Shopping!
I am never going grocery shopping with the boy and miss again first there were the constant potty requests then the boy using the calculator in a very strange way followed by the calculator turning off and wiping the memory …….sigh…….. It’s so much easier to go alone especially with the extra crowds at this time of year
wow only 4 days to go
I was lucky eough that on the way home from oberon, mum stopped at one of the roadside fruit seller and bought me a bag of cherries…….. the boy wouldn’t stop for anything, he didn’t even see them
fresh picked cherries, fresh mangos, fresh nectrines….. the signs alon the highway in bright yello and orange ….. but he didn’t see them
I often think that would be a great way to buy your fruit, I remember going with my aunty to a farm that was selling apricots on the honour system in their shed it was kind of exciting to go to here for apricots and there for cherries and that place for peas etc etc but I imagine like online grocery shopping would become rather ordinary after a while
I have often considered stopping when out on rides to nowhere in the middle of nowhere on a tourist route here or there seeing signs for various fruits and vegetables
anyway back to the cherries …… YUM they are the nicest cherries I’ve had all year at least, and I reckon they are best straight from the fridge, maybe thats why in the past I really haven’t been that into them, they have always been on the bench at room tempreature or middle of summer midday tempreature
anyway off to enjoy more cherries I think before I have to head off to work
There was a post on beckyetal.blogspot .com a while agr about how kids always stand on the fabric when you lay it out it seems they’ll stand on anything avaliable
A new fridge
I’ve been pestering the boy to get a new fridge for ages
Finally we have one
Looks a little empty at the moment
but that won’t take long to fix
Rain glorious rain………
With the last few days being sooooo hot the rain is a very welcome relief
Just enough to make everything damp but not so much that many people wanted a raincoat……….
Great to stand in until you realise that you really need a jacket because the breeze has picked up
Been on autopilot all morning, I think I’m really ready for a nap, last nights storm woke miss just as I was getting ready to go to bed and she didn’t settle till almost 4am or at least it seemed that way I know we were still awake at 2am because it was so hot and couldn’t sleep
Hopefully tonight we will get a decent sleep
What a day
it all started with miss falling out of bed shortly after 230 this morning…… she then wriggled around in our bed till I took her to the loo then she happily toddled off to her bed….. strange kid, I get this feeling that she got a little over sleeping with us which is way off what everyone sadi would happen if we co-slept …. she likes her own space to sleep in, not that, that stops the odd visit to our bed some times in the wee hours but I have no problem with that as she usually snuggles in and goes to sleep and so do I
anyway the usuall drag my very tired self out of bed dress, coffee, coffe, check traffic. remember needing fuel , leave
its amazing the difference 5 minutes makes , I’m sure I’ve posted lots about it before but it is really stupid, i leave 5 minutes later than usual and get to the freeway with the traffic almost stopped grrrr I end up 20 mins late where usually I am 20 mins early
as the day wore on it got hotter ….. it eventualty got so hot that we looked at the jobs we had and decided the ones out in th sun without aircon which should have been checked yesterday as well anyway would be ok (the job being to walk through the train and change any lights that are out)
on the way home were the clouds I’ve been looking forward to all day, in hope that they will bring a cool change with them , in the distance there is another cloud just a familiar but rising from the horrizon…… bushfires again, I hope they aren’t on my way home (often the side of the freeway catches and its aweful to ride through the smoke ) and think not much of it….. changing freeway for the last bit home the smoke is still in the distance and the storm is looking closer and mor ominous ……if thats possible …… again think nothing of it and head home
Phone call later in teh afternoon, Hello my name is…… calling from careflight…. thankyou gor your n going support……. we have a new bear ….. I have no money …. that ok you ahve 4 weeks to pay …. done ….. thank you is your address still ……… yes ….. where is that if you don’t min my asking….. oh western sydney ……… really so you must be close to the big fires at penrith …….. oh ….. um yeah we aren’t that far from penrith …. oh that must be worrying ….. not really there is smoke in one direction nd a storm cloud in teh other bot a fair distance …… oh rain that will be good ……. more chit chat thanks for your help (hey I’m a sucker for their bears ….. and I ride a bike full time I might need their help oneday)
I got a little curious bout these fires, so watched tonights recording of the news and it was the first story ….. huge fires near penrith ….. at least on house and a heap of sheds lost more property threatened ……… wow ….. I know we often get these things but still………. wow……….. I did notice all of the fire danger signs on our way to the beach last week have a new category …. catestrophic ….. eeek ……. we already have total fire bans so I guess that would now include complete flame bans I’m pretty sure total fire doesn’t include gas bbqs but maybe catestrophic with fire ban does ….. hmm should look that up
the storm amounted to nothing more that thunder lightening and a few specks of rain as I was pulling the washing off the line…….. most disspointing
I have something to celebrate today……. its payday ….. and…. I refrained from ordering pizza online and had spaghetti on toast instead 
Update
thought I’d add the link to the news vid here
the storm has now come down with full on rain so hopefully its a help to the boys and girls out there
well the plan was to go to bed early tonight ……….. oh well
I’m thinking about getting up earlyish in the morning and going for a walk……. maybe
was dinner at pas again tonight, mmm chinese, it used to be always chinese, Pa has put up his very cute christmas tree it is about 30cms tall and has little bear shaped lights and silver baubles all over <3 miss was completely wraped with the balls it took a bit of distracting to get her to leave tham alone
I am finally looking forward to tomorrow, I get paid tomorrow sometime, prolly after 6 but still that is some time tomorrow, and is really great after over a week of $0 avaliable, I imagine the boy will get his christmas hamper this week too, when he first started there there was straight profit sharing, in his first year this ment a $600 bonus which was very nice, along with a nice basket of goodies gradually the cash bonus has become a gift card which is still something very nice and still the hamper, I think last year was the esky with fruit cake, lollies with the company name in them, a thermos and some seweed snacks ….. I’m sure there was something else but its not really that important, it is important that the company cares enough about its employees to give them nice things even if they do have the company logo all over them, I get 1/2 christmas eve off …. if i’m on dayshift and draw the right straw, followed by a bbq paid for with $ raised by mayself and a few others with our weekly bbq , and then Drinks at the local also paid for by us from our bbq …….. I suppose at least we get a half day
i am thinking about the new year more, I want to be more organised, I have at least managed to get the calendar thing happening, we have 2 calendars one by the door and the other in the kitchen, at the moment both are filled with scribble especially the weekends I am hoping to get the same calander that we have by the door this year, it has nice big squares with lines not taht the lines are overly used but the big squares really help, the kitchen one is always a freebie this years is from the australian good taste mag next years will be the one provided by the council, I forgot the boy has two on the go as well, both old british bikes I think he uses them for remembering oil changes and whatever, one is in the shed and the other in the bar…. actually looking at it he also writed the important dont forget events on the one in the bar…… so perhaps next year we will ad something to that habit
This is where I remember why I don’t so much like Christmas
For me I’m pretty sure there has always been a deep sadness associated with this time of year , from maybe 8 to perhaps 16 I could barely bring myself to eat Christmas breakfast lunch or dinner and usually from the week before to around school starting, I don’t know why but I always felt on the verge of chucking and the same deep homesick like sadness that occasionally creeps up on me during the year
I wonder sometimes if it is the amount of pressure applied by everyone to do this that or the other, or maybe knowing that I have 25 or so people surrounding me all day followed by a sudden nothing …….. Mum always thinks it’s related to the Newcastle earthquake …… No that we were overly involved but we were in the Nelson bay cinema watching the opening credits of “Oliver and company” and it sounded like the projector was coming through the wall
I will say I had the same tight throat feeling in the five or so minutes before then as I do at this time of year but I’m not sure it could be completley related
I do think I am horribly hormonal at the moment, aunty maybe….. The weather perhaps, maybe I’m just plain grumpy, yet again with the pressure
“what are you doing at Christmas”
“won’t you come visit us”
“come to this do bring this salad(insert salad I have never made in my life here)”
“What do you want for Christmas “
“What can X Y and Z get you “
“We want to see miss at Christmas”
“Mum is upset because you aren’t coming for Christmas lunch”
” what do you mean by working night shift that week, so you won’t be doing any thing then”
Arrrtrgh I really want to find a nice dark warm cupboard to curl up in and stay till the season is over somebody can pass me some turkey and I’ll be right
Until then I’ll go on with life as always, slipping in a nap here and there hiding tears over nothing that keep sneaking up and dreaming of more relaxed happier times
On a better note I completed Js present Last night and miss had a whole day in the one pair of undies wooohoo, only problem now is stopping her from using potty to get out of going to bed without her losing trust in telling us she has to go
For now it’s off to bed for an early night for me
Work!
Not much to say about it, it’s muggy and cloudy and hot
I’m tired and grumpy
I can think of so many things I could be doing but instead I’m looking at trains trains and more trains ……. I am so still in holiday mode
Luckily miss slept in this morning and didn’t see me go, for the last 2 weeks every time I went to go out without her she screamed bashing on the door or trying to force herself through the bars, which doesn’t make for a smooth exit
I am looking forward to getting home tonight, perhaps finish some Christmas pressies and consider cooking dinner
How’s chicken tikka masala spaghetti and vegies sound, or a little too mixed foods?
The decorating of the tree
Tonight we decorated mum and dads tree……. For some reason I always required to drecorate the tree or assemble flat pack furniture
So this is the tree for this year
ooops missed the star…….. it is on top
I dissagree with all the hype about real trees smelling like a norsca ad etc I think they smell of earth and pine needles (funny that) and have this horrid coating of sap and the needles are all spikey …….. that said I am begining to think we should get one in the future so we don’t have to worry about storing our tree though I love the christmas card tree seen in this months better homes and gardens not that we really get cards ….. I am trying to phase them out of our life …. most of our gifts are parcels with a name written on the bottom in sharpie ….. very stylish …. not …. but is better than having cards sitting around or constantly looking for labels….. one day we will have a paper free christmas but not quite yet
This was followed by BBQ dinner and this
What a good way to spend a Sunday evening
Sadly it’s back to work for me tomorrow
