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and last updated August25th., 2002.
WELCOME TO MY DAY..
IT IS NICE TO HAVE YOU SHARE IT WITH ME...
Well folks, it's been so long since I managed an update here that I'm wondering if I'll be able to recall the complex sytem of links and updates I use.
"I am wondering if you survived the experience" , wrote one gentleman, "Since your journal has ceased.."
Well, folks, I have certainly survived, though the second lot of surgery left me with a painful sciatic condition that makes sleeping difficult, so that I've been very tired indeed...tired enough that just getting through the working day , (busier than ever and with several new, still feeling-their-way staff), and then coming home to cook dinner at 7.30pm, has been pretty much all I've been able to manage before energy deserts me completely . Hence website maintenance has been taking a low-priority place in the necessary-tasks--priorities -line.
However , eventually things change.
But this deadly winter is at last showing signs of releasing its grip, my incisions and colostomy scars have finally healed to the itchy stage and I am organizing towards taking some time off for travel in the near future.
But he, too, has been not in the best of health, weathering a series of bad asthma attacks, and flying might not be, for him, a good idea, so that I am possibly currently the fitter of us, better equipped to make the trip.
But that is all three weeks away yet. I told Dr B I would not be free to leave town before September 14th since this is the time of year a large proportion of our grandchildren have birthdays and when the younger son visits from the Arab Emirates with his family.
And the older grandkids always enjoy catching up with their once-a-year overseas cousins too.
In fact, it always surprises me, coming, as I do, from a not-at-all-loving family, to find how much my own kids enjoy getting together.
But it's also been a long time since I had anything to write about other than my health and my job and my recent surgery.
For those who have enquired the progress of my hated, but oh-so-popular enforced short hairdo, well it is growing quickly, but still short, and I have given my stylist till next week to cut a wave into it. But SHE doesn't want it permed again, either, folks, so I may be stuck with short, straight hair for life..which is okay at present while this is the fashionable style..
But, for the record, I still HATE it, okay??
Not sure, though, at this stage, whether I'll be going to USA or having Uncle Sam come to me.
Not only is my Mother in Law enduring a long , mostly comatosed invalidism as a result, my husband was told by her nursing home, of a series of mini-strokes or similar, but my friend, Dr B, from Alabama, who did his PHD studies in Melbourne in the sixties, is most anxious to "catch up" on the country he remembers so fondly, with me as guide and travelling companion. (I keep warning him that Melbourne will NOT be as he remembers!) 
And this year the visit introduced a new grandson , Haroun, born in Abu Dhabi on September 8th last year, whom we had never seen except in emailed photos. He is of an age with daughter Fiona's number 6, Claudia, so both parents and crawling infants had a great time comparing notes.
And it does come as something of a shock to find that, where once Doug and I were just two, we now need to find 17 chairs to seat everyone--and that doesn't include two ex-sons in law.
Course, it's our 42nd wedding anniversary on Tuesday 27th. I guess we SHOULD have something to show for that effort!!
We are playing a kind of "musical homes" at the moment since Chris and Lizete and Astra usually stay here at weekends so that Lizete can work a few hours in Fiona and Brad's restaurant to bring in some much needed extra dollars.
We are looking at some bedroom renovating too, and with son Chris not working much, but still having mortgage and car payments to find, we can do each other some good by having him work on the bedroom he and LIzete usually use, preferably before Dr B gets here. Knowing Chris and Lizete aren't fond of the 70s wallpaper in that room, especially the greasy patch worn by generations of hair against the bedhead wall , I've given them the job of removing and replacing it.
And Maddie stays Friday nights to work in the pharmacy Saturday mornings. And since Maddie also has lots of hospitable friends, as most 15 year olds seem to manage, it appears sensible that the visiting family occupy Maddie's big double room in Fiona's house at weekends, then come here to us for the week. And Maddie doesn't mind being evicted from her room since not only does she get to spend more time with her friends but her room gets a good cleanout, once a year, by the visitors!
I had anticipated a simple selection and repapering job, but I think they plan to strip, smooth , undercoat and paint, which means we will need to add a bedhead or veneered panel to avoid another greasy patch.
And if they do a good job on that room, they can organize something similar for the other, and then tackle the Master Bedroom's bedhead wall, which paper, though unmarked, being a heavy- textured washable vinyl, is so very much a product of its 70s origins that it is rather garish by today's standards.
And I guess that will mean another two bedheads or panelling...
There is no doubt about it--expected visitors are the spur one needs to take a look at one's home through other, perhaps critical, eyes-- and, in our case, provide the stimulus we need to force ourselves to get things done....
It's just that lately there never seems to be time enough---or energy-- to spare...
Love to everyone ,and everyone on our side!
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