Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Another Fight With Mum

Kirsten wanted me to come and pick her up AGAIN, as she
and mum had another fight.

I spoke to Kath and she said that she was sick of Kirsten.

So I did go and pick her up and she spent the weekend with
me at Cliff's. She really is not much of a problem as she
spends all her time on her phone writing on Facebook.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

An Expensive Night

I was coming from Yallourn North after dropping of Kirsten
and it was about 6:50 p.m. and I was going up the road near
where the old race track was and I was stuck behind a car
doing 80 kms in the 100 zone.

There is nothing so frustrating, especially on a single
laned road. So I put my foot down and overtook it. I
mean I did hit 120kms. But it was a clear road, Monday
night and early in the evening. But of course there WAS
a police car lying in wait! It will cost me nearly $290
for overtaking that stupid slow car. If he had of being
doing the limit I would have been perfectly happy to stay
behind him.

Of course I ended up being late for the cards at the club
anyway.

Monday, July 29, 2013

The Combined Birthday Party

The idea was to combined all the family birthdays for July and August
thus saving everyone the need to go to individual parties, which gets
to be a pain after awhile.

So the cake had all our names on it, Gloria, Ross, Kirsten, Connor,
Keith and Talhia.

Well as I have already said Ross who is 34 HAD to have a night out
with meal for his birthday. Kirsten wanted Cliff and myself to drive
up to Yallourn Nth to see her on her birthday and say "Happy Birthday."
Yet Kath and Kirsten were at the shop when I was at the Health Center
and couldn't wait just ten minutes to see me AND IT WAS HER BIRTHAY so
why should we be put out!!! and take nearly two hours out of our day
and travel nearly 30kms to see her!!!

As it turned out Talhia had a dance at school and it was her first
disco dance so she refused to come to the party as she wanted to go to
the dance.

Then Donald also bought a cake for Connor's birthday and asked us to
come around after the club for a slice of cake and it had cost me $48
for the 14 X 14 inch cake for all of us!

Other than that all went well. Donald won a $50 voucher on Safeway,
John won a $30 voucher on Manny's Market, Ross won a meat5 tray and
Cliff won a $40 voucher on The Deli in Church St. Kath, Meg and Mick
and Lena missed out. It has been4 months since Lena won, 3 months
since Kath won and 2 months since Meg won.

So all up not a bad night. Kirsten was to come back with us but ended
up going to a friend's house.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

I See The Diabetics Nurse

Finally got in to see the nurse. The woman at the counter charged
me $(.80. I said I thought it was free and she said even on a
health card or pension card it was $9.30. So I paid but I wondered
what the voucher from Melbourne was. As Dr. Rose told me that it
entitled me to TWO free sessions with the nurse!

So I got in to see her and was there about 45 minutes and we barely
got started I felt I did not know much more that when I first went
in. She was very nice and I was given the free testing kit and
she told me how to use it. I have another appointment with her
in a month.

When I went to use the kit the next day I couldn't figure out to
use the "lancing device" the instructions were USELESS! all they
said was "prime the device" but did not show how to do this. I
ended up going down to the chemist and getting them to show me.

Have been testing myself morning before breakfast and 2 hours
after my main meal. The highest I have hit is 9.6 (not suppose to
be over 7) and that was after a Healthy Choice Dinner! The nurse
did mention that I should go back to the Dr. and get her to look
at the results to see if I needed tablets to help me regulate my
insulin. She just did not say when as the Dr was saying that she
hoped I would be able to achieve this by diet alone and I don't
have an appointment with the dietitian till about the 10th August.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Ross Gets Special Treatment

Despite the fact that Cliff knows "we" (that is my family
and him and his two sons) are going to the Club on Friday
26th to celebrate all the family birthdays in July and
August. Ross still wanted to celebrate his birthday on
the 19th!

So Cliff took us to the RSL in Traralgon and we had tea
there.

Ross said it had years since we had been there and I
pointed out it was in fact on his birthday last year
that we had gone there!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Bastille Day

July 14th is the day the French stormed the Bastille prison as
a sign of independence against the royal rule.

I did nothing unusual today!!!

We never hear about this, why is that?

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Sunday, July 21, 2013

American Indepenance Day

This makes me think of the movie with Will Smith. A movie that I really
enjoyed. But I wonder how many Australians know what the day is really
about. That there was a war fought between the British who 'owned' the
colony and the people of the colony who wanted to rule themselves and be
independent from the British Empire. Needless to say the Americans won
and that is why there is an USA today.