Scandinavian Viking Vampires

Everyone needs some nice eye candy to get them through the working day, I change the little snap I have on my works pinboard whenever I feel like and this week its the actor who plays Eric Northman - Or should I say Eric the owner of Fangtasia, the vampire bar in Bon Temps - still not getting it? well you need to tune in to FX this friday (and every friday for the next 12 weeks) anyway, the actors name is Alexander Skarsgard. I got the little snap from the last page (page 98 if you need to go a searching your recycling bin - go on do it now its on page 98 of The Guide, did i mention its on page 98?) the actor obviously doenst look the same as the character he plays but he is well and 100% fit as some of my class mates used to write on the back of toilet doors in the early 1980's.

I had one of those mad stare moments where you know you are staring but cant seem to move away, a real comfortable stare I call it, oh go on you know what i mean. Anyway in case you dont know that I won a trip to Copenhagen next month, i cant beleive there is anyone in the Manchester area who doesnt know, it suddenly came into my mind, Copenhagan thats Scandinavian, thats where Eric the Vampire originally came from, ok over 1000 years ago, but I am going to be on the look out for any looky liky's whilst meandering through Tivoli Gardens, and the flights are booked with Scandinavian Airways, there is a possiblity that the cabin crewe could be distant relatives of his, the thought has warmed me up more than a chicken and ham greggs pasty i can tell you.

I can let you know what the skands look like, of course with my blonde hair they will think i am a native, till i say in a broad mancunian accent that no one understands “what 19 Kroners for a straddle, I mean struddle?

After all that i will need a lie down in a dark room (with a fit vampire).

Thats all

Mrs Mahooo

A MUM OR A MUG?

I dont want to come over all whingey but I have to say, that way too much of my time either before work, at lunchtime or after work is spent ensuring we have a warburtons thick sliced loaf, barms, and other provisions, now this would be ok if it was just for me and i was the only person available to have to do this, but I am not, i have a more than capable husband, a teenage daughter and a grown up son, 22 this year and it never seems to cross their minds that this responsiblity should be shared accross the family, how did this happen?

My buckaroo theory is that we as mums just keep allowing an extra responsibility to be added, sometimes it is added so carefully we dont realise at the time and six months down the line you job title has changed slightly until eventually it might as well be MUG instead of MUM. Anyway thats what i was thinking tonight as i waited for the met home from town with - a loaf, barms, orange squash, three peppers, and two large Quorn cottage pies, i had them in the oven and hid the wrappers before anyone could protest, of course I didnt fool hubs who very wisely just said " dont ever give me this again, quorn my arse", this was quickly followed by "dont worry i will eat it", i think he saw the shimmer of - am gonna kick yo ass sumbitch ya goddamn betcha ya'll eat it - or something like that. Anyway, the eldest didnt noticed and ate the lot and you know what if he doesnt like it he can join the goddamn circus and leave, I say this as i noticed that those snake hipped odd bodds are in town again, circo soleil i think there called, now i wonder if they eat Quorn.

Also, i made a concerted effort to stop punishing myself, and i cancelled my gym membership, i did have a big fat lie of a reason why if they asked, i was going to say i had to have an operation that may or may not be successful and If it was successful it would take me months to recover from, i even practiced getting my eyes all sad, instead I blurted out " I want to cancel my gym membership, I find it really boring", the look on the superslim gym person was a bit shocked and disgusted really.

I cant tell you how much lighter i feel without that millstone round my neck, now if it could just be conveyed on the scales that would be just fine and dandy

Mahoo

Sweeping Side fringes

I finally did it, I decided I was not only going to grow out my fringe but also get some blonde colour put in, now I find myself looking at every one with a sweeping side fringe and wondering how on earth they manage it, I had the new do last Tuesday so its almost one week, its been a real endurance test, ok I haven’t been hit by a car coming that I didn’t see or anything, but I have to confess to almost getting on the 258 instead of the 256 – a real school girl error. And one you can be forgiven for making if you need your eyes testing but not because you are trying to sport the “sweeping side fringe”. I almost (my stylist needs to ignore this) got the scissors out and hacked myself something, only the thoughts of looking like Garth off Wayne’s world stopped me. More on the sweeping side fringe at a later date, I mean Phil oaky managed it back in the day, were there any long term optical health problems? I note that he now has a skin head, is that to ensure he has full vision? And Hitler, he had a floppy sweeping side fringe no wonder he was always so angry. Don’t you want me baby, don’t you want me whooooa ……………………