My Life's Ingredients

Had the info in the Google Reader about a free listing weekend this week for UK residents and have been picking out several stamps I'm not using anymore and will probably cull more. Currently am listing at £0.99 both used and new. Have a look here , maybe there's something you're interested in? Also figured that your first 100 listings per month (?) as private seller (if starting price is less than £1) are free ... so no need to rush right now, think I'll be posting lots more stuff over the next weeks. :)

All was ok … bit busy at work, bit annoyed about buses/traffic in Edinburgh and me taking 1.5 hours to get to/from work. Left home after dinner to get to Ceroc – a new venue for me, and promptly went to the wrong St Stephen’s – who’d known there are two St. Stephen’s Churches close together in Edinburgh!!! :o Arrived at the one at Comely bank, the women walking past me were carrying familiar little green folders and one told me “There’s hardly any queue!” – A queue? For Ceroc? Surely not????  But I was told it’s busy on Tuesdays ….  But when I arrived at the door for the Church Hall I saw a sign for Weight Watchers … errr… yeah… not really where I wanted to go today.  So figured it had to be the other St Stephens, fortunately not too far away. Managed to park the car after a bit of circling around, had a missed call from DH and when I got to the door a message to call him asap. Called him and he told me my mum phoned … he just understood the word “gestorben” (died...

What a day! ;) Didn't have to be at Stirling for the 2nd Day of Camp until 2:30pm, so had time to go to the Ceroc Scottish Champs 2010 for the Lucky Dip and Nikki & Dave's Intermediate Competition before dashing off. I just love watching them dance, they are so in sync it's great!!! At 1:55pm I left the venue to take photos at the Stirling Clansmen training camp (really have to look into options for shooting late at night - most pics after 6:30pm are blurry-ish! :( ), drove back home at 8:20pm to get some food, get changed and then head back out to the Scottish Champs Party where I danced my socks off until 12:30am. ;) Thanks to Dave, Steven, Nikki, Esther, Shirley and ... errm... yup, don't think I know his name  (oooops!!) for the dances!! :D Now considering going to the Halloween Horrors Hop , given it's on 30th October 2010 and NOT on Halloween. ;) And MIGHT even compete in next year's Champs? Who knows ... ;)

… Was a bit worried that the whole situation with the Wolves would have soured my passion for the sport, but being with the Stirling Clansmen yesterday at training camp Day 1 has taken those worries away. It is really good to feel appreciated, the guys have been asking me how the summer was, how I am etc, the coaches are great as usual … Yes, it might be that it’s because it’s only season 2 for me with the Clan, there might be still the “bribery factor” of cake & photos (but then – the Wolves got that as well!), but we’ll see… ;) Anyway – I had a great time with them, and am pretty sure I’ll enjoy the rest of the weekend taking photos for them as well. Let’s hope the weather plays along though – driving to Stirling yesterday felt like driving through a veeeeery long car wash (M9)!!!

… I would love to just see the good things from the 9 years, and “retire gracefully” – but I think last year just was a chore, no thank yous, hardly any help offered (apart from the usual suspects) and personality clashes. But hey – that moment might still come … in a couple of weeks/months … who knows.

Ok … I’ve cooled down a bit, culled some “friends” on Facebook, but still cannot get how some people THINK! Or NOT THINK, for that matter. Sunday started off fairly busy, due to the Antiques Fair being on the same day we didn’t have the concourse or the shop at Meadowbank, so had to improvise (which we managed ok with 2 areas sectioned off inside the stands for merchandise and for the tuck shop. We just started to have our gameday crew meeting, when our HC shouted for me to do the card check (Player names and numbers to be called out for the oppositional Manager or general dogsbody like me). Yes, Cal told me Don wanted it at 1:30pm, but of course it couldn’t wait. So I dashed down, hadn’t even prepared anything so had to get myself through, calling out names and writing jersey numbers down at the same time, getting help from Gordy (ex Claymores fan and the GM of the opposition, the Shropshire Revolution).  Then card check on their side, afterwards marking up 2 more sets of our ...

I'm still here, still seething from stupid people's behavior on Sunday but am too busy with work and gym/dancing/Clansmen that I don't think I'll be able to post a full update until the weekend or Monday (weekend is Clansmen training camp and Ceroc Scottish Champs). It's still riling me, so don't worry, my emotions about that won't calm down so easily. You'll get all the "goss" soon enough.