Evil Oddie

For the Queens Birthday long weekend, Glen and I went to Rover Park.  Initially we we were going to go to Levuka, but after all the rain, all of their 4wd tracks were closed, so Glen sourced Rover Park.

I have to say that there were a LOT of people at Rover Park.  The Campground near the amenities block was absolutely packed.  We camped in Campground 2, which is behind the main campground.  There was only two other groups in our campground.  In our group, we had quite a mish mash of cars and people.  There was us (Mav); a Challenger;  a Wrangler; a Range Rover;  a Discovery and; a Cherokee.

The Cherokee died on the way into the Park.  The transmition blew up and they called RACQ to get towed.  Seeing we were in NSW, they had to wait for NRMA to come get them.  The Wrangler broke on the way out of the park.  It drove home in front wheel drive.  The Range Rover had major issues on the way home.  I’m not sure of exact details, but I think it had to limp the whole way home.  The guy who owns the Challenger rolled his ankle on Sunday night and it blew up the size of a house.  He got taken to the hospital at Tenterfield and ended up getting 2 weeks off work!

On Tuesday morning, I woke up and said to Glen, my eye feels funny.  He took one look and told me that it’s blown up again.  Last year, in August as my Doc tells me, my left eye decided to have some fun and swell.  I didn’t know what it was from and my doctor at the time told me just to have an anti-histamine.  We didn’t look into it, because the anti-histamine did the trick and it hadn’t happened again or before then.

So on Tuesday, I just took an anti-histamine and went to work.  It did kinda go down but not enough.  I called the doctor’s and made an appointment.  While waiting at reception, my face started to puff up.  So did my lips, left arm, left hand and my left side…. Weird… I just took off my watch and waited for the doctor…  When I got to see the doctor - She gave me a stern talking to… Off I went to get an injection to stop the swelling and she put me on steriods too.  Apparently, I was in the midst of a pretty serious allergic reaction.

Seeing Glen and I are doing a Cape York trip in just over 2 weeks, I have to get an EpiPen.  I got told that the Allergy Specialist has signed off on my Pen; but I’ve got to go and have testing to see what I’m allergic to… Should be fun…

You know who the Swine Flu Carrier was…

I have been doing Personal Training for some time and I am getting toned.  The issue is that I still had wobbly bits.  I’m not a BIG person, so I can’t say that I had a lot to lose but it still mattered to me.  A friend of mine, Shaz, had started a new program and she lost a dress size in a week (or was it a fortnight), with the program you lose centimetres not weight.

It’s called Osolean from Mannatech. I joined Mannatech so that I could get the product cheaper.

Some people would be a bit nervous giving out the following measurements, but here we go.

Measurements - 24/02/09
Left Leg: 56cm
Right Leg: 59.5cm
Hips: 102cm
Waist: 80cm
Left Arm: 26.5cm
Right Arm: 27cm

Measurements 01/03/09
Left Leg: 56cm
Right Leg: 58cm
Hips: 101.5cm
Waist: 79.5cm
Left Arm: 26.5cm
Right Arm: 27cm

Measurements 07/03/09
Left Leg: 54.5cm
Right Leg: 55.5cm
Hips: 101cm
Waist: 78.5
Left Arm: 26.5cm
Right Arm: 27cm

Measurements 16/03/09
Left Leg: 54.5cm
Right Leg: 55cm
Hips: 101cm
Waist: 78cm
Left Arm: 26cm
Right Arm: 26

Okay, now there’s a bit of a jump in taking measurements, I’ve had so much on of late, my head is spinning. I’ll admit that I’ve been lucky if I can have the shake before breakfast, so I haven’t been doing the plan to the ‘T’.

Measurements 13/04/09
Left Leg: 54.4cm
Right Leg: 55cm
Hips: 100cm
Waist: 77.5cm
Left Arm: 25.5cm
Right Arm: 27cm

I’m pretty happy with the gradual cm loss.  I haven’t really lost any “weight”.  My Personal Trainer said weight is a figure of mind.  I just don’t want to look like someone that weighs 60 kilos.  Well that’s my figure.  If I hit 60 kilos, I think I’ll peak out.

So, our kitchen got damaged in the big storms that hit Brisbane in November 08.  I called our insurer while the water was still leaking through the ceiling and running down through our kitchen cabinets and started the claim.

Seeing that we weren’t that bad off in comparison with The Gap residents, Glen and I haven’t been in that big of a rush to get our kitchen fixed.  So I can understand how I’ve set us up for this…

I can totally understand that this is partly our fault.  We haven’t been chasing up our insurer or anything, it’s just been something that we’ve been thinking will happen eventually.

Our insurer has called us this week to see how the kitchen is going.  I said that the new kitchen wasn’t even in.  We had a guy come around to talk about what we wanted to change and they want an extra $8 000 on top of what the insurer is going to give them.  Our insurer and this kitchen guy won’t tell us how much the insurer is giving the kitchen makers.  Glen and I think that this is a bit excessive because there really isn’t that much that we are changing… Really…

So the insurer said for us to get another quote so that they could compare the quotes.  I was like “Sure, I’ll get the guy who did our last kitchen.  They were awesome and beat every other quote by $5 000.”  I got the quote today from my ‘mate’ - $18 000+ - FARK!!

I sent the fax into the insurer… We’ll see what happens… Our kitchen is big - maybe that’s why it’s so much…

Okay, so I’m slightly addicted to The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.  Carol from our external accountants let me borrow “One for the Money” and I was addicted.  This was maybe last month! I’m now up to book six “Hot Six” and I’m even dreaming about the books.  I can honestly say that I haven’t been this bad ever before.  I’ve been carrying the novels around in my handbag and at any opportunity I’m reading;  in the car; during ad breaks on TV; before bed.  Speaking of reading before going to bed - I’m even reading til late into the night.  Normally I’m the person bugging Glen to turn off the light because he’s reading!!

So the gist of the story is: Stephanie Plum went to College (yes an American book) and she got a job as a lingerie buyer.  When she loses her job, she cons a job out of her cousin, Vinnie, as a bounty hunter.  Then a couple of gorgeous men get involved.  The first (and the guy who I currently love) is Joe Morelli.  Stephanie lost her virginity to Joe and Joe is now a Vice Cop.  The other guy is Ranger.  Ranger’s the mysterious type so I’m a bit hesitant - but in my imagination he’s pretty hot…  Oh - I didn’t mention that Joe is also extremely good looking.

If the books get made into a movie (apparently TriStar signed a deal in 1994 - so hurry the f*ck up people), us girls have been discussing who we think should be cast.  We can’t come up with a guy that has dark brown curly hair with brown eyes and is drop dead gorgeous to play Joe.   I’m really struggling!  There’s websites around that have suggested, Chris Evans, Mark Wahlberg, Mark Raffalo, James Denton and Hugh Jackman.  Well, if they’re going to do the first book, Joe should be 29ish.  These guys are a bit older than that except Chris - and he’s the perfect age… I just imagine Joe would be a bit buffer… hrm hot muscley guy - WOOT!!

Glen has been getting the GU ready for our Cape trip in July - August this year.  His list is a mile long of the stuff he wants (needs) to get done in time.

He’s done all the little stuff and now all that’s left is big stuff.  He’s dropping it off at ARB on Monday for heaps of stuff to be done.  I think he’s over messing around trying to get everything ready on weekends when you can get people that have all the necessary tools to get the job done quickly.

Which leads me to why I have nothing to do.  The stuff that’s left to be done on the GU is expensive, so I can’t spend any money.  So I’ve really done nothing pretty much all year.  My weekends involve: washing, cleaning, watching TV & working.   mmmm doesn’t that sound like fun…

So, Saturday was Valentine’s Day and I have to say I’m not a girl who appreciates romance, so I’m not upset that I didn’t “get” anything.   Glen didn’t even utter the words “Happy Valentine’s Day”.

You’ve probably read about the 30 weddings that were at the Brisbane Registry office and I happened to be  in the city in the afternoon, and I saw quite a busy churches.  I can’t say that I would like to get married on any “special” date other than your anniversary.  Can you imagine marrying the love of your life on say - Valentine’s Day - and then 5 years later you find the love of your life banging his secretary on her desk.  Then guess what? For the rest of your life - YOU HATE VALENTINE’S DAY!

My anniversary with Glen is 11 September.  Glen’s attempt at humour is “Two disasters have happened on September 11.”

Would I get married on September 11?  Sure, it has good memories for me.  Guess what? It falls on a Saturday next year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

During the Christmas & New Year time off work, I did some cleaning and found the cd that had the pics of my boudoir shoot and thought I still hadn’t put up my favourite photo… So here it is…

A couple of things have happened regarding insurance.  We have finally received some money for the rental house.  It isnt even a third of what we’ve spent, but it’s still something - YAY!!

The other thing about insurance is that during the big storms in the Brisbane area, we were unlucky enough to receive damage to our house.  It’s really got me thinking if we’ve done something evil and this is Karma kicking our butts.  In no way is our house one of the badly damaged houses that’s had the roof blown off or the house has been blown away.   We have what is known as a flat roof with box gutters.  So when Mother Nature unleashed it’s fury, the roof and gutters couldn’t cope with the amount of water.  We were left with a swimming pool in our kitchen.  It flowed down the walls, in all the cabinets, and onto the floor.  Once there was enough water, it started leaking through the kitchen floor and through to the Office which is directly under the kitchen.  The office smelt for quite a while.

So at the moment, I’m really enjoying cooking all of our meals on our camping stove!  

I’ve never really worried about the amount of time that I’m on the computer / keyboard.  However, in the past month or so, Glen’s been complaining about sore arms / wrists.  It’s pretty much just RSI seeing he’s on his PC most of the time.  Yes, he’s a geek and if he’s not working, he’s playing a game or something.

So I asked work if I could get an Ergonomic Keyboard.   I picked it up from UMart on Friday and today’s my first day using it.  I have never used an ergonomic keyboard and it’s quite different to the qwerty keyboard.  I’ve noticed I’m hitting a lot of wrong keys and I must’ve cheated a lot with the wrong fingers / hands on the old keyboard.

I spose I’m a lot better now than I was first thing this morning, but its all fun for a Monday.  I’ll just have to get one for home cause I don’t think it will be easy going to and from this to a qwerty.