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Oh my goodness! My lovely RJ proposed!!!! I am still in shock and can’t stop shaking! *beam*
To fully appreciate the tremendousness of this story you need to know the story of my “enga” ring first...
Journal entry from August 9th, 2006: While we were in Honiton I saw a beautiful, huge silver triffidlike ring but it was very expensive (£90!!!!)...but I tried it on anyway and attempting to scare RJ said "This is what I'd want my engagement ring to look like.. big and wild and statementy!!" *grin*
After we'd left the shop RJ said he needed to get some cash out and on returning from the ATM he presented me with a bundle of notes and said "I've never seen you look as happy as that ring made you, I can’t afford all of it but here is half the money towards it!" *grin* So we went back and bought it!!! It is made by a sculptor called Michael Shaw and is tremendous!!! *beam* (although RJ is getting his own back by calling it my 'enga' ring! (half an engagement ring)*eek*)....
Now back to 20th July 2008: This weekend was our four year anniversary and we had already celebrated it by going over to the West coast for a night earlier in the week so I had completely forgotten that Sunday was our actual anniversary day. Anyway we were just coming home from a lovely day at the Bradford Food Festival (involving seeing the most beautiful English Bull Terrier called Bubbles) when RJ said “What date is it today?” so I said “the twentieth” and he said “ So it’s our actual anniversary?” and I said “yes it is!” and he said “I might have a present for you” I was a bit surprised as we had already swapped cards and presents on Wednesday while we were away, so said “Really?... is it a nice present?” and he said “yes”. We got to his house and RJ scampered into his house and came back out and said “Close your eyes and hold out your hand” so I did and he said “You can open them now!”. In my hand was a beautiful black and silver ring box. My heart was pounding.... I opened it and inside was a folded up piece of paper. I slowly opened it and on in was a drawing of my ‘enga’ ring and the words “I O U £45”. I gulped and squeaked “I know what this means” and RJ said “yes.....Will you marry me Lindy Dark?” I instantly filled up with tears and said “yes”!!!
After I had composed myself I said, “But why didn’t you do it in Crosby by the beach?” and he said he had the ring box the whole time, it just didn’t seem to be the right time. So I said “But we should be by the sea!” so he said “Lets go to Whitby then!” So at 4pm yesterday we did!
Here is me with the ring box and the fierce sea..
Here is RJ doing a happy dance.
And here is my hair bear RJ.
RJ truly is the most kind and patient beautifulest person I have ever met. I was quite sure I would never meet anyone who was right for me and I still can’t believe that all our odd bits match up so well. I am so so incredibly lucky that he found me. He is quirky in all the right ways and an absolute gentleman, I have never known him once feel sorry for himself (and he has such good reason to), he is the strongest person I know, always happy and full of fun... And when I told him my lovely sister had offered to make the wedding cake he said “Can it be in the shape of an otter?”
I love you so much my precious little RJ
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Please can somebody help me... I desperately need a photograph of some flooding, preferably showing farm land (or something that can be cropped to look rurally). It needs to be high res at A4 size and will appear in a calendar and I can credit you with copyright :)
Thank you so much! *beam*Current Mood:  busy |
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Tremendously excitingness (3 of 3) :)
RJ rang me and said he had a dilemma for me. “oh no!” I groaned, but he said “No, this is a good dilemma! I have just been on the phone with my mum and she says she ::can:: club together with the rest of the family and give you some money towards your car insurance, but it won’t be very much money and it will be very dull....
...or instead, for your birthday she can pay for us to go on holiday to Prague!!!!” *shockety* *shock* *shockness*
Can you believe that??!!! *yay* *beam* So I said “Holiday please!” *grin*Current Mood: jubilant |
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I have just been to Tesco.com to see if they had any low GI foods, I did a product search for GI and they said..
Did you mean to search for "gin"?
Jul. 11th, 2007 @ 04:35 pm
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For quite a while now I have felt incredibly odd (I can feel your eyebrows raising as I write that), as if I was going loopy and have been so tired that I have been sleeping continually and felt so low I’ve been avoiding seeing anyone. I have been on a diet (with diet pills) but am still putting on weight, all of which has distressed me greatly.
So I went to see my doctor and told her all about it. She looked at me seriously and said “When you say ...‘loopy’ what exactly do you mean?” and I suddenly got the feeling she was going to section me. But she didn’t *grin* She sent me for tests and it turns out I am Insulin Resistant (the root cause of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome).
Which means I now have a medical reason for being overweight (not that there is a cure but it’s nice to be justified) It actually says "A woman who’s obese with this condition has greater difficulty in losing weight than another obese woman who doesn’t have this problem with insulin resistance" so when I felt I was being conspired against, I was.
Insulin resistance prevents cells using sugar in the blood normally (ie making energy) and the sugar is stored as fat instead. How jolly unfair is that! Not only does it convert sugar to fat but it converts carbohydrates to fat too! So all the time I’ve been having jacket potato and salad for lunch and thinking I’m being good I may as well have been eating Chocolate fudge cake!! (which incidently is only classed as a medium GI level in my new bible, and jacket potato is classed as high).
So as a result I have been put on the pill (a new wonderdrug type pill) to hopefully even out my hormones and it has been recommended that I follow a low GI diet. This is not such a horrendous ordeal for me as it would be for RJ (we now officially have no one food that we can both safely eat!). I just have to get my head around all this GI-ness, it is terribly confusing, take for example a raw carrot has a medium GI but large onion rings from Burger King have a low GI!!! How can that be!
Another one:
Lard = low GI
Melon Seeds = High GI
And another!:
Vegetable pasty = Medium GI
Broad bean = High GI
I am so confused! But I am not loopy! *grin*
Jul. 10th, 2007 @ 05:43 pm
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Oh dear and I try so hard to fit in.
So, miss_dark, your LiveJournal reveals...
You are... 76% unique
(blame, for example, your interest in tiny little legs)
and 0% herdlike.
When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please.
Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.
Your overall weirdness is: 88(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 98% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is!
Jun. 6th, 2007 @ 07:55 am
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Due to his computer not playing fair, here is an announcement from the lovely ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dedbutdrmng RJ:
My official older than Jesus[1] birthday party will be held at the Elmwood pub in Calverley, Leeds this Sunday (6th) at 3pm. I would love to see you all there but accept this is rather short notice.
[1] Older than Jesus was when he died not now, presuming he exists, which we don’t think he does.
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Here is a link to the Elmwood:
http://www.gbstay.co.uk/searchview.php?hotel=7381
You are all welcome and if anybody needs anywhere to stay afterwards then you are very welcome at my house (I have a proper spare room with a bed and everything *beam*) as long as you can cope with cat hairs and don't encourage RJ to do any form of animal impression.
May. 3rd, 2007 @ 01:33 pm
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Last night my poor beautiful mini lion Brian died. He had deteriorated very quickly, he was fine in the morning, hounding for food as usual and then when I got home from work he was lying on the rug looking asleep but with his eyes wide open. I rushed over to him and stroked him and he purred but was very flat and didn’t want to stand up.
At Christmas he had been diagnosed with bowel cancer and been given 3 months to live. I knew this was going to happen at some point, and thought if he’s going to die I’d rather have him at home with me, peacefully. But at 8:30pm he started to cry, it was a low, sad, painful moan. I rushed him up to the vets. I said I was very worried because he had started making the sound that Munch made before he died. The vet said she was very worried too.
She said his heart was far too slow and his body was shutting down and it would probably be best if he were put to sleep... but she could try to get him on a drip if I wasn’t ready for that. I wasn’t ready. He had been well that morning. She said to leave him with her but wasn’t hopeful that he would make it. I said “I can’t leave him” So she tried to get a vein but he had no blood, his heart was too slow, it just wasn’t working. Brian was very lifeless, just lying there wimpering in pain. She said that it would be best if we stopped.
It‘s silly but when I got to the vets I made them weigh Brian as he had been so well lately, I knew he’d put on weight (he’d lost an awful lot of weight due to the cancer as all his food went straight through him) and wanted to prove I’d looked after him. I didn’t want them to think I’d not been a good mum. He had put on .4 kg.
When my sister picked me up from the vets with the empty cat basket, she just looked at me and said “Brian was my favourite.” ...and burst into tears.
Brian was ::everybody’s:: favourite. He was so amiable and so friendly and looked just like a cat should. Like a mini lion. I was always so proud of Brian because he loved people. He’d rush up to visitors and be all chirpy... and they would all say “Isn’t he beautiful and big and just like a lion!”
Unfortunately Brian’s top teeth had fallen out a while ago so his bottom fang would often get stuck on his top lip... this became known as ‘pesky lip’. Pictured below.
RJ would spend hours laughing at this and even perfected an impression of Brian’s ‘pesky lip’ (not that I approve).
My brave little Brian was an absolute star, a real comedy cat, a big party cat. I loved him so much, we spent the last thirteen years together, and he had a huge personality and I can't help thinking the world has just got a whole lot duller.
RIP My lovely Brian Mini Lion xxx
Mar. 16th, 2007 @ 09:17 am
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Yesterday was the launch of one of the initiatives I’ve been working on so I was invited along as a guest. At lunchtime there was a buffet and behind the buffet table were waiting staff in uniforms. On the table were some kind of desserts in ramekins, they could have been cheesecake, cream or even pale sponge, they each had a strawberry on top. The conversation went like this..
Me: Hello *beam* Could you tell me what those are please? *pointing to ramekin*
Waitress: Um... I don’t know
Me: ... *blink* (this is the ::only:: dessert on the table everything else is fruit or cheese)
Waitress: *looks at other waitress* Do you know what they are?
Other waitress: Cranberry something
Me: *eyes strawberry on dessert and looks at waitress dubiously*
Waitress: I’ll ask my boss *calls across to next table* What are these?
Boss: They are crème brûlée
Other Waitress: See, I told you they were cranberry.
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And I just have to mention sarcaustic and thirstypixel’s wedding! *beam* I love weddings and theirs didn’t let me down in any way! It was so unbelievably perfect and so romantic. I got tearful when I saw the bridesmaids who looked just like little brides... then I cried all the way through the speeches... no, I did really, and ended up having to reapply all my make up! sarcaustic looked beautiful and graceful and she was so right when she said she had only invited the lovely people. It truly was a wonderful day and I will remember it forever. If I ever get married and my groom does a speech as witty, moving and heartfelt as thirstypixel’s I will be happy for the rest of my life. *sigh*
We very nearly didn’t get to meet the so very pretty medusa and her famous athiest, we ending up running after them and accosting on them in a dark alley! *grin*
Unfortunately RJ wore his vile silver shoes but my stunning brand new designer shoes more than made up for it! *grin*
The lovely generous cyberspice kindly offered us a lift home and we had all sorts of adventures involving tow trucks and wees in bushes *grin* and RJ thoughtfully documented the whole evening on his camera and will no doubt up load the photos as soon as his computer starts talking to him again!
Mar. 15th, 2007 @ 11:20 am
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Well that was a big success!! *yay*
Yesterday was RJ's first Infliximab session at the hospital. He was hooked up to a big drippy in machine for two hours while the Infliximab was pumped into him. It was quite scary as the drugs arrived in a big bag with "Chemotherapy equipment" and "Urgent" printed on it. The IV nurse gave RJ lots of anti-rejection drugs to begin with to reduce his chance of a nasty reaction and we asked the nurse what would happen if he did have a bad reaction... and she said "Oh we don't talk about that... but there is a crash team on stand by" *gulp*
Anyway RJ sailed through and was very brave even when the bloke opposite fainted and leaked blood everywhere! *grin* We chatted to a girl who had been on the treatment for over a year and she said it was a miracle drug and she'd not been ill since she started with it and it had improved her life completely... so we are so hoping it will do the same for little RJ. We also worked out that we could have bought a very expensive car with the amount of money it cost to treat the three of them that day *eek*
Because we didn't know how RJ would cope with the Infliximabness we had our Valentines day before we left for the hospital. RJ had made me the most tremendous "Little Book of Darkness" for me, complete with pokey out tongue, tiger and Lindy hair!!! It is the best present ever and not a hint of an animal impression or shrimp in sight! *beam*
Then the most exciting part ever!!! *beam* I won my first 'thing' ever on Ebay!!!! *yay* I was everso stealth and waited til 1.5 minutes before the end and put in a ludicriously high bid and won!!!! *yay* I am so excited! and I only have to pay £8:50 *beam* It is described as "1980s RUBBER FETISH TORCH BAG # GAY INTEREST # LOOOK #" Goodness knows what all this means but I can't wait to be interesting to gay people!... or rather RJ will be ...as I am getting it for him to use to stop him getting the dreadful affliction "ugly lumpy thigh" due to books being squished into his trouser pocket!
Anyway here it is!!!
Feb. 14th, 2007 @ 08:24 am
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I have been ever so quiet lately.. so to ease me back into posting more regularly... ( I have stolen Medusa's questions from dedbutdrmng.... )
Jan. 4th, 2007 @ 09:08 pm
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I think I spoke too soon :(
On Wednesday night Beastie went all floppy and his eyes were all rolling about in his head. So I rushed him up to the vets. They were very worried about him too and asked to keep him in for tests. It seems he has diabetes... or pancreatitis. I was told that the next 24 to 48 hours are crucial and that it is vital they try to stablise his insulin levels, at the moment he is full of alcohol. I was also warned that if there are complications from the treatment (his heart is already very weak) it might just be that his little body is falling apart.
He has been in intensive care ever since. We went to visit him last night and he had a drip on each front paw (each administering drugs that would independantly kill someone). We stayed with him for an hour and during that time he perked up and was all purry and by the time we left he was eating and covered in pink. I love him so much :(
Oct. 20th, 2006 @ 07:45 am
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Last week I fulfilled one of my biggest dreams!!!! *yay* To have a bathroom... an proper bathroom with a bath!!! *swoon* This actually proved far more complicated than you’d first think.. involving men under floorboards, learning all about masonry bolsters, japanese saws and compression joints and an emergency crouching over the littertray! *grin*
To start with there was no piped hot water to any of my flat (infact I’d had no hot water in my kitchen for over two years) so I had to have a condensing combination boiler installed (which when turned on decided to promptly die). My bathroom is a very odd long shape so I couldn’t fit a conventional bath so I bought a big square deep bath... so deep infact that you can fill the water up to your neck! My wonderful parents travelled all the way up from Devon to do all the fitting... it took twice as long as we’d hoped and when we removed the existing shower tray there was just a gaping whole and a seven foot drop below it! *eek* But they were completely unphased and when we discovered my toilet had been leaking four cups of water a day they just pulled up the rotten floor boards and replaced them. It was hard arduous work and they were just unstoppable, not once did they complain or get annoyed... I feel so proud of them and actually quite emotional about how utterly amazing they were. My little sister had designed the bathroom and driven me all over Leeds buying bits for it, her husband gave me wood from his shed and my big sister babysat the doggans and fed grandma so Mummy and Daddy could come up... even little Rowan helped by pulling the shower cord (up until then we couldn’t work out why the shower had no electric going to it!! *doh*) ...it was a real family venture. There is no way in the world I could have done it without them I even got quite tearful when they left as I realised how honoured and lucky I am to be part of such a tremendous family *beam*
So I have a beautiful splendid bathroom now!!! *beam* ...and anyone who had the misfortune to witness my previous bathroom will realise just how happy this makes me!! *beam*
Because it is such a lovely room and is not waterproofed yet I decided to move the littertray into the hall and buy one a little bit smaller (due to space issues) and with a hood to help contain all the litter.
My plan was a good one in theory.. but I was a bit worried the boys might not realise it was a litter tray as they had to walk into it rather than climb over the sides... and also Beastie likes to stand upright to wee and I was worried there might not be enough height for him (old cats new tricks etc). Bless them though, I needn’t have worried, they all knew it was a litter tray *yay*, they even walked into the litter tray no problem at all *yay*, did their business *yay*, But one big problem is as it is a smaller tray their bottoms’ poked out of the hole leaving all their deposits on the hall floor! *doh* ...now I just have to teach them to turn around! *grin*
I also have splendid news about Beastie! He is on his ninth day with no calcium and is a bright as a button! *yay*
Oh and I think I may be getting a ‘thing’ about chiropractors... well, if mine ::will:: keep climbing on top of me and crunching my bones! *grin*
Oct. 16th, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
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There are odd things afoot in the Dark neighbourhood!! *grin*
Odd happenings #1
Last night I was eating my Teriyaki vegetables when my door bell rang. Intrigued, as I was expecting no one, I opened the door. There, stood a brightly dressed Asian lady... she was wearing a sparkley orange sari and struggling to carry lots of full Sainsburys carrier bags. She looked at me and said happily “Job!” and I said “Pardon?” and she said “Is there job here?” and I said “No” and closed the door...
Odd happenings #2
Waiting for my bus this morning I heard a squeaking noise. I looked down the road... it was only just getting light but I could see a young man pushing a wheel barrow up the hill. He was taking his task very seriously and looked very regal with his head held high and a look of deep concentration on his face... except that he was all over the place.. weaving from side to side. He passed me and crossed over at the traffic lights... then strode on purposely, if somewhat wobbly, up the road.. when suddenly, thinking better of it turned around, double backing on himself and veered off into the woods!!
All so strange...
Of course I did already know that I lived in an odd neighbourhood... after all ms_siobhan lives here!!!! *grin*
Sep. 22nd, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
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For the last week I have spent most of my time at the hospital with my poor Beastie :( He had both of his thyroid glands removed (one last month and one last week)... and it has not gone well.. he has been having fits every six hours and he stopped breathing on Saturday and was put on oxygen. On Wednesday the vet sent him home with me because "if these are his last days I don't want him to spend them in a box here".
Last night he was admitted again after fitting five times (twice in front of the vet). He was put on a drip and force fed as he was looking incredibly drawn and very spacy. We were told he might not last the night...
This morning the vet rang and said he looked like a normal cat! He said "If Beastie was a raisin yesterday ..he is a grape today!" *grin*
I am just on my way to the vets to learn how to inject Beastie with Calcium so he can come home for the weekend... All good practice for when I am let loose on RJ!!! *grin*
PS: I also have a big bubble on my eyeball where Brian got his claw stuck :(
Sep. 15th, 2006 @ 03:01 pm
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You’ll never guess what!!!!! dedbutdrmng’s doctor has said I can stick pins in him!!! *yay*
Now this has been a burning (stabbing?) ambition of mine since I first met him! *grin*
The specialist said that she was still trying to avoid operating on RJ as this would involve removing an ::awful:: lot of his intestines... so instead he will now be hooked up to a magical bleaching machine for two hours every six weeks and have the ‘infusion’ dripped in to him.
She explained that if all goes to plan they are hoping that the treatment will eventually be given as an injection to be self administered at home.
Unfortunately this worried RJ and he said in a small voice “I don’t think I’ll be able to do that”...
...to which I piped up “Oooh I ::so:: could though!” *grin*
So excited!!! *beam*
Aug. 22nd, 2006 @ 10:24 am
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What a glorious week!!!! *beam* dedbutdrmng and I have been on holiday!! *yay* Firstly down to Devon to visit my parents, where I found out all sorts of unexpected gossip about my family!!! *eek* Like my grandad moved house because the ghost of an old lady scared him in the night!!! And far more worryingly, my cousin has videoed herself on her mobile phone threatening to kill her baby!?!! *shock* ...she then sent it to her ex... who told the police and they have now taken her children away from her!!! *Oh dear*
My big sister Nicky was lovely though and took us to Charmouth, Stonebarrow, shopping and for Chinese food (where RJ worryingly took candid photos of what he called 'badger boy' (don't ask!)). While we were in Honiton I saw a beautiful, huge silver triffidlike ring but it was very expensive... I tried it on anyway *grin* and attempting to scare RJ said "This is what I'd want my engagement ring to look like.. big and wild and statementy!!" *grin*
After we'd left the shop RJ said he needed to get some cash out and on returning from the ATM he presented me with a bundle of notes and said "I've never seen you look as happy as that ring made you, here is half the money towards it!" *grin* So we went back and bought it!!! It is made by a sculptor called Michael Shaw and is tremendous!!! *beam* (although RJ is getting his own back by calling it my 'enga' ring! )*eek*
Mummy and Daddy then kindly drove us up to samantha_marie's fabulous party!! I knew as soon as I saw rhys_wilcox that RJ would love him ...he is really just a funny little monkey!! *grin* And his lovely wife Mel said my favourite quote of the night when she referred to dedbutdrmng as 'dead butt mug'!!! *genius* I think it may catch on! *grin* (Actually that's a lie about my favourite quote it was pipped at the post by a quote from the astute Sam but I can't repeat what she said here!! *grin*) Oh and Sam's dad was a complete star and had to put up with a landrover full of giggling girls (RJ included) when poor mancangel practically did herself an injury trying to get in! *grin*
Our B&B was lovely and big with three beds and an ensuite with double sink.. but it wasn't til I needed the loo that I noticed there was no door to the bathroom!!!! *eek* I was absolutely horrified! (When I first started seeing RJ he said that he would finish with me if he ever heard me wee!) *nightmare* So I was frantically stuffing toilet paper down the loo to deaden the sound! It was awful! *grin*
Then today my poor second youngest, Beastie, had his overactive thyroid removed. Unfortunately the vet said his other thyroid is also very big and will have to be removed in a couple of weeks :( But he very kindly let me have Beastie's thyroid in a jar!!!! *yay* It is like a huge red mutant bean!!! *proudness*
And last night RJ was a real star and stood in front of lots of people (with a microphone and everything) and was all poety and sexy!!! *yay*
Aug. 9th, 2006 @ 08:28 pm
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