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The ice bucket challenge!

12. Hello my loves, has it been a week already? Sorry I haven't written this week, I was at work most the week and I don't finish till after 10 at night and I think that's a bit late to turn on the computer, especially when I had nothing in my head to write about. I guess I should tell you what I'm listening too, it wouldn't be a blog of mine if I didn't, currently listening to Alter Bridge, Myles Kennedy has such a fantastic voice, love it! Over the past week, maybe two or three weeks there has been a global phenomenon called the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS, to us here in the UK it is known as MND and to any of you who regularly read my blogs you will know how MND is currently in my families lives and I can't tell you how AMAZED I am that MND is finally  getting acknowledgement to so many people who have never heard of it before and are learning all about the disease! Everybody who is affected by this disease wants awareness, awareness, AWARENESS and w

My weekend of mixed emotions!

11. I'm sat here listening to Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One singing a long like a goon, I just can't help myself and I have dead roses to the right of me. I know I should throw them away but they are quite beautiful in their shrivelled form I can't bring myself to get rid of them. I think it's unlucky to have dead flowers though isn't it?  I thought I would tell you about my weekend if you didn't mind? About how different the two days were.  On Saturday me and Rob decided to take a drive to York and spend a few hours there because we don't really have days out together so thought it would be nice to do. We used the park and ride into the city which we haven't done before so we both felt like a big accomplishment was achieved by doing that *pat on the back* if it wasn't for our Yorkshire accents I reckon the bus driver could of thought we were tourists 'Is this the bus into York? How do we do it?' he was very helpful, we must have

Express yourself!

10.  I'm watching the final of Big Brother, I want Christopher to win just saying! Okay he's just been evicted! Glad I didn't do a bet on that one. Anyhoo...quite a few people have asked me how I am able to write the things I write about in my blog and ask me if I find it helps. The things I write about I will tell people in person but I will only tell them snippets, I find it so much easier to just write it down, I don't have to see the emotions of those reading, (Helen has won Big Brother - NOT happy) right sorry, in person I don't like seeing the persons reactions when I tell them personal information I always turn into a blubbering mess if they say something I might not like. Me writing it out and publishing it for anyone to read shockingly is very easy for me to do considering I could get negative comments from all over the place but when I write them I don't really think about that I just want to get it out of my brain so it really does help and I

How I'm feeling

9. Currently listening to Smother by Daughter definitely my new favourite band! Over the last few days my dad has been giving his Arsenal stuff away. My dad is a loyal avid fan to Arsenal so his football shirts, mug and ornaments are a bigger deal to him than what they would be to others, what they are to me. So for him to give them away to us has been baffling and shocking to me. All sorts of thoughts have been whizzing through my mind, I haven't understood why the sudden urge for him to give his stuff to us? I couldn't help thinking thoughts relating to the day that I wish to never come, but inevitably will... I asked him today why, 'dad why are you wanting us to have these things?' and the reply I got made complete sense and the subject no longer had to be continued 'It's best to do it now instead of when I can't speak'. He struggles with saying his thoughts and it can take him a while to answer a question but there was very little struggle when

Can I change?

8. Hello my loves. Please take a few minutes out of your lives to listen to Beautiful Tragedy by Mike Dignam, it's truly amazing I don't think you would regret listening to it. I'm seriously going to have to write a blog about all of my favourite songs, well only if you'd like me too? I'm currently sitting here wearing my glasses that I'm so desperately trying to get used too but my head hurts so I'm taking the annoying things off!  Right then, it has literally taken me so many attempts to write this blog, the subject matter has changed each time but I've settled on what I'm writing about now so I will get on with it :) MOTIVATION! I possibly have zero motivation! I know it's bad and yes I'm ashamed but for some reason I can not fibre up the energy to be motivated when doing things. Are any of you like this?  I don't know where it stems from but I've been like this for most of my life. I go through phases of telling myself I w

Thank you

7. Hey lovely folk of the world!! Yes, the WORLD! But first I'm currently listening to Birdy, beautiful singer and so young. I predict many more successful years for her.  ANYWAY back to the world thing, my blog have been viewed over 1500 times now which is pretty cool to me considering I've only wrote 6 blogs before this one. I just want to quickly write a big big thank you to everyone who read my last blog about my dad's MND, it got retweeted on Twitter a bunch of times and the MND Association tweeted it out and put it on their Facebook page so thank you to them for sharing the tiny glimpse of my life with so many other people. MND needs awareness!!!  I will write more blogs about my dads condition but sometimes it's too difficult to think about for how ever long it takes me to write about it.  I started writing my blog because I want to write the things that I should say but can't (not because it naughty or rude) because it's stuff that not everyone w

Our story with MND so far..

6.  These are my feelings and my thoughts, no one else's, just mine. In June 2013 my Dad was dealt the card of Motor Neurone Disease, a horrible disease. MND attacks the central nervous system and causes muscles to weaken and waste away. People with MND have to struggle everyday with activities that wouldn't have affected them before. It can be different with each person but sadly the outcome is always the same, there are no survivors, only true fighters! There is no cure... In some cases of MND the person can also have Frontotemporal Dementia. A less common form of dementia but nevertheless devastating. My Dad also has this... I first realised that something wasn't quite right around January 2013, my dad and I were sat in a cafe and he couldn't open a folded lottery ticket my exact words to him were "can't you use for hands or something" his reply was "no, my hand has got really weak" I asked him to make a fist with his right han

Happier blog about my day :)

5. Hello my loves! I need to start off by saying that Sam Smith is one of the most beautiful singers out there at the moment, every song I have heard of his so far I can relate to in some way or another. Dear sir I wait for the day until I can see you perform live.  Anyhoo, there is no real thought behind this blog, I just really like blogging and wanted to say hello :) Today three big things happened: 1. I got my tattoo extended on my forearm and it looks incredible, well to me it does anyway. 2. I got a wig-slash! 3. I saw an old friend :D Yes lots of people get tattoo'd, I love having tattoos and adding more and more but each time I get myself in a tizz about how I'll cope with the pain. I cope absolutely fine when it's happening but this morning I woke up at 7ish because I was THAT nervous about it. Silly me!! I got two orchids on my forearm to go with the rest of the flower collection that's building up. I plan to carry on getting bits and bobs added to