Quote of the Day

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited. - William Feather





As vague as I may have been today, the little joys did not escape my attention:





*Miss M's total adoration as she smiles at me from her cot
*Sun-dried laundry flapping away on the line
*Receiving a postcard from Holland
*Hearing my brother is coming to visit on Sunday
*Hearing the fun Miss M is having while her Daddy gives her a bath

I hope your day was full of little joys too!






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Nothingness

I swear, my head is filled with Nothingness today. I admit, I had a shocking night sleep, which is never condusive to thinking the brightest thougths. But even I am amazed at my own vagueness!

I must have gone downstairs to the laundry three times, only to have forgotten what I went there for. And let's be honest, laundries typically give one not-too-many options as to what activity may take place there.

I thought I'll sit down and do some blogging, but after five (very peaceful) minutes; still NOTHING. Never mind, I'm sure there's someone somewhere thinking amazing thoughts. So I might now go into the sunshine, and top up my vitamin D. Will let you know if I have any brainwaves....

:)

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888***TheAvNGavShow***888: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

888***TheAvNGavShow***888: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

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I laughed out loud when i read this with Tony.
This is my first ever LINKed thought for the day.:)

Aarghh! I am so BUMMED OUT!

Just as I thought I was getting better and more comfortable with the computer side of things, the thing comes and bites me in the butt!!! I was just trying to put about 7-8 clips on the external hard-drive, as I'm going to see Tony tomorrow and I LOST THEM! I don't know what happened, but they're gone, nowhere to be found, moments lost forever. And I had some good ones in there! Aarghh! I don't want to use bad language but it would alleviate my frustration! Poo-Bum! Gotta start again... breathe, breathe, breathe....

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A Personal Breakthrough!

Morning EveryOne!

Well, last night I experienced a personal breakthrough! Whilst enjoying a couple of quiet bevvies with my other half we finally managed to put some videos on disc! I am particularly excited for my parents, as they will now finally be able to watch the many little clips I've filmed of Miss M. They'll be stoked to see her in moving images. Of course it's not the same as the real thing, but it's better than just photo's.

I also learned how to put formulas into spreadsheets. Which in itself is of course very dry and boring, but once again; a personal breakthrough as it all has to do with overcoming my dislike of computers!

Whilst I'm writing this I am downloading more clips onto my external hard-drive so I can pass them on to Tony tomorrow. I am feeling so very new Millenium right now! Ha Ha! Who would have thought?!!

Have a FanFabulous Sunday!

Hooroo!


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I LOVE this Song!!!

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Where There's A Will, There's A Way

I just read 'Ze Daggers Bible' and saw the thought of the Day is Where there's a will there's a way. I wholly and totally believe in that! All through my life I've experienced that if you want something badly enough, you can find a way to make it happen.

It's caused me to do some creative accounting in the past, to secure a homeloan to get that first home, it's made me persevere when I really wanted to give up. It has also gotten me in some hot water when I THOUGHT I wanted something (or rather someONE) but when I got what I wanted it turned out that it wasn't what I wanted AT ALL! So it goes to show that you've gotta be careful what you wish for (or want and put your mind to) as you might just get what you want!


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Brrr...It's freezing!

Yuk! I hate getting out of bed when it's this cold. Am currently sitting ON TOP of the heater in a vain attempt to get warm and cosy. Little Miss M was up twice thru the night, her teeth must be bothering her, poor thing. By the time I got her settled again, of course I couldn't get back to sleep. Never mind, might as well get up and have brekkie and start some blogging.

I start work at 9 am so haven't got that much time anyway. I'm doing some office work for a friend which is great. I quite enjoy organising things for her and it helps her out too. And just between you and me; it is nice to have some baby-free time and think different thoughts for a couple of hours a week. Daddy is wrapped to have this Daddy-Daughter-Day too, so it's a WIN-WIN situation!

We've been talking about finally getting our lovely little boat in the water. It's about time too, we've had her for almost 2 years now! We've been working on her, fixing and painting and improving, but now it really is time to have some FUN! She is called 'Petit Bateau' which is french for little boat. She is a Hartley trailer-sailer, a New Zealand design. We now hope to have her in the water (and floating) in October, ready for the long hot summer. We already got a little life-jacket for Miss M; SAFETY FIRST.

Hopefully the weather is better tomorrow, so we can go and check out some moorings in Fisherman's Bay. Ahhh, I can already see myself laying back in the sun with a glass of SavBlanc, enjoying the sounds of the water lapping against the boat...

On that note... better get ready.

Hooroo!




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Welcome to our 888-Family

I would like to be the first one to welcome Furball into our DAGgy family! She came over to my place this afternoon and we spend some time setting up her blog and generally getting a feel for it. So watch her space at 888furball@blogspot.com and make her feel welcome.

I've just come back from another boxercise class where I teamed up with a guy this time. Talk about the difference between man and woman... I thought I threw an ok punch up until tonight, but I think I'll have to refrain from getting into any real fights for a while longer! :) My hands are shaking so much, it's hard to type this.

Other than that I had a pretty uneventful day. Did some laundry, vacuum-cleaning and dusting, paid some bills (incl. a parking fine; I HATE wasting money like that!!)and of course had my daily phone call with the people from Belkin. Yes, that's right, the wireless situation still hasn't been resolved. Today they suggested moving the desk so it's more or less in-line with the phone connection. I'm thinking of getting on of those computer nerds in to solve the puzzle for me, as moving furniture is not an option at this stage.

The Beautiful Miss M is finally and definitely teething so that's cause for more needed cuddles and smeares of Bonjella.

My poor husband hasn't seen me more than 5 minutes so I think I better show him some lovin'.


Hooroo!







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Fingers Crossed...

I just spoke with my parents and after about 7 months they've finally had someone interested in buying their home! It is too early to get all excited, but I can't help it! I need everyone to cross their fingers for us. I have to go back to work in January and it would just be so perfect if they could be here then. And not just for me, I think for them it would be great too, if things would move along now. Once you've made a big decision like immigrating you don't want things to stagnate and draw out the inevitable.

Will keep you posted...




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WORLD PEACE DAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2008

I just watched the clip that The Miracle Mile posted and was thinking we should do something. Why don't we get together somewhere in a park or something and have a huge picnic. If we all tell one friend it could grow into something quite big. And it'd be fun...

Lemme know what y'all think.


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Amazing Street Art

Whilst browsing Google for some early morning inspiration I came across these drawings by an unknown street artist. How incredible! How talented!




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*888*Access Denied*888*

I was talking today to one of the Bundeena Ambo's about the situation regarding access to Ambulance Services here. Basically the below-mentioned Officers have been volunteering their time, but without much support at all from the NSW Ambulance Service.

As we already know, Ambo's are over-worked and underpaid like other healthcare workers, but in this case the officers were on Stand-by outside their normal rosters and thus suffered extreme fatigue.

It seems to me that the solution is so simple. Surely it is possible to build a 'Bundeena Stand-by' into the rosters of these three officers. This practice might even get adopted by other 'remote' suburbs!

I really think it's ridiculous for a suburb with the same postcode as Cronulla to have such limited access to basic services. You would think we live out in Woop-Woop.


This whole story certainly doesn't follow our Principles of SAFETY, ACCESS and INCLUSION!

I've copied an article that appeared in the local Leader 10th July 2008


FOR the past 15 years, residents of Bundeena and Maianbar, on the edge of the Royal National Park, relied on local ambulance officers to be on call between shifts and on their days off as the only emergency medical service in the immediate area.

Other than three local ambulance officers, residents have just one part-time GP and no after-hours emergency service. There is no local taxi service and the ferry stops at 7pm.

Danelle Brown, of Maianbar, said she had to wait for between 35 and 40 minutes for an ambulance to arrive from Engadine in January last year after her three-year-old daughter, Esprit, collapsed and stopped breathing.

She stopped breathing again in December. This time a local ambulance arrived within 25 minutes, she said.

"If they [ambulance officers] were at a station, it would have been 10 minutes. I think if there was a service in town it would probably be used more.

"I think people realise the waiting time and they panic and jump in the car and deal with their problems themselves and go to Sutherland Hospital," Mrs Brown said.

One local ambulance officer is due to retire in two years, one has a wife who is terminally ill, and the other has three children under 10. They are fed up working up to 20 hours straight and decided in May to withdraw their on-call services due to extreme fatigue and a lack of support from ambulance management, a submission to the parliamentary inquiry into the Ambulance Service of NSW says.

The submission says the Bundeena ambulance is stationed at Engadine, under an ambulance service directive issued in May. It could therefore "easily be more than an hour" to get a person to a hospital, "posing serious risk to emergency patients", the submission says.

Last year, the three local officers - who each work at different stations outside the park - responded to 190 calls in addition to their normal shifts and overtime, the submission says. They were unable to respond to 20 calls.

The submission says the final straw was when two officers were "reprimanded and dictated to" after telling management they were too exhausted from having worked 20 hours straight to start another 14-hour shift in a few hours.

An ambulance service spokesman said the number of call-outs was not high enough to justify a full-time local service, which the Bundeena/Maianbar Ambulance Action Group wants.

The ambulance service has proposed that a scheme in which NSW Fire Brigades' officers act as "first responders".

The fire brigade supports the idea because its officers are trained in advanced first aid and can provide basic life support, a spokeswoman said.

The action group said in its submission to the inquiry that the proposal was unacceptable because the Bundeena-Maianbar area was too far from a hospital and fire brigade officers were not able to make medical diagnoses or administer drugs.


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Much better, thanks!

Today has been much better. Started gargling with salt-water last night. Home remedy courtesy of my friend Matty. It's disgusting but does work and is completely natural. The trick is NOT to swallow!

So packed up my Precious this morning, and her nappy-bag, a rug, some toys, something to eat 'just in case', as well as my towel, yoga mat and bottle of water, and made my way to another boxercise class. Honestly, I'm a pretty organised person, but it still amazes me how much shit you have to carry with you when you go anywhere with a baby!

It was all worth it as it was truly invigorating working out in the park. There was even a new mum there, who only gave birth 2 weeks ago. So I salute her!

I've never been one to exercise much. I did the gym-thing sporadically 'cause I felt I should, but never really got into it. I could certainly never understand those people that got addicted to it! But being outdoors makes all the difference to me. And it's kinda liberating to punch someone with all your might. It mellows me out for the rest of the day, and nothing stresses me much and that's gotta be good, right?



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I don't like to complain, but...

I feel like death warmed up. Flaming headache, coughing-fits that I'm sure can be heard in outer-space, hot and cold flushes, muscle-aches and just enough energy to drag myself from the bed to the lounge. Unfortunately having a 10-month old crawling around the place is not conducive to curling up and feeling sorry for one-self. That, and I feel guilty whingeing about having a cold when I know there's people out there who are much worse off than I.

So there's nothing else to do but soldier on. At least the flu-virus looks very pretty in the picture.

ah-choo!



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