April's Last Friday of the Month

Although it was only the 26th it was the last Friday of the
month as next Friday will be 3rd May.

I had told Kath on Wednesday that it would be Cliff, Lena
maybe John, myself her and Kirsten at the club.

She had remarked that she would kill Lena if she won the
$500 again as she had won it the first time when she came
to the club last September when it was Cliff's birthday.

When I got the 4 coupons for ordering tea I took the first
two and put them behind my back and asked Lena to chose.
The remaining one I gave to Kath. It was Kath's coupon
that won a meat tray! Which made her very happy as she
said she will put it in the freezer for next weekend
when the kids are at her place.

ANZAC Day 2013

Well they say you learn something new every day.
Today I learned that Collingwood and Essenden play
a football match on this day EVERY year!

The winner receives The Anzac Cup and the best player
of the match receives the ANZAC medal!

I said that was not fair as no other team players
can ever receive the medal! Aparrantley I'm not
the only one who thinks this but it has not changed
in over 30 years!

Cafe Creme

This is the café opposite Cliff's but that is not the
name on the receipt.

It was the first lunch I had with Meg after she came
back from her honeymoon and went back to work.

I surprised her by parking the car outside Cliff's
shop and walking over to the café.

She has been having a go at me for parking the car
outside the café and then after lunch turning it
around and driving it up to the shop and parking it
but as it is only 2 hour parking in the street and
we are at lunch for about an hour and a half, then
at the shop for two hours I have to move the car at
least once during the day anyway!

Lunch With Meg

Went to the doctor's Friday morning 19th April and
she used dry ice to burn off the mark on my left
hand. It turned into a huge blister and burst on
Sunday morning it wept for a further two days and
then started to heal but it hurts and looks to be
infected!!

Meg was back from her honeymoon so I went and had
lunch with her at her house.

She and Mick were telling me about the honeymoon.

Seems as she has to show the marriage certificate
to change her passport and as they did not get that
till they returned she was travelling under her
maiden name and on the way back to Brisbane they
were not seated together! Mick had ben given the
window seat and Meg was in the aisle seat. They
spoke to the hostess but she was not helpful, the
host however explained their situation to the man
sitting between them and he gladly moved. When
they got back to Brisbane they found that on the
flight back to Melbourne they were sitting across
the aisle from each other, so as they had to wait
two hours there they managed to change the sitting
there also. Other than that they had a great time.
The weather was lovely and Meg said she spent every
day in the pool!

Welcome Chloe

Chloe was born to Sarah ( my step grand daughter) and her
partner Paul (Kevin's son...Kevin is with Sharon and Sharon's
daughter is Charmaine, Kirsten's 'bestest friend at school
and Kirsten is my granddaughter.)

However Angela who was Sarah's birthing coach wasn't there
and neither were Sarah's mother or grandmother though that
was the main reason they came down from Queensland was to
see Sarah's baby. Instead they used their return ticket to
go to Sydney and then a train to Gosford, to go to Darren's
funeral which was held on the 10th of April.

Angela drove up and why Kim and Pam did not go up with her
and come back with her to see the baby is beyond me. But
after the funeral Pam and Kim flew from Sydney back home to
Queensland.

Fifth Anniversary of Don Snr's Death

In the early hours of this morning we heard that Darren
White lost his battle with cancer.

It was only three weeks ago that he was given 2 to 3
months to live as the brain tumors were growing faster
than they could be removed.

So now that is two family members that have died on this
date, just 5 years apart.

Found out that Darren was born on the 12th March, the
date of my friend Anne's birthday!!

April Fools Day

Well this year it was a VERY quiet day.

Don't know if this because it was part of the Easter
holiday weekend, or because of the prank the Aussie
paper played in order to gain information on the
royal pregnancy.

For whatever reason no radio nor newspaper played
any prank this year!

Cliff and I spent most of the day in bed and no-one
played any pranks on us.

Easter Sunday

Meg decided to have Easter at her house. But Cliff
and I told her that we just wanted to have a quiet
day at his place.

We already had given out eggs to everyone including
the children.

So was a little disappointed that only Meg gave me a
Red Tulip white chocolate, but nothing for Cliff,
however this was much better than Don and Kath who
didn't us anything! I had even told Donald the name
of the book that I wanted but never got that either!

Perhaps I need to start saying which books I want
for Mother's day to make sure I get them.

The Big Day - Meg and Mick's Wedding.

Good Friday

At one stage Cliff was thinking about going to the club
for the Seafood lunch followed by the Good Friday Auction.

However when it came down to it, he decided that he wanted
to do nothing. So we both veged out! ALL DAY!!!

A Busy Thursday

I woke up early Thursday and went around to Karen
Roberts and got her to colour my hair for me. That
way it was all done by 11 a.m. in time for me to
go to Sexy Nails for my appointment.

I enjoyed the pedicure.

I was done by 1 p.m. I went around to the post box
to collect Cliff's mail. When I got back into the
car I noticed the polish on my small nail left hand
had peeled back in a flap. So I went back to the
plaza. The first time I went in I parked furthest
away than I have ever parked. It was just as bad
the second time. I drove up to the front lane. I
did not see one park so I went to turn left, there
was nothing to my right but just then, a woman came
out and hit her ditdit key and the car was right in
front of me! So I waited for her to go out, there
was a car that let her out and should have followed
behind her, but instead a car on my right that had
just come into the car park shot in front of that
second car and stole my spot. The licence read
BREAAZE. A bitch that thought she can do anything
in life. She saw me waiting there before her and cut
the line. Karma is a bitch and I wish that I could
be a fly on the wall when it bites her in the arse.

I got back to the store and they fixed the nail.

Then I went home to Cliff's. I had an afternoon nap.

Tonight was 'the last Friday of the month raffle' as
tomorrow is Good Friday. So Cliff and I went to the
club. It was just suppose to be us and Uncle Bill.
But then Kath came along with John. Of course Meg and
Mick didn't. Donald came along later.
I couldn't believe that Cliff's number came up for the
first pick and win. The numbers were 1,2,8,18, and 30.

I chose 2 but I was not allowed to either open the
envelop nor take the ticket out. In fact the man
turned away from me to take the ticket out. Then he
turned back and said I had a blank, but how do I know
that he did not substitute the winning ticket with a
blank especially as the next person turned out to be a
mate of his and HE CHOSE THE WINNING NUMBER 30!!!!

So I am almost sure I was cheated out of $750!!! which
Cliff said if we had won we could have given Meg for
her wedding on Saturday. I could not sleep one wink
all night thinking this over and over and wondering if
I had picked 30 would the winning ticket have been in it.

Lunch With Uncle Bill

March Wednesday 27th. I took Bill to Claudia's. I had
meant that we would pay for our own lunch but I ended up
paying for Bill's. Luckily it was only $12.50.

We had a lovely time. Caught up on all the news.

Frantic Saturday

After Meg came around to see me on Wednesday 20th to
check my wardrobe she decided that of the three out
fits that did fit me none were suitable for her wedding.

So on Saturday 23rd she made arrangements to meet me.

Firstly I had to go to K Mart to pay off my Credit Card.

Then around to the little place Cliff told me about
under the stair case near the lawyer's office. Were I
finally got the $50 voucher replaced for Kirsten's phone.

I got to Thera's at 10.25 a.m. in plenty of time, to meet
Meg at 11 a.m. so I checked out all the dresses in my
size and quite frankly I did not like any of them, in the
colours left after Meg ruled out, white, grey, silver,
ivory, yellow, green, peach, and apricot. I ruled out
purple as I have too many evening dresses in purple. We
both thought a light blue would be nice, but they did
not have anything in light blue.

Well Meg finally showed up at 11.25 a.m. I showed her
what was on hand and she was not impressed either. So she
dragged me around to 'Shapely Triangles.' There were only
four dresses there in my size. I tried on one and it was
awful, a second was okay, the third was better, but it was
coral and I did not like it on me as it seemed to make me
looked washed out. But Meg LOVED it.

I mentioned that Thea's had the same dress in a darker blue
and it was $2 cheaper than Triangles, the girl heard me and
said she could give it to me for the same price. But Meg
dragged me back to Thea's, the girl said as we were leaving
she would give us 10% off.

I tried on the blue dress and I liked it much better. But
Meg compared it against a silver dress similar to the colour
of Mick's suit and a charcoal dress similar to the colour of
the groomsmen suit and she felt it blended into their suits
too much.

So it was another walk around to Triangles.

After I got the dress Meg liked. ($270) We walked to the
Shoeroom. She tried to get a pair of silver shoes to match
the dress but no luck.

She wanted to walk around to the Plaza but I put my foot down
as my legs were already sore from all the walking we had done
so far!

So I went back to my car at Thea's and drove it to the plaza.

Met Meg at Williams were we found a matching pair of silver
shoes and a handbag. The shoes were HIGH heels not TOO high
but higher than any thing I have worn for ten years. ($92)

Then across to the jewellery store were she found a necklace
and earring set that matched the 'flower/leaf' pattern on the
dress. ($17)

Next it was around to sexy nails to pick out a shade that
went with the dress. She wrote it on a card and gave it to
me for Thursday for my appointment. Finally we were finished
and I was allowed to go 'home.' I slept all afternoon!