To retrace, Cliff and I and usually Ross attend Sue and
Allen's party every year. Sue frantically rings every
week for three months to remind us it is on and then in
the last two weeks it is every day. She also sends me
emails, but this year there was not a peek out of her
and I thought maybe they were not holding it this year.
It just turns out I had forgotten to give her my new
email and that Cliff had not mentioned to me once that
it was on. But not knowing I had booked a table at the
Traralgon RSL and when I told Cliff the week before
he said what about Sue and Allen's party and I said
"Is it on/" and he said "Of course" and I said "BUT
YOU NEVER SAID A THING" and he said "I didn't think
I had to!!!! So he must really thing I'm a mind reader!
About 5.50 p.m. as I was about to walk out my door my
stomach rumbled and I had to go to the toilet and I
thought "Oh no let it not be a bout of diverticulitis."
But I went with Cliff and had about 4 chicken wings and
if I thought Cliff over the Bar Be Que cooking he has
nothing on Allen they were burnt to a cinder on the
outside and just cooked right on the inside. But I had
no sooner finished eating at 7 p.m. than I had to run to
the toilet and I knew then that it was the div..!
But it was the first time I had really enjoyed one of
their parties as usually I have no one to talk to, but
I sat and was mesmerised by the tattoo lady, this was
the first time I had meet her. She is a friend of Sue's
called Linda, and had an opinion on EVERYTHING. Some I
agreed with some I thought she was talking through her
hat, even though she was not wearing one. I think Iiked
her, she was so upbeat.
I have NEVER liked tattoos, though I know there are
people who think they are art, I still regard the people
who wear so many as freaks in a show. I am appalled at
the health risks and the terrible waste of money. This
lady seemed to have them from her ankles to her elbows
and was PROUD of them. I was disgusted.
My late husband had tats on his arms when I met him and
I explained how I felt about them and he said he would
not get any more so I was appalled the day he came home
whit one with my name on it as if that would make it all
right. He did have the name removed and put the name of
our three children on it instead. (Still did not like it!)
To add injury to insult even knowing how I felt all three
of my children have tatts though thank god the two girls
only have them where they can't be seen unless undressed!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Xmas 2010
Disapointment again! Xmas this year was to be at Kath's.
After all she sayd it is easier for everyone else to get
to their place rather them dragging around FIVE children
which includes a toddler (in nappies) and a new born baby.
It was to start about 4.30-5.00 p.m. but at 2 p.m. I ran
to the toilet for thr eight time in 18 hours and suddendly
started to burn up, the sweat just dripped off me and I
began to hyperventilate and to feel claustrophobic. By 2.30
p.m. I was vomiting into the sink.
I went and woke Cliff up and told him he needed to take me
to the hospital. He went and had a showet and we got there
by 3 p.m.
The triage nurse had to treat two people in front of me and
I got to see him about 3.20 p.m. he took my blood pressure
which was normal for me 125 over 85 but my temperature was
35 which is a little high, but from the time we had entered
the hospital and the air conditionong hit me I gegan to feel
better.
I was given a name tag and told to wait in the waiting room.
At 4 15 p.m. I send Cliff with a list of things he had to do
and to pick up Don's kids from Karen;'s to take to Yallourn
Nth.
After he left I realised i still had the camera and rang and
told him on the way to my place he'd have to come back to
the hospital to pick up the camera as Meg's had no pictures
left on it.
By the time he came back I was in an examinating room and on
a drip. The nurse took a blood sample, she tried the back of
my right hand and of course the vein collapsed almost
immediately, so she went for the crook of the left elbow and
this time was successful. The doctor said it could be
between 2-3 hours before the results were back. Which is
terrible slow! Cliff arrived just as the doctor siad that so
I told him to go and I would ring and let him know when the
test was back. It was 5 p.m. by then.
The test was back by 7.20 p.m. and my white cell count was
not very elavated but there was a small increase in one of
the enzymes from 60 to 100, which ment that something was
going on in my gut!DUH!!! The doctor said there was no need
for meto stay overnight, but I would be on the trip for
another hour.
I rang Cliff and told him that and I would ring when it had
finished for him to come and pick me up. About ten minutes
later Donald rang and made all the kids wish me a Merry Xmas
and thank me for their presents!
I rang Cliff about 7.50 p.m. to tell him to leave about 8.30
p.m. but he walked in just as his phone started to ring. As
the doctor said that she would give me a note for my doctor
and some medication to take home.
The nurse came in to take the drip out when it had finished
at 8.20 p.m. but checked with the doctor first to see if
she wanted to put in anything else first and was told not
it was fine to remove it.
The doctor came in about twenty minutes later with a packet
of antibotics for me but as soon as I saw it I asked was it
penicillin based and she said it was and I told her that I
was allergic and she THEN READ THE CHART AND SAW THAT IT
WAS WRITTEN ON THERE. It took another twenty minutes for
her to come back with another bottle. I reminded her about
the letter, and it was another twenty minutes before she
bought that back but she had said as she left that the
resident doctor would have to see me before I left. The
resident came in ten minutes later looked at the chart and
then said I would need another DRIP with antibodics to
kick start me as it would take awhile for the tablets to
start working.
So the nurse came back in and of course the left elbow vein
collapsed and we had to try the right so I ended up with
all these bruise which even today look awful.
By 10.15 p.m. we were back at Cliff's! Kath had send a
SMALL plate of food for me, but it barely touched the sides,
I had not ended since I had finished the bar be que at Sue
and Allen's on Xmas Eve.
After all she sayd it is easier for everyone else to get
to their place rather them dragging around FIVE children
which includes a toddler (in nappies) and a new born baby.
It was to start about 4.30-5.00 p.m. but at 2 p.m. I ran
to the toilet for thr eight time in 18 hours and suddendly
started to burn up, the sweat just dripped off me and I
began to hyperventilate and to feel claustrophobic. By 2.30
p.m. I was vomiting into the sink.
I went and woke Cliff up and told him he needed to take me
to the hospital. He went and had a showet and we got there
by 3 p.m.
The triage nurse had to treat two people in front of me and
I got to see him about 3.20 p.m. he took my blood pressure
which was normal for me 125 over 85 but my temperature was
35 which is a little high, but from the time we had entered
the hospital and the air conditionong hit me I gegan to feel
better.
I was given a name tag and told to wait in the waiting room.
At 4 15 p.m. I send Cliff with a list of things he had to do
and to pick up Don's kids from Karen;'s to take to Yallourn
Nth.
After he left I realised i still had the camera and rang and
told him on the way to my place he'd have to come back to
the hospital to pick up the camera as Meg's had no pictures
left on it.
By the time he came back I was in an examinating room and on
a drip. The nurse took a blood sample, she tried the back of
my right hand and of course the vein collapsed almost
immediately, so she went for the crook of the left elbow and
this time was successful. The doctor said it could be
between 2-3 hours before the results were back. Which is
terrible slow! Cliff arrived just as the doctor siad that so
I told him to go and I would ring and let him know when the
test was back. It was 5 p.m. by then.
The test was back by 7.20 p.m. and my white cell count was
not very elavated but there was a small increase in one of
the enzymes from 60 to 100, which ment that something was
going on in my gut!DUH!!! The doctor said there was no need
for meto stay overnight, but I would be on the trip for
another hour.
I rang Cliff and told him that and I would ring when it had
finished for him to come and pick me up. About ten minutes
later Donald rang and made all the kids wish me a Merry Xmas
and thank me for their presents!
I rang Cliff about 7.50 p.m. to tell him to leave about 8.30
p.m. but he walked in just as his phone started to ring. As
the doctor said that she would give me a note for my doctor
and some medication to take home.
The nurse came in to take the drip out when it had finished
at 8.20 p.m. but checked with the doctor first to see if
she wanted to put in anything else first and was told not
it was fine to remove it.
The doctor came in about twenty minutes later with a packet
of antibotics for me but as soon as I saw it I asked was it
penicillin based and she said it was and I told her that I
was allergic and she THEN READ THE CHART AND SAW THAT IT
WAS WRITTEN ON THERE. It took another twenty minutes for
her to come back with another bottle. I reminded her about
the letter, and it was another twenty minutes before she
bought that back but she had said as she left that the
resident doctor would have to see me before I left. The
resident came in ten minutes later looked at the chart and
then said I would need another DRIP with antibodics to
kick start me as it would take awhile for the tablets to
start working.
So the nurse came back in and of course the left elbow vein
collapsed and we had to try the right so I ended up with
all these bruise which even today look awful.
By 10.15 p.m. we were back at Cliff's! Kath had send a
SMALL plate of food for me, but it barely touched the sides,
I had not ended since I had finished the bar be que at Sue
and Allen's on Xmas Eve.
Friday, December 17, 2010
The Rush To Xmas
I really love this time of year. I have always
done so I approach Xmas with the expectations of
a child, all hopefull that I will get great
presents!!
Yet even as a child Iwas continually disappointed.
I did not mind too much about getting clothes as
long as they were not school uniforms but I hated
it when the toys I got were usless. Who gives an
only child a game of Scrabble and Monopoly and
never plays with her? Well my parents did!!!
Worse were the dolls that came with REAL boxes of
Lux soap flakes to wash the doll's clothes with,
in a wash bowl with pegs. I hated helping Mum hang
out the clothes as the washing was always slapping
me in the face, though I liked to run up and down
between the sheets so Mum didn't know whereI was!
For many years my late husband gave me 'household'
items for Xmas e.g. sheet sets, irons and pot sets.
Yet he didn't like it when he got hammers, drills
and other 'boy's toys.'
In the end we found it better to just use our money
to buy our own gifts and wrap them and give them to
ourselves.
Even Cliff is terrible at buying me gifts, and when
he does hit on a good one he usually ruins it by
giving it to me straight away! This year he gave
me a great gift it was a calandar for next year but
a scrapbooking one with all the extra bits and pieces
with colour sheets on the back of each month so when
the month is finished you have a lovely sheet of paper
for your photos. But he gave it to me over six weeks
ago when he first bought it!
Better though than when he bought me plants because
that was what his late wife loved! Despite the fact
that I told him for 5 years that I have not only two
brown thumbs but 8 brown fingers as well.
But once again hope springs enternal and I am waiting
with baited breath for Xmas 2010.
done so I approach Xmas with the expectations of
a child, all hopefull that I will get great
presents!!
Yet even as a child Iwas continually disappointed.
I did not mind too much about getting clothes as
long as they were not school uniforms but I hated
it when the toys I got were usless. Who gives an
only child a game of Scrabble and Monopoly and
never plays with her? Well my parents did!!!
Worse were the dolls that came with REAL boxes of
Lux soap flakes to wash the doll's clothes with,
in a wash bowl with pegs. I hated helping Mum hang
out the clothes as the washing was always slapping
me in the face, though I liked to run up and down
between the sheets so Mum didn't know whereI was!
For many years my late husband gave me 'household'
items for Xmas e.g. sheet sets, irons and pot sets.
Yet he didn't like it when he got hammers, drills
and other 'boy's toys.'
In the end we found it better to just use our money
to buy our own gifts and wrap them and give them to
ourselves.
Even Cliff is terrible at buying me gifts, and when
he does hit on a good one he usually ruins it by
giving it to me straight away! This year he gave
me a great gift it was a calandar for next year but
a scrapbooking one with all the extra bits and pieces
with colour sheets on the back of each month so when
the month is finished you have a lovely sheet of paper
for your photos. But he gave it to me over six weeks
ago when he first bought it!
Better though than when he bought me plants because
that was what his late wife loved! Despite the fact
that I told him for 5 years that I have not only two
brown thumbs but 8 brown fingers as well.
But once again hope springs enternal and I am waiting
with baited breath for Xmas 2010.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Is Target Falsely Advertising Sale Items?
You be the judge! I saw in last weeks catalogue
that Quilt sets were 20% off, the sale also included
'bed linen accessories' so on Wednesday, the last
day of the sale I went into the Morwell store and I
bought a quilt set, a sheet set and two pillow cases.
When I got to the till, the quilt set and the pillow
cases came up with the 20 % off but not the sheet set.
I asked about this and was told that it is not an
accessory.
An accessory in the dictionary is defined as
"something decorative, a minor fitting."
I would have thought that bed linen accessory would
have included sheet sets as well. I think if they
were not having these on special it should have
stated 'does not include sheets or sheet sets.'
that Quilt sets were 20% off, the sale also included
'bed linen accessories' so on Wednesday, the last
day of the sale I went into the Morwell store and I
bought a quilt set, a sheet set and two pillow cases.
When I got to the till, the quilt set and the pillow
cases came up with the 20 % off but not the sheet set.
I asked about this and was told that it is not an
accessory.
An accessory in the dictionary is defined as
"something decorative, a minor fitting."
I would have thought that bed linen accessory would
have included sheet sets as well. I think if they
were not having these on special it should have
stated 'does not include sheets or sheet sets.'
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Welcome Dayne Nathan Cook
Kath had her baby on Friday at 9.17 p.m. and I was
right! despite the two scans and the nurse saying
it was a girl, it was a lovely little 6 1/2 pound
boy!
Of course that threw a spanner into the works! As
Kath had gone out and bought everything in pink!
Toss had gone to schoolies with Emma to supervise
her but left a week ahead of time in case the baby
arrived early as she has as yet not seen one of
Nathan children being born. She did not make it
this time either Nathan was outside ringing her
to ask where she was as the baby was nearly here
and she had driven straight from the Gold Coast
through to the hospital and was only at Moe and
when he went back inside it was to be told the
baby was here and it is a boy! I was there for
Talhia and just after Jasmine arrive but Kath
did not even ring me this time till about 10.45
a.m. on the Saturday morning. iwas in the Optus
shop buying my new phone when the call came in
and when she said it was a boy I just let out a
hoop and a hollow every one looked at me and I
explained that my daughter had just told me that
she had a little boy.
Toss had to go out first thing Saturday morning and
buy blue and in a size 0000 which turned out to be
too large! he just fits into a size 00000!!!
Mum and baby went home Sunday afternoon and he was
finally named on Monday!
right! despite the two scans and the nurse saying
it was a girl, it was a lovely little 6 1/2 pound
boy!
Of course that threw a spanner into the works! As
Kath had gone out and bought everything in pink!
Toss had gone to schoolies with Emma to supervise
her but left a week ahead of time in case the baby
arrived early as she has as yet not seen one of
Nathan children being born. She did not make it
this time either Nathan was outside ringing her
to ask where she was as the baby was nearly here
and she had driven straight from the Gold Coast
through to the hospital and was only at Moe and
when he went back inside it was to be told the
baby was here and it is a boy! I was there for
Talhia and just after Jasmine arrive but Kath
did not even ring me this time till about 10.45
a.m. on the Saturday morning. iwas in the Optus
shop buying my new phone when the call came in
and when she said it was a boy I just let out a
hoop and a hollow every one looked at me and I
explained that my daughter had just told me that
she had a little boy.
Toss had to go out first thing Saturday morning and
buy blue and in a size 0000 which turned out to be
too large! he just fits into a size 00000!!!
Mum and baby went home Sunday afternoon and he was
finally named on Monday!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The House that Sam Built!
Was watching "I Dream Of Jeannie" on Go the other night
and Major Healy is going to marry Jeannie's sister at
Dr. Bellows house and that house is the one that Darren
and Samatha Stevens live in! Which is the show on
immediately after Jeanie!
Also lately I have noticed that Jeannie opens with a
side view of Major Nelson's house, looking at the
left side of the house and it is the house used for
"Dennis the Menace" that Dennis and his family lived
in.
and Major Healy is going to marry Jeannie's sister at
Dr. Bellows house and that house is the one that Darren
and Samatha Stevens live in! Which is the show on
immediately after Jeanie!
Also lately I have noticed that Jeannie opens with a
side view of Major Nelson's house, looking at the
left side of the house and it is the house used for
"Dennis the Menace" that Dennis and his family lived
in.
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