Well its been a while so i thought i had better come in and brush away the cobwebs.

IT IS FAR TOO HOT!!!!!!!!!! I really dont like this weather at all but i suppose i shouldnt complain because i dont like the cold either!!!!

I have been busy with pixel house and the members area latel - plus the world cup is on and so far i have watched every match - and plan to watch as many as i can - so the footie it dragging me away from my pc a little!!

Well Im well impressed - looks like bravenet have done something about all the spam

YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE now im not going to miss the messages that genuine people post.  It will be nice to get back to normal - popping in to say hi to people.

WELL TODAY IS THE DAY

WAYNE ROONEY has his scan today and we will find out wether he will be able to play for England in the world cup

IM PRAYING!!!!!!!!!!

I have been looking around for another journal - dusted the cobwebs off my tripod one - it has features that I like that bravenet dont - but bravenet have some that tripod dont - i wish i could mix the two!!!!!!  I will probably use the two - this one for my personal rambling and the tripod one for pixelhouse rambling.

Not that i keep this up everyday

Ive been really busy and just keep forgetting to come in here

I like to rattle in my journal when i have the house to myself and peace and quiet, but with the school holidays and one thing and another I never seem to get the house to myself for more than 5 minutes these days!!!!

I have been looking around for another journal - because im sick of the spam - obviously bravenet has a big problem as i notice its even getting onto the posted entries not just the tag board

Well its probably a bit late in the day for me to be rambling in here.  Ive been busy all day on the internet fine tuning my members area and generally just tidying up pixel house

I should be having a quick tidy round and getting ready to go and fetch hubby from work.  The kids have come home and wrecked the joint - some times i wonder why i bother to do any housework at all!!!!!!!!!!!

I just added about 20 of those spammers ip addresses to the block ip  (GREAT ADVICE FROM Naheeda )  But im going to block them one by one - hopefully they will run out of ip addresses before i run out of patience!!!!!!!!!!!  Sorry to keep going on about this spamming but it really is getting me very angry!!!!!!!!!!

Its Friday i have to take hubby to Redditch for that one day course - not Thursday like i originally thought it was.  I must be losing my marbles - i should know what date it is but i dont!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well im back again 2 days on the trot lol

I wish these nasty spammers would leave my tag board alone!!!! But they aint beating me yet - im going to come in here every day and delete their spam!!!!!

We had quite a busy night last night - fetched micheal from work and got home to his ex and the kids.  She had come to take my daughter to the clinic lol.  Ive never been to the clinic and she spends half her life in them (shes a bit of a tramp) so she said she'd take Sara to sort out her contraception while i sat baby sitting her kids.  Strange I know but thats how its getting here at the moment!!!!!  Both of our ex's (because of the kids) are in our lives too much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Even our ex's who are both single at the moment have started to socialize together my ex goes to micheals ex's every friday night to sit in watching dvd's and getting drunk lol

Anyway - last night - first they came then Natalie popped round for a coffee - then Wayne - Micheals mate came round.  We didnt get any peace and quiet until about 10.30.  I ended up cooking tea and we had to eat it with a room full of people - that really aggrevates me!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I should have phoned my sister too yesterday with my Avon order  but because it was none stop i never got the chance and by the time i did have chance it was too late 

When the house went quiet - Micheal started playing on his xbox and i lay on the settee watching tv and fell asleep.  He woke me up at about 12.50 to go to bed.  At 2am his mobile started ringing  The alarm company - the alarm at work was going off  So we had to get up and drive the 10 miles to his work - that really pee'd me off!!!  When we got there the alarm wasnt even ringing and everything looked ok but we went in to check anyway.  Micheal phoned the alarm company and gave them a right mouthfull for fetching us out for nothing.  But they say that the alarm was going off but when he opened the door it beeped and he had to disarm it as normal so it was perfectly ok.  It was half past 3 before we got back home and probably way after 4 before we managed to go back to sleep!!!!!!

We Really didnt want to get up this morning!!!!!!!!!!!  But we had too - even though micheal was going into work late this morning we still had to get up to get the shovel nose caught and delivered to the aquarium shop from where we had him.  We were shaking - trying to catch him and get him in the net.  It took ages and we both had nets trying to get him to swim into the large net so we could put him into the tub we had (johns fishing tackle box - it was the only thing we could find big and strong enough to take him up the shop).  All the time we were in the car he was thrashing about in the box.  The woman at the shop put him in a large tank downstairs and when she came back up she was laughing - said hes tooooo fat - lol  - we have been feeding him too much!!!!!  We havent been feeding him hes been helping himself to our other fish!!!!!!! lol

We lef the fish shop and took micheal straight to work.  On the way to work he went to get his dinner money out of my purse - no purse. So i spent all the time from dropping him off to getting home worrying about my purse cause it has everything in it and i never normally not know where it is.  I have one of those purses with string on it and wear it round my kneck and over my shoulder.  Ive had purses like that for years cant cope with a purse that you have to put in your pocket or bag!!!  Got home and do you think i could find it - had all sorts going through my mind - i left my bag it in the fish shop, the string had snapped and it fell.  I spent 10 minutes mad panicing round the house - went out twice to check in the car again - had my bag out a few times (even though its big enough to see) lol - its mad the things you do when you are panicing!!!!!!!!!  I was just about to phone the bank to cancel all my cards when i noticed the string sticking out of the dogs bed.    It was burried under the dogs blanket  I must have left it on the settee and the dogs took it in his bed  Weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Ive just made myself a coffee - rolled a fag and come in here to have a ramble and chill a little before i start doing the housework and straighten the fish tank up - because its a right mess.

I might have to pick micheals kids up from school today.  Shes had to go to court as a witness to her ex's motorbike accident that he had before xmas.  She doesnt know if she will be back intime so shes going to phone me at 1pm to let me know.  Its quite funny how their school starts at 8am and finishes at 2.30pm - where as everyother school in this borough that i know too start at about 9am and finish about 3pm.  Thats handy for me tho because if i do every have to pick them up i know i can get back for when john comes out of school.

Well im off to do a little bit to pixel house

have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didnt realize it had been so long since i came in here to post - oops

Ive been so busy lately with life and redesigning Pixel house that the days have flown by without me having a ramble.

My tag box i have been in a few times to clear it out of the spam but it just keeps coming and i dont want to have to turn my tag box off - i enjoy coming in to the hello's from everyone.

Im having a normality day today - got the day to myself everyone is out hubby at work, sara at work, john at school and its lovely.  Since micheals work has gotten back to normal and hes having his two days off a week i seem to loose a great big chunk of the week with him off two days and the kids here over the weekend - its like im losing 4 days and only getting 3 days to myself. 

We have a big problem in our fishtank.  Our tiger shovel nose catfish is growing too quickly - hes not 12 inches long - which is ok as we have a 4 foot tank but - hes getting very frustrated with the lack of room to swim around freely and hes thrashing about - its possible that he could break the glass and hes now started to eat the fish that he isnt supposed to be eating.  He isnt supposed to eat other catfish because of their spines and spikes - but hes doing it.  He ate an iridesent shark last night that was about 5 inches long.  Its really upset us and this shovel nose has to go.  When we brought him we weren't told about the trouble they are when they are older.  We should have him in a 6 foot reinforced tank because they are known to break the glass because they are so strong and powerful.  We have tried to get rid of him but no body wants him  This puzzles me a little because the aquarium shops have the tanks for him - they are fetching about £60 for the size he is - we are giving him away free - they could quite easily sell him and make a lot of money on him - but no one is interested.  Ive got to phone around and try a few more places in a bit but im getting so frustrated.  to set up a tank suitable for him its going to cost us over £300 and its just not worth it!!!!!!!!!!

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Back later - im actually going to start ringing round these aquarium shops now while ive got peace and quiet and come back and finish this later

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Well I'm back - its now past midday

AND - Ive found a home for the shovel nose YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Stress over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I phoned all the local aquatic places and none of them would touch him - the only one i could find was one 100 miles down the motorway that was recommended by a few of the aquatic shops id found.  I lost my temper and phoned the shop where we had had him from in the first place the shop where i might add - they didnt do their job right and tell us what we were letting ourselves in for - and the shop where we have spent hundreds of pounds on fish and fish stuff.  After a little waffled conversation they phoned somewhere they knew and they said they would have it off us.  So in the morning we have to take the shovel nose up to our reqular shop and they will sort it out from there.  Micheal is having an hour off work in the morning so he can catch it and help me take it - there is no way i would be able to catch it.  And catching it is not going to be an easy task!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not looking forward to Thursday.  Micheal has got a one day course to go on in redditch about 30 miles away.  I will have to take him then fetch him back later - which means im going to have a 120 mile car trip  Plus im going to have to go on the motorway on my own when i come home then go back to fetch him  I dont mind motorway driving i just have never driven down the motorway when i have been alone in the car before.  I suppose i can take John with me when i go to pick micheal up to bring him home so it wont be too bad.

GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR i havent been in here for a few days and it looks like my tag board has been invaded by an idiot - the names are different but the link is to the same page that is none existant!!!!!!!!!!  I have now deleted all 20 entries - strange thing is they all had different ip addresses  im confused!!!!!!!!

Well I have had a wierd weekend.  Its been nonestop with people coming round - with the kids and one thing and another.  Thought we were going to enjoy the last few days  of hubbies holiday from work in peace - but i was wrong.

Micheal is back at work and today is the first day for weeks ive had a bit of normality - with the day to myself and peace and quiet - and guess what - im bad!!  We had a curry from the indian last night and its given me a dicky stomach  I think ive got a bit of food poisoning and im not really in the mood to be doing anything on the internet - i just want to curl up and sleep.

I dont know what happened yesterday - i could hardly do a thing on the internet - dont know wether it was my pc or tripod messing about!!!!!!!!  I had problems logging into my site and doing anything with the pages - so i gave up!!!  I am still having a problem today trying to get the navigation buttons in - it just wont have it!!  Its beginning to look a little silly with half buttons and half text - but its like they are just frozen - even if i try to revert the buttons to text - they wont go.

So i gave my pc a good clean out and spent the rest of the time while i was on my pc making new things for my collections and then started playing age of empires and lost track of time.

Today its like there was never a problem - im even on msn explorer and no affiliation page problem popping up - so i think i must of cleared it out somehow from whereever it was hiding!!

Its quite mad that because i had the same sort of problem in here - when i did a little spring cleaning and altering I tried to remove the picture of my dog ruud and replace it for something else - the picture isnt even linked and i tried to add another picture but the dog one stayed and the new one didnt appear.  I got that frustrated with it that i just enabled the cam picture altogether.

We stayed up till midnight to watch a match on manu tv - and yet again had to go to bed in a stinking mood as they let themselves down again. Man u v Middlesboro ended up a 0 - 0 draw  Which now means that we only have a one point advantage over liverpool and if they win their next match and we lose or draw we lose second place - Talk about making it hard on themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Last match of the season is a must win to keep second place and keep automatic qualification to champions league!!

The female angel fish that we have had for over 2 years has died today  It has well gutted us.  We had a pair of mating angel fish and now that the one has died to save the other one pining he has gone to live over the road in Grahams tank with 13 other angel fish.  He gave us two red finned sharks which are more fitting for our tank - as all we have now are catfish, loaches, plecs and lobsters.  The sharks and pictus catfish are swimming about constantly so it looks like there is life in our tank again.  Catfish and loaches hide all the time and it looks like we have an empty tank sometimes when everything is hidden away.

Lost is back on tonight on channel 4 - 2 episodes - i cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!  Have been looking forward to that returning!!!!!

I was in a good mood coming up to Saturdays football match even though my back has gone and im having trouble walking and doing things.

Manchester United v Chelsea - it ended in disaster!!!!  Not only did man u lose and hand Chelsea the premiership title but Wayne Rooney broke his foot Englands world cup chances are looking very bleek

Yesterday we had a mad day - the kids were here - i went to asda in the morning to get the meat and veg for sunday dinner (which we usually eat at tea time). I had to go to the aquarium shop because he forgot something when we went on saturday morning and ended up buying micheal another pictus catfish for his tank. The kids decided they wanted to go home for their dinner - so they called their mom and she came.  She told us her mom had sent a message for us - she said we could have her brand new 3 piece suite (which was only a few months old) for £40 if we wanted it.  She didnt like it and had got a new one.  BARGIN - she had paid over £500 for it a few months ago.  We have said we would be getting a new 3 piece suite in the next few months so thats saved us a load of money!!!!!!!!!!!!  The settee and chairs were delivered within half an hour of the kids mom arriving which caused total chaos.  We only had a settee and one chair before because of the amount of stuff in our livingroom.  We ended up totally rearanging the livingroom and house again lol to fit the two chairs.  A few more things have been thrown out.

After all the chaos the kids changed their minds and decided they wanted to stay for their sunday dinner after all and micheals ex ended up staying here for 7 hours.

On Saturday we popped to the aquarium shop so that micheal could get his fish foods. We spotted another catfish we could put into the tank - a pictus catfish.  We were a little worried about it because straight away it started bugging the shovelnose catfish.  The shovelnose is about 10" long and could quite easily have swolled it - however - there is little chance of that because of the sharp spikes it has to protect it - but the shovelnose could quite easily have crushed it.  We watched it for ages and it became quite comical.  The shovelnose actually looks like its mothering it - shooing all the other catfish and lobsters away from it and they slept side by side - played together swimming around the tank together.  But occassionally the shovelnose tried to hide away from the pictus because its a lot more scitish.  I thought by buying another one the two pictus would go off and leave the shovelnose - but i was wrong - he now has the two of them bugging him.

We was supposed to go to bobbington Market this morning with my ex, his parents and the kids - however - Micheal put pay to that - lol.  At 2am this morning i was woken up off the settee - he had brought down my dressing grown and a single quilt and pillow - he had decided he was going to have one of his all night sessions on his xbox game - Elders scroll Morrowind.  At 7.30am this morning he woke me up doing housework (pmsl) then he went to bed.  Hes a nutcase!!!!!!  He does that occassionally plays all night on his xbox or playstation.  He doesnt sleep too well and gets carried away - he doesnt know when to stop!!!!!  I love sleeping on the settee especially when my backs bad so it did me good - and the new settee is a lot more comfortable than the old one

So i dont know what is in store for me yet today - i dread to think what time he will get out of bed, and with the kids not being here he'll have peace and quiet so he'll probably sleep for longer.