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Thanks Cate - I actually am feeling better about things at the moment. I just hope it stays that way!!!! Sometimes it's a matter of perspective about things we cannot change, and daring to be happy in the moment we are in instead of being apprehensive about the moments that may yet come.

I am FREEZING these days!! Unbelievable!!! I have heaters on in my room and at home. My husband complains about it being like an oven, but I still shiver!!! At this rate, I'll be pulling out a snowsuit soon.

A good but boring day yesterday. No car, not a lot of food. Ended up having to have feta cheese for breakfast AND lunch, because that was all I had. I'd run out of a lot of other things, and husband had car. Never mind, I went shopping last night and really stocked up again, so off to a better start today. At least tea last night was quite good.

I'm at school to do some work, so I'd better get on with it - amazing how much time I've managed to waste already! At least it's quiet on Saturdays.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.
 
Niyah 01 said:
Thanks Cate - I actually am feeling better about things at the moment. I just hope it stays that way!!!! Sometimes it's a matter of perspective about things we cannot change, and daring to be happy in the moment we are in instead of being apprehensive about the moments that may yet come.
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Oh my goodness. How true!!
Niyah 01 said:
I am FREEZING these days!!
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Me too. Where are those 'power surges' when you actually need them?
Niyah 01 said:
I'm at school to do some work, so I'd better get on with it - amazing how much time I've managed to waste already! At least it's quiet on Saturdays.
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When are you not at school or doing something associated with school? I can imagine that you would enjoy the peace & quiet though, xo Cate
 
When are you not at school or doing something associated with school?

Simple.... hardly ever!!!! That's just how it is at the moment. We'd like life to get a bit simpler, but it hasn't yet. I just try and get through each 24 hours at a time, and not look too far into the future or it starts getting depressing.
 
Meant to mention - just saw someone today that I know (but not real "close" if you know what I mean) who's been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer and has only months to live - if that. He's amazing... I was expecting to feel sad and depressed, but he's so cheery and accepting and determined to put everyone else at ease about it, it's a real inspiration!

He's accepting no treatment because no matter what they do, the outcome isn't much different. He just wants to be comfortable. Everyone else around him is crying, and he just keeps smiling!
 
Niyah- My sister was like that. She made me understand what it must be like to actually know that you are dying. She said it's much worse for everyone else. It freed me a lot from worry about my future & I'm not scared of dying anymore. She taught me many powerful things. So many of my friends and family looked so sad whenever I talked about my trips over to the US to spend with my sister & I would try to explain that we had a ball together & I don't think many of them understood how that could be.We cried together, we said all you should ever say to someone you love deeply, but mostly we laughed & laughed. Sometimes we laughed so much we were hysterical. It was wonderful! She was very philosophical about dying. She only worried about her husband being left on his own. She was very special & I am lucky to have been taught this special lesson before I ever need it personally. It's lovely having this connection with you Niyah. I find I say things to you I don't tell people that I see regularly. I get what you are saying almost straight away. I won't apologise for filling up your diary, just as I don't want you to apologise for 'visiting' me in mine. We just had a cup of tea together. Mine was Peppermint! Cheers, cate.
 
Thanks!!!

My cups of tea now are ordinary tea (though it has to be Tetley's), but once in a while I pop in a star aniseed. That's probably a worthless gesture, however it's what the active ingredient of Tamiflu is made from (with some heavy processing I admit), so I think the Chinese must have always known something there....

We're scheduled to spend a weekend in Adelaide in two weeks. Just in case I meet some extra bugs... Not going to be a lot I can do about it if I do anyway!

My day has been very, very ordinary, so tomorrow I will have to be 100% again. Unexpected lunch etc etc etc. I will lock myself in my office tomorrow with just an apple and my crackers and only come out for a me-made Cohen lunch.

I've been piano practising this afternoon, but very sick of it now so back to do some work and get away from it!!! I'm supposed to be playing at a festival in a few weeks and having a total panic about the lack of preparation I've made so far. Work will be a pleasure this evening!
 
Ugghhh!!! Awake a lot of the night with a headache. It finally went just as dawn came, then I have to get up and do another day!

Oh well, I'm just going to shut my door today and keep a low profile. Maybe I'll sneak off early and get some more shut eye.
 
Niyah- I didn't know that about Tamiflu & Star Anise but I will have to make another big batch of Pho very soon as I'm almost out of it in the freezer. I have been having it a few times a week for the last month. There is a lot to be said for Chinese/Vietnamese medicine! I hope you feel better very soon. It sounds like you really need a good break! xoxo Cate.
 
Have a slight bug. There's been a bit of flu around at school, and I have a touch, which is probably why I'd had the headache. However, I'm not that bad, just have a bit of a temperature, sniffy nose. The slightly sore throat has gone. I'm still working and hoping it's not swine flu! We only have 20 cases in WA so far so maybe it hasn't got to me yet. I'm sleeping badly at the moment, though, which isn't helping. Sometimes when I'm not 100% I just don't fully zonk out the same as when I'm fully well.

I'm definitely changing my crackers - had a stupid binge on Saladas day before yesterday and SO CROSS WITH MYSELF :piggy:. When I eat VitaWeet, they fully satisfy me and I don't crave anymore - they are wholemeal. So, that's what I'm sticking with from now on! Maybe it was partly because I wasn't feeling good.

I've been a little stressed today because husband has a lot of back pain at the moment. Should be innocuous, but he did have a low-grade cancer cut out last year - massive scar - so my mind is doing somersaults just wondering about what is causing the pain this time. He's off for an X-ray now as several attempts to relieve the back pain haven't been successful so far.

So - I'll try and take the advice I was dishing out the other day - to be happy in the moment I'm in instead of worrying about tomorrow. If I have something to worry about tomorrow, I should leave it till then!

YS was also quite sick last night, and I was stressing about that too, but it's not infectious - he had a reaction to not having a tablet when he should have, and apparently vomitting in that case is not uncommon. He's OK today.

Anyway, head down again. I'm preparing a production for school at the moment - I'm just doing a bit of hard work getting ideas together before everyone else picks up some jobs next week. I hope I get lots of support there. The last one we did was fantastic, but I didn't have anything to do with that one. This year it was set to fall in a hole, so I'm getting it off the ground.

I also have a Quiz Night to get ready pretty soon, we are off to Adelaide the weekend after this coming one, have a concert night coming up that I'm co-ordinating, and also a choral festival that I'm playing a couple of pieces to accompany choir for, so a pretty full plate at the moment. I've been working late nights, so I have caught up quite a bit, which feels good!!!! I just hope I can get the piano together. Going OK so far, but not good with the nerves in public, I'm afraid!
 
600g down today, which I'm pleased about. I've cracked the 75kg bogey, which has hung around too long. I'm glad the crackers didn't do too much damage this week, but definitely will stick to VitaWeets from now. I haven't got out running either - been working too late on production script, and very tired. It's also been pretty awful weather. Think I'll catch up on some sleep first before trying to fit it in again.

I'm a bit worried about next weekend (4 days actually) in Adelaide - a conference, have no ability to supply own food or get out myself. Wonder if some yoghurts will survive in a suitcase? But don't know when I'm going to get near a fridge that end. I'll just have to do the best I can with what turns up, I think.

After that, it should be plainer sailing for a few more weeks.
 
Hmmmm... swine flu is set to explode over here, I think. It's in the hospital my son works in, his boss for one was getting checked today because he had symptoms today, and then my son comes home and breathes on us (although he's currently symptomless, but that won't necessarily stop spread).

And... of course, we work in a school... so guess what is likely to happen over the next couple of weeks... all over the place in this city.

The six degrees of separation between people around the world is being very clearly demonstrated in this pandemic!

I've kind of stopped being bothered about it now since it's so mild in Australia, but hoping it doesn't mess up the coming weekend in Adelaide. Neither husband or I can really afford to spend 7 days at home from school in isolation either! But it's not like it's Ebola virus or Hendra fever.

We had a lovely evening out to celebrate SIL finishing his course. Little GD wanted to come in our car, and it was so lovely hearing her chatter. She understands "jokes" and kidding around and tricking people now, so she is always full of things like... "The lights are red, so you can..... GO!!" Then she'll laugh and laugh. So tonight we had the joke on her. Husband told her that when the traffic light is purple, you have to stand on your head. She repeated it all the way home, with the added line "THAT would be silly... hee hee hee" etc, over and over. Such a cutie!
 
Hi Niyah, Your GD sounds so sweet. It is almost impossible to articulate the love you feel for your grandkids. It is so much like that initial falling in love! Ahhh....being a grandie!!
Re: swine flu.I think the biggest worry with it is the worry of it mutating into something stronger & so far without preventative vaccine. That's my take on it anyway.I hope that my LH does not get it & has to stay home. No work, no income at all. I think it's probably the same for the 2 of you. Your mention of Star Anise has inspired me to have a huge pot of Pho bubbling away on our wood heater today. I feel like putting garlic in it as well but don't want to risk altering the taste.
Re: going to Adelaide-Do you have one of those soft esky packs that you can put a few gel ice packs in & some yoghurt, perhaps in a safer, screw top plastic container & take it on the plane with you. Do you have any of those largeish, tough plastic containers that you can get some Vitamins in that you can then happily just leave behind?
I have just been chatting to our son on Facebook and we had a chance to say some things that you don't often say face to face or on the phone. It was good.
Take care Niyah, xo Cate
 
I've been mulling over whether to do something like what you suggested, or whether to maybe pack one for the first morning only, or what. The guy organising this weekend is, like us, utterly run off his feet and not into the domestic scenery stuff very much, so hasn't really communicated to us at all yet on arrangements (though he'll have every "meeting" planned in detail!). I don't know how long between arriving at the airport, getting picked up, ending up where we are staying, access to fridge and all that. (We'll probably be getting carted around in a bus.) Sometimes they do things after we all get in at the airport before you go off to accommodation. Then I had a brainwave - I might email his WIFE a few days before leaving (so she doesn't forget!) and ask her to supply plain low fat yoghurt etc for me, and ask if she knows what else is going on food-wise. I'll continue thinking for a couple of days about how to go about it. I'll probably get more success if I can communicate with a female about it prior to leaving, I think. I can at least take my crackers in the suitcase.

Yes, the swine flu may mutate into something worse, but I don't think there's going to be anything anyone can do because they seriously have only taken limited steps to keep it away - just long enough so they can hopefully get a vaccine trialled. Star Anise may be the stop-gap measure for now! I've got a cauliflower soup cooking right now and just realised I could have stuck some in, and forgot! The thing that bothers me is that with a direct link to a major hospital in Perth in our house, we're going to be front-liners in any community spread of it. Guess where everyone really sick goes? Straight to emergency to get tested. And if it did mutate, that would be even worse - we'd get the nastiest one first! OK, I'm catastrophising a bit... I'm not bothered about the current version going around, only the nuisance value of having to be out of circulation for a week if we get it.

EOM has arrived, and cravings completely gone!!! Hurray for another few weeks!!! I'm really washed out and tired, but got up enough energy to get this batch of soup going, which should make some nice meals for me during the coming week if I pack it up.

Well, I have a ton of stuff to do here at home. Haven't set foot in school today as I had good intentions of all I was going to achieve here, but all I've done this afternoon is lie down. I'm exhausted! I was up for a long time last night as husband periodically gets a twitching leg in his sleep. About every 30 seconds one of his legs will do a spasmodic jerk and kick me. It's very hard to stop - I try pushing him, waking him up, but it's like awaking the dead. I just gave up last night and got up for a long time, after which his leg had finally stopped.
 
My LH does the same but it's more like a twitch & occasionally a kick & often accompanied by a snore. I just get out of bed & go & hop in another now if I can't get him to stop.
A woman I went bush-walking with said to me one day when I said I was tired because of my interrupted sleep that I should lie awake & enjoy it because one day he may be gone. She is only a few years older than me & her husband died 3 years ago.
Good idea to ring the organiser's wife Niyah! You're smart enough to make good Cohen's decisions on the w/e anyway. Maybe take one yoghurt, mixed with some stewed apple & wrapped in newspaper? Cheers, Cate.
 
Yes, funny to think that I could one day regret complaining about the kicks in the shins! I talked to hubby last night about it, and he was terribly upset - has NO knowledge at all of what he does, even when I "talk" to him in the middle of the night and he answers, he doesn't remember anything about it next day.

I made the most delicious soup last night - so nice I gave it to hubby for tea, who was very impressed that it was "diet" soup and tasted so nice. The only things I could remember you saying, Cate, were "asparagus, cauliflower and feta" so I just made the rest up. Half a cauliflower, asparagus, feta cheese, then I put in zucchini, button squash (just to alleviate the "green" look), browned some onion and capsicum in a frypan and tipped them in, then a chopped fresh chilli, and spices. Two star anise (put them in late after typing on here!), cummin seeds, paprika, tiny bit cayenne, a bit of a garam masala mix that is OK. All vitamised at the end, and absolutely yum. Had it again today. I actually can't remember exactly which spices are OK as I am working off summarised notes I made of my previous program. In a fit of rage one day at getting so fat AGAIN, I threw out my old program, which was very dumb, but couldn't bear to see the record of all my losses, which were in the front page. So now I use any pure spice, or ones which don't have additives etc.

Just goes to show that trying to ignore a problem or push it away doesn't make it go away and just gives more grief down the track. My husband has said I should just make the Friday morning weigh a life-long habit. He wakes me and drags me up Friday mornings to face the scales, and I know, however much I sometimes dread it, I just have to do it by habit for my own good. The only "failure" is refusing to face them. Last Friday I was feeling really obnoxious and cranky (know why now since it was EOM arrival day), and didn't want to do it because I was expecting bad news. But - the scales went down, and I instantly felt better. If I HADN'T faced them, I would have put myself in a bad frame of mind for the coming week. I am glad he is so patient with me when I get neurotic about it!
 
I made some requests about a few things I would like provided for the conference, so am feeling MUCH better about going now. I'm on a roll with keeping on track, and want to stay that way as much as I can over the coming weekend. I know there'll be at least a couple of meals out and about, but I'm confident there'll be something on the menu I can organise that's acceptable. And anyway, I don't have to eat what's served if it's not.

I will take some crackers in my bag with me, and one yoghurt, and see how it survives the trip. There are supermarkets not too far away from where we are, so if the worst comes to the worst, I will ask if I can visit one.

What a relief! I'm kind of looking forward to it now.
 
PS - Husband's back is much improved and x-ray didn't show anything sinister going on, so I'm relaxing about that too!!!!
 
I was having a think about the last 5 months today, and how much my life has changed.

Towards the beginning were all the comments - particularly the "doesn't work long-term" stuff. I was just realising today that NO-ONE HAS SAID THAT for a long time, and I'm hoping I don't have to hear that one again. I don't get any more of the "Oh I know someone..." or "My doctor doesn't like that one" or anything discouraging - just the old "You're fading away to a shadow!!" (Which I can handle! :D :D :D)
 
I'm with you on that one!! LOL.
Good to hear you're organised Niyah re yr trip. I would have been surprised if you weren't! Cheers, Cate
 
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