Blogging From Michelle's..

Not having net access.. AND being on leave from work.. SUCKS!!!!

Bah!!

Bah.. Gastro..

Bubby is sick ;-(

She has had diarrhoea since the weekend and yesterday she started throwing up. She has been on bread and vegemite and water for days, and yesterday only had half a piece of toast. Poor thing.

Tony picked her up from Baba's last night and I met him at the Children's Hospital. Poor thing threw up while we were there, but we got looked at almost immediately, and they confirmed it was Gastro.

We took her home and she slept with us last night, waking up at 4am to throw up again.

This morning she was a bit better and as Tony was taking her to Granny's they had this conversation:

Josie: You must tell Granny not to give me any lollies or 'matos or grapes or milk, toast and water only.
Tony: Yes sweatie, but you know, you could just not ask for those things?
Josie: Why?
Tony: Because you know you can't have them.
Josie: Can I ask Mummy?
Tony: No, don't ask anyone, cause you can't have them.
Josie: Awww man!

So she understands that she can't have the bad foods when her tummy is upset. So thats good.

Poor bubby..

Where are my pants? Who's pants are these?!

And the lunacy continues....

Mari (refering to a recent speech night at the school): they sang Advance Australia Fair and Hatikvah...I love Hatikvah...such a beautiful song
Tony: How does it go?
Mari: I dunno...

Aaaaaalrightythen...

And Still Our Lives Get More and More Exciting..

Well we had a rather exciting night tonight..

Went to the house after work.. cleaned up the kitchen.. Tony had a look at the newly delivered shed and how he was going to go about putting it up and afixing a floor..

Suddenly I hear him call me over..

He says: Look, we have a dog..

I look in the backyard and there is a gorgeous little puppy. Luckily she had a collar and tag with phone number so we called the number and found that she belonged to our neighbours who live on the other side of the semi. Dogs name is Rosie. Very cute.

So a little after that, we get a call from Granny who tells us that Josie may have swallowed glass.

HUH!?

She apparently broken a glass jar of vegemite and by the time Granny got to her she was scopping up vegemite with her finger and putting it in her mouth, glass and all. Luckily Granny heard a crunching and made Josie spit it out, which she did. But we weren't sure whether she had swallowed any previously so we took her to the Sydney Childrens Hospital. What a fabulous place!

Always before we would just take her to the local hospital and then we would spend hours waiting in emergency with scores of people. But because this was a Childrens Hospital, we got seen within about 15 mins, checked out and were gone within 30 mins. Josie was alert, happy and fine. The Dr checked her over and said to watch her for vomiting or any other symptoms.

So now we are back at mums and Josie is happily asleep.

I have induction at work tomorrow so hopefully it will be a short day ;-)

Good night!

The story of The Pot And The Kettle

So I get a voicemail on my mobile last night from the missus which starts with the following shouting:

Mari: WHAT is the point of having a mobile if you don't ANSWER it?!?!

And is immediately followed by :

Mari: My mobile is in the car.....

Uh huh, yeah....

Time For An Update Methinks!

I realised that I haven't updated this blog in a while! Life must be hectic!

We moved in to the rental house over the weekend and are still unpacking somewhat but we finally spent a night there last night.

The first night we actually got the beds ready to go, but as we were getting ready for bed, the cockaroaches came out and we fled back to my mothers (after spraying and putting down baits). Apparently the house has a cockaroach problem ;-(

I guess thats what happens when you live in a house. It apparently got sprayed a few weeks ago.. but not well enough obviously.

Well after putting the baits down and spraying, the next morning we found a lot of dead roaches, so it was a good start! That night we only had a few roaches come out. After more baits and fleeing to mums for the night, last night was a lot better.

Only one roach was spotted, unfortunately it was on Josie's bed, on Josie's blanket, on Josie as she slept!

We very nearly fled again, but we decided to stick it out. We took Josie to our bed, and we finally had a comfortable nights sleep, in our king bed (with no more roach problems!).

Hopefully tonight will be even better!

We had our new oven and rangehood installed this morning (the old one was broken). It looks really nice, but I cant use it till the kitchen is a bit more usable!

And our shed is being delivered tomorrow, and being put up over the weekend!

Its all happening!

Oh and work is going well, Josie's last day for this year at school is tomorrow and I get two weeks off over Xmas!

Woohooo!

Men and Their Inability to Stay CALM!

On my way to work this morning, went downstairs to find that Tony had left his ipod in my car the night before.

Very annoyed.

Took it back upstairs for him and placed it on a little stool right next to his side of the bed.

930am (Josie needs to be at school by 915am!), phone call:

Tony [very annoyed]: WHERE DID YOU PUT MY IPOD?!
Mari [very calmly]: What do you mean? It was right on the stool on your side of the bed!
Tony [removing the foot from his mouth]: What? Oh.. Its on my belt..
Mari [amused]: Running late dear?
Tony [sheepish]: Bye!

Mind you, he is lucky I even took his iPod back upstairs!

MEN!

Air Con and Coffee !

Ahhh you know you are back in the corporate world when you spend the summer in the cool comfort of office airconditioning.. and have a coffee machine and boiling water at your disposal.. woohooo!

On the other hand, my PC is locked down so I can't change my desktop picture, I can't change my screen saver.. I can't install software.. they monitor emails and internet usage..

Blah!

On the other hand, I get discounted office products (including IT hardware, software, consumables, cleaning products, furniture, whitegoods, snackfood.. etc), the company has some great benefits and specials in regards to car insurance.. salary sacrifice.. etc..

And we are moving in 4 days!

Life is getting better!

Our First Joke

Firstly, Happy Birthday Uncle Mat !!! (You old fart ;-)

Some background: When Tony and I moved out and rented together for the first time we moved into the north shore where there are heaps of jacaranda trees, which have gorgeous purple flowers. Tony and I made up this game where everytime we drove somewhere the one who saw a Jacaranda tree called 'purple tree!'. This eventually evolved into 'purpakey!' cause there were so many and so we had to say it really fast.

So a couple of weeks ago I told Josie about the game and showed her the purpakeys on the way to school. There aren't as many purpakeys in the east though.. so...

This morning in the car:

Josie: Where are all the purpakeys?
Mari: I haven't seen any yet honey!
Josie: Maybe they all fell down?

Josie: That was my joke mummy!

She has such a great sense of humor!!

So we had some adventures this morning..

Bright and early, Josie and my dad and I went to the new house (after living my entire life in units, it feels wierd saying 'house' !) so dad could look around, see what needs doing and also do a floor plan.

So there it is.. the new place.. I have a bunch of photos too but I haven't cleared my camera since we moved in with my mum and dad!

So anyways, we got back and took Josie to swimming, where she complained before we got there, and then had a ball afterwards!

After that, Michelle and I took the girls to the shopping centre so Michelle could get a few things and then Michelle dropped us off at Uncle Mat's place so we could wish him a happy birthday, and get changed for dinner. We had dinner at the Crabshack again, so most of the night I was up to my elbows in crabs.. ahh heavan!

While we were there I realised that I had left my handbag in Michelle's boot and since we were going to get our hair cut together tomorrow she would bring it with her..

However, we got back to mum and dads place, and of course then I realised that my keys were in my bag in Michelle's boot, and mum and dad were out at a birthday party.

Mum wasn't answering her phone.. Michelle nor Sam were responding to SMS (it was almost 10pm after all).. so last resort I called my sister, knowing that she has a spare set of keys, but forgetting that my parents changed the bottom lock a few days ago cause it was faulty and of course my sister doesnt have the new key yet.. *scream* !! Luckily Josie was already well and truly asleep..

Sis came to the rescue, rang a few of mum and dads friends, and we went and picked up mums keys, luckily the restaurant they went to was close!

Ahhh Saturday night adventures..

Bring on Sunday!

Another Thing We No Longer Need to Worry About!

We got the Semi!!

Wahooooo!!

Signing lease tomorrow, and moving next weekend!

What an absolute relief!

I just cannot wait to be able to sleep in my own bed!

Although how convenient would it have been if we could have moved before I started my new job (which is on Monday!!). Ahh well, I will just have to manage over the weekend!

Now to find removalists!