WHAT鈥橲 THE MOST EXCITING THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A PERSON ?
When do we get excited ? Does excitement get less as we get older ? Have you noticed we are only usually excited about future events.
When you鈥檙e a kid, you have plenty of time to wait, plenty of time to think about what ever it might be you鈥檙e looking forward to. So much time that when the big day arrives, you have already lived it a hundred times. You have used your imagination to be there, to feel and smell and see.
I remember staring in toy shop windows and just the pictures on the boxes of toys I wanted was enough to give me butterflies鈥
鈥ow, what makes me excited?
Well first off the first thing that gave me the same tingly feeling as the toy shop window was girls at around the age of fourteen. The same can鈥檛 get to sleep at night obsessive focus, the same 鈥渨ill I ever really get that?鈥
Next, I think it was getting some form of transport, a motorbike in my case, a 50 cc Yamaha f.s.e.
Next it was sex with girls.
A full on relationship.
Owning my first car.
Getting a job at a radio station.
Owning my own place.
Moving to London.
Getting a job on the telly.
Buying a Ferrari.
Making my first million
Buying a big house.
Getting the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Buying Virgin Radio.
Selling Virgin Radio.
Meeting Ms. P.
Digging the garden, cooking, reading and writing.
Getting wed.
Going to live in the States.
Designing and building a house.
Furnishing the house.
A few months later, I was hit with a huge fine/court order. I had to sell a lot of things to raise the money to pay. One of the things that went was the house I built. It was the size of a castle. I ended up moving into a small cottage in the grounds of the original seventeen bedroom mansion, a two bed roomed cutie with a small garden. This is where I still live. I love it.
Whilst living there Bill and I took time out to look for a house in town (London). We found one, the best house I鈥檇 seen in a while. We bought it on the spot but by the time we had completed the sale Bill and I were no longer together.
I since sold the house and bought a one bed flat just down the road.
Whilst all this was going on, I don鈥檛 recall being excited a single time.
Then I got my job at Radio 2. Excited again !
Brain started working again, the ideas were back.
But my goodness me, what a twenty year detour that was - just to realise you still loved what you鈥檇 set out to do in the first place.
Last night I was excited about having a night in watching telly. Then I realised there was sod all on, so I got excited about reading a book. As I read my book, I began to fall asleep, I looked at the clock, it was 9.15 !
鈥淚鈥檓 off to bed,鈥 I thought, 鈥淚鈥檓 obviously tired enough.鈥 And I got excited about that too.
A quick stab at the crossword until it fell out of my hands, a kiss goodnight for the big German boy and that was me till about half an hour ago, it鈥檚 now seven o鈥檆lock.
I was excited about my green tea and honey, I then had a frisson of excitement about what I was going to write and I literally can鈥檛 wait for the rest of the day鈥.
I really must to get on.
x.
3.11 pm update. Just finished writing for tonight's show, it's gonna be a belter. Got a lttle girl on who's cleverer than most of us put together and nice with it apparently. We're also gonna be tasting herrings.
Anyway that's not why I felt the urge to annotate.
I've just been reading your posts and am amazed how you pick up a topic and run with it. Yesterday's bed territory stories, were like a top ten episode of Seinfeld. Today you're rocking with excitement. It's infectious, especially Tina and her mates going crazy at the chef's table. Love it, really love it. You're making me more excited than I already was.
For once I'm half an hour ahead of schedule. A rare occurance and I have no idea how it came to be. This means a longer walk for Enzo and more time for me to think about tonight.
Myself and two pals are heading off to one of the finest restau's a Londres and we cannot wait, boys only, full bellys and no doubt far too much needless cheese and head thumping armagnac. Whoopee !
xxx
Comments
I don't understand people who complain of being bored. Being busy doing nothing can sometimes be just what we need.
On a slightly different note, there's a line in Thirteen Days - a superb film - in which President Kennedy describes that moment immediately after waking when we are all neutral. There is a split second in which we are not aware of our surroundings and we have not recalled what it is that the day holds. Then, he says, he remembers he's the President. Now at the time, he was in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis but he was saying how everyday excited him anyway. We can all make something of everyday; as my Dad says, "Everyday starts a good day". Something positive can be gleaned from whatever situation we find ourselves in.
Of course, not having any excitement can be stifling and crushing. Sometimes we have to go and find it. I was unemployed for 6 months but finding a new job and using my time was higely rewarding.
Have an exciting day bloggers!
You are very lucky to have found your way back - a lot of people begin a new job with excitement and new ideas and end up ploughing their own furrow for 40 years! But I don't want to be depressing, I must say I look forward (with some excitement) to your mid week blogs because they are there to start my day and give me a boost, keep up the great work both on this and the show.
One minor criticism though - why did you have to choose such an unhappy song for the Friday starter - a song about how a man discovered his wife/lover was doing the dirty on hime - yes the tune is upbeat but the lyrics just bring me down. Can you consider something different PLEASE!
Top post as usual Mr E!
Am relatively new to reading your blogs and this is my first post.
Its great to get excited about the smallest of things, things that when combined with others make us approach the bigger picture with greater vigour. God, what am I on about? Its early and I've just got into work, bear with me!
'til tomorrow Christoph
x
Good morning,
I think a lot of people suffer with that now. Everyone has something to get excited about - be it small or big - it doesn't really matter. But I think people concentrate too much on the things that won't get them excited; that item they worry about then masks all excitement to everything and people get dragged down into mundane negative thoughts.
Well done Chris; maybe your post this morning will make people sit up and realise that they should get excited about something...and realise what they are missing, once they feel it inside once more maybe they'll make a note to concentrate on the things that make them feel good and alive.
It's Thursday, we must crack on; everyone has something to look forward to, concentrate on it. It may not seem like it at the moment; but at some point something good will happen.
Dan
x
Awwww bless!!!
The reason we don't get as excited about things as we get older is because we can see the problems that surround the things that used to excite us as kids. At 10 years old you can get excited about Christmas - at 28 years old I can't, because I worry about the cost etc.
I'm not even excited about my new house, because there is the worry about selling the old one, having to furnish etc the new one, and then there is the ongoing worry that we can't afford the new one.
Infact - thinking about it - I don't get excited about anything anymore. Somebody please help me get my excitement back........
Alison :-( xx
Morning Chris
I know just what you mean ... having re-located here from the Southern parts of the world I find I get excited over the silliest things. THe fact one can hop onto a bus/train/tube/tram (even with the failures) and get to most places easily, at almost any time of the day or night is WONDERFUL!
Being able to walk in the streets (within reason) and window shop - and actually see goods in the windows....
Actual seasons where you can actually see the changes....
Oh - so many things - I guess most of all LIFE....
Have a wonderful day everyone - life is good. Bad experiences are hard to cope with, but are just learning curves - hang in and smile - things DO get better.
i hate being bored i have to fined somthing to do
starting the day is an execting prospect do don't really know what's going to happen.
morning by the way
blimey chris you have had a full on life
the sexy ladys to being on radio 2 with sally and foxy bliss mange tout mange tout!
blogging off
hasta luego
Morning Chris
I get excited listening to your show, which I have to listen to the following morning. So I am sitting in my office listening to you now and it's now 8.47am Thursday. So I am always a day behind. Mad I know but the husband likes the TV.
Keep up the good show, I love it. My second blog in a week.
Lots Love Rocky's Mum xx
Hello
I must be the most excitable person, it's not that I'm highly strung or anything I just gleam pleasure from the littlest things - Take today for example, a normal working day, but no - yesterday I arranged to go to a tea dance to do some promo about an event, how exciting. What if an older man (I'm not 30 yet) asks me to dance, do I dance with him? Oh I'm very excited (almost to the point of annoyaing other people!).
You're lucky to find yourself back in a job you love Chris, many people never get that opportunity - but I guess you have to make changes yourself and do the best you can.
Going back to excitement, I'm pleased your blog is encouraging people to look a different way at the world - we should all be able to look at the day / world with the wide eyed wonder of a child and be excited about the smallest things, it completely changes your outlook on life - I know, I do it and it's not even Friday!
Yet another reason why we should all stop and smell the roses!
Lyn @ 5 - I get excited by tubes and stuff too, it's what comes form not living in London. I always like to go and see the queen when I go to London - that makes me excited.
only 87 days till Christmas - How exciting!
:o) Jo
morning chris,
i'm a blog virgin so i guess i'm excited about writing this, i'm excited about leaving work at 3pm and being able to collect my children from school (first time in 3 weeks) and i'm excited about going to tenerife in 1 weeks time on holiday.
In fact i think i'm an excitable person, i try to do one thing each day that i know i will get excited about, even if it's only the ironing as then i get excited when it's all done.
i always figured it's not worrying about a problem as it doesn't make it any better it just makes you miserable.
have a good day
angie
Morning All!!
Truly inspirational blog this morning Chris, thanks! I get excited about lots of things too, especially since hubby and I split at the beginning of the year. I was numb to life before, but now I see many things around me to get excited about all the time.
Have a thoughtful Thursday....
XX.
Morning Mr E and fellow Shloggers,
I find excitement in the most silliest of things - but boy am I glad that I do. This ability to find excitement easily, has paid off well as earlier this week I was told that I am going to be made redundant. Sure, I was biting chunks out of the furniture for half a day at the unfairness of it all, but then I just felt so excited and terrified in equal measures about what the future might bring - so I'm just clinging on to my rollercoaster car and enjoying the ride. Sure finances are a background worry but I have an innate sense that things will be okay, because they always are.
Take care everyone, happy Thirsty Thursday,
C x
Ahhhhhh you are like a breath of fresh air, you put a smile on my face the size of the moon, your excitement is infectious, keep it going for the rest of us who need a kick start into the life of the day.
Wasn't it John Lennon who said 'life is what happens while you're making plans'?
Circles, a very good girlfriend of mine said life goes around in circles, it brings you back to the place where you were supposed to have learnt something,and until you comprehend it, your life will always drag you back there somehow. At the point of understanding; you then have to let it go, this is necessary so you can get on with the rest of your life. She is a very clever girl.
Thirsty thursday eh! well I will only catch the show between 5.30 and 6.30 tonight as my Spanish class starts up again. Have a good positive day everybody....keep it tight and look for the things that make ya smile.
Buenas dias mi amigos..x
I'm a virgin blogger, I hope I'm getting this right but I just wanted to say how much I enjoy reading the blogs. They make me stop and think. I have to confess to never getting through all the posts though - I do have to do some work!
Todays blog set me off thinking about what makes me excited. At the moment because I'm working away from home all week, I get excited about going home to see my lovely bloke.
But then I realised that I'm spending too much time at weekends dreading Monday morning and not enjoying the time at home.
I think its time to go back to the simple things in life. We should just forget work when we aren't there and just enjoy being.
Like when you tell us about your walks to work. I'm going to try and stay in a hotel nearer the office so I can walk to work in the mornings, just to give me the 15 minutes of calm time before the chaos starts.
Keep up the good work mate.
Lots of Love
Alison
xx
Morning Lambypie and bloggies,
Tip top post agin boyo! Excitement is a great feeling, I relish it with gusto... I pretty excitable... in a non-annoying way I hasten to add.. just the secret butterflies and silly grin as oppossed to jumping around like a LOONY.
Does any ever get that thing where you KNOW you had something nice to look forward to or lined up to do, but you cant remember what? You get an ickle tiny feeling that something good was waiting for you... but can you blinkin remember it? can you *?@拢!...
...and then it hits you and you feel ever so slightly silly: You had a small bar of chocolate in the fridge... you had that parcel from Amazon to open... your magazine had arrived... something so small and insignificant... but making you feel excited none the less.
My excitement levels are quite high these days planning my wedding... where to start eh? "Oooh! we could have this!!" "Ooooh, what about that!"
Excitement needn't stop... my grandparents are 89 and 86, they still get excited about life, about the fact they are still in love after 65 MILLION years, about the fact its a thursday which means its curry for dinner, about the fact that the fire "really churns out the heat"... about the fact they have each other.
They still hold hands in bed.
He still jokes "oooh, I'm on a promise tonight!"... at least I hope its a joke...
Happy Thirsty Thursday!
Kyleigh xxx
I'm lucky enough to have kept quite a hold on my child's-eye view of the world, so I can get excited about tiny insignificant things which helps a lot.
You can get quite bogged down with bills and the pressures of work, relationship failures and the like.
I remember once some years ago being stopped in the street in town by a little old lady in her 80's. She was looking up at a plane leaving it's vapour trail high up in the sky. 'Isn't that marvellous!' she enthused.
I've always remembered that. Not to take anything for granted. To realise the wonder in great technological advances and to appreciate the simplest things like our ability to walk about in the fresh air and observe nature.
Life's what you make it - as the song goes.....
Jan x
Chris,
Reading your blogs over the last few weeks, it seems you are very content with your self, and life, where you might not have been before?
Keep up the shlogging, its refreshing!
Andrew
excellent idea...
excited from little mel to old mel -
making cakes age 2 - ate all the mixture and was sick
my little brother being born - he looked a bit yellow but was lovely.
getting a guinea pig AND a rabbit on the same day (that was a huge event i can tell you)
being told I should audition for the Royal Ballet by Leslie Collier - eek
1st snog - started ok - ended as major let down
1st sex - ditto
1st falling in love - ahhhh
Getting the pups and kitten.
Pup appearing on the doorstep from the gypsy camp and staying for the next 16 years.
Becoming a chef - still get the tingles when I create a new recipe
Buying a house
Gardening in Feb in the pouring rain.
Meeting Mr E and just laughing so hard I felt a bit pukey
Mr E on one knee in Priory Bay and I realised I should be listening
getting married to long suffereing Mr E.
Christmas Eve morning cuddle.
opening the first page of a new book with a cup of tea / glass of wine/ pint of beer and nothing to do...
Friday afternoons
Bank Holidays
I really could go on for ages... I am obviously the glass is half full person.
I am going to leave now.
Jo at #9 - I too am now counting the days til Christmas, how exciting!! And its not excitement in the way that I used to look through the Argos catalogue at the Barbies in AUGUST!! but just that I love sitting staring at a Christmas tree and smelling the pine needles and watching TV all night long, eating chocs and seeing all my family.... and this christmas I have no money so have to think about how to get people pressies - I'm thinking home made Jam and Chutneys - and I'm excited about succeeding about that too!!
Apart from that, I read your blog with absolute awe Chris...I really need to work on not stressing too much in life!
Must be in the stars 鈥榯ohper, as so far today, I have had a strange fizzy near to bursting feeling in my stomach.
At first I feared heart burn from waking up hungry, but as I found myself singing before my first cup of tea, and then being so jittery I spilt it not only down my front (ouch!) but on my sister鈥檚 white newly covered antique chair (silly colour for a chair anyway!) I realised I was happy, and then some 鈥. I was excited!
As you have pointed out there are times in one鈥檚 life when this isn鈥檛 a common feeling, for me the last few years have been this time, and so I had two thoughts:
1)Tame it, if I go with this feeling, fit to burst like Alien from my stomach, the eventual come down is going to be ugly.
2) Hang on for the ride, and be glad of that fact that I now have something in my life that makes me feel.
I have opted for the later, so I sit at my desk with a smile on my face and joy in my heart.
I return to my guy and our new home tomorrow after a week working away and off to visit a dear friend at the weekend.
Life is sweet xx
The most I can ever remember being excited as a child was when my grandma and grandad got back from a 2 wk holiday in spain. My gran who is still with us at the ripe old age of 98 says she can still remember my little face light up when I saw them, this was 30 years ago! 2 weeks is a long time when you're 3.
As an adult it was when my then boyfriend (now hubbie) decided to take me to Venice (in my top 3 to visit places)
I was so excited I started the count down at 71 days! I drove my workmates nuts. In fact I was so excited I compleatly missed the fact he had been shopping alone a couple of times before we went, I completely missed what the little man at the airport had found in his hand luggage when they checked, AND I completely missed the small box he'd been carrying around everywhere for the 2 days we where there before he popped the question on a gondala!
None of this sank in for at least 6 hrs til we where stood in St Marks square after a lovely meal and I burst out crying at how good the boy had done!
I consider my self quite level headed and not that excitable, (I was so laid back the night before my wedding my friends who stayed over with me asked if I'd taken anything for my nerves, which I hadn't, and I replied "Whats to be worried about?"), however I have been know to let out a couple of whoops and do a couple of laps of the office if I've closed a deal or one of my customers call to say thank you for my help or they have recieved some really good service. It's more I take joy in the fact I made someone else happy.
If I recieve good service or I know someone has pulled something out of the bag for me. I make a point of calling them (not e-mailing them) to say thank you, I sometimes send small chocolate bars or good boy lollypops. We are always fast to complain but never seem to praise.
I hope this at least raises a smile, if not gives them that little buzz we all look for throughout the day.
Hi Chris
I get excited about going to work each shift as I am a Trainee Paramedic for the North West Ambulance Service, based in the Merseyside & Cheshire Locality. The buzz I get from driving the ambulance to the and from jobs either on Blue Lights with all the Sirens blaring at well over 90 decebels or Not and dealing with 'Joe Public' helping them with all of there differnt situations and saving lives, its GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
I also get excited when I go rallying up and down the country, seeing these people throwing there cars around in Forests with such speed and precision, especially the World Rally Championship guys who will be here in December for our round of the World Rally Championship based in Cardiff. The buzz around the Rally HQ is awesome.
Anyway,enough of my dribble,have a great show, and its great to have you back.
Cheers
Chris
I don't anyone who's said "Wow, my house just got repossessed, my partner left me and I have no money. Isn't that exciting!?" all the time it was happening.
Any chance to be challenged, achieve and progress gives us excitement. As a child we're still learning about life and all it contains. That's why it's exciting. Keeping that going into adulthood can take some doing and at some point everyone has had their down times.
You shouldn't be amazed at re-discovering your inspiration again. With every up there's a down and an optimistic attitude is everything.
I'm really enjoying your radio show. I find the subjects you cover are those that I also find interesting and want to explore in more detail. Great stuff.
Good morning everyone
Dolores here, thinking about what makes me excited. You might not believe me if you have read recent entries on our respective blogs, but me old man, Joseph, still manages to get my heart pumping on occasion. Whatever it was that brought us together twelve years ago hasn't completely died out yet. I mean, I know I give him a hard time, but I really do miss him. I'm actually quite excited at the prospect of him coming home this weekend.
Do we just get less excited about things as we get older?
yours
Dolores
... don't you just love a cheeky small peanut butter burp? Reminding you of your brekkie...
Lovely.
Jenner (#19) - Life IS sweet! x
Mel (#18) - I love your line about 'Mr E on one knee and realised I should be listening' awwwwww... goosebumps x
As a fellow 40 year old, (June 06) I'm struggling with the reality of it all too.
Mind you, I'm enjoying your radio show - you really are back to the high days of TFI Friday. Incidentally, why don't we see repeats of it on telly, love to see that interview with David Bowie again - that was just top class entertainment!
Life's dealt you some strange cards, but you've kept your head up and it really makes me smile to listen to your show and read your daily thoughts. You make a real difference and I'm very glad you're relishing life.
Enjoy!
xxx
EXCITEMENT.This is a bit naughty!
As an upstanding citizen paying all my dues
I get a kick or excitment of finding something for nothing.It may be growing tomatoes or potatoes, finding truffles or a rare antique at a car boot sale. Or..
Now, I go to the cashline machine and hanging out of the till is twenty quid. I look around and nobody is there. Do I go into the bank and say "I found this hanging out of the cashline machine". No, I think this is my lucky day. However, this has happened to me three times now,along with stopping people walking away after forgetting to collect their money and pass go.
Remember always to collect your winnings at a cashline machine.
love the show Chris
I think it's so lovely that you've realised what it's all about, it's so easy to get swept along with having lots of money but it's important to remember it's the little things that make us really happy.
My 10 year old is dyspraxic and has often had lots of problems at his very sporty school, but last week he was voted house captain by his peers. This made me very happy, excited and proud, all at the same time.
My problem is that I worry to much about silly things; I'm hoping when I hit 40 I will stop caring what people think of me.
Love your blogs Chris,Em xx
Morning Chris and all
Some days, like today, I have to think about things coming up in the near or distant future to feel excited:
My nieces 3rd birthday party on Saturday
Having another baby
Finding a new job
Planning our next holiday
Other days, I feel excited as soon as I wake up:
Getting that first cuddle from my son
Picking my son up from nursery
That lovely glass of red wine
Maybe I鈥檒l find that new job today
I鈥檝e got a delicious sandwich for lunch
I鈥檝e got money to go shopping
Terry Wogan鈥檚 on the radio as I drive to work (always a laugh!)
The most excited I have ever been was setting off to get married in Las Vegas and honeymoon in California. A road trip!!! I wasn鈥檛 disappointed : ) Although the build up to the trip was blighted by the most horrendous crick in my neck which lasted over a week. And funny this blog should come up today because the crick is back!!!!! Three years and nothing. Then today, I stepped out of the shower, goodness knows what I did, but ouchy, ouchy, it hurt. So I鈥檓 sat at my desk, finding it difficult to get excited about anything and unable to turn my head right or left.
But all your blogs haven鈥檛 half made my day a better one.
Love and hugs Lx
well chris congratulations you did it, how you did it we may never know, but you did it, all the same. What the hell is this blogger waffling on about? I hear you say.
Its the blog, yes I get all giddy waiting for the blog. I get up, switch the comp on, then while its revving up, the kettle goes on. By the time I have made the tea I am excited to read your blog.
This goes to prove that even the simple things in life (like yourself) get us excited. How is that ?why is that?
p.s. It was the Yamaha FS1E but you should have got the Honda SS50 with a 5 speed gearbox it was far superior
cheers for now and remember :-
He who laughs last,........ didn't get the joke in the first place!!!!!
I love today's! I mean I love today's blog, but also I realise in the literal sense I love the today's of life!! There's just so much to be excited about. Even though I'm going through the most stressful bleak time of my life I find myself excited about so many tiny and big things.
Currently I'm most excited about a friend starting over his life in a new country after talking about it with him for the past 6 months. Its not even my adventure but I'm excited!
As for me, knowing that today is yet unlived and therefore holds any number of special and unexperienced things including the very moments that could turn my life upside down, flipped right side up or parachute it to a whole new level!
See, you have to allow room for excitement or they'll simply pass you by, and then you'll not have lived today as if it counted. Which of course, it does.
Its a gift, -that's why its called the present!
Hi Chris and the blogettes,
Mmmmmmwah!
What a fab subject.... Excitement!!!!
Remember the summer holidays when you were at Junior school ... how exciting was that last journey home, after the last day at school? 6 weeks off was like a lifetime! We would get excited about that because in the terms of our young lives, it was a significant chunk and it was filled with all sorts of things to get excited about. Things like, building a house out of bails of straw/hay in the fields.
The young mind is like a sponge, it accepts things as fact, believes them and genuinely gets excited by them because everything is new and different;. that is how the young mind works, it doesn't know any better. It's not experienced enough to be cynical.
As we get older, we start to compare what we are going to do or are being told, with something that we've experienced in the past. The adult mind never just accepts things like we used to when we were young, that is why excitement is so difficult to come by for lots of people. How many times have you been organising the Office Christmas Party and some killjoy will say ... what's the point? It'll be the same as last year, how do you know? Be the one that makes it different!
Never give up learning something new and never ask anyone who has done it before. What's it like? Go find out yourself: that is what makes it exciting. If you're going on holiday to somewhere that you've never been, don't compare it with other places you have been.
I recently ( 18 months ago now) went to Rome for the first time.... I was soooooo excited. I learned so much. Yep; I went to all the usual places and they were great but... went off the beaten track, all on my own and found far more interesting things than the fantastic buildings had to offer- I went to the parts... they don't want "the tourist" to see, met some local folk .. got in a bit of a sticky situation but was rescued by a guy ( Fabrizio: he didn't speak English) who became my guide and mentor for the remaining days of my holiday. We communicated by me pointing at words in my little phrase book... he arrived at my hotel each morning after we met , accompanied me everywhere ... when I wanted to go in somewhere he would march me to the front of the queue say lots of stuff in Italian to the staff and in we went .. no charge .. no tickets..... no problems .....( I wondered if he was in the Maffia)..he sorted out a problem I had with the hotel, they treated me like a Queen after that, and took me to the airport when I left ....... what a great guy......That was exciting! I'll never be scared to go it alone again.
What am I excited about this week. .. Well I'm away on holiday next week. Hey no cheering! I have some new faith boots ( killer heels) arriving today....and I'm stopping in at a farm shop tonight on my way home, to pick up some free range eggs.
The most exciting thing I've ever done was to pack a small bag and get on a train to a new life.
Keep smiling
Rachel
xx
I鈥檓 pretty desensitised to a lot of things and unfortunately don鈥檛 get excited about much.
If I do it鈥檚 usually about something very small and insignificant to many people.
Morning Chris,
I jusy love reading your blog....... a new techy thing for me! And you are right about being excited......... it changes through lifes phases.
But it's the little things that get me excited now, like listenig to your programme whilst preparing the dinner........... true ( maybe even sad) but your enthusiastic bubbly banter just makes me smile! Other things that get me excited are Saturdays............ I buy the Independent, go to my local coffee shop, order my latte and spend time just reading and chatting about the bits I find amusing/informative. Today I am excited about the yummy foods I will buy........ healthy stuff, for which I will use to prepare my meals whilst singing and laughing with you! Have a grear show... Sue
HI
I am getting exited about going to
my second art class tomorrow. Enjoyed
it at school and enjoying it again.
xx
Hey Chris I love your recent blogs - getting us all to think about life & things in it more!
I have been unlucky to have been depressed at various times in my life- which forced me to look at myself & my life in minute detail.
I think that we are influenced by who + what we do allow in our lives. I really do now believe that it is what we focus on in our lives that we become - & when we are younger we believe more & thus more passionate about life. But as we age we somehow lose these 2 vital things.
But if & when we do use them again then we get back to the things we love and become more & more happy & excited - as you have found!
So - among many exciting things TO ME - I read a lot - always listen to great music every day- discovering travel (Just been to China) - and trying to help people around me - all these help fulfil me - filling up my happy & contentment tanks!
One more thing being to enjoy your marvellous programme & thoughts most days! I love the listen again features & podcast!! Keep th em coming!!
LIVE YOUR LIFE WITH PASSION!!!
I can't believe it! I'm blogging! I love reading the blog, but am never compelled to blog myself, but todays subject hit me smack bang in the face.
I spend far too much time listening to people whinge and tell me what's wrong with their lives/home/relationship/things they can't control... and when I ask them to tell me something exciting... they can't.
I'm excited thinking about how a spider climbed up my dressing gown this morning and I had to jump around the bedroom throwing off the contaminated garment whilst my husband laughed heartily at me... I'm excited about him taking the micky out of me every morning for the next week about that.
My new addiction... steam engines... I got so excited at the weekend about a steam engine moving I cried. Now that's excitement. This weekend we'll visit the railway museum in york (I'll probably cry more) and the weekend after we'll ride on the North York Moors railway - I will certainly cry at those engines. I love being excited. I love brightening up people's day. It's what makes me tick, and I hope my being the way I am encourages more people around me to look at all they have to be excited about, as life is much more interesting if you look at it through 'excited eyes'.
I'm 30 next year - I can't wait. All my same age friends keep telling me they're dreading the big 3 0. WHY? Another year older, another year wiser, another year of meeting lots of new people and having new experiences... bring it on!
Morning Chris
It is obvious that you are excited by your prog and your blog - it oozes out of you and that's why it is so popular. You are obviously enjoying yourself. Unlike my morning which has been spent not parking near Manchester University, which by the way has the most suicidal students in the country. I could have knocked down at least a dozen.
chin chin
x
Chris,
I took myself to Libya and watched the total eclipse this year - I am still excited about it and that was back in March!
Mind you, I got the same feeling two nights ago when the evening light went red just before a storm - I got home (probably not my safest piece of driving, as I was looking around so much) and just wandered round my little garden with a big grin on my face looking at the colours the light brought out and laughing when I got rained on!
xxxx
i'm soooooo excited about going to see kylie in january! i screamed when i got the tickets. i can't believe i'm going to see my idol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring on january!
I think as you get older you do get less and less excited about your birthdays and Chrismas, but for me I enjoy those as I have by kids around to keep me younger than 37.
I think you get less tired as you get older and want less sleep.
Take Care Chris
Mark
I still get excited on my birthday - even if not much has happened, but it's my day and I feel excited.
Surprises excite me. Silly things like a "hello" text from someone you are waiting to get in touch with you. Or a surprise email - that pops up while you're working.
Easily pleased!
After many years of just plodding along merrily but not excited, this year has bought me a double dose of excitement. First I met my girlfriend Sheela, who has bought me not only great joy, love but makes me very excited just to be with her. The second was I was lucky enough to spend 8 weeks at a school in rural Ecuador assisting. One idea I had was to introduce skipping. One of the six year old, whoose name was Cecilia did not seem to be able to grasp it. Even when we turned the rope she seemed to get tangled up. Then one monday she came in with a bit of old rope and showed us that she could do one or two turns. By the time I left she could skip as well as most of the others. I got excited not just by the fact Cecilia had learnt by the fact she had learnt to skip but by the joy the children seemed to get from us being there. Leaving was one of the hardest thing I had to do, it was only made easier by knowing the Sheela was waiting for me back home.
Hello Chris - exciting blog !!
I still get excited about things - I cant help myself - its my birthday in a week and I am reallty excited about it, I seperated from my hubbue a year ago - so will be spending it on my own, but im still excited about it.
Allyx
Happy Thursday!
I still find myself getting excited about small things: Christmas, first day of school (now for my daughter), a new book coming out from my favorite author, Sunday mornings, first frost of the year, ....
It is big things that I have difficulty getting excited about. Possibly because of the reason a blogger mentioned earlier: the bigger the event, the more I have to worry about the cost, etc.
But, having a daughter keeps me young. Her excitement is infectious. So I get excited about her being excited. I guess that is part of becoming an adult and a parent...it is no longer about "me"!
Keep shloggin'!
Amanda
hi chris 1st timer to blogg,
i can remember the excitement of getting my first bike, it was also a yammy fizzy f.s.e what a great bike had it couple of months then bought a suzuki 185cc ER trail bike. that was way back in the 80s. wife & 5 lovely kids later on 4 wheels now but the urge is to get another bike, getting excited looking at new 1s in showrooms etc, then reality hits bikes are getting faster, im getting older & slower & to much traffic about now i still dream of owning another 1 though.
Friday starter chris can you play ECHO BEACH by Martha & The Muffins cheers Chris great to have you back all the best Shaun....
Oh and...
something that should make us excited, but the thought of it scares me!
"Making love" with a new partner - I'm dreading it. Loads of questions are going through my
head...
Will he wear a condom?
Who will put it on?
Will he turn the lights off?
What if he's really fit and I'm worn out?
What if he wants to do something I don't?
Am I wearing matching undies?
What if I can't undo his belt?
Should I take his socks off?
etc, etc
Am I excited - NO - I'm dreading it.
Blogging is so much more exciting!
Hi guys,
So do you think that every day is a new beginning?
I love the word frission - it makes me shiver just saying it!
There are just not enough hours in the day, as I get older every day seems to go faster
Supadel
hi Chris + the Blogger Bunch!
I think to keep life simple is the easiest way to excitement & happiness.
Find out what things do excite YOU alone - and just try to keep as many of them in your day as possible.
When you are a kid life is black & white.....just as you age we are pushed into these "shades of grey" that make us lose our focus.
We have to spend more & more of our time doing things & seeing people that we put up with - rather than feel passionate about!
So then we must always have some ways & time to do the "me-thing" - so never feel bad if sometimes youre a little selfish...else the rest of the world will claim your time and the "me-time" has disappeared.
You get excited again I think because you are back to what you do the best....entertaining people in your amazing & creative way - so welcome back!!
So get to know what "rocks your world" - then do those things as much as possible - and do all you do with passion!!
Now Im off to practice me salsa dancing steps with that Ricky Martin bloke singing away!!
HEAVEN!! x x x
Good topic.
I am often telling my husband off for wishing our lives away as he says 'I can't wait until next summer when we do this' or 'I can't wait until the house is finished and...' we need to live in the now and enjoy every day as life is often shorter than we think it will be.
Like Lyn, my husband is from the Southern Hemisphere and is totally blown away by everything great about London - it's refreshing to see London through someone elses positive eyes as I get tired of people complaining about it
Kathryn
Afternoon Christoph and blogging crew!!!!!!!!!!
Another blinking blinding blog today Chris on Thirsty Thursday, ..........
This has been a tough year for me so far and there have been days when I have thought that I may drown in it all, I have felt down, numb, lost and very uninterested about everything and I know this is goin to sound corny but since I have been blogging and I read your comments and then everyone else's I am beginning to feel more positive, more energised and I want to get out there and throttle life again, yes I am in debt (but who isn'nt these days), a very close member of my family has that nasty disease cancer and there's not a damm thing I can do to take it away and make them well again, I lost my wonderful Grandmother who to me will always be the most important person in my life.......but I am now beginning to realise that she wouldn't want me to mope, and I will always be there for my relation when they need me..............
Excitment is little things, to read the blog, waiting for the new U2 book from Amazon, and have just booked tickets for We Will Rock You!! As they say every great journey starts with a small step!!!!!!
God that feels so much better getting that off my chest......Thanks and sorry if it seems like a rant.
Luv to All
Mayhem
xx
Chris
I always read your blog and love it but never felt I had anything worthy to contribute back, that was until I read your blog this morning...
I am in my thirties and have had a fun, exciting life - I thought - until yesterday.
myself and 5 friends (who all love our food and wine) booked the chefs table at Petrus. It was the most exciting, interesting, beautiful, amazing, spine tingling thing I have ever done. It may seem a silly thing to get so excited over but, for me, it was the best day I've ever had.
For 5 hours we sat and watched Marcus Wearing and his amazing team cook the most amazing food - I never new this sort of thing was out there! I've led a sheltered life and am still floating on the ceiling and grinning from ear to ear!!
The excitment I felt on the build up to the day, then on the day itself and still now has given me a new lease of life!
We have now booked tables at all the best restaurants in London and I know from now on I will always have a little bit of excitment in me waiting for our next adventure into cullinary heaven!
Good afternoon Bloggers!
Excitement eh! I have been thinking about this and the Blogmisters list of things that have excited him over the years. Interesting that so many of them are martial things such as houses, cars, girls, money and his businesses. Is this a shallow man or do I have it all wrong?
I preferred the Blogmister that gets excited over trees and when he talks of the pleasure he gets from entertaining another person like having a meal with good company and is excited about doing things for and with others and not all about what you can get out of it. So for the first time I feel a little disappointed about the blog today :-( It has made me think so I guess it has served its purpose.
For example Chris uses the example of girls, if I get too excited with my wife she complains as my excitement does not last as long as she would like!
A new car (I have had a few, not a Ferrari :-( ) is that really excitement or merely a great expectation that it will be good to drive and reliable?
How many of us get the chance to own or run a business and is that as exciting for most people when so many businesses go under so may be what he was feeling was lucky?
Money I have some but not a million so do I have enough or get excited about and if I did would that excite me, I do not think so.
Of course I get excited I just do not find material thing exciting. I have a nice house, good job, lovely wife and great kids and I think I am lucky. I get excited when I see the dogs jumping around knowing we are going to go for a walk. I get excited every morning when I wake up and feel excited to open the curtains and see what the good old English weather is up to. I get excited when I open the computer to read this blog (sad I know).
Maybe I have missed the point today or I am old but I do not feel excited about very much these days so all I can leave you with is Sir Terry鈥檚 favourite line 鈥淚s it me?鈥
Still a silly joke about a man who is excited as he is starting a new job!
An excited man starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks.
First is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he does this a huge fish jumps out and bites him. To show who is boss he beats it to death with a spade. Realising his employer won't be best pleased he disposes of the fish by feeding it to the lions, as lions will eat anything.
Moving on to the second job of clearing out the Chimp house, he is attacked by the chimps that pelted him with coconuts. He swipes at two chimps with a spade, killing them both. What can he do?
Feed them to the lions, he says to himself, because lions eat anything. He hurls the corpses into the lion enclosure.
He moves on to the last job, which is to collect honey from the South American Bees. As soon as he starts he is attacked by the bees. He grabs the spade and smashes the bees to a pulp. By now he knows what to do and throws them into the lion鈥檚 cage because lions eat anything.
Later that day a new lion arrives at the zoo. He wanders up to another lion and says "What's the food like here?"
The lions say, "Absolutely brilliant, today we had Fish and Chimps with Mushy Bees."
Happy Thursday everyone :-))))
Keith
x
What made me happy is getting married, having a daughter, living in Florida, and listening to the 成人快手.
Afternoon Chris
First off, love the show.
This must be my Annus Horribilis, just as Old Liz had one a few years back.
My best friend died in my house.
Then I left a job and country I loved to move back to Blighty for a bloke who thanked me by doing a runner.
Then sone weasel vandalised my house.
Last week my car was written off.
You just have to pick yourself back up and give life a kick in the crown jewels.
Going back to the first point, you never know when your number's up, you have to be excited about life and make the most of every day !!!
Answer to F38 (47)
- A must.
- Well, it won鈥檛 fit you.
- Depends if he really likes you.
- Lie back.
- Don鈥檛.
- Who cares?
- Use your teeth (he鈥檒l be impressed).
- Best not touch
Follow these rules, and no need to be scared, just excited.
ENJOY.
It's weird, the things that I should have been excited about, I didn't. The test that told me I was pregnant, after 3 1/2 years of desperation and disappointment.
The day I went into labour and the moment our daughter was born. None of these things moved me in the way everyone else said they would.
Having said that, the smallest, tiniest things now get my juices pumping - seeing her smile and laugh, watching my husband walk into the room, escaping work on a sunny day.
Maybe it's becuase I'm getting older, that the things that get my heart pumping are simpler and more satisfying.
Have to admit to being very excited at the prospect of seeing the gorgeous Mr Hammond up and about - in six months' time he could be right as rain. Hope that stops the doom-mongers from keeping Top Gear off our screens.
I get excited about things in the future, but also things here and now but especially unexpected things. In fact are the most exciting things those which you dont expect.
Presents are exciting because you dont know what they are.
I get much more excited when i suddenly hear from an old friend out of the blue than i do about meeting the friends i see all the time. (guess thats what the prodigal son was all about really - now that really is getting deep and meaningful!)
I am excited about my holiday because i have no idea what i will see or do or what it will be like (I am going to South Korea!) If i was just going back to a place i had been before i would not be nearly so excited.
is excitement that very fine line between happiness and fear?
J
We, that is me and him indoors still get excited about allsorts of things but we have been together for sooooooo long that we have our own language! so we call it 'thrigling' not excited!! ah well when you write it down it looks a bit daft but I suppose you 'have to be there' to understand.
On a different note...... has anyone else got bloggers shoulder? a bit like tennis elbow but in your neck cos of either blogging or reading blogs for too long. I've had to make an appointment with my osteopath to be twisted back into shape!! It's only happened since I discovered your blog Christoph so it must be connected.
Well worth it though!!
A littel point - #43 - Graham - how can Sheela have 'boght' you great joy - don't you mean brought? I notice this all the time on TV when people use bought instead of brought - one of my pet hates - they say it on Flog It all the time - perhaps I should stop watching it??
Off for Thursday curry at tea time with my buddies from work - well the mildest of mild curries that is cos I am a puff pants and cannot eat hot ones. Still nice though and...........tomorrow is Friday - with Macmillans Coffee morning in the morning(no surprise there then) and it's last friday in the month so we 'P' off early and have Friday drinks to start the weekend.
It's a hard life but someone has to do it.
Cheerio fellow bloggers from 'twisted' Jude x
I get excited everyday when I leave work and drive home to see my 2 yr old daughter - fresh back from nursery. She stamps her feet up and down in excitement with me just entering the room, and shouts "mummy, mummy, mummy - your BACKKKKKKK" comes running over shouting "hurray, big hug time." My wonderful little girl, and wonderful little life x
Hey everyone
Everyone's excited but I've been a bit down today, won't bore you with why but just reading through all the blogs and The Big Un's jokes always make me laugh and today's is no exception.
And J #56
Your answers to #47 were brilliant especially numbers 2 and 7! Still chuckling.
Thank you for bringing a smile to my face.
x
tangfastic haribo sweets make me excited - i love the anticipation of opening a bag :o)
Also, the feeling on a first date that you might get a kiss at the end of it........I'm sure that is something that keeps us single girls going on first dates the world over :o)
Spoke about a tea dance earlier @ 9 - Just in case you were wondering it was ACE, well worth the excitement. I wasn't asked to dance by an older man but did join in on the side lines!!!!
Tea dances are the future
:o) Jo
I have spent all day figuring this out...
And I have blogged on this one already.
Being on telly was exciting, falling in love was exciting.... buying a house was spine tingling....
But nothing on earth can compare to the moment when you realise that you have met that person that you can just be yourself with for the rest of you life. That person who love who you are when you are at your very worst and still think you are fabulous. THAT is the most exciting moment of you life... becasue you know you feel exactly the same about them and you wouldn't change a thing....
hi
Guess your healthy eating regime went the same way as mine!!!!
I got excited this afternoon. I have fired up the embroidery machine for the first time in over a year. I am back with my hobby even tho I now need help.
Excellent.
hugs
jenny
I get excited at the thought of having time to play with my kids. I look forward to the weekends for this reason in particular. They keep you young and see everything in such simplistic ways - a real lesson sometimes. Plus of course, they are the masters of excitement!
Love my Saturday nights. It starts with a game of Bingo at the local hall. Me and me mates then go for a few drinks at the local and if the kids are lucky we take em a bag of chips back. We then settle down fer the nite and watch the X factor. Kids get sent to bed with a burger each and then I have my fabulous hunk all to meself. It's exciting especially when the ice cream comes out.
Hi Chris,
I never thought that I would ever become interested in reading someone else's blog but you are such a good writer! I can hear you saying what you are writing although I am resisting the temptation to correct your spelling and punctuation as I am a little anal about things like that.
Is it cathartic to share your life like you do in the blog and are there things that 'come out' whether you want them to or not? So many questions, so little time.
I would have always have thought that most people's lives were too boring for other people to want to read about them but I suppose there is a bit of the voyeur in all of us.
I do envy your eating out escapades. I am a real foodie but have to make do with cooking for myself as I haven't got anyone that I want to go out to eat with and besides that I live in the middle of nowhere and the choice is the local chippy or nowt.
Hey everyone
Everyone's excited but I've been a bit down today, won't bore you with why but just reading through all the blogs and The Big Un's jokes always make me laugh and today's is no exception.
And J #56
Your answers to #47 were brilliant especially numbers 2 and 7! Still chuckling.
Thank you for bringing a smile to my face.
x
Christopher,
I'm glad that you are happy.
I am happy too, although I don't have any riches, what I do have is some food in the cupboard and a roof over my head and a gorgeous daughter. That's what does it for me. Lots of people don't even have that.
We shouldn't dwell on what we don't have, but we should get excited about the things we do.
Take care pudding x
Chris
When I started thinking about what had made me exicted in recent times, I reallised that there is a close relationship between excitement and obsession (may be this just applies to me?!).
The last couple of years of my life weren't the best. Work was uber stressful - and then I was made redundant out of the blue - and then I got a new job but it wasn't first choice. I left my partner - voluntarily but it was still tough - and moved back to my old stomping ground. I was (and still am) one of the casulaties of the ever-increasing debt mountain.
So what did I get excited about? Excercise and health food. But I know now that these were obsessions first and foremost. They gave me an anticipatory buzz, but they weren't entirely wholesome - they nearly caused my self-destruction. I used to get excited about things I deprvied myself of, such as coffee and protein!?! Excitement should always be a good thing, shouldn't it? And now, the exercise has lapsed because the obsessive phase burned out. The healthy eating part still applies but I'm less controlling, although I still can't get excited about pleasure foods without impaling myself on a stab of guilt.
Now I have a new job to look forward to, to get excited about. This time I've chosen the job and controlled the situation - very important to me as I live to work. And I have to move to Oxford which I think will be a good thing. But I can't get excited yet (if I ever will) because the mundane considerations of adulthood conspire against me - finding somewhere to live, working out the finances, moving, worrying about what to wear, will I be good enough, etc. And worrying that I'm 'leaving behind' my best friend (you know who you are mum), who will also feel the loss.
Or am I just allowing these things to stop me becoming excited to protect myself from a let down. A typical adult behaviour. How sad though? As the excitement can never be captured once the opportunity to savour it has passed. So somehow I've got to work myself up into a frenzy of excitement - make the most of the positives of the situation I, afterall, got myself into! Most of us are lucky enough that, if the excitement proves to be unjustified, there will be more waiting for us, maybe not tomorrow, but the next day ....
Was going to get a little excited to see my blogg that I posted 30 mins ago appear in the list, sadly no blogg appeared and now time to go home. But still have that roof, food and gorgeous daughter so not sad.
Now that I just 'previewed' this blogg I understand why my earlier blogg has not yet appear. Ahh, that's a lesson for us all ... all good things come to those who wait.
Toodles
Fellow bloggers and schloggers,
Just want to echo the sentiments of those who have said how much the blog postings help them to feel more positive. : )
I hope that one day I will be able to post something that helps someone - as a way of repaying the favour.....
Gaby
xx
Virgin blog for me today also...
The show is great and your natural enthusiasm is truly infectious...
I have also experienced many years of working away during the week... Monday's are desperate as someone said but the feeling driving home to see my wife on a Friday is electric. Am lucky enough to be getting home every night at the moment and this feels great too... get to listen to Christophe and the gang every evening on the way home from Bristol. Not tonight however as stuck at work... Heh ho...
The ambulance man, amongst others, has hit a note for me... I went to my first 'rally GB' when I was 13 and am still going now 24 years later... I still get the buzzz... Not long to December now.
Please Chris , help me , came on line to find out what has happened to Alexandra Bastedo (Sharon Mcready), THE BEST looking woman there has ever lived.I know she is involved with animal welfare (Naturewatch patron), but can you possibly get to interview her???
Its hard in this modern life to get excited about anything as life can be a bit grim and 'same old same old'
I try to get excited about the small things. My partner is working night shifts at the moment which means its a bit lonely at home which could make me miserable but I turned it round and I'm excited about him coming home in 13 hours or so and him giving me a wake up cuddle!
I also got excited about making a fantastic victoria sponge for the Tea room at work today!
Ha ha the small things eh!
love H
What another great blog!
I get excited by most things. Although not bounding around the room, excited. Oh, alright, sometimes I do - just before holidays, going to gigs, moving house, my birthday, spending weekends with my fella. Generally I just get that 'frisson' - new book, thunderstorms, sunshine, seeing friends, getting more than half way through The Times crossword, Christmas and even going to bed early - clean sheets, straight off the line - gorgeous!
So pleased you are enjoying life so much Christoph. Hope the hangover isn't too bad tomorrow. Best cure - take Alka Seltzer BEFORE going out.
xx
Having started the day panic stricken and seriosuly worried dog owner - I finally got excited about the fact my little JRT seems to have got over the worst of gastroenteritis and eaten some food. WHOOPPEEE!
So now I am excited about going to my friends to squeeeeeeeeeeeze some grapes to produce wine .... I feel a headache coming on in about 6 months time.
And I am excited as its Friday tomorrow and I am not on call at all this weekend - HOORAY!!!
Its just the little things in life that can give you pleasure - especially when its a small JRT who shares the bed with you and doesn't care if you are one side the other in the middle or change every 2 minutes. I think I'll try and get excited about a forthcoming birthday and throw a massive party not hide in a corner and cry. Ok - one small step at a time I think
Keep smiling it makes 'em wonder what it was you've been up to x
getting exited about something like reading a book ...fantastic ... having an early nite .....brill.... this shows contentment with yourself . and having the time to get exited ...priceless.. i thought it was only me ... cheers ...
dear chris,
i want to share an observation. forgive me for sounding personal, but you dont seem to have much relaxation time scheduled into your day, aside from when you go to sleep. it seems as though you are relentlessly burning the candle at both ends.
have you considered slowing down on the yang and introducing more yin into your life?
cheers
aurum
As far as excitement goes, lets go for the jugular. Me and my wife, flew from Norwich in a couple of jet Provost twin seat fighter trainers.
Take off in formation, close high speed ( 450Knots) formation, a bombing run on a local museum and a dogfight.
Still trying to get the stains out!!
If I could have opened the door as the engine spooled up I would have walked away. Yet, once up and away, I was buzzing for more.
Excellent.
Cheers Chris
Darren Wrudd from Wigan.
Am a new Blogger and just love reading about everyones own personal excitements. Hope the bingo one was true, loved it! #67 Col Mustard
Mine change all the time, but the recent ones have been
1. Picking peas, fresh from the pod - never grown anything before and have just spent the whole summer marvelling at the power and wonder of Mother N.
2. The big night out for my best friends' (x 3) birthday - every few months we all go out, get terrible drunk and end up at one of our houses watching Moulin Rouge, dancing around the garden to Toots and The Maytals and then for the big finale, back to the movie to cry when Sabine dies - well worth getting excited about.
3. Hearing about my recently divorced big brothers new fledging relationship - would bring a tear to your false eye. He's too sweet to be true and I don't trust any lady to treat him riggght.
That's enough for now.
I'll be keeping an eye on you all from now on, so let's be happy out there people
Life is not about excitement! Life is about enjoyment! If life was exciting all the time it wouldn't be exciting! Enjoy, the seasons, the scents of waking up, the anticipation of a hot cup of tea.That's what life is about.
HI im really excited im on nights and looking forward to going to bed in the morning.
im also excited because when i get up i can listen to your show
i think you are fab
lots of love Linda xxxx
Excited?
Just before kick off from a big subbuteo game
Playing football on a friday
Playing football on a Sunday
Saturday night takeaway, X Factor and Casualty
Bit of coo-coo with the lovely lady
Match of the day
Kids doing new things
Furnishing our new loft room escape
Cup of tea
Chris,
great show! This is my first visit to the blog and I shall be returning. Personally, I've only reached the moving to London stage, skipping the 'getting a job at a radio station' bit, but I'm confident the Ferrari purchase will take place shortly!!
I'd just like to say I'll miss the drive time team for the next couple of weeks, as my darling wife, Joanna, and our just over nine month old daughter, Helen, otherwise known as the Pixie, are heading to the States on holiday. I'll be jumping into the car, hopefully no later than 5.30ish after a final frantic day in the office, and heading back to Glasgow from Edinburgh. I look forward to your company enroute.
All the best
Paul
Peaches
The most exciting thing that can happen to one? Finding that your hairdresser is heterosexual, the bulge in his tight leather pants isn't a couple of scrunchies, he adores older women and he's free Saturday night thru Monday morning...How delicious.
Adore you
Morwenna
Every single day i get so excited about getting home from work and seeing my gorgeous wife helen and my little champ nathan
Morning all,
I get really excited about the blog - I can't wait for today's.
My main source of excitement at the moment is The Sound of Music. I have tickets to see the show in November and I am absolutely ridiculously excited.
I think about it every day, and I know it's going to be fantastic! I challenge anyone to leave a theatre after a musical feeling miserable. It's not possible!
Just like Maria singing about her favourite things, if I feel down, I just think about going to the show, and it cheers me up and gets me excited about life again. So silly, but it works.
And I'm excited about getting home tonight and spending the evening with my gorgeous husband!
x
Not a comment, but a question
What was the name of the little clever girl Chris Evans was interviewing yesterday on his show?
Chris Hi have laughed daily en route home from work and now have the urge to blog!!
Further to your interview with your new pal fergus the foreger? Did you know that there is a week long Mushroom Festival in the Trossachs. It involves food drink music mushroom gathering and cooking demonstations. it is on in October you will get more info on the web!!
ps I'm sure Rebecca and Sally get very excited every day prior to the program, I know I do!!!!!
The things that get me excited are doing things for the first time and going to new places
This year I've got married, been to Egypt, helped my daughter move to uni, been to Ireland.
Work means that every day can seem like the last but I look forward to every hour I can spend with my family.
Have a great weekend everyone whetever you are doing!
Christof Lammy Pie!
Back to your best mate and thank goodness for that!!
What gets me excited? Friday nights! Is there any better feeling????
Blog is great by the way
What makes me excited? Sitting with a cuppa and Nigel Slater cookbook after a hard day teaching primary school kids, an early night with the radio on in bed, snow falling during the night, sand in my toes on a sunny beach, the pop of a champagne cork, hearing Echo Beach when I'm least expecting it....and not having a hangover. Oh, and lovely black suede slingbacks. Less is more, Mr Evans, less is more.
Now then Chris,
Things you get excited about...
I was every excited the other day - why- because I ate a tomato that I had actually grown myself, in an old washing tub, that I had sown late and thought that they would never ripen. How wrong I was and how gorgeous it was! never again shall a tesco tomato touch my lips.
goody goody yum yum - remember that?
Hi Chris,
Kids. That's the most exciting thing that can happen I think. They are amazing beings, and you learn from them every day. They also make you feel excited through their own excitement. You want them to be excited because it's such a beautiful thing to see, and you are a part of their excitemnt and wonder.
They also stir up memories too. My kids will do things, and I think, 'God, I remember doing that with 'such-a-person', or at 'such-a-place'. Sometimes I have not been aware of these memories until my own children have opened them up. Wow. I love mine to bits. Even if the smallest one has a cold and woke up at 5:30am! I think they are the meaning of life and our future.
XxX
p.s. Hope you have some one day.What fun they would have with you!
'A new day can be started at ANY time of the day'
This was something I heard spoken by someone in passing today. It excited me all day! Isn't it SO exciting that at 34 years of age (me), and in a few words, a brand new prespective on life can be found, just like that!!
Just a comment on Chris in general...
At first when he took over from 'whats his name?' I thought that hed pulled a fast one/spoke to a friend to get him the job. Now Im totally in the other mind. Chris must be the most positive, light hearted pearson Ive heard in ages. Every time he has a guest onthe show he always ends by saying 'the most briliant guest yet' and at the end of Fridays show he ended positively... Ive got the best job in the world! (or similar). I look forward to Chris' positivt each day and he fills me up with good spirit.
Well done Chris for getting the show and well done for making it your own.. for other people.
Richard
When I was a kid, I used to get really excited at Christmas so much so I used to be sick.
I'd barely make it down the stairs before my brother would shout out what Father Christmas had brought me (bikes are kind of hard to wrap) and then hey presto, all the excitement would just manifest..........:-)
Of course I grew out of it :-)
The last thing that I was really excited about? My boss/friend who returned to work after travelling around the world for nearly a year.
"Time you enjoy wasting, isn't time wasted!!!" John Lennon.
Chris
As a recent reader of your blog, I have to ask who is Enzo?
Is he by any chance a dog?
We have a dog named Enzo and I honestly thought he was the only one. He's a rescue dog, a cross between a Staffie and a Whippet, red in colur and I could really only give him one name.
Right. Just updated myself by reading that little bit further and I discover Enzo is indeed a dog. That'll teach me not to read the entire thing. Doh!
Anyways, please forgive the intrusion but at least you now know that you have a dog named after someboby elses ;)
hi chris again , like your list of the most exciting things that could happen to a person, like you ive done most of those things however i didnt buy a radio station or sell one , but i think im on my way toearning my first million , i own a house in the states (and gonna live there next year)i havent met miss p but you ahvent mit miss t so i reckon im one up on you there, we leave for teh stat3s in february to go live in northern montana ,i cant waitit gonna be damn cold to start with, but theres all the snow and mountains to ease the temperatures plus i got my honey to keep me warm still gonna listen to your show there tho on the good old net i reckon your show is kewl so keep up the good work , chaise longue ,chaise longue, mange tout mange tout , bonjour G
Everyone can get excited about a new website launched today. www.ciderstore.com offers 90 different ciders from 18 different independent producers dotted around the country but mostly from the home of cider in Somerset and Herefordshire.
You can buy an experimental mixed case of West Country ciders or you can order a whole box of your faves.
Go for it!
Do you have any contact details for Fergus the foreger please. I would like to ask him some questions regarding wild foods.
Thank you
Becka
do you have any contact details for Fergus the foreger as I would like to ask him some questions as I am interested in eating wild foods.
Kind regards
Becka