Jem’s blog

Wow, I got really distracted and it's been ages since I have been here, sorry bout that.

How is everyone ???

I know it's no excuse but I have been busy trying to sack some psycho person from our team. When did it become so hard to sack someone?? Especially when they provide you with a fraudulent Dr certificate !!! So I am busy jumping through hoops for management,  to get the desired end result, but I did get to tell psycho worker excatly what I thought of them on Tuesday, soooooooooooooooooo good.

On another tangent, Cat and I both have our individual highschool reunions this coming Saturday, how bizarre. I nearly bailed but pulled myself together at the last moment and now am still going.lol. Should be very interesting. Stay tuned.

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Man,

Cat believes I am the black widow of computers and I am starting to believe her.

The home pc died a little while ago and now last week my laptop died. I have my laptop back, and luckily I had an external hard drive to back up most of my info as I lost everything. The only info I can't retrieve is my Itunes library......any ideas on that friends??

Thank you Cat for encouraging me to get an external hard drive, and thanks to the lovely Sony man, who couldn't save my data, but asked me if I was married *giggle*

On other news, the net is closing around the liar in my life. A Dr becomes very angry when they find out someone has forged their medical certificate and their signature. KARMA,

Here in Australia it is Father's Day tomorrow, so I wish all the Dad's a very Happy Father's Day.

My Dad is staying with us tonight and we had a superb dinner cooked by Capt Tidy and myself. I made an apple pie from scratch and the Capt cooked the best roast pork EVER.

I also cooked liver and bacon today , known as " lamb's fry and bacon " as it my husband's and Dad's favourite breakfast. They can reheat it tomorrow whilst I slumber. I don't do Sunday mornings.I don't do any mornings.

My Dad is spectacular in my eyes.

My Dad is a gentlemen, he likes to party, he is up to date with current technology, he has picked himself up from losing his wife, dusted himself off and he has engaged in life. My Dad volunteers for two community organisations. He keeps in contact with my Mum's family and he attends all of my children's school events.

My Dad makes the best vegemite toast. It's an art. You see, you take the lightly toasted bread out of the toaster, spread it with butter whilst still hot and then lightly wave the vegemite over it. Perfect.

Love ya Frank xxxx

it's 3.30 am

I am awake.

Seething

I  found her out,

Today.

She is a liar.

I am really sad.

Insulted

Angry

Karma?

I hope so.

Have you ever experienced a natural disaster? If so: when, where and what happened?

I have survived Flood, Earthquake and Hail storm, but the most memorable by far was the Earthquake. It occurred at 10.29 am in Newcastle in 1989 and it was 7.1 on the richter scale. I was a university student at the time so I wasn't long out of bed due to a big night the night before. I was on the phone to a friend and my dog started barking madly, you know how experts say that animals can sense earth tremors before they occur, well I am sure my dog did.

I was yelling at my dog to shut up when there was this huge shaking and rolling sensation and then this huge bang as the house rode the wave of tremors and came crashing down. All of the tiles came off the bathroom walls, the books fell off the bookshelf, Mum's Lladro figurines smashed on the floor and there was dust everywhere. We lived on a main road and so my first thought was that a truck had come through our house. But when I wandered outside I found all my neighbours outside going " Did you just feel that?" These were the days before mobile phones and the landlines were out so it was probably half an hour before we found out by radio that Newcastle had just experienced an earthquake and that the Newcastle Worker's Club had collapsed.

My strongest memory of that day was hearing the sirens of emergency vehicles nearly all day as they travelled to different sites. My sis was working in Mayfield at the time and the ceiling collapsed in her building. She calmly got all the customers and staff out of the building and locked up the store. We didn't know where she was for about 2 hours and that was awful, but thankfully she was okay.

This is a shot of the collapsed Worker's Club, I worked in another bar in Newy at the time and many of the SES people came to have a drink at our bar at the end of the rescue operations that night. A very emotional night. 

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Vampires are very big on the hit list in our household at the moment. We caught the Buffy train a little late, but we caught it none the less. We have watched season 1 thru to 7 a couple of years ago. And then we watched it again. Diva and I have read all of the Twilight books, as well as watching the movie and Capt and I have been watching season one of True Blood. How good is that??

So ps2boy saw a pic of Cat that she had photo shopped, making her look like a vampire with nice big fangs. He was keen for me to do the same to him. So I google " how to make fangs in photoshop elements" and Voila I instantly have a tutorial to watch and I make fangs for ps2boy in less than 20 minutes. Thank you to all the talented people who share their knowledge on the wonderful world of  the web.

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It was a sad day today in our town as we lost a young man to cancer. T had battled the disease for 9 years. T would have been 18  tomorrow.

One of my staff is very close to T and to his family. As it happens in small towns, I found out this morning via an outside source before she did. I had to be the bearer of the bad news.

Awful, I will never forget the way her face crumpled or the sound of her sobs. I just hugged her and hugged her.

It's just so wrong that a parent/ parents should have to bury their child. T has a beautifully large and loving family, my thoughts are with them at this devastating time. All I can fathom is that he is at peace. Rest in peace T.

If you have been over at Cat's blog you know that Cat and I had a few drinks ( 3 bottles of wine) the night before I was to get my Dad from the airport. Not good.

Although Cat and I had a hilarious night, the morning after was not so funny. Capt Tidy dragged me out of bed at 7.30am  I  threw random clothes in an overnight bag, with a toothbrush, clean underwear and the Sookie Stackhouse novel that Cat had loaned me. Priorities people!! I forgot my GHD hair straightener :(  We drove to Frank's house via Macca's drive-thru and had a fun day of......Gardening!!!!!!

If you know me, you would know that the last thing on earth I would choose to do is to do the gardening. I believe it is like ironing and housework, totally unnecessary as it only has to be re-done once you do it. I didn't even pack old clothes and so I raided my late mother's drawers for a t-shirt and tracky daks to work in.Keep in mind that I am 5ft 6 and my Mum was 5 ft nothing, so her tracky daks looked liked 3/4 pants on me. lol.

So with throbbing head I weeded the garden beds whilst the Capt cut the edges and mowed the

lawns. The neighbour's dog tried to eat me from the gap under the fence and the neighbour took pity on me and turned his sprinkler to high so that it wet me every so often.I think I was a possible health hazard as I was sweating pure alcohol by this stage. Thankfully the Capt had an appointment with a client at a nearby completed home , so I took the opportunity to lay on Dad's lounge and nana nap whilst the Capt was gone. Not for long...... up again, wash sheets,make beds,hoover, have a shower, do some grocery shopping for Dad and then off to the airport to get Frank.

Stay tuned for part two.

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Window or aisle?

When the Capt, lil sis, the lawyer and I flew to Spain I mentioned to my Dad that we were seated over the wing of the plane and I could see the wings moving up and down with the air currents. Freaky!!!

Dad " Oh that's the best place to sit "

Me " Oh  I didn't know that, I thought the back of the plane was the best place to be ".

Dad " No you want to be over the wing".

Me  "why?"

Dad " Because there is a direct fuel line to the engines, so if you crash you go up in flames straight away. Instant death no suffering."

Me " Oh okay".

It was such a beautiful sunny winter's day today, I took some time out to sit in the sun and read the paper after lunch.Keeping me company were my two little buddies Bill and Ted. I was feeling very fuzzy as I attended an awards dinner the previous night and although our centre was nominated in one category we did not win. That did not stop us from celebrating, and we consumed alot of local wine and yummy food.

We were all dressed up in our finery, I even had my suck-in-your tummy undies on, and so did quite a few other ladies. I know this because we were talking about them in the toilets. And the funny thing about them is that the bulge has to come out somewhere, so you end up with bulgey thighs or back fat. One lady had a body suit type of thing on and she had bulgey knees.Her suit paid off though because she won in her category.

And I made quite an impression on the town Mayor. My friend Ruth was talking to the Mayor as I returned with a glass of red wine for her. I didn't know she was the Mayor.I was a bit cranky because the waiter was very rude to me so I thrust the glass at Ruth across the Mayor and said " Here's your friggin glass of wine, I nearly had to bitch slap the waiter to get it " And Ruth said " Ah meet our fearless leader, this is Jem". Needless to say I got the brush off.

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