Random bits and pieces

1. The boy's Irish and it just happens that I lived with a Scottish guy for 3 1/2 years and I learnt a lot of Irish songs when I was doing my classical training. So you can imagine what our neighbours think when they suddenly hear Danny Boy, Loch Lomond and Scotland the Brave belted out impulsively as duets, as the mood arises. Next stop is the local Irish pub to go humiliate ourselves in public...

2. Driving back from the supermarket today, something caught my attention. A guy was standing just outside his fence, on the footpath, watching something. Normal so far....but the fact that it was raining, he was hugely overweight and only had on a pair of shorts, had shaving cream on his face, a razor in his hand and had half shaved his beard, disturbed me somewhat.... I didn't even see what he was looking at...

3. At the bbq yesterday, there was a little six year old girl in a wheelchair. She has a disease (the name of which stupidly escapes me right now), and is not able to really communicate at all. But later into the night, the music went on and the volume went up. And I got to see the most amazing thing. This little girl (who was so unbelievably pretty) started singing out loud to Suzi Quattro. She knew all the words to all the song. Her eyes lit up and she was just so happy to be there in that moment. Made me realise it's the little things that can make a difference to someone...and made me grateful for so many things...

4. Being healthy is damn expensive. I spent $203 on groceries - healthy food - no chocolate, sweets, anything. See: no comfort food to help me get over the fact that I spent so much money and didn't bring home anything fun...