Darn!!

Well bother bother bother!! My mobile has decided it has had enough, and no longer works! It could have held out for another two months - we were gonna get new ones when we move anyway, and see what deal we could get at Victor, for buying two! But I really don't think I can cope for two months without a phone ..... mine is the one Dad got the day we headed for Newcastle nearly 4 years ago, so he pointed out it probably doesn't owe us anything!! Anyone know how to retrieve saved messages from a "dead" phone?!

I was very disappointed to have put on 1kg when i weighed myself last week so I've added a block to my usual morning walk. Measured it the other day, and it's 5ks - takes me an hour, and is about 9000 steps! I'm being more careful with what I eat, too - will see what the scales tell me this week!

Of course, possibly a dumb time to increase my walk, as I'm finding with packing, that I tend to wander thro the house a bit, looking for something just the right size to fill a space in a box, and two days this week I've done over 30,000 steps ..... and yes, i AM sleeping well at night! The heap of full boxes is growing, and Dad got some more, bigger empty ones for me yest, so my frustration over yet another delay in getting the proper boxes, is eased a bit! Latest is, they should be here Wednesday! Which is 5 weeks from M Day, and in that 5 weeks we've got two lots of lovely visitors and 3 trips away! Oh well .... I'm sure it will all happen!

Loxton Lit Up with big bang last night, and Martha's had about 15 visitors through, plus about 10 of our own folk, so we were quite pleased! There were 7 of us "working" there, which was more than we needed, but we enjoyed the fellowship time together! Jill and Jaap came in, and a couple of their Motor Home friends, and Mickie and Les from next door. There have been a few frustrations with things not happening - like our flashing sign out on the footpath runs off a car battery but the battery was flat! and we didn't have a baby Jesus - so Sharon went & bought a baby doll, that lights up - it's AWFUL!! But wrapped up in the manger it's OK ..... just gives me the shudders! And we haven't got the messages on our manger yet ... the taped messages Natalie did last year .... the technology just hasn't got set up yet .... we got there to set up Fri night and the extra tables weren't there, and half finished banners were all over the place, and the people were asking ME what to do - I stepped down from that committee a month ago! My BP was up a bit by the time I came home, I suspect! But I can see the funny side of it now! It all looks good, and by next week we might have some of the glitches sorted! I even sold two Christmas Veggie Tales DVDs to a lady ... and I'd been going to buy one myself! Oh well!

Dad's gone to Renmark this morning, left 7.30 .... next time I'll go with him, for his farewell!
I should say farewell and go get ready for church! Love you all! Mum/Gramma/Nanna/Karen