Long Time No Post

Has anyone noticed that it has been a year since I last blogged?
Nah didn't think so. I ALWAYS read everyones blog, but as you know I'm a lazy bitch from way back and I hardly ever comment. I guess cause facebook has taken over and If I have something to say I usually say it there.

I am sure I have a billion things to blog about.

I will get my shit together and blog again!!

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Laundry.

What is it with laundry?
Why does it always seem to breed just when I think ive got on top of it?
Why are so many of my undies, bras and socks white and fiddly to hang on the line?
Why does someone decided to burn off just after I have hung it all out?
Why is it when my daughter cleans her room, I get MORE laundry and she expects me to be proud of her for cleaning it after a month?
Why do the kids need a new towel after every shower and create more laundry for me?
I use to love doing the laundry and ironing, how great freshly washed and line dried clothes smell and feel.
Now I work so many hours I find it a complete pain in the arse.
I need a housekeeper!!

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Made me giggle!

Im now F!

Ohh yes that time has come, I am now FFFFFFFFFourty. 40. 40? 40? How the fuck did that happen?


So how did I celebrate it? Being a bloody slave to my family of course.

My sister in law V, who I will say I don't know very well as I have always lived away from Melbourne for the 10 yrs she has been in our family, decided that my brother, herself their 2 little kids and my Mum would come visit me for my birthday.

They came to my town on Friday, it was raining, great for our town of farms not great when you have a 4yo & a 2yo. I was expected to "entertain' everyone because they were on holidays..WTF?? it was MY birthday. They whined about everything. The pizza they ate that I paid for($65) was shit, the weather was cold and I had told them that we have had been having nice weather of late, none of the shops were open, (It was fucking Anzac day for fucks sake), they didn't want to go out for my birthday dinner and suggested that I cook them a BBQ, Pigs arse!! We went out for dinner, of which Pete and I paid for. Sunday we went to our farm, I drove, paid for all the fuel, drove them around the farm (Not all 33,000 acres of it though) cooked a BBQ, drove home, that was a total of 8 hrs driving.On the way home I got a phone call from SIL who said she had ordered Chinese food after we told her that we didn't want any as we were still full from lunch. I went in to pick it up on the way home, $81.00..Did anyone offer to pay?, NO! not including fuel, I spend $150 on dinner, drinks, ice creams etc just on Sunday.Not once did anyone offer to pay for anything!!! Then Monday I had changed my meetings to Tuesday so I could drive my Mum home so she wouldn't be squashed in the back of the car with 2 little kids. I ended up taking the little 4yo with me (who was a delight). Mum whined the whole way home, when I told her to shut up as I had had enough, she said to me, Well Cheryl You did want me to come with you. Well no Mum in fact I didn't I was doing YOU a favor.
When we got to Mum's, and gave the child back to her parents, Mum invited brother and SIL in they said, No cause they were too tired from the trip! FFS, I did all the driving, all the entertaining, and fucking paid for everything. They didn't even thank me for having them. I had to listen to constant digs at me such as, well you are now 40 Cheryl, you can't do this and can't do that, and your hair, it is way to dark, you look like a 40yo trying to be young again. (Mind you my Mum is 67 with bleached blonde hair! I was telling Mum how I was doing weight training, and I showed her my arms, she said, Hmm well I guess you don't look that bad.

Ohh my fucking god! I'm so bloody glad I live 6 hours away from my family!

Me Me

Hey Everyone!
Yep I am alive and kickin. Just SO busy. This working thing is just taking up so much of my time Ppfff.

This sweetheart has tagged me. Ok so now for some random stuff about me.

1. I'm a bit of a control freak. I like to organise everything. Much to my kids dismay, I drive them nuts about stuff like, You did put that express bag in the yellow express box?? The off spring are now 12 & 15, I think they know what the express box looks like. I need to chill out a bit!

2. I'm very fussy when it come to the cutlery I use. (Only at home)
I like my forks to not have long prongs on them. I have a special fork, its just mine, I get pissed if anyone use it. It's about 30yrs old, and almost had it. If for some reason this fork isn't around,I use entree forks. I eat my oats or ice cream with a teaspoon.

3. I am an all or nothing person. I'm perfect at what I do or else I don't do it. This needs to change, but at the same time I'm willing to give most things a go.

4. I really doubted myself when it came to running our company, but I'm seriously kicking arse. I have saved the company about $60grand a year already. I do love my job, just wish it didn't take up so much time, but the travel is fantastic.

5. We are in negotiations with an overseas company and if things workout we will be living else where for a while. Seriously early days yet.

6. I love living 6 hours from my family. I really love them but I don't have all the dramas that go along with it.

7. I'm very independent. If something has to get done, I will do it alone, I wont ask for help,unless I pay for that help. I hate to think I owe someone something.

8. I really enjoy my own company. I like to do my own thing, I don't like people just popping around for coffee or a chat without a call first. All my true friends know this. It's not cause I don't want to see them or anything like that, its just I'm not really pop in for coffee kind a person. I would NEVER just visit someone without calling. I love to catch up with people but more when it suits me.


9. I can't spell. Thank god for spellcheck. I just have to make sure it is on Aussie spelling or else im stuffed.

10. I turn 40 on Saturday. My family are coming to visit me. Whilst I know they are coming to be kind but they don't understand that they are creating more work for me. I should be visiting them, then when I have had enough I can come home. Selfish? you bet!


11. A wise lady once told me that when you turn 40 things change. She told me that you don't tend to care what people think of you so much.
For me this is SO true. I couldn't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks. My attitude to life and people in general has changed heaps since my husband affair last year. I think for the better. I'm a much better business woman, Mum and Wife. I do NOT take crap from anyone, Kids, Husband, or anyone else. If you shit me, usually it is like water off a ducks back. I don't care.. LOL I will speak my peace if I feel its worth it, most of the time it isn't.

So if you like this post, great, If not.. Well go fuck yourself...

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Pig Hunters

I have just got a phone call from my husband who is at our Sheep Station in the arse end of nowhere. Someone has cut the fences and broken in to the house. Nothing was taken but it is going to cost $ and time to fix the fence. When you have large property the fencing goes for many Kms before there is a need for a strainer post. From this one cut we have to repair over 1km of fencing. Bugger.

Bloody pig hunters are to blame. Pig hunting is a very cruel sport, In fact its not a sport at all! These guys (mainly guys but I know of some women who do it too) Hunt the pig down using dogs, once the dog has the pig on the ground, the men (if you call them that) slit the pigs throat. Most of the time the die straight away but not always. Mind you this after the pig has been mauled by 3 or 4 pig dogs, bull mastiffs and the like. 9 times out of 10 the dogs get ripped up by the pig's tusks. The hunter then sews the dog up themselves How can you call that a sport. Yes the pigs are feral and are a pest as the dig huge wallowing holes and in numbers make paddocks useless for farming, but there is not need to be cruel. Yes we have pigs, yes we shoot them, NO DOGS or KNIVES!. Most of the people who do this are from larger towns or city slickers out for a cheap thrill. Not to mention the damage the hunters do to the farmers fencing, and trespassing is against the law!
Makes me sick!
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Twittering

Hey All,

Anyone using Twitter?? I have recently signed up, still trying to work out how to use it and who would have time to update it all the time..LOL

Let me know if you have it and your user name so I can follow you. Stalker much?

Tom is now getting some mental health help. Our paed basically said to me, "I don't know what's wrong, he needs mental health help, call this number, your on your own sweetheart" But that will be $200 thanks. Thanks for nothing!

The local unit have bumped him right up towards the top of the list and is seeing someone Wed week. In the mean time I will have to just try and defuse any situations that arise. Tom went back to school today, first time in a week. He still has stitches in his hand until the end of the week.

I had a huge session with my new PT last Wed. She was so full on. I'm now feeling quite smug at the fact today is the first day I can sit on the loo without using my hands to lower myself down. She better slow down with this old girl or else I'm finding a new PT. I'm averaging one workout a week as I'm too bloody sore after seeing her to do anything else.

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