Cate's Diary

o_O We've been getting temperatures like that for a couple of days every year now and it just isn't fun. On the other hand: anything over 35 just feels like an oven to me, doesn't really matter anymore.
 
That's insane 105.anything! Hope you can hide indoors a lot!

That is so wonderful to hear that G left the meeting and stood his ground! I wonder if you are rubbing off on him?!

And amazingly wonderful your heart feels good now!!!!
 
It has been getting hotter & hotter each year, even in Tassie. These climate change deniers drive me bonkers! Tasmanian summers used to be very mild but the last couple of years it has got to 30+ lots and lots of times & we sleep with a sheet only for a month or two. The Northern states are having sky-high temps. I don't think I would have booked this trip to see G's brother if I had known it was going to be 41. I don't think I'll be leaving their house, assuming they have air-con! We don't. We have never needed it. The hire car better have good air-conditioning too as it's a 3.25-hour drive. Fast forward to next Sunday night when we are back home. I'll try to think of it as training for Greece.
I think our "talks" are helping G to be a bit firmer in his resolve. It hasn't stopped him saying "just ring me if you have any questions" though. He got 4 calls and messages yesterday. The one person is trying to do everything. It is just not possible & he is being a little arrogant even thinking that he can. He is not short on ego. I said to G that he is going have to learn the hard way. Personally, I think it wouldn't be such a bad thing for the vets to disband & incorporate into the club. There really is no-one there who can or will do the jobs required. That's why we kept doing them way too long.
I actually had a dream this morning that we were out at the club & there was a working bee happening. It wasn't a mowing, brush-cutting type working bee. It was more like a sewing group but there were people everywhere quietly going about helping one another in a feeling of harmony. There should have been birds & butterflies in my dream, but I don't remember any :)
The captain called me over for a "talk" & in my dream, I thought "Here we go. A bollocking!" Instead, in my dream, he apologised for all the grief he has caused us over the last couple of years. "I'm sorry I was so mean to you. We miss you & we want you both to come back" he said. He seemed genuinely upset.
I can't believe I had this dream. In some strange way, it has made me feel a little bit better. It did not actually happen, but in a perfect world.....
Anyhow.
Today I have to try to nail down what I am taking with me tomorrow. I have only 7kg of carry on baggage booked. This trip is going to cost us about $1,000 without adding check-in baggage. I do like the challenge & have done it the last few trips. It's great to just walk straight out of the airport without waiting for your bags.
 
Hold on to that dream because it shows you how hobby environments should feel. They can be like that and they should.
I like travelking with just carry-on baggage as well. I do always get annoyed when I see people with massively oversized carry-on bags who feel entitled to putting them into the already-full overhead bins and think people with smalles bags should be putting them down under the seat in front of them so the entitled big-bagger can have room for their legs. Grrr.
 
I hope you have a comfortable, air conditioned trip! I love when I don't have to check bags, too! That is so hot that if they don't have air conditioning in their home, I would go buy a fan just for my stay there! The times I have had to say goodbye to dying friends or relatives have really changed my life in a very good way. I hope the same is true for you!!

I wonder if the dream was about hoping that eventually you will be appreciated by the club members? I hope you can get G to stop telling the people at the club to call him. That just seems like temptation to get roped into things again!

Anyway, bon voyage, and hope everything goes great!
 
Have a fantastic trip Cate .
This climate change thing is disturbing. I find anything abooce 26 c too hot lol,as grew up with nothing much above it. I have an Indian friend and he thinks that's chilly lol .
What I hate on planes is if I have paid for my seat to sit beside my family member and the stewards ask do we mind separating so someone with a young child can sit with them. I move but inwardly I'm shouting pay for your seat to sit with your child . I always did but some people just are so entitled just like LaMa says with the bags .
Glad G did ok at the meeting
 
LaMa. You are right. Hobby environments should be harmonious & supportive. That's going to my aim. My carry-on bag is quite small & soft & I have now packed it. It weighs only 4.5 kg :D I am also only taking my small Hedgren travel crossover handbag. I feel a great sense of achievement.

Hi, Marsia & thank you. Surely they'll have air-con! You are right about saying goodbye to dying relatives & friends. Even if this is a negative experience it can still be a lesson. The dream was a dream of hope I think. G gets taken advantage of by so many people. It was a miracle that he quit.

Thanks, Petal. It is going to be way too hot for me, but I have thrown in very cool clothes & I am looking at it as practice for our Greece trip. I am starting to feel slightly liberated. I won't move seats for anyone as G is my buffer zone between me & fragranced humans.

Thanks, Tru. It feels like we are making breakthroughs & life will get better. We booked another 2 things this week. One is live music in our local town in a few weeks & another staying at the beach for a night when we next play our social golf. More fun-less stress :)

I'm not sure when I'll be back on the forum next as we leave very early in the morning. I may take our passports with me just in case, as a large part of Tassie is on fire. Actually, I'll go put our valuable documents away in our old gun safe.
 
Yay for small carry-ons and romantic little get aways!!! Hope all goes well with the trip and the fires abate quickly!!
 
Just a quick check-in. G & I are in a motel on our own enjoying some peace and quiet. *sigh*
We won't get back home until tomorrow night. I'm so glad I chose to stay here to de-stress on our way back to the airport in Melbourne. It will only be an hour & a half's leasurely drive tomorrow. I'll tell you more about our visit when we get home. We don't think we'll return.
Hope all are well xoxo
 
Thanks, Petal, LaMa, Jack, Em & Marsia.
Our trip comprised-
Thursday-
68 km drive to the airport,
a 1-hour flight to Melbourne,
picked up a hire car at the airport,
3.25 hr drive to G's brother's house, having lunch along the way. Stayed 2 nights.
Sat- 2 hr drive to Ballarat
Sun- 1.25 hr drive back to the airport, having breakfast along the way,
1 hr flight,
68 km drive home.
G's brother looks terrible but it's hard to say what will happen. He hardly leaves the house & is grumpier & ruder than the last time I saw him. He almost drove G bananas with re-hashing the same stories over & over & getting angry at the world. He has always been like that. He is incredibly nasty to her. His wife goes over & over everything & continuously looks at photos of everything that they have left behind & cries & cries. She is about to start a new p/t teacher's aide job & that will get her out of the house. It will be challenging though as it's assisting special needs children. She already has a big one of those. We both found it utterly exhausting. We won't be back. She wanted us to stay. We would go start raving bonkers if we did. G's brother has always been unbearable. Both of them live in the past & re-live every little wrong that has ever been seen to have been done to them. It has eaten away any semblance of happiness that they may have once had.
I'm glad I don't do that. Sometimes I wish I had a better memory, but perhaps that's a good thing. I do have the ability to put things behind me & move on. I also forgive.
It is so good to be home again.
 
Wow, sorry to hear the trip was so negative, but I bet that the parts of them that are in the present really appreciated the visit. I feel like that sometimes with my mom - she gets in a grouchy funk and it seems like she doesn't connect with anyone as a person - she gets too focused on her expectations that aren't happening. I worked in special ed as a teacher's aide, and liked the people I worked with. They were creative and caring, so hopefully she makes some new positive friends!

Glad you are home and have all that behind you now!
 
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