Nonevent

Today was a nonevent.

Played with Harley.

Watched Christmas movies on Netflix.

Cooked dinner.

It rained a little.

Nite all.

Heart Bruising

It has been a day full of tears and sadness.

Actually, the first half of the day was calm and relaxing.

At 1pm I rode my trike to the Welsh Wonder’s house. Her amazing husband passed away seven weeks ago and I had not made contact, nor had I attended his funeral. This visit was long overdue and I was feeling both guilty and remorseful.

I spent three hours with her.

She needed someone.

She has needed someone for the last seven weeks.

It was an incredibly emotional afternoon. Many, many tears were shed. Stories were told. Memories were shared. Drinks were drunk. Promises were made.

I left there feeling completely drained.

Completely drained.

I arrived home with ten minutes to spare before the start of the streamed funeral of Vegan Chickie’s good friend in Perth.

I met him for the first time twenty years ago and again at Vegan Chickie’s first wedding. We were friends on Facebook and I watched him grow from a young adult with plans and goals, to a man with a very successful design career, a loving father to twin boys and nurtured a wonderful relationship with his husband whom he married not that long ago.

There were approximately 200 people in attendance at this funeral and another 200 streaming. He was highly respected in his field and well loved by his friends and family, which was evident in the beautiful words spoken by those strong enough and brave enough to stand up and speak.

I was sobbing from the minute it started and struggled to gain control for the first thirty minutes. I watched his young boys sitting directly in front of the coffin in the front row wiping their eyes as they cried and I wept for the fact that they would live without this amazing example of a human for the rest of their lives.

I cried for Vegan Chickie who lost a close friend of 22 years and for whom she cared so deeply.

The service lasted for just over an hour.

It was heart breaking. My eyes were stinging and puffy. My voice was gravelly. It took all my effort to eat 3 chicken nibbles for dinner and I fell asleep on the couch directly after.

I’ve cried more today than I have in the last five years and I’m exhausted.

Now I need to sleep. 

Nite all.

Socially Acceptable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRs9xwiGabA&t=311s Don’t waste your time/health getting the Covid boosters.

My day began with Harley play (of course), followed by breakfast, washing clothes and TV time.

I received a phone call from a distressed lady struggling with her husband who has Parkinson’s, so I offered to meet her for coffee.

At 1pm I pedalled to the coffee shop where we sat for a bit over an hour while she vented her frustrations and I offered some small tidbits of advice.

While we were there, MANY locals passed us, including old friends who I’d not seen for months and one of whom I made arrangements to meet tomorrow after lunch.

Before I came home I purchased some postal packages from the post office, to send Christmas gifts to the kids and grandkids, so when I arrived home, I packed everything up and addressed the boxes to mail out today.

Adoring Husband drove me, firstly to the pub ‘drive through’ to purchase some alcohol for Christmas drinks with my art girls, and then to the location for said Christmas drinks. He then took the parcels to the post office to mail.

My afternoon with the girls was amazing. There were only five of us, but the perfect five. Lots of chatter and catching up, laughter, town news, family news, health news etc. A good two hours was enjoyed by us all and Christmas hugs upon parting.

Easy tacos and nachos for dinner followed by trivia for an hour.

Needless to say, I’m feeling a bit weary tonight. Sleep time for me.

Nite all.

Done and Dusted

I have two more gifts to purchase, which are online, otherwise my Christmas shopping is done and dusted.

Adoring Husband drove into The Bay this morning and took me to my desired locations for the final couple of gifts that I needed.

We even stumbled upon something for him to purchase for MY Christmas present - he already had two gifts for me, but this is something I’ve been looking at and considering for a year, so I’m a very happy girl!

Afterwards, he dropped me off to meet up with BGWLBH but first I went on the hunt for AH’s Christmas gifts.

I just realised that I don’t have anything for Harley! 😳

We were home by lunchtime, so we prepared some food and went our separate ways for the afternoon.

Harley got some play time and I made some fresh salads to go with leftover snags and chicken drumsticks for the team’s dinner. I passed on dinner because I was still satisfied from lunch.

Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be sharing Christmas drinks with the art girls and our pool should be topped up with magnesium so swimming will be on my daily ‘to do’ list.

Meanwhile I’m ready to sleep.

Nite all.

Rejuvenated

Monday was a day of rest and recovery from Sunday’s market day.

The pool guy lobbed up early in the morning and aside from a small spot of  black algae on the far step, which he coated with a layer of chlorine, the pool is looking as good as new. He will deliver eight bags of magnesium on Thursday and we will be back to normal with our summer swimming.

Thank goodness.

I spent a good portion of Monday day wrapping Christmas presents ready to send them in the mail this week.

Harley and I swam today. He was so happy to be back in the pool area, he was almost out of control, running all around the pool, diving in and attacking the big blow up balls. We had about 30 minutes of valuable play time.

This morning was meditation and Qigong, our second last class for the year. Both of these classes are valuable play time for me!

There was no session with The Gypsy after class today, so I did a grocery shop, stopped at the butcher and posted my sister’s birthday/Christmas gift.

I was home just after 11am so I sliced up some watermelon and joined Adoring Husband in the lounge room, taking control of the remote and making him watch “Love Island” haha.

After a minor problem with the oven, I cooked chilli mango chicken with vegetables for dinner. Monday night was bangers and mash.

Now it’s 11pm and I’ve got an early start into The Bay with AH to do some last minute Christmas shopping in the morning so it’s sleep time for me.

Nite all.

Market Done

Saturday was a huge day.

We were all awake before 4.30am. We finished packing both cars and at 5.30am we all headed to the grounds to find our allotted plot for the morning.

Adoring Husband actually left before us and had the gazebo set up when we arrived. 

With both BGWLBH and I in attendance this time, it took much less time to set up and we were settled in our comfy folding chairs before 7am.

It was a very successful sales day for both of us.

Considering how few stalls there were (surprising right before Christmas) there was a pretty steady flow of customers/browsers/visitors.

The weather was nice with a cooling breeze for most of the morning. It kind of built up to gale force by 10.30am and at one point, a gazebo went flying into the carpark!

The worst part of the day was at 9am when the “entertainment” set up right next to us and they were loud and off key. Half the time I couldn’t hear my customers and a couple of them even complained about the noise. I’ll be speaking to the organisers this week.

I received nice hugs from some locals I haven’t seen for a while and there were even old customers who come here for holidays that spent their money at our stall.

Because of the wind AND the noise from the entertainment, we packed up an hour early.

Both of us girls spent the entire afternoon after lunch in our beds recovering from the morning. We are too old for this nonsense!

AH has been busy setting up our Christmas lights …

Today is Sunday and I cooked breakfast for the team this morning before having a play with Harley, after which I had a ZOOM meeting with The Gypsy and she read my cards using a number of different packs including Tarot cards. It was a most enjoyable 2 hours.

I made myself a late breakfast and plonked myself in front of the TV to watch a new Netflix movie called “Leave the World Behind” with Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawk in it. Great movie and very relevant for today. A warning of what’s to come.

I made duck with vegetables for dinner.

Now I’m off to sleep.

Nite all.