Stardate: 84913.04 30 November, 2007
Posted in Life and Times! at 7:35 am by Marg
Wolfgang, one of our previous students from Germany is currently visiting us – he arrived last Thursday.
I was just thinking this morning about how weird our family is with all the ‘comings and goings’ that happen in our home. No one ever seems to be home for dinner at a ‘proper’ time and sometimes there is no reason to cook dinner as nobody will be home! Poor Wolfgang! He just ‘goes with the flow’, but this has been such a hectic week for all of us that he must feel like we are worse than usual!
It is Financial Year End for Richard (yes, crazy time to have FYE in November, but the legal industry all do it at this time) and as a result, he has been late home every night this week. Blair is on his 3pm to 11pm shift this week – so he’s not home before 11.30pm. I have been out 2 nights so far this week, Tuesday – a visit to Lesley that had us finishing a bottle of bubbles before I returned home to cook dinner! and Thursday – the Lionel Richie concert.
Last night and this morning have been the most disruptive tho… This was the time line…
6.00pm – I finish work and start to cook the dinner for all of us.
7.30pm – No one home, so I decide to have my dinner.
9.00pm – Wolfgang comes back and I feed him dinner.
10.30pm – Richard phones – he got taken out to dinner by the partners and didn’t get a chance to call me… His dinner gets covered and put in the fridge…
11.10pm – I go to bed – Wolfgang retires too.
11.25pm – Richard comes home and puts the rubbish out (I had already bagged it all up)
11.30pm – Blair arrives home with his friend Kurt who is staying the night and they talk loudly outside my bedroom window to Richard.
Midnight – Richard comes to bed… Blair and Kurt still having dinner….
4.30am – I wake Blair up as they have to fetch a friend from the airport.
5.00am – Richard, Blair and Kurt all get up at the same time – mad dashes for the shower and grumpy words are said!!!
5.30am – I am given a coffee – (Did I WANT a coffee???? NO! I just wanted to sleep!!!)
5.35am – Blair and Kurt leave.
5.40am – I give up and get up…
5.55am – Richard leaves
6.00am – I’m bidding on stuff on Ebay!!!
8.27am – I am now typing this.
No sign of Wolfgang, but he must be exhausted after having his sleep disturbed so many times as his room is right by the front door!!!
And tonight we are out again! It is 10 pin prizegiving and party. I will go with Murray and Mags – Richard will join us later as he has to close everything off as it is the 30th – but if it doesn’t go well, we may not see him!
But I would rather have it like this as it makes life all the more intresting 
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Stardate: 84885.8 20 November, 2007
Posted in Life and Times! at 8:12 am by Marg
Well, after my little meltdown yesterday, something always happens to bring me down to earth again and make me feel better about the whole situation.
I have just had a phonecall from Yvonne – one of the ladies in my Wednesday coffee group. She told me that she is going into hospital tomorrow for major heart surgery and has asked me to keep her in my prayers.
After my rant yesterday, I think I need to realise that I have many, many good friends and that I need to look after my relationships with them, rather on dwelling over ones that have fallen by the wayside.
Yvonne needs her friends to be thinking of her as she goes thru this surgery and the recuperation period. I KNOW all the Coffee Ladies will wish Yvonne well and keep her in their prayers too.
Good Luck Yvonne.
And while on this subject, I am also saying prayers for another friend who’s brother is very ill. Just wish that there was more I could do to help.
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Stardate: 84883.48 19 November, 2007
Posted in Life and Times! at 11:48 am by Marg
When is a friend a true friend and when is a friend an acquaintance – just someone you socialise with and then get stabbed in the back by them?
Over the past 3 months, I have found out that some of my friends that I classed as “true” are anything but friends – let alone “true” ones. These friends are going to be relegated from now on to an “acquaintance” file. There are 3 of them…. And if you are reading this, then perhaps you could be one of them! Oh, and by the way, you are all female.
The worst thing about these “true friends” is the betrayal of loyalty.
Would a “true friend” take a recently newly acquired friend’s point of view over and above mine, not defending me in any way at all and just ignore years of friendship? Now, this may sound like I am being unreasonable, but I know that I defend MY true friends to the hilt – even if they are wrong, over and above anyone else’s opinion. And what hurts the most is that in this particular case I am mentioning, I wasn’t even the one to blame for the incident that prompted the friend to take sides with her “new” friend… (sigh)
Yup I am naive and gullible to think that anyone that isn’t your “blood and bones” would stand by and defend you. This is what I expect in a friend. I expect some loyalty – especially when you have known this person for years and years…
I guess we learn from getting hurt.
Bloody sad that….
So to all my “true” friends reading this, please stay true – to all the acquaintances, you know who you are… (sigh again!)
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