Vote Me Out

Considering it was voting day, it was not as busy in The Happy Abode as I expected.

At one point there were about eight or ten people wandering around, but by the time they'd all left, they had spent a total of $23.

As happens often, ten minutes before closing, a customer walked in stayed until ten minutes after we would normally close, but she boosted our sales by a LOT and made me a happy Chappy celebrating a good sales week.

From there, Adoring Husband and I had to vote on the way home.

Nobody was worthy of my vote, and while I really wanted to insert an unmarked ballot paper into the box, mine was a valid vote for what I considered the best of a very bad bunch.

At home, I made lunch and sat by the pool while I ate it, went knee deep into the icy waters just to get the blood circulating and then sat with AH to watch the football.

Chicken with baked veg and greens for dinner.

I've looked at my art a number of times and considered doing something, but my heart wasn't fully in it, so I chose to steer clear. Tomorrow will be another day.

Now we decide whether to watch the election results or go to bed and read.

I vote 'read'.

The TV is on and all I can hear is BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.

May election week be over before we know it.

Nite all.

Winners!

Who’da thunk hey?

Nobody would have tipped my Broncos to defeat the Roosters tonight! What a fantastic game!

I’m thinking of Happy Harry who is a big Broncos fan too, and whose position on the footy tipping ladder was precarious. If he had tipped his team (which I know he won’t have) his position would have improved exponentially . His only saving grace is that nobody else would have tipped Broncos either.

This is another short post.

Quiet day in the shop.

I decided to attend the club raffles tonight (for the first time in about 6 or 7 weeks) and I had a nice win on the pokies. No raffle wins though.

I’m off for an early night because I’m hoping for a big Saturday to end the week on a high!

Nite all.

So It Begins

The Motivator got away quite late, but she popped into the shop to say goodbye which was nice and she caught me up on a few notes that she had left in the day book and then headed off.

It was a VERY quiet day in the shop with just two customers all day. Not even a browser to brag about!

I sent our ad through for the local newsletter.

I made an order for some snap buttons to fulfil a customer's needs.

I checked our financial situation.

I ordered lunch from the cafe.

Adoring Husband arrived at 3pm to help me close the shop.

I came home and started some art. I know it's not finished, but I'm not sure how I'm going to finish it yet.

Adoring Husband cooked dinner of steak on the barby, baked veg, cauliflower, broccoli and home made gravy.

It's going to be an early night and we'll watch Britain's Got Talent in bed.

AH has a bit of nasty cough at the moment and we're trying all sorts of natural things to alleviate it, like essential oils, raw honey, lots of water, extra fruit and veg, chicken broth etc. He's already on a very strong antibiotic for another problem, which has weakened his immune system, so we might have to go hard on this one and I'll need to creates some strong witchy poo potions to help fight this one.

Anyway, time for bed.

Nite all.

Three out of Five

Three out of five ain't bad.

This is our fourth lunch together. Two of us are currently away travelling, so there were three of us today.

We went to the cinema and watched "Top End Wedding". There is a story attached to that, because there were four movies from which to choose and we gave the original decision to The Brains Trust, but she chickened out at the last minute, fearing fallout if she didn't choose wisely.

So I jumped in with a decision because I don't care about fallout lol.

I have to say that the first twenty minutes were very slow and I was concerned that I'd chosen poorly, but the movie picked up after that and I really enjoyed it. It was funny in parts and sad enough to produce a tear in parts.

After the movie, The Brains Trust and I wandered the shops while Aggie went for a dental x-ray.

Aquavue was our restaurant of choice for lunch and even though it was a grey overcast day and the tide was out, it was still pleasant and not too crowded. The food, as always, was good.

The Brains Trust had to pick up her car from being serviced, so Aggie and I dropped her off at the car yard and drove to King Kong where she met up with us soon after.

We all drove to The Brains Trust's house with hopes of enjoying a coffee from her brand spanking new coffee machine that she received for Mother's Day but alas there were some hiccups that prevented that from happening. I enjoyed a lemon and ginger tea instead, which was much nicer than I expected.

Aggie dropped me home at about 4.30pm and Adoring Husband had bought me a coffee earlier, so I reheated it and got to have my afternoon caffeine hit anyway.

I'd planned on doing some art, but by the time I'd unpacked my art shopping and then spent time putting our bedroom back together after spreading almost my entire wardrobe over it trying to find something to wear this morning, I just wanted to sit with my feet up.

So I did.

AH and I both had big lunches today, so we decided to not make dinner tonight.

Sadly, I didn't get to say goodbye to The Motivator before she leaves for her big road trip to Sydney early tomorrow, so if you're reading this TM ... "Safe travels and enjoy your road trip!! Make the most of your solo time! Big hugs from me."

Now it's time for another early night. Big work days ahead and I'm hoping for some record breaking, amazing sales days this month.

Nite all.

Girl Power

We were light on numbers at coffee this morning.

Just six of us including The Motivator and I but it was still a good morning.

Everyone had left around 11am and I stayed to chat with The Motivator til around noon.

I did some grocery shopping and then pedalled home to spend some time with Adoring Husband. We watched the new Ted Bundy movie "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" starring Zac Efron as Ted Bundy.

It was interesting to see Ted Bundy from a different angle and hear the story from his partner's point of view.

Poor woman.

Then it was time for ART.

I added more to the canvas from yesterday ...

... and this is what the floor beside the dining table looks like ...

... and this is what the dining table looks like!

Adoring Husband wants the dining table back BUT I NEED somewhere to create!! So it's either the back room or a new studio *insert evil witch laugh here*

I've got a big girlie date tomorrow, so an early night is on the cards again for me.

But first I'm watching House Rules.

Nite all.

Beautifully Brief

Just a quickie so that you know I’m alive and well.

A very slow day as far as sales go, although there were quite a few people walked through for a ‘browse’.

The Gypsy and I caught up on our news for the week.

I finally priced the ‘pre-loved’ clothes and wrote the sign.

Created some art ...

Adoring Husband cooked dinner - chicken Maryland, baked veg, cauliflower, broccoli and gravy while I continued creating.

I’m going to add more to this one tomorrow. It’s a big one!

Now I’m off to bed.

Nite all.

A Day for Mothers

I hope you all had a happy Mother's Day.

I was asleep before 10pm on Saturday and slept soundly until 7am today. NINE glorious hours!

When I woke, a voice kept telling me to open the shop.

I didn't want to open the shop! I wanted to stay in bed and enjoy my Sunday!

The voice nagged me. It was after 8.30am when I got up, got ready and Adoring Husband drove me to the shop.

In two hours, three people came through the doors. Not one of them bought anything.

As AH began bringing in the flags, five people walked through the door. They browsed happily and walked out empty handed.

We were just about to give up again, when two males sped up the driveway on their bicycles, parked at our front door and came inside.

They were the husband and son of a very sick friend of mine who has been so ill, she hasn't left her house for months. Her husband told me that she was at home feeling very disappointed because she hadn't received even a card for this special day.

This was the reason for that voice in my head this morning.

This could be her last Mother's Day and now because I opened the shop, she received two beautiful gifts to make her feel special ... on a day when she really needed to feel special.

So even though that was my only sale for the day, I'm very happy that I spent that two hours in the shop.

Just as we pulled into our driveway, I realised that there was nothing at home for lunch, so we reversed out and returned to Foodworks for food.

We ate lunch, watched the footy and I am now considering doing some art.

This came through in an email today. Dr Terry Wahls was diagnosed with MS and when top drugs under the top specialists did nothing for her condition and she was so bad that she used an electronic wheel chair and needed help to eat, she changed her diet with miraculous results.

This is her story.

She is amazing.

My Mother's Day included a very long and very interesting phone call from Vegan Chickie. Nothing from my other kids yet, but I expect they'll call later. They usually do.

This is an early post because I plan on another early night for another nine hours of sleep.

Nite all!