Study #2

The replacement tutorial and assignment turned up.  Now to make the time to sit down and do the assignment.

At the moment I am typing with a cat on my knee and his head resting on my arm.......talk about making things difficult for me.

Parents

2 Weeks ago my dad had a stroke....It has affected his vision as well as his ability to retain information in the short term.  He has no idea when people have been to see him, what they brought him, or even who they were.  Every night mum has to phone him to get him to settle down and go to sleep.  This is after she visited him during the day.  The staff at the rehab place where he is, had to move him from the bed they put him - he nearly got out the front door.  So now he is behind the nurses station and they notice when he goes past and keep an eye on him.  He asked me to tell mum that he needed some money last night.  Mum thinks he wants this so he can catch the bus and get home.  He told me to phone mum and let her know where he is, cause he did think she knew.

So sad to see this vibrant enegetic, can't sit still, gentleman in the condition.........

The physio staff told mum they are not going to do much more work with him as he is not retaining what they tell him.  They also said he needs to go into full time care - at a high level.  Mum thinks she will try him at home first and see how he goes.  Getting him to a care facility is hard when you don't have $200,000+ to spare.....  She wants to try with all the help from the local council she can get.  I think she is fooling herself to think she will be able to manage him.  I also think she is insane for wanting to take him away with her for a week just after Xmas.  I can just see it now...... He'll go wandering off when she's in the loo and not know who he is or where he is staying.  He'll probably end up out of the caravan park and on the road going 'somehwere'.........

Calisthenics

My 2 girls do this as a hobby.  For those that don't know what it is....it's an artistic sport that incorporates gymnastic/ballet/figure marching/singing/dancing all set to music.  The team the girls compete in does 7 items at each of 6 competitions during the year.  When they came off stage after each item at the concert all the team members were finding it hard to get their breath back.  This year there are 13 in the team, last year there was 10.

My invovlement with the Club is as follows:
Treasurer - hubby doesn't want me to this next year (we'll see)
Costume coordinator for 2 groups
I also do the concert printing - programs, medal sheets, certificates, etc.

Actually hubby has said for the past few years that next year I am not to do anything.  He doesn't realise that as far as the costumes go for the older girls, there is no one else who is involved who can take on the role.  You need someone who can sew and can be available each week to hand out stuff to the girls and/or their sewers.  Thay need to be able to make up samples according to the coaches designs and help them design costumes - this year I designed 2 of them (everyone liked them; one club even had a real close look at one of them, so I expect that design will turn up at that club next  year).

Study

How's this for being unorganised.

Ii am trying to study home bookkeeping.  Today I went to do the next assingment - #4 out of 12 - and could not find the assignment or the associated tutorial notes!!  Found my folder where they were supposed to be, but nothing else.

I have been working on calisthenics concert programs recently and made a few printing errors.  I'm thinking the assignment and tute got turfed with the printing errors.  Looked in the recycling bin - did not want to go searching thru that.... didn't see it on the top.

Oh well.....$19 extra to my course costs and I should have a replacement set in a few days.

Good Lord

I had forgotten about this blog!!!  Started a new one (Joy Belle).  Maybe I can keep them both and 1 for 1 type of posting and another for other types.........