Ok...3 hours after I typed that post our friend rang to let us know his ex-stepdaughter has dropped the charges! He hasn't been told why (probably because they don't have enough evidence to charge with him with anything) but he will still have to go to Sydney next week to clear up the paperwork and he will still be $40,000 out of pocket by the time he pays all the legal fees which really sucks. They get off scot free while he has a huge legal bill that will need to be paid. I am so happy that he won't be going to prison because his mother really needs him as he is all the family she has. I'm wondering if they considered her as an ex-grandmother in their decision but I guess we will never know.
About an hour after he rang our middle daughter called to say she had just been pulled over by the Police for driving with a suspended licence! Silly girl!!! We kept telling her she would get caught but does she listen? No!! MM has left just this minute with the boy to pick her up and get her car which is still sitting on the side of the road. The Police kindly dropped her home as they wouldn't allow her back in the car.
On a happier note I did some shopping today and bought a heap of Chrissy decorations. Everything is currently on sale so I will post pics when I am done. I told MM next Christmas, when the house will finally be ours, I am having the biggest Christmas display anyone has ever seen. There are some gorgoeus lights displays on sale but a little expensive for our budget this year especially since we want the house paid for by March. Then I will be glamming it up! I adore Christmas and would really love to share it with some littlies. We are toying with becoming foster parents in another couple of years so it would be nice to share the experience with those have nothing.
Anyway see you next week!
Monday, November 29, 2010
My "Whinging" Post - Read on if you Dare
Ok...I'm back. I was going to post last night. I got as far as posting my niece's formal photos then felt a sudden wave of nausea then sepnt the night throwing up! I had been feeling off for the past couple of days and it suddenly hit me last night. Today I had the day off anyway to get some more blood tests and stuff done then next week I have my final Specialist appointment until he needs to see me again in another 12 months. I am SOOOO over doctors and tests and stuff. Sucks to be old! (Well oldish anyway lol)
Anyway this post is more of a woe is me post so please don't feel obliged to keep on reading as basically I am just letting it all out here on paper so to speak. One of my friends at work, who is also a Life Counsellor, suggested I was suffering the beginnings of depression. Pfft! I don't generally get depresed. I get a little melancholy at times but in my opinion it just my way of letting out whatever emotional crisis is going through my head at the time. It has been a tough past couple of years but I think I have held up well and doing the best I can to get through life with as little disruption as possible to myself and those around me. This same friend suggested I also needed to talk about the issues more as I do tend to bottle things up as I don't like to burden people with my problems especially as I know everyone is going through something as well and it just seems selfish. So my little bloggy friend here gets to hear it all!
Firstly, MM's knee. After countless x-rays, ultrasounds, blood test and an MRI they could find nothing wrong with the knee or the shoulder, both of which are giving him huge pain. The shoulder they think is arthritis and the knee also could be even though there is still a huge fluid build up there and there must be a reason why it is so swollen. MM remembers when it happened as he felt the knee click out of place at the time so it was obvious to us that something is not right. The verdict from the doctor? Nothing's wrong, can't do anything about it...take some Nurofen...WHAT?? Are you kidding me? So three weeks later the knee still has fluid although the Nurofen has helped with the pain relief and because they make MM drowsy he is at least finally getting a good nights sleep but our research has shown that taking Nurofen over long periods of time can actually cause futher health problems so MM is about to get a second opinion. He is able to get around much better but he can't be taking Nurofen for the rest of his days. I am really annoyed because it took me so long to get him to a doctor and the first time he goes he gets screwed over. But at least he is suffering enough discomfort that he does want it all fixed. I'll keep you updated on the knee thing.
My baby girl Miss 17 finally gradually last week. Mum and Miss 23 and I went to her Valedictory Celebration where they presented the Year 12's with Awards and a Certificate of Completion. It was so beautiful and so emotional. Miss 17's dance class performed their last dance in front of the parents and one her friends had written a song which one of the Classes sang. They showed the usual powerpoint of their time at the school...full of laughs and cheering. It was nice to see all the Year 12's so close. This Year 12 class were basically all good friends with each other so they all cried and got all emotional! Then they had the handing over of the School Charter to the newly elected School Captains for next year. The School Captain for next was this cute lil thing. He suffers from dwarfism and appeared to be very popular. Miss 17 said he gets spoiled at school by everyone...Everyone takes care of him which I thought was nice. No one dared to bully him apparently. He has plenty of body guards ready to defend him! Nice looking lad too. This year's school captain was a really lovely girl who had to give the closing speech and as you can imagine that was extremely hard for her. Everythime she tried to read from her script she kept breaking down. The male Captain beside tried to take over then he bawled too! Then all the parents started bawling lol. Then everyone had a giggle, the girl apologised and giggled and said ok I'm so sorry about that and the proceedings commenced with minimum tears and a standing ovation at the end.
It was a very sad time for Miss 17 and mum as well as dad had always wanted to be able to live long enough to see Miss 17 graduate. He was so proud of her and her photography and her art work as he used to paint and draw a lot in his younger days and was happy to see she also had artistic ability which seemed to have skipped my generation! For her graduation gift I had found a really pretty locket with butterflies engraved on the front and put a photo of dad in it. She wore it under her uniform so that in this way Dad could be there with her on her special day. She wore it to the formal as well. Poor mum broke down when she saw what I had done as she thought it was a beautiful idea and then Miss 17 fell apart as well lol...ah so many tears for just one day!
She had her formal that night and her date was an old friend she has known since they went to kindy together. This is the same boy her ex-best friend used to go out with and when they broke Miss 17 was NOT ALLOWED to associate with this boy anymore. Miss 17 was basically well that's too bad. I have known C much longer than I have known you and I will be friends with whoever I want. So now Miss 17 and her best friend no longer speak although I think the frost is beginning to thaw as they had their photo taken together and the ex-BF has had about 3 other boyfriends since this one! Miss 17's date leaves for the navy shortly and is taking Miss 17 on a holiday up the coast with his parents as that is his graduation present. None of Miss 17's friends did schoolies. They spent the weekend together at Rydges in Brisbane, had a great time, no alcohol involved as none of them drink and they reckon it was the best time they ever had. Miss 17's date was so cute as he actually asked Miss 17's boyfriend R if it was ok if he took Miss 17 to the formal and to the weekend away. R has become good friends with C as they all hang out together with Miss 17 and her friends and he was fine with it all. R is a couple of years older than Miss 17 but he likes all her friends and they all hang out a fair bit together. So it's good to see some responsible kids. R is also quite religious as is his family and he has already told my mother not to worry about Miss 17 as they have decided they will not have sex until they are married which they figure they will do when Miss 17 turns 21. They have it all planned out. Finish Uni (2 years), travel for a few months, find work, get married, move in together. We'll see how that all pans out. Miss 17 idolises this guy and he her. It's all very sweet really.
Work has been very quiet. My boss has had her first holiday in 5 years and she has known flown to the UK returning in January so with school and kindys closing until then work will be very quiet.
Saturday MM and I went to the Surprise 50th Birthday of one of my dear friends from work. Her daughter emailed me a secret invitation to send around work so quite a few of us turned up. She loved it! She is an absolute riot and extremely funny. I love her to bits! We ended up buying her edible undies which she ate right there and then lol. And a little blow up man where you have to bang on him a few times and he "pops" out of the packet all blown up lol. Hilarious!
It was the first time MM and I had been out for a while and the restaurant was at Shailer Park which is an hours drive from Petrie. But I have Yoda on my Tom Tom GPS now and he was very amusing as we found our way there! Although he did get me confused on the way home and I ended up missing a turn off! Damn you Yoda! MM loves Yoda so he had a great time!
Sunday was meant to be a quiet day for me until we got a phone call from some dear friends of ours asking if they could drop in for a bit before they had to go to lunch. They live at Maroochydore and the Mr has been friends with us, well with MM for over 30 years and with me since I met MM about 12 years. The Mrs has been part of the relationship for probably 2 years. I was good friends with the ex-Mrs but she has now moved to Sydney.
There is a fairly lengthy story that goes with this. About 4 years ago the Mr and ex-Mrs divorced. We were shcoked as they owned a huge palm nursery at Nambour, where very well off and always very much in love. He was step father to her 2 daughters, both girls a bit whacked IMO. One became a model and got involved in the drug scene in Melbourne and the younger one turned out to have schizophrenia and ended up moving to Sydney for work but was not staying on medication and was doing bizarre stuff like running around naked on the snowfields in New South Wales and playing chicken with traffic in Sydney. So she was locked away for quite a bit of time. Both girls were very high maintenance. Suddenly the oldest girl tells her mother that her current husband molested her at 13. Instant divorce. The ex-Mrs came to us crying about it and at the time we told her that we didn't really want to become involved as we were friends with both and we really couldn't see that he would have done it. He was an ex-Victorian cop whcih doesn't mean much but he was always anti-paedophile and used to tell us how he used to love locking away rock spiders.
About a year ago he and the Ex-Mrs finally sold their palm nursery for a large substantial amount of cash. The very next day after settlement went through, the daughter went to a Police in Sydney and laid charges against him. Turns out she is substantially in debt, has a drug addicted boyfriend who apparently "witnessed" the molestation. So the past 12 months he has been going to and from NSW getting legal advice and now will have to go to Court next week. He has been told the minimum time he will serve is 4 years. He and the new Mrs have read the statements. He apparently "touched her boob" which he admits to but says that at the time this daughter was quite promiscuous even at 13 and was wearing a bikini top and she asked him to tie it up. The strap fell down and he went to grab it and inadvertently "touched her boob". She also alleges he felt her up which he categorically denies. Because he is also an ex-cop prison will be hell for him. What's worse is that in their defense they are not allowed to mention the fact that he came into a lot of money before the allegations were made which really sucks. So she doesn't have to prove that he did actually do it but he has to prove that he didn't. What's more his elderly mother has been given about 3 months to live and this is distressing her even more. When he goes to Court next week he is likely to never see his mother alive again. The daughter is now 30 years old so it took her about 15 years to lay a complaint.
Now please don't think I am condoning this kind of behaviour. If he did what is alleged then yes he deserves to go to jail. Child molesterers are the worst kind of evil in my opinion But nothing this girl is saying rings true. The Police even noted in the case notes that he is an avid player of World of Warcraft like that proves without doubt that he is a child molesterer. It's all very bizarre. They went through his computer with a fine tooth comb looking for child porn I guess and found it as clean as a whistle. The alleged "witness" claims that Mr made him watch child porn once and also forced him to watch "snuff" movies to prove what would happen to this dude if he hurt his step daughter. Even when the ex-wife told the Police that they never owned any porn at the time they were married nor any "snuff" movies they were never beleived. Both of them are quite prudish so it doesn't seem to fit.
Anyway must be off...Going to shop today for Chrissy decorations and cheer my house up a bit. Christmas this year I want to enjoy more. We didn't really do it last year as it was our first Christmas without dad but time now to get back to enjoying it.
Anyway this post is more of a woe is me post so please don't feel obliged to keep on reading as basically I am just letting it all out here on paper so to speak. One of my friends at work, who is also a Life Counsellor, suggested I was suffering the beginnings of depression. Pfft! I don't generally get depresed. I get a little melancholy at times but in my opinion it just my way of letting out whatever emotional crisis is going through my head at the time. It has been a tough past couple of years but I think I have held up well and doing the best I can to get through life with as little disruption as possible to myself and those around me. This same friend suggested I also needed to talk about the issues more as I do tend to bottle things up as I don't like to burden people with my problems especially as I know everyone is going through something as well and it just seems selfish. So my little bloggy friend here gets to hear it all!
Firstly, MM's knee. After countless x-rays, ultrasounds, blood test and an MRI they could find nothing wrong with the knee or the shoulder, both of which are giving him huge pain. The shoulder they think is arthritis and the knee also could be even though there is still a huge fluid build up there and there must be a reason why it is so swollen. MM remembers when it happened as he felt the knee click out of place at the time so it was obvious to us that something is not right. The verdict from the doctor? Nothing's wrong, can't do anything about it...take some Nurofen...WHAT?? Are you kidding me? So three weeks later the knee still has fluid although the Nurofen has helped with the pain relief and because they make MM drowsy he is at least finally getting a good nights sleep but our research has shown that taking Nurofen over long periods of time can actually cause futher health problems so MM is about to get a second opinion. He is able to get around much better but he can't be taking Nurofen for the rest of his days. I am really annoyed because it took me so long to get him to a doctor and the first time he goes he gets screwed over. But at least he is suffering enough discomfort that he does want it all fixed. I'll keep you updated on the knee thing.
My baby girl Miss 17 finally gradually last week. Mum and Miss 23 and I went to her Valedictory Celebration where they presented the Year 12's with Awards and a Certificate of Completion. It was so beautiful and so emotional. Miss 17's dance class performed their last dance in front of the parents and one her friends had written a song which one of the Classes sang. They showed the usual powerpoint of their time at the school...full of laughs and cheering. It was nice to see all the Year 12's so close. This Year 12 class were basically all good friends with each other so they all cried and got all emotional! Then they had the handing over of the School Charter to the newly elected School Captains for next year. The School Captain for next was this cute lil thing. He suffers from dwarfism and appeared to be very popular. Miss 17 said he gets spoiled at school by everyone...Everyone takes care of him which I thought was nice. No one dared to bully him apparently. He has plenty of body guards ready to defend him! Nice looking lad too. This year's school captain was a really lovely girl who had to give the closing speech and as you can imagine that was extremely hard for her. Everythime she tried to read from her script she kept breaking down. The male Captain beside tried to take over then he bawled too! Then all the parents started bawling lol. Then everyone had a giggle, the girl apologised and giggled and said ok I'm so sorry about that and the proceedings commenced with minimum tears and a standing ovation at the end.
It was a very sad time for Miss 17 and mum as well as dad had always wanted to be able to live long enough to see Miss 17 graduate. He was so proud of her and her photography and her art work as he used to paint and draw a lot in his younger days and was happy to see she also had artistic ability which seemed to have skipped my generation! For her graduation gift I had found a really pretty locket with butterflies engraved on the front and put a photo of dad in it. She wore it under her uniform so that in this way Dad could be there with her on her special day. She wore it to the formal as well. Poor mum broke down when she saw what I had done as she thought it was a beautiful idea and then Miss 17 fell apart as well lol...ah so many tears for just one day!
She had her formal that night and her date was an old friend she has known since they went to kindy together. This is the same boy her ex-best friend used to go out with and when they broke Miss 17 was NOT ALLOWED to associate with this boy anymore. Miss 17 was basically well that's too bad. I have known C much longer than I have known you and I will be friends with whoever I want. So now Miss 17 and her best friend no longer speak although I think the frost is beginning to thaw as they had their photo taken together and the ex-BF has had about 3 other boyfriends since this one! Miss 17's date leaves for the navy shortly and is taking Miss 17 on a holiday up the coast with his parents as that is his graduation present. None of Miss 17's friends did schoolies. They spent the weekend together at Rydges in Brisbane, had a great time, no alcohol involved as none of them drink and they reckon it was the best time they ever had. Miss 17's date was so cute as he actually asked Miss 17's boyfriend R if it was ok if he took Miss 17 to the formal and to the weekend away. R has become good friends with C as they all hang out together with Miss 17 and her friends and he was fine with it all. R is a couple of years older than Miss 17 but he likes all her friends and they all hang out a fair bit together. So it's good to see some responsible kids. R is also quite religious as is his family and he has already told my mother not to worry about Miss 17 as they have decided they will not have sex until they are married which they figure they will do when Miss 17 turns 21. They have it all planned out. Finish Uni (2 years), travel for a few months, find work, get married, move in together. We'll see how that all pans out. Miss 17 idolises this guy and he her. It's all very sweet really.
Work has been very quiet. My boss has had her first holiday in 5 years and she has known flown to the UK returning in January so with school and kindys closing until then work will be very quiet.
Saturday MM and I went to the Surprise 50th Birthday of one of my dear friends from work. Her daughter emailed me a secret invitation to send around work so quite a few of us turned up. She loved it! She is an absolute riot and extremely funny. I love her to bits! We ended up buying her edible undies which she ate right there and then lol. And a little blow up man where you have to bang on him a few times and he "pops" out of the packet all blown up lol. Hilarious!
It was the first time MM and I had been out for a while and the restaurant was at Shailer Park which is an hours drive from Petrie. But I have Yoda on my Tom Tom GPS now and he was very amusing as we found our way there! Although he did get me confused on the way home and I ended up missing a turn off! Damn you Yoda! MM loves Yoda so he had a great time!
Sunday was meant to be a quiet day for me until we got a phone call from some dear friends of ours asking if they could drop in for a bit before they had to go to lunch. They live at Maroochydore and the Mr has been friends with us, well with MM for over 30 years and with me since I met MM about 12 years. The Mrs has been part of the relationship for probably 2 years. I was good friends with the ex-Mrs but she has now moved to Sydney.
There is a fairly lengthy story that goes with this. About 4 years ago the Mr and ex-Mrs divorced. We were shcoked as they owned a huge palm nursery at Nambour, where very well off and always very much in love. He was step father to her 2 daughters, both girls a bit whacked IMO. One became a model and got involved in the drug scene in Melbourne and the younger one turned out to have schizophrenia and ended up moving to Sydney for work but was not staying on medication and was doing bizarre stuff like running around naked on the snowfields in New South Wales and playing chicken with traffic in Sydney. So she was locked away for quite a bit of time. Both girls were very high maintenance. Suddenly the oldest girl tells her mother that her current husband molested her at 13. Instant divorce. The ex-Mrs came to us crying about it and at the time we told her that we didn't really want to become involved as we were friends with both and we really couldn't see that he would have done it. He was an ex-Victorian cop whcih doesn't mean much but he was always anti-paedophile and used to tell us how he used to love locking away rock spiders.
About a year ago he and the Ex-Mrs finally sold their palm nursery for a large substantial amount of cash. The very next day after settlement went through, the daughter went to a Police in Sydney and laid charges against him. Turns out she is substantially in debt, has a drug addicted boyfriend who apparently "witnessed" the molestation. So the past 12 months he has been going to and from NSW getting legal advice and now will have to go to Court next week. He has been told the minimum time he will serve is 4 years. He and the new Mrs have read the statements. He apparently "touched her boob" which he admits to but says that at the time this daughter was quite promiscuous even at 13 and was wearing a bikini top and she asked him to tie it up. The strap fell down and he went to grab it and inadvertently "touched her boob". She also alleges he felt her up which he categorically denies. Because he is also an ex-cop prison will be hell for him. What's worse is that in their defense they are not allowed to mention the fact that he came into a lot of money before the allegations were made which really sucks. So she doesn't have to prove that he did actually do it but he has to prove that he didn't. What's more his elderly mother has been given about 3 months to live and this is distressing her even more. When he goes to Court next week he is likely to never see his mother alive again. The daughter is now 30 years old so it took her about 15 years to lay a complaint.
Now please don't think I am condoning this kind of behaviour. If he did what is alleged then yes he deserves to go to jail. Child molesterers are the worst kind of evil in my opinion But nothing this girl is saying rings true. The Police even noted in the case notes that he is an avid player of World of Warcraft like that proves without doubt that he is a child molesterer. It's all very bizarre. They went through his computer with a fine tooth comb looking for child porn I guess and found it as clean as a whistle. The alleged "witness" claims that Mr made him watch child porn once and also forced him to watch "snuff" movies to prove what would happen to this dude if he hurt his step daughter. Even when the ex-wife told the Police that they never owned any porn at the time they were married nor any "snuff" movies they were never beleived. Both of them are quite prudish so it doesn't seem to fit.
Anyway must be off...Going to shop today for Chrissy decorations and cheer my house up a bit. Christmas this year I want to enjoy more. We didn't really do it last year as it was our first Christmas without dad but time now to get back to enjoying it.
My Niece's Formal Photos
Above: My niece (in the black dress) and her date. The young lad in the glasses is from Gladstone and apparently we went to school with his dad
Before I start my actually post for today here is a few formal photos of my girl :) You'll have to excuse the "watermark" splashed across them...we haven't paid for the real ones yet lol...
My niece and her date for the night...not her boyfriend :)
Hard to beleive that they are all grown up! Seems like only yesterday we were bringing her home from hospital!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Tuesday...
Well here I am...It's Tuesday I am at work although not busy as you can see *grin*
Just got off the phone to MM who has finally dragged his aching body to the doctors after me nagging him continuously for the past 5 years or so. About 6 months ago his "restless leg syndrome" started flaring up again and in the midst of a nocturnal "kicking" somehow did an injury to his knee. The next morning he got out of bed barely able to move and has been semi crippled by the knee ever since. A couple of days ago it looked super-swollen. I touched his knee and told him it felt like there wasa build up of fluid there. He looked at his knee and got quite a shock himself...his knee was huge and extremely puffy. So today he made an appointment to see my GP as they bulk bill and he hates having to pay cash to a doctor. MM has not been to a doctor since I have known him (about 13-14 years). The only time he has been near anyone medical was a couple of years ago when he collapsed and I thought he had a stroke as he wouldn't wake and I had to call the ambulance. He had spent that night in hospital and numerous tests later could find nothing wrong. It was just a "turn" of sorts. At t he time they asked me who his GP was and I had to tell them he didn't have one. "Surely he must have a GP" said They. "Nope" said I, "I can't even tell you when he last went as he hadn't been to one in all t he time I had known him." I had even rung his mother to find out and the last time she recalled was when he was 19 and lost his thumb when he was sheet metal working and that was about 25 years ago!
Anyway he ended up today seeing my GP's husband also a doctor at the same surgery. They are both Indian but very nice and easy to understand and they actually show concern for their patients. They will let you stay as long as you need for them to find out everything so they can best diagnose. MM was impressed and he hates doctors. Anyway he had this poor doctor pulling out his hair when he asked for MM's medical history.
MM: "You want ALL my medical history"
Dr: "As much as you can remember yes"
MM: "How fast can you type and how much time do we have"
Dr: "As much time as you need"
MM: *Proceeds to give Dr details of ALL the broken bones and operations he has had since he was a child including the broken back and spinal operations as a 12 year old, the broken collar bones, arms, fingers whilst playing football, the loss of the thumb while sheet metal working, the stab wounds from his days as Nightclub Bouncer when patrons got rough, a bullet wound from a drive by shooting when he was in his "wild boy" phase and the list goes on. *
The Dr eventually ran out of page space on the computer and couldn't figure out how to create a new page on the computer. MM, being the computer tech, actually sat with him and showed him how! Anyway it seems MM and this Dr are now long life buddies and MM has a list of tests to be conducted for all the ailments he has.
He needs x-rays and a possible MRI for his knee, ultrasound for the injury to his shoulder which he never got seen to, and probable removal of some skin cancers. Plus tomorrow he has a barrage of blood tests to be done as well and then eventually the removal of the fluid on his knee once they find out how much damage has been done to it. And the Dr made him do a prostate test as well now he is 50 which MM is not happy about and the Dr also wants to do a colonoscopy for a haemorroid MM has had for some time and had been treated years ago but is now giving him grief. This is what happens when you delay the inevitable. We have put our cruise off till early next year so we can both be at our healthiest. No point going if MM has to be pushed around in a wheel chair! Although he said he wouldn't mind if it was a cute young nurse! I agreed and said it would be a cute young "male" nurse. He gave THAT look that said over my dead body. Well sweetheart that CAN be arranged *grin*
We went over our finances on the weekend and we have a grand total of $8,000 left on our house mortgage! So we figure that will be paid for by February; in March I have my Early Childhood Retreat to organise so our holiday/cruise we will aim for end of March/early April at the latest. We have waited this long...a few more months can't hurt.
Oh and I did order my Kindle on the weekend so it should be here this week although MM won't let me have it until Christmas since it will be a Christmas present. No fair! That was the condition of me getting one and MM thinks it is hilarious and keeps doing evil laughs in my direction every time I look at the list of books we have already downloaded ready to be put on it. *Sigh* Men can be so mean. I very rarely ask for anything and don't spend money on myself except on birthdays and Christmas so I can't wait!
Just got off the phone to MM who has finally dragged his aching body to the doctors after me nagging him continuously for the past 5 years or so. About 6 months ago his "restless leg syndrome" started flaring up again and in the midst of a nocturnal "kicking" somehow did an injury to his knee. The next morning he got out of bed barely able to move and has been semi crippled by the knee ever since. A couple of days ago it looked super-swollen. I touched his knee and told him it felt like there wasa build up of fluid there. He looked at his knee and got quite a shock himself...his knee was huge and extremely puffy. So today he made an appointment to see my GP as they bulk bill and he hates having to pay cash to a doctor. MM has not been to a doctor since I have known him (about 13-14 years). The only time he has been near anyone medical was a couple of years ago when he collapsed and I thought he had a stroke as he wouldn't wake and I had to call the ambulance. He had spent that night in hospital and numerous tests later could find nothing wrong. It was just a "turn" of sorts. At t he time they asked me who his GP was and I had to tell them he didn't have one. "Surely he must have a GP" said They. "Nope" said I, "I can't even tell you when he last went as he hadn't been to one in all t he time I had known him." I had even rung his mother to find out and the last time she recalled was when he was 19 and lost his thumb when he was sheet metal working and that was about 25 years ago!
Anyway he ended up today seeing my GP's husband also a doctor at the same surgery. They are both Indian but very nice and easy to understand and they actually show concern for their patients. They will let you stay as long as you need for them to find out everything so they can best diagnose. MM was impressed and he hates doctors. Anyway he had this poor doctor pulling out his hair when he asked for MM's medical history.
MM: "You want ALL my medical history"
Dr: "As much as you can remember yes"
MM: "How fast can you type and how much time do we have"
Dr: "As much time as you need"
MM: *Proceeds to give Dr details of ALL the broken bones and operations he has had since he was a child including the broken back and spinal operations as a 12 year old, the broken collar bones, arms, fingers whilst playing football, the loss of the thumb while sheet metal working, the stab wounds from his days as Nightclub Bouncer when patrons got rough, a bullet wound from a drive by shooting when he was in his "wild boy" phase and the list goes on. *
The Dr eventually ran out of page space on the computer and couldn't figure out how to create a new page on the computer. MM, being the computer tech, actually sat with him and showed him how! Anyway it seems MM and this Dr are now long life buddies and MM has a list of tests to be conducted for all the ailments he has.
He needs x-rays and a possible MRI for his knee, ultrasound for the injury to his shoulder which he never got seen to, and probable removal of some skin cancers. Plus tomorrow he has a barrage of blood tests to be done as well and then eventually the removal of the fluid on his knee once they find out how much damage has been done to it. And the Dr made him do a prostate test as well now he is 50 which MM is not happy about and the Dr also wants to do a colonoscopy for a haemorroid MM has had for some time and had been treated years ago but is now giving him grief. This is what happens when you delay the inevitable. We have put our cruise off till early next year so we can both be at our healthiest. No point going if MM has to be pushed around in a wheel chair! Although he said he wouldn't mind if it was a cute young nurse! I agreed and said it would be a cute young "male" nurse. He gave THAT look that said over my dead body. Well sweetheart that CAN be arranged *grin*
We went over our finances on the weekend and we have a grand total of $8,000 left on our house mortgage! So we figure that will be paid for by February; in March I have my Early Childhood Retreat to organise so our holiday/cruise we will aim for end of March/early April at the latest. We have waited this long...a few more months can't hurt.
Oh and I did order my Kindle on the weekend so it should be here this week although MM won't let me have it until Christmas since it will be a Christmas present. No fair! That was the condition of me getting one and MM thinks it is hilarious and keeps doing evil laughs in my direction every time I look at the list of books we have already downloaded ready to be put on it. *Sigh* Men can be so mean. I very rarely ask for anything and don't spend money on myself except on birthdays and Christmas so I can't wait!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
And so another Sunday comes to an end...
It's 8:00pm Sunday night...Ugh! I hate this part of Sunday...preparing things for work for the week and then it's time for bed early to be up early Monday morning to start a new week. It's such a drag...I really need a new job but lack the motivation to change so just whinge about it to everyone and tonight you guys are it!
Believe it or not as I sit here typing this I am drinking a.....BEER! Crown Lager to be precise. Why? I hear you ask...because it was there! Well actually I bought them for some friends of ours who dropped in for a visit so MM could fix Mr's computer. They are a lovely couple and we get on with them well aslthough the Mrs is the new Mrs. I am still good friends with the old Mrs but since the divorce she has moved to Sydney and I do like the new Mrs. These situations are always awkward but the old Mrs never gets mentioned by them or us so it's like she never existed really. So we had drinks and nibblies and because there was a beer still in the fridge I decided I would nab it. This is only my second drink this year so my doctor shouldn't be too upset. He hasn't banned me completely from alcohol but told me to drink it sparingly so I have.
We also watched "Ghost Rider" as they had never seen it while we waited for the computer to be re-formatted we watched the movie.
Miss 22 is still moping around and visits regularly. I can't remember if I told you that she and the Air Force guy are no more. She came over a couple of weeks ago heart broken because only a week after they split he had a new girl friend moving into their old place so we figure she was in the picture before they even split. So a 5 year relationship bites the dust. She has finally decided to get herself a job and has applied to a couple of child care places. She was doing childcare up until she moved out of here then just decided to live off her boyfriends salary and not work anymore. That was pretty much a sticking point with him as well. He was always at her to get a job as she loves to spend money so the fault was hers as well.
Anyway short and sweet tonight as I still have heaps to do and the beer is gone now...so time to get up and finish and then to bed!
Night all!
Believe it or not as I sit here typing this I am drinking a.....BEER! Crown Lager to be precise. Why? I hear you ask...because it was there! Well actually I bought them for some friends of ours who dropped in for a visit so MM could fix Mr's computer. They are a lovely couple and we get on with them well aslthough the Mrs is the new Mrs. I am still good friends with the old Mrs but since the divorce she has moved to Sydney and I do like the new Mrs. These situations are always awkward but the old Mrs never gets mentioned by them or us so it's like she never existed really. So we had drinks and nibblies and because there was a beer still in the fridge I decided I would nab it. This is only my second drink this year so my doctor shouldn't be too upset. He hasn't banned me completely from alcohol but told me to drink it sparingly so I have.
We also watched "Ghost Rider" as they had never seen it while we waited for the computer to be re-formatted we watched the movie.
Miss 22 is still moping around and visits regularly. I can't remember if I told you that she and the Air Force guy are no more. She came over a couple of weeks ago heart broken because only a week after they split he had a new girl friend moving into their old place so we figure she was in the picture before they even split. So a 5 year relationship bites the dust. She has finally decided to get herself a job and has applied to a couple of child care places. She was doing childcare up until she moved out of here then just decided to live off her boyfriends salary and not work anymore. That was pretty much a sticking point with him as well. He was always at her to get a job as she loves to spend money so the fault was hers as well.
Anyway short and sweet tonight as I still have heaps to do and the beer is gone now...so time to get up and finish and then to bed!
Night all!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Life of an Ant is a busy one...
I sat on the train platform last night, feeling a little out of sorts [which seems to be my lot these days! Must be getting menopausal or something! Eeeek!] Anyway I was tired and was watching with fascination, a little lone ant who had picked up a potato chip crumb. Well to me it looked like a small crumb but to the little ant he looked as though he was carrying a double storey house on his shoulders! Anyway the train platform is just made of uneven pavings so I watched as this little ant, carrying the weight of the world on his back, tried to traverse over hill and dale and completely fascinated at his diligence. Not once did he falter in his mission until....
Some dude in a suit marched on by and stomped my little ant and his booty into the pavement. Devastated! Reminded me just how fragile life can be.
Anyway...my week that was, was pretty redundant. BORING as usual...My burst of energy returned just in time on Saturday to give me renewed enthusiasm to have my house spring cleaned in time for Christmas. Some friends of ours from Canberra (actually these friends are MM's ex-wife's brother, his wife and their 5 kids who we get on extremely well with) might be coming to Queensland for a visit and have asked to stay with us which is what they usually do as the husband can't stand his own family and always sided with MM in the break up of his marriage to his sister. And the wife has always hated MM's ex-wife with a passion so we get on like a house on fire much to the distaste of the ex-wife. And the kids have always called me "Aunty" and are beautiful kids and I just love having them around.
So its spring clean time and trying to organise bedding and such which won't be as hard as last time they stayed when our three kids lived with us as well. Now we have 2 spare beds with three empty beds so it won't be any huge hassle. They haven't completely made up their minds yet if they are coming but if they don't no matter. My house will be spotless anyway!
My niece and my mum spent Saturday morning over at my house. Miss 17 has to complete her photography portfolio before they will accept her into her Photography course and because mum's printer chose that very week to give up the ghost, she came over to borrow our printer. So we spent the morning choosing photos for her portfolio, labelling them and printing them and binding them in a folder ready to be taken to TAFE. She was taking a day off from school with her boyfriend and going in with him to Southbank to deliver it. She was offered also a course doing Travel Agency stuff so she will apply for that one as well in case she can't get into photography. This way, she says, she can travel and do photography while on her travels and she would be happy with that although very disappointed if she can't get her first choice. So we will see how she goes.
Sunday I went shopping for the first time in ages. On Tuesday our office was having its annual Melbourne Cup do and our department decided we would glam it up this year. Normally I don't bother as I just don't do glam all that well. BUT I did actually buy myself a really pretty silky maxi dress and some heels and a pretty fascinator for my hair. WOW! I must admit I did look pretty alright. MM had to look twice to make sure it was me and Miss 23 walked up to me and said "You look really beautiful"...aww shucks...
It was also Halloween and even though we don't celebrate it any form [don't even have anything to give the kiddies even if they did show up, not because we are mean and nasty but simply because I always forget!], I don't begrudge those who want to dress up. Saw a couple of kiddies dressed up with their mums and they had their little 'candy buckets' (I hate how we now call lollies candy!). Really very cute but some guys went past them yelling at them about how we lived in Australia and not America. That really annoyed me. Considering the tradition didn't even originate in the US anyway and why can't people have a bit of fun dressing up and being silly. Like I said it's not for me but I know people from work who have Halloween parties and such and just people having a great time. Other countries don't have the monopoly on fun is the way I see it. As for the trick and treating well in our neighbourhood it doesn't have to be Halloween for the teenagers to be vandalising something as a "trick". It's all a storm in a teacup really. I just think people are free to believe what they want.
At work on Tuesday for Melbourne Cup everyone was like "wow look at you". I'm sure there are photos being splashed around somewhere. Our IT guy was snapping away madly with the camera. So needless to say I felt like a fraud the whole day! And I really am not comfortable in a dress or skirt I have decided. I kept worrying that I was missing something...like my pants for instance! The girls all wore their heels at lunch only and as soon as the race was over, back to our flatties...ahhhhh...bliss *grin*. I don't bet on Melbourne Cup however do spend on the office sweepstake. For $5 I won back $6 so I made a whole dollar! Yay me!
Anyway now it is Thursday and I am thinking of having Thai for dinner. I am loving our new Thai Restaurant at home. The food there is very nice and very reasonably priced way cheaper than if we were to order pizza or KFC. And I have a craving for curry lately so it satifies that craving as well.
Oh and Krispy Kremes are almost no more! Nooooo...say it isn't so. Mind you its been about 6 months since my last Krispy Kreme so I blame myself really...
I told MM last night that I was going to order myself and Daughter No. 2 a Kindle for Christmas. A lady from work just received hers from Amazon.com and wow I love it and want it. Considering I pay $30-$40 for a novel these days I figure I can have the thing paid for with just 3 books. Miss 23 and I drooled over them one night on the amazon.com site. They hold 3500 books! Awesome! Plus when MM and I finally go on our cruise I will have a nice little stash of reading material with all fitting into my little handbag. MM has told me I can have one so long as I never "Buy" a book or magazine ever again. There are other more expensive book readers around but I don't care about all the bells and whistles and the Kindle seems to do everything I want it to do. So now we wait and see.
Some dude in a suit marched on by and stomped my little ant and his booty into the pavement. Devastated! Reminded me just how fragile life can be.
Anyway...my week that was, was pretty redundant. BORING as usual...My burst of energy returned just in time on Saturday to give me renewed enthusiasm to have my house spring cleaned in time for Christmas. Some friends of ours from Canberra (actually these friends are MM's ex-wife's brother, his wife and their 5 kids who we get on extremely well with) might be coming to Queensland for a visit and have asked to stay with us which is what they usually do as the husband can't stand his own family and always sided with MM in the break up of his marriage to his sister. And the wife has always hated MM's ex-wife with a passion so we get on like a house on fire much to the distaste of the ex-wife. And the kids have always called me "Aunty" and are beautiful kids and I just love having them around.
So its spring clean time and trying to organise bedding and such which won't be as hard as last time they stayed when our three kids lived with us as well. Now we have 2 spare beds with three empty beds so it won't be any huge hassle. They haven't completely made up their minds yet if they are coming but if they don't no matter. My house will be spotless anyway!
My niece and my mum spent Saturday morning over at my house. Miss 17 has to complete her photography portfolio before they will accept her into her Photography course and because mum's printer chose that very week to give up the ghost, she came over to borrow our printer. So we spent the morning choosing photos for her portfolio, labelling them and printing them and binding them in a folder ready to be taken to TAFE. She was taking a day off from school with her boyfriend and going in with him to Southbank to deliver it. She was offered also a course doing Travel Agency stuff so she will apply for that one as well in case she can't get into photography. This way, she says, she can travel and do photography while on her travels and she would be happy with that although very disappointed if she can't get her first choice. So we will see how she goes.
Sunday I went shopping for the first time in ages. On Tuesday our office was having its annual Melbourne Cup do and our department decided we would glam it up this year. Normally I don't bother as I just don't do glam all that well. BUT I did actually buy myself a really pretty silky maxi dress and some heels and a pretty fascinator for my hair. WOW! I must admit I did look pretty alright. MM had to look twice to make sure it was me and Miss 23 walked up to me and said "You look really beautiful"...aww shucks...
It was also Halloween and even though we don't celebrate it any form [don't even have anything to give the kiddies even if they did show up, not because we are mean and nasty but simply because I always forget!], I don't begrudge those who want to dress up. Saw a couple of kiddies dressed up with their mums and they had their little 'candy buckets' (I hate how we now call lollies candy!). Really very cute but some guys went past them yelling at them about how we lived in Australia and not America. That really annoyed me. Considering the tradition didn't even originate in the US anyway and why can't people have a bit of fun dressing up and being silly. Like I said it's not for me but I know people from work who have Halloween parties and such and just people having a great time. Other countries don't have the monopoly on fun is the way I see it. As for the trick and treating well in our neighbourhood it doesn't have to be Halloween for the teenagers to be vandalising something as a "trick". It's all a storm in a teacup really. I just think people are free to believe what they want.
At work on Tuesday for Melbourne Cup everyone was like "wow look at you". I'm sure there are photos being splashed around somewhere. Our IT guy was snapping away madly with the camera. So needless to say I felt like a fraud the whole day! And I really am not comfortable in a dress or skirt I have decided. I kept worrying that I was missing something...like my pants for instance! The girls all wore their heels at lunch only and as soon as the race was over, back to our flatties...ahhhhh...bliss *grin*. I don't bet on Melbourne Cup however do spend on the office sweepstake. For $5 I won back $6 so I made a whole dollar! Yay me!
Anyway now it is Thursday and I am thinking of having Thai for dinner. I am loving our new Thai Restaurant at home. The food there is very nice and very reasonably priced way cheaper than if we were to order pizza or KFC. And I have a craving for curry lately so it satifies that craving as well.
Oh and Krispy Kremes are almost no more! Nooooo...say it isn't so. Mind you its been about 6 months since my last Krispy Kreme so I blame myself really...
I told MM last night that I was going to order myself and Daughter No. 2 a Kindle for Christmas. A lady from work just received hers from Amazon.com and wow I love it and want it. Considering I pay $30-$40 for a novel these days I figure I can have the thing paid for with just 3 books. Miss 23 and I drooled over them one night on the amazon.com site. They hold 3500 books! Awesome! Plus when MM and I finally go on our cruise I will have a nice little stash of reading material with all fitting into my little handbag. MM has told me I can have one so long as I never "Buy" a book or magazine ever again. There are other more expensive book readers around but I don't care about all the bells and whistles and the Kindle seems to do everything I want it to do. So now we wait and see.
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