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Oh no MD! The whole school holidays! And whispers of a posting? Is that him gone long term or an everyone moves scenario? Is there any chance of him changing jobs? That is hard :( I can imagine how you feel - there is a very high chance that DH will be going to CANADA later in the year.
Canada sounds awesome - for a holiday, with skiing and hot chocolates. Not so much if my DH was going and I got to stay home being mum......
MD - Those swimmers sound hilarious! Not liking the sound of another posting and really not a fan of a trip over the school holidays! And my sleeping has improved - this morning I woke at 7:20!! DH had been gone for a while and DD was just sitting at the table colouring in. Awesome. Now just need the cold that has been here a FORTNIGHT to go. Ridiculous. Haven't been able to exercise due to Achilles issues though, so think the weight is creeping up again (damn those chocolate hot cross buns)
Hello my gorgeous gals!
MD: whaaattt??? going to be GONE ALL SCHOOL HOLIDAYS??? NO!!! if you feel you need a holiday you can all come and stay at our house of chaos :)
Cally: you've been sick for 2 weeks? dude, that is so not fun. broth! you need broth!!
Arte: ah Canada. definitely one of those moments where you have to put your foot down and demand a family trip. i dream of that place. when i visited Meow from on here in seattle I waved at canada as the ferry chugged past....
AFM: well, i *might* have an interview the tuesday after easter for a dream job!!!!!! I have one more practical exam thingo to do (it actually seems like fun) and then hopefully they will call me up and tell me to come on in :D i am stoked...i am hoping that they have flexible work arrangements though...they advertised as FT, but obviously I am not able to do that. eeeepp! really didnt think I was going to get anywhere with it lol. so exciting lol!
Cass, I am sure that they will be so thrilled to have your awesomeness working for them that they will be flexible about the hours/work from home stuff! Good luck xx
Canada. I don't think we can afford a family holiday and tbh, dragging 3 small kids on that length of plane ride probably isn't a holiday anyway but it still sucks I don't get to go lol. Part of me keeps thinking if only they would pay out the business class airfare straight to us, I could probably get all of us over there for not much more...
Well, we ended up not getting the beach house. After stuffing us around for a couple of weeks, the bank finally had the loan approved but decided they wanted a deposit of 20% instead of the 5% we were expecting and had been told (classified as a lifestyle property). It seems you can't pull an extra $25k from your bum so we had to let it go. I am not particularly worried about it. It was a great house but there will be others. I guess we will have to save a deposit like normal people - the last 4 properties we have bought we have never needed a saved deposit.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Looking forward to easter - kids are getting ratty and I think they could really use the break and some fun.
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Bummer Arte.
No real plans for Easter. It's looking like nice weather here (low 20's) so I'm hoping to get into the garden and do some planting. Might have to hit the garden shops on one of my lunch breaks this week. It will probably be fairly crazy with tourists, particulary because Easter is so early and we've still got good weather so I don't think we'll be spending much time in town, just doing beach visits and bike rides.
Miss K spent the night with MIL last night - I slept in to 7:50!! Seems like my sleeping seems to be on the mend. But I did have AF this week, 5 days of headache, 1.5 days off work. Not impressed. Now that DH is 'snipped' I'm off the pill so hopefully I don't get headaches like that again.
Cass - woohoo on the interview!!
Yay for being off the pill Cally. I hope it ends the headaches for you.
Still no luck getting DH to get the snip. He is agreeable enough but never actually gets around to doing anything about it. I might just ask about getting my tubes tied. I know it is a bigger deal for woman but at least it would be done. I am definitely not having any more babies.
Can you make the appt for him Arte? Would that make it happen do you think?
We have a mod in the group again! Congrats Cass :)
Cally, I suspect it is more the horror stories of recovery times. The mill is about to put in his upgrade so he doesn't really have time to be sitting around with achey balls lol.
Arte: bummer on the no-go beach house :( that's a bit rich that they changed their minds about the deposit requirements. blergh.
Cally: got to feel good that the pill is no longer needed...the side-effects sounded absolutely horrendous. did your DH find getting the snip straightforward and easy enough?
AFM: yep. little ol' me is a mod now :D i figure i am on here all the time and have rattled around the forums long enough so felt that i should pull my weight around here ('cause they are the only weights that i will ever go near hahahaha).
not so great news is that i am sick sick sick :( got a lurgy and boy it is knocking me about.
Ok, well (in true DH's employer style) it now looks like he "probably" won't be away over the hols... The posting thing though - who knows? It raises the constant spectre of my life being steered off on a tangent at a moment's notice. I'm not sure how much longer I'm prepared to live with that kind of uncertainty hanging over me. The problem is that the only alternatives that are within my control involve breaking up my marriage or my family ( = not very palatable). To add insult to injury, on Sat DH spent the day working at an event (which we weren't invited to) which was put on to thank other people & their families for their sacrifices and contributions in a particular overseas place. While I stayed at home and looked after the children. IRONY MUCH??!
Arte - Oh Noes!! Now I can't live vicariously through your beach house! LOL Sheesh it must have been disappointing but it sounds like you're taking it in your stride.
PS - Canada. I'm feeling your pain. Not helped by the knowledge that he's going business class. xxx
Cass - woowee - go you! Get that dream job!! Intrigued in what the practical exam thingo is (wasn't aware you were engaged in a course of learning, thought all the Dr Cass stuff was done?) Anyway, good luck with it all. :)
Cally, your plans for the Easter weekend sound lovely. We need to fill some rather big gaps in our garden - like the gap that runs fully around half the backgarden. LOL. I'm a bit de-motivated now, though, by the threat of a posting (since that's the reason that half the garden was dead and needed to be removed). I hope your headaches resolve, they sound pretty awful - though possibly also related to pillows and not sleeping, etc. Have you ever seen an osteopath?
What??!! ERMAGERD!!! Cass is a mod! Congrats. :D
FWIW my DH had his snip done under a local and was lifting and carrying and packing a couple of days later. Not sure how much of the typical recovery pain is psychological? LOL.
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FARK - Cancel my first sentence. He's now going to be away. Again. All holidays. FML.
Blardy hell MD! that would be beyond infuriating! They just do not consider how many people have families that might be severely affected by things like this.
Arte, that's a real shame about the beach house. Fingers crossed it doesn't take long to save a deposit for an even awesomer one.
Well done Cass! So what's it like on the 'inside'? ;) I will say though that you should have an easier time of it - there just doesn't seem to be anywhere NEAR the angsty nasty rubbish that there was when i was a mod. Either that or I am living under a rock and I miss all the excitement :lol:
hey Cally :)
OMG I'm so under the pump right now it's not funny. Started my third week of prac and I have assignments due and footy season is starting and it's all just getting too much.
Trill, I hope you can use Easter break to catch up on everything. Can you step down from some of your football commitments?
MD, Sucks!! Wish I could drop by and lend a hand. Any cheap airfares to NZ? You are welcome to stay for the holidays :) Is there any chance your DH could change jobs? Does he know how much it affects you?
Cass is a MOD!! Way to go!
DH's snip wasn't particularly easy - one side bled for over 24 hours (major bruising, not pretty!). He ended up with 6 days off work which was more than expected. He was pretty bow legged for a while too (I even mowed the lawn during the recovery period - hadn't done that in 15 years). Is only now feeling completely normal (6 weeks later)
MD - crap. I see a chiropractor every 4 weeks for a click back into position. Have been reading up on migraines and preventative stuff. Taking some extra magnesium, has helped a lot of people.
Had to go down south today where they have a Big W. Got some great bargains, can't believe how excited I was getting to go to a different chain store! Got some hot pink jeans for winter though - will be so cool and trendy.
Cally, I admire you buying hot pink jeans. I see them in shops and i see people wearing them and I think, 'gee, I'd love to wear a pair of jeans like that'. But I know for a fact they would look terrible on me LOL.
Arte, I can give up the football stuff in September :lol: it won't be that bad in a few weeks, it's just that everything is all happening at once that's hard to deal with.
MD, I was going to say the same as Arte, is there any chance he'd consider a new job out of defence? it's just not doing anything for your family at all hun :hug:
Hang in there, Trill, you can do it!!
Arte, I like your suggestion of popping on over for the break! Nice. Probably not so do-able at this point but thanks for reminding me to think outside the square. :hug:
Cally, that sounds awful. AWFUL! Re the migraines - get your glasses and your wisdom teeth checked if you haven't already. I had a few last year, and I think it was a combination of things that set them off & a combination of things that fixed them as well. I took magnesium for a while after that, I think it helped with a few other things (swollen feet, nighttime leg cramps and crabby moods). BTW - awesome work on your Big W finds. I want to get some coloured jeans for E this year.
I'm sorry for all the vents. Really, it's because you ladies have been there with me through the thick and the thin :hug:. So thanks for your words of support. This is one of those situations where most of the solutions are out of my locus of control. And YES. He could get another job. Sadly, I cannot do that for him. If I could it would be done already.
MD: big PHAT belly buddy hugs my friend :hug: that totally sucks. on all fronts....cannot believe the cheek of your DH working on that event while he has also spent so much valuable family time away from his family. TBH i dont know how defense families cope :( it seems to be a very much 100% all or nothing kinda thing (even when not on duty) and I dont know, that doesnt seem to bode well for happy families. I'm guessing that you have asked him to think about life out of defense? Bah, i really feel for you MD; when they get their stubborn, fearful boots on it can be really really hard to achieve any positive changes. my offer still stands: any time that you want company/cheap holiday, pack yourself and the girls up and come on over :D I still have hope to get over your way this year...have been putting it off for too long (and have been too crazy and busy with OS travel and making babies hahahahaha).
Trill: i have to admit, that i do love that the boards are so much more peaceful and calm. i mean, i do miss some of the closeness that BB was a few years ago, but it wasnt worth all the breakdown. and nothing, absolutely nothing is going to bring back lulu and that sucks. she was such a force on here.
I always get exhausted just reading all the commitments you have woman lol! cannot even begin to imagine all that travel that it must entail too (especially the footy??).
Cally: whoop whoop! HOT PINK jeans!! you are a rockstar! for the fashion void person: what kind of tops does one wear with hot pink pants? i see all the fluro colours and love them but yeah, have no styling sense lol.
sheesh, sounds like your DH had a really rough trot! my friend's DH also had a rough time of it too. he told my DH to only see a specialist as it wasnt worth the boy-bit pain lol.
AFM: still really really sick. not how imagined my debut as a mod lol. might have to see the GP as i am frightened that it might be tonsilitis again (yep, even without tonsils pmsl). all my lymphnodes in my neck are up and very very tender to touch, i can barely move my neck :( not to mention the crippling fever. my other worry is that my milk is beginning to drop a bit and poor DD3 is getting really frustrated and is taking to biting and scratching me when she feeds and then just cries. wahhhh! be gone nasty infection and leave me alone wahhhh!