Term 3 begins

Well School goes back today in Western Australia and for me its a bit of mixed blessings. 1, I will have no excuses for  procrastinating with the  jobs I need to get finished before the house goes on the market. 2, I wont have to listen to the kids say I'm bored what can we do then they  turn their noses up at my suggestions(clean the bathroom, vacuum the floors). 3, having sweet silence and order in my house again- well for 6 hours anyway. Then there's the biggy, the mixed part of the whole deal. Today I will be worrying about the oldest all day till he gets home. 


The lad has been a bit unwell over the past week. Although yesterday he seemed to perk up, this morning he has woken  and he has some serious dark circles under the eyes, face is pale  and the poor thing has  a sore throat and stuffy nose.. Sad that I am actually happy that he has a virus really, but if you knew his story you would understand that him coming down with a virus means the last few days of  pressure on the brain symptoms were for nothing more than a cold or flu. For you and me getting the flu  just means achy body icky nose and feeling like crap. For the lad a virus when his shunt in the brain is showing signs of partial blockage means hospital, oxygen masks, IV's, difficulty in standing up heart racing and serious vomiting attacks. All scary for us as parents, utterly terrifying for  him. 


All of this is actually  a far better option than a fully blocked shunt which means ambulance up to the children's hospital and brain surgery. In his 15 years he has had 12 of them, thankfully  we have had a 4 year  break from them all. Which has given us both a sense of security in some ways that it has been so long and a sense of worry in someways that any minute the other shoe will drop and we will be back at battle stations.


At the moment we are on Yellow alert keeping a watchful eye on things but hoping for the best. Sometimes I wonder if we will ever just be a normal family where the biggest worry is who has to take the kids to little Athletics. But I know we are only given what we can handle, just as I know all things happen for a reason and I just need to accept we are doing everything possible. Besides no matter how hard it gets, there is always someone else worse off.

Rebuilding of the village, Life.

I have recently  detoured back onto spiritual  lane for another look around in my journey through the village called Life. Its been a while and the  landscape has changed a little. A few of the old buildings, Faith and Hope look like they have been through a bit of weather damage, but strong and sturdy foundations holding them up still. The negativity tower seems to be showing no signs of neglect though, in fact it seems to be flourishing. The open field of dreams seems to  of gotten smaller. With the population of the village named Life growing it was bound to happen. The need for more buildings to cope with the population explosion that came when the buildings Stress and Drama were renovated and extended meant the field had to shrink a little.

Yep the village of life seems to be a little in disrepair of late and spiritual lane seems the most neglected. I think I will spend a few days in the field of dreams and help the town by doing a little weeding. That insidious weed depression seems to be budding lately and I can see a few self doubt shrubs  in need of some pruning. 

I wont be going in and visiting people living in negativity for a while and neighbours in the Stress and Drama buildings will have to do with out me for a while as well. I think focusing on making  the field of Dreams flourish is where my attention  needs to be right now. The lake of tranquility I can see has been polluted with debris and rubbish, so that will be next on my agenda and then I can start rebuilding the positive re-enforcement station. Lasting happiness apartments will hopefully  reopen after their upgrades for  my friends and family living  in stress, drama and negativity wanting to move, can.

Till then  feel free to come join me out in the field and help bring our village gardens and park back to their former glory back in the era of childhood innocence.

google+

Well I went and got myself a google+ account. I must say very cool so far. While it doesn't have a lot of the apps FB has, thats possibly a good thing for me, It has a cleaner fresher appearance about it. I also have a fetish for shiny new things =oB. Of course it means I also now have another time waster which will probably cause me to get into trouble with so much work to do around the place at the moment.


I also like the exclusivity of it at the moment invites only. psst its a secret but I can invite you if your interested, but you didn't hear that from me. kind of makes you feel like when we at school and teachers pet was chosen all the time to try all the cool things out. To me it seems quite simple as long as you watch the  videos supplied to you.  Took me a couple of days to realize just cause people add you to their circle doesn't mean  they can read anything you put on your wall if you haven't added them to your circles, oh and don't get me started on the circles( I just think they are the cutest little things).


At the moment  its hard to get too excited about it all as I dont have many friends on my account so interaction is at a minimum, for me its all about working out how my shiny new toy works and playing with the buttons. As a female I can tell you I am quite apt at pushing buttons from time to time =o). Not that I would admit that to  hubster of course.


So my thoughts so far on G+.. in time I think it has the potential to kick FB's hiney. I think it will force FB to lift its game as well. for too long its had the monopoly of being the popular kid in the yard, a new kid just moved in and its gaining brownie points so far by being simple easy to use and super helpful with any problems. My only  gripes would be finding  friends is difficult at this stage because of accessibility and the plainness of  it. I loved Bebo because of all the pretties we could put up. we could decorate our pages to incorporate our personalities and express our selves. So G+ if your listening out there in cyberland, bring in some pretty borders or background colours and you  will find the FB die hards even  relent, cause we all love the pretties!

Holiday Blues

Well, the School holidays are here. day 2 of week 1 and already I have heard an "I'm Bored" comment. granted they had just spent some quiet time  at their Nan's  and i dare say in kids standards it wouldn't of been the most stimulating of mornings. Add to this the child in question is happiest when sitting in front of a computer and I wouldn't let him take his with him this visit.

Today though the oldest is going  up to Perth with his friends to go check out a couple of music stores. Its the first time I have said yes to him going up there alone. At 15 almost 16 he is growing up far too quickly for my liking. He wants to look at prices for a Ukulele. He loves all music instruments but especially the stringed kind. I should be grateful he hasn't started harassing us for a cello yet shouldn't I!

Youngest is hanging out for me to go get his xbox live recharge so I guess I wont see  him for the rest of the day either. He will be happy and a clam killing an enemy or racing through a race track somewhere in the world.

Perhaps I should go get that bedroom of mine de-cluttered once and for all. at least then I will have accomplished something. I may even see the colour of my carpet in there too or is that getting too radical do you think!