Categories: just-life
Date: 31 March 2006 16:06:48
Thankyou for your wishes of good health...... while I'm getting through less hankies a day than I was the headaches have gotten worse... if it wasn't one thing it's another, eh??
But this wasn't quite what I'm going to talk about today.... you see yesterday (apart from popping in on Linnet for tea) I bought a whole lot of stamps.... fifty-two to be precise. Twelve first class and the rest second. Now, despite the prices of stamps going up on Monday this wasn't the over kill that it first appears... I was infact sending out a whole raft of letters, which also had to include self-addressed-envelopes which just doubles the amount of postage needed!!! And all these letters are for what I hear you ask..??? Entry forms for competitions.
You see, I am one of these people who are competitive..... If I play a game of something I have to win... otherwise what's the point of playing??? And it doesn't matter what the game is, or how good.bad at it I am, I want to try and win. Whether it's a sporting game like footie/rounders.... is that the fire alarm....???? One moment....
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....yes it was... and after thirty seconds or so people started to leave the building, but as you can guess, the building wasn't on fire and I'm able to continue!!
But as I was saying, whether the game is a sporting game, or something more cerebral like scrabble or chess I try my best to win it, and I don't understand people who play games and don't care whether they win or lose. If you're not going to try your best, why play....???
As for those competition forms I mentioned earlier..... well, they are part of my plan just to see how good I really am.... in other words, I'm going to try and get a National Ranking. This is going to involve me competing in competions throughout the summer months, from the City of Newport all the way up to Glasgow and when I'm finsihed I'll probably discover that I'm not as good as I really thought...... but I'm going to try!!!
The blog title is pinched from a Bryan Adams song that I heard many years ago, and is on a compilation tape I've got in my car..... it's a tune that I find gets me in that competitive spirt.
We're gonna win
Don't wanna be a loser - gonna win
Cuz winnin' really is the only thing
Get out of the way we're comin' in
If ya wanna fight just step inside the ring
Does anybody wanna take a swing?
It's gotta be all or nothing
Oh we're gonna be the champions
Ya we're goin' all the way - we're gonna win win
We're gonna win
Forget about a draw - we're gonna score
And then we're gonna get a few more
Maybe another one just to be sure
We'll make ya look just like an amateur
Until the final whistle it's a war
And then we're gonna pick ya off the floor
We wanna hear the crowd really roar
Ya - we're comin' in we're gonna win win
We're gonna win - we wanna win
Cuz number one is everything
We're gonna win - we wanna win
We're gonna be the champions
We're gonna win
Bryan Adams