Raspberry giveaways and a win
Raspberry is doing a giveaway and this one is open internationally..not often that happens. check it out here at their DT blog.
and a big thanks for Julia (former owner of Scrapbox) for drawing my name for her Scrapbook Innovations giveaway to celebrate her 10,000th hit on her blog, thanks Julia, and congrads on hitting the big 10,000.
well my back is on the fritz again, my own fault, I know there is a limit that I can sit in the dining room chairs but I was making Katie some dolls clothes for her cabbage patch doll yesterday and sat for way to long at the table and now I am paying for it. it is so frustrating not being able to do such a normal thing without ending up in pain.
a bit depressing but that’s life with RA I suppose.
anyway time for some more very gentle exercises. have a fun day all
hugz
V xx
Happy B’day my baby boy
This rather tall young man, my baby boy, turned 17 today. Omg where did that go, seems like only yesterday I was dealing with this screaming horrid baby (yes he honestly was the worst of my babies, he had colic for almost the first year of his life, and a scream that could, and constantly did, wake the neighbours, we even had the cops around a few times when the neighbours thought we were beating him lol) he has since made up for that terrible beginning to be the best behaved of my 3 babies and most definitely the easiest teenager so far. he really is an amazing boy, easy going, well behaved, doesn’t smoke, barely drinks, doesn’t go to parties and run around in cars, doesn’t even play his music loudly. any given weekend will find him helping out around home or at a mates place playing Xbox. what more could a mother want? he’s not perfect but damn near lol.
For his birthday Katie and I brought him a laptop backpack, he’s been asking for one for ages and a game of pictureka, which Steve and I played before dinner tonight, he cheats outrageously but then so did I lol….its half the fun of it, trying the cheat each other without getting caught…we are both so obvious that it ends up being a joke between us.
He is always fun to be with, we enjoy each others company and talk about all sorts, even read the same sort of books. how many mums can say that about their teenage sons?
though I don’t think his grandmother is to impressed with him at the moment, since she suddenly realised the other day that he is head and shoulders taller than her now lol…looks like he will reach that 6’4 predicated when he was a kid.
well besides Steve’s birthday there has been a bit going on around here. I haven’t blogged in a while, the main reason being I haven’t been well enough to hold my head up much less do anything else. My darling doctor thought it would be fun to play with my painkillers, and since my back has been giving me hell without let up he decided it would be a good idea to send me for an x-ray and put me on some serious painkillers, namely morphine..yah…if you have ever been on that stuff you will know the effect it can have.,..quite simply it can make you a little bit out of your head, away in lala land lol…so that’s how the weekend and first few days of the week went…or flew should I say. then on Tuesday I went back for another visit to said doctor and he has cut back on those, thank heavens and put me on something that is between codeine which is no longer effective, and morphine which is a little to effective. and finally, I am coming out of the fog and regaining my senses lol, even if I am now on so many pills I rattle when I walk lol…and since I am not doing that to well he has also instructed me to use crutches whenever I walk…I am starting to not like this man lol…he really is lovely but a girl could go off him in a big way! so now I am being dragged around by a pair of damn crutches but at least I am getting around and not a moment to soon since Katie has picked up one of those mysterious bugs that kids get and has been unwell for the last few days, though she is getting better now, I can tell, she’s getting bossy again lol.
anyway that’s enough babble for one night…I am off to cuddle up with a good book and listen to the rain…its pouring down here, I really like the sound of the rain at night, must be a left over from living in Greymouth all those years.
night night all, I will leave you with this ever so cute photo of Katie giving Steve a birthday kiss
, how sweet is that?
sweet dreams
hugz
V xx
oh the drama
this week so far has been one thing after another. Last Friday i fell over on our gravel driveway and wrenched my back and have out of action ever since. I went to the doctor on Monday and he gave me some pain killers and muscle relaxants and sent me to the physio which was one of my two appointments on Tuesday. First I had to go to the rheumatology nurse to be assessed to see i still qualify for the Humira injection that keeps the RA in check, seems I am borderline to keeping it because I still have a far bit of joint pain…something else to worry about. after a quick trip to warehouse to get Katie some more PJ’s it was back home with just enough time to grab a quick cuppa and then off to physio, who is really lovely and also treating dad at the moment lol.
and to add to that both Katie and Steve have been sick this week, they both had a tummy bug and Steve had a couple of days off school and Katie had one day of preschool but their both fine now. And Dads ankle is getting better at long last, he has been on crutches since Easter and is now getting around with just one crutch and is a lot happier, another week and he will be back to normal.
so all in all its been a pretty stink week really, i am sick of reading, i cant sit up long enough to scrapbook and i am bored silly!!! Mum got a part time job with a company that does stocktaking, today is her first day, so i haven’t even got her to moan to lol. But I am glad she has found a job that’s low stress but gets her out of the house for a couple of days a week, she must get so sick of looking after Dad and I, today she is working out Countdown in Nelson and had to leave at 5am so she will be buggered by the time she gets home. but it gives her a little extra income now that they are both on the super.
Oh talking about getting older, the other day I was reading our local paper and came across an article about a guy i went to school with, it had a photo with it and OMG he looked old!!!!! the in dawned on me, all those kids I went to school with are the age our parents were back then lol…if not older. we are the ones now who have kids at school who think we are old lol.
and on that note. its taken me nearly two hours to type this, its very to type lying down so everyone have a wonderful Thursday hope the sun is out at your place, it is here but its still cold.
bye
hugz
V xx
Challenges
Challenges, challenges…and what have I achieved? not a thing, I have spent the day on the couch feeling sorry for myself, I feel like shyt if you will excuse the expression. Sore hips, hands, head, jaw…..well you name its sore sigh…so I have had a “I feel sorry for me” day….I suppose we are all entitled to one of them every now and then.
I really want to be scrapping but don’t have the energy, I seriously want to have a go at Hannah’s challenge at Sketch Book, black and white with one other colour, sounds like a great challenge and I really love Hannah’s example layout, its gorgeous.
I also want to have a crack at Scrap the Boys challenge this month but I have plenty of time for that and the other challenge is a male orientated one as well and that’s Scrappin Patch Man Friday challenge which is another one that appeals.
I have completely lost the plot of the SBO Great Race, a nightly challenge was far to much for me, especially this week when I have been feeling less than my best. I would of loved to give it a better shot but have only managed 2 layouts, this one is the last one, I wanted to do last nights which looked like a lot of fun it was Japan and centred around Super Kawaii (in English Super Cute). Bright funk colours, big eyed cartoons, sugary sweet clothes…just my sort of thing…lots of pink!!!!!! I wonder if Hello Kitty is amongst that lot, I love Hello Kitty (ask Katie, she has a heap of Hello Kitty 
things and she has shown totally no interest in them lol…but I like them so she gets them.) I love love love the stripped tights in this picture lol…wonder if Katie would wear them…like she’s got a choice…she’s three…I still get to pick her clothes!!!!with funky pink boots and a little skirt…tooo cute…I LOVE HAVING A DAUGHTER!!! the boys were never as much fun to dress. and back to the challenges, even though
that Super Kawaii one was yesterday I might give it a shot anyway tomorrow, if I am feeling better, just because I like it.
anyway I hope all of you at scrap retreats are having fun….I will join you one day. but right now its almost time to put my DD to bed.
Night night all
hugz
V xx
Another milestone
Yesterday would have been Chris’s 39th Birthday, another milestone has passed. He died 2 months before his 35th Birthday. We use to joke that he was my toy boy, being 10 months younger than me. so Happy Birthday my love…where ever you are.
We are having a bit of a sicky week so far this week with Steve down with a bad cold, Katie still has a bit of a runny nose and cough though I think it has more to do with the amount of pollen than a cold. and I have a sore throat but no other signs of a cold so it maybe that it has to do with the RA, I have had on going problems there, even lost my voice for over a month at one stage of it. Yes apparently RA can affect the small bone joints in your throat, bet you didn’t know that, I didn’t until it happened to me.
I have finished the advent calendar for SBO Christmas comp. Now this afternoon I will get started on Scrapbox challenge 1 which I haven’t even looked to see what it is yet. but right now, I better get myself and Katie dressed and get her to preschool. I am going to drop her off then shoot into Spotlight and see what they have I can use in these comps, I have very little in the way of Christmassy stuff in my stash.
have a good day all
