The Calm Before The Storm

Wow I cannot believe how long it has been since I have posted on here...

Well to bring you up to speed on what has gone on the last 7-8 months, a lot has happened. To begin it is moving time again. I fly back to good old cold Melbourne tomorrow morning with my still gorgeous little girl Sasha. Hmm what grants the move this time?? No it isn't a new posting for the good old Navy, due to me now having no involvement with the Navy as Ben and I separated close to three months ago. But enough about the dreary stuff lets get to the good stuff - The fact I get to see my mummy again!!! I am really looking forward to seeing her again I have missed her so much. It will also be good to see all the old faces again of the rest of my family and friends.

The one thing I am hating about this move is that I am having to leave my best friend behind. She has been my rock for so long and I am not sure how I am going to cope without seeing her face everyday. Living with her over the past 4 months has been amazing, apart from not really having much food in the house due to both of us not getting much work. We have become so close over the last year and I am so grateful I have managed to find my one true soul mate and that is JESS. Partying and shopping and clubbing are just some of the things I am going to miss with her. Just listening to the sweet sound of fabulous tunes and singing and dancing till our hearts content. We know each other so well and tomorrow is going to be the hardest day of my life having to say goodbye. I am pretty sure Noah needs to have his Arc built before the sun rises tomorrow or there will be no survivors due to the forecast rain fall.

So look out Perth and Melbourne you are in for some stormy weather.
Xx

Double standards

Why do guys never do the dishes? No I am not taking about every guy out there but there is a lot of them who don't do the dishes.. Or any housework.
I mean seriously what is so hard about washing a few dishes? We do it all the time, we cook then clean up they don't help they just say when they cook they will clean up after themselves but when they actually do cook something they don't clean up. When asked why they say that they cooked... Like that is an excuse not to do the dishes. Does anyone else have this happening to them on a continuous basis?

I know I am ranting and raving once again but I have to take my frustration out somewhere, on here seems like the safest option. I am sick of fighting with him over this and figured I need to get this out of my head before I go all atomic bomb on his ass.

On a brighter note Sasha will be turning 1 in 3 weeks. I can't believe I have had her for almost a year already. She has grown so much since then and I am proud of the behavioral developments she has accomplished.

Beach anyone?

Anyone fancy a trip to the beach?
A month or so ago I took a trip to the beach with some friends and Sasha (my puppy). She was alright at the start until the waves started coming then it looked like I had gone 10 rounds with a tiger. I had scratches running down my entire abdomen (starting at the top down to the bottom... Kinda looked like I had hell bad stretch marks covering my stomach). I had scratches to the top of my chest, down the length of my arms, behind my shoulder and on the tops of my thighs down to my knees. Yep you guessed it I looked pretty bad.
After that traumatic event I didn't take her to the beach again. That was until I took her for a walk with a mate the other day and ended up heading towards the beach, I thought I would give it another try (hell I wasn't dressed to go in the water so it didn't matter). We were walking along the sand and I just inched closer to the water. She ran to it, chasing the waves and loving it so much. I am so glad she did too because that means I am able to go to the beach more often as I won't be completely alone :).

Veggies anyone??

Over the past month or so I have been building a vegie box. And yes I said Building. I sanded all the treated pine down so that I didn't get splinters or anything and so it was easier to paint (which I also did).I then screwed all the sides together and put tarp down at the bottom so that all the soil wasn't over the brick pavers outside. I was going to paint it black with bright colours swirled through it but decided that I would just stick to black. The painting was the part that took me the longest as I had to do one side at a time as I couldn't have it laid out properly as sasha would go and investigate and get paint all over herself. In the end she did investigate and decided she would sleep in it (wish I got a photo of that). Once it was all painted I placed it in the desired spot outside and left it for a couple of weeks because I needed to buy soil and vegies. Which I did thursday. I bought 5 big bags of soil and that only filled it half way, so had to wait until today till I could go and buy another 5 bags. Now it is all finished and all my vegies and fruit are planted :) Oh I also had to go out and buy a wooden play pen to put around it because Sasha decided it would be awesome to dig. Lucky she decided that when there was only half the soil in there and no vegies otherwise she would be in big trouble. 

My built Vegie Box (no soil).

Sasha Slinking away after I caught her digging.

Vegie Box Half filled.

Finished Vegie Box.

Finshed Vegie Box with playpen to stop Sasha's Mischievous escapades.

Talented Much

I decided I would experiment. So I peeled the shell off a raw egg. Here are the before and after photos.

Here is the egg before

Here is the egg after I peeled it.

Aren't I so talented. I am guessing you are all wondering how I did it without the egg being boiled??

Well You will just have to wait for my next blog post to find out. hahahahaha

Today's society

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH TODAY'S SOCIETY??? Really I want to know. 

You are probably wondering why I want to know this, actually when I think about it I don't think you are. Everyone can see that today's society has gone to shit (excuse the language). There are more homeless people today than there was 10 years ago, victims of crime are on the rise, alcohol and drug use is becoming too common and too easy to obtain and obesity is just getting out of hand. These are just a few things that are nationally recognised there are more. There are even some that people may seem as minor, but minor situations or problems can and most likely will escalate. For example children's mannerism's have been thrown out the door, their language is atrocious and respect is just not even factored in. What is going on??

I really should actually tell you what got me on this rant, so here goes....

As you may very well know I work in a child care centre, and I see children come and go everyday. Each child is different but they all learn from their parents and I was really traumatised by a conversation I had with one of the 3-4 year old boys. For this recollection I am going to call him X (as I cannot tell you his name).

We were outside on a beautiful sunny afternoon. I was sitting on the edge of the sandpit with a group of children digging a tunnel through the sand. At one point during this time sand was flicked up onto my shoe. I looked at the children and said "Oh no, my shoe is broken and sand is getting in."

X looked up at me and said "Don't worry when I grow up I may be able to to fix it."

I looked at him and asked "Why when you grow up? what are you going to be?"

X replied " Because I will be a Bloker."

One of the 5 year old girls sitting next to me asked X "What's a Bloker?"

X told her "It's a grown up that smokes."

I was shoked. So I asked him "Why do you want to be (as he put it) a Bloker?"

"Because I want to smoke and when I am a grown up I am going to smoke." X replied.

I was completely flabbergasted that a 4 year old boy wanted to smoke. So I told him that it smoking was bad for you and would make you sick.

He just looked at me and told me "But Jason smokes."

I asked him who Jason was, turns out it was one of his dads.

I really didn't know what to tell this kid, I was completely distressed by this.

Seriously what are parents teaching their children? Obviously not much. I come to work everyday and children have no manners, are constantly swearing, using blocks as guns, pretending they have beer in their cups when playing in the home corner and wanting to smoke.

I really want to know what has happened to people. Parents should be teaching their children wrong from right and setting a good example after all you are a role model to your children. Children copy what they see and hear this is how they learn, and if parents aren't going to filter what they say or do in front of their children they really shouldn't have children, especially if they aren't talking to their children and explaining that what they heard was naughty and mummy and daddy shouldn't say or do those things etc, etc. This only makes the teacher's job more complicated, because not only do we have to teach them the basic literacy and numeracy skills we also have to teach them basic mannerisms and behaviour.

I am so sorry now I am just ranting on (arghhh I am being my sister hahah).

Anyway I hope that you take on board what you have read here today and encourage others to help teach our children :)

Battered and Bruised

3 days ago Sasha went in for a routine operation (De-sex). She came home really groggy as she was still coming off of the anesthetic. So we put a soft blanket down for her and she stayed there most of the night, resting and recovering.

The next day we woke to the bounding happy little Sasha we all know and love. She was very good that day playing nicely and walking around properly. It was such a relief to see her up and about so quickly. Usually when we get up of a morning Sasha (as most puppies) would get up and follow you around, check out what your doing and try to eat your food.

But Thursday when we woke up she wasn't doing any of these things. She just laid on the bed and watched us. The first thing I thought was that she is acting weird. But I just let it pass as I had to go to work. That night she just laid on her bed and didn't move around much. I was still thinking this is not normal.

Friday morning we got up really early for Ben to be at work for Duty muster, we were there for about an hour. When we came home she didn't come to the garage door like usual to greet us and when I picked her up to cuddle her I noticed that around her stitches was really red and raised. So I rushed her down to the vet because that just isn't supposed to happen. The vet had a quick look and said she just had a reaction and put an Elizabethan collar on her so she couldn't lick them anymore. About 2 hours later we noticed that the redness had gotten worse and the swelling had increased, So we rushed her down to the vet again this time the vet took a while with her and came out with a handful of medication. He said she has had a bad reaction to the stitches and gave us Antibiotics and Anti-inflammatory tablets to help the wound go down and heal properly.

I went out shopping with a friend for a friends birthday after that for a couple of hours and on the way home I get a call from Ben asking me where I was because Sasha's wound was weeping a Brownish liquid. So I rush home to pick them up and take them down to the vets for a third time that day. We were there for an hour and a half almost 2 hours. The vet said it was pussy which meant infection. He then took her out the back to open her up again to check the stitching on the inside. He came back out later saying he took out most of the stitches and out dressing on it. Now we have to go to the vets daily for check ups on it. She is still on antibiotics and anti-inflammatory tablets and is really not well.

Saturday we took her in for her check up to see how her wound is healing. And it turns out she had a reaction to the adhesive on the dressing they put over her injury friday night. So they had to take that off (and it hurt her, I heard her yelp it was really bad). They then had use something without adhesive to cover her wound, which was a non-adhesive bandage with some gauze underneath. Since her dressing has been changed she has been a lot happier and is back to her usual self. SHE is NOW able to WALK PROPERLY again Yay.

Sasha on Tuesday when we first

brought her home after surgery.

Sasha on Friday with her Elizabethan collar.

(after round 1 at the vets).

Sasha after her visit to the vet on Saturday.