Out Of My Tree

First the story.

My mother, in her ongoing quest to use the things we have given her over the years decided she wants to put more, and different, music on her iPod.  She asked me for my CD collection, which has been in storage in the garage since I moved back over a year ago.  So, today I donned coat and my own Ipod and wandered into the place where spiders live.

My stuff is near the back of said garage and so lots of ‘useful’ things like my brother’s two bikes, petrol strimmer, lawnmower and a whole mess of garden furniture has to moved first.  As well as a (why the hell do we own that?) box moving hand truck thing.  I was lifting the bright yellow never been used hand truck over a box on the floor and knocked against something hard.

About two seconds later I noticed that there was a set of ladders on the floor that hadn’t been there before; and then my middle left finger started throbbing.  It has a weird lump in it now (which doesn’t translate onto a photo – it just looks like a short stubby finger or like I’m giving the world ‘the bird’.) and has gone a weird shade of blue.

The good thing?  Mum guilt.

And now the audience participation part.

I need help filling in next week’s posts.  I am away from a definite internet connection for 5 days – Sunday 23rd through to Friday 28th.  I might be able to get online for brief periods during those five days but who the hell knows.  I’ll be in an area which even Google acknowledges is in the middle of nowhere.  Hopefully I will be able to trust the website and arrive to discover that the free and open wi-fi really is free and open in all areas… But you and I both know that is wishes were horses we’d all win the Grand National.

So I know it’s NaBloPoMo and NaNoWriMo and it’s that month where everything seems to need doing all at once but come on I only need four more!  Four of you beautiful people to show me up on my own blog (it’ll look better before I go too! See I’m going to tidy up for you!  Just you!).  I’m not sure how this sits with the Blog365 challenge but… REST!  RELAXATION!  CHANCE TO RECHARGE!

The other thing is Christmas.  I love you all (especially you) and want to send you Christmas Cards to express my deep and undying love for you (I would send you all a suitcase full of money too but mine hasn’t arrived yet…) so addresses please! If you got one last year and haven’t moved worry not I still have them stored in the part of my address book where I keep the names of people I get to take with me when the mothership comes to take me home.  So email to: iwantachristmascard@outofmytree.co.uk (thank you to Blondefabulous for reminding me it was that time of the year again!)