Forecast: 6-14
Attained: 8-14

The Beatles posed the question, 'Why don't we do it in the road?'.
I say - gravel rash...

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I'm reading Damaged Goods, by Helen Black. At one point our protagonist ventures in to a sex shop in search of information. She peruses a display cabinet of dildos, some unfeasibly large, the biggest being over 20cm and tartan...

Bwhwhwhhahaha! I see what you did there! :)

Forecast: 7-13
Attained: 8-13

I should probly do something about my skittering sleep patterns. I suspect the solution will have something to do with being 'disciplined', which means I'll shy away from it for as long as possible, or until the discomfort of change is less than the discomfort of staying the same. I haz a philosophical. :)

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Yup.

Forecast: 13-18
Attained: 13-20

Heh, I'm all geared up for it to be Friday tomorrow. My body and a goodly proportion of my brain are convinced this is so...

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Cos I was working at the close campus today I indulged a little, turned off the secondary alarm and decided to get a bit more sleep. Two or three bouts of ten minute snooze-alarm should do.
The dreams got more intense and vivid (Soulsis, her chiks, cubs and I heading to the moon in a station wagon? Really? Craig Daniel* in a London thieves' den? Really?) and I eventually dragged myself out of sleep to find I'd been out for an extra hour. Of course, now I was running late and had to scramble to get out of the house: fortunately I'd made my lunch the night before. Still found a parking spot not too far away and got to work on time anyway. :)


[*Edit: that should of course been Daniel Craig.]

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Whoa.

Forecast: 9-19
Attained: 9-17

Having time off work is all very well but holiday/sick leave only covers the days I'm contracted for, that is, 3 days a week. I've been working an extra day most weeks for several months now but the two weeks sick leave I took for my surgery inconveniently fell within one pay fortnight. The pay difference between a 6 day fortnight and an 8 day fortnight is significant...

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Mwhaahaha. I've managed to connect my 'phone up to the wifi at work. I can use that to download stuff instead of my bandwidth. Mwhahahah.

Forecast: 7-17
Attained: 7-15

Happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy!
The ear surgery has restored enough hearing to my bad ear I can listen to the Beatles on headphones again! [happy dance] There's still some imbalance but nowhere near the previous 'grrrrarrr-half-the-track-is-gone' aggravation. Listened to Abbey Road this evening while shopping. My goofy grin got me some looks... :)

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Second dentist appointment today and another $250 down. [wince] This was the worst of the fillings though so the rest shouldn't be so bad. Essentially the old amalgam filling had to come out then what was left of the tooth - not a lot after chipping - was repacked with new ceramicy stuff. There's a chance the tooth will continue to chip but for the moment it's more stable than it was. Having a crown put on it would prevent more chipping but considering the cost of the procedure is roughly equal to a month's rent, it's not financially practical just at the moment.

Forecast: 8-14
Attained: 9-15

Meant to do a number of things this weekend but did none of them. Clearly this was because I didn't make A List.

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Onion jam is nom but next time I'll caramelise the onions first.

This one's a mixture of brown and red (Tuscan) onions, cos that's what I had but the recipe does have quite a lot of sugar - 1 cup to 1kg of onions. I've another recipe that only uses a couple of tablespoons of brown suger for 600g of onions; will try that one next. :)

Forecast: 7-16
Attained: 7-14

I did get a tax refund, nice and quick, too. Most of it's going to have to go on sensible things but I indulged a little with sushi last night, and bought myself a really neat compilation CD: Queeny Rocks the Party.
I've already got or have had a number of the tracks - heck, some of them I've had in various formats since they were first released! - but the rest are ones I've wanted or don't mind having. :)

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New water bottle. Iz pretty.

It's made of steel, which is currently in vogue for water bottles cos there's no leaching of chemicals but, it does make the water taste metallic. Eh, we'll see how it goes.

Forecast: 7-14
Attained: 8-14

Had the surgical packing hoiked out of my ear this morning at the outpatient clinic. It was only a small blob of stuff but it felt much larger in situ.
Doctor said the fact I'd noticed an improvement in my hearing despite the swelling, and the packing, was very encouraging. :)
Don't have to use the eardrops anymore but will still have to keep my ear dry for another week. Fortunately I've become quite adept at washing my hair without getting water near my ear.

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Forecast: 11-17
Attained: 13-18

First day back at work. Wow, was completely knackered by 3.30. Was a nice easy day, though, and I hadn't forgotten everything. :)

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Saw a giant cardboard poster/promo thing for this at the cinema yesterday...



Bwhahahaha! The Easter Bunny's oztraylian! So inappropriate. :)

Forecast: 10-18
Attained: 13-20

The cubs put up with an awful lot sometimes. This evening for instance they've endured from me random outbursts of delighted squees and delirious exclamations of 'zomg, [censored for spoilerness]!'
We went to see The Dark Knight Rises this afternoon. Aside from a slow spot in the middle - and a very lame fight scene - it was pretty bloody good! Plotty twists and turns; ubercool gadgets. Drama! Tragedy! Very satisfying.
Interestingly though, there were times I had to cover my recently-operated-on ear cos the movie was so loud it hurt! I think that's a good thing...

[happy sigh] Aside from anything pre 1960's, I've managed to see all the Batman movies at the cinema. Time to acquire all the dvds so I can educate the cubs. :)

Forecast: 8-17
Attained: 8-16

A work in progress...

The dresser in the hallway is one of those places where I tend to pile stuff when it has no immediate place to go. It's been bugging me for a long time.

I finally got 'round to doing some sorting.
(Mostly the bottom shelf.)

Hee, I'm finally getting all my green things in one spot. :)

Also, now that I can actually see what/how many grapeish objects I have I'll be able to perhaps do some culling.
We'll see...

Forecast: 8-16
Attained: 9-13

WANT

Rainbow Batman Cake

(Thanks, Penny :)

Forecast: 7-15
Attained: 9-14

I spent most of the day reading or napping again. I'm supposed to be going back to work on Thursday. Should be interesting to see how that goes, getting back in to the routine...

Forecast: 8-14
Attained: 10-13

Oh dear. It's all too easy to buy ebooks with a paypal account...

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[snicker]

Forecast: 9-13
Attained: 9-11

Well, it's only taken about eight years but I've finally got a paypal account. I've linked it to a reloadable debit card rather than a bank account. Hee, now I'll be able to pick up from overseas those hard-to-find things I can't get in Oz. As long as there's money on the card, that is. (Mwahahaha! I'm looking at you Issues no: 1 & 25 of the Torchwood magazine!)

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Screencaps of your 'phone, whatever next? :)

This is the 'Pompeii' background of the Koi wallpaper. Quite fond of my fishies...

Forecast: 6-15
Attained: 7-15

Okay, so Batman Forever is not the best of the franchise evah, but neither is it the worst. (Jim Carrey as the Riddler is not an asset - I found myself growling at him to 'Oh, just stop!' - but the Riddler's costuming is superb.)

Robin (Chris O'Donell) looks a bit of orright.

I did enjoy the slashiness: it wasn't particularly subtle (or that could've just been me...)
At one point Two Face (Tommy Lee Jones) had Robin and Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) trapped in giant tubes with the intention of making Batman chose which one dies first. (Yeah, this movie was definitely looking backwards to the 60's tv series.) Anyway, Two Face introduces the 'contestants' as 'the love of Batman's life' and I, giggling, finished the statement with, 'and some woman he's been hanging around with'.

... still giggling. :)


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Last performance of the school musical went well, with Badger receiving lots of congratulations on his convincing German accent, again. There was a cast party afterwards, with pizza and lollies.
The cubs have a curriculum day tomorrow, so no school and the chance of a lie in. I think they both need it.

Forecast: 6-15
Attained: 6-15

This time last week I was realising that I wasn't going to have a comfortable night, post-operatively.

Wow, it's been a week already. I've finished the oral antibots but still have several days of the ear drops to finish.
I still have a small area of numbness on my tongue, and a pretty much constant sort of aftertaste of saccharine. Mildly annoying but not inconvenient. Other than that my sense of taste has more or less returned to normal.

Still can't judge how my hearing has changed, though it clearly has. Some types of sounds are much louder while with others there's been no change at all. I'll be having another hearing test in a few weeks, once everything has hopefully settled down, then I'll have a clearer picture of what's going on.

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Got my tax sorted today! Put it through online - easy peasy. I believe I'm owed a rebate but exactly how much remains to be seen...

Forecast: 10-16
Attained: 10-14

The coolest souvenir!

It occured to me that I've kept everything, or nearly everything that's been taken out of me in hospitals. I've got this bone, and my wisdom teeth, and ok, didn't keep the tonsils but they grew back, and didn't keep the placenta but I did hang on to the babies. :)

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For all that the cubs' school is general academic and not performing arts there's definitely some talent there.
Badger did very well, with a convincing German accent. :)

Forecast: 5-18
Attained: 6-16

Ok, so not quite as ready to rejoin the living as I'd thought. Went out for a coffee with Penny then had a browse at JB which I had to cut short cos I started feeling a bit woozy. Still, picked up the 3 'Girl with the dragon tattoo' movies, and a copy of 'Batman Forever'. :)

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The school musical debuts tomorrow night: Fame Jr. (No link, cos I couldn't find one that didn't have embedded music, or didn't mention the cubs' school.)
Badger has a small speaking role, and he's been hard at work at rehearsals. Barely saw him this weekend. Ah, it brings back memories of my own high school performance thingies...

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Forecast: 9-16
Attained: 10-15

Right, almost feel ready to rejoin the living. :)

Haven't managed to take a pic yet of the teeny ear bone that was replaced, but to demonstrate here's a considerably larger model from Scienceworks, 2008.

It's the stapes, that stirrupey shaped bone in the middle...