**WARNING: This post is really boring as I have been ill and not doing much. So only read on if you actually want a bit by bit recount of my life over the past week. It's really not been exciting at all.**
I have been the world’s biggest whinger lately and I am certain everyone is sick of hearing about how exhausted I am and how much my back aches. I was tested and I have low iron and low iron absorption – so I’ve started taking Vitamin C for the absorption and iron tablets for the iron, and eating lots of green leaves and steak. Let’s hope it sorts me out soon.
I have been the world’s biggest whinger lately and I am certain everyone is sick of hearing about how exhausted I am and how much my back aches. I was tested and I have low iron and low iron absorption – so I’ve started taking Vitamin C for the absorption and iron tablets for the iron, and eating lots of green leaves and steak. Let’s hope it sorts me out soon.
I think what brought all of this on is that I’ve not been eating the way I normally would for about the past 3 weeks. I don’t know why I suddenly went off the rails in such a big way – normally it would be a few m&ms here, a bit of banana bread there but never entire days or weeks where I just ate terribly. As a result, I haven’t eaten the same amount of red meat as I normally would. Then about a week ago when I got Jeff I may or may not have started not bothering with dinner if I was too tired – so I think that has made things worse.
The biggest victim in all of this is poor little Jeff! My patience for his jumping and running about like a goon has steadily been on the decline as I’ve become more and more tired, and I keep trying to remind myself that he’s just a little tiny puppy!! He’s such a sweetheart, he just wants to play all the time and it’s extremely cute. But when I am trying to clean poo and wee it’s less cute to find him gnawing on (a) my hand; or (b) the paper towel in my hand. I’ve just bought some stuff to sort out the deck so he can live outside. I thought I could be an inside pet person, but it turns out I really really can’t. I find myself bleaching and mopping all sorts of surfaces twice a day at the moment and I’m certain it is good for neither my sanity nor Jeff’s health. I guess my diagnosis of “borderline OCD” was slightly incorrect – I am fully fledged Obsessive Compulsive it would appear.
Jeff living outside doesn’t mean that I can’t be a good doggy-mummy though. I still plan to play with him all the time and take him with me everywhere! He wore his little car harness thing for the first time yesterday and moaned so much the whole way to where we were going that on the way back I didn’t make him wear it. He had managed to tangle it all up in the seat belt within about 5 seconds of getting in the car. I don’t know how he does it but he can get himself tied in knots quicker than I can blink.
So I’m TOTALLY over my crush. Facebook does wonders for these kinds of things I find – he joined a group called “Speak English or Piss Off”. I’m not at all interested in someone with such bigoted views. As an aside, my cousin (who is ½ Asian!) joined the same group. I find this completely bizarre – given all the times I’ve seen people speak down to my Mum (a crazy little Asian lady) for some unknown reason but treat my Dad (as Aussie as Aussie can be) with the utmost respect, I’ve absolutely no time for anyone who would judge someone based on such a factor. Yet my cousin, who also grew up the child of a mixed-race marriage and who I am sure must have had similar experiences with this behaviour seems completely unaffected by it. Strange. Maybe it’s some sort of weird “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” mentality.
Last night I started teaching my Dad how to use Facebook. He's been asking me for months to show him - I'd been avoiding it as I didn't know if either of us would have the patience. He picked it up well though, I was really impressed!! He said he just wants to be friends with me and my brothers at the moment while he shows himself all the ins and outs of it. I think it confuses him - he doesn't get the whole concept of status updates, he kept asking me who they were directed at. He was very excited to see Facebook suggested a friend for him that he used to work with - oh the wonders of technology!!
Today I had my hair done, I got 1/2 a head of highlights after tossing up on whether to go lighter or darker. The length is pretty much the same but she's really fixed the layers - I'm very happy with it overall. Also, I saw my dream man. He was unbelievably attractive and as I walked out his vision followed me - I was very flattered though I am sure he was looking at some very attractive young thing who happened to be in the same line of vision as me. However I shall continue to be flattered and pretend that he was actually watching me. There was one thing that was massive turnoff about him though - I saw him smoking. Oh well. I shall just appreciate his beauty. He was one of those dude that stand outside a hairdresser and try to get people to buy those promotional offers where you pay like $80 upfront and you get all these services for very little money. He was so manly. He looked like that Chris O'Donnell who starred in Batman & Robin.
When I went to the osteopath this morning there was a lady waiting in the reception area for her appointment with another practitioner. She looked quite hippyish, and was reading Who magazine. I was watching her, and her facial expressions became more and more confused and concerned as she turned each page. It was quite hilarious - she obviously doesn't have a Who addict wherever she works like we do in my workplace, or she'd realise that every issue is full of the same nonsense.
Finally, a MASSIVE congratulations to my two favourite 18 year olds, my brother Grant and his girlfriend Minna. They recently got their HSC results back and Grant got a tiny 97.2 and Minna got a measly 99.3. I am so unbelievably happy for and proud of both of you - you worked so hard and deserved the fantastic results you've achieved!!
- B xxx
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