What a Day!

This day has been exhausting!

In between a busy procession of early morning customers, I:

• made all the preparations for the art class (with a little help from a friend)
• washed the dishes and cleared the kitchen
• served three interstate customers who selected a stack of snap buttons and jewellery from the FB page and either messaged or phoned me to make the purchases
• gift wrapped a purchase for a customer
• stapled biz cards to big stacks of carry bags
• prepared nibbles for the class

Ran the class where we painted lazy Susans …

Cleaned up the mess (with a little help of course)

Came home and cooked chicken, mushroom and vegetable soup for dinner.

Watched “Promising Young Woman” (loved it!), “Pretty Woman” and “Sweet Home Alabama”.

It’s almost 11.30pm and I’m too exhausted to get up off the chair to go to bed!

AND I have to be up early in the morning for a day out with the girls.

I had a fantastic day of sales and I had a lot of fun with my art girls and now I’m going to sleep like a baby.

Tomorrow is going to be FUN!

Nite all.

Torrential

I was very lucky to have some good customers in the morning - before the torrential rains came - so it didn’t matter that the weather kept everyone away for the afternoon.

Since last Friday afternoon, we’ve received a delightful 110mm of rain.

It was good to see no leaks in the ceiling with such prolonged heavy rain. The first heavy rain this year had water streaming down the training room wall but there was nothing today.

Adoring Husband and I set up the tables ready for art.

We are paint pouring over lazy susans this week, so they should be ready to use by Christmas. They will make a great gift idea too!

I received a box of new stock today. Some quirky earrings that will also make great gifts for teenagers and young adults.

I sold one pair this morning.

After work, I was considering joining my girls for their games afternoon, but with all that rain, my mood was for changing into my pyjamas (at 2.30pm) and plonking myself on the couch with a cup of tea.

AH cooked the usual Friday night fare of chicken nibbles so it was lovely to do nothing all afternoon.

I definitely need to have an early night because the last four nights were way past midnight when I fell asleep and I’m almost running on empty.

I’m not sure if it’s noticeable to you, but I have increased the size of the font to make it easier for my friends with eyesight problems to read. Let me know if there is a difference at your end.

 

Nite all.

Sleepy

I’m just waiting for the rain.

I’ve been watching the BOM - not in a scared or worried way - but in a hopeful, interested way - and it looks like we might get some steady rain for a while. Nothing significant or heavy, but probably enough to make the weather even more steamy tomorrow than it was today.

The wind has been gale force for most of the day too, which adds to the discomfort!

I had a fairly slow day with few customers, but the few customers spent freely, so sales were good.

I went from this many emails …

… to this many emails …

That’s called productive decluttering! I’ll do the rest in the morning - I’m well aware that my joy at having only 1400 unopened emails is somebody else’s trigger for a meltdown haha.

I received an email from Grannymus (my first mother-in-law, or what we used to call ‘mother-in-love’) today. I can’t believe she just turned 91! 

It was so nice to hear from her and to know that she still reads my blog. I’m sending warm hugs for her today.

I filled my belly with healthful green juice for breakfast, fresh prawns with mango and avocado for lunch and crispy skinned salmon with salsa (mango, avocado, cucumber, coriander and dressing) for dinner.

My body is already thanking me - except I still didn’t drink enough water. I did enjoy my anti-inflammitea this afternoon though.

I’m working on my food intake to reduce my bloated belly.

Now it’s time to sign off so that I can go to bed and fall asleep to the sound of rain.

This is a road trip memory from back in the days when we were a free country.

Will we ever be free again?

Nite all.

A Bit Sorry

Meditation was almost a full house and we talked about “following our intuition”.

Surprisingly, there were a few tears during the class as people had some aha moments that touched them a little deeper than usual.

The Gypsy stayed for about an hour afterwards and we talked ‘life’.

I had a nice visit from Aggie but I’m a bit sorry that I chewed her ear off about stuff. Sorry Aggie 😘

I mentioned to a few of my regulars that I was planning on selling the shop so word should spread pretty fast and some time soon I’ll post it onto the Facebook page. 

Then it’s ‘wait and see’.

I passed my minimum takings today but it was slow going.

The local caravan parks are looking very empty at the moment. Next week might be a good time to shut the shop so that I can have a staycation.

Adoring Husband bought some seafood for me today but he didn’t realise the sand crabs were uncooked. I attempted to cook them by following the instructions that I found online, but the meat was mush so they went in the bin.

What a waste!

Instead I ate some prawns and AH had leftover chicken. Mixed fresh berries with LF cream for dessert.

It was a night of trashy TV. Big Brother VIP, The Bachelorette and Love Island.  

It’s almost midnight so I’d best get some sleep.

Nite all.

Ever So Quiet

Today was the quietest Tuesday in a long while.

I blame the unpredictable weather. There was wind and humidity and showers and thunder.

Only The Brains Trust and Maid Marian came for coffee this morning. Beauty came for a visit about 25 minutes after they’d left the shop.

The Happy Hippy did an hour of garment steaming.

I priced the steamed clothes and hung them for display, set up the table for journaling, paid a bill, filed some paid invoices and sorted through the snap buttons to fill the trays.

I made a sale over the phone with a customer in Sydney and talked with another out of area customer about taking photos of my snap button trays and jewellery so that she can choose some to purchase.

Journaling went well.

I was home by 4pm and crumbed some chicken tenderloins to air-fry in the oven. They were served to Adoring Husband with some zucchini slice, tomato and avocado. I had mango and avocado with mine.

Today our QLD Premier announced the opening of our borders on 17th Dec and all the rules that will apply to the unvaccinated for an indefinite period, so I’ve decided to sell my shop.

I don’t want to be checking anyone’s vaccination status as they walk in the door.

I don’t want to turn the unvaccinated away.

I don't want to be vaccinated to keep my business.

I don’t want the “powers that be” to make my happy place my unhappy place.

So I’m putting it on the market and I hope to create new happy memories in my happy home.

I’ll be practicing my power to detach to help me let go of this one!

It’s now approaching 11.30pm and I’m up early tomorrow for meditation.

Here are some pics of my beautiful girls.

Nite all.

Rabbit Hole

Just when you think you’ve got a handle on this whole vax debacle, a great big package of new information lands firmly in your lap and it takes you on a new tour through an even scarier haunted house!

I watched three videos today … well, technically two and a third because one of them vanished from my screen never to be found again. I didn’t even get the name of the Dr being interviewed so that I could search for it.

The lesson I learned here is to write down the platform from which you are watching, the title of the video and the name of the person being interviewed BEFORE you start to watch it.

I scribbled so many notes and have pages of new information to share. Mind blown 🤯 

NOT sharing any of it today, but I did find this old 60 Minutes story from the US which is VERY interesting and you can easily compare it to the strategies they are using now.

60 Minutes: Swine Flu (1976)

As for the remainder of my day, Adoring Husband lured me to the lounge room at 2pm to watch our afternoon quiz shows.

I made a zucchini slice, crispy skinned salmon steak and fresh asparagus for dinner followed by fresh berries with zymil cream for dessert.

After AH watched his beloved Dr Who episode, trashy reality TV was on the evening menu.

I have been wearing pyjamas for the entire weekend and have enjoyed doing nothing of value or importance.

Mind you, my ‘to do’ list of household chores is growing by the minute and one day soon I will regret procrastinating for so long.

We’ve had some lovely rain this afternoon and the forecast for the next four days is looking good for some heavy falls.

Meanwhile AH’s back is still bad and our front lawn is growing faster than Jack’s beanstalk! We love the rain but the grass will be outta control before much longer.

It’s now after midnight.

I need to sleep.

Nite all.

Fluff Day

It was well after 8.30am when I woke this morning.

I lay in bed for a long time focusing on my breathing, noticing the weight of my body against the mattress, listening to the neighbourhood sounds of Sunday and feeling the breeze floating through the window.

It was a really calm way to start my day.

I’m not sure what time I got up to make breakfast.

Adoring Husband is still struggling with his back, so I cooked up some healing food for him - bacon, egg, tomato, baby spinach and avocado.

For myself I caramelised peach halves and spread toast with avocado topped with the fattiest part of the bacon. Yum!

We spent the entire day binge watching fluffy Netflix movies.

I reheated last nights leftover chicken casserole for a late lunch and dinner was a nonevent.

It’s been a perfectly divine lazy day together in front of the telly.

This evening I’ve been reading lots of stories from “Frontline Workers Speak Out” group. Mostly nurses, health care workers and aged care workers. There are hundreds of stories and 63,000+ subscribers.

I picked out a couple of stories to share.

Australia wide there is something like 20,000 nurses and health care workers refusing to get the jab. Surely that means something. 3000 nurses protested in Adelaide a few days ago.

6000 nurses in Queensland have been stood down or suspended.

I’ve spoken directly to two nurses, one from Maryborough and one from Bundaberg, both of whom tell me that their hospital emergency departments and ICUs are full of patients with vaccine adverse reactions and their instructions are to tell people that they are ‘busy with covid related issues’.

It’s getting crazy out there but mainstream media are still repeating the same stuff over and over.

Apparently I’m the crazy one.

One more for good measure …

Nite all.

What Flags?

Because I had a supplier with me on Friday afternoon, Adoring Husband put my teal and yellow flags on the floor of the shop instead of in the training room where he usually puts them.

This morning I pointed at them on the floor and said to him “Flags”.

He huffed at me and told me he had to wedge the door open and move the chairs out of the way first. So I helped him do those things.

I had two visitors during the morning, which was a pleasant way to pass time when there were no customers in sight.

At 11.20am after a VERY quiet morning and just one customer through the door, I noticed that those pesky flags were STILL ON THE FLOOR!

I took them outside and planted them in their poles and then phoned AH to make him feel as guilty as possible.

From that moment on, it was busy, busy, busy!

I wonder if that’s proof that the flags work and I should put some money towards some new ones - the current flags are looking a bit the worst for wear.

I was very happy with my sales for this morning and I was still serving customers at ten past closing time!

After work, my afternoon could have included a swim but instead we watched a fluffy Christmas movie on Netflix, followed by a pretty good mystery with some big names in it like Jamie-Lee Curtis, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette and more. I enjoyed that one.

A chicken casserole made with a base of home made cauliflower soup was good enough for AH to return for a second helping.

Good grief! It’s now after midnight!

Nite all.

What Budget?

Mid morning I had a couple, wearing what looked to be uniform polo shirts, walk through the door of the shop.

They each gave a gasp of surprise (that happens a lot) and wandered around for five minutes telling me they were drivers for a Bundaberg ‘group’ and that they’d left 18 people sitting drinking coffee in front of the bakery and Foodworks.

I said “You need to tell them about this great shop! I’m sure they’d love to come for a visit!”

With that, the man walked out and the woman brought her purchase to the counter.

Five minutes later, a convoy of elderly humans trudged up the driveway and the man held the door open for them as they swarmed into the shop.

One of the ladies was named Roz! She introduced herself quite gleefully! All of the 18 humans were in their 80s and they didn’t spend a lot of money but they certainly helped me reach my happy minimum today.

They were a happy bunch and all complimented the shop as they went on their way to Goodies for lunch.

I had an appointment booked with a supplier for 12.30pm but he didn’t arrive until 1.15pm.

As always, I budgeted a certain amount for this visit and as always I went far and above it.

I’m very happy with my purchases and I know they will sell well so I’m not suffering buyer’s remorse.

The appointment lasted an hour and Adoring Husband closed the shop while I was busy and I was home by 2.30pm.

I did a load of washing, parked my butt with my usual cup of tea beside me and proceeded to add up my purchases. The total was more than I’d planned but not as bad as I expected.

We watched a few movies. 

‘School of Rock’ with Jack Black.

‘Happy Season’ with Kristen Stewart

‘Meet Joe Black’ with Brad Pitt.

Now it’s almost 11pm and I’m sitting up in bed feeling very comfortable and ready for a good nights sleep.

Looking forward to a blinder of a Saturday to end my week on a financial high!

Nite all.

Super Slow

My day was long and slow.

I passed my happy minimum with sales, steamed some garments, did some filing, paid a bill, cleared some emails, drank tea and watched the clock.

It’s unusual for me to watch the clock because the days are generally so busy that I’m surprised when I see Adoring Husband walk through door 30 minutes before closing time.

He had a meeting to attend at 2.30pm so we closed a couple of minutes early so that he could drive me home, empty all of my paraphernalia out of the car and feed psychotic dog Colli before heading out again.

It took me about 30 minutes to do all the ‘things’ before I could put my feet up and shut my brain down for the day. I enjoyed my hour of solitude before AH returned but by 4.30pm I was overwhelmed with lethargy and simply needed to lie down.

I woke up about 90 minutes later 😳

AH had cooked chicken nibbles for dinner and that delicious aroma was wafting through the house so it was a pleasant way to wake up.

Now it’s almost midnight and I think I will easily fall asleep once I sign off here.

I have an appointment with a rep tomorrow. I won’t be spending much money with him.

I’ve spent the evening watching interviews with scientists re Covid and vaccinations. One scientist who was fully vaxed and caught covid 3 months later. Surprise? Yeah Nah.

Anyway …

Nite all.

Found Stuff

 Found this on Facebook today …

89 year old Ron Chester was stopped by the police around 2 a.m. and was asked where he was going at that time of night.

Ron replied, "I'm on my way to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body, as well as smoking and staying out late."

The officer asked, "Really? Who's giving that lecture at this time of night?"

Ron replied, "That would be my wife.

Hehehe

We had a full house for meditation this morning and we discussed ‘showing ourselves kindness’. It was a good class with plenty of discussion.

The ladies didn’t hang around for very long this week but The Gypsy stayed for almost two hours and we had LOTS to talk about. Such a lot had happened in just one week and much debriefing was required!

It was another great sales day, which was surprising because the caravan parks are only half full and I didn’t think there were that many people about!

I set the steamer up but I was so busy I didn’t even finish one garment.

I had four small packages arrive today. One was a special order for a customer, one was white and aqua coloured pillow boxes, one was 50 small plastic ring displays and the last package was jewellery price tags.

The day passed quickly and after such an early start my brain shut down as soon as I walked into the house this afternoon.

Salmon steak and vegetables for dinner.

LOTS of trashy TV.

It’s already after 11.30pm and I can’t stop yawning so it’s time to sleep.

This meme is your warning about all the information I now have from nurses who are marching against mandated vaccinations and the horrific stories they are telling about adverse reactions … which are apparently filling more beds than actual covid cases.

You can look forward to reading some of those stories on the weekend 😬

Nite all.