Roll on 2010

[Guest Libby1971]

Right whinge time ( as the typical pom I am), I need to get this off my chest

I am soooooooooo over 2009 already. Come on 2010, get a move on, you have GOT to be better.

So far:....

1. Started a diet. Having results, fair enough, but I am sick to death of salad, vegetables and can no longer face trying to make veg exciting by roasting them. I have lost the will to live...
   
2. diggers making a hole for a pool find rock and a 3 day job turns into six.
   
3. we didn't commit to a firm price with the said diggers and it cost us a bl**dy fortune
   
4. I got ill within 1 week of going back to work (as a teacher) - the kids hadn't arrived yet!!
   
5. We had the floors sanded - HHHHHUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE mistake as I now have a pine floor, with little beech/ cherry colouring and I don't like it. However the paint that has gone up (thanks Ashley) has mellowed the yellow (yeah I know) and I might like it sometime on the future
   
6. My eldest has turned into something from Kevin and Perry, as she says what she thinks I want to hear and doesn't actually do what I want her to (I know I have so much more to come)
   
7. I get stuck in a minor car accident but am in bloody agony with my back and umpteen weeks of expensive physio and hydrotherapy while the s*dding insurance company decide what they're doing
   
8. My OH has decided he can do a better job of sorting out the retaining wall but hit himself in the leg with a pickaxe - thankfully only cutting his leg and not chopping it off altogether
   
9. OH also decided to get a bit macho with the pickaxe and something has 'popped or gone' in his chest
   
10. OH thought it'd take 2 days max to sort out the retaining wall (it's been 9 days so far and we're not even halfway) and so ordered 4 ton of gravel ready to be put out. It has been there for a week. He has now given up in the back garden for a while and has moved out front instead.
    
11. OH bought a clock at an auction house (amongst other stuff) which has birds instead of numbers. On the hour, instead of a chime or something similar we have bird calls which match the said pictures of birds traumatising the love of my life, my 2 year old Groodle, Alfie.
    
12. Oh and the now almost 8 month old puppy had his bits chopped off and now can't stop spreading his legs to show us what is missing!!!!
    
13. The almost 8 month old puppy (labrador/ mini poodle), weighing 10 kilos and as high as my knee, is bullying my 2 year old 35 kilo who stands as high -as- my- thigh- with- his- head- down- Groodle (Golden Retriever/ Standard Poodle)
    
14. My garden has been destroyed...no other way to describe it. There isn't a hint of green. The pool has taken over. The decking is being sorted. The gravel which was meant for the back is now going out the front so I have to go shopping for gravel, AGAIN - what a thrill my life has become...$75 a ton, bargain or not, who knows, who cares....
    
15. Haighs, my other solace in life (apart from the love of my life dog), was a farce today as I walked in and optimistically thought I'd be able to get a nice choccie egg. Alas, the said choc shop couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery (or the choccie equivalent) and the queue was almost out the door
    
16. I got caught by the OH last week trying to get dressed after stuffing my trousers in the tumble drier at my friends house after I'd had a few and decided that Anita Ward's "You Can Ring My Bell" was best danced to fully clothed in the swimming pool and then realised that I was going to be obviously soggy in the car adn tried to hide the evidence
    
17. Oh and I was wearing pop socks so you can guess how long my so called friends have been laughing...one or two are still in a corner somewhere with a bottle of wine
    
18. Thanks to the aforementioned diet, my dinner tonight was 2 fish fingers and a fishcake
    
19. Oh and I can't find a decent handbag anywhere which is REALLY annoying me.
    

I think that's it for now. I may come back tomorrow

Anyone want to share my whinge? Or express your own...

[Rachiegarlo]

LOL lol lol

[Guest GIPSY]

Excellent

 

Loved it - still laughing now - sorry I mean sympathising of course

 

I remember your family from the Wanted Down Under series - you never know you may end up with another claim to fame on You Tube if your friends had a secret video camera ;-)

 

Just remember 'Life is tough, but I am tougher!' - can we please have regular installments, that was so funny :-)

 

I can definitely empathise with the drunken moments - I get worse with age and alcohol has some strange effects on me... and then I suffer for the WHOLE day after - I should really think about becoming tee total, but that would not last with the wine in SA!

 

Hope things start to look up soon

Hayley

[Guest BAZnDAF]

LOL, that was funny, It does seem to be a bad year for you, don't worry, it will soon be christmas.

[maria]

Lol excellent post Libby, life just sucks sometimes

[Guest sarahsmartiepants]

Oh Libby that was sooooooooooo funny maybe you should change career to a stand up comedian, you could start on "Australias got talent"

I hope your OH hurries up and gets better so he "sort" out the back garden!

[Guest Django]

But apart from that things are all rosey in Reynella eh Lib??

 

Pete

[wizzywozza]

I want video evidence of Numbers 12, 16 and 17!

 

 

 

 

That's hilarious ...... thanks for making me laugh so much!!

[Guest Nick11]

Number 16 and 17 will be in our memories forever and no Libby we will never let you forget it. I can't go into my garage now without having a quiet chuckle to myself.

I believe there is photographic evidence somewhere but none of us are brave enough to ever print it.

 

Be positive with your diet - you've lost loads of weight.

Nick

x

[Guest jorose]

Loved the handbag entry....ha ha

[sue2oz]

oh libby thats soo funny :jiggy::jiggy:you have put me in good spirits for the day thought i had it bad! thanks for that

 

sue xxx

[Guest smit]

1. My OH has decided he can do a better job of sorting out the retaining wall but hit himself in the leg with a pickaxe - thankfully only cutting his leg and not chopping it off altogether
   

are you sure he wasnt holding a golf club:biglaugh:..............will never forget the youtube clip:biglaugh:

 

[Guest Libby1971]

I am glad you've had a titter but I do have a couple more...

Just checked the Easter eggs and despite my very best efforts to get them home safely I have some that are little more than a misshapen mess in the foil - mercifully not the Haighs I think otherwise Easter would be cancelled.

Daughters school report...can't think of much to say except Hhhmmmppphhhh!

Got a bit enthusiastic in the pool waving my tennis rackets around and then spent the rest of the day suffering. I mean I ask you- tennis rackets...how hard can it be?

And finally, got told to buy comfortable shoes. Comfortable shoes = looking like a 1950s reject. I feel such an a*se in my nice multicoloured flat comfy shoes which I know were trendy circa 1982 but have long since been consigned to the Salvation Army shops.. *Sigh* 37 years old and I am an official old fart

[Guest UzinOz]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!

 

That really made me laugh, thank God it's not only me that feels like that sometimes, this has been the best post in a long time.

 

Jackie

[Guest moonraker1959]

wow Libby,hope your luck changes soon lol I thought number 16 was hilarious though lol lol Never mind,chin up,and hope all goes well from now on xx

[Guest Jo&Phil]

Whinge away ........ as my (Australian) husband informs me regularly, it's our cultural heritage so we need to maintain it.

And don't get me started on fencing companies!!!

[Diane]

How on earth did anyone manage to cross a miniature poodle and a labrador? Was there a ladder involved??!!!

 

Was just saying to OH this morning that there's some very clever marketing gone on out here - whereas before a cross breed was just a Bitzer, now they're "designer" crosses and sell for more than the pure breeds! I just feel sorry for all the ones that end up with the labrador/retriever/whatever's coat, shedding like mad, and the poodle's nature, rather than the other way round!! Must be at least 50% rejects!!!!

 

Chin up, apparently everythin in 2010 will be sunshine and roses!

 

D