If we were having coffee I would tell you how excited I was to welcome my 800th follower to my blog this week. My current goal is to have 1000 followers by the end of 2016. I enjoy my blogging community and I have learnt a lot over the last 2 years as I’ve visited your blogs. We are all unique and together we make each others world’s brighter.
If we were having coffee I would tell you that I enjoyed working at my new hospital. They are a great team although they use a slightly different system to what I am used to. However, I quickly settled into my new rhythm and was lucky enough to work a few more shifts than I was originally booked for, which helped expedite my knowledge of how things are done.
If we were having coffee I would tell you that I enjoyed my birthday last Tuesday. My husband made me breakfast before he had to leave for work so I took myself shopping. I even managed to get myself a $20 birthday discount when I bought myself some new clothes. Bonus! I then caught the train home with my daughter who taught me how to hunt Pokémon before cooking me dinner. The one thing that I was looking at when shopping was a Fitbit however I have yet to decide if I would use it enough to justify the cost. If you have one what has been your experience?
If we were having coffee I would tell you I was grateful on Thursday night after Toastmasters to be able to watch the Semi Finals of the Toastmasters International Convention 2016 from Washington DC. What amazing speakers. It was also exciting to be able to cheer on one of our fellow members, David Griffiths who came third. It was hard to pick the order of the winners although I do think that the 3 people who placed were the best speakers.
If we were having coffee I would tell you that I have enjoyed the bits of the Olympics that I have seen and was particularly excited to see some of the people my children used to compete against, do personal bests and in some cases come home with an Olympic medal.
If we were having coffee I would tell you that last night we enjoyed cooking pizzas in our outdoor pizza oven and chimney. The smokey flavour was awesome. One problem we found with the pizza oven was that it was too small to cook the bigger pizzas in. We solved this problem by using our chimney but it wasn’t nearly as effective at cooking them as the pizza oven. So with our new-found knowledge, when we move we have decided to buy a new, bigger pizza oven that takes all pizza sizes. We also secretly hope to be able to cook other foods in it using our various sized camp ovens. Cooking over fire – there is nothing like it.
If we were having coffee I would ask you what is happening in your world? Let me know in the comments.
It sounds like you had quite the week! I am anxiously awaiting my trip to NC in a couple of weeks, a surprise gift from my daughter, to see my granddaughter. It’s been over a year and she is a ripe 2 1/2!! Starting to job hunt is a necessity, though I still am not top notch but pt ‘s doesn’t cut it!! Fingers and toes crossed that the Universe and I are in sync. ? Thanks for the coffee chat!!
Kind Regards and feeling blessed – K
Hoping you have a great time catching -up with your daughter and seeing your grand daughter grow. They change so much so quickly. Sending you positive vibes and I am sure the universe is looking out for you, sometimes in the strangest of ways. Thanks for coming to coffee and have a great week.
Happy Birthday!
Thank you Trent
Congratulations on your 800th!!! Wow, that’s a lot and that’s awesome. I hope there will be a time that I’ll have as many followers as yours.☺️? And I hope you would reach your goal too.
Just keep plugging away at it. They will come with time and effort.
I hope so! I’m having so much trouble ever since i migrated to a self hosted site ? Posts are not seen on wordpress reader, and those that are shown are even incorrect posts ? I’m having a hard time adjusting after being so used to the seamless free wordpress. Hope it will all turn out okay ?
I was concerned about that which is why I started as a self hosted blog. It was difficult to get started for all the reasons you have mentioned but now after 2 years it is slowly getting there. In the end self hosting gives your more options about what you can do with your site. I’m sure with patience it will pay off. Do you have the Jetpack plug-in as this helps a lot connecting you to other bloggers.
Happy belated birthday. Seems like you had a great day and congrats to your 800 followers. I’m sure you will gain many more until the end of the year. Thanks for your question, my world is a bit calmer than last week and I truly enjoy it. It is slowly getting warmer again and I’m actually looking forward to spring. It’s just around the corner for us 🙂
Calmness is a great feeling as it gives us time to think. I am looking forward to Spring too and am not a fan of this last minute return to Winter and in some parts of New South Wales snow they report on the news. Thanks for coming to coffee.
800 wow, you must be doing something right, I hope one day I get stats like that ..one can hope
How goes the pokemon hunting, it gets a bit tricky trying to hunt for pokemons in a neighbohood thats not yours hahahaha I have done this I KNow this lol
~B
PS Happy belated birthday
i leave the hunting to my daugther but I admit it does fascinate me but I am deliberately not starting because I am sure I could get involved in it.
Congrats on the 800th follower and Happy Birthday.
As you’ll know yourself, rain is what’s happening here at the moment. My daughter finally performed at the Opera House on Monday night with her school, which was an incredible experience for us all. Even big brother didn’t complain about having to watch his little sister and he usually doesn’t. I went to the Opera House in a wheelchair which they provided, which was a new experience for me. With all the stairs and not having been there for many years, I thought it best to be cautious and the only accessible seat they had left was a seat chair spot. I’ll be posting about that aspect of the performance tomorrow.
All the best with your new job and getting settled!
Hope you enjoy the rest of your week!
xx Rowena
Glad The Opera House was a great success. I’m over the rain and cold but I keep telling myself it could be a lot worse and is helping the farmers as we don’t usually have a lot of rain in August. Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to hearing more of you local adventures soon.
I made pizza tonight for the first time in ages – it was a special request from my Dad <3 Haven't got a pizza oven though!
Ours is wood fired so tastes very yummy.
Congratulations on 800 followers! That’s exciting. I’m sure you’ll hit your 1,000 follower goal.
My friend’s husband makes his own, awesome pizza and has been thinking about getting a pizza oven. I’ll have to tell her about your post for his consideration.
Make sure he gets one that is big enough to fit the size pizza he wants to cook/ Unfortunately ours only takes small pizzas so next time we will buy a bigger one. They do taste good though.
Oh, and happy birthday!
Thank you
Enjoyed your post and love the opening statements “If I were having coffee”. As to what we are doing in our lives, trying to stay as active as two individuals in their mid 70’s can be. We line dance, visit our children, play Mexican Train with friends, socialize over coffee on Saturday mornings and just basically try to stay as active as possible. Love your blog and I will look to see what else follows on your next blog posting, Have a great weekend.
oops I meant “If we were having coffee” it is late and I should call it quits but I have so much email to catch up with,
Thanks for stopping by for coffee. Yes being as active as possible at any age is important but the older I get the more important it becomes. I am working on maximizing my movement as lack of it sneaks up on me regularly. Mexican train sounds like fun, is it a card game? Have a great weekend and hope to host you for coffee again soon.