Get the Picture

I had no choice but to get up early this morning.

When Adoring Husband departed for work at 5am-ish, he left ‘not so psychotic dog’ in the laundry (where she sleeps)  and she certainly knew that he had left the building!

After a good twenty minutes of listening to her intermittent barking, I cursed at AH in his absence and threw myself out of bed to rescue the old canine from her apparent hell.

I took her outside to do her business and then put her in her family room bed to wait for AH’s return.

Forty five minutes later she was shrieking again because she knew he was pulling into the garage. For a deaf and blind 17 yr old, she certainly is perceptive.

Not withholding my crankiness, I decided to make myself some breakfast, whinge dramatically at AH to hopefully instil some guilt and then return to bed to find some peaceful solitude.

I think I was successful 🤪

I watched an interesting 2 hour video on YouTube and took lots of notes.

AH had a man date at noon, so I got out of bed, did a load of washing, put our lunch in the oven (which was leftover lasagne) and found a Netflix movie called ‘In Time’ which was quite reminiscent of today’s situation and what is yet to come.

There are so many movies from the past decades foretelling the future that awaits us!

I enjoyed the movie along with my lunch.

I returned to my room to find some messages from BGWLBH and Vegan Chickie, so I responded. Co-incidentally, BGWLBH had found the same two hour video and had watched most of it too.

AH and I spent some time emptying the cupboards in the pool filter room and decluttering. I tossed more than he did, but there is still a lot to go through yet. We need to make room for what’s left of the double garage after we de clutter that!

The water in the pool felt lovely but I didn’t go for a swim.

While AH cooked the usual Friday night fare, I chose to eat the four leftover tuna patties for dinner and watched the football on my iPad in bed. They were good games and I am three from three in the footy tipping - but so is everybody else!

It’s now 11pm and time to sleep. I may just join AH for his morning walk!

Nite all.

Inside Out

I did not sleep last night.

Not one wink of sleep for the entire night.

I turned out my light just after midnight, dabbed some “sleep soundly” essential oil behind my ears, found my usual comfortable sleeping position and waited for my slow deep breaths to lull me to sleep.

Nothing.

I lay there completely alert and energised.

I looked at my watch at 1am and tried again to sleep.

I tried every trick I knew (and I know a lot) but at 2am there was still no sign of drowsiness.

At 3am I turned on the TV looking for something that might bore me to sleep but I all I could find was infomercials and home shopping … too dangerous for me! 

At 4am I texted BGWLBH (because she is an hour ahead and usually awake at 5am) but ironically she was sleeping soundly.

At 4.40am I heard Adoring Husband moving about in the kitchen so I got up and told him that I was going to pedal to the beach and meet him for his morning walk.

I got dressed, stole his small flash light from his bedside table (because the batteries are flat on my trike head and tail lights) and began pedalling in the darkness towards the new path that leads to the outriggers shed and the new boat ramp.

There were lots of bats flying about and making that whooshing sound with their wings. They seemed to be very close to my head and the flashlight was disturbing them as I rode along the path. I was quite disturbed too!

There was quite a lot of activity around the boat ramp and the paths were wet with puddles from the sprinklers.

I could see the tiny sliver of silver crescent of a moon in the dark sky. It was a very unusual colour …

It was tricky finding my way along the path with little light and trying to avoid the giant toads that were now looking for their daytime hibernation spots.

I managed to avoid hitting a lady and her dog who were walking quietly on the darkest part of the path, and found my way to the stairs that led down to the beach where I waited for twenty minutes until AH arrived and parked near my trike.

I took a couple of pics with my phone.

I chose not to lug my camera this morning but I may do that in the future.

We couldn’t walk far because the tide was coming in much faster than I expected - but that’s ok for my first walk. I should be able to walk a little further each day.

I pedalled home, even beating AH home who had stopped at the supermarket to grab some lemons and milk.

I made myself some tea and toast and caught up with messages and emails.

By 8am I could feel my body struggling and I was yawning uncontrollably so I excused myself and fell into bed. My bladder woke me at 11.20am and I slept for another hour after that.

I thought it might be a good idea to get up otherwise I’d have to endure another sleepless night.

I made some tuna patties for lunch and we watched a couple of Netflix movies.

I made lasagne for dinner. I’m already yawning through the football and it’s not even 8pm yet 😳

Let’s hope sleep comes easily tonight. There is much to do tomorrow.

Nite all.

Humped It

Scott Morrison gets nuked

Adoring Husband and I spent a good portion of today in The Bay.

We started at Go Natural. I had three things on my list but we left with quite a bit more than that.

Nanas Pantry wasn’t on the list but I needed tapioca flour so we stopped there and bought more than just tapioca flour!

AH dropped me at Stocklands while he shopped in Bunnings.

I collected my lotto winnings from the last two weeks with which I purchased new tickets. 

I found some lovely new place mats to replace the tired old stained ones that we’ve been using for the last 14 years.

I spent a billion dollars on a wardrobe of new clothes for Hazey’s birthday, which was both fun and challenging.

We did some grocery shopping and then selected some choice fruit and veg from the kiosk.

On the way home we picked up some fresh seafood from Craignish before collecting our FROG box.

I got to have a great chat with the FROG lady who is very like-minded. I wish we’d had more time because we both had so much more to say! But I found out some interesting local information and am now a bit more community aware. 

It was around 3pm when we finally arrived home and it took a while to unpack all of our goodies. We decided to have an early light dinner. 

AH had leftover snags in bread followed by a couple of paleo hot cross buns.

I had fresh prawns on bread with avocado and lettuce.

While we were eating, I found a Netflix series called ‘Baking Impossible’ and we binge watched the first series. Amazing cakes!! Such creativity and artistic skills and talent! I loved it… obviously.

Now it’s after 11pm and I need to sleep.

Nite all.

What Helps

It’s amazing how a shower, clean clothes and a touch of makeup can improve your mood and attitude.

It had been four days since I showered and my hair was so matted into my hair tie that I had to cut it out!

Sometimes in life you hit a downer and you just have to go with it.

I feel better now and Adoring Husband and I have plans for a day in The Bay tomorrow and to pick up the FROG box.

We shared cooking duties this afternoon and enjoyed bangers, mash and broccoli for dinner

The final show of MAFS was on the agenda and boy am I looking forward to the reunion on Sunday night!

There was a mini storm passed over us a while ago and despite the warnings, there was not much in it, thank goodness.

It’s time to sleep now.

Nite all.

Healing Monday

Corruption and Globalist Control

This has been my ‘healing’ month.

April will be my ‘practical’ month.

There will be much to do! The shop is exactly as I left it on 14th February, but now it’s time to make a list and start ticking things off. 

I can’t move forward until I get closure on what’s done.

I started the list today.

Our Coles delivery arrived at 10.30am and that’s when I got out of bed.

I prepared fish and salad for lunch and in between checking on the defrosting mini freezer Adoring Husband and I watched a couple of Netflix movies.

One was a Zombie movie which gave me some handy tips for surviving the coming Zombie Apocalypse. I feel that it’s not too far away.

The second, being a fluffy romcom, was quite the opposite and a much nicer way to kill 90 minutes.

AH and I played some YouTube trivia until MAFS started and AH ate his leftovers from last night.

Now it’s almost midnight so it’s sleep time for me.

BGWLBH arrived home safe and sound late this afternoon. Now I’m counting down her return!

Nite all.

Nice Rain

They’ve been telling us for years

We’ve had some nice rain this afternoon and evening and it’s still raining right now.

I’ve spent the entire day in bed and in my pyjamas, watching interviews, reading articles, watching the football, journaling and making lists. This is my first full day in bed for two months!

I booked BGWLBH into a motel in Armidale where she is currently listening to noisy patrons in the room upstairs.

Adoring Husband is feeling neglected because one wife has left town and the other has remained in bed all day. He even had to cook his own dinner.

Here are some pics of my beautiful girls …

They are growing up so fast 😳

I think I’m ready to sleep now.

Nite all.