"Leona Lewis" said H.
"Who?"
"X Factor"
"oh....I am getting so old!"
When I was a wee lass helping my mum with the food shop, which incidently I would agree without hesitation as I would get a donut, which I have come to realise was just 23p. So easily bought! Anyho, when I use to go on these trips I use to think about that when I am grown up, I am going to buy all the cool stuff - Ice cream, crisps, chocolate, marshmellows (I wasn't veggie then and certainly had no idea about gelatine), limeade, milkshake - cream soda definitly. I never buy this stuff - its all oatcakes, wholemeal pasta, salads, sprouts(!). One of our cupboards actually smells of Holland and Barrat. Not nice.
So, its nice surprising that I am feeling a little old of late. It probably has more to do with it being January then Gary going on about how we are just a whisker away from 30 and thus retirement. I am so definitly getting old for the following reasons:
- I have said outloud that I think music is not as good as it use to be
- I have a fair few grey hairs
- I get killer hang overs that last a whole day
- I use to listen to Radio 1 in the morning - it's now tuned to Radio 4
- I own a practicle car for our needs
- I think about the long term future and will probably be where I'd imagine I will be if I don't change my ways and stop being boring
- I think about films instead of letting them wash over me
- Helen is reading over my shoulder and said I write meaningless blogs that go on and on
- I buy and recieve practical gifts
- I own and use reflective cycle clips and don't care what I look like!
So, my New Year resolution is to be abit more exciting and I don't jut mean re-evaluating my relationshop with alcohol. So I have bought hair dye to cover my greys and not in my natural tones but aubergine (I am trying not to worry about this) - my choice of colour in my teens. Hopefully fairly soon i will be able to sell Boris and buy something inpracticle and unreliable. Other then that, I am not feeling that inspired. Now I have got a DAB radio I may try out one extra the Radio 1 Digital channel. I certainly need to see more gigs - perhaps Amy can assist in this revival. And clubbing - I haven't been in ages, and I know the last few times I have been, I bought bottled water over some blue coloured hang over in the waiting in a bottle. That needs to be put right.
Anyway, I am going go forth, dye my hair and try and be a twenty something that I am and not an oldy before my time.
What a rant - sorry!
Love
Katty x
3 comments:
You are in company my dear! I was but the other day complaining how much milk cost and correcting my younger cousins on their diction. Young people just do not pronounce their glottal stops anymore!
Will be on to the giggage challenge!
Bah. Music truly isn't as good as it used to be.
Aubergine hair colour ain't that bad. A couple of dye treatments ago, mine was sort of a dark-reddish-purple. This time (today was dye day) it's more of a dark-reddish-auburn. :-D
You are not that old Kat. A true sign of getting old is pedantry; and in particular being pedantic about spelling and grammar (note the use of a semi-colon there). Judging from the horrific spelling in your Blog you most certainly are not a stickler for correct usuage! So therefore cannot be getting that old.
Of course, this means I am getting old (and so is Amy by the looks of things) - for instance you see that 'i' I put in the previous sentence? Well, I went back to it and capitalised it because one should not use a lower case 'i' unless it is in inverted commas or part of another word. Three times already I have, four times now, used an abbreviated word and gone back to change it. This is getting serious.
Maybe it is (five) because I have to mark the semi literate work of undergaduates these days that I actually care about correct usuage of words, but I think it is (six) just an age thing. I mean, for goodness sake, we gave the world Shakespeare. The least we can do is try and complete a sentence or two without including 'text speak'.
Anyway, got to dash, Amazon have a sale on dictionaries and I have (seven) a mini-thesis to write on the invasion of the American 'z' into process nouns.
N.B. For anyone wondering why I have (eight) used the word, not the number, for the number of times I have changed abbreviations to full words, it is because one to ten should be written but 11 onwards can be shown as numbers.
I need to lay down...
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