Kat update

gall bladder removed, pain subsided, kat at home, all good!

Work Related

Oh groan..... work....

I guess purely out of my own interests I've been looking at Web 2.0 functions and social networking, in some parts to do with servicing our customers, and in some so I can play the texas hold 'em on facebook! At which I am crap but it's okay cos it's not real money!!!

Anyway through my blog readings, ittoolbox wanderings etc etc I fell across slideshare and some of the great presentations people have put together to sell web 2.0 functionality to their businesses. Find slideshare here....

Back to Monash we traverse!

Kat is in hospital. Her gall bladder is playing up again. These attacks have occurred a few times before and she has been in excruciating pain but after about 24-48 hours the symptoms pass and life resumes as normal. So this time the symptoms didn't pass so quickly. She was going to her GP anyway to get a burn dressed, and after he pushed at her side a few times (and she would have cursed quite profusely if she was the cursing type!) he suggested the hospital... oh yay!

Now we have had a couple of visits to the emergency waiting room, it's been renovated so its cleaner, but still an appalling place to visit, it's full of sick people. It was true to form, we waited some 7 hours, and then I left her there - yes I am that good a sister! but it was midnight... and she insisted...anyway she finally saw a doctor, they plied her with morphine, drew some blood and then went 'gosh there might be something wrong - okay so tests revealed a UTI and several gall stones, one was 1.5cm and in the wrong spot, so it seems a laparoscopic cholecystectomy is in store i.e. keyhole surgery to remove offending gall bladder.

And so the hospital visits recommence!

fingers crossed for Kat.

Father's Day 2007

Happy Father's Day to all who celebrate it today!

Gosh I can't believe it's September already but one good thing is I am hoping to be back playing golf this month, and I suspect next weekend we will endeavour to play. The back is feeling pretty good, only the occasional twinge and I'm really starting to think it's stress related.
Anyway, I am looking forward to traversing some golf links.

Today we are taking Dad out for lunch, just up to the local pub, which he enjoys, and it's easier to get his chair in and out of. We'll eat, maybe lose a few dollars on the pokies, and then mid afternoon take him home, and then Bat, Kat and I are off to the footy. It's the last game of the last round for this AFL season and we are off to watch the battle of the wooden spooners, Melbourne v Carlton. It's been a couple of years since I've been to the footy. Bat has membership to Melbourne but I am ambivalent about it. Though I do enjoy it when I go. Should be fun!

We have been re-jigging the IT room. Bat has finished her ticket job and as of next week will be working from home doing inbound calls. So she has a new desk, her own cable connection and phone line, and lots of new office goodies. I got in on the act and bought myself a new chair on ebay. I love ebay!!! We still have a little tidying to do and I think I need another filing cabinet but we will sort it out. I guess on the theme of spring cleaning I should clear out some clothes too, and maybe dust, and the garage could sure do with a clean out! I've been pretty lazy with my back having been bad for about 3 months now. Soon, perhaps! LOL

Catch ya!

It's a small world afterall...

OK remembering I can blog from my email makes keeping this blog stuff
more frequent much easier. I may also use this to vent about work...
Remembering of course that my fave blogger Heather (Dooce) appeared to
have lost her job by venting about work, I shall of course be very
careful about what i say! And yes I know some grammatical errors were
displayed in the making of this paragraph!

So, as far as this entry's title re the small world, it sorta has some
background. I'm adopted, I've known since I can remember that I was
adopted, and I have had the great fortune of being adopted by the most
loving, caring, amazing parents in the world. And having fantastic,
loving siblings. I was adopted between two natural children! As an aside
I know quite a few adoptees and most (not all) don't appear to be as
lucky as I am. Maybe that's in part from a deep seeded sense of loss but
that's another discussion.

Anyway in my 20s, when searching for my self, as well do, I decided to
start the search for my natural mother (after a long discussion with my
adoptive mother from now on referred to as Mum as that is who she is).
In that search I discovered a half sister and we eventually met. 1/2
sis, who I shall refer to as H, and I met once, spoke a few times and
then lost contact. I tried to call her and wrote a letter but she must
have moved and I figured when she was ready she could find me. She may
have done but due to my Dad's illness may have got a bum steer.

So over the last few years I've been using all the technological
resources I have available to me to find her i.e. I've been trawling
social networking sites and address books on the Net to no avail. I
found a link to her via an on-line store and sent an email to them
asking them to forward on my details but don't know if that ever
happened.

H has kids, and I finally realized that perhaps I should be looking for
them as I can remember their quite distinctive names and finally I think
I found them on one of the more popular sites and have sent a contact
request through, so now I wait.

But still I'm impressed with how technology makes things like this that
little easier, cos in other times, lost contact often meant lost for
ever!

Listening to: Ministry of Sound Classics 2006
Watched: Oz Idol and Kath & Kim
Reading: currently catching up on Fuffy fanfic and by the bed is the 7
effective habits LOL

seeya, Lyn

Another Saturday Night...

Bat's at work, I'm on the Net, Bonnie's chewing something somewhere...

I overheard a guy at work telling someone about this blog called
"Overheard in Melbourne"
http://community.livejournal.com/overheardinmelb - a site where you can
record snippets of convos you have heard whilst travelling around this
fair city. It's not Shakespeare but some are quite amusing.

Still I prefer Dooce, she's a habit I can't break :)

Later

Musica Eclectica

It's been an interesting year for me music wise. I have varied tastes and can listen to just about anything with the exception being Billy Joel, i just can't do that!

Anyway so have been to a bit more live music this year, particularly as finances are a little better and apart from the year's subscription to see the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and just having seen it's most recent Shostakovich concert, this year I have also seen Pink, The Cure and, in October, we are seeing the Indigo Girls.

My current track listings include Amy Winehouse, UNKLE, Juno Reactor and Shirley Bassey so I sure do mix it up.

I guess the only thing missing is the new Prince album, which I have heard tell is excellent.

Bat is looking at another job which may entail working from home so we are looking at changing the layout of the IT room (God I love having an IT room LOL). We are looking at getting a new desk via ebay, she wants a corner shaped desk which I guess will take up a bit of space.

I'm still looking to buy a new PC but I am pretty happy with the ubuntu operated laptop as the moment. I'm sure not missing out on doing anything I used to.

Bonnie is 10 months old, getting bigger, tries to chase after cars when I walk her and is firmly entrenched in our lives.

Finally my back is coming good. It first went in the first week of June and here it is in August and it still twinges on me. I probably should have taken more time off work and let it recover properly. Still might! :-)

Until next time

playing around and trying to collate down to 1 blog

I moved stuff to windows livespaces or whatever its called a last year
sometime and then my mate at work signed up with blogger so thought i
should endeavour this insanity again.

At least I can do this via email so I suppose I could do this from just
about anywhere!

I regularly read dooce's blog, she makes me laugh out loud on a regular
basis and I love the photos that she takes as well... find her here
www.dooce.com.

so see me trying to import posts from last year at some stage

cheers