The optimism of spring.

I like spring for many reasons; not only is it my birthday and that of many of my nearest and dearest but I love the uncertainty of it. You don’t know if you’ll get snow or, like in the case of the past five days, glorious sunshine. Birds sing and flowers play gambles with their lives whether to push through early or late. Lambs skip around the green patch work fields, whilst three weeks later, all you carnivores will be digesting baby lamb with a side of greens and jersey royals.

Spring is fun, the uncertainty and avid anticipation to when you should change your wardrobe over, personally gets me every year (and I get it wrong every year) Is it time for the big knits to become outer wear rather than an extra layer underneath your duffel coat. Can you get away with flipflopping down the high street or is it still darn on the knee high boots and 90 denier tights?

Christmas is meant to be the time of fun, family and friends but I disagree, it’s spring. Christmas is the one time every year that you don’t want to be single. Even if you’re a happy singleton that relishes the anti-valentine’s massacre, when Santa and his elves appear – it’s a time to get ready to justify your existence. When in the past, feeling down about my love life and having no attention from the opposite sex for months on end, my mum always reassured me, just wait for spring – the boys will be out and wanting to play and meet girls again. And I have to say, in the past she’s always been right yet this does leave you with a sense of paranoia that it’s just mother nature playing with your heart and there’s nothing you can do about the fact that when the dark nights come round again and Christmas once again peeks its fake-fully-joyous head, you’ll be single again- sat on the children’s table at Christmas dinners and so on and so forth. But this again, makes spring exciting – its uncertainty that may be that Mr. March, April or May could in fact last a full year of seasons and not to mention a summer of fun. Spring is the run up, the practice, the getting ready for the summer, which, let’s face it, in weather terms is going to be a disappointment – not like spring! So i shout for spring! One for the lovin’ of all things uncertain!

But as I get older, I have to say, the one thing I do miss about spring is Easter bonnets and egg rolling… anyone game?

Word to the Wise

Wow, it’s been well over a year since I last posted and I hope you’re all well.
What can I say, it’s been a crazy 12 months and thanks to a number of friends nagging, 20somethingmelodrama is back for its last two years. Yes, that’s right, two years before your dear author turns 30. So moving away from the depressing stuff, I thought I’d take the advice and motivation I’ve received from my nearest and dearest and get writing again. One piece of advice I’d had is not to write as much, so expect shorter but hopefully more frequent postings.
Where to start? Well without giving a rundown of my yearly events, I’ll continue where I left off or sort of.

I remember writing and ranting about women in trainers and I hate to say it but I’ve become one of them. A good friend at work called these females that wear offensive foot wear, “working girls”! How times have changed and meanings developed. I can openly say that I’m now a ‘working girl’, in a non-whorish fashion, although, yes, you at the back of the class, I hear you snigger- “perfect definition more like it”.( Yet, I will point out mine is for purely medical purposes and not laziness.) Which I guess, means, I’m a hypocrite or that I should be more understanding but alas no, I still stare and glare at the feet of those wearing what only can be described as gym wear below their ankles. So woman of North London, if you see a blonde lass, hidden under a black hat, wearing pink and white trainers, staring at your feet, it’s not out of admiration!

Groupon/LivingSocial etc
One thing that has definitely changed and started to invade the lives of us girlies (and boys) is voucher websites; from Money Saving Expert to sites such as Living Social and Groupon, the flight of fancy surrounding such HTML holdings is everywhere. I may be one of the last to catch on and albeit I’ve not purchased anything off one yet the excitement of work colleagues in my building is beyond immense especially when they start shouting “I’ve won”– it’s the same thing that happens with bidding on ebay; do you all not realise you have to pay for these things? Well on this bandwagon I’ve sort of jumped and forwarded the below to my housemate today – is it me or does the bit about a cup of herbal tea sound somewhat patronising?
http://livingsocial.com/deals/30573-one-hour-float-tank-experience?msdc_id=509

Well, I’m going to leave it there – I promise these blogs will become more fun filled and full of drama; don’t get me wrong there’s plenty I could write but as I mentioned earlier, I’m keeping them short and frequent. So I’m going to go and stop my housemate from kicking in the washer machine door and make haste to the land of nod!!


My close friends always say my life's like a soap opera, well now it's a blog that I hope you all enjoy reading and contributing too. It would be great if we could turn this into a ranting site for everyone, not just me! Remember just because we're 20something doesn't mean we're really that much wiser than when we went through all this in our teens- LOL! Just have jobs and are in debt! Please pass this on to other people and join my facebook group!
Love and blessings
Rae x