28 January 2016
Giving up on a dream
29 January 2016
Hi friends, You are probably wondering about the title of today's post and I am going to explain. You see I have wanted to be a nurse for a long time, I wanted to be a combat nurse to be exact. I never told anybody what I wanted to do because I never had the courage to do so, I always did what my parents told me to do and never said no. If I was told to do hospitality - I did it, if I was told to get a job - I did it.
Hubby and I even drove to the city to find out about doing my nursing degree and by the time I had got half way home I had managed to talk myself out of it because we were living in a country town and it would mean me driving nearly a hour to get to Uni, so I drifted into childcare, becoming a Education Assistant, having Children. All the while with the dream of being a Nurse was never to far away, then all of a sudden it was so close I was able to start getting small bits and pieces to help me get ready to study, hubby was re-located and I went to work in a field that pays the bills and is going to make life a bit easier. Once again my dream was so close I could almost touch it then it was gone. Now I don't blame anybody but myself because I should have stood up and fought when I was younger and said this is what I want and I am going to do it.
So now at the age of nearly 40 - I am not quite there so I am going to hang onto my 30's for as long as I possibly can!!, I have accepted I am never going to achieve my dream and while I am sad, feel like I have let my kids and family down - I know I haven't because I have earned their respect for going out and getting a job I can't help but think it is a case of just another one of Kylie's wild schemes.
So if I could go back and do it all over again what lessons could I tell a younger me? that I should stand up and say that while you may want this I don't, not to please everybody because at some stage you are going to piss somebody off trying to keep everybody happy, and most of all stick to your guns it may be painful but it will work out in the end.
So now as I approach 40 ( is this a midlife crisis happening early???) I am going to focus on the future and not look back with regret because A: It will cause my hair to go grey B: You can't change time - you can only move forward never go back and C: I have a hubby,two amazing children that I need to look after, love. With that I need to be the best Mum,wife,housewife and employee I can be - it has taken a back injury to realise that I am not the centre of the world, and while I will always want to help people,look after them I need to look after my family first
Ok so I have started on getting the whole family organised and getting everything written on a calendar so that we know where we all are. The slight problem with that is the thing I am using it to stick to the fridge isn't sticking. I did try and find a magnetic one which would have been sooo much easier than what I bought - just a thought I do have some magnets that you can use for crafting wonder if that will work?
I am going to go and find out.....wish me luck
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27 January 2016
MIA
28 January 2016
Yes I have been MIA for a couple of days, and I am sorry. Hubby had a 4 day weekend due to Australia Day so I haven't had a chance to get to the computer. So lets do a quick wrap up of whats happened before we dive knee deep into whats happening now.
Ok so we have had Australia Day and well we did nothing, stayed around the house and just chilled out it was great because there is this big expectation that something needs to be done for the day and well in all honesty there is such a big build up and then there generally is disappointment because it doesn't turn out how you want it. It was good to be still because we had a heap to get over ,me hurting myself, the worry of family being evacuated from their homes and not knowing if it was going to be burnt to the ground, Christmas and New Year. I can't help but think the universe is trying to tell me something and as soon as I figure it out I will let you know because it would be nice to know these things!!!! The one thing I have figured out is that I need to be in a job where I can work from home so that I can get my house lovely and tidy,organised and cook decent meals for the family.If that is what the universe is telling me than I need it to send me a clear sign of what to do because we just can't go down to one wage.
Oh and you are not going to believe what I did, after years of resisting I have signed up to become a scout leader. Yep now I am finding this funny because I am the lady who doesn't go camping unless I have a hot shower and a flushing toilet, I am not big into the outdoors and well I couldn't cook on a fire without setting myself on fire!!!, don't like creepy crawlies and I am not a big fan of snakes and spiders ( which are found a great deal in nature). So I can hear you say so why the hell did you sign up for this?, well I want to spend time with the kiddos,like working with kids and this will take me well and truly out of my comfort zone plus I might make a few friends on the way and having friends is not a bad thing.
So while I have been off I have done some reading, I read a book called Lakesia Laskie - Charli's Story ( bought it on Amazon for $5 and I have spoken about it in a previous post) and I was very surprised because A: I have never read fantasy before and B: I could not put it down, every time I did to go and do something I would be back reading this. Now I have become obsessed with this book so not only have I read it close on a double figure - close to 10 but not quite 15 but I am hanging out for the second book...I assume there is a second book, how do I find out if there is going to be a second book?, am I able to contact the author directly or is that just a wee bit stalkerish? I need to know, I have to have the second book because I want to find out to the characters- one of them dies and I want to know if her death is going to be avenged - yes I realise what I did I gave a spoiler I didn't mean to.
I am on the hunt for a new handbag and I do have certain expectations of said bag and they are : it has to not have any dividing sections in the bag, has to have pockets that I can put my keys, phone in, need to be able to get to my wallet easily - I plan on changing that as well, it needs to be able to be big enough to carry all of this stuff but not to big because I am a small person and it will look stupid, I need to be able to access my glasses case with ease - I wear glasses so I am constantly swapping between sunnies and normal glasses, plus I need to be able to carry my little emergency kit in it. Now with all of that in mind and being that I have seen the bag before ( that would be ideal) and have seen bags similar you think I would be able to find the bag..........but no. It seems that designers change the design all of the time which is making my life very frustrating
So when I do find the perfect bag I will do a photo shoot plus might even do a video so you see how I keep it organised.
Toodles XXXX
21 January 2016
Aussie Pride
22/11/2016
So I was reading the paper ( it was on-line so it still counts) and I came across a article where Ryan Reynolds disses Australia. Yes I get that it i was supposed to be funny and especially as he tried so hard to get the Aussie accent down. And yet as I watched it not only did I A: get annoyed that another American has tried to do the accent and failed and sound pathetic but B: that a yank poked fun at a country who has stood shoulder to shoulder with America on many issues.
Now I don't normally get political because I think most politicians couldn't lie straight in bed and if they ever grew a spine and made a decision for themselves and actually acted on it the world would be a much better place. Anyway I do digress, back to getting on my soapbox about jumped up actors who try the Aussie accent and look stupid, the thing that I find offensive most of all is the fact that he said Australia Day isn't a real thing, now to all Australians this is the day no matter if we be overseas serving in combat, living in different countries or still on Aussie soil we remember how far we have come as a nation, how far we have come as people and how much we have contributed to the world.
For a country that was settled as a penal colony I am proud to say I am Australian, we have sent off from our shores the following great people: Kylie, INIXS, Dame Edna, Dame Joan Sutherland, Cate Blanchett, Geofforey Rush, Eric Bana, Liam and Chris Hemsworth, Portia De Rossi, Keith Urban, Sia, Nicole Kidman,Errol Flynn, Ian Thorpe, Mark Webber, Pat Cash, Daniel Riccardo, Samantha Stosur, Evonne Gollagong- Crawley, Margaret Court, Curtis Stone, Dan Churchill We have blessed the world with QUANTAS - which just happens to be the safest airline in the world, we invented the black box recorder that is now in every aircraft in the world ( and it is generally red not black), the ultrasound machine was invented here, the cochlear ear implant was invented here, Dr Fiona Wood invented spray on skin ( and she lives in Perth) , the electronic pacemaker was invented here ( 1926 in Sydney) and the most important of all The Winged Keel that took the Americas Cup in 1983 - the first time it has been taken out of America in 132 years.
Yes so we have turned getting rid of the PM into a national pastime, we have the worlds deadliest animals, we eat meat pies and sausage rolls, we love our sport, we call redheads bluey, call tall people shorty, shorten every name we can, give everything a nickname, spend winter watching footy, spend the summer watching the cricket, yeah we have a barbie ( not the doll it is a BBQ and no we don't have a shrimp on it they are called prawns and a shrimp is a short person) we spend Christmas in the middle of Summer under the aircon ( air conditioner), we have boxing day- when the Sydney to Hobart yacht race starts and the boxing day cricket test match starts when those who don't watch cricket head to the beach.
Myself I live in a state that would fit the UK 10 times over, is bigger than Texas, California ,Nevada , Montana, New Mexico,Nevada and Arizona all together. Western Australia is the biggest state in Australia, we have the biggest mineral deposits ( in Australia), amazing beaches, Albany was the first place settled in Western Australia the last piece of Australia that most of the troops that left for Gallipoli saw the first place to hold a Dawn Service, Perth is the most isolated city in the world. Now with all of this one cannot but feel proud, and what makes us better than any country in the world - is the fact that no overseas actor has managed to ever do a passable Aussie accent without looking like a fool.
So Aussies everywhere stand up and be proud - AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
So I was reading the paper ( it was on-line so it still counts) and I came across a article where Ryan Reynolds disses Australia. Yes I get that it i was supposed to be funny and especially as he tried so hard to get the Aussie accent down. And yet as I watched it not only did I A: get annoyed that another American has tried to do the accent and failed and sound pathetic but B: that a yank poked fun at a country who has stood shoulder to shoulder with America on many issues.
Now I don't normally get political because I think most politicians couldn't lie straight in bed and if they ever grew a spine and made a decision for themselves and actually acted on it the world would be a much better place. Anyway I do digress, back to getting on my soapbox about jumped up actors who try the Aussie accent and look stupid, the thing that I find offensive most of all is the fact that he said Australia Day isn't a real thing, now to all Australians this is the day no matter if we be overseas serving in combat, living in different countries or still on Aussie soil we remember how far we have come as a nation, how far we have come as people and how much we have contributed to the world.
For a country that was settled as a penal colony I am proud to say I am Australian, we have sent off from our shores the following great people: Kylie, INIXS, Dame Edna, Dame Joan Sutherland, Cate Blanchett, Geofforey Rush, Eric Bana, Liam and Chris Hemsworth, Portia De Rossi, Keith Urban, Sia, Nicole Kidman,Errol Flynn, Ian Thorpe, Mark Webber, Pat Cash, Daniel Riccardo, Samantha Stosur, Evonne Gollagong- Crawley, Margaret Court, Curtis Stone, Dan Churchill We have blessed the world with QUANTAS - which just happens to be the safest airline in the world, we invented the black box recorder that is now in every aircraft in the world ( and it is generally red not black), the ultrasound machine was invented here, the cochlear ear implant was invented here, Dr Fiona Wood invented spray on skin ( and she lives in Perth) , the electronic pacemaker was invented here ( 1926 in Sydney) and the most important of all The Winged Keel that took the Americas Cup in 1983 - the first time it has been taken out of America in 132 years.
Yes so we have turned getting rid of the PM into a national pastime, we have the worlds deadliest animals, we eat meat pies and sausage rolls, we love our sport, we call redheads bluey, call tall people shorty, shorten every name we can, give everything a nickname, spend winter watching footy, spend the summer watching the cricket, yeah we have a barbie ( not the doll it is a BBQ and no we don't have a shrimp on it they are called prawns and a shrimp is a short person) we spend Christmas in the middle of Summer under the aircon ( air conditioner), we have boxing day- when the Sydney to Hobart yacht race starts and the boxing day cricket test match starts when those who don't watch cricket head to the beach.
Myself I live in a state that would fit the UK 10 times over, is bigger than Texas, California ,Nevada , Montana, New Mexico,Nevada and Arizona all together. Western Australia is the biggest state in Australia, we have the biggest mineral deposits ( in Australia), amazing beaches, Albany was the first place settled in Western Australia the last piece of Australia that most of the troops that left for Gallipoli saw the first place to hold a Dawn Service, Perth is the most isolated city in the world. Now with all of this one cannot but feel proud, and what makes us better than any country in the world - is the fact that no overseas actor has managed to ever do a passable Aussie accent without looking like a fool.
So Aussies everywhere stand up and be proud - AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
19 January 2016
Cooking
20 January 2016
Well I am on my second week of no work and I am enjoying it but I also want to get moving. I realise that I can't do a great deal but I still want to be able to do some cooking, get some more washing done. I know that I am going to make some soup for dinner, and may even be able to make something for desert. I kinda have the theory that if I can get the house looking good, nice food on the table then maybe Hubby will say that I don't need to go back to work and that I can stay at home.
I have a feeling for that I am going to be wishing on a miracle but they have happened before so there is no reason why they can't happen for me right?
So Master 9 has been asking all day if he can go next door and play, so me being the wonderful mother I am in a soothing voice said " no you can't"..........yeah like that has ever happened, it kinda went like this " Mum can I go next door and play" "No", Mum can I go next door and play?, No, Mum can I go next door and play "NO", now this went on for about 3 hours at various time increments until he was yelling from one room and I was yelling back. Then Miss 10 was doing something strange - I have still to work out what the sound was and I was yelling at her to stop it, then started the fighting so I bellowed from the other room to stop it. Now all the while I was doing this the TV was going, the kids were helping themselves to cake, and soft drink.
It wasn't until I had cut up the soup ( yes I took photo's and they will be included),put it in the slow cooker and sat down to write this that I realised the front, back door and most of the windows in the house were open.
So my neighbours must think they live next to a banshee, I am mortified to think that I had been bellowing at the kids with the doors open, if I had been doing it with them closed it would have been slightly less mortifying.
This year I was supposed to be transforming myself to the perfect housewife and mother - who doesn't raise her voice, has a wonderfull meal put together at the end of the day, clothes are all washed, ironed and put away. Well we are nearly at the end of January and so far all I have managed to do is kinda have a slap up meal ready, kinda have the clothes washed and put away. The ironing board is out with the iron on it - so it has made progress, and there is a basket of ironing sitting on it but little ironing has been achieved.
Now I do have to say that in all fairness I have injured my back so doing a lot of the housework - ok so all of the house work and cooking has fallen on my husbands shoulders, and I am trying my best to help out but I have kinda sucked at it.
So now that I am starting to feel better ( the meds have kicked in ), I am able to get stuff done - until tomorrow when I wake up sore and can't do a damn thing. If that does happen I do actually have a heap of stuff to do, like continue knitting Miss 10's scarf and stitching ( by hand) all of the scout badges on hubby's camp blanket - yes I did say by hand and when you see how many there are you will think that I am somewhat CRAZY ( and yes I am, just a little bit) especially when you see how many there are to sew on and the fact that I said I would do it by hand.
Now I sewed on 2 badges on my son's shirt and I did feel a great sense of achievement as I only swore three times as I stabbed myself with the needle, stitched crooked and had to start again, got a knot in the cotton, and my personal fav pulled the needle up it got tangled so I spent 5 minutes trying to untangle it with out trying to stab myself and swear loudly and frequently at the stupid needle, the stupid cotton, the stupid badge and me being stupid enough to say yes in the first place.
Ok as I mentioned I have mad some soup, you see we have had a week of cold weather so I figured that it would be a good idea to have something that is really warming.
Now this is the slow cooker I use, there is a story with this one. Long story short I got my old one out to cook in it and discovered that it had a crack in the bottom ( to be fair I had had it since I was 18) so it is bucketing down with rain and I had to race to the shop to get a new one and of course it was on a day where I had the kids with me and hubby wasn't home.
Now I cook my vegies and soup mix before I add the water. So in here I have 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 1 parsnip, 1 onion ( I told a lie and said it doesn't have onion because Master 9 hates onion), 2 potatoes, 4 rashers of bacon, some soup mix - I am not sure how much cause I just tipped it in till I thought it looked enough and a couple of stock cubes.
Now I boiled the kettle before I tipped it in, it is something I have always done ( I am sure there is a reason but I can't remember), and I stirred it before I took this in the vain hope that it would look good but the vegies sunk by the time I took the photo.
Now we are going to be having Jamie Oliver's Thai chicken breasts with a garden salad after this, now I can't drink but I will also present hubby with a cold beer....cause Thai flavours mix well with beer and well I think he deserves a bit of pampering since he has been doing a great job of looking after me.
Toodles XXXXX
Well I am on my second week of no work and I am enjoying it but I also want to get moving. I realise that I can't do a great deal but I still want to be able to do some cooking, get some more washing done. I know that I am going to make some soup for dinner, and may even be able to make something for desert. I kinda have the theory that if I can get the house looking good, nice food on the table then maybe Hubby will say that I don't need to go back to work and that I can stay at home.
I have a feeling for that I am going to be wishing on a miracle but they have happened before so there is no reason why they can't happen for me right?
So Master 9 has been asking all day if he can go next door and play, so me being the wonderful mother I am in a soothing voice said " no you can't"..........yeah like that has ever happened, it kinda went like this " Mum can I go next door and play" "No", Mum can I go next door and play?, No, Mum can I go next door and play "NO", now this went on for about 3 hours at various time increments until he was yelling from one room and I was yelling back. Then Miss 10 was doing something strange - I have still to work out what the sound was and I was yelling at her to stop it, then started the fighting so I bellowed from the other room to stop it. Now all the while I was doing this the TV was going, the kids were helping themselves to cake, and soft drink.
It wasn't until I had cut up the soup ( yes I took photo's and they will be included),put it in the slow cooker and sat down to write this that I realised the front, back door and most of the windows in the house were open.
So my neighbours must think they live next to a banshee, I am mortified to think that I had been bellowing at the kids with the doors open, if I had been doing it with them closed it would have been slightly less mortifying.
This year I was supposed to be transforming myself to the perfect housewife and mother - who doesn't raise her voice, has a wonderfull meal put together at the end of the day, clothes are all washed, ironed and put away. Well we are nearly at the end of January and so far all I have managed to do is kinda have a slap up meal ready, kinda have the clothes washed and put away. The ironing board is out with the iron on it - so it has made progress, and there is a basket of ironing sitting on it but little ironing has been achieved.
Now I do have to say that in all fairness I have injured my back so doing a lot of the housework - ok so all of the house work and cooking has fallen on my husbands shoulders, and I am trying my best to help out but I have kinda sucked at it.
So now that I am starting to feel better ( the meds have kicked in ), I am able to get stuff done - until tomorrow when I wake up sore and can't do a damn thing. If that does happen I do actually have a heap of stuff to do, like continue knitting Miss 10's scarf and stitching ( by hand) all of the scout badges on hubby's camp blanket - yes I did say by hand and when you see how many there are you will think that I am somewhat CRAZY ( and yes I am, just a little bit) especially when you see how many there are to sew on and the fact that I said I would do it by hand.
Now I sewed on 2 badges on my son's shirt and I did feel a great sense of achievement as I only swore three times as I stabbed myself with the needle, stitched crooked and had to start again, got a knot in the cotton, and my personal fav pulled the needle up it got tangled so I spent 5 minutes trying to untangle it with out trying to stab myself and swear loudly and frequently at the stupid needle, the stupid cotton, the stupid badge and me being stupid enough to say yes in the first place.
Ok as I mentioned I have mad some soup, you see we have had a week of cold weather so I figured that it would be a good idea to have something that is really warming.
Now this is the slow cooker I use, there is a story with this one. Long story short I got my old one out to cook in it and discovered that it had a crack in the bottom ( to be fair I had had it since I was 18) so it is bucketing down with rain and I had to race to the shop to get a new one and of course it was on a day where I had the kids with me and hubby wasn't home.
Now I cook my vegies and soup mix before I add the water. So in here I have 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 1 parsnip, 1 onion ( I told a lie and said it doesn't have onion because Master 9 hates onion), 2 potatoes, 4 rashers of bacon, some soup mix - I am not sure how much cause I just tipped it in till I thought it looked enough and a couple of stock cubes.
Now I boiled the kettle before I tipped it in, it is something I have always done ( I am sure there is a reason but I can't remember), and I stirred it before I took this in the vain hope that it would look good but the vegies sunk by the time I took the photo.Now we are going to be having Jamie Oliver's Thai chicken breasts with a garden salad after this, now I can't drink but I will also present hubby with a cold beer....cause Thai flavours mix well with beer and well I think he deserves a bit of pampering since he has been doing a great job of looking after me.
Toodles XXXXX
16 January 2016
Help
17 January 2016
Hi Friends, As you all know I have hurt my back so you think Miss 10 and Master 9 would help me out. To a certain extent they have been but case in point this morning I needed to peg out some washing, because lets face it if I don't do it well it isn't going to get done. So while Hubby and Master 9 were at Bunnings I asked Miss 10 to unload the machine and carry it out to the washing line, well then it started that she has only just got up, and she started having a tanti and carrying on. So here I am out the back pegging out washing thinking this is typical, unless I am doing it, it just will not get done.
I have another load to peg out soon and thank goodness Hubby is home because he will help me, I am trying to do stuff so that I heal faster but it may have the opposite effect, I hope that I don't do more damage by moving around and doing things.
As you all know I am on a mission to get organised more and have the house more tidy this year, well I am proud to say I am not any closer to that goal than I was 6 months ago. I guess not being able to do a great deal hasn't helped, it is now getting to the point where I am getting angry at myself for being so stupid and hurting myself also that I am getting nowhere fast. This is where I would normally call on a friend/Mum to come and help......but being that I am stubborn I will not ask for help.
So as soon as I am better it will be full steam ahead and getting this house organised, tidy all of the time and getting my children to help out because I can't do it all and work.
While I am out of action I am working on knitting a scarf for Miss 10, now I know that is the middle of Summer in Australia but if I don't get it done now then she will never get it. After I have finished hers it will be onto Master 9.
I also need to get the quilts finished then start on learning how to Crochet so that I can start on blankets for babies in hospitals and foster care. I am thinking that I should probably get some wool that is black and navy blue and start knitting scarves for troops overseas. I don't care if they are Australian or not, or if they keep it, I just want to feel like I am making a difference in this world in some small way. I may even enlist the help of my neighbour, as she is good at knitting and sewing. I did say in a post a few weeks ago that I was going to be turning the clock back on some of the things I was going to be doing and well this is one of those things. For Christmas this year I am going to be doing more homemade gifts because they are treasured more than something that is bought from a store.
Ok it is time to go, as I am starting to get sore bye xxxxxxxxx
I have another load to peg out soon and thank goodness Hubby is home because he will help me, I am trying to do stuff so that I heal faster but it may have the opposite effect, I hope that I don't do more damage by moving around and doing things.
As you all know I am on a mission to get organised more and have the house more tidy this year, well I am proud to say I am not any closer to that goal than I was 6 months ago. I guess not being able to do a great deal hasn't helped, it is now getting to the point where I am getting angry at myself for being so stupid and hurting myself also that I am getting nowhere fast. This is where I would normally call on a friend/Mum to come and help......but being that I am stubborn I will not ask for help.
So as soon as I am better it will be full steam ahead and getting this house organised, tidy all of the time and getting my children to help out because I can't do it all and work.
While I am out of action I am working on knitting a scarf for Miss 10, now I know that is the middle of Summer in Australia but if I don't get it done now then she will never get it. After I have finished hers it will be onto Master 9.
I also need to get the quilts finished then start on learning how to Crochet so that I can start on blankets for babies in hospitals and foster care. I am thinking that I should probably get some wool that is black and navy blue and start knitting scarves for troops overseas. I don't care if they are Australian or not, or if they keep it, I just want to feel like I am making a difference in this world in some small way. I may even enlist the help of my neighbour, as she is good at knitting and sewing. I did say in a post a few weeks ago that I was going to be turning the clock back on some of the things I was going to be doing and well this is one of those things. For Christmas this year I am going to be doing more homemade gifts because they are treasured more than something that is bought from a store.
Ok it is time to go, as I am starting to get sore bye xxxxxxxxx
12 January 2016
4 -6 weeks
13 January 2016
Hey there, well I may as well dive right in, as you all know I have hurt my back ( even the Physio said I had done a good job on it) and it is going to take 4-6 weeks to recover properly. In that time I need to be doing something to occupy myself, make a bit of money and so forth. To be honest I am a total loss of what to do.
While I have been sitting with my feet up ( not literally)I have been reading this book that I bought on my kindle it is called Lakesia Laskie - Charlis Story, by a person called V.C. Rose found it on Amazon.
I could not put it down and being that it is not the genre I would normally read - it is fantasy, and for me that is up there with reading sci-fi. I usually get 4 pages in and just give up, well I couldn't put it down and when I did I would pick it up 5 minutes later, my fav character would have to be Thomas, I know it is gonna sound strange but if it ever got made into a movie I could see Kellan Lutz playing him something about those big muscles and the sense of security they bring yes I do have a bit of a fan crush on him needles to say I could also see Vin Diesel playing a role - that deep voice ...... oh be still my beating heart, needles to say I am hanging out for the next book to be published.
Now I am going to venture into the realms of slightly scary - I wonder if V.C. Rose is the authors real name or a pen name? I found them on Facebook and have become a friend - yes I am now officially a stalker, but there are no clues on there as to the gender, so I guess we will never know which kinda makes me want to get the next book and see if there are any clues - you can generally tell by who they thank at the start. My intrigue with this author has gone to the point of trying to find if there has been another book published and I can't find any, - as you can see the time on my hands could be spent better than becoming a stalker!!!!!
Ok so I am going to go and read about Charli and Christine again - I would tell you who Christine is but that is going to spoil the story, you will just have to read it for yourself!! Let me know what you think of the story.
bye xxx
Hey there, well I may as well dive right in, as you all know I have hurt my back ( even the Physio said I had done a good job on it) and it is going to take 4-6 weeks to recover properly. In that time I need to be doing something to occupy myself, make a bit of money and so forth. To be honest I am a total loss of what to do.
While I have been sitting with my feet up ( not literally)I have been reading this book that I bought on my kindle it is called Lakesia Laskie - Charlis Story, by a person called V.C. Rose found it on Amazon.
I could not put it down and being that it is not the genre I would normally read - it is fantasy, and for me that is up there with reading sci-fi. I usually get 4 pages in and just give up, well I couldn't put it down and when I did I would pick it up 5 minutes later, my fav character would have to be Thomas, I know it is gonna sound strange but if it ever got made into a movie I could see Kellan Lutz playing him something about those big muscles and the sense of security they bring yes I do have a bit of a fan crush on him needles to say I could also see Vin Diesel playing a role - that deep voice ...... oh be still my beating heart, needles to say I am hanging out for the next book to be published.
Now I am going to venture into the realms of slightly scary - I wonder if V.C. Rose is the authors real name or a pen name? I found them on Facebook and have become a friend - yes I am now officially a stalker, but there are no clues on there as to the gender, so I guess we will never know which kinda makes me want to get the next book and see if there are any clues - you can generally tell by who they thank at the start. My intrigue with this author has gone to the point of trying to find if there has been another book published and I can't find any, - as you can see the time on my hands could be spent better than becoming a stalker!!!!!
Ok so I am going to go and read about Charli and Christine again - I would tell you who Christine is but that is going to spoil the story, you will just have to read it for yourself!! Let me know what you think of the story.
bye xxx
11 January 2016
Planners
12 January 2016
Hello my friends, Well after having been able to do nothing for the last couple of days and watching a great deal of you tube clips I stumbled into the planner section. Well I have slid that far down the rabbit hole I don't know if I will ever be able to get out.
Now I have had Erin Condren planners, I currently have a Kikki K planner and I am thinking that I might buy a Limelife planner because I want to see what they do that no other planner company does, now I hear you saying it is just a planner and I get that I truly do because you know what I used to be like that as well, I don't decorate my planner like I have seen on you tube because once it is decorated you can't write in it. So when I doe get a Limelife planner - yes I do intend on buying one I will do a video and post it on here, a comparison of limelife to kikki k, it is more to satisfy my curiosity more than anything.
As you know I have injured my back, so that has forced me to examine my working life, I am more aware that the role I am in currently involves me doing some lifting and some repetative movements so now I am thinking that I may need to change what I do. The problem is that it cost a lot to re-train, their is no incentive to further yourself by the time I drop many hours at work, study part time ( it is 2 1/2 days a week),
I would love to further myself so that I could bring home a better wage, might have to talk to hubby about it and see what he says, I just don't want to be stuck in the same role without being able to advance.
Hello my friends, Well after having been able to do nothing for the last couple of days and watching a great deal of you tube clips I stumbled into the planner section. Well I have slid that far down the rabbit hole I don't know if I will ever be able to get out.
Now I have had Erin Condren planners, I currently have a Kikki K planner and I am thinking that I might buy a Limelife planner because I want to see what they do that no other planner company does, now I hear you saying it is just a planner and I get that I truly do because you know what I used to be like that as well, I don't decorate my planner like I have seen on you tube because once it is decorated you can't write in it. So when I doe get a Limelife planner - yes I do intend on buying one I will do a video and post it on here, a comparison of limelife to kikki k, it is more to satisfy my curiosity more than anything.
As you know I have injured my back, so that has forced me to examine my working life, I am more aware that the role I am in currently involves me doing some lifting and some repetative movements so now I am thinking that I may need to change what I do. The problem is that it cost a lot to re-train, their is no incentive to further yourself by the time I drop many hours at work, study part time ( it is 2 1/2 days a week),
I would love to further myself so that I could bring home a better wage, might have to talk to hubby about it and see what he says, I just don't want to be stuck in the same role without being able to advance.
10 January 2016
Pain and strong meds.
11/1/2016
Hi everybody how are you?, As you can see by the title of this post I have hurt myself and I have to say that I did a pretty good job of it. I was cleaning yesterday and lifted one section of the modular lounge so that it could be cleaned under, and well the pain was pretty well straight away. So I got a heat pack, took some Panadol and well that didn't touch it. I couldn't bend and was walking like a old person. So I was shuffling around, getting waited on - I am sure hubby thought I was stretching the truth on how much it hurt. I think he kinda figured out that I was in pain when he had to help me get out of bed this morning, so I have a bulging disk in my lower back, I am going to need physio and I am strong meds to help deal with the pain. If it hasn't settled down in a week I have to go back to the Drs and then it id off to get a CT scan and more meds, so I am off work for a week and when I go back I have to be on light duties.
So I am not sure how long I am going to be able to continue sitting and doing this post for - I feel my eyes closing as it is and it is 3:40 in the afternoon
09 January 2016
Sunday clean up
10 January 2016
Ok so today is get the house cleaned up and start putting routines for the kids in place, I will get a menu plan written up so that when hubby and I get home we can don't have to wonder what we are going to cook for dinner, I am also going to be doing a heap of baking so that there are plenty of snacks to eat. I figure if I can make Sunday baking day then when the kids go back to school they are going to have plenty of things to go in lunch boxes and they will never be able to complain that I don't do any baking for them, it comes with the added bonus of me being able to control their preservative,sugar intake. Miss 10 starts to itch if she has to much sugar and to much processed snacks, I have yet to narrow down what food does it too her but I do know when I am baking it doesn't happen.
It is a great deal cooler today so hopefully that will give the firefighters battling a huge blaze down south some relief and get control of it. It has burnt down 120 houses and has sadly taken two lives. The town town that has been wiped off the face of the earth they are saying that they are not going to have power or water for three months. The town where my in-laws are, the power company has been binging down generators so that they have some power. Service stations are dry so they have no petrol and food is in short supply, it is still nobody in or out, they have sent some fire fighters from another state to come and give relief to the ones that have been going nonstop since Wednesday. While they are battling that blaze another one has broken out on the south coast and there are fire fighters down there - that one was a lightning strike, there were two that were caused by lightning on Thursday that are under control now - lightning strike, so the emergency services here are stretched kinda thin. The main thing they are concerned with is flare ups and ember strikes, the embers are flying so far ahead of the fire that they just get some sort of control then there is another fire front.
Ok so today is get the house cleaned up and start putting routines for the kids in place, I will get a menu plan written up so that when hubby and I get home we can don't have to wonder what we are going to cook for dinner, I am also going to be doing a heap of baking so that there are plenty of snacks to eat. I figure if I can make Sunday baking day then when the kids go back to school they are going to have plenty of things to go in lunch boxes and they will never be able to complain that I don't do any baking for them, it comes with the added bonus of me being able to control their preservative,sugar intake. Miss 10 starts to itch if she has to much sugar and to much processed snacks, I have yet to narrow down what food does it too her but I do know when I am baking it doesn't happen.
It is a great deal cooler today so hopefully that will give the firefighters battling a huge blaze down south some relief and get control of it. It has burnt down 120 houses and has sadly taken two lives. The town town that has been wiped off the face of the earth they are saying that they are not going to have power or water for three months. The town where my in-laws are, the power company has been binging down generators so that they have some power. Service stations are dry so they have no petrol and food is in short supply, it is still nobody in or out, they have sent some fire fighters from another state to come and give relief to the ones that have been going nonstop since Wednesday. While they are battling that blaze another one has broken out on the south coast and there are fire fighters down there - that one was a lightning strike, there were two that were caused by lightning on Thursday that are under control now - lightning strike, so the emergency services here are stretched kinda thin. The main thing they are concerned with is flare ups and ember strikes, the embers are flying so far ahead of the fire that they just get some sort of control then there is another fire front.
08 January 2016
Devestation
8 January 2016
Hey folks, you are probably wondering about the title of this post, since Wednesday there has been a big fire down where my in-laws live and well yesterday it went through the town - they are safe than goodness an there has been no loss of human life just livestock and that in itself is heart breaking.
The town 10 minutes down the road has been wiped off the face of the earth and it is still going.
The town where my family is well nobody in and nobody out except essential services, they have no power, little food and little water. The town 20 minutes down the road has been evacuated and so have all of the little communities on the way. Here in the city we have had a thunderstorm with lightning heat and winds so we to have had spot fires breaking out because of the lightning strikes and it is going to get worse.
To put it in perspective the fire that is raging has gobbled up 55,000 acres of land with no sign of slowing and the destruction in its path is horrendous - it melted the steel of a bridge located
( the road on it has collapsed) at the back of my in-laws place, they took a arial of the smoke cloud and the only way I can describe it is like a h-bomb that is glowing.
The worst part of this is there is nothing I can do to help any of my family members, as a person who can get very emotional very easy I am numb and can't cry.
So tonight wherever you are please hug your kids/husband/significant other, extra before they go to bed, give a extra kiss.Tell them you love them and thank god you are alive. xxxxxx
06 January 2016
Organisation, what is that???
6 January 2016
Ok so it is the 6 of Jan and I have not even made a start on the resolutions that I made before new year even rolled around instead I am looking at books on getting organised, being the ultimate housewife and how to entertain in style. Now the problem with that is the fact that A: How do I start getting more organised, B:How do I become the ultimate housewife and work at the same time and C: How do I entertain in style when I have no room to do it in? I start the year with great intentions and the best of expectations and it all falls in a hole because - the kids don't help out, I am tired, and I just can't keep up.
If I wanted to do all of these things I would need to quit my job and well I don't really want to do that and I will explain why. I put into a job search engine Housewife ( I wanted to see how much we would be payed if we ever got payed), and well it came back with the following answers 1- please check your spelling as we can't match your search and the best yet 2- is that a real job. Now that felt like a real slap in the face considering what a housewife does every day, and the fact that society doesn't consider being a housewife important is another thing that made me feel like I had to go out to work.
So now I feel guilty because I am not at home looking after the house and the family missing out on school assemblies, not able to see my kids get certificates and help out in class. I also feel guilty when I am sick or when the kids are sick because I have to take time off which means that the other people in my team have to pick up the slack from my absence.
A heap of the books that I have been looking at can be put on my kindle, because the books I have in the bookshelf I have read that many times that I read them to quickly now and I am just getting them out because there is nothing to watch on TV. My knitting is progressing and well I am kinda proud of myself for continuing with it - I tend to put it down and give up on it.
My quilts are progressing at a snails pace - it has been to hot to have them on my knee doing, the heat is coming again tomorrow is going to be 39 and humid, the same on Friday which probably explains why everybody is so tired and we have had power outages!!!
I was asked today what my passion is, and where it comes from and to be honest I don't have a answer and I couldn't answer them. Is that a bad thing?, how do I develop a passion?, I used to have a passion but well that has lost its appeal so I guess that is something I could look at doing/finding - where do I find the passion, because I haven't seen any in the supermarket and in any of the stores I visit.
Maybe it is time to do a bit of inner reflection and really think about why I am doing the job I am and if that is helping me get to my goal and even if that is where I want to end up. It is the same as being asked if you believe in whicherver faith you believe in because you were bought up that way or if it is something you truly believe in it.
04 January 2016
Buying, building or renting
5 January 2016
Hello my friends it has been a few days since I have done a post so I have a few days to fill in so here goes and they are work, beach, 4x4 driving, getting bogged getting sunburnt - the sunburn was completely by accident.
We try to pack as much into the weekend as possible because I am at work ( hubby is home) and the kids are going off to their grand parents on the weekend for their last two weeks of school holidays I can't believe the end of holidays has come around so quickly.
Ok the title, I figured it has peaked your interest so I will explain, we are fortunate to be in the situation where we have a big decision to make. Do we build a house, buy established - a older house and do it up or keep renting. We have never been in this situation before and well we have been going back and forward on the issue and still no closer to making a decision. One day we decide to rent, the next we decide to buy an do up, then it is build because it is all new and you don't need to do anything to it. I am finding the whole thing exhausting and stressful and would love to just hand over the decision to hubby and be done with it but then I think if I do that then I have no right to say I don't like it when I never had a vote - not sure what would happen if we came to a impasse - it would be interesting!!!!
I do like older houses but I also like new houses and some of their design features, but I like the character a old house has. I don't really like renting because I am not allowed to do anything, we have to think really carefully because miss 10 only has 2 years of primary school left, master 9 has 3 years and then they are off to high school.
With a new house you can have heaps of storage built in and can be organised right from the get go.........hmmm I am seeing the benefits of building a new house as to buying a established house.
I will keep you all updated on what happens, and if we build there will be all of the annoying stage photos - I know they are not interesting but I will be to excited not to show it off. Hmm looks like I am going to be spending a bit of time on pintrest figuring out how to get rooms organised, storage systems in place and of course the big question can I get new furniture?, might have to bribe hubby on that one........how much pizza and beer do you think I would need ?
Hello my friends it has been a few days since I have done a post so I have a few days to fill in so here goes and they are work, beach, 4x4 driving, getting bogged getting sunburnt - the sunburn was completely by accident.
We try to pack as much into the weekend as possible because I am at work ( hubby is home) and the kids are going off to their grand parents on the weekend for their last two weeks of school holidays I can't believe the end of holidays has come around so quickly.
Ok the title, I figured it has peaked your interest so I will explain, we are fortunate to be in the situation where we have a big decision to make. Do we build a house, buy established - a older house and do it up or keep renting. We have never been in this situation before and well we have been going back and forward on the issue and still no closer to making a decision. One day we decide to rent, the next we decide to buy an do up, then it is build because it is all new and you don't need to do anything to it. I am finding the whole thing exhausting and stressful and would love to just hand over the decision to hubby and be done with it but then I think if I do that then I have no right to say I don't like it when I never had a vote - not sure what would happen if we came to a impasse - it would be interesting!!!!
I do like older houses but I also like new houses and some of their design features, but I like the character a old house has. I don't really like renting because I am not allowed to do anything, we have to think really carefully because miss 10 only has 2 years of primary school left, master 9 has 3 years and then they are off to high school.
With a new house you can have heaps of storage built in and can be organised right from the get go.........hmmm I am seeing the benefits of building a new house as to buying a established house.
I will keep you all updated on what happens, and if we build there will be all of the annoying stage photos - I know they are not interesting but I will be to excited not to show it off. Hmm looks like I am going to be spending a bit of time on pintrest figuring out how to get rooms organised, storage systems in place and of course the big question can I get new furniture?, might have to bribe hubby on that one........how much pizza and beer do you think I would need ?
01 January 2016
Lazy Day
1/1/2016
Wow that is going to take some getting used to we are in 2016, I can bet when it comes to writing that I will still put down 2015 until at least February then it will click that is just 2016.
Well true to form I was in bed early, and didn't get to see any fireworks - not that Perth has any, our big one is Australia Day, and to be honest I really couldn't be bothered going out as I had been at work and was tired.
Today we had a lazy day and I loved every bit of it, I read a book, looked at quilt covers on-line - I have a thing for quilt covers and I have yet to find one that I really do like. I know what I want and what colour I want it just seems that none of the stores stock it. I am really picky about what I put on the bed because you spend a great deal of time in your bed and I want it be a place of relaxation and welcoming.
I am working with two colours through the house brown and red, yes there may be splashes of colour in that range but they are the main two - except the kids rooms and well I have yet to start on them.
I was also looking at how I can use the space we have better, it just doesn't seem to flow and it is starting to bug me because the house always looks untidy and I need it to be tidy and organised. I am far from a person who is organised and tidy and as you all know that is my mission this year to become more organised and tidy.
Ok so I must go as I have a big day tomorrow - we are going out with some friends from work, will chat to you late xx
Wow that is going to take some getting used to we are in 2016, I can bet when it comes to writing that I will still put down 2015 until at least February then it will click that is just 2016.
Well true to form I was in bed early, and didn't get to see any fireworks - not that Perth has any, our big one is Australia Day, and to be honest I really couldn't be bothered going out as I had been at work and was tired.
Today we had a lazy day and I loved every bit of it, I read a book, looked at quilt covers on-line - I have a thing for quilt covers and I have yet to find one that I really do like. I know what I want and what colour I want it just seems that none of the stores stock it. I am really picky about what I put on the bed because you spend a great deal of time in your bed and I want it be a place of relaxation and welcoming.
I am working with two colours through the house brown and red, yes there may be splashes of colour in that range but they are the main two - except the kids rooms and well I have yet to start on them.
I was also looking at how I can use the space we have better, it just doesn't seem to flow and it is starting to bug me because the house always looks untidy and I need it to be tidy and organised. I am far from a person who is organised and tidy and as you all know that is my mission this year to become more organised and tidy.
Ok so I must go as I have a big day tomorrow - we are going out with some friends from work, will chat to you late xx
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