Jesus its freezing today!
I re read yesterdays post I SHOULD point out THE COLLECTIVE we is not me (I am not going ) for me to go it is another $1300 NZD ($480 flight $90 taxes $200 travel and $88AUD PER NIGHT for accommodation as I am not member I have to pay accommodation) and that amount doesnt take into consideration INSURANCE or SPENDING money so there is another $600NZD at least! so at nearly $2000 I definitely wont be going!
I woosed out this morning I had 2 meetings with RUGBY coach of all teams at college and principal and by the time that finished IT is raining HARD and icy rain sleety yucky cold RAIN! MAYBE I should walk undercover in town and only get partially wet.!!!!
I have yummy meatballs in crockpot with pasta sauce ready for Spaghetti tonight and vege platter!!!
I am now in BBQ prep mode and will get into town to organise more stuff after lunch and then hopefully tomorrow relax a little !
Stay warm infact stay inside!
Ciao
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Karate updates....
THANKS to Samuel's amazing effort in selling $600 worth lego stuff and AMAZING buyers from trade me (some of them over the moon to get lego) and generous buyers (ChrisH and family), we were halfway there.....
Lake Taupo Sports Advisory Council agreed to $200 cheque (then we get a phoencall it is UPPED to $500!!!!!!!!)
This afternoon Lakeland Lions has put in $300 so all in all we have THE MONEY for Samuel to go HE IS SOOOOO DARNED excited and I am so proud of his efforts towards going.
It will go fast the 7 weeks and I am meeting with the HEAD Sensei this saturday to fill in forms we will be at doctors to get medical clearance and letters for INHALERS and medication he will be taking with him too, have had bags checked for appropriate size (cabin one) went to Airport and put it in the measuring device!, have had towels embroided and bag WITH sponsors LOGO (organised today) have got the permits and prices for the BBQ (sausage and onions and bread and all that stuff) have BBQ booked for Queens Bday Fri/Sat/Sun that will be club BBQ to go towards Samuel the other boy and the Instructor from Taupo so thats all good.
Next week around WED rest of the money will be paid to CLUB for Samuels fees and competition and travel (when in Aussie cause they still have 300kms to travel once landed), then just have to purchase mouthguard and gloves and punch mitts. (my Employer is getting that so thats good too!)
YAY we nearly ready to go infact we probably could go NEXT WEEK at this rate!
Well now that I havent walked for nearly 2 weeks I am raring to go and get back into it! (yes int he rain too!)
Hope everyone is staying WARM and DRY!
Ciao
Lake Taupo Sports Advisory Council agreed to $200 cheque (then we get a phoencall it is UPPED to $500!!!!!!!!)
This afternoon Lakeland Lions has put in $300 so all in all we have THE MONEY for Samuel to go HE IS SOOOOO DARNED excited and I am so proud of his efforts towards going.
It will go fast the 7 weeks and I am meeting with the HEAD Sensei this saturday to fill in forms we will be at doctors to get medical clearance and letters for INHALERS and medication he will be taking with him too, have had bags checked for appropriate size (cabin one) went to Airport and put it in the measuring device!, have had towels embroided and bag WITH sponsors LOGO (organised today) have got the permits and prices for the BBQ (sausage and onions and bread and all that stuff) have BBQ booked for Queens Bday Fri/Sat/Sun that will be club BBQ to go towards Samuel the other boy and the Instructor from Taupo so thats all good.
Next week around WED rest of the money will be paid to CLUB for Samuels fees and competition and travel (when in Aussie cause they still have 300kms to travel once landed), then just have to purchase mouthguard and gloves and punch mitts. (my Employer is getting that so thats good too!)
YAY we nearly ready to go infact we probably could go NEXT WEEK at this rate!
Well now that I havent walked for nearly 2 weeks I am raring to go and get back into it! (yes int he rain too!)
Hope everyone is staying WARM and DRY!
Ciao
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Happy Birthday to me...
I have had a lovely day and THANKS to all the well wishers **42** today, I spent the whole of last night camped out at MHJ getting $1 jewellery for fundraising and YIP ($700RRP later) we spent a whole $2!!!!! 17 hours camped out and with every blanket in the house there AND even chairs and a lazyboy and the trailer we were sorted.
I spent the rest of the day CLEANING out car blankets clothes food shoes uniforms beds pillows etc and then showered did 2 loads of washing and then ate and then SHOPPED (grocery) then worked THEN homemade pizzas for dinner, THEN THEN THEN we went and met Chris Stew Brylee Griffin Teddy and Coco WOW COCO is so damned cute TEDDY liked us once the barking stopped (2 mins flat), Samuel and kids had fun, WE YAKKED (not long enough) I GOT a bootiful card THE PINK LADY BOOBY ONE!!!!!!! and it is lovely, thanks Chris the other cards very very nice.
HAD beautiful chocolate mud cake and cream, diet coke and THEN we had to head home!!
Everywhere i went today I told people it was me birthday and I had a nice day !!!!! VERY TIRED only 5 -6 hours sleep last night so off to bed now .
Ciao
I spent the rest of the day CLEANING out car blankets clothes food shoes uniforms beds pillows etc and then showered did 2 loads of washing and then ate and then SHOPPED (grocery) then worked THEN homemade pizzas for dinner, THEN THEN THEN we went and met Chris Stew Brylee Griffin Teddy and Coco WOW COCO is so damned cute TEDDY liked us once the barking stopped (2 mins flat), Samuel and kids had fun, WE YAKKED (not long enough) I GOT a bootiful card THE PINK LADY BOOBY ONE!!!!!!! and it is lovely, thanks Chris the other cards very very nice.
HAD beautiful chocolate mud cake and cream, diet coke and THEN we had to head home!!
Everywhere i went today I told people it was me birthday and I had a nice day !!!!! VERY TIRED only 5 -6 hours sleep last night so off to bed now .
Ciao
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Sales Sales Sales.....
It is exciting when you sell things and my son even more so. I get home yesterday and 4 more sets of lego SOLD, Chris H thanks (Samuel was blown away) Griffin will be excited as hell I'm SURE!!! so the running toal is up to just over $600 I was awake at 5am stressing about whether we will infact get there, OUR applications to hold 2 BBQ's on Queens Birthday weekend have been accepted so we have one at our local Warehouse and one at Whitcoulls NOW I Know for a fact that if it rains in Taupo you are BUSY BUSY and TOWN is hectic! so fingers crossed WE are having MONDAY of Queens Birthday off AS A REST DAY we will both be knackered!.
All in all we are doing as much as we can and thats all I can do. I also was up filling 8x2litre RUGBY water bottles as spares and CUTTING 9 oranges into segments! have packed car (last night) with the follwoing TARPAULIN, large wollen blanket, waterproof blanket, chairs and a 4 step FOLD OUT GAZEBO!!! CAUSE its raining and cold and yuck! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa WINTER sports just gotta love them!oh and me trusty sunbrella YOU can fit loads of people under a sunumbrella.
IN RUGBY season I wear proper hunting and fishing gear TOPS mainly and of course trousers to keep warm and generally have 5 layers on and run around with a large sun umbrella!!! (yip to keep the rain off me I hate poncy little umbrellas THEY are hopeless! I need a big grunty GALE PROOF umbrella!
Well better wake me boy he NEEDS at least 30 - 40mins to relax AS HE does his contacts!!!! (patience is not our best trait !) we have to be at SCHOOL at 8.15am! eeeeeeek after me telling RUGBY TEAM off about being late IT had BETTER NOT ME!
UPDATE rain held off BUT we used all the water for injuries and drinking used the FROZEN water packs for A BLACK EYE and shoulder injury USED the woollen blanket twice for INJURY stops and one of me fold out chairs, ORANGES ALL GONE CHUR cool eh!
Have a dry warm weekend!
Ciao
All in all we are doing as much as we can and thats all I can do. I also was up filling 8x2litre RUGBY water bottles as spares and CUTTING 9 oranges into segments! have packed car (last night) with the follwoing TARPAULIN, large wollen blanket, waterproof blanket, chairs and a 4 step FOLD OUT GAZEBO!!! CAUSE its raining and cold and yuck! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa WINTER sports just gotta love them!oh and me trusty sunbrella YOU can fit loads of people under a sunumbrella.
IN RUGBY season I wear proper hunting and fishing gear TOPS mainly and of course trousers to keep warm and generally have 5 layers on and run around with a large sun umbrella!!! (yip to keep the rain off me I hate poncy little umbrellas THEY are hopeless! I need a big grunty GALE PROOF umbrella!
Well better wake me boy he NEEDS at least 30 - 40mins to relax AS HE does his contacts!!!! (patience is not our best trait !) we have to be at SCHOOL at 8.15am! eeeeeeek after me telling RUGBY TEAM off about being late IT had BETTER NOT ME!
UPDATE rain held off BUT we used all the water for injuries and drinking used the FROZEN water packs for A BLACK EYE and shoulder injury USED the woollen blanket twice for INJURY stops and one of me fold out chairs, ORANGES ALL GONE CHUR cool eh!
Have a dry warm weekend!
Ciao
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Slowly does it......
Missed out at LTYASC (youth advisory sports council), but have forms from lions, kiwanis and waiting to get a call from baytrust. SAMUEL sold more of his lego last night for $75 so he has $160 from that and have sold Narania books for $100 so we are nearing $500 THE college principal needs letters and will present to the board next week (phew lucky) and FINGERS crossed $200 there!! I am going to email right now the CHAIRMAN in Wellington and plead for some funding and if he can put it too the committee and they vote on it see what happens.
Have guy from Youthtown here in taupo he knows me well PUSHING along for Samuels cause so HOPEFULLY we may have something there boy its tiring talking to and ringing places and retrieving forms!!! I have been running around like a mad thing most forms being fastposted so we wait some more. It is gathering some momentum and I so hope he can go!
Aside from all that I am busy with Rugby and work and form filling out and listing stuff on Trademe NZ website (version of Ebay). Worked lasy night until MIDNIGHT am very fragile and tired AM going for a huge walk ont he weekend to blow out some cobwebs and think!!!!!!!!
Hope everyone is having a good week so far.
UPDATE 10 mins after listing STARWARS and SPIDERMAN lego sets they sold on Buy Now (knew they were too cheap darn it!!!!) oh well there is another $60....... I had emailed previous lego buyers too let them know NEW listings and voila TOO LATE they are gone!!! (Samuel will be thrilled!!!)
Ciao
Have guy from Youthtown here in taupo he knows me well PUSHING along for Samuels cause so HOPEFULLY we may have something there boy its tiring talking to and ringing places and retrieving forms!!! I have been running around like a mad thing most forms being fastposted so we wait some more. It is gathering some momentum and I so hope he can go!
Aside from all that I am busy with Rugby and work and form filling out and listing stuff on Trademe NZ website (version of Ebay). Worked lasy night until MIDNIGHT am very fragile and tired AM going for a huge walk ont he weekend to blow out some cobwebs and think!!!!!!!!
Hope everyone is having a good week so far.
UPDATE 10 mins after listing STARWARS and SPIDERMAN lego sets they sold on Buy Now (knew they were too cheap darn it!!!!) oh well there is another $60....... I had emailed previous lego buyers too let them know NEW listings and voila TOO LATE they are gone!!! (Samuel will be thrilled!!!)
Ciao
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Well the wheels of industry doth
turn ever so slowly I have application forms BUT some have to go to head offices etc and well it could be 7 - 10 days have spoken to the College Principal and am awaiting his decision (sounds favourable but who knows)waiting for Waikato Sports House to call back and have all the paperwork we need and letters and presentation folders sorted so NOW we WAIT, am waiting to hear from Youthtown AKLD office have forms in to get permission to hold BBQ's and we wait!!!! Have 2 more people to see about permission for BBQ's and then thats it. It is all a waiting game. AND this is what I am fearful off that in the waiting we may miss the deadline for the finances to be paid (oh well I am positively hopeful).
I even went as far as too my bank BUT I am a solo parent and although I have worked for the same people for the last 6 years I dont work ENOUGH hours, (shakes head) I have no DEBTS no HP no creditors. (and we wait), but alas my income doesnt support the amount we would need. AND I sure as hell aren't going to a loan shark NO MATTER WHAT (I am just throwing that in there I am desperate BUT NOT that desperate!)
ON an amazing note Samuel sold his first lego sets got $55 and the paid him $85 so we have nearly $400 we are nearly 1/3 of the way there....... and there are sooooo many watchers on all his trade me auctions so that is super cool (fingers crossed).
Ciao
I even went as far as too my bank BUT I am a solo parent and although I have worked for the same people for the last 6 years I dont work ENOUGH hours, (shakes head) I have no DEBTS no HP no creditors. (and we wait), but alas my income doesnt support the amount we would need. AND I sure as hell aren't going to a loan shark NO MATTER WHAT (I am just throwing that in there I am desperate BUT NOT that desperate!)
ON an amazing note Samuel sold his first lego sets got $55 and the paid him $85 so we have nearly $400 we are nearly 1/3 of the way there....... and there are sooooo many watchers on all his trade me auctions so that is super cool (fingers crossed).
Ciao
Monday, May 10, 2010
The LONG awaited news......
3 Weeks ago Samuel was asked if he wanted to go to Australia with the NZ team as an individual not in the team though THEY said they would send details I waited 10 days I hounded our Karate Dojo master, whom in turn rang appropriate member, finally stuff arrives AND heres the rub: NZ TEAM was selected last July (Samuel just missed out then as he had only had his black belt one month), BUT as it so happens he has been training against a NZ JUNIOR TEAM member and whipping his butt!!! He was extended an invitation NZ TEAM have known since November that there would be an Aussie trip and have made funding applications to Youth Advisory Councils etc and had most of their trip subsidised (then club will top up NZ TEAM members only!!!!!) WE (me and Samuel by ourselves have to come up with $1300!!!in less than 7 weeks I am DEFLATED)
I dont have that sort of money and he IS DESPERATE to go I feel useless and helpless as a parent that I cant afford it, BUT we have listed alot of stuff on TradeMe and have just missed out by 3 weeks in the Lake Taupo Sports Youth funding (which pees me off), HIS dojo master is so keen for him to go, as he said tonight he stands a GREAT chance a securing a place and some medals!! I said well maybe the club should pay half (he said they can't), ITS like they are dangling the carrot and now we will run out of time!!! THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS are next year and THERE is talk the NZ TEAM will be bolstered by performances at this Australian event.(I didnt tell Samuel that part)
I have an appointment with the college principal to see if the college will fund some of his trip, and hopefully I can put some money towards it I have a measley $300 IF I could sell my soul I would! My budget is extremely tight and I need a small miracle if he is too go, we have to wait for OFFICIAL letterhead to have a letter to allow us to hold a Queens birthday weekend BBQ at Warehouse (on the sun/mon) and one in town on the saturday if WE dont hurry someone else will beat us to it!!! these places need to know what and who you are fundraising for I understand that I do.
I am not going I cant afford two of us to go AS MUCH AS I WANT TOO, I am off to think, and try not too stress, Samuel spent all weekend arranging his karate folder and papers and has 1 other folder with achievements merit excellence and SPEECHES made his most recent top marks papers from maths science etc, and the letters outlining costs and events and where the TRIP IS etc, and lastly his own CV letter about his goals and achievements to date he spoke to YOUTHTOWN today and we have to send a letter to AUCKLAND Youthtown on official letterhead which I wont get until after THIS SATURDAY so that will leave less than 65 days to raise the money!
HE is selling his much prized lego sets, books, and star wars stuff WHICH HE IS VERY reluctant to let go but he knows it all helps.
Cross all your fingers and toes we are going to need it.
Ciao
I dont have that sort of money and he IS DESPERATE to go I feel useless and helpless as a parent that I cant afford it, BUT we have listed alot of stuff on TradeMe and have just missed out by 3 weeks in the Lake Taupo Sports Youth funding (which pees me off), HIS dojo master is so keen for him to go, as he said tonight he stands a GREAT chance a securing a place and some medals!! I said well maybe the club should pay half (he said they can't), ITS like they are dangling the carrot and now we will run out of time!!! THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS are next year and THERE is talk the NZ TEAM will be bolstered by performances at this Australian event.(I didnt tell Samuel that part)
I have an appointment with the college principal to see if the college will fund some of his trip, and hopefully I can put some money towards it I have a measley $300 IF I could sell my soul I would! My budget is extremely tight and I need a small miracle if he is too go, we have to wait for OFFICIAL letterhead to have a letter to allow us to hold a Queens birthday weekend BBQ at Warehouse (on the sun/mon) and one in town on the saturday if WE dont hurry someone else will beat us to it!!! these places need to know what and who you are fundraising for I understand that I do.
I am not going I cant afford two of us to go AS MUCH AS I WANT TOO, I am off to think, and try not too stress, Samuel spent all weekend arranging his karate folder and papers and has 1 other folder with achievements merit excellence and SPEECHES made his most recent top marks papers from maths science etc, and the letters outlining costs and events and where the TRIP IS etc, and lastly his own CV letter about his goals and achievements to date he spoke to YOUTHTOWN today and we have to send a letter to AUCKLAND Youthtown on official letterhead which I wont get until after THIS SATURDAY so that will leave less than 65 days to raise the money!
HE is selling his much prized lego sets, books, and star wars stuff WHICH HE IS VERY reluctant to let go but he knows it all helps.
Cross all your fingers and toes we are going to need it.
Ciao
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
WE have given up waiting AND GETTING annoyed
NEVER MIND hopefully soon WE will have news!
Have been super busy working doing extra days Teacher Aide days and now am Manager for our U14 Rugby team IT HAS 27 13/14 yr old BOYS!!!! (they soooooooooo need managing).
Walking is going great ALTHOUGH very cold am only doing 7km - 10km walks and trying for a long walk every 2nd weekend NOW that rugby is upon us!
Have purchased heaps of DRESS UP costumes for sons SCHOOL SPIRIT WEEK have a kings costume, a sailor costume, super moustaches a chinese sanpan hat thingy and a SUPER COOL red chinese kimono cotton black edged jacket!
Got some contact lenses for Samuel for rugby and he wore them to school yesterday THINKS IT IS AWESOME!!! $210 (consult fitting and lenses 95 pairs of lenses) so thats a good deal I think.
THE FROSTS have arrived big time yesterday very fresh, THIS MORNING bitter tomorrow morning UGLY BITTER I bet!!!!!
Well I am off to warm up and walk now that the freezer outside is starting to thaw and try to get some washing dry when it warms upand the sun gets around on my line!.
Ciao
Have been super busy working doing extra days Teacher Aide days and now am Manager for our U14 Rugby team IT HAS 27 13/14 yr old BOYS!!!! (they soooooooooo need managing).
Walking is going great ALTHOUGH very cold am only doing 7km - 10km walks and trying for a long walk every 2nd weekend NOW that rugby is upon us!
Have purchased heaps of DRESS UP costumes for sons SCHOOL SPIRIT WEEK have a kings costume, a sailor costume, super moustaches a chinese sanpan hat thingy and a SUPER COOL red chinese kimono cotton black edged jacket!
Got some contact lenses for Samuel for rugby and he wore them to school yesterday THINKS IT IS AWESOME!!! $210 (consult fitting and lenses 95 pairs of lenses) so thats a good deal I think.
THE FROSTS have arrived big time yesterday very fresh, THIS MORNING bitter tomorrow morning UGLY BITTER I bet!!!!!
Well I am off to warm up and walk now that the freezer outside is starting to thaw and try to get some washing dry when it warms upand the sun gets around on my line!.
Ciao
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