They shall not grow old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we Forget.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Friday, 13 April 2012
R.I.P Shirley Dawn Stratford 2/1/1929 - 6/4/2012
STRATFORD, Shirley Dawn (Shirl).
Passed away peacefully on 6 April, 2012, aged 83 years.
Loved and loving wife of Alf for over 53 years.
Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Rod, Rosemarie (dec), Neale and Jenny. Adored Nanna to Thomas, Morgan, Hadden and Laura.
At Rest
It's hard to believe that it's now been a week since my dear Mother-in-law passed away. We're all just so numb. The funeral was yesterday and was such a tough day and we're all so tired and feeling drained emotionally. I've had the last three days off work for which I'm grateful for.
Jen
At Rest
It's hard to believe that it's now been a week since my dear Mother-in-law passed away. We're all just so numb. The funeral was yesterday and was such a tough day and we're all so tired and feeling drained emotionally. I've had the last three days off work for which I'm grateful for.
Jen
Friday, 30 March 2012
Totally Random Musings
Friday - I've been waiting for Friday to come all week - nothing like wishing the time away! Work has been pretty quiet all week. Am so looking forward to the public holidays at Easter.
Daylight Savings finishes tomorrow- must remember to turn my clocks back. Neale's looking forward to that as he hates daylight savings - but I really like it. I really don't like coming hoe from work at 5-00pm when it's already pitch back - admittedly, that won't be for some weeks yet, but still!
Neale has now sold 7 works of art - he's thrilled.
Hadden (19 year old son) had a run to Krispy Kreme at Fountain Gate tonight. Thank heavens he's home early - but he came home with 4 boxes of donuts. Good grief, who is going to eat all of them? Last time he went a couple of weeks ago, I had a rotten night, couldn't sleep etc - he finally got home at 2-30am. Talk about worried!
I got breathalysed tonight coming home. I passed!! Needed a couple of attempts at it - kept running out of breath and not to mention doing it wrong the first time!! I'm sure the policeman thought he might have had another candidate for the booze bus!
Drinking some sparkling wine at the moment - Yellowglen Pink. Needless to say, I'm not going anywhere else tonight!
Neale's Mum (she's 83) is in hospital at the moment, she's been in there for 2 weeks now and has pneumonia. We're all desperately worried as she is so sick. Tonight, I think she's looked the best that I've seen her. She needs a procedure done in Melbourne and will be transferred as soon as a bed is available.
Have been so tired this past week - so totally no exercise since last week. Sensible eating went by the wayside, so it's back onto the straight and narrow. I've become very good at forgiving myself when I lapse - probably not good.
Scales - I bought a new set tonight. Totally convinced my current set are totally wrong. They weighed me this morning about 5kg in my favour - so wrong. I know I've gained weight again! No way known I could've lost that amount in a couple of days! Not too thrilled about jumping on and seeing what I've done. I also discovered I was sooo wrong in accepting the scales lower weight a couple of weeks ago.
Bloody mice! I've got some critters in the house - I've heard them and we even got one in the bathroom the other night. Thought I'd found all their entry points last time, but alas, obviously not!. They've probably encouraged their extended families to shift in too. Set a pile of traps last night - empty they were today. One trap was even missing the cheese! I'm just lulling them into a false sense of security.
So tomorrow, I'm on operation mouse hunt , eradication and cleanup..
Patterns - I've ordered yet more from BMV. They should arrive early next week.
Have lost the television/playstation remote so I'm now having to use the playstation controller to change channels etc. Hopefully, it's been kicked under the couch and it will turn up tomorrow during operation mousehunt, eradication and cleanup!
Reading - have done heaps of reading in the past week. I've bought and downloaded some great books to my Ipad. I'm currently reading a real book '''The Tinner's Corpse" by Bernard Knight.
Jen
Daylight Savings finishes tomorrow- must remember to turn my clocks back. Neale's looking forward to that as he hates daylight savings - but I really like it. I really don't like coming hoe from work at 5-00pm when it's already pitch back - admittedly, that won't be for some weeks yet, but still!
Neale has now sold 7 works of art - he's thrilled.
Hadden (19 year old son) had a run to Krispy Kreme at Fountain Gate tonight. Thank heavens he's home early - but he came home with 4 boxes of donuts. Good grief, who is going to eat all of them? Last time he went a couple of weeks ago, I had a rotten night, couldn't sleep etc - he finally got home at 2-30am. Talk about worried!
I got breathalysed tonight coming home. I passed!! Needed a couple of attempts at it - kept running out of breath and not to mention doing it wrong the first time!! I'm sure the policeman thought he might have had another candidate for the booze bus!
Drinking some sparkling wine at the moment - Yellowglen Pink. Needless to say, I'm not going anywhere else tonight!
Neale's Mum (she's 83) is in hospital at the moment, she's been in there for 2 weeks now and has pneumonia. We're all desperately worried as she is so sick. Tonight, I think she's looked the best that I've seen her. She needs a procedure done in Melbourne and will be transferred as soon as a bed is available.
Have been so tired this past week - so totally no exercise since last week. Sensible eating went by the wayside, so it's back onto the straight and narrow. I've become very good at forgiving myself when I lapse - probably not good.
Scales - I bought a new set tonight. Totally convinced my current set are totally wrong. They weighed me this morning about 5kg in my favour - so wrong. I know I've gained weight again! No way known I could've lost that amount in a couple of days! Not too thrilled about jumping on and seeing what I've done. I also discovered I was sooo wrong in accepting the scales lower weight a couple of weeks ago.
Bloody mice! I've got some critters in the house - I've heard them and we even got one in the bathroom the other night. Thought I'd found all their entry points last time, but alas, obviously not!. They've probably encouraged their extended families to shift in too. Set a pile of traps last night - empty they were today. One trap was even missing the cheese! I'm just lulling them into a false sense of security.
So tomorrow, I'm on operation mouse hunt , eradication and cleanup..
Patterns - I've ordered yet more from BMV. They should arrive early next week.
Have lost the television/playstation remote so I'm now having to use the playstation controller to change channels etc. Hopefully, it's been kicked under the couch and it will turn up tomorrow during operation mousehunt, eradication and cleanup!
Reading - have done heaps of reading in the past week. I've bought and downloaded some great books to my Ipad. I'm currently reading a real book '''The Tinner's Corpse" by Bernard Knight.
Jen
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
I didn't get my clearance.....
I've been to the Doctor's this afternoon - I'm so devastated (not!) that I had to leave 1/2 hour early from work to make the appointment also.
I went because I need a medical clearance before I can join the gym in town - well I didn't get my clearance and was told no way - not unless my blood pressure came down. It was normal, last reading I had - but I've had high blood pressure in the past and today's reading was quite high - 164/104. Arrgghh!!!!
I did take tablets 2 years ago for a couple of months - but they gave me a horrible allergic reaction so I stopped taking them and the Doctors I've seen since didn't seem concerned and one said they'd never heard of the medication giving someone that kind of reaction - got the impression she didn't believe me, but it looks like I'll be back on another brand before too long.
I've got a leaflet telling me to:
Lose weight - well der, that's what I'm trying to do.
Don't add salt - I don't
Eat a low fat - I try & do that (just ignore last week food intake - we just won't go there!) Low fat milk, yoghurt, cheese, porridge, fruit, almonds, vegies etc.
At least 30 mins exercise daily - I'm getting in approx 1 hour and sometimes 2 a day. With the weather going to turn horrid soon I won't be able to do this and that's why I wanted to go to the gym - I'm not over fond of walking in a heavy downpour!
Drink less - I've cut down and trying to drink on days of the week starting with S only
Don't Smoke - never have
Cut out Stress - I'm not stressed/anxious/worried/depressed etc
Oh well, on the bright side - I don't have to pay a monthly fee for gym membership at the moment!
Jen
I went because I need a medical clearance before I can join the gym in town - well I didn't get my clearance and was told no way - not unless my blood pressure came down. It was normal, last reading I had - but I've had high blood pressure in the past and today's reading was quite high - 164/104. Arrgghh!!!!
I did take tablets 2 years ago for a couple of months - but they gave me a horrible allergic reaction so I stopped taking them and the Doctors I've seen since didn't seem concerned and one said they'd never heard of the medication giving someone that kind of reaction - got the impression she didn't believe me, but it looks like I'll be back on another brand before too long.
I've got a leaflet telling me to:
Lose weight - well der, that's what I'm trying to do.
Don't add salt - I don't
Eat a low fat - I try & do that (just ignore last week food intake - we just won't go there!) Low fat milk, yoghurt, cheese, porridge, fruit, almonds, vegies etc.
At least 30 mins exercise daily - I'm getting in approx 1 hour and sometimes 2 a day. With the weather going to turn horrid soon I won't be able to do this and that's why I wanted to go to the gym - I'm not over fond of walking in a heavy downpour!
Drink less - I've cut down and trying to drink on days of the week starting with S only
Don't Smoke - never have
Cut out Stress - I'm not stressed/anxious/worried/depressed etc
Oh well, on the bright side - I don't have to pay a monthly fee for gym membership at the moment!
Jen
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Look What Arrived Today
I originally had a dressmaking model I had bought not long after I was married - but sold it after I outgrew it and I've kicked myself ever since! I've now got this one set to my daughter Laura's measurements - but will need to alter the bust as she's very busty and the model is not so well endowed!
I did buy myself several years ago (Ebay again!) a used, 'full figured' model, which I'm pleased to say will need a little adjusting now- downwards , but I'm a very long way from fitting (if ever) into this size. I might consider buying myself the next size up - once I've saved some more money though.
My next dilemma now is where on earth am I going to store this in my house? My other model has been residing at in a shed for some time - the joys of living in a very small house!
Some Good News!
Neale received a telephone call today to say that the 3 photographs he had entered into a competition - Linden Postcard Show, run by the Linden Galleries St Kilda in Melbourne had been sold - so he didn't need to have them posted back! He's thrilled as it's 5 works of his art that has been sold in the past 2 weeks.
Neale is also going to be very busy now on. He currently works 4 days a week at Monash Uni here in town, as well as studying part-time for his Masters in Fine Arts. Now he is now going to be teaching photography every Thursday at the Tafe College in Newborough - beginning tomorrow, to Cert 4 and Diploma students.
Jen
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