February 28, 2005
crown prince frederik
he does seem such a lovely boy. i probably shouldn't call him a boy. he's like 37 or something. but he seems so sweet. and he's pretty. i probably shouldn't call him pretty either.
i like libby. i'm not one for talking on phone much, but i like talking to libby on the phone. i don't think i really have before. and it makes mascot much less far away. she's very excited about her light switch at the moment. and she says "yeh" lots. hehe.
i had the hiccups last night for about 15 mins. i don't think i'd had hiccups for years. it was funny. i think it was funny because it wasn't painful. hiccups are funny things.
meanwhile, what is the white gooberness in my mouth, up the back near my uvula. i'm sure that's not normal. ewww.
and totally unrelated, it's sad losing friends that you never expected to be apart from.
February 27, 2005
i'm appreciating lachy's suggestions on how to fix my virus... so far we have:
-beat it out with a big stick (hitting the virus and not me of course)
-using a small amount of mustard gas to kill it (a small amount to make sure not to turn all of my insides out and kill me, and since we don't have any gas masks, he'll use an air pump and balloon for his oxygen supply)
personally, i reckon just cutting my head off will help. from the shoulders so the entire neck is removed.
i might wait and see how it goes though... if i'm still like this in a week these options will seem much more attractive. at the moment, only slightly so.
February 26, 2005
borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred. being stuck at home sucks.
on a completely different note. some things scare me lots. most of these things revolve around people i don't know, or people i feel awkward around. i was just thinking about it then when debbie asked me to go to a particular place. but i'm sick anyway. so being stuck at home is a good excuse as well as the whole 'it sucks' thing.
i like sam. we had fun lunch. vegetable noodle soup we both couldn't finish and donut king vanilla skim milkshake/thickshake. and i bought two cds. but i like talking with sam. it's lots of fun. so many fun stories to share. hehe.
meanwhile, me throat is killing me. what's the deal. how do you kill a virus?
sometimes my head catches me completely by surprise. i wish there was a switch on the back of my neck to turn craziness and idiocy off.
i think that the no-caffeine drinks thingy will be broken today. pepsi max is luring me back. but we will see.
February 25, 2005
i think i have some very silly conversations when i am overly tired. apologies to you tamara. very funny though. oh so funny.
February 24, 2005
i like photos
i like lachie
i like will and jayne in the background - coz will was a little monkey taking people's thongs and hats and putting them up the tree
i like ez and she turned 21
i like the beach
ok, so i have been thinking, what is the point of being annoyed or frustrated or angry at something i can't change. it doesn't make sense coz it's not helpful. being annoyed is probably just self-indulgent. i can't do anything about it, so i should just get on with it. yep.
it's just a graze on xander's eye lid. the vet doesn't think it was a fight, but that xander probably miscalculated a jump. what a cack. such a coordinated kitty.
xander's off to the vet missing some eyelid after, we assume, a fight this morning. he's such a spaz. but as soon as he saw his little transporty cat box cagey thingy, he freaked. so it took a lot of effort by me and mumma to get him in it. poor xander.
streaker was a much more fun cat. he loved car trips and we'd just hold him on our lap in the vet's waiting room. have a ever said before on here that our last cat's name was streaker? probably not. he was named before i was born. but it was so fun standing at the top of the stairs out the front yelling "streaker! streaker!!"
i'm not sure if i like used car salesmen. or even new car salesmen. i'm sure they're all lovely blokes. i guess they're just doing their job. i do like that i know what i want so they can't really tempt me with anything else. except a hilux. they could tempt me with that. there was a hilux yesterday at phil mccarroll (no barry smith for me thanks) - white, dual cab. but it was not 4WD and was auto. still, veeeery tempting. so maybe one day soon i will have a new (used) car. that is weird.
meanwhile, i think i almost got a reasonable night's sleep. that is excitement.
aaaaand apparently lachie rained on howie's parade... he got 105kg, which is as much as you can go. lach - you're a tank!
February 23, 2005
that's it... sleep, you're fired.
last night - four solid hours - woke up at 3:01am. thought "brilliant". then drifted in and out and probably got another patchy two hours.
ok, ok, i'm sorry sleep. please come back. do you need a pay rise?
i don't understand what's going on. but it's pretty safe to say i'm over it.
February 22, 2005
RIP Wemmick 1996 (2003)-2005
steve took a couple pics for me with his camera phone. i said bubye to wemmick today. it's sad. he was a very good car. i don't think i'll find anyone else better... impressive ouchys though aren't they. poor little thing. good thing howie and i are ok.
February 21, 2005
its all about finding random photos on your computer that you had forgotten about... this one is a little disturbing. only a little.
damn dettol - its like stepping in the bog of eternal stench in 'labyrinth'. except with my thumb.
meanwhile i still have a fever. four days running.
after seeing 'hotel rwanda' last night with howie, i was reminded of how i felt during and after seeing 'tears of the sun' or 'the pianist'. the not understanding how people can treat other people like that. it was a really good film, not in the sense of pleasant, enjoyable and happy skipping through the fields good, but good. and what sat with me was a line Joaquin Phoenix delivered:
“After they see this, people are gonna say 'my god thats terrible' and then go on eating their dinners.”
that makes me angry. because that's me. well, i don't really watch the news, but i know there are things going on in this world that are unjust, cruel, wrong, horrible. but i don't know how to move forward from that. i am just one person. but i know that shouldn't matter. i don't want it to go in the "too hard" basket. but most of me knows that it will. grrrr.
thank God there are people in this world who do make a difference.
February 20, 2005
"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table."
-- Max Beerbohm
why is that true? it's always so exciting to tell your own dream stories, but generally, not so exciting to hear the stories of others. and therefore, i would assume that for others, hearing the story of my dream is not all that exciting for them, no matter how exciting it was for me to dream it. that is sad. if it's not exciting, please don't humor me when i go to tell you about my latest dream.
best thing since a slice of bread...
i slept at least 7 hours last night!!!!!!!! i woke up at 5:18am. then was drifthouse til now.
so excitement. that makes it around 13 hours sleep in the last five days (including kips). i'm powering on! i mean, i'm still dog tired. but i slept!
February 19, 2005
tamara and libby are visiting. tamara brought her pill box. hehe. she's a funny one. i've already filled it up.
i feel like this blog is turning into a medical report.
so had sleeping tablet at 9:45pm.
went to bed at 10pm.
maybe went to sleep sometime after 11pm.
woke up from a dream before 2:30am.
lay there waiting to go back to sleep for 2 hours.
fever revisits at about 3:30am.
at 4:30am decided sleep wasn't gonna happen so waited for sun to get up.
fill in time playing songs in my head and reliving time in greece.
have 15 mins sleep before getting up at 7:15am.
stupid good for nothing sleeping tablets.
i was more awake at 2:30am than i was at 9:45pm when i took them.
feeling pretty seedy now.
February 18, 2005
pill popping
one mobic tablet once daily
one cephalexin capsule three times a day
half a stilnox tablet at night
one multivitamin each morning
it's ok coz i'm not taking any nurofen or panadol or telfast anymore.
i feel like a little old lady who needs her pill box on the kitchen bench.
tamara, can i borrow yours?
mumma pointing to my sleeping tablets - "these could make you sleepy"
there was context, but i won't go into that.
doctor tells me i have a viral upper respiratory tract infection - red throat, fever, swollen glands. and because of my recent chest trauma, he doesn't want me getting a cough, coz my body would struggle clearing it, so i'm on antibiotics to stop that. he thinks that puffy eyes is because of that infection.
he also gave me sleeping tablets to take for four days. i hope they work.
but i'm a good girl... i'm going back to the doctor at 5:45pm this arvo. maybe he will fix me. or prescribe me things that will fix me. or at least bandaid solutions to fix me enough.
February 17, 2005
i remember when sleep was my friend. those were good days. well, nights.
i'm not sure, but last night was possibly the worst nights sleep i've ever had. i must have got at least one hours sleep coz i don't remember looking at the clock between 4:41am and 6:07am, but i did at least twice an hour every other hour between 10pm and 8:11am.
i don't understand what's going on. i'm so damn tired. but i can't sleep. my eyes are so so sick. and last night, i kept drifting in and out with cold sweats too. that's normal.
any ideas for how to help me sleep good??? maybe i need sleeping tablets. maybe i need to drink caffeine again. maybe i need a new pillow.
debbie wants me to go have a blood test. pfft.
February 16, 2005
almost bed time again... hopefully this time no dreams about volcanic islands, escaped prisoners, alligators and weddings.
good good
90% chance my car is a write off.
awesome.
poor wemmick :(
but maybe i can get a hilux instead. ohhhhhhhhhh yeh.
February 15, 2005
i don't think i've ever felt so exhausted in my whole life.
and, on top of that, i love walking home from normanhurst.
cityrail, you're fired.
barry, fix my damn car.
its quite sad that sleep and i are no longer friends... i don't even know if i'd say we are aquaintances. that saddens me. coz i feel blerk. and that's not much fun.
February 14, 2005
now i go to bed, and hopefully my eyes recover. i go see dr humphrey in the morning. maybe he will fix my chest. it's not a broken rib. i can breathe fine. really.
meanwhile, howie is a lovely boy.
and i don't just want to say i love him because it's stupid valentine's day, but i do.
it seems my body is falling to bits this morning. but that's ok. i can still be useful.
1 Corinthians 6:20 (NIV)
"you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."
Neil talked briefly about this verse last night as we went through #2 of our Core Values. if i tried to remember i might remember it - but this was part of the glorifying Him bit. then i wondered how many people would know what the glory of God means... and i thought about justice, mercy and compassion. and then i think we moved on in the sermon.
i have to walk to station now. thank you parents for buying a house close to the train all those years ago.
February 13, 2005
"Love, they say is patient,
Love, they say is kind.
It sees beyond another’s faults
For love, they say is blind.
Love takes away the me and mine,
Instead it’s us and we.
Yours and mine is ours now,
For love is unity.
Love will not diminish,
Or rust or fade with years.
But it will gain its strength from time,
From laughter, joy and tears.
Love is God’s own gift to us,
A present from above,
He gives us peace,
He gives us joy,
But first He gives us love."
i was caffeine free again yesterday. i'm not sure if i've quite decided to be caffeine free for the rest of ever. i think maybe it's a good idea. i think i'd like to be more healthy (as i eat some tiny teddys). but i do think i'd like to be.
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap
~Carrie Snow
i'm not saying i'm having a bad day. i'm just very tired. off to narraweena we go!
February 12, 2005
ok, now i'm sick of telling the story. cars went boom. the end.
meanwhile, dawson's pierced eye brow is looking good. nice one! and of course, lachie your ear is good too. piercings are fun.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book
--Irish proverb
but what if it hurts to laugh and you wake up more sore than you were when you went to sleep... huh huh...
off to ez's surprise 21st beach party... i hope she is well surprised! i like ez. she's a good chap.
February 11, 2005
ok so i bailed rather early on GAP. i am quite the sore and tired. and have an early morning tomorrow. but it's fun telling the story. it was fun telling ben mcalpin, because he said he was going to tell me the story of his sore shoulder from bowling in cricket, but then says i win. hoorah. we ate lots of skittles in the little inverell meeting. yay tamara, will, jayne, jess and deb.
i wanted to post a pic of debsy, coz she's much cute. and how good is the women's weekly birthday cake cookbook - raise your hand all kiddies of the eighties who enjoyed its culinary delights *raises hand* ... i was talking to ty about it just the other day.
whiplash really creeps up on you.
meanwhile, GAP316 tonight... hoorah! i'm looking forward to a quiet but good one. quiet for me, by my usual GAP standards i mean. i'm sure everyone else will be quite loud. GAP is good stuff. young people are good stuff. yep.
aaaand i haven't had any caffeine today. apart from whatever is in a box of smarties.
if only i was a good story teller... dinner and a car accident
but i will try. dinner at tamara's. a car crash. but it's ok. howie and i are fine, if not a little sore.
so the story begins. howie and i drove to mascot after work to visit tamara at her and libby's new unit. so fun. i'm the worst reverser in the the world, but that's ok coz i'm pretty good with directions. anyway, the unit. it's pretty nice, and i'm sure it will be all the nicer once everything is fixed and works. but there's a pool and a gym, and a nice view of the meadow lea factory, a brewery, the city, aeroplanes and bunnings! so we enjoyed dinner, some 'amazing race', visiting the garbage disposals x2, the pool and the gym. howie's so strong. then it was icecream and chat time. i like tamara. for that matter, i like howie too. we left at about 11:30pm, figuring it's a school night and it only takes about an hour to get home.
except it took about two and a half hours to get home. on the comenarra, as we came up one of the hills on a cornery bit, some dude coming the other way lost control of his car, and he veered across into our lane, and hit us, quite the hard. he rammed into our front driver side with his front. so it all went boom. we all hopped out, no one was hurt. i called 000 and the boys all waved down cars so we didn't all get smooshed worse, coz the other car spun and came to a stop across the two lanes, while ours was kinda pushed off to the side. there are quite a lot of people out driving between 12:30-1:30am.
so towing men came. like two seconds later. they were helpful. and funny. man it hurts to laugh. seatbelts did their job. then ambulance men came. i was quite shakey physically and he checked me out, mostly to make sure my neck was ok. meh. who needs hospital. not me. the only reason i would have gone would be so i could match debbie's recent ambulance effort. i wonder if i'll get a nice bruise across my chest though. anyway, the fireys (or smokeys) arrived too coz of oil on the road i guess.
debs came soon after that. and then the coppers arrived. so she and howie bonded while i gave a statement. we waited for the towing men to take my car. and then debs drove us both home.
so bubye wemmick. i thinks he might be dead. he's been a good car. barry smith is gonna love me. but perhaps he can fix him and i'll have him back in a million years. its sad not having a car ... again.
i noticed i spent a bit of time laughing. it's good to keep a sense of humor about these things. i think the peoples involved in the emergency services probably need to keep a sense of humor about things too - like appropriately. and they seemed too. i do think my favourite quote of the night comes from the towing man... after making sure everything was ok, he walks over to the ambulance driver and asks him, "so, have you ever rolled one of these?".
so there you go, what an adventure. i say yay for howie, coz he looked after me good. thankyou howie. and hoorah for debs coming and getting us. and thanks God that it wasn't any more serious.
so lots of phone calls to make. i love calling the nrma. but i am excited that my neck isn't sore this morning. and i'm gonna stop rambling.
the end.
February 10, 2005
but self diagnosing is fun! maybe i have Meniere's Disease. i'll see what mumma thinks. meanwhile, i'm sure i'm a hypochondriac.
February 09, 2005
i, in all my medical geniusness, have decided that there is a link between either caffeine or nutrasweet and muffled ears. coz i figure when i drink too much diet coke/pepsi max, i can't hear so well.
another variation to the salad: cucumber, tomato, cheese, carrots, dried apricot and walnuts
February 08, 2005
the miller sign says it's still 32 degrees. it's 9:30pm. that's nuts. bring on winter. that's what i say.
February 07, 2005
indecisiveness sucks
(this public service announcement made on the behalf of tamara, ben, lachy, michaela and will)
February 06, 2005
i have two hoorahs...
1. because it may be the only time ever that it happens i'm recording it... i beat howie in how many people i knew at westfield today. i got 7, he only got 6. yay!
2. 100 one day international runs to glenn mcgrath... and one of the luckiest fours i've seen in a while
February 05, 2005
but how good is talking to jake on msn when he's all the way in africa! i've said it once, i'll say it again, msn... bringing people together.
and then maybe i knocked a whole glass of pepsi max over onto everything on the dining room table. there's a lot of everything on our dining room table. oops. mum just told me i'm lucky she loves me. oops. coz she was the one to clean it all up. i helped a bit!
young people are awesome. GAP was tops. last night i took a couple of moments, stood there looking around, and thinking "yeh God, you're awesome. thanks for all these young people". this year has so much potential. these young people have soooo much potential. it's exciting how much the world could be changed for the better because of God in them!
meanwhile, how fun was high fiving all the bloggers at GAP last night... lucky i remembered lachy!
and i think boys are crazy. the rumble room got an insane workout. as did courtyard brandings... yep - welcome year 10ers. consider yourselves initiated. yep - people matter.
February 04, 2005
six new bruises on my legs! but they're little ones.
and ben, they're not from howie. i don't know what they're from. but not him.
February 03, 2005
but how exciting is praying with others for young people. yay lachie. and i'm excited about steve harris joining the GAP team... that is mega awesome.
as my alarm woke me this morning, mid-dream*, my first thought was 'i wonder when i get to sleep'.
*i got five pieces of mail at work. howie got one - a postcard from joe baxter. but i had three postcards, and two envelopes. one of the envelopes looked such fun with sparkly stickers, but i never got to open it. i never get that much mail at work!
February 02, 2005
just imagine how exciting it would be to do a masters in human geography. i've been reading through the coursework units, coz i'm not really interested in a research masters, although i should be. some of it sounds so awesome. i'm such a nerd. shame it's $425 per credit point for 32 credit points.
i think i'd really enjoy units on post-colonial cities, natural hazards, population & health, social environments and climatic impacts - but i can't really find any on that sort of stuff. uni was so long ago. some of the units sound pretty interesting...
GSE819 Environmental Health
This unit explores the relationships between the environment and the health people enjoy. Topics are: what is health and how it is measured; the interrelationships between the physical, biological and socio-economic environments; health risk in urban-industrial societies; influences on health from the climate, the built work environment; water, air, infectious diseases; environmental health risk assessment
SCED803 Greenhouse Science
Global warming is a controversial topic but one with a major impact on society and the environment. This subject presents a study of the scientific basis of the enhanced greenhouse effect and its impact, including a review of responses to the problem
HGEO801 Globalisation and Sustainable Management
A critical examination of the concept of globalisation from economic, socio-cultural, political and environmental perspectives. Particular attention will be paid to local implications of global change; local and national policy responses in the fields of economic, social and environmental planning; community responses to globalisation; implications of globalisation for social and environmental sustainability at the local scale
HGEO806 Thinking Geographically
A unit exploring contemporary theories in Human Geography. it relates conceptual frameworks in human geography to changes in social theory and environmental studies. It explores how and why theoretical frameworks become subjects for intense debate.
such a nerdburger.
seeing 'phantom of the opera' last night brought back some good memories. i like that my parentals took me and debs to see it at the theatre a few times when we were littler. we did get some culture after all. and we loved it.
and special thanks to sam for sitting through all the singing.
oooh, and meanwhile, how fun is taking photos of the clouds standing up through sam's sunroof... oh yeh!
February 01, 2005
so so itchy. i hate how badly i react to mosquitos bites, how frequently i get bitten and how long it takes the bites to heal. arrrgh stupid body.
so i figure you've either found this blog coz you know me, you know or at least read howie's blog, or maybe you're just some random, but still valuable, person. and in any case, it is likely you read howie's blog too. so i'll get to my point which you'd probably already be aware of: yes, howie and i are back together. that is nice. actually, nice is such an ugly word. it's much better than nice.