• 4Jul 09

  When times get tough and your tired. How I manage.

  Hi there all. I apoligise for the long break between blogs and this time, I am not going to promise that I will be back more because life seems intent on throwing me curve balls at every chance. I will explain.

  Money has always been really tight around our house but many people are in the same boat so you just learn to adjust the best you can. To make things easier on us, I starting doing all of the overtime that I could get including working saturdays. But after a while, you start to get tired and you think that you might have to cut back a little. Still, the pay check at the end of the week was always good so it made it worth while. With my wife working part time, things were starting to head in the right direction for us.

  Then about three weeks ago, my wife was complaining os a sore arm. Now I just thought that it was a bruise but it continued to worse so we went to the doctors where she was ordered to take blood tests. A call a couple of days later told her to come in. Not a good sign. The doctor went on to explain that she had an acute form of arthritis. She was put on medication to reduce the pain and help with getting more movement back. So for the next wekk or so, her arm was in a sling because she couldnt move it. That meant that she struggled to get dressed by herself or take a shower. It also meant that she had to take time of work. Now because it is all part-time, there is now sick pay.

  People who have been reading my blogs for a while now will know that the goverment screwed us over a while back meaning that we lost all of our concession benifits. That means that we have to pay full price for medications. This is a struggle with the normal amount of medications that she is on but because of the shoulder, it added an extra burden to the tune of $300 for two weeks on top of the other medication. That meant that what ever we had manage to save because of all the overtime was gone.

  She is feeling better now but still has to go see a specalist. She is also getting back to a little work which will help.

  What effect did this have on me. Well, it meant that I had to wrk as many hours as I could to help pay for things and then get home and doo all of the house work, help my wife shower and drive her where she needed to go. My parents were fantastic in helping out as well.

  As far as work goes, I have more or less, been put in charge with a big construction project but it sometimes feels like I am working with ine hand tied behind my back because I am also needed to work in the factory where I am duel 2nd in charge. Many times, I get told that certain parts are not my job but it usually turns out that if I don't do them, it doesn't get done. I am the type of person who wears his heart on his sleeve and I feel that I have thrown everything I have into this project to get things to where they need to be but I get the feeling that it sometimes falls of deaf ears or no one notices.

  By the time I get home, I am exhausted but that doesnt mean I cant watch a little tv. hehehehehe.

  I am going to hopefully be writing a blog soon about what I have been watching but I must go now.

  I would like to thank a few people for there support though. Aaron, Kane, Mum and Dad and of course my wife.

  Take Care.

  • Posted Jul 4, 2009 2:34 pm PT
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• 8May 09

  Passing the 100 blog milestone and another brother gets married.

  Hi there, I hope that you are all well. Well, I am slowly but surely getting back on here a bit more reguarly but I still have a way to go before I am back to to my old usuage.

  Well first things first I have officially passed the 100 blog mark. It really did suprise me. I really cant believe I have had so much to write about. What I am thinking of doing is going through all the blogs that I have wrote and try and do a time line off all the things that have happened in these pages. I think that it mght be a bit ambitious as it would take a lot of time and at the moment, I just dont have much time to spare so before I even start it, it might just have to go on the back burner. lol

  Last weekend, I also attended another brother of mine's wedding. I was a groomsman for him and everything went off without a hitch.The weather was wonderful and everything else you can imagine went awesomely. I would like to take this oppertunity to wish them all the best and I hope that there honeymoon is going really well (They went to Hawaii). So to Damien and Hannah. All the best and remember we love you both.

  On a sad note, I would like to pass on my condolences to the families of Bea Arthur and Dom DeLuise who have both recently passed away. I have very fond memories of them both and they will be sorely missed. R.I.P.

  I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend.

  Take Care.

  • Posted May 8, 2009 1:06 pm PT
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• 25Apr 09

  Its my birthday, where have I been? The search parties can return. lol

  Hi there everyone, I hope that you are all well. Well this is becoming a regular occurance. By that I mean noit being on the sight for weeks at a time. I always aim to get on here as often as I can but things in my life are up in the air at the moment I am just waiting for them to settle down. Before I go into details of that, I thought that I would let everyone know that on Monday the 27th, it is my birthday. I will be turning 30. To some of you, I am still young and to others, I am getting old. I must say that my body doesnt know what age it wants to be though. Somedays, I feel like I am 50 when others, I feel like a 10year old with all of the energy.

  So what has kept me so busy lately. Work for one has been flat out. I really cant complain because of these economic times but I am buggered. I have had lots of responsability lately and even though it has been great that I have been trusted with this, it also brings headaches. So I have had fairly long days and when I get home, all I really want to do is ly on the couch and do nothing.

  Money problems also seem to be hiding around every corner with the goverment being a pain in the bum but I am glad to say that we are starting to get on top of things.

  The things I miss most about not being on this site much is all of the friends that I have made. Everyone of you is special and that is the reason that I keep coming back here.

  I am thinking about retiring from all of my guides as I no longer have the time to spend on them. I breaks my heart to do this as I have put a lot of work into the guides over the past year or so but I do feel that they will be better of in other peoples hands who do have the time for them. Does anyone know how I go about retiring from them?

  I have said this many times before but I am hoping to be around here a lot more soon but at the same time, dont hold your breath cause I dont kno whats around the corner.

  I hope everyone has a great weekend.

  Take Care.

  • Posted Apr 25, 2009 1:35 pm PT
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