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well the shop is still there and did another long day yesterday, to be followed by about 10 hrs today (short shift).

Came home to find my daughters being very cute and cuddly together which is an awesome change from the continual fighting. Miss 13 & miss 6 have so much to fight about.

Jasmine (6) was at the end of being sick and was being doted on by Gemma (13). The night ended with them on the lounge sharing a blanket watching a movie. These are the children i had planned to raise.

I told Gemma that too! Im pretty sure she got the message. I know its going to be difficult to keep "that" GEmma around as she enters the teenage years but im gonna hang on as long as i can.

Im wondering that if there is a God? Why has he surrounded me with females? Wife 2 daughters 2 female dogs....... fish are probably female too!

Im sure its just to keep my head in check, i think im pretty easy going but some people find me difficult. Maybe i need female influence to keep my attitude grounded (a little)

Family aside my other passion is Apex (Service club). I am currently the social director for the club. This has been a challenging role as the club has been struggling to get anyone involved in anything, even social events (including the xmas party!!!)

So I have been asked to hold a celebration night for the clubs 1250th meeting. I have started organising this , the president is away on business . So last night i txt him about dates and he had some issues so we changed the date and then he asked about the venue and he wasnt happy with the venue. Later he rang me and told me not to send any invites out because he was finding another venue.

That leaves me with a problem. Part of me wants to say Stick your invitations, you can do it yourself! Part of me wants to just keep the peace and go with it and do whatever is left for me to do.

I sent him an email late last night after our discussions (cause it was just eating me ). I explained a few things to justify my reasoning. Told him I was disappointed in our conversation and that he only heard a few selected parts of what i told him. I finished the email by saying if you cant work with me on this, just let me know. I had said something more abbrasive but wisley changed it.

The President is one of my best mates and lives 2 doors up but all that aside I wasnt happy with the events of last night. So im just leaving it with him and seeing what happens.

So thats the good and the bad of yesterday (not sure what the ugly was?) 

Today is another day and surely will hold many new surprises for me

Today will be a better day! 

Its a Rollercoaster!

Last night i was so proud of Gemma 13. She cooked dinner with a neighbour for both of our families. 3 course meal! Desert was awesome oreo cheesecake, neither of them had made cheesecake before. We scored their meal and discussed how good they were and that they have to do this more often now. we also discussed how these are important life skills for thier future if they ever want to entertain. Cooking for lots of people can be a challenge!

And then i wake this morning to my other daughter Jasmine barking like a dog! she had massive temp and was not happy, so i took her into the bathroom and we talked and i wiped her down with a wet flannel. stripped her off to her knickers , anything to try to cool her down. Then we went to the kitchen and got some medicine. Into my bed to see mummy, she was getting ready for work so we stayed in and talked to her. Then Jasmine got up to wave mummy good bye and threw up in the hall! I settled her down in front of the TV with the air con on, and she has fallen asleep.

My day off has certainly changed!!!  I do have a really important meeting with the accountant at 10, it cant wait till next monday so im going to have to take her with me, that my friends will be a challenge.

So parenting has me on its rollercoaster, the highs of seeing one child do something that makes me proud to the lows of high maintenance sick little girls!

OK so maybe its not what was on the brochure when i signed up, but would i change anything???????

No way, id do it all again in a heartbeat! 

Blogging can be a powerful thing! it can be a great place to vent, brainstorm with yourself, or just put things down which otherwise would have escaped you thoughts.

I have been using the evil of Facebook with the intention of bloging on there but unfortunately it doesn't have the same feel.

I have had some Bigblog friends follow me on Facebook, and i interact with them less than here, so im Back!!!!! 

 My life seems to be a whirlwind at the moment, blowing out of control, i just want it to slow down!

Its not that its a good or bad thing, its just so fast that i cant get on top of anything. Thats what you get from owning a 7 day  a week business i guess. Its not the workload, cause you get used to that its the constant..... well its just constant!

My family are awesome! They keep me sane. They are my cocoon protecting me from the world, a safe haven. I look forward to coming home more than ever, am i just getting old???? 

well thats all thats in my head to day. Not very inspirational but just needed to come back here i think! 

So i had this midlife crisis and stepped off the corporate ladder and bought a donut shop. I tried to run it myself and employed staff to help me, thus leaving Kath to her Nutrimetics business.

Well that plan was expensive so Kath came on board after a while and sacked me (well sent me off to work), so i went and worked for a friend for a while. Then after staff got sacked i came back. We have been working really well together since and proved the power of teamwork. The little shop goes well under team jackson.

My dilema here is that i have applied for a job. I applied a while go (months), when we were having  a crisis and decided that would be better for me to go and earn and pay someone to do my shop work (hoping i was worth more). So was unsuccessful at this job application and forgot about it. Now Westpac have rung me up and expressed interest in me. The area manager had coffee with me to check me out and now has me coming in for an interview on tuesday (have completed online assesment too)

So im thinking would be great opportunity but............  that would leave Kath managing my mid life crisis and leaving her carrying all the workload.

Of course we need to sell the shop. We have an exit strategy which involves putting it on the market in about 12 months, but can we hold out that long?

Kaths nutrimetics business is going great and she could really do with some extra time for that.

Its tough for both of us working so much, but Kath gets extra hugs every day.We just keep struggling on and i feel so guilty ive created this position for Kath.

Today will be a better day

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I have been away from bigblog for some time, i went and embraced the evil that is facebook and was intending to blog there. My regular blogs have become irregular liveblogs on facebook, my friends dont comment as much as they used to here and you dont get comments from randoms.(a couple of which are now facebook friends)

So i think im gonna do a daily blog arain and post it here and in facebook too, not instead of byt aswell as.

 Whats do you think??????

PLease comment and let me know

Im done , after a couple of years blogging here. im done, im going to start blogging on facebook.The only reason i come here lately is to blog and dont seem to find time to check out other peoples blogs, i can go to facebook and contact people in real time chat. Enough justification my decision is made.

Ive already drawn one friend from bigblog to my facebook, Kim hoskins/hoskie has added me as friend and i invite you to do the same.

invite gav jackson or add donutboy@bigpond.net.au put bigblog in invite request so i know ehere you come from ( in case i dont know)

So catch ya on face book!!

Wow! what a great sailing trip. The stay on the boat the night before and an extra night after made it seem like we were away forever, just what we needed.

It was fantastic to go away with our friends. their were more laughs, music, partying and dancing then i have ever seen on that boat. We had all our friends from our sunday night get togethers and Darren flew up from brisbane (used to do sunday nights too) so it was Sunday night every night.

The weather sucked, it blew harder and rained more than i have ever seen on that boat but it didnt matter. we all had a ball anyway.

Then we had to brave floodwaters and get home. Our trip took a bit longer and we got home at 4. Just enough time to have a shower and go to work 5-9. I was/ am shatterred and it will take a bit to recover

My knee is shot (from before i went away) my calves are killing me (apparently from no shoes and sliding around on deck) and im sooooooooo sunburnt on my head. So i feel like crap but someehow so refreshed.

I have been getting into facebook, catching up with some people. I chatted with a mate who is policeman in gympie last night and i havnt caught p with in ages. I have dealt with my initial resistance and i am liking it. A friend of mine blogged the other day on facebook. I was blown away getting notification that she had blogged. I am thinking that i might change my blog over to facebook (have to figure that out) then family and friends would be notified when i blog. I would of course miss out on the random friends that come by. Have to think about that one...............

Another big day ahead. the staff did a great job of running the shop while we were away. Just have to find out what mess there is when we get there today.

Not echarged batteries just run down in a better way. Cant wait to get together on sunday and catch up for a de brief

what is it with facebook??? i went and started using it properly the other day, iv always had it set up so i had some invites and now i got "friends". So i log in to check it out and find myself looking at nothing for ages, i have to say, this is crap and log off. i ant believe it.

i work 3-9 tonight and it feels like a day off. my knees are sore and im just plain old and tired. im gonna go buy some new ink cartridges for printer (refilled too many times me thinks) and that will do until about 2 when i will start doing something about getting ready for work. Kath has done her back in just t make things fun. So we both working ourselves into he ground.

Had a good chat to gemma last night. Sounds like shes having fun. Finding out a bit more about grandma and leash (because shes living with em), good and bad. Good learning experience for her, but i still miss her :(

i got nothing..........................

please comment and let me know what you doing????

today will be a better day

PLanning to have a few days off next week, sunday through thursday and go sailing whitsundays on kaths parents boat. http://www.tallshipadventures.com.au/alexander_stewart.htm

So to make that happen , we have staff for the day to day. We need someone to decorate the donuts. I will go in and bake for the time away . Connor is learning the process, it not hard just gotta be organised. im getting a checklist together and a daily diary with some instructions, so he should be good. We will be out of phone range most of the time so hope he knows what hes doing by time we gone, lookin good so far.

last night jasmine woke up (well sort of sleep walking) crying and came out to me sitting in office, ipicked her up and cuddled her to my chest and settled her down. she was sort of sitting on my lap and must have thought she was on the toilet because she procedded to pee, not just a little bit but really let it go! i couldnt do anything so just let her go, saying, your not on the toilet, then she finished. and continued her cuddle. so we took her wet knickers off and put her back to bed, then i took my wee pants off and kath mopped the office, we couldnt stop laughing, she peed my pants!!

parents will be amused by that, most prople without kids will think its gross, but just another day for daddy.

i checked out facebook for the first time last night. what a time thief! search- donutboy@bigpond.net.au

i set it up ages ago and havnt used it, so ive got a few invites, mostly family. so ive got some friends already, then i searched and found some more. couldnt believe how long this all took. while doing this i was using my old mate msn and chatting with a friend in brisbane, who is on my face book, and we chat for hours, hes coming up for my birthday and will be great to catch up

took some photos with the camera yesterday, must transfer to pc.

my kneee has given in, too much standing i guess, so it has happened before and i have kneee support which i am wearing today, but basically i am falling to pieces.aaaaargh

so off to work i go, today is big training day for connor, bring it on. today will be a better day

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