Update

Sorry for lack of blog time. Been busy with other things im afraid. Good things mind.

I have had a lovely day at golden acre park squirrel hunting. Check my flickr account for more images

www.flickr.com/photos/lexon/sets/72157624656709157/ 

Ive been COOKING! An amazing feat for me as I cant cook for toffee. If its not microwaveable or oven chips then I wont usually go near it. Ive been trying out some Slimming World recipes from books I bought a few years ago as I needed to spice up my taste buds alittle as they were getting bored. It seems to be working and the foods yummy.

 Ive also been going to the gym to try and shift afew pounds or at least get a better shape before I go away. Been twice this week. Going to try and stick to it this time.

BlogCatalog

I have officially been accepted as a member of blogcatalog. This will hopefully increase the amount of people that have access to this blog. For those new people visiting please feel free to leave comments and add yourselves as followers.

A Crafty Night

Its amazing what you can get done when you bunk off work early.

New Links

I have set up a Flickr account for those interesting in seeing any of my photography. Ive not been doing it long so be easy on me. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lexon5/

For those who like papercrafts I have set back up my Docrafts account showcasing my work and blog. Search for me under Lexon5.

Views Out My Window Pane

Its amazing the difference between these images that were only taken a few nights apart. I spend quite abit of time looking out this window from the chaos of my craft room. Its a welcomed break when i need alittle inspiration or time away from my latest project that is driving me crazy.

My 50

I would recommend that you all go to www.my50.com and make your own list of lifetime achievements. It is a brilliant site which I feel is both motivational and inspirational. The idea is that you think of 50 goals and write them down. Once you have the list you then complete them one by one as they are achieved. Now 50 sounds like a lot so I would advise that you do like I did and have a list of achievements and a list of goals. The goals are obviously things for the future but also have a list of your achievements in life. If you are feeling a little low and wondering what you have actually achieved then there it is in black and white in front of you. It might sound daunting but there's so many things that you will have done that are big achievements but you might not think they are because you've lived through it. Renting your first property, booking a holiday, falling in love. These are all major things that happen in our lives that we tend to forget just how important they are. For me I have 'learn to swim' as one of my goals where as for other people it's like second nature and they've been doing it for years.

I think that when creating this list you need to think of what you wanted when you were younger. Now I don't mean the latest issue of the Spiderman comic or the new Barbie accessory but trying to see it from a time where you were starting to explore life and its challenges. I asked my friend if she would do a list for herself and she said she couldn't think of anything because she hadn't achieved anything. She has a mortgage, a husband and a child but had forgotten just how big these achievements were and what life experiences go with them. That there are others out there are striving to achieve these things that she has already done. That if we had wrote this list 10 or 15 years ago, those things would of probably of been at the top of the list. The problem is that we begin to believe that it's an easy task to do because we've already done it but it doesn't mean that it is not still a great achievement. Check out my list on the link at the top of the page up My50. I hope that you'll be inspired by it.

The Big Bang Theory

I have totally and inexplicitly fallen in love the programme 'The Big Bang Theory'. The adverts made it out to be a geeky, slightly boring, programme with relatively few jokes but after some convincing from my best friend I gave it a go and now I'm hooked. Obviously she was right as we are practically one and the same person but I did have my doubts there for a moment. About the programme that is.

I've really taken to the character Sheldon Cooper and my only hopes are that Jim Parsons who plays the character is not simply playing himself. This fear is backed up by what his next project is which is about 3 avid bird watchers. Exciting. With the title 'The Big Year' I was wondering if it was going to be a film of the series. Something along the lines of geeks go in search of... type thing but sadly not.

Anyway the programme is all wrong for me. Science yuk, mathematics no thank you, history now that I can cope with in small doses. Somehow however it still works. Maybe it's because I feel slightly superior when I understand some of the more technical jokes that are made but then I wonder how many pass by me without me even realising. There are a lot of references to previous collaborations of both the cast and writers. I was slightly disturbed when 'David' and 'Darlene' ended up sleeping with each other. This obviously only being apparent to Roseanne fans. Also quips about Blossom made in the lunch room in one episode then transgresses into Mayim Bialik guess starting as a possible love interest for one of the group in a later episode.

All I can say is try it. If you're an 80s child then I think you will definitely benefit for some of the jokes. I'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised and soon grow attached to the characters. Who couldn't love a socially dysfunctional genius, a cute geeky quite guy, an engineer who makes crude jokes but lives with his mother, an a man who can't speak a single word to women without been drunk or on very powerful drugs. Try it, you might be pleasantly surprised.

OMG

I cant believe that its almost been a year since i last went on this thing. It took me half an age to remember my email address and password never mind think of what to write. If there is some way of sites remembering all of the failed passwords then my bank will be emptied, my phone will be used to ring Uzbekistan and my house will soon be repossessed. Every important name, date, place name and country which i can spell is now out there in full view. The fact still lies that if anyone who really knew me tried to hack into anything of mine the answer would always be password. Pa55word if I was getting creative. Well heres to hoping that I get the time, energy and motivation to write on here more often. That is before it becomes the musings of a thirty year old at the rate im going. No no, a few years left before that but heres hoping.