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Go on then, enlighten me!

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Go on then, enlighten me! I love this quote a friend on facebook shared. It did make me smile a lot. It kind of brought the reality back in. We can do loads to help ourselves, of course but that ironing pile will still be there, needing our attention! Like, we can do all the yoga in the world but we will still get angry at another set of road works slowing us down! I actually pulled my tongue out at a lady in a big 4 by 4 the other day. I felt like I was in the playground at school again! She looked down on me in my little car with its dints and pulled the middle finger out at me. I was even angrier and pulled my tongue out the furthest it would go! Maybe I need to go back to my yoga! Again though, sometimes I am trying so hard to relax that I get more tense! Or I am trying to clear my mind but that just makes it fill up! I am so busy trying to be 'in the moment' that I blink and miss it! My mind is so busy and chaotic that when I do stop, everything that was mushing together q...

Smells like teen spirit

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Smells like teen spirit I loved this Nirvana song, back in the 90s. We sang it every Wednesday night at student night. Back when we were full of the stuff. We were brimming over with teen spirit. And pints of lager, green monsters and snakebites! Spirit wise I loved Archers, Taboo and Blue bols. All with lemonade. And I loved the Bacardi Breezers! Those Mad Dog 20/20 drinks though. I can't believe we drunk those! As I look on pinterest, it is queried whether the brilliant Kurt Cobain was singing about the Teen spirit deodorant stick but I don't really equate the raw edginess of this song with this!  So, we were full of teen spirit, back in the 90s. I turned sweet sixteen in 1990. Dressed as we wanted, dressed for comfort with our dockers. We did follow another Nirvana song, Come as you are. The style of the evening being, in the words of Cole Porter, 'anything goes'. We were very much take me as you find me and I loved it! You don't only smell teen spirit, you feel ...