Friday, June 26, 2009

Abandoned!

Thrown out like yesterday's garbage! Yes Wade Walker has dumped me
after two years!

Of course he said nice things, but the fact remains, I'm now all
along in the big bad world.

Now there is nothing between CenterLink and me. I will have to dance
to their merry tune without Wade's protection!

I can't believe that it has been two years. Our time was up on Friday
the 18th of June. What an end of the financial year!

He said that he will drop by the shop occassionally and he would let
me know so that I could bring in my scrapbooking for him to see.

We will see.

Another fact came out. Lena has been put on a disability pension.
My God the woman's only 38 and fitter than a Malleee bull yet I am
knocked back as only 15% physically disabled. Maybe if I had a melt
down I'd get on the pension too. After all she has brought her
illness on herself by her behaviour. Those of us who know how to
behaviour are then PUNISHED!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

400!

Thursday 25th June, 2009, today was my 400th workout at Curves
and I hit 107kgs!

Will have to go on the 'diet' plan AGAIN!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

B.C. and R.M. at Yarram.

Brain Cadd and Russel Morris at Yarram. AWESOME.

Enjoyed every minute of the 1 and 1/2 hour concert.

Russel is going bald so shaves his head and does what a
lot of balding men do he wears a hat indoors (and out).

Brain has a lovely silver head of shoulder length hair
and a beautiful silver white beard. He needs only a bit
more padding and a red suit and he would make a perfect
Santa!

Ross had a great time he actually held back Brian's beard
while Brian signed autographs. Ross had videoed the whole
show and asked if Brian wanted a copy so is burning him a
copy.

It was not well advertised. I can't belive that it was $38
a ticket and in Sept they having Shannon Noll (who to me is
a nobody in comparsion) and the tickets for that are $48!!!

While waiting for the venue to open. It was held in the
Regent Theatre. We went to the pub up the street and had
wedges with sweet chilli sauce and sour cream. Great on a
cold night!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Catching UP!

Went and had morning tea with Ericka on Tuesday morning
and she showed me the slide show that Jane has done of
her wedding. It was lovely. We went through it twice.

Because of Jane's divorce they were married by celebrant
Ms. Wilson, out at Raes... on April, 18th 2009.
Her new name is Manzo.

She looked absolutely radiant. I can't believe how
beautiful she is looking and not just because bride's
look beautiful.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Bad Men Day

At Hazel's party Karen told me all about Ted. Turns out he
ran off with Diane. No wonder I have not heard from her!

Apparently they are living around Gormondale way.

Anyway Don, Diane's husband had been 'crying' on Karen's
shoulder and vice versa and now they have ended up together!

This lead other ladies to tell stories about 'the man' in
their life who had most hurt them.

I did not know that Judy had been married TWICE before.
Just like me!

I remember first meeting her when I was doing AVON when she
was a Cunningham. She said that her ex mother in law still
lives opposite my house in Yallourn Nth.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

60 Things I Have Done Before My Sixty Birthday

I thought about the book on a list of things to achieve in
your life and then when I was scapbooking with Kath a woman
did 40 Things I have Done Before My 40 Birthday so I thought
WHY NOT? So here are the 60 things (and they wewren't men!)
I have done before my 60 birthday of couse some are more
unique than others but here goes.

1. Have ridden on a Sydeny Harbour ferry, a hydrofoil, a
monorail, a double decker and single decker bus, a double
decker and single decker train, a Sydney and Melbourne tram.
2. I have flown in planes.
3. I have eaten, a lobster, quail, caviare, shrimp, prawns,
oysters, octopus and crabs.
4. I have played golf, tennis, squash, table tennis and ten
pin bowling.
5. I have ridden both a push bike and a motor bike.
6. I have been caned.
7. I have been to the zoo both enclosed and open plain.
8. Been to both the royal Melbourne Show and the Royal Easter
Show.
9. Have gone fishing and caught a lobster.
10. Walked on a beach at midnight.
11. Smoked a joint (often) and took L.S.D (once) in my wild
youth.
12. Been to an International EXPO.
13. Been to an International Psychology Conference.
14. Been married and divorced twice.
15. Had three children.
16. Been in a 5 km race and won a first place prize.
17. Bought a new car.
18. Bought a block of land.
19. Bought two houses.
20. Been engaged four times.
21. Sent an e mail.
22. Started a BLOG.
23. Owned numerous mobile phones though only one at a time.
24. Made cakes and decorated them.
25. Attended weddings, a naming ceremony, christenings and a
funerals.
26. Written poems, a novel and short stories, and won two
Honourable mentions for two short stories, read my poems
on radion and performed them in publicand had one of my short
stories published in a national magazine.
27. Owned a laptop.
28. Have an MP3 palyer.
29. Joined a Gym.
30. Partaken in a midnight feast.
31. Had a pillow fight.
32. Learned to paint with acrylics, watercolours, and oils.
33. Learned many craft activities.
34. Started scrapbooking.
35. Been in a graveyard at midnight on Halloween.
36. Been to the most eastly and sotherly points of main land
Australia.
37. Found an opal at Lightning Ridge.
38. Collected stamps.
39. Hand knitted a scraf and machine knitted dresses for ny
daughters.
40. Made dressses for my girls.
41. Sold and bought books on E-Bay.
42. Broken bones in my body.
43. Gone to the drive in theatre.
44. Been involved in a car accident.
45. Gone camping.
46. Seen a total eclipse of the sun and moon.
47. Seen Hally's Comet.
48. Saw Neil Armstrong walk on the mooon.
49. Been to both Sydney and Melbourne Luna Parks.
50.Won 3rd prize in the Annuakl School Swimming Competition
at Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich, in 1967.
51. Went skinng dipping when on holiday at Linderman Island.
52. Seen three dead bodies.
53. Had a glamour photo session.
54. Sailed a catamaran and rowed a row boat.
55. Watched a sunrise.
56. Climbed a mountain and drank champagne while watching
the sunset.
57. Won the "Big" knowledge competition at the local library
and was given a trival pursuit game.
58. Been in the cockpit of a plane.
59. Am a grandmother a step-grandmother a step great grandmother.
60. I have been a working mother.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

On the Subject of My Credit Card

While checking the credit card statements after the shock on
Friday I came across the bed that I purchased from Wenatex.

On checking the payments I find that the deposit I had to
make when the bed was delivered to me has simply disappeared
into the ether. I have rung Wenatex and they referred me to
Certegy and when I rang them they have referred me back to
Wenatex I have left messages at both places and of course have
not heard back from either at this point in time (5.13 p.m.
Tuesday 9th June, 2009.)

Monday, June 8, 2009

OMG!

Received my credit card statement on Friday and found a
payment for $1,526.28 that I did not put on the card.
Of course I rang straight away and am disputing the charge,
but really it is for tickets from a travel agent overseas
bought on the intrenet! I live in Australia why would I
buy tickets from an overseas travel agent? Why didn't the
alarm bells go off?

MG when I bought three pairs of shoes (Less than $200) the
company was ringing me within 5 minutes and when I bought
$250 worth of baby goods (I am in my 50's) I had not
completed the ten steps required to take me from the register
to the door of the shop before they were ringing me to check
that I had made the purchase yet they see nothing
wrong with this transaction????

Friday, June 5, 2009

A Busy, Busy Day.

Saturday 6th June, 2009. What a day! Awake at 6 a.m. and
of course with Cliff tossing and turning I could not get
back to sleep.

I read till 8 a.m. then we got up and dresssed. Went and
did the three Traralgon garage sales. The first and third
one were busts but we spent over $60 on the second one!

Then down to subway for breakfest and rushed to Morwell.
One garage sale was actually on tomorrow and we did only one
other. Where Cliff got this great train and fire engine!
I found some nice photo albums. Like little brag books!

Dropped him at the shop and went to find where Hazel lives
to give her the paperwork for her party. I knew she lived
off Vary st and was driving down that street thinking it was
on the right hand side and I saw a notice for a garage sale
not in the paper. I went and checked it out and they had some
nice blue glass.

Told the man I would bring back the other half as he was into
that.

Looked up the map and found Hazel's was the street that had been
blocked off from Vary St and you only get to it from Hourigan Rd.
To top it of it was one of those houses with a hundred stairs up
to it!

As soon as I walked into the house I saw that she was INTO DUCKS!
They were everywhere!

Of course I mentioned that and she said that she had seen the ducks
in the catologue and that was what she wanted.

I said that there were two types of elephants and that many people
collected them as well. She said that she had this friend that
collected cows. I said "It wouldn't be Karen Campbell" and she
said "Yes, it is!" Yet Karen had not invited Hazel to her party!
Hazel told me that Karen and Ted have split up!

From there I raced home to do the dishes and the clothes only to
find that Meg had bolted the front door and I did not have the back
door key. I rang her, but she was playing netball in Heyfield and
was not coming home till Sunday!

Had a phone call from Barbara and she wanted a book. But by then
it was twelve and I went back to the shop and Cliff closed up as
it had been slow for the last half an hour.

I drove him to the 'glass' garage sale and he did buy them (but as
he was taking them out of the car when he was at home he found that
the best one had broken! (Isn't that the way?) He also bought a
nice looking sideboard. It was for the Rosedale shop.

We then went and dropped the book off at Barbara's and then back to
his house! I then started packing up all the display items from the
lounge room.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

"The Next Thing on My List"

I read this book by Jill Smolinski this week. It was called
"The Next thing on my List" The list was entitled
'20 Things to Do by My 25th Birthday' and was as follows:-
1. Lose 100 pounds.
2. Kiss a stranger.
3. Change someone's life.
4. Wear sexy shoes.
5. Run a 5K.
6. Dare to go braless.
7. Make Buddy Fitch pay.
8. Be the hottest girl in Oasis.
9. Get on T.V.
10. Ride in a helicopter.
11. Pitch an idea at work.
12. Try boogie boarding.
13. Eat ice cream in public.
14. Go on a blind date.
15. Take Mom and Grandma to see Wayne Newton.
16. Get a massage.
17. Throw away my bathroom scale.
18. Watch a sunrise.
19. Show my brother how grateful I am for him.
20. Make a big donation to charity.

The main character June goes to Weight Watchers and on her
first night offers to drive another girl home. The second
girl is Marrisa and has just received her pin for maintaining
her weight loss of 100 lbs.

A set of drawers falls off a truck and June swerves to avoid it.
At that very moment the two women had been talking about Marissa's
weight loss and she had unbuckled her seat belt to reach into
the back seat where her purse was. As a result she is thrown
threw the front windscreen and then the car turns over and lands
on her. Naturally she dies.

Personally I don't know any woman who does not keep her purse
right next to her even in the tiny space of a car front seat.
Also if the driver swerves then the force of that would throw
a person sideways and NOT forwards. Even if somehow the
passanger DID go frontwards when the car is going sideways how
could the car then run over that passanger? as they are going in
two different directions. I can't believe that all these faults
were not picked up and corrected before publication. Or maybe I
am too critical, but there are 'correct' ways of killing off a
character.

Then for some unknown reason June goes through Marissa's purse
and finds the LIST. Who would do such a thing?

Feeling guilty she decides that SHE WILL COMPLETE Marissa's list.

Despite the glaring faults that it started with the story ended
up being an enjoyable read.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

13 Years

Finally used the Valentine's voucher I won for my poem at
Curves. It was $100 at Gaztronomy. I booked a table for
7 p.m. and Cliff and I were the only ones there till 7.40 pm.
when another couple came in.

Cill had three glasses of red wine and I had the soup to begin.
It was veal and vegies, but a little too spicy for my palate.

We then had the prawn entree, which once again I thought was
too spicy, but Cliff said it seemed OK to him.

I had the veal main meal and he had beef, and as before I
thought it too spicy. The total cost for the night was $135.

I asked the wairess to take a photo of us and will scape
book it later.

I think it is the first time in months that we have really
talked, but that is what happens when you see so much of
someone, you get caught up in the mundane events of the day
and forget the big picture.

I had a really nice night and just hope that we will have
many more such nights.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Meg Turns 32!

Mark took Meg to Melbourne for the week end and they had
a spa bath in their room which she says was WONDERFUL, but
she has been very tight lipped about the week end so I have
no idea if they went out to dinner or a show or as cliff
said christened the bed over and over again!

On the Sunday which was her actual birthday they came home
and she bribed Don, Kath and family to come over and have
a drink with her and Mark, by buying them 8 (that's right,
EIGHT) different types of pizza!

Cliff and I rang and wished her Happy Birthday, but did did
not go over. We are getting too old to go out at night just
to have one drink with someone and after all we are the
oldies and they get on better with each other with all the
young ones together. (we often feel out of place as the only
'old' ones there!)