Does This Look Chicken-Poxy?

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Please tell me I'm just spotty?!

Conversations With Young People

[21:45] Meebo Message: Jac is offline
[21:46] Meebo Message: Jac is online
[21:46] Tony: what happened?
[21:47] Tony: you went offline,,,,,
[21:47] Jac: yeah ichat isnt working so i tried restarting the internet
[21:48] Tony: THAT'S why our connection has been going in and out for the past few days!!! YOU'v been restarting the internet!!!
[21:49] Jac: har har
[21:49] Jac: :\
[21:53] Jac: i meant my internet
[21:55] Tony: you have your own INTERNET?!!?
[21:55] Jac: u r very annoying...
[21:55] Tony: Where did you get it?!?
[21:55] Jac: and yes, yes i do
[21:55] Jac: i get it from the magical fountain at the end of my bed
[21:55] Tony: _I_ want an internet!!!!!

Playing with Photoshop

I am about to go to bed.. but I wanted to post a photo I got at the beach today. Ive been playing with Photoshop the last couple of hours.. this photo just makes me cry..

School Photos!

We got Josie's school photos last week. These are the final ones from her preschool. Next year she starts wearing a uniform.

Here is one.. and the rest you can see here..

Weekend Happenings

We had another jam packed weekend.

On Friday we went over to Mat's place for dinner and a movie, managed to have a lovely dinner and watch some of Planet Earth before I couldn't take it anymore and fell asleep. I did NOT snore!

Saturday was going to be a pretty good day. We were MEANT to go see Harry Potter at iMax. Again. The first time we tried, we all got sick so I had to cancel. This time we got there, saw a couple of ads, and waited for half an hour before they announced that they were having technical difficulties and the session was cancelled!! Can you believe it??

We had gone to Yum Cha before that, so that was nice. The day was not a whole a whole write off!

Josie spent the day with Granny, so after the whole iMax debacle we went to a normal cinema and saw License to Wed with Robin Williams. Good movie, not one of his best.

Sunday was lovely. Raining with gale force winds, but lovely.

We were going to go to the Aquarium with Ines, David & Josh, but the weather was just too scary to brave the city, so we went to Mamacinos instead. We stayed there from about 10am till about 3pm, having breakfast AND lunch! The kids played really well and had a great time together. Josie was not a happy chappy when we had to go.

I will post some photos soon, haven't updated Flickr in a while. Just have to get around to it.

New Relatives and a Very Busy Friday

On Thursday night we went to dinner at my mums where we met some second cousins from Russia. My mum's mum's sister's grandson and his wife. They were very nice, Grisha & Ira. Ira spoke and understood some english, Grisha not so much. They are planning on moving here in the next 12 months on Student Visas.

Today (Friday) was a very long day.

It started at about 7am when I hurried out of bed and got ready to be at the school by 8am for a talk on drugs, alcohol, smoking and cyber bullying.

It was extremely interesting with great presentations and insights from psychologists, police, researchers and youth support people. It raised some things that I couldnt even begin to imagine existed. Such as parents who let their year 8 kids leave the house on a Friday or Saturday night (any night really) with a bottle of vodka, so that they will only drink from that bottle all night, and not from a strange bottle that could be spiked.

Uhm, hello ?

14 year old kid? Shouldnt be drinking anyway?? What kind of world are we living in??

During the Q&A one girl (there were parents and students in the talk) asked about catching buses home after a party in groups, "because we can't expect our parents to come get us at 1230am"...

Uhm, hello? Why the hell not?!?! What kind of parent lets their kid leave the house on a Friday or Saturday night without having organised exactly how they are getting home, and certainly NOT on public transport!

What the hell??

Anyways, we came away from that talk a lot wiser, and I hope the kids there (from Year 8, 9 & 10) were listening very carefully.

After that I went to work for about 3 hours before having to leave again to pick up Becka and Josie and go to a Pain Study at the Childrens Hospital.

The study was very interesting too.

Since the age of about 2, Josie has had leg pain at night on and off. We always put it down to too much activity during the day.. but then I started thinking maybe it was rheumatism, because almost all the females on my mums side of the family, including myself, my sister and Becka, have always had this muscular rheumatoid type pain, since childhood. We have always said it was rheumatism, but we never actually got it diagnosed. It was usually fixed up by keeping the area warm and taking some Panadol or Neurofen.

Anyways, so we went in and the researcher did a bunch of tests on Josie to show how much she was feeling the touch. They think that the pain is caused by a high nerve sensitivity. She used different tools to touch Josie's legs, arms and tummy, and asked Josie to tell her whether she felt the touch more on one leg or the other etc. It as very interesting.

I spoke to the Dr in charge, and told him about the rheumatism that has always been in my family and he said that it probably was not rheumatism, but was actually Fibromygalia.

The 'Growing Pains' that Josie was experiencing would most likely develop into Fibromygalia as well. So now I am trying to find stuff about it ;-)

So after the study, we went to Anna's place, where Becka was babysitting Jayden for the night, and we stayed and played for a while before dropping Anna off at the station and heading home.

It was a fairly looongish day..

Should be an interesting weekend ;-)

Long Weekend and a New Baby!

My best friend Harri gave birth to her first child yesterday. She and her husband Sven named her Ella. What a gorgeous name, and we are so so happy and excited for them.

Still waiting for photos and measurements though! Ahem! Its not like she's... busy.. or anything.. ;-)

Can't wait to see ;-)

This past weekend has been pretty full on.

Of course we had Dance class and swim class. Tony as usual took her to her classes and I went and did the grocery shopping.

But to pack even more in we went to Mamacinos with Roman, Helen and Stacey for brunch (it was great fun and the girls loved playing in the play area) and ontop of that off we went to a birthday party for some girls in Josie's class. That was good fun too as they had a big trampoline set up with the side nets so the kids had a ball in there.

To top it all off on Sunday night we went to Mat's for dinner with Wendy's family. Wendy's family is so lovely and we always have a great time with them. Josie had a great time, as always, at Uncle Mat's place.

During my weekly shopping I came across something that I had only seen once before at the school. Its called Floy and its like playdough but slightly different. Its little white balls in this gluey, slimy mixture, and you mold it like playdough, but when it dries, it feels like polystyrene. Its fabulous! I got a kit of 5 colours for Josie and we had a great time playing with it.

I had an appointment with the dentist today. I havent been since Xmas 2004 so I was long overdue and my teeth aren't the best anyway. It took him an hour to clean only the top left quadrant. I have to make some more appointments to finish off the whole mouth. My health insurance is not going to cover them all. I don't know how we are gonna pull this one off.

This week is fairly hectic at work. We are one down, actually we are two down with one coworker on paternity leave for two weeks (everyone is having babies!!).

Anyways, theres my update. Ive been kinda slack lately but Im hoping more interesting stuff will happen ;-)

Four Under FOUR!

Huge congrats to my cousin and his wife.

They have just had their 4th, yes FOURTH daughter.

Thats four (4) girls, under 4 (FOUR) years old.

FOUR.

Under FOUR.

Girls.

My eye is twitching..

Twitching.. but decidedly jealous ;-)