Up The Farway Tree

Photo Challenge

I need to post a few a day to catch up with facebook.  So here are Days 2, 3 and 4!

Day 2:  A picture of you and someone you have been closest to for the longest:

Claire has been my best bud since the start of secondary school. She has been there through all the fun times in our teens, and supported me through the hard times waiting on transplant and then celebrated the new chance I have been given. She makes me laugh all the time - with her stories and tendency to embellish them for comedy effect ;-) We can still talk for hours on the phone and I always feel better for it. Claire is getting married this year, so G, if you are reading - you better look after her well :-) Love ya Claire! x

Day 3: Picture of you with someone you miss

I love this photo of me and Frances Ann - taken at my graduation party in 2002, when Fran was 17. In many ways we were very different - I was quieter (yes, really!), very tidy, bit of a geek. Fran was a chatterbox, had a mind of her own and was always up to something! Yet, in many respects we were like two peas in a pod - the only person I could really second guess and who I shared my very odd and rather twisted sense of humour with. I miss her every day and it feels like a little part of me is missing too. I do have so many memories to treasure and am just grateful for the 19 years we had together. She was younger than me but in many ways wiser and she taught me a lot about how to live life - each day at time, never too seriously and with a good sprinkling of utter nonsense and hysterical laughter. Oh and try and wind mum and dad up on a regular basis for my own amusement :) An example of her daftness was on holiday at a posh hotel, where we were sharing a room, she insisted that once dressed for dinner we put on the shower caps and go to meet mum and dad and "just act casual". Love you wee sis!! xx

Day 4: Photo of a habit I wish I didn't have

Drinking excess amounts of real coffee with even more excessive amounts of sugar! I have never liked Tea despite mum and dads attempts to convert me as a child. I started drinking coffee at primary school age (clearly thought I was very grown up). It was instant back in those days. What was I thinking?! The real addiction to cappuccino made with espresso started when I was ill and mum came to look after me every day. It was our little treat and making the coffee was about the only useful thing I could do to help. I have since however been unable to drink instant again. Unfortunately I am also unable to cut down my sugar - 3 for an average cup - the double shot I buy at work needs about 5 or 6. The man in the coffee shop knows what I take and how much sugar to put in without me asking - this is a bad sign! I toyed with the idea of giving up coffee (and thus the sugar) but quickly came to my senses, admitted my bad habit to the diabetic team and was told as long as I took insulin with it, then all was well :-)