all work and no play make me a very dull boring git

Well sick to death of going to work 9-5 ( anyone who has ever stumbled upon thios blog before propbably is already aware of this. I was meant to check out some local markets last weekend but never got round to it!! Did manage to finally find a home for my ancient but almost mint condition flower faires collection. (Given to me aged 21 so never really played with!). They have gone to a friends daughts and I hope she enjoys playing with them. They are lovely dolls and really should be played with. i will post a few piccies infact later. Anyway going off at tangents here, Friends came round and we had a great day on saturday. Got very drunk saturday afternoon and woke up fully dressed and hungover on sunday and spent rest of sunday in recovery. has to be done occassionally. So now still have not checked out any markets. Going this saturday to both Wellingborough and also to see Loughborough so we will be doing lots of travelling. The idea is to decide which and then go for it the following week and get started truly trading. Advatage of Wellingborough is not too far from home and also not too close and its possible to beome permanent after 3 weeks whereas most markets its about a year before you can beome a perm. I have to sort this out now tho having spent ages making products so now its time to just do it and stop talking about it. Anyway have also decided to branch into organic unfragranced liquid soaps and shampoos which I didnt want to sell since not environmentallly frinedly but people keep asking me for. have to buy a laser printer tonight since inkjets cannot make good labels apparently. I need a new printer anyway. My lexmark keeps taking in 20+ sheets of paper and wont feed so I have to hand feed every sheet if printing in black and white. Strangely it works ok in colour! My canon photo printer gives good quality but is also an ink jet and currently I cant get any refills for some reason since everywhere has sold out! So anyway have to buy a laser printer. Then need to label everything up and launch business on the markets. Hoping that over xmas will make a reasonable anmount of money back to be able to buy new stock. If all goes to plan I shall be giving in my notice on 9-5 job around 3rd week of january and going it alone for real. Interestingly market traders generally only do 3-4 days a week and still manage to make a living so I am getting very keen on this. I can see it being freezing this winter but wonderful in summer so I cant wait to get started now. I suppose you spend the other 3 days a week doing the books, making new stock and packing stuff for the next market.

bsoaps on ooffoo

I have just been learning to upload files from Dreamweaver ( and other programs of similar types) in my website class only to discover - with considerable shock and also jubilation! that I have a web presence. Wow!! Or at least my soaps do. cant quite get over it. My soaps show up in a list of different addresses if you search for them. Its amazing. trouble is I still at the moment have no real website. I am on ooffoo tho. Here comes the soaps. I have to really knuckle down and do this website designing now since the web address doesnt point to anywhere right now which is a real pain. I could have hundreds of people looking to buy my products and no way to do so. Will they find ooffoo? will they buy from me. I have come to the conclusion the soap business is never going anywhere until I take the risk, chuck in my day job ( which pays the mortgage and bills!!) and go for it full time. Now other half is being laid off for a whole month tho I do not see how I can really do that. He working in the car industry ( what little we have left of it) and the company is shutting from 5th December to 5th january with no pay! How rubbish. No idea what we will do now and its right on christmas too. Well good thing we have no kids cos that would be even worse. We hopefully will get thru this. If its only a month we should be ok but if this goes on for longer I think we may well lose our house so not a time for me to be quitting my boring job. Thats not very secure either. Cant feel doom and gloom tho despite this. Seeing a list of links to Bsoaps was just so wild. Cant describe the happiness I feel right now or the fear cos what if it really takes off? Will I have enough soap to fill demands?? I suppose then it will be time to really go for it and quit the boring day job.............Bring it on............

funeral

Well today it finally happened. I already seem to have a cold coming on thru all the familly kissing. havent seen many of em for 20+ years tho so WHAT EVER! Grandma was seen off in style. Found I was later watching the clock knowing the crem gets switched on at 6pm. Frying tonight! Yes I am a sick human being! I cried. Hate myself but I did. havent heard anything from the job interview and that most likely means I didnt get it. Still not qualified so no idea why they even gave me the interview. Xmas market looming - approx a month till the big one and not sure I have anywhere near enough stock to even consider doing a proper xmas market. Tho I suppose in the end we can always retreat tails between legs etc. Other than that lots of different liqueurs started off for xmas drinking and we even found some sloes on a hedge when walking the hounds. Havent read any blogs recently but will catch up in next few days. My new ( celtic) year resolution is to get up to date with blogging! Met my cousin KAREN after about 30 years and shes really nice. Met lost of other relatives too. What can I say? Sadly didnt meet all who were there but didnt know who they all were. Never mind. Sadly there could be more funerals coming. I know of 4 people of my own age who died in this october and 3 of them committed suicide. Weird!

Barak Abama

As the whole world is I am vaguely interested in the US presidential elections. I also follow several US based blogs. I came accross this link which is pretty wow with respect to the sort of person Barak Abama really is. Even if or maybe because thois happened 18 years ago the man is unusually wow. Nice guy and maybe really he will change the world if he gets elected.

http://leishacamden.blogspot.com/2008/10/not-that-it-matters.html

Grannie Dies

I know it has to happen to us all and I should be glad she was so very old but it really doesnt help at all. Grannie died last night at 6pm ish. I was at the website course. Was hoping to see her today. Apparently I wouldnt have got there in time anyway since they called my Mum to let her know Grandma had taken a turn for the worse but by the time my folks arrived my Grandma was gone. Probably for the best since at least now she is not suffering anymore and she certainly was. Now i am at work. Yes I know shouldnt be blogging but really do not at all want to be here and really right now I couldnt care less if they did sack me. Grandma was born 31st january 1916 so she was a very old lady. I keep remembering this day when we were paddling in the sea and Grannie had her skirt pulled right up showing off these huge long knickers! Strange the things you think of. I must have been about 6 at the time! It makes me smile to think of her showing off her undies tho since it was very unlike her. Probably no one else would understand at all. One of those silly familly memories. probably i should think myself very lucky to have known all four of my grand parents and even my great grandmother who lived to 101 years old. She lived in the Valleys in Wales and was very poor all her life so poverty doesnt necessarily mean you die young. Anyway probably time I got back to work!

Grandma

Went to see Grandma. very frail. When I first walked in I wasnt sure it was her but she seemed bright enough. Worried about my Mum. Shes not looking very good either. Shes been working herself to death looking after Grandma. Anyway duty is done for now but Grandma is not looking very good at all. I do hope she will get better.

Cornwall

Cornwall was brilliant tho we didnt spend long enough there and I definitely want to find a way to move there or somewhere similar. What can I say, sun, sand and sea and old friends we hardly ever get to see anymore. Dogs loved it and seemed very happy. They have great muscles after all the walking and the top of my arm hurts from holding onto Reggies lead. Birds even seemed happy and loved the journey there. When dawn came Billie was sitting watching it out of teh front window of teh car and screaming her head off. Didnt help driving and I was knackered on Saturday but it was worth the hassle of taking the birds with us to know they are happy and safe. they didnt even fight altho stuck in one cage together. We couldnt fit 2 cages into teh car as well as the rest of us so they had to share which normally would cause fights but they were really great. Downside is missing the website course but hopefully I will catch up ok with that. We were hoping to extend the holiday a few days but having had the bad news my Grandma is rushed into hospital I dont really feel like staying any onger so we have come back home. Still have a few more days off anyway before I have to go back to work so time to make some soap!