*ventures into the karma cafe and takes a beanbag*

Where is the furthest from home you've been? Did you miss home?

 

hm...greece i would say and finland.

athens 2004 when i went away with joe and our friend to perform for the christmas festivities. and we only briefly missed home on christmas day but spent a glorious day together walking around athens in sunshine in calm.

finland was away for the day when we went to lapland just before christmas this year, myself, my sister and my nephew. again was too cool to miss home, though i was a moody bitch once i got tired and the plane didnt leave finland for about 2hrs or so after it was due to, and i was starving

 

besides which, i never miss home im usually trying to find as many ways to get away from home as possible an go other places

 

Would you like to be a child again?

 

sallllllllllllllll, you always throw these questions at me just when im heading for bed, you pooball you

yes i would love to be a child again; well maybe not a child, but of student age, tho it would be nice to be back in a time when your biggest problem was that you couldnt find the toy you wanted to play with.

i hate this growing up rubbish, noone told me this was part of the deal, i certainly dont like it. always working, always tired, determined to still have fun and go places so mostly skint too. looking for jobs is rubbish, applying for them is even worse, rejection letter after rejection letter. getting stuck in a rut, losing sense of direction/identity/self. crushes/love/passing fancies all headconfusing. it was nice when it was just me, learning and playing and partying, irresponsible, carefree.

yeah growing up terrifies me, especially the thought of being old.

 

Yay Finland! What did you think of Finland? What did you do? Did you really go to Lapland and come back in one day?

 

yea we did was a long day for sure. it was cool, bizarre because of lack of daylight. time felt different because of the lack of daylight so keeping track of time was an odd experience. it was worth it though. my nephews face when he met father christmas you go on like a powerski pulled sledge covered in deer hides along this field, and through some woodland (christmas trees) and then come to a stop at the bottom of a little path, lit by lanterns with mini christmas trees growing and you walk up and there is an elf outside 'santas house' and an open wood fire. you go in and father christmas is there, and they radio through the childs name while youre on the sleigh so he greets the children by name and reads through their list of presents that they take with them. it was so lovely how they did it. my nephew was totally made up! and we went on a reindeer sleigh ride, went toboganning, and he and my sister went on a husky sleigh ride while i kept our place in the queue for father christmas. coming back the plane had to be de-iced and transfers didnt get people to airport with enough time to get on plane so were massively delayed getting back into manchester. worth it though!

 

At what age would you think it'd be ideal to shuffle off the mortal coil? Is it better to burn out, than to fade away?

 

not ignoring your question sal, no actually i am, for now anyway, coz i cant be bothered thinking quite what i think about it

however, i do want to write here today after a lovely day.

i had my first solo drive to my friends house in denbigh, when i got their my legs were bit shaky. i kept just looking at my car thinking 'i drove here!!'

when i got their my friend ellie was in, so we chatted and caught up, then her mam, my friend cate got home and ive not seen her since last august i dont think.

then we had 'our christmas' and finally exchanged presents and we all had really nice things

then me and cate went to school to pick the two younger children up and ellies brother has always been like 'oh noooooo, not daisylou!!!' and today for the first time ever he said 'hello daisylou!' and it made my day

went back to their house and it is sooo fabulous! then we took their labrador puppy for a walk down the road to a lovely path down through some woods to a small river and on through a meadow of long grasses. the little uns (six and seven yrs old) played hide and seek, lying down hidden in he grass and then afterwards, went back to their house and cates hubby was home.

he made a shopping list for dinner and ellie went with him to the supermarket and me cate and charlotte went into the next field down in the trees to collect firewood and made a log fire at the bottom of the garden.

then mark cooked us all curry and naans and we sat eating and laughing by the fire..the young uns setting fire to long sticks and running round the garden 'making big smoke' hehe and then they were setting fire to a bale of hay,and pouring water on it, then setting fire to it, and pouring water on it. was funny.

then after a lovely day, i drove home again

and tomorrow im driving back up after being invited to someones 50th in brecon. so may be driving to brecon and camping there tomorrow night so got the car packed up and hafta go to supermarket in morning to grab something to make my 'food contribution' for the evening.

 

thats lovely, go get em girl

 

Sal asked "is it better to burn out or fade away ?"

 

well - bloody hell - I fynde myself back on the hipforums after yet another long time away And my first point of call is my karma flyology [obviously it is actually my 2nd point of call as I have already to tried to flog my old fabric on the main forum ].

So..let's bring my karma thread away from the depths of page 5...I might even have a read through it from days gone and see how far I have come since then.

But please do ask away and I shall update myself with the last years news at some point soon

xx