Delayed Catch Up

I had an excellent night of sound sleep, but it was still difficult to get out of bed this morning.

Needless to say, I was a touch late for meditation.

It was a small class but it held a lot of value and the feedback was positive and inspiring.

The weather was not conducive to sitting by the river for our promised catch up so we booked a ZOOM meeting for midday and then spent 3.5 hours sitting on our own beds talking our heads off, solving the world’s spiritual problems and advising each other on how to reach our own next spiritual level.

I love our long chats.

BGWLBH decided to head into the bay for the day.

I made fried rice with garlic, lemon, butter barramundi for dinner.

We played trivia for an hour and again, were all in bed before 7.30pm.

I have nothing planned for tomorrow, which is a good thing, because I rarely follow through with my plans haha.

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Another Lazy One

We had some patchy rain today and a couple of short, sharp showers that were so heavy, we had to increase the volume on the TV.

Before I got out of bed, I watched the end of the final round of the golf tournament that I’ve been following. None of my favourites were among the front runners, so I didn’t stay up late and only turned it on at 6am to watch the final hour.

I got out of bed earlier than usual to wash my hair, play with Harley for 40 minutes and then make some breakfast.

I then parked my butt on the couch for the rest of the day!

A couple of fluffy Netflix movies, my quiz shows and I made stir fry vegetables with rice for dinner. Adoring Husband got bonus steamed beef dim sims on his plate. Leftover trifle for dessert.

That was my day. It was lazy and indulgent and just the way I like my days.

Meditation early tomorrow, so it’s time to sleep.

This is Harley with his butt on the arm of AH’s chair and his head on the arm of my chair.

Nite all.

Unfulfilled Plans

I thought that I might spend part of my weekend in the art room making jewellery or finishing some acrylic art paintings that have been waiting very patiently for me to return to them.

While the idea seemed appealing, my motivation and enthusiasm was less than energised.

On Saturday, I watched the new Netflix movie with Sally Field called “Remarkably Bright Creatures”.

I LOVED it - needed tissues - I adore Sally Field as an actor. I also adore octopuses, one of which played a main role in the movie. I highly recommend this one.

Otherwise, football and golf took a lot my attention.

I missed 2 games in my footy tipping. I’m very annoyed that I changed one tip at the last minute and shouldn’t have, but I am, however, in the lead by 2 points now.

The golf is being played in USA, so it’s not even televised until around 10pm - I leave the TV on with the volume on low, all night, so that I can doze on and off and see the live scores each time I wake up.

I admit, it’s not very restful and I have felt quite weary all weekend because of it, but I do enjoy the golf, especially when my favourites, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Cam Young are playing.

Today, I made a trifle with BGWLBH’s leftover birthday cake. Raspberry jelly, custard, sliced peaches, fresh strawberries, whipped cream and chopped pecans sprinkled on top. It was delicious.

I received phone calls from Number One Son and Bubbles for Mother’s Day and a text from Vegan Chickie. Adoring Husband bought me a lovely plant. My best Mother’s Day for a number of years!

Easy spaghetti bolognese from the freezer for dinner.

We did play some trivia and were all in bed before 7.30pm.

I think I’ll sleep well tonight.

Nite all.

A Pleasing Day

What a pleasant day I’ve had.

My ZOOM meeting with The Gypsy was cancelled because she wasn’t well, so I took Harley out for a long play, made myself some tea and crumpets for breakfast and spent the entire day in my bedroom.

BGWLBH vacuumed the house and did the ironing.

Adoring Husband drove into the bay and then mowed our front lawn.

I lay on my bed all day watching Jet Lag the game, a Mayim Bialik YouTube video about Neurodivergent People (I believe I am one), I napped, watched my quiz shows, got AH to cook me some GF chicken nuggets for an early dinner and then watched the football x 2.

An indulgently lazy day that I very much needed.

My stomach issues have settled beautifully since I started using the Belly Bugz probiotics that were gifted to me by the naturopathic lady at the markets 2 weeks ago. I only started taking them 6 days ago, but within 48 hours, my pain had gone and I was feeling quite energised.

Now I need to climb out of the habitual lifestyle that I’ve created to avoid the constant and/or sudden pain that would overcome me. 

Delaying getting out of bed in the mornings because that’s when the pain was the strongest.

Avoiding certain chores that triggered the pain.

Sitting for the majority of my day so as to avoid pain.

Avoiding certain foods. 

Avoiding certain clothes that were secure around my mid section.

Allowing extra time to get ready to go out so that I could sit down and wait for the pain to dissipate when it hit unexpectedly.

Making sure I knew where to easily find seats out in public.

It’s been quite debilitating really. For 8 yrs, but the last 4 in particular.

Four days without pain has been wonderful and I need to learn how to be normal again!

I also believe that the Schuman Frequency Generator has contributed to my healing. The advice was that it would take a month to be effective and I just realised that it’s been 5 weeks, I guess the combination of the two has contributed.

It’s 11.15pm and I’m feeling a bit peckish so I’d best turn off my light and try to sleep so that I don’t go do a kitchen raid at midnight!

Nite all.

Three in a Row

For the third day in a row, BGWLBH and I drove into The Bay.

Tuesday was movie day, Wednesday was her birthday and today, she worked at Crafty Bee and I shopped til I dropped.

I purchased some patchwork bib and brace overalls, a grey tiered top and a light zip up jacket.

The lady who owns the dress shop gifted me a bracelet and necklace for Mother’s Day.

I made her feel sorry for me because I don't receive gifts from my kids on Mother’s Day. 🤪

Honestly, we all know that Mother’s Day is a BS commercial con to guilt people into spending money that they don’t need to spend and my kids and I are in agreement to NOT do that.

The lady’s response today, is perfect proof that the conditioning is strong.

Nevertheless, I felt grateful for her generosity 💕

With Adoring Husband’s help, I cooked a lamb and rice dish for dinner and we had some of the leftover birthday cake for dessert.

We played trivia and were all in bed before 7.30pm!

I took this week as my Joker round in the footy tipping comp, which means I get double points this weekend. I tipped the first game correctly. Fingers crossed I do well for the rest of the weekend.

I did some washing this afternoon and some gardening, so I’ve been quite productive for the day.

Now I need to sleep because I have a ZOOM meeting at 9am tomorrow.

Nite all.

Birthday Girl

Today was BGWLBH’s birthday.

After a huge production of opening many many birthday gifts, she decided that she wanted to head into the bay, so we made ourselves presentable and off we went.

We spent some time at Stocklands renewing our lotto tickets, visiting the bank and browsing some fashion stores. 

We dropped into the RSL for tea and cake and a little flutter. I won $80 on the keno! Go me!

The butcher was our final stop before returning home, where I immediately hit the kitchen to bake a birthday cake (with cream cheese and passionfruit frosting), stuffed chicken breasts wrapped in bacon, roast pumpkin, spinach and pine nut salad and a garden salad with pomegranate.

That’s what Adoring Husband and BGWLBH had for dinner. I had panko prawns.

We played trivia before dessert and the “happy birthday” song.

All in bed by 7.30pm!

Nite all.

Movie Date

The Devil Wears Prada 2 was a good movie.

We attended the 9.30am showing, along with 35 others, including a large contingent of ‘over 70s’ women, a couple of young ladies who scoffed a giant tub of popcorn each and an enormous soft drink, a gay couple, a single white haired male and two women who live up the road from us.

I enjoyed watching the original cast. I did NOT like Andy’s love interest, who was played by an Aussie, Patrick Brammall (also known for ‘Colin from Accounts’). He was a pointless, dull character.

There were BIG names like Lady Gaga, Lucy Liu, Donatella Versace, Justin Theroux, Rory McIlroy and his wife, Marc Jacobs, Heidi Klum, Kenneth Branagh, and of course Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.

The music was fantastic too.

It was 1 hour and 50 minutes well spent.

Afterwards we did some grocery shopping and visited the butcher before grabbing some juices and heading home.

We had an early dinner of last nights leftovers, played some trivia and came to bed early.

It’s BGWLBH’s birthday tomorrow (6th) and I’ve spent a good portion of the evening gift wrapping and writing in the card until my back ached.

I’m not sure if she wants to do anything for the day. I guess I’ll find out in the morning.

For now, it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

An Early Start

I was asleep by 10pm Sunday night, so when I woke up at 4am on Monday, I was wide awake!

Instead of getting out of bed, I turned on the TV and watched the end of the final round of the Cadillac golf championship.

An American, Cam Young, was the winner, but the Aussie, Adam Scott, played incredibly well in the final two rounds and came fourth. His final two rounds were super impressive, it’s just a shame that his first two rounds were so poor.

I actually got out of bed at 8am to the sound of shocked gasps from Adoring Husband and BGWLBH. The only reason I usually get out of bed this early is if I’m going somewhere!

It meant that I had an extra 2 hours to fill for the day.

I’m sure you’re not surprised when I say I did nothing productive in that time. A load of washing, some gardening, Harley play and I cooked some prawn and rice noodle soup for my lunch.

I watched a Foxtel movie that I can’t remember the name of and by 2pm I was ready for a nap, so I took Harley with me to the bedroom. He harassed me by laying across my chest and nudging me with either his paw or nose, so I didn’t get any sleep at all.

At 4pm, I decided to start dinner. Chicken Saltimbocca with mashed potato, green beans and snow peas. Always delicious.

We played trivia for an hour before watching some TV comedy and I came to bed at 9.30pm.

I will be falling asleep to the sound of Kevin Costner’s voice in The Bodyguard.

Tomorrow, BGWLBH and I are going to the cinema to watch “The Devil Wears Prada 2”. I’ve read some disappointing reviews tonight. I hope we are not disappointed too.

Anyway, time to sleep so that we can leave early.

Nite all.

Weekend of Ease

Saturday was a partly productive and partly lazy day for me.

I had a late start to the day and because of some scudding showers, Harley only had a short play before we had to escape the wet stuff.

Key Lime Pie was on my baking list for the day, but I wanted to try a different recipe so I made myself comfortable on the family room lounge and began searching YouTube recipes. I found one that included sour cream in the ingredients, which is quite ‘different’ so I spent an hour in the kitchen and the pie was delicious!

I made a separate spongey meringue to cut up and serve on top of each slice which balanced the tartness perfectly.

I made myself some sourdough toast with fresh tomato from the garden. OMG delicious! 

There was an old Elvis movie on the Classics channel called “A Change of Habit” with Mary Tyler Moore which was easy to watch (mostly) and then three games of football.

For “fend for yourself” night I made Tom Yum Goong soup with king prawns and fresh beans from the garden.

It was a restless night of sleep on Saturday night and in the hours that I was awake, I watched the PGA Cadillac Championships golf, which was easy to fall back to sleep to.

I didn’t get out of bed until 10am today.

Thirty minutes play time with Harley, followed by over an hour gardening, thinning out the tomato plants and planting some of them in the new pots that I purchased on Friday, covering the dirt with sugar cane mulch and giving them all a good soaking with water.

I picked fresh beans and covered my new Roma tomatoes with bug proof bags.

Surprisingly, I was exhausted after that! So I made my famous turkey, cranberry, goats cheese and sprouts sourdough for lunch and returned to bed where I watched an Australian Netflix movie called “You. Always”. It was okay.

Football all afternoon.

Spaghetti bolognese sauce out of the freezer for a quick dinner followed by key lime pie for dessert.

My footy tipping was pretty average this week but I’m still holding second place on the tipping ladder.

The final round of the golf starts in 30 minutes, so I’ll have something soothing to fall asleep to.

Nite all.

Another Week Bites the Dust

What was supposed to be a quiet day at home baking, turned into a day in the bay … again 🫤

Adoring Husband was picked up by a mate and they drove to Maryborough hospital to visit a sick mate. Actually I’m not sure if it was Maryborough or Hervey Bay, but hopefully, by the sounds of it, the mate is improving slightly and they are feeling hopeful.

BGWLBH has had orders come in for her painted rocks so she needed to visit Bunnings to load up on her rock stocks.

She invited me along and I needed some new pots for my excess tomato plants, so I accepted her offer.

Needless to say, no baking got done and we had a very early, very easy dinner of sourdough with avocado, goats cheese, cranberry jelly, green sprouts and turkey breast. Always delicious.

I had a terrible nights sleep and was awake until 4.30am and slept until 8.30am. By the time we arrived home from the bay, I was feeling very weary and dozed a little on the couch during the afternoon.

I’ve watched the footy this evening and so far have two from two correct tips. A nice start to the weekend.

My gut issues have been much better today.

Now I need to sleep.

Nite all.

Home Alone

I enjoyed 3 hours of solitude today while BGWLBH worked and Adoring Husband played golf.

It was bliss.

I ate the last of my home made sausage rolls for brunch.

I watched the newest episode of Jet lag The Game and then searched for recipes on YouTube.

I made bacon wrapped stuffed chicken breasts with roast pumpkin and spinach salad and fresh green beans from the garden.

Excellent reviews and placed on the ‘favourites’ list.

It seems that the NSW women defeated QLD in the women’s State of Origin. Bugger.

I napped on the couch this afternoon so I’m late for sleeping tonight.

My second parcel finally arrived for Hazie’s birthday and she was excited to receive her new doll, who she promptly named Hazie Junior! 

Now it’s time for me to sleep.

Nite all.