Hi all for some reason I didn’t get around to doing a post yesterday, I don’t know why that happened after spending a couple of hours first thing in the morning reading blogs I decided to make a start of answering my mail.

Well around midday Tim said he wanted to go to the local hotel to have a couple of beers and place a couple of bets on the ponies, he has never wanted to do this before in his life. That said we went after sharing a bowl of chips and gravy I was pleased that the gravy came in a small jug on the side as I don’t like soggy chips, after watching one race I left him there and came home and but my feet up and watched a recorded show on the telly and then Tim rings for me to go and get him.

Then just after getting back Kathy-Lee and Summer turned up, Kathy wanted some arts and crafts stuff for Summer to use and I had a bunch of scrap-booking stuff I didn’t want, so I gave that to her.

By then I had started to feel unwell and Jessica turned up with Leo, he stayed here last night to give her a break, no one took my girls to give me a break but I am a big softy and will take my grandchildren when asked. We will have Blain on Wednesday night, we have never had Sydney-May and Summer but that will change on the 17^th when we are suppose to have both girls for the night and the following morning.

Tim is on late starts this week so he is in bed at the moment, he will have to leave around 9.30am for work and I will take Leo back to his mother around 10am and then I should have a quiet day.

In other news Natasha has advertised her car for sale, she wants around $3,500 but she will be lucky to get $3,000 but I said no harm in first advertising it at a higher price so she has advertised it for 4,000 to start with. It is on https://sellmycar.carsguide.com.au so we will see how she goes.

As far as I know my sister Sandra and bro in-law still want to buy Jessica’s Falcon for $1,500 but she wants the money paid in one go and not have it paid off as she has been burnt in the past with people saying they will pay something off and her not getting all the money in the end so she will not do that again.

Well that is all I have for today’s post, I know it may not be the most interesting of posts but such is life, well such is my life since this is what the post is about my life.

Welcome to my Sunday, it has been truly a lazy Sunday. I have spent most of the day watching telling after blogging for a couple of hours this morning and doing a load of washing. Thankfully it has been a fine day and all the washing dried on the line also after a few weeks of having my washing machine not spin drying the clothes I have figured out what to do. Last week when I did the washing I did a small load of just Tim’s work shirts and pants and that load spun dried so this time I tried doing a couple of small loads and yes that worked so now I know to do small loads instead of a large load.

Tim has been at work all day and I have just chilled doing very little I like days like this, tomorrow Tim is off again so not sure what we will be doing.

Yesterday I had all the girls and grandchildren here for lunch, I did a beef casserole as requested by Jessica, at the time I was dishing up Tim said he didn’t feel like anything and would have some later. Well what did he do after a few hours he decides he doesn’t want any casserole as he doesn’t like casseroles, so I ended up having the last of it for tea.

Also last night it was quiet cool here and I would have been fine in my nightie and ¾ pants but Tim decided it was hot, meaning he was hot and wanted the front door open, so I had to go and change my pants into some long pants.

I was also annoyed when at 7pm he said you’re going to bed so I will pick something to watch I was like I am not going to bed right now. I hate it when he says things like this it really pisses me off but it was ok we watched the old Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz movie The Long Long Trailer.

So that is all I have for today’s post

Welcome to Five things Friday, it is a coldish, wet day here in my corner of the world but thankfully I have not had to go out today. Although too bad if I wanted to because Tim took the car to work and it is Good Friday so nothing much opened anyway. So here is this weeks five things.

No Meat today

Eggs and chips instead

Catching up on recorded programmes

Dark and wet today

A lazy day

Hello everyone, what a couple of days I have had, on Tuesday I went out to Sydney-May’s school on Tuesday afternoon for her Easter Hat Parade have to say I am glad that she walked past us during the parade as we were sitting near the back. She had a dance act as well but during the act she was at the back behind a girl much larger then her, remember Sydney-May is a tiny little thing so it was impossible to see her dance. Michael took some video of her dancing but it turned out shit all grainy and really you couldn’t see anything. It was also Leo’s Easter Hat Parade on Tuesday but I couldn’t split myself in two and go to both, so had to give Leo’s a miss this year.

Yesterday it was Blain’s Easter Hat Parade, and yes I went to that, but before that I went to see my nan, but before that mum had to take Landon to day care, Kayla and Liarna to school and then we went to the nursing home. Since it was raining in the morning and had been raining pretty much most of the night mum told Dawson that she thought it wouldn’t be wise to go to work experience, he does lawn mowing and thought that the ground would be too wet to mow. If she had the guy he does it with she would have rung him but she didn’t since her phone is in being repaired and she is using a back up phone.

Oh yeah yesterday I had the lights on in the car, I usually have them on auto so they turn off when I turn the car off but when I was sitting outside Blain’s school waiting for Natasha to turn up I forgot to turn them off and must have had the car on accessories as when Natasha turned up she tells me I have my lights on what the hell, I turned them off and tried the car and of course it wouldn’t start. I told Natasha I would do something about it after Blain’s parade, which I did I rang the NRMA and they came in less then 20 minutes to start the car. The guy who came told me I should leave the car running for an hour or more so I did even though I thought it was a bit long but still I did it and of course when I told Tim how long I left it running he said what the hell you should have only needed to run for say half and hour, oh well it is done now and it hopefully should be ok today when I go out to take Leo to his dentist appointment.

As I said Leo has a dentist appointment this morning he needs two small fillings, so I don’t think he will be off school today and today is the last day of term one so he will be off for a couple of weeks.

I hope it all goes well for him at the dentist, although the guy he is seeing is super nice.

In other news Tuesday night I was so sick with a headache and reflux that I was in bed at 5.15pm, in fact at 4.20 when I went to have a bath I felt fine, by the time I got out of the bath I felt like shit and by 5.15 I could barely function so I said to Tim if I go to bed will you be ok with Blain, he of course said what it is only 5.15 but I said I felt that sick I just had to go to bed. Well at 6.30 I was up throwing up in the bathroom and Tim was so concerned coming in and rubbing my back and bringing me water. After I threw up he tells me to go back to be with concern in his voice.

I see the gastro specialist on the 15^th and the diabetic specialist on the 11^th so I am hoping to get some answers, when I saw the doc on Monday he didn’t want to give me anything different for the nauseousness instead telling me it would be better to see what the specialist has to say. I get that I just am so fed up with felling nauseous all the time and throwing up at least once sometimes twice a week.

Good afternoon, how has everyone been? I have had a good weekend doing this and that, we had plans to go to the Reptile Park with Jessica and Leo but as Jessica was sick we cancelled and we will do it in a few weeks time.

So next weekend is Easter, did you know that Easter is considered to be the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church. It is the time when we celebrate the resurrection of Christ and held in the Western Church between the 21^st March and 25^th of April the date is based on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the northern spring equinox. This I found out via Google.

Now I am sure most people when they think of Easter think of the Easter Bunny and chocolate, but have you ever wondered what the hell is with the Easter Bunny, like what does a rabbit have to do with Easter. You may think this is some kind of modern invention but you would be wrong, most popular Easter traditions have their roots way back in history, like the Easter Bunny.

In fact the Easter Bunny can be traced back to ancient Anglo-Saxon times, way back when the hare was an important symbol of fertility so it played an important role in the pagan festival of Eostre, whatever that was.

Legend claims that this mystical goddess found a wounded bird and turned it into a hare so it could survive the winter. When this very same hare found it could lay eggs it made a gift of its eggs to the goddess who had protected him. And so the tradition of the Easter hare, or bunny was born.

Eggs have been an important fertility symbol for millennia,and they have always been associated with the rebirth of spring. And as eggs are associated with new life early Christians used them as

a visual symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. When people first starting giving eggs as offerings and gifts at Easter time they used birds eggs. They were painted bright colours to echo the vibrancy of the colours of spring after the darkness of winter.

In the UK and Europe early Easter eggs took the form of duck, hen or goose eggs. These were later replaced by artificial eggs until eventually, as chocolate became a more widely available foodstuff, the first chocolate eggs began to appear, in the early 1800s. The vogue for exchanging chocolate eggs at Easter quickly spread right across the globe so that by the end of the century chocolate eggs became the ubiquitous Easter offering.

Have you heard of egg rolling the tradition of egg rolling on Easter Monday dates back to Anglo-Saxon Germany. Although historians are unsure of the exact significance of egg rolling, it’s believed that for the early pagans the activity was seen as a way of bringing new life to the land at springtime. For early Christians, meanwhile, egg rolling could have been a representation of the stone being rolled away from Jesus’ tomb.

The tradition of eating hot cross buns on Good Friday has its roots even further back than early Christianity. Buns marked with a cross were eaten by the Saxons during their spring celebrations – it’s believed that the bun represented the moon and the cross the moon’s quarters. Christians continued the tradition but to them the cross symbolises the Jesus’ crucifixion.

Although chocolate eggs tend to the gift of choice at Easter time today, coloured, decorated eggs have also been an important symbol and gift shared at Easter time. The tradition of colouring and decorating eggs dates back to the Middle Ages when eggs would be painted bright colours to welcome in the new spring. The tradition continued and was adapted by different countries; in Germany, for example, it remains a tradition to paint eggs green and eat them on Maundy Thursday while in Greece and the Balkans eggs are dyed red to symbolise the blood of Christ.

But the most elaborate take on the tradition came from Russia, where in the late 1800s/early 1900s Russian aristocracy commissioned the French jeweller Faberge to create an egg like no other, fashioned from enamel and encrusted with the most dazzling jewels. These incredible Easter gifts are worth millions of pounds today!

The special fruit cake eaten at Easter, known as Simnel cake, is steeped in traditional symbolism. Traditionally the cake has a layer of marzipan on top and is decorated with marzipan balls – these symbolise the disciples, though Judas is left out and only 11 balls are added to the cake.

Damn it is Friday again, as you may have noticed I didn’t do a post yesterday, why you wonder, ok you properly didn’t wonder but I will tell you anyway. I was run off my feet yesterday, I had Summer all day and had to take Leo and Jess to the dentist, Leo had an appointment to check his teeth and his mum couldn’t take him on her own so I had to do it. It was just one thing after another all day and it was last night when I was in bed that I remembered I didn’t do a post. So you all missed out on Motivation Thursday, but now it is Five things Friday, so here we go.

Complimented on my parking skills, not once but twice today

I can’t drive into a parking spot very well

I can, however, reverse the car into any spot

Both Blain & Leo here for a couple of hours, hope they don’t fight

Felling so tired I could go to sleep now, it’s only 4.21pm……..what the hell

Hi all it is now Monday afternoon, I had a productive morning, I was sorting through some mail and went into Tim’s office to file something away and the state of the room annoyed me so much that I ended up spending a good hour cleaning the room up, which lead me to cleaning the area next to the stove in the kitchen.

Tim use to complain about the state of my computer desk but he has a whole room and it is usually a right mess far more so then my computer desk.

I was thinking yesterday about AM and PM when I was asked by one of my girls way back when what AM and PM stood for I said AM was after midnight and PM was past midday, well yesterday I thought what does AM and PM really stand for.

So I did what all people with internet do when they have such thoughts I Goggled it and it turns out that AM stands for “ante meridiem”, which means “before noon” in Latin, while PM stands for “post meridiem”, which means “after noon” in Latin.

So now I have learnt something new, did you know what AM and PM stood for, my common sense told me it wouldn’t have stood for after midnight and past midday but I still think it is an easy way to explain AM and PM to young ones and those who may not be able to get their head around the Latin meaning.

No I know we all should know that there is a 12 hour clock and a 24 hour clock, the use of a 12 hour clock goes back to ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians who recorded and kept time by using sundials during the day and water clocks at night.

Egyptians are thought to be responsible for dividing the day in to 24 equal parts, because they counted their joints in their fingers instead of counting using their fingers as is now commonplace.

So is it 12PM or is it noon?

When you think about it technically speaking 12PM does not make sense, since it is not after noon, the same can be said for 12AM as that is not before noon. So it is recommended that one refer to these hours as midnight and noon. Although most digital clocks tend to show 12AM and 12Pm to specify midnight and midday.

Hey hey it’s Saturday Sunday so you are getting a run down of my Saturday on this lovely wet overcast Sunday. So were to start, let me think should I start at the start of the day and work forward or maybe I should start at the end of the day and work backwards hmmmmmmmmmm

Ok decision made I will start with the start of my Saturday, which had me waking with a headache, so I get up get dressed because I am straight out of bed and dressed for the day person, not a fan of sitting around half the day in my nightie. So I get dressed take my morning medication and sit to do the blog rounds and then write a post, some days I read blogs first other days like today I write my post first.

Anyway as I was saying I was doing the blog rounds and my headache was getting worse, so I decided I needed to have something to eat so I walk into the kitchen open cupboards and the fridge and can’t decide what I want to I return to the computer, this I do about 3 times before I decided to drive to Macca’s and get some breakfast.

Oh I might add that Tim took our car to work so I had to drive Natasha’s car and my plans of going to the library to return stuff went out the window, or more to the point off to work with Tim as the stuff to go back to the library was in my car. So I drive to Macca’s I order and waiting to advance through the drive thru and the guy in the car in front of me gets out if his car and walks back to tell me that he noticed that there was a large stream of water coming from my car, so then I decided I wouldn’t go out in it again and came home, sent Tim a text telling him what the guy said when I looked back to were I had driven I could in fact see the water.

Let’s move forward a couple of hours around midday my headache was really bad I decided to take strong pain relief and go for a nap but before I could lay down Natasha, Jessica and their boys turned up the boys run in give me a hug and then Natasha and Jessica start kind of yelling at each other about how Natasha left Jessica sitting in a car with 2 boys who took to fighting to get over being bored for an hour.

I ended up just going to bed and leaving them going at it in the lounge room, now while I was laying down I remember Natasha coming in saying she was taking her car, I also remember telling her about the water coming from the car. So I think I hear her leave in her car but when I got up from my nap her car was still here, so I thought I must had heard wrong.

The the next thing I know Jessica and Leo are back here she has decided to let Leo spend the night here, we talk for a while and she leaves. Oh I might add my headache is still hanging around and getting worse again.

When Tim gets home he says to me Tasha broke down, I said no when, he said this afternoon at the top of Bayview about half a k from my place anyway I say not that I know of, well it turned out she had taken her car and a hose had come off and she broke down at the top of Bayview. She rang Jessica to help her and she brought the car back here and now that is something else for Tim to look at.

By this time it is after 6pm and my headache is really getting bad and I was starting to feel unwell so I tell him that after Leo has his night time medication I was going to bed, he said ok but I could tell he wasn’t really ok with it. So by the time I went to bed at 7pm I was feeling so sick in the tummy and thought I was going to throw up at any time, after only maybe 15 minutes in bed I had to go to the bathroom coughing and retching. Leo was concerned and brought in the little orange bin from the bath room just in case I threw up and couldn’t make it the toilet, I asked him what happened to the rubbish in it and said I emptied it in the big bin and you need it just in case, he then said but try not to throw up in it as they you would have to clean up yuck vomit……………

I thank him and try to sleep but the smell of Tim cooking was really making me feel so much worse that I had to shut the bedroom door around 7.50pm I ended up throwing up (yes in the toilet) of course after I threw up I felt better and went straight to sleep.

This morning I am much better, no headache, and I will be having the girls and grandchildren here for lunch, I am doing silverside with mash and veggies.

Right now I am heading out with Tim and Leo to do some shopping I want a new electric knife as I lent mine to Kelli last Christmas and she still has it but Tim said she can keep it and we will buy a new one.

Ok home again and just in time to post this while it is still in the AM, Kathy and the girls are here and Kathy is sounding frustrated because Sydney-May says she is hungry but she will not eat anything, Kathy is fed up with making meals and tossing most of it out because Sydney-May will not eat.

Here is this weeks five things for Friday

Big but beautiful

Take me as I am

Not going to change

I am my mother

I have my father’s temper