I'm Ready

Another 'funny' to start the day ...

This is how my day began ...

Spent the day in The Bay and all I can say is that there are some very dangerous young children and teenagers with electric scooters out and about for the school holidays.

They don't obey any road rules and scoot across the road in front of cars, through roundabouts and through traffic lights. They don't use the button at traffic lights as pedestrians do, they just GO and sometimes without even looking.

They travel at crazy speeds. One was at Pialba shopping centre this afternoon and was moving so fast in between shoppers that I actually gasped in fear. He tore around a corner to enter the plaza without slowing or checking for people coming in the other direction. My God, he was an accident waiting to happen.

If there are no accidents, injuries or fatalities during the school holidays caused by electic scooters, I will be very surprised.

We were home in time to watch the footy and my tipping is going very well so far. I am, as of this moment, 6 points in the lead! Unheard of!

I made myself fried rice and honeyed prawns for 'fend for yourself' dinner. BGWLBH made herself a couple pizzas. Adoring Husband had a salad roll and my leftovers haha.

There a storms scudding about tonight and we just had a short sharp shower. I can hear thunder in the distance, but I don't think we'll get too much out of it...

I have a big day tomorrow photographing a wedding. Wish me luck. Weddings are a tough gig when you are on your own. Most wedding photographers have an assistant to do some of the dirty work like passing lenses, arranging dresses and veils, putting people into position, getting everyone's attention and even taking a few pics in the background.

I can only do my best.

Now it's time to sleep.

Nite all.

Got a Bit Done

A "funny" to start your day ...

So I woke up and my dog is laying on the back patio covered in dirt with a rabbit in his mouth. The rabbit's not bloody, just dirty. My neighbor's kids raise blue ribbon rabbits. I instantly knew it was one of theirs. 

I took the rabbit away from my dog, rushed inside, and washed all the dirt off it before my neighbors could come home. It was stiff but I heard some animals play dead when they are afraid but I couldn't remember which ones. I took it and placed it back in one of the cages in their back yard then I ZOOMED back home. (Don't judge me)

Not 30 minutes later I hear my neighbors screaming so I go out and ask them what's wrong?

They tell me their rabbit died three days ago and they buried it but now it's back in the cage. 

Credits goes to the respective owner✍️.

I decided which photo to submit in the 52Frames themed week of "Details" which ends on Sunday...

We have a passionfruit vine growing in the back yard that we did NOT plant. It just appeared, so we left it to grow.

It is currently covered with flowers and fruit in different stages of growth.

I saw a solo bee having a lovely time flying from flower to flower gathering all the yellow powdery goodness.

The extra challenge this week is to use a macro lens - which is great for capturing creatures that remain still, but not so good for capturing a bee in flight.

After much persistence, I finally got the above shot which I'm reasonably happy with. Still not as sharp on the bee as I'd like, but it'll do.

Today, I watched the old movie "Logan's Run" which stars Michael York, Peter Ustinov and Farrah Fawcett.

Great concept, but it really was a terrible movie. It was made in 1976 but that's no excuse. 

I spent some time in the kitchen and made 3 meals of spaghetti bolognese sauce and 2 meals of butter chicken to freeze for next week, or whenever I don't feel like cooking.

I'll be photographing a wedding on Sunday from 3pm - 6pm so I won't be home to cook for the team.

Right now, I'm sitting up in bed watching the Broncos get beaten by the Roosters. It's half time and the score is 20 - 12. Very unexpected at this point so let's see if Broncos can pull themselves together in the second half.

Time to snuggle down under the covers and support my team.

Nite all.  

Distractions

We had an early start so I was out of bed at 6am, out the door at 7.15am, sitting down in a coffee shop at 7.50am and off on a solo shopping jaunt at 8.30am.

People seemed to share their ages a lot today.

The woman working in the lady’s boutique told me that she is 72yrs old.

The woman working in the craft store told me that she is 74yrs old.

A woman shopping in Choice told me that she is 84yrs old.

The checkout chick in Coles told me that she is 53yrs old.

The girl working in the bakery was telling her co-worker that she just turned 33yrs old.

It was a less than successful shopping day for me.

I tried on many tops without success.

I searched for pretty hand made dresses for Hazie in the craft store without success.

I looked in Choice for a crafty gift for BGWLBH without success.

I checked all my lotto tickets from last week without success.

I visited Big W hoping to find a Clarins lipstick that I’ve been searching for, without success.

I WAS able to get everything on my food shopping list so at least I had success there.

We arrived home before Adoring Husband did because he played golf in Childers.

He had received a phone call from one of our neighbours to say that they lost one of their dogs to a brown snake bite last night.

The worrying thing for us, was that Harley threw up before AH went to golf, so our imaginations went a little bit crazy.

It was a huge relief to arrive home and see Harley sitting at the gate wagging his tail ready to welcome me home.

AH had last night’s leftovers for dinner, while I made a small honey soy sesame chicken with boiled rice for BGWLBH.

We played trivia before watching the football. I’m pleased to say that Dolphins defeated Penrith Panthers and I tipped the winner correctly so I am now 2 points ahead on our tipping ladder! Wahoo!

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Oldie But a Goodie

I am watching the original "Oceans 11" on the Classic channel.

Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jnr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Angie Dickenson, Shirley Maclaine among many others.

What a great cast.

I've had another brain draining day.

Adding more to my book, more designing of the journal and affirmation cards, more manifesting lessons, journaling, note taking, meditation and phone calls.

I phoned the groom of the wedding that I'll be photographing on Sunday to discuss further details of the wedding and what he and his bride will be expecting.

There's a story!

Which I won't tell here.

Due to water cutoffs, our local butcher was closed today, so my plans for dinner had to change. I took leftover curried mince out of the freezer and made the curried mince pastries served with boiled and chopped potatoes in their jackets, honey carrots/zucchini and tzatziki. 

Even I filled my belly up on that. It was delicious.

We played trivia for 45 mins and Adoring Husband and I watched Andy Lee's 100 before heading off to bed.

Tomorrow will be another day in The Bay with a long list of food and groceries.

Which means it's time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Tired Brain

I seem to have overworked my brain today.

Meditation was cancelled due to low numbers and a possible unsafe car.

I was struggling to get out of bed so it was a relief when I saw the message!

I took Harley out to play and returned to my made bed.

Manifesting was on my agenda so I found a fresh new journal and began writing my manifesting dream with gusto and vigor! 

I have some favourite social media gurus who are masters of manifesting ... among other things. 

Joe Dispenza is my number one. 

Jake Ducey has some bright ideas.

Louise Hay is an old favourite.

Bob Proctor was around for many years but passed away in 2022 at the ripe old age of 87. 

Denise Duffield Thomas is relatively new. I followed her closely when setting up my gift shop in 2017.

Lastly, Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote the book "Big Magic" is quite motivational.

It doesn't matter what they teach you, what goes on inside your head is key to your success. It's all about self belief and being truly convinced that you are deserving of whatever it is you want. It's amazing how your own thoughts can sabotage everything in an instant. 

The trick is to brain wash yourself, through regular habits, affirmations, journaling, spells, meditations and behaving like you already have what it is that you're manifesting. Changing the energy in your body, your mind and your surroundings.

Our biggest enemy is limiting beliefs.

Anyway ... I YouTubed, journaled and read my way through some great ideas and put some of them into practice.

I also took some photos for the "Details" brief on 52Frames. I don't like any of them so far, but I'm holding on to them in case I run out of time and feel desperate!

Now it's time to sleep. An earlier than usual 'lights out' for me.

Nite all.   

A New Week

This week’s theme in 52Frames is ‘Details’. The extra challenge requires that I use a macro lens, which luckily, I have.

I’m thinking about getting up close and personal with an insect (we have a lot of big grasshoppers in the garden at the moment) or perhaps a passionfruit flower or even Harley’s nose!

I’ll think of something.

Another day in The Bay and it was lovely and quiet. School holidays have begun and there was hardly any traffic and very few kids out and about!

Tonight was the Australian Idol finale and my boy Marshall Hamburger won. As soon as I saw his audition, I said to Adoring Husband, “Marshall Hamburger will win this”.

No more MAFS after tonight - this week was the reunion and now it’s all over until next year.

AH will be so pleased.

I had a good weekend of tipping and am still equal top of the tipping ladder with Best Cousin in the World.

AH mowed the lawns yesterday and today.

Now I need to sleep. Meditation early tomorrow.

Nite all.

Pretty Restful

I had no ironing for BGWLBH this morning.

I took Harley out to play.

I made tomato on toast for breakfast and brought it to bed so that I could work on my book.

After a while, I decided to watch "Adolescence".

So many people have been raving about it on social media and even the girls at lunch were talking about it, so I decided I needed to know what was so great about it.

I actually wasn't that impressed with it.

It's just another way to normalise murder, violence, sexism, misogyny, immorality ... only worse, because it involved children, none of whom seemed to take accountability for their role in the crime and others who thought it was funny.

I'm disturbed by how we are being conditioned to accept such atrocities.

The number of shows on TV that are filled with true stories of violence. Deadly siblings, killer husband and wife teams, mean girl murders, lost control killings, serial killers, narcissistic boyfriends, mothers who murder their children and babies etc.

One night, very late, I was trying to find something on TV to fall asleep to, and EVERY channel had a murder program on it. EVERY SINGLE CHANNEL.

I am going to make a list of them all.

Anyway ... 

I cleared my emails, watched some YouTube, started designing a journal and then watched the football.

Dinner was duck breast with a pile of baked bite sized vegetables - potato, sweet potato, carrot, capsicum, onion, tomato, zucchini and chilli.

Oh and I did my photo for 52Frames, the theme of which is 'Levitation'.

That was the day. A little bit productive. Mentally tiring. Now it's time to sleep.

Nite all