August report

Goodbye August!  Where did the eighth month of the year go. Finally this is the final month of winter. It was a busy month with normal commitments, craft and bowling.  Also I started on spring cleaning downstairs.

Some good luck and bad news had happened this month.  For the lucky charm I won $45 for the lotto number card again at the TQI tournament and the bowling raffle on Sunday night recently. 

As for the bad news I found out a friend has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and I have lost another relative on 29^th August.  Her resting place service will be held tomorrow morning but I couldn’t go because it was just too far to travel on such short notice. Besides this weekend will be busy with important commitments on. Once I plan on going away on holidays up north with the kids, I make sure I stop there to pay my last respects to her.

We had two weekends in a row with bowling tournaments.  The first one was for Juniors where leagues played against each other on 7^th August at Logan Lanes.  Both girls were involved in two teams and they came 3^rd (Monique) and 8^th (Rachel) out of 16 teams.  On the following weekend (14^th August) Monique had her sixth TQI tournament played at Mt Gravatt. Not surprisingly she did it again!  She came home with another two medals to add to her collection for team placement of coming 1^st and the other one for high series with HCP.

Being the eighth month of the year reminded me it was my birthday this month.  I turned another year older this year and I just had a quiet day at home.  It would have been nice to have a scrap day but my CM consultant decided to cancel this workshop day as we had an all day meet on the following Saturday.  Three days later after my birthday, it was Monique’s 13^th Birthday which now means she is a teenager.  Can I hibernate like a bear until she turns 18?

Besides normal scrap meets, I was invited to attend to an all day mega scrap meet at Runcorn Tavern's functin room on 27^th August.  This event was a fund raise event for Make a Wish Foundation. Unfortunately I didn’t win any prizes but I managed to have a productive day on creating some pages.  Right now I am working on a new project.  One of my relatives requested some family photos of us so I decided to create an album instead.  Instead of what kind of album I normally use I choose to use a picfolio album (where you just simply add your 12 inch completed pages into a plastic sleeve).  Last month CM had a deal going where you buy two albums for the price of one and I thought the picfolio was a better deal to buy.  I didn’t have to worry about purchasing extra albums pages or protective sleeves as the picfolio album had another pages for what I need this project for.

At this mega scrap day, our lunch was included in the price from the tavern.  We had a choice of five dishes from their menu. We could have either steak, pork, chicken, pasta or fish served with their salad bar. All choices were picked from many ladies but I went for pork and vegies as it has been a while since I last consumed a roast dinner. It was quite yummy too!

Well that's it for this month!  I hope you all have a lovely day with your father on this Sunday.

Family member

What a week this one going to be!  I thought the weekend was bad enough when I found out a friend has been dianogised with a brain tumour. But tonight's bombshell set this week off.  Whatever plans that supposely happen may not happen afterall.

Looks like I might be making an emergency trip to travel up north as I received bad news about one of my Auntie's passing tonight.  It was a total shock to me because I never knew she was quite ill. I did get the call on Sunday evening stating to expect the worse but I didn't think it would happen just over 24 hours later.  Tonight is too much of a reminder what happen three years ago when my Nanna died.  The only difference is my Auntie died the day after my Nanna's anniversary. 

The details of her funeral haven't been said as yet but I am only guessing it might happen before this weekend.  If not, it would be earlier next week for sure.

Watching parts of the episode of the X-factor tonight made me thought what kind of world we live in after I heard the song IMAGINE sang by a 17 yo male.  Even after I SMSing to some cousins of mine who live interstate,  I thought I wish I could be in my 20's again.  Then I wouldn't have my relatives slowly departing out of my life as I am growing older.  I know it's the circle of life that we were born to live and die but I still think it isn't fair to see our relatives go after I have known for over four decades.  I just hope my Auntie didn't suffer much pain in whatever illness she may had. 

My weekend

Hi followers!  How was your weekend?  We had another quiet weekend away from bowling tournaments.  The next one is scheduled to happen on Father's Day.  Futher details might of been listed on my sporting blog last night.  In a couple of hours I have my bowling league to bowl in.  We might have an advantage to win tonight as we are going to play against one of the lowest points team. 

But yesterday I had an interesting and busy day.  I attended to an all day scrap meet in Brisbane which I already been mentioned in my craft diary.  Tuesday is the next time I will have another casual meet at the store.  I love Tuesdays!  It's my favourite day of the week these days.  I won't need to have any pages prepared as I have done them up last week.

One school will have their fete on this Friday evening. I am sure the little school's community will have a busy week finalizing all the details in ready to start after school.  I still got to preorder and pay for two ride bands.  Most school fetes these days have organised with the ride company to have a ride band schedule where a person pays for only $20-$25 for a ride band to go on unlimited rides in the time of the fete in operation. If the weather is on its best behaviour that night, we should have a small fireworks display at the conclusion of our fete.

What a week!

Hi followers!  How was your week?  Inspite a mixed bag of weather sightings I remained busy with normal commitments and craft meets (which I will chat more about in my craft blog). 

I have turned another year older for a week now.  And for two days I watched afew DVDs of my favourite TV show that I received for my birthday.

Unfortunately a tragic event happened for one family in our city this week.  I know our locals would of heard about this but for overseas readers, a house fire destroyed the lives of two families.  It is hard to imagine what these survivors are going through right now after losing three generations in one go like that. 

When I hear tragic events like this one through the media, it makes me think even more on how short our life really is.  We all (especially today's teenage kids) should be thankful we have a life to live for...food on the table, clothes on our backs, a roof over our heads and parents to love us.  But for parents who have teenage kids, they would understand the pressure we (as parents) have to go through with their kids.  People say terrible twos are the worse years! I think they were wrong about that one.  I reckon the teens years are the worse to cope with.  There is times I just wish I could hiberate until my brats turn 18.

Today wasn't really a good start of the day for me.  This morning I received some bad news from my best friend. She now lives overseas and I am thankful we have the net so I can chat to her at times.  But this isn't the kind of news I wanted to read.  I think I have been through enough for the past 3-4 years. She told me her friend is very ill with a brain tumour.  He is only in his 40's and the survivor rate with this tumour is slim.  He is fighting as hard as he can and he is going through chemo treatment. 

Last year when my Dad was sick and was in hospital more then once with his ordeal, I did do alot of research about cancer treatments.  I read if a patient goes through chemo treatment, it can have serious side effects to other parts of the patient's body within 6-12 months after treatment.  After I read this I do wonder if it is really worth the trouble to live for, if surgeries or treatments are going to cause more grief than recovery.

Time to update other blogs now. Have a nice Sunday!

My birthday

Guess who's birthday it is today?    MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!  But I am not going to say how old I am.  All I will say I will be celebrating many anniversaries over the years of being 21 again and again.  Well.....I only can wish to be that young again.  Don't you?  Ahh!  The good old days of being single.

OMG!  That was so long ago and where did these decades go and how much my life has changed during this time.  I got married, moved three times, experienced childbirth twice and a lost of a baby, had afew casual job positions and experienced of being part business owner.  Now for the next 21 years I hope to stay healthy, continue bowling (hopefully get back into more tournaments in other states), witness my children have excellent careers and try to achieve my own goals and dreams.  What are your goals and dreams?

Anyway I had a nice quiet time at home with my family on my birthday.  I was planning on going to the EKKA with the kids but because I had a sick child home from school for most of this week I thought it wouldn't be advisable to go and let her get any worse after she's making the road to recovery now.

I have received afew birthday greetings via snail mail and on my facebook wall.  Thanks guys!  I love you all!  But the best present of all was receiving a DVD set of the final series of Macleod's Daughters from my DH.  And seeing my eldest daughter getting her star of the week reward at bowling this morning made a nice start to the day.  I have a feeling it will be my turn tomorrow night to get my reward.  Now, wouldn't it make the best present for me and make a nice ending to my weekend.

I heard this morning about a Nanna from junior bowling had celebrated her 90th year last week and apparently her family had organised her to go on a bike ride around Sydney for an hour.  I couldn't imagine a senior age female on the back of a three wheel bike but she said she loved it!  I couldn't see myself doing that at that age (that's if I am alive still by then) but I would love to go up into a hot air balloon before I died. I don't know because I am scared of heights.  When I used to live at home with my parents I used to see one or more hot air balloon on most weekends, passing over our house at such early hours of the morning (after sunset). It was so beautiful to watch!

If your birthday is coming up or has already past for this year, I hope you will/had a great day with your family and friends. 

A short week

Hi followers!  How was your week?  This week was more a short week for students as they had two days off school because of Brisbane Ekka.  It all depends on where you lived.  Towns outside Brisbane region. students might of had days off on Monday and Wednesday while Brisbane kids had Wednesday and Thursday off.

This week was even shorter for my eldest daughter as she's been sick for afew days now.  We went to the doctors and she has been prescribed some antibotics for tonsillitis.  Has been afew years since she last had it and I just hope it doesn't continue for the rest of this year.  I had tonsillitis years ago on many occassions.  In the end I had to have my tonsills removed.  It was no fun for a young adult to go through.

Have a good weekend!

Another bowling weekend

Hi followers!  How was your weekend?  We had another weekend at the bowling alley to deal with two leagues and one tournament to be played at two centres.  A full report is listed under my sporting blog. The only thing I forgot to add was I won $25 from a pick a number card from today's tournament.

Normally kids would be back at school on Monday after a two day weekend but tomorrow is a public holiday for Brisbane EKKA.  I did thought about going to the EKKA with the kids tomorrow but I decided against it because it will be another expense I don't need right now.  We had a busy month with bills as it is and I still have to pay for kid's school excursions and ride bands for one fete this month. If I end up go to the EKKA I will go by myself during school hours on Friday so I can view all the exhibits without worrying about what the kids are up to or complain about something I don't wish to hear.

What's on your agenda for this week?  Not planning on doing much out of the ordinary this week as the kids will have two days off school.  Oh well, whatever plans you might have scheduled, I hope you all will have a good week.