Heat, stress, life......

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> Our air-conditioning has broken down today and its 105f, maybe more,

> feels like 150f.

I feel for you dearest! Hey, come and play with us, the smoke haze is

clearing.....

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. There is very little fire threat left

down my part of Canberra now. The nearest fires are 40kms away - on the

other side of town it's only 10km. My life went (CF related) pear shaped on

Thursday, and didn't get much better until today (Sunday).

Sian started coughing on Thursday - was running a bit of a temp. GP gave me

a script for antibiotics to fill if she got any worse. Thus far, I haven't

needed to fill it. Friday I was running around like a headless chook nearly

all day. I drove over to the other side of town to lodge my enrolment for

the course I want to do at university this year, only to be told that the

course was closed, and the person I needed to talk to about getting in

anyway was away until Feb 5th. Applications close Feb 3rd!! Needless to

say I was majorly ticked off!

Friday night we had dinner with the outlaws, and the girls stayed for a

sleepover so Doug & I could go see Lord of the Rings Two Towers. My mother

in law decided to tell me that the reason Sian has recurrent bowel blockages

is because I don't force her to eat everything on her plate, and let her get

down from the table when she has had enough to eat. She also told me that

my children are spoilt, and that if they won't eat what is on their plates

they should be sent to bed. This is all said in front of the children.

This is from the woman who said that if Doug had never married me, she would

never have had to deal with CF. I didn't hit her - aren't you proud of me?

Needless to say, I am still deeply hurt by the whole shebang, and could

cheerfully cut my mother in law into little pieces and dance about on the

remains.

While I'm venting here, does anyone else have in laws with absolutely no

idea? Here we are, dealing with fire and water restrictions & all the rest

of it. Guess what my mother in law packed for her evacuation? Did you

guess photos, irreplaceable memory triggers, or maybe important paperwork?

Wrong - she packed two of her five sewing machines. This woman has no

understanding of the importance of memories and life experiences.

Everything in her life is judged on how much it costs, and whether it looks

good enough to impress other people. If it didn't make me so angry, I'd be

so terribly sorry for her. The other thing she told me off for on Friday

night is the fact that I haven't finished landscaping the front of my house.

I don't give a fetid dingo's kidney what the front of my house looks like.

I am more concerned with whether I've played with my children today, whether

we've created another deposit in our memory archives. The only memories

she's given my children this week are her yelling at me!

Anyway, enough of my negative attack. Hopefully I can stop bitching now and

move on to something constructive!

Hey Torsten, whereabouts in Germany are you? What are you folks doing

around Christmas 2004? (I'm planning Christmas in Vienna that year!! Talk

about adding memories to the archives......)

Much love to all,

-

Mum to Cate 10yrs wocf and Sian 6yrs wcf, asthma, GERD and ADD?

Canberra Australia-