We Made It

In 40 minutes it will be 2024.

Happy to see the back end of 2023.

I’m going to be focusing on creating a brighter, more positive year for me.

I’m going to remove doubt from my life and trust that the universe has my back.

I don’t need to know all the answers.

I’m going to manifest the energy of love and compassion and I will not be held hostage to the darkness of others.

I will be the master of my own instrument - my mind, body and soul.

I will hold the giant bucket to receive so much love from the universe that I have more to share.

I will work on my need to procrastinate and heal the trauma that causes it.

I will strengthen my self respect and take a leap of faith believing that everything I want will come to me if I look up and hand the hard stuff over.

It’s definitely time for a change. I’ve made myself small, if not invisible, for too long

I will transform my life and stand in my own truth because I am enough and I deserve to shine my light.

Only “I” completely understand all of that but I’m the only one who needs to understand it.

I spent my morning returning some of the pool furniture to the Bali hut, cleaning the leaves out of the pool (after the storm last night), emptying out the skimmer box and getting the pool creepy crawly working again (with Adoring Husband’s help).

AH had to reset the pump after the blackout.

I played with Harley for an hour, made myself some breakfast and planted myself in front of the TV for the rest of the day.

I caught up with The Gypsy at 3pm over a ZOOM call, then again at 7.30pm for tarot card readings. We spent five and half hours looking at each other’s faces on the monitor via a very dodgy connection due to gale force winds at her end.

We had easy hamburgers for our last dinner of 2023.

Now I’m exhausted so it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Lucky Us

That was a hell of a storm!

Not half as bad as they predicted, so we got off lightly, but it looked impressive!

Harley was perfectly calm and I think he would have liked to sit outside in it! When the worst was over, we let him outside and even though it was still raining and there was lots of rolling thunder with accompanying lightning, he happily wandered around the yard without concern.

He slept through the main storm.

I’ll check the rain gauge tomorrow.

BGWLBH and I did the Urangan Pier markets this morning where we bought fruit and eggs and GF donuts. It was very crowded so we didn’t hang around for too long and we had to park a fair distance away so it was a bit of a hike. It was also very windy.

We drove to the old Dayman’s General Store, which is now a bakery, where we bought some genuine sour dough bread freshly baked this morning.

We took the scenic roads, weaving in and out of different streets between there and Anaconda. We admired the variety of different houses like beach shacks, brick homes, art deco architecture, Queenslanders and modern homes. There were a few for sale too.

The new shopping centre was pretty busy. We looked in Skechers, Spotlight, Harris Scarf, Early Settler furniture and checked out the new cafe which was very busy with a queue of people waiting to get in.

Su Jus was on our minds so we drove to Pialba and ordered our regular drinks, did a small Coles shop and made our way home.

Now after all that shopping and the build up of the storm, I’m exhausted! Time to sleep now.

Nite all.

Storm Threats

Cloud Seeding

Rain-free weddings

If they can do this for good, they can certainly do it for evil.

It was a stifling hot day that drew me to the pool twice. With our umbrella up, it keeps the water at a nice temperature - just the slightest refreshing chill as you step into it. Perfect on such a hot Summer’s day.

Tomorrow will be hot too, but on top of that they’ve forecast storms with 150+kmh winds, giant hail and torrential downpours that will cause flash flooding. We are in the firing line. Let’s hope we just get some good drenching rain and no damage.

I spent most of my day watching the cricket. Australia defeated Pakistan in the second test match.

I also dozed on the couch.

Adoring Husband cooked the usual Friday night fare

My tummy has been a little tender all day so I retired to bed early. Laying flat eases the pain. So no trivia tonight.

BGWLBH and I plan on checking out the markets in The Bay in the morning to restock our fruit and veg.

That means I should sleep now and give my tummy a chance to heal.

Nite all.

Almost Done

Difficult to comprehend such evil (a 9 minute video with some truth bombs)

2023 is almost done.

2024 has got to be better. 

I’m counting on it.

I’ve watched lots of cricket today. The test match AND 20/20. Loving it.

Bed time for me now.

Nite all.

Final Hump Day

Had a day in The Bay.

Played with Harley.

Cooked spag bol.

Played trivia.

Watched the cricket.

Came to bed.

Nite all.

Heavens Above!

The heavens have opened.

We’ve had warnings all day about destructive storms with possible tornadoes and giant hail. Thankfully, it’s just heavy rain so far.

After Harley play this morning, I made myself a prawn and avocado sandwich and a cup of tea for breakfast and returned to bed.

That’s where I stayed until 1.30pm.

There was lots of thunder rolling in the distance but the storms kept away.

I discovered an interesting fact this evening.

Adoring Husband gave me this amazing ‘malachite’ pendant for Christmas …

… and you know how my word for the year is “Transform”? Well I found this for malachite!

That’s definitely a happy accident!

Until my quiz shows came on, I watched some test cricket today. The Boxing Day test match between Pakistan and Australia.

Of course, dinner was left over Christmas dinner followed by trifle for BGWLBH and apple tarts with warm custard for AH and I.

We played some trivia after dinner and now we are all tucked in our beds listening to the rain. I can hear rumbling thunder again but I hope we just continue to get rain and not the destructive storms that were forecast.

I will now attempt to sleep.

Nite all.

Christmas Passed

Christmas 2023 done and dusted.

I was spoilt, as always.

Christmas breakfast, for me, was avocado, mango, red onion, fresh crab meat with a dash of black pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Delicious.

I played with Harley and then got to work in the kitchen making apple turnovers and tarts as well as a trifle.

Our table was covered with plates of ham, chicken, prawns, crab, potato salad, coleslaw, garden salad, pineapple and beetroot.

We filled our bellies to the brim (as you do at Christmas) and then all found somewhere to lay down and ease the strain on said bellies.

Harley and I enjoyed some solid play time.

I spoke to 2 of my kids and grandkids on the phone.

The three of us played trivia.

It was a quiet, satisfying Christmas.

I hope yours was too.

Nite all.

Merry Christmas

 When science becomes a threat to our health

Adoring Husband and I began to drive into The Bay this morning, bright and early, to get my seafood from Urangan Fisheries, but we didn’t get far before he realised he wasn’t able to drive. The Parkinson’s tremors got the better of him, so we turned around, playing tag team, and BGWLBH drove me instead.

This meant we were half an hour later than planned, by which time the queue was unbelievable …

Exactly one hour later (standing in the sun), I walked through the doors to order my sandcrab and prawns.

We had to wait until 9am for Aldi to open. I had a small list of groceries to buy and we boycott Coles and Woollies on 23rd and 24th December because they’ve made a profit of over a billion dollars during the last year while we little people struggled with the cost of living. They raised their prices unnecessarily at a time when the common man was struggling.

We were home by 9.40am.

It took me almost two hours to shell four large sand crabs and then I needed a nap!

For dinner, I made a large potato salad, coleslaw and garden salad so that there would be leftovers for Christmas dinner and AH cooked snags on the barbecue.

There was a nasty storm tonight, that actually hit us (for a change) and provided a light show with some very loud thunder.

The traditional Christmas Eve viewing of Love Actually with Vegan Chickie in Melbourne happened at 7.30pm. I love this tradition. It gives me the warm and fuzzies every year.

Before I retired to bed, I made some jelly to go into my trifle for tomorrow.

Now I need to sleep.

Nite all.