"The fairies only left Orkney when folk stopped seekin' them" - Anonymous Orcadian
"Never be afraid to seek" - Ally

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Quick Hello...

Hey, you're getting your money's worth from me today - 6 posts!

Nothing much exciting in my world... was at the hairdresser yesterday - from (wait for it) about 6pm to around about 9:50pm! Yes... 10 to 10! Mind you, because I missed my last 6-weekly appointment when I was away in November/December, and had never got round to arranging one when I came back, it has been about 4 months since my last visit... Trust me, I was looking like Cousin It no matter what I did to my hair!

Well, now I've been shorn, permed, and coloured (chocolate with red and (supposed to be) purple highlights, but I'm damned if I can see the purple ones... but I am so glad to have had it done again.

College today, and by a stroke of luck, our tutor had to go at 11am and collect her bairn from school for some reason, so we got to go early! Yippee! However, on the down side, I had to go to the shop to help out for the rest of the day.

Visited Dad tonight... He was not too bad...

Oh, and I'm facing up to soon being without one of my sisters soon for the first time since I was about 5 years old... Her husband was made redundant recently and he's (luckily) got a new job more or less straight away... but (unluckily) it's somewhere down in the Highlands somewhere. It's only a matter of 4 or 5 years since my oldest brother moved up here again, and we were all in one place for the first time in an age, and now I'm going to lose one of them again...

I know the Highlands aren't all THAT far away, but the airfares from Orkney across to the mainland are an absolute scandal, so popping over to see her is not really practical or financially possible...

And my brother who was in hospital recently has now been told he's got MRSA in the wounds.

When the hell is my family going to get our lucky break? If this is a test from God, can He go and pester someone else now for a while, please?

1 comment:

Freddie said...

MRSA is one of the many things i have to learn about in school...here's a wee link for you just incase you'd like to read up on it Ally..

http://www.link.me
d.ed.ac.uk/ridu/Mrsa.htm