Work, Work, and no time for anything but Work....

Damn!  Putting in some BIG days at the moment!  And for the first time in 9 yrs (yep since I started driving in the fert spreaders!) I can say my back is not making me want to quit, or wonder how I'm going to do another few years of it!!!  WOOTWOOT!!!  Ladies and Germs, we have a winner!!!  Turmeric stopped me chucking in my job about 5 yrs ago, but adding Calcium and Magnesium to the mix and I can actually say I ENJOY my job again!!!!  of course the back and shoulders, and neck, and every other bit around all that still gets tight and there is an ever present graunching and still lots of stretching and pulling faces BUT when I compare it to how it used to be, I'm in heaven!!!!

Marcus has been thrown in the deep end with helping cook dinners etc lately and has learned the hard way that he is expected to actually do some stuff around the house when I'm busy working my ass off.... when his wee internet addiction got in the way of him doing things he needed to do BEFORE sitting on his ass, well, he lost his internet privileges!  Simple!  Took me a while to figure out how to enforce that, but eventually it twigged in my tired overworked brain that all I needed to do was unplug the modem and take it to work with me BWAHAHAHA.  Took him 5 days to lift his game and earn it back and he's had it back 2 days and hasn't dropped the ball yet, lets see what he's like next week when he gets home from his dads!

Thank God for long weekends is all I can say, hanging out for a break and altho one extra day off isn't going to cut the mustard it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick and 2 in a row (Anniversary Weekend is straight after Labour Weekend for us!) should get me thru to the Xmas/New Years break a tad easier :)  Cannot believe it's nearly Christmas already!  Holy crap time has sped up so much even young school kids are remarking on it, so it's not just the age thing.  Blink and it's gone, a month, a year, a life!  Treasure those moments people!

Right, one day to go before 3 blissful days off work, and I need to hit the sack.  Sweet dreams everyone out there that I hardly talk to anymore, still think of more than just a few of you often :(

Let's Face It...

I will NEVER be a domestic Goddess *sigh*

Marcus has had half a dozen safety pins holding his school uniform shorts together for months now, somehow he split the seam down the outside of his leg and well, I ain't no domestic goddess, so safety pins it was!!!  But school holidays have rolled around (and done and dusted, back at school tomorrow) so I thought I'd better do that "mum thing" and sew them up again.  Do you know what a pain in the ass it is to have "working hands" trying to sew???  How many times one of the cracks or rough bits on a finger grabbed the cotton and pulled it right out of the needle?!  Good Lord, next time it might be easier to just fork out for some new shorts!!!  But it's a small victory for this chick, cause I freaking well did it, and it doesn't look toooooooooooooo bad and you can admire how good it looks cause I only had white cotton in that little supermarket sewing kit I had and they are charcoal shorts ROFLMAO, but hey, the stitches are on the inside you can't see it's white from the outside LOL.

Sorry Marcus, life's a bitch and you got me for a mother LMAO, you and I must have both been BAD in a past life LOL.

Breathing a Sigh of Relief...

Cause, 1, it's the weekend!!!!  It's been a right royal cock of a month gone to be honest, I'm exhausted! 

And 2, Leo is A-OK... He only had one disprin this morning and barked and "bounced" when I got home tonight, apart from a straight tail and a bit more of a stiff limp than the old boy had before, he was smiling again and happy :)  And he hasn't needed another disprin tonight!  YAY!

One SUPER lucky old man!!!!  Not his time yet :)

Tomorrow the weather is supposed to suck big time and we are taking a ride to Kaikoura to meet up with some of the Canterbury BACA crew and others who are "celebrating" (seems completely the wrong word, but brain dead) the death of their Prez "Flint" a year ago.  Flint's ashes were put to sea just south of Kaikoura by one of the tunnels I believe, so they are coming up to lunch in Kaikoura and then do something there with/for Flint on the way home.

Will be nice to see them again no matter what the weather, they are a bloody awesome group of people.

Lucky Leo...

What an incredibly lucky dog he is!  He made his way upstairs last night and had a relatively peaceful night.  Another couple of disprin under his belt in the morning and he made his way back down the stairs OK, peed and pooped outside and looks bloody great considering!

A bit sore when I got home tonight as it was over 12 hours after his morning painkillers, but the devils claw has kicked in now from dinner dosing and he's upstairs again (no keeping him away from mum!) and resting on his bed (and snoring his old man snore he's developed cause he sleeps so deeply as an old fella LOL)

You can see a bit of the pain in his eyes, but hell, considering he was bowled, rolled and assholed, he looks bloody good eh?!  Not a sign of anything wrong until you see his straight tail and a missing claw (and a limp)