rdfreak

Well later on, i am off to rickybuchanan's place to catch up and invade on her "craft and chat" day. I needed a bit of a refresher description on how to get there from the station as it's been so long, but it came back once she reminded me! -- there's quite a few good CAFEs around there so I thought I'd grab some lunch at one of them before hand.
There was another purpose for updating but I really can't recall it now.
I can say now though that I have eaten an ant, and I don't feel any better or worse off fortunately. -- It was Kaz who pointed out the little buggers to me Saturday, not a heap of them, but a few having a feild day in the sugar bowl Nan had agreed to lend me (as I thought it'd be easier than scooping it out the jar each time; needless to say, I've now decided I will go back to the jar). But the thing is, I had already had one cup of tea before she noticed them, woops; gross.
Anyway what's up with that? thought they only came out in summer? -- Well the remainder of that sugar ended up in the backyard, and the few loose ants that were running around my sink got drowneded they's did; no more ants; get away! *sigh*
Til Next time, RdFreak

Well, before the sad news of Sunday, i had a great few days with good friends and food which I didn't write about Sat, as I wasn't in a writing mood, then after sunday, i wasn't either, but now I am.
First of all, though the funeral arrangements weren't obviously made as of yesterday morning when I was talking to Mum, it's going to be next Monday as M wanted Dad there for it, so this will be my fourth funeral; my great grand-mother's in 2000, Ian B's in 05, then followed by Milos same year and now Carrol G's :( far too many funerals; far too many deaths. :(

Thursday's events led to my intending to title the post "the Westall experience", but since I mentioned what I did in the above paragraph, i didn't think it was appropriate somehow, but man, was it a shocker.
I had lunch with J (as well as other friends who we met up with) in the canteen and then my appointment with Affette; day went very well, and I even successfully made my way back to the station after i'd walked from there with J the first time just hours before, so of course, this made me happy! I ended up chatting to this lovely woman who usually works at kooyong but had come down to Kensington for something; it was great to have the distraction while waiting so long in the cold for the train; she agreed.
Once at Flinders station on the Pakenham/cranburn platform, there was an announcement that trains were terminating at westall and buses will be replacing them to dandy due to an accident at Springvale; that was Ok (not accident though of course); I'd called salix_03 and her and Mon had kindly agreed to pick me up. Kaz had said so often to me that if I needed a lift anywhere, i'd only have to ask, so, i thought it would be easy enough since I was meeting them anyway, but alas, i was wrong, so wrong. :(
Train trip out there was pretty uneventful, but then .. we reached our destination and I got off train and attempted to walk to the exit, but it was nearly impossible; I'd never been in amongst such a crowd in my entire life; I could hardly move and every step i walked I would be excusing myself (trying to make way) and also apologizing. There was a complete blockage once I finally did get to the exit, so I just had to wait, all the time thinking "oh dear, they're going to wonder where I am".
Eventually, there was movement at the station (ha! :) and I was forced to walk in the crowd down to the gate; I was even feeling slightly claustrophobic at this stage as I wasn't able to take in where I was going, but all I could do was bbe carried (so to speak) along with the crowd.
We got to the gate, and I wondered how on earth Mon and Kaz would be able to find me in amongst the literally thousands of people, so i called them; they were stuck in traffic; that was OK, as in, at least they weren't waiting for me.
I spoke to a number of people who asked if I needed a bus. It was bad; the buses were only like one every ten mins and still trains were terminating even more people at the station.
It was just the worst thing ever; I was trying to keep Joy from being knocked; she was very patient though.
Anyway, after what seemed like eternity (note it wasn't their fault, but it just seemed that long due to the stress), Mon rescued me and she also was wondering how she was going to find me.
So after a while, i was back at Mon's feeling so glad it was all over!
We three went out to a lovely thai restaurant that night; so so good; we had lots of laughs as only we do best.
The next day we went to Southland to meet up with Mon's friend L from tasmania; she was lovely; she had a lovely dalmation as her assistence dog.
We had a lovely brunch there, and Kaz met up with us for afternoon tea after Mon had finished giving some training tips to L. Mon then went to an appointment she had while I went back to Karen's place for the first time!
I ended up staying that night at Mon's since by the time we met up with her again, it was getting late and cold, and of course, we love each other's company anyway. We had pizza since we couldn't be asked cooking tea; it was a lovely meal actually.
The next morning, i went along with Mon and Kaz to a bead shop and then Kaz had offered to drive me home. Mon went back to get ready for her afternoon at school while we went and had a lovely lunch at Parkmore shopping centre. Oh, i had bought some more chai tea at coles.
Then she drove me home and we had another cuppa and chat. -- good times!
Again, going back to the sad news, Mum had called me that morning and said that Carrol was nearing the end, and of course, that made me very sad. Sunday morning Mum told me that she had been taken to hospital on the saturday and they were all going over there as her breathing had changed; so Carrol was surrounded by her husband and everyone that loved her.

So that was my mixture of a week.
Til next time, RdFreak