Man alive I’m tired
I am sat here on a Sunday night, considerably bushwacked. In my quest to have a weekend with “nothing” to do, I seem to be constantly on the go. This weekend has been no exception, but I am getting ahead of myself. Lets go back to Thursday.
On Thursday the Skills Funding Agency finally announced who had been the contract to run Community Grants 11-13. GMCVO, i.e. me, ran it in 2008-10, so we were fairly certain we would get it again. We didn’t. I was GUTTED. Gutted for many reasons, but mainly because it went to some global company called Tribal, who’s interest in local Charities isn’t their 1st priority. Not great for the sector, for the groups involved, for GMCVO and for myself. Not a great day.
My day got worse though. On the way home, I called into my mum’s to see my nieces, only to find out that my little sis was in hospital with chest pains. She has a pacemaker and it’s been giving her some grief… she’s fine thankfully, but we were all worried there for a minute. Plus I found myself getting both girls ready for bed, which takes a HUGE amount of energy and patience. phew
As if it wasn’t bad enough, I then spent all day in A&E with my Gran who is now 89 and has been having coughy/chest/dizzy problems for a couple of weeks. She has a habit of, let’s say, over estimating her ailments, but it turns out this time, she could have been onto something. She was admitted to Whiston Hospital with a suspected blood clot on her lungs, which is where she is right now awaiting an MRI scan.
I slept OK last night, but for some reason my body woke me up at 7:00am this morning and I couldn’t get back to sleep… 
Which was no bad thing really, as today was the Manchester 10k and even though I wasn’t running, Moochy was and so we had to leave around 9:3oam.
The weather was a bit cold and drizzly in Manchester, but I got a good spec near the end and Moochy was really pleased with his time of 57 minutes, 15 seconds. I was SOOOOO pleased for him as he’s not really done specific 10k training, just SHINE training. He’s my hero. xx
Then after watching Moochy in Manchester, we came home, he had a quick bath and then we went straight out to Whiston again to see Gran for an hour. She seemed fine…. thankfully, which brings us back around again to Sunday night. Tired.
Next weekend we don’t have anthing planned *crosses fingers*. So lets hope we can keep it this way. xx Phew.
Wayne Rooney: Spotted
Good Food Day
Now as a co-opted Liverpool Football Club fan (Moochy is and ardent fan), I would never have thought any blog of mine would have a Man U player in it! (It’s a loyalty thing). But I work just outside Manchester city centre and tonight, whilst stuck in traffic on the Mancunian way, I realised the car waiting right at the side of me was being driven by Wayne Rooney! I was asked later on if I waved at him, and whilst I should have given him the 1 fingered salute, I actually just completely ignored him… I mean, it’s not like it was George Clooney or anything?!
But back to this morning, it was my turn to walk Peggy dog and so I decided to go for my miCoach runwalk and combine the two. However, to quote Craig Revel Horwood, “It was a DISARRRSTER darling”. Peggy dog didnt want to run and just wanted to wee and poo every 2 minutes and we had to keep stopping, the whole program was only 30 minutes so it was a struggle to fully get going. Also, to add insult to injury, right at the end, some guy in a car waved for me to cross the road, then decided to go anyway. My first instinct was to apologise, but then he proceeded to go mad at me through the window. 
What a n*b.
Anyway, food today has been good and I seem to have re-discovered fruit!
My thought for the day was “Food is not the answer”…….xxx
P.S OH MY GOD, I nearly forgot to tell you, I entered the Manchester 10k today!!!!! Bring it on!!!!!
