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Kirsten Plays Up

I had checked with the school and Kirsten seems to be missing
two days a week this term. So I rang Kath who said Kirsten is
refusing to go and Kath is not physically capable of dragging
her out of bed and putting her in the car and taking her.

So Kath and I agreed that Kirsten would come and stay with me
the rest of the term.

I went up on Sunday the 17th and was surprised to find that she
came quite willingly. Her mother said she had at first refused.

On the way back to Morwell she told me she was not feeling well.
I asked her is that why she only picked at her tea. She said yes.
I asked her if she was hungry and she said no, I said I was and
would she mind if I went to McDonalds and got something to eat.

She said it was OK. By the time we got back to my place it was
nearly a quarter past 8 p.m.

She asked me if I could give her $20 as she owed it to a girl at
school and mum had given her the money but she had left it. Silly
me instead of saying "I'll give it to you tomorrow morning before
school", I gave it to her then and there.

She said she was still sick and was going to lie down.

At 8.35 p.m. I went in to check on her and see if she wanted to come
and watch Bones with me only to find she and her bag were GONE!!!

I had left my phone at Cliff's so I had to drive to his place and get
it. I rang her mobile from Ciff's home phone but she did not answer.
I left the message "If you do not ring me within 5 minutes I will
ring the police."

She never rang back all night.

I rang Meg, Donald and Kath. No one had heard from her.

Kirsten had mentioned she had spent the entire weekend with friends.
When I told Kath that she was surprised as she was suppose to be at
Nan Leonine's. So I rang her but she did not know where these friends
were except they lived around the corner from Kinen.

Kath said she had picked Kirsten up from the house.

Kath also tried to ring her but there was no answer. Kirsten did text
her to say she was safe and not to worry and she would be at school on
Monday! I went down to the station and saw a young policewoman. Kara,
she was very nice but said that at 15 they could not 'drag' her home if
she did not want to go.

They did manger to get her to speak to them and confirm she was at the
friend's at Churchill.

She had teed it up with them before she left home to go to the Well St
shops and she would meet them there at 9 p.m.!!!That was why she was
not fighting with me about coming to my place!

Friday Spend Up

When I looked though the bag from Smiddgen I could have
kicked myself. I thought WHY didn't I buy more at the
cheap prices for the kids birthdays next year!

So I went back on Friday 15th and bought presents for
Sam and Talhia.

I also went into Kmart and bought some of the cosmetic
packs for the girls birthdays next year!

So now I have done all the Xmas presents for this year
except Elizabeth's dress which I still need to wrap!
and almost done all the birthday presents for next year!
Am I good or what???

A Good Day

When Kath was putting together the purple bookcase I also
asked her to put together the six tier stainless steel
bathroom unit.

She thought it was something like she could use to put the
baby things in and on. I told her I had bought it from
Sam's Warehouse in Traralgon.

I said we could go over and have a look.

So I drove everyone over. She found something. Of course
I had to pay for it! She said she would pay me back.

Kath said she also had to buy some nail polish for Talhia
for a school 'fun' day. But the Warehouse does not do
nail polish anymore. So we went to the Plaza. Kath
thought the Reject shop would have the cheapest polish.
So we went there. As we were passing Prouds we slowed
down to have a look in the window. Brooke saw a earring
and necklace set she liked. So I sent the others into
the Reject shop while I went into Prouds.

I bought the set for Brooke's 18th birthday.

It was half priced and then had another $29 taken off!
Also if you spent over $30 you could purchase a pair of
earrings and a pen for half priced. So I did.

Kath and the girls caught up to me. I showed Kath what I
bought as the girls walked on to Kmart. I told Kath I
wanted to have a look at Smiddgen. It is an Officeworks
for kids. They had an offer. Spent over $30 and buy any
number of half price items from a certain stand.

I never thought but I did spend $30 on two stencil books
and bought two half priced items, pencils and textras for
Connor, for his birthday in March.

I then went to Kmart and while waiting for Kath and the
girls, I browsed along the windows. There were a number
of boxed cosmetics. One of them was a packet of five
nail polishes for $5! So when she caught up to me I
asked how much she had paid at the Reject shop and she
said $15 for THREE! I then pointed out the ones in the
window. She was quite annoyed.

A Purple Day

On Thursday the 14th, Kath Kirsten and Brooke came
around to put together the purple 'bookcase' I bought
from Cheap as Chips.

It looks really good in my shoe room. I'm using it to
to put my handbags in.

I finally put the shelves back up in the right order
after the earthquake and put all the boxes back on them.

The shelves are also looking good. I need to paint them.

So when the weather is better and I have three or four
days in a row of heat I will get around to that.

I also need to cover more boxes for shoes and take the
pictures of all the new shoes.

I need to make lists of all the jobs as there are SOOOO
many!

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Well will wonders never cease! Brooke came down from
Melbourne, on Tuesday 12th November. I think it
is the first time I have seen her since last Xmas.

So I went over to Morwell and picked her. She was
with Kirsten, Maddy and her NEW boyfriend Zanith.

I had the vouchers for Coles Mix and I took her and
them back to Traralgon to go shopping at the Coles Mix
store. She had $60 to spend which was her Xmas present
from last year and her present this year!

It took her about five minutes to choose as I had
given her a catalogue to see on the drive over and she
picked what she wanted. All she had to do when she got
to the shop was find those items!

Then it was back to Morwell as she wanted to go to her
father's place but she was STRAVING so first we went
to Subway in Commerical Road. Kirsten wanted to be
dropped at Poppy Cliff's shop. So I only had to pay
for Brooke and Maddy. Zanith had a Subway as well but
thankfully paid for his own. Both girls wanted a drink
so I bought them one and Maddy gave me the $5 it cost
for the drinks.

Gee Gees

Melbourne Cup at Cliff's house this year was on Tuesday,
5th November.

Donald, Lisa, Sam, Meg, Mick, Kath, Kirsten (and actually a
boy who was introduced as 'Kirsten's boyfriend') Lena, her
boyfriend and John all came for the BBQ and Cup races.

Bev and Tony had other arrangements. Sue and Allen didn't
come because he was on nightshift. Didn't hear from Richard
and his mum. Cliff said he does NOT have Gavin's phone
number, so we could not invite him. Elsie also had other
arrangements.

I had sweeps for all the races. This year I charged $1 a
race and $2 for the cup. Kath was a winner John broke even
as did Cliff. I think everyone else including myself were
losers.

I did not ask anyone to bring anything other than bread and
margarine. I think all the food cost about $100, this was
shared by Cliff. He did all the cooking of the meat and I
did the cocktail franks.

All the meat was eaten but more than half the salads were
left.

Later everyone said it was the BEST Melbourne Cup Day EVER!!!

Friday 1st Nov 2013

Went to the doctor to get the results of my mole biopsy.
They had changed colour and were larger and itchy, but
all was O.K. However because of the diabetics, the
wounds were not healing as well as they should. So the
doctor gave me a script for some ointment, which cost
about $13 a tube!!

It has to be put on three times a day. I'm lucky if
Cliff puts it on twice a day, morning and night as
he goes to bed hours before I do (about 8 p.m.) and gets
up two hours before me at 8.30 a.m. and both holes are a
little hard to reach for me as I do not have ape hands!

24th Oct

Because it was a 'short' month, the last Friday of the month
fell on Friday the 24th.

We all went to the Club as usual and we had some luck with
the raffle.

Kath won a mystery prize which turned out to be a black
label Johhny Walker scotch( usually about $50!)

John won a $40 Manny Market voucher.

Cliff won a $30 bistro voucher.

Then John won the big prize of the night the $500 Coles/
Myer Gift card.

I actually bought tickets myself this month so the only
people on the table to miss out were Lena, her boyfriend
Glenn (whom she bought for the first time) and myself!

Halloween Disappointment

On Wednesday the 30th Cliff decided to do some gardening
and asked if Sam would come around and help. So I went4
around to Karen's and brought him back.

They pulled weeds turned soil and planted new plants for
summer eating. Sam seemed to enjoy the work. Cliff gave
him $10.

When we got back to Karen's I said that Cliff would like
him to come on Thursday. He gave half his money to Maddy
as he had stolen $20 from her.

But when I went around on Thursday he said he was going to
a friend's place as they were going out Trick or Treating.

Friday Karen wanted me to keep him after he did the garden
but as Brooke and Kirsten were suppose to come and stay at
Cliff's I said No.

But as it turned out neither of the girls came but by the
time we got back to Traralgon it was nearly 6 p.m. so when
I got to Karen's they are already gone to tea and Maddy
was there alone minding Elizabeth as Sam was at a friend's.

I like the fact that Sam has friend's, as Donald didn't seem
to have as many friends at the same age.