Just ignore the roadkill.

So then. Life. I suppose you can say life's gone pretty smooth. The roads been smooth and the skies been clear. In fact you could even say that I've enjoyed the ride - if you ignore the roadkill, that is. The roadkill. Roadkill is just stuff that ruins the happiness of it all i suppose. Something that doesn't directly effect you, but ruins the view anyway. I mean sure, it must be worse for whoever owned that cat, but it didn't half depress me as i passed it. And I felt that squirrel go underneath both wheels on the left - not nice, i can tell you!
      Anyway, what I'm trying to say is swerve to miss the animals as the bump ruins the ride.
      Keep on driving guys!

Obstacle course.

 

Hey there guys. I haven't written on here in quite a while, and there's many reasons for it. The main reason for my quietness is not the fact that i have very few readers and page views, but actually because of the amazing number of obstacles that life has been throwing in my way.  

As mentioned in practically every post, the road is full of potholes, but it also full of hills. My life has been sending me on a roller-coaster lately; sometimes having me rocketing skyward in a rainbow of happiness and having me dive nose first into the deep dark pits of worry at other times. Anyway, it seems that as soon as I get off the roller-coaster, I walk straight into an obstacle course that I'm struggling to get out of. It turns out that I'm still there now, in the middle of hurdles and tunnels,  and that I've just stopped to take a break with my laptop. *sigh*

Anyway, the lesson i have for you today is to train, revise and catch up on work as early as possible as it means you will be prepared for these things when they hit you. Unlike me, of course, who is sitting here panting, climbing up things and getting stuck half way, unable to remember where my next step should be. 

Oh well. I'll get there in the end! See you soon, readers!

Stopping for fuel.

Okay. We all know this. No matter how much you fuel up before hand, you ALWAYS need to stop somewhere on a long drive. Some days it's for the toilet, other times it's because of a flat tyre, but today? Today I needed fueling up!
     It turns out that we had some mince to use. It had to be used today or be thrown out, and as if we would waste anything like that >.< so we made two meals out of it. Spaghetti, and mice and onions with mash. To be honest, I think we were stuck for ideas. We always seem to do the same thing with mince; Chilli, Bolognaise, Burgers. It gets boring after a while.
    But then again, if you skip meals you  have less energy, you're grumpy and you're always feeling down. That's probably why I'm always happy ;) no missing out on meals for me ^.^
     Anyway, even though it sometimes seems that stopping on the road for something to eat is often a waste of time, be it because there's always so little traffic when you stop and so much after you've eaten, or because it's so expensive, a meal is a meal. Whether it's nice or not, you actually need that food like your car needs fuel.
So don't skip meals ;)

Keeping ahead of the traffic - without them knowing!

If there's one mistake I've made on my journey, it's taking the tightrope. Everyone here expects big things from you, and you can't every slip up. Also, you always get to that really hard bit in the middle, where it's wobbly and you have to use all of your effort to stay on your feet. It's at this point where most people fall. Some people fall the whole way down, crashing at the bottom and having to put themselves back together again; some people have a safety net underneath and only fall halfway, with a nice soft landing, but it takes those rare few people to keep going, or to hang on when they fall. It's unbelievably hard to do so, and you never know if you succeed until you get to the very end, and onto flat ground. And you know what? Even then people from all areas, down on the ground or above you in airplanes will criticize you and say you did something wrong.
   Okay, I can hear you talking. You're asking 'What is she going on about, and what does it have to do with me?' Well here you go. Here's my advice. Play it low. Stay on the ground in your Mini or Beetle and laugh at those people, higher up, or around you in their Ferrari's and Jaguars. If you play it low then no-one knows what your capable of, and you can surprise them whenever you do something good. If you don't flaunt everything you have and keep a bit back then nobody expects more than you can give, you don't get as publicly humiliated if you do something wrong, and you get the praise you deserve, without all of the haters, when you do something right.
   What I've learned is that trying to stay at your very best is hard, as people begin to expect it all the time and it gets tiring. If you at your best is what you are all the time, it isn't your best anymore, and you no longer have a best. In fact you might find 'your best' starting to slow down and wobble and your new 'best' being your old, relaxed, happy you that you find you often can't be any more.

So guys, go for a gentle jog down your own road, keep clear of pot holes and keep your eyes open for tight ropes. Wave to the guys up  there okay! They don't have as good a time as you think ;)

Into the car and out of the driveway.

Of course we all have our own paths to go down and  our own pot-holes to trip over, but I see no problem in talking and asking for directions when your path splits into two. I also see no harm in learning from other people's mistakes. After all, it's common knowledge that if you see someone fall down in front of you, you step around the hole to help them up. You don't continue forward until you fall on top of them.
So I thought, why not let other people learn from my many many many many MANY mistakes? ;)

I will take you through the tale of my winding road day by day, or week by week, and let you experience my many highs and lows, hills and ditches, speed bumps and pot holes through the magic of my words. :)