Why I haven't Been Doing My Blog.

It has been a while since I have logged on and written on my blog.
My second aspire Acer refused to open. Took it to the repair man
and he said it would cost $200. Well this little laptop about 3
quarters the size of the Acer but twice as big as my notebook.

I tried to get by with the note book but some of my e mails would
not open on it so I went to the one day sale at Big W(Sat 8th Nov)
It seems OK to me. They seem about the same size as the Acer.
There was not much on the web about it. Meg came with me and we
had a look at it and she said it would be Ok for my needs.

WE opened it and she change some of the settings for me for a
different screen saver and bigger font. As she said the one being
used was too small for me and I had to agree.

So we will just have to see how it performs as neither of my Acers
lasted longer than 3 years each, for $499 each. So if this lasts
18 months then it is doing as well.

Goo

POOOOO

BING

Baa

Talhia's 12th Birthday.

On Sunday 10th Cliff and I went to Yallourn Nth to celebrate Talhia's
12th Birthday.

I can't understand why Nathan has to come to OUR celebrations of the
kids birthdays when he also celebrates their birthdays with HIS FAMILY.
Kath does not go to his family's celebrations! It really puts a damper
on the proceedings!

Kath cooked the cake she did it in the style of the rainbow cake from
the cheesecake shop in Traralgon and as that cost $45 no-one was going
to buy it even with the $10 discount voucher. Kath's cake tasted
awesome. We all had at least two pieces!

Wednesday 13th August

I picked up Meg from work and took her to Claudia's on the other side
of town for lunch so we ordered lunch and then went to the optometrist.
We picked some frames and there were two I liked that Meg "approved" of.
The lens were $100 and the frames $280. I got only $200 from Medibank.
So instead of the $150 I usually pat it cost me $180! But when I need
new lens it is easier to put them in metal frames than in the plastic
ones I usually get. So next time it should nit cost me anything!

Lunch was ready when we got back. Meg said that she enjoys the food
there better than Café Crème and I have to agree and I much prefer
their Iced Coffee.

We agreed we go next week as I have to pick up the glasses and get
them adjusted.

Busy Day 6th August.

Had lunch with Meg as usual but I forgot my purse so she had to
pay for the second week in a row.

After lunch with her I had a second appointment with Luke.
Unlike last week I had made the booking for the afternoon. I
drove around for nearly ten minutes before I could find a space!
Luckily he did not have anyone booked straight after me so I
still got my full 30 minutes.

I had noticed an instant improvement with my lower back but that
seemed to highlight the fact there was a lot of tension in my
neck and shoulders.

So I had him spend half the time on each. I felt really good!
so I booked another session for the 13th.

As I was on that side of town I went around to the optometrist
to book in for an eye test as now with the diabetics I have to
have one every year instead of every two years.

Too tired to go to exercise group. I have not been all term!
But with getting up early for Lena and then lunch and physio I
was really buggered! I think physio relaxes me so much that I
want to sleep. Something which I have not been doing much of at
night and that is why I am so tired all day long!

Gippsland Phyiso

On the Medibank website the only physios were at the Gippsland Physio
Group in Commerical Road. So I made an appointment for Wednesday
morning on the 28th July.

I had the two free sessions with Luke so I booked in with him.

He is quite young and very nice. But then again there is the saying
you know when you are getting old as all the service people you meet
are so much younger than you! My doctor would be in her 30's and I
would say the dentist and physio are in their late 20's.

Anyway he did my lower back and it was WONDERFUL, but I did not use
the free sessions as yet. I'll use those when I am broke from my
lap band operation!!!

Su Ann Tay

Finally got around to checking out the Medibank Private web site.
The only dentists in Morwell under their logo are at the Clock
Tower practice. So I made an appointment.

The dentist I saw was a young Asian girl Su Ann Tay. Unusual to
have a woman for a dentist. I don't think I could hack looking
in people's mouths all day long. What about bad breath UGH!

Anyway she cleaned them all up and said there was not too much
wrong with them considering I have not really had them looked at
for nearly twenty years.

I had to go to Traralgon and get an X ray so she could see what is
going on in the jaw and bring it to her in about 3 months.

Mr. David Scott

I went to see him about doing my lap band operation. I told him
what Mr. Arthur said about opening the previous incision and I did
not want to do that and he said he has to have a look to see what
is happening so booked me into Maryvale on Saturday 30th August
to see what is happening with my other band.

Maddy's Stay Ends Badly.

On the Thursday after her lesson she asked could she stay at
Aunty Tracey's for four nights and I said Yes.

On the Friday I went to Tracey's to take her the custard
tarts she wanted on Tuesday but hadn't eaten and her aunt
said she had NOT seen her since last weekend. She had lied!

I told Tracey I did not have her number and could she get
Maddy to ring me. By Saturday night Maddy had still not rung
rung so I rang her mother who was still in SA and told her
what happened and asked her to get Maddy to ring me!

Still did not hear from Maddy and I rang Karen who came on
Thursday to pick up Maddy's clothes but she would not take the
flavoured milk that was use by the day before.

It's like I have always said to Meg "It's not like the milk
says 'Opps my use by date was yesterday so I had better go
off to-day!'" I find in some cases the milk is still good
up to three days past the use by date.

Anyhow when Karen came I said that Maddy had still not rung
and Karen said that Maddy had told her that she HAD rung.

So she is now lying about that!

Connor's Birthday.

You have to feel for Connor. Every year his mother takes off to play in
Darts competitions and it is always around his birthday!

She couldn't even miss one last year when it was his 13th Birthday!!

I wonder how he will turn out. Will he be a giving adult putting himself
last when it comes to his children or selfish like his mother putting his
wants about those of his children! Can't really blame Karen as she was
brought up that way. Her mother always bought her smokes and put her
bingo above her 5 kids! You learn from your parents.

Anyway this year he was with dad. I had wanted to take him out again to the
city but as I had Maddy that was not going to happen. We went around and
I gave him the drawing stuff and he seemed happy with that. Especially as
it was from Smiggle (He said that is the expensive store from the plaza in
Traralgon, so he had seen it before and looked at the stuff but had never
been given any before!)

He has finally started to grow UP. He is now getting quite tall (and thin).

Maddy's Timetable.

Maddy is doing abridging course to get her back into school. It
runs for a number of weeks, She is actually starting in the
second week. Her times in the second week are Tuesday 9 a.m.
to 10:15.a.m. Wednesday 1.30 p.m. to 2.45 p.m. and Thursday 12
to 1.15 p.m.

In the second week she is with me the times are exactly the same.

It does not give me time to get two hours of work done with Lena so
I have asked her to come after Maddy goes home.

Maddy Comes to Stay.

Karen Roberts was going to Adelaide to play darts for eleven
days. Maddy asked if she could come and stay with me for that
time and I said it was O.K. if her mother gave me $100 for
the entire time.

Her mother came over on Friday 18th and dropped the money off.

Karen was suppose to drop off Maddy on the Monday night about
5 p.m. However she rang and said that Maddy was with her
friends and she would get a lift later.

I rang her mother at 9 p.m. as she was not here. Then Maddy
rang me to say she would be here SOON.

However at 10:30 p.m. she was still not here. I rang her and
she said she could not get a lift so I had to get out of bed
and go and get her! Great start!!!

We Celebrate Kirsten's 16th Birthday

Cliff and I were going up after the market on Sunday the 20th
to see Kirsten for her birthday. Just as we were about to
leave Morwell I received a phone call from her to bring up KFC.
I asked how many people we were feeding and she said just mum
and me.

So we just got the "Cheap as Chips" deal for $19:95. Which
was a lot cheaper than we usually pay to feed the mob up
there.

When we arrived there was a boy there attached to Kirsten
it seems, but he eats healthy and would not have any KFC.

I gave her the 16th Birthday card.

She showed me were she fell over and really bruised her right
knee, coming out of the cinema the other night. Then last
night (19th) Kath allowed her to drink which I was disgusted
at and as a result she fell over again and bruised her left
knee pretty badly too. Then she tried to jump over the fence
and fell on her bruised right knee and made it worse!

But despite all the trouble she said she had a great time!

Kirsten's 16th Birthday

I had meant to ring her for her birthday. Cliff did not want
to go up after work on Saturday, as he did not want to miss
his races. So we arranged to go up Sunday. She said she was
having a sleep over and there would be about 4 friends. I
asked her if we had to feed the whole mob and thankfully she
said "No!"

But when I thought the first time about ringing her it was
11 a.m. and I figured it was too early that she would be in
bed still asleep.

However the next time I thought about ringing her it was
already after 12 a.m. and thus no longer the 19th!

Ross was home with Cheryl but he did not want to go to tea
with us for his birthday. He said they were going back to
her place and having a quiet meal.

My 65th!

Now I'm officially retired! Ha! Ha!

Cliff suggested we go to the club or R.S.L. for tea, but as no-one
else could come I said why don't we have a nice romantic dinner
alone at some place where we had not eaten before and he said O.K.

We ended up going to the Aura Café. It is located near the
parking garage in Traralgon.

There was only a few people there, so we easily got a seat.

The wait staff were nice.

I saw that they had oysters moray on the menu so I asked Cliff he
wanted to go halves with me and he said "Yes" so we ordered them.

I went to the toilet. When I came back Cliff said "Well I don't
know how you managed to do it but they have got the order wrong."

There were crumbed oysters on the table and the waitress came up
and said they were ? and we could A. Sent them back. B. Eat them
at no charge and not have the ones we ordered or C. Eat them at no
charge and still have the ones we ordered. I opted for C.

I told the waitress that it was O.K. about the mistake as it was my
birthday and that was like a little present.

Well we finished our meal and I was really felling the push to finish,
when the wait staff came out the three of them had a plate with a
slice of cheese cake on it with sparkles on the cake and they sang
"Happy Birthday" to me!! It was lovely.

I asked them to take a photo of me with the cake and they did but
by then the sparkles are gone out. They offered to get more but I
said No as they would most likely cause too much flare I the photo!
I also got them to take a photo of Cliff and myself.

They were really sweet!

All up it was a really GREAT NIGHT!

Ryley Turns Six.

Not only was it Ryley's sixth birthday, but it was also the last
Friday of the month.


So we went to the Morwell club for tea.

Kath was angry with Nathan as he said he was going to make a
special cake for Ryley but he did not bring it to the club. He
said he "forgot".

Cliff and I did not win anything in the raffle. Kath did. John
and Lena did not have any luck either.

Overall the kids were not too bad.

House Rules

I never watched the first series of this, but am enjoying
this season. I usually watch the Wednesday night episode
with Lisa, I was surprised that she does not watch it as
she is so into decorating. This show is partly sponsored
by "Home Beautiful." This is the magazine that I give her
as a subscription each Christmas.

There were 6 couples at first. They decorated each other's
houses and then one team was eliminated. From the first
episode I did not like Brooke and Grant from Tasmania. All
the teams are competing to win the grand prize of having
their mortagee paid off. Three couples Maddie and Lloyd
from Queensland, Candy and Ryan from N.S.W. and Adam and
Lisa from Victoria all want to have their mortagee paid
off so they can get married and start a family. So I
wanted one of them to win. Brooke and Grant between them
have 7 children. She just wants to stay at home with them.
Mel and Bomber have four kids between them and she wants to
stay with them and Carole and Russell from West Australia
want to win so Carole can stay at home and see more of the
Grandchildren. Anyway Brooke was a b...h and he was a
b.....d. So I was pleased when they were eliminated first.