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Mar. 24th, 2009

  • 11:33 AM

I have just reread my last entry.Boy, was I on a downer.I think the problem was lack of pills.I have just been diagnosed with Non Coeliac Gluten Syndrome and have been gluten free for three weeks now.I had been feeling so much better,that I foolishly decided I didn't need my Loxamine any longer and had knocked it on the head.You would think that at my age I would know better than to stop taking medications suddenly.Me bad.
However,I'm back on the pills and feeling so good.
Went to Merrie and Shaun's wedding Saturday.Absolutely gorgeous.The weather was glorious and Waiheke was a treat.However I was a bit naughty.Had a couple of tablespoons of tabbouleh with dinner and a tiny piece of crumb base with cheesecake for dessert.Suffered the next day.I hadn't really realized how grotty I have felt most of my life,until then.After just three weeks I feel so different,more energy,less depressed ,polymyalgia not quite so bad,but Sunday I was nearly back to the way I had been.
Two days on and am feeling good again.Long may it continue.
Started a sale at the shop today.We have to get rid of some stock before stocktaking,plus we want money.
Spread the word
Market Books Sale
10 - 80% off everything in store.

I hate my life

  • Mar. 14th, 2009 at 3:35 PM

I really do.I want to find a cave somewhere and take all my books and hibernate for ever(Okay,I would propbably need several caves,but you get the picture.)
I can do nothing right,my ideas are all stupid,and I really should be in a psychiatric ward somewhere.
The web site is a waste of money,I am wasting too much on Abe every month,and I'm too lazy to do any work in the shop,let alone at home.
If I didn't waste so much time playing on the computer,the shop would be running a lot smoother,and I could spend a bit of time listing stuff on trademe.
I'm a waste of space,and I should go and tell my psychiatrist the pills aren't working any more.
This was basically all because I didn't fully agree with his latest brilliant scheme,which actually I do agree with to a major degree.
We have already started selling to schools via a commission agent,but "We"  feel it would be a really good idea to do it all ourselves.The cold calling on the schools,all over the country,the packing ,invoicing,as well as everything else we have to do in life.
I guess I am just on a real down at the moment,so nothing he suggests will be right,but I get so tired of all the chopping and changing about the direction we are going in.
I really thought we had it sorted out the website,Abe,TradeMe,possibly Ebay,which we could do from home,and actually enjoy ourselves for once.Get to see the family occasionally,by going down to Auckland once in a while,although that might have been pushing it.We would get to see Nick and Rachel,then we would have to come home.To hell with my family,I get the impression they don't really count.It was a real struggle to get to see Scott and Emma last year,and there was no way we could stay down overnight.
Ignore me.I'm just having a bad day.

Merry Christmas

  • Dec. 24th, 2008 at 3:27 PM


It's ages since I have written anything,but I just had to write a wish all my friends a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season.

I have just had lunch and it is back to the madhouse which has finally started.

11.00pm church service tonight (first for many,many years) then tomorrow just blob all day,gearing up for Boxing Day,which will hopefully be crazy as well.
Anybody want to buy a bookshop so I can have a holiday.
         MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY

  • Location:office
  • Mood: crazy
  • Music:carols

Oh I am so clever

  • Jul. 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 PM

Yahoo.I just won Von's contest..I don't enter many contests because I never win,but his book has struck a real chord with me.Tried a few names with  no luck,then tried my own name,and I WON. Cool print on its way to me  YAAYY.

My Scott with his INDY Milk

  • May. 26th, 2008 at 1:33 PM

 
I have actually managed to post a photo.I just spoke to Ron and Glenys.They are so totally over the moon.
I still can't believe he's won.
  • Mood: hyper
  • Music:Jacques Brel

YAHOOO YAAYY YIPPEEEE

  • May. 26th, 2008 at 12:30 PM

Very proud aunty Jude here.My clever little nephew  Scott has just WON the Indy 500.We were late for work this morning.Had to stay to listen to the result,just a shame we couldn't watch.Have been trying all morning to get hold of Ron,but no joy yet.Will keep on trying.Just realised I need a decent photo of him.
  • Location:shop
  • Mood: excited
  • Music:Emma Shaplin

Apr. 21st, 2008

  • 11:31 AM

 Tanks to Aumtattoo for this


1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.,
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Use what's actually next to you.

-----This brings us once again to the all-important question of inbreeding,which has been alluded to above,when a reference was made to the remarkable success of Mr Christopher Wilson.----------

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Bye Bye Tom

  • Apr. 9th, 2008 at 1:46 PM

Tim's second son Tom left today for a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan.Very sorry to see him go,but he is so looking forward to it.This is his first overseas posting,apart from a couple of weeks in Singapore on exercises,and he is really excited.His partner, India ,isn't too keen,nor are we for that matter,but Amy,Jono and Nathan will be staying with her.Jono is due to enter basic training on either the 7th or 12th of May,so it will a household of women plus baby.I just hope it works out okay.We know what Amy can be like. She is a real little sweety,but still very young.
At least we got to see Tom last weekend,as there was no way we could get down to Ohakea to see him off.
Quite a pleasant day at Wenderholm,shame Pauline and Cliff were there.(No, that's not really very nice.Its only because they tried to talk us into yet another pyramid scheme.)
Even though we don't see him very often,we are still going to  miss him.I just hope he comes home safe and well.
Mental note to self  ---  update this more often.

Jan. 7th, 2008

  • 2:43 PM

Back at work,basically normal time.A bad case of Mondayitis for both of us this morning.Had a wonderful day off yesterday.Went into the hardware store earlyish and got a few things for the garden,then spent the rest of the day pottering.Planted a blueberry in the orchard,started on the vege beds then started pulling weeds from the front yard,before we put another load of gravel down to replace what got washed away in the floods.Found four chooks nests,cut down a kapok plant and an inkweed tree.I am ashamed of the lack of basic weeding I haven't done since we have been in this shop.All changed now that we won't be working Sundays anymore YAY.
Quietish day in the shop today,means we are actually getting some work done for a change, yeah right.
I have an internet connection again,so I am playing a little bit.

Jan. 4th, 2008

  • 11:40 AM

Hi Sennydreadful,welcome to my world
  • Location:shop
  • Mood: happy
  • Music:secret garden

Happy New Year

  • Jan. 4th, 2008 at 9:44 AM

Happy New Year everyone.
It is the most glorious weather here,hot ,sunny and not humid at all,which for Whangarei is amazing.
We have been slacking at the shop a little,opening late and closing early,and the last couple of days have taken to going outside at home with a couple of foam mattresses and lying under Oaklet,our baby oak tree.We planted it when it was about 1 foot high,and now it would stand about 18 feet.We are very proud parents.The acorns we collected from our South Island trip about 6 years ago,(our last holiday) are now between one and three feet high,and we can actually start to see the formation of the new drive.
Tom,Nick and Rachel were up on New Years day.They worked so hard on the property.I think this was the best christmas present they have ever given their father.
I'm not sure how I am going to do it but this year I'm going to not get depresseed,I'm not going to let Tim get me down,and starting today ,(I hope) I am going to start gardening again.Santa gave me a neat book on homegrown foods and it has really inspired me again.This is the first time in 6 or 7 years I have actually wanted to get out and do something
Quite busy in the shop at the moment.Our first trading day for the new year we were up on last year,so lets hope it continues.
  • Location:shop
  • Mood: cheerful
  • Music:Vivaldi

Merry Christmas

  • Dec. 24th, 2007 at 12:07 PM

 A real quick Merry Christmas to everyone who might read this.

Also happy Hanukah,or whatever other holiday you may celebrate.May the coming year be very good for you all.
                        Lots of Love    
                                             Jude

  • Location:work
  • Mood: jubilant
  • Music:christmas carols

Happy Birthday Big Bro

  • Dec. 6th, 2007 at 2:21 PM

Well it's ages since I have posted here.The Arapax is working and I haven't felt so well for years (literally).Prozac was okay,Cipramil was better,but Arapax just knocks their socks off.I have been down a little,but I haven't sunk into a black hole like normal.YAY.
It is terribly  quiet at work,Xmas just isn't happening here yet,but nearly everyone else that I have spoken to,is saying exactly the same thing,and not only in Whangarei,Aucklanders as well.
Shocking weather,thunder and lightning this morning,just rain now and so humid.I am going home early tonight to try and find our tree.I'm sick of no Xmas cheer at home,not even a lot in the shop.
Tim was very upset last night,He bought the corner of the boot door down on my head.Boy did that hurt.Blood streaming down my face and we were off to get Chinese for dinner.I cleaned myself up as best I could in the car,and I don't think I looked too bad.Feel a bit woozy today,but I have been to the doctor and she says just to take it easy for a couple of days.
We are getting some lovely stuff in for Xmas,just have to sell it now
  • Location:shop
  • Mood: chipper
  • Music:Miisissippi Blues

Oct. 2nd, 2007

  • 1:28 PM

 It is an absolutely glorious day today.Far too nice to be inside,and a real change to last night,when we had an amazing electrical storm,and huge winds.It really sounded as though the roof was going to blow off the house at one stage.
I have decided that I am going to lose weight (Yeah right),and have actually started working towards that goal.I can't go to Traci's wedding,but I can lose weight for it,so I have three months to make a difference,then a couple of months to Scott and Emma's wedding,and I should be halfway to my goal by then.
I wonder if I will ever get to meet Emma.
Ah, the difference a bit of sun makes,you feel you can do anything.

Sep. 28th, 2007

  • 3:08 PM

I am a nearly pill free zone these days.The only thing I have to take is prednisone,and if I want to keep walking,I think it is probably a good idea for me not to stop taking those,however,no more antidepressants,and I am going to keep going without them if it kills me,and quite frankly the way today has gone,it probably will,either that or I will do Tim in.
Things can only get better though,and in all honesty I think that they are.
The sun is shining,summer is slowly getting here,the ground is starting to dry out all is right with the world.
I have been doing the exercise for my ears sort of religiously,and the dizziness is starting to ease off.
The vertigo still hits occasionally,particularly if I have been on the computer for any length of time,or if I move my head too quickly,but on the whole things are improving.I don't feel drunk quite as much as I did,unless of course I actually am.
I only got happy the other night.after all we only drank two bottles of Asti,between two of us.
Better go back to work now,and let Tim have his lunch,after all it is 3.30 p.m.
Going to have a late night tonight, working.There are so many books to put away,and so little space into which to put them. We really need rubber walls,so we can push them out a bit more.It is a real shame that we can't afford the shop next door at the  moment,but who knows what will happen in the future,After all,we are winning Lotto on Saturday night

Thanks again Moggy

  • Jul. 9th, 2007 at 3:57 PM

                   JUDE

      adjective
                              Sexually stunning


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Thanks Moggy

  • Jul. 9th, 2007 at 2:12 PM

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You are quiet and reserved in most social situations.
A low key, laid back lifestyle is important to you.
You tend to bond slowly, over time, with one or two people.

Conscientiousness:

You have medium conscientiousness.
You're generally good at balancing work and play.
When you need to buckle down, you can usually get tasks done.
But you've been known to goof off when you know you can get away with it.

Agreeableness:

You have high agreeableness.
You are easy to get along with, and you value harmony highly.
Helpful and generous, you are willing to compromise with almost anyone.
You give people the benefit of the doubt and don't mind giving someone a second chance.

Neuroticism:

You have high neuroticism.
It's easy for you to feel shaken, worried, or depressed.
You often worry, and your worries prevent you from living life fully.
You tend to be emotionally reactive and moody. Your either flying very high or feeling very low.

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Your openness to new experiences is medium.
You are generally broad minded when it come to new things.
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I've got a breadmaker

  • Jul. 5th, 2007 at 2:20 PM

Went to the auction last week and bought a couple of car loads of books,which I have been working on since.Tim rearranged the car to make room for a library's worth this morning,and brought forward a couple of other boxes,that I hadn't seen.A couple of very nice heavy enamel casserole dishes,a couple of clock radios,a tape deck,some Tupperware,an espresso machine which will come to the shop if it works,as I already have one at home,and a bread maker.I have had one before,but it came from a garage sale and it had a broken lid.It still worked,but Iwas never quite sure about it.Now I have another one,which if it workscould be so much fun.Can't wait to get home tonight to try it and the espresso machine.
Dinner is on in the crockpot,only have to cook broccoli to go with it,so I should have time to have a play.
Yay.




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I feel so pleased with my self

  • Jul. 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 PM

I am so clever.I just copied and pasted a blog I wrote for Myspace and copied it into Blogger,complete with picture.
Silly to be so pleased with myself,but I feel quite chuffed.
It is taking me a while,but I am slowly learning how to do things with a computer apart from write emails,and enter books into a data base.Still don't understand  the language used,but as long as the end result works who cares.

Harry Potter in window

  • Jul. 2nd, 2007 at 2:47 PM

Had a big banner made advertising Harry7 .Spend $100 dollars and get Harry Free.So far only 1 definite order and a couple of nibbles If they don't want to spend $100 they can still get it for $32.95 instead of the $55 it should be.Fortunately we only got 1 carton,but I must try and remember to order the backlist.
I'm getting utterly sick of the weather,the front yard is just a mud puddle.Found Pretty's eggs the other day.Fortunately they aren't too dirty
Spent all morning cleaning a box of god books.Our beliefs section is going to get a massive boost this afternoon.
Tim has just brought in the first of the boxes from Friday's auction,only 10 more boxes from this carload to go then another carload to pick up.We haven't been to an auction for so long,but boy,did we make up for it on Friday.
We are back to doing seven days ourselves.As much as we need the time off we just can't afford to pay Lulu $15 an hour.Plus if we are here,we get so much more work done.
I have actually cleared out from underneath the tables at the front,so now we have that space for storage of culls
Really must try and get things listed on trademe or on a website
Thing is we need a shop three times the size of what we've got.

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