Dark cloud over my head
Wish I could lift it
Think I’ll just cry instead
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Words in my way
So this is taking a trip into the past, here is a poem I wrote when I was Sixteen, far-out that was nearly eleven years ago 😦 anyways I must have been really messed up over something at the time hmmmmm.
Words in my way
It is a fact, that, I don’t know how to react
This world inside my head, its wack
My heart speaks a language I can’t decode
Later on no one will care which path you choose
No one cares who you really are
Everybody hides their scars
No one cares what you’ve lost
No one cares what personal lines you’ve crossed
It’s like the people you love are saying
Does it matter that I don’t really need you
I’m sick of all this hurting in my head
I’m going to go hide in my bed
I have to admit I’ve had so much fun
Think I might look into a life on the run
Can the world please look at me for all I am
That’s impossible when I block my emotions like a dam
I’m sick of always caring about what people think about me
No one else seems to care what I think of thee
I’ve said too much but not nearly all that’s in my head
All these words in my way
Fears drive me forward every day.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
This is a photo I took of a GRAND old rock on a GRAND adventure my husband, I and two of our friends had together back in 2010.
There was Four of us on Two Motor Bikes. We road through New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia the Northern Territory and Queensland! over the month June.
Yes our butts were sore, but the open road and the spectacular Australian landscape was well worth it. So many memories that will stay with me for a life time.
Books I’ve Read Recently
I’ve decided to create a section on my blog ‘’Books I’ve read recently’’ dedicated to the books I read.
I love to read, but can never seem to find the time, especially now with being back a work part time and a mum to a five month old.
I am really bad at time delegation at home, fine at work, but I get home and all my plans go to shit.
So if you’re interested in any of the books below, stick around. If you’ve read any of them and would care to give me your thoughts on them that would be great, leave me a comment or if you’ve got any books you really love and would like to share, I’d love to hear about them.
So the list of books I’m going to start with:
“Second Son” a Jack Reacher short story – Lee Child
Albert of Adelaide – Howard L Anderson (reading this again because it’s awesome!)
Pet Rescue’s Amazing Dog Stories
Bad Luck and Trouble (11th of 18 Reacher Novels) – Lee Child
Mop Stroud, A life in two acts with many scenes – Betty Stroud
Shadows of The Realm, Book 1 of the circle of Talia – Dionne Lister
A Time of Darkness, Book 2 of the circle of Talia – Dionne Lister (I’ve been holding off reading these two books as there’s a third on the way and I know once I’ve read the first two I’ll be hanging out for the third)
Close Call: A Doris and Jemma Vadgeventure – Eloise March
The Killing Floor (1st of 18 Reacher Novels) – Lee Child
Bitter Greens – Kate Forsyth
Die Trying (2nd of 18 Reacher Novels) – Lee Child
Initiate – Tara Maya (This is another long series, so I am scared I’ll fall in love and want them all)
The Salmon of Doubt – Douglas Adams
Casting Shadows Everywhere – L.T. Vargus
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen (Reading again >> before reading) >>
Mr Darcy’s Diary – Amanda Grange (and >>)
Longbourn – Jo Baker
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Water for the elephants – Sara Gruen
Hmmmm does the randomness of the list say anything about me lol.
I’ve written these down now,
I’ve said I’ll read them,
So I have to,
Right?
YES RIGHT!!!
Give it a few weeks and the list will probably double, especially since I’ll still have another nine Reacher novels sitting on my book shelf waiting and another 75 eBooks on my tablet WAITING, as well as I really miss Ron, Hermione, Harry, Hagrid and Dobby and need to visit Hogwarts again soon.
Hang Onto You
I hang onto you
Hang onto what I know is true
Hang onto the girls we used to be
Hang onto the feeling
That with you
I’m free
Free to be myself
To heaven or hell
and stuck here on this earth
I’ll hang onto you
No matter how much it hurts
Over The Hill
Over the hill
and far away
We keep getting older
Everyday
All we ever want to do
Is go
Back
Back
Back
Instead we sit on our arses
Getting grey and fat
Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge
Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge (week 13)
My Ellie Girl doing what she loves, RUNNING!!!!!
Ellie is my three year old, very short Wolfhound cross, but you wouldn’t know she had any wolfhound in her looking at her. She is loving, playful and very energetic. She loves to play fetch in and out of the water, she loves cuddles and breaking into the house to find where the dog treats are hidden.
This is a photo I managed to snap of her with my phone as she was running back to me at our local dog park.
On the page
All these ideas floating in my head
Every night I take them to bed
And every night their they stay
Always on the pillow
Never on the page
Blue
Sometimes I feel like I’m running out of fight
Sometimes I think I just might
I scold myself and then take flight
Into the night that growls and bites
I think I might need to say goodnight
and goodbye to a few of you
That rip my heart and keep me blue
Riley’s First Christmas
This Christmas will be my sons first and to celebrate I’ve put together a post in photos of us putting up our Christmas tree – there is a story behind this old hand me down tree, but I’ll get to that after the photos :-).
Hmmm what is it, can i eat it?
Dad where are you going with my new toy?
My son, Riley proceeded to giggle at me as I fluffed out the fake leaves and rearranged the branches. Riley and his father then just sat and watched me decorate the tree.
Hmmm what is it?
Can I have it?
Hmmm now what should I do with it?
Can I eat it?
Yep! gunna try and eat it!
First Christmas
(this is the ornament Riley tried to eat while I was trying to get a photo of him with it)
My tree & table decorations – while these are probably not as fancy as some of you have and I only decorate one room in my house, the dining room. When I lived at home we only decorated one room, the living room and this tree is the very tree that my grandmother and I would decorate every year with mostly the very same decorations. I’m about to turn 27 so the tree has to be at least twenty five years old (ish) and I love it, I look at it and I’m ten years old again, I look at it and I’m home. It still has a few of the same wooden ornaments I played with as a kid. I can remember going into Grace Brothers with my mother and buying a new angel for the top and I still use her today. About three years ago I inherited this tree and with it a box of old decorations from my mother.
Now back to the decorating ritual – as i remember it – on the first of December every year my Nanma (my maternal grandmother) would come over and we would decorate the tree, mum was doing who knows what at the time, but Nanma and I would decorate the tree and I loved it. I am not sure why or how it started, but i always looked forward to decorating this tree, and i know it was the doing it with my grandmother part that made it fun, cause it’s kinda stressful on your own. This year I did it myself with Riley watching on (OK my husband put the actual tree bit together for me), but I’m thinking next year I’m going to make my mother come over and decorate it with Riley while I go drink some wine and she and he can carry on the tradition.
I am very much looking forward to this Christmas and i hope i can instill in my son my love for Christmas, the real Christmas, being with family and friends and celebrating being together!
RIOT’S REDEMPTION 