"Handle with Care"

This book had me reading eagerly till the last chapter.
I once had a writing teacher that sais that sometimes a
writer has such a great yarn that they find themselves
lost for an ending. Often that is why children write
"and she/he woke up, it was all a dream."

It seems that is what happened to this story. But instead
of "it was all a dream" she took the ending from "My Sisiter's
Keeper" and stuck it in here!

To add to the insult there was that bit about the cheque.
Obviously it was still pinned to the fridge six months after
the trail because of her guilt, but if she had have been
sensible she would have banked it, paid off all the mortages,
the credit cards, bought the new van and wheel chair and
surely in that six months there was anothere set of school
hoildays and she could have tried another trip to Disney
World! Afyter all isn't that why she fought the battle?

To just put it in the coffin "because it was your money" means
NOTHING. By not cashing it it stays in the insurer's bank! I
would have set up a college fund for the elder daughter and
set up a fund in my dead daughter's name with the remainder
of the money to help children with brittle bone disease.

What a lame finish to a great story, so disappointing.

White Goods Cont:

Maybe because it has become a sore point I have been
taking notice of kitchen settings in different shows
lately.

Firstly I noticed in "I Dream of Jeannie" that the
fridge in the kitchen was a pale green colour.

The next show was "Bewitched" and the fridge in that
kitchen was also a green colour, but it was a lime
green (that is a pale colour green with a hint of
yellow in it), of course that could just have been
the way the light hit it.

Both those shows were filmed in the mid 1970's so
there have been coloured white goods available in
the USA for over 35 years!

The only 'coloured' item I have seen in Australia
was a lovely chocolate stove I bought about 30
years ago, when my kitchen was brown. I replaced
it about 15 years later with the typical white stove.
Only because I could not get either a pale yellow
or green colour.

What would colour add to the price of the applicance?
Surely no more than $100???

Good on Ya Pascall's

Saw the Pascall's Adults ad for their lollies last night
and LOL for five minutes. Told Meg about it but she thought
it was not ALL that funny.

You be the judge!

Princess comes into bar and sees frog. Remarks that he does
not look like his profile (everyone is internet dating and
everybody LIES!) He responds that he is under a spell "at
the moment" She answers not too happily "I suppose it is
what is inside that counts!"

Just then a fly buzzes passed and the frog does what frogs
do and his stickly long tongue shoots out and catches the fly
and he eats it.

Before you can say "Robertson Curso" the princess says
"Ready to go to my place?"

END OF AD.

What is inside of the frog? His tongue! NUDGE! NUDGE!
WINK! WINK! say no more!!

How long will this ad last before it is banned.

They got rid of the "Sic him Rex" which was very similiar!

Why ban an ad about sex. Sex is a normal part of life. Why
not ban the ads that show violence and destruction, like
cutting up furniture with a chain saw because it is half
price. Or using a sledge hammer to destroy property because
it is a sale. That is not a normal part of life!!!

"White Goods"

It is like Ford said about the model T, "You can
have any colour you want as long as it is black."

I said to Cliff at the weekend that I am sick of
microwaves, fridges, freezers, washing machines and
driers that only come in white! Why can't we have
colour! He said "Because then they wouldn't be
white goods." Typically a male response and of
course they are the designers. So all you ladies
out there stand up for our rights WE WANT COLOUR!

Just then an American show came on and there in the
kitchen was a great YELLOW fridge! So if the
Americans can have colour why can't we???

Clean Out

With Kirsten's help I cleaned out my wardrobe and
threw out seven bags of clothes and a Bluey (which
I had never worn.) I think Thomas left it here.

But when it came to getting rid of the bags all
the recycle bins that had been in Manny's market
and next to Cliff's shop were gone.

Turns out that people were leaving dead aninamls
in the bin next to the shop and Cliff complained
to the council and it was removed.

Had to leave them in the bins at the back of Saint
Vincent De Paul in Traralgon.

Movie Night

Strange that we still call it movie or video night
when actually it is D.V.D. night. Soon to be BluRay
night.

Friday after we had tea at the R.S.L. we went to the
video shop ( and we still call it that despite the
fact that they no longer sell videos) and got "Alice
in Wonderland."

It was not at all like I expected. It takes place
when Alice was 19 and it is in actually fact her second
visit to Wonderland and her first visit was when she was
6 and not just a dream as she had always thought.

The other movie we got was "The Tooth Fairy". Thought
that approp: considering Meg had her bottom two wisdom
teeth out.

We watched Alice Friday night and took the Tooth Fairy
home on Saturdaymorning for Meg to watch with Kirsten,
but Meg's friend Jacky came and I had to leave before
they had finished watching it. So Meg made the supreme
effort and went to the video shop in Morwell and got a
copy from there for her and Kirsten to finish watching.

I watched it on my own on Sat afternoon. I had heard
them laughting like mad but I did not do the same though
I did think there were some funny parts. Like "You can't
handle the tooth." "I swear to tell the whole tooth and
nothing but the tooth."

Kirsten Comes for the Holidays

On Wednesday I went to pick up kirten from Yallourn
Nth. But I had broken my glasses during the night
and had to go and see about getting them fixed.
Turned out it was only two months off the 2 years.
So luckily for me there was a cancellation and I
could come back at 2.30 p.m. to ghet my eyes tested.

But even though I was 1/2 an hour late Kirsten was
still not dressed or packed to come and stay with me.