What Not To Worry About #28

Happy Wednesday friends! Well, at least let’s try to keep happy when we’re faced with this too-Autumn-for-words weather which is showing no signs of feckin’ off anytime soon. In the face of endless grey clouds I am focusing on a few things that I have coming up in the next few weeks to keep my spirits up. Sometimes summer in Ireland means planning lots of fun things to distract ourselves from the fact that we barely get a summer at all (which I think I have mastered)! Last weekend was a little more relaxed than I had planned with the rain on Saturday dampening my hopes of attending the outdoor festival in Belfast. I fear that I have lost the bravery of my youth because I just can’t summon the courage to don wellies and get amongst it despite the rain. Cosiness far outweighs shivering underneath a brolly! Instead I nursed a hangover from my work night out on Friday with plenty of sugar (there goes the diet I was supposed to start in July) and went to visit my little sister who was supposed to be staying with me at the weekend but is annoyingly back in for a stint in the hospital (she's a trooper). It's never easy when Shan has to go in because she is being constantly poked and prodded and never gets a break. Anyone who has either been a patient or has visited someone in hospital understands how frustrating this can be especially when you're so exhausted that all you want is to be able to sleep the night through. What is nice is being able to see plenty of her and she has my house to escape to if she ever wants a bath or wants to eat something that doesn't look like it was scooped from a compost bin. So we shall be looking at the positives this week despite our circumstances (and this crappy weather) and on that note, here are the things I am choosing not to worry about this week... Drunk Alex Drunk Alex can be a lot of fun. She loves to dance, loves to meet new people and usually buys some tasty food on the way home. But these are the things I highly dislike about Drunk Alex:

• She uses all her cash to buy shots for all her new mates (that she will never meet again) and leaves none for the taxi home
• In her hope to find coins she will destroy her handbag and leave the remnants everywhere on the step of the house
• She never remembers to put a glass of water by the bed
• She thinks it's a good idea to buy a full Victorian sponge cake from the shop on the way home
• She adds all her new mates on Facebook who she can never bring herself to delete

But all of these things are usually forgotten within 5 days because the scamp is too damn fun to keep away for too long. Using cotton ear buds I am always terrified of slipping and jamming the thing through my brain. It's a realistic fear. Killing my plants with too much love I over-water because I care too much. I need to just chill and let my herb garden be! People who talk in the cinema I feel like such an old lady but I paid good money for the movie (I actually only go to the cinema on cheap Tuesdays so I don't pay really good money) and I should be allowed to eat my popcorn (usually smuggled in) in goddamn peace. Never using my glasses case My glasses are scratched to pieces and I have all the good intentions of being an adult and using my case but instead I fire them in to my handbag with shrapnel and old inhalers. I will never not be that kind of adult. That's the round-up for this week folks - have a great one!