The Truth about Big Hair.....

• Big hair does not only grow out of your head.


• Big hair can be nasty and gets caught in sunglasses, on door handles, in silly bloody door hangy things at certain cottages and especially in bathroom drains.


• Big hair smothers darlins in thier sleep


• Big hair makes HUGE pony tails that actually resemble large trees with strange parastic growths


• Big hair is heavy


• Big hair makes big sweat


• Big hair gets caught in your bum crack! (I can see a calender in that!)

......another sad tale of big hairyness is that, yes, big curly hair grows out your legs too. This requires constant struggle with chemical poisons for controlling purposes. Tonight I decided that it was time for a mow and did open new packet of said chemical and discover a TOOL. Yes a big hair scraper offerer to work with stinky chemical poison. Excellent thought I.....

...a new and better way to poison oneself, most gooderer indeedy........3 minutes later I was scraping copious amounts of big leg hair away, mowing, mowing, much good, yay.......

10 minutes later I have large red scrapy marks all up beautiful hairless walking apparatus! NOT GOODER. Not at all. I will surely have to sue hair removal company now because red scrapy things are even ooglier than long curly leg hairs in my book, yes indeed.

THEN......I get into lovely bath with bubbles and stuff and bathe poor scrapy legs and bounteous body and relax and all nice things.....I get out and what do I see in the bath?

A daddy long legs!!!!! Floating, floating...........dead dead dead

I know that it wasn't there before...

I did scrub the bathroom muchly this afternoon in my piteous attempt to be housewiferly, it was spick!, so that only leaves me to wonder with dread...

Where did it come from?????

Aaaaarghhhh.

HRmph

hmmmm

Must be funny energies today. Everyone is quiet and having a crisis or two.
Happens like that sometimes.
I have no crisis....this is much good.
I like a crisisless day occasionally......

I have been pondering on why it is so seemingly important to us that others like us and think we are wonderful ALL of the time.
Does anybody actually know anyone who is wonderful ALL of the bloody time?
I certainly don't.
Me especially!
Why do we set ourselves up with such high expectations of ourselves and yet its okay for others (and even expected) to fall apart and stuff up and be human occasionally?
And why should we expect everyone to like us when we don't like everyone?
And if we are expecting others to never fall apart and to always be some kind of paragon then how fair is that to them?
I know that I, in my life, have often put people on pedestals and thought that the answers to my problems could be found in an outside of myself source, namely, another person who I percieved to be wiser/stronger/smarter/ more powerful than myself. It didn't ever work!
People on pedestals invariably fall off as they too, are only human, like ourselves.
I have eventually come to the conclusion that if I am looking for another person to 'fix' my life then I am looking in the wrong place.
And I am also being extremely unfair to the person I am expecting perfection from.
Nobody can live under that sort of pressure without cracking.
I now know that the answers to my problems lay inside of myself and that I am the ONLY one who can implement change in my life and 'fix' anything up for me.
And that I can only do it for me and not for anyone else.
And my friends are the wonderful people who support me in this and let me be me, warts and all, and love me anyway as I love them for the same reasons.
We help and we teach and we lend a hand, we don't 'save' each other because we can't.
Its a huge thing to come to realise that by setting people on pedestals, we are setting them and us, up for a fall........

Food for thought isn't it.

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Mary Bee has arrived....

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Go say hello to our latest but certainly not leastest mary.

good things that happened today

• I found a gold coin in the gutter!


• It was, unfortunatly, a chocolate gold coin and in the gutter so I just had to leave it there and not eat it....bugger


• I only had one guy with smelly armpits standing over me on the bus on one trip and only one old man that smelt like wee on the other...excellent (plurgh)


• AN EXCELLENT TEXT MESSAGE FROM MARYBOSS


• scored 8 books to read for $7.50 from op shop...mostest gooder


• got good mum points for giving in to pre menstrual 14 year old


• didn't bat a lash when got a phone call in middle of kmart layby queue from 13 year olds school expecting me to hop on my broom and whizz right over to pick her sick little self up! Fake! Did ring father type person and tell him to deal with it because I am not a genie this week and he has a car and a license.....


• Am dealing with 13 year old temper tantrum without violence and calmly saying no to requests for new outfits and expensive presents for friends who will have birthdays this week.


• Haven't found money tree yet but will not give up hope.


• Best of all???? MY BIGGEST BABY GOT 1ST IN HER HONOURS CLASS THIS YEAR AND IS TOOOOOO GOOD. I think 95% is pretty good. Yes, very much good. And beating the one they call "smartest man" is even better considering no one ever has! YAY for Tahni Lee, what a star! A medal and a scholarship and some bucks for her......excellent daughter....


• Of course, its all my fault....I can deal with that.

note to self...

• do not ever try to do xmas budget at 6.30am again......set up for not good day for sure


• do not ever have more than 1 child in any other lifetime where xmas is celebrated for sure


• do not ask son to do anything that requires effort and does not have an advantage for his own self
• do not yell loudly at said pig son unless you wish to be relegated to crazy old lady status


• do not rely on people to put money in bank when they say they will


• do not think ANYTHING will cost $5


• do not give in to 14 year old when it whines to stay home from school, EVER


• do not feel sorry for scheming conniving 13 year olds for any reason what so ever as it will always cost you big bucks


• do not let brilliant daughters go to Catholic Scientist Virgin College where they will be converted and made celebate nuns for sure and will never give you any grandchildren, not that you want any of course!


• do not trust marys who say they will come for coffee


• do not make 400 laybys before knowing where money to pay for them will manifest from


• do not be a grumpy old bitch ALL day long


• do not ever yell at darlins on the morning of assessments because they will yell back for sure even if you did break your back typing on stoopid computer for 100 years last night for them and now they have work to hand in


• do not think that just because it makes perfect sense to you that it will to anyone else


• do not think that I am not grateful, I AM, I am simply getting this out of the way first before getting to bloody gratitude okay!


• do not forget to take Goji for 3 days in row anymore


• Phew......

As for you, yes you, we will not miss you!

We shall be having too much fun talking about you and other such stuff!

Pah....snoff....plurgh

We shall love you anyway and make a seperate mary club whose members shall be relied apon to turn up for coffee and water and stuff.....

snoff....pfft

Things wot keep me busy

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attention all marys!!!!

Mary Jen has a day off on Thursday!
This needs immediate gratification for sure...

Mary coffee-fest at Goldbergs on Thursday at 12......

Yes?

ROMY IS BACK!

Monday bloody monday

Thankyou all the marys who have offered to point bones and things at some markers for me.

The trouble is that my marks are directly related to the amount of effort and enthusiasm I did not put into my work Im afraid.

Credits were GOOD considering......

So any boney points will come to me so DONT DO IT!!!

I will just be very gooder next year is all.....

The good thing about next year is that I will be doing subjects I actually like!

YAY

No more school talk now, that bit is OVER for now........phew.

Seems that we need to organise a lunch and coffee for several mary's.....I will get back to you soon.....

I have been spending up big on ebay.......sh u gar

I am a sucker for sure.....

I told the kids they were getting nothing for xmas......I am a big fat LIAR

As usual they will get too much!

Oh dear.

I finished the drum...excellent

I started another which I have just scrubbed off as it was too too yuk.

Bugger, now must start again.

I am having a bit of trouble adjusting to not having to do evrything in 5 minutes...this will pass for sure!

I have 15 cents in my wallet...how far will that get me towards the bank?

Hmmmm

I am very sick of stupid weather that will not make its mind up! No wonder upduffers have the flu......

I am going because I am just rambling on now.......goodbye

sigh......

Wow.

Am almost feeling human again.

A huge week to be sure.

A little birdy tells me that we will soon have a new mary.....'bout bloody time mary bee I say!

I have been painting a drum today for a lady who has waited very patiently for about 2 months now...bad me.

Mary is back....yay, yay, yay, just in time for me to be compus mentas or however you spell it.

This week my darlin is an art school and it may not be pretty!

Not known for his having to do stuff skills is he.

He just likes doing what he wants, when he wants and how he wants and get stuffed the lot of ya.

Not a good look in assessment week however........hmmmmm.

Might help out a tad me thinks.

I am not too impressed with my marks this year....will have to pull finger and get serious next year for sure.....I am better than a credit!

...and certainly better than a pass in sculpture...ouch....I have consistantly recieved distinctions in sculpture every year and even though I was only going for a pass this semester it bites to not perform to highest potential.......

I will be a house wife this week for sure.....maybe.

I will not be STAFF till Saturday so I will also be a painter of paintings on order and some drums will be done too. This will be much good.

In fact I will be whatever I want to be this week...anyone for coffee and lunch and other such stuff????

Come on, you know you wanna!

I am also an ebay! Oh oh

I dont like santa..........

missed a day

OOps.
I really was going to blog last night.

Really.

Its just that I was a wee bit tired and decided to lay down for an hour at 6pm

...and woke at 5am......

hmmmmm

I have been staff today and have been a good mum and taken girls to buy swimmers...plurgh

I have done a short joust in Woolies....plurgh

I have caught buses and laybyed and walked a 1000 miles around Charlestown Square.......plurgh

And now I am here and I am going to have some food because I am very bloody hungry!

Catch you later.

PS: Mary romy is well and husband is recovering nicely at home now. All good!

I am now understanding why maryBOSS is comatose.......I am a calender club and its not pretty.

I have a swollen lip from biting it today......looks like Ive been punched...must remember not to do that tomorrow!

I will be putting a sign up upstairs that says "Young girls do NOT stand near this railing as young boys down below can see straight up your tiny little skirts....' Or maybe they know this?

Scary stuff.

I experienced a man who ran around the racks pretending to be suss just so mother in law and I would chase him.....

I love mother in law...she is a calender COP for sure....

I love Sandy who came so I could go have a smoke.....thats right 'A' smoke.......in 7 hours. Nicotine gum tastes PUTRID.

In short, I have no feet left, all worn down to the bone, have a punched in lip and severe depression.......rescue remedy is good shit!

Gotta love it...in fact I love it so much Im doing it all again tomorrow!

I AM best STAFF, I told you so!

AND I didnt make one single mistake!

HAH

This was sent to me by an elderly friend. Just thought I'd share!

A young wife sat on a sofa on a hot humid day, drinking
iced tea and visiting with her Mother. As they talked about life, about
marriage, About the responsibilities of life and, the obligations of
adulthood the mother clinked the ice cubes in her glass thoughtfully
and turned a clear, sober glance upon her daughter.

"Don't forget your Sisters," she advised, swirling the
tea leaves to the bottom of her glass.

"They'll be more important as you get older. No matter
how much you love your husband, no matter how much you love the
children you may have, you are still going to need Sisters. Remember to go
places with them now and then; do things with them. "Remember that 'Sisters'
means ALL the women... your girlfriends, your daughters, and all your
other women relatives too. "You'll need other women. Women always do."

What a funny piece of advice!' the young woman thought.

Haven't I just gotten married? Haven't I just joined the couple-world?
I'm now a married woman, for goodness sake! A grownup! Surely my
husband and the family we may start will be all I need to make my life
worthwhile!' But she listened to her Mother. She kept contact with her
Sisters and made more women friends each year. As the years tumbled by,
one after another, she gradually came to understand that her Mom really
knew what she was talking about. As time and nature work their changes
and their mysteries upon a woman, Sisters are the mainstays of her
life.

After more than 50 years of living in this world, here is what I've
learned:

THIS SAYS IT ALL:

Time passes.



Life happens.



Distance separates.



Children grow up.



Jobs come and go.

Love waxes and wanes.



Men don't do what they're supposed to do.



Hearts break.



Parents die.



Colleagues forget favors.



Careers end.



BUT.........



Sisters are there, no matter how much time and how many
miles are between you.


A girl friend is never farther away than needing her can
reach. When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you have to walk
it by yourself, the women in your life will be on the valley's rim,
cheering you on, praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on your
behalf, and waiting with open arms at the valley's end.


Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk
beside you...Or come in and carry you out.

Girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters,
daughters-in-law,
sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers, Grandmothers, aunties, nieces,
cousins, and extended family, all bless our life!

The world wouldn't be the same without women, and neither
would I.

When we began this adventure called womanhood, we had no idea
of the incredible joys or sorrows that lay ahead.

Nor did we know how
much we would need each other.

Every day, we need each other still.

todays agenda

• into school to lay out exremely wonderful photography for assessing
• dash to be STAFF for several hours
• dash back to school to unlay photos and lay out drawings for said same process PLUS be assessed for re entry next year...gulp....all good
• unlay out said stuff
• get supplies for starving children somewhere in the midst of this
• cook dinner for above
• get ass to Rose Cottage for spiritual upliftment
• hmmmmm..doesnt sound too bad...we will see

pssst.....

I am finished.......

shhhhhh.......

don't tell in case they make up some more work for me.......

but I am finished......

in 3 more days I will not be an art school anymore........

until next year........

hee hee.......

I am finished!

oh oh im half way theeere....

I am not 3 reviews anymore!
Thank goodness for that, they were like clouds hanging over my head...

I have organised all of my drawings, my photography folders are done, my print works are sorted and various journals are looking like somebody cares about them....phew

Now I ONLY have to mount 7 works, do a studio plan for OH&S, complete a limestone sculpture, paint 2 drums and possibly try to fit in a couple of landscape sketches...or not, whatever.

All this by tomorrow evening......hmmmmm.

The sculpture and sketches are not really necessary as I will pass anyway but needed if I wish to get more marks........we will see. At this point I am only caring about passing and I should/will be right!

YAY

I must be having everything in perfect order before last minute as I will be emergency STAFF for frazzled mary lots at the other end of the week.....

All is well.

I AM!

me

Mary extraordinaire
Impatient
Chocoholic
Herself
Excellent!
Laughing
Lazy
Egghead........

How 'bout you?

A spiritual being
Now is the time
Completely divine
Helping mankind
Endlessly loved
Lovingly cared for
Lasting forever in spirit

Thanks for the idea Shann.