How was your week? This week marked the first week of school holidays and it has been quite a little busy week too. The first two days were spent at home and other days I have been out.
On Wednesday and Thursday I spent my days catching up with two friends. One friend I haven't seen for eight years as she has been living overseas. The main reason she had a trip to Australia because she lost a family member due to a serious illness. But it was nice to see her in person after all this time. We have been best buddies since early childhood. Thank goodness to have social media!! We intend to stay in touch via the net. Once I have settled into my new address, I should consider catching up with other friends I haven't seen in a while.
Today I taken the kids to Kingston Park Raceway to go karting. For $10 (under KRANK progam) each they had four rides on the go karts and a couple of other rides in their mini side show alley. They love it and had so much fun for afew hours during the day. Surprise the park was fairly quiet but it might be a different story on weekends when you pay full price to attend.
What's your plans for this weekend? AFL Grand Final and Brisbane Riverfire is held this weekend and I won't be going to either event. Since October isn't too far away now, I need to get the packing finalized. I only have afew more boxes to go through with craft supplies. I am hoping to get that done by tomorrow night. Then make a start with upstairs and start packing things I don't need or use in a hurry.
Whatever weekend plans you may have, enjoy your time with the family!
Friday, 27 September 2013
Friday, 20 September 2013
Changes are happening faster then I predicted
Wow! This month is flying by so fast. It's already past half way into September and today is the last day of term 3 for school aged children. They will have a two week holiday from next Monday.
Early this month we decided to get our house on the market to sell. It was talked about in the last five years to sell up and move but this time it happened for a different reason. Only a couple of close friends and my parents know the real reason why but I am not really ready to share with the world why this is happening.
All this month has been on the go with tidying up the house ready to sell and begin packing our belongings into boxes. The house was only on the market for a week when it got sold last weekend to a young couple who live locally. If all continues to go well with the contract, our settlement day to move out is 16th October.
As I said earlier school holidays are approaching, we will be busy packing and have a garage sale to sell items we don't want to take with us. Since we started to pack I didn't realized how much craft belongings I collected over the years. I probably end up achieving my own dream to start up a small business online to sell my craft made products. But at present time I have other issues to sort out so that goal may happen later on down the track once I settled down with my new life changes.
To all parents with children, enjoy your time with them over the school holidays.
Early this month we decided to get our house on the market to sell. It was talked about in the last five years to sell up and move but this time it happened for a different reason. Only a couple of close friends and my parents know the real reason why but I am not really ready to share with the world why this is happening.
All this month has been on the go with tidying up the house ready to sell and begin packing our belongings into boxes. The house was only on the market for a week when it got sold last weekend to a young couple who live locally. If all continues to go well with the contract, our settlement day to move out is 16th October.
As I said earlier school holidays are approaching, we will be busy packing and have a garage sale to sell items we don't want to take with us. Since we started to pack I didn't realized how much craft belongings I collected over the years. I probably end up achieving my own dream to start up a small business online to sell my craft made products. But at present time I have other issues to sort out so that goal may happen later on down the track once I settled down with my new life changes.
To all parents with children, enjoy your time with them over the school holidays.
Sunday, 1 September 2013
August report
Goodbye winter! Today is the first day of offical spring. Even through our season was only a wild one, I am glad it's over for another year.
Just when I thought July wasn't the best month, August was no better. The first two weeks was fine but not in the remainder of the month. I became ill and had to be in hospital for a couple of days during my birthday week. I had to have my gall bladder removed. It was such a short notice event. All I can remember I was in severe pain, worse then childbirth and the next moment I was in theatre to have my organ removed for life. It was a couple of days it hit me hard to realise what just happened. It was more my own wake up call to improve in my health status. I will admit I have been quite slack in the past couple of years only because I had other family issues on my mind to deal with.
Spring is now here and good time as any to make some changes to my life. There will be major plans taking place later on. When the time is right I will annouce what the new changes will be then.
Just when I thought July wasn't the best month, August was no better. The first two weeks was fine but not in the remainder of the month. I became ill and had to be in hospital for a couple of days during my birthday week. I had to have my gall bladder removed. It was such a short notice event. All I can remember I was in severe pain, worse then childbirth and the next moment I was in theatre to have my organ removed for life. It was a couple of days it hit me hard to realise what just happened. It was more my own wake up call to improve in my health status. I will admit I have been quite slack in the past couple of years only because I had other family issues on my mind to deal with.
Spring is now here and good time as any to make some changes to my life. There will be major plans taking place later on. When the time is right I will annouce what the new changes will be then.
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Hospital Stay
Its been twelve days since I last posted an entry in my blog. Guess you are all wondering what happened to me.
Last week I was quite ill and in severe pain to end up in hospital for a couple of days. I had my gall bladder removed as it was some major health issues to cause me quite ill. If any of you had this experience would understand what I went through in such an unexpectedly incident. The pain was worse then childbirth!!
The surgery of the removal happened on Wednesday night and there was some mild complications overnight. By Friday afternoon I was discharge to go home. The first night I managed to sleep well after four nights of bugger all sleep.
All this week I have been resting, sleeping and watching TV. I'm not allowed to drive for a week so I had to get other people to go to the shops when required. Over the weekend my Dad and a friend came over to keep me company for a couple of hours as I was home alone all weekend. Also I had a close friend regularly contact me to see if I am okay.
By Sunday my emotions got the better of me. It hit me hard to realised I now have lost an organ for life. I learnt this experience as my own walk up call to my own health and need to learn to choose better healthier eating habits. I haven't jumped on the scales to see if I have lost any kgs since I became sick but my food intake has been alot less then I normally would comsume daily. Guess now is the good time as any to think about making better changes to myself.
Last week I was quite ill and in severe pain to end up in hospital for a couple of days. I had my gall bladder removed as it was some major health issues to cause me quite ill. If any of you had this experience would understand what I went through in such an unexpectedly incident. The pain was worse then childbirth!!
The surgery of the removal happened on Wednesday night and there was some mild complications overnight. By Friday afternoon I was discharge to go home. The first night I managed to sleep well after four nights of bugger all sleep.
All this week I have been resting, sleeping and watching TV. I'm not allowed to drive for a week so I had to get other people to go to the shops when required. Over the weekend my Dad and a friend came over to keep me company for a couple of hours as I was home alone all weekend. Also I had a close friend regularly contact me to see if I am okay.
By Sunday my emotions got the better of me. It hit me hard to realised I now have lost an organ for life. I learnt this experience as my own walk up call to my own health and need to learn to choose better healthier eating habits. I haven't jumped on the scales to see if I have lost any kgs since I became sick but my food intake has been alot less then I normally would comsume daily. Guess now is the good time as any to think about making better changes to myself.
Friday, 16 August 2013
40 hour famine
How is everyone's week been going? It's been a short week as we had a public holiday on Monday for Brisbane EKKA. This carnival had been opened for 8 days now and I guess thousands of visitors past the entrance gates to have a fun day out with themselves or their family or friends. We never bothered going this year as it's too expensive to attend yearly.
Today is the start of the 40 hour famine and it will end on Sunday. My eldest girl got involved for the first tme this year. So it will be interesting to see how long she can last without food intake. I know I couldn't because I would be feeling ill from lack of something in my stomach. Don't get me wrong I do really feel for these poor starving kids in third world countries. If I was there I probably would give some child a good meal if I could. I don't believe in donations to many organisations because I heard it's the administrators of the organisation that gets our donated money. What really ticks me off is how there are so many fussy eaters out in this world! They just take food for granted.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Today is the start of the 40 hour famine and it will end on Sunday. My eldest girl got involved for the first tme this year. So it will be interesting to see how long she can last without food intake. I know I couldn't because I would be feeling ill from lack of something in my stomach. Don't get me wrong I do really feel for these poor starving kids in third world countries. If I was there I probably would give some child a good meal if I could. I don't believe in donations to many organisations because I heard it's the administrators of the organisation that gets our donated money. What really ticks me off is how there are so many fussy eaters out in this world! They just take food for granted.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Saturday, 10 August 2013
August Begins
Hows everyone's week been going? Nine days of August have passed on by and our temperature started to increase during the sunlight hours. We had beautiful sunshine weather for the past week which is a good time to spring clean in some areas. But I was more interested in sorting out afew boxes from upstairs because I was seeking something to use last week.
This week was a good time to get myself motivated to get back into a regular walk routine again. I tried to walk twice a day at sunrise and about half an hour or so before sunset. Our early mornings are still abit chilling but it's nice to go walking at that time without feeling so hot (like summer).
Brisbane Ekka started on Thursday. At this point we aren't planning on going to the EKKA. It gets too costly to go every year. For one adult it costs $28 at the entry gate and that does not include any rides. For a family of four it would cost $65 entry, add food to eat, showbags and afew rides, half your weekly wage would be gone.
There are two public holidays for next week for Brisbane Ekka. Logan has their day off on Monday while Brisbane has their day off on Wednesday. Students used to had two days off school in the same week but the education department put a stop on student free days in August. But seriously do we really need a public holiday for EKKA? The Brisbane EKKA goes for ten days and I am sure alot of people have the time to go if they wish to go anyday of the ten day event without having a public holiday for the carnival.
Enjoy your weekend!
This week was a good time to get myself motivated to get back into a regular walk routine again. I tried to walk twice a day at sunrise and about half an hour or so before sunset. Our early mornings are still abit chilling but it's nice to go walking at that time without feeling so hot (like summer).
Brisbane Ekka started on Thursday. At this point we aren't planning on going to the EKKA. It gets too costly to go every year. For one adult it costs $28 at the entry gate and that does not include any rides. For a family of four it would cost $65 entry, add food to eat, showbags and afew rides, half your weekly wage would be gone.
There are two public holidays for next week for Brisbane Ekka. Logan has their day off on Monday while Brisbane has their day off on Wednesday. Students used to had two days off school in the same week but the education department put a stop on student free days in August. But seriously do we really need a public holiday for EKKA? The Brisbane EKKA goes for ten days and I am sure alot of people have the time to go if they wish to go anyday of the ten day event without having a public holiday for the carnival.
Enjoy your weekend!
Thursday, 1 August 2013
July report
Goodbye July! I am thankful this month has been declared over as I had a rough month of receiving more bad news then good news. Either someone has died, had some form of surgery or been diagnosed with some form of cancer. What is going on in this world this century? Why are lots of people getting fatally ill to require surgery to remove an organ or have treatment for months? A couple of weeks ago I read some news feed post on facebook on how they wished it was the 80’s again. I kind of agreed with this as back then most of the past relatives I knew were still alive and kicking. Even had one of my cats off to the vet for an infected open wound as he got himself into a cat fight about 3 days before. He disappeared for around 40 hours and showed up at meal time in the morning. $150 later he got better within a week as I thought it was easier to get an antibiotic injection as he is the hardest pet to consume tablets. Don’t bother with any suggestions or tips on how to success in getting tablets down his throat because I have tried them all. Even the vet struggled on getting him to take a worm tablet at the clinic. This cat is one smart cookie!! The hardest part was to keep him indoors all the time as he is so used to outdoor living all the time. We try to keep him in at nighttime but times he is too quick at the screen door when I need to go outside for a reason or coming home late from an event. The worse part is if a household member forgets to lock the screen door, he can open the door himself and get out. I had abit of good news as well. Rachel was photographed for the local newspaper on the Fraser Coast. She was involved in a Paddle for Whales event with many other petitioners to save the whales in Hervey Bay in July. I had drivers my car for six months now and it had its first 10K done a couple of weeks ago. All’s good so far!! I am starting to see more of the same model on the road daily now. This morning there were three of us at the same set of traffic lights on Loganlea Road. My children’s report cards had arrived via snail mail and parent teacher interviews happened as well. Only on Tuesday afternoon I saw Rachel’s teachers. Her achievements results are good but her effort and behaviour into the workload isn’t as strong as it should be. Monique has started her school based traineeship this semester. She's doing sport and recreation. Her on the job training (and gets paid for it) is held at a primary school once a week on Fridays. She loves it!! Time to go as I have some house chores to do before the day ends. I already had a busy morning dealing with business phone calls to two people. Have a good month of August!
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