Last post for 2007

I'm really looking forward to 2008. I'm getting married to the man I love... the only person in the whole entire world who knows everything about me, yet loves me regardless. I don't know what else next year has in store for me, but I have a good feeling about it. Lately I've been getting my creatvity back and have started taking photo's and making things again. Next year I want to dance and do all the things we've talked about but not done. I want to exercise more and worry less. I want to make new friends and make an effort to keep in contact with old friends. I want to dance around in a tutu and play singstar. I want to go home to my family more often. And most of all, I want to be happy all year.

New teeth

I'm half way along the journey to my new smile. Here's some before and after pics. I go again tomorrow afternoon to get finished. I'm happy with the improvement so far. :)

Again it has been so long since I last wrote! And of course, so much has happened...

The wedding is only 3 months and 1 day away now... I can't believe it. Mum and I started on the invites on the weekend. I'm planning on sending them out in early January so that gives me a bit of time to finish them off.

Terry had an accident at work almost 3 weeks ago and broke all 5 toes on his left foot. He's so lucky he was wearing steel caps (which was what actualy broke his toes) otherwise his foot would have been crushed. He's having an operation tomorrow to screw a piece of his nuckle back into his big toe. I know he'll be fine but he's pretty worried because he watches too many medical shows and has a fair idea of what's involved in the surgery!

My Great Nanna Zanker passed away a week ago today. It was a huge shock as she was healthy and still living at home by herself. She just went to bed on Thursday night and when the home help lady came on Friday, she was gone. The funeral was on Tuesday and then we went back to her place afterwards. It was a very hard, emotional day and sad knowing that was probably the last time I'll see her house.

On a happier note; I'm getting some cosmetic work done on my teeth next Friday. Nothing too drastic, just getting a veneer on my "peg" tooth and getting another tooth filled out a bit and getting a filling. I'm excited about getting my tooth fixed but also scared about the filling. I hate needles in my mouth! Well, I hate them anywhere, but in my mouth the worst!

I can't believe it's only 2 and a bit weeks until christmas. I'm usually so organised but this year I'm not at all. I did most of my christmas shopping yesterday and still have a couple of things to get.

I joined a gym a couple of weeks ago. I've had one session with a personal trainer (which was so hard I nearly vomitted at the end) and I've also done an aqua aerobics class. I'm hoping to go back to do another aqua class tonight and fingers crossed I'll go 3 times a week from now on. There just always seems to be so much on lately and I'm always busy after work! I do have the option of going at 6am... but I just don't think I could bring myself to do it!

Well that's enough for one blog I think! Hopefully I'll write again sooner than last time!

I'm back!

It's been soooooo long since I last wrote! I've been so busy but also feeling really crappy so I've only been doing what I have to. This IVS has really knocked me around. For a month or so there, I felt absolutely shocking. My boss kept saying how pale and in pain I looked. Thankfully, I did get better (for a week!!) but then it flared up again. I'm feeling a lot better today so hopefully it stays this way! :) I actually didn't realise how good I was feeling last time until I went downhill again. So anyway, that's why I haven't been around much.

Today is my last day of work until next Wednesday because I'm going to Melbourne to go bridemsaid dress shopping! I can't wait! I'm also so excited that I get to spend my birthday with my mum and best friends. It's not very often I get to do that these days. Then on Sunday we're going to see Joel's band play at a charity concert. I'm so excited about seeing him again. And to hear him sing! I'm going to video tape it so if the quality is good I'll send you a copy on DVD nan. :)

Well I'd really better get back to work. There's so much left to do before I go. I always seem to leave things until the last second... I still haven't even finished packing! haha I'll write in here again when I get back to let everyone know how dress shopping went!

Earrings

Here are all the earrings I've made. I LOVE the first pair and the last pair, just not sure about the other two. I might sell them and make another set of the two I like. Plenty of time to figure that out!

On my way to the new me!

So far I've lost 6kg!!

The first photo was taken at the Big Day Out on Feb 2nd this year and the second photo was taken today, April 24th. This is the first time I've put photo's of me back then next to me now and it's a huge shock! I knew I'd lost weight but I couldn't see it that much until now!

I'm not sure how much more I want to lose. I'll just keep going until I'm happy. It's really just my belly I need to work on now and I need to tone up now. Everything is all floppy now since losing weight! haha.

Tired

Thank goodness it's Friday! I haven't been sleeping well this week and I have no idea why but it's made me soooooo tired! My tummy has been really sore again for the last couple of days too. I thought it was all better! =( I'm really looking forward to a sleep in tomorrow! After that I'm meeting up with a friend to do some shopping. I need some new pants because none of mine fit any more (thanks to losing 6kg! yay!!) then I think I'll go home and work on the jewellery I'm making for the wedding. It's hard to find time to do it because I want it to be a surprise for Terry but he's always there! haha. He has to work on Saturday so I'll make the most of the time I have! Then tomorrow night we might go to the movies. I really want to see 'Meet the Robinsons'. It looks hilarious! And I've still got 2 tickets I need to use that I got for Christmas from work. At this stage, I think Sunday will be a pretty quiet day because it's the only day Terry has off. Here's a picture of the earring I made last night for one of my bridesmaids.

Endometriosis

It's just hit me. I have endometriosis. I was told this last Monday but the words didn't really mean much until today. I was out of it for all of last week from my pain killers and then there was Easter so I guess today is the first day I've had to actually sit down and think about it. I'm feeling very emotional and confused. I don't understand much about what is going to happen to me from now on and it's so frustrating!! I have so many questions and no one to answer them, well not until the 31st of May when I go back to my surgeon. I can't believe I have to wait that long. I'm going to drive myself crazy with 'what if's' by then. All they could tell me when I was in hospital was that they found "a bit of endometriosis". I don't know where. I don't know how bad this 'bit' is. I don't know if they got rid of it while they were in there. And today I'm starting to feel the pain again... on top of the pain I'm still feeling from my operation, so I guess it's also the first time I've had to think that maybe they couldn't do anything and I have to live with this pain forever. I think up until today, I thought that everything was going to be ok. I think I'm just tired and overwhelmed by it all at the moment. I know it's not the end of the world, and I know I shouldn't whinge when there are so many people in the world who are so much worse off than I am but I just can't help but feel sorry for myself at the moment. I know it will pass, but for now I think I need a hug and a cry.

Delayed appreciation for a random act of kindess!

My Nanna is the greatest!!! She knows exactly what to do to make me feel better and exactly when to do it!

I was having a particularly down time a few weeks ago and then there was a knock on my door. It was the mail man with a parcel. I thought ‘wow that’s weird, it’s not even nearly my birthday’. Then I saw who it was from and a massive smile crossed my face straight away. I knew it’d be a thoughtful, caring gift to remind me that I am special and loved.

My gorgeous new angel teddy now sits on the mantle piece in my room with my most treasured childhood toy, Ruby bear. Thank you Nanna! I love you!

Fringe Festival

The Fringe Festival is on here at the moment and we’ve always wanted to go and check it out but have never gotten around to it. This year we decided to actually do it instead of just talk about it!

Last Wednesday a friend and I met up in town for an iced chocolate. After that we thought we’d go down to the ‘Garden of Unearthly Delights’ and see what was happening there. On the way we got given 2 free tickets to a comedy show that night which was awesome! We wandered down to the garden and had a look at the stalls and people on the trapeze swings. – You could have a go for $15 but I was way to scared!! We then went and saw a cute mini puppet show in a tiny, hot tent then walked over to the Rhino Room to the comedy show, ‘Splitting the Bill’. It was so funny! I pretty much didn’t stop laughing the whole way though!!

Then on Saturday night Terry and I went in again and had a look at the garden again and also the ‘International Buskers Festival’. It was great but we mainly only saw the same people as last year (it was the only fringe thing we did last year). After that we had tea on Hindley Street then went to see a cabaret show called ‘Freakaphrenic’. It was soooo funny!!! We loved it and would love to go and see it again!

On Sunday we went back in and looked at the Festival centre markets and then the Hindley Street markets. We had another look at the garden and saw some more buskers then tried to find a café that was hosting some visual art exhibitions we really wanted to see but we couldn’t find it anywhere! (we found the address in our map book afterwards so we’ll go back during the week or on the weekend to see them).

Well that’s it for our Fringe experience so far but hopefully there’ll be more to come before it ends! I love the Fringe!

Adam Hyland

We have a chiropractor who moved here from South Africa two years ago to work with us. He is 32 and he has a wife Noesja and two children Noah and Jonah.

In January he was diagnosed with cancer. He passed away at 11.30 this morning.

It is comforting to know that he is no longer suffering and in pain but I really feel for the young family he has left behind. Please pray for Noesja and her boys.

Wedding & Work

Well this wedding feels like it’s finally starting to come together. After doing bits and pieces every now and then, the planning is getting more constant and more exciting!

So far we’ve booked the ceremony venue, the celebrant, the reception venue and the photographer. I’ve asked a friend to be the videographer, I have my dress, I’ve started buying things so I can start making the table decorations and the bombonniere, I’ve bought beads, wire and tools so I can start making our jewellery and I’m in the process of booking the cars and make up artist at the moment.

I’m hoping to get everything done by Christmas because the end and start of the year are always crazy and seeing as though I’m the biggest stress head ever I think it’ll be for the best if I’m as organised as I can be!

Things are going really well on the work front at the moment too. I’ve just been asked if I’d like to be the marketing person for ‘Kiro for Kids’ which I’m so excited about!!

My boss, Dr Neil Davies, travels overseas to Thailand twice a year to treat orphans at the ‘Children of the Golden Triangle’ and the ‘New Life Foundation’. ‘Kiro for Kids’ was set up to raise funds to pay for these trips to Thailand and also to sponsor children.

We are currently sponsoring 3 children; Akha Pohchar, Weerasat Merlae and Mata Myer, but would like to be able to help more hence me starting to market the project to raise awareness.

Neil and his colleagues were able to treat around 1200 children last year which was great! Hopefully this year we’ll be able to raise more money to sponsor more children and to fund other doctors to go over with Neil to help out. I’m so happy to be part of this! It’s going to be a great challenge and so rewarding to know we’ve been able to help more children.

Wish I was outside

I love Fridays! It's the last day of the week and I work by myself so I can take it easy and work at my own pace.

It's a beautiful day outside. I hope it's still nice when I'm finished so I can sit out in my backyard with a book! Might have to go buy a new one though because I've read all the ones I have.

Tomorrow we're going to a BBQ at our friends' place because they're moving back to Vic next weekend. :( I can't believe how fast it's all happened. We'll miss them so much!

Less than one year til we get married. How exciting!!!

bleh

I feel like I'm always sick. It's so annoying! I had a cold 2 weeks ago and I got rid of that and now this week I have a splitting headache and I feel neaseas (sp?) and my glands are swolen and I'm soooooooooooo tired. I just want to be asleep all the time, no matter how much sleep I've had the night before. I also just got back from a dentist appointment where he cleaned my teeth beyond an inch of their lives so now they're sore and tomorrow I have to go to the gyno. I've been eating so healthy this past month so I should be feeling a million dollars (I've lost 3.2kg from all the healthy eating which is great!) Anyway, that's enough of a whinge for today.
On a happier note; we booked a garden/house for our wedding ceremony (which is 1 year from tomorrow!!!). It's gorgeous! I can't wait! I'll have to take photo's on the weekend and put them on here. Well I'd better pack up and go home so I can have a nap before Terry comes home! Oh and here is a photo of my friend's beautiful baby boy Zakyah!

Lovely

We had the nicest, most relaxing weekend ever! It was so nice to spend some quality time together, just the two of us. I don't think we've had a weekend to ourselves since before Christmas!!

We spent this weekend doing things we've been talking about for ages but just hadn't been able to because there's always someone at our place, or something else on. On Saturday we went to the museum and saw the Da Vinci Machines exhibit that I've been wanting to see so badly ever since it first opened. It wasn't at all what I expected, but still really interesting. Then we walked over the the state library to see the National Treasures exhibit. There was a lot of really interesting things there too. I think my favourite was the original book of Mary Poppins (which was written by an Australian lady! Didn't know that!). There was also one of Don Bradman's blazers and cricket bats there, lots of letters written by important people, Ned Kelly's helmet thing as well as so many other things I can't remember! We were going to have a look at the Art Gallery after that because we haven't been there since last year but we ran out of time. On Saturday night we watched Kenny which was hilarious! He has some of the best sayings I've ever heard! Loved it!

Sunday I cleaned the house and took the Christmas tree down (yes, I'm hopeless!!) then we went shopping so I could buy a new dress for a friend's 21st this weekend. Found one for $19.95. What a bargain!! After that we just pottered around the house for the afternoon! I wish we had more weekends like that! I miss them!

Well that's my life up to date so far! Better get back to work...

What a weekend!

We went to the drive in on Saturday night and on the way home decided to stop in at a club to say happy birthday to one of our friends. I decided I needed to bust a move on the dance floor... and bust a move I did!! I didn't even get to strike one pose before I found myself flat on the floor! The dancefloor was that slippery that as soon as my thongs touched it I fell over and landed sideways on my elbow! So I just lay there for what seemed like half an hour until my friends picked me up (not even knowing it was me) and then I ran off and cried in the corner for a while. Fast forward to Sunday. We went to the beach and a wave hit me in the back and winded me so bad I thought I was going to throw up! Then as we were leaving, I stomped on a bee!! It was still connected and buzzing around so the stinger was moving around inside my foot almost killing me. I managed to get the bee off but snapped the stinger in the process so half of it was still in my foot so we went home and dug that out. Then last night my friend (who broke her ankle mucking around in our hallway on a skinboard last weekend!!) came over and dropped her crutches on my head!!!

I had xrays done on my elbow yesterday which came back all ok thank goodness! It's still really sore though and the swelling hasn't gone down so I think I'll go back to the doctor tomorrow or Thursday if it still hasn't improved. My foot is still swolen and soooooo itchy it's driving me crazy!

I'm happy to say though, that I've been incident free for the past 41 hours! Hopefully this weekend will be a little less eventful!

Pain and hurting

It really annoys me how easily I get hurt. I take offence to the smallest most insignificant things. I wish I didn't care what people thought about me. I wish I wasn't so insecure and I wish I didn't need to be reminded of who I am so often. On another note; I'm sick of this pain. I hope it gets fixed soon because I'm sick of living on panadol.