The week of hospitals

Yes it has been awhile since posts, March was a bad month with the girls continually sick, and us continually tired and grumpy because of the sickness. At the end of March, April looked promising and indeed it has been a good month – except for the last week. I drove to the local hospital 6 times within the space of one week – and only one visit a day.

It’s been awhile …

And where has the time gone? Sorry it’s been quite awhile ‘tween updates but time to blog has been extremely limited, not to say the desire to shout out. So what have we been up to? This, that and the usual.

Workwise, things are winding into normality with the bulk of the training now completed. This does not mean that things are slowing down, pace is still roughly the same. There are manuals to be updated, things to organise with the training that will now occur, systems and processes to set up, trial and update. Not to mention that I still need to learn the ins and the outs of what the whole system can do. We still have two of the contract trainers onboard and in some areas they know significantly more than I do. The good thing is though,  that with the bulk of the training now out of the way, I can attempt to go back to the gym during lunch break. Plus with the time it seems I will be arriving at work in the mornings, I might do a cardio session in the morning, thus focus on weights during lunch.

End of the Year

Well … been awhile since I have had a chance to update this blog. Things have been extremely busy over the last month and a bit, both at work and at home. So thought I would take the chance to pop in, say hello (HELLO!) and give a bit of a run down of what’s happened in the last month or so. Also I have been doing some thinking about this blog and I think sometime in the new year it will change – I think I will have two blogs: one for home stuff (how the girls are, etc) and another blog with all the tech stuff. That side of the blog has been more popular with a lot of searches from people needing help with microsoft programs (esp MS Project), and while I haven’t posetd any tips/tricks for awhile, I think I will start that up again, when time permits. Also I have been giving some thought to writing a book on how to use MS Project correctly and efficiently and selling it through the blog. But that is just idle thoughts at the moment as time is severely lacking to accomplish something like that.

An update to life

Been awhile since I have posted here, but to be honest nothing really interesting has been happening. Caitlin and Emma are 3.5 months old and doing gorgeously, its been about four weeks since I started the new job and things are progressively getting busier, and Agnes is still on maternity leave looking after the girls.

We’ve done a few events recently: been to a wedding, went to a 40th, and on the weekend we had a teddy bear’s picnic in the park. Bar the first item (the wedding) we took the girls with us. My parents stayed at our place the night of the wedding til we came home. And it has been the only night so far that the girls have slept the whole night through. At the moment Caitlin and Emma usually wake between 2 and 4 am for a feed, and then wake again between 5:30 and 7. At the 40th we let the girls sleep in a portacot and while their night-time routine was disturbed and Emma didn’t go to sleep til after 8pm, the night wasn’t too bad.

The last long weekend before Christmas

We had a nice long weekend, the last one before Christmas. While I will be having a month off soon, it is always nice to have time off. Saturday was spent at a gamestore attending the D&D Gameday and playing a 4e module; Sunday and Monday were spent helping dad do odd jobs around the house. A more detailed look below.

Public transport

My first week at home since the weeks of travel and as Agnes is home and might need the car, I started to investigate the option of public transport. I had briefly looked a couple of times beforehand, but didn’t look too deeply. Well that had to change – after the twins are born Agnes will always need the car due to the baby seats. So do the public transport thing now and hopefully get used to it when I need it more long-term.

It sucks! Only two days out of the four I took public transport went well. The first day with all buses, and the first day with a train. I am really not looking forward to taking public transport all the time due to its unrealableness (is that such a word?).

Bring on the weekend!

A Sunday with a difference

And no, not because it was Mother’s Day. Sunday morning dawned dark and early for Agnes & I – at 4:45. So instead of doing the usual of sitting around the house and then maybe going back to sleep, we did the unusual – Agnes came up with the idea of going down the coast to see the sun rise. So 15 minutes later saw us on the road down to the coast.

We had a wonderful morning walking on the beach. We didn’t make it in time to see the sun come up, but it didn’t matter as the clouds were in the way (typical, the one day with clouds is the day we want to see the sun rise). Took some photos (some pics can be seen on Agnes’ blog with her post of the day), and just relaxed. We left about 7am and looked for somewhere for breakfast. The smell of bacon from the beach had us assuming that the local surf club did breakfast, but that was a false start. Drove down the main drag for a bit and found a corner cafe open that did breakfast and I had something for breakfast I cannot remember having for breakfast ever – pancakes! Pancakes with banana, ice-cream and honeycomb butter. It was divine!

At home sick :(

Well this will be an unpleasant post – currently I am at home sick. Had vomiting yesterday and diarrhea today, so not very pleasant at all. The doctors think it was a case of food poisoning but I really don’t know what I have eaten that will have caused this problem. Hopefully it will finish today and all will be well tomorrow. At least it happened the week I am at home, not when I am away for work.

This has brought me to the follow conclusion -
I am a sick puppy!

I have had a cold, ear problems and now everything that has hit me in the last few days. I never used to get sick and now I seem to be getting sick all the time. I think it is time to see a doc and get a full physical and see what they say.

But on the positive side this gives me some time at home today to possibly finish up some technical posts. Shall have to see what I feel like.

I’m back!

Like the title says – I’m back! Did you miss me? ;p Boy did that cold knock me around. I was lethargic and not feeling like doing anything for more than a week even after I was over the cold. I am still not 100% as my left ear will not unblock no matter what I try. But I feel better than I was and that is the main thing.

Work was busy for the month of April and will be even worse for May. Bar the first week of May (next week) I will be away most days for the rest of the month. Hopefully Agnes won’t pop early. Speaking of Agnes you may not have heard the news yet – she has gestational diabetes. She had the test last Saturday, didn’t feel the best after it, saw the obst on Tuesday, he said the test was poor go for the full test, and Agnes failed that as well. However we were informed that with twins and two placentas the chance of getting diabetes is increased. And she just lucked out getting it. So what does this mean for her? Glucose monitoring and diet to make sure she doesn’t need the insulin, and if she does require it, have the insulin on hand. The other bad news about this situation is that it increases Agnes’ chances of Type 2 diabetes later in life.

What have I been up to since I last posted? Doing odd things around the house; went down to Sydney for a 2 day conference for work; went to Moranbah again (and I will there again in a fortnight’s time!) for work; and did some reading. Thankfully when flying for work my ears didn’t give me any problems, but then again I did use earplugs to help. Last flight I didn’t really feel like I needed them, so hopefully it will continue to improve.

With the long weekend we won’t be doing much – even though exercise is good for Agnes, she is limited in her mobility, thus we don’t get away much. Just keeping the house clean and getting more things for the bubs, and of course the all important relaxing!

That is it from me at the moment, post as soon as I can in the future.

Lack of activity

Its been about two weeks since I updated this blog, and I had the intention to post as often as I could, hopefully each day. As the weeks have gone by I have posted I have posted less frequently due to a number of factors:

• tiredness
• busyness with work
• busyness around the house
• dealing with life

So here is a bit of an update.