GREAT BOOKS!

There are so many great books out there it would be impossible for me to choose my favorites. So I have decided to share with you a selection of books I have read and that for one reason or another have stayed with me and I will never forget. 

THE RAMBLINGS OF A MAD WOMAN (3)

I've just spent the past three hours and thirty minutes talking to my oldest and bestest friend on skype.  We discussed a variety of subjects from raising kids, to starting our own business to men! Its always so great to talk so freely with a friend, especially one who understands you and know's exactly were you are coming from. 


This particular friend I met when I was sixteen years old so I have known her now for oh lets, many years! I used to take care of her younger sister when I worked in her parents home as an Au pair girl. We lost touch for a while when I left her parents home, but she found me again a few years later and I'm really glad she did, coz she's the best. 


Taris is a very unusual name but for an extremely unique person, who holds a special place in my heart. I can talk to her about anything and I hope she knows she can do the same. She was there when my daughter Chynna was born, literally held my hand through the entire labor process and cut the cord, while getting splattered with blood and Ugh, whatever else came out of there!  We shared a flat for quite a few years and had lots of laughs, shared many a dream and dilemma and many sweets from the "Black Box"  not to mention the odd glass of wine and many cigarettes. 


I have many great memories of Taris and her daughter Valeska and I was recently lucky enough to meet her second daughter Joleen.  A real gem, such a happy go lucky kid, with a smile as bright as the sun and cheery disposition, a little cheeky but that just adds to her charm. I hope Chynna will meet her someday coz I`m sure she will find her as entertaining as I did!  It was so great spending time with them at Christmas and I hope we will see them again very soon. Fingers crossed for June!

RAMBLINGS OF A MAD WOMAN (2) 

Wake up at 8.00am jump of out bed an turn on the heat, crawl back in to bed until the heat kicks in.  As I lay there, I think about my day and what lies ahead.  Breakfast, gym, work. That's it, then once the work is done and the sun goes down and here I sit alone and bored. The only company I have is my nineteen year old daughter pinging me on skype now and again. My life seems so sad and lonely, that it makes me wonder what I did wrong, which path did I go down that wasn't the right one, why am I alone?  why do I not have friends, why am I sitting around asking myself these questions rather than doing something about it all?

Who knows, but at the moment I'm questioning all my decisions and playing what if? What if I hadn't left Gran Canaria? What if I had left and gone to Germany instead? What if I had never left Venezuela? Can't keep doing the "what if's" coz its getting me nowhere fast. Even signed up to dating websites but I don't really get any messages from anyone interesting, most of my messages are from fella's who are missing front teeth and I am rather partial to a full set of teeth! The others look like my Dad!. Not that there is anything wrong with the way my Daad looks, I just don't wanna date him.

Out of pure boredom I start to watch The OC for about the sixth time, and find myself engrossed in each of the Characters, I get caught up in the bitchiness of Summer, and the weird if not likable escapades of Seth, Marissa is just incredibly annoying while Ryan is a rebel without a cause.  Actually sitting here crying at the last episode of the first season, when Ryan decides to go back to Chino to help Theresa coz she´s pregnant. Kirsten is so affected by his departure that she breaks down, which in turn makes me cry like a baby - over a freakin TV show. What is wrong with me?  I really need to find something else to do with my life.  Any how I'm still gonna watch the last episode of The OC now, might as well since I'm  already sobbing like a Rachel Crowe when she got kicked off the X Factor, yes yet another TV show I'm addicted too!