It's late - but all is well and quiet here....have the room to myself....bit of a rarity these days. We have two computers, but both are in the same room. The boys are usually doing their own thing anyway, but it's hard to think without silence!So many different things going through my head tonight!
Have been back and forth checking my teams sales so far for the week (their orders go through early Tuesday morning) and looking in on my few eBay auctions that finish tomorrow night. Had every intention of listing some more today, just didn't quite get there - with the million loads of washing I had to do - and actually DID! Grotty old floor, accumulated junk on the bench/table that had to be sorted, all that exciting stuff - kept me busy!
Have been thinking about my family, and how grateful I am to have had such an excellent upbringing, and extremely happy & balanced childhood. No mean feat to achieve such balance and security considering I was adopted, very different in nature to the rest of the family, and quite the handful as a teenager. My brother and I were always treated equally (even though he was their 'natural' child) I have never once felt jealous towards him, or 'less' than him. He has always considered me to be his sister, genetics doesn't even come into it.
We weren't spoilt, but didn't go without. Mum and Dad just 'got it right' - I am pleased to say I would be lucky to find fault with them as parents, and if I did it would be pretty trivial stuff! :-)
We had a lovely but tiring day Friday, we went to Burnie for the day, Big A had to see an ear/nose/throat specialist (the wait was 3 months to see the one in Launny he saw last time). He has had ear problems his whole life, and had many lots of grommets - anyhoo cutting a long story short he won't need another lot of grommets, much to his relief as they did them with local anesthetic last time and it freaked him out.
From Burnie went drove to Lower Barrington, to visit our very dear friends Myra and Dave, and their boys who are the same age as our boys - we've been mates for 15 years and it's always a relaxed time to visit them - always has been actually!
They are the sort of friends that you don't have to worry about the kids saying/doing anything 'untoward' as their boys were also similar in nature to ours as they were growing up - their eldest was loud/very energetic/highly strung too - while their youngest was quiet/placid/happy off playing with cars or something just like Small Man.
We hadn't seen their new place yet, so it was an adventure to find it first of all! The rest of the day was great, had a cuddle of baby Grace, their new Granddaughter - awww! No, definitely not clucky AT ALL - I'm too old for that sort of thing now (sex!.... only kiddin!!!) - I'm happy to wait for my grandchildren now....a longish time would be good thanks!!!!
We trekked off at 8am - finally home at 6pm - I was totally stuffed - not the worlds best traveler - but happy to get out for the day, all of us together......
Saturday Z16 worked his first proper shift at hungry jacks - he was soooo nervous, and I could feel his nerves for about 45mins after I dropped him off - funny that, how you can tune into your children that way -
he said he was a bit of a wreck for the first half an hour or so, but then slowly became used to what he was doing -
he said it was very constant and harder physically than he first anticipated.
He had worked for three hours, and looked hot and worn out when I picked him up. Well, 15mins after getting home he was sound asleep, in his bed, and remained there for 4 hours!
I did post some time ago that I didn't think a fast food chain job would be for him - we'll see! He's not a quitter, and can persevere, so maybe after some perseverance he'll get used to what he's doing - you know what the first few days of a new job can be like. He didn't say he didn't like it though.......we'll see how it goes.
Have a bit to say tonight!
Fruit and veggie soup diet is going swimmingly well....as far as my participation in it goes!
Have only been tempted once, by some chicken sausages, I love them, they're magnificent grilled and served with tzatziki! - so as a compromise I allowed myself half a chicken sausage sliced finely in with my soup -
soup of the day is cabbage/mushroom/carrot/onion/garlic/crushed tomatoes/tomato paste/beef stock cube/lots of pepper - soup of yesterday/Friday was similar, but didn't have tomato or carrot, did have zucchini though.
Have had apples/oranges/grapes in between soup for lunch and tea - and a banana for breakfast.
Will continue with this for the rest of the week, won't hurt me!
Will add a small amount of chicken or beef to the soup in a day or two and have some natural yoghurt to add if it starts to get boring! Not going to have any nuts whatsoever, just in case I react to them.
Have also had a dose of flaxseed oil *bleearrghh* tastes rank but is meant to be very good.....it'd want to be!!!!!
Well then,
enough from me,
G
xxx
5 comments:
I used to work in Red Rooster in Kalgoorlie, and just warn your boy that working in the kitchen can make your skin break out something terrible!! All the heat and grease made my skin so bad it was part of the reason I quit. And the boss was an absolute wanker!!
Your diet sounds yum, where did you get the recipes from? I know how your fella feels about his ears, I have had bad ear and nose and throat probs my whole life. I ended up having my tonsilles out, my nose passages widened(which involved chiseling and black eyes and a nose packed with cotton wool)and a skin graft in my perforated ear! The tonsiles and nose were done at the same time which was fun. I also had grommets at least 12 times before my ear drum perforated. Mum took me off Dairy and that made a huge difference with the problems.
Big long ramble from me! xxx
Hi Toni!
He wants to cut off his gorgeous curls as his hair 'keeps him hot' - OH! I have a friend in Kalgoorlie, she runs a skimpy bar up there!!!
I made up the recipes myself - I know cabbage is a big one for weight loss soups, and the onion and garlic are good detox ingredients..!
Big A had tonsils out, adenoids out, the works! He is lactose intolerant, well it's more the cream in the milk he can't tolerate, too much cheese etc no good either (IBS as well). He was so relieved not to have grommets again, the last time really freaked him out!
I like big long rambles, I'm good at them myself!
Hope all is well with you,
G
xxx
Well, I used to work in pubs in Kalgoorlie! Only I kept my clothes on!!!! I worked at The Grand. My boss was Craig Randall, the man that was jailed in Dec 2003 for the drugging and rape of a girl at a nightclub in Launceston. He died in jail a few months ago right before being released. I remember he
used to be so obsessive about us not leaving drinks around cause people could spike them and do stuff to you. And he was one of those people!!! Scary stuff!
Karma certainly catches up with some people eh.....what did he die from? My friends name is Kellie, she's an ex Tassie girl, had been in Kalgoorlie for years. Don't suppose you even met a guy called Rod Bradley, from Tassie also - Huonville way? Bit of a DH - big DH should I say!
Heart attack from diabeties. He was a big fat man, which didn't help. I really can't remember a lot of people from over there. It was such a moving population, and I got preggers and worked and slept for the last 6 months there!
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