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hello MD!!!!
yeah there will be a book with my name in it :) it will be a chapter within a book though, so not terribly exciting lol. but even still i am so happy to have some paid employment. just trying to get my head around the Australian political system of the last 30 years (yanno, something light and fun :rofl:). no, this is not with the lady, i am meeting her next week :dance:. i am excited about meeting her as her work is right up my alley. this work is more academic, interesting but not life changing ITMS.
on the gift front for girly girls i can HIGHLY recommend a ballerina musical box. i got one for my 4th birthday and it was the BEST ever gift!! loads of space for trinkets and a pretty twirling ballerina :)
AFM: i have got two very sick girls ATM :(. am starting to get quite worried. Leila has temps that wont go down, and M is basically pooing straight water (sorry for the TMI). this is day three, so i guess if by tomorrow there is no improvement (on the basis that a virus is generally 3-5 days) then i might book them in to the GP? argh! i find it hard as they are rarely unwell...
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MD - I got some playdough and K picked some glittery barbie like doll which she is sure the party girl will love. However it only cost $5 (the wonders of KMart) so I will head to one of the nicer shops in town and pick some hairclips or something. Thank you for reminding me, I'd forgotten about the extras! I also sent DH and K off to get a card and remembered in the shower last night that it never appeared so I'll have to get one of them too.
Cass - oh dear, poor little thing (and mummy having to deal with it). I'd be calling the doctor today to make an appointment for tomorrow - it always takes us ages to get in to our doctor though.
On a plus for me, I've got someone starting tomorrow to help me out at work - he can do the site visits 3 days a week so I can catch up on some paperwork (fun oh fun - kind of prefer being out onsite actually, not a fan of my massive to do list though)
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I second the ballerina jewelry box - I just dug mine out of storage from when I was a kid and gave it to Amelia - she loves it!
Cass, if M is on Day 3 of water bum then I would be booking her into the doctor because there is quite a risk of dehydration there, especially if she is feeling to yuck to be drinking enough. She might need something to slow things down.
Cally, I am sure your DH will appreciate the assistant - now you won't come home smelling like on-site :)
MD, well done on the credit :)
I would like this baby to come out now. Sick of hobbling around like a 90 year old!
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ha ha - i am hobbling around like an 80yr old Arte - but i'm due 9 days after you, so over the next week or so i'll expect my hobbling age to increase accordingly!! i took DD to a playschool concert yesterday and sat on the floor for an hour with her sitting on my "knee" which was really her just sitting on my belly... i could hardly walk at all by last night i was so crippled!!
MD - yes, i caught up with Queenie a couple of times, but that was a couple of years back now... i see on Facebook that she had a second little girl a couple of months ago.
cass - i would definitely be taking the kids to the dr - mine have never had the runs for that long... maybe ask for a stool sample too? just so that if it doesn't clear up by itself then at least you already have some tests underway...
cally - what type of engineer are you again? environmental? i'm sorry, i know i knew once upon a time!! i went back to work briefly (only 7 months!) between DD and DS, but then left to go on maternity leave again, and ended up moving back to Perth before my second maternity leave was up. i never found a new job here because the drama in our life when we arrived, but i think by the time this next baby is 6 months old i'll definitely feel a need to return to work... i was a project engineer in Oil & Gas (Mechanical background), and have totally lost all confidence in myself as an employee though... i have no idea who would employ me, or for what role - i can't even remember any of the details of the project i was working on in my last role!! at least i'm in the right city to get work easily - and i can call in some favours from the people i used to work for when i was a bright budding graduate engineer over here (they don't need to know i haven't really learnt anything new since back then!!)...
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Ella - I'm civil, doing project management at the moment - all sewage related. Used to do structural design, got a bit bored of that. I'm sure everything would come rushing back when you walked into an office!
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Happy birthday MD and Happy birthday Little Miss M!!! I hope you both have a wonderful day!
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wow! cally & ella you girls sound so smart!!! what awesome careers. yes it does sound like you are in the right location for it ella :)
arte- any signs of bub? i am so stalking you LOL can't wait to see a BA, it's just so exciting for us 'no more babies' girls.
for girly girls- what about one of those heads with the hair on it that you can brush and plait etc. I've heard they are a real hit with girly girls. i have the opposite sort of things going on here though so I'm probably not the best person to give advice on this. my boys are so boy boys- all i hear about is kreo transformers at the moment? wt?
i am still feeling sick. luckily i have dad coming up today to give me a bit of a hand, but I'm thinking i'll have to make a double gp appointment for tomorrow for J and myself to get us both checked over.
the good news is that dh is really enjoying his new job. he has been working saturdays to give us the extra $ that we need, but he's really happy with the day to day of the job and finds it much less stressful and slower paced than running the business. i think it was the best move ever!!!
i got a letter from my old school asking if i would go back for next year sas they currently have an enrolment of 490 year 7s for 2012. for anyone not in the know, that is HUGE numbers- more than 20 classes of just year 7s. i am definitely not ready to return yet though as i would have no one to look after the boys. they'll just have to wait! lol
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:happybirthday: Happy Birthday MD!!! :happybirthday:
G: that is pretty cool though that they still want you! a bit of a confident boost i reckon! when were you thinking of going back to work? when J is at kinder? I am really torn about starting any full on work...TBH i quite like being at home :) i just wish the money flow was brighter lol.
Arte: this is what i am thinking too. her runny bum has gone too long. that said she is feeding and eating and playing well, but yeah, the nappies are totally toxic :vomit:
Ella: i second Cally, that it will kinda be like riding a bike...all those skills will come back in a flash and it will feel like you never left within a fortnight...well, that's what i am hoping for if/when i get back into the public service lol.
Oz: thanks babe! the girls seem to be improving a bit today, so :crossfingers: that we can have a happy birthday for Marta!
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Happy Birthday to MD and Marta!!
Ginger, OMG that is a massive amount of students! I first thought that the 490 was the entire school! Far out, I can't even imagine how many kids are in the whole school then.
Glad that your DH is enjoying the new job. Must be nice just showing up, doing his bit and going home again without having to worry about the extras that go with being self employed.
Ella, good on you for still sitting on the floor! I tried lying down on the floor to stretch my back a few weeks ago and spent the next 20 minutes trying to get back up - my tailbone hurt too much to roll onto my side.
Those only-a-head barbie doll things freak me out!! What a creepy toy! We have one at toy library and I hope A never wants to get it out lol. Ginger, is L into construction sets? W just can't get enough of the electronics set we got from Toy Library - I can't believe how much time he is spending on it. They have a whole range of things at toy library so we are going to try out the magnetic things, k'nex etc and find the best one for Christmas.
No sign of baby. I want to have a baby!! Instead I have got a stupid essay on Alzheimer's Disease to get though :(
Baking birthday cakes today. W was terribly disappointed that A still can't talk even though she is two - he kept saying "I should be able to talk to her now that she is two, but she still can't talk!" - I think he was expecting her to suddenly be able to talk to him lol.
ETA, Cass, we posted at the same time - DH had a similar problem to M a few months back and it turned out to be Giadia and he needed antibiotics to kick it, so worth taking her in. Hopefully she is better by Saturday.
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Happy Birthday Marta! and Belated birthday wishes to Logan and Amelia!!!
MD, that is a great result! I submitted an essay for PE the other day and she's already posted that there have been fails given! Sure works a treat on lowering the confidence level! I never doubted your academic future at all - you sell yourself short sometimes MD :hug:
H, I'm doing 3 subjects which is a fulltime load and its not been too bad - but then I only have 1 child at home and my other children are older so its not been a drama. Net year I will do 4 but I know I will have to work really hard to maintain it. I reckon if you think it will be too much, drop back to 1 or 2 because you can always pick up an extra later if you feel up for it.
G, how is J today? It sucks trying to get them to take medicine. I used to have to hold A down when he was that age to get him to have it, and it was awful!
Cally that is great you will have the extra hands at work!
Arte, are you actually due yet and gone past it or did you have a bit to go? I can't remember if you ever said an actual date or not? Either way I hope it's not much longer now for you :hug:
I still have the tail end of the flu. My voice is still shot though which I hate. My throat is just so raw feeling atm. But it is on the improve even if it is slow. As I said to MD, I submitted an essay for PE and when she posted within 2 days of it closing that she'd already given Fails it made my heart sink. I think I did OK, but I just know this PE subject will be just as sucky as the last one now. I tried to get an extension for the assignment based on me and 4 kids all being sick and she wouldn't give me one! Then I was talking to someone who lives near me who is also doing this subject and in the last 3 weeks the poor thing has had her father diagnosed with kidney cancer which meant he had a kidney out and she lost her uncle to cancer as well and she couldn't even get an extension from this lecturer! Talk about hard ass! So she told me she just didn't hand it in. So I know she will be one of the fails, but she didn't have to be kwim? So now I am just hoping for a pass!
Little A's has started again for the year. I didn't enrol A again this year because I still don't think he's up for it. I see some of the parents trotting out kids who are only just eligible and OMG some of them are still in nappies! Funny story from Friday night though - I'm L's age group manager and we were waiting for his group to run the 800ms, but we had to wait for the younger groups to run their 200's. It was getting close to 6pm and getting a bit dark and I was standing at the finish line and I could see this kid running across a few lanes and then back into her lane and then back across again (you are meant to stay in your running lane for 200m) and I jokingly said "Far out! I wonder who that kid is running across the lanes' and when she got closer I realised it was MY kid :rofl: It was P and OMG we all burst out laughing when we realised I'd said that about my own kid. It was hilarious.
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Trill, lol about P! That must have been funny. Your PE lecturer sounds like a really hard *****!! What on earth would she consider good enough to give an extension for? And how rude is it to post about fails - in my courses nothing is said, just the number of fails if they release the grade spread. It doesn't benefit anyone to announce it.
Not due until friday, just want her to come out soon because we have the kid's party on Saturday lol. She isn't fitting with my schedule though lol
DH didn't feel like going to work today so he is doing the kindy/activities run and I am supposed to be doing my essay but I really don't feel like it!
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I'm supposed to be doing a maths assignment and I'm having trouble getting into it too so I know the feeling Arte! I reckon she will be born early next week. You've go so much on your plate this week that once you get W's party over with on the weekend you can relax and then she will come.
I reckon it was rude to post about it too, but she did say that she was basically giving us a heads up and that the fails showed how much students were disengaged from their readings. Not that it makes it any better, but these elective subjects suck because you don't get any lectures or topic notes - just get given the readings and the assignments and set on your way. So it's no wonder some students have no clue what they are doing. And I agree about wondering what she would give an exemption for. When this person and I were talking about it we said the same thing. But one the other hand, I got an extension for an assignment purely because I was on prac - that lecturer said she understood the extra workload that prac brings and so long as we could send her a copy of our prac confirmation she was happy to extend it and I got an extra 2 weeks!
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Trill - You have to wonder about some of these lecturers at uni... They promote adult learning, yet on the other hand they treat us like kids. Your friend had such a valid reason, you too. My DH always asks for extensions....but he has a poor reason, he always leaves his essays to the last min!! :wall: Also its so unfair letting it slip that people have failed, how about keeping it private. Must be on a power trip. Anyway, I'm sure you will do fine. Yes 3 units is way too much, therefore I unenrolled from one. I am a bit of a perfectionist (which I think is a bad quality!) and I try to give my all to my study, I just couldnt do it with 3!! I must add I also stress myself out trying to be perfect, wish I could be like DH who pulls all nighters to whip out an essay that will just pass the mark lol. And he is happy with that!!
Ginger - So glad the job has been a good move. :)
Arte - Just in case I dont get back on, I want to wish you all the best for your impending arrival. I hope things go smoothly for you, and I cant wait to hear your good news.
MD - Firstly, Happy birthday!!! What did you do today for your special day? Thankyou, I'm sure if I did put my mind to it I could do 3 units at once...but its not worth it, I stress as it is. 3 is way too much for me, I unenrolled from one. DH actually enrolled me while he was doing his units, I'm sure he thinks I sit around all day long.... I still gotta care for two kids and do the housework, so its just no go atm. That is such a huge pain about the referencing, omg, I would be spitting chips. And also you definately have a promising academic future, keep at it.
Cass - How are the girls now? Sounds horrible! :(
My mum just called, she is taking M for a sleepover on Thurs AND Fri and taking her to the playschool concert....YAY for grandma!! :)
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Thanks everyone for the lovely birthday wishes. :) And lots of squishy birthday hugs for my gorgeous lil birthday buddy Marta.
I've been thoroughly spoiled, with the SCORE of the century - my very own bright pink Etch-a-sketch! LOL I've wanted one of these ever since I was a kid. Also got a kindle which I've wanted since before they even came out in the US. Friends popped around for cake, it was really lovely.
Cally, good to hear you're getting an underling at work :D
Cass, how are the girls today?
Ginger, that's great that a job came looking for you instead of the other way around. FAr out that's about how many kids our school has, all up! I'm sorry you & J are still unwell. Get better soon, ok??!!!!
By the way, that disembodied barbie head toy was the one that had my parents screwing up their noses LOL. Missy E would totally love it. She's got a big tin box full of loads of clippies and anything that sits still for longer than 3 minutes is likely to get their hair done (yes that does include both the dog and the cat LOL).
Arte, I hope you get that Alzheimers essay sorted before bubs arrives. I've forgotten what sort of cake you said you were doing? We're postponing E's party for a couple of weeks because it's just too much for me to deal with psychologically turning 40 AND planning a party in the same week LOL. There has been talk of a jumpy castle which we totally shouldn't be spending our $ on, but the thought has been thunk now so we might even do it.
Trill, that's really rough not getting an extension for illness (for crying out loud). You've got to wonder sometimes what agendas some of these academics have. I can't believe they don't give you any notes or guidance! We're going to try E with Little A's this summer (ours doesn't start for a few more weeks) but the mystery factor is whether she can cope with the social anxiety/shyness factor enough to enjoy it.
Isa, good decision dropping a subject. I'm a bit of perfectionist too, it would be so much easier to care a whole lot less LOL. I hope M has a lovely time with grandma!
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Cass - hope Marta had a wonderful birthday!
Doll head things, I've suggested that as a pressie for Miss K this year. I spend a lot of time sitting on the floor with her doing my hair and her doll's always have a number of hair clips in them.
Trill - that Little A's story sounds like the ad for glasses on TV when the Dad is cheering the race and it's someone else's kid who wins.
Ginger - far out 490 kids in Year 7. DH's school is just over the 700 mark and they stress every year if it will still be over 700 because if it drops below for 2 years in a row they lose a deputy and a number of other staff.
Isa - enjoy the sleepover, Miss K is refusing sleepovers at the moment.
Man my sleep is shot at the moment. I keep waking up super early and then I need an early night because I am so tired which means I wake up early again the next day! Grr. Luckily the site office has a coffee machine and the guys make me a cappuccion when I get there.
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I'm here. I didn't even know it was possible, but I think I have varicose veins on my belly! Amongst all the stretch marks. Delightful!
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Oh Arte :hug: that sounds really uncomfortable. I hope it's not sore?
LOL Cally, I thought that too about the ad. That totally sucks about the sleep too. The kids have had 2 days off school this week (Monday because of a funeral of a teacher who'd passed away and today because of the strike) and OMG the sleep in has been so good! I'm still really drained from being sick and I would hate it if I was waking up too early. You've got a lovely bunch of people to work with if they make you a coffee though!
MD, I saw one of those pink etcha-sketches on Tuesday and I thought OMG how cool are they?! I had one as a kid too and they were so cool. The kindle was a real score too! I think she will be fine at little A's. Alister's problem is that he just wouldn't stay there and do what he is supposed to do. He is too familiar with the grounds as it is the footy ground as well so he just wanders all over the place.
