Cate's Diary

It is therapeutic Mr Vee, but I would hate it to turn into self pity, which is woeful for all concerned. It does you good to have a rant every now & then though I do agree.
Thanks Sarah. I'm excited, very excited.....too excited. I am a nervous wreck! I have never been to Italy or France & am really excited about going there. I get really sick about what to pack & where to put stuff & what copies I need to make of anything etc ad Infinitum...... Nauseous......
When our son travels I can be perfectly calm & help him, but I have left all this to now with us & have been a little over-relaxed & am now trying very hard not to panic. I'm inclined to over-plan anything & have tried not to. :( Subsequently I don't feel organised at all.
Whoops. Another rant!
Will go....
xoxo Cate
 
We spent the day having a working bee at our older son's & ended up very tired, but no longer stressed. We transformed his place, including falling a big blackwood tree that was too close to his house. The kids loved it all apparently! They can now get easily down to "the big rock" on the other half of his bush block. My LH is sound asleep at the moment & I think we had better get an early night. Started compiling a travel bag list & sorted lots of stuff out this afternoon. Am going to carry some things onto the plane like our medications, so we don't have to take double, just in case a bag goes missing. Was not thinking very straight. I don't want to be over burdened by un-necessary luggage. Cutting down on vitamins taken too!
Feeling MUCH better.
xo Cate
 
Hope you're making more progress with your packing than I am with my taxes (next Monday is the big day here).
 
I actually feel like I am getting on top of the packing/planning etc for our trip. One thing about not earning any money any more is not having to do a tax return!! YAY!! When I did I paid an accountant to do it for me. It was always only about $100 AU- well worth it!

It is mostly all the organization required to get my MIL into respite, while we're away, that is the biggest problem. I took her to my doctor today as we needed YET ANOTHER FORM for the home so I made her an appointment at the same time as mine( my doctor needed to see me re the results of my bone scan.) When my MIL needed to go to the toilet my doctor asked to speak to me alone for a while. When I said to her that I thought my MIL just had age-related memory loss she told me that she thought she may have rapid-onset dementia. I think she is right. It is happening SO fast it is scary! My MIL just has no idea what is happening, from one second to the next, & I think she is going to overtake my Mum in a matter of weeks!

We are both finding life very stressful at the moment, but I think that once we have my MIL in the home & we are on that plane, although we both feel, right at this very moment, like not coming back at all (i.e. running away from home!) if(when) we do come back & she is staying in the nursing home then, while it still won't be easy, it will get better. It is the awful in-between stage that is the worst.
OMG- GREAT NEWS!!!
I do not have a stress fracture in my right foot. It is just Osteoarthritis! That explains why the pain comes & goes!!!!!
:party::party::party:
So.....I am playing golf tomorrow with my husband & next Wednesday with the women & am off to Italy & Rome, without a stress fracture in my foot!!!!!
Wee Hoo!!!!
Life feels quite insane at the moment, but soon, I will pause & remember that LIFE IS GOOD!
xoxo Cate
 
Congrats on the good x-ray results and enjoy your golf. You also now have the ability to predict rain. A BONUS!
 
:smilielol5: Molto divertente Mr Vee:smilielol5: très amusant :smilielol5:
I'm afraid I have had that ability for many years, but I like your thinking. I'm still doing a happy dance that it's not broken!!!
I'm playing golf today in a 4 person Ambrose & it's raining. I'm going to take Panadol Osteo morning & night for a while so had better go take some right now......
 
We came 3rd in the 4 person Ambrose, got rained on lots & I ached heaps, but loved it! :D I felt sure I posted this morning. I know I typed quite a long post, but.....It has gone! :( I think the GK's arrived & I must have turned the computer off, before I clicked on "Post Quick Reply". Oh well! Had a great day yesterday & another good one today with the kids. Am feeling much more relaxed about everything, including the MIL going into respite.
I feel organised.
Still don't have any spending money, but I do know that if it doesn't arrive on Tuesday I can borrow off one or the other of our mothers & pay it back as soon as the super money turns up.
All good.
Bye for now, xoxo Cate
 
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Great news on the foot Cate! Whoooohoooo!! Very glad its nothing serious!

Counting the days before the big trip hey?
 
Thanks Mands, when I wake up tomorrow it will be.....
1 week only,
a mere 7 days!!!!!!!!!!!​
& I am getting more & more organised every day :D
Cheers sweets xoxo Cate
 
What a day! My MIL is now in the same home as my mum. So far, so good!
I am exhausted but incredibly relieved.
Still have lots to do. Still don't have our spending money for the trip. If it does not arrive tomorrow, they are in for one big mouthful! The form that was meant to have been sent to us last Friday week (we were told by 3 different people that it had been posted) has still not arrived. Liars.
Did anyone watch the US Open? I have been awake since 4.45 am. WELL DONE Adam Scott. C'mon Aussie, c'mon on!! WOOT!!
My poor old mum is in a state of confusion at the moment. she was in her Pj's just after lunch & I had to dress her again. She thought it was night-time. :(
Tired tonight so will head.... will get a lot more stuff organised tomorrow, xoxo Cate
 
Enjoy Cate! Good news on the foot xray and now you are less than a week to fly time! You'll have a grand ole time!
A rivaderci!

Sarah
 
Only 6 more days!

Only 6 days to go, 6 days to go
Happy dance!
​
Thanks Sarah. I will enjoy! Mad if I don't. I feel so much better now my MIL is in the aged care hostel! It is a HUGE relief! So far, so good....still no calls from them..... :D
Still don't have the money from the super.....will ring after lunch if we don't have it!
I'm feeling pretty good really. I'm at the stage now where I'm photocopying everything.
Bye for now xoxo CCate
 
It's 4.30 am & I have been awake for 2 hours. I just couldn't get back to sleep! Have had a squillion things going around in my head, was very snuffly, my LH was snoring.........so I'm up having some oat toast & a pot of peppermint tea.....& typing in here!
My LH lit our wood heater last night & the smoke sneaks back inside & into our bedroom. I have tried having the windows sealed better but think it comes through somewhere else, like around the really high window, that does not open.....it's a problem as it
s our only source of heating. I may have to buy an air filter.
Still have not got the super. My LH rang them yesterday & sounded as stern as he possibly can. They say it will be approved today, but does that mean it will in our bank account today i wonder? Talk about hopeless. If it isn't in our account by the time the bank closes I will be ringing them myself. They lied to us about posting the forms back.
Kettle is boiling so time for that tea. Bye for now xo Cate.
PS Hopefully I'll be able to get back to sleep soon!
 
I had those same sleep problems from time to time. And by "time to time" I mean virtually every day from the time I was 15 until I was 37 at which point I just started taking sleep drugs. The downside to the sleep drug was the biggest side effect of the drug was "weight gain." Not good.

Hope the greenbacks (are they green down there?) come in soon for you. I was waiting on three different sources of cash to get in before my taxes were due, and as of yesterday none had come in. I took a chance and flew a kite on my IRS check. Sure enough, two of the three hit my account today (the last one is coming via check any day now).

So anyway I'm flush right now. Always a dangerous thing. :D

P.S. It was the Masters and not the U.S. Open. That's later. But congrats on your countryman winning one. I think Greg Norman was even happier than Adam Scott was. Scott also has me considering trying out the long putter. The problem is I'm all about the way I look these days and I wonder if I'd rather miss a put and look good or make one and look like a goof with a long putter in my hand. Decisions...
 
Oh dear- I knew it was the Masters too! There is way too much going on in my head & I'm having so much trouble concentrating on one thing at a time. I have lists everywhere & am ticking things off all the time, but then making another list.......:willy_nilly:
$100 notes are green, but we don't call them greenbacks & our $1 is a coin only, so is the $2.
Hopefully I'll sleep better tonight. I am aching like crazy but am still very grateful that I don't have a broken bone in my foot. I didn't realise Arthritis was THIS painful! The weather has suddenly really chilled off at night so that probably is why I am suffering. Hopefully it will be warmer in Italy & France .......*sigh*......we're getting there....... still no $'s though! If we don't get the money tomorrow we will be moving the rest of the super to a different company when we get back.
I have a funny feeling I will sleep better tonight. I'm struggling to stay awake & it's only 8.50pm! zzzzz When I get up tomorrow it will only be 4 days to go!!
I know what you mean re the broomstick putter. It looks really weird! Funny though I didn't think Adam Scott looked like a goof! Putting is such a confidence thing. I have been putting very well lately, which is fun. I didn't play golf with the women today as I knew I wouldn't be able to relax & enjoy it. I will play each week over Winter though & won't be sooky, even if it rains. Time to go...even typing hurts! Thanks for the visit Mr Vee. How much less are you going to weigh by the time I get back home, I wonder? You are being very persistent & consistent. Good for you! Cheers, xo Cate
 
We Still do not have the money from the super company. We have really blasted them (as much as we are capable of doing) & have told them how disappointed we are that we have been lied to, repeatedly. The truth is, we are not used to dishonesty & bullshit. I guess we have been lucky, up until now. We have told them what we think, quite strongly & without swearing, but it got to me today. I burst into tears after hanging up from the supervisor we insisted on talking to about it. We have one working day left before we leave Australia & we do not have our spending money. That is so wrong. They have stuffed up & lied to us & it is WRONG.
We had enough to purchase some Euro packs & 'borrowed" some from my MIL's "wake account" but that is not the point. We could have done without the stress of it all. We have been doing so much to get ready to go & have been concentrating on everyone & everything else, except us.
If we don't get the super by midday tomorrow we will be changing to a different company & have told them so. We also said that this has been more stressful than putting the MIL into care. We have spoken to 7 different people so far & got gobbledegook from all of them- platitudes & bull shit!
My MIL is really settling into "respite" WAY better than we thought she ever would. That is a minor miracle! I am almost pinching myself that she is in care & telling everyone that she will be staying there. If you knew my MIL at all you would know just how AMAZING that is. Our trip is the sole reason for her agreeing to go in.
I know that we'll have a ball & we must not let one greedy company get us down. I am a woman of my word though. We will change if the dollars are not there by noon.
Enough of the bitching.....
When I wake up tomorrow it will be only 3 more days!!!!!
xoxo Cate
 
I'm at a pretty steady clip of around two pounds a week right now. I wish I knew how to make one of those internet countdown things and just have my weight constantly dropping by hundredths of a pound...
 
I wish I could just lose weight at any rate. My focus has been elsewhere! I'm maintaining, which is good.
Our super money was in our bank account this morning at 7.30.
Once again, I have been up for hours. This time I sewed more name tags on my MIL's clothes & took up one pair of her pants & my LH finished the vacuuming- all before 7.30!
Today we pack, after first taking both our mothers up the street to get their nails cut & my MIL to the bank to transfer her money from a passbook account (funny) to one I can access with a card. If she does die I wouldn't have enough to pay for her funeral. I am trying to cover EVERY possibility!
The mind is still boggling, but having that money in our account this morning now means that we can go away, without worrying about every Euro we spend!
:D
xo Cate
 
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