10 from Liverpool

I blogged for the first time today and i can't stop looking at it! Sad I know but its good to testify! Because of my situation (I have legal parental responsibility for my neice) I don't always have my mama status acknowledged and it feels good to own it. I'm not sure what format to do this in so I am gonna start with a gratitude list. Someone actually asked me to start one of these so I am and I'm putting it out for the whole world to see!

1. Porrige with golden syrup, i geuss most everyone else here is American and knows this stuff as oatmeal, Whatever you call it its still good!

2. Public transport. In Liverpool this is cheap and reliable though the odd brick is thrown through the window, my life would not work without it and am grateful to every narky bus driver in the world, my only criticism is to kill the pot smoke, I HATE it and it stinks up my blowdry.

3. People=Hope. I met someone today who came to my town as a kid as a refugee from the former Yugoslavia. terrible scenes, awful,awful. His family was invited by my goverment and he came, he settled he got on and over it. He triumphed! sometimes even goverments get things right (occasionaly)

4. The liverpool astronomy society; its putting on 2 nights of free talks and access to telescopes and food 2 minutes from my house during my kid's school holiday.

5. Purple sprouted brocolli reduced to 50 pence at the supermarket

6. Socialised medicine, don't believe the hype. I just booked a teeth cleaning for me and a check up for my niece for free. She also sees an orthodontist for free and gets skin stuff for dryskin for free. I hope and pray that the whole world one day gets to think about themselves rather than money when they get sick.

7. NOT having a car, your saving the planet, keeping your girlish figure and building bone mass all at the same time! Poverty chic!

8. Carly simon. I've never been a huge fan but I listened to let the river run on spotify today and cried. It made me wanna go to New York, I am actually scheming to get there next Summer on a medschool elective with my kid.

9. MY health, I'M STRONG, TOUGH I haven't had a cold yet this year and I don't intend getting one. I am investing in my body and rediscovering my old dancer self, it is in there somewhere! I am setting my alarm for 5 am and I am doing my yoga DVD.

10. My kid, I was 19 when I first started taking the reigns. Little did I know the journey that I would go on or the great person I would meet/help create. I wouldn't have "planned" it this way but growing up with a kid is great, you become ignited by love and all things are possible. THis kid has great humour, kindness, is loving and sweet, apreciative. She is beautiful and has a great gift for dance. She's tops!

During the writing of this blog I did a load of laundry, washed dishes, made dinner for tomorrow, supervised the drawing of a still life, packed a school bag and ironed clothes for tomorrow. All in a days work,
KEEP GRINDING IT OUT LADIES