Long Weekend
It's a long weekend here in Melbourne (Victoria). Monday is Queen's Birthday but it's not actually the Queen's birthday. All states and territories in Australia except Western Australia (WA) celebrate "Queen's Birthday" every 2nd Monday of June. WA celebrates that day in October and even that, is not the actual Queen's birthday. Yes, don't get me started on all these non-uniform gazetted public holidays. Guess we have to go ask the old lady when exactly is she celebrating hers in England. BUT! It's a holiday here nonetheless.
I was invited to a Tupperware party last night. Some of you might know, I was a Tupperware demonstrator at one stage, mid-2004 to late-2005, I think? I did quite OK for the first 7-8 months then it just dwindled off. I think when I started scrapbooking, was when I started focusing on something different. I was probably also spending more than I was making.... typical, isn't it? LOL.... Anyway, I have never been to a Tupperware party myself as a guest. So I was really keen to go to one. Alas, my friend's party turnout wasn't that fantastic. There were only 2 guests, but we still had a lot of fun chatting, and drinking cocktails (mocktails for me) made by Sally, the demonstrator. She was very nice and easy about everything. Some demonstrators I know of, are just tight-arse hormonal cows, who are more keen on making money than making customers happy. But most of them are just brain-washed by their managers, i.e. no party, no talk, to safe guard their interests. To me, you should weigh your pros and cons. If I can give that little bit extra to get a lot more out of a customer, I would. Sometimes, a little goes a long way, sometimes it doesn't. But you win some, and you lose some. That's life. Despite of the poor turnout (lots of last minute cancellations... justifed ones though), she still had over $500 sales, hence she received quite a lot of free gifts, and still counting because those who cancelled hasn't put in their orders.
Today, we are taking the kids to see Shred the Third in the cinemas. It's going to be an "adventure" for us. We are going together with Angela (cousin of Peter's) and Brad, and their son, Zack, who is the same age as Phaedon. So 4 adults, 3 kids.... I'm not sure what it's going to be like, but like I said, it'll be an adventure.
Tonight, Peter and I are going out to dinner with our friends. We haven't gone out without the kids for a looooong time. I mean, loooooong time. I'm counting .... a year? Maybe more? And we haven't done dinners with these friends without kids EVER! Before we had ours, their children have always come with us to dinners. When we had our kids, pfftt... forget about it! I am soooo looking forward to tonight.
No plans for Sunday yet. But I know on Monday, I'm going to be staying at home with the kids cos Peter is going to watch a Footy game with Theo at the MCG. It's a traditional Queen's birthday clash between Collingwood and Melbourne.
That's the update for this weekend. I'll leave you with this song. If you like the song, Every Breath You Take by The Police (FLASHBACK!!!), and you like the song Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol (YES!!! You've heard it enough times on Greys Anatomy), then you OUGHT to listen to this remix. It's unlike any remix you've ever heard of. I'm not a big remix fan but this one caught my attention on the radio. The DJ obviously did a good job with it, but it's a case of love it or hate it. And I love it!
Every Car You Chase
I was invited to a Tupperware party last night. Some of you might know, I was a Tupperware demonstrator at one stage, mid-2004 to late-2005, I think? I did quite OK for the first 7-8 months then it just dwindled off. I think when I started scrapbooking, was when I started focusing on something different. I was probably also spending more than I was making.... typical, isn't it? LOL.... Anyway, I have never been to a Tupperware party myself as a guest. So I was really keen to go to one. Alas, my friend's party turnout wasn't that fantastic. There were only 2 guests, but we still had a lot of fun chatting, and drinking cocktails (mocktails for me) made by Sally, the demonstrator. She was very nice and easy about everything. Some demonstrators I know of, are just tight-arse hormonal cows, who are more keen on making money than making customers happy. But most of them are just brain-washed by their managers, i.e. no party, no talk, to safe guard their interests. To me, you should weigh your pros and cons. If I can give that little bit extra to get a lot more out of a customer, I would. Sometimes, a little goes a long way, sometimes it doesn't. But you win some, and you lose some. That's life. Despite of the poor turnout (lots of last minute cancellations... justifed ones though), she still had over $500 sales, hence she received quite a lot of free gifts, and still counting because those who cancelled hasn't put in their orders.
Today, we are taking the kids to see Shred the Third in the cinemas. It's going to be an "adventure" for us. We are going together with Angela (cousin of Peter's) and Brad, and their son, Zack, who is the same age as Phaedon. So 4 adults, 3 kids.... I'm not sure what it's going to be like, but like I said, it'll be an adventure.
Tonight, Peter and I are going out to dinner with our friends. We haven't gone out without the kids for a looooong time. I mean, loooooong time. I'm counting .... a year? Maybe more? And we haven't done dinners with these friends without kids EVER! Before we had ours, their children have always come with us to dinners. When we had our kids, pfftt... forget about it! I am soooo looking forward to tonight.
No plans for Sunday yet. But I know on Monday, I'm going to be staying at home with the kids cos Peter is going to watch a Footy game with Theo at the MCG. It's a traditional Queen's birthday clash between Collingwood and Melbourne.
That's the update for this weekend. I'll leave you with this song. If you like the song, Every Breath You Take by The Police (FLASHBACK!!!), and you like the song Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol (YES!!! You've heard it enough times on Greys Anatomy), then you OUGHT to listen to this remix. It's unlike any remix you've ever heard of. I'm not a big remix fan but this one caught my attention on the radio. The DJ obviously did a good job with it, but it's a case of love it or hate it. And I love it!
Every Car You Chase
posted by mich at
10:09
3 Comments:
Hey...i just had that song on my blog too mich..its good isn't it.
I went to the worst tupperware party in the world the other week.. thw woman (demonstrator) just flew through the catalogue...there were no games... (i like tupperware games)..I was going to book a party...so glad i didn't..
BWAHAHAHAHA ~ tight assed hormonal cows !!! Mich you could not have written it better. The tupperware parties in Spore are really awful because agents are concerned with the quick kill, money over service. Maybe Spore's too small for Tupperware ?
tight assed hormonal cows!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHHAH.....
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