PurpleRamblings Project 365

Happy New Year!!

I'm late I know, but i've been busy...

I should've written this post 5 days ago when I started my Project 365, but I didn't so sue me... :-p

A friend of mine sold me on the idea. 

She completed her Project 365 for 2011 and throughout the course of this year I have taken great pleasure in following her ups and downs through a series of images, photographs and quotes. 

So decided to give it a go. I started mine on 1st Jan and hope that at least one person will find it as interesting as I found hers.

There is a link to the right handside of this blog or the url if you want to follow is
http://prproject365.blogspot.com/

This blog will continue as it always has being updated as and when I am grabbed by the urge to blog.


PurpleRamblings Project 365 will be updated daily :-)


PR xx

Thoughtless Thursday...

Loads of people in my cyberworld were complaining about today being Thursday and not Friday and how annoying and pointless Thursday was and it inspired me to write this...

Thoughtless Thursday, why are you here? Nobody likes you and nobody cares.

Third-Rate Thursday you're just in the way, 24 hours of an unwanted day.

Trivial Thursday I can't make you out, what is your purpose, you've come with no clout.

Towering Thursday, standing in the way, blocking Friday, causing Saturday further delay.

Torturous Thursday your hours drag by between Wednesday and Friday you're so frigging dry!

School Shoe Situation...

Blogging on the go again, but the trauma of this morning has been too much!

I can't be the first parent traumatised by the navy, black, grey colourless transition from nursery/every day clothes to school uniform... Can I?

I'm having a serious melt down over here!! I can't cope with the fact that from now until FOREVER (ok, not forever but she'll be at school for a long time) my unsuspecting 5 year old will be forced to enter the realms of the NAVY BLUE EVERYTHING against my better judgement...

Friends and family have grown tired of my endless questions and suggestions regarding shoe colour, coat colour and socks/tights colour, the only things not stipulated on the uniform list as having to be blue, grey, black.

Me: Purple kickers? They have Velcro...
Them: NO!!
Me: Shoes with flashing lights at the bottom...? They're black...
Them: NO!!
Me: Striped tights...? They have blue and grey stripes...
Them: NO!!
Me: Red Mary Janes...? They're very sensible...

You can guess what they said. And on and on it went... I was even told mini-me would be bullied as she would stand out from the other children in her brightly coloured shoes. What happened to being individual?!! I despair :'(

You may remember me having a similar breakdown a few years back regarding the "fairy throw up" that are Lelli Kelli's, I'd give my right arm for her to be able to wear them to school now. Actually maybe my left arm, I don't use it as much.

Why so dramatic I hear you wonder...? Because I am!! Lol. No that's not true I'm not usually quite so dramatic, passionate maybe, but this has pushed me over the edge, people around me are shocked, confused, nervous... I can see it in their eyes, the concern that there could be more to this, that my mental health may actually be questionable right now. That they may have to call for back-up... LMAO!!

Ok, Ok, the drama got the best of me.

The long and short of it is this, I like colour, I think children should be dressed colourfully. They have the rest of their working, office lives to be dressed in black, blue, grey... Why start at 5?!!!!

*sobs uncontrollably*

Brands In Your Bag... SS

Another chance for a sneak peak in someone else's bag...

My analysis: "Firstly this Lady must carry a pretty small bag as her content is tiny.

It suggests that she is a very no frills kind of person who doesn't have time for

frivolity and unnecessary extras.

Music, hygiene and organisation seem important to her as her diary, pen, iPod and antibacterial gel

are the only non-essentials she bothers to carry.

She has Hayfever and travels on public transport"

What do you make of this Lady from her bag contents...?

Brands In Your Bag... RR

Ever wanted to see what was in someone else's bag...? Here's your chance...

My analysis: "Stylish lady - Mulberry, Cartier, Bourjois, Menthol Marlboro's

Appearance is important - Quantity of make-up

Slightly quirky - Purple heart keyring

A little unorganised - Absence of make-up bag"

Care to guess at the character of this lady from the contents of her handbag?

Age? Job? Starsign?

Do you know which logo belongs to which item?

Brands In Your Bag...

Yesterday I began reading "Logo Design Love" by David Airey and was so inspired by the first page where he wrote about how many logo's he'd seen in the first 30 minutes of his day that I took a quick look at my desk and noted that there were about 15. From my box of Twinings teabags to my Apple Mac desktop.

It sparked an idea and I posted this to my Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger...

"Wanna be part of my Brands in your Bag blog post? Empty ur bag, take a pic of the logos/brands inside send to me & I'll post to my blog"

I had no idea so many people would be interested... I even had a couple of guys... This morning I have had people asking if i'm still doing it, as they wanted to add their pics.

So i'm starting with mine and will continue adding the others daily until they stop coming. With either Twitter/Facebook link to who it belongs to or 'anon' if they don't wish to be identified.

I knew my bag was always quite heavy, but didn't realise I had so much in it... And this wasn't even everything!

I had 28 brands in total, 29 if you include my Blackberry that I was using to take the pics.

So what do the contents of bag say about me? This is my take...

"A stylish person - Mulberry, Elizabeth Arden, Paperchase, Stylist, Apple

Has a great concern for personal hygiene and her nails - Impulse, Bodyshop, Dettol, Rimmel, No7

Has an unhealthy fixation on purple pens - Uni-Ball, Pilot, Parker

Likes to eat - Busaba, Walkers, Sainsburys Taste the Difference, Cadbury

Keeps her lips moisturised - Rose&Co, Vaseline

Drives - VW, DVLA"

Obviously pretty accurate as i'm writing about myself, but what's your take?

Ish-Shoes Part 2...

Today one of my nearest and dearest quite innocently asked to borrow a pair of shoes...

Not a big deal, people do it all the time... Right?

She sent the request in a bb message and my automatic response was "of course, which ones?"

So why didn't I type that? I didn't type anything... I went into a state of panic and just stared at the message getting hotter and hotter, while my train of thought became more and more random and increasingly erratic.

Hundreds of 'what if's?' dive bombed me, accompanied by images of scuffed suede, red wine stains, shoe prints, broken heels, fraying laces and other such trauma. Things that were totally out of her control and could happen while I was out in said shoes, attacked my subconscious. A sense of fear and dread settled around me and it was all I could do not to burst into tears. I thought of reasons I couldn't lend them, athlete's foot, verucca's... None of which I have I hasten to add.

I became a tortured Gollum/Smeagol character... Battling it out with myself.

"She can borrow my shoes... Of course she can..."

"No she can't... She really can't..."

"Why can't she? They're just shoes"

"They're aren't just shoes... No way, no lending"

"Of course she can..."

"She can't, she really can't, I want to let her but I can't"

"It'll be fine she can borrow the shoes"

"No I can't do it, I can't lend her my shoes"

I readily lend clothing, money, car, even on occasion mini-me and had obviously thought shoe lending would come with the same ease... Obviously not... I began to run through other pairs of shoes and then other friends, to see if the fear was shoe or person specific. Turns out it isn't. It applies to all shoes and all people...

Remember Joey in Friends shouting "Joey doesn't share food!!"

Well it turns out that PURPLERAMBLINGS DOESN'T SHARE SHOES!!

Sorry.... I'm shame faced and embarrassed, but at least it's out there and everyone knows now...

But I can't be the only one can I? Do you panic over the thought of lending shoes to friends? Or do you hand them over without a second thought?

Oh well... Just another notch to be added to my crazy lady in purple belt, one step closer every day...

Here is the offending article.