Sorry....yet again

Have sooo been trying to get on to update the blog and have been very slack indeed...SORRY. If it isn't hospital appts, or doctors or surgeons it's emptying the bloody shop STILL and we've only done the front - aaagh. I'm still on sureslim and today wanted to knaw off my arm I was sooo hungry. STILL - tomorrow is ANZAC Day as you all well know, and I have decided NOT to make any ANZAC biscuits so I can't eat them all - lol......AS usual, more stuff is going onto trade me, and this weekend, the ladybug will be lifted from her throne and moved to the daycare centre around the corner - and I'll have the perfect title for the page that will EVENTUALLY be scrapbooked - how many men does it take to move a ladybug.......So Saturday afternoon, the street will be blocked for a while as she is taken down. Now that the tables have gone from the shop, the place just totally echos - it seems sooooo wierd. Now I'm off so I can get tea made, sit down and watch dancing with the stars. In true fashion, I'm now over Brendan Pongia - yet most of my friends think that Frank Bunce is hot - so what do you think? I would sooo love Suzanne Paul to take the crown - one for the older generation and all that.....we'll see

Not got over it yet................

Oh for goodness sake - I'm at the surgeons tomorrow and for a scan on Monday so I needed a good image in my mind - AND A CLEAN ONE MRS BRUNTON.....Have to say that Zeetra sent me an email the other day - one of those particularly crappy days - and I laughed and laughed then laughed some more - it was basically saying - send this email to 10 more people and absolutely jack shit will happen - if you know what I mean. 6cm off may waist this week at sure slim just a sherman tank to go - but Brendon is forever in my thoughts mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

Dancing With The Stars........Phwar

Who saw Brendon Pongia last night on dancing with the stars - had to turn up my meds for a while. Suzanne Paul was fantastic, but wasn't the eye candy that Brenon was and if you missed it - you sooooooo have to watch the re-run on Sunday. I've got 2 sick kids at the moment (YAY) so I'm off to sort them out - but just had to get this off my chest - lol....God bless Michael Laws for trying..............................

Well that was Easter.....

Easter seems to have come and gone in our house and left us all depleted of energy :0( Sunday was the Great Egg hunt, and I have one who has devoured his eggs before lunch, and the other who is STILL torturing us all with the speed of a tortoise when eating his chocolate - we are most concerned, as this is a gene that NONE of this family posess....lol.
Yesterday saw us over at Papamoa with friends and LOADS of kids in tow, we also had Rebecca, Belinda and Christine plus families too and ended up with a cricket match for the kids which quickly became an adults grudge match whilst the kids gave up and went to play on the playground - what good wholesome family fun...Not only content with being nackered and worn out, I've been up since 3am in agony and today I feel like crap - but the good part is that everyone else is still reeling from the long weekend to so even the boys are quiet - my prayers have really been answered. This week see's a new aim to get even more stuff onto Trade Me and I've found so many craft books that I'll have to sneak them home to get them online. The bug from our roof has sold :0( but is staying in Putaruru :0) and this week sees the mass exodous of tables etc to the relevant schools, and back on the rounds of hospital visits..NOT for much longer I hope.

It still seems funny when people ask how am I finding it now that I have nothing to do - I WISH...Theres probably enough Trade Me stuff to keep me & Becks busy until October - lol.

Oh well off to make lunch, then a nanna nap I think....

HAPPY EASTER

Happy Easter everyone....Have finally had 2 days in the garden, gardening my style - ordering J around on the tractor, pulling out trees & shrubs AGAIN.... The kids are desperate for the Easter Bunny to arrive and the eldest thinks that because he knows "the truth" and hasn't blabbed to the youngest - that he deserves an extra egg. Tomorrow he will learn the harsh reality called life - lol. Everyone is soooo excited for Easter, well thet i'm not in hospital - phew. The egg hunt is planned, and I've gone way over the top making laminated clues for the kids (and friends kids) and a lunch - which we're all looking forward to.....The camera is at the ready, and at last I can scrap again, though how much time I will get through the holidays - we'll just have to see. The next round of hospital stuff is at the end of the holidays, so that will get J & me out for the day without the boys - whoo hoo something to keep the sanity - YAY.

So stay safe over the Easter break & don't forget the photies.....

Guess Where I've Been....

Yep spent most of last week stuck between hospital and packing a major sad......Spent most of the week between surgeons & hospital visits and the one day that I didn't have to go to the hospital, Becks and I went over to the childrens ward taking over all of the off-cuts and old stickers much to the delight of the craft co-ordinator who was also a scrapbooker.....We've got invites on the go for the Rotorua and Hamilton ladies and about 6 hours short in each day. Becks has dyed her hair blonde and I'm about to kill my kids and both Becks and I have come into the shop tonight for a huge rest.....ooops to get the place tidy, so until next time :0)

Can you see what I put up with....................

This is what I have to put up with...............The great Eddie White had his 40th birthday at the weekend, and my hubbie relished in it. It was an op shop ball and he was determined to look like a pimp ( no comments from those that have met him please) NO-ONE recognised him until he spoke of course. His black hair covered by a wig - which he had previously demanded that I cut before we set off..He loves it that I'm not allowed to drink as he has his sober driver...I WILL scrapbook his 2am look which was a wee tad different to this.....

Zeetra told me off :0(

Well not really - she emailed me to see if I was still alive, but I've had a shitty couple of weeks health wise, packed a sad and disappeared off the radar for a while. I'm back in hospital next week and totally over it..............Today was the first day NOT having to do something since closing the shop - HONEST - and was crook this morning - so stayed in bed, then felt guilty because the house was a hovel and got stuck into the house. I went to make muffins with the over-ripe bananas in the house and didn't even have flour in the pantry - so then had to do the groceries which was like a holiday as I didn't take the kids...STILL not got the incentive together to get a layout done - will have to catch up with Becks and get my a into g..Cills been digi-scrapping and I'm waiting to see her photos from college camp - probably an eye opener..It looks like Becks & I will be teaching scrapbooking at the primary school for a few weeks so I'd better get the car unpacked of the stuff from the shop - it's been in the farm car for 10 days now and it's beginning to feel like the back room :0( - hey Dallas - what's your blog addy???

Determination...

Determination for this week is to complete 1 layout. I'm not sure what on yet but I will do it. Becks was over this weekend and she hasn't done anything either, Cill is still doing here digi scrapping and though the thought of having a tidy crafting room appeals (I would only need my computer) the thought of no supplies would kill me. I'm a very tactile person and love the actual feel of each page - so what is everyone elses aim for this week???

OOOpppsss.....

OOppss... Thought I'd better calm down before journaling again (lol). Been away being proded and poked again and today, Christine, Becks & myself are in having a HUGE clearout for the shop. We've got boxes marked for the kids ward at Waikato, kindies and schools and they're ready to go, I don't think that we could have supplied another association if we'd tried...The room at home is slowly shaping up, I'm almost there and today, I was supposed to be in hospital, but they cancelled at the last minute, it was only tests (but I've been waiting since last May for them), but I don't mind as the surgeon was needed to help in another case and the patient had really bad cancer so I'm hoping that they can help.....On the sales front, we'll get on the fixtures and fittings of the shop then we can go back to finishing off the regular sales on TM....SO nearly there, but need it ALL to be done, I'm over it now and apparently looking haggard - who needs friends. LOOK OUT FOR THE BIG ACCU-CUT MACHINE & DIES GOING ONTO TRADE ME....It's expensive but it will be a third of the price and is a commercial grade machine.

My youngest has gone on his school camp today and dad has taken him, last week he went with the eldest and did he take a camera, did he bloody hell so now I'm hoping that the school will have photos - not that I've had the chance to scrapbook yet :0( ....

If anyone out there used to get our crop boxes, on the box each month was a quote and on one of them it was about screaming down a mountain shouting whoo hoo and enjoying the journey - AND NOW I CAN'T FIND IT, can anyone help lil ol me please :0)

Until next time - may you be finding the inspiration that eludes me at the moment -lol

Totally Over It...

Well I am!! I'm over bloody prodding, poking, treatments that make me feel worse. I'm over the trade me thing to the point that tomorrow after yet more rounds of hospital crap, I'm making up 10 kits of everything and having the final auctions. NZ Post are seriously p*****ing me off with crap service but I'm glad that I can come on here and rant away........2 blackouts today which means the new meds are not working aaaaaaghhhh........Thanks for letting me do that :0)

SOUL

Soul has the new challenge...............If you haven't seen it yet, click on the Soul Challenge by scrolling down to the link on the left hand side..

Can We Bypass Last Week

Last week was absolutely shocking - so it's a new week and lets start again :-)

I ended up with the headaches that caused me to pass out, hospital appointments, more treatment, and Trade Me (aaagghh) Have decided that I'm just going to make massive packs with what is left and send them out in huge boxes, that way, all auctions can be underway this week and we can start the clear-out..............whoo hoo...My legs have gone completely today - post more treatment - so at this moment, I can't walk :0( BUT we went to Lake Rotoiti for the weekend as John's dad is 70 tomorrow so the whole family went for the weekend for rest & relaxation. Not an ounce of scrapbooking has been done but tonight I have to make a card for FIL so I'd better get a move on - lol - and of course, because of the crappy week, the room is STILL not done - lol

WAY TOOO HOT.......

It's way too hot out there ALREADY...To hot to do anything outside, but my home today is cool for once, so off to tackle the rest of "THE BACK ROOM" please say a prayer for me in the event that I am never heard from again......Today, I was allowed a lie in , I think that it was so I don't look worn out & haggard when I see the surgeon tomorrow...Or mor like so I don't blame the early morning starts when the surgeon asks why I look soo haggard in the morning..LOL - sometimes I want to say - come live at my house for a week and that would explain everything! Christines hubbie bought a new car yesterday as a surprise (!!) and I tried to get Priscilla involved in a recipe swap because Blair does all of the cooking (ha ha) SHE WAS HORRIFIED, and sent me a lovely email to explain why she couldn't take part....use your imagination.. Anyway no more procrastination - to the back room I go

Pondering Moments........

Despite the attacks of nausea (or full on vomiting) John still insists on me getting the cows in morning & night between shop duties and hospital appointments - apparently it takes my mind off it..?*#@ and at least if I vomit, I'm already outside(well that's his view)!!! However, Autumn is whispering here in the mornings - it's bloody freezing cold at 5am, however the other morning, as the sun rose it looked awsome with the mist everywhere (before theat it was just plain spooky riding through misty woodland looking for cows!), I noticed how many of our gates had been replaced with new style tapes, and thought, in 20 years time, gates won't be used on farms anymore and it made me think about scrapbooking and how we preserve memories...Feeling inspired at the shed, I told John all about my nostalgic thoughts "you're not going to do a scrapbook page on &^%@#$ gates are you" he asked....NOSTALGIC MOMENT OVER...

I hope you guys get my point..........

I'll remember to take my camera one morning and will post my findings

Early start...

We'll, after finally getting home & getting to bed at 1.30am, John woke me at 5am to get the cows in as our worker has been given a weeks holiday -aaagh, go the boys on the bus at 8am and had to go back to bed for an hour - lol...What happened to the days of late nights and handling it?? Valentines day tomorrow, and it's not something that we've ever bothered with, so tonight whilst John was at golf, I bought some excercise equipment from TM and told John "thanks for my presents"....Well it is our 20th valentines together so I'd say he's been let off quite lightly. I'm looking for some inspiration at the moment to get some scrapbooking done - well actually, I'm looking for the time to do it :-( Keep thingking that I'll get everything cleared from the shop, then deal to it before the next surgery. The old nausea is back, so spending most of the time with my head down the loo until they sort out my new meds - surely this should be helping my attempts at sureslim. I think I'll have to get a little challenge going to encourage me to get time to do a layout - any suggestions???

New Packs On The Move......

Well Rebecca & I are still here at the shop getting the next lot of packs ready for TM...They're HUGE and as usual will all be going on for $1.00 reserve....There's a bumper harvest festival and Becks is part way through a massive mega paper pack - but we're whacked now and are on our way home...Retirement will appear at some stage - lol.........................

No Scrapbooking Done.................

We've got soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many orders coming in on Trade Me that I haven't had the chance to get any scrapbooking done at all :-( We're in the middle of a major meds changeover, so let's just say that it's helping me along with my weight loss............lol....Saw Cill on Friday and all is well, and Wilma has been rushed back into hospital with her heart not working properly again - but she was rushed into Tokoroa right in the middle of the bus accident, how sad was the accident.. - so her exit may take a little longer. Christines already been asked if Viagra's available over the counter (lol) on her 1st day, and I think that only Becks has got any work completed - and she's the one with 2 kids under 4 at home. The last of our auctions go online this week - huge big bumper kits for $1 reserve - and FINALLY - check out the link to SOUL - we're back on our way and maybe this is the kick up the but that i need to use some of my supplies........As Zeetra pointed out on the comment below, I'm going to need to get using it once it becomes "visible" at home. Off to sort out the orders ready for tomorrow.....

Another day....

Well today may be the day when I get a little scrapbooking done...I'm determined this week to have the boys new school photos done. My goals for this year is to scrap all new photos as soon as they're processed & printed, and worry about the older ones to scrap during calving when we go into hibernation mode. Finally got Sam onto the school bus this morning, and the poor thing has to stay on the bus whilst it's parked outside his ols school for a while (the one that he wanted to stay at...) DALLAS - I've finally clearing carpet in the back room - how's it going with you? I figured that we've been here 1 year at the end of May and that room HAS to be tidy by then.
Have decided to move the craft room into the other spare bedroom and thet means that my "stash" will now be way more visible - darn it..
Soul starts again tomorrow........

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