Feels a bit surreal really after the couple of weeks off. I am not used to getting up early and just got home but need to go to this course for work soon. 7pm to 9pm. Really tempted to pull a sickie but better not. Did alright today. Would have rather had another week but can't afford to really and my family is finding the going hard without me. At least I am wanted I guess, and they made me heaps of lovely cards and pressies while I was away.

Yesterday took Nik to the dentist. This is his last appointment unless there is an emergency before he turns 16, otherwise now I take them to the private dentist. His teeth were fine but she did stress he must spend longer in the bathroom. He should spend more often too. All of them. I am amazed that they never get any fillings or anything. If he doesn't brush the gums though he will end up with gum disease. Must book Kiza in now.

Anyway the end of the holiday went well. We just watched movies and the boys played x-box and also my brother bought over a bar-b-q that one of my auntys did not use. It is practically brand new and we had a bar-b-q straight away and used up all the gas. So that was a great score. Must go now to get to this course. When am I going to find time again to come on? Will keep popping my head in when I can!

Yesterday I went and picked the boys up from the city. Then we came home for lunch. I forgot how much they clean out my cupboard and fridge. LOL I had just been shopping and will be going for groceries again today, and buying bulk!

It was Mark's birthday when he was at his dad's last week. My baby is 13 now. All teenagers now. ARRGGH! We went to the sports shops and the games shop. All the places they like to hang and Mark settled on 2 x-box games and a controller which were on special for $50 the lot so that was his present. Today I am taking them to the movies too. They want to see super-pro which is some comedy basketball movie so they are getting showered now and Mark is cooking bacon and eggs. Yuk.

Kiza took his car over the pits on the weekend. He got an extra 26 days on the yellow sticker on his car to do his tyre rod ends and to fix his horn which isn't working, so they did him a favour really as he will have it really safe. Last night while cooking dinner he rings from work cause he locked his keys in the car. I had to drive to his work to give him the spare set. It was half an hour away and I was right in the middle of cooking. How annoying! Anyway, these things are made to try us. The kids are almost ready now. Hope everyone has a great day!

End of the checkout chick? Unbelieveable!

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Well seen as I am on rest orders and there is nothing more to do I think I have been living on this computer today and trying to see how everybody has been going around the site, even those that may not come here much but have so many experiences to share. Reminds me of having little kids around too. They always make our life so interesting, fun and oh so messy. LOL

Yesterday I walked over to the library. Good to live so close but still managed to get a fine for my overdue book. LOL I got out Stephen King's book on writing. It is the story of his life and like he says he cuts all the bull#$@! out about how to be a good writer as noone really knows where they get their stories from but his life story is interesting. Got a couple of DVDs out too.

Last couple of days, hardly any pain. Won't be running any marathons any time soon but so happy that I am feeling a lot better now and tomorrow my kids are coming back from there dads, Mark will be here for the week and Nik permanently of course. I am going to go and watch a DVD on Istanbul. I am going to get all of the Lonely Planet 6ix Degrees out over the week. I haven't done any travelling overseas in my life and about time I brushed up on some geography. There are heaps of cities in the series including my own home city of Perth. Hopefully I like them. I liked the other DVD on Australian story. Great series and there are some inspiring people out there. Sick of sitting watching the news and hearing about the bad people or bad things. We need to see more good. No wonder everyone is getting depressed.

Thats right, I have spent my day waxing, facial, had a bubble bath and are now putting colour through my hair. I am going to be a brunette. Im at James so have to get used to his laptop which I am just popping on for a while. I am making a casserole for dinner. Kiza was fixing his car and came over to borrow some money. I should have switched my mobile off today. LOL No he is going to pick me up and take me home tomorrow. I should be able to drive now anyhow. I am coming good. It is no longer painful to get around and can do the light duties like the dishes and the cooking. I am looking forward to the next week. The other 2 kids are coming on Sunday for the whole week and then the next weekend. Now just have to think of some good holiday activities. Might even do some fishing one night. They like that.

Anyway have a good week to everyone and I highly recommend you all get some pamper time this week. Look after yourselves!

Went to my mums on Friday and just got back. I am so glad that I went. I have the most awesome parents. Dad has been so sick but when I rang up distressed from a pain in my leg they offered to come and get me and look after me til today. I don't know if I overdid it or what but I was not emotionally coping here on my own. My boys have gone to there dads for the week. Except Kiza as he is working.Anyway feeling a lot better. Can walk a little more now. And while I was there I knitted some dolls clothes for the twins and some barbie doll outfits for the other girls that I mind. Plus I have been doing all my puzzles. Plus mum has the animals there to cuddle and scratch so very relaxing.

I will be going to James tonight and tomorrow night. Then my kids will be back. Don't get me wrong I usually cope just fine on my own. I think I thought something was going horribly wrong. I had a pain in my leg and thought the worst which was DVT. I have heard stories of people dropping dead with it and I guess fear took over. Then top that with trying to get a doctors appointment and I did get into the doctor eventually on Friday and he doesn't have any equipment to do testing and believe me you don't want to go to the hospital unless you are in dire need. Anyway felt foolish but never felt like this before and fear is a horrible thing. It was scary going to sleep. He said don't think it is anything if the pain gets worse go to the hospital as they can do tests. The pain hasn't got worse but it is still there but only bothers me at night when I lie down just so I can stress myself to sleep. Its not really pain. I think maybe it is a nerve they could have hit or a muscle pull. Anyway I will live and won't be long because I am healing quite good. I haven't had panadol for a couple days now and the tummy much better.

Enjoying all these beautiful days though. The weather has been perfect!

I know not much time has lapsed but there was so much discussion yesterday and I missed it all cause I can't sit for long plus I went to the shops to get a couple things. I know, naughty cause I'm supposed to be resting but how to sit still? And it is 2.30am. All this resting during the day and how am I supposed to sleep now. Will force myself back to bed soon.

My son took me to the shops by the way. I was not so silly as to drive but Just walking to coles and back out was probably too far. I had to hold myself up at the check out. Anyway it was because I had no cash and was not going to hand my card and pin number over to the kids. Sounds untrusting, but hey, don't want to give them too much.

Kiza has 10 days to get the yellow sticker off his car. I know he has an old car but he has spent money on it. He's got brand new tyres and new muffler straight away plus we made sure it was safe before he even could drive it. He even had a new clutch put in. My mechanic friend looked at it and he said there was no oil leak. This is what he put the sticker on for and he didn't even open the hood just saw a slick under the car apparently. So although my friend said he will get it over easily, we have to change the boot lock as that doesn't open. Then it is $87 to get it over anyway. Very annoying but very true that he will learn the hard way. Hope they don't find anything else but my mechanic friend is going to take it over for him so they don't see the P plates. I cross my fingers he at least gets to keep his car on the road but he will have to work out all this money himself.

The girls I work for rang me up yesterday too. So sweet. Uplifted my day after bad news. They had wrote me a little card and they couldn't hold out any longer to see how my operation had gone. She read it out on the phone that she loves me very much cause I am the best carer ever! AWWW! They are missing me! Can't go back too early though. Hope everyone has a great day. No doubt I will be back and forward from minti throughout my recovery. HELP Don't let me become addicted!

Just got a phone call from my son. I am so mad at him right now cause he was picked up for speeding and then they slapped a yellow sticker on too for good measure. 3 points and $300 and that is his whole pay check for the week. His excuse is he didn't know, he thought it was 80km zone, plus he was going down hill. BLAH BLAH BLAH. As you can imagine I just want to strangle him. Had enough bad in my life for a while now. PLEASE send me some good news! BLOODY KIDS!!!!

I can't walk anywhere, the letterbox is hard enough, can't even bend to it. I can't sit at the computer for long as that is painful. Can't drive. Didn't get my magazines so am actually going crazy here. The new site has got me a bit confused really. I will get it though. I have to ask my kids to do everything for me. This is the first day on my own but at least I can make myself a cuppa and such just everything is so slow to do. I used to do everything at 100 miles an hour. Will be glad when it is not so painful. Don't know why I thought I would be enjoying this more. LOL Think I better go lie down again. Will try back tomorrow and see how I go. Thanks for all those that gave me a lovely compliment or thought of me. Everything went so well. Didn't feel a thing, till after of course. Has slowed me right down though but hope to be back to normal in a week or so.

I'm not allowed to do anything and my body wouldn't let me anyway. Laparoscopy went well yesterday. I had 3 cysts in there. They showed me photos after. Pretty awesome seeing inside my own body. The ovary was bigger then my uterus when they pulled it out. The good one was so small compared to the one with the cysts. They got them all out and the doctor is confident that all is good with them. The ovary can grow more but fingers crossed. No wonder I started to feel them in the last few months. It wasn't unbareable pain though. Instead of 2 small incisions I ended up with 4 as 2 doctors were working on me. The pain that was in my shoulders was pretty bad last night as that is apparently from the gas that is pumped into my stomach during the operation. I went in at 1.30pm and was awake by 5pm and home by 8pm. The doctors and nurses at King Edward are amazing. This is my first ever operation but apart from feeling a little nervous I felt like I was in great hands. Don't know how long I can sit up now. Have to rest all day. Couldn't even make my own brekky or cuppa this morning. Feel like an invalid. LOL My son says I look like one too. LOL Gotta love em! They try to make me laugh though, little brats.

Well the repair man came out straight away when they heard about the glass and measured but because it is a special glass they couldn't do it so still waiting for them to come back. They didn't come yesterday so will probably come today. I have only been working 2 hours a day this week. I pick the little girl up from school and stick around for a couple hours to help shower etc. Today is early pick up so hope the guy comes soon. In the mean time I need to just get some work done. I can finally see the bottom of the laundry basket!

Nik will be doing some work experience on Thursday as a boilermaker. I will have to drop him off there. I went and had a chat to his teacher because he wouldn't go back to TAFE Friday after the bashing he got but they are all going to make him feel safe ther and he has agreed to go back and identify him as they rang the other teacher and if anything they said that the other boy should be expelled from there. So they are ringing TAFE as he only goes there one day and then he will be kept safe and if the boy is there he will be identified and it will be investigated. It is so good that they are helping. He wouldn't go there that day but the kids in his class that went said that everybody was talking about it, so the kid is bragging, therefore he will be easily caught.

Anyway the day is approaching and I am getting nervous. I am not allowed to get sick yet everyone around me is getting colds and flus. What is going to happen if I get it before the day? The letter on my fridge says I can not come in for the operation with a cold or flu. Just another worry. Have been trying to eat really healthy and stay warm. Anyway no more news which means it is good news. I only like peace in my life.