Got home at midnight SO not too bad, slept until 7.40am lay in bed until 9am!!!!!! I have no washing no ironing no jobs as it WAS ALL DONE yesterday I am still in me lava lava BUT might go for a short walk today sun is peeking through AND I THINK it is gonna be HOT!!!!!!! Got some sunbathing in yesterday and will do that again today.
Might even head in for a coffee THATS if town not too busy!!!! IRONKIDZ is on here this morning (weetbix wouldnt hold a triathlon here Waipahihi School (my son old primary) does it AND THEY DO IT VERY WELL!!! for the last ohhhhhhhh 13 years I think THERE major fundraiser). Saturday was across the lake swim, and NEXT weekend is the IRONMAN !!!!!!!! 2 weeks ago was Kinloch Triathlon so IT IS ALL about exercise and buff bodies everywhere!!!
A short post today last night you could hear the concert music ALL over town, IT WAS A STILL NIGHT and a full moon AND BOY did it get cold!!!!! Was a superb evening for a concert!
Hope everyone has a super day!
Ciao.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
2 MORNINGS in a ROW FROSTS!!!!!
WOW BIG frost yesterday and this morning CRISP CRISP FROST!!!! I do sooo love this time of year it is glorious!!
Last night our CORNBEEF WAS SCRUMMDIDDLYIOUS we had salad instead of veges CAUSE it was sooooo darn hot.....
And thats why we get frosts HUGE temperatures THEN HUGE DROPS overnight not good for asthmatics!!!
I walked this morning 10km BEAUTIFUL at 6.00am just still and beautiful LAKE flat as , just glorious AND HUGE SUNNY SKIES just glorious .
AND at 8am we went garage saleing I love garage saleing it is so nice to moocha round, I got a gorgeous duvet cover in blues for my son, and spent the rest of my money on other nic nac things.I have washed the cover and only have 10 things on my washing line AND just 2 of those things ARE IRONING!!!!! YAY even better.
I got too sunbathe yesterday and right now I am going to sunbathe some more, I have my famous meatloaf in the oven as boys are going to have meatloaf salad and mashed potatoes yummmmmo.
I on the other hand are having whatever the kiddies WANT and it could be my equally famous nachos, or equally famous macaroni cheese who knows!
Yesterday whilst I sunbathed I got too read my "Mana" magazine from cover to cover BRILLIANT and I enjoyed the warmth I didnt sunbathe until 3.45pm and managed 40 mins each side!!!
TODAY however probable only 25 min per side MAX today is going to be a scorcher BELIEVE ME!!!!!
And on this glorious day HAVE a good day whatever it is you are doing!!!
Ciao
Last night our CORNBEEF WAS SCRUMMDIDDLYIOUS we had salad instead of veges CAUSE it was sooooo darn hot.....
And thats why we get frosts HUGE temperatures THEN HUGE DROPS overnight not good for asthmatics!!!
I walked this morning 10km BEAUTIFUL at 6.00am just still and beautiful LAKE flat as , just glorious AND HUGE SUNNY SKIES just glorious .
AND at 8am we went garage saleing I love garage saleing it is so nice to moocha round, I got a gorgeous duvet cover in blues for my son, and spent the rest of my money on other nic nac things.I have washed the cover and only have 10 things on my washing line AND just 2 of those things ARE IRONING!!!!! YAY even better.
I got too sunbathe yesterday and right now I am going to sunbathe some more, I have my famous meatloaf in the oven as boys are going to have meatloaf salad and mashed potatoes yummmmmo.
I on the other hand are having whatever the kiddies WANT and it could be my equally famous nachos, or equally famous macaroni cheese who knows!
Yesterday whilst I sunbathed I got too read my "Mana" magazine from cover to cover BRILLIANT and I enjoyed the warmth I didnt sunbathe until 3.45pm and managed 40 mins each side!!!
TODAY however probable only 25 min per side MAX today is going to be a scorcher BELIEVE ME!!!!!
And on this glorious day HAVE a good day whatever it is you are doing!!!
Ciao
Friday, February 26, 2010
Ohhhhhhhhhh very COLD this morning
and the changeable weather starts I AM SOOOOO GLAD I walked a big walk BECAUSE yesterday the RAIN was horrendous on and off COLD one minute as the front progressed then humid and muggy once it had passed!!!!
Have work this morning just waiting on SHEETS to finish so I can hang them out!!! and GET a head start for tomorrow, (I am working from 1pm until 1am!!!!!) my employers have their post christmas WORK DINNER at TIM FINN BIC RUNGA and DAVE DOBBYN concert it the main act starts at 9.30pm and finishes 11.30pm!! They will head into town afterwards GAWD I HOPE I GET HOME EARLY............ they also get to see Boh Runga and Che Fu!!!! (lucky buggers).
IT IS super sunny here BUT very cold and I will do a 10km walk tomorrow morning before work SO I have at least achieved something in my day ( I hope they aren't too late because YOU COULD right off SUNDAY if they are super late WITH PURE TIREDNESS!!!!) and I hate wasting a WHOLE DAY! mmmmmmmmmm ATLEAST I will get to watch RUGBY on their sky channels (I dont have SKY) YAY.
Right off to shower and wait for the washing to finish (have to get Son to swimming lessons after school and then thats it ), I have a cornbeef in the crockpot I am cooking fried cinnamon cabbage mustard honey glazed carrots and garlic mashed peas!!!! with creamy (soy milk mashed potatoes with finely chopped parsley!!!!) I WANT DINNER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great day everyone!
Ciao
Have work this morning just waiting on SHEETS to finish so I can hang them out!!! and GET a head start for tomorrow, (I am working from 1pm until 1am!!!!!) my employers have their post christmas WORK DINNER at TIM FINN BIC RUNGA and DAVE DOBBYN concert it the main act starts at 9.30pm and finishes 11.30pm!! They will head into town afterwards GAWD I HOPE I GET HOME EARLY............ they also get to see Boh Runga and Che Fu!!!! (lucky buggers).
IT IS super sunny here BUT very cold and I will do a 10km walk tomorrow morning before work SO I have at least achieved something in my day ( I hope they aren't too late because YOU COULD right off SUNDAY if they are super late WITH PURE TIREDNESS!!!!) and I hate wasting a WHOLE DAY! mmmmmmmmmm ATLEAST I will get to watch RUGBY on their sky channels (I dont have SKY) YAY.
Right off to shower and wait for the washing to finish (have to get Son to swimming lessons after school and then thats it ), I have a cornbeef in the crockpot I am cooking fried cinnamon cabbage mustard honey glazed carrots and garlic mashed peas!!!! with creamy (soy milk mashed potatoes with finely chopped parsley!!!!) I WANT DINNER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great day everyone!
Ciao
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I forgot to post yesterday? I thought I had OH WELL
Oh no thats right the second Monday post was actually finished IN Tuesday time slot but didn't show that.
IN all my RANTING and RAVING I forgot to add in that 2 - 3 times a week I am walking in excess of 2-3 hours at a time if you count from the time I wake up and WAIT to the time I get going to the time I SOAK my aching tired feet to the time I TAKE TO SHOWER it is 3 1/2 hrs of time!!!
NOW these longer walks are taking from time of WAKING up to SHOWER TIME 4 - 5 hrs!!!!!!
TAKE TODAY I got up at 6am waited until 6.45am!!!! started ********** I WALKED 18km **********today took 3 hrs 10 mins! finished 11am though (I KNOW BUT READ ON!!!)!!! REALLY pleased with that BUT in that time frame after 2.3km I stopped at house to wake up the others, then at the 7km mark I stopped in at house and rung the school to leave message for TEACHER to ring me AND put on the CURRIED sausages for dinner (for the others whom werent at TEACHER parent night!), at 10km MARK I changed sneakers and socks WHICH I HAD READY, saw SAMUELS school friend VERY LATE for school and RAN him in too school so he wasnt late he passed my driveway at 8.35am!!!!, at 15km MARK I needed to PEE, I made it to the end of 18km after being on my feet AT THAT point for 5 HOURS!!!!!!!!!! LAST 2km legs were achey! I ate a protein bar at 12km mark, I DRANK fluid replace at 13km MARK which I had ready and frozen in letterbox waiting for me!!!! WHEN I FINALLY reached home I soaked my legs and feet in LOADS of ice and water, I ate a banana and HAD poached eggs (thanks Jason he cooked them for me) IT WAS NOW 11.45am I needed to shower and wash and dry my hair SO I could be at the hairdressers by 12.45 to get hair trim and straighten!) I bought a CHICKEN and avocado HUGE wholegrain salad sandwich and polished that off! THEN it was straight to work from there and I finsihed at 5.45pm AS we had a Year 9 parent teacher meeting night with BBQ and introductions to FORM teachers etc!!!
SO IN ALL my day has been fairly busy, I dont walk again until SAT thats a 10km Mon a 10km then WED or THURS is the 20km/21km WILL see how I AM FEELING at the 18/19km mark to ascertain whether I am pushing out the last 2km TO MAKE a half marathon distance!!!!
FORGOT to say for the last 3 weeks I have been doing NO CARBS after 2pm and that is working cool I am substituting burritos with iceberg lettuce leaves, potato with kumara (YUM), NO PASTA, and generally finding it easier too, END RESULT A 3KG weight loss in 12 days SO thats even better AND THATS WITH my period too!
WHEN I do the 20km or 21km walk I will then walk for 5 weeks at 3 x 10km walks ONLY then on the 6th week I will do 2 x 10 1 x 12, 2 x 10 1 x 14, 2 x 10 1 x 16 etc until I get to the magic 20km mark again!!! TOO save money I will do unofficial times BUT TAUPO WILL be AN OFFICIAL WALK and I will register!!!! (please GOD please hear my plea NO RAIN or WIND OK!!!!!!!!!)
Right on that note I am off to get some much needed SHUT EYE!!!! AND elevate my legs or at the very least GET HORIZONTAL I soooooo can feel a snore off coming
TOMORROW morning I am having a little lie in!!! YAY AS I had put washing on in one of my many stops at the house IT was hung out for me and THEN tonight it was all picked in and folded so that WAS NICE!!!! ( I will iron soon as I only have 6 things to iron!) EVEN BETTER!
IN all my RANTING and RAVING I forgot to add in that 2 - 3 times a week I am walking in excess of 2-3 hours at a time if you count from the time I wake up and WAIT to the time I get going to the time I SOAK my aching tired feet to the time I TAKE TO SHOWER it is 3 1/2 hrs of time!!!
NOW these longer walks are taking from time of WAKING up to SHOWER TIME 4 - 5 hrs!!!!!!
TAKE TODAY I got up at 6am waited until 6.45am!!!! started ********** I WALKED 18km **********today took 3 hrs 10 mins! finished 11am though (I KNOW BUT READ ON!!!)!!! REALLY pleased with that BUT in that time frame after 2.3km I stopped at house to wake up the others, then at the 7km mark I stopped in at house and rung the school to leave message for TEACHER to ring me AND put on the CURRIED sausages for dinner (for the others whom werent at TEACHER parent night!), at 10km MARK I changed sneakers and socks WHICH I HAD READY, saw SAMUELS school friend VERY LATE for school and RAN him in too school so he wasnt late he passed my driveway at 8.35am!!!!, at 15km MARK I needed to PEE, I made it to the end of 18km after being on my feet AT THAT point for 5 HOURS!!!!!!!!!! LAST 2km legs were achey! I ate a protein bar at 12km mark, I DRANK fluid replace at 13km MARK which I had ready and frozen in letterbox waiting for me!!!! WHEN I FINALLY reached home I soaked my legs and feet in LOADS of ice and water, I ate a banana and HAD poached eggs (thanks Jason he cooked them for me) IT WAS NOW 11.45am I needed to shower and wash and dry my hair SO I could be at the hairdressers by 12.45 to get hair trim and straighten!) I bought a CHICKEN and avocado HUGE wholegrain salad sandwich and polished that off! THEN it was straight to work from there and I finsihed at 5.45pm AS we had a Year 9 parent teacher meeting night with BBQ and introductions to FORM teachers etc!!!
SO IN ALL my day has been fairly busy, I dont walk again until SAT thats a 10km Mon a 10km then WED or THURS is the 20km/21km WILL see how I AM FEELING at the 18/19km mark to ascertain whether I am pushing out the last 2km TO MAKE a half marathon distance!!!!
FORGOT to say for the last 3 weeks I have been doing NO CARBS after 2pm and that is working cool I am substituting burritos with iceberg lettuce leaves, potato with kumara (YUM), NO PASTA, and generally finding it easier too, END RESULT A 3KG weight loss in 12 days SO thats even better AND THATS WITH my period too!
WHEN I do the 20km or 21km walk I will then walk for 5 weeks at 3 x 10km walks ONLY then on the 6th week I will do 2 x 10 1 x 12, 2 x 10 1 x 14, 2 x 10 1 x 16 etc until I get to the magic 20km mark again!!! TOO save money I will do unofficial times BUT TAUPO WILL be AN OFFICIAL WALK and I will register!!!! (please GOD please hear my plea NO RAIN or WIND OK!!!!!!!!!)
Right on that note I am off to get some much needed SHUT EYE!!!! AND elevate my legs or at the very least GET HORIZONTAL I soooooo can feel a snore off coming
TOMORROW morning I am having a little lie in!!! YAY AS I had put washing on in one of my many stops at the house IT was hung out for me and THEN tonight it was all picked in and folded so that WAS NICE!!!! ( I will iron soon as I only have 6 things to iron!) EVEN BETTER!
Monday, February 22, 2010
A very long Day!!!
On SUNDAY I did JACK DIDDLY SQUAT NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!
I sunbathed, I played cards with son, and battleships (his favourite), and then CRIB my favourite then upwords, then tri ominos, THEN we went to the lake IT WAS STINKIN hot yesterday and had a lovely swim!!!!
Came home put on the ROAST chicken and had THE MOST scrummiest dinner we were starving after swimming I HAD FRUIT too tide me over!
Everyone had pancakes cept me I had peaches!! Had an ok sleep and started today hitting the floor running literally went for a quick 7km walk EARLY EARLY as today was gonna BE HOT and it was!!, just the usual, washing out (mostly towels), RUNNING cooking containers to Samuel up the road in me LAVA LAVA (I was in the car though) and sneakers for school as well.Home showered and off to work all by 9am!!!
Worked longer than normal today and only had an hour inbetween heading back to work!! (had a swim in that hour cause TODAY WAS unbearably hot!!!), then back to work dropped son off at karate cooked a BBQ for 7 people, picked up son, had dinner THEN we all went swimming AND MY GOD the water was divine!!!! at 8pm!!! HEAPS of people out n about, got home and Samuel says "OH BTW mum can I please have some muffins and a chocolate cake for school tomorrow A SHARED year 9 TUTOR luncheon SO Iwas baking at 8.30pm 8.45pm and have just finished baking cleaning up dinner dishes (someone else washed them I just put them away!), and then I had to do baking dishes, wait for cake to COOL (blardy hard in this heat!) and I have prepared icing TO ICE it and thank god ITS DONE!!!!. I watched sort of "Brothers and Sisters", and now I am slightly tired but WIRED at the sametime (stranger still).
Thanks Lynise and Chris for the comments, I know I dont have to justify myself really, BUT there are some things I feel I must point out I DONT HAVE FAMILY at all supporting me (no mother or sister (my sibling) no aunties or Uncles or even Grandparents ) I dont have the luxury of MY CHILD being off for a weekend here and there or being whisked away by aunties or uncles, I dont even have the financial support and emotional support of a partner. I AM SHUNNED from the family because of THE CHOICE I MADE 7 years ago!! SO I AM IT ( MY CHOICE) and yes I do do alot of things for others AND LYNISE you are RIGHT "WHERE is there someone doing stuff for me " SHORT answer there isn't. I LEARN'T along time ago TO BE INDEPENDENT a long time ago I was 14 years old! I AM IT, ME thats all there is AND I have to be strong and carry alot AND I DO IT !! THROW into that mix Jason's FAMILY (My ex) whom I still love and care for on a daily basis HIS FAMILY they don't support HIM or ME in any way shape or form!!! (THEY NEVER HAVE they never will!). (and it is not because I DO TOO MUCH it is because they bury their heads in the sand and refuse to believe Jason has a serious mental illness ASK JAXX) oh and becasue IM not a YES GIRL (like ya hadn't guessed that already lol).
People often say to me I do TOO MUCH, BUT tell me this IF I DONT DO IT WHO WILL? IF i let things get on top of me (housework wise, and all those other incidental jobs) what does that achieve (more stress? unwanted stress?a chaotic household?) Because at the end of my DAY the buck stops with me. YES its harsh but thats how it is I resigned myself to that FACT A VERY LONG TIME AGO, AM I HAPPY with my lot SHORT ANSWER yes!! I have to be or else WHAT GOOD comes of saying I cant do this anymore?
Why because I put in 110% and I cant ask for more than that can I, I know I try my hardest and I give more than my share BUT at the end of MY DAY I CAN honestly SAY, I ME I have achieved all that NOT anyone else.
AND my god it makes me the strong person that I am, thats for sure.
Tomorrow (slash today as its now TUESDAY) I have bills and groceries WHICH is being done super EARLY so I can sunbathe the CROCKPOT will be cranked and on by 6.30am and thats dinner sorted for one lot! I am off towork at 1pm should finish around 8.30pm IF its hot again I may just sneak a swim in on the way home!! at 8.32pm! ( I do hate the fragmented working day it does mess around with all the things I could be doing!!!)
AND on that note I had better hit the HAY!!!
I read everyones blog entries your days had nice things in them heres to long may it continue through the week.
Ciao
I sunbathed, I played cards with son, and battleships (his favourite), and then CRIB my favourite then upwords, then tri ominos, THEN we went to the lake IT WAS STINKIN hot yesterday and had a lovely swim!!!!
Came home put on the ROAST chicken and had THE MOST scrummiest dinner we were starving after swimming I HAD FRUIT too tide me over!
Everyone had pancakes cept me I had peaches!! Had an ok sleep and started today hitting the floor running literally went for a quick 7km walk EARLY EARLY as today was gonna BE HOT and it was!!, just the usual, washing out (mostly towels), RUNNING cooking containers to Samuel up the road in me LAVA LAVA (I was in the car though) and sneakers for school as well.Home showered and off to work all by 9am!!!
Worked longer than normal today and only had an hour inbetween heading back to work!! (had a swim in that hour cause TODAY WAS unbearably hot!!!), then back to work dropped son off at karate cooked a BBQ for 7 people, picked up son, had dinner THEN we all went swimming AND MY GOD the water was divine!!!! at 8pm!!! HEAPS of people out n about, got home and Samuel says "OH BTW mum can I please have some muffins and a chocolate cake for school tomorrow A SHARED year 9 TUTOR luncheon SO Iwas baking at 8.30pm 8.45pm and have just finished baking cleaning up dinner dishes (someone else washed them I just put them away!), and then I had to do baking dishes, wait for cake to COOL (blardy hard in this heat!) and I have prepared icing TO ICE it and thank god ITS DONE!!!!. I watched sort of "Brothers and Sisters", and now I am slightly tired but WIRED at the sametime (stranger still).
Thanks Lynise and Chris for the comments, I know I dont have to justify myself really, BUT there are some things I feel I must point out I DONT HAVE FAMILY at all supporting me (no mother or sister (my sibling) no aunties or Uncles or even Grandparents ) I dont have the luxury of MY CHILD being off for a weekend here and there or being whisked away by aunties or uncles, I dont even have the financial support and emotional support of a partner. I AM SHUNNED from the family because of THE CHOICE I MADE 7 years ago!! SO I AM IT ( MY CHOICE) and yes I do do alot of things for others AND LYNISE you are RIGHT "WHERE is there someone doing stuff for me " SHORT answer there isn't. I LEARN'T along time ago TO BE INDEPENDENT a long time ago I was 14 years old! I AM IT, ME thats all there is AND I have to be strong and carry alot AND I DO IT !! THROW into that mix Jason's FAMILY (My ex) whom I still love and care for on a daily basis HIS FAMILY they don't support HIM or ME in any way shape or form!!! (THEY NEVER HAVE they never will!). (and it is not because I DO TOO MUCH it is because they bury their heads in the sand and refuse to believe Jason has a serious mental illness ASK JAXX) oh and becasue IM not a YES GIRL (like ya hadn't guessed that already lol).
People often say to me I do TOO MUCH, BUT tell me this IF I DONT DO IT WHO WILL? IF i let things get on top of me (housework wise, and all those other incidental jobs) what does that achieve (more stress? unwanted stress?a chaotic household?) Because at the end of my DAY the buck stops with me. YES its harsh but thats how it is I resigned myself to that FACT A VERY LONG TIME AGO, AM I HAPPY with my lot SHORT ANSWER yes!! I have to be or else WHAT GOOD comes of saying I cant do this anymore?
Why because I put in 110% and I cant ask for more than that can I, I know I try my hardest and I give more than my share BUT at the end of MY DAY I CAN honestly SAY, I ME I have achieved all that NOT anyone else.
AND my god it makes me the strong person that I am, thats for sure.
Tomorrow (slash today as its now TUESDAY) I have bills and groceries WHICH is being done super EARLY so I can sunbathe the CROCKPOT will be cranked and on by 6.30am and thats dinner sorted for one lot! I am off towork at 1pm should finish around 8.30pm IF its hot again I may just sneak a swim in on the way home!! at 8.32pm! ( I do hate the fragmented working day it does mess around with all the things I could be doing!!!)
AND on that note I had better hit the HAY!!!
I read everyones blog entries your days had nice things in them heres to long may it continue through the week.
Ciao
Phew Im here!!!!!!!
but only just THOUGHT I had better sign in jsut in case yall thought ID gotten sucked up the vaccuum!!!!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Definitions of FUN..........
I have said before I have a peverse sense of clean (thanks to my ANAL retentive mother SHE was one of those PLASTIC covered furniture people!!!) Well literally once she had cleaned and tdied you werent allowed to sit on the furniture or on the beds!!!!! I HAVE to dust and vaccuum TWICE a week for Samuels Asthma I make sure to the best of my abilities my house is resonably dustless and in the long run it helps him. THE WASHING THING is definately FROM MY MOTHER I know I have issues there I have always admitted to that AND am not ashamed or embarrassed by it ( consequently I iron everyday nearly TO keep on top of that 5 - 10mins max) I have a dinky TINY iron board that sits on the table or over the arms of a lounge chair on on your lap and I iron while watching TV!
I should have elaborated further yesterday, I am in the process of putting a bigger bed into my sons room BUT in order to do that THE BED in the garage WHICH has been in ther for 4 months, my friend was TAKING it but she needed to see it first (she lives in TAUPO) she finally came and looked at it THURS YES she says I will take it. (and I had to deliver it!)
SO to move a bigger bed into sons room, bed in garage HAD TO GO first, because of the extra draws and roller storage in his room I couldnt fit it in until GARAGE bed went so when that went yesterday I was finally able to push RX 7 race car out and sweep leaves in garage to enable me to put storage boxes there and an extra unused set of small draws to make room for the bed in sons room !!! (that job didnt take long) Following me (lol), AND because I had stripped the beds in order to change duvet covers WHEN I do that I wash valances (dont we all do that?)as well I thought WHAT the hell I will do the mattress protectors too (AS i knew weather was going to be corker) and seen as all the beds were totally stripped I flipped mattresses and I vaccuumed uinder everything at sametime (dont you guys do that?) SO in order to FINISH ONE JOB it actually spiralled TO A FLOW ON EFFECT to complete ALL JOBS. (AND who hasn't done that started one job which then became several! lol)
AND while my son and I tackled his room our chinese student did his room totally and then we all did my room (mine took the shortest amount of time) IT sounded alot of work but only took 4 1/2 hours from 10am till noon then from 12.30 till 3pm (christ I am anal I even know how long it took to the T) also in that time THE last bit of gardening I did and the small lawns got mowed!! I knew if I stopped once I got in from my walk I wouldn't get going again!!! SO I just head down arse up and went hammer and tong. I am glad I did I achieved alot AND thats my spring cleaning out of the way.
OH BTW my legs are a little sore today BUT NO as sore as I thought they would be!
Im sure I dont have to explain running a household is TOUGH I actively work at TWO households and run 2 households (mine and where I work) I live next too a WIDOW whom happens to be my best friend (I/WE Jason me and Samuel ) help her alot firewood, repairs whether it inside or outside (yesterday I fixed the dripping/running outside tap at her place), electrical, the race cars she has 3 racecars, mechanical, ITS what families do, anything she cant handle we have a crack at it SO IN EFFECT I am helping at 3 households which comprise of 7 adults total and 3 children!!!! 6 cats and a puppy (which isn't mine AND I run him on occassion and take him for swims!)
WHICH brings me to the fun part I am an active member of community support and (my zany friend Lorraine she is A VOLUNTEER EXTREMEIST ask JAXX) ropes me into helping her alot I am a helper and an organiser seeing end results is my peverse form of "fun" for me, YOU guys also know I am involved in alot of school stuff in school and out of school, I do get a kick from that (although once again purely as an organising doing capacity), If there is anyhting going I put my hat in the ring I LOVE helping out and being involved I cant help that its in me NATURE!!
Fun things for me are coffee with friends, movies, CARDS and board games (when the family will let me) I enjoy shopping although I dont get to partake much in that when THERE are events on in Taupo we join in its FREE its ENTERTAINING and I feel I am putting back to MY community I dont go out alot I HAVE never done that A: I dont drink B: I dont want to waste $100 + on a meal out when WE have superb dinners at my friends house AND on those nights there are approx 7 - 8 of us we all contribute and enjoy good food and company, WE in the RUGBY season watch the RUGGA hard out always have Friday night footy a group of us converge on my friends chip dip and loads of yelling!!!(swearing on occassion!), and when RACING season opens (car) we are out the track alot. FUN things are different things to different people MINE just are a little left field! I dont go out alot as I have never left Samuel to go out and have FUN, at home or AT night never have never will, he does however go to my friend Sue's or on the odd occassion to my employers when I have indeed gone out (twice last year) and once so far this year. I am in effect a solo parent living in amongst 3 households that ARE HUGELY busy and as my EMPLOYERS always tell ME THEY COULDNT do what they do WITHOUT ME I know that and they know I know that. AFTER my week of work AND other activities I do my winding down by housework IT is catarthic for me and actually gives me pleasure (shakes head I can feel the looney bin people arriving anytime soon!).
I thought long and hard about the "FUN" things last night in terms of others perception of fun,at the end of a week where I have been too WORK, karate drop off and pick up Mon/Thurs and whilst Samuel is at karate I have 1hr 15 mins to prepare and cook our family dinner Mon and Thurs, late night work Tues/Wed where I have cooked my families dinner and got it in the crockpot before I even start work then gone to work and done it all over again, A full days work Monday and Friday swimming on Friday now and Samuel has started Badminton after school on WED, our WEEK is so FULL ON that for me being a homebody on the weekend is ME to a T, to enable me to function during the week at literally 3 households I have to pull finger on the weekends and BE on top of my game during the week. I counted up I cook during the week alone Mon - Thurs 8 main meals (and can make anything from 4 - 24 lunches for 4 people) for 3 family houses and I KNOW I DONT have to point out that cooking just for ONE FAMILY at times is a CHORE, thats why my friend spoils me/us on Fri and Sat nights its her way of saying thaks to me cooking during the week she dine with us when I/We are home . She appreciates it and I appreciate not having to cook on the weekends generally, although when we have a BBQ its always at our place and Jason and I cook it.
If I wasn't an organised anal person NOTHING would get done and achieved I live in a hosue where 3 MALES frequent THAT ALONE has its moments (3 men not that they are messy) its the stuff and junk everywhere and I actually love it (I am a strange person) I have to admit THOUGH I went to bed before 10pm last night I slept until 7.30am and I lay in bed until 9am reading I am still in MY P'js (well my form of PJ's lava lava) and I have nothing doing today or on today I am waiting for sun to break through so I can SUNBATHE and thats my lot, I /we are taking puppy swimming and will all mooch down to lake later we are having roast chicken for dinner I have already peeled and got veges ready (chicken is at my friends house), and THERE in starts the next week!!!
IF yall managed to get too end of THIS WELL DONE go and have a coffee!!!!! you will need it AND LYNISE and CHRIS there was NO OFFENCE taken, and I know NO OFFENCE was intended at all AM I mad (slightly), am I a dont sit still person (yes), DO I find it hard to relax (if IM honest yes), DO I HAVE OCD (most probably), does it bother me HELL NO!
It makes me the zany mad bossy helpful slightly over organising anally retentive woman I am, and there are people out there whom love me for it!!! (and even some PAY me to be that) (WHOOP WHOOP)
Right I am done rabbling have AN action packed day whatever it is you do!
Ciao
I should have elaborated further yesterday, I am in the process of putting a bigger bed into my sons room BUT in order to do that THE BED in the garage WHICH has been in ther for 4 months, my friend was TAKING it but she needed to see it first (she lives in TAUPO) she finally came and looked at it THURS YES she says I will take it. (and I had to deliver it!)
SO to move a bigger bed into sons room, bed in garage HAD TO GO first, because of the extra draws and roller storage in his room I couldnt fit it in until GARAGE bed went so when that went yesterday I was finally able to push RX 7 race car out and sweep leaves in garage to enable me to put storage boxes there and an extra unused set of small draws to make room for the bed in sons room !!! (that job didnt take long) Following me (lol), AND because I had stripped the beds in order to change duvet covers WHEN I do that I wash valances (dont we all do that?)as well I thought WHAT the hell I will do the mattress protectors too (AS i knew weather was going to be corker) and seen as all the beds were totally stripped I flipped mattresses and I vaccuumed uinder everything at sametime (dont you guys do that?) SO in order to FINISH ONE JOB it actually spiralled TO A FLOW ON EFFECT to complete ALL JOBS. (AND who hasn't done that started one job which then became several! lol)
AND while my son and I tackled his room our chinese student did his room totally and then we all did my room (mine took the shortest amount of time) IT sounded alot of work but only took 4 1/2 hours from 10am till noon then from 12.30 till 3pm (christ I am anal I even know how long it took to the T) also in that time THE last bit of gardening I did and the small lawns got mowed!! I knew if I stopped once I got in from my walk I wouldn't get going again!!! SO I just head down arse up and went hammer and tong. I am glad I did I achieved alot AND thats my spring cleaning out of the way.
OH BTW my legs are a little sore today BUT NO as sore as I thought they would be!
Im sure I dont have to explain running a household is TOUGH I actively work at TWO households and run 2 households (mine and where I work) I live next too a WIDOW whom happens to be my best friend (I/WE Jason me and Samuel ) help her alot firewood, repairs whether it inside or outside (yesterday I fixed the dripping/running outside tap at her place), electrical, the race cars she has 3 racecars, mechanical, ITS what families do, anything she cant handle we have a crack at it SO IN EFFECT I am helping at 3 households which comprise of 7 adults total and 3 children!!!! 6 cats and a puppy (which isn't mine AND I run him on occassion and take him for swims!)
WHICH brings me to the fun part I am an active member of community support and (my zany friend Lorraine she is A VOLUNTEER EXTREMEIST ask JAXX) ropes me into helping her alot I am a helper and an organiser seeing end results is my peverse form of "fun" for me, YOU guys also know I am involved in alot of school stuff in school and out of school, I do get a kick from that (although once again purely as an organising doing capacity), If there is anyhting going I put my hat in the ring I LOVE helping out and being involved I cant help that its in me NATURE!!
Fun things for me are coffee with friends, movies, CARDS and board games (when the family will let me) I enjoy shopping although I dont get to partake much in that when THERE are events on in Taupo we join in its FREE its ENTERTAINING and I feel I am putting back to MY community I dont go out alot I HAVE never done that A: I dont drink B: I dont want to waste $100 + on a meal out when WE have superb dinners at my friends house AND on those nights there are approx 7 - 8 of us we all contribute and enjoy good food and company, WE in the RUGBY season watch the RUGGA hard out always have Friday night footy a group of us converge on my friends chip dip and loads of yelling!!!(swearing on occassion!), and when RACING season opens (car) we are out the track alot. FUN things are different things to different people MINE just are a little left field! I dont go out alot as I have never left Samuel to go out and have FUN, at home or AT night never have never will, he does however go to my friend Sue's or on the odd occassion to my employers when I have indeed gone out (twice last year) and once so far this year. I am in effect a solo parent living in amongst 3 households that ARE HUGELY busy and as my EMPLOYERS always tell ME THEY COULDNT do what they do WITHOUT ME I know that and they know I know that. AFTER my week of work AND other activities I do my winding down by housework IT is catarthic for me and actually gives me pleasure (shakes head I can feel the looney bin people arriving anytime soon!).
I thought long and hard about the "FUN" things last night in terms of others perception of fun,at the end of a week where I have been too WORK, karate drop off and pick up Mon/Thurs and whilst Samuel is at karate I have 1hr 15 mins to prepare and cook our family dinner Mon and Thurs, late night work Tues/Wed where I have cooked my families dinner and got it in the crockpot before I even start work then gone to work and done it all over again, A full days work Monday and Friday swimming on Friday now and Samuel has started Badminton after school on WED, our WEEK is so FULL ON that for me being a homebody on the weekend is ME to a T, to enable me to function during the week at literally 3 households I have to pull finger on the weekends and BE on top of my game during the week. I counted up I cook during the week alone Mon - Thurs 8 main meals (and can make anything from 4 - 24 lunches for 4 people) for 3 family houses and I KNOW I DONT have to point out that cooking just for ONE FAMILY at times is a CHORE, thats why my friend spoils me/us on Fri and Sat nights its her way of saying thaks to me cooking during the week she dine with us when I/We are home . She appreciates it and I appreciate not having to cook on the weekends generally, although when we have a BBQ its always at our place and Jason and I cook it.
If I wasn't an organised anal person NOTHING would get done and achieved I live in a hosue where 3 MALES frequent THAT ALONE has its moments (3 men not that they are messy) its the stuff and junk everywhere and I actually love it (I am a strange person) I have to admit THOUGH I went to bed before 10pm last night I slept until 7.30am and I lay in bed until 9am reading I am still in MY P'js (well my form of PJ's lava lava) and I have nothing doing today or on today I am waiting for sun to break through so I can SUNBATHE and thats my lot, I /we are taking puppy swimming and will all mooch down to lake later we are having roast chicken for dinner I have already peeled and got veges ready (chicken is at my friends house), and THERE in starts the next week!!!
IF yall managed to get too end of THIS WELL DONE go and have a coffee!!!!! you will need it AND LYNISE and CHRIS there was NO OFFENCE taken, and I know NO OFFENCE was intended at all AM I mad (slightly), am I a dont sit still person (yes), DO I find it hard to relax (if IM honest yes), DO I HAVE OCD (most probably), does it bother me HELL NO!
It makes me the zany mad bossy helpful slightly over organising anally retentive woman I am, and there are people out there whom love me for it!!! (and even some PAY me to be that) (WHOOP WHOOP)
Right I am done rabbling have AN action packed day whatever it is you do!
Ciao
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