2 out of Three

Two of my three parcels arrived in Melbourne today …

Let’s hope the third one appears tomorrow!

I was feeling a bit ‘off’ this morning so after I took Harley out, I returned to bed for almost an hour.

BGWLBH returned with good news about her medical tests.

Harley had lots of play time.

Adoring Husband picked up more grass and finished laying it today.

Two more sleeps til my birthday art day …

Should be fun with just the girls from my old art class + BGWLBH.

Now I need to sleep before the clock strikes midnight and I turn into a pumpkin 🎃 

Nite all

Can You See?

I can see!

The optometrist told me that I don’t need reading glasses.

In the last 25 years, I have been prescribed reading glasses and I have spent approximately $3500.

I was ripped off - thank you very much Spec Savers.

This is why I switched to OPSM.

I DO, however, require distance glasses and in the last five years my eyesight has deteriorated so little that he told me not to even worry about getting new glasses. But I will.

I’m using all of my old frames because they are excellent quality, top brand name frames that have barely been used.

Now I’m waiting on a quote to be emailed.

By rights, it shouldn’t cost me a cent because I have private health cover for optical, but we’ll see.

I’m so tired now, I can hardly keep my eyes open!

It’s definitely time to sleep.

Nite all.

Productive

Adoring Husband was VERY productive today laying new lawn in front of the concrete slab.

He miscalculated and didn’t order enough so there’ll be another trip to the lawn guy on Thursday.

I spent the morning washing windows. They only get done once a year and I really didn’t pick a good day because the neighbour is installing a pool and they started digging the hole today! 

What a pain in the butt!

After the manual labour, I watched a few episodes of the new Portrait Artist of the Year series. I’m feeling inspired again but don’t have the skills to do portraits. Perhaps YouTube will be able to help me.

Tomorrow I’m off to have my eyesight tested. It’s been 5 years since my last test so I’m a bit overdue.

Harley has had plenty of play time today but he is sound asleep right now.

It’s approaching midnight so I’d best sign off and get some sleep.

Nite all.

The Real Sunday

I suck at footy tipping!

Still not finished, but very very close!

My knees are aching like crazy tonight so I’m going to massage my new cream into them and attempt to sleep.

Nite all.

Thought it was Sunday!

I thought today was Sunday.

I don’t know why.

It was like every other day - cooking, playing, arting, watching footy.

I hope to finish this by the end of the real Sunday (tomorrow).

This is art done by BGWLBH …

Amazing right!? So simple but so detailed and well balanced.

I took some slow motion videos of Harley playing in the pool but they won’t upload here in slow motion. I need to figure out why and hopefully I can share them tomorrow.

Time for me to sleep so that I can wake up to the ‘actual’ Sunday tomorrow!

Nite all.

Nothing Doing

A day at home for BGWLBH and I, while Adoring Husband drove into The Bay to run some errands.

It was a typical kind of home day for me and I got some cool pics of Harley shaking off the pool water from his coat. The early morning sunlight was caught in the water droplets …

It was good to see the Sharkies beat the Roosters tonight. I needed to get that tip correct to make up for last night’s disaster. Nobody else tipped the Sharks so I was able to catch up by 2 points.

I’m waiting on the result of Manly vs Melbourne and so far, Manly are looking the goods - although there is still ten minutes left in the game. Of course I tipped Melbourne, but so did everyone else, except my sister who is a Manly supporter. She’s coming last on the ladder so these 2 points won’t help much.

Nothing else to report from me.

These pics were taken in the Whitsundays yesterday …

Sleep time for me.

Nite all.

Much To Do

We left bright and early for the Maryborough markets this morning.

On the way, we stopped at Craignish traffic lights when they turned red and some crazy person came flying down the right hand lane (where people usually turn right) and he drove, at high speed, straight through the red light, narrowly missing a car coming from the left onto our road!

BGWLBH and I just gasped and looked at each other as if to say “Did that just happen?!”

It was a very unsettling start to our day.

Thankfully, the rest of the trip to Maryborough was incident free and we arrived safe n sound to walk the markets where I found lots of dog treats for Harley, some gluten free donuts, a hand made card and some natural pain relief cream.

We found a cafe to sit down and eat breakfast. I had mushrooms on gf toast with whipped feta cheese and roasted tomatoes which was quite tasty. I also ordered a Ruby Tuesday fresh juice and a small latte.

After breakfast, we finally got to visit The Bling Thing in the new premises. It was my first visit and I was quite disappointed really. I expected better quality products and a better range of jewellery - after all ‘bling’ implies shiny sparkly things!

She did sell the same range of reed diffusers that I used to sell in my shop from a supplier in Bundaberg, so I bought some of those.

From there, we walked through Station Square Mall where I bought some birthday gifts to store away.

We found Lincraft where we were excited to discover that their primed canvases were 40% off! So we stocked up on them and I found some macrame twine in gorgeous colours at half price so I grabbed a few rolls of them too. 

I’ve never even done macrame before but I’m ready to teach myself once I’m done with all the art pieces I’ve planned!

We drove to The Bay where BGWLBH cancelled an order for a dehydrator because what began as a two week wait, blew out to a two month wait with The Good Guys.

The car was topped up with fuel.

We ordered some fresh juices from Su Jus Cafe before returning home.

It took quite some time to unpack the car and we were both exhausted for the remainder of the afternoon! We are getting too old for all this gadding about!

I received a call from Number One Son while I was cooking dinner tonight, which was lovely.

Dinner was duck and mash.

I watched the Rabbitohs thrash the Dolphins tonight, which was not good for my tips!

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Lovely Feet

My appointment at The Massage House in Pialba was for 10.30am.

My consultant was Jill.

She massaged my feet from mid calf to the tips of my toes for 30 minutes.

Jill told me that I had great feet. No calluses or bunions or corns or cracked heels or dry skin and my toes are perfectly straight and aligned well, which is unusual for someone of my age.

I told her that I thank my mother for always having my shoes fitted professionally when I was a child and I never wore stilettos or pointy toed shoes as an adult.

It was a delightful 30 minutes and she found spots on my feet that were tight and knotted so she gave those spots a good ‘going over’, causing me a little bit of pain, but it was very much worth it.

Next time I’m going to had a ‘foot detox’ before the massage!

I was very happy with the service, the price AND the actual massage, so I’ll return.

We did lots of shopping today, including a new top for me, this years Christmas present for Chicklet, some art pens, some clothes for Hazie, groceries, lotto tickets, tea from Nana’s Pantry and we booked eye appointments at OPSM.

We didn’t have breakfast at Table Eleven as originally planned but went to one of our favourite haunts, Bean Beat instead. Now my eyelids are struggling to stay open so it’s sleep time for me.

Nite all.