Category: Life

Well apparently I’ve got pneumonia. Whodathunkit?

The doctor gave me a script for steroids, as well as a script for antibiotics and asthma puffers. Let me just say, steroids (prednisone) are great fun.

It might make you a bit manic, says the doctor.

A bit manic? I feel like I’m bouncing off the walls. I haven’t had this much energy since I was a kid drinking cola.

The upside of that, it that I can also breathe. Quite well in fact.

The downside of that is that prednisone masks all the infection symptoms, so while I feel okay, I’ve got no idea if I’m actually getting better.

I think I am. I hope I am.

It was lucky I saw him when I did though, he told me I would have been in hospital by last night and seemed a little surprised that I hadn’t already gone to emergency, seeing as how my fingertips went blue and I couldn’t breathe very well at all.

Not being able to breathe is sort of a big deal.

But anyway, I’m on the mend! (I think)

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Also, apparently some emails I’ve been sent have bounced? If you like, you can resend them, I think the email is working again. It appears to be a server issue, so we’re just waiting for them to fix it.

The kids and I are all sick, Amy is slowly coming off her gluten high and being nicer, just as Isaac refuses to sleep. He screams in his cot while Amy swirls and twirls in front of me, just our of reach of my grabbing arms and the hairbrush. My stress levels are through the roof and today’s bedtime is not a good one.

Every time I cough I feel faint. It’s just a bad chest cold, not an infection, so short of staying in bed for a week, there is not a lot I can do to help it move along and fuck off already.

Can you hear my maniacal laughter at the thought of actually getting to stay in bed?

AHAAAAHAAAAAAAAA.

Cough.

Splutter.

Aside from that, things are good here. So much nicer now that Amy is off gluten, even if our time out count today was much too high (throwing food, throwing toys, she got into a bag of flour, etc etc). We’ll hopefully see the results of those tests in about 3 weeks.

So that’s me.

How are you?

Chuck’s Life Less Serious Champion Challenge

Earlier this week, I was approached by Maria on behalf of ChupaChups, asking if I’d be interested in a competition. OF COURSE I said, because I mean, what is better than competitions?

So she sent me out a tub of ChupaChups and a Chuck Doll and asked me to write a blog post in a category of my choosing. Of course, the category that humour fits into won. Sometimes I’m funny.

This is Chuck:

Chuck is challenging people to get Less Serious over on his website. There are competions and prizes to win, so go and check it out.

So yes. Let’s talk about alternate uses for ChupaChups. They’re handy little things, round and tasty. You can use them for all sorts of things!

Like holding up the TV cabinet:

I call this one the mousetrap. It sits under there, attracting mice so I can schwack them.

Barbie was unhappy with what life gave her. She felt dowdy and small; like you could walk past her in a crowd and not even notice. Not now though. Now? Barbie STANDS OUT.

(I should say though, Barbie probably shouldn’t have gone the cheap route. She looks a little lopsided…)

You can make ChupaChup soup. (Chuck’s favourite dinner. And lunch. And breakfast)

Chuck delights in growing new and exciting varieties of ChupaChup. I must say, I want some of those seeds he’s using!

What’s that you say? The baby won’t sleep? Well, I found the cure for that. Just use The Pacifier and he will be out like a light.

And last but not least, what they were designed for. Surfing the internet of course!

Hehe.

As promised a few days ago, I give you …

THE NEW FLOOR!

It’s been in for almost a week now and I’m still loving it. It makes the kitchen look so much better, even if it shows off the extreme crappiness of the rest of the kitchen.

It’s wood look vinyl and it was installed by Hayes Flooring, who sadly, don’t have a website. They should fix that. Every business should have an easily found website. No really, they should who apparently have got themselves a website in the last few weeks. Yay! I’ve got no complaints about the installation, all up it took 3 days, for the tearing up of the floor and then the laying of the new vinyl. I’d recommend Hayes to everyone.

(It probably helps that Hayes worked with my insurance so I personally didn’t have to pay a cent for the installation. Just the excess fees. Although, that probably counts. Hell, I’m not complaining. Brand new floor people!)

Even better though? It means Isaac can play in the bathroom while I shower, so I’m not worrying about him choking and dying while I stand under the hot water. The old floor was full of staples and nails and poky bits and it was just hideous.

Here’s some photos from the pulling up.

It was a mess the first day. The guy who pulled everything up did a good job getting all the newspaper up. A good portion of it looked like it had been glued down. it was a bit of a nightmare.

Oh and these photos for the hell of it.

Amy likes to pull all the magazines out of my TV cabinet and hide in there. In this photo she’s shouting HEY! after I opened the door and snapped her photo. She’s very cute.

And Isaac. He got his first tooth yesterday night. It’s very exciting. At least it was, until he bit my nipple today. I’m slightly less excited about his tooth. It’s very SHARP and NIPPY and he tries to chew on me. ‘

Not fun Isaac.

I got a phone call at 6.10pm.

Your vinyl has arrived. I know it’s short notice, but can we start work tomorrow?

I hesitated for barely a second before agreeing. If I put it off, it might be another 3 weeks before my bathroom and kitchen floor is replaced and honestly, I’m sick of the current sight of it.

Remember what happened? My hot water cylinder burst, leaving me flooded and without hot water. Yay me.

I hung up and spent the next 10 minutes freaking out.

They are pulling up my floor TOMORROW.

They are pulling up my FLOOR.

MY FLOOR! They are pulling it up! TOMORROW.

Needless to say, Nathan was rolling his eyes at me by the end of my spiel. But dude, you don’t realise. They are pulling up my floor. My kitchen and bathroom floor.

I might be hyperventilating a little.

Because you know what else is happening this week? I’m getting horses. Two of them. They are coming from a lovely home, she’d rescued them previously. They aren’t in great condition, but they should build up fast enough here.

Horses.

Which is lovely. I haven’t had horses in years and I still miss them.

But the work to get my property ready before Saturday when they’re being delivered is huge. My stable, which had been used by the previous owners as storage, needs cleaning out, I need to head out and pick up some hay, I need to have chaff and stuff on hand because the grass won’t last forever and oh my god, the work.

I’m fully prepared for the work. Looking forward to it in fact, [I need water containers and feed containers and I need to comb over the paddock (again) for glass and wire and I need to clean the stable and double (triple) check the fences again and ohmygodthestableneedscleaningbecauseyoudon’twanttoknowwhatIfoundinthere] and I’m going to love having horses again.

But did I mention they are pulling up my floor tomorrow? My kitchen and bathroom floor? And that they’ll be here for 3 days, working on it? THREE days, with small children needing to eat and showers needing to be taken and ohmygod.

I’m going to be a busy, busy girl. (Not busty like I first typed. Not unless Isaac suddenly decides that boobs are boring and I don’t think that is going to happen.)

I’m looking forward to it.

I think.

Right after I stop hyperventilating.