Super Effort

It was a super effort by me today.

I slept for a solid 9 hours last night and was woken by my alarm at 7am. I obviously needed it but I certainly wasn’t ready to bound out of bed full of vim and vigor! I stayed in bed until the very last minute!

There was much to do between a steady flow of customers and it was an above average sales day for a Saturday. Still no locals through the door - and I only mention that as an indication of how many people are in town filling the caravan parks and the holiday rental homes.

The real estate agent has even made comment about how busy they are and how they’re looking for more cleaning staff for the holiday rentals!

In a ‘normal’ year, this would be the beginning of the quiet time when we start praying that there will be enough sales that the rent will be covered. Instead, the town is as busy as peak periods and I’m praying that I can keep up with rapidly moving stock.

I managed to get all of my paints mixed and each work station prepared before the art class started so that was a blessing. Adoring Husband filled the water containers that sit in the middle of the tables and he set up the tea/coffee station for me. He is also a blessing.

The class was a touch smaller than usual and surprisingly, one of the new ladies who prepaid on Thursday, did not turn up at all! 

Quite lucky really because I probably wouldn’t have had enough resources to cover everyone. I was JUST able to stretch what was there to make it work for today’s group.

It was a different situation because one of the girls brought a very large canvas - approx 80cm X 80cm - which we had planned in advance, but the photo she showed me last week made it appear a bit smaller than it actually was. It took quite a bit more paint and pouring medium than I expected.

There were some good results today and I really liked mine except a stoopid fly landed on it and decided to go walkabout, adding his own touches to my creation! See if you can tell which one - you should be able to see the fly still attached!

I haven’t forgotten the fructose post and I hope to share it here tomorrow, but right now I am ready for sleep.

Nite all

Puzzled

I am still puzzled by the large number of visitors in town and I am still exhausted 😩 

Another huge day of sales and in between customers I attempted to set up each art station AND get the new stock unpacked and out on display. I’m running out of space!

I still have to mix paint tomorrow, but the room is pretty much ready for class.

By the end of the day, I was certainly dragging my feet to the car and I was struggling to stay awake on the couch. Mostly because Adoring Husband snored last night til late and then was up and about at 3am making a racket. After he left for work at 4.45am, psychotic dog Colli decided to howl at the garage door and I had to get up twice to her!

Ugh!

It’s almost 8pm and I’m already in bed.

We actually ate dinner at 4.30pm! Just the usual Friday night fare of chicken wings.

I’m about to turn the telly on to watch the football, but I doubt I’ll last very long.

I had a short but interesting post ready to share with you about fructose and it’s relation to immunity and in particular the Corona virus, but I think I’ll save it for tomorrow because I honestly couldn’t be bothered right now.

Nite all.

Brussels Sprouts

Far out Brussels sprouts!

Today was another crazy day with a never ending stream of customers and not a local to be seen!

Amazing! 😳

Sales were great and it took me all day, between customers, to unpack a small shipment of beautiful sterling silver jewellery that I’d picked up from the post office at 9am.

In the last hour of the day I began rearranging the displays in the glass jewellery cabinets.

Adoring Husband arrived a little earlier than usual and set up the tables in the training room so that I can spend Friday preparing for the art class on Saturday. There will be three newbies in the class this week!

At 1.30pm the delivery truck pulled up outside and a gentleman removed two boxes from the truck and brought them through. I haven’t even touched them yet but I believe they might be my Intrinsic order.

I’m sure there will be another delivery tomorrow so one way or another, it’s going to be another busy day!

There is a new rep coming to visit next Friday and she also has her own business called “The Merchant of Venus”. I had a quick look at her stuff online and I can’t wait to meet her and see her beautiful and unique jewellery. I’ve already selected four pieces that I want for myself!

I arrived home to be greeted by the excited shrieks of psychotic dog Colli, which was quite a relief because this morning AH called me outside because she had fallen over on the step, had thrown up and then was frozen on the grass and wouldn’t or couldn’t move.

My brain was supposed to rest this afternoon, but while I put my feet up, one of my clothing reps sent through a stack of photos of a new line of tops and dresses, so browsed through them and wrote down what I WANT to order - although I have so much happening in the next month, I might have to hold off on that one.

For AH, I cooked up a big batch of chicken, mushies, onion, garlic, spinach, asparagus, tomato, broccoli, cashews and a touch of grated cheese over the top.

For me, I cooked a thigh fillet separately, chopped it up and tossed it through grated carrot, chopped tomato, cubed avocado and mango and chopped shallots. It was delicious.

Now I’m in bed and I can’t believe it’s almost 11.30pm!

Nite all.

Easy Day

Due to illness, The Gypsy wasn’t able to run the meditation class this morning.

She texted me very early this morning, as well as all of the regular participants.

I still opened the shop just after 7am because there were a couple of people, who are not regulars, who suggested they might attend, and I didn’t have their contact details.  One of the regulars didn’t receive the message because she lives in an area with poor reception and she turned up early so we sat in the meditation room with our morning beverage for an hour and chatted about “woo woo” stuff which was very enjoyable.

There are quite a few items on my “to do” list ... like designing and creating my 2021 calendar, clearing the storage cupboard, changing the jewellery displays in the glass cabinets and cleaning under the counter ... but today I decided to take it easy and conserve some energy.

There will be a lot of stock arriving over the next week, so that will keep me busy and take a lot of energy to get sorted.

Thankfully, it was a steady day of average sales that didn’t take too much out of me and we were home by 2.15pm.

I dipped my toe in the pool water but it was a little chilly so I changed into my slobberdog clothes and sat on the couch watching my favourite quiz shows on TV until I had to make dinner.

We didn’t have any protein out, so the easy option for me was a grazing platter with the new chilli tuna, my usual smashed avocado mix, alfalfa sprouts, carrot and cheese, capsicum, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and celery sticks, cocktail onions and GF wafers.

It was a nice chilled dinner.

It’s 9.30pm and I am listening to AH snore beside me.

Sleep time for me too!

Nite all.

Clarification

I just want to clarify that even though I am always on about being tired and busy and constantly needing to put my feet up, I am still LOVING “Roz’s Happy Place”!

Today was a crazy busy day! 

I did get to spend about 30 minutes with my girls before those first pesky customers arrived!

From 9.30am til 11.30am I did not stop! Holiday makers galore! All having a ball together and shopped til they almost dropped - a couple declaring that they would return later in the week.

Lunch was a necessity, to give me the energy to finish the day.

Last weekend, I found a family owned and run company from Queensland that sells Aust tuna in glass jars. Here is the link to their website ... Little Tuna

I received the three jars yesterday (tuna in olive oil, tuna in spring water, tuna in chilli) and took the Tuna in olive oil with me to work today for lunch. I mashed an avocado with lemon juice, coconut yoghurt, salt, pepper and chopped shallots, then stirred through some of the tuna.

Of course, I taste tested the tuna before doing that and it was DIVINE! Absolutely nothing like the tinned tuna you get from (mostly) Asia, which in comparison, tastes like ... um ... wet paper?

This one is meaty and full bodied and flavoursome.

Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed my lunch!

Between customers in the afternoon, I printed out all the copies of this week’s journaling lesson for the girls and set the table with the weekly lollies and glasses of water.

The class was amazing because one of the girls had received her professionally bound book of her family ancestry in the mail yesterday. We’ve been talking about it and waiting for her to receive it for two weeks, so it was a big deal to see it, touch it and read some of the amazing stories in it. 

We were inspired to follow up on our own ancestry and to create an amazing life journal.

We finished right on 3.30pm and AH and I cleared the room and set up for meditation in the morning.

There was no protein at home for dinner so we stopped at the butcher and selected some lamb rump steaks for AH to cook on the barbecue while I prepared a salad. Watermelon for dessert.

Right now, I’m watching Junior Masterchef and wishing some of those kids could be employed by us to cook in our kitchen once or twice a week! I’m drooling.

Now it’s time for me to head to bed.

Nite all.

Canned Date

One of my favourite quotes is “Being okay if it happens and being okay if it doesn’t, is a very powerful place to be”

So the fact that I had to postpone my big plans for today was really no big deal. It will happen in good time.

I spent the entire day in bed creating my next two journaling lessons. Six hours of work - which I thoroughly enjoyed, but I was surprised that it took so long. 

Then I did some calculations and discovered that to create each lesson, it has taken, on average, three hours per lesson. That means I’ve invested 21 hours so far (7 weeks) and there will be at least another 5 weeks.

That’s actually pretty good going.

Adoring Husband waited on me by providing my lemon water, broth and coffee. He made me a lovely salad for lunch and I made myself a green juice for dinner.

Now I have to go clear all of my paraphernalia from the bed so that we can sleep!

I regret not having a dip in the pool today, but it was 4pm before I knew it and I only realised how late it was because a rep phoned me.

Time flies when you’re having fun.

Nite all.

I’m lazing by the pool as I write this.

It’s a glorious day and while Adoring Husband was participating in some SES training, I chose to rise a little earlier than usual, make myself some breakfast of bacon, avocado, cherry tomatoes and coleslaw. 

I completed some chores around the house before rewarding myself with a swim, a float, some aqua-aerobics, water dancing and then put my feet up while lazing in the swinging egg chair.

While lazing, I found this on Facebook today and simply had to share. I’m sure it will resonate with you as it does me!

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“I asked a friend who has crossed 70 & is heading towards 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself?  He sent me the following:

1  After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I have now started loving myself.

2  I have realized that I am not “Atlas”. The world does not rest on my shoulders.

3  I have stopped bargaining with vegetable & fruit vendors. A few pennies more is not going to break me, but it might help the poor fellow save for his daughter’s school fees.

4  I leave my waitress a big tip. The extra money might bring a smile to her face. She is toiling much harder for a living than I am.

5  I stopped telling the elderly that they've already narrated that story many times. The story makes them walk down memory lane & relive their past.

6  I have learned not to correct people even when I know they are wrong. The onus of making everyone perfect is not on me. Peace is more precious than perfection.

7  I give compliments freely & generously. Compliments are a mood enhancer not only for the recipient, but also for me.  And a small tip for the recipient of a compliment, never, NEVER turn it down, just say "Thank You.”

8  I have learned not to bother about a crease or a spot on my shirt. Personality speaks louder than appearances.

9  I walk away from people who don't value me. They might not know my worth, but I do.

10  I remain cool when someone plays dirty to outrun me in the rat race. I am not a rat & neither am I in any race.

11  I am learning not to be embarrassed by my emotions. It’s my emotions that make me human.

12  I have learned that it's better to drop the ego than to break a relationship. My ego will keep me aloof, whereas with relationships, I will never be alone.

13  I have learned to live each day as if it's the last. After all, it might be the last.

14  I am doing what makes me happy. I am responsible for my happiness, and I owe it to myself. Happiness is a choice. You can be happy at any time, just choose to be!

I decided to share this for all my friends. Why do we have to wait to be 60 or 70 or 80, why can't we practice this at any stage and age?

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I’m trying to decide now whether to clean the bathroom or continue lazing by the pool. Perhaps I can reward myself after cleaning, with another dip and laze!

Later - I didn’t clean the bathroom and AH arrived home from training, so I joined him in the lounge room and watched a Netflix movie instead.

We began watching a Netflix series called “Virgin River” and I cooked a corned silverside and cabbage for dinner.

I believe I’ll be going to bed to watch Junior Masterchef - not a show we usually watch but the lead up over the last couple of months has really drawn us in so we’ve watched the first little bit and we’re hooked!

I have a day planned for tomorrow which I’m really looking forward to, so it’s time for me to sleep soon.

Nite all.