History

 I’m sorry, but if I save all of my covid purging to just Mondays, my Monday post will take 6 hours to create and 12 hours to read!

For that reason, I’m putting this link up today. It gives you the criminal history of Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies.

I don’t even understand how they continue to operate but I guess different laws and rules apply to such a money making machine. They can get away with purposefully providing drugs and medication that they know kill and injure human beings.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/ takes you to this …

That’s all for purging today.

I had a good day of sales and I got my art on this afternoon. It was a great class and we were very productive with everyone pitching in to clean up when we’d finished.

We hung around for an hour afterwards with nibbles and drinks and had some big belly laughs.

I cooked up crispy skinned chicken with vegetables for dinner.

We watched a movie on Netflix called “The Starling” 😢😭😢 It was very good with some great actors like Melissa McCarthy, Kevin Kline and Chris O’Dowd. It’s not a comedy, although there were some funny moments but it was very moving with a nice message.

Adoring Husband and I are driving into The Bay tomorrow to purchase a new oven. This will be our third oven in 13 years! We DO use our oven a LOT.

There goes my Sunday in bed but Monday is a public holiday so a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Wet n Wet

Last nights (Thursday) storms brought some deliciously heavy rain.

Tonight we’ve already experienced one mighty storm with a good downpour …

There is another line of small storms joining up and heading this way …

The long loud rumbles of thunder sound so ominous and there was one strong gust of wind that made the windows shudder.

The scattered showers throughout the day kept my customers away and again, I didn’t reach my happy minimum in takings.

I live streamed the second day of the Supreme Court case but missed the last hour or more because I had a visitor.

While I could have attempted the chore of cleaning my desk … which has been on my ‘to do’ list for weeks … I chose instead to practice the art of procrastination. Not that I need to practice because I am already very good at it!

I priced and displayed the new jewellery …

I also ordered some more Serenade wallets and some of these in different colours … 

Unless sales go crazy, my only other orders before Christmas now will be clothing.

Sales for this September were up on last September which makes me very happy!

Adoring Husband helped me set up the art room ready for Saturday.

I enjoyed my day.

Our oven decided to die tonight so instead of the usual oven baked chicken wings from Adoring Husband, I poached them in home made chicken stock, honey, ginger and lime with a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper. When they were cooked, I browned them under the grill.

Bloody nice.

Now it’s time to sleep to the sound of low stormy rumbles in the distance.

Nite all.

Other Decisions

The Fair Work Commission made some decisions on Monday regarding mandated vaccinations.

If you want to read the 44 page document … https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2021fwcfb6015.htm?fbclid=IwAR3Rbn6ZuHKhmpj1iLL3vfU8vLQPkxFmz20WDrUwjpKI2Yj3HIV7wgl1Xxs

No industry, including public health, is allowed to mandate vaccinations for reasons such as “the World Health Organisation states that the majority of people who contract Covid 19 will recover and won’t even require treatment.” and “this is a clinical trial and should only be voluntary.” and “there are side effects and the long term effects are unknown”.

Just to name a few.

This information has been available for all the world to see, hear and read for a week. Has it been mentioned in the news?

Of course not.

Ok, I know I said that I would only purge covid stuff on Mondays, but this is a big deal that I found out about today and I couldn’t wait!

End purge.

It was pretty quiet in the shop today and I didn’t quite reach my happy minimum.

This gave me time to do some filing … until I ran out of folders to put my files in … so I photocopied all my receipts.

I logged into the Supreme Court YouTube live feed of the big court case regarding mandated vaccinations which started today. I was one of almost 50,000 people logged into the channel. It lasted for about four hours and will continue tomorrow.

I actually made myself some breakfast this morning - plain coconut yoghurt, blueberries, banana, macadamia nuts and powdered wild blueberry. It was delicious and quite energising!

This afternoon I received a small box of silver jewellery in the mail with some lovely pieces to sell in the shop. I’ll take pics tomorrow.

We ate leftover roast chicken in gravy with a big batch of broccoli, cauliflower and snow peas for dinner.

There seems to be a giant line of storms heading in our direction tonight and I think they should be here in about half an hour. 

I’ll attempt some sleep now.

Nite all.

Imagine

Imagine a world where every wealthy person held these same values - even if they used just a fraction of their wealth …

Sadio Mane, a Senegalese soccer star that plays for the British team in Liverpool, earns approximately 10.2 million dollars annually and has given the world a lesson in modesty after fans spotted him carrying a cracked iPhone. His response is legendary:

"Why would I want 10 Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn't go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me," Mane said.

THAT is selfless and a lovely way to make the world a better place..

My day did not BOOM today. It was a slow day that just reached my happy minimum.

I had four boxes of stock delivered so I needed that quiet time to get everything displayed.

Tomorrow will be filing day.

Adoring Husband drove into The Bay with a ‘to do’ list for me and was almost 100% efficient.

He had last nights leftovers for dinner and I had a handful of fresh prawns with a homemade seafood sauce.

I’m very tired tonight because I forgot to cancel my early morning meditation alarm so I was awake ninety minutes earlier than necessary and I went to sleep quite late. I’m too old for this!

The only answer is to go to sleep now!

Nite all.

Boom!

Our coffee morning with just The Brains Trust and Beauty in attendance ended much earlier than usual because I got busy in the shop.

The Happy Hippy came to clean. Love it when she’s done her work.

It stayed busy until 12.30pm and then it went deadly silent.

I did have a visitor in the last hour and we discussed all things covid. I don’t have a name for her yet but she’ll be moving here soon and I’m guessing she’ll get a regular mention here because we have a similar mindset about the current situation in Australia.

We chatted for over thirty minutes before Adoring Husband arrived to close the shop.

It was a great day of sales! Better than a blinder but not a record breaker … I’ll call it a Boom day!

Journaling was great. Forty five minutes of talking and the same of writing, so it was productive.

We didn’t have to set up for meditation because The Gypsy has other commitments tomorrow. This means I get to sleep in!

It also meant that we got home thirty minutes earlier than usual.

AH had already started cooking the baked chicken and vegetables for dinner so I put my feet up and relaxed for the afternoon. My only contribution was making the gravy. Dinner was delicious!

Vegan Chickie is still keeping me up to date with my girl’s growth …

All in all it’s been a pretty great day. 

Tomorrow will be just as good.

Time for me to sleep now.

Nite all.

My Decision

I’ve decided to use one day each week to purge my covid knowledge here.

Because I can 😬

Since Sunday is my bed study day, I’ll post my purge that night and you, if you should choose to accept my challenge, will read it on Monday.

Otherwise, now that you know what to expect on Mondays, you can also choose to avoid it.

Fair warning.

My weekend has been completely unproductive with most of it spent in bed watching videos and  interviews, news footage, phone camera footage from every angle of protest marches, checking data from all different country govt sites regarding covid and vaccinations and looking at everything posted on the uncensored platforms.

So I guess it was a bit productive - just not in ways that would improve the cleanliness, tidiness or order of my bedroom or house!

I removed myself from the bed at lunch time, showered and washed my hair and spent some time with Adoring Husband. We watched a Margo Robbie movie called ‘Dreamland’ which I quite liked. It was nothing spectacular but it was a decent movie.

I made my version of a zucchini slice for dinner and Adoring Husband asked for a second serve. It was quite tasty served with a tomato, cucumber and avocado salsa. I also chopped up some mango with mine.

I have very much enjoyed my weekend and am looking forward to work tomorrow.

There’ll be no meditation this week because The Gypsy has a specialist appointment so I’ll get to sleep in.

It’s almost midnight!! Sleep time for me.

Nite all.

Sorry Not Sorry

I was busy watching the second half of a five hour video so I didn’t get to my blog post on Saturday.

That video helped make sense of the BS currently overtaking our country.

In another two years, our fear will override our conditioning and complacency and we’ll wish we had this time to do over and do things differently.

The changes that have been planned since the 90s have already begun to be put in place and this, The Lucky Country, is fast becoming quite the opposite.

But that’s a story for another day because I know you’re not ready to hear it yet.

Just know that you are NOT seeing or hearing the truth on TV and you should be feeling uneasy about our future for very different reasons than what you’re being told.

Even though it was crazy busy in town and the queues in the supermarket meant that ALL the cash registers were operating, Saturday was disturbingly quiet in my shop.

One of my few customers was the lady that I had words with on Friday! I didn’t scare her off after all!

Sales were very low and I didn’t even come close to my happy minimum. Lucky for me it was a great week to cover it.

I enjoyed my free Saturday afternoon by watching the NRL preliminary final between Storm and Panthers, followed by the AFL Grand Final between Melbourne and Western Bulldogs.

Did a stack more research.

Today (Sunday) was spent in my favourite place all day. Bed.

I dipped my toe in the pool and then stepped into it up to my knees. Still a bit chilly but very close! It was a year ago on 24th September that I had my first swim for the season so we’ve wound down the umbrella to allow the sun to warm up the water. I hope I can jump right in soon.

I didn’t even get up to make dinner. Adoring Husband made his own paleo pizza.

It was good to see our nurses out in force today protesting against forced vaccinations …

I still have a day to play with tomorrow and I’m not even sure how I’ll spend it. I’ll think about it tomorrow.

Nite all.

What a Flourish!

My day was very slow to start.

I did a lot of garment steaming in the first 90 minutes, then I checked the mail, sat down to a cup of tea and wondered where everyone was!

By midday, I had just reached my happy minimum.

I checked my emails, finalised an order of jewellery that I’d had on hold for about six weeks, made a big pile of paperwork ready for filing.

At 1pm I had a surge of customers that more than doubled my sales for the day, making it a very good day!

At 1.40pm I received a phone call from a new supplier who had my first order ready for personal delivery but she was just leaving Hervey Bay so I agreed to stay open until she arrived.

At 1.50pm a regular local walked in the door with friends and she asked “Are you about to close?” I told her it was their lucky day and I’d be open for another 30 minutes. Another lady walked in at the same time.

By 2.30pm I had once again more than doubled my ‘very good’ sales!

So what a great day to finish off a great week still with half a day yo go.

While I’m not usually one to get into Covid discussions with my customers, I was feeling particularly tender today because my bestie was forced against her will to have the vaccination today, or lose her job. 

An annual holiday maker who comes into the shop every year made an off handed but emotional comment about teachers and vaccinations which triggered my very passionate response with a shipload of statistics and information that in the beginning she attempted to argue about but in the end she had nothing else but mainstream fear mongering to throw at me.

My final argument citing some close personal experiences was enough to stop her in her tracks.

I was surprised by her words as she left the shop “You still have a beautiful shop and I’ll be back.”

Honestly, I was not in a great place and I was quite prepared to forever lose her custom.

I was very happy to watch Wayne Bennett’s Bunnies defeat Manly in tonight’s preliminary final! They played a fabulous game and I think I’ll support them in the Grand Final next week.

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Early Mark

It’s not even 5.30pm and I am in bed 😍

Adoring Husband is at SES training and the house is all mine.

I cooked an early dinner and was sitting in my pyjamas about to watch a movie on Netflix when I thought - I can go to bed with a cup of tea and watch the movie on my iPad.

Brilliant!

I had a great day at work. Not a lot in sales but I passed my happy minimum.

There were lots of tyre kickers wasting time until their food was ready at the cafe.

This gave me time to do my favourite thing … steam more garments 😩

I steamed approximately 18 garments because I turned the steamer off every time a customer came through the door. There were lots of teenagers about today, in groups, so I figured I should stay alert.

My last sale for the day happened at 10:45am. Everybody else was just looking.

The Silver Fox came to visit for about half an hour. We chatted about the group brunch that happened on Tuesday as well as her many overseas travels. She has certainly been there and done that and has a gift for telling her stories. I am always entertained when she’s in the room!

Crystal M Dee (the lady whose crystals I once sold in the shop) also came for a visit at the same time but she decided to return tomorrow so that we can have a bit of time together.

I was feeling much better today and I think I’ve worked out that the new supplements (vit d, vit c, zinc and quercetin capsules), that I began taking last Tuesday we’re making me feel nauseas. I was feeling sick every day except for one - which was the day I forgot to take them!

So I didn’t take one last night or this morning and I’m feeling fantastic.

All I had today was half a banana and a cup of tea which gave me enough energy to get through my day comfortably.

We stopped off at Klocca’s house to pick up some of her home grown tomatoes and while I was there, I checked out her new timber flooring. I LOVE it! It’s a gorgeous colour and I know exactly what I want if or when we decide to do our floors. Very sleek and stylish.

I moved straight into the kitchen to cook dinner when I got home and my evening is now mine to do as I please … the house is deliciously silent with no TV noise in the background and I feel like I could nod off to sleep right now … but then I’d be awake at midnight.

We don’t want that.

So I’ll go watch my movie. AH should home by the time it’s finished and then I’ll sleep!

Nite all.

Super Duper

I had a blinder of a day!

It started with meditation where we discussed how sometimes, for our emotional health, we need to leave people behind who are not ready to move forward with us and how we shouldn’t allow anyone to hold us back or allow then to overstep our boundaries when it’s to our detriment.

Obviously over the period of an hour, there was a bit more to the discussions but we all got a lot out of this class and there was lots of talking even when the class was over. Some of the participants even returned during the day to give more feedback.

I put The Happy Hippy to work on the new steamer and she got through quite a few of the garments in her hour.

The Gypsy stayed for about an hour and as always we had some meaningful conversations.

From 10am onwards the customers just kept coming!

Sales were fabulous and I was kept on my toes all day with time for just a cup of tea at lunch time.

I have to say that I was not feeling very well for most of the day so it was a stretch for me to make it to closing time. I feel better this evening and I think a good nights sleep will help.

When we left the shop this afternoon, there was a bushfire that had gotten out of control in the centre of town. The smoke was crazy and dense …

My bedroom window was open so inside the house was smoky and my eyes were stinging.

Adoring Husband had to hose down the Bali hut because burning embers were floating through the air. He also folded down the pool umbrella to prevent ash build up.

He was called out on SES duty to help with traffic control and they blocked off one street with detours.

A wind change late in the afternoon sent the smoke and embers in a different direction but the fire was still burning after dark …

For AH’s dinner, I cooked bacon wrapped asparagus, stuffed zucchini, boiled potato and grilled tomato. I had a creamy veg and chicken soup out of the freezer for my dinner.

It’s bed time for me now.

Nite all.