Ok, so the weather has turned.

They say that locally, it will be storms and lots of thunder tonight.

This can only mean two things....

1 - the boys will stay in all night and look at me with heavy blame in their eyes as they don't do "out in the rain".

2 - the Wii will be revealed and now, armed with my pickaxe, the weekend marathon will start.

I have planned it to the degree that I will be having my evening meal at about 9ish so that it will eek the energy levels out to stay up as late as possible!!!!

I am just so hardcore.

I also have nibbles and vodka....

Oh come on, what else am I going to do in the awful weather to cheer myself up?!!!

If the weather stays dry on Sunday I will be going to a local VW show.

What are you going to do to keep you happy in this weather?

Now it has been a while since I have reported on the tank, and it is worth the wait as I have some exciting news!

Two weekends ago I took everything out of the tank to have a re-design. As I got to the stage of emptying the media out, I spotted 4 tiny sunset platy fry.

I carefully caught them and carried on with the tank refill and new look!

Then I popped the fry back in, gave them chance to hide before I put the remaining old water and original adult fish back in.

Last night, at feeding, I saw an amazing sight…..

There was my only surviving male sunset, next to him was Nemo and by Nemo were 2 of the fry that I had saved during the re-design!

One of them looks above the size of being eaten, but the other one is still a bit smaller!

I went to take a photo and then realized that my camera was missing! I think that I left in my van so I am off to hunt for it tonight and see if I can capture all the sunsets together.

So now I need 2 names for my fry…..

Any suggestions?

I have set a rule.

I must only ever play the Wii at weekends.

Last night, at about 10pm, I thought that maybe I could just get an hours play in before I started to feel tired and wind down for bed.

At 12.45am I knew that I had to put the controller down and stop playing!

It is so addictive.

I am now on a weekend only plan!!!!

I have a game that is a strategy game and I got my pickaxe last night!!!!

I never thought that at nearly 40 I would get addicted to a game on a games console!!! How mad is that?

I have never previously been tempted, but to be honest, I only bought the Wii for the Fit pack.

Mind you, I can see the next winter spent snuggled up and gaming!!!!

Men???? Who needs a man now that I have my 2 silly black cats, my BiOrb full of fish and my Wii!!!!!

This time last year I was nervous about living alone and wondering how I would cope and now, well now I am at peace with myself and how my life is.

I have wanted one since Xmas.

Yesterday I finally got a refund cheque from my gas supplier and I am due a hefty cheque from my Co-Op dividend card.

Today, in a moment of weakness, I called and I am off to collect a WII console at 3pm.

I just could not help myself.

I eventually want to get the WII Fit package.

I am, at this present time, beyond saving.

Looks like sun lounger and voddy during the day and WII at night.

I do have to add that I am actually only spending £40 in real money as my refund cheque covered the rest, hence my justification to buy it!!!!

The Co-Op payment will be here in June and that will pay for my WII for add on thing.

I feel very excited..... and I have seen 4 games that I like!!!!

Oh, this is so glorious in the sun.

Whilst I am stuck in an office, I know that it is sunny outside and that makes me feel good and positive.

On the way in this morning, I went mad and stopped at Homebase and got a cheap sun bed thing.

It is one of those 3 way folding ones. You know the one that if you get the balance all wrong, you land up well and truly tipped!!!!!

It had £6 off in the pre-summer sale, so I bought it. the fact that it is aqua blue, my joint favourite colour, had no bearing on my decision at all!!!

I hope that this weather lasts till Saturday so that I can sit out in my very small back garden with a voddy whilst listening to my ipod.

I also fancy doing loads of garden stuff, but I have run out of special garden refuse sacks and I have now been given my full quota for this year.

Madness, but I can buy a roll of the special bags direct from the council for 33, so I will do that!!!

Oh, I got my van back and it was not anything major or serious so I am happy about that too!!!

In this sun, well, I just do not think that I could have the hump even if I wanted too.

Yesterday I was awoken by the beautiful sunshine coming through my window.

I got up and was wondering what I was going to get up too.

As I pottered about in the bathroom, I heard the tree outside tapping on the window.

In a split moment of madness, I decided to cut the tree down.

I had a saw and how hard could it be???

Well, the first thing that shocked me was the fact that the tree was a lot bigger than it looked.

It shocked me how many branches and leaves and dead fruit there was.

It shocked me how much my shoulders and armed hurt after sawing, and sawing and sawing……

It has made a huge difference and I had loads of sunshine right through until about 3pm yesterday.

It shone on my washing line and it was glorious to have lovely fresh dried washing.

It was worth all the pain and has now set me off on a garden mission…….

The sun certainly makes you feel good and positive eh?!!!

So did you have a lovely weekend?

I feel very at peace.

I feel very content.

I see a light at the end of the tunnel.

I feel excited about a 3 day weekend and having my best mates over for dinner on Saturday.

I feel excited that the sun may shine.

I just feel good in all respects.

As I did not stay sober enough to take any photos at the weeknd, I have managed to find on that someone else took with me in it!!!!

I was a bit squiffy at this point, but I like it!!!

Here is one without me that I feel captures the escemce of the weekend.....