My Friend

Ok this is not funny at all but I feel I need to write this and don't really have anywhere else to put it. I would just like to say how much admiration I have for a friend who is on the same course as me at uni. I understood today that she is having a baby (she did tell me before, but we were in a noisy place and I couldn't really understand her.) I don't want children and the idea of me finding myself pregnant terrifies me (mainly because I would have to make myself have an abortion and I don't want one of those either...) But been as my friend wanted this baby and was trying for it, I admire her for doing exactly what she wants and not letting anyone or anything stand in her way.

Mom again...

Well I got two mom things for you, the first was one of those things really where you have to be there to get it. I was in another room and she was talking to someone else and I just heard her say out of the blue "Well I ent bin movin wood glue!" That sounded so funny because I know what my mom is like for moving, but I also don't see what she would want with wood glue!

Another thing was tonight she said to me, "Hold tight very please," and I just said, "Yeah mom, you got all the words in there, you just need to get them in the right order!"

Paid a visiit to an old sociology lecturer and wished I hadn't...

Well I thought this was more cynical than blindingly hilarious, but my jokes seem to have dried up for a bit andthis seems to be the best I can do. The reason I went to see this lecturer is because this book I am writing involves a particular theory that she origionally taught me and I wanted to ask her a couple of things about it. Anyhoo, not only did she refuse to help me, to cut a long story short she was very rude. She recommended I have a look at some books on her Module Guide (an instruction leaflet she gave me when she taught me three years ago) and no offense, but like I'd still have that now, I'm no pack rat! I have found some books though and I plan to have a look at them and then try and find someone else to help me. I am not going back to her again, and at least I know one person who I HAVEN'T got to dedicate my book to!

The feet part 2

After the first fiasco with the feet you would think we would be more careful, but oh no that's just not us! This same friend and I went to Walsall not long after the first feet incident and when we got there he helped me into my chair and then we realised we had left the feet at home. He said that he was not driving back to my parents house to get and so I had to go all round the town with my legs in the air. As were going round he said to me, "People are gonna think we've nicked this wheelchair from the hospital!"

The feet part 1

One time when a friend and I went shopping in Wolverhampton, we had taken my manual wheelchair and he was pushing me around in it. This wheelchair had detachable foot rests/plates on the front, which someone had to detach and take off whenever they folded the chair up to put it in the car. Well he detached "the feet," helped me in the car, folded the chair up, put it in the boot of the car and drove off. Leaving the feet on the car park! We had got back to my parents house before we realised what had happened he just shoved me back in the car and we sped it back to Wolverhampton dodging all the red lights. My parents live 20 minutes away from the city and we made it back there in 10 minutes. Luckily, the feet were still on the car park.

Ringo and the pod

I have a guinea pig called Ringo and he's a really cheeky little thing. He has this green pod, which he goes in as his little hide out and sometimes he tips it over from pushing it to hard with his nose. He did this the other day and he kept running back towards the patio door. Someone went out to him, thinking that a cat had jumped down into the garden and was scaring him. That wasn't the case though, he was only trying to tell someone his pod had been overturned and someone had to come and put it right!

Terine of beef!

Well this one started when my mom and I were watching an episode of Roseanne and it was the one where her sister Jackie, had joined this community theatre group. She only had one line and she was playing a very menial role of a peasant servant with a wooden leg. You may be able to find the clip on youtube. Anyhoo, this wooden leg just looked like an umberella shoved up her skirt and when she delivered her line ("Terine of beef") it seemed that she made every possible mistake there was to make, for example she was looking at the audience and doing a funny accent and the leg just looked hilarious! My mom was howling with laughter and said, "Thats the funniest thing I've ever seen!" She then said she needed to pop down the shop for something and while she was down there she fell over and hurt her ankle badly. Later that night she was limping around on it and all I could think to say was "Terine of beef!"