Every day is an opportunity - isn't it?

Create your own survey.
Design your own Christmas poster?
Enter lots of photo comps.
Write your own memoir.
Email as many people as you can think of in one day.
Learn a new song.
See a new street.
Go to a new cafe.
Try a new coffee.
Watch a new show.
See a new film.
Find a new cinema.
Find a new rose.
Hear a new riff.
Meet a new mentor.

I can see for miles and miles..................................

My mind feels clearer.
So good to have my energy back.
I feel like I want to do things again.
Last day for poster entries for the Christmas Tree Festival.
Toying with the idea of creating a blog specifically for the Willunga Christmas Tree Festival.
What do you think??

Writing makes me feel good

Public Encounters.
Encountering................
Every time you greet someone, it is an opportunity.
My mind is finally beginning to work again.
My head feels clearer.
I have been writing and that always makes me feel good.

How to get to nearly 50 and still be undecided about nearly everything...........

Filmss to be seen-:
Balibao
September Issue
Beautiful Kate
District 9
Young Victoria

Now- jobs
Find a new career..........
Travel around the world.............
Write a book titled-:
How to get to nearly 50 and still be undecided about nearly everything..............

A big mushroom in a paper bag in my shopping cart

Made my selection
the big mushroom and baby spinach,
guiness sausages & hass avacados
choc wedges & bega cheese
I seem to be spending lots on the basics.
Winter is in full roar and I absolutely love it.

Letting it in and letting it out - Good mental health

Got some antibiotics and am facing the reality that I, in fact, after all these years, might actually have hayfever. It may the underlying cause of these horrible sinusitis episodes.

They really bring me down - to a screaming halt in fact.

I thought it was diet related or just getting run down.

Could it be a combination of this?

I have always, always denied having hayfever, maybe I need antihistimines and/or something like them.

Just finished reading two books - plenty of reading going on.

'Through a glass darkly' is Caroline Jones describing in quite refreshing detail the grief and truama she endures while watching her father die slowly in hospital.

The anger she buryies.

I can relate to burying anger - it is what I know. Keeping the peace, staying strong, not focusing on oneself, not letting anyone know if you are in pain or distressed or not coping, anxious etc.

There are some excellent comments in the Appendix.

One from the Intensive Care Specialist - still don't think the medical profession really get what an advanced directive is, if someone has gone to the trouble of writing one and getting it legal, the least it should be is honoured. But the medicos think they know better.

He does raise the valid point of the impact of sad events and stories on gthose exposed on them.

Mal McKissock describes the concept of taking it in and letting it out, for counsellors, this is essential for maintaining their mental health and avoiding burnout.

Can you really avoid burnout?

Sometimes your psyche is overloaded- and you either drink too much wine, make phone calls to someone or start blogging(!) Praying is also a refuge. When I do get to go to a quiet church, I find this peaceful.

Slowly regaining my strength.

Trying not focus on jealousy, envy and pettiness.

They are not me. I am a pretty accepting and serene person most of the time.

Qualities I have in me and must be absorbed from my parents.

Thankyou mum and dad.

Once was lost is now found - found my way back to this blog I thought I'd lost - ask me how?
Keep on looking.............................

Head feels like it is full of concrete

Exhaustion
Full of yuykky green junk
need some gutsy antibiotics
need to see a GP
SOON

Posting a belated comment amongst the haze............

Could do with a coffee.

Life is okay.

Working through issues re: community garden space.

Gearing up for Fire Safe Street Walk.

Getting organized re: pamphlet and signage for church.

Finished - A Million Little Pieces.

Nearly finished it when I decided to google the author.

Found out that there has been controversy regarding the authenticity of the memoir.
Now editing this post a few days later. Having got caught up in work conversations and some futile attempts at keeping some people awake and engaged.

Do people realise I do full time shift work?

Forgot there are school info sessions and year 12 and beyond decisions we should be making.
Open days we could not attend.
Money that still needs to come my way.
An expression of interest meeting about McLaren Vale Carols that was on tonight I believe.
An Almond Blossom thankyou BBQ I never got to on Monday.
Photos I have yet to email re: said games @ Almond Blossom.
Sisters of Abundance that I continually run into, I always give the same excuse - shift work.
Do people realise I do full time shift work?
Goodnight and Goodluck.

Sinusitis is my downfall

Could feel life becoming foggier and foggier on the weekend.
Made a big effort to get to the girl's brekkie - which I loved, on Saturday.
Then off to work we go.
Really, really struggled on Sunday morning.
Had to get things organized for the two days off I was having.
Collapsed totally when I got home - to bed.
Dosed myself up all Monday.
All of us missed out on attending church on Sunday - grief issues already re: minister leaving at the end of the year.
Cancelled a coffee catch up re: festival @ my fav - 3 monkeys.
Cancelled attending a nurses meeting - tried to put in an apology but doubt it got through.
Had to cancel the theatre tickets for Sat night and rescheduled for Tuesday evening, too under par to attend either day.
Overdue with putting in a proforma for uniting church brochere did today.
Needing to liaise with CFS today re: Community Fire Safe Street Walk.
Needing to send out letters re: WGV.
Need to write an update on ANF Delegates conference.
Need to write up a spiel on public encounters.
Liaise re; CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL - Poster???
Hub meeting - ?when
Write out last public encounters report
Letter to Irene
Research treatment of clients in city watch house - human rights issue-inhumane treatment.
Need to finish writing up spirituality conference review.
So what I doing blogging?!

Goats Milk Ice Cream anyone?

Demazin, Codral, Dinetap, Sudafed, Rhinacort, Panadol, panadol cold and flu etc etc.
Tis the season to be dosed up................
Slowly clawing back some sense of clarity in my head.
Breakfasting this morning and it was mighty fine.
Talking about all kinds of stuff.
Good turn out despite the cold and flus.
Where to now?
That is what we are all asking in various forms.
My career, my family, my church, my faith, our world.
Partied on last night in Mt Compass, at the Willunga Family Orchestra after party.
The charm of the country cotage that is held together with animals, conversation and the smell of country cooking - goats milk ice cream anyone? Very yummy.
So much so that I ate so much I could hardly think straight(!)

Mechinations of daily life

Son drove to school for the first time today - in the Magna.
Husband still on the sick list - miserable.
Dog over excited - jumping up and scratched cleaner.
All morning cleaning for the cleaner, trying to get things organized - never in front.
Back on deck at work - okay.
Timesheet to do
Footy tips to do
Lots of notes and entries to do
But still I am writing on a blog(!)
Guess I am a hopeless addict.

Year of the Changeling

I have finally started using the lap top in my office/study.
Getting a few in trays for stuff and while I am typing this am avoiding writing letters and proposals etc.
I have dubbed this the 'year of the changeling'.
This is part B of 'nothing is static' blog.
Must be I am meant to see how change is, while trying to keep what I know and knowing this is not going to work.
Jani still miserable in bed with the flu.
Holly dog also moping around.
I guess it is finally time to start doing stuff.

Nothing is Static

Nothing is static.
Violin teacher has split from her husband of 18 years - sad
The studio is for sale - things will change
I am doing full time shift work - exhausting
Singing has been impossible to get to - bugger
New colleagues, totally different culture - strange
Have had more money, spent more money- what budget?!
Partner has resigned from garden work and quarry to do full time nursery work
New hours, regular money, stuff he knows inside out - a blessing
Church minister has resigned to pursue other things - ?What now?
Recruitment and policy sttement is now required - more meetings
Have seen inside the court system and the casualty list is on both sides - Adelaide wanders
Girl's don't meet as regularly - pity
Book club is moving around - okay
Daughter is living away from home - finding her feet
One car totalled, one new one bought - expensive
Neighbourhood issues are more prominent - messy
Where to from here?
Is there any such thing as a quiet life?
A nice glass of rose and a good book....................please.

Rats in the machine

Got stranded on Sunday night in Gouger Street, hazard lights on and waiting for the RAA, got it going for about 2 k's then it gaved out on me again in South Road.
Long wait for a tow to Willunga - four hours gone.
So much for a nice quiet evening reading.
Diagnosis - rodent damage to wiring - who'd haved thought.

Where is my wife??!

About to make a resolution in front of a room full of nursing delegates at the ANF conference 2009. Financial scchlorships to undertake mental health nursing studies.
Don't seem to have got all the writing done that I was contemplating - tonight?
Open days coming up for uni.
Car insurance issues.
Mechanical issues with the car.
Servicing issues with the new car.
Banking issues and on it goes.
Domestic issues ie cleaning & garden & car & bills etc.
Where is my wife??!

The Proposal - Mulitple considerations

Found my way into the ANF library computer room.
Haven't blogged for ages.
A number of headache/hassles over the weekend.
Not enough hours in the day.
Baking? Oh yeah, that didn't happen, spent $11 for some - home baked - donations(!)
Chinese resturant - Concubine - very nice - quirky touches, like a page of the dictonary under the entree dish.
Car decided to stop working on the corner of Gouger & King William - HELP!
Got moving for about 2 K's - then had to get off South Road - towing services required - again.
$100 and most of Sunday night gone.
Was looking forward to writing & reading in the neutral, peaceful surrounds of a hotel room.
Quite a nice hotel room - old fashioned - yes well call me old fashioned.
Anyway, such is life, sigh.....................
Delegates conference.
One speaker down and quite a dull talk - even he admitted that(!)
Proposal for book swap/library, WUC
Proposal for gardening group, WUC
Public Encounters report, WUC
WGV - Read minutes, where are they?
WGV - Write letter regarding gardeners
Year 12 studies subject selection.
Julian - career selection.
Grief stuff
Book club - finish Theft, a love story - very good so far.
Spirituality & Health conference write up
Consider going down to 0.7 a fortnight - what is life, when you are so rushed you can't get to the market, do some gardening, go for a walk etc.