Easter 2011

I rang Kath on Saturday night to tell her that I
was not feeling well and Cliff and I would not be
up for Easter Sunday but we would catch up either
Monday or Tuesday.

It turns out that neither Meg nor Don had told her
they were going with Lisa to visit Uncle Bill. So
it was left to me to tell her they would not be
coming. As Don was not coming neither were his
four kids. Ross had a gig and Keith was seeing
friends.

At the end of the phone call I could hear the tears
in her voice!

Cliff and I went up Tuesday and took the 'toy'
stove that he had bought for the kids as well as ice
cream, rather than heaps of easter eggs as I
figured they would have got tons from Nathan's side,
and I was right, but they rarely have ice cream
especially the fancy sort so I thought that might
go down better.

Kath confirmed that after my phone call she had a cry.
She had been planning this big Easter Egg hunt and
fancy day and it just didn't happen!

"Hark" by Ed McBain

Once again I think I am right in saying that these
days publishers do not employ proof readers any more.

On page 7 of this book there is-
"Today was Tuesday, the first day of June..."
just four pages later-
"...with his sometimes GQ look-on this bright May
morning..."

I won't bother with all the minor mistakes, there are
just too many.

Nevertheless not a bad read. It would have been a
great read if I wasn't pulled up so much with the
mistakes!

Eureka, Montana.

I have been watching a Sci Fi(or should I put SYFY,
as according to "Big Bang Theory" that is what Sci
Fi is now known as!) show on AUSTAR at Cliff's
called "Eureka". I quite enjoy it.

Turns out there really is a place called "Eureka"
in Montanna, which is strange because that setting
is the one used in the show. I mean a town
surrounded by tall trees and a lake, some remote
town set in a forest. SPOOKY!

Getting It Right!

I stared this post and I had only done the heading
when the computer had a fit. Somehow without even
pushing the publishing button it published the
heading FOUR times!!! Talk about getting it WRONG!

Anyway what I wanted to talk about was a review I
read in Saturday's Sun Herald. It was on Harlan
Coben's latest book. The reviewer describes the
main character Myron Bolitar as an ex basketballer
and now private investigator. This is wrong! He
is a sports agent with his own agency MB Sports.
He just does a little investigation on the side
usually with his friend Win.

Surely if the reviewer really read the book she
would know this as it is in EVERY book! Just in
case that is the first book that the reader has
seen.

Fluffy Bunny.

I had the weirdest dream Thursday morning. I was
at some sort of auction to raise money for a
hospital. Meg was one of the people who had donated
items to the auction. But in addition there was a
prepared statement about what the donor thought of
their mother.

The statement about me was read out and it was full
of wonderful things. Then the first item of Meg's
was put up for sale and it was "Fluffy Bunny". The
trouble was that "Fluffy Bunny" was not Meg's to
donate.

I went up to the people who had paid $4 for "Fluffy
Bunny" and told them the stroy pointing out that
therefore it was not Me's to donate! the story is
as follows:-

On Jan 12th 1981, my younger daughter Kathleen was
born. A couple of months later the Woman's Weekly
ran a competition from some company that was giving
away a dishwasher as first prize.

You had to write in 25 words or less why you wanted
to win a dishwasher. I wrote that "The one I have
now, HE doesn't work as well as HE used to." I still
think it is funny even now!

I did not win the dishwasher but I did win second
prize, one of 100 "Fluffy Easter Bunnies." He
arrived just before Easter. I remember reading about
the win, one day when I was waiting outside Meg's
kindergarden to pick her up.

However babies being babies one day Kath spewed up
on "Fluffy Bunny" and her father being the helpful
person that he always was threw it in the washing
machine, rather that wiping the spew off by hand
and hanging it on the line.

When "Fluffy Bunny" came out of the machine his
beautful blue eyes were badly scratched, his
filling had all bunched up in the middle, and his
lovely fluffy fur was like rat's tails. He never
recovered. He is 30 years old this Easter and now
lives in a gar bag in the attic. I told Kath about
this dream and she said that she had seen him last
year when she did the raid on the attic.

I wonder if this dream was a result of the quarrel
on Tuesday at lunch time!! and if so what is it's
meaning.

Don Jr is 37!

Don was 37 on April 6th. Though there was a complete
mix up with the celebrating of it.

Kath said she couldn't come with the kids as she didn't
get paid till the Friday. So she wanted the party to
be on Saturday. Meg said that she couldn't make Sat
as she was going to Melbourne early to pick up her new
car and then to a late netball match in Wontaggi, (which
her term won). But she said that it would be a full day
and thus she would be too tired to go out on Saturday
night and celebrate then. Cliff also didn't want to
come out on Wed as it would make three late nights in
a row for him and he said he would be too tired.

I wondered if Don Jr wanted to spend the actual Wed of
his birthday alone with Liza, but it turned out she had
planned to celebrate with him and her family on the Sat
night.

So it would have suited Kath and Cliff to have had it
on the Sat but not Meg and Don. I didn't care either
way was okay with me.

So when I had lunch on Tuesday with Meg and Kath joined
us and found out that she had been ONCE MORE LEFT OUT
(according to her) she did her bannana! Screaming at
me that I loved Meg more and she was not considered
part of the family! I have no idea where this idea
about me has come from. I never showed either one of
them to be a favorite over her sister. But I really
worry about how unhappy she seems to be. She seemed
to think that it was I that planned the party, when
in fact it was Meg.

Julie Benz

I was watching "Jawbreaker" (1999)last night on Go. One
of the girls was a character called Marcie Fox. As soon
as I saw her I thought, that's Dexter's wife Rita. The
actress playing the role was Julie Benz and yes she is
the actress that playes Rita. Or should that be PLAYED
Rita considering the end of season 5 saw her become the
last victim of the "Trinity Killer.'

Meg says it can't be, it must be a dream that Dexter is
having. I said I don't think so, I think they have
killed off Rita!

Of course after season 1 the series started to become
radically different from the books. In the books Dexter
did kill the "Ice Truck Killer" (his brother.)

Also in the books he has a daughter not a son. Also in
the books, Rita's two children have turned out to be
like Dexter and he is training them, like his father
did to him, to follow the code! I guess that is a bit
much for T.V. to have psycopathic children!

Kirsten Makes Another Blue!

I can't believe that Kirsten could be so silly.
She could not come last week because of something
silly she did and though she was at camp all
weel it looked like she would not be allowed to
come this weekend as she had taken Emma's IPod
but then she was allowed. Everything seemed to
be alright, but when Kath and Nathan came to pick
her up Sunday at 1 p.m. (which turned out to be
noon as they forgot to put their watches back!)
Kath told me that Kirsten had accessed Facebook
at 1.35 a.m. and up graded her facebook photo with
one of her in her blue PJ's.

The only way she could have done that was by using
my mobile phone that has access to Facebook on it.
Something I have never used so all I have to do is
check with OPTUS to see if it was used on Sunday
morning and she is in trouble again!

Toss is furious about it. Frankly it is something
I have never thought of. I guess I was just not
sneaky enough in my thinking.

But when Kath said that Toss said that from now on
as long as Kirsten is in her care she can not come
and stay with Cliff and I. I was seriously pissed!
How dare she deny me the REAL grandmother assess
to her granddaughter. If she thinks she can get
away with that I will seek legal advice and we will
see!

Perhaps it is time I though about trying to get
custody of Kirsten after all.