Blinder

As far as business goes, I’m very pleased to say it’s been a blinder of a week.

As far as I go, I drank a whole bottle of Chardonnay after art this afternoon, got blind drunk and made myself very ill.

I won’t go into detail.

I have no photos of our art to share. I’ll take pics on Monday.

Since I’m still in recovery mode, I shall end here.

Nite all.

Thank you Universe

The majority of my day was steady.

Two more recently returned locals touched base with me. It seems strange that seven of my regular customers all left town around the same time to travel and all returned after a few months at around the same time!

They mustn’t have spent enough money while they were away because they spent freely in my shop.

Thirty minutes before closing I added up my takings and was feeling quite pleased with how the day had ended … but in fact, it had NOT ended … with 20 minutes remaining til close, a bare footed woman with fly away hair and wearing black bike shorts and singlet top came bursting through the doors and like someone on a mission made a beeline towards the clothes.

I could hear her rummaging and the wooden coat hangers were clapping together as she checked each item individually and within ten minutes, she walked to the counter with three of my high ticket items. She made comment how two of them would look fabulous together and then asked how much they totalled. 

She then rushed out the door declaring that she would return with money.

I trusted that she would return, packed the items and waited …

It felt like an eternity but five minutes later, she returned with a handful of cash, announced that I should continue posting photos on my Facebook page because that’s the second time she’s been drawn to the shop to spend a fortune.

Then off she flew with her bag of goodies.

Thank you universe for providing another magic day!

I had a practice run for art class on Saturday and figured out what I needed to change.

The Brains Trust visited with her 8 foot tall grandie (maybe I exaggerate a little) and a while after she left, Aggie popped in, still walking a little gingerly from her recent surgery.

Adoring Husband arrived to close the shop.

I arrived home, got changed, ate a late lunch, drank my anti-inflammatory tea and then had to bathe not so psychotic dog Colli.

She’s very old, has very few teeth so she drools onto her facial fur and it coagulates into black disgusting muck. The same thing happens around her weepy eyes so I sat her in the laundry tub full of water and worked her clean. I gave her facial hair a trim too.

It’s now almost 11pm and I have a big day tomorrow with art in the afternoon.

Nite all.

That’s Tricky!

I did actually write a post for yesterday’s “Howzat” heading but somehow the post got deleted and all you got was the title! 

Howzat indeed 😳

In a nutshell, Wednesday was a great sales day. Meditation class was low on numbers but we learnt about and discussed ‘ego’ and finding the sweet spot between inferiority and superiority where we feel no pain. 

Adoring Husband started to set up the training room for art.

I received more stock and had to rearrange displays to fit it in!

We tried GF soft shell tacos for the first time and loved them.

Thursday was a bit quieter. 

Average sales.

A visit from Mrs Bucket, The Artful Dodger and two locals who have just returned from extended trips around the state. It was nice of them to pop in and let me know they were back.

I received a box of Intrinsic stock which took an hour to process. 

I paid for other orders that have now been despatched and will arrive next week. Some giftware and some quality colourful leather wallets.

Gale force conditions sent my big heavy OPEN sign rolling up the path, into the car park and over onto its side! It’s a heavy monster for little ol’ me to be lifting back up. I managed it, though I almost busted my fufoo valve!

AH finished setting up the tables for art.

I decided to make myself a pot of Roogenic’s Anti-inflammitea when I got home this afternoon and I can’t tell you how calming that was - my body went into total ‘relax’ mode. I’m gunna get me some more of that magic tea! 

We had leftovers with hard taco shells for an early dinner so that AH could go to SES training.

We watched the acceptable outcome of The Bachelor followed by an acceptable outcome for the football.

It’s almost 11pm and time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Howzat?

Friday Yet?

First day in for the week and I’m already exhausted!

Coffee with the girls was great and it was so nice to have Aggie back in the fold. She’s looking good although obviously not yet fully recovered.

Because of those pesky customers, I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with the girls and I’m not even sure what time The Brains Trust left.

I had two boxes of new stock to unpack, check, price and display. That meant rearranging other displays to make room for the new stock. There will be more stock tomorrow and Thursday.

It was incredibly busy in the afternoon and sales were great!

Thirty minutes before closing, it finally got quiet so I had time to clear the training room enough to make space for the journaling class, which in the end got cancelled!

Adoring Husband and I set up the  room for meditation and I vacuumed the training room and the shop floors before we left.

I enjoyed a couple of hours with my feet up and cooked dinner early. Barramundi with salad.

There was no reality TV To watch tonight so I came to bed at 7.30pm.

It’s now 9pm and it’s sleep time for me.

Nite all.

My Right to Rant

This is your warning … stop reading now if you don’t want to hear what I have to say.

Dr Christina Parks Testimony House Bill 4471 in Michigan.

I know that there are some of you who are already vaccinated and don’t want to hear anything other than the media and your friends telling you “Good job!” and “Well done” and “Thanks to you, the world will be a safer place for our sick, elderly and our children”

However, we need to be properly aware of the realities that are being expressed by qualified doctors, scientists and medical professionals from all around the world. The realities that the media, your government and pharmaceutical companies are not telling you.

I have a library of videos, links to research, excerpts from the websites of  CDC (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention), FDA (Food and Drug Administration), TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration - part of the Australian Government Department of Health), the Lancet and other respected medical journals, interviews with scientists, medical professionals, specialists in the fields of disease and virology, professionals with decades of experience, some of whom are Nobel prize recipients just to mention a few.

I think I figured out after about 3 or 4 months into the Covid story, to not share much information because for a lot of my friends, sadly, ignorance is bliss and they believe that the world leaders, governments, the wealthy and powerful, pharmaceutical companies, the media and their doctors have their best interests at heart and will always lead them in the safest direction.

The people with the most to gain - pharmaceutical corporations and the wealthy/powerful (who incidentally have more than tripled their wealth and power since this all began) are the only ones feeding the media, governments and your doctor the information that you receive.

That information is manipulated, leaving out vital details, embellishing misinformation and adding vocabulary to instil drama and fear.

I avoid all news stories/programs/papers/magazines/TV as much as possible but every so often I’ll step into the world of news to experience the drama and study the patterns of vocabulary, dramatic music, manipulating rhetoric and divisive, anger provoking language.

It infuriates me for many reasons, but mostly because it helps me understand the strange conversations I have with the highly ‘conditioned’ people of this country. The people whose only education comes from the news and who totally believe that any information that comes from elsewhere is a lie.

They negatively judge anyone who chooses to educate themselves with facts and evidence from outside the mainstream media and blame those people for all that is wrong with our current situation.

I know that the majority of my friends, including Adoring Husband, stopped reading this post way before this paragraph.

I feel a bit sad because nobody gives a rat’s pizzle about what I believe, what I’ve discovered or how I feel. Mostly I am laughed at or made fun of like I am a joke.

I feel confused that with all of the information available at our fingertips, so few people are inclined to search for truth.

I feel angry that so many have been emotionally manipulated into doing something that in the end will have no affect on anyone except themselves and probably not in a good way.

I feel frustrated that the information NOT being shared by the media holds so much more weight and value and makes so much more sense than what is being handed to us day to day.

I feel grateful to anybody who has read this post to the end. 

Thank you.

Nite all.

TBTBday

A couple of weeks late because when five people are involved, sometimes life gets in the way, but today we lunched for The Brains Trust’s birthday.

Minus our girl Aggie ☹️ and still missing Lady Lynn.

TBT is celebrating the final year of her 60s!

She selected Arkarra Gardens Cafe at Dundowran for lunch which is a lovely outdoor cafe nestled in partly landscaped, partly natural bush land on the edge of a large lagoon. There are Bali huts scattered throughout and the food and service is very good.

After lunch we strolled through the walking tracks taking in the lush bush land, listening to the bird life and making fun of each other.

We were only out for a couple of hours but it was quality time and not nearly as exhausting as our usual shopping lunches!

The icing on the cake (we actually had no cake) was the beautiful heavy rain that was drenching the town as we drove home. A couple of hours later we got a second storm with heavy rain and hail. No damage but the residual PTSD was evident in Adoring Husband.

I cooked up some vegetables and homemade gravy to have with leftover roast chicken for dinner.

We watched The Voice.

We are in bed. 

It’s been a good day and I’m looking forward to some time in bed tomorrow.

Nite all.