After my ‘emo’ post yesterday about how I am feeling sad at the moment, I talked to a girl who knows my future housemates, she has confirmed I’ve nothing much to worry about. Apparently two of them are really cool and one girl, allegedly hit a boy in the face with a stiletto.  We shall be kindred spirits.

I am going to have my keys for my house pretty soon, so I shall decorate it and make it very pretty.  Then I shall never want to leave!

Work! I have decided just to wait and see what happens.  If they do turn around and promote this boy over me, despite all the training I have done, I shall stick my two fingers up in their face, and walk out of the door with my head held high.  I can easily get a much better job, so I don’t know what I am getting so upset over.

Anyway, I am going to try and redesign this site today.  I am fed up of the look of it.  I have had it up for months and I think that it’s too boring and blue.

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Here are six free seamless tiling patterns for you to use in anyway you like. They’re available in mostly blue and purple but you can colorize them if you like. I made them in paint shop pro, and they are good to use as repeating backgrounds. If you do decide to use a pattern, a link in your credit page would be appreciated, but is not necessary. A comment on this page would be lovely too.

Just right click the one/s you would like and save them. Upload them to you’re server because I’ll be removing them in a few days to prevent hot linking. All are seamless repeating tiling background patterns and should look great. Enjoy!

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No, I don’t mean the ‘your dad is really your uncle’ kind of lies or the ‘you’re adopted’ type either.  I mean those usually innocent, white lies.  Little lies that get us to do things, or think things because as children we believe anything our parents tell us.

For example, that if you are good for a whole year, in December a big fat man in a red suit will sneak into your bedroom at midnight and shower you in gifts. Or the less cool, but still abstract rabbit that delivers us eggs made out of chocolate at Easter time.

My own family added a few of their own lies over the years.  And I worked out over the last few months that these so called ‘facts my parents told me were not true.   Let’s take fact number one.  “Your dad built these toilets.”  As a child, I used to fear public toilets; in fact I still do now a little bit. I find them eerie and dirty looking. So the lie about my dad building toilets across my town was constructed to deal with this problem.  My dad is a joiner and I knew he worked on building sites and obviously fell for these lies.  I only realised that it wasn’t true a few months ago when thinking back to my childhood!

Lie Number too.  “It’s Illegal to not recycle.”  Now I have to be honest, my dad told me this about three years ago when I moved into my own house.  There was all different bins and boxes for paper and for recycling cans and glass as well as a bin for your none recyclable rubbish.  So after forgetting for about the tenth time, I said “oh, I might just not bother!  It’s too much hassle!” My dad told me that you could get arrested for not recycling your rubbish.  Thanks Dad, because when I reiterated this comment to my former housemates, they laughed at me for ages!  I now can recycle very well, just incase you wondered!

Last but not least, I found out today that something my Mother told me about Peach Melba yoghurt is actually true.  When she told me the ‘melba’ bit was from the added raspberry, as a child I did believe her.  My brother and I used to fight like cat and dog for the raspberry yoghurts in a pack, as they were our favorites.  Recently, I thought back to this and presumed she was lying to make us eat the peach yoghurts, but in actual fact, after googling the yoghurts ingredients, I found out that it really is peach and raspberry!

What lies have your parents told you over the years to get you behave yourselves?  Do you tell your children that if they don’t eat all their food that a monster will get them?  Feel free to comment with your own stories!

Carly.  Xx (Who at 21 still believes eating crusts will make her hair curly.)

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