the household or even go to bed, it is fantastic! If you love fantasies, I really advise that you get the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudy Canavan, it is a brilliant read, I was unable to put down these books and I know it will do the same to everybody, as long as they are willing to open their mind and wonder into a world of fantasy.

I had a look on Trudy’s website and it is her who inspired me to do a few short stories, her advise for writers is to write every day, and as it is one of my goals in live, to write a book, I made myself look at my blog and bow my head in shame, I really do have to make more entries, every day if possible and in the meanwhile work on a nice, little short story which has been going around in my head for ages. I will post it when or if I finish it, so comments are most, most welcome!

Ah… reading… I really get dragged into the whole story, the surroundings and the characters, everything, if the story is good enough. Liam thinks I am silly as it is only ‘a book’, but when I get into things, I laugh when it is funny, I am happy when something amazing for my favorite character(s) happens and I cry when something bad happens. That is how I know when I am reading a brilliant damn good book; if it can sway my emotions and mood, and I have to say, Trudy and Christopher did a fantastic job and they are both in my top 5 writers!

I’m skipping today, I know I shouldn’t but when my alarm went off this morning I just could not get up. I do have a bit of a headache but when I called in I kind off lied. I am currently sitting at home with a massive migraine and I am really incapable of doing anything at the moment. Ever since I made my mind up of getting the hell out of there I just cannot be bothered anymore, getting up every morning on time is getting harder and harder, the will to work for them is gone.

Something completely random and unfair which is a side effect of me not going to work this morning is Liam being angry at me. He was supposed to go to uni at noon today, but we did not wake up until 11.30am. Now he is angry with me for not getting up at the time I normally do on a Monday morning and therefore not waking him up so he would be on time at uni. So, to sum it up, we got up, had quick coffee and I raced into my clothes to drop him off. He wasn’t very happy when I dropped him off as I took the road I usually take to uni and apparently that is the long, long way to get there. Some people are never pleased, no matter how much you try and help them out.

Honestly, I don’t think it is my fault that he was ‘nearly’ late this morning; he has a telephone with an alarm on it and an alarm clock next to his bed. Ah well, he just phoned that he is on his way back so I best make him a nice coffee. I also made myself promise that I am going to work tomorrow. Ah, wish me luck.

Well, the news came in. Our office in Derby is definitely going to close. I need to have a new job before the end of June or we are screwed. Liam asked me if I wanted to go to uni instead of finding a different job. I would only need a part time job but as much as I want to, I also want to live decent and be able to move out not next student year, but the year after that. If I go on and take up a full course now we are not going anywhere, and god knows how long we would be stuck here. I am so not going to miss that place, even though some people are nice. It is time, to move on and hopefully moving up the ladder a bit.

I really hope there is something out there for me, something wonderful and good. Unfortunately Red did not turn out to be that great. I am not seeing Red anymore. It wasn’t even a job opportunity; they are just trying to sell you the driver instructor course. I know, I know, I should have know that they were screwing me over but hey, it gave me 2 hours off work and maybe an idea for the future. It all sounds very good and if you have plenty of customers, you can make a decent living, fairly good to say. But in these times, it is just not worth it. The course itself costs £3,678.00 which is just too enormous. There is no guaranty that you will have enough customers to pay for all your expenses and have enough left for your bills etc as well. And in all honesty, I don’t think I would make such a good teacher.

So not it is just waiting for the right opportunity to come along and hopefully impress the people with my letter and CV to get an invitation and after that, hopefully impress them face to face. Unfortunately as I discovered very recently, I seem to forget all the English words I have ever learned when nervous. This does not look good for me. It was so weird, I tried to think of normal English words and they all escaped my mind, even though I never have any problems with the English language, ever. I feel so ashamed; I should and could have done a lot better.

Please do not worry, I am just keeping the suspense, my story about Liam and me meeting will continue soon, hang in there!

I am so not happy. I know this is going to be an awful entry and not very fun for you all to read but I have to let it out. I AM NOT HAPPY! It is the time of the year again, our landlady gives us a call asking if we want to stay for the next ‘uni’ year. I informed her that Liam and me wanted to stay for the next year, well, we do not want to really but we don’t have much choice unfortunately. Erm kept dodging the question when we told him that we need to let the landlady know what it is going to be. I hoped so badly that he didn’t want to stay, Liam and I already decided that we can do it on our own. I was so looking forward to being just alone again. In all honesty, my life has been an absolute mess since Liam signed up for university here in Derby.

I think it is best to do the whole story in stages, to avoid a really long and boring entry. It think it is time to tell you all how I landed in little shitty Derby, we’re going back to the beginning!

Let’s start with saying that I am a geek, or a nerd, I cannot remember the difference between those two. I love online gaming, first person shooters in particularly. I got hooked when my brother showed me a game he was playing named Delta Force 2. The first time I played I did not get off until around 5 in the morning. After European people went to sleep I stayed up and played with the Americans, I was hooked. I nearly played every free night I had, which disappointed my parents a lot, as I was still living at home but never showing my face.

What was even more disappointing for them is that I dropped out of college and started to work. I did not have the patient to sit still, to absorb what education had to give me, the fool I was. After 6 months trying to study how to be an administration assistant without any books (somehow nobody seemed to be able to help me getting the right books) I was so frustrated and fed up that I decided to drop out. This wasn’t what I wanted to do anyway!

I started working at a big grocery store near where I lived as my parents told me so lovingly ‘a job is a job, you dropped out, now you have to go work for your meals’. In all honesty they didn’t force me to pay anything as long as I lived under their roof, they been really helpful, nice and understanding, but hated the fact that I dropped out and did nothing all day. Within 2 weeks I had started at the grocery store, nothing special but there were some nice people around and I made some good friends. I also fell in love there, which is a complete different story, which is really not interesting so I will keep it short. We started dating and I sort of ‘lost’ my interest in Delta Force 2 as I was busy most of the nights with this guy. I also changed jobs, I found a nice, pretty good paying job as (if you are guessing, your guessing right) an administrative assistant for a distribution centre for DVD’s, books and basically everything relating to Multi Media.

What can I say, after 9 months and just spending a nice week in Turkey, we broke up. So having a lot of time on my hands again, I started working weekends in a nightclub so having 2 jobs, respectable administrative assistant by weekdays and going madly wild and enjoying herself to the max on weekend evening. That is a time I am still thinking back to very fondly. I also discovered Red Faction, an online multiplayer first person shooter, fps in short. I got hooked again.

Next time; How Tanith met Liam

I called Liam later in the afternoon when I tried to see if Betty’s heart was working again. It wasn’t. I knew this was going to be expensive. Liam’s friend and now also boss knows a bit about cars so when he brought Liam home from work they picked up a new ‘heart’ for my little Betty. It took a while but after while the operation was successful! My wonderful little purple (not blue, I don’t care what Liam, or the official papers, say) is alive again! And she is fitter then ever. No more rough mornings with a lot of coughs but finally getting on with it, everything runs a lot smoother now. Poor Betty cost me quite a bit lately but she is worth it, lets just hope this is the last of it for now.

Still not really very lucky at the job front, I called the guy who I had an interview with 2 weeks ago now (called him last Wednesday), I have to give it to English ‘politeness’ once again though, he pissed me off enormously. ‘Hi Adam, it’s Tanith, I came over for an interview last week and not heard back from you since, can you enlighten me of the progress?’ and he so puts himself right in there; ‘Tanith, Hi, yes, I was just going to call you!’. I did not care how the rest of the conversation went; I already figured out that I did not get the job but I just wanted to confirm this, plus he said that he would call. However; the nerves to say that you were going to call me while we both know that you were not! Just say that you are sorry that you did not get around to calling me (basically saying that you could not be bothered but in a polite way), but do not say that bullshit!

Liam and I were watching TV tonight and a commercial for RED driving instructors came by. ‘That’s not even that bad though, is it?’ Liam casually remarked. ‘No, it’s not’ I replied. To make a very long and boring story short I went to their website, gave them my details and am awaiting their phone call. Certainly does not hurt to hear what they are on about. Their website stated that I get my own free air-conditioned Vauxhall Astra (new model) which sounds pretty good! I know it will be stamped with pictures of RED on it but I don’t care, it’s a good, nippy little car and I get to make my own hours. So if I want to go back and study I can do it around those hours. It is not the best job in the world but with the economy being so terrible lately it all sounds pretty good. I will have my own office, unfortunately I don’t have a great desk but hey, I got my own little nippy awesome car!

I woke up cheery, so decided to be really nice for Liam and bring him to work. It’s very cold today so the car needed a special treatment this morning. I always start the car before I get the scrapper and ‘de-ice’ it; make the progress go a bit faster. So I got in to get car to get it going, she (Yes, my little car is a she, I named her Betty) looks fine, a bit cold but she is doing good.

I slowly brush my hand very gently over the steering wheel, she is very cold. I slowly slide the key in, give her another slight and gentle tap on the dashboard. She starts glowing, as she is an old, but very fine, diesel. I had faith, she is a very fine car, I turned the key and she coughed, stuttered while the key was still trying to get her going. I went white, ‘don’t let me down sweetie’ I mumbled, ‘I know its cold, but you can do it, your ok’. She stuttered a bit more and then completely went silent.

Her heart gave out; it was just to cold tonight. It is a dark day today; the sun disappeared behind a cloud and it feels even colder then it actually is. A dark day indeed.

This morning whole Derby looked like a fairytale, it was magical until I received the news that the office was open as usual. I called in around 8 to see if anybody was in at all. Unfortunately ‘everybody’ was in. Not willing to take the car as the roads seemed very dangerous I waited 30 minutes freezing my blooming toes off I realised the stupid bus would not show up (even though I did saw it go by earlier in the morning), so I ended up digging out my car anyway. I hate driving in the snow but I been through worse. I didn’t go out of second gear though but all in all I arrived save after a 40 minute drive, it normally takes around 10 minutes but hey, I was only 30 minutes late.

I came in the office and could not believe my eyes. It was way passed nine and I was the fifth person to show up! Everybody there my arse! So after I risked my life to get into work because ‘everybody’ did, I felt hugely disappointed that hardly anybody else was there. I was relieved that another 4 persons showed up after I did. I have to give a big heads up to my boss though; he is the only person to come in that did not live in Derby.

Liam introduced me to Black Books, the English comedy show with Bill Bailey and some others who I cannot remember the name off. If you are looking for a good laugh (or when you are having a nice day off from job hunting and applying) this is definitely the show to pick you up. Liam tripped just before I came home and knocked a hole in the bathroom door. Another broken thing in this shitty house doesn’t matter, hopefully this will open her eyes and do something about this horrible place. Liam is alright, his hand hurt a lot but he is feeling a lot better now, it doesn’t look like it is broken or even strained. He tripped over our cat Puggy in the hallway, where it is always dark, we always nicknamed him ‘Murdercat’ due to the odd places where he sleeps and it seems to become true now. Our cat is out to kill us! I hope it starts with erm!

I was so happy about the snow that I did not see the drama around me. While I was digging out my car out of the snow so I could go home, my co-worker slipped and fell further up the street. She broke her wrist and dislocated her entire arm! She is under heavy medication and staying home resting for now, however I cannot believe that I walked passed all that, dug out my car further down the street and did not notice anything. I wish I knew she had to walk home so I could have given her a ride home, but more people tried to give her a ride home which she denied, well she did not get far walking.

Still no news of the interview, no phone call, no letter, no email, nothing. I am getting seriously pissed off and so going to call that well, arsehole. No need to be polite, he does not deserve it. English rudeness, bah. This reminds me though that I still have a job that I found on the internet to apply to, for Derby university. *Fingers crossed once more*

I just picked up Liam from uni where he had lectures until 8pm, so kind me thought it would be nice to pick him up, specially in this cold weather. Turned out that their ‘class’ discussion took a bit longer, resulting in me sitting out there in the blooming cold for over 30 minutes, I am so not happy. He showed up in the end, I nearly took off as he could not let me know that he was going to be later. It is really no fun, toying between the emotions of anger and worry. I decided to be angry when he finally showed up even though it wasn’t his fault. I now feel a bit guilty for lashing at him but I’ll make it up later. Promise.

I love snow! Unfortunately London got more snow then we did, no snowing in means no time of work tomorrow, which would be so amazing, an unexpected free day. I promised to take some pictures for my mom and dad so let’s hope it’s still there tomorrow. I wish it would snow a lot more, free days and I get Liam to get a sledge so we can go off hills! Fact, Holland is flat, no hills. So when we have snow it is sort off useless for sledges, even though you can buy them everywhere.

I still didn’t hear anything from the interview so I really given up all hope now but there are plenty more jobs out there and I intent to find one. A good one. I am sure something will come along my way soon enough. If it doesn’t I can always go for the Uni option and get some money while doing what I want anyways. There is always a way, I just hope I can find a nice way to secure our future.

They didn’t call me. It is nearly safe to say that I didn’t get this job. I am neither surprised nor disappointed, what I really want to do is work for the Derby University, any job there would do. I don’t know why but I got an obsession with the University but I think it might have something to do with me wanting to study so badly. I know I should enrol now while I am still reasonable young but with Liam being a student already I am the one that brings in the money and makes living here in England a bit bearable. I don’t mean that England is horrible it is just really expensive. If I go to University we would have no money at all and I like the visits to my family.

I am completely into Dexter at the moment, it is a brilliant show. Season 1 is ok but season 2 is really picking up the pieces, it is becoming quite interesting. I had a wonderful lazy day today, watching Dexter and even read a bit in the little book about psychology I have. It is really good and interesting, I cannot wait to start this course, I like reading up about it and do a sort of self study. I just feel a bit lost without any specific tasks; know which bits of all the information that is out there regarding psychology. I need to know which information I need to keep in my head for this.


I picked up my gorgeous little (big) laptop bag, I love it much. I got the army green bag and the little ‘drawing’ on it is in gold. All my stuff fits in it and well, I have to admit it some time. Hi all, I’m Tanith and I have a bag addiction. I have at least 5 other bags here in the house, and that is after a big clean out. No big brands or really expensive bags, just lots of them in all shapes and forms.

I hope to hear something from the company where I went for an interview last Wednesday. I cannot get over this English rudeness of not getting back to you after a letter, email or even an interview. As non-English I always believed that English people are really polite but I had to reconsider that though so fast when I arrived here. I am not talking about the annoying chav’s everywhere, every country has it own ‘chavs’. It is really weird, I worked at 3 different companies and send out lots of applications but professionalism is really hard to find here for some odd reason. Let’s just hope that company gets back to me tomorrow and proofs me wrong.

Do you ever get lost in your own little world? I am lost and stuck, I want to do so many things but have no idea where to start and how to start. I got a book about psychology, a real study book, from Liam’s step mom who actually studied Applied Psychology. I found a nice study online which I am going to take as soon as I got a new permanent job but thanks to this book I really want to start with a sort of ‘self study’ until I found this permanent job *still fingers crossed*. It would be amazing to get the basic knowledge in my head and fly through this course. Unfortunately it is only study material and there are no tasks or assignments in there. I always find studying with a specific goal easier then just reading a load of text. I best stop typing and start studying, right?

Another thing I really would like to do is to write a short story, but whenever I try I cannot even make a little column! I just do not have any inspiration at all for any of that unfortunately. Although I do have enough and plenty fantasy to read books and totally imagine myself in the story and get lost in the most pretty surroundings the writer is trying to tell me. Maybe I do got enough inspiration but when push comes to show my ‘writer’s block’ kicks in. This is good though, whenever somebody asks me what sort of job I have, I can say I am a writer, suffering from a writer’s block! Would they believe me?

No news yet from the company but hopefully they will get back to me tomorrow. It would be so wonderful if I could leave the place I work now. I spend more time there then anywhere else and I really want to go to a place where I will be respected for what I do instead of mocked. It nearly feels like I am back in school, even though I didn’t get mocked, teased or ridiculed there. I am trying to talk to Liam about this but he doesn’t understand. Everybody loves him, he is funny, smart and very easy going. I do not consider myself as a difficult person and I’d like to think that I can be funny sometimes. It’s just a lot harder living in a different culture then I thought.

Tomorrow I am going to pick up my awesome amazing laptop baggy together with Liam and after that we are going for a nice meal. This will be either a celebration meal or a comfort meal as they promised to ring me tomorrow regarding the interview. I am looking forward to our nice meal; I enjoy being with Liam and doing these sort of things. Unfortunately we don’t do them enough, but we’re getting there. Right, so still fingers crossed and hope for the best. We can use the extra money and we can both use me being a bit happier in general.

The interview went well, the people were very nice but for some odd reason I do not have a good feeling about this. I do want this job so bad though, it pays good, it is even closer to home then my old job, in the middle of the centre which is awesome! Plus the fact that I really cannot wait to get out of this job, I made up my mind, I hate it there. Lets just cross our fingers, and hope for the best.

I am loving this mini pc/notebook. I ordered a laptop bag for it, really nice but wasn’t home when they delivered it so I have to go into town and pick it up which is a blooming nightmare. Last time I had to pick up a package I had to wait for 30 minutes, but hey, it’s worth it!

Thanks to this little notebook I am hoping to post more entries more regularly, at the moment I am typing this on our comfy sofa while watching X-files, might as well do something fun during the commercial breaks. I love the X-files, I never watched all series though, I stopped watching when the guy that plays Mulder (Yes I know he has a name, David something, cannot be bothered to look it up lol) stopped in the show. Now the movie is out I have to watch them all though, I want it to make sense when I watch it! Anybody else who is into fantasy and odd stories that they are showing?

The wonders of a mini laptop, also known as a notebook. I still have to get used to the keyboard as the keys are just a bit smaller and typing in bed is not the most comfortable thing I ever done. After having a really bad cough for over 5 days I am finally feeling a bit better and went back to work this morning, BIG mistake. Notes pilled up my desk and being absent for 3 working days is good for over 90 emails. I wish I stayed home, they do not pay me enough to stress out.

All this has a good note though; I received an email yesterday with the question if I am still looking for work. Off course I am, in June we are all made redundant due to centralisation. Thanks to this there is a stop on recruiting which is only normal, so at the moment while my job is growing and the system gets more shit, which results in more and more work for me, there is absolutely nobody around to give a helping hand and nobody will be recruited for this purpose. So big yes, I am looking for a new job asap, I cannot get along with hardly anybody in the office for reasons unknown anyway, I cannot wait to get the hell out of there before I suffer a nervous breakdown.

So tomorrow I got a job interview and I am really exited. In this climate they contacted me if I am interested in a 40 hours per week permanent job, which nutcase would not be? Wish me luck!

Christmas is gone and it is back to work, I really think I just went through on e of the busiest weeks at work and I am absolutely spent. I just have to mention my parents though. When we where over for Christmas we decided to tell them as soon as my sister arrived. After a big (and lots) of cuddles with my sisters little guy we broke the news and they were all so excited and happy and just brilliant! I had such a wonderful time, Christmas was brilliant, the food was brilliant, and everything was. I really miss everybody and everything, sometimes I wish we could go back, right now. I know I am always will be able to return whenever I want, even if I do not have the finances. My parent would be so happy that I’m returning that they would pay for everything. But to get back to the big news, my mom promised to buy me my wedding dress!! Awesome! Only 1 catch though, I have to lose some weight, 6 sizes! Well, if you seen the dress I posted earlier, I have to if I want to look amazing, which I do obviously. Diet is go!

Things are a bit rough with Liam at the moment, since we got back. We do not seem to get a single minute alone together and when we do, we don’t know what to do with it, just sitting bored on the sofa, watching some TV etc. There has never been much romance in Liam but there has been in me, and at the moment it feels like I am losing romance! He is sitting in the other room with his mates but I feel so like he is so far away from me. I’m just hoping to get some time together soon; it is not easy living with his cousin, with anybody for that matter. It seems harder and harder to get any time together and in all honestly, we are both not really helping the matters either as in making time for each other and go out and actually do something fun together.

Completely different story now though, I nearly forgot to mention that Liam and I did do something together yesterday! We went to the store and got us 2 little itty bitty Roborovski hamsters! The charge cable for our camera has gone missing unfortunately but I looked them up on the internet and posted a random pic so you get the idea how they look like. I’ve been told that it was the smallest hamster in the world (known) and they are so cute! They are really little as they are only 8 weeks old. I called mine Josephine and Liam with his silly humour called his ‘Cleopatra Nibblit the Third’. Honestly, I got to get myself a camera so I can post some pics! *Note to self*

As I wanted to change my layout I went out to hunt and came across to what you are looking at now! I’m quite fond of it, it looks pretty good! I also updated the blog list and trying to find a few more things I can add, maybe even another blog to read if I can find the time. For now, let’s try and keep you a bit up to date, picking up where I left off.

The night before our ‘big’ journey to the Motherland we visited Liam’s mum, grandmother, brother and stepdad. After exchanging and receiving gifts (and some are absolutely gorgeous!) we gently broke down our happy news to them. Needless to say that they are very happy for us but not as enthusiastic as I thought they would be though. They are loving the ring Liam got me (Yes yes, I promise to upload a picture of it soon!) and seem happy in general, just not enthusiastic. We received a different response from Liam’s dad and stepmom though, I thought they would squeeze me so hard that I would fall broken on the floor as soon as they let me go! It feels good though, they all seem happy that I am becoming an ‘official’ member of their family and that all this even better.

Well, I think I already found my dream dress! I absolutely adore it! Behold:





What do you think?

How funny, I found out I got more readers then I thought! Before starting, fact: I only read blogs in my lunchtime at work as I never get around to it at home. So when I got back Monday I found out that Blue Soup did not make her blog public after all! Because I have not been checking her blog for a while I had some catching up to do. Today I came across this entry. I was much exited to see that her blog was back up, even though she did get boring lately with all her locked posts (which off course I am unable to read).

Apparently Blue Soup thinks I am attacking her or some sort and is in her own way trying to make fun of me and my blog. Right, let’s see if we can sort out this misunderstanding; Blue Soup, just for you: I like to inform well, my little group of readers (which I know are 2 at the moment! Maybe even more, god knows) that I was changing my layout to make room for Becky, as I mention her name and blog in my posts now and then. I also mentioned you before and that I enjoyed reading your blog as you have a good way with words. I like to inform people of changes in my blog, even though not many visit, and the reason why I am changing it because I do not want to step on any long toes. Whoops!

The only reason why I was going to remove the link to your blog is because many of your post where password protected in the end and after that you stated that your blog was going to be private, so there was not much point to display a link to your blog anymore. Yes, I am a frequent reader but I never leave any comments, therefore I did not think you would give me the password even if I requested it, so decided to stop visiting your blog.

I have to admit, I am not a big blogger and do not make many entries, but never claimed to be. This is most likely the reason why I do not have many followers, but I don’t care. There is/was no need to have a go at me and my blog like that, just because I thought you stopped blogging publicly. Also, I did not go behind your back, as I thought your blog was protected (I tried to get on several times for maybe 2 weeks after but could not) therefore I could not leave you a message, and to be honest, I did (and still do) not think you’d care. After that I went on Holiday and did not think to check before my previous entry. So there you go, no offence, but I decided to remove the link and not bother with your blog again, a win - win situation I take it.

I know this should not bother me but I thought it would be best to explain things and see if we can sort out some misunderstandings which you have seem to take rather highly.

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Something different, I was reading the news and ran into this story. I feel pretty bad for the guy but seriously, how do you manage to get yourself in such a hilarious position! According to the news he is fine but embarrassed though, which I can imagine. Just for you, a close up!