Anaphylaxis to Alice Cooper

As the title indicates, my week has been from one extreme to the other.

Monday, severe mondaitis...

Tuesday came an anaphylatic reaction that saw me happy and laughing with the kids one minute to screaming and trying to scratch my own eyes out the next!

I had come home after work with a headache and a sore neck, so i pulled out a wheat heat pack from where it had been tucked away in a drawer. I heated it up, use it on my neck and all was fine. As my neck felt better I rolled onto my side and rested the side of my face on the heat... big mistake... HUGE!! Within seconds my eyes were burning and itching so badly that I would have greatfully scratched them from my head. Within a minute they were so swollen they were closed shut!

Wednesday saw me having to take a day off work because my eyes were still extremely swollen and sore. Lets just say phenergan is heaven... I had thursday off as a rostered day and today, Friday is my usual day off. Tonight, guess where I am going!? (doh, the title gives it away a little, huh!?)... Yep... I am going to see Alice Cooper... Not only am I going to the concert...I have been told that I should be able to meet him and hang out in the green room with him before and after the show!

I am so greatful that I am actually going to be able to see him!!!
My eyes are still sore from being so swollen, though they are not druggie red anymore and i can see.... yippppeee!

I no doubt will be back over the weekend with photos.... Will be thinking of you Cath. If only you didnt live so far away!

out of hidden places.....

~crawling out of the little place that I seem to have been hiding, I pick up a pen and scrawl in my girly hand~

Dear Diary... (aka Lyn)
I know it has been forever and a day since the last time I wrote here, approximately 14 days to be exact... though who is counting? Oh right, you are.. hahaha.
I thought I best stop by and let you know that this girl still has a pulse and breath. Life is slowing down and I am more or less finding that I can keep up now with little more than a canter. I do hope though with the weeks to come, that not only will we have signed and sealed on the deal with our new home but that I will also be keeping in better touch, keeping better hours and doing all this, through a less stressed mind due to a surgery change.
I have been working incredibly rediculous hours, sometimes 12 hour shifts, finding me dragging myself through the door here well after dark and after my babies are in bed..(or meant to be). Its not the life I want, for either the children or Matt and I. What is life worth if we only seem to live to work? Especially when the renumeration that is seen is not worth the sacrifices made?

So... Hopefully next time I put pen to paper (figuratively speaking), I shall have news of a new job, new hours, better wages and the starts of a better life for us all.

I hope that all my friends are well, smiling and travelling each day through laughter and love... I hope they know how much I miss them all.
Well... That is all from me now Diary dearest... I have my shoes on and am ready to go visit my newest neighbour, Miriam. (Finally they are in.)

Much Love
xxx

wrong wrong wrong..SOOOOOO NOT COOL!

I thought saving the planet, taking recyclable bags to the supermarket with you or purchasing environmentally friendly shopping bags at the store were all the go these days.. you know.. the right thing to do...

But thing i did not realise was, that some stores seem to see this as their way of making a quick buck.... thus where this vent begins.

I had a zillion things to do today, on my day off. (like usual) Sully has yet to be equipped with my enviro-bags and being in a hurry to get the kids to school and Kiera & I to the senior campus to organise her classes for next year, i totally forgot to chuck the enviro bags in... While i dont like to leave home without them, i know that coles will supply the yucky bad for the environment plastic bags (which i put in with the enviro-bags and use over and over til they fall appart) so half way up the road i thought that today, i would just go with the plastic option. I knew that i had to go to Aldi first so i thought, yep, i will just buy a plastic bag. Afterall, i have seen them advertised at the check out for 15c each. Not too bad i guess in a pinch.
Armed with all the things i wanted in the supermarket que i reached down and pulled out a plastic bag from the shelf... a fully biodegradable, corn starch made bag that will break down over a week in the compost. Awesome! I am not being so bad to the enviroment after all... right!? Right!
So... why is it that when i check out the receipt, I discover that my "saving the planet, you beaut, break down in a week" bag cost me 79c ...

SO NOT COOL!

It is a bag...big deal!!!! Deal with it hear you say.... normally i would, though today i just decided that i would question the dude who served me. There was an option when i picked up the bag, of either plastic bag for 15c or cooler bag for $1 (something). Do the math... that is 64c difference than what the tag said.

The dude is quick to inform me that i chose an environment safe bag... not a plastic bag.. what the!? The plastic bags were tucked at the back of the enviro bags.. since when did saving the earth become the more expensive option!?
I thought the whole idea of envrio friendly ones was to help people make the right choice! People are not going to help the enviroment if they have to pay so much more for the option!

and then there was.... SULLY

She is big and blue... and a Holden captiva LX to be exact.... and she is mine.... or... i should say ours..... though, ofcourse, that means... mine...mine mine.... all mine.... hahaha (looking to make sure Matt is not around when i call her MINE)...

Matt turned up at work this evening while i was seeing a patient out and thankfully, the patient remained calm and laughed at my excitement when i started to scream excitedly and jump up and down and continue to hug the stuffing out of Matt. I have wanted to get a car for a LONG time now that would suit a family with Teens with boyfriends/girlfriends... and now i have her... she seats 7... has all the add on options, beautiful 20 inch rims and low profile tyres and is so purdy!!

Cath has heard all about her... we even drove by Ballan Holden at Werribee to try and sneak a peek while she was down visiting, though sadly, we could not see her... and since it was 7.40pm by the time i met her away of the dealership, it was too dark to take a photo... though i promise... i will share piccies soon...