Yuk Kinda Day

I’ve had an upset tummy since last night.

My sleep was interrupted and I couldn’t get comfortable.

Now, after more than 24 hours, my tummy is still feeling a little tender but it’s much improved.

I was gentle with it drinking lots of filtered water and warm chicken broth. I ate a kiwi fruit, a small boneless chicken thigh and a piece of toast with melted lactose free cheese.

I think it was caused by the prawns that I bought from Coles. I usually buy them fresh locally but I saw these in the Coles deli and they were ‘Product of Australia’ so I took a risk.

My energy levels were extremely low today and all I could do was package the bone broth and fill the slow cooker with the next batch.

Adoring Husband was helping a mate do some carpentry work in Maryborough so I prepared a sweet chilli chicken dish in the oven for his dinner and planted myself in front of the telly to watch football.

I almost considered going for a swim but I couldn’t find the energy to get changed or even walk the distance to the pool, so it remained an unfulfilled idea in my mind.

The final episodes of Grace and Frankie were released today and I started to watch them too.

As I type this, I’m yawning every couple of minutes so I think sleep is calling me. Let’s hope my body has recovered by morning and I can be a little more productive.

Nite all.

Motivational

I found some motivation today.

I was inspired by Sally Holden from Abundant Heart Coaching, who’s Facebook page I follow, and yesterday she did a live feed talking about five ways to find and maintain your motivation when you’ve got stuff to do.

I only found it this morning, which was timely … exactly when I needed it.

My ‘to do’ list has taken a hit and today I - 

• Finalised the power and phone from the shop
• Did some washing
• Sorted and tidied my essential oil collection
• Put together a chicken broth in the slow cooker
• Made a ginger beer ‘starter’ (which needs 5 days to sit before I can make ginger beer)
• Tossed a heap of rubbish that had accumulated in the lounge room
• Prepared Adoring Husband’s lunch
• Dusted a little
• Refreshed the reed diffusers in the bathrooms
• Checked my emails
• Emptied one box from the garage

This is my ginger beer starter …

I used coconut sugar to make a darker batch and it’s now in the closed wardrobe of the warmest room in the house for the next few days.

It’s 3 1/4 cups of filtered water (no chlorine), 5 tablespoons of coconut sugar and 5 tablespoons of grated fresh organic ginger.

I remember when I was a child of about 7 or 8, my mother used to make fermented ginger beer and while we were travelling around Australia she accidentally left the starter bug on the shelf behind the back seat of the car and the hot sun streaming through the rear windscreen killed it.

I don’t have a lot of happy childhood memories but ginger beer triggers good feelings so whenever I find ginger beer at the markets I buy a cup and sit in the moment.

Tonight’s dinner was barramundi and salad for AH and fresh prawns for me.

Now I’m off to sleep and hope to wake with the same level of motivation tomorrow.

Nite all.

Hullo Duchess!

My favourite 85 year old beautiful human being, whom I dubbed ‘The Duchess’, is currently in hospital recovering from surgery.

That’s why it’s important for me to get back to blogging today - especially for her and for Grannymus who’s eyesight is failing her and I’m not sure if she’s even still able to read this by herself anymore.

So hullo to both of you and here is my catch up for the last ten days.

First of all, there are many reasons for me being off line for the last ten days, some good and some bad, but I needed to prioritise a few things in my life and therefore the blog was set aside for a while until I could ‘process’ and ‘heal’ from some of life’s crappiness and find my lost happiness.

I’m almost there.

Roz’s Happy Place is now completely bare and the cleaners were in today. They took four hours to clean floors, walls, blinds, windows, bathroom and kitchenette. They did a good job and I even tipped them on top of their fee.

While they were cleaning, Adoring Husband and I drove into The Bay so that I could spend the Tinkerbell’s voucher that BGWLBH gave me for my birthday.

This was my haul for the day …

What do you think of that beautiful rose quartz crystal cleansing bowl? Pretty special 😍

The first pic is of a ‘Pietersite’ set and is what the voucher went towards. You can read about the qualities of pietersite HERE

We did a few other things in town and stopped for some fresh seafood on the way home.

I prepared lunch for Adoring Husband and shelled my sand crab before we had to do the walk through with the cleaners.

I got to eat lunch at 3.30pm. A crab sandwich.

AH has been working hard to create my new art studio in the double garage. In the space of 24 hours, it went from this …

to this …

but now it’s a bit of a shambles again. I have a lot of work to do. More decluttering and clearing and sorting and organising.

My timing was very good when I put all of the shop furniture and displays up for sale on the local buy, swap and sell site. A Maryborough shop owner was moving to a bigger premises, so he bought almost all of my stuff and came out with mates who had utes and trailers to pick it all up.

I still have 3 small tables and 11 training room chairs to sell.

The air conditioner guy is coming tomorrow to quote for a split system unit to be installed and I’m waiting to hear back from a couple of companies to quote for glass sliding doors to be installed in place of the roller door.

I’m excited that it’s coming together faster than I originally thought. It means though, that the cars will be out in the weather until July when the new carport will be constructed.

On the 14th April, after five months of Covid mandates, we dirty stinking unvaccinated people were allowed to, once again, enter cafes, restaurants, pubs and clubs.

On the 19th April, AH and I met an old photography buddy in The Bay for lunch. She was on holidays from Toowoomba and we ate at Salt Restaurant. It was a great catch up and we reminisced about some fabulous weekends of photo shoots since 2010.

We’ve been organising BGWLBH’s move up to QLD. She’s had the worst job down there packing up her house and finalising ties and accounts with Drs, accountants, solicitors, PO, organising insurance and cleaners etc etc.

I had the easy job of organising the removalists and storage for when her stuff arrives.

Tomorrow, I have to finalise a few things for the shop - power, phone, insurance, accounting etc.

We are pretty exhausted and have been too busy to even eat properly, which doesn’t help with our energy levels. At least we are sleeping well.

We’ll get there … eventually.

I think that’s about all I’ve got for today. I need to get some sleep now. It’s been another big day.

Nite all.