Spring Cleaning in July

I seem to be springcleaning all over the place.The cabins at both parks are being done and my house has had a shake up. I think that is only because mum and dad are coming to stay!
On my path to organization I have been manically cleaning. I usually dislike spring cleaning the cabins and I must admit I have kind of pushed most of it towards our staff this year. However I do love to take everything out and wash and dry it and place it back all neat and pretty. Even the old cabins come up a atreat after a good scrub.

I have tried to go over and help to scrub walls and things and my daughter takes off out of the cabin and runs into the garden or into the laundry or anywhere that I cannot see her. So I run after her put her back in the cabin and start again. After a few thousand times of going back and forth the staff are loooking at me like, please go back to the office and leave us in peace!! hehe.

Back to my own house. I ajaxed the shower whilst showering tonight. The fumes were a bit out there!It is an old shower and does not look much better once cleaned. It is chipped in places and has water stains that are impossible to get off.I hope mum and dad don't think that I don't clean it!

Mum and Dad are going to lookk after the kids for a few days while my husband and I go to Brisbane. First time away from the kids. Scary..So mum and dad will be staying in our bed. So I bought an electric blanket. I don't particulary like electric blankets but I don't want Dad to be cold. It is one that has a woolley underlay. I must admit it is rather comfy. ,maybe it will stay on after they have gone home! I just hope the kids behave.

Rori has started to crouch next to me when she is going to the toilet. Pants on that is. Not at the potty stage yet. Although she will do a number two and then look straight at me and go Eww poo! Smart kid! Maybe not long now before she will be on the potty that would be good. Although I must say that disposables are oh so convenient.

Well I must go and mop the floors. Cal spilt Peaches and the juice all over the kitchen floor and it has that sticky feel to it at the moment,. Yuck...

Catchya

To Patent or to Trademark?

Watching mybusiness on TV this morning they were discussing trademarks and Patents. A lady had designed sleeping bag kind of things for kids to take to childcare called kindyswags which she had trademarked.
I hadn't really though about trademarks as much as i had often thought of patenting. You know all those big ideas you get that are a one off!

According to ipaustralia

"A patent is a right granted for any device, substance, method or process which is new, inventive and useful.
A patent is legally enforceable and gives the owner the exclusive right to commercially exploit the invention for the life of the patent. This is not automatic-you must apply for a patent to obtain exclusive rights to exploit your invention."

I can't wait to think up something that is worth commercially exploiting...


"A trade mark is not registrable if it is not capable of distinguishing your goods or services from the same or similar goods or services of other traders in the marketplace."

Apparently a trademark can be words or a colour, an object,shape or scent.

When I have a new idea I always think that the minute I tell someone that they are going to run off with it. Like the people in govt depts that say yay or nay about your idea to be patented could say nup and then run off and do it themselves because it is such a great idea.

Maybe I should just concentrate on staying with one idea and then running with it myself.

I also wanted to have a bitch about the Ralphs Bay Development Proposal by Walker Corporation. But it upsets me soo much I think I will dedicate a whole blog session to it tomorrow.
Catch ya

Forever Fearful

I went to buy a packet of panadols today knowing I had none left in the house. I did not have a headache i just hate not having them in the house.I thought to myself this is silly you don't have to get them right now I can get them tomorrow or the next day.. As a regular headache getter there is nothing worse than going through a whole night with your head throbbing and wanting to go to sleep but unable to shake the dull bang bang bang that is going on inside your skull.
Murphys law it is 10.30pm and I have a headache with no panadol in the house.I think I brought it on myself.

I have been coding invoices for the past hour and heard the news update concerning North Korea and the missiles they have fired off. 7 in total now. It scares the hell out of me. I just feel totally frightened. A kind of irrational fear. It is all consuming. I can never seem to take in news around me and let it go. Not discard it but just let it go. I remember as a child I would hear a noise outside the window and my mind would just run away from me thinking all the things it could possibly be. My older sister factually explaining the liklihood of it being a murderer or the wind moving the pomegranate bush's twigs on our window pane!

One thing I think of as an adult with children is how important it is to make them feel safe when they are fearful of something. I don't know if I now believe in God as such but as a child it was always comforting to know we would go to heaven after death. At least I could go to sleep after one of mums chats. I hope I instill that same kind of comfort to my own children when they feel afraid. However it poses the question for me as to how to make your fears as an adult seem not so frighteneing when you know all the facts.

I think I will go to bed and rub some lavender into my temples and try and get an image of me as a 12 yr old on the bars at gymnastics- Doing kip up after kip up. I never liked the magnesium on my hands and the blisters that would form on top of blisters. In fact bars was my worst event but every night when something was bothering me I woulsd get this image of the bars and it has stuck with me right through my life to date. Wierd.
Night..

One in 62 chance!!

A strange thing happened last night. Andrew and I were folding up our annuals yearly invoices and putting them in envelopes. We had 4 piles of 62 pages in each.,1 for invoices,1 for policies, 1 for lease contracts and 1 for a general hello letter.
We have 62 annuals at the park. Anyway we going at a cracking pace, (probably because I realised i was folding faster than Andrew and told him so which prompted him to up the ante.I can't even fold invoices without turning it into a competition!!) and we finished in record time.
When we had finished we had 3 piles that still had one sheet on each. (No invoice) So we had picked up two customers invoices together and put them in an envelope. Not good!!
Boring story you may think but heres where it gets weird. Andrew picked up an envelope, opened it and the missing invoice was behind it. Out of 62 envelopes.Unbelievable!!!
So then we played the - your so psychic game all night....When we hopped into bed Andrew brought the crossword with him and turned OFF the light. So then I thought perhaps he had developed Superhuman powers and could read at night. He tried it just in case, but no; his superness had left the building!!
Night...