Lena's Party

It was a busy day on Wednesday 4th March. First I had gone to the shop to see Audrey, but she did not come over

Audrey Thornton

Cliff's mum had to go to Bendigo in Jan this year to have
surgery done on her left knee, but the doctor noticed she
was walking 'crookedly' and got an Xray of her right knee
which was operated on 13 years ago. The rod that was placed
in her knee had moved and it was causing problems so instead
of replacing the left knee, the doctor had to fix the right
knee.

She spend a week in hospital and then two weeks in a care
facility and then two weeks in Bedigo with friends. She was
preparing to go home when she got a phone call from the
Parkington hospital re her medication. Every year it has
to be adjusted and there was a vacancy for her right away.

So she came to Melbourne. She was only in hospital for a
week and they like the patient to say for at least ten days.
They would not let her go back to Mildura on her own so she
opted to come to Cliff's for a week.

He picked her up on Tuesday 3rd March. Naturally I had to
do the shop all day when he went to pick her up. But worse
I was expecting him back by 2 p.m. but he did not come back
till 4.30 p.m. as he decided to 'go shopping' at the cheap
export placees while he was down there. He never mentioned
this to me before he went!

I was exhausted as I had very little sleep on Monday night.

Coffee (Again)

A couple of weeks (three) ago Coles had a Nescafe special
on their sachet coffee. They now have Mocha and Latte (Slim)
(in other words less fat.) There is also a new variety
Chocolate Mudcake flavour, which is rather like hot Cocoa.

Kirsten, Brody and Lacy loved it, but Karen (Roberts) (like me)
thought it was too 'hot chocolatey.'

Have not done the scapebook project YET, but am organizing my
'paperwork' with Kath over the last couple of weeks and hope to
be able to start doing projects SOON. We may even do a couple
of weeks in a row to get going.

Slacko!

So much for the New Year's promise of doing two blogs a week (min)
and thus eight a month!

I have been so busy getting the PartyLite Business going that I
have neglected my blog, but no more.

More effort will be put into it even if I only write a few lines,
better than no word at all.

It only matters to me as I have no-one following me.

I am certainly not the next undiscovered Shakespeare (thank god,
who can tell what he was writing about anyway..) It really requires
a dictionary to understand what he wrote.

Will that happen to all the present great literature today? In
500 hundred years will no-one be able to understand English from
the early twenty first century? Something to ponder - that is
the trouble with a living language, it grows and chnage.

Drive Way Madness

I went to the Traralgon Shell Station on Sunday to fill my
car and was pleasantly surprised to find the cost of petrol
was down to $1.18.9 cents a litre. For during thr week at
Morwell I had noticed it had shot up to $1.22.9 cents.

But the set of pumps in front of me were not working and I
noticed that it was the same for each line at the station.
So much for closing the station down for a few months to add
more pumping units, when they are now not working!!

The station was so busy I had to go to a set of pumps on the
'wrong' side of my car. I had filled up and was just starting
to clean my windows (as even with the rain we have had in the
last week there was still a considerable amount of soot on my
windows) when a car pulled in behind me and the man statrted to
fill up.

I was just going in to pay when he came out from paying. I had
to wait for the three people in front of me to pay and when I
came out the man behind me was backing up. He yelled out his
window "The driveway is not all day parking!" I felt really
embarassed for his poor wife who was sitting in the front
passanger seat. How rude of him.

But I had the last laugh. He pulled up at the lights on the
highway to turn right into Breed St and I went down the parrallel
alley. Of course I was at the intersection of Kay St well before
he was! so much for all his hurry and bluster! Fools never prosper!

Black Saturday

Well as usual I was staying at Cliff's. I went to bed
about 4.30 p.m. for my nanny nap and the next thing I
knew Cliff was waking me up. I was really disorintated
as it appeared to be so dark. I had set the alarm for
7.20 p.m. and it looked like it was neare 9 p.m.

I stumbled out into the kitchen and looked at the clock
and it said 6 p.m. I couldn't understand it and then
Cliff said to go out the back. So I went into the back
yard and the sky was blood red as far as the eye could
see. I went back inside and got my phone and took photos.

It didn't matter if you looked south towards the fires or
north, east or west. It was the same. The sky was red
and evry thing else appeared black. It was so dark that
the street lights had come on automatically. A car came
up Pollack Ave as I was taking a photo and you could see
the smoke from the fires swirl in the car's head lights.

Done

Well it nearly killed me but I got the six parties needed
to become a 'qualified' PartyLite consultant.

I asked Kerry and she said yes, but had to rush off to a job
interview at the local R.S.L.

That night the R.S.L. rang her and offered her a job! I have
been trying for a job since 1993 and now at 59 and 1/2 do not
expect to get one. Well she won't be on the permanment roster
till March so said she can't give me a party till then.

Janette Chipperfield said she would give me a party but fell
off Fred's push bike and broke her wrist. She and Fred are
getting married on Sat April 11th 2009 and she will not be able
to give me a party till after that!

Kylie Cowen was busy with the new 'boyfriend' but has booked a party
for Thursday 19th February.

Sue Hill's father in law took a turn for the worse, but she
rebooked the party for 21st or 22nd February and will confirm
the date later this week.

So I managered to get 7 parties all up for the first business month
and will meet my quota of $2,800 worth of sales.

I have 6 parties booked for the second month and only need 1 more to
be sure of reaching the $2,800 mark.

However I am worried about the third month as it will be Easter and
what with that and possibly people going on hoildays and buying 'eggs'
it means finding 7 parties for two weeks!

I started with a rush and looks like I have to finish in a rush.

Such is life.