Trying Again

I feel that my attempts at blogging are doomed to fail.  I just don't have anything interesting to say.  I could talk about TV shows, movies and music but so many have done it better and continue to do it better.

I do have something to share on the whole, "being Scottish" thing.  My darling husband has come up with a way of dealing with my contrariness.  When I do things that are upbeat and positive I am Canadian Christine and when I'm pessimistic and negative I'm Scottish Christine.  He puts the pessimism down to living in a country where it rained most of the time.  He's hilarious!! No more does he say that the glass is half empty or half full, he just says, "Oh it's Scottish Christine today!!"  Scottish Christine tells him that no we can't afford to do all the things we want to do on vacation because it is too expensive.  Canadian Christine says, "Fuck it we'll use a credit card!!"

We are going to Scotland four weeks today and I am more excited than I ever thought I could be.  I haven't been home for 7 years so this is a big event.  Paul has never been to Scotland so he will be introduced to the places that made me.  I do think that we are very much influenced by place and he might understand the negativeness after this trip.  Or maybe Scotland has changed and I'll have to admit that I too can change and become Canadian Christine all the time!

This will be my first time travelling to the UK as a Canadian citizen and I feel like I have betrayed my roots somehow.  But at least I get the opportunity to vote here now and that is very important to me.  The very first election that I voted in was the one where Margaret Thatcher was elected.  A grim day and the start of a grim decade for the UK.  She died last week and I won't speak ill of the dead but I can't speak well of her either.  She's gone and that's that!!

I decided this week that I was going to set up a Facebook page for my cousins.  There are 15 of us on my mum's side and although we have never really been close, we are family and I wanted to bring us all together before alzheimer's takes away our memories.  I was chatting to one cousin on Facebook, my cousin Alison and I enjoyed chatting so much that I wanted to reach out to the others.  I don't have kids but most of them do and perhaps the kids want to know more about where their parents and grandparents came from.  So I created the group, invited the cousins and a few have joined and have added some of the next generation already.  I hope everyone gets involved.  We live all over the world, some of our parents are gone and we have a blood connection.  Canadian Christine thinks it will be a wonderful success and may even lead to us all getting together one day.  Scottish Christine thinks no one cares and they won't join.  Time will tell.  It was fun creating it anyway.