Well, went down to Hobart last weekend, how unusual...lol
NP suggested we go to The Valern Hotel which is near daughters house for the happy hour and meat tray draw that evening.... Daughter didn't feel like going out, so we stayed local and went the Beltana Hotel instead, they have cheap drinks, bar snacks, meat tray raffle and joker jackpot on every friday evening.
When we walked in the sign was on the wall regard the joker jackpot which was up to $2050.00 and NP commented on how nice it would be to win that...( his fridge was playing up, and it looked like a new one was required). We had a few drinks, and everytime you order a drink you get tickets in the joker jackpot, we hadnt been there for long only about 1 hr prior to the draw so only had a few tickets. The bar staff crunched up the raffle ticket stubs and asked NP to draw one of them to see who would be the lucky person to try their luck for the joker jackpot. (full deck of cards and one joker pinned to a board, one person gets to pick a card and if it is the joker they get the jackpot) NP said no way, his luck was out, let me pick who the lucky person was.....so I reached into the container and drew F97 on a purple ticket......handed it to the bar staff and looked at our tickets and there on the top was F97! I called out that it was my NP, and got ribbed because I had pulled his ticket....lol, he asked me to pick the card, there were a few that were already drawn, and I thought, Why ask me, I spend so long deliberating and then get it wrong anyway...lol. So I thought well his birthday is on the 23rd of a month, so I went with two cards along and three down, because it wasn't turned over. The Hotel owner offered me a bottle of Jamieson's whisky to forgo turning the card over, then 2 bottles, 2 Bottles of Whisky and a slab of beer, I made my way back to NP, and said we agreed that if the jackpot was over $1000 you were better off turning the card, was offered 2 bottles of whisky, and 2 slabs of beer, we took the card, the Hotel owner turned it towards us, and lo and behold, it was the JOKER!
Well the place erupted, I got a big kiss, ( in front of everyone!) and we went halves in the money. which has paid for our weekend away in Melbourne and we have some left over.
As if that wasn't excitement enough we won $157 on keno on the friday night too, our football team won their game that night and then I won a meat tray when we dropped into the pub on Sunday arvo....
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Moving on.......
Well, guess I seem to have been pretty quiet of late.......WRONG!
I have just been flat out busy. I have been whizzing up and down the highway every weekend to meet up with a friend whom I shall code name NP for new partner!
As most of you know I had retired and moved to the rain forest township of Maydena which is a lovely little town approx 95 kms from Hobart (capital city of Tasmania). I then married the person I was carer for even though there was quite an age difference, and was blissfully happy until he died unexpectedly in August of last year.
New Years Eve saw me sifting through things which had happened over 2010, I looked through my diary and blog and checked out notes on holidays and outings, especially a memorable holiday in Queensland with my grandson for my mums birthday. I also watched my wedding video from the previous year and our holiday snaps on our belated honeymoon when we went to West Australia and Queensland. I then read through the condolence messages and cards I received when my hubby died, had a really good cry and put that all away.
January saw me trying to rebuild social networks and get out and about a bit more, I also joined a dating website called Plenty of Fish, put a profile up, said I was interested in email/chat and see where that leads,
nothing serious, just a way of meeting some new people. Well, January saw me having an interesting afternoon with a very nice gentleman in New Norfolk, we had afternoon tea, looked around the antique shops and went for a walk which was pleasant but nothing more. Then I met up with another gentleman in February and WOW! He is the loveliest, kindest, nicest man I have come across (can see some of you turning green...lol) We met up for a drink on a friday arvo, sat chatting for a couple of hours and agreed to meet up again the following day to go to the pictures to see The King's Speech. We then met up and watched Avatar together and are seeing each other on a regular basis. He lives in the city so I whizz up and down the highway every weekend as he works every day, but he has been able to get a couple of weekends off and has visiting my place, and had a weekend here over the Easter break and met my friends. He has my grandson's seal of approval and gets on well with my daughter and extended family and friends. He has even got me barracking for a football team, GO CATS! and we are planning a weekend away soon to Melbourne and going to the football, YAY! I am really happy it is great to have someone special in my life again, and he is so appreciative of anything you do, compliments me on my cooking, and has a slightly warped sense of humour which is so like mine it is unbelievable.....so will try and update you on a regular basis regard my NP!
I have just been flat out busy. I have been whizzing up and down the highway every weekend to meet up with a friend whom I shall code name NP for new partner!
As most of you know I had retired and moved to the rain forest township of Maydena which is a lovely little town approx 95 kms from Hobart (capital city of Tasmania). I then married the person I was carer for even though there was quite an age difference, and was blissfully happy until he died unexpectedly in August of last year.
New Years Eve saw me sifting through things which had happened over 2010, I looked through my diary and blog and checked out notes on holidays and outings, especially a memorable holiday in Queensland with my grandson for my mums birthday. I also watched my wedding video from the previous year and our holiday snaps on our belated honeymoon when we went to West Australia and Queensland. I then read through the condolence messages and cards I received when my hubby died, had a really good cry and put that all away.
January saw me trying to rebuild social networks and get out and about a bit more, I also joined a dating website called Plenty of Fish, put a profile up, said I was interested in email/chat and see where that leads,
nothing serious, just a way of meeting some new people. Well, January saw me having an interesting afternoon with a very nice gentleman in New Norfolk, we had afternoon tea, looked around the antique shops and went for a walk which was pleasant but nothing more. Then I met up with another gentleman in February and WOW! He is the loveliest, kindest, nicest man I have come across (can see some of you turning green...lol) We met up for a drink on a friday arvo, sat chatting for a couple of hours and agreed to meet up again the following day to go to the pictures to see The King's Speech. We then met up and watched Avatar together and are seeing each other on a regular basis. He lives in the city so I whizz up and down the highway every weekend as he works every day, but he has been able to get a couple of weekends off and has visiting my place, and had a weekend here over the Easter break and met my friends. He has my grandson's seal of approval and gets on well with my daughter and extended family and friends. He has even got me barracking for a football team, GO CATS! and we are planning a weekend away soon to Melbourne and going to the football, YAY! I am really happy it is great to have someone special in my life again, and he is so appreciative of anything you do, compliments me on my cooking, and has a slightly warped sense of humour which is so like mine it is unbelievable.....so will try and update you on a regular basis regard my NP!
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