Interestingly the one night in the last few weeks that I didn't read the Sandman as my bedtime reading, I had nightmares all night. Of course this means I'll just have to use toothpicks to hold up my eyelids while I pay the Lord of Dreams his due in reading. Naturally.
As a result of a rather restless night today seemed long.
Dad gave me his spare pedometer which has been fun. We calibrated it on Sunday night when he gave it to me and I had a test run today. It was lovely to discover that I not only made it to the 10,000 step/day target that we apparently should, but have taken an approximate total of *drum roll* 12,347 steps today. This equates to approximately 4.938km for me (because I take little steps being the little person that I am) and a burning of approx 277.5kCal. Sadly I don't think I managed to consume enough to balance that out as I just didn't manage to time my meals well enough and apparently the salad and sandwich just wasn't enough at lunch.
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With an even longer day ahead, this night owl is off on a date with Mr Sandman... Hopefully it'll work out better than last night's encounters.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Home Day
My day couldn't have been much lazier today and I love it!
I have managed to clean out Herman's cage though which makes both Herman and I happier. It's currently drying outside while he's exploring his temporary cage. I don't think he likes it much really.
Rather excitingly for me I've "harvested" my first and currently only jalapeno chilli from my new chilli plant that I got the other day on a whim. I've always wanted to grow my own herbs, just don't use them enough to warrant constantly buying them. Besides, it renews my quest to prove to myself that I don't kill every plant I ever touch... that remains to be seen of course! I also figure Gene will enjoy the chillis when he gets back. If there are any growing that is.
I had dinner with the Nic(k)s last night which was lovely. It's good to see people who are outside of work at the moment!
It hasn't even been a week and I'm missing Gene already. Well okay that's been happening for many days now, but I'm not completely lost yet! I really do miss having someone to come home to. It's more the someone to wake up with when I think about it. Even though I'm not the biggest morning person, there's something special about the first moment you wake up in a day.
Okay, enough inside time for today. I'm going for a walk. Besides, I'm spending much too much time looking on eBay!
I have managed to clean out Herman's cage though which makes both Herman and I happier. It's currently drying outside while he's exploring his temporary cage. I don't think he likes it much really.
Rather excitingly for me I've "harvested" my first and currently only jalapeno chilli from my new chilli plant that I got the other day on a whim. I've always wanted to grow my own herbs, just don't use them enough to warrant constantly buying them. Besides, it renews my quest to prove to myself that I don't kill every plant I ever touch... that remains to be seen of course! I also figure Gene will enjoy the chillis when he gets back. If there are any growing that is.
I had dinner with the Nic(k)s last night which was lovely. It's good to see people who are outside of work at the moment!
It hasn't even been a week and I'm missing Gene already. Well okay that's been happening for many days now, but I'm not completely lost yet! I really do miss having someone to come home to. It's more the someone to wake up with when I think about it. Even though I'm not the biggest morning person, there's something special about the first moment you wake up in a day.
Okay, enough inside time for today. I'm going for a walk. Besides, I'm spending much too much time looking on eBay!
Thursday, February 23, 2006
A little ray of sunshine
I got a letter from my sponsor child, Gift, today and it's made my day so much brighter!
It's a picture of a house that he's drawn and had sent to me.
Yay!
It's a picture of a house that he's drawn and had sent to me.
Yay!
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Not contagious
It's 12:11 and I'm still at home... and I'm in bed. That's not to say that I haven't been up today. I have. It's just that I'm back in bed. You see I got some wonderful advice (simple and common sense) last night from Nic advising me that it sounded like my cold was indeed not just a cold anymore but possibly an upper respiratory infection and that I should see a doctor. Good idea I thought! I'd just been thinking that! But I decided to wait and see how I felt about it in the morning. So this morning I woke up having some slight difficulty breathing. I stole Gene's pillow - figured he won't be needing it for a few weeks anyway - and it was a bit easier to breathe while propped up but decided this was just the sign I'd been waiting for.
9:45 I was at the doctors expecting an hour long wait at least. The place was packed! About five minutes later I was in the doctor's room trying to explain that I couldn't breathe properly (I think he got the picture from watching me try and breathe and talk) and after a quick look at my throat and breathing check I was out of there with a promise to return on Friday and to take my medicine.
By about 10:15 I was regretting my decision to ride to the doctors, but the other choice was to walk so it's all much of a muchness...
10:30 I exited the chemist with a large bag of antibiotics, a "horrible tasting" couch medicine (to quote the lovely chemist) and some ventolin. You know it's not as easy to coordinate the ventolin and the breathing as I thought... A bit of practice with the pharmacist there and it's all systems go (well breathing ones anyway).
10:45 I'm back at home in bed trying to muster up an appetite so I can have my medicine - some rice porridge (which is less much icky than it sounds if made well), a banana and half a hot cross bun later and I'm well and truly agreeing with the chemist about the taste of the cough syrup.
So here I am now at 12:21 tucking in bed with my laptop, Seasons of Mist and my bronchitis, wishing I was at work and looking out at the picture book again. I'm only home for the day to let my lungs open up again (Ventolin rocks my world might I add) and then I'll be back again tomorrow, but the day is just passing SOOOOOOOO slooooooowly.
Things could be much worse really and I'm not feeling too bad aside from the breathing troubles, but I wanna go out and play! *pout*
On the bright side though, I'm not contagious. :)
9:45 I was at the doctors expecting an hour long wait at least. The place was packed! About five minutes later I was in the doctor's room trying to explain that I couldn't breathe properly (I think he got the picture from watching me try and breathe and talk) and after a quick look at my throat and breathing check I was out of there with a promise to return on Friday and to take my medicine.
By about 10:15 I was regretting my decision to ride to the doctors, but the other choice was to walk so it's all much of a muchness...
10:30 I exited the chemist with a large bag of antibiotics, a "horrible tasting" couch medicine (to quote the lovely chemist) and some ventolin. You know it's not as easy to coordinate the ventolin and the breathing as I thought... A bit of practice with the pharmacist there and it's all systems go (well breathing ones anyway).
10:45 I'm back at home in bed trying to muster up an appetite so I can have my medicine - some rice porridge (which is less much icky than it sounds if made well), a banana and half a hot cross bun later and I'm well and truly agreeing with the chemist about the taste of the cough syrup.
So here I am now at 12:21 tucking in bed with my laptop, Seasons of Mist and my bronchitis, wishing I was at work and looking out at the picture book again. I'm only home for the day to let my lungs open up again (Ventolin rocks my world might I add) and then I'll be back again tomorrow, but the day is just passing SOOOOOOOO slooooooowly.
Things could be much worse really and I'm not feeling too bad aside from the breathing troubles, but I wanna go out and play! *pout*
On the bright side though, I'm not contagious. :)
Monday, February 20, 2006
Less Grumpus
Less grumpy now but very tired. Also slightly less sick which is nice. Managed to ditch the fever and trade it for a rather annoying cough. Yay!
Have discovered that my idea of 5ml and what 5ml actually amounts to in "spoon" quantities is vastly different... Did you know that a tablespoon is almost 15mL? Who'd a thunk it. Anyway have stopped taking quite so much cough syrup and moved on to the heavy duty cold and flu capsules at the recommendation of the chemist. It must be exciting because he took my name and address before he'd sell it. Well... okay that's just because it had pseudoephedrine (sp?) in it.
Pleasantville was good and I'm looking forward to watching the two DVDs that we bought yesterday when Gene gets back. I'll elaborate on them some other day.
It's been a long day but a good one. I wish I didn't have this stupid cold. It's just very inconvenient. I'd be willing to book it in around the first of April but that may yet change.
Gene's safely in Adelaide and probably in the pub already :)
So in the happy knowledge that my boyfriend is alive and well, I'm going to head off to bed.
Have discovered that my idea of 5ml and what 5ml actually amounts to in "spoon" quantities is vastly different... Did you know that a tablespoon is almost 15mL? Who'd a thunk it. Anyway have stopped taking quite so much cough syrup and moved on to the heavy duty cold and flu capsules at the recommendation of the chemist. It must be exciting because he took my name and address before he'd sell it. Well... okay that's just because it had pseudoephedrine (sp?) in it.
Pleasantville was good and I'm looking forward to watching the two DVDs that we bought yesterday when Gene gets back. I'll elaborate on them some other day.
It's been a long day but a good one. I wish I didn't have this stupid cold. It's just very inconvenient. I'd be willing to book it in around the first of April but that may yet change.
Gene's safely in Adelaide and probably in the pub already :)
So in the happy knowledge that my boyfriend is alive and well, I'm going to head off to bed.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Grumpus
Tonight I'm grumpy and feeling rather sorry for myself. Don't say I didn't warn you.
As per my usual excellent timing, mere days before what could be the busiest three-four weeks of my life, I have managed to get sick. Despite having told myself it is nothing but a mere throat infection (the kind that just sees me lose my voice but generally function regardless) I have had to come to terms with the idea that it is perhaps a little more than that. The wheezing sensation in my upper chest combined with the rapidly rising fever (which the panadol has stopped combatting) is leading me to believe that tomorrow may be a swift trip to the doctor. Argh! Why now? I've been looking forward to these few weeks for months now!
Gene's been wonderful today though, he dropped me off at work and then he took me to get some cough mixture (which is surprisingly yummy) and then went to the video store to get some videos to watch. So far we've watched Mr & Mrs Smith which wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. Sure it's not the deepest of plots or most profound characters, but it was kind of cute and well chosen for my brain capacity at present. We're about two thirds of the way through Pleasantville but Gene's been hijacked my Nomes and Lisa to go drinking. I guess we'll finish watching it tomorrow some time.
Aside from getting sick I've been having a great time working hard and I'm still looking forward to the big days ahead. I can't believe it's only a matter of weeks away. I'm really excited and damn it I will be healthy for this experience!
As per my usual excellent timing, mere days before what could be the busiest three-four weeks of my life, I have managed to get sick. Despite having told myself it is nothing but a mere throat infection (the kind that just sees me lose my voice but generally function regardless) I have had to come to terms with the idea that it is perhaps a little more than that. The wheezing sensation in my upper chest combined with the rapidly rising fever (which the panadol has stopped combatting) is leading me to believe that tomorrow may be a swift trip to the doctor. Argh! Why now? I've been looking forward to these few weeks for months now!
Gene's been wonderful today though, he dropped me off at work and then he took me to get some cough mixture (which is surprisingly yummy) and then went to the video store to get some videos to watch. So far we've watched Mr & Mrs Smith which wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. Sure it's not the deepest of plots or most profound characters, but it was kind of cute and well chosen for my brain capacity at present. We're about two thirds of the way through Pleasantville but Gene's been hijacked my Nomes and Lisa to go drinking. I guess we'll finish watching it tomorrow some time.
Aside from getting sick I've been having a great time working hard and I'm still looking forward to the big days ahead. I can't believe it's only a matter of weeks away. I'm really excited and damn it I will be healthy for this experience!
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Blah-di-blah-blah-blah
My sleep deprived body is currently voting against both blogging and me playing with my PDA but apparently that's just not enough to stop me!
Saturday night's End of the World party was great and allowed me to get all gothed up and generally have a good time with my friends who I am unlikely to see for a month or two.
Sunday's swing dancing was excellent! Definitely inspired to go back when I get some free time again. Am still a tad sore after playing with the few aerial tricks that Gene and I remember but all in all it was a good alcohol filled night for all involved. Perhaps a little much alcohol as it was a smidge difficult to drag myself out of bed on Monday for work, but still good.
Saw Mum at the airport on Tuesday which was lovely. Had a McBreakfast with my folks before heading back to the grindstone (hamster wheel?).
Work is still good although the paperwork system is driving me a little nuts at the moment... Have to be up early but for some reason can't stop typing.
Gene got me "Bejewelled 2" which is a very addictive game where you make lines of same coloured "jewels". It's a little like Columns but not. While I'm now sleeping even less thanks to the game, it makes the tram ride home pass really quickly!
Okay bed now.
Saturday night's End of the World party was great and allowed me to get all gothed up and generally have a good time with my friends who I am unlikely to see for a month or two.
Sunday's swing dancing was excellent! Definitely inspired to go back when I get some free time again. Am still a tad sore after playing with the few aerial tricks that Gene and I remember but all in all it was a good alcohol filled night for all involved. Perhaps a little much alcohol as it was a smidge difficult to drag myself out of bed on Monday for work, but still good.
Saw Mum at the airport on Tuesday which was lovely. Had a McBreakfast with my folks before heading back to the grindstone (hamster wheel?).
Work is still good although the paperwork system is driving me a little nuts at the moment... Have to be up early but for some reason can't stop typing.
Gene got me "Bejewelled 2" which is a very addictive game where you make lines of same coloured "jewels". It's a little like Columns but not. While I'm now sleeping even less thanks to the game, it makes the tram ride home pass really quickly!
Okay bed now.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Partly Blue Dog
I may, quite possibly, have dyed my Mum's dog just a little bit blue today. It was an accident I swear! One moment the bathroom door was shut and the next, the dog had blue black hairdye dripped on it... Having shampooed the dog thoroughly and left it with a small, but bright, blue patch I thought it best to 'fess up to my Mum. She laughed. She laughed hard.
So now the dog's looking a little miserable (blue's not her favourite colour I guess) and I now know why they don't recommend that colour for people with very pale or greying hair.
So now the dog's looking a little miserable (blue's not her favourite colour I guess) and I now know why they don't recommend that colour for people with very pale or greying hair.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
1461
Gene and I have been together for approximately 126,237,540 seconds according to Re-date. That comes to 2,103,963 minutes or 35,066.05 hours or 1,461 days give or take. It's one of those looks like a while, but feels like a blink of an eye. Celebration-wise we're planning a mini-golf outting when we next have free time that coincides and Gene made one of my favourite dishes in the world - beef tataki - for dinner last night. Besides, we tend to celebrate the 6month anniversary more because we're usually not quite as busy then!
So even though he's at work bumping out a show tonight, I'm feeling all romantic and looking forward to the weekend because we get to spend some QT together then. Even if it will be involving minding two pugs in the burbs. :)
Gene, if you ever get around to reading this, I love you but I'm going to kick your ass at mini-golf (again)! ;)
I mean that in the most loving way of course :)
So even though he's at work bumping out a show tonight, I'm feeling all romantic and looking forward to the weekend because we get to spend some QT together then. Even if it will be involving minding two pugs in the burbs. :)
Gene, if you ever get around to reading this, I love you but I'm going to kick your ass at mini-golf (again)! ;)
I mean that in the most loving way of course :)
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