Man of Many Talents

It was such a quiet morning at the shop that I was able to completely rearrange one of the cube stands before the second customer even walked in the door.

At midday, I was wondering what had happened to all of those holiday makers and it looked like being our worst Saturday morning on record, but just as I began to wallow in my mini puddle of negativity, the shop filled with people and the last one didn't leave until 1.45pm. We usually close at 1pm!

So the first day of school holidays was a success - though not without difficulty - the square reader that acts as our cash register decided to freeze the scan option, so the only way I could complete any of the transactions, was to manually input all the numbers on all the visa and master cards.

That was annoying and I tried everything except shutting down the iPad, which I will try on Monday if it's still causing problems.

Adoring Husband drove into The Bay to pick up the kitchen cabinets which came flat packed. The progress so far ...

He's a talented man.

After I arrived home, I had just enough energy to get the washing off the line, put another load in the machine and check out Adoring Husband's effort in the kitchen before I collapsed on my lounge chair for a well earned rest.

I took a meal out of the freezer - spaghetti bolognese sauce to which I added zucchini noodles - for AH's dinner.

I'm watching the football and hoping that Souths win so that Adoring Husband has a chance at winning some cash in the footy tipping competition. If not, we'll have to try again next year!

It's not looking good at this point.

I'm not sure what Sunday will bring. I may open the shop for a few hours, but it depends on how I'm feeling. I may spend the entire day in bed! Or I may be motivated enough to do some housework. Who knows.

Wait and see.

Nite all.  

On the Up

After a very quiet week, and a very quiet morning today, the afternoon picked up considerably as the holiday-makers lobbed into town and the day was a success!

I was so busy in the last two hours of the day, I didn't know which end was up!

Adoring Husband helped me close shop and I was home in time to make myself beautiful for the usual Friday night at the club.

Our table was a little bit lucky and I was very lucky on the pokies.

Adoring Husband had dinner ready when I arrived home and sadly his footy team lost their semi-final tonight so they are out of the comp - however - his AFL team Collingwood won their semi-final so they ARE in the Grand Final next week.

Here are all the photos taken in stages before the pool installation and what we are up to at this point.

Look at the time! It's heading towards 1am! Time for bed.

Nite all.

Equally Calm

We made the same amount of money today, as yesterday, almost to the cent! Weird.

The Real Estate Agent gave us a list showing the number of holiday-makers arriving on the next three Saturday mornings and the first week should be our busiest of the next three.

A strange man came into the shop and told me to be on the lookout for a selenite tower because he had a vision of me receiving one (I already have three so I don't know why I would get another) and he told me that The Motivator might need a 'reading'.

Thank you strange man. Have a nice trip back to the Gold Coast.

It was another one of those days where nothing much got done. I even bought two coffees and both of them went cold before I drank half, so obviously, I was busy enough to let the coffee go cold.

We got news from the pool guy and "P" day is Tuesday!

I promised to post pics to show the progress so far and I've taken three lots of photos since we made the decision, but they are still on the camera, so I'll try to post them here before "P" day.

Adoring Husband has spent the day painting some more in the kitchen, but he'd best stop soon, because the dirt and dust from the digging might cause a bit of mess since there is no door to the kitchen for protection!

My thumb is almost healed. It's taken a week of colloidal silver gel baths and it looked even too horrifying to take more pics earlier in the week, but it's looking and feeling much better now.

Now it's after 11pm so I'm off to bed.

Nite all.

Calm Before The Storm

That's what it feels like in the shop.

The school holidays commence this Friday and the tourists will all be arriving thick and fast, but at the moment it's very quiet.

The caravan parks are about 1/3 full and there are only overnighters filling spaces leading up to the permanent bookings for holidays.

We are now seeing our first customers from when we opened last year, returning for their annual holiday, so it's nice to welcome them back as they walk through the door.

Those overnighters come into the shop for a browse or to fill in ten minutes and then leave empty handed.

Having said that, today went so fast and I don't feel like I accomplished anything!

We had three new faces, including our first male participant at meditation, which made for an interesting morning. The subject that The Gypsy chose to discuss today resonated very much with me so I especially enjoyed the session.

We have a new table in the centre of the shop, so we can display a few more items there PLUS a new glass cabinet which I have to put together some time over the coming days.

Our signage is still leaning against the wall in the training room too, so that needs action soon.

The tiler finished tiling the floor of our indoor/outdoor kitchen and the electricians finished the wiring, so we now have lights.

We are very close "P" day!!

"P" = "Pool"

The pool guy is coming in the next couple of days to make sure we have cleared enough in our yard for them to start.

I'm concerned about our avocado tree because it has just one avocado growing (still many more buds appearing - just not fruiting as yet), but the single avocado is on the pool side of the tree and it's highly likely that it will be knocked off by machinery. Fingers crossed that doesn't happen.

Ok, 10pm, must get some sleep.

Nite all.

Timed Out

My time off has timed out and I'm back to work tomorrow.

I've enjoyed my week off, but I'm very much looking forward to returning.

We had a long morning coffee with the girls this morning which lasted for more than two hours and there were lots of snorts and giggles.

I followed that with a twenty minute bare-foot walk along the beach before I met up with Adoring Husband to drive into The Bay to get some office supplies for The Happy Abode, to buy some more organic celery for my morning juicing, and to purchase some more crystals ...

... that is a very large rose quartz natural rock which I intend putting in the garden beside the pool ... I also plan on purchasing more of those!

AH and I also enjoyed a delicious lunch of Creamy Garlic Prawns at Aquavue on the waterfront.  It feels like forever since we lunched out together!

I stopped to browse some lovely tops in a clothing shop, but the only one I liked was the most expensive one there and I feel that I spent my self imposed limit for the month last week while we were there. Probably two month's worth actually. So I refrained.

Even my lotto winnings weren't enough to cover that expense, but $33 was a pleasant surprise and more than enough to buy a ticket in the $30million Powerball this week. Fingers crossed for a bigger prize that I can brag about and share to make a few lives more comfortable.

Meditation tomorrow, so I'm off to bed. I will listen to more of my book before I doze off.

Nite all.

Felt Like Sunday

I forgot that it was Monday and enjoyed it as if it was Sunday!

Not that it matters.

I had fresh celery juice for breakfast, which, I must say, tasted pretty disgusting! In past experience, celery juice was quite watery and a bit sweet, but this one was bitter and I struggled to finish it. I know it has amazing health benefits, especially for my struggling liver, so I can put up with it.

Adoring Husband brought me a coffee quite late in the morning and I enjoyed it as I listened to my Medical Medium book while I sat up in bed.

The tiler man came to tile the floor of the outdoor/indoor kitchen and the tiles look amazing. He will grout them tomorrow. Adoring Husband is feeling pretty pleased with himself for a great selection of tile.

I made a big nosh up of bacon, eggs, mushroom, onion, tomato and zucchini for AH's lunch. I pinched a couple of bacon rashers for myself and we drank the leftover slushy juice from yesterday - pineapple, watermelon, pawpaw and lemon.

An afternoon coffee was also enjoyable.

AH had a toasted sandwich for dinner followed by blueberries and ice cream for dessert.

Almost all of my day was filled with listening to and taking notes from my book.

I also realised halfway through the morning, that today marks 27 years since I began my working life as a Public Servant, so I posted on Facebook. While my original thought was just to announce the fact, I kind of got carried away and posted this instead ...

Due to a very early marriage and having children, I was a late starter, but today marks 27yrs since I began work as a public servant at CES in Griffith, where I made some great memories and great friends.

That was a huge step for me, from being a single Mum on a pension and living in a housing commission neighbourhood where Molotov cocktails and police sieges were the norm, to being a working girl in a secure job and soon owning a home. It took a year of full time study and some soul searching and confidence building to get there, that’s for sure!

The Roz then and the Roz now are two different people.

After some very questionable life choices, a bit of hard work, some much needed personal development, and a very generous and loving Universe which was completely open to my wishes, I feel blessed to have manifested a life that is filled with comfort, love and happiness and is much more than I ever dreamed (back in those days) would be possible.
I am a very lucky human 💖

(Who knew that a simple work memory could trigger so much gratitude?)

... I had a pretty big response from my FB friends and while that wasn't my intention for posting it, I was pleasantly surprised by some of the nice comments and who posted them - especially a couple of old workmates.

Now I'm going to listen to more of my book.

See you girls in the morning for coffee!

Nite all.

Visions

I did a meditation tonight - in my lounge room - with the TV going - beside Adoring Husband - with my head phones in - and was interrupted by AH when he said good night (ugh, but in his defence, he had no idea what I was doing) - but DURING that meditation, while my eyes were closed, I had a vision!

A young man in his mid 20s was walking up the driveway to The Happy Abode and beside him was a little girl around the age of 4 or 5 and she had her hands cupped and outstretched in front of herself. As she approached me, she partially opened her cupped hands and there inside was a tiny little dead bird.

I gasped and said "awwww" and looked at her sad little face.

With that, the vision vanished.

No idea how to analyse that one!

The other thing that happened was my vision was like a blank canvas that turned turquoise blue and I could feel water lapping at my feet.

That might relate to the pool???

Anyway, my day was spent at home.

I juiced some celery for breakfast and I reheated a coffee that I'd bought on Saturday afternoon and had put into the fridge so that I wouldn't have to leave the house today.

I listened to my Medical Medium book which told me a lot about Epstein Barr Virus (the virus that the naturopath told me I had when I was at the Canberra Health & Wellness Festival last year). It also offered some good advice to help clear it from my body.

I removed myself from the bed mid morning and prepared dinner for tonight - actually there are four meals of spaghetti bolognese sauce now in the freezer.

I made a slushy of pineapple, watermelon, papaya and lemon. Yum.

I removed the bedding and replaced it with fresh new bedding ...

... took washing off the line and folded it. Did a couple of loads of washing before deciding to make some prawn toast for lunch. It was delicious but I ate too much and had to have a nap afterwards!!

I watched a couple of rom/com movies while I waited for AH to return home from Fraser Island after a very successful SES training exercise.

Now my Sunday is over and I'm off to bed for even more sleep.

Nite all.