ooh look, shiny thing.

What have I been up to I hear you ask..

Well, there's been warcrack and shopping and sewing and feeling better and occasionally forgetting that feeling better is not the same as being healthy and overdoing it a bit. Today i finished off the forepart underskirty thing and the overskirt for the frenchypants frock. The ironing and the hemming and the shooing the cat off of the fabric etc. Now at least the bottom half of me will be covered for midwinter.

Looking forward to Hunnyydd's wedding celebration tomorrow night. Even have a cute new frock and necklace to wear.

freshly hemmed underskirt/forepart and over-skirt and new dress/necklace.

squee

I can post to my blog again despite the firewall of doooom at work.
Hoorah for igoogle widgety things (that's the technical name).

So, some random stuff;

Went and saw Chicago on Friday with Meg. It was fabulous despite having Caroline O'Connor in it (she?s fine she?s just always a bit OTT and always seems to play the same character ? bugs me for some reason). Loved the staging and costuming. Very plain and stark and appropriate and beautifully done. Loved the chorus boys and girls. Especially loved them in their costumes mostly made out of tight black fabrics with an emphasis on fishnet. Was a hoot of an evening.
We had dinner before the show at a place called Chinta Ria in Darling Harbour. Really yummy and fast food. I was running early so got there at 6 just before it opened and there was already a line. 10minutes after I sat down, the place was packed. Food was worthy of being that popular.

I haven?t done nearly enough work on the frenchypants frock. I blame the lurgy. It?s still achievable (especially now that I?m borrowing some lower sleeves so I don?t have to make any yet). Must finish bodice pattern/making and pattern/make upper sleevey bits and make a girdle and do the hemming etc. Now that I am feeling a bit better and certainly have more energy, this is all doable.

First day back at work today. Is nice to be out in public again. Would be nicer if I could sneak off and have a nap though. Although I have warned my boss I may eb going home early. Being able to breathe again hasn?t cancelled out the fact that I?m still a bit sick apparently. Dammit!

Despite having two lovely invitations on Sunday, I attended neither of them. I purposely sent the two boys off to a first birthday and stayed home in the morning. Infecting babies with cough o? doom would make me feel bad. An afternoon tea to celebrate a Communion was missed because I couldn?t stop coughing long enough to think about attending. I hate not turning up to things when I?ve said I?ll be there. Further reasons to hate this lurgy.

Spent a frustrating hour this morning arguing with Twatty McTwatterton from a different department about a report I used to get that he claims doesn?t exist and can?t be run. Any evidence to the contrary is clearly because I?m a raving lunatic who can?t read properly. I used my polite voice on him and he seemed a bit scared. I think I?ve made an enemy. There are days I love my job.

And now I?m off to procrastinate somewhere else?

hmm

test
1
2

Because I know you're all wondering...

.. I went to see my lovely doctor this morning.
He listened to my chest again.
He then got the med student who is with him for a few weeks to listen to my chest.
He then sent me off for x-rays.
I called Nw and asked him to meet me at X-Ray place. Who? Me? getting worried and freaked out? Nooooo
I got x-rayed, we eventually picked them back up and took them back to the lovely doctor.
He pointed out white patch on lungs,.
He is mildly concerned.
He has given me mega-antibiotics.
He has given me an inhaler thing to help open up my airways.
He wants me to go get x-rayed again in 10days to see if this has helped.

I'm glad that I went to see the doctor.
I'm glad I'm not a delusional hypochondriac.
I would be gladder if none of this was necessary.

Sleep was eventually had.

Not enough of it and it had to be while I was lying on my side. Still an improvement over only being able to think of sleep if I was sitting upright and leaning forward a bit.

I have a lovely husband who came to sit on the couch and stroked my back and let me be feeble and teary and whingy at 2am when it had become all too much. Spot the girl who hates being sick and doesn't deal well with no sleep.

Hoorah! for lovely husbands.

AAAARRRGGGHH!!!!!

I'm so tired and I can't sleep.

My lungs make this godawful wrattley wheezy thrumming gunky noise all the friging time and I'm over it!

So so tired!

I cough so much I end up throwing up at least once a day. It's a weight-loss plan, just not one I wouyld ever recommend.

Really really tired!

I feel weak all the time because I can't seem to get enough oxygen into my system.

So very very tired!

Everytime I try and close my eyes, my lungs make a noise or my nose blocks up or something!

I'm now so anxious about my lack of sleep and the annoyance of it all that I have trouble convincing myself to even try.

I've been sick for over a month and am now into my second week of this particular lurgy and I think I've stopped coping.
I just want sleep. Healthy sleep. More than an hour or two in a row would be good but I'll even settle for that.
I want to be able to use my lungs again.

Off to go beat my head against a brick wall in the hopes that the resulting concussion is at least restful.

mmm gotta love being patronised....

Go to the site to see a bunch of other segments by Sarah Haskins on Targetting Women.

It's a bit funky

Look mummy, I'm a Queen!

Look mummy, I'm a Queen!, originally uploaded by Miss DV.

Nw: Hurrah for the pirate queen
Torby: No daddy, I'm not a pirate queen, I'm just a queen.

I laughed so hard it hurt.

This just bought a big smile to my face

Is a Slovakian choir simulating a storm with their hands...and then singing and beatboxeyness. Beautifully done.

via The Anticraft Blog


In other news, am still at home with cough o' doom. Now have some antibiotics to try and make it all go away.

hair

My hair is now long enough to go into two ponytails.

Hooray!

The backstory is that I'm contemplating growing my hair. Suspect that once the hot weather returns, it'll be all chopped off again. Am at least waiting until after midwinter to make a decision

such goodness

the weirdest thing about this lurgy is the sleepiness...constant sleepiness that will occasionally peak in the need to be asleep NOW!

The past three days has seen the entire Huntington-Smythe clan at home, feeling unwell and taking it in turns to have naps and being generally miserable and pathetic.

The boys made it out this morning to swimming and brunch for grandmama... I managed a hot shower and then fell asleep for a few hours like the sicky slug I am. Sorry grandmama.

The surprise nap did me good (eventually)
Managed an afternoon's stroll around exotic Belmore to buy some pastries and delicious meat onna stick (also found some kofta mince - little mincey goodnesses shall soon be mine!) then a visit to Megzz & Smurg to eat said pastries.

Being out and about did me good. Seeing faces that weren't my two favouritest boys in the world did me good. The eggses fresh out of a chicken's arse will do me good when I make them into something.

Now being curled up on the couch after the scaldingly hot shower I had and downing a bunch of drugs to help the headache and the achey go away is doing me extra good.

Tomorrow is sewing hell at Meg's...new midwinter frocks will be ours! Hopefully All this sleeping and drugs and walks in the sunshine has done me sufficient good that I will be able to function properly and usefully and not need to take a few naps.

Sunshine, lollipops and..

...a hacking cough that makes me want to rip my throat out and get a new one.

I would like to not be lurgied. Just for a bit. Please???

Nw has also been home since Wednesday feeling like death warmed up.

Oh yes, we are the house of fun and happiness at the moment.

Fun, happiness and a lot of cough syrup.

A few weeks ago we noticed that Torby's nappies were being less than effective. Wet jammies etc in the morning and not because the nappy was overloaded.
Nw discovered the problem was that the elasticey bits that help contain the wee long enough for it to be absorbed were coming away from the nappy.

So, was a good consumer and left feedback on their site that this was happeneing. They then requested I send them a sampleif possible.

Today we got a new bag of nappies from them.
Hurrah for good customer service.
Hurrah for Babylove.

a hitchin' we will go, a hitchin' we will go

Oh and yay for MrH and MsA gettin' hitched in September and LoqA and Daz gettin' hitched on Sunday and Hunnyydddd and Rusty celebrating their hitchin' that happened 10yrs ago in a few weeks time.

Oh how I love a hitchin'

Awesomeness

via Anticraft blog.

A video about "Traditional Marriage"

hehe

click to make bigger and go to SCP site

Astounding world of the future

Via Neatorama

Amusing look at the dazzling Utopia of the future that the year 2000 will be.

They have robojetpods!

efficiency

Last night we did our 2007 taxes.
We'll do our 2008 taxes tonight (need to download the forms
Then in a few weeks time we might even do our 2009 taxes.

It's more efficient to save them up like this right?

Cunning book site

Ob recommended a site called Goodreads
You ist what books you've read/want to read etc, review it or not. You can then see friends' reviews (and other people's as well)
Is nice and simple and easy to use and I think I may end up spending far too much time there.
I'm on there as MissDV if ya join up.

bits..

House Bit
The auction for the house we wanted was on Saturday morning.
We'd had a building inspection done.
Report suggested that one corner of house was sinking, there was a fair bit of water damage and a new dampcourse was needed along shared wall (terrace house) - basically, to stop it collapsing on top of you, would need about $100k. Plus whatever else to put new kitchen in and fix bathroom and knockdown potentially asbetsos filled laundry bit etc.
This dropped our buying price to low-mid 400's.
The opening bid on the house was 540 and it went for 584.
We really hope that they had had a building inspection done and just really wanted taht house anyway.
Very scary.

So, we're still looking. Sigh.

Nw saw some more houses later on Saturday.He liked one on Addison Rd in Marrickville and we'll go see one in St Peters on Tuesday night.

Frock Bit
Sewing frenzy happened on Saturday at Meg's house.
Jimmy and I worked on my frenchypants frock. We now have a mostly done skirt (My new secret to pattern matching is to make the lovely husband do it. His engineery sense of perfection comes in very handy at times), a mostly done underskirt/forepart and a mostly done corset. Hurrah for lots of mostly doneness. Oh and a lot less nervous about it all DV. Double hurrah.

It's looking rooly rooly cute.

Tuesday night will be bodice and sleeve patterning and fitting and then I can finish it all off in less than a month. Easy Peasy! (actually won't be all that bad..missjimmy will do the patterning for me and I can utilise Nw for a lot of the machine sewing - gogo collaboration frock!)

Lurgy Bit
Having the dumb cold/throat lurgy go away only to be replaced by a tummy bug lurgy is less than spectacular. Mmm a few days of constant nausea - a small reminder of what being pregnant was like.
Have been making food, just not eating it. I think the smell of it all cooking is too much? Hmm, must get Nw to cook tonight and test this theory.

Random Bits

Started reading the Blood... (Pact, Price,Trail etc) series by Tanya Huff (Meg has loaned them to me). Quite absorbing. Vampire bastard son of Henry VIII in modernday Canada and lass who's ex-cop now private eye solving stuff. Totally normal I say.

Lass at the markets was selling marshmallows flavoured with raspberry, kaffir lime and passionfruit. I bought a box with all 3 flavours and ma were they good. Such intense flavours. Nomnomnom.

It's a new month (pinch and punch for the first of the month. no returns) so we're no longer being punished by Optus for exceeding or download limit. Internet goes zoooooooooooom again. Squeee.