Hey Gem - I don't think it's just you, re Melb Airport. It's not a very organised airport, from what I saw when I landed and left! It's complete chaos I reckon.
Hayden - Yeah I bet those cornflakes tasted good.. do you not get cornflakes over there, or is it just the Skippy brand?
We're all good here... Liam had his cross country on Wednesday and came fifth, he did brilliant! I think he was quite proud of that cos he practiced hard for it. Kady's good.. just Kady, talking lots and she's starting to say a few harder words now. She recited the ABC after me a couple weeks ago and that was cool. Still a little ratbag but!
As most of you know, I have my cochlear implant surgery on the 28th June (Ashley's birthday).. which isn't too far away. I've signed the consent form and now it's onto choosing which model is better for me - have two to choose from, plus colours. I'm vain though.. one's weird looking (has cool colours like red though!) but the other looks more like my usual hearing aid but not so great colour choices. I can say this though, I am definitely not choosing beige or ANY brown colour like my old aids. Boring! Might go for the second choice (that looks like my hearing aid) and just choose black - goes with anything eh? The first choice is a Med-El (looks weird and big) and the other is Nucleus Freedom, if you want to Google them to have a nosey. I have my pre-op appointment on the Wednesday, surgery on the Thursday and hopefully home Friday. Have to go back like the next week for a check-up, then back at 3-4 weeks to have it 'switched on' and yeah back and forth for the next few months really. Hopefully it won't hurt too much! Nah, I can handle that.. it's the surgery that's making me nervous. Got to get it over done with anyway so it'll be ok. It'll be at St Georges and I've heard it's nice there so at least that's good haha.
I'm cooking a roast chook for mum and dad here tonight, gonna make a walnut tart to have for pudding too.. yum! Still got a few of those walnuts Rosie gave us so I may as well use them up somehow. Should be nice, hopefully. Kids are off to Pioneer Stadium with Granny today for a swim.
Catch up sometime... Hayden - you don't need to come back when I have my surgery... I think mum was (or has?) gonna tell you, Claire and Ash to all come back here for Kady's birthday, which would be really cool.
Take care!
Dall & kids
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Back to warm Melbourne
i have returned back after a very uneventful flight that took a very long time. i think i am bad luck to melbourne airport though every time i land something goes wrong this time the airbridge would go propley again. the last time the was no traffic directer man to met and plane and the time before the airbrigde also wont fit! tims dad picked us up and droped me home. hayden and i went to southbank for tea. on thursday hayd starts late so meant we could have a sleep in and go out to chadstone together. i took my boots back to the shop and they have just rung me back and said quote 'it is wear and tear' after one month though i dont think they shoud do that so hayden is going in on sunday to get MAD. today we had a sleep in until 11am hehe but sooo good. then went out to victoria gardens to kmart i-kea and the supermarket. taped some curtain backing to the back of our transperent bedroom door and now the bedroom is darker when the lights in the lounge/kitchen are on. at i-kea got the bedside table that mum brought for us and hayden has just finishing puting it together. also got a ligh bulb for marion and andews lamp so the bedroom will be looking good tonight. at the supermarket hayden got adventurous and got some kangaroo steak for tea so tonight we are eating skippy:( after tea we might go out to port melbourne to watch haydens friend ben play soccer. tomorrow wre plan on going out to williamstown to have a look around. and then sunday i am going to the nursing expo with my work. before staring back on monday.
mum and dad have a good time in akaroa it sure will be relaxing since you cant take nana and grandpop on big tramps/adventures. i will ask carolyn for the addresses when i talk to her tomorrow.
hi to everyone else from gemma and hayden xxx
mum and dad have a good time in akaroa it sure will be relaxing since you cant take nana and grandpop on big tramps/adventures. i will ask carolyn for the addresses when i talk to her tomorrow.
hi to everyone else from gemma and hayden xxx
Cold in Tuahiwi This morning
Hi to you both,
Just a short note to check on you two. Weather still nice here but and little cooler this morning. We are getting ready to take Ev and Doug to Akaroa this afternoon for the weekend. Should be very restful. We will hear lots of stories from them both about their day on the Peninsula.
Gemma how did you go with your boots, are they going to fix them. Hope you both enjoying your days off together and off out somewhere. Gemma I have post cards that Carolyn left with no address on. If she would like me to post them get her to send me the rest of the address.
Have a nice weekend
Love R P & B oxox
Just a short note to check on you two. Weather still nice here but and little cooler this morning. We are getting ready to take Ev and Doug to Akaroa this afternoon for the weekend. Should be very restful. We will hear lots of stories from them both about their day on the Peninsula.
Gemma how did you go with your boots, are they going to fix them. Hope you both enjoying your days off together and off out somewhere. Gemma I have post cards that Carolyn left with no address on. If she would like me to post them get her to send me the rest of the address.
Have a nice weekend
Love R P & B oxox
Saturday, May 19, 2007
howdy
Hi everyone, i've been ok by myself bit lonely but have been trying to keep myself busy. we have a new manager at work now started thursday and the old manager wont be back at all even though he wasn't spose to finish till thursday. New manager has been told to clean up the store and sort some of the people in it out which is good but means its gonna be busy and tiring for a couple of weeks while we shift stuff around. Not been doing anything exciting since gems been gone been quite bored actually and its been raining every day to which is a pain, could barely see across the river yesterday it was so hard. Hope things are well with everyone and i'm gonna talk to work to try and get time off to come home for Dall's cochlea. I hope they understand how bigger deal it is. Oh well better get back to the playstation.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Hi Hayden
Hope all is going well for you with Gemma over here in NZ. Thanks to you and Gemma for your hospitality while we were over there and all the organising, great to catch up and see you two well settled. Very impressed with the apartment and how you have furnished it. Enjoyed all the new restaurant's especially Port Melbourne and Lygon Street (very entertaining). Andrew did a bit more shopping, jeans from Hugo Boss! We wish we had spent a bit more time at your mall. Good trip home. Budget day to day, they have added Employer contributions to KiwiSaver (going along Aussie lines) plus a sweetner of $20 per week from the govt for those who go with KiwiSaver (not sure if there are any conditions to this).
Cheers
Andrew and Marion
Hope all is going well for you with Gemma over here in NZ. Thanks to you and Gemma for your hospitality while we were over there and all the organising, great to catch up and see you two well settled. Very impressed with the apartment and how you have furnished it. Enjoyed all the new restaurant's especially Port Melbourne and Lygon Street (very entertaining). Andrew did a bit more shopping, jeans from Hugo Boss! We wish we had spent a bit more time at your mall. Good trip home. Budget day to day, they have added Employer contributions to KiwiSaver (going along Aussie lines) plus a sweetner of $20 per week from the govt for those who go with KiwiSaver (not sure if there are any conditions to this).
Cheers
Andrew and Marion
Friday, May 11, 2007
Hey!
Hey everyone.
Hope everyone is good, and that Hayden and Gemma are enjoying their time with Rosie and Paul and the others. Melbourne is a cool place, we had heaps of fun and didn't want to come home - to work! Although, Phil got to work on Tuesday morning at 6.30am only to be sent home at 7am as the building he works on was flooded. Lucky him! I only had a half day Tues..so we went to the movies to see "Because I said so" that afternoon, as weather was crap here. No where near as cool as Melbourne though, when we say crap - we still mean low to mid 20's! Haha.
Dallas: Phil went to the doctors with a rash on his tummy and back about a month ago, and he was the 27th person that day to see the doctor with the same symptoms and he also had that foot and mouth, he was put on steroids, and it cleared within 2 days.
Today is my day off, and i've been so lazy. I did 3 loads of washing (as we hadn't done any since back from seeing you guys) and what happens when my line is full - it bludy rains for the first time during the day in god knows how long. Grr. Thank god for the drier. Poor power bill!
I'm going to email you those photos you wanted Gem..only just got them onto the comp as i've been busy and havn't been on here. By the way, our calimari worked out well last night, yum!
Anyway..i'd better go. I havn't even had a shower yet!
Have a good time in New Zealand Gemma. Will give you a ring sometime when she is over there Hayden to see how you are, keep yourself busy and you won't feel so lonley.
Love ya's. Claire. xx
Hope everyone is good, and that Hayden and Gemma are enjoying their time with Rosie and Paul and the others. Melbourne is a cool place, we had heaps of fun and didn't want to come home - to work! Although, Phil got to work on Tuesday morning at 6.30am only to be sent home at 7am as the building he works on was flooded. Lucky him! I only had a half day Tues..so we went to the movies to see "Because I said so" that afternoon, as weather was crap here. No where near as cool as Melbourne though, when we say crap - we still mean low to mid 20's! Haha.
Dallas: Phil went to the doctors with a rash on his tummy and back about a month ago, and he was the 27th person that day to see the doctor with the same symptoms and he also had that foot and mouth, he was put on steroids, and it cleared within 2 days.
Today is my day off, and i've been so lazy. I did 3 loads of washing (as we hadn't done any since back from seeing you guys) and what happens when my line is full - it bludy rains for the first time during the day in god knows how long. Grr. Thank god for the drier. Poor power bill!
I'm going to email you those photos you wanted Gem..only just got them onto the comp as i've been busy and havn't been on here. By the way, our calimari worked out well last night, yum!
Anyway..i'd better go. I havn't even had a shower yet!
Have a good time in New Zealand Gemma. Will give you a ring sometime when she is over there Hayden to see how you are, keep yourself busy and you won't feel so lonley.
Love ya's. Claire. xx
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Hey all!
Hi Gem, Hayden, and everyone else
I had an awesome time in Melbourne, thank you! My feet have like, only just recovered from all the walking around to see everything in just five days! My flight back to NZ was quite turbulent, had to wear our belts on the whole way back and the emergency Exit signs kept coming on haha. It was rather bumpy and the whole plane was vibrating from being battered by the nor'wester wind. It was ok at first, just read my book etc, but after a while I started feeling a bit queasy from all the rolling and bumping around. I can now see why people get airsick! I was actually excited to see the lights of CHCH when we came down and it was really cool seeing the kids on Saturday. Didn't have a good start back though as Kady had foot and mouth disease (yuck) and then I came down with the kids' tummy bug on Tuesday night. All ok now, just a bit headachey and sore but not so bad. Kady's still a bit grumpy but the sores are healing up already so that's good.
I took loads of photos from when in Melbourne and they're on mum and dad's computer at the moment, will burn them to CD and e-mail you guys a few, like the ones of you both outside Luna Park.
Four and a half more weeks til we're in Brisbane and I'm already panicking a bit about saving up $$ for there, as I've only been able to work hour and a half on Tuesday and then all day tomorrow.. so that's not much pay for this fortnight. Only one more pay between now and Brissy! I'd better have a garage sale and get rid of all the junk in the garage or something haha. At least I still have almost $100 AUD here that I can take over, so that takes a bit of the pressure off. Hayden - I'll get Liam to fire you an e-mail back this weekend or before then, I need to get the password off mum or dad cos Liam can't remember it!!! But Mum printed it out for us to read... you the man? Yeah right! :P
Take care everybody and PRAM (did Gem tell you I finally figured out what that means?!) - you guys have a great time over there! Mum said you're all leaving this afternoon, hope the flight is good.
Dall
I had an awesome time in Melbourne, thank you! My feet have like, only just recovered from all the walking around to see everything in just five days! My flight back to NZ was quite turbulent, had to wear our belts on the whole way back and the emergency Exit signs kept coming on haha. It was rather bumpy and the whole plane was vibrating from being battered by the nor'wester wind. It was ok at first, just read my book etc, but after a while I started feeling a bit queasy from all the rolling and bumping around. I can now see why people get airsick! I was actually excited to see the lights of CHCH when we came down and it was really cool seeing the kids on Saturday. Didn't have a good start back though as Kady had foot and mouth disease (yuck) and then I came down with the kids' tummy bug on Tuesday night. All ok now, just a bit headachey and sore but not so bad. Kady's still a bit grumpy but the sores are healing up already so that's good.
I took loads of photos from when in Melbourne and they're on mum and dad's computer at the moment, will burn them to CD and e-mail you guys a few, like the ones of you both outside Luna Park.
Four and a half more weeks til we're in Brisbane and I'm already panicking a bit about saving up $$ for there, as I've only been able to work hour and a half on Tuesday and then all day tomorrow.. so that's not much pay for this fortnight. Only one more pay between now and Brissy! I'd better have a garage sale and get rid of all the junk in the garage or something haha. At least I still have almost $100 AUD here that I can take over, so that takes a bit of the pressure off. Hayden - I'll get Liam to fire you an e-mail back this weekend or before then, I need to get the password off mum or dad cos Liam can't remember it!!! But Mum printed it out for us to read... you the man? Yeah right! :P
Take care everybody and PRAM (did Gem tell you I finally figured out what that means?!) - you guys have a great time over there! Mum said you're all leaving this afternoon, hope the flight is good.
Dall
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Visitors
hello everyone how are you? happy birthday to aunty chris today and uncle ewan for last friday. dallas has now been to visit and gone home again i was sick the time that dallas was here had to take time off work and stayed in bed most of the day so couldnt really do tht much with dallas but she still got to see most the melboune sights.- dall hope you had a good flight back and that the kids were excited to see you and liked there presents. we currently have clarie and phil staying with us - they have gone out to st kilda beach this morning and we will all go out to chadstone this afternoon to see haydens work and to go shopping. our house wasnt to cramped on thursday with 5 of us here it was cool all of us together just like the times we had spent at the sword house. last night we caught up with richard and robyn for a couple of drinks as they are over here for a long weekend very exciting to see them too we will catch up again on monday before they leave. clarie and phil are also going home on monday not sure what we have planned for tomorrow morning.tomorrow is my first day of my 3 weeks of annual leave. in total though i will have had 4 weeks off though because i have had to take sick leave for my last week of work.. i am feeling better everyday now though and have managed to stay out of bed all bed yesterday.
my friends carolyn and tim are getting very excited about coming over to nz with me. we plan to go to to queenstown and stay with pip then be in chch on the weekend and head north to hanmer on sunday. i also hear that PRAM are getting very excited about coming to see us? ...we will see you on thursday. hi to jan and gary love from gemmaxx
my friends carolyn and tim are getting very excited about coming over to nz with me. we plan to go to to queenstown and stay with pip then be in chch on the weekend and head north to hanmer on sunday. i also hear that PRAM are getting very excited about coming to see us? ...we will see you on thursday. hi to jan and gary love from gemmaxx
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