Morning all,
The washing machine is going, the coffee is perking, the list of to-do's has been created and I am here enjoying my breakfast and coffee in the sunshine and chatting to you lot. However I have no problems with monsters in cupboards since either the cupboard has been recently purged or.......... it is too full for him to be able to reside in there. No doubt if there was one, it is down at the dump with the other junk.
Shaker, my thoughts are with you and I send
aplenty. I hope the spot on the back turns out to be nothing more than an age spot. But it is good to get these things checked out. Shakers DH has obviously been checking things out. Well done him. Have a good old family time at Easter. I hear the weather is not too bad over there at the moment. And well done on not breaking the diet. It is a triumph over adversity.
For those in the frozen north, Australia is known as the melanoma capital of the world because people spend far too much time in the sun without adequate protection. Here a tan is everything. In NZ, due to the world wannabees playing around with Mother Natures miracles, there is a huge hole in the Ozone layer and this causes many skin problems as well as other cancers. They are usually fast and very frightening. My mother with her very fair skin had many skin cancers removed from her face. Even my Dad, half Maori and very dark had problems with skin lesions towards the end of his life. Changes in skin should never be neglected and along with the boob squish and the pap smear, you should all put skin checks on the calendar every two years. I call all these checks along with hearing and eyesight tests, my Warrant of Fitness (WOF) and I toddle along happily around my birthday time to get all these things looked at. So far it has worked. End of lecture.
Happy - stolen body bits??? It must be the monster in your closets doing the evil deed. A butt 3 inches lower than before - waaa haaa ahhaa.
Very funny. Nice laugh there. Also had to laugh at the exercise. Is the pulling of the earlobes meant to increase the area through which sound can enter and therefore you get more information in. I tried it, but I'm worried about what size my earlobes might get to before I begin to remember how little they were!
Carla - day 3 is done! Well done and well done to all of you who are embarking on the good ship Perfection. Smooth seas and plain sailing to you all.
Mel - no thank you, no grandson. Cheap, cheep or otherwise. I'm done with pets for a while and Sunday the cat will get the pyrolytic oven if she doesn't soon shut up about feed me, feed me when she has a perfectly good bowl full of biscuits waiting for her. Bl**dy cat! Although she may have some tooth problems or such. I may have to delve into the depths of the mouth to find out if she needs a trip to the Vet. The vet once said that I could get a little toothbrush and clean them for her. I thought he was joking but apparently not, it is a common problem with build up of tartar on teeth for felines, however I am not in the mood to be ripped to shreds by claws and teeth so she will go to the vet and get anaethetised for that.
Hope that hip comes right soon.
Michelle - Great going on the double rate of days to perfection.
I guess I will get used to the hair colour, just didn't want to be red and certainly not copper topped anyway, but thems the breaks and I will chat about it more carefully next trip to the hairdresser. My hair grows fast and thick so it won't be all that long.
Ceejay - be careful in those storms.
Rennie - one of my kids asked me once if I would feel incomplete without grandchildren. My reply was that I had no say in the matter. Children are and shall be a direct responsibility of the parents and who am I to say whether they should have them or not. Do I want to be a Granny - not particularly. Never was a particularly maternal person. And besides which IMHO there are already too many people in this world and like Michelle, I think the animals are in more need of our help than the human race is. It already has everything it needs but it is consumed by greed and wants more and more - to the detriment of the earth and it's flora and fauna. There is little in the way of checks and balances left anymore.
Okay - the job interview went off fine, thank you for asking. It took an hour and a half rather than the scheduled 45 minutes and ranged between Change Management, tech writing, conflict management and training. They have, although they didn't say anything about it, 3 vacancies. I think they were testing me out for more than the one I went for. They may have just been searching for ideas about how to tackle a fairly daunting prospect.
Do I really want the job??? No, there are more interesting jobs around, however this job will keep me home for one whole year and the office is 15 minutes up the road. The other job I have been offered is in Adelaide where I could visit with DS1 and it is more in my line of Plant Maintenance where as the Brisbane one is Finance, HR and CRM all of which I have done but not in any great depth and I don't find them particularly interesting - it's a case of what I call the warm and fuzzies. It would be a chance to open different doors though. The Adelaide job I could also work in with the Groote Island job but it would mean moving to Adelaide for 6 months. Do I want to go to Adelaide in winter - Perth in winter was a worry and that is further north than Adelaide. Adelaide has more $$$$ and taxable allowances, the Brisbane job has lower costs. So depending on who offers me what I shall make a decision sometime next week or not as the case maybe. Either way I have made it clear that I will be looking for time off while the kitchen goes in.
And that is about it. Time to move on out into the sunlight and hang out the washing, clear up the carport and mow the yard - oh rats it is still to early to bring out the power tools. I'll be hung drawn and quartered if I make too much noise on Good Friday morning. See ya!
Muggers and thieves abound - BEWARE!!!!
Carla - I'm so proud of all your successes today! 
I did Day 1 and Day 2 of the 100 Days yesterday; and today I'll do Day 3 and Day 4. Winter hasn't left Wisconsin yet....some areas of Southeastern Wisconsin are supposed to get up to 8" of snow tonight and tomorrow - where we live is suppoed to get less Thank Goodness!
muggers and thieves have stolen from me too! I hope your work day goes better today. 
NO FRAPPES....BUT I DID THINK OF THEM A LOT! NOW I WRITE THEM DOWN IN THE "MAGIC JOURNAL" 
FOR ELLEN WHO IS ON THE RUN. 
IT WAS THE OLD STORY OF USING BOTH ARMS AND LEGS TOO MUCH THUS CREATING A DOUBLE INFLAMMATION. IT SHOULD ALL GO BACK TO THE USUAL PAIN REAL SOON. 