PIZZA HUT RIP OFF

Tuesday my husband Dave flew away to Windy Wellington and so that left Nicholas and I at home alone for tea. What could we have now the our health freak of a daddy had left??? Nicholas wanted pizza and then I remembered its TUESDAY!!! that's missionary tea night and Dave was not there. Good idea Nicholas lets order the missionaries and us a pizza then the missionaries can take the pizza and go home. I couldn't be bothered packing all the kids up in the car so I thought why not get it delivered. So online I go and all went well half n hour later the pizza arrives. Nicholas and I stuffed our face and then the phone went???? Hello my name is Katrina from Pizza Hut how are you this evening." fine thanks the pizza is great I said. "Yes I'm ringing to inform you that due to technical complication we couldn't process your payment via your credit card" Oh I said. "Yes would it be possible to pay by cash" Well no I don't have any. "Well would it be possible for you to drive to the south Pizza hut branch and pay by eft post?' "I will give you a discount lets say two pizza's for $15.00 (originally $29.00 for delivery)." Okay that shall be fine I'll go down once I've finished my tea. "Thanks so much and for ordering from Pizza Hut you have a good evening." So after Nicholas and I had had our fill (Nicholas wanted to save two pieces for his dad) I packed the kids into the car and off we went to Pizza Hut South to pay our $15.00 and drove home feeling a little ripped off. Thursday was payday so I checked my bank accounts and blow n behold Pizza Hut had charged me $31.00 on my credit card I search for a credit by alas it was not there so now my original $29.00 pizza's had now cost me $46.00 OH I FEEL SO RIPPED OFF. Hey Ange what advice do you suggest???? I'm so angry

Public Speaking

A month ago I was asked if I would give a talk at church. I smiled at brother Anderson and said sure love too (not). Give me a song no worries I'll sing to the world no problem but talking is another issue. My topic was on obedience and enduring to the end. I immediately thought back to my days at Polytech whilst doing my degree in nursing and thought about those assignments I had to write and how it took alot of effort, tears and stress. I'm not the best writer and my grammer is somewhat short fall. My boss at work during my time at poly would sometimes read my assignments and laugh saying "Paula you write like you talk" thank heavens someone introduced me to thesaurus. My tutors always wrote on my assignments that my language was too basic and that I needed to write academically. So thesaurus became my life line by changing words like but to however or furthermore or here's a good one I would use moreover soon my assignments became I suppose academic. The hours of researching a topic and then trying to write it on paper was so hard I would spend weeks to get the 1500 word essay finished. Whilst some of my class mates would write the essay the nightbefore its due and still manage to get A+ for me it was C+ or if I was lucky a B. One student always told me C's gets degree's. I'm so glad those days are over (for now anyway).

So here I was faced with this talk and stress, anxiety kicked in. Lucky my husband was able to help me. The great thing about giving this talk was I learn't something about obeying god and Jesus Christ I have always thought that I had better obey them or who knows what punishment they will dish out to me, when really I should obey the commandments etc willingly because I love and want to serve god and Jesus Christ.

Saturday night I sat up until midnight polishing the last pieces. Everyone had gone to bed so I couldn't run it by anyone to see if it sounded okay. Sunday came I was sitting at home reading over the talk and stressing about it. So I decided to go and support Dave who was running the full marathon (first time) and yes it was on the Sabbath day but supporting him really help take my mind off it for a while. Dave finished 14th out of 159 with a time of 3hrs 6min and 3sec (AMAZING). Now because he had finish sooner than anticipated we were able to get home and make it to church on time. Dave appreciated the support and so he said now its his turn to support me. I knew Sherry and Phil were also talking on so I thought if I go first and my talk was a total flop then at least Sherry and Phil's talk will take the focus off it. Sitting waiting for my name to be called "BLAST" Sherry was the first speaker President Gaskill could see the nervousness on my face as well as the disappointment that I would be second speaker he smiled at me (which didn't help my cause). Sherry's talk was awesome very clear logical and to the point. I started reading mine again and thought well I've done my best and hopefully the spirit will guide me. I was sweating and so hot and so glad when the talk was over. Dave said it was a great talk which was a relief as I did tend to talk about him a lot. Meanwhile Andy Gillies whispered you talk way better than you sing (not to sure about that). Roy Jenner commented that I do tend to talk about my family a lot and seem to put it out there. To which Andy replied that's what makes it more realistic. I hope my next talk will be in three years time when hopefully I will have more knowledge and confidence.........................

Thank Goodness for IT Daughter

Here I am been sitting here for at 2 hours trying my hardest to work out how I could get my favourite people/bloggers on my page so I could just access them when ever I wanted. I tried several ways oh my gosh much frustration and then in walks my wonderful daughter Stacey. She sensed the frustration I was experiencing (maybe because I was not talking nice to the computer). She asks me what's up I explain my problem and she paused click the mouse a couple of times and in a few seconds she had done it. She was off out the door when I said "hang on how did you do that?" With much patients she showed me so easy once you know how. So now good people I can read all your stories YEAH.

This week the family has been down with the coughs and colds and haven't ventured out much. My mother in law is still staying with us and its great having her. Gordon (her husband) took a turn for the worse on Tuesday but has since bounced back and hopefully is on the up (providing mum doesn't wash her hair). I took Nicholas to the doctor yesterday as his coughing was driving me insane and to my amazement the doctor informed me his ears were raging with infection and one ear on the brink of bursting and yet he never complained he was sore. I told Dave and he said well actually he did mention it the other night WOOPS never mind the AB's are in the system doing its deed. I wasn't feeling that flash myself and for a moment I thought I had the dreaded norovirus that has been spreading rapidly at work but false alarm thank goodness.

5 weeks to go and Nicholas will be at school, time surely does fly. I must say I am feeling rather emotional about it and although he is at Montessorri 4 days a week, so things wont change that much, I still have a lump in my throat just thinking about it. This is an end of another chapter and the start of a new one. I felt secure knowing that Nicholas is one of the big boys at Montessorri and he didn't have to worry about being bullied or picked on but school means he's the small fish in a real big pond and the challenges he will face I pray and hope he'll cope. So for the next year or so my insecurity will be high and over protected mum will kick in.

He had his first school visit on Wednesday and so Nicholas, Kate and myself walked up to Mornington Primary. Standing on the footpath we looked up at the school to me it looked big, I'm sure to Nicholas it must have looked huge. Now the school is not pushchair friendly (alot of stairs) so it was a matter of carrying the pushchair up and up. We approached his classroom and we had a few more stairs that needed climbing so Nicholas went on in front whilst I carried the pushchair with Kate in it. I turned to see where Nicholas had gone I couldn't find him (PANICK) then out came Ms Gray and she pointed me to the mat where Nicholas had walked straight into the classroom found his old buddy from Montessorri Trevor-Shane and was sitting arms folded legs crossed listening to the story being read to them. Ms Gray said "he's made himself at home already" I stayed and watched and it was hard to hold back the tears ( I let a few run out though). Nicholas approached me and said you can go now mum I'll be fine you pick me up at 3. As it was 2.50 I wasn't about to lug Kate and pushchair down only to come back up so I said to Nicholas next visit you can stay by yourself........