Never underestimate…

the power of good drugs!

Things have been pretty sucky of late!  I had a doctors appointment today, not only did she give me the gift of really good painkillers but she made me cry. Sympathy does that to me sometimes.  Go figure.  So while I’m still hurting, it doesn’t matter cause the awesome drugs take me elsewhere (no, I will not be driving or operating heavy machinery), just talking really fast and writing rambling blog posts   I do have a definite date for surgery, which is a good thing. 23rd April.

I’ve been sewing a wee bit. Check out the gorgeous wee pouch I made for my tablet.  I love its bright cuteness!!

Some bunting that I made.  This was a fun way to use up some scraps!  I have plans to make lots more.  I *might* be having a party for my birthday later in the year, so it would be cool to have heaps of bright bunting around the place

I received this gorgeous mini quilt from the swap I was in…. thanks heaps Kimberly, I LOVE it!!

Kimberly also sent some very cool locally printed fabrics.  Cameron has been coveting them since they arrived.

Over and out.

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Revenge!

The dog has been a bit naughty in the last week, stealing the Cat’s food. She usually leaves it alone.  But just like children, dogs like to test the boundaries every now and then.

The Cat got revenge by stealing the Dog’s favourite sleeping spot on the porch.  Hahaha!!!

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My son, the romantic!

When Cam was still at Kindy he liked a girl who was there.  She’s a bit younger than him so only started school a couple of weeks ago.  Now that she’s at school they seem to have a thing again.  So he came home yesterday and made her this heart, with a pic of both of them on it.  Cute eh?

A few weeks ago I got a new toy!  An android tablet (living in a house of computer geeks who are anti-apple I couldn’t get anything else).  I’m loving it!!!!  It does everything that I used my big heavy laptop for, plus more

Cam is loving it too.  When I’m too tired and grouchy to read a bedtime story he can listen to one on the tablet. It’s good for watching movies on too.

(scuse the crappy cell phone pic, it’s good for day shots but not night ones.)

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Progress!

The west end of the kitchen is now ready for painting!  It’s been plastered and sanded.  We need to choose what colour tiles we are going to put behind the fire and make a new hearth so we can get the fireplace back in soon.  The house is warmer than before though, the extra sun and the underfloor insulation seemd to be working well.

I picked up a free standing wardrobe as part of a barter.  Ian will service a sewing machine in exchange.  This will go in the room Lilly has at the moment (which will later be our room) as it has no wardrobe.

No crafting this week.  No time. I can’t wait for the school holidays and my week off!

 

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Being Eco-friendly

Although we try not to be too bad, we are not as eco-friendly and earth conscious as I would like.  I guess as we are both fence-sitters on most issues we are just a bit lazy.  But we do try.  So check out our new recycling bins.  As we are in the country we don’t have rubbish or recycling pick-up, just a wheelie bin that we have to pay to be picked up.  We have a once a week pick-up which is now over $500 per year. I hope that with the new bins we can change to a once a month pick up

This is the quilt I started last week.  It’s not sewn together yet, I was just sorting the layout.  Hopefully I can make it to sewing group tonight and get it sewn up.

Cam in a pair of his new PJ’s.

I didn’t get any sewing done on the weekend, there were too many other things to do, but I did get this post put in.  It might not seem like much, be we don’t have lovely soft soil, just rocks, so it was horrible to dig, but I was determined to get it done without Ian’s help.

As you can see I have quite a few more to put in before fencing is complete.  I’d like to hire a post hole borer, but Ian reckons they are no good if you have rocks or tree roots in the way, we have both right where I want the fence.  I could get the fencers in who did all our paddock fencing, but we are almost out of renovation money, so I will just dig them one by one and save the $$.

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Reluctant blogging.

I don’t really feel much like blogging, but Ian has told me I have too.  I really just feel that blogging at the moment would be just a big moan about how crap things are, but he said, imagine how much that will cheer up all you reader’s, they can all sit there reading, thinking “I’m glad my life’s not that bad at the moment”

I have a tentative date for surgery, April 23rd (the day the kids go back to school after Easter holidays and 4 days before Lilly’s birthday).  That will be a firm date once it has been approved by the insurance company.  Yes, I’m going private.  I could not believe that there is a waiting list of approx 6 months on the public hospital list.  This is for a pretty uncomfortable problem, which was made  much worse after an ultrasound!  So I suck it up, take lots of painkillers (only anti-inflammitories and paracetamol, thanks to an allergy to lots of narcotics).  I was just really lucky that I get Health Insurance with the job.

I’m still working fulltime hours.  Still not liking working fulltime hours.  Will be working these hours till I have a weeks leave over Easter and then go on sick leave for my op.  I feel like working fulltime sucks all the personality from me.  I have to smile and make polite small talk all day, then come home and do the housework and cooking (Ian does help) and then crash on the couch till it’s time for bed.  The weekends are just gone in a flash.

The next thing to make my day was being asked yesterday to change my hours of work (once back from sick leave).  I’m supposed to work 1pm to 5pm, not great hours, but at least time for things to done in the first half of the day.  The chick who was job sharing with and doing the morning shift left, so I asked to be given her hours.  However they have decided to change things instead and want me to work 11am till 3pm.  Not happy!!!  That means leaving home at 10.30am, which leaves bugger all time to get to appointments, school events or really anything constructive done before work.  leaving work at 3pm means that Cam will still have to be picked up by someone else 5 days a week and will still not be able to have friends home afterschool.  I won’t be on time to be able to take the kids to after school sports   But as per the employment contracts act, I’m shafted.  If I don’t agree they will just make me redundant and the fill the hours they want.  I’m sucked in by the good pay and other benefits.  So, not happy!!

I finished a quilt last week, and posted it away.  It’s a gift for a friend of mine.  I can’t say who, but I can show a pic.  It was lovely to have a quilt with a home to go to

I got to use some gorgeous scraps that I’ve been hoarding for a while.  I knew a project would come along for them sometime!

I finished my Alice mini quilt and sent it off for the swap.

Last night I was feeling pretty down, so what’s the cure for that?  Start a new quilt of course!!!

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I’m done with Love!!!

Yay, I finished the “Love” sampler quilt top for our bed today.  It was hard work finding the space to work on a quilt this size with renovations going on.  The weather today is so totally crap that the only pic I could get of the quilt top is not very good quality due to bad lighting.  But you get the idea anyway.

I’m waiting on wool batting to arrive from the US and Love flannel from the US to back it with.  I couldn’t believe that it was going to cost $107 to buy the batting here in NZ, including international shipping I only paid $60 NZD.  Crazy!  I hope I can get this finished and on the bed asap as Autumn has come early, straight after the Summer that never was, it has been so cold that we put the electric blanket on the bed last night   We are still waiting on builders to come and install our new ceiling before we can put our fireplace back in.  Until then we just have to hope it doesn’t get much colder.

Thanks to everyone for the virtual pat on the back and sympathy, it’s all appreciated   I’m lucky to have such lovely friends (bloggy friends included too) and family, as well as an awesome husband who looks after me very well.

I’m busy making a very cute baby quilt, but can’t show any pics until it’s finished and arrived at its destination as it’s a gift.  I hope tomorrow I can also get time to quilt a nice retro circus quilt I’ve been making.  There’s not a lot else to do in this weather!

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