My Life's Ingredients

for about 2 weeks now on and off ... went to work yesterday with it and left at 2:45pm because I couldn't take it anymore and the painkillers didn't work either. Off today (maybe back at work tomorrow) as still not feeling well. It's not really migraine as I don't have the other signs, but it's like a vice clamped around my head and fingers pressing into my eyesockets. DH suggests it could be actually sinusitis (without the "gunk" as my nose is more or less dry). Got an appointment on Friday and will see what they are saying. Really have to get some crafty stuff done by Saturday ... my CJ entry and introduction and sign in pages and a Mother's Day Card for MIL. Why do the Brits insist on celebrating Mother's day on another day than everyone else??? Because of this I either send her the card 2 months late or my Mutsch and stepmom get theirs 2 months early!!! Might have a go at scrapping/card making/CJing later today. Right now I am in the mood for ...

then you get another stone thrown into the way!!! We've been to our post treatment talk today and the usual "everything was fine with both fresh cycles and the thaw cycle, and of course there's the lower chance of a positive result with the latter anyway" blablablah ... and the usual "Shifting a little weight may help" (not surprise to hear THAT again... it's the only thing they seem to bring up, as there's nothing wrong with the development of my follies and my embies are fine as well... So back to that again, keeping on the diet (FED UP with detox right now, fancy "Gruene Sosse" and stuff like that) and hopefully feel up for a bit of swim or gym come Thursday! Then we went for a scan, just to check how my endometriosis is doing (well ... more likely how the cyst is behaving). I had very bad cramps last weekend with the period, so was kinda warned, but to hear that the blimming thing is already 4x6cms again!!! Little shock there. So the D...

I am currently struggling to get creative stuff done ... on Saturday at the Crop I managed to cover my CJ, cut out the title, stick it down and then did another layout for my friends' wedding album. Today I was hoping to get a bit more creative - but decided to do lots of housework instead. :o WEIRD!!! I hope that I'll be able to do my CJ entry and get more LOs done. Well, at least I was able to clean the ensuite, put boxes up in the loft, hoover the stairs and wipe the floor in the entrance hall and the kitchen plus did 2 washes. Just a tad exhausted... :D .... but I got my new TOY!!! :D Finally got my Cuttlebug, used it for the CJ title (and the previously "virgin" cutting plates are now SCRATCHED!!! *Gasp*) - but haven't done anything else with it yet. Quite like the freebie, it's a postage stamp embossing folder with 4 different "stamp" dies. CUTE! And I asked Rebekah to set aside one of the cute Asian stamps ... that's going to be my purcha...

That's what's happening when you sign up for those "Friends Reunited" websites ... in my case it's "Wer kennt wen" . And it's quite scary, but I've found already 34 people I know. Lots of them I haven't seen even prior to me moving to the UK in autumn 1998!! And it's just GREAT!!! I wish I could just meet up with them at some point. And there are soooo many that I am still "searching for". ;) Another thing was that when I was searching for music for my playlist (right column) I came across ONE German Song quite by accident, from one of my favourite bands back in the 80s & 90s (Pur). Now I am sitting here and listen to the CDs I got from them (11!!) plus 2 more CDs from German Bands. And of course that brings back TONS of memories... ;) Right now I am wondering what would have been if I hadn't moved to the UK. Would I be married? Would I have started yet another "circle of friends"? What kind of job would I do? ...

Well... guess what ... our dishwasher packed in AGAIN after 2 washes ... again error E4 (something to do with drainage). We finally got an engineer coming around today, same bloke as last time - who was trying for about 15 minutes to get the dishwasher out and then said he can't do anything as he can't get it out. I (still fairly nice) told him that the first engineer got it out and put it back. Reply along the lines "Might be, but I can't get it out, the back right leg is bent and the others are Y POINT???? They are not in our divis"threaded". Soooo... he is going to put in a report, and hopefully that will sort our problem and we'll get either a replacement or money back. I mean - come on! Having a dishwasher which does only have been con work 2 days out of 7 kinda defies the purpose of that blimming thing, isn't it???? And on other news ... the vicious people still don't let go. Such a nasty/vicious behaviour is just outright shock to me!!! Apa...

To be honest ... I am very surprised I've not fallen asleep yet... Got up yesterday at 9:30am for Senior training (11:30am - 4.30pm), went back home to sort out things for the Super Bowl party (mainly orders from players for photos from last year's games) and then we went to Sportsters to set up the place (1/2 hour late). Fortunately we had some of our "new vets" (i.e. rookies who played the first full season last season) helping out with setting up the place (thanks to Jamie, Jamie's pal, Kenny, Callum, James & Sid). With 3 "official" Super Bowl parties in the city yesterday and the fact that Sportsters didn't sell as much tickets as we thought they would (from previous years' experience) we had already the worst fears about our fund raising abilities - Super Bowl is our biggest fund raiser each year (and in the past the ONLY fund raiser). But as the weather wasn't as bad as we expected and despite the Six Nations Game on (we actually ha...