Ease to Oopsie

My alarm was set for 5am so that I could be ready to leave the house at 5.30am.

Miraculously, I woke at 4.30am and didn’t require the alarm!

It was an uneventful morning. The drive into the bay was smooth with no traffic and we were lucky to catch every green light, which meant that we were right on time to pick up The Gypsy for the drive to the hospital.

A heavy fog settled over the bay, so we had to take it slowly from her place.

We arrived at the hospital right on time, had 5 minutes in the first waiting area, 10 minutes in admin and a further 10 minutes in the second waiting area. 

We parted ways with a warm hug and off she went to be prepped for hip surgery. First surgery of the day!

Outside the hospital, the sun was still rising, there was a lovely chill in the air and it was very very quiet, so instead of calling Adoring Husband, I decided to sit and enjoy the cool silence for ten minutes.

When I felt ready, it took one text and three phone calls to finally connect with him.

He had done a run to Bunnings, topped up the fuel tank in the car, bought a coffee and two loaves of sour dough bread from the bakery and then returned to me.

We then stopped at Oliver’s drive through for coffee and a hash brown for me and we were home just before 8am.

After a short play with Harley, BGWLBH and I decided to set up the string lines on the big cupboard door to hang my old photos. 

Unfortunately, when I walked to my desk for a ruler to measure the distance between hooks, I had a little mishap.

Somehow, my foot got caught on the power cord to the very heavy amethyst crystal lamp, which was sitting on the edge of my desk.

When I say heavy - it probably weighs about 4kgs.

As I turned, I tripped on the cord, pulling the lamp off the desk directly onto my ankle, but at the same time, I was falling heavily to the ground, which was a concrete floor and had absolutely no chance of avoiding the falling lamp.

I yelled as I hit the ground, cursed like a drunken sailor and lay on the floor mentally assessing whether I could feel and/or move various parts of my body.

BGWLBH didn’t actually see what happened because there was a screen standing between us, but she rushed to my assistance when she realised I was in distress.

My left ankle and knee seemed to have taken the brunt of the damage …

With the aid of a chair, I was able to get myself off the floor and walk into the family room to lie down on the chaise lounge, while BGWLBH busied herself making two ice packs for my joints.

As I lay down, I could feel some bruising happening on my upper left thigh.

AH was summoned from the back yard and he rushed inside to assess the situation.

It took around 20-30 minutes for the adrenalin to settle, for my heart rate to calm down and for us all to realise that there were no breaks, sprains or strains.

When all the excitement had settled, I moved back to my work desk and started making jewellery.

I finished the blue extra large bracelet, selected and put into order, the beads and charms for two more bracelets and then made 11 pairs of earrings.

That was when my body began to complain.

My left wrist began to feel sore, all of my joints began to ache and the muscles all over my body began to feel tender, so I moved straight to my recliner and lay back with my feet up.

Right now, lying in my bed at 10pm, I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus!

Ugh 😩

The Gypsy came through her surgery beautifully and within 3 hours, they had her standing up and walking on her hip with a walker and the assistance of two male nurses.

Impressive.

Now I think I shall fall asleep to the sound of racquet on ball at Roland Garros.

Nite all.

I Got Motivated

A visit with The Motivator today that lasted for 4.5 hours.

We talked about everything that you can possibly imagine, from health to natural therapies to health influencers to health retreats to family to travel to people and friendships to interior design to creating our own oasis at home to divine energy to ageing to memories and the list goes on.

It was a good visit and she gave me some CDS (chlorine dioxide solution) in water which, surprisingly, has made a marked improvement to my internal health. It was almost instant and I feel lighter, energised and pain free!

Her store of natural therapies almost rivalled mine and we had a great time discussing the pros and cons of each and every one of them.

It has been about a year since we had any one on one time together and I thoroughly enjoyed today. We have promised to keep our connection going in the near future.

I arrived home in time to watch the footy, take spaghetti bol sauce out of the freezer for “spaghetti Sunday”, play trivia and then remember that the French Open tennis started tonight!

Now I need to sleep because I have to be up at 5am for AH and I to drive into the Bay and transport The Gypsy to hospital for her hip surgery. It’s going to be cold and bloody early!

Nite all.

By Linda Ellis

This …

Moved me.

Friday was a day in the Bay. It was a public holiday branded as “show day” but around 50% of the shops were open for business.

BGWLBH and I stocked up on some art and craft goodies and did some grocery shopping, while Adoring Husband visited a sick mate in Maryborough hospital.

My dinner consisted of cold meats (pork, ham, turkey and prawns) with fresh cherry tomatoes from the garden, avocado, coleslaw, beetroot and cranberry sauce.

I watched the footy, followed by some golf, but I was asleep by midnight.

I woke up when my alarm sounded at 7am.

The reason for the alarm, was for a zoom date with The Gypsy at 9am. I gave myself time to play with Harley and to make a fruit salad for breakfast before setting up in my bed for the zoom. While AH had a coffee date with mates, I ordered a small coffee from him, so he brought that into my room before 9.30am.

Our zoom lasted for 2.5 hours and was full of chat about her upcoming surgery on Monday and some great spiritual discussion. We could have talked for another couple of hours, but she had a phone date with her son, for which she ended up running late!

BGWLBH did a long stint of ironing, including mine.

I stayed in my room until I was ready to make my ‘fend for yourself’ meal of prawn cutlets. I originally wanted to make pizza on a Lebanese bread base, but the local supermarket didn’t have one of the most important ingredients (cabana) and for me, there is no substitute!

The AFL footy came on before the NRL so AH and I watched some form of footy all afternoon, but were in bed before the second NRL game started at 7.30pm - our usual bed time.

I have a catch up date with The Motivator booked for tomorrow, so sleep is important.

Nite all.

Found Some Mojo!

I found some ‘mojo’ ever so briefly!

It was 7.30am when I opened my eyes, but it was lovely cool weather, just right for staying under the covers for “just a bit longer” so I didn’t rise until 9am.

After Harley play, gardening and making my breakfast (of fresh crab meat, avocado, cherry tomatoes from the garden, salt, pepper and a light squeeze of lemon juice), I found my way into my art space.

I set up my very expensive work light, that I’ve had stored in my bedroom for a year, and it is amazing!

Even though my work table is directly in front of the glass sliding doors, the fact that those doors are tinted glass, reduces the natural light considerably. This work lamp has highly concentrated white light, but only on the small area where I direct it, and it makes the world of difference.

I also brought the amethyst crystal lamp from the bedroom to sit on the desk beside me. It looks and feels lovely.

The light showed me the flaws in my old bracelets, so I began to pull them apart and set aside the beads and charms that I want to re-use.

I began to put together an “extra large” bracelet in blues …

In a previous life, when I was selling the bracelets, I received a few complaints about them being too small, but I was buying the chains pre-made at a certain length, with a fob connection.

Now I have lengths of silver chain, so I can make them to any length.

I got to the halfway mark with this bracelet - it had taken me 2 hours to get to that point - and I was struggling to put a slip ring on one of the charms, so I gave up for another day. Maybe tomorrow.

By the time I found all of the findings, then the beads that I wanted, pulled apart an old bracelet to use some of the quality beads from that, set up the lamp on the desk, found my glasses, made a cup of tea and got halfway complete with the bracelet, more than 2 hours had passed and I was getting frustrated with that darned slip ring and charm, so I thought it best to take an extended break.

I went straight to my bedroom with Harley and lay down for 2 hours, checking my emails, watching my quiz shows and dozing a little.

For dinner I did baked vegetables (potato, pumpkin, onion, carrot, capsicum and tomato), steamed greens (beans, snow peas and broccolini) and baked barramundi in garlic butter and lemon.

Key lime meringue pie for dessert.

An hour of trivia and in bed by 7.30pm.

I’m feeling a bit weary now.

Nite all.

Busy in the Bay

A day in the bay, from one side of town to the other.

1.  The Jam Jar for morning juice.

2.  The nail salon for BGWLBH.

3.  Priceline looking for specific probiotics.

4.  Coles to do a walk through in preparation for the afternoon shop (killing time until BGWLBH was finished).

5.  Pialba Newsagent for lotto renewal.

6.  Salt cafe for bacon and eggs and tea.

7.  The Ibis Boutique to browse.

8.  A walk to the Pier Markets that we discovered are no longer operating on Wednesdays - bugger.

9.  A browse through Luxe Boutique where I found a top that I loved but decided it was too expensive.

10. Urangan Fisheries where I purchased some fresh crab meat and some green king prawns.

11. Dayman Street Bakery for some house sourdough bread.

12. Back to Luxe because I changed my mind about the top.

13. Go Natural still looking for the probiotics.

14. Coles for groceries.

15. Jam Jar for more juice.

16. Farm Gate for fruit and veg.

17. Fresh Seafood for barramundi.

18. Home - in time for important financial advisor phone call.

I made three meals for dinner.

1. Fried rice to go with BGWLBH’s leftover butter chicken from last night.

2. Hot and spicy fresh prawn soup for Adoring Husband.

3. Fresh crab meat on fresh sour dough bread for me.

AH and I watched the second half of the movie “Gray Man” before heading to bed early. Well, not early haha, just our usual time.

Now it’s already past 11pm so I’m signing off.

Nite all.