June's BLOG- A little late and its not 50 shades of grey!

Finally I am getting around to a blog!

Start of with the zzzz first; well for me its :D :D :D but i can hear everyone say 'there she goes again so i will keep it short;
There is alot of exciting movements in our companies! Recentley I have been able to let out that we have been working with the official betty boop as they have licensed our glasses. It has always been a dream of the group to have a patent and a licence, so thats off the list, with in two years so I am looking forward to what we have planned next :D I am learning that I'm better at keeping secrets :D I feel like a little fish going into deeper water now...exciting yet possiblities of drowning here. Either way I love my job, what ever my job is classified to be, to most its probablly the del girl.
The life of a working woman is tough, I pick Sam up from school some days and think I should be wearing a cape, and then i realise its not just me, i see other mums running in, running out saying things like, i have to pick up the shopping, get jess from swimming, cook the dinner, bath the kids and get the marking in before tommorow; Every time i see a woman in a frenzi like this i feel i should make some type of extravagant gesture like bow to her or curtsy to show her some aprietiation as she is running past me ( she is being smacked by every twig and leaf on the way down the path but due to her being into her tasks she barley notices the whip lash of a branch!).... women i applaud you for fitting it all in! 

My home work life balance was a new years resoloution; i feel forever torn between this because it is my end goal of the projects; ( End goal To be able to run businesses that allows me to have flexible working hours to pick up sam from school, take him there and spend time with him at the weekend doing exciting fun things) For that to happen i need time and i need money. There is a very precise structure to this, and lots of sytems to put into place, it has meant me and my family have had to make massive sacrfrifices with our time and money in order to learn the processes of how to achieve this, some days are tough, but if it was easy everyone would be doing it. Theres short term plans, medium term plans and longer term plans and no matter if it takes me 10,000 ways of finding out what doesn't work i am 100% sure i will find one way that does work.. and works well!

Sam;
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As always a character, the best thing he said this month is  Nanna you said a naughty word, your not allowed to say naughty words, but sam i am a grown up... no nanna your just old!" & 'Mike do you have a long neck and are tall because you are a herbivore dinasour' Endless running around at the minute with school trips, teddy bear picnics and meetings! he is starting the feisty fours and we have some attitude issues some days, all stories for the memory bank! He is so excited to be going school and making new friends, can't wait to see what the next 12 months brings!


Personal life; JUNE

I've not had much chance to spend time with my friends and family recently other than a rushed evening  meal or a late night cinema viewing, ( i have been like that woman i was talking about earlier, whip lash by branched without having the time to notice the pain) my own fault on this front i am training for a marathon so three nights a week and a weekend day are taken by this, the others are for SAM, its just a difficult juggle at the minute. i do however have a few stories from these events;

Cinema Trip with Spence

You have to love a 241 orange Wednesday mate date, I am probably the poorest entrepreneur you will meet as i keep spending money on what i think are 'great idea's', we went to watch snow white, absolutely brilliant! slight issue to begin with, shortly Into my journey we realised i was heading toward the wrong cinema so quickly re routed to the right one. So we get there all is well, ordered the largest popcorn and coke you can get , had a slightly uncomfortable but pleasant conversation with the man serving the popcorn ( him not speaking English very well caused me and Spencer to slow down our speech and pronounce our words a little more than usual, I'm not sure if she picked up on this but i do remember thinking talking slower is not helping right now). So we get into the cinema and picked a seat,  8 rows down still premier seats....we had standard seats but slipped into these premium seats as i wasn't prepared to walk any further, i had popcorn screaming EAT ME in my hands.. we got away with it ... for 5 minutes until those people come around with the shiny torches, anyone would think they were holding a knife not a torch the way we slumped into our seats. Then she came, her big bloody torch in our faces making us feel like we had commited the crime of the century! Tickets... 'erm yeah ok' (handed over the tickets)  No your tickets please.... 'that is the tickets' ...no it is not that is your receipt.... ' oh....( then Spencer does the whole I'm looking in my bag but not really looking in my bag because we all know right now that we do not have premium seats. The lady then shines the torches in our direction asking us to move ( then moves her torch to an area of which we can sit). I have to be honest, i felt a little awkward because the light of a torch in a dark cinema attracts attention from other people so i knew as soon as i stood up people would be looking at how 'bad' we were sitting in premium seats when we only had standard seats.Well the situation went from bad to worse as i was wearing white trousers tried to get out my seat as quick as possible and picked the giant coke up by the lid... big mistake.. i soon found myself just holding the lid! but a clever person would have let it just drop.. no not me, i tried to save it, by grabbing it and pressing it in towards my body.. what an absolute idiot, i was wearing white and due to that lady waving her torch around in our direction the whole cinema potentially saw that! well anyway we laughed about it, good job i wasn't on a first date! Snow white is defiantly worth a watch, there was a really elongated part where a hottie is on the screen with fire behind him, not sure if it was suppose to be serious but I'm pretty sure Spence and I found the cheesiness of it hilarious. Love a orange wed mate date!
My first trip away with Sam and Mike

Trip away camping with SAM and mike.... Well where do i start with this one!
The night before we were suppose to be going mike had the car all packed up and i was in work overload and wanted to get some work done before i left so was working at home, i was going to drive over to his and go from there, except when i got off my chair, my foot seemed to have forgot it was attached to my leg and decided to buckle, i heard the snaps and fell in heap of human mess on the floor waiting for my dad to come and rescue me, which he did, for a 59 year old man he still responds to his daughters screams in record time! before i knew it there was a pillow under my head a cold compress on my foot and my leg elevated... pretty sure he thought i broke it, in fairness, i thought i had! so trip to the hospital ( had to hop up 8 stairs with a bunch of youths outside laughing, highly embarrassing, but what was even worse was when i got to the top a nurse came out with  a wheel chair! i thought you have to be kidding if i just have to hop up those stairs and you rescue me while i am at the top and Ive done the hard work, you can do one, so i stubbornly refused the wheel chair on principle. ) anyway turn out it wasn't broken it was torn ligaments nothing a bandage wont fix. On the way out i needed toilet stop, slight drama here, hoped into the toilet, light wouldn't turn on, it was a massive loo think it may have been a disabled one, i stood there thinking, automatic then, it will come on soon, nah it didn't but i was desperate so decided to go in the dark, so i threw my bag down and hopped over to the toilet, when i got there, light came on, brilliant, light, except everything in that bathroom way automatic and i had thrown my bag into the sink, and the tap exploding with water was going straight into my bag where my phone was! Have you ever tried to stop a pee mid way through going? near enough impossible, add that to a ankle you can't walk on and its a recipe for disaster! so the hospital trip was an experience itself, an Oman that Weymouth should not be attempted! So I Get back do some ankle stretches and we are packed ready to go at 6am the next morning except from mine not mikes and missing a few things i was suppose to do.

 We had a lovely day when we got there, sun was out SAM built his first sand castle, then we left mikes family and went to our campsite.. then i found out that trying to pitch a tent with your partner is a major relationship test! He is asking me to peg in the tent, but i can't get them in so he is following me around shoving in the pegs harder and huffing at the same time, it did not help that it was windy and was flying all over the place and as he's giving me direction the tent is smashing him in the face, ( I now know i should not laugh during the task of pitching a tent) painfully a hour later the tent is pitched and he said a cup of tea will sort you out..i wanted to say its you that needs sorting out not me but thought I'd let him have this one, so I'm getting all excited about a hot drink as its bloody freezing outside and what happens.. he can't get the lid off the gas, he's at it for ages trying to BE MANLY and get the lid off and I made a suggestion I should just make friends with the neighbours and ask to borrow their kettle, well little did I know that this is a massive dent to a macho man ego because he got all uptight and frustrated at the thought, "just give me a minute I can do it", but he must have got a little pissed off and hit it with a hose, I have no idea what the piece of apparatus did but it broke, mental bits flinged in the tent and i was then in hysterics. This did not help our mardi situation and it started to go down hill after this. We couldn't drink hot drinks or cook the food. I think we had our first ever argument over flipping snakes and ladders too, I was so mad! it had been a long day and it was defiantly bedtime.

 I was rudely awoken though by SAM pissing on me, actually on me, i had two jumpers for three days and he just peed on it, and the sheet, and the bed, i wasn't happy. This didn't set me up for the day too well at all. Then that morning we had the poo situation, SAM wanted to go with mike to the mens toilet, but he didn't just want a pee, mike has never dealt with that before and is out of his comfort zone which is fair enough and he asked what to do, i shouted in, he is four he can handle this situation, he always does at home.... 15 minutes later i am still outside and i see mike, he comes over grabs me by the shoulders looking traumatised and walks me through the gentleman's toilets to SAM... who was covered in poo. I have no idea how it happened but it went on my *why camping is not so fun list, along with the piss and being shouted at* Then SAM had about 5 toilet incidents and peed himself during the trip, all the excitement i think because he doesn't do that at home! Then SAM dug up donkey poo on the beach .... i spilt the sugar in the tent and we had ants, i spilt tea down my other clean jumper so i was freezing!A BLOODY NIGHTMARE- not being ungrateful because we laugh about it now...


Another one of me and ' i told you so' moments is when we stood in a Que for swimming for 20 minutes and i said there is  not enough room in that pool for all these people lets come back later, i lost this argument and i made it obvious by having the most miserable face slapped on me, all the way in the Que i was saying this is pointless its too full! whinging like a tru trooper! after what felt like a lifetime we get to the front of it and the woman turn around to us and say "sorry its one in one out now"...... the look i gave mike was mean and the returned look of fear he gave me we hilarious! I did feel married, wanted to give him a big fat i told you so cake in his face! ha. Lots of other little thing happened too and it became a running joke if we were going to survive weymouth, but we had a soloution, i bought cigarettes and he bought chocolate and our relationship lives to tale the tale!

What killed it and made us come home early was when we were arriving back at the tent one day and we said "that doesn't look like our tent" oh.... "its our tent but wheres the rest of it, oh that's our clothes outside" our tent had half blew down in the wind and my underwear was fully on show to the whole of the camp site! i found the situation hysterical and i couldn't help fix the situation because i was trying to hard on my pelvic floor excericises trying not to pee myself, i was bent over with tears steaming down my face at the thought of not having one piece of dry clothing, and obviously videoing it all! .......only my stuff got wet! mikes were fine!
We decided we should perhaps go home first thing in the morning rather than stay around, and my parents found the whole story halarious! not  as funny as what they told me about my dad falling underneath the grass bin and couldn't get up but thats a whole other story!

Cant wait to see how Aug camping trip goes... im in a tent,charlotte and family in a motor home.... i am starting to think i may have lost some brain cells in my life by doing this all again, the rule is we are only going if its not raining :/

As it is now july and i wrote this in june hoping to post but never got round to it much more has happened, Including a move, a workshop and a absoloute halarious hen weekend to blog about) but for now i have splurted enough so until i get some more time  i am done;

Well thats June's stories, hope everyone reading this has enjoyed the sun! Muchos Loves;

LG @ MLT headquaters
PS G-day mate to my best buds who have travelled to live in aus now, love and miss you muchly! love skyping makes me feel sophisticated ;D......lol x