Views From The Edge

Well, this month got off to a bad start. My youngest daughter has had terrible problems with the new house. There have been leaking pipes and ceiling pieces have been breaking away. Thank god the Real Estate and the landlords have been doing all the repairs. It has still been a nightmare for her and her partner as they have only just moved into the house. I told her that they could stay with us, but the kids are starting school and she does not want to pull them out at the start of the year. Then she started having car trouble just to add to the joy. Luckily her partner has a van that she can use in an emergency.

Then to top it off, I went swimming and hurt my neck so we had to put our weekend trip off. I have been applying heat packs and that seems to be helping. I am looking after my older granddaughter and spending Tuesday with her as I won't be there for her first day at high school. I promised my two younger grandkids that I would be there to see them off at Kindy and pre school. It is just a shame they are all starting on the same day in different areas. Still we will have fun together on Tuesday.

Hopefully the coming weeks will get better for us. I hope January and Febuary has been kinder to everyone.

The weather here is so hot and muggy right now. It has become real Christmas weather. We are having storms nearly every day, and the clouds are trapping the heat, making things really humid. Steve and I have been having showers to try and stay cool.

Steve and I went into the city to finish the Christmas shopping, we ended up going to our favourite pub for a quick (non alcoholic) drink before going home.

For the first time in many years, I bought a Christmas tree. It is a fake white birch with LED lights in the tips of the branches. I am going to paint it black so it can double as a Halloween tree.

That it about it for now. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Not much has been happening this week. We didn't have many medical appointments, so we had more time to see friends, and I even had time to go to my favourite bay to go swimming. The weather is getting warmer despite all the rain so I planning to spend a lot more time at Cronulla.

On another note, I have joined Bluesky. As much as I liked Twitter, no I refuse to call it X, it is becoming more right-wing and a hell of a lot more nasty. Now with the rumours that Twitter might be merging with Truth Social, I decided to create a Bluesky account. I am going to stay on Twitter as I have friends over on there and it is my way of staying in touch, but I will probably post more on Bluesky. Of course, I will always have LJ and DW so it's not all bad news.

So other than all this, not much else has been happening. I hope everyone has had a great week.

Finally a day at home, the last few weeks have been so busy between all the medical stuff and NDIS things we have had to do. I am also recovering from an eye infection on top of it all. Today I have decided to do nothing, just catch up on my reading and stuff like that.

Other news, I finally got some good news, the lump on my left index finger is not skin cancer, yay. It is a form of dermatitis. The doctor has given me a cream to put on it. I live in one of the countries that has the highest instances of skin cancer so I have to be really careful. I guess it is the downside of living in a sunburnt country,

That's about it for now have a great week everyone.

It's been a busy week. Steve and I went to the Hand Eye hospital to see a specialist about the Dupuytren's contracture in both his hands. The surgeon decided to wait to do surgery as it is in its very early stages. Steve has to go back in December to have his hands checked again.

I spend time with my youngest daughter and her two older kids at the pools on Thursday and we had a great day, we all had fun so that was nice.

I have also decided to go back to volunteering, I really miss it and so does Steve but his Dystonia and Myoclonus have become so bad, he can't really do anything. What we have decided is that I will do the work, setting up the room, etc, and Steve can greet the clients and chat with them. They really seem to like him. As soon as the organisation returns from the Christmas break, I will sort it all out,

Our trip to Melbourne was fun and we are hoping to be able to get back to Queensland again for a quick break. We will see how it goes.

That's about it for now. Hope everyone has a great week.

It's been a typical week here filled with doctors' appointments and therapies for Steve. I did manage to catch up with a friend of mine. I bumped into her at the local shopping centre and we ended up having coffee together. The biggest problem is with all appointments we have, is getting time to catch up with friends and family. Still, next week I have my goddaughter's 21st birthday party coming up and my middle daughter is throwing a Halloween party. I also found out that one of my friends and former neighbor suddenly passed away. She was a lovely lady, with a great sense of humour. She moved to Queensland so I wasn't able to attend the funeral. I will miss her.

That's about it. I hope you all have a great week.

I have just found out that due to the two week lockdown, I can't visit Steve while he is in hospital. He goes in tomorrow for his knee replacement. I understand why I can't go in but I am going to worry the whole time.

Sorry I haven't done much posting lately but things have been crazy here. I am trying to get more wedding pics to upload but the photographer is still tweaking them. The man is a perfectionist I swear.
Some good stuff and some crappy stuff has happened all at once, *which seems to be the story of my life,* I have had a lot of shifts at work, yay and some unexpected news.
My youngest daughter has just found out that she is expecting a baby, she has decided to keep it and I am going to help her. Which means I have to cut my hours back a work. It's not going to be easy but I want to help my daughter as she is young and is going to need someone to give her a hand.
Also my doctor wants to send me for more medical tests and it looks like I have developed diabetes. :-(
Ugh, at least the scans were clear so that's a tick on the good side.
MY son in law is also being sent away for more military exercises, he is going away for eight weeks so I will be spending time with my eldest daughter so she doesn't get lonely.
One fun thing I did today, I attended a Marriage Equality Rally and got my photo taken to send to leaders around the world in hopes of having gay rights recognized.
One of the young women who helped organize it got a text message from her boyfriend who was attending a marriage, apparently the priest who was performing the ceremony likened gay marriage to bestiality.
Unbelievable.
I hope to be able to post more when work slows down a little, I want to try and get back to my geek girl posts and I have some fics that are just languishing on my computer.
That's if RL lets up on me of course. :-)
Also posted on LJ