But Muuuum, I'm Bored!!!.....

Monkey boy is spinning around and around, he's been doing it for about half an hour now, intermittent falling down from dizziness allowed. It makes him perfectly happy (well, he is 2) as does stamping his feet, shouting nonsense, pointing and other seemingly simple things.

It got me thinking about entertainment. We seem to need it more and more, and more and more of it. Ipads, iPods, iEverything, X-Box, everything seems to be preceded by a letter, and we need it all!! Right?? Well no, not for anything life sustaining, like breathing, but I think a little dependence is creeping in here and there. I couldn't manage without my digital + on the tv now, even though I've only had it a few months. I like having permission to get up and pee whenever suits without having to wait until the ads come on, no jigs being danced in my living room any more.

I've had a little hint that I might be getting one of those smartarse phones for Christmas. You know, the ones that get you up in the morning with a nice cup of tea and tell you you're the fairest of them all. There's an app for that right?? I do need a new phone, mine gets the hump with my friends and hangs up on them on a regular basis. It also has an odd habit of dropping half of my text message and adding another bit it found somewhere in an old text I wrote. It doesn't tell me about this change, it just sends off this Frankenstein's monster of a message to some poor unfortunate who has to work out what the hell I'm talking about and if I really need them to pick up some marmalade at the zoo next Tuesday!!

I don't know if I really need a phone that's a camera, mp3 player, browser, facebooking, tea making machine, but I bloody want one!! If even just for the pinching photos thing!! Any amount of pointless apps, silly games and constant(er) contact with the unsuspecting outside world will soon be mine!!! While I wait I guess I may as well do some spinning around with my son. Entertain me!!!!!!

42 Things

You've probably heard of the website 43things.com. The idea is that you make a list of 43 things that you want to do or accomplish, you can comment on other people's lists and pinch their ideas if you don't have any of your own. I had a list of my own once, but I left it and forgot the login. I wonder how many threads of myself I've left floating around the world wide web, half finished, but that's a blog post for another day.

I thought I might do my own 43 things type idea now and then on the blog, mostly because I love making lists, at least ones like these. However, as a huge Hitchhikers fan I think I'll do 42 things instead (happy little nerd moments may also be a regular feature) So I'll start with the same theme as my inspiration...

42 things I need to get done:

1. Learn to drive - Anyone who's seen me play Mario Kart will warn you of the dangers there.

2. Potty train Monkey Boy - That will be messy!!

3. Finish making my little studio I've been promising myself for years.

4. Learn a language, any language, just to prove to myself that I can.

5. Finish all the niggly bits of DIY we never got done in our lovely concrete box.

6. Write more, poetry, prose, interesting blog posts...!!

7. Learn to sew, properly, with a machine, my poor children in their trousers made from curtains!!

8. Quit smoking, for good this time, for health reasons, and so my mum doesn't find out I didn't quit for good last time!!

9. Get back to reading a book a week, or so, like I used to. The reading pile is getting topply!!

10. Stop having ridiculous ideas like writing blog posts with really long unfinishable lists in them!!

11. Actually get paid for writing something, I seem to spend a lot of time writing things I'll never get paid for, and I love it, so I must find a way to make money from it. All ideas welcome!!

12. Figure out this whole career business, before my career break ends and I end up just going back to work in the same soulless pit.

13. Join something and get really into it, I need a hobby, like apart from facebook!!

14. Get back to volunteering somewhere, the payment is always more than you could imagine.

15. Either go to college or start a distance learning course, in psychology I think, seeing as that's my main area of interest.

16. See people, in real life, who I talk to on the internet all the time.

17. Visit my family more often, they're old you know!! 

18. Turn my bedroom into a boudoir of ill-repute, or at least do it up so it's less boring!!

19. Learn more about loads of things I'm interested in, history, science, space, politics, art, and heaps more.

20. Go to the cinema more often, we rarely go these days because Monkey Boy would only sing or climb people or something. There's such a difference though, between seeing a movie on the big screen or at home.

21. Half way there and regretting starting, so finish this bleedin list!!

22. Go to Sligo!! I've been promising a friend of mine for years that I'd visit him. I went there once, years ago, I think the rain and the lack of roads put me off!!

23. Find some confidence in my own abilities, for example, when I write something I have to show it to Hubby or Snappy before I can post it or send it off.

24. Talk to my dad, it's not that we don't speak, we do, but we never talk if you know what I mean. I'd really like to sit down with him and really talk, there are so many things we don't say, I don't want it to be too late...

25. Do up my family tree, and find out who all the old dears in my mums photo albums are, she learned all this stuff off and so should I really, mostly so I can force it on Smarty Pants when she's older!!

26. Find a way to sort out my poor sick head, without pills and all that, just so I don't carry on the legacy of ridiculously nervous women in my family, and so I can be free!!

27. Get a dictaphone and keep it in the bathroom!! I have all my best ideas in there and then forget them!!

28. Cook more than the 5 or 6 things I cook now, I am good at it, just not so adventurous these days.

29. Learn to do maths again. God I hate maths, I hated it in school and that's never changed, my brain doesn't do sums the way other people's brains do. But Smarty Pants has inherited my inability to long divide and this must be remedied!!

30. Stop reading the news, well no, maybe not, it is good to be informed but it makes my blood boil to a point where I'm sure it can't be good for me!!

31. Have more "me" time, I tried to have Me Fridays, I did 2 and then they just didn't work out any more, but I need to try harder, and get Hubby to have Hubby days too, we all need a break sometimes.

32. Sort out my old email accounts, does anyone else do that, subscribe to things using an old email address in case it's spammy and then never check them? I think I have 3000+ in my Yahoo account last check, maybe a Nigerian prince has some money for me, or I won the Austrian lotto, who knows!!

33. Travel!! Ok, I know everyone says that, but 'cause of the poverty I am probably the least travelled person I know.

34. Get rich so I can fulfil number 33!!

35. Get a routine, since I went on my career break I'm all over the place, I always said I would try to treat the housework and stuff as my job, but I have a terrible habit of putting it all off until the evening when I'm most tired. I should be fired really!!

36. Get healthy. Now, not bean and lentils Gillian McKeith healthy, I don't want to look like Skeletor any more than anyone else does!! I just used to be healthy, and fit, and not half dead!!

37. Be rebellious again!! I used to be a terrible rebel, if you told me to go left I'd go right, just to spite you!! I know mostly it's a pain in the ass for everyone else but I'd love to get that little spark back, for the rush!!

38. Play more!! With my kids, and just in general. There never seems to be enough time in the day, and I never seem to have enough arms to do everything I want to. I want to have time to play chess with Smarty Pants, matching animals with Monkey Boy and Follow the Van with Hubby ;)

39. Go to more markets and silly little itty bitty shops. I used to spend every Sunday wandering around Dublin's markets, and every Sunday evening recovering in the pub. I think those kind of places will become more popular again now that everyone's broke.

40. Learn Reiki. I don't normally go in for hippy kind of things, at least not too much, but I have experienced Reiki first hand and it really is amazing. I would love to be able to do it, even just for my kids and maybe my mum.

41. Spend more couply time with Hubby, we never go out or do anything together any more. This is mostly due to the fact that no one is able for looking after Monkey Boy, he is a bit of a handful. Maybe we should start having date nights in the house, "Hi, do you come here often..." Hmmm maybe not.

42. Stop typing ridiculously long blog posts and get on with the bloody hoovering, ah well, life goes on....