August 31, 2006
i've had my serve
i had very yummy vegetable soup tonight cooked by alison. there was carrot, celery, tomato, capsicum, onion, potato, corn and zucchini, plus red lentils. that's eight vegetables. mucho yummo.
August 30, 2006
interesting
howie seems to be slightly addicted to australian idol.
but not enough to not watch spicks and specks. so things are still ok. it's all ok.
August 29, 2006
so much ticking off!
we've booked honeymoon accommodation. i've started doing order of service booklets (man is it gonna take forever!). mysterious other things are getting done. oh it's exciting!
August 28, 2006
August 26, 2006
well done
this is a very fun music video by Ok Go that howie, tom and i saw this morning. hope it works for you
rsi
i keep getting tennis elbow playing fooseball against will. i don't actually know what tennis elbow is or what it feels like, but when i play fooseball my elbow hurts coz i'm so hardcore. last night i almost beat will, except for the 14 or so goals he scored in the last 7 minutes of our match.
August 25, 2006
same age!!!
happy birthday dear robert. happy birthday to you. and many more
i'm so glad you're a year older, and i'm not til after we're married
August 24, 2006
well timed
i am enjoying having today off. i've had a bit of a sleep in (40 minutes worth - woo!!), and got a whole bunch of stuff filed/organised/cleaned up. i think mum will be happy.
i think the plan today is a little bit of a dog's breakfast - but in a non-negative way. i need to confirm some things about our car hire confirmation - but have to wait for perth business hours. howie and i are going to go look/buy his birthday BBQ. i think we may venture to castle hill's clark rubber to look at cheap foam mattresses for house visitors in the days before the wedding. i need to go to the chemist. and the post office. and the bank. and there's a family birthday/farewell tea at the frenches tonight.
busy, but relaxing. i hope.
looking forward to the weekend :)
August 23, 2006
progress
oh the ouchy. but yay for last treatment for four weeks! that is exciting. it will be more so when my thumb doesn't hurt anymore.
i just booked our car for western australia adventures. i fear that if we hit a kangaroo, we will fair much worse than him in our little crumple car. ah well - cheapness is good. plus it's ok that i'm only 24!
August 22, 2006
deja vu
reid came to visit his/our house today and pick up the mail. i think it would be rather strange to come home to your own house, and see it all set up differently by some other people.
reid is tops. so is the rest of his family. and not just because they've given us their house!
oh and yesterday i cooked our first real meal in the new house - for me, howie and sam. it was yummy sweet and sour chicken. yay for first use of our wok as well. go team!
August 21, 2006
should i be worried?
howie and i were just talking about our wedding vows, and he comes out with:
"i'm happy to make the promises, i just don't want to have to remember them."
i guess that's better than him having said he didn't want to have to keep them!
August 20, 2006
about 20 minutes ago now...
Here I am sitting at Blanc Noire, the local hand car wash. It's the first time Duckie has been washed since I got him over a year ago. Now, this is meant to be an internet cafe, but i see no computers. Perhaps I'm meant to have brought a lap top with me. Shame. I was all excited to blog, but alas.
The poor cleaning men - Duckie is soooo grungy (inside and out) especially after yesterday. But that does make it an extra special and needed treat for him. And I'm excited for him (and me). The people seem nice - so I recommend this place to you.
Plus I got "free"tea.
August 19, 2006
beyond the 66666
i drove 313kms today. duckie passed his 66666th km. a girl vomited in my car.
what a day.
August 18, 2006
day of rest
life should have a stop/pause button just so sometimes i can catch up. that would be nice.
looking forward to the sabbath. it doesn't come around nearly as much as it should.
all signs point to yes
today we had to do some kmart toy shopping for work. and i found and bought these - not for work, for us!
how fun are they. little inflatable signs. there's different pictures on the back of them. only $9.60. bargain!
August 17, 2006
dolle up
make up is really not me. but i have to grin and bear it for a day in 23 days time. but i did find a good lipstick/gloss today. that's a relief. i just need to be a more conscientious user of blistex and down more h2o.
August 16, 2006
coke free
how annoying. i bought a can of diet coke, had three sips and then forgot about it and left it at work. ok, so maybe it was only a 50 cent can, but still!
i am becoming more forgetful in my old age. more and more needing to write down things as i think of them. otherwise they disappear into the oblivion of my mind.
a bit heady
there are a lot of paint fumes wafting around the office at present. i'm especially noticing it today. headache here we come!
August 15, 2006
August 14, 2006
entertainment
it's fun starting your days with things like finding nemo and shrek. but i do think debbie will run out of dvds while she's sick as a dog as she is.
August 13, 2006
130806
i'm feeling much betterer today.
the boys are a bit crazy. ham has turned into the piggy and pineapple is just crazy jumpy hiding man. we think they might appreciate people being around more, rather than surprise visits.
joshy and adam are visiting at the moment. our house is so exciting. we have three laptops out and are listening to music. rockin!
i better go hang out the washing. paaaaaaarty.
August 12, 2006
120806
in many respects, what a lovely day. congrats to helen and jon. now mr and mrs. i would post photos but they are super dodgy. so you'll just have to take my word for it that they looked great.
in other respects today was possibly the s-word-iest day of my life. which does actually say something.
toasty
today is a bit full. i am a little worried i've overbooked myself and that timing will get very difficult. hmmm.. we'll see. still not feeling 100%. all i've eaten in the last three days is 5 pieces of plain toast, and three morning coffee biscuits. this mornings toast is a little charcoaly - whoops.
i hope i don't collapse in a heap at 8pm.
today is helen and jon's wedding. hoorah for helen and jon! david, i don't think i will win your competition, but i'll give it a shot after the event.
August 11, 2006
running around
well i am feeling pretty weak and woozy today. but my tummy is feeling better i think - still pretty rumbly, but not nauseous. i don't know how howie did it for all those months. just one day of constant "l.&u.s" was enough for me.
August 10, 2006
August 09, 2006
any ideas
can anyone suggest where to get one of these for a day (guess which day)??
it's so pretty. happy to pay a little bit, and petrol.
August 08, 2006
ouchies
tomorrow is doctor again. that's not so exciting. i remember at my second treatment asking if it was going to hurt more or less the more treatments i had. i think i was expecting him to say "oh it will hurt less and less" and i was going to say "oh that's good then". but no. he said, "it will hurt more". and i said "oh". last week i threatened to stop coming coz it hurt so much. but i know i should keep going. so i will.
August 07, 2006
may we introduce to you...
our two boys
HAM & PINEAPPLE
they were a little cold and shy this morning. that's pineapple on top - he was a little more curious than ham underneath who was very happy just to stay hidden away.
but now they're enjoying their tank, although they get a bit scared of us and any sudden movements.
this is ham - he was the shyer one and took a little encouragement to fully enjoy the tank. but he was very photogenic and seemed to enjoy his photo shoot.
and this is pineapple. it took a while to convince him that photos aren't scary. he also spends a lot of time scrounging around for leftover food (yum, bloodworms) in the gravel. i have lots of photos of him eating.
so there you go. they are our new buddies. they are fun. we got to go to reef aquarium and buy turtle pellets, bloodworms and fake plants. who would of thought i'd ever have a pet (or two) that live in a tank. not i.
but yay!!
August 06, 2006
my grandma
my grandma is having a full hip replacement tomorrow. doh! debbie spoke to her this morning, and said that she fell just before lunch, so she ended up on the ground unable to move with a smashed hip (which she didn't know at the time), and still was fed lunch by grandpa before the ambulance came. what a cack! so i'm glad she's ok. that's good.
August 05, 2006
hospitals
i visited cathy bell in hospital today. she is doing better which is very good news (she's been in since monday night). i do hope she continues to recover, coz i'm sure it's not much fun being ill like she has been. but i did accidentally take the staff/service lift. so a orderly man swiped his card to let me out at the 11th floor. thanks orderly man. then when i caught the lift back down and got out on the wrong floor, another nice hospital man told me the stairs were faster and showed me where they were. now i sound like an inexperienced lift rider.
in less exciting, but still related news, my grandma had a fall this arvo, and has been taken to hospital in an ambulance. and they think she's broken her hip :( that makes me sad. my grandma is pretty robust. she's been in hospital lots but for all kinds of weird and wonderful things, not frail type things. so i am worried about her. coz i'm sure it's painful and will be a longer, rather than shorter, recovery time.
howie and i are watching our first DVD with new home cinema set up. it's jamie cullum, live at blenheim palace. we're also doing a few odd jobs around the place. unfortunately, we haven't been able to move howie in yet coz things fell through with getting a van to move his bed and a few other bigger things. i'm sure he'll move in one day.
but in exciting news, 'the boys' will be moving in here on monday!! we'll definitely have pics of them then!! oh so excited.
August 04, 2006
tis the season
Romans 13:5-7
Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
August 03, 2006
progression
well i've been taking photos over the weeks of my wrist, just for fun coz i have a camera. i didn't actually take a pic of it before getting it cut out, but hey. so here we go...
this is after it got cut out - it bled lots, well it felt like lots
then i took a photo of my first non-dissolvable stitches - oooooh
this was after getting the stitches out - doctor was very pleased with its progress, although the bandaids ripped my arm up good and gave me a nice rash that is still a little sensitive
and then it took this one yesterday as it heals up nicely into a scar. still a bit pinky but it'll get there.
there's still a little bit of irrational fear that it will burst open and all my insides will fall out. but i'm coping.
August 02, 2006
plucked from the air
my brain is a bit mushy from panadeine forte. all mush and not much pain relief for my hand. it took a concentrated effort to drive home just then. and i am so ready for bed.
speaking of bed, i put paper and a pen next to my bed last night to write stuff i think of as i go to sleep, and wrote lots down. but forgot about it when i woke up. so none of it got done. talk about defeating the purpose!
thinking about trust. and respect. i find it hard to respect people i don't trust. or find to be unreliable. i guess they are things that are important to me. and i feel let down if people don't measure up to that - being trustworthy and reliable. good thing God is both those things. or He'd be in a whole lot of trouble.
i'm also finding it a bit difficult setting up house and it not being neat and tidy yet. things aren't put away - generally because i don't know where they should go. they don't have a home yet.
also our fridge is only a freezer. thats not much fun. i hope the margarine and cheese don't get angry from being frozen for a week or so.
i'm not looking forward to breathing through the pain of labour, when the pain of cryosurgery each week is enough to bring me almost to tears and to an intense desire to swear loudly.
paul dug a little deep today and both my thumb and rude finger are bleeding. but fun is that he has a student with him for the next 6-7 weeks. i'll get to see that guy another 3, 4, 5 times (not 6 silly, coz i'll be in western australia!)