The cricket and what happened to him!!!

Well lets see, he kept my Hubby up the next night HAHAHA.............sorry its just normally the man can sleep through anything, and had no sympathy for me when i told him of my cricket saga.....so the next night i hear the dreaded bug singing away for all he was worth, and i hear grumbling, and whining, so i said "well now do you believe me when i say he is LOUD????" so i feel the bed move which means Dh is out of bed and hot on the trail of the dratted bug. So i snuggle down thinking i will hear the "SMACK" of a shoe or rolled up magazine as the pesky annoyance is severely dealt with. The singing is continuing, i can hear Dh staggering around in the dark, the beam of a torch sweeping the room. Then i hear...............................................nothing..............................silence.........................so i'm thinking ahhhhh peace..................and i go to sleep.

So i ask the dh the next day how did you kill the bug so quietly? "Well" says he looking everywhere but at me, "I didn't", so i look at him saying "so what did you do with him??" "well, i put him outside" OUTSIDE?" says i "OUTSIDE?" i am shrieking now cos i know the little devil will be back................"what are you thinking???????????" " you know the little sod will be back and probably bringing his new found family and friends with him...why didn't you flatten him???????????????????" " well" says Dh ( he seems to like that word!) he was singing so nicely i hadn't the heart to flatten him, so i picked him up in a tissue and threw him outside" I think that is when i snorted and told him that if he came back with a whole host of relatives that he had better hope i had taken a sleeping tablet and i couldn't hear him, cos there would be DIRE repercussions!!!!!!!!!!
All has been quite on the cricket in the bedroom front, BUT the cats on the other hand have been having a high old time with them, i have no idea how the bugs get in ( and when i do find the place i am having it sealed)...........anyway, i see the cats all in a circle ( i have 3 of them) looking intently at something........so i ask dh what they are looking at, he mutters something unintelligible and i sigh and get up to go look..............................i shriek and say to dh "oh yuck its a cricket with no legs.......... can't you do something?" well he says no and mutters something else about study and having a test etc..................and can't i do something?.........................i freeze...........................can't I DO SOMETHING?.............................you have to understand that i hate things that crawl, i don't like insects of any kind well ladybirds are an exception, but mostly i am scared to death, unless i have shoe, rolled up paper or the hoover nearby.SO i think ok, i know Dh really does have a test and study to do........so i think i can do this, it has no legs how hard can it be?? so i bravely go and get a tissue and attempt FOUR times to pick this thing up, each time i am so grossed out i can't do it..............so then i steeeeeeel myself...............i pick it up in the tissue....................................................................................................and promptly start shrieking again cos the thing MOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it has no legs but it tried to move anyway and i felt it. I dropped that tissue with legless cricket in it and ran for the hoover, why i didn't do that in the first place i do not know..........i sucked that puppy up, took the compartment with it in and threw it in the rubbish bin............dh meanwhile is laffing so hard that tears are streaming down his face, i am not amused and i tell him so. Meanwhile the 3 cats are peering into the dark through the screen door cos they just know their toy was out there someplace............ some days i hate those cats!

Bad Blogger!!

Oh i am a terrible blogger!!! I can leave it for weeks before i post anything, but then again i'm a boring person so i have nothing to blog about!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blood sucker in my room!!

Ok, i think their may be a mosquito in my bedroom, the last few days i have woken up to find little red spot on my legs and they are itchy, i know its not fleas as i had the cats de-fleaed not too long ago and i'm not allergic to fleas but i am to mozzies.When those little devils bite i get huge welts and they itch like the dickens. So the question is where is the little bugger?? i walked around my room this morning peering up at the ceiling, i will get you, you little sod, oh and i've been sick all week with a fever and a really sore throat so if you sucked my blood i hope it was poisoned!!!!!!!!

Also i am very tired, i have a rain machine in my room to drown out the noises of cars etc. Well last night a bloody cricket chirped for 2 whole hours non stop, well he only stopped when i got up to go to the bathroom and i guess he thought i was coming to batter him......well i got back into bed and he starts up again, so i lay there fuming for about 5 Min's, got up with my torch ( flashlight) and started to hunt the little sod down, so i get to the old disused Gas wall mounted heater and that's where he is hiding, i could swear i heard laughter as i pulled down the little door there to see if i could see him......all the time i am doing this he has stopped that infernal chirping...............but of course i couldn't see him and if if i could have i doubt i could have gotten anything in there to kill him off! So i trudge back to bed and get in, pull the sheet over me and it STARTS AGAIN, that bloody chirping.................i know that little sod waited for me to get back into bed and get comfy so he could start again, he had to be watching me. I forgot to mention that whilst i was looking for him i could here in the not too far distance another one, now i don't know if he was in the house or outside but he was singing away also, so i know he was talking to him. I lay and seethed somemore, half an hour later it STOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh the sheer bliss, all i could here was sweet blessed rain machine..........and then....................my hubby starts snoring...............oh my gosh was i meant to get any sleep tonight?????????

Card for an anniversary

New card...

Newly painted!!!

Afters!!!!.........

Before shots....

We have just finished painting our living room, what a job!! we had horrible wood panelling on one wall and in the hallway. So we decided to paint over it, so we had to fill the grooves and sand it and fill it and sand it! Then we were able to put the base coat "Chocolate Froth" on, boy did it ever lighten that room up, we had a texture paint to put on top of that, "Bellagio Faux" depending on what colour base coat you pick you then get the texture paint to put on top of it. It has small balls of paint in it that you "splat" with a trowel looking thing, we picked the one that had a greyish tint due to the silver metallic paint thats in there....its so pretty it looks like wallpaper. We chose to go with Louvre blinds and get rid of the venetian ones, i hated them anyway!!All in all we are very VERy happy with it, it looks so brigth in there now, all we have to do now is get the carpet!!! Watch this space as they say!!!

More cards..

Just a few cards i made over the last 2 weeks.