Archive for April, 2009
Update
So, It’s turned into bronchitis, not swine flu or whooping cough or anything like that. I’m on antibiotics, some inhaler with something in it, and have the rest of the week off work. I’ll get a lot of reading done in that time I’m sure, given I’m going to be without a home computer until the end of May :(
Getting there.
Germ Bag!
ugh.
Spent Wed-Fri home from work, and now am in Newcastle with an icky cough. Hoping it wil go by Monday night so I don’t have to take any more time off work, or have to go to the dr’s again, or, you know, still be sick and all that…
Got a reasonable night’s sleep last night – Rish went out to a party and I bunkered downstairs early with a book, tissues, water, strepsils and cold and flu tabs. Woke up at 8, so got about 10 hours of restless sleep. :)
Mmm, Soil Milk
Once upon a time, my baby sister (who is not such a baby any more) was going through a childhood period of lactose intolerance. Some kids do these things.
Anyway, because her language wasn’t quite up to the awesome skill levels of her sister two years her senior, she had some difficulties with some semantic tasks. Like using words that sounded similar in the wrong place, with cuteness generally ensuing.
Soil milk, being the name she gave to soy milk. At the time, I think I agreed, as the Seventh day Adventist church, aka Sanitarium, hadn’t quite developed So Good soy milk to taste much better than potting mix.
It seems to have evolved, and so I’m trialling it for awhile, in my tea and coffee, on my oats. Just mucking around with the dairy in my diet to see if that helps with my annoying gut and perhaps my general health. I don’t think it will hurt me (unlike chelation for autistic kids) so I may as well. :) Wish me luck with the soil milk?
Funny Way
I’ve just spent two days in a workshop on Autism (and related spectrum disorders). Nice to have some new resources, information (like did you know that the original article that claimed a link between the MMR vaccination and ASD was not only discredited many times over, but actually retracted? And yet people still go on about a link?) There are so many expensive and unproven “cures” out there, it’s scary :(
Now I need to try and apply my new info to my caseload. Starting … Tuesday I think I have my next kid with a PDD in… provided I don’t succumb to this sore throat/cold that’s been hanging around these two days… a weekend in Newcastle will either fix me or wear me down right??
(I can’t get the new DMB single out of my head. You can download it here free atm… My hard drive has died so I can’t replace it with a new song in my head right now)
(oh and I’m having a nephew apparently. waiting for the first baby pics to appear on facebook!)
Off the Chocolate
Unfortunately, it looks like I won’t be eating chocolate for awhile. *sulks* It seemed to be upsettling my stomach over the Easter weekend, and then when I had a mini mars bar yesterday, my tummy wasn’t happy at all for the rest of the afternoon.
It may not be the chocolate only, but I’ll start there and see if I feel better. So chocolate and I are on a break for term 2. Meh.
I also really should get aground to getting my flu shot next week. Because, as I always say “Kids are germ-bags”.
Porridge = a big warm hug?
Made with water and milk powder because we’re out of real milk, added some brown sugar and yum!
Tastes like winter :)
Over-reacting, much?
Okay, so Laksa didn’t go according to plan, and we wound up in a noodle place in Woden. I was still very happy to get my vege and wonton noodle soup (when it finally came that is)…
Though of course good soup can’t be the highlight of a lunch, can it? Or the good company… no, it has to be the crazy lady with the arm waving across the street whose car got bumped into by the car behind it.
Minimal damage to hers – 1 broken tail light and a scratch to the bumper. Should be easy enough? Swap details, sort it out with insurance. Right? That’s what most of us would do.
(Most of us would also move our car off the road, unlike this lady who thought – or didn’t think – that leaving it where is was was the best measure, so that it was kinda off the road, but not enough so that two lanes of traffic could pass each other…)
Instead, this woman proceeds to waves her arms around a lot, get all huffy and sulky, does the number exchange thing, then gets on the phone. My guess was to her partner or someone nearby so that she could make sure she got all the details she needs… again, that’s what I’d do though.
A few minutes later…
A fire engine and two ambulances rock up. A FIRE ENGINE AND TWO AMBULANCES!!
It was a tail light! You can’t have been going more that 15-20… tops…
One ambulance stays, the other swiftly leaves. The fire truck stops, guys get out, wander around, then leave after the woman gets some more arm waving in.
The remain ambulance officers split up – one finally convinces Ms Crazy to get her car off the road (after more huffing and arm waving) while the other chats to the driver of the other car, you know, probably because he’s sane and just wants to get on with his day.
Soon after that? Unmarked police car (black Holden ute) comes with its fancy hidden lights… I’m sure the minute the ambo spent chatting with him was to say “hey, this woman just keeps huffing, you’ll probably have to book the guy for something, jsut make it small so we can all get on with our lives”.
It’s at this point where it’s realised that we should probably all get on with our lives too. heh.
Mutterings around Easter
Have had a wonderful easter weekend – sleeping in, cleaning the house, snuggling with Rish, reading up on to reasons atheism makes sense (finally started The God Delusion after having it sitting there for probably a couple of years since Rish first bought it – felt that easter time was a good as time as any!) :) As every long weekend should be, hey? Unfortunately, I spent some of the time with a headache that wouldn’t go away and a stomach that just wasn’t happy. Oh well. Going to Laksa for lunch today, then probably gym this afternoon and a relaxing evening before having tor remember that I do have to go to work in the morning.
I hope you had a good long weekend!
- Animal :: liberation
- Temporary :: insanity
- Moan :: with pleasure :)
- Rapid :: eye movement
- That’s for me to say :: and for you to think about
- City :: slickers
- Bumper :: harvest
- Eclipse :: of the heart
- Problematic :: trouble
- If? :: Else?
New Tastes
I didn’t think I liked the “Mint Chip” easter eggs. But I do. I think only in small, mini-egg-sized doses though…
(flowers are opening up well)
Naked Day (well, css naked day)
(Thanks to Nathaneal B for head heads up – I have vague memories at missing this last year!)
So, Why is my site ugly and Naked today? Why have a css naked day?
The idea of the day is to promote web standards, to remember that not everyone can access the internet just by looking at the pretty pictures on the page and rely on being able to use special browsers or simply being able to enlarge the text, to be able to read your oh so wonderful content.
Yes, there’s even “stuff about the internet” that could be related to the disability discrimination act. There’s also a review going on at the moment (yes, the department of broadband has other things going on than the NBN) into the supply of mobile and other equipment to those with a disability (link) and not just those with a hearing impairment, which often seems to be the focus of “other” ways of accessing telephones. Think speech impairments, or cognitive impairments.
Oh and a cool new AAC “toy” that was doing the rounds yesterday:
The Proloquo2go. It uses a real iphone, but is also a voice output device. Completely suitable for teens and other young people who need an alternate means of communication. So cool and relatively cheap!
