AT LONG LAST A HOLIDAY!
Can you believe it?? No I can't as yet! Gerard and I are going on a holiday for two and a half weeks. Gosh it has been years since we have been away together. I think the last one was to Ocean Grove with Kate when she was younger!
So what is the plan? Nothing too spectacular cause money is an issue. Whenever is it not an issue? We have decided to travel up to Queensland by car, catch up with Annette and Paul, Hervey the dog and their new baby Logan, he will be about 3 months old by then, so exciting and then drive back home. On the way we plan to stop a lot and look around so that we are not exhausted when we get back home by just driving all the time.
G.T. is going to house sit for us which is such a weight off our shoulders as the animals are always a problem. He gets on so well with them and Milly just adores him 'cos he gives her heaps of pats and cuddles which is right up her ally. The cats tolerated him when he stayed for the week, so that is good also. They probably don't really care who looks after them as long as they have food and water and a clean litter tray! Especially Rusty.
So we leave around the 19th March and back home by Easter Yep I know it will be hot weather up north, but it is better than no holiday at all and having Geoff sitting for us is so great.
So woo hoo Queensland here we come!!!
bye for now
luv Jill
xxx
It is me again!!
Well a lot has happened in what seems only a few days.
Mum is all settled with a new fridge. I wrote a letter to the manager of The Good Guys and it turned out that the manager of the white goods department was not aware of any problems as the sales reps did not report any problems, so this guy was so apologetic. The next day she got a new fridge delivered and a food parcel with apologies.
The fridge is working well at the moment so hopefully this is the end of the saga!!
Last Thursday I went along to the local animal pound to do some volunteering!! Machele asked if we were after another pet??? No way, two dogs and cats are enough to run around after, although I still yearn for the bunnies. Luckily they only have dogs and cats there.
What an eye opener, they had 40 or more kittens and about 15 older cats. So sad. One cat came from a nursing home as it was the mascot, but because it attached itself to two of the residents they decided to surrender it to the pound. How unfair for the cat and to the residents.
There was an 18month old ginger male there and he was so affectionate, just wanted to be cuddled and stroked for ages. The others all meow at you for attention except for two of them. One was a black one with huge eyes and so scared and sitting so stiff with fright, the other was crouching down in the litter tray too scared to move or eat! While there they brought in another cat also very frightened.
I plan to go again on Thursday this week and try and make friends with them otherwise they will not get a home!
Not that many dogs, but they tear at your heart. Oh they did have some smaller kittens there, one was a female, smokey ginger one, but NO I did not let it tempt me!
The moon is still about and bright and have been out walking to the waters edge the past two nights. Such a contrast, the first night I put on a jumper as it was so cold and last night it was a perfect still night. You could hear the fish jumping out of the water and I even heard a koala from the Island calling. Just unbelieveable listening to the still night, with the moon shining down on the water and hearing nothing but nature!
I encouraged Gerard to go to the gym the other night with me and have a programme made out for us both, yes I know I did have one done last year and did not keep it up, but as usual this time will be different, yep I have said it again. Gerard wants to lose a bit of weight as he now has the mid tum expanding quite a bit and me??? well I had better not go into details, just very heavy will do!!! So this morning we went up to the gym and did our first work out together, I hope Gerard will continue as it will do him so good!!
Well I had better go and do some stamping as my swaop projects I have committed myself to are mounting up and I need to find my "mojo" to get back into it! I have been finding that I am doing a lot more housework these days and not any stamping time! What a change for me! For so many years the stamping was a priority and the housework was there to do, but ....... well you know, I was not much for that sort of stuff!
I am a bit concerned that I could become rather obsessive compulsive over this houseworking thing. As I find there has been no spare time to stamp! Buggar what an awful thing to change into in my life right now.. UI just cannot find a happy medium with it all. I suppose being happy and content with our little house, it has given me an interest in it all the more. Mind you there are still boxes about the place needing to be emptied and find a home and the Palace is still unorganised chaos and the garage has boxes of stamping stuff in and we also have heaps of stuff stored in a garage in Melbourne, but hey I cannot believe that I vacuum each week!! when did I last do that in Rowville??? Yep what a slob I had become. I even vacuum out the cats area each week too. Boy do I build up a lot of sweat while doing it, but it makes me feel good afterwards even though I can hardly move with the body in so much pain! Well someone has to do it and we cannot afford to pay anyone to come and do it so I have to suffer!
Anyway it has taken me 30 odd years to get myself a little bit organised around the place and still need to do some more before I can say everything is done! I will die before then. Hopefully I will have the Palace all under control by then!
