I Am Sated

FABULOUS morning in the shop, making up for the two very quiet days that bothered me so much.

The lovely lady that I was expecting to see today sent her husband to pick up her order while she was shopping in The Bay. I told him how disappointed I was to miss out on seeing her lovely smiling face and he said “Yes, she is a wonderful woman. I’m a lucky man to have her in my life.”

Awww.

I think I got to sit down for all of ten minutes because there was a steady flow of people all day and I also think it would have been worth our while to stay open for another couple of hours but I ran out of mojo and needed some time out.

When I arrived home I dipped my legs in the icy waters of the pool and sat in my egg chair for a while - only to witness some hilarity that had me giggling almost uncontrollably.

Psychotic dog Ruby loves to run around the raised edge of the pool and somehow today, she lost her footing and slipped into the icy waters - thankfully, near the steps, but she was obviously panicking as she attempted to climb out.

Meanwhile, adoring Husband had JUST planted his butt on the couch near me when it happened, so as he panicked over the situation, he had to lift himself off the couch without spilling his coffee, find a safe place to put his coffee and then run to Ruby’s rescue!

By the time he got to her, she was already half out of the pool, so there was no danger, but I’m certain that because AH was right there when she climbed out, she believed that he had pushed her in because she ran away from him, then stopped and turned to look at him as if to say “Why did you do that?”

It was honestly the most entertaining 30 seconds of my day and was like watching an animated cartoon!

AH ran inside to get a towel to dry her off, but she wasn’t going anywhere near him and cowered beside me shivering with with both fear and cold lol.

I made paleo pizzas for lunch and watched an old movie wth Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore in it called “Change of Habit”. I thought I knew all of the Elvis movies but I’d never seen or heard of this one before.

I'm currently watching my team, Brisbane Broncos, get annihilated by Parramatta Eels and I don't think I'll torture myself by watching to the end. Definitely an early night for me.

I hope you all enjoy your idea of a perfect Sunday. I will spoil myself with some art play after I've completed my chores.

Nite all.

Typical

Comparing this year to last year in June, The Happy Abode is doing ok 👌

I don’t know why I panic. It’s never as bad as my imagination makes it out to be and business has improved at every stage of our development. I must trust in the process!

I had a lovely day today which included some hugs with The Brains Trust, a delivery of new stock that is already priced and on display, another name taken for the next paint pouring workshop and a phone call with a sweet customer from The Bay who was in the shop at the beginning of the week and was waiting on today’s delivery.

There is so much love oozing from this woman, she makes me feel emotional just listening to her speak. Genuine, unconditional, spiritual love. I’m looking forward to seeing her smiling face tomorrow when she comes to pick up her order.

My Nutrimetics order arrived today too, which was exciting. I finally received my lipstick pallet and there were other goodies that I was keen to get my hands on.

Adoring Husband came with me to the club tonight. We didn’t win anything and it was a relatively quiet night as far as our usual group is concerned. Even the numbers of other patrons was down. Apparently James Blundell was playing in The Bay at the RSL Club, so perhaps some of the regulars decided on a big night out!

We came home to watch the footy and are both in bed now. AH is snoring softly beside me as I type this and I am yawning every couple of minutes.

Have an amazing weekend everyone.

Nite all.

Non-event

I got nothin’.

Absolutely nothing to report for the day.

I hardly slept all night so my energy levels were low before the day even began.

It was a grey day.

I wore grey.

I came home and sat on my grey(ish) couch and watched a movie called ‘The Wife’ (you thought I was going to say “50 Shades of Grey” didn’t you 😳)

Adoring Husband cooked lamb ribs and potato on the barbecue.

Now I’m in my pyjamas contemplating an early night to make up for the sleep I lost last night.

You can tell I need it huh?

😴

Let’s hope tomorrow brings more exciting news to report.

Have a lovely Friday 🤩

Nite all.

A Different Phwoar!

Well, today in the shop certainly made up for yesterday!

The Gypsy was too unwell to make it in for meditation this morning and while I had set up a series of healing meditations for the class, I decided at the last minute to set up a tea and coffee station in the room and let the group be social together instead.

It was like a henhouse with lots of loud chatter and laughter and I think it was a huge success.

The group got to know each other a little better and can now support each other more constructively.

I picked up a parcel containing kitchen utensils that I’d ordered to use as art tools and I used some of them to make this ...

I’m trying to hone my flower making techniques before the next workshop!

I know I can do better.

I have two pieces of news to mention.

With a sigh of relief, I can declare that the Garden Guru has been cleared of any serious medical conditions after his mishap last night. Whew!

With a tear in my eye I say farewell to fur baby Lucy Walker. It was her time to go and she lived a good life. Warm hugs to her sad and loving parents who are already missing her presence.

I spoke to The Motivator this afternoon and she has been very busy down south. All going well, she should be home next week, but there could be a slight question mark over that scenario. Fingers crossed that all goes well for all concerned.

Off to bed now. I was awake every hour on the hour last night and have been up since 5am, so I’m feeling a bit weary this evening.

I hope Lady Lynn is going well.

Nite all

Whoah!

Not a single customer today until ten minutes before closing! Then three came in and two walked out empty handed.

Thank goodness for the 'one'.

It felt very strange all day because Tuesdays, even taking my coffee girls out of the equation, usually see a few people at least walking through the doors.

Having said that, only one of the girls turned up for coffee too! There are a few out of town, a couple who are not well and a couple with visitors.

It was nice to spend the morning with The Brains Trust. Aggie and Beauty both popped in very briefly.

I spent the day listening to guided meditations because The Gypsy is not well and probably won't be able to come in to lead the meditation class in the morning.

Ugh.

You would think that with all the meditating that I do ... at least twice every day ... that I would feel comfortable about this situation, but I have to admit that I'm feeling a little out of my comfort zone because I haven't guided 'others' before.

I'm sure it'll be fine.

We came home and I spent a few minutes standing ankle deep in the pool, then sitting in my egg chair and Adoring Husband and the psychotic dogs joined me for five, until I decided to change into a paint shirt and try something new.

The 'something new' was a complete failure, so I took one of my other old failures, covered it with paint and did this ...

These are photos of each little section of the painting. I love how the cells appeared and the colours are very vibrant - it's much better than the painting underneath it!

I had soup for dinner while AH cooked steak on the barbecue for himself.

I'm off to bed for another early night ... gosh, I think I've created a new habit!

Get well soon Lady Lynn.

Nite all.

Monday Madness

The question was asked "You're a burglar, but when you break in, instead of stealing, you do things to mildly inconvenience your victims. What would you do?"

These were some of the responses:

• Spread biscuit crumbs in the beds.
• Peg ALL their socks on the line.
• Put bubble bath in the toilet.
• Swap the socks and undies drawer with the kitchen utensil drawer.
• Put all the pantry items in the linen cupboard and all the linen in the pantry.
• Remove all the batteries from the remote controls.
• Replace raw eggs with hard boiled eggs.
• Pop the corners of all the fitted sheets off every mattress.
• Wrap EVERYTHING in Christmas paper - food, books, knick knacks, remotes, pillows etc.
• Take all the toilet paper.
• Re-arrange all the wall art.
• Replace all the family pics with a different family.
• Toast all the bread and put it back in the bag.
• Put a blob of honey on all the door handles.
• Move all the furniture 6" to the left.
• Replace their cats with dogs or vice versa.
• Open all the cupboards and drawers.
• Turn all the chairs the wrong way round.
• Mix everyone's clothes up.
• Line up one of very shoe along the hallway.
• Put a mint on every pillow.
• Turn all the clothes hangers backwards.
• Put rice on the ceiling fan blades.
• Make a sandwich and leave it on the bench.

It's all very weird and some of the answers were much more sinister than that and are not worth repeating here, but I got a bit of a giggle out of the ones I listed.

It was a good day in the shop, though the afternoon was very quiet. We locked the doors ten minutes early so that we could drive into The Bay and get some stuff done.

Daniel, from Tinkerbells, one of my favourite shops, was holding a ring for me and their 'opening the new shop sale' ends this weekend, so I needed to get in to try it on. It was 3.40pm when we pulled up across the road from TBs.

The new shop looks SO AMAZING and I plan on taking a few hours to really wander around and soak it all in at a later date. 

Turns out, the ring that was being held didn't fit, but I looked at some others and found this one instead ...

It's my favourite stone, blue kyanite, and I love it so much! I intended to purchase it for myself but Adoring Husband bought it for me!

From there we rushed to Truckloads where I loaded up on canvasses and paint ... because I used my last canvas on Sunday afternoon!

I have used 23 tubes of paint so far in my artistic pursuits and I have 57 tubes of paint, most of them full but some partially used, in the tray waiting. I got one really big canvas and I'm going to save that for something really special!

We ducked into Coles to stock up on my coconut icy poles.

 

I wanted to price MDF at Bunnings because some of the artists that I watch on youtube use that as their canvas. Turns out that it would be cheaper to use than canvass, but it might be more difficult to hang on a wall if somebody bought it. I didn't buy any today, but I'll experiment with it some time in the future.

I did find some MORE tubes of paint in Bunnings - different colours to what I already have, so I think I bought another ten tubes there.

After all of that, it was right on 5pm when we drove out of The Bay and we were home before 5.30pm. That's pretty good going for 2.5 hours.

It was a quick dinner of meat on the barbecue and a salad thrown together so that we could sit down and put our feet up. We are definitely done for the day and it will definitely be an early night for us both.

Nite all. 

Because I Could

I tried to stay awake for the women’s French Open Tennis singles final because Australia’s Ash Barty was playing, but firstly they had to complete the men’s semi final that was rain delayed from the previous day. Problem was, ALL the tennis was delayed again, due to more rain!

At 11.30pm our time, the rain had stopped and the covers were off the court, but they still didn’t have a start time, so I gave up, turned the TV off and meditated myself to sleep.

At 3.45am, both Adoring Husband and I were awake, so I turned on the TV hoping to catch some of the match, but alas it was over and a doubles match was being played. I did a quick search on my phone to discover that Ash had won the French Open title quickly and easily.

With that knowledge, we happily fell back to sleep.

It was after 8am when I next woke, but I stayed in bed til about 1pm ... because I could!

AH brought my celery juice, followed by coffee, followed by tomato on toast to keep my energy levels up for watching art videos on YouTube!

I found a couple of ideas, and chose one to try today ...

This is one that I created yesterday, which AH loved, but I didn’t ...

And I pressed a clean canvas onto the wet paint that dripped off the edges of it to create this, which I love!

We spent the afternoon watching the football and I have to say that my tipping has been abysmal this week with only two correct so far! Thank goodness I didn't pay to be in the tipping comp this year!

I spent a long time in the kitchen ... actually it was only an hour, but it felt much longer!

I thought I had some curried chicken in the freezer and AH selected that for dinner to be accompanied by cauliflower rice. As I began the preparations, I discovered that all I had was frozen curried chicken sauce!

So I took Hainan chicken out of the freezer, as well as the curried sauce to create something delicious.

I'd planned cauliflower and mushroom soup for myself so I set aside the liquid from the Hainan chicken to use as the base of my soup and put the chicken aside to put into the curried sauce.

In gallons of grass fed butter (I exaggerate), I fried up a big batch of garlic, onion and mushrooms and put it in the blender with the Hainan chicken liquid and the steamed cauliflower, added lots of white pepper and dash of salt then blended it to creamy smithereens.

It was delicious.

I heated up the chicken curry sauce, added the Hainan chicken, made the cauliflower rice and then made some papadums.

There was enough soup for another three meals, so I froze it in meal sized containers. Adoring Husband seems to have an aversion to this soup and doesn't even want to taste it. He likes cauliflower, but was relieved when I told him he could have something different for dinner.

That's ok, all the more for me.

He loved his dinner and ate every last mouthful.

I'm off to bed now because, remember, it's going to be a record breaking amazing week at the shop! I need to be prepared!

Nite all.