Cosco and Mayo in a jar

Happy Easter!!!
Louise and I went to Melbourne for the week end. The purpose for the trip was to get away and have some fun, and go shopping at COSCO wholesale.

We drove and drove through a very beautiful and for a change in 50 year ( I have been told), a green Australian out back. We started on Wednesday afternoon and got as far as Gundagai, where we stayed at the Budget Motel, in a purple clean room, charing the facilities with 100 truckies, we felt safe and slept like babies.
The next morning was glorious with sun and mist on the ground, the Coppers having "brekkie" at McDonald as one does! Especially if you are with Weight Watchers, as we are.
Whops! Hope Kate won't read this .

The countryside offered rolling green hills and a wast landscape you only find in Australia, the road was straight as an arrow for hours, and we were ahead of every one!
We stopped of in Aulbury for a quick pit stop, coffee and Dan Murphy's for some wine for the week end.
Aulbury turned out to be a beautiful little town with plenty of golf courses and good shopping.
The landscape did not change much as we drove towards Melbourne, but it was a feast for the eye to just let is slide by outside the car window.
Louise had bought a new Car, white with large windows LOL and a built in navigator !
Great we thought and left the Tom- Tom at home, big mistake !!!
As we approched Melbourne in the late afternoon, we wanted to go by COSCO to check it out before the Easter Friday close down. So we put in the Docklands and the street adress, the navigator took us to, God know where........ we eventually got there, more by default than with navigation help.
Finally we entered the world of huge shopping carts and free sample food. We joined as members, was photographed and printed out with little white memeber cards with our faces on them.

We could not resist the seafood counter and bought our dinner, giant Alaskan crab legs and oysters. Louise wanted Mayo, she found Hellman's real mayo in a 5 kg jar !!!
She had to buy it :)
Louise have carried that jar with her as her Teddy bear, in and out at every hotel room on this trip.
You see the Jar and then you see Louise !!

We checked everything out at COSCO and decided to come back on Saturday before we were due to drive back.

Just as a tip, if you ever go out of State with your navigation system, make sure it changes from one State to another. We learned the hard way!!

We left COSCO around 6 pm and thought we headed towards the hotel in Melbourne East. Wrong!
We were still driving back and forth at 9pm calling the poor man at the hotel asking for directions. He asked us " where are you?" We had no idea. We stopped and tried to ask at a petrol sation, The "moron" refused to tell us if we did not buy a $30 map. I do not want to tell you what we said.

We called the hotel again as we now knew where we were, the guy told us, Take a left on to Hunt road and then another left on to commonwealth road and then a right to , well it was not Hunt road but Punt road...... Oh dear we went around the stadium again and decided it has to be Punt and not Hunt, and did the exercise one more time and finally arrived at 9 pm. We logged the food and Mayo jar upstairs, as we had the top floor with no lift !! Yippie. So good to move the legs after having sitting for so long :)

We had a lovely dinner and some well deserved wine, before passed out.

The Art of saying NO !

Do You now how to say No ?

I find saying No is one difficult thing to do !
Why is it so hard to be nice to yourself ?

I had an E-mail from one of my dear friends, who had turned down a friends request to become her friend on face book. My friend needed to turn the request down, not because she did not like the person who wanted to be her friend, but what feelings that person brought out in my friend. gosch this is even difficult to explain..can you imagine living it ?

The point is, my friend was strong enough to look after Her self by saying No in a nice way.
This way she took care of her own well being and did not fall for what most people would have done, gone with flow, been nice to the other person , or to please that person hurt herself.
How many of us would have said "Ok, sure you can be my friend", been polite and done the "right thing" even if the right thing was wrong for us. I am so proud of my friend for actually standing up for herself. So easy to say but so hard to do.
I salute all of you who dare to be nice to yourself !!
Take care of yourself, love yourself first and make every one in your life happy, even if it means not complying with their wishes.

LIVING TOGETHER

Hi,
I was thinking about all us women out there going trough changes in life, and many of us end up on our own, by default. I was living with a young student and he moved out after 3 years. I was very lonely as he had become my "adopted"son. I arranged his wedding, and I was a proud" "mum" to help him find his job. When he moved there was a big gap, and you can't just fill it with anyone or anything.
So happened my dear friend Louise got a new job in the City and was living out in Narrabeen, ca 1.30 hours North of Sydney. She spent 4 hours a day in traffic and came home to her empty home, as her two girls had flown the nest. I could not find a good "roomie" so I asked Louis eif she wanted to move in with me, as I lived 15 minutes from the City.
She came the next day !
We lived in Rose Bay for about 9 months and felt we needed a bathroom each. We went house hunting for 3 months and saw what I think EVERYTHING !
We finally found a great place with 3 bedroom, two bathrooms and two car garage! They also threw in a swimming pool and two terraces with water view... We absolutely love living together! We would never have been able to afford the standard and the food with out sharing it with some one.
You should not be afraid to try it if you find yourself lonely. It is great for your soul.

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Some times life just takes over and time runs away from you!
Have you ever wondered what happened to time?
I do all the time. I have been at my " what I thought,temporary" work for over a year!
I do not have have time to waste on things like, but what do you do when you do not have time ??
Every day is so important, and still I have wasted so much time.
Does any one have any idea how to stop this ?
I will try to find some answers and tips to find more time, as I could really use it.

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