Cheating

It’s late.

I’m buggered.

This is my cheat ...

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A little something to ponder...

I asked one of my friends who has crossed 70 & is heading to 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself?

He sent me the following very interesting lines, which I would like to share with you ....

#1  After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children, my friends, now I have started loving myself.

#2  I just realized that I am not “Atlas”. The world does not rest on my shoulders.

#3  I now stopped bargaining with vegetables & fruits vendors. A few pennies more is not going to burn a hole in my pocket but it might help the poor fellow save for his daughter’s school fees.

#4  I pay my waitress a big tip. The extra money might bring a smile to her face. She is toiling much harder for a living than me

#5  I stopped telling the elderly that they've already narrated that story many times. The story makes them walk down the memory lane & relive the past.

#6  I have learned not to correct people even when I know they are wrong. The onus of making everyone perfect is not on me. Peace is more precious than perfection.

#7  I give compliments freely & generously. Compliments are a mood enhancer not only for the recipient, but also for me. And a small tip for the recipient of a compliment, never, NEVER turn it down, just say "Thank You"

#8  I have learned not to bother about a crease or a spot on my shirt. Personality speaks louder than appearances.

#9  I walk away from people who don't value me. They might not know my worth, but I do.

#10  I remain cool when someone plays dirty to outrun me in the rat race. I am not a rat & neither am I in any race.

#11  I am learning not to be embarrassed by my emotions. It’s my emotions that make me human.

#12  I have learned that it's better to drop the ego than to break a relationship. My ego will keep me aloof, whereas with relationships I will never be alone.

#13  I have learned to live each day as if it's the last. After all, it might be the last.

#14  I am doing what makes me happy. I am responsible for my happiness, and I owe it to myself. Happiness is a choice. You can be happy at any time, just choose to be!

I decided to send this to all my friends. Why do we have to wait to be 70 or 80, why can't we practice this at any stage and age....

I stole this, I don't know who to credit it to, but thank you!

Good to share

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I had a great day of sales this morning followed by a fabulous art class that absolutely took all of my remaining energy and I have come to the conclusion that I really am too old for this shizzle!

Then I came home and cooked fried rice for dinner.

Time for bed.

Nite all.

Out of Time

Huge sales today, which meant less time to prepare the training room for the art workshop on Saturday so I have a bit to do tomorrow!

I paid bills, filed paperwork, made lunch, restocked the counter drawer with bags, served many many customers, made 2 ‘to do’ lists - one for setting up the training room and another for everything else I need to do.

I have a lot to do 😳

By mid afternoon, I realised that I didn’t have enough canvases of one size for the class. So Adoring Husband drove me into The Bay where, to my complete and utter joy, I discovered the canvases were on sale at 40% off!

Needless to say, I doubled up on my purchases and returned home with 46 canvases. That’s enough for 4 more workshops. Bargain 🤩

As I was rushing to the loo while AH waited in the car, I noticed that Just Jeans was having a sale! Of course I had to duck inside and have a peek (yes! I had a pee and then a peek 😂) Two tops later and the sales person told me “you only need to spend $50 more this month and you will get $10 off your next purchase” 

She made it sound like a real bargain, but it makes no sense to me ... firstly I have to spend another $50 and THEN I have to purchase something else (their average price is around $50 per item) so now I’ve spent $100 to get $10 off!!!

I met AH outside and we drove straight back to my shop to offload the canvases and pick up the cash tin and my laptop bag. I wheeled my trike out of the shop to ride home while AH drove.

Sounds like there is a storm approaching so it might be time to sign off and climb into bed.

Nite all.

First Time

A lesson learned.

Thank goodness there was only three of us for vision boarding because the mess was vast and it took four hours to complete.

With more people, more chatter and more pictures, quotes and words of affirmation, it would have taken up so much more time and space.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and while we were unexpectedly very pressured to get the board completed in such a short time, it was inspiring, challenging and very satisfying to see the end result.

One young woman came all the way from Hervey Bay and the three of us had very similar interests and beliefs regarding health and wellness so we had plenty in common and much to talk about.

It was a good sales day and the cleaner (Molly’s Mum) came this morning and completely cleaned on top of and behind the counter area of the shop. I am grateful for her because she saves me precious time by doing the mundane dusting and cleaning that is necessary but not enjoyed by me.

While I was triking home at dusk, I ran into Bombshell in her mobility cart coming home from happy hour at Reality TV Queen’s place. That added fifteen minutes to my journey home and it was almost dark when I opened the garage door to park the trike.

I’m grateful that Adoring Husband took the initiative and decided to cook Friday night’s dinner tonight and I was able to sit down and have dinner served immediately.

AH and I watched a light and fluffy Netflix movie before coming to bed and I believe I will sleep very well tonight.

It’s been a good day.

Nite all.

Weird Day

I arrived at the shop EXTRA early to have some extra time with The Gypsy before meditation.

The time passed so quickly - it seems there is never enough time to talk about all the things we want to discuss. An hour before and after meditation and we still feel robbed when we have to do other life stuff instead of continuing our conversation.

After she left, I made a tea and joined the ladies in the training room where we chatted about art and told old work stories for an hour. They all left just before 11am.

It was a slow day for sales and I was handed the rates bill after lunch - an expense that I knew, in the back of my mind, would be arriving soon, so it’s not a shock.

I paid the 2nd part of two orders that have finally arrived at the warehouses and are now on their way to me.

I checked my bank account against my budget and got the thumbs up.

I began to create my half page ad for the December newsletter and cleared the clothes rack, rebounder and box out of the treatment room in readiness for The Motivator’s day IN tomorrow.

Of the five people booked in for the vision board workshop, four have pulled out! Who knows what might happen tomorrow, but whatever ... The Motivator and I will create our vision boards together ourselves - it’s no biggie. What will be, will be.

Sadly, NSW defeated QLD in the State of Origin game tonight. Let’s hope QLD can bring it home in the decider next week.

On that note, I am rolling over to sleep now.

Nite all.

On The Back Foot

I woke up bright and early, well before the alarm.

I was really enjoying my extended time in bed for a week day morning and was imagining how my day was going to pan out ... when suddenly it was 8.10am and I still had to iron my jeans, shower and wash my hair, apply make up, pack my trike basket and be at the shop in time to open the shop by 9am!

After such a great start, I was now on the back foot and that’s pretty much where I stayed for the entire day.

It was an average day of sales.

I missed most of the coffee morning with the girls because of a high maintenance visitor, which was disappointing. It was nice though, to have Bombshell back in the fold.

To balance the high maintenance lady, I had an extended visit with a local business owner which I enjoyed very much.

I fruitlessly searched for the plastic letters that go in my sign.

I displayed the new framed photos.

I put out some of the Christmas decorations.

I set up the training room for tomorrow’s meditation.

I emptied the internal bins and took the big ones out to the footpath.

I forgot to take the clean cloths in to the shop so my cleaner had nothing to clean with!

Ugh!

She’ll return on Thursday to complete her mission.

It was well after 3pm when I got home. I hung out some washing, made myself an ice cream and put my feet up until it was time to prepare a salad to go with the steaks that Adoring Husband was cooking on the barbecue.

I must say that I’m feeling quite weary and it’s not even 10pm!

Except for my ‘back foot’ situation, I enjoyed my day.

Nite all.

Marvellous Monday

Even though there was much to do, I still enjoyed a slow start to the morning.

I was expecting my photos to have their framing finished today, so I phoned to confirm, but they weren’t going to be finished until after lunch so Adoring Husband and I drove to my happy place.

I had birthday parcels to wrap and send to my brother and sister as well as customer parcels to mail interstate.

The training room needed to be cleared, vacuumed and set up for morning tea on Tuesday.

All of that was completed and we were heading into The Bay at 11.30am.

I asked AH where he would like to have lunch and he chose the fish and chip shop at the water park so that was our first stop.

We got to the service counter and completed the contact tracing sheet while the attendant ran around taking food to tables and doing ‘stuff’ in the kitchen. We stood waiting for about ten minutes until she returned to serve us.

Our meal of choice was GF crumbed snapper with chips. Unfortunately, she informed us that the only available GF option was grilled fish and salad. That was disappointing. Their GF crumbed fish is delicious. We graciously declined and decided to try somewhere else.

Aquavue was our next choice where we completed the contact tracing sheet and ordered two garlic prawns with rice, a coffee and a tropical frappe. It was delicious, the view was great, the weather mild and just for a change the restaurant wasn’t too busy.

It was unusually quiet in The Bay today.

We stopped at Go Natural to search for organic chicken feet. There was only one packet available, but I discovered some GF beef pies from Byron Bay which we had for dinner tonight. What a great find! Delicious.

We picked up the photos from the framers.

Bunnings was next on the itinerary to get coil for unblocking the kitchen pipes and some new Christmas displays for our front garden. We already have numerous Santa clauses, so this time we chose two reindeer.

Grocery shopping was next and I searched for a few Christmas displays for the shop. A silver Christmas tree, a silver bow for the front door and some tinsel for the chairs that sit on either side of the front doors. I found some great silver decal baubles to stick on the front windows and a timber tree that says “We wish you a Merry Christmas”.

The last stop before leaving town was the drive through coffee place for AH to buy his afternoon caffeine fix.

We were home by 3.40pm and I spent the afternoon trying to stay awake.

Right now AH is gently snoring beside me. Because of a lingering and annoying cough, he has slept in the lounge room for the last two nights. He needs to sleep upright to reduce the cough frequency. I doubt he’ll spend the entire night here in the bedroom. The cough will get the better of him during the night.

It’s almost 11pm. I must have got my second wind! Sleep time for me.

Nite all.

Not Lazy Sunday

I’m feeling pretty good about my Sunday.

I stayed in bed until after lunch.

In bed, I worked on the Vision Board workshop that I’m holding in the training room on Thursday afternoon and I watched and participated in The Gypsy’s meditation lesson in YouTube. I also thought about my ‘word’ for 2021 and have narrowed it down to three. I’ll let you know when I decide.

The pool was whispering my name, so I threw a load of washing in the machine, changed into my swimmers, grabbed a towel, hit ‘play’ on my Carole King music and slid into the water. It was quite chilly at first but it only took two laps to feel perfectly delightful.

I did the usual routine of swimming some laps, exercising, stretching and floating then sitting in the egg chair drying off and using my phone to play in Facebook for a while.

More whispering was heard when the easel with the commissioned artwork began calling my name. I changed into dry clothes and stood at the easel for over two hours. I’m quite pleased with my progress and my result so far. I wish I could share my progress with you, but it’s a secret job that I can’t reveal until after Christmas.

We enjoyed salmon steak and salad for dinner followed by a sliced up mini watermelon 🍉 for dessert.

It’s now approaching 11pm and I have plans afoot for tomorrow - mostly work related - so it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.