Winner Winner

Finally!

I won a game of Trivial Pursuit against Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair and Adoring Husband. 

It was close ... three ways.

I had a king prawn and crab feast for breakfast at about 9am and followed that up with a smoothie - strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, banana and coconut water.

The pool water was too chilly for swimming so we played trivia at the dining table while munching on fresh watermelon slices. It was a long game! 

After the game we all made our way to the beach for a grounding walk in bare feet. It was busy with tourists and very windy but so refreshing and invigorating. We all enjoyed that.

Of course dinner was left over Christmas food so we spread it right across the table and hoed in quickly so that BGWLBH and I could race over to the lagoon for some bat shots at sunset.

We got there a little too late, but I managed a couple of shots of the bats 🦇 swooping into the water for a drink before they flew off for a night of feeding. They seemed to fly north.

Now it’s 8.30pm and AH and I are laying in bed watching Singing in the Rain.

I’ll be opening the shop tomorrow for reduced hours so it’ll be an early night for me. Hopefully, there’ll be a trip into The Bay afterwards - or maybe Monday.

It’s exhausting being on holidays!

Nite all.

Happy Christmas/Boxing Day

What a strange Christmas!

I received a call from Number One Son at 7.30am.

I don’t even remember what time I got up ... maybe a bit after 8am?

I made us a smoothie to start the day - pineapple, apple, raspberries, pear & coconut water.

We all sat down to finish last night’s Trivial Pursuit game. Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair won.

We started another game but at 9.30am I decided it was time to start preparing lunch.

With BGWLBH as my assistant, we made roast pumpkin, spinach and pine nut salad, sweet potato salad, coleslaw, thyme lemon and honey chicken drumsticks, thyme and lemon zest chicken balls, grated fresh beetroot and carrot and finally, a mixed salad.

We had ham, prawns, sand crab and Adoring Husband cooked a roast pork on the barbecue rotisserie.

So much food! It took us three hours to prepare and fifteen minutes to eat!

We then opened our Christmas gifts.

At that point, 2.30pm, we decided to have a little rest and join together later in the afternoon.

I lay on the bed and promptly fell asleep.

I heard the home phone at 5pm but couldn’t get up fast enough to answer it. Vegan Chickie had been trying to contact me all day, to no avail.

AH had climbed into bed at about 4.30pm and that’s where he stayed, sound asleep until after 7.30pm.

BGWLBH put together some leftovers for her dinner but I was still sated from lunch. While she ate, I attempted to put together my new water filter but I discovered that the whole process takes about 48 hours so I didn’t get very far.

BGWLBH suggested that we walk over to Cheelii lagoon with our cameras to capture the sunset. Great idea until I discovered that my battery was flat! I used my phone to take these ...

Then the bats put on a show ...

When AH finally appeared, we sat down to finish our trivia game. AH was winning comfortably when he gave up and sat in the lounge room. BGWLBH and I finished the game and she easily won again. I told her that the greatest gift I could give her was the gift of winning.

I’m not sure what our plans are for tomorrow but it’s time to sleep for me now.

It’s on its way to midnight!

I hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas Day. For the first time, we had noisy neighbours on both sides of the fence so we remained indoors.

Nite all.

Tired

It’s been a long day.

9am - 5pm at the shop.

Great sales but not record breaking.

With Vegan Chickie’s permission, we opened the Christmas gift that she sent us, which was a big hamper of GF goodies from Byron Bay. Lots of deliciousness inside that box! 

Started a game of trivia before dinner.

Paused trivia for dinner.

Watched “Love Actually” with Adoring Husband and Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair in our lounge room and Vegan Chickie, Mr Perfect and Mama Perfect in Mama P’s lounge room in Victoria.

Vegan Chickie created a group chat page so we could all comment at the good bits through the movie.

Afterwards, BGWLBH, AH and I continued playing the trivia game we’d started, but couldn’t finish because I was too tired. We paused it again and will continue tomorrow.

It’s almost 11.30pm and I am absolutely exhausted!

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas Day and that you feel some love. 

Nite all.

New Records

It’s been a day!

Adoring Husband is still not back to his usual self so he remained at home this morning and Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair drove me to the shop.

I had no sooner opened the door when people started walking in to make their Christmas purchases.

It was another record breaking sales day!

My final stock order arrived and in between customers I was frantically unpacking, checking the invoice, pricing the bags and finding somewhere to display them all.

While BGWLBH and I were attempting to close the shop at 3pm, a couple of customers pleaded with us to NOT close yet, so I remained open for them. While they were selecting their purchases, another customer came in and spent up big, so it was definitely worth the extra hour.

I’ll stay open til 5pm on Christmas Eve.

I arrived home, changed my clothes and began preparing our baked chicken dinner. Sweet potato, carrots, pumpkin, garlic asparagus and broccoli with home made gravy.

While it was cooking, BGWLBH drove me to do AH’s cleaning job.

Dinner was delicious - even if I do say so myself!

BGWLBH was kind enough to clean the kitchen so that I could put my feet up and relax.

We both did the Pop master quiz at 8.30pm and I came to bed straight after that.

I’m so tired and distracted, it’s taken me over an hour to write this post.

It’s time for me to sleep. I have a BIG day ahead of me!

Nite all.

Alive and Well

Today, after three days in hospital, Adoring Husband came home.

Obviously he is much improved from Saturday when he was delirious and agitated with a raging temperature.

He still has that nagging cough, but at least all of the tests they did revealed nothing sinister, so hopefully the medication that he’s been given will clear it up. The UTI seems to be gone so it should be all good from here.

I broke all the sales records today!! It was amazing and busy and joyous all day with very happy people excited about the festive season. I even had a few men purchasing gifts for their wives. It was a great day.

Beautiful Girl With The Long Blonde Hair drove me to work and helped me open the shop this morning and this afternoon drove me into The Bay to pick up AH from the hospital. She drove me to do AH’s job and sat in the car waiting for me to finish, helped me prepare dinner and then drove us all around town looking at Christmas lights.

She is my champion and I’m not sure how I can adequately thank her for all that she has done and is still doing for us.

It’s 11pm and I’m exhausted so it’s sleep time for me!

Nite all.

Sleepy Head

It was after 1.30am when I fell asleep and 5.22am when I woke up.

Even though it was short, it was a sound sleep.

I phoned the hospital early to ask what was happening with Adoring Husband, to be told that the UTI he had been struggling with for the last 6 weeks had taken hold and that he was now on an IV drip of antibiotics to  nip it in the bud. They said he would be in hospital for at least another night.

Beautiful Girl With The Long Blonde Hair went for an early walk so when she returned I filled her in the news. She was shocked that she slept through all of that!

We made smoothies for breakfast, went for a swim and at 9.30am we drove into The Bay with AH’s toiletries. I tell you it was a drama trying to find him ... or even someone to ask where he was. Eventually we discovered that he was being held in isolation because there were no beds available in the wards.

They led me to his bed where he was sleeping flat on his back. It didn’t take much to wake him though and he explained, with very little detail, what was happening.

I’ve spoken to him again this evening and they are conducting all the same tests that he did last week with his own Dr and he may stay in until Tuesday!

BGWLBH and I did some fresh fruit and veg shopping before we came home.

All day we have filled our bellies with giant salads and smoothies packed with nutritional goodness. 

Now it’s 9.30 pm and I am struggling to stay awake, so I shall sign off here and catch up on some much needed sleep.

I can’t stay awake for another moment.

Nite all.

Extremes

What a day.

I woke this morning and realised that my fridge desperately needed cleaning - especially because Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair was arriving today. So I climbed out of bed early and took almost an hour to pull all the food out, wash all the shelving and drawers and replace the fresh food and toss the old stuff.

I got to work and sat for 90 minutes before a customer walked through the door! I had to speak very assertively to the universe about providing some customers for me and thankfully, I received an excellent response.

It was a good sales day!

BGWLBH surprised me by bursting through the door at about 11.45am. Hugs and happiness all round!

Adoring Husband surprised me by phoning at 12.30pm to tell me he was not well after mowing the lawn and couldn’t come to help me close the shop.

BGWLBH helped me close the shop.

We arrived home to find AH in bed, in pain and cramping badly all over his body. His tremor was dreadful and he was incapable of getting out of bed.

I gave him fluids and painkillers and let him sleep for a while. When he woke, I gave him a small tuna salad which he ate. He slept some more.

BGWLBH and I went for a swim and sat in the Bali hut catching up on some of our news.

She went for a walk and I cut up some watermelon and pineapple for AH.

I prepared a dinner of curried chicken and vegetable soup which everybody ate but soon after AH began cramping again.

He was in a lot of pain. He had a temperature. He became agitated and confused. He couldn’t get comfortable in any position sitting or laying on the bed. He asked strange questions, couldn’t find the light switch for the light and his tremor was off the charts.

I asked him if I should call an ambulance and he asked me why?

I called the ambulance at 10.30pm.

They have taken him to hospital.

I suspect he has heat stroke or sun stroke. 

BGWLBH is sleeping after two days of intense driving and doesn’t know what transpired here tonight so I won’t disturb her until I hear from the hospital or from AH because we will have to pick him up.

*sigh*

So it has been a day of extremes. I’m exhausted. I’m also worried about AH being in Hervey Bay hospital but beggars can’t be choosers and I have to trust that universe is supporting us well. I’ll be happy to get him home.

Tempting to partake of a beverage about now 😳

Nite all.