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Shoes01:08 Jun 19 2011
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Including me there are five of us. Five friends who have grown up together and watched out for each other. I have never analysed this relationship as I’ve just accepted it and it has worked.
I got married and they were there. When my daughter was born they joined the celebrations. When I divorced they picked up the pieces, my pieces.
They are irreplaceable.
Two of them have been in serious relationships and we have loved their chosen partners because they are our friends. One has been in and out of relationships … to date!
The fifth is getting married next weekend. We will all be there.
So what has all this got to do with the title?
I needed shoes for the wedding.
I was leaving it late as it was, so Friday afternoon I had it planned to drive into town and sort out the problem of shoes. It poured and poured on my way home from work, well it is England. Needless to say I didn’t bother and planned to go into town the following day.
Now it’s Saturday morning and my car battery is flat as a pancake. I rang my cousin who picked me up within the hour and drove me to town for shoes and lunch. Ha!
I must have visited ten shoe shops. I won’t bore you but between colour, size and style I couldn’t find a pair. The fact that I was rushing as the car was on my mind was another story.
It was 5.30pm and most stores close at 6pm. I was stressing big time as although I was settling to sort this problem Sunday morning I still needed to find out why the car battery went dead before Monday when I’d needed it for work again.
It was then that another of the family asked if I’d tried a shoe shop which was just 15mins away. In Starsky and Hutch style we jumped into the car and raced to the store.
My neighbour, a mechanic, greeted me when I got home. He told me he tried to contact me (but I'd been out all day) as he noticed I’d left my lights on in the car last night. We opened the hood and he jumped started it, examined the battery and said just take it for a run it will be fine.
I now have two pairs of shoes. Bring on the wedding.
£££10:32 Jun 12 2011
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I was chatting with my daughter on the phone and she excitedly told me that next Sunday on Fathers Day, she is taking me to dinner, have whatever you want on the menu she says.
She never pays for a thing when she’s out with me, but this is so gonna cost me in the long run. Lol
My daughter is well travelled and has already been to France, Egypt and Poland this year and needs my permission to get away in the summer too.
I believe that travelling to different countries and seeing first hand other people’s cultures is the best education there is and I fully back her desires even if they are for different reasons.
So shall I have the steak or is that a mistake?!!
Questions!22:21 Jun 10 2011
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Is it wrong to want to see something or do something once just to say that you have been there or done it?
Should there be more to our desires and aspirations in life, a kind of moral value to what we want to do?
I was always told ''if you're going to do something, do it right'', but what about doing something just 'because', just for the fun of it?
I have always said I have lived my life (so far) without regrets but I would so change the way I did things. Is that having regrets?
Friday15:36 Jun 10 2011
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A Friday at work always seems that we have more time on our hands and we chat about any and everything when we can. Today the conversation was about the old programmes we use to watch. The Waltons were mentioned as was The Paper Chase, this was one of my favourites, I wonder if you guys remember it? Then it turned to older stuff like The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants, I use to love these as a kid.
What ever happened to the family getting together in front of one T.V for a good old family show?
Nowadays there are three or four TV’s in a house with added media to be watched through games consoles etc. You’ll have this one in his/her room watching this and that one watching that.
…and where did that ‘family’ day out go? I went out with a ball to the park and wasn’t seen till dinner time. Picnics at the beach seem to be a thing of the past too. Maybe all this has gone the same way as family values.
I try to do a father and daughter ‘thing’ with my kid but even she seems to be growing out of all that now. Choice seems to be good, but only in doses.
Thank G-d for a book and some music!
Epic weekend20:08 Jun 05 2011
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OMG. What can you say to an episode finale like that? O M G!!!
Dr. Who has never been better and I eagerly look forward to its return in the autumn. I will not throw out any spoilers here as no one spoilt it for me when I missed it yesterday but you have no idea how good it was if you haven’t seen it yet.
Yesterday I watched The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King and smiled at this one liner as the goodies go into battle…..
GIMLI: Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?
All in all a good weekend for me, I was among those that love me, even them oversees. The future, my future looks bright even if the road is more fragile.
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COMMENTS
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xxEmaeraldxx
21:17 Jun 19 2011
Heh, well as long as they not for two left feet! I hope you have fun at the wedding. I also hope you had a nice Father's day, and got everything going on the menu!!
Theban
11:11 Jun 29 2011
What sort of shoes did you get...DM's a really good hardy shoe or boot.