Thursday, March 31, 2011

What Is a Cougar?

Well we all know it is a large meat eating member of
the cat family, but what else? Only in America could
they come up with a name for a woman over 40 who has a
boyfriend ten years younger than herself.

There is no equal name for a man who dates women 10
years younger, unless you regard 'lucky bastard' as
such. Though some women refer to such men as 'dirty
old men.' I don't think women in this situation
would like to be called 'dirty old women'. Yes
cougar has a kind of ring to it. Of course we all
know about Demi and Ashton, but she is not the only
one, but I have to protest about an ad I saw during
the week on Go for The Nanny at 7 p.m. 3 days a week.
It referred to Nanny Fine as a cougar. How wrong can
you be!! She was only about mid 30's when she married
Maxwell and he was in his mid 40's, so no cougar there!

Perhaps the announcer should check what he is reading
next time and he might not make such a stupid mistake!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

It's The Thought That Counts.

I checked with Meg and she was only having a
practise match this evening, and she was not going
to Paul's afterwards. So as soon as she left the
house I snuck down to Coles and bought some chicken
breasts for next week and saw that there were parma
rissoles so I thought I would cook those for her
tonight as she is always saying that I never cook
tea for her.

I put it on to cook just before 8 p.m. but I thought
she would be home by 8.45 p.m. so I rang and she said
that she was on her way.

I was waiting almost at the door and when she walked
in she said "I can smell it, you've cooked tea." I
said "I wanted to surprise you." She said "I stopped
and bought KFC as it was late and afetr netball I
didn't feel like cooking tea."

So she is going to have it for lunch tomorrow. I went
into my room and the thought hit me. Where was the
phone call to me to say "Hey mum I'm going to KFC fancy
anything?" I went in to her and asked and she just said
"Next time." Not good enough Louise!!

Anyway I ate tea and I thought it was good!!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

LOL

What a day Meg asked me to take her to VIC Roads
as she needed to get a new set of plates to put on
her old car before she traded it in.

It was going to cost about $30 and she wanted me to
put it on my credit card. As she is leaving hers
as blank as she can for the trip to England later
this year.

She then decided that she would order a new plate
for the front of the car as the personalised plate
she has is damaged. She then noticed that the new
plates have Victoria- The Place TO Be while the ones
she has have Victoria - On The Move. She said that
it would look odd to have a different one on the
front from the one on the back. To order a replace-
ment plate is $29:80. So to order the pair is $59.60.
So that doubled her cost! Then she thought she
would have the slim line version and that took the
price to $117! This does not included the cost of
$100 to transfer the number plates to the new car!

Then she decided that she wanted to have a look at
the different colours available! At this point the
woman said that she had an appointment waiting.
Why she took a customer when it was so close to the
appointment time is beyond me!

Meg decided that she would go with the navy blue and
white lettering as her NEXT car was going to be blue!
I pointed out that could be ten years away and she
might need new plates by then anyway!

Of course every time she changed her mind I cracked up
laughting she is just sooooo fussy! The woman was not
impressed as each time Meg changed her mind she had to
cross out the paperwork. In the end Meg decided that
she would wait until she actually got the new car and
then put the plates up against it and chose the colout
then. The woman had by this point mentioned that she
had an appointment 3-4 times. She tore up the paper
work with what I thought was a great deal of enthusiasm.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Autism Awareness

To follow from the Earth Hour, which Cliff had
not seen one ad for, what should he see but the
ad for Autism Awareness and the fact that the
Opera House in Sydney will be lit with blue lights.
"See it's alright when they want to burn electricity,
for a cause. What does a little Global warming mean
then?" Well what could I say to that!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Earth Hour 2011

At 8 p.m. on Saturday night I reminded Cliff about
Earth Hour. He said "What the Hell is that?" I
tried to explain that it was an initiative began
here in Australia to make people aware of Global
Warming and its causes.

Well as he does not believe in Global Warming, it
was like talking to a brick wall. He said that
he paid for his electricity and that he would have
as many lights on as he wanted. I think he even
turned on more lights including the outside ones
as his way of saying "It's all rubbish."

Next time I'll just keep quiet about it!

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Kirsten V Talhia

It seems that keith has given Kirsten and Talhia
nicknames. Kirsten being the 'bad one' and
Talhia being the 'good one.'

I was suppose to have Kirsten this week end but
when I rang her mother and tried to make
arrangements to hget her I was told that she had
been sent to Toss's place again. It seems that
noone had told Toss of the arrangements and she
had orgainised a baby sitter for Kirsten on
Friday night as she was going out.

Kath said that I could ring Toss and speak to her
but I am very resentful of that as she is no
relation to Kirsten and I told feel that I her
real grandmother should have to ask 'her
permission' to see my grandchild!

So I picked up Talhia instead. She was waiting
with baited breath at the edge of the driveway
and before I had got out of the car she was
opening the door and fixing the back seat so
that she could get in the car.

She went with poppy Cliff on Saturday morning to
the shop after we did the graage sales and had
bought her a hat a bag and a book. At the shop
she did not help Poopy as she had the week
before but as he put it "she fiddled with things"

Keith bought her a load of rubbish to eat and a
paint set of masks to make if she got bored.
Somehow she found 'a friend' just around the
corner from Cliff's house and played there from
5.50 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. We watche the 'dog' movie
from 6.30 p.m. till 9 p.m. I recored it and we
watched on Auststar so that I could stop it and
explain various things to her.

One of the actresses in it was Jamie Lee Curtis,
and I told her about "True Lies." So Ross
burned that for us and we watched it but at the
end of the dics it keep sticking and we never got
to see the end so I have to see if I have a cop
on tape, so we can finish watching tit next time
she comes!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

How Weird Is That?

I was doing a quiz out of the Sun Herald with
Meg on Tuesday and one of the questions asked
to whose assassination did the Warren Report
refer to. Well neither of us had heard of it
but being an assassination we assumed an
American president so went to JFK. We were
right.

Then on Wednesday I started reading Lee Child's
"Without Fail" and it deals with the threat to
the life of the Vice President and it mentions
the Warren Report!!! Never heard of it and then
rwo days in a row I read about it!!

I was watching T.V. on Thursday night, waiting
for "Bewitched" to come on and saw the end of "I
Love Lucy" it was about Richard Burton and Eliza-
beth Taylor getting engaged. Never thought
anything more about it, then heard that Elizabeth
Taylor had died on the news! I wondered if they
played that episode because she had died or was
that just another freaky coincidence.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

New Commonwealth Bank Ad

Well it is true everything that is old is new again.

Just after WW2 my father Robert Earnest Henning
started working for the Commonwealth Bank. At first
he was a flight attendent on the VIP plane the bank
run. When that was put out of service he was moved
into head office in Martin Place, Sydney. He had
been the last flight attendent they had in service.
His new postion in Martin place was as a messanger.
His job to fill the inkwells (yes they had ink in
those days!) and of course change the blotters.
He had to make sure there were enough deposit slips
and withrawal forms etc. He also had to make sure
the floor remained neat and tidy and that all the
rubbish bins (where people threw their disregarded
slips were regularly emptied.) He had a name tag and
people would make enquires to him when they wanted to
know where to go in the bank as well as differnt
services around town if new to the area. Rather
like the floor walker on "Are You Being Served."

He eventually transferred to the Hurstville branch
when we moved to our house there, in the mid 1950's.
He still performed the same function.

He worked there as a messanger till they phased them
out completely in the late 1960's. When he was
moved back to the main branch in Martin Place, where
he remained a messanger till his retirement in the
early 1970's. He had been the last messagener to work
for the bank.

But wait the new ad says that the Commonwealth Bank
is now employing concierges a "new concept' in customer
service.

The idea being that customers who hold either a
Platinum MasterCard or Platium American Express card
can ring them on 131662 24/7 and be assisted with
'Lifestyle Services.' They direct the custonmers
on flight information, car rental and limo services,
source, purchase and delivery tickets to events that
they have information on. They have refferal to
restaurants and make reservations. They have
information on major counrty and city events,
festivals etc, and various other services.

This sounds just like an extended service of what my
father use to do, but he was only in a branch and was
available to ALL the customers not just the rich ones.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A Weird Dream or Was It A Nightmare?

About 5.30 a.m. yesterday morning I woke up and went
to the toilet.

I think this dream happened between 6 and 6.30 a.m.
as I woke up from it and it was 6.45 a.m.

The dream was a s follows: I was asleep in my bed.
I feel a presence on the other side of the queen
mattress. I ask "What are You doing?" A male
voice answers "Jack was taking up all the bed and he
snores." In my mind's eye I picture the bedroom he
was in and it was my step mothers bedroom from when
I was 13. I then try to figure out what is going on,
as I know Jack was the dog that my fiancee's mother
use to have about 8 years ago. The dog is now dead.

I believe that the presence is my late husband Don,
so I tell him to go away and leave me alone.

The mattress shifts as the presence leaves, but
then it comes around to my side of the bed and leans
right over me as close as it can without touching me
but it was as if it was smothering me. I could not
breathe. He leant right down to my right ear and
said "Insurance" I yelled "Go away Don" and then it
was instantly gone. Then in the dream I wake up and
in real life I woke up too.

My husband has been dead 3 years. Yet this presence
was so real, so I thought it might have actually been
someone who passed just before I had the dream.

I began to think it might have been Cliff and I was
worried that I would get to the shop and find it all
locked up so I would have to go to his house and I
would find him dead in his bed!

I must have fallen asleep again as it was 9.20 a.m.
when I next woke up. I did not ring Cliff as I thought
in the light of day I was being silly. When I got to
the shop it was open and Cliff was perfectly fine!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Talhia Has Her Turn.

Talhia followed poppy Cliff around as if she was a
puppy and he was her loving master!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

St. Pat's Day 2011

Cliff and I went to Flannigan's Bar last night.
Meg was meeting Paul there. So she said that we
were not to go to that pub! But we did. I think
Cliff was more curious than I was what Paul looked
like.

We were lucky enouigh to get a seat as soon as we
ewalked in the door, which was great as we could
see every one who went in or out.

We arrived before Meg but she was not that far
behind us. Cliff and I had barely started our
first drink when she arrived.

Of course she saw us when she came in. She went
up to the bar and bought us a drink, but it turned
out that to get a green furry hat with ST. Patrick's
Day 2011 on it you had to buy a glass of Guiness
and neither Meg nor Cliff like Guiness! But it did
not matter as they were out of hats by then as it
was nearly 10 p.m. and they had been giving them out
from 6 p.m. But the bartender gave Meg a free T
shirt with Guiness on it. It was cream T shirt with
the writing and a harp in gold.

Cliff asked me what Meg drank and I said Jack Daniels
but it was Jim Beam, and she does not drink it with
Cola! So he bought the Jack and took it around to her
so he could get a look at Paul.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

My Boy Comes To Work.

Due to the council's notice that they are coming
to look at my pool safety fencing next week Donald
at last has come around to see what he has to do
to finish building the gate that he started for
the pool about five years ago.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Kirsten Blows Another Chance.

Caught Kirsten out AGAIN. I had asked her yesterday
to go out to my study and pick up scarft off the floor
(had been too lazy to pick it up all week) and while
she was there she noticed the computer on and tried
to acess facebook, but because my computer works at
the pace of a snail she did not have the time to get
on before I started calling to her to HURRY UP. She
then panicked and in trying to get off computer
exited the internet.

Later when I got on the computer the first thing of
course that I noticed was that the internet was shut
down so I said "You have been on the computer." She
denied it. I told her the facts. 1. I had left the
computer on Rewards Central and 2. it was now on screen
saver, thus 3. SOMEONE had exited the internet and as
4. there was only TWO people in the house her and myself
and 5. I had not shut down the internet then 6. it must
have been her. She still denied she had been on the
computer!

I then went into the computer history and showed her
in BLAcK AND WHITE that she had tried to log on to
facebook and I could not believe it that she still
said that she had not done it. Once more pointed to
the writing on the screen and said "The computer says
that you did: and finally she admitted that she had!

Meg had a call Tuesday afternoon to say that her parents
had found makeup in her belongings and wanted to know
if it was hers. It was Avon and some other things so
new it was mine. The only time she was out of my sight
other than the 'five minutes to get the scarf and two
minutes to put towels on Meg's bed,' was when I shut
my bathroom door to give her privacy when she was having
her shower. So that must have been when she got out of
the shower and went through my things to take the make up!

How can any one trust her? She lies all the time and
steals from everyone then wonders why we are cross with
her!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Kirsten Cometh!

Rang on Wednesday and asked if I could have Kirsten
for the week end. Kath said "She would see!" I had
thought she would jump at the chance to get rid of
her as there has been more trouble at home and school.

Even though I had told Kirsten that this year was
a chance to change her act as she was now going into
year 7 at a new school and there was not one kid from
her primary school in her class so that no one would
know how silly she had been the last couple of years.

But no it seems she could not control herself, as she
has started fighting with girls in her class and once
more gone onto facebook and said silly things about
other girls!

She is also still stealing only now it appears that she
is taking things from the homes of girls that are trying
to be her friends. She is totally alienating everyone
that could possible make life easier for her.

So was nicely surprised when Kath rang on Friday about
5 p.m. ans said "You can have her for the week end."

Of course I had to drive up and collect her! and when I
got there Talhia was throwing a tantrum as she wanted to
come too. She was screaming at her mother and father. Of
course adults that they are they were screaming back at
her. She flounced off to her room slaming the door.
When Kirsten did that Nathan took Kirsten's door off its
hinges. I doubt he will do that to Talhia.

I went to her door and knocked before I poked my head
around the door and said " if you behave for Mum nad
Dad over the week then I will take you to Poppy Cliff's
next week end and we will see how you go." She stopped
crying and said O.K. and I hugged and kissed her.

Then went to her parents and told them I would have
Talhia next week if she behaved herself during the week.

So that was smoothed over and Kirsten and I were able
to leave in peace.

Monday, March 7, 2011

A Bewitching Boo Boo

Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but I do
not believe that in the entire history of the world
that there has ever been a black haired baby that
has grown up to be a blonde haired child.

Many babies and children were used in the "Bewitched"
series. So you would think that they would try to be
realistic. Samantha had blonde hair and Darrin had
dark hair so a baby could have had dark hair, which
the first babies did. But Erin Murphy has blonde hair!
and she was the child that played the later Tabitha,
(which was originally spelt Tabatha).