Newsflash for Spring

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Time for another Newsflash for March/April.

Nature
Entertainment
Wise words
Spirit
Family
Lessons
Author
Smiles
Health

NATURE

Spring is finally here and the trees are starting to turn green with new leaves. The daffodils and tulips are out everywhere, but I haven't had a chance to take any photos. No chance of photos from hubby because I accidentally "killed" our camera a few weeks ago. :-( I knocked over a drink and we didn't realise some of the liquid went on the camera. It was new too, bought middle of last year.

ENTERTAINMENT

I have a video clip that I'd like to recommend as brilliant entertainment. A friend sent it to me and it really is worth watching. Embedding has been disabled so you'll need to click HERE to listen to Susan Boyle sing. What a lovely voice and such a nice person. I hope she does well, but most of all, I hope this adventure brings her lots of fun and happiness. :-)

WISE WORDS
My favourite quote for the month, with one important twist - they have to be words from a fellow blogger. My Wise Words choice for Spring comes from Hayden of Lyric Flight.

It is only in this dullness of vision and spirit that we are able to commit suicide by planet.

SPIRIT
I can't really think of anything for this one. :-\

FAMILY
My dad's part time job is still on the go, a month after they said it would end. So far so good. I've been editing my book, to have a near-as-perfect edition ready for the printers. On top of that hubby and I have been working on trying to get him up and running with a new career, since he was retrenched in February. Hopefully I'll have good news to blog on all these topics in the future. Keep your fingers crossed! :-)

LESSONS
This month's lesson comes from my husband... or through him to be more exact.

We've been under a lot of stress lately, with hubby being made redundant and trying to figure out how he can bring in money before we run out of savings. Added to that my medication (hormone stuff) and side-effects of my fibromyalgia have made me cranky, forgetful and similar in mood swings to your average horror movie monster.

Not pretty.

It all imploded this week. Hubby and I had a huge fight, probably our most serious to date. I retired to the bedroom, to wallow in gloom, and hubby went for a drive. He ended up at a local park with a little loch. He went for a walk around the loch, before stopping to sit on a bench in the beautiful Spring sunlight. He sat and watched the ducks, a pair of swans... it was beautiful, but he felt CR*P. People came by... he ignored them. He was too busy thinking how life was cr*p, his hopes were cr*p, his future was cr*p.

Then two women with dogs came by. Hubby ignored them too. When they'd passed he looked down and there, right in front of him on the path, is a little black bag.

A doggy-do, pooper-scooper bag.

Hubby says the rage just OVERWHELMED him. Here he was, his life utter cr*p and the universe sends him... real cr*p! He was angry at the Universe, God... EVERYTHING. So he gets up, finds a stick, goes over to lift the horrible bag and toss it into the bushes. He said that as he lifted it his brain said, "This is too light", but his arm was on automatic. He hurled the bag... and duck food rained down all around him.

As he put it later, when he told us all the story, "Ya think there's a message there?" ;-)

AUTHOR
This section is for what I'm reading, love, or want to read someday. In this case it's all three as what I've recently read and enjoyed is part of a book not yet published. If there are any publishers out there with sense, they'll snap this one up!

This Science Fiction/Fantasy book is titled "Wanted" by Jeanne M. Haskin.

"While their parents fight the war that has come unprovoked, two children flee in the care of a single man.
They are the God-touched, without whom their people will perish,
and keeping them alive is a dark and desperate struggle that the man may not win."

You can read the first chapter (and judge for yourself if I'm right about this being a great read) by clicking HERE.

SMILES
Smile of the month goes to our smart crow family for being even smarter than we realised. First of all, Mr Crow has started waking me up by CLACKING on mornings I try to sleep in. It seems as if not seeing me up at the right time bothers him. Is he worried? Is he hoping for a late breakfast? I have no idea, but it does make me laugh when I hear him.

HEALTH
Next week I finally go to the surgeon to set my operation to fix my hernia. It should have been last month, but I forgot what day my appointment was and went a day late. I was so mad at myself for that. :-( This forgetfulness, my Dr says, is probably a side-effect of my hormone injections. It's also probable that my mood swings and extreme irritability (I've been pretty scary lately). Not much I can say about that, except I'm fairly sick of my body at this stage. I'm not dying or in extreme pain, but I am in constant discomfort. One way or another, I'm not really enjoying life at the moment. Hope things improve soon.
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