Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Have YOU recovered from the 'festive Season'!?

I wrote the following in January but obviously forgot to upload it, so it makes sense to pt this up before I write anything else!

Well, the Festive Season must be over because the television, the papers, and the shops are full of adverts and programmes, and books, etc on HEALTHY LIVING, DIETING, AND EXERCISE! If you are lucky, you only have a few pound to shed after a bout of excess over the Christmas and New Year periods! If you are unlucky,you have suddenly realised what everyone else has seen 'creeping up on you' - that you are extremely over weight and unhealthy. However until there is a little light that goes on in your head and a little switch gets flicked over - all the prompting frokm other people does not do any good. You have to decide for yourself and inside yourself that you have to change the way you live. Even if it is just a small simple change like trying to take a walk every day - IT WILL HELP! Bigger changes will create bigger changes but snall steps will eventually get the same result - like the hare and the tortoise, I suppose. I would rather be the tortoise and win in the long run than be the hare who looks like he is winning, but who gives up halfway through and ends up losing the race.


I was at a couple of gigs which my friends in the band THE VAGABONDS held - one on Boxing Day and one on New Years Night [1st Jan.2006] and took a few photographs. At one point during the New Year gig Sandy and a friend had decided to 'have a laugh' and did a quick 'change' in the back, and came back on stage as 'Mick Jagger' and 'Ozzy'. It did make everyone in the place almost double over with laughter! They are a great live band and if you ever get the chance to see them perform, take it. They have a regular spot every Thursday night in the Scotia Bar in Glasgow from 9 p.m.[ish] but it is very cramped in there so they do not do the 'full' over the top 'show' but it is still usually excellent. They cover a wide variety of music with Rolling Stones covers some of their favourites.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Happy New Year 2006

Well - Happy New Year to one and all.

Personally I have not had that great a'festive season' the reason being that the company I worked for was liquidated by the 5 directors on the 21st December and my job was made redundant! So I was out of work AND owed two months wages (as well as redundancy payments and lack of notice payment) three days before Christmas! Nice christmas present from the directors. It is also quite possible that I will not get any payments for quite a few months yet! Didn'y make for a Merry festive season!

I had family and friends for Christmas Lunch as usual, it just meant that I couldn't be as generous as I would have liked when it came to presents etc.

However I have my health, my family and my good friends as well as my faithful cat [ who is at this precise moment sleeping on a cushion on the table and obviously dreaming about chasing something].

The new year dawns with me thinking that this is a good time to change my direction slightly - perhaps startup in business myself! I will be looking into this in the near future.

There is also the old paradox - when one is working one has the money doesn't seem to have the time for 'leisure pursuits', exercising, visiting friends or places further afield, BUT when one is 'unemployed' one has the time but not the finances! A catch 22 situation! Even jobhunting costs money!