just quickly because im off to bed, this lightroom/photoshop thing can be as bad for my sleep deprivation as Matilda on some counts…..
playing in the lightroom…
i know this is a bit after the event…
but Michael Jackson….thats pretty sad isnt it? It is sad in itself, i mean, anyone dying like that at the age of 50 is pretty harsh. But oh my did that poor man ever have a distorted life. I read on a blog posted by someone who had met him in person that without the media he was actually a normal (ish) person and just put it all on for the cameras, record company etc.
I dunno, i just think what a tragedy…a child whose life was a less than healthy before the fame and obviously so very unhealthy after the fame was never ever going to get away with being un touched by the madness of it all.
I have to hold my hand up and say that I was a fan. His music, i enjoyed it when i was younger, the 80's stuff. It was part of my childhood, my transition to teens and early twenties. So there are plenty of significant memories come flooding back when i hear one of his tracks from that time. Have to say i dont play them myself, usually just catching it on the radio or something.
I remember when the first video of Billy Jean was on MTV, not that we had MTV (wow remember the people in school who had MTV…were they cool or what!) but i remember the hoo hah. My brother and I got tickets to see him in concert years ago, i think it was in about 1987 ish…it was supposedly his only ever concert in the UK…er…yeah….but anyway i didnt go because i had a job. But my brother got me a t-shirt..heck,id totally forgotten that, i used to wear it all the time…
But since those days when he seemed like just a talented musician doing his thing, he has just got more and more crazy, car crash, weirdville hasnt he? and being honest that just turns me off. I remember reading in a paper years ago about him sleeping in an oxygen tent ( remember that one!!) and i thought 'yer lunatic'
Because you know I am one of those people who likes to support people who are real…have heart, a story, compassion, a family, love their ma, doin' it for the kids..type of person. Yep I am a reality TV persons dream i suppose…LOL..
but anyhow i need a connection and MJ lost me when he started being bizarre, weird and not reachable. Im sure it was the nuttiness of his world that sent him spiralling off the genius/madman spectrum but i sort of turned off, drifted away and put some distance in.
Not that he would have been the slightest bit concerned or bothered by that I imagine. Im sure there were enough yes men around him that it would be easy to believe you could do no wrong….
nah…i guess i just feel sorry for him though, such a sad life to lead….i hope somehow he has some peace now.
Interestingly enough (well to me anyhow) I was quite amazed when Isaac came home from school and told me that did i know Michael Jackson had died…and when i said that i did…
he reliably told me that yes in fact Michael Jackson had died and he had, had a heart attack and only lived for 10 seconds?
When I asked Isaac did he know who Michael Jackson was, he said very seriously…
'I think he is in the juniors mum'
copy copy cat…
Because everyone is doing it…well a few blogs that is…*cough*….and i am lazy enough to have just copy and pasted from someone elses and got their typeface and colour too boot…but you will be pleased to know i have used my own answers…see i can muster up the odd original thought 🙂
so without further ado….
Outside my window… its actually quite dark but i can see Jackie over the road has got her living room light on..who said neighbourhood nosing, i mean watch, doesnt work?
I am thinking... about how uncomfortable it is to sit on a hornby railway whilst using the Mac. We need some furniture bustin' i tell ya 🙂
I am thankful for… my husband who is tidying the understairs cupboard..i mean seriously how could you not love a man more?
From the kitchen… comes the faint whirring of the dishy, my best pal in the appliance department, although that may well be a close run thing with the washing machine..
I am wearing… Some jeans and a john rocha top that i got in the debenhams sale, my mum has converted me to the joys of designer buying (but only in the sales!)..and yes it is too hot for jeans tonight! My legs are not happy…
I am creating… thoughts in my head about re-decorating and getting some pictures up on these walls…damm it..
I am going… to bed very shortly….
I am reading… how to love your children on purpose by Danny Silk.
I am hoping… that the next three or four weeks go by pretty quick, i need the summer, the kids need the summer and we need our third bedroom back!
I am hearing… blissful, perfect, silence…ahhhhhhh
Around the house… there is the detritus of family life, but wouldnt have it any other way, except maybe those smallish girlie bits of plastic nonsense that Maisie insists on putting in bags and boxes etc etc…..
One of my favorite things… the feeling of peace..nothing like it…
A few plans for the rest of the week… dentist again for round two of a root canal…Wahay!, Maisie visiting school again for storytime and er…you know, back and forth, back and forth to school..lots and other sporting activities.
ladybird, ladybird fly away home….
although sadly this one didnt really get much of a chance to do that owing to the overwhelming 'love' showed it by Maisie and particularly Poppy. Thinking about it though doesn't that rhyme end with 'your house is on fire and your babies are gone?'….not perhaps the most uplifting of children's rhymes!!
Anyway…we found a little ladybug and the girls were very cute with it, it got put to bed, carried in the car and then given a special 'seat' in Poppy's cupholder!..then it did what all good ladybugs worth their salt do and flew off…i think if it had been me, I would have done that A LOT sooner..
:))
The good, the bad and the Ugly…
not sure why ugly has a capital letter there in the title….no significance meant.
Just hit on this idea on a friend's blog. My on line buddy Mel. She rock the Casbah…
So the good…not having to cook sunday lunch. Our lodger was away so i didnt feel the need to provide the old sunday lunch …woohoo….We just headed to the supermarket because i had a sudden realisation that we had only 3 nappies left and we got the the kids little pack ups from the cafe…
the bad…we seem to have misplaced a rabbit…hmm..it seems to have disappeared, no signs of a struggle and no scurrying noises from any smallish places…we are just a bit stumped..
the ugly…Isaac, bless him, watching a short bit of top gear where they are racing a car against a steam train and later on coming out with some of the, shall we say, more grown up language they use on that show..Yeah lesson learnt by Mummy and Daddy I can tell ya!!
🙂