CLEARANCE whoop whoop..........

Houston we have clearance. Yesterday the sports ortho doctor gave Samuel clearance to go to Aussie, he is NOW over the moon he was quite down in the dumps I had realized he was anxious and worried but seeing him yesterday he must have been secretly holding a lot back (at least he can do that because he was quite a different lad last night).

AND on an unrelated note MY SON was 168cm in FEB they were weighed and measured yesterday at LIFESKILLS with proper doctors sliding measuring tape he is 179cm!!!!! he has grown 11cm in 4 months!! (holy fark he is shooting up way past his friends now I saw the 4 of them on the weekend and he is way above the others!) and 59kg!

SO Aussie $ were obtained $450NZD for $350 NZD eeekkk that's with handling fee I might add, insurance paid for, seminar paid for,Aussie internal travel paid for, TICKET GOT, all he has to pay for is Departure tax!!! YAY.Medical forms obtained to cover traveling meds, and copies of medical clearance has to be taken, ALSO had forgotten that in International sport competitons BANNED substances come into play and VENTOLIN is one of them so a dispensation letter was got for that!!! personal first aid kits got, and they needed VINYL sparring punch mitts WHY? I hear you ask because the normal cloth mitts soak up too much blood and the spectators find that gross!!!! (go figure the vinyl ones are easy wipe!!!! noiiiiccccceeeee)

I will get the billets present next week IT is our FAMOUS Lake Taupo shot looking across the lake towards the snow mountains (on coasters!), these are my most favourite gifts, some on here have had them Jaxx I got a big picture of that scene (she loved that scene), Chris got coasters cause she LOVES the cold ha ha (NOT!), you can get lovely scenes and even fishing and boating scenes the other boy is getting his billets a glass koru.

Today is Start of "SPIRIT" week at school and my son well lets just say its right up his alley! Today is house colours day tomorrow "T" day and Friday famous dead person!! He is ALL RED today and tomorrow unfortunately is representing school at a Manu Korero competition (Maori debating and speech and has to wear his uniform) he is guttered because he wanted to GET out the MR T outfit you all remember that one don't you?I will post a picture of todays EFFORTS!!!!! The bottom of the pants has faux fur and the collar bottom of sleeves has huge faux fur and the bottom of the jacket is 1/3 faux fur I scored that entire outfit for $12!!!!! (a bargain!) The photo is Samuel and his mad as just as crazy friend!! They looked superb (his friend is BLUE house if you hadn't guessed already!) CLICK on the pic to get the FULL appreciation of how DAM bright the outfit is it is also velveteen the other material and is shinyish!

I am just ironing and hanging out washing today IF IT EVER warms up!!!!! Oh and heading to bank to pay for travel insurance and blue punch mitts (he has red BUT they needed both colours as they would either be fighting in a red corner or blue corner depending on opponents colours!)

Have a good day

Ciao

End of a WET WEEK....

Tomorrow ends a thoroughly wet and nasty cold week (frosts, winds, RAIN HUGE RAIN!) ohhh and Rugby yay go the Maori!!! ohhhh and more rugby Saturday night! GO the AB's .... not too mention Under 14 Rugby yay ! Go our team!

In answer to Anonymous questions yes we got a $88 refund on sausages took a lot of working out on their part but not how I explained it there was 22 bags at 4kg per bag we were quoted $3.99 per kg they charged $4.99 per kg simple really 22x4 = $88 overcharged took them awhile to get that figure BECAUSE each bag weighed different some had more than 4kg some had less (it was shall I say hair-pulling) material SO I JUST said look average it out because they only priced and stickered one bag and scanned multiple bags yay see. After 10 mins we all agreed on $88.

Samuel is hard out selling raffle tickets $1 tickets to WIN $708 worth of jewelery and we have sold 350 tickets so far he is selling all over the holidays and with only 25 days left to go IS BESIDE himself......

I do hope everyone is staying relatively warm!

Ciao

Fully into RUGBY

I drive my friends and family insane in RUGBY season I am an addict and an avid follower of all things RUGBY!!!

But I do draw the line at driving 3 hours to a UNDER 14 game and changing warming up TO HAVE NO BLARDY team arrive to play us THEY DEFAULTED (yes I am yelling) game scheduled for 11.30am they arrive with 13 players and had to default due to A: lack of numbers AND B: also they did not have NZRFU and BOP corresponding paperwork (ie team draws and identikit NZRU photos)! We played them any way in a friendly (we had one of our boys sent off YES in a friendly and they beat us 30-20!!) had they had they right amount of players and paperwork they would have had a WIN!

It is disappointing that Coaches and Team Managers aren't pulling finger and abiding by the rugby rules! I arrived at carpark at 7am with 45 HOT out of the oven sausage rolls for the trip (they were devoured int he carpark before we left!) ONE delicious bacon and egg pie gone before Rotorua, 12 bananas and 12 muesli bars gone before Whakatane!!! 3 x 2litres of water that was just the 11 in the van I drove over, there was a small people mover with 6 boys they dam near ate the same amount!!! and a car load of others.

IT was a thoroughly neat day we were all very tired and glad to be home, this Saturday we the team are only traveling to Rotorua! THANK GOD!

Our language student Chen has finally gone home we will miss him and Chris H made the most beautiful card for him and he thought it was "too beautiful" he said!! He may be BACK in mid July which I thought was even funnier.(he may come back to us until end of year or next February when University starts I suppose because he sat his Entrance exam 2 weeks ago.

We have had some mean as rain and wind and HUGE FROSTS! but today is only 9 degrees and sun is out my clothesline I hope doesn't snap IT IS CHOCCAFULL!

Hope everyone is having a great day.

Ciao

It has taken nearly...

all week to recover from Fri/Sat/Sun and then MONDAY marathon hell clean!!!! I feel I am nearly back to 100% firing on all cylinders!!

WE have been swamped with rain and DEAR GOD I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow for RUGBY!(watching it is cool watching it in the rain is not cool!)

I am off to do some quick cleaning then into town to get son. GET all the rugby stuff sorted for tomorrow DRINK ORANGES WATER BLANKETS wet weather gear etc injury stuff and then REST!!!! Having yummy shepherds pie with mashed potatoe on top.

EDIT most of water and oranges done cleaning half done!!! off to finish rest now I AM OVER CLEANING this week I TELL YA!

Hope everyone has a nice weeekend (stay dry where you can)

Ciao

No rest for the WICKED...........

I have decided I must be WICKED for the whole entire WORLD!!!!!!!!!! then cause have I rested Errrrrrr NOOOOOOOOOOOO.....

I didn't reset my alarm and off it went at 6.30am AFTER the BIGGEST EVER weather RAIN BOMB hit our area I swear to god I thought the roof was gonna CAVE IN it was UNBELIEVEABLY HEAVY!!!!!! that was at 5am!!!! and it woke me up it was thrashing onto the windows I woke with a start so did the cat!!!!!

SO there I am awake at 5am but went back to sleep then ALARM went off at 6.30am SO up I got RAIN PISSING DOWN i had brekkie got dressed THREW me famous spaghetti and meatball/rissoles into crockpot for tonights tea AS I ARENT COOKING or chopping anything else and WENT BLARDY grocery shopping at 6.55am !!!!!!! I was the only stupid MAD person in that supermarket I then went and got petrol and then went to pak n save as they open at 8am I FORGOT FRIGGIN dishwash! (dont ya hate that)....

I was home by 8.05am and I STARTED!!!!!!!Rubbish day here for me (how exciting BUT it is when you have normally only half a rubbish bag) and I had today 3 rubbish bags (BBQ rubbish) and I walked it down in RAIN!!!! ONE VERY FULL recycling bin AND 12 large boxes that the SAUSAGES came in (hellers) and SHYTE they are nice sausages too..... I get that all done get back to house WHERE ARE MY CAR KEYS oh poopy bugger snot bollocks I then tromped through three bags of rubbish and a bin TO NO AVAIL!!!!!!!!!! I unpacked groceries from car AND LOOKED in there a gazillion times went back to the rubbish again NOPE!!!!!!!! and thought to hell with it I was so wound up and shitty and WET BY THEN I didn't care if the DAMNED keys were in the rubbish or not!

So I then unpacked groceries inside and kept looking for keys WENT to bathroom 3 times NOPE not in the bathroom cupboards where I had been!, not in my bedroom where I had been, NOT in the pantry where I had been BY NOW I WAS livid!! but I still kept unpacking and looking, and TELL ME WHY you keep RELOOKING over the places you have already looked in!

I then had to put away night befores dishes that had been washed and I CLEANED benches, MY HOUSE was a PIGSTY!!!!!! literally I thought I am sooooo tired BUT this has to be done (Samuel had not long been up) he put away and cleared surfaces ahead of me and also DID HIS LUNCHBOX up for tomorrow folded our CHINESE LAUNDRY washing off the clothes horse, SO I started I wiped benches windowsills fridge microwave, kitchen cupboard doors, I then dusted (wet wiped), CLEANED light switches wiped doors door frames, (I knew my period was soon) and guessed it would come today or tomorrow BECAUSE I get the mean hell bitch CLEAN FREAK going on and go like a whirlwind!!!!I then thought why is MY GEORGE FOREMAN grill crooked and THER UNDER THE GEORGE FOREMAN was my friggin CARKEYS I dodnt remember putting them there AND HOW I missed the when I was wiping benches I will never know!!!!! ( although I moved everything else to wipe under it I DID NOT move that)........ THAT all took 3 HOURS!!!!!!!!! and it was only 11am!!! WTF

Samuel in that time had vaccummed and wet wiped the skirting boards and vaccummed edges, and tackled GARAGE as it was pissing down last night when we finished we just pushed trailer into garage, we unloaded sorted and repacked car with my every day normal car things, ( a camp chair umbrella sun umbrella jumper leads soft chilly bin bags etc you know all the usual things some books to go to Salvation Army shop a top too, some bread trays to drop back to pak n save, so MY unpacked clean car IS PACKED TO HILT again!!!!!

ALL that took too 1pm we have had ham and tomatoe and cheese and spaghetti toastie sammies I have IRONED 4 days worth of ironing only took 40 mins!!! (but that was only cause I was tired!) I was starting to FLAG (as you can imagine!)....... I finished at 2pm I AM officially over it and glad I have done a mean as super clean I am deliriously tired have a sore base of my neck though across shoulders, I need a jolly good massage!!! (I may use hot wheat bag actually) I HAVE NOT BEEN WALKING but dont care!!!

I am going to the movies at 4.10pm to see BLIND SIDE and I am going to practice escapism for a couple of hours I will enjoy my dinner I plan to be in bed at a resonable time though......

IF you made it through to the end of my exhausting POST go LAY DOWN NOW!!!!

Ciao

We are tired as BUT we managed GREAT.......

Friday and Saturdays BBQ's were great FINE frosty cold as, TODAY RAINY BLUSTERY WINDY and BLARDY AWFUL!!!!!!!! but we have 25 sausages left out of 1300 and 2 loaves of bread THATS IT!!!!!

We have packed the car 3 times TO THE GUNNELS unpacked 3 times and then CLEANED UP 3 times we are BBQ OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had so much fun though and it is always nice to hang with my son AS TIRED as we were we work well together as A WELL OILED team...... He is as fussy and methodical as me and quite the trooper!

His 4 friends helped us and WITHOUT them we couldn't have done it at all...........

We have cleaned up and done dishes and sorted and packed away we both showered and washed HAIR cause shyte onions and sausages stink AND we are ALL CLEAN again....

WE HAVE NOOOOOOOOOOOOO plans for tomorrow NOT ONE (although housework must be done and wash floors) truly I have 70 loaves of BREADCRUMBS and tromped through shit on my floors!!!!!!!!!!! I thought there is no WAY IN hell im cleaning up until its all over rover...... I will potter through that slowly and I have to do GROCERY shopping tomorrow BLURRRRRKKKKKKKKK I am going to do it EARLY AS so I can not be in traffic and public arena BECAUSE traffic and town will be hectic........

I hope everyone has enjoyed themselves over the long weekend and IF it isn't raining tomorrow A WALK BECKONS for me A LONG ONE to blow out some cobwebs!!!!!

Ciao

SAUASAGES SAUSAGES BREAD BREAD ONIONS ONIONS

HOLY cow sausage sizzles are well underway and we have 1200 sausages 68 loaves of bread and 25 kilos onions AND MAN we stink of onions and sausages..........

WOKE to frost and bitter cold temperature yesterday but fine day AND where the BBQ are situated at TAUPO warehouse you are in shade ALL DAY it was however a good day and we all had FUN, we are now off to do it all over again we have sore feet sore backs our hands stink of onions YES we use gloves (but being the organised person the onions have been pre cut the bread is already servietted up and ready to go THE sauce bottles are FULL!!!!!!!! (we use drink bottle squirty ones).

We have tables stools to sit on if required tongs a plenty GLOVES and Countdown (yes we went from Woolworths to Countdown this week), has stored the sausages until we need them THAT is great.

HOWEVER they quoted me $3.99 kilo for precook each bag $16.20 get there and its $4.99 and now the bags are $20.90, $120 more than we budgeted ALSO THE BREAD lady didnt order our 68 loaves of bread!!!!!!!!! there was none for us and NOT enough for us to purchase so we have had to race around getting bread!!!!!!!!!!! THE MANAGER of countdown and I are having a meeting on Tuesday and the lady that quoted and wrote us down for $3.99 sausages (as I had it written down as per kilo and the bag price too) isnt back until Tuesday hopefully we get our $120 back as goodwill, and the fact that I had to spend $150 on bread at another supermarket (and miss out on the onecard points on that!), oh well we press on.

STAY warm drive safe and have a nice day

Ciao.

Pray HARD.....

Just over 2 weeks ago whilst at karate Samuel injured his right little toe( a green belt 4 belts lower than him) did an arm block right block WRONG BLARDY ARM came down at right angles to his toes outstretched he was fully extended and she A LADY of 45yrs age managed to fracture his toe. We went to the doctor when it happened,he was understandably guttered and we are now playing a MAJOR WAITING GAME!

We went back to the doctor this morning and he says NO RUGBY for at least 3 more weeks potentially 4 weeks so thats 6-7 weeks no rugby!!!!!, no karate for at least 10 days to 2 weeeks which means a total of 4 weeks off karate AND WE CANT get clearance to go on AUSSIE TRIP for at least 4 more WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! which makes it 6 weeks mark!!!!! (with only then 19 days until trip HE MAY not get clearance!) and thats what concerns me IF he is carrying an injury HE MAY very well DO MORE DAMAGE whilst away and possibly FAVOUR that injury and foot/side and do damage anyways OR heaven forbid get hit again in that spot AND FRIGGIN FAINT from the pain!!!! (as ya do when ya stub ya toe anyhow IMAGINE a fractured toe, LITTLE toe at that!) because they have a lot of jumping and landing on ball of foot outside edge of foot and kicking off tiptoe stances!!!!! and of course the MERE FACT you are expected to kick into objects bags and BODIES when competing!!!!!!

Thanks CHRIS H for listening and thank god I didn't howl I nearly did and there is something so gutteral about a heart wrenching sob!

I have one very upset munchkin it didn't help that when we are both upset we only have to look at each other AND BAWL our eyes out SO no eye contact at docotors walking to car he was slumped over head down then dropping one sorry self to school and NO EYE contact at school office I WANTED TO SCOOP him up and cuddle him to me.

SO I got on the phone to my witchy brew lady ( my naturopath) and WHY in the hell I didn't think of it before Arnica Symphytum LIQUID for internal injuries and severe trauma I blardy used the cream form when I MUNTED my foot leg and calf in a horrible freak accident! and he can take some calcium and heres hoping that in the next 4 weeks we/he makes a GREAT recovery. THE body language and look on his poor face was heartbreaking the TRIP is all but paid for and I have thought EVEN if he went and didnt compete but trained as training is 4 hours a day 2 hr sessions twice daily he would still get GREAT EXPOSURE! and if he didnt get to compete WHERE it is full contact chest and groin protectors it is no holds barred so thats way more physical.

I am getting ASL (Arnica Symphytum Liquid) soon and he can have some at school lunchtime today I have rung ahead he has to meet me and then this arvo and before bed IT IS 4- 5 times daily then back to 3 times in 3 weeks and then twice daily 1-2 weeks after that so FINGERS CROSSED and pray hard I know he is fit and strong and healthy but please let him be right.

It is raining and miserable cold and disgusting enough to match my demeanor I am trying hard to think positive and be positive I have to ring CHAIRMAN of KARATE tonight as forms are due this week to be faxed and completed and sent on!!!! FINGERS and any delicate TOES you can muster!!! please cross!!!!

A worried mummy

Ciao