Where to Start

I fell asleep at 1am.

Self inflicted because I was watching something that I needed to see the end of.

At 4.30am I was woken by Adoring Husband’s very loud alarm. He was not in the room at the time but I heard his heavy footsteps as he realised what was happening.

Unfortunately, he was in a very bad way this morning. We are having a rerun of a health condition that started a month ago, and for which he took 30days of antibiotics, but now with a few added extras including exaggerated Parkinson’s symptoms, dizziness, disorientation, weakness and lethargy.

So he drove me (he shouldn’t have driven, but insisted - next time I will insist on riding the trike) to his place of work and I made him sit in the car while I cleaned the loos.

From there we drove to get his coffee and then home.

I prepared myself for work, loaded up my trike and off I pedalled.

Before I opened the shop, I made myself a cup of tea and sat quietly at my desk for 20 minutes.

I set out the flags, chairs and signs and turned everything on inside, including some uplifting Christmas music that I could sing along with.

At 9am one of my class arrived to help set up the training room. This was lucky because I got busy with those pesky customers who kept me on my toes for the next two and a half hours! 

Another of the girls arrived 30 minutes later to help finish up. They were amazing.

Last week, there were 13 people booked into the art class. During the week, two pulled out. During the morning another six pulled out leaving five for the break up party 🎊 + me.

The five remaining were my favourites so it turned into a great afternoon with some successes and some fails. We drank some champagne and ate some fresh fruit and made a big mess.

They all helped clean the mess afterwards and were, once again, amazing.

At 4pm, after a great day of sales and great fun making art, I loaded up my trike and pedalled home in gale force conditions to find AH, having just woken up, sitting on the edge of the bed and still not feeling good at all.

I handed him his usual drugs, some painkillers and some watermelon.

I took washing off the line and hung more washing out, fed the dog, emptied my bags and sat in the lounge room with AH for a little while until it was time to cook dinner.

Chicken, mushrooms, onion, garlic, fresh thyme, lemon juice, plain coconut yoghurt, maple syrup, Himalayan salt, white pepper and home made broth - served with rice. That was for AH. I had two mouthfuls of the chicken mixture and a mango.

After we finished eating, I cleaned the kitchen and loaded the dishwasher.

My body is feeling every bit it’s 60 years right now and I’m looking forward to having a quiet, relaxing Sunday lazing about and doing whatever the hell I choose to do - in between caring for my poor decrepit Adoring Husband of course.

It’s already 10.30pm so I’m off to bed.

Nite all.

Bingeing

I forgot to do my blog post last night because I was binge watching ‘Good Girls’.

I was binge watching ‘Good Girls’ so that I can begin binge watching ‘The Witcher’ as recommended by The Motivator.

It’s very difficult to binge anything with so little spare time... especially when Adoring Husband is not into that particular series.

Thursday was a good day. Sales were a bit above average and I got to spend some time with The Motivator. I slept well after my bingeing but because I went to bed so late, there weren’t enough sleeping hours remaining, so my brain was a bit fuzzy all day today.

Having a fuzzy brain is not good on such a busy day as today. It was almost record breaking and in between customers I was trying to set up for Saturday’s art class.

Luckily I have a couple of girls from the class coming in the morning to help. 

I’ve mixed the white paint, set up the tables (thank you Adoring Husband), filled the floetrol bottles, found the straws/spoons/sticks/cups/pins, table protectors ready, canvases ready, coloured paints laid out, party hats and balloons ready for a participant’s birthday, Christmas tinsel ready to be hung, 5 water buckets ready to be filled, bin buckets ready to be lined, silicone mats ready to be distributed, cups counted, gloves out and food corner set up for Christmas break up ... and more.

Now you know why it usually takes me 3 days on my own to set up between customers!

Needless to say I’m feeling a bit weary this evening and I’m planning an early night.

I have mailed off ALL of my family Christmas gifts so I have been very well organised and efficient this year!

Our Christmas tree has been sitting naked in our lounge room for a few days while we search for the energy and motivation to dress it up. We’ll get there eventually.

In just over a week, Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair will be here, so what little energy and motivation we have is being used to clear the bedroom (usually used for ironing and storage) in preparation for her arrival.

We are excited to see her.

Right now I need to prepare for tonight’s pop master quiz so I’m going to make myself comfortable in bed for that.

Nite all.

Out of Sorts

I am feeling very run down.

My body hurts all over and all the nerves feel like they are on the surface of my skin, I had no energy and no motivation for anything today. Even meditation was hard going for me.

I slept poorly last night too.

It’s now 8.30 and I’m in bed waiting for the BBC2 Popmaster Quiz so that I can go to sleep.

It was an average day of sales and Adoring Husband and I had to go into The Bay this afternoon so I planned on closing 15 minutes early. Wouldn’t you know it ... right on 1.45pm, in walk ten people! They hung around for 15 minutes and spent a whole $10.

Pesky customers 😜

We had many stops and lots of walking in The Bay.

The first stop was to pick up the FROG box then on to Truckloads, Kmart, Target, Sussans, Chemist, Coles, Spotlight and eventually back to my shop to pick up the money tin and laptop.

I can’t even explain how exhausted I feel right now.

Sleep will be welcomed and hopefully it will be a sound sleep.

Nite all.

Transformation

The artwork is finished and it’s name is “transformation” - I have to add that word to the bottom of the painting. 

The recipient is pleased.

I had a nice time with the girls at our coffee morning, followed by a busy morning of sales.

I created the journaling lesson and printed it out ready for the class.

The class was great. It always is. It’s funny how much healing can be done simply by discussing past life events in a safe space. No judgement.

Adoring Husband and I cleared the training room ready for meditation in the morning and set out the chairs. I vacuumed the entire shop.

My new Lorraine Lea linen arrived today. Two charcoal coloured foam bath mats, an oyster coloured body pillow case and a beautiful Miami style bedspread. 

I’m hanging for the new linen pants from Jenny Jazz to arrive at the shop and I have customers waiting too!

It was nice to have the cleaner in the shop today because the gale force winds brought plenty of dust as well as ash from the fires on Fraser Island and Woodgate into the space. She saves me so much time in my week.

We had some nice rain from the storms last night. There was 15mm in the gauge and the pool filled up nicely. Some follow up rain would be nice though.

Time for sleep. Early meditation and AH and I need to drive into The Bay after work so it will be a big day.

Nite all.

Healing Hands

I woke up this morning feeling much better. 

The pain in my shoulder had reduced considerably and I was able to move freely. Just a little niggle.

I was awake at 5.30am and up out of bed early for my day off. 9am!

The washing machine got a good workout today.

I finished the art piece. I’m not happy with the changes, but it’s what he asked for, so as my wise daughter suggested, I have to rise above my feelings about it and accept that I provided what he wanted.

We drove to the shop and cleared the vision board mess that was in the training room, then set up for morning coffee and journaling.

I packaged up and addressed all of the wrapped Christmas presents and Adoring Husband took them to the post office to send them off. $67 later ... 😳

There are still two more parcels to go yet but I’m pretty impressed with how well organised I am this Christmas!

I did lamb shanks in the slow cooker for dinner with mash and broccoli and mushroom gravy. Real comfort food.

It has been incredibly windy here for the last couple of days ... and hot! That has all built up to create some big storms currently passing over us. The rain is heavy and the thunder is loud. Hopefully this rain will reach Fraser Island to put out the dreadful fires that have been burning for over a week.

I think it’s time to sleep. This day has been full and productive and tiring.

Nite all.

Shouldering the Load

Last Thursday, we replaced our 8 yr old broken Bosch dishwasher with the latest model of the same brand.

We brought it home, which was easy because the big strong man at The Good Guys simply picked it up and slid it into the back of our car.

Trouble was, the big strong man didn’t come home with us!

As Adoring Husband and I slid the dishwasher out of the car onto our wheeled trolley, I jarred my shoulder. It hurt at the time, but the pain disappeared quickly and I thought nothing more of it.

Until today ... the pain returned. Ouch.

I feel a touch incapacitated and I can’t seem to find a comfortable position.

I’m hoping that a shoulder rub with some DoTerra Ice Blue followed by a good sleep will see me wake up as good as new tomorrow.

Needless to say, my Sunday was full of nothing except movies and uncomfortable squirming on my seat.

AH put the Christmas tree up, but we haven’t decorated it yet ...

Now it’s bed time!

Nite all.