Getting Ready to Move

00:43 If you wait until you can do everything for everyone, instead of something for someone, you will end up doing nothing for no-one.

00:47 I;ve been getting into herbal tea's lately, usually I'm a tea with lots of Milk sort of person, but herbal teas, are really starting to grow n me, will try Chamomile as soon as i find someone with some growing. I had a fresh basil tea before, certainly calmed down my indigestion.

09:45 It looks like I'm taking an enforced break from phone/internet, will be moving on Tuesday, and can't have both phone and power bills need paying at the same time, and don't seem to be able to access a free phone and modem, so I'll be offline. Since my writing has suffered so much, in the past 6 weeks, with me not being able to talk to computer, I'll be free to talk to computer whenever I want in flat, (I talk puter types for me) and I have a couple of games I can play offline, and there is always cards. So over and out from Tuesday morning prolly.

Seconds Pots of Cream

Hello Everyone, I have been having a rough time, but things are sorting themselves out now.

I have several "seconds" pots of pain relief cream, the cream itself is fine, its just some pots have a wee bit less cream, and most their labels have come off, and left a sticky patch on outside.

Rather than empty pots etc and repack, if anyone has been wanting to try the cream, I'll sell these 10 I have for $16 including postage. Click on the picture below and comment, and I'll give you my bank details. Share this post with your friends if you can, I really would like at least 1 more like, to get upto 150

https://www.facebook.com/LynnysHerbalPotions

I Got the Bond

After a traumatic week, winz have decided to loan me the money for a bond for this flat, with strings attached, after all the stress, I'm so worn out, I'm not as happy as I should be. I hopefully should move in by next Tuesday.

Fighting Winz for Bond

3rd appointment with winz, numerous phone calls from them to me, asking the same questions over and over, and still they won't tell me if they will loan me money to pay a bond, for flat.... now they are bitching that I have moved around a lot in my life....hell they don't know the half of the moves I have had, always move when I try to live with other people... folks tend not to like living with me with depression, and bad nightmares from ptsd...

oh well it still doesn't look hopeful, I have jumped through all of their hops but I can't change what I have done in past. Trouble is, if they won't give me $600 for this bond, which is cheap as, there is no reason for it to change it the rent and bond is more.

Winz will contact me tomorrow for final decision, tomorrow, when they are good and ready, or perhaps Thursday, but this flat will be gone if they turn me down again. The flat has already been on hold since Monday last week. frown emoticon Think its time I crawled into the corner and gave up fighting.

Joys of visiting WINZ for a bond

I feel like scum of the earth, probably a criminal and druggy, anytime I go to winz, they don't pay letting fee for rental agent anymore, and not sure they will pay $600 bond etc for flat, had to leave and come home while they contact rental agent and think about it. Was so sure I would know if I can get flat by now. I have to pay back anything I get, not a free handout. I don't function at all well with stress.

Later 

The flat isn't a happening thing for me, totally gutted.

Nightmares before ACC

Nightmares are horrendous tonight, mongrels won't even wait until I'm asleep, you know when you are falling asleep, and the time between being awake, and asleep, that lovely dreamy place, used to think it was the bliss place, but not now, the ghosts are coming out of the walls, ceiling, up from the floor, christ there were so many ghosts, thought I can shut them all up years ago... I guess sleeping is out of the question tonight.... may as well get comfortable, and go find a movie or 4 to watch, until morning

Later that Afternoon

Well, assessment with ACC (Accident Compensation Corp) is over, it was worse than I could ever imagine. way things went, I'd be surprised if they don't bill me, for wasting their time.

I've waited 20 years for that meeting, and cried through most of it, so very disappointed in myself.

ACC Assessment Tomorrow

I can't wait until this time tomorrow, that darn ACC assessment appointment will be over, and nothing I think or do will change the outcome, then maybe nightmares and sadness will ease off.

Lovely Day B-B-Q

I've had a lovely afternoon and evening, I was asked out to a bbq and almost convinced myself not to go, but at last minute I thought, bugger it, get your ass down there.

I stopped on the way, to a friend that has just brought a still, and got a tiny bottle of alcohol off him, to have a go at making a cough syrup, also got loads of Rosemary off him.

Then went too the bbq and had a lovely time, taking about stills, making alcohols of various types, comparing stories with a guy thats been making his own spirits for years I think. Also taking herbs and their uses, and general chit-chat, was given some rosemary alcohol, a little of which I rubbed into my arms, to see if alcohol absorbs through skin, dunno if it did, but my skin still feels very soft... lol

Came home with the rosemary, and I had already picked some other herbs, and with the 2kgs of the 3kgs of raw honey I brought yesterday from Waikino, I have made herb honey's, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme and Oregano Honeys, and a bottle of them all mixed together. They will take 6 weeks to infuse, and will be divine when they are done. In time for winter.

A cough remedy with the alcohol, sage rosemary and honey, made that one up... and using the last of a bottle of honey make a none alcoholic cough syrup, of honey, lemon juice, garlic and sage. (that tastes yummy fresh, and divine when infused for a while. I still have loads of Rosemary left, so will start an infusion of Rosemary Oil before i go to bed, and clean up the kitchen, before Annie gets home, she will never know what I have been upto....

I still have 1 kg of honey I haven't opened yet, wondering what I'll do with it... may go and get some nice looking lemons tomorrow off the tree, slice them up, and put in jar, and tip slightly warmed honey over them, leave them for a couple of weeks, and then start eating the slices of lemon.... yummo...

I have had a nasty cough since Christmas, but haven't had any coughing at all today, eating a teaspoon of raw honey 3 times a day, usually clears up hay fever type allergy's.

Ok, better go back inside and start that rosemary infusion.... and clean up that kitchen smile emoticon The things I do at 1.44am

Tribute to my Dad

Tis my Dad's birthday on the 7th of Feb, he died back in 2000 yesterday, the 5th, he didn't want a bloody photo licence, and would have had to get one on that birthday, not that that had anything to do with his death, I spoke to him the night before on the phone, and he was his old usual self, had a few to many of his own brewed whiskey, but still talking without slurring his words. I had met my yank online by the 1st anniversary of his death, and have never taken the time to really think about him too much, until this year. 
I'm determined to remember the good things about him this year, and this particular part is about how his death, got me here, writing this post on facebook notes. A note right here. I have just noticed this part of facebook doesn't have a spellcheck, so whats left of my dyslexia with writing will show itself.   
The old Bugger, my Dad, Ken Bishop

Dad never wanted a funeral, but I had to go to his house when he died, to clean up, on his table were pamphlets for computers, I so wished he had have brought one, he would have loved it. My dad worked for years as a relief milker for a place called Marvin farms, so he would load his clothes, work boots into the back of his ute, and head to some farm around the top dairy half on New Zealand, and just take over milking and running the farm, often of some farmer who had had a heart attack, or got sick or once died suddenly, went on holiday whatever reason, and stayed there anything from a few days to a few months until the he wasn't needed anymore. 

The smallest herd he milked in that job was 89, the largest herd was about 800 in a rotary shed. But where ever he landed to work, he often lived in the farm owners house. And once the working day was over, he'd often search their bookcase, find a set of Encyclopedias, pick one volume, and start reading... he just adsorbed information like a sponge. 

So if Dad did get a computer, he would never had time to die, he would be bugging me on skype, telling me about this and that he had learnt, he would probably be an editor on Wikipedia, fixing up other peoples mistakes, and sharing his vast knowledge, he would have hated facebook, bloody trashy, mind numbing crap, he would have thought when he first started looking at facebook, but I would have shown him, that facebook can be used in so many ways... he still would have stopped my posts where I share other people posts, the jokes etc, and only let the posts I write onto his wall... or more likely I would use facebook different if he had of brought a computer and still been alive.

First digital photo taken of me, on a very cheap kids digi camera 
The thing is, he didn't buy a computer, but when he died, I got a small inheritance only $450, with which, I brought a computer, my first internet ready second hand computer. I had been interested in computers, but could never justify buying one, but I brought that first one as a tribute to Dad. Dad also loved to write, but could never quite get together a book, but he did hand write some stories, I typed them up eventually, I put on a permanent blog here. When I did that, I didn't remember exactly when he died, I always thought thought it was before 2000, but apart from that, they are all his http://kennethgeorgebishopstories.blogspot.co.nz/

Anyway that first computer, windows 98, had 4 gigs of harddrive, and each month, it would crash, and I would have to get it reformatted, used to cost $20... I used to say that computer was premenstrual, and ended up making an auto payment to the guy that reformatted it of $5 a week, it was so regular crashing. I was on a very slow dailup internet connection as well. 
So every month I would start with a fresh computer, and before it crashed I would have filled that harddrive with pictures, I quickly joined a yahoo group, that shared pictures of interesting stuff found around the web, these pictures where big ones, I loved wizards, dragons and those sort of fantasy pictures then, I just searched google images for one particular image, the first one I found and LOVED  wizard telescope 

The first photo I ever found online, loved it.


That first year, I met my yank Kym online, and she brought me a 2 mexapixel camera, I brought myself a 40 gig hard-drive, for Valentines Day and

so began my affair with the yank, and taking photos of many parts of the South Island of New Zealand, I have about 3-400 photos on facebook, but lost the rest when hardrives failed, I had about 80,000 good photos once, almost a terabyte hardrive, full of photos. 

The only lesson I have had in computers, was how to turn it on, and open internet explorer in those days, and do a yahoo search. 
The rest I have learnt myself, I have an uncanny ability to learn computer programs, and for many years, I would download prgrams someone had that they couldn't use, and within a few hours or days, sometimes a week,
 I would have learned how to use the program, enough for whatever the persons needs were, and then teach them, I'd often delete the program afterwards, it wouldn't interest me, I would astound people at how quickly, a women how left school thinking she was a dummy at 15, could learn things on a computer. 

I have learnt to use photoshop very well, microsoft office especially word to a darn high level, excel and all those other office programs, they would be the only ones I would bother with now, I don't have any of those programs now, hardrive failed and i lost everything about a year ago now, 2 terabytes of stuff gone... and I still don't backup anything. Again, that's another story. 

So, in a way, my dad lives through me, and some of what would have been if he lived, but maybe not, because if I couldn't get a computer, to learn how to use. to teach Dad how to find info online, in the early days of search engines, he wouldn't have been very impressed. So who know what may have been. Or what still could be for that matter.

Cashiers Check from America

I received a cashiers check from America, Chase bank, so it wasn't a tiny bank... took it too the bank this morning, in todays day and age of digital and instant everything, you wouldn't think it will take upto 6 weeks or 30 business days to get the money in my account. groan groan moan moan, 6 bloody weeks..... coor, anyone got $600 I can loan, and pay back in 6 weeks lol..... guess not, I'll be waiting twiddling my thumbs.... groan groan moan moan, still, looking on the bright side, I will have forgotten what I was going to buy with it by the time it clears, oh wait, thats not a bright side.... oh well...

Later that Day

Today has turned out to be an amazing great day....
I wrote a post this morning, about a cheque from the states, and how it was going to take 6 weeks to cash.... well something or more to the point someone amazing happened.... A dear friend, loaned me the money, its in my bank right now.... isn't that fantastic !!!!!!!!! Also I got my business cards this morning, after waiting for 2 months for them....

I've ordered a case of pots for my cream, and will go down and get some oil, and then go online and order a few ingredients I'm running low on, and then I'll make up a BIG lot of Pain Relief Cream.
Yah yah yah... can you tell I'm HAPPY

ACC Assessment Feb 11

At long last I have my ACC assessment appointment. Feb 11th. .... its been 3 years since I started this process, but 20 years since I injured my back.
I know they will probably say my backpain is arthritis now, so they won't have to pay, but I still say, if I hadn't of broken my back, and it wasn't acknowledge by them for so many years... but there is still a large sensitive claim.
Anyway, it will be good to get this assessment over and done with, and know what compensation they deem fit to award me.

Boston Baked Beens.

Oh boy oh boy, I have started making Boston Baked Beans, soaked the beans overnight, and put them in the crockpot about an hour ago, I just noticed it simmering, so though I would taste it check flavours, I wasn't expecting too much, its just started cooking, but holy moly it tastes deliriously divinely delicious, once the beans are cooked, and the juice thickens up I'm going to be in 7th heaven. Going to be a long long wait though... thank you Caytie for suggesting the recipe a few weeks ago, as something to cook using molasses. Amazing how bad molasses tastes now, and how good it is when mixed with a few other ingredients and navy beans.

Great Discovery a mistake

Most of my greatest discoveries are "mistakes" or trying one thing, and and a different result comes about... Right now I'm totally painfree and have been for several hours, yet I didn't rub the pain relief cream into any sore muscles in my back or shoulder at all today....

Today I received some patches I intended to try out as pain relief patches, using my cream, when I received them, I thought I would let myself get in severe pain so I could try them out, one of the sizes was perfect for a corn I have on my big toe, so I duly opened that patch put some cream on it, and stuck it to my big toe. Thinking it might soften the corn, or even draw the corn out, this cream is way more than pain relief.

Anyway, it has been on for about 7 hours now, and with the cold night air, I released i should be in serious pain, but I'm not... its an odd feeling not being in pain.

Wouldn't it be downright amazing, if i could offer people patches the could stick to their feet, or maybe anywhere on their body, and it reduce their pain everywhere!!! .... oh boy going to have to find some locals I can try this on. Oh wait, I only have one more patch that size, better go order some more first

And I, Will always love you

Talk about bringing back memories, I played this song so many times on the plane back from the states, broke my heart to leave, but it had to be, well it did in my painkiller addled brain anyway. I don't think I have heard it since that flight until now.

1 Jan 2015 fb Posts

Think positive they said, good things will come your way they said.... so thinking really really really hard about the positive aspect of having a terrible internet connection, well I guess, if you make a post on facebook, and you aren't connected to internet, you don't lose the post, you just have to copy and paste it 5 or 6 times, until the connection is working... :)
 Thats way better than the old days of dailup, where once you clicked post, if the internet connection burped or you took too long to write it, you would lose the whole thing... if i had $100 for every time that happened, I'd have money coming out my ears :)

Someone left 3 stubbies in the freezer, they were twist tops so didn't explode, but still were a mess, I'm now making beer bread, will let you know how it comes out.... gotta love having a breadmaker

God I've just watched a movie called "The Secret" its well worth watching, and taking in the message, WOuld be an awesome thing to teach your fb "likers"

Everyday is awesome, each day I meet more and more people I need to met, and my business is opening up in ways I never dreamt about. This "law of attraction" thing is working for sure. smile emoticon The other day, I went to pick up some comfrey roots and leaves for my pain relief cream, the woman that grows it, grows an organic garden, her husband is an Engineer, and although he doesn't know it yet, he's going to build a piece of equipment, that will mean I can take the cream making another level. Then today I was talking around the breakfast table about a new investor in my business, and 2 new people want to add some money to the business. Busy writing a business plan now