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If I had more energy I would have organised to drop in to see Trish this weekend...
Still getting so tired. Went to the family engagement party tonight and we are already back at the hotel with a cup of tea in bed at 10.30pm :-(
Have a good catch up in Adelaide!
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Midnight, I was knackered just reading what you'd done yesterday! Shearing time is such a busy time, I'm glad we don't have to do that. We only have two goats and they are both angora, so they very conveniently shed their coats without our assistance lol
Sue have a great trip and give Chrissy a big hug from us.
Jenn, I understand the tiredness, it would have been too much for you to add me to your social calendar too lol. Hope you had a good time though, and we're rugged up, it was almost snowing here yesterday, and today isn't too much better. Time to light the fire!
Trish
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I intend giving Chrissy the biggest hug she ever got!!!
Packing done except for toiletries etc. I need a huge rest now after ironing most of the morning.
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Awww Susie, lucky you. I'm sure you and Chrissy will both get sore jaws from so much talking and laughing.
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Hi all! Can't wait till next Saturday!! I am so looking forward to meeting Sue and those hugs will be given right back! With extra to boot!....... lol.
Jenn glad you are enjoying your work away but please don't overdo.
If we organize a get together for later in the year or early next year I'm in! I would love to actually meet everyone. If it is Brisbane I'm sure my niece would give me a bed
Well I'm off to the bathroom to trim up the hair I have left .... lol ...... I want to look neat and tidy for the big day!
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Just let me know when youmight meet in Brisbane, I would certainly try to get there. Have a brother on the Gold Coast. Still trying to get DH organised so that we get a trip to South Australia.
Have had busy day. On duty at church then took MiL out for luch and after that went to see DD and family who are just back from Melbourne. DD gave a paper at a conference their this week past. Had good time but found it tiring and trying with two little ones.
I suppose I had better think about food. Do wish someone would give me some good ideas.
Big hugs
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Aly I did pasta with pea and smoked salmon for tea last night....... Delicious and easy.
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Well Kate you'll have to let us know if you can get to Qld, that might be doable for most. I'll keep my fingers crossed we can get there lol
Trish
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Well I'm hopeing to get to Gympie for my nieces 21st birthday and also to see my sister. It's been hard not seeing her while I've been sick so I am looking very much forward to being with her especially. So, I would be in QLD for roughly 10 days from about the 8 December. Would move heaven and earth to tye something into a reunion there if it's possible with any of you gals. xxx
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This is just a lovely bit of background which has nothing to do with BC. Both my sister and I were adopted at birth, never ever knew each other existed until 7 years ago when I starting seeking birth information. By a very strange twist of events it turns out we both lived in Hobart in parallel streets and even went to the same school as each other. We have our schools year books, and there she is on one side of the page in her class pic, and there's me with my class on the other side of the page. She and I are very very close. We have our differences but essentially are like two peas in a pod and we have a very strong bond now.
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At the very least Kate, those of us here near Brissie will catchup with you, If anyone else can come up that would be the icing on the cake.
That is such a coincidence that you lived so close and went to the same school Kate. Absoulutely wonderful that you have found each other.
I was thinking when reading that, its a good thing you didnt hate each other back in those days. How horrible if one of you had nicked the others bf or something like that lolz
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It's funny but I'm sure we would probably have done irrepairable damage to our relationship to each other had we grown up together. She is just such a procrastinator, whereas I'm the opposite and so I boss her around terribly. She would have found me a nag then, whereas we just laugh about our differences now.
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Kate, that is lovely that you have a relationship now. I'm a procrastinator and I love someone bossing me around, it motivates me.
Just looking at dates, school doesn't finish until the 21st Dec this year and it's Dom's last year of primary so I don't think I could get away for Kate's dates. I hate when they put the hols so close to Christmas. I would love to catch up with everyone though.
Chrissy and Sue, I am sure you will have an absolutely fantastic weekend.
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. We adopted a cat from the pound for Dom's 12th birthday. It is very cute but I will keep my distance. x
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Every darn bone in my body ached after we finished yesterday, we did 216 sheep and then we had to drench them all, so glad its all done. I slept all night til this morning, i usually wake up several times. Then my bro inlaw says to my hubby, they should of been done months ago and we had them booked in and then hubby had to do a truck run so had to cancel, No thankyou very much for doing them, he just expects it to be done as long as its not him, Grrrrrr. he makes my blood boil. i said, if you got another person to do what i did you would have to effing pay them, i am free labour, maybe i should send him an account for my sevices. he has been like that all his life i am told by others, his mum used to do alot, too much for him. spoilt. My hubby just takes it all, i donot not think he is strong enough to stand up to his brother, and its hard when its family, i just tell him where to go if he gets over the top. he dont like it either, but he shuts up like a book. But glad sheep are done now, and going to organise for some to go to works, and sell some ewes as they pregnant alot of them. Hope you girls have a lovely time Chrissy and Susie. enjoy every minute and heaps of good food. lol,
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Gosh Midnight, please parden my rudeness but your BIL sounds like a pig. What a dreadful attitude to take. Still, I hope you feel good that you did the right thing and that the sheep would now be feeling better.
I spent 8 hours in the garden today. I have totally neglected it since dx, had no interest at all in it. Well today that little spark of joy to be gardening came back and although I'm pretty stiff now (nowhere near as stiff as you would be after all those sheep) I'm feeling terrific about what I achieved today.
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Midnight I agree - your BIL doesn't sound like a very nice person. It always amazes me when I hear about people like this - how do they live with themselves?
Kate - you're doing better than me, my garden is still overgrown, I do some and then it gets too cold or windy or something and I never get to finish what I started. Gardening is good exercise too :-)
Trishxoxo
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LOL Kate, my sis calls him a W---k--r. she told me not take his s---t, it is hard when your hubby won't stand up to him, he can't be bothered with the argurments as he gets it in the ear when i get stuck into him. I said he plays on that, he is a control freak and he is single and if he found a woman . i think i would tell her to keep running, but on the other hand, he might change, my mum says finding a good woman may change him, lol one way or the other, we may get some peace. he has got a very lovely side too, but you don't see often. you would need to feel sorry for him. one day one of our people said that we deliver to, asked my hubby if he and bil were brothers and Hubby said, yes, and they said, POOR YOU. well that is sad really that other people have that opinion of him and the other thing that living alone is, he is very self centered, a lady could change that lol. anyway i won't babble on any more about him. thanks for listening.
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Wow Midnight, I am overwhelmed thinking about what you do. I find on top of BC I just cant cope with anyone else's c**p.
Jenn, I hope you have recovered from your big weekend and week.
Kate, my garden looks like a jungle, that was an impressive feat, I hope you aren't too sore.
I just had a 'friend' drop in. She is 75 and very lonely. I have been feeling awful because I haven't been to see her, BUT she arrived this morning and walked in my front door without knocking, then I got a phone call and found her in my bedroom. Two hours later of listening to a one way conversation and I had to say I was tired and she finally left, almost makes me glad I won't be home for the next 5 weeks. I just don't seem to have much patience any more.
Must go and make cupcakes for DS to take to school for his birthday tomorrow. How time flies when you have BC.
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Oh Kylie make some cupcakes for me too please! :-) I'm craving something like that at the moment.
Don't you love those people that just sit and talk and don't let you get a word in edgeways? My SIL is like that, problem is when she's with my DB, they both talk at the same time about seperate things and I never know which one to follow - drives me nuts lol
Trish
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yes kylie, i would not of been able to do much of it last year though and i suffered the other day with having to those dam sheep. I find phone calls very draining and don't like to talk on the phone very long. it exhausts me having to make conversation, esp if its me having to do the talking, i hate the have to jobs, esp put upon me by others. usually by the lazy BILaw who won't do it himself. but i tell you if his mouth was a shovel alot would get done. sorry i am venting again. i will shut up. but i know what you mean, our tolerence levels drop. My mum does that, interupts and talks over you Trish, journalist do it too when they interviewing on tv, whats the point of getting the person on there to interview and you wont let them answer the question. i end up getting peeved off and change channels, they ask them a question and soon as they go to answer, they interupt and you don't get to hear the answer, esp to the politicans. lol
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Well if there is one good thing about having been through BC, it's that I find I just I don't care as much now about pleasing other people and putting myself out if I'm not inclined too. Not that I am rude or uncaring, but there has been more of a selfish twist within me, where I now value who I spend time with, who I interract with and it now really matters to ME and about how I feel, not to them, which is how I was before. I was a bit too much of a push-over and people pleaser and I hate to say it but quite often this was taken advantage of and even though at the time I logically new it was happening, I wouldn't want to offend by saying no, or saying I've had enough of this one way street.
So I have been changed somewhat. But I think for the better. It has always been a weakness in me, so I am turning that around. But basically I really don't give a s*** anymore. So I think that's been a positive change for me.
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Kate, I entirely agree with you, after awhile you get sick of been used and the guilt people put on you for saying no, manipulation. I used to worry myself sick, maybe i should have done that, was i wrong, now its what ever, i can't be ALL TO EVERYONE. I still battle with it, but getting stronger. Much as i love my mum. she could do that, make me feel bad if i did not want to do something or if i did something and she did not like it, she made sure i felt bad about it, but now i am straight up and tell her. MUM do not try and make feel bad for not wanting to do what you want, sorry, but i just don't want to. she is alot better now, she is a strong woman, but getting put in her place, she does listen and repect you for it. so well done for the positive change you have made in that area.
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Trish and I had an accidental phone conversation last night. I thought I was ringing my plumber. Nice to chat Trish, you have a very young sounding voice!
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Oh wow, that would of been kool. nice accidental phone call, hey did you guys get a rattle in melborne this morning, i just read on yahoo news that melborne got an very unusal earth quake, that is scary, not really heard of there is it, my uncle is melborne, over in Kew area, so he woulda felt it. anyway very glad for you to be able to chat with Trish.
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Another new career choice for you Trish.
Kate, totally agree. Wish I was a little more forward, DH said "didn't you tell her it is rude to enter someone's house", (well he said this with a few more expletives); i'm not quite up to that one.
I can relate to Midnight though, I hate the phone. People say that I never answer my phone; well there is a reason for that... and thank goodness for number display.
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Wish I could be a plumber lol they make lots of money.
It was lovely chatting to you Gerri, you have a young sounding voice too - wish I was as young as my voice sounds, although at the moment I'm not feeling like a 90 year old, so that's good.
Minus 6 here in Canberra this morning brrr and my car's heater is playing up.
Trish
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This came to me today in the email, and thought we could all use a laugh.
Summary of Life
GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:
1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.
2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food..
6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair..
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts..
10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandma's lap.GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don't hurt.
3) Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts
4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground...
5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.SUCCESS:
At age 4 success is . . . . Not piddling in your pants.
At age 12 success is . . . Having friends.
At age 17 success is . . Having a driver's license.
At age 35 success is .. . ... ..having money.
At age 50 success is . . . Having money....
At age 70 success is . .. . Having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is . ... . Having friends.
At age 80 success is . . .. Not piddling in your pants.Trish
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That is very good Trish lol, man yr abit on the cold side there. they apparently had a earthquake in Melbourne i read. scarey not a place that gets earth quakes, Australia is not really earthquake country, FLOODS yea, but earth Quakes.
i mean in NZ, christchurch got the big one one, we were surprised as everybody is waiting for the Wellington one to happen and i guess it will. God help anyone who lives on the hills as man some of them are very high up and on cliff faces. Where we live is like a pancake flat as. we are over flood and swamp, so would probably get that liposuction stuff. we are about 2 hours drive from Wellington. we will feel something i guess. It would of been nice for you to have talked to Gerri Trish even though she thought you were her plumber lol nice surprise.0 -
Hi Midnight
Yes - I heard about the earthquake on this morning's news. We actually do get earthquakes in Australia - more often that people realise - they just aren't big, big ones like you guys get. Newcastle about 20 years ago had a bad one where some people were killed when a club collapsed. That's unusual though. Canberra actually had one about 3 weeks ago. They are more like tremors than earthquakes though.
I really feel for the people in Christchurch - it seems like it's never going to stop.
Trish
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Hi everyone,
Glad I was in Melbourne last week and not this week!
Went for my lung function testing yesterday... Got handed a preliminary report and have mostly been able to decipher what it all means but will be seeing my MO tomorrow and have emailed it to the RO.
Essentially it says that my lung function is currently pretty good (yay) however my Expiratory Reserve Volume was only 31% of expected and therefore my Functional Residual Capacity is reduced to around 70% of expected. From my research this can either be interpreted to mean that I have the first signs of fibrosis or it could just be low because I am a bit overweight (which I am trying to work on getting off the extra 4 kilos added during chemo).
Not sure what way the doctors are going to look at it but assume they will want to check the result against the chest x-ray I did yesterday which will show if the pneumonitis has gone and if there are any clinical signs of fibrosis starting...
If the x-ray shows no signs of either the pneumonitis or fibrosis then I will start rads next Tuesday. My RO is concerned enough about my increased risk of lung problems to have already organised for me to go back and do the lung function tests every week during rads :-/I really want to find a way out of rads - I am fighting it every step of the way... Have the feeling that if I go ahead I will always regret it... Jenn
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