I’ve not been to a party in someone’s house before with a DJ all set up with his many speakers, turnables and … well laptop these days…
Nothing but the local DJ.
He said he had some songs to play.
What went down from this fooling around.
Gave hope and a brand new day.
[Loving the Ting Tings :)]
Hey it was a complete novelty for me anyway :) Gave me something to do when the conversation lost my interest. Dance!
(And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums.)
Okay, I’m sure I’ve mentioned my periods of being banned from doing household tasks such as the dishes (relegated to wiping up), and doing Rish’s washing due to one too many tissue incidents (bans have been lifted due to the necessity of me being available to do these tasks).
I was just putting out washing, a couple of loads (second load took ages - you kind of have to lean on the washing machine to stablise it sometimes when there’s larger items like towels, sheets, or jujitsu stuff)…
Putting a denimn skirt on the line. It’s a nice sunny day, over 20 degrees, so I think to myself “Oh I should change out of these jeans and into that skirt, would be much better for spring”. I moved on fromt hat and completed the hanging of the washing.
Walked back into the house and realised that, actually, that wouldn’t really work, as the skirt is WET and that’s why I was hanging it out. *shakes head* It seemed like such a good idea too. Maybe tomorrow?
*ahem*
I should stick to tasks I seem to be very good at. Like shopping for shoes and underwear :p
(But no handbags. Why are all the handbags so ugly at the moment? I want a new one sometime soon, but awesome Kathy Van Zeeland one is starting to get all tatty… want a new one before summer. Any suggestions?)
Ahh, the Canberra rental market… HATE it hate it hate it.
The new landlord has decided that a $55 a week rental increase is what they’d like… so… we’re looking around at our options, starting the process of going to open houses, seeing what’s out there that might be suitable. Oh and I’m sure we’ll be putting in applications left, right and centre on anything that looks reasonably prices, suitable and/or closer to my work so I can at least save of fuel costs if not on rent.
*breathes*
We’re still mostly looking at houses… we like our space, like to have a backyard (even if ours is a bit of a jungle at the moment), and garages are more likely… an apartment would really need to have the right location for us to consider it… I don’t like people that much :p
So - time to put allhomes back on my regular browsing list (ooh new property - call them call them!!!) and get all my incomes and references ready to copy out a million times.
Wish us luck?
So, went back to work today. I’m certainly still not 100%, throat still hurts and some of my glands are still puffy, along with just being tired and a little drained… but a million times better than on Friday/Saturday - when I was struggling to even swallow my saliva, water or pills, let alone trying to talk or eat! *sigh*
Anyway. I’m glad to be able to have food again, even if I do still have pain… it’s nothing like on the weekend…
I think generally I’m feeling better. Well my headache is gone, my body aches gone. I’ve had a bit of a temperature coming and going, but I don’t see that going anywhere for awhile…
But I swear it’s getting harder to swallow. It’s certianly getting harder to talk. The glands in my throat are still round balls, and I doubt my tonsils are going down… noone really wants to look in there…
Most horrible bit? Waking up with a dry mouth. And not just a little bit dry - I touched my tongue with my finger and it was dry. *sigh*
Yes. I am gross. It took me an hour to get through 2/3 tub yoghurt… I’m wondering if they have frozen coke or do thickshakes at the local takeaway… It’s still hard to swallow, but at least it would be cooling. Otherwise I might head to Woden for the simple pleasure of a Boost smoothie. At least I’ll be getting some sort of nutrition into me that way. Am trying to keep my water up… but it’s just as hard to swallow as everything else!
Okay, go about your day. I’m off with Rish and some friends to Newcastle tonight. hopefully the weather there will be reasonable, and I can be left in a park with a book. Or something else that doesn’t require me to talk or eat. *cries*
It seems that I have forgotten how to swallow. My mother always told me that I must be sick if I’ve got an aversion to food (who was a chubby little child, hmm?) … and this is one of those times. It’s taken me an hour to try to eat my black rice that Rish cooked so lovingly… now I need to try to keep drinking water, otherwise I’m going to injure my liver or kidneys or something with painkillers and antibiotics.
I have the next two days off work too, hopefully by the end of the long weekend I’ll be feeling normalish… if I’m not, then off for testing it is *sigh* But I’ll be better, or at least well on the way. *nods*
Oh and reasons besides sickness and feeling like crap and headaches and pain that I’m not at work? It hurts to talk. It feels like I’m having to push past something to get any sort of sound out. Plus, I don’t want anyone to have to look in my mouth… “Say /k/ little child, just copy what I do” ugh. Don’t look at me! :p Just because my throat is puffy and my tonsils red and huge and my tongue gross as… (but not beached as *giggles*)
Kelly is going to throw something at the computer when she reads that I’m sick with Tonsillitis *ducks* … yeah.. again. This time it definately has the white spots that are tonsillitis, and I have a swollen left gland that you can see in the mirror… Onto yellow and white pills, not pink like last time. They’re the same thing, just different brands. So it’s a good thing I’m not allergic to Penicillin, otherwise I don’t know what would be done with me.
(Oh and I did ask what I could do to stop this from coming back. Nothing really, so long as I keep healthy etc etc *shrugs* I think I need to have less “big” weekends? But I was told that getting my tonsils out was not something they’re recommend until I had it at least 6 times in a year and the anitibiotics weren’t really doing anythign for me. So far, they clear it up. So if I get it 2 more times before Feb next year… help me *sigh*.. but with summer coming, etc etc, I should be better off.)
Just need to get over this hump. Fortunately(?) there’s a little bit of down time being school holidays at work… so when I do go back Thursday, it shouldn’t be too frantic. There’s the long weekend, and while I’ll be trekking to Newcastle (not actually trekking… driving), I’m going to aim to have a relaxing weekend. And on antibiotics, I shoudn’t drink alcohol, so that will be good for me. It’ll be beach weather in Newcastle next weekend, right? So I can spend some time in the sun or under my umbrella and just be? :)
All I wanted to do was to get a cheap hair cut from Just Cuts, so went on down to Westfield at Woden this morning to do that… but nooooooo… we had to be evacuated (4th time for me in 2 weeks) due to a fire in a candle store (Dusk). At least there were fire men?
I did move on after that… haven’t had a hair cut, but am sitting here with red purple dye on my head, hair, shoulders… and had it on my nose. And I managed to buy shoes… and lingerie… in my size :) I was aiming for w new white bra, but I came home with a blue and a green… Sometimes it just goes like that *grins*
Work sorrta made us go along to Floriade today. By made, I mean it was decided at some point that since the team leader wasn’t going to be there for our weekly meeting, and because the early childhood team were doing it, we would have lunch and spend out usual meeting time at Floriade.
Nice enough, but very glad Rose drove me, as by that point in the day I was feeling woozy and not ready fr sunshine, a meeting, or food. A lemon iced tea and staring at the clouds blankly was all I could offer the group today. I bonded with some people, just not the ‘team’.
Did of course make time for the gnomes.
After that I had to get back to go on a home visit down Tuggeranong way. On Drakeford heading back? I was stopped in the right hand lane amongst traffic, and a police car comes behind us with its lights and siren… ducks into the left slip or bus lane… and two busses stop in the middle of the intersection to give way. Ugh… it looked messy aleady.. and sure enough, once the busses pulled past? The cop car had hit one of the other cars that was driving past the otehr side of the busses. Who was surprised at that? I don’t think it was at much speech, looked like bumper from a 4WD a bit mangled on the ppolice car. Lucky. Very Lucky.
Third exciting moment of a day which I spent a fair bit in a daze? This HUGE magnet I got out of my letterbox just now:
How much does a magnet that size cost? Not sure if David Mathews will be getting my vote… but he doesn’t have the worst slogan in the capaign. Getting it done? Much better than that better fella for brindabella or some of the other Liberal ones I’ve seen. I think there was a “Jac lives here” for Jacqui someone… and “Standing tall” because this woman looked quite tall. Please let me know if there’s a Liberal candidate with a decent slogan! It feels like the year 6 school captain elections over again!
(at least he’s using wordpress?)
Good thing I have a huge to do list ready to go on such a thing as that magnet awaiting me at work. Are we there yet? *dies*
So there are advantages to working in a building that you’ve been evacuated three times from in a week. Like being able to come home and take the washing off the line before the dust and mud storms come rolling in again.
So, we were sent home last monday with the power out. Friday morning we got in, and were sent outside just as I was off on a school visit because we could smell gas. Everyone was in again by the time I got back, being told to head back by someone because they basically didn’t believe us because tehre was no smell of gas by the time official people got there.
Then this morning, I walk in and I’m asked “do you smell gas” .. no I can’t smell anything today, let alone gas… 25 minutes later we’ve collected handbags and spent the next few hours out of the building. For me that was 90 minutes out gossiping in the gorgeous sunshine, then ducked off on a school visit via home because the rain was coming, returning to work in time for lunch and 10 minutes after everyone went inside.
Three fire trucks including Hazmat. We felt special.
And now the rain and wind is here. I’m told it was good that I hadn’t washed the car yet, because it was only going to get worse overnight, adn I should wait until mid week.
(And another evacuation?)
