Simple Saturday

It was a quiet Saturday.

Adoring Husband had his usual "mate date" this morning - coffee with the boys.

I found a Netflix Series called "Four Seasons" which I loved and watched the whole first season before the football started.

"Fend for yourself" night meant that all I needed to do was cook my 2 pork sausages, make a tomato and onion gravy and reheat some mashed potatoes. It was delicious and I ate the whole lot!

My footy tips are not going well, but then, nobody else's are either so I'm still on top of the ladder.

I think that I'll set tomorrow aside to do some more writing because my book has been at a standstill for a week now.

That's the long and short of my day.

Nite all. 

Go-Jo – Milkshake Man (LIVE) | Australia 🇦🇺 | Second Semi-Final | Eurovi...

Apparently, this was the best that Australia could come up with for Eurovision. I’d put Milkshake Man in the same category as Raygun - an embarrassment to the nation.

Today was a pretty slow one for me. Although I was awake at 7am, it was after 9am when I decided to greet the day.

Harley and I played.

Afterwards, I chopped vegetables to boil for Harley’s food packs, baked banana bread and made the marinade for tonight’s chicken.

Adoring Husband wanted to watch a movie so I chose “Some Kind of Wonderful” which AH has never seen. He still hasn’t seen it because he fell asleep in his chair haha.

It was nice to not have to cook dinner tonight.

I was very annoyed to discover, too late, that Lomax was back playing for Parramatta tonight. I’d have tipped Parramatta to defeat Newcastle if I’d known this important detail. Needless to say, I got the first tip wrong for the weekend.

It has been a bit rainy today and the temperature nice and mild. We haven’t needed the air conditioner for about 3 weeks now. There has been a lovely cool breeze blowing from the south through our front windows but I’ve still used my pedestal fan every night.

Good sleeping weather.

Speaking of sleep …

Nite all.

Nice Day For It

BGWLBH and I had a very spontaneous trip into The Bay today.

Adoring Husband went to golf with his brand new putter.

Harley stayed at home with a big chewable bone.

I did the curried mince pastries again for dinner - by request.

I avoided watching the women’s state of origin game where the blues annihilated the maroons.

The new season of The Great Pottery Throwdown began tonight.

Already, it’s 10.30pm and I need to sleep.

Nite all.

More of Nothing

I was awake at 7am but didn't rise until 9am.

Harley play.

Did my "Water" pic for 52Frames ...

A late breakfast.

Watched a couple of recorded shows on TV with Adoring Husband.

Had a 'time out' to just 'be' in my bedroom for about 30 minutes.

Crumbed some chicken and made coleslaw and garden salad for dinner.

Played trivia.

Watched some telly.

It's been raining tonight.

Now I need to sleep.

Nite all.

Just Another Tuesday

For some reason, I was awake at 5am and couldn’t get back to sleep.

It worked to my advantage because I had meditation and had to go to the ATM to withdraw money before the class so, for a change, I was early.

But right now, I am very tired.

Meditation was great and I had 90 mins with The Gypsy afterwards.

I arrived home just in time to watch an old movie with Adoring Husband. “An American in Paris” with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. They don’t make them like that anymore.

I did curried mince pastry parcels for dinner.

It’s time for me to sleep now.

Nite all.

Writing Writing Writing

Proof that Ivermectin was the ideal treatment after all ... Ivermectin the ideal treatment 

I didn't wake up until 9am this morning! Harley was perfectly happy in his pen in the corner so I wasn't disturbed by any outside noises.

That's more than nine hours of sleep and I fell asleep to the sound of 528 HZ healing frequencies music. Tonight I'm going to try the 111 HZ healing frequency music.

After playing with Harley, I took my "Luxury" photo for the 52Frames theme this week and submitted it. I had requested help from BGWLBH three times during the week because she's always pushing her ideas onto me at the last minute in other weeks.

I told her last Monday to put her thinking cap on. Reminded her again on Wednesday and again on Friday to no avail.

So I went with this ...

My own patch of luxury in the back yard.

From there, I made myself a late breakfast and returned to my room to continue with my book. I wrote the opening page letter to my children, finished Chapter Three and am almost finished Chapter Four.

It's tough for me to actually open the app to get started, but once I've typed the first word, it all just flows and then it's tough for me to stop!

At 4pm I forced myself to stop so that Harley could have some play time and then I cooked dinner. GF meat pies with mashed potatoes and a delicious mix of vegetables - leeks, green beans, snow peas, carrot sticks, zucchini sticks and tomato cooked in garlic butter. 

We all played trivia for an hour and I watched Farmer Wants a Wife before retiring to the bedroom.

I need to get up early for meditation so it's definitely sleep time for me.

Nite all. 

Distracted Big Time

Saturday was interesting for me.

I scrounged through my wardrobe and found all the paperwork for the journaling course that I created and taught at the shop five years ago. The course was called "It's all about me".

I discovered all of the question sheets and the large journal that I had filled with the answers to those questions. 

My new laptop has the "Pages" app that allows you to create just about anything, including a book, which is what I decided to run with. 

On Saturday, I wrote the 'Introduction' page, completed the first two chapters and got most of the way through the third chapter, when I realised that it was after 1am and time to pack up for the night! I forced myself to put everything away and attempt sleep.

Unfortunately, my brain was fully engaged in the task at hand and it took another hour for me to relax enough to fall asleep.

This is why I didn't do the blog post that night.

I wanted to do more of the book today, but I thought Adoring Husband might like my company for a while. We watched a Netflix movie and then two games of football. 

My tipping was appalling this weekend and I have slipped to second place on the tipping ladder. I'm very disappointed but I think I can catch up next weekend. Time will tell.

I found some prepped food in the freezer and made nachos for BGWLBH and reheated chicken meatballs in rich tomato sauce served with pasta for AH.

It was a nice easy option that required little thought and little time.

Right now, it is raining heavily and, on the BOM, it looks like it will stick around for an hour or so. It will be nice to fall asleep to that lovely sound of rain on the roof.

I think I'll finish chapter three of the book first. I'd like to be able to do a little bit each day, so that I feel like I'm accomplishing something and I'll be able to see that it's moving forward, even if it's slowly.

Here is one of the pages with questions ...

Choose the ones you've done and write down your memory of the experience. Some of those experiences will be interesting enough to include in your book and some, not so much.  There are 8 pages of 'have you ever' questions.

There are, altogether, 48 foolscap pages full of questions.

Nite all.