Reasons To Be Cheerful...it's a double!

I didn't get chance to join in with Michelle at Mummy From The Heart and her lovely 'Reasons To Be Cheerful' link up.  So, I'm being extra cheerful this week to make up for it but as it happens Michelle has encouraged everyone to be more cheerful = result!  I'm also being extra cheerful as I'm going to do my first link up with Maxabella Loves on the other side of the world.  I love finding new blogs to read so it's a chance to hop around about 'down under'.

1. I love my new 'job'
I say job but it's not really as it's volunteer work. I'm now volunteering at a local Save The Children shop. If you haven't already read it, you should have a little read of my post from earlier this week called 'Born To Volunteer'. It's something I've always wanted to do but always used the 'I don't have the time' line. Well, I find my days are filled to the brim but I've managed to squeeze in some time and do you know what? I love it!

2. It's my daughters 2nd birthday next Friday
I can't believe that 2 years ago on the 11th March she entered this world.  She is growing up so fast it's untrue!  I am loving my time with her right now - she's really starting to talk properly and it's amazing to watch and my husband and I love having little conversations with her about her day.  She was diagnosed with childhood asthma on Thursday, poor little love, so has to have an inhaler before she goes to bed but she's been great with it.  In 6 months time she'll be starting play school.  Where is the time going?

3. My husband has some time off work coming up
He's off the day of my daughters birthday and he's also off the following week.  We have lots of treats and days out planned and I can't wait.  Just hoping he's fit enough to manage it with his ankle injury.

4. I went to the cinema
I can't actually remember the last time before that I went to the cinema it was that long ago.  I went last night with my best friend and we had a really nice time - especially as we went for a meal first too. My friend picked the film called 'No Strings Attached' which was about 'f*ck buddies'. All I knew before we went was it had Ashton Kutcher in it - nothing like a bit of naked eye candy on a Friday night if you ask me!

5. Spring is definitely in the air
It's finally March.  We are through the dull and cold months of January and February.  We are through the lull after Christmas where we all feel like we've eaten too much and are on the come-down after the festivities.  The snowdrops and daffs are blooming, the sun is shining and everything feels so much better!

6. Bloggy reasons
I was approached by a small company to host an advert or run a giveaway on Tuesday.  It's not what I started this blog for but it's nice to get recognition that my blog is being read and enjoyed.  Also, I updated my blog banner.  I know it's not exactly a reason to be cheerful but it made me a little happy on Wednesday night when I did it.  The one I had up before was thrown together in 5 minutes when I first started blogging at the beginning of the year.  This one is much better - and it took me 20 minutes, so worth the extra effort haha!  The photo of my daughter and I on the right was taken by one of my closest friends who runs Claire Penn Photography.  Oh and Lady Estrogen also wrote a funny guest post for me which I posted up yesterday...if you haven't read it then have a little look here and go check her out, she's fab!


What are your reasons to be cheerful/thankful this week?  Join in the hops and make new friends...

A Little Something For The Weekend Perhaps? Guest Post by Lady Estrogen

Put it quite simply, Lady Estrogen rocks!  She writes the most amazingly open and fabulous blog Adventures In Estrogen which I thought I needed to introduce to you.  I know a couple of you have also found her but I feel the need to spread the word which is why I asked her if she wanted to write a guest post for my blog.

I only asked her last weekend and within 2 days she'd sent it to me.  See, I told you she rocks!  She tells the most amazing stories so I was excited to see what she'd come up with.

I think I stumbled across Lady Estrogen as we were both tagged in some awful meme back in January.  We got talking on Twitter and our online friendship really hit it off when we both realised our love for the film Heathers.  I uncovered the truth on her meme and she posted me this cool t-shirt which I now rock!

She's the mother of twins but her blog isn't the traditional 'mummy blog' that you'll see - her blog is her time, her experiences, her issues and her bitching.  Her blog strapline is "Bring It. Bitch It. Blog It".  Perfect!

So, without further ado, I bring you the fabulous Lady Estrogen...

The Whale & the Mopey Dick

When I took the pregnancy test (probably too early than I should have), that little line came up fast and bright; BAHM!

OK. Definitely pregnant.

At the ultrasound appointment the woman was taking her sweet ass time.

I joked, “How many are in there?”

She looked up at me and very as-a-matter-of-factly replied, “Two.”

From the moment we found out they were twins, my husband was petrified and his nuts retracted so far up himself I would have needed a fishing pole to fetch them out. He didn’t want to touch me, let alone have sex. I kept telling him that it was OK and I would repeatedly show him literature about it, but he didn’t care. His constant excuse: “I don’t want to knock them loose!”

The conundrum was that the bigger I got, the hornier I got and the hornier I got, the more terrified my husband got. Usually, I would just take care of my own business, as I had gotten accustomed  to doing because I married someone with 1/10 the sex drive as myself. Here’s the catch though... I was too big to even get myself off. I couldn’t reach; I was a fucking whale! I had to take a shower every time I went to the bathroom for Christ’s sake, so the idea of playing with myself was a physical impossibility. It was ridiculous.

Night after night I went to bed uncomfortable AND unfulfilled; it sucked.

Remember the scene from Ghostbusters when Dana Barrett was possessed and was completely restless and horny on her bed? Oh ya, that was me! Well, maybe not as smouldering hot, but you get the idea. A few times I had even tried to take hubby by force, but his mopey dick had appeared to have joined his terrified testicles, all three sulking and hiding together.

The detachable shower head was my only solace.

I named him Sven.