Do you have something you have a weird fascination with?

I do it would have to be Hitler and the second world war, if there is a documentary on about Hitler or world war two I have to watch it, in fact one of my favourite channels is the History channel and in fact I am watching something called History’s Verdict and this episode is about Hitler………………….

I don’t know what it is about Hitler and the Second World War that fascinates me but it does, maybe it is because I can’t get my head around why he hated the Jews so much or if he really thought he could create a new race…………..come on was the man delusional or what…………….

I am also fascinated about Australia’s role in the Second World War and love watching documentaries about Australia and the Second World War. I wish I knew more about my grandfather and his service during the war, but it was not something he would talk about and in fact I know very little.

I do love history in general and love watching shows about Australia’s history but do not thing there are enough around although I have watched many shows since getting the History channel on here in the last few years………….

Damn it’s hot here today have the air conditioner going and have only ventured outside a couple of times to peg the washing on the line. Tim wants me to clean up the yard but it is too hot for me to do anything outside, pegging the washing out was enough for me till I have to go out and get it in again later this afternoon.

Tomorrow our daughter Natasha asked us to watch Blain which she is working in fact she is working today and tomorrow, Kathy is watching him tonight and we will have him tomorrow night she is doing bus marshalling again but Jessica wasn’t lucky enough to get work this time around. I am looking forward to having Blain here this will be the second weekend in a row he has been here, he stayed last Saturday night after we had dad’s party…………….

I was going to go out this morning to do some clothes shopping but after getting up and finding how hot it is I just lost interest so haven’t done much at all.

When it’s stinking hot what do you like to do, go out or stay home? How do you cope when it is hot? Do you ever suffer from heatstroke?

Speaking of heatstroke I remember when my girls were younger before we had air conditioning our girls would often suffer from heatstroke and in fact there was a few times when the girls came home from school sick because of the heat, back then the class rooms didn’t have air conditioning in them. I remember myself also getting ill at school due to the heat.

How many television sets do you have in your home?

As a child we had one television it was in the lounge room and we would gather as a family in the evening to watch it, now days most families/ homes have more than one in fact many families will have one in the lounge room and one in each bedroom and often one in the kitchen as well.

Can you remember when colour televisions came out, how long did it take your family to purchase a colour set? My parents were the first people in our street to get a colour telly, my dad also liked to get new things pretty soon after they came out.

We only had one telly up until 1980 when I bought my own telly but I didn’t have it in my bedroom I put it out in the kitchen and my parents have had a set in the kitchen ever since. They have never had a television in their bedroom, although my nephew Dawson has a set in his room.

Me and Tim had a telly in our bedroom for a while but not anymore I use to go the bedroom to watch telly when the girls where younger but now I only watch the lounge room telly and Tim has a set in his room/office which he watches all the time.

Everyone now and again I will see on different tv shows about families going without a tv and if that is what  they want to do then that is great but me I like my tv, we don’t go out to the movies or anything and for me it is my main source of entertainment.

The look of a television has certainly changed over the years they use to be large and bulky and heavy with small screens and now they are large and lightweight with larger screens and of course they have gone from being black and white to colour. The first tv’s didn’t have remote controls we had to get off our bums to change the channel…………….lol

 

 

Tim use to be a lot more carefree and he enjoyed life more when he was younger now days he is so uptight and stresses over so many things and this bothers me, I loved the young Tim so much more in some ways then I do the man he is now.

I don’t know why he is so uptight or why he lets things get to him as much as he does, if I ask him why he is stressing over something he often will not be able to give an answer because he really has no idea why his stressing over something.

I have often said to him does it really matter, will it matter tomorrow or a week from now if the answer is NO then why are you stressing over it or worrying about it……………………

I think this is part of the reason he can be narcissistic at times, he doesn’t think he is he just doesn’t see it. In fact he things he is the opposite and that he is very generous which he can be at times very generous but he can also be narcissistic and I wish he would just see himself how others see him.

I love him always have always will but sometimes he is a right pain and so bloody difficult to live with but then I guess the same could be said about me………………….lol

 

Yesterday we had my dad’s 70th birthday party it was a good day, dad seemed to have a good time and loved seeing so many of his grandchildren there along with some good friends and of course his children and one of his siblings turned up Aunty Pat who always comes to our family events. Aunty Pat is the same age as my mum so she is his big sister……………lol However I think dad looks younger then Aunty Pat…………..lol

There was plenty of food we love to have plenty of food, in fact my mum always says it is better to have too much food then not enough, and on Friday my brother said the same thing to me…………..lol

The cake was yummy and everyone said to me they enjoyed it and wanted to know where I got it and some were surprised when they found out that I got it from Woolworths (local supermarket).

Here are a few photos of the day…………..

What a day I have had shopping yes just shopping and not for fun things like clothes or shoes but food and birthday presents for my dad but not presents for me to give him, don’t be silly of course I was buying for my sisters to give him……………why you ask because if I didn’t then they wouldn’t get him anything…………….lol

So my back is killing me and I am so tired and exhausted it’s just not funny, I still have things to do here at home but had to sit for a while and just rest if you call sitting at the computer resting………………..lol

Today being Friday meant Friday breakfast at the local shopping centre with my family and this morning we had 12 adults and 5 children there and I can tell you it was great and my dad loved it he loves when the family get together, we started the Friday breakfast at the shopping centre a few years back and it really caught on and grown. Yes there are some weeks when there is only 4 of us but more and more we are having a big turn out and everyone knows if you want to catch up turn up to Friday breakie…………lol

Sso he should love tomorrow as we are having a surprise party for  him for his 70th……………..most of his grandchildren will be there although none of Sue’s kids can make it as it is also my niece’s birthday so Heather is having a party for her and they will be attending that…………it is a shame as it would have been nice to have all but one of his grandchildren there. He has one granddaughter Kirsty who lives in Queensland (another state) so naturally she wouldn’t be able to attend…………..

I am adding a couple of photos of this mornings breakfast………………..

Has you ever told your mum you hate her?

Do you wonder how you would feel if your own child said they hated you?

Now many young children will say in anger that they hate their parent and as a mother I can tell you that my girls have said it to me when they were little and yes it hurt but they were children and I knew they didn’t mean it, they were just angry with me because they couldn’t get their own way…………

However I can tell you that when my adult daughter, a mother herself said it to me it hurt all the more, now when she says things like that while angry I can deal with it as I know it is the anger talking and I always thought she doesn’t really mean it she is just pissed off with me at the moment.

However a while back she said it to me when she wasn’t angry at all, we were talking and I said to her “you really don’t hate me” and she replied “yes mum I do” and she was serious…………….she went on to say that sometimes she really does hate me…………..this hurt and it still hurts and you know what she has no idea why it hurts so much……………..and I hope she never understands the hurt because the only way she is going to understand it is if her daughter says it to her as an adult and not in anger…………..if that makes any sense……………..

This is funny but  for many Australians it is just so true…………………now if I was in a situtation where there was an emergency what would I do well I have no bloody idea maybe run around in circles not knowing what to do………….yes I am not that level headed well I don’t think I am…………..lol

I remember when my youngest rode a pee wee 50 into a fence and split her head open and there was a lot of blood I was told to ring 000 and what did I do I tried ringing 888 yeah couldn’t even get 000 right……………….lol

How about you do you have a level head?

Do you keep your cool in an emergency?

If you don’t like something, change it.  If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it or you cannot change what you refuse to confront.

Such simple words and such good advice but something most of us find hard to do/follow. I am sure I am not the only person who finds it is hard to follow these simple guidelines, in fact I am not a big fan of change never have been doubt I will ever be. Me and change just don’t sit well together, how about you do you find change comes easy to you.  Or when faced with change do you want to run and hid and yell NO………. I don’t want anything to change…………I like things just the way they are…………..lol

Change is part of life for me and you and everyone it is part of growing up and growing older so of course there has been changes in my life…………………..

That said sometimes we have to learn to live with something because we are unable to change it such as a medical condition so we just have to learn to live with it for me this I believe will be the case with me being so low in iron after talking to the specialist he gave me the impression that I may just have to learn to live with being low in iron and that there may not any reason for the low iron it could just be who I am.

So how do you deal with change to you embrace it or run from it?

 

Do you have pen friends?

How often do you write to them?

Me I have a lot of pen friends around 20 odd and I write letters to my pen friends weekly or fortnightly and some of my pals I have been writting to for 20 years or more, these friends are real friends I feel a strong concention with my pen friends the long time friends and those who I have only been writting to for a couple of years.

It always makes me happy when I check the mail and find a letter from a friend so much nicer then just getting bills or junk mail all the time.