Scottish Weather!

To everyone that doesn't live in Scotland you must be glad! All the main roads are closed due to high winds of 165mph! I have not left the house all day preferring not to go out in such conditions! Work places have been shut down but unfortunately my boyfriends still hard at work in a frozen factory with no heating where the work shed has blown away! Wind turbines have caught fire they've been blown so hard! I am contemplating putting on my Dorothy costume from Halloween and awaiting my house getting blown away! It's absolutely freezing even with the heating on! There's rain and hailstones taking turns each to come on! People have broken legs with been blown down so hard! The hospitals are sending people home due to power cuts and loss of electricity! It's absolute chaos! The hurricane is currently being named "Hurricane bawbag" Which I find absolutely hilarious! If your not from Scotland which I bet you are definitely glad now a 'bawbag' is a Scottish vulgar term for scrotum!




Have a gander at what the hurricane can do!

Best comments on the subject I have seen yet -
Who's playing jumanji? This shit's getting intense!
Anyone lost a garden shed? It's in my front garden!
It's all fun and games till the door gets blown of your rabbits hutch!

Hair Dye!

I am forever dying my hair! I am naturally a brunette but at heart I am a blonde. It costs far too much to go to the hairdressers every time you need your roots done though! I've seen myself with roots down to my ankles before I can afford to dye them. I tried all sorts of different dye bottles out of shops and they were absolute crap, I was more ginger than blonde after some attempts. So I bought bleach powder and a bottle of peroxide mixed that together and lathered it on. This made my hair more yellow than anything else and after some washes with silver shampoo it brightened to a better color, but not the color I wanted. I tried using a toner after the bleach and it didn't turn out exactly right either. Then I tried Garnier nutrisse and it worked like a charm. I have exactly the color of blonde I wanted! If it wasn't for a friend though I never would have tried another bottle out of the shops again, but I'm glad I did :)

Books

I absolutely love reading books. It's one of my all time favorite things to do. Sometimes I think there is nothing better than getting lost in a story. The best books are the one's you get so engrossed in them that you literally can't put it down. The story sticks with you for weeks and when you have to put it down you find yourself wondering what happens next and developing the story further in your mind. I love fiction books, typical chick lit material. Sometimes I can surprise myself by reading different genres. I have on occasion found myself diving into a thriller or crime book, sometimes even a mystery and thoroughly enjoy it but in the end I always go back to chick lit.

Louise Bagshawe's book A Kept Woman is an all time favorite of mine. I must have read the book a million times over. It's saucy, it's cheeky, it's fun. It's everything chick lit should be. It's about a woman called Diana Verity, now already she does sound like such a high maintenance woman just with her name, and she is. She's a beautiful society girl that wants things girls like me dream of. Spa days whenever she wants, a credit card with no limit, manicures, pedicures, you get the picture. So she marries Ernie Foxton, an east end boy made good, no manners, no charm but a healthy bank balance. They move to New York and Diana think she's set for life she throws expensive parties and basically becomes the 'IT' girl that everyone wants to be and be seen with. Ernie finds his fun in crueler ways sacking people from Blakeleys, the new firm he's taken over. Ernie then starts targeting a smaller company run by Michael Cicero, a local heart throb New Yorker who built his small children's publishing company up single-handedly from scratch. Ernie's intentions however aren't good one's and being the 'IT' girl for Diana becomes dull and boring and a lot less glamorous than she once thought.  Sound good? Don't just take my word for it, have a sneak peek on Amazon. I can promise it's definitely a page turner, but I will warn you there are a lot of steamy paragraphs and if your not into smut it may not be the choice for you. What it does have in smut, however, the plot line more than makes up for it.

  

Christmas 2012

Judging by the economy just now and the fact that I can't work, Christmas 2012 looks like it's going to be a very poor one! But does it have to be? Living on sick pay isn't a wonderful thing on the lead up to Christmas, but I know people that are working full time jobs and still struggling! Of course life isn't supposed to be easy. I've done my nosing about for bargains over the last few weeks and I must say I've found quite a few. Every year I tell myself I'll buy Christmas presents in the January sales and it never happens. Which I imagine a lot of other people do too. Here is a list of some of the bargains I've found around the web...

A favorite of mine is always Groupon and Living Social. They always have fantastic deals on year round. Groupon have a fantastic deal on just now with 50 personalized Christmas cards for just £20 just now. They have a bargain three day holiday for two in Rome at just £124 which is a saving of £530. They do deals on everything and anything definitely worth a look. Living social  have an amazing Christmas hamper at just £39. There also doing a deal for women just now which is a wax and tan for just £14.

World of accessories is one I came across on the hunt for bargains. They sell absolutely everything. Jewellery,  women's accessories, men's accessories, home ware, lifestyle items, they have sale prices as well and if you spend over £30 you get a free bottle of perfume which could be used as a treat to yourself or a Christmas present for a loved one as well. They have gorgeous gift sets, photo frames and quirky keepsakes for under £10. They have brilliant candle sets that smell divine. The perfect Christmas bargain place. Plus 10% off with the code WOA10.





Michel Herbelin is another website I came across. They sell all different kinds of watches at bargain prices. The quality of watches they sell is wonderful. It's the perfect present for men in my opinion. They have sports watches, stylish watches for going out, simple watches, watches for divers and more. They have a lovely selection of woman's watches as well, most of them very stylish and sleek. 

One of the best deals I've came across on my search is a perfume site. It sells all kinds of perfumes, aftershaves, gift sets, and skin care products. I've found perfumes on there I thought were gone forever and aftershaves I've searched for countless times with no results. The items they sell are at a cheaper price than retail stores, massive amounts of savings and an extra 10% discount with the code SAVENOW or Gift10.

What bargains have you found for this Christmas?

Do doctors really know what they're talking about?

Hi. This is the first time I've ever written a blog. I seem to be in and out of the hospital constantly and every time I go I see the same familiar faces which I assume means that they have a reason to be there as well. I'm on 16 tablets a day. Do you ever wonder what's actually in the tablets and if you actually need them? How many times does a doctor prescribe something without actually knowing if it'll make a difference? I can't count the amount of times even as a child I went to the doctors with a migraine, a bug, or something else wrong with me and was prescribed antibiotics and what did it do? Nothing! Or the amount of times I've went to the doctors because of being sick or having really bad stomach pains and all that's happened is he's took one look at me had a feel about and told me I have a virus. I'm sorry but I thought it was computers that got virus's! A doctor should be someone you can trust, someone that should be able to make you better. I got a phone call last week from my doctors to tell me they had cancelled my operation for this Tuesday. What operation? It would have been helpful if they had phoned to tell me my operation had been scheduled in the first place! The thing is I have a rare type of blood cancer called Essential or Primary thrombocythemia and I will have it for the rest of what I hope is a long life. It's a mutation in my bone marrow that produces more platelet cells in my blood than the average person. Which means I'm more at risk of getting a blood clot, taking a heart attack, taking a stroke, and bleeding to death than most people. I'm taking one aspirin a day to thin my blood to stop any of that from happening, which it shouldn't as long as I take the aspirin. I also have Gordon's Syndrome which is "the opposite of diabetes." Seriously! That's all they could tell me about it when they told me they thought I had it. What the hell does the opposite of diabetes mean? I didn't have a clue. Finally when they diagnosed me with it they explained that a small part of my kidneys doesn't function properly, which isn't serious it just doesn't filter my potassium levels properly so I have a tablet for that too. It also was the cause of my jaw starting to move. I developed a really bad overbite as a result of this and had an operation a year ago to correct it. My jaw was broken and moved 5 inches and believe me it was not pretty at all. It took forever to heal and is still numb in parts but after finding out everything else that was wrong with me the metal plates securing my jaw together have started to come out. Yes I have metal plates sticking out my gums, does that sound nice to you? Because believe me it isn't! So that's the operation I've to go in to get that's not been re-scheduled yet but has been cancelled. I dare you to make sense of that! The funniest thing, because if you can't see the humor in life really what's the point, is that the operation was scheduled and the anesthetist refused because my platelet count was too high. The aspirin I'm taking thins my blood but doesn't affect my platelet count at all! To affect my platelet count and make it lower they would have to give me interferon which is a chemo based injection which they don't want to give me because it's expensive and has bad side effects. First of all why would you possibly give it to someone if it has bad side effects that you knew of? And secondly how can they possibly then have cancelled the operation that they never notified me of knowing all of this? It really does baffle me! Not to mention the intense phobia I have of needles! Having these kinds of things wrong with you is not good for someone like me! I had to get gassed before they gave me an anesthetic to do my operation the first time around. Now I have to get all sorts of blood tests done on a weekly basis and need to get a bone marrow biopsy done every year. The first was enough to put me off for life! They told me that what I have can cause anemia because when I bleed I lose more blood than an average person. So what do they do to find out if I have anemia? Yes you guessed it they do a blood test? They take blood to find out if I don't have enough blood in my system. Do you see any sense in that whatsoever or is just me that doesn't? I can't fault all doctors, don't get me wrong, there is some doctors out there that do help!  I just seem to get the one's that are maybe a little bit more preoccupied with there own lives. 6 months ago I ended up in hospital because a blood test showed up that I had too much potassium. I had to go straight down to the accident and emergency, which I did, and was met by a doctor who told me if he didn't inject me with insulin my heart would fail and I would die. So naturally I let him inject the stuff into me. It was uncomfortable and painful. I had mentioned to the doctor on several occasions before he injected the stuff into me that I was supposed to have an operation that morning that had been cancelled and I had been fasting from the night before. I had literally just got to the outside of Morrisons ready to go in for a breakfast when the hospital had called. He had laughed along with me and said it wouldn't be long and then I could leave. Imagine my shock when a few minutes later after all the insulin was in my system the room started spinning and I dropped to the ground taking a hypo. When I opened my eyes I could make out 6 people above me holding me down while I moved out of control around the hospital bed. I had no idea what was happening until one of the nurses told me I was about to go into a coma unless they injected me with a line of sugar. I was drinking glucose drinks and eating glucose tablets and eventually I got back to normal. How are we expected to trust doctors when they make mistakes like that? It amazes me on a daily basis how many times they must do something wrong and yet nothing ever happens!