Talking About Dumb Things.

The Current Affair episode about the schoolies
reminded me about an article that was in the
Age on Wed 29th August, 2012.

This article was about "9 Dumb Travel Experiences
Everyone Should Try."

These were:-
1. Do a coach trip of Europe. (Meg did this 3
years ago, and neither os us thought it dumb.)
2. Go to Oktoberfest. (Ross did that 5 years ago
and once agian I never thought of that as a
dumb thing.)
3. Go overland in Africa. (I don't think this
is dump so much as dangerous as it realyy is
risking your life!!!)
4. Have dorm room sex. (I guess this is great for
a man but rather embrassing to a girl, but who
knows with young people these days. Just look
at Big Brother to see what I mean! but please
do not think I watch this show it just happened
that I saw a scene this week about the people
in the house all sharing a bed and one man and
woman pulling the covers over their heads!!) As
usual this show was running well over into the
next time slot, which was the show I was waiting
to watch!
5. Do the London Thing. (Meg did thid last year and
loved it! Neither of us thought it was dumb. In
fact I thought it was almost a right of yung Aussie
kids to do the London thing.
6. Have something stolen. (Rather a stupid thing to
suggest as most travel agenices give tips on HOW
NOT TO HAVE THINGS STOLEN!!!)
7. Stay at an all inclusive resort. (Unlike all the
other suggestions, that can be underyaken by the
average traveller, this one is for people with
money.)
8. "Do" Vegas. This is one I would love to do!!
9. Party on a Thai island. ( Meg has done this about 4
times, in fact she loved it so much that after the
second time she took her brother on the 3rd time!
which turned out to be a good idea as in one bar
she most not have been watching her drink closely
enough as when she finished it she felt giddy and
was nearly unconscious and Donald being there was
able to take her safely to her room!

So really overall these suggestions were really not that
"dumb".

Dumb Things.

Last night I saw on Current Affair that there
is a website for schoolies about what they can
do on the Goldcoast during the week.

Have we become like the American teenagers who
go to Florida and do dumb things after their
finals?

There was nothing like this going on when I left
school in 1967. So when did this behaviour start?

The reason why it was on T.V. was that the items
recommended in some cases where dangerous eg.
"if offered drugs say yes as drugs are expensive!"
What happened to saying NO?? in other cases the
activity was actually illegal and could cause you
to end up in court on charges, great if you wanted
to go into the field of law as any chargable offence
precludes such a career.

What was even worse was that these recommendations
were coming from past schoolies that had particpated
in such things!!!

Things I Have To Do.

The local council elections this year is by
postal vote. Great only of course I lost the
envelope that is it to be posted back in! So
now I have to take in in, in person.

Of course life would have so much easier if I
had won the $50,000,000 in the Oz Lotto on
Tuesday but naturally as usual my life sucks
big time when it comes to money.

Meg is on at me about the fence claim at Yallourn
Nth. I have asked Kath to ask Bill next time she
sees him to get the photos of the fallen fence an
the quotes for its relacement. I asked her this
last Thursday but even though she has seen him she
forgot to ask!!

I was wondering if this was pay back for the fact
that I refused to wake up on Monday morning at
8.30 a.m. to ring the dental clinic for her. I
asked her why she couldn't do it and she said that
both she and Kirsten are out of credit. I asked her
why Donald couldn't do it for her. She said that he
would be at work and I pointed out he drives a truck
and it would only take two minutes to stop and ring
at 8.30 a.m. I suggested she ring Meg, as Meg would
be awake, getting ready for work at that time and she
could do it. Turns out that Kath did but then after
she dropped off Sam, on Monday morning, she came
around at 8.45 a.m. and woke me up to 'borrow' $27.50
to pay the dentist.

Donald is asking me what I am doing about the paper
work he gave me, re changing the house over into his
name. I don't even know where the paperwork is!!

Which reminds me that I don't know what I did with the
paperwork for the CT scan that the heart specialist
told me to have and that also reminds me that I still
have to claim on the payment I made to the heart
specialist.

I found the receipt to return the spray paint I
bought to do the car but need to change as the car
broke down and had to replaced, I had in on the heater
but now I don't know what I did with that either.

The boot of the car is so full I can't even put the
groceries in it.

I had to ask Kath to drive the mower down to the mower
place for them to have a look at it as it is now three
weeks and it is still not starting and of course he said
it would be ready the next day but it wasn't and it it
is suppose to rain tomorrow! so it will be another week
before I can cut it and it is now nearly 3 to 6 inches
tall, which reminds me Kath says the grass in the paddock
at Yallourn Nth is nearly 5 feet tall! and needs cutting
NOW!!!

I have to send away the entries in the crosswords
puzzles that I have been doing.

I haven't read a book in three months when I should be
back reading a book or two a week now that Kirsten is
at her mother's and refusing to come back! and since
when do adults allow 14 year olds to dictate where and
with whom they live?????

Ranting done!

Euchre Results

For the last couple of weeks that I have been
going to Euchre it has been terrible. We are
lucky if we have 8 people and that makes for
some very slow games and two or three are saying
that they are sick of it and want to quit, and
I am beginning to feel the same way.

We only had two new players this year but three
have dropped out that used to come.

Also I have been playing shit house the cards
never seem to fall my way. Even when I have a
reasonable night it turns out like, last night
when I got 121, which isn't too bad, that evryone
else also got in the 120's, in fact I was equal
second last out of 8 people. So it is putting me
off, when you keep losing all the time it does put
you off and I can understand why 'old' Roy' who
nearly always runs last is sick of playing.

Lazy Days

They talk about the lazy hazy days of Summer
but that is how I am feeling now. I just
don't feel like doing anything and what is
worse I have nothing to motivate me to do
anything. I think that is part of the reason
why I have been spending so much time at
Cliff's.

Another reason is when I do come home Kath is
on at me about Yallourn Nth and it is not me
holding things up. It is the workmen who
were told what to do two months ago and
STILL HAVE NOT DONE IT!!!

Saturday 29th September, 2012.

Went to Donald's to collect Cliff's presents, cake
and ballooons, but I got Kath to keep two pieces of
cake to give to Meg and Mick as Kath, Kirsten, Don
and Lisa were going there to watch the Hawthorn and
Swans teams play.

The Swans won, which I was pleased about for both Meg
and Kath and they were both pleased for themselves and
the memory of their dad as Swans was his team and they
knew he would have been thrilled at the win.

Anyway, Kath said she would drop off the things on her
way to Meg's. But when she got to my place it turned
out that Kirsten had fallen down the stairs at Don's and
burst one of the balloons, (I took a photo of one of the
balloons and one of the cake even though in the fall
Kirsten managered to turn it upside down).

So now I have a few photos to scrap for Cliff's birthday.

Birthday Cake

I had Cliff's sponge birthday cake made at Safeway
midvalley Morwell. I had gone to three shops in
Morwell and Kath had gone to two in Moe to try to
find the Carlton football symbol to put on the cake.
The best I could find was a rubber figure of a
Carlton football player but it looked more like a
'super hero' figure than a footballer.

When I took the figure in with candles, a large 6 and
0 to put on the cake they could not find the order.
Turns out it had been put in the wrong day, Sunday
rather than Friday. So it was a good thing that I was
putting them on the cake as if I hadn't I would have
ended up with no cake at all!!

I picked up the cake and then went to the party shop
to collect the ballons which were not blown up yet and
I had to wait for them. I delivered the cake to the
staff at the Club, but was so excited by the night that
I nearly forgot to have the staff bring it out.

People were leaving when I remembered!!

But I think only Meg, Mick and Keith missed out.

It had a blue-green icing on it and to be too delicate
I was shitting green poo till the following Wednesday!

Everyone said it was the best sponge cake they had
tasted as it was so fresh!

Cliff's Surprise 60th Birthday Party

This was held at The Morwell Club, Helen St,
Morwell at 6 p.m. on Friday 28th Sept, 2012.

I was running late after taking the cake and
ballons to the club so I swung past the shop
to see what Cliff was doing, as it was aready
5.30 p.m. Luckily Moniare was delivering
some goods Cliff had ordered, so Cliff had not
packed up and gone, but that also meant that
he might be still at the shop till after 6 p.m.
and I did not want him to turn up at the same
time as some of the guests.

I asked him to come and pick me up in 20 minutes
as I still had to go home and grab a quick
shower and change. He said he had already had
three beers and that I should come and pick him
up when I was ready.

Raced home like a mad woman and was just walking
out the door when Kath rang and said she and
Kirsten were still getting ready and had as yet
not been to the club and put the happy birthday
glitter on the table!

No sooner had I hung up from her call then the
phone rang again. Cliff said Gavin had turned
up at the shop and he had driven Cliff's car
to the club. Who should be there than Lena!
Cliff did seem surprised that she was there and
I acted as if I was surprised too Like "Lena??
Lena who?? oh LENA! well I guess she came because
I was telling her it was the last Friday of the
month and there were some good raffle prizes going."

As I got there Neil Stucky and his girlfriend were
checking in, I told them to wait and went to see
where Cliff was. Right in the dinning room under
the T.V.!! John was with him. I asked him how come
he was watching T.V. when normally he would be
in the poker room? John had the job of keeping
him in there till most of the people turned up.
Cliff said he thought I might like to order tea,
and I said not right now maybe in half and hour.
As John had told me that he was giving Cliff and I
a voucher for dinner for two and a bottle of wine
as Cliff's birthday present, I had to delay our
tea order.

As it was already 10 past 6 I was expecting most
of the people to turn up in the next ten minutes.

As he was getting up to make his way to the poker
room I saw Neil and his girlfriend walking into
the dinning room and I waved frantically at them
to go back out and turned back to Cliff who luckily
was still focused on the T.V. news and had not seem
them. They were just disappearing out of sight when
Cliff walked out to the poker room, through the bar
area. As soon he was gone I raced out and grabbed
them and sat them at the table. Then rounded up
Lena who had been sitting with Cliff and Ross watching
the news with her son Daniel. Ross took all Cliff's
things and they moved to the big table.

It was then a matter of waiting for everyone else to
come. Meg and Mick were next to arrive. I took
some nice photos of them. Then Kath and Kirsten
came at about 6.25 p.m. and put the glitter on the
table.

I was still waiting for Jess and Sam to come as
well as Darren his wife and child and Stef.

At 6.30 p.m. Donald showed up with Sam and Connor,
which I had not expected as I thought he would
come with Lisa at 8 p.m. when she returned from work.

I then went into the poker room and who shoulod be
there but Stef!! I was sure that would ruin the
surprise because Stef never comes to the Morwell club.

I shooed him out to the dinning room and told Cliff
to come and order tea. He said I could order for him
and I said no come and order with me.

Ross said that Keith had gone off home with some
mates and slab and some dope at about 5.30 p.m. so he
might not come and I said ring him and tell him to get
his arse here now!

Well Cliff walked through the bar area and was half
way to the table under the T.V. when I called him
and said "Surprise" welcome to you 60th Birthday
party.

Even if he had almost guessed with Stef's arrival
he still acted stunned to see everyone there.
It was nice and I was so excited I never took
another photo!! Not even of the birthday boy himself!

Disappointed that Darren and family never showed but
more so that Angela, Sarah and Jess never came, as
they are my family after all.