Sunday, April 19, 2009

Reading Bonanza

Spent the week end reading!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Proof Positive!

I heard on the T.V. last night that the Moe Abattoirs
has lost two of its backers and may have to close.

I immediately rang Cliff and he said that he had told
Donald, Meg and I at lunch on Tuesday and that proves
that I do not listen to a word he says. I said that
the story did not seem familiar to me in any way.
Not one word.

So at lunch time today (Friday 17th) Don Jr turned up
and I asked him and Meg do they remember him telling
us that story Tuesday and they BOTH said NO. Donald
said he was told by Cliff on Wednesday and Meg had
not heard about it at all!

So it is I that has the proof that he does NOT tell
me things!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter 2009

Well Cliff and I had a lazy Easter. I had already given
Kath's children their Easter eggs and Donald's lot were
at Robinvale visiting Karen's father.

So Meg and Donald said they would go to Yallourn Nth to
visit Kath and the kids for Easter Sunday.

I ended up giving Don'd kids their eggs on Tuesday 14th
April. (Donald still has the basket of eggs that I bought
for his kids from last year. I reckon they would be past
their use by date by now!)

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Janette and Fred Get Married!

Well she did it! Janette married Fred at last. They were
first boyfriend and girlfriend but after a silly quarrel
broke up and went their seperate ways and married other
people.

WhenJ anette's marriage to Nigel broke up she went home
to visit her relations in England and reconnected to Fred.
His wife was dieing of cancer.

Two years later she went back for another visit and Fred's
wife had died. They got together and realized they still
liked each other. She came home and he kept ring and
sending flowers so she moved over there for about two years.

Then they decided to move here to Australia. They have been
here about 18 months and live in a lovely new house they
built in Newbrough.

They finally got all their relatives togehter and married on
Easter Saturday 11th April 2009, at Emerald Gardens, at Moe
South.

Cliff and I were invited and then Cliff invited Kirsten who
stayed the night, at his house. I had intended to drop her
off at home on the way to the wedding.

I had only wanted to go to the wedding, not the recption.
It turned out that Janette and Fred had booked us for a meal
at the recption so then I felt really bad for taking along
Kirsten as it would cost them more money for her, so I said
no we would not go to the reception, which I had never
expected to be invited to anyway!

Donald and Meg said that she would be furious with me as they
would have had to pay for the meal even if Cliff and I didn't
go, but the truth was that we both felt really buggered and
as we only really knew Janette we decided that it would be
better not to go. We talked about it at the wedding, at
Kath's place and again when we got back to Cliff's and it was
just too much. Neither of us have been feeling that great
lately, just a bit run down. So I hope Janette is not too cut
about us not going to the reception.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Talhia/Kirsten Swap

When I rang Sue Hill it was to discover that she had
made no effort to throw me a party tonight! In fact
she isn't sure she'll have one this month!

So instead of rushing over to Traralgon to 'her party'
Idecided to stay home and sleep! So i rang Cliff and
told him I'd bee over tomorrow!

I was sleeping and the phone rang and it was Kath
wanting to know if I'd have Talhia overnight. As I
have only had her once before I agreeded before I
remembered that I had not stocked up on groceries as
I was orginially going to Cliff's I have no bread,
eggs, or milk.

They turned up close to 6.30 p.m. I had heard Meg
having a shower just before they came but she had
left already, though they did see Mark outside.
Meg went to Donald's award night for cricket he got
a pennant for winning the grand final three trophies
and one continuning plaque.

Talhia was disappointed that Aunty Meg was not here.
I think she only wanted to stay to see Aunty Meg.
As soon as she woke up on Friday morning she was
in waking her up which gave Meg about four hours
sleep!

I ended up going and getting us breakfest from
McDonald's. I got two double bacon burgers for
Talhia and I, but when I got them home it was to
find that was all they had on them NO EGG at all!

Just after twelve Nathan came and picked up Talhia
and dropped off Kirsten whom Cliff and I will take
home tomorrow when we go to Fred and Janette's
wedding.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Party Plan Blues

I have worked for a number of companies over the years
and it seems to me that party plans always seem to
fall down in at least one area.

For some it is an overpriced product.

Others it is not enough product so that half your guests
don't get what they ordered and you are running around
for weeks trying to catch up with 'old' parties while at
the same time trying to organize new parties.

For others it is a poor quality product.

For others is is inefficiency in training and follow up.

And for others it is poor staffing in their managemnet and
office.

Many boast of the 'well paid' returns but when you build
all the time into the equation, not just the time giving
the party but the unpacking the packing up the paper work
and finally the deliveries it works out at about $12 an
hour and most people earn $15-$18 in part time or causal
work these days.

So is it really worth all the hassle even though you are
working 'your hours' rather than a company's hours?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Don Jr is 35!

I really feel sorry for Don Jr as I said at the time,
from now on his birthday will be marred because it is
the day after his father's cremation.

Every other member of the family gets together to
celebrate their birthday but this year we did not
do that for Donald.

I asked him to come to Cliff's after he dropped off
the children and he did. So I gave him his present
then. It was the little Collingwood bear, that Cliff
had thrown out of the house because it was a
COLLINGWOOD bear.

Also the red and white Jim Bean Top. I got the x
large as he is a big boy but he complained to Meg
on his birthday (on Monday) that I must not know
his size as it was HUGH. I like them to be roomy
on a bloke. He was hoping that Meg would be jealous
but I think it was Simon that was into the Jim Bean
'goodies' even though it is Meg's drink.

Meg went up and cooked him a meal, but it was not
a late night as he had to go to work early the next
day. Don't know what Kath did for him.

Monday, April 6, 2009

2nd April 2009

Well it is now one year since Don Snr died.

Kath was crying over the littlest thing while we did
scrapbooking on Wednesday.

Donald has been biting my head off all week and Meg
is just her usual snapping self. Sometimes I think
she has permanent P.M.S.

We went to the top pub for lunch where Anglea joined
us.

I told them stories of Don Snr's life as as a child.
Some of these stories my children had already heard.

I also told them of how I met Don, which they had not
heard.

Most of us had the $9.95 special lunch which was just
enough. Don Meg and Angela had the 'normal' meal as
they werestraving and it was half the size again of
the lunch time special meal.

All up it was a good lunch and a great day. We left
laughing and not crying.

I think we truly celebrated Don's life rather than
grieved over his death.

That is the way I want to be remembered not with grief
but with happiness.

I want people to be glad they knew me rather than sad
that I am no longer with them.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Monday 30 th March

Well I met Kath as planned and we went to Curves and I got
my $5 auction money. However they were very busy and Brenda
was a triffle brusque, which Kath found offensive. Also
there was a bit too much pressure to join both from Brenda
and Maria.

But I reckon I did not do too badly as I only bought along
two people and one of them joined, some people came in with
up to six friends and family and none joined!

Kath was staying in Morwell till 4 p.m. when Nathan was
picking her up on his way back from exchanging a car part
in Traralgon.

So we used the time to go up to Donald's house and help
clean it up. Kath did the bathroom and toilet and I did
the stove top, micro wave and the outside of the stove.
I got Donald to do the inside of the oven and the racks.
I did the washing up, as well as dusting the mantle and
cleaning the table in the lounge room.

The place had to look fit for Uncle Bill who was planning
on coming down to spend the 2nd April through to the 5th
with the kids, because it has been a year since Don Snr
died. But Bill rang on Wednesday to say he would not be
able to come after all as his car was playing up and the
money he was going to use for the trip would be needed
to fix the car.