Someone once said to me; life’s not easy and you want things to move forward in all way’s possible.
What if life is easy but we just make it difficult for ourselves?
What if that job we regret not taking would have made a difference? What if we should never have let that love go? What if those friends we fought with we regret fighting with? What if he is the one and we don’t realise it before it’s too late? What if your first instincts were right about that person? What if you were right about your neighbour cheating on his wife?
I came across this little poem, as such, recently..
Remember as we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to never let us down, probably will.
You’ll have your heart broken, probably more than once and its harder every time.
You’ll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken.
You’ll fight with your best friend.
You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did.
You’ll cry because time is passing too fast and you’ll eventually lose somebody you love.
So take too many pictures, laugh so much that you cry and love so much like you’ve never been hurt because every minute you spend upset, is a minute of happiness youll never get back.
Remember, life is too short xxx
There will always be the one…….the one you will never forget…
One of my girlfriends called me today really upset. She has been seeing someone for almost 6 months, on and off, with complications.. like most relationships..
He tells her – him and her are never gonna happen.. he isn’t interested……..
I really didn’t know what to tell her…she loves this guy with all her heart and soul. I know personally how well they got on, how much she liked him and how much he had made her a better person..
The first thought was; put on your glad rags, head out, go on a date, retail therapy, have a bath, splash out on some cash…but…….when it comes down to it, it is just pushing the problem a side.. and if she really loves him; how can her feelings change?
What should we do at times like this? I mean, how do people get by.
She was completely head over heels in love with him and had hope for a long time that something could work out. Now her world has crashed down around her, i guess that’s life, but what if he was really the one for her?
Personally I think if this man is voted as Prime Minister, England will be making yet another mistake.
This man is power hungry, agressive and will not take the thoughts of British Citizens into account.
Look at the mess he made of pensions for short term and he’s too godamn stupid to realise it.
The first thing he has declared is that the new Government should be “Transparent” – transparent? LOL
Then he tells his party to vote for secrecy when it comes to their Expenses. Don’t say he didn’t tell them!
With so many cushy jobs to be dished out,no-one would vote against his wishes.
He’s shouting: HEALTH! Like that idiot Blair shouted EDUCATION!
So how come he can be elected P.M without an election, as such.
The Queen herself does in fact appoint the Prime Minister. It is put before the current party and they decide. The decision is then taken to the queen who decides to agree or disagree.
He doesn’t need to be elected or even a member of parliament. The convention is that he has to resign if the House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence in him, so the Queen is only likely to appoint someone who can command a majority.
So… basically the UK could end up with a friggin Mickey Mouse as their next P.M
Thank god, I’m Northern Irish but then again that’s a whole other story… I mean Ian Paisley and Martin Mcguinness working alongside each other? lmaoooooooooooooo
Why we humans are never satisfied? Are there advantages and disadvantages in getting no satisfaction in life?
Are you satisfied with your life?
At college I studied a diploma in Health Studies, one of my classes was Psychology. We studied Maslow’s Hierarchy to a intense degree.
Maslow was a famous psychologist. He came up with a pyramid of five of the most basic aspects to human life sarting with 1. Our physiological needs, food, warmth shelter through to No, 5 which is Self Acualisation!!
Effectively this means we have reached our purpose or goal in life.
I guess it is human nature to question life. As we all are aware of, there were ups and downs throughout our life. When all these happen, human beings start to question about what life is all about. If we look back at history, we will see different people from different places and background trying to explain the meaning of life.
Are you satisfied with you life? What do you want from life? Is there something your life is lacking?
For me, it would be the next step; a husband and a family. I’m beginning to get those motherly instincts that I think most people in their 20’s get. I coo at children without realising. I find myself looking at baby clothes and sighing at how cute and tiny they are..
What do I want from my life?
I want to be a great wife, a fantastic mother and I want to raise my children in the best possible way with the correct morals and values that I believe we all learn from our parents. As a little girl I grew up without that fatherly figure. I want my husband to be the best possible father out there. The things I didn’t get to do I want my children to be able to do without question at the drop of a hat. Those fatherly daughter things, those fatherly son things.. I missed out on those and it makes a part of my childhood feel empty.
On Christmas morning, I used to find myself wishing I had a ‘normal’ family. I could never understand why there was only three of us around the living room opening presents, me, my mum and my sister…..
All the things I missed out on, I want my children to have.
I believe that life is not a rehearsal. Live life to the full.
As a little girl I always remember my mum baking fresh soda. I’ve never myself tried to make it…….until today.
Because of sheer boredom and an interest to explore my cooking skills, I headed to local co-op and purchased the ingredients that I needed excluding the buttermilk, had to resort to making my own which was an other experience!!
I used James Martin’s recipe from Housecall to help!
Ingredients
170g/6oz self-raising wholemeal flour
170g/6oz plain flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
290ml/½ pint buttermilk
Method
1.Preheat the oven to 400F/200C/Gas 6.
2. Tip the flours, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a large mixing bowl and stir.
3. Make a well in the centre and pour in the buttermilk, mixing quickly with a large fork to form a soft dough. (Depending upon the absorbency of the flour, you may need to add a little milk if the dough seems too stiff but it should not be too wet or sticky.)
4.Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly.
5. Form into a round and flatten the dough slightly before placing on a lightly floured baking sheet.
6. Cut a cross on the top and bake for about 30 minutes or until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Cool on a wire rack.
I did infact leave out the salt because I don’t take salt on my food although I wish now I had of added it because I think that is what it was missing, however, it was beautiful – straight out of the oven, I spread on a little taste of butter ( watching my figure ) , had a cup of tea and I thoroughlly enjoyed it. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out.
After the attack on VTC , I began to ask myself; how could such a monster end up with a firearm? Someone who had been referred to a psychologist was able to go online and purchase not only one but two firearms.
Now, it seems, you don’t even have to purchase the gun for yourself.
The following is unbelievable but very true.
A 10 Month old baby has been given a gun licence. Yes, a 10 Month old baby.
A 10-month-old baby from Chicago cannot walk or talk but he does have his own gun permit. Bubba Ludwig’s father got the licence by filling out an online application. Is this not completely crazy? The child now owns a 12 gage shot gun. 86 White onix baretta ( excuse the spelling ) – According to the father , ‘It’s actually pretty neat.’
I was thinking, these parents aren’t right in the head. They are crazy and I think that is pretty damn obvious -I mean, who calls their child; Bubba Ludwig ??
After finally getting round to watching the finale of Season 2 of P.B, I was extremely disappointed with how it ended. Michael handing himself over, taking the blame for Sarah was sweet, but, come on, did they really have to turn the story around this way? I knew from the first episode that he would get his brother out but I also knew that he would be the one that would end up back behind bars.
So.. what is going to happen? He is back in prison, and a really scary one at that, we all know he is going to break out – but where is the story line going? It seems like Lost, the writers have somewhat, given up ? ?
I have been engrossed in this series from the first episode but the last episode of S2 really really disappointed me. I was looking for a huge twist of some sort…
I was truly horrified in the last few days when I watched a video on youtube about an ‘honour’ killing involving a 17 year old Kurdish girl who fell in love with a Sunnai Muslim. She was dragged from her house and stoned publicly until she took her last breath.Is it really possible that people could be like this? I understand, living in the Middle East, how two different sects of people could fall for each other, and I also understand how it is wrong to the extent that it goes against your family beliefs and your culture. But, can we really help who we fall for? I don’t believe we can. We all grow up watching the media, we see celeb weddings – we stereotype – ‘she married him for publicity’ – ‘she married him for money’ – how about; ‘she married him because she loves him?’ Do we ever say this? What if it is true? How can we all be so stereotypical when infact we have no idea what goes on behind closed doors?
Should we only fall in love with ‘our kind’?
In Northern Ireland, many years ago, we had the same problem between catholics and protestants. Thankfully, my family are very open minded and I was never pressured to stay away from the other religion. Being protestant and sent to a Roman Catholic school was infact a shock for the majority of my parents friends. ‘Are you really sending her to a Roman Catholic school?’ My parents of course looked on in disbelief. How could these people have the audacity to say that?
I’m surprised to see it is still a problem, and the extremeness of the attack on the Kurdish girl this week just made me question; what type of people are there out there?
We cannot choose our family but we can choose our friends.
We cannot choose who we fall for but what if they don’t fall for us back?
“If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don’t, their love was never yours to begin with…” -Unknown
What do you do if you feel really strongly about someone? Do you tell them? What if they are your friend? Do you take the chance of ruining the great friendship that you have?
Over the last 5months, I’ve been ‘socialising’ with this guy. He makes me feel so great about myself, when I’m on a ‘downer’ , feeling moody, depressed, miserable – he always knows how to cheer me up.
He makes me feel things I’ve never felt before. I know that he has faith in me, something no one ever has had. He believes in me, I’m not a perfect person, and I never will be, no one in this world is perfect, but I’m trying to be a better person.
He knows how I feel but I don’t know if he truly knows how I feel. I don’t know if he believes it. We get on great as friend, we bicker and argue about the small things in life, the unimportant things but not a day goes by were he doesn’t bring a smile to my face..
I was brought up a good christian girl. I attended church regularly, sang in church choirs, attended scripture union and went to Girls Brigade.
There was always questions in my mind, doubts in my belief. One being that Jesus was the son of God, another being that he wasn’t in fact crucified and lots more.
After coming to the Middle East, I took a keen interest in Islam. I have, as yet, not converted as I still have questions in my mind and therefore I won’t convert until I fully believe.
However, besides the above. I always ask myself; why does God let innocent people suffer?
In Islam, suffering is seen as the result of Allah’s positive will (“Verily We have created man into toil and struggle” — Qu’ran 90:4).
The “problem of pain,” as the well-known Christian scholar, C.S. Lewis, once called it, is atheism’s most potent weapon against the Christian faith.All true science and history, if rightly understood, support the fact of God. This evidence is so strong that, as the Bible says: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” (Psalm 14:1).
So, why do people suffer? Why are little children kidnapped, murdered, raped and abused? Why did the family down the road lose their 13 year old daughter to Cancer?
After much research through reading guys mags, guys blogs, public forums and much more about football, I decided to take it apon myself to learn a little bit more about the sport.
I have come to the following 10 conclusions.
1. Peter Crouch is just a complete donkey. He does nothing but bounce about with that big head of his.
2. Christiano Renaldo – playing super at the moment although personally I think he is a prick.
3. Stephen Gerrard – saves Liverpool. Without him in the Champions League final Liverpool will lose.
4. Kaka – AC Milan – He could infact pull it off and win the CLF for AC alongside with the help of Gattuso.
5. Michael Owen – This guy has had his day. Give it up. Your old now.
6. Gattuso – AC Milan, they may have all the glits and glamour but without Gattuso this team would be nothing. It seems he does all the nitty gritty hard work.
7. I’m not a Manchester United supporter but Paul Scholes – this guy is a ginger tosser but he is consistent and one of the best players in the premiership at the moment.
8. Marino – What’s this guys problem?? He expects to win all the time. No point making excuses, Liverpool beat them fair and square this time.
9. Who would love it if Chelsea got booted to first division next year?!
10. My tenth and final conclusion is that I much prefer to watch Rugby and the players are much hotter!
As a teenage girl, I could never understand how my best friend could be so girly.
We had been friends since we were one year old. . . .as children as we bathed together, slept together, played together, were in the same class throughout school and spent many friday and saturday night’s chilling out in front of the fire watching movies.
It was almost a ‘Dawson and Joey’ relationship. I never had sexual feelings for him, ever. He was my best friend and to this day still is but what I couldn’t understand was; why he enjoyed reading my girly mags, telling me how the latest shoes I had got were beautiful and how my hairstyle on that particular day, suited me.
Over the years, I began to question, whether, in fact, he was heterosexual at all. He had had girlfriends, plenty, enjoyed sexual activities with them and even slept with random girls on night’s out.
I never felt that I could ask him until one night I plucked up the courage, ‘are you gay?’
His reply; ‘of course, how come it has taken you so long to ask?’
I’ve never felt so much relief, I was surprised though at how much it affected me, I loved him so much as a best friend but the thought that came into my head was his mother. I know that she had told me once, if he ever told me he was gay, I’d disown him. I couldn’t even imagine what his father would say and I wouldn’t like to think about it.
So after many thoughts – my question is this; did the fact that he was brought up with me, a girl, have anything to do with his sexuality now? did it matter that he played with my dolls? that i practiced putting make-up on him so that he could be the ‘princess’ during the game? did it make a difference that we had fashion shows and dressed up in my mother’s clothes? do all these things add up to the fact that he is now infact gay?
After a recent conversation with a friend, I began to question; why do I wake up every morning?
Have you ever thought about it? What makes you get up every morning? It’s not your alarm clock! Something makes you put your foot out of bed, take a shower, get ready and go to work?
What is it? What makes us want to live? You all know that I like to hear a man’s point of view. I asked the same guy that described ‘what exactly is love’ to me to answer the above question.
His thoughts;
theres not one thing that makes anyone want to live, its the one thing u cant find to stop living
This is truly an amazing explanation. I was choked up when he said it. And, it is, so very very true.
It’s been over 2 weeks. I can’t believe they haven’t found her yet. She is 4 years old, out there with no mummy or daddy. Come on- People are not doing enough. Please check the poster above. Have you seen this little girl? Her right eye holds the clue. She may not have the same colour of hair, whoever has taken her may have dyed it, it may be a different style, but please everyone. I ask every blogger to post this on their blogs. Spread the word, the internet is the fastest way of communication.
Just thought I would post a little list of my top played songs and stuff I’ve been listening to this week..
I’m pretty much a girls girl, i.e. soppy love songs , but I do listen to many different types of music..
Music is my first passion in life and as a little girl, music pretty much ruled by week.. Violin lessons, singing lessons, drama and music society and of course, irish dancing. Yes, I am in fact irish, living in the middle east, I like the name leila and have in fact thought of changing my own name to exactly that..
I’ve heard a lot about the 3 hr diet, many a-list celebs are ‘trying’ it out. The likes of Resse Witherspoon, Jennifer Anniston and Catherine Zeta Jones are said to have tried it out.
If you want a diet that includes Reese’s peanut butter cups and has no “bad” foods, the three-hour diet is ‘supposedly’ the plan for you.
Jorge Cruise, fitness journalist and author of The 3-Hour Diet: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin, believes so strongly in his plan that he actually encourages readers to enjoy candy. Daily.
But the true keys to Cruise’s diet — other than portion control (he recommends chocolate minis, not whole bars) — involve a trinity of timing:
Eat breakfast within one hour of rising
Eat every three hours thereafter
Stop eating three hours before bedtime
Cruise is a passionate believer that eating this way increases BMR (baseline metabolic rate — how fast your body burns calories), increases energy, and decreases appetite.
However, while people do report successfully losing weight on this plan, there isn’t yet agreement on whether it’s a metabolic improvement to spread three meals out into five or six smaller meals.
Anyone tried it out yet? The other thing I’ve heard about is switching meals; for example; for breakfast enjoy a HUGE dinner and for dinner enjoy a bowl of cereal?
I’m not a strong believer of diets although I do find that some do actually work. Anyone know of any succesful diets? Please don’t suggest atkins!
Ok, so, sometimes when I’m bored, I go looking for that perfect engagement ring-sad I know, especially when I’m single but… I know a lot of woman that do it..
I mean why can’t we wear them casually? Why do engagement rings have to be worn on that finger?
Anyway, last night, I was flicking through the web and I came across the most beautiful ring. It doesn’t have a direct link but you can find it at http://www.solomonbrothers.com
The ring cost $401,000.00 – Now, my question; What man is going to pay that for an engagement ring?
Personally I’d be petrified of wearing it incase I lost it..
I find the Tiffany (princess cut) rings are just as nice and lets say; a whole lot cheaper than that!!
Anyone know much about this new pill ?I started taking it less than a month ago.. I’ve taken the pill before ‘yasmin’ and it didn’t affect me in any way..really, a little weight gain but that’s about it…
Is it possible that this new pill is making my boobs bigger but making me lose weight? I am dieting but this week I lost more than usual and I’ve been eating more….and i think my boobs are getting bigger. I’m a 34/36DD and I really don’t want to go any bigger!
Anyone have any experiences with it? I know it is pretty new on the market, progesterone only..
On a recent vacation, I visited Brand Alley – a french boutique.
I came across thee most beautiful item…a candle. Being a candle lover, I just had to smell it. It has got to be the best scented candle ever……… I honestly can’t describe the smell to you, it smells fresh and makes me feel overwhelmed in a lovey-dovey sort of way. It is truly breathtaking.
It is a perfect candle to burn for that romantic night in – dinner, movie and whatever comes next.
How bout a lil chillaxin? 