The countdown

yay its only 7 weeks til Christmas. That means we are off to Oz where its going to be WARM! Well hot actually, but it'll be lovely to not have the fire going or wear sweatshirts for a change! LOL The weather has really caved in today!

Been a crazy ole week, things must be getting back to normal eh?

TOM turned up Thursday. Got a bloody sweet tooth at the moment!

I took Trude to work on Friday - it was a gorgeous day and I went in a bit later. Had an optometrist appointment - needed my contacts/eyes checked, I keep having issues with my left eye, we've changed solutions, stopped wearing a certain type of eye make up so now we are playing around with the diametre of the lense - very frustrating but we are getting there and theres lots of options to explore yet. Man the technology of lenses these days is just amazing.

Saturday was a total blast - Rachel picked me up just after 8, then we picked up Jo and the three of us took off to Palmy for a girlie roadtrip. We had a great time, crashed the Palmy girls weekly meeting - spent an hour and half gas bagging like there was no tomorrow! Thanks Anne for the awesome blueberry muffins and your wonderful hospitality!

The three of us then HAD to stop at Ezibuy for a wander - I bought a couple of pairs of linen 3/4 pants and a couple of fitted (god I love fitted!) tshirts LOL. Had lunch with Janene and Jorja at Mitre10 Mega before heading to Otaki for a compulsory look around the outlet stores and arriving home around 4ish! I was knackered at the end of it LOL

Although I didnt have time to be knackered, had to get changed and head into town to meet another two couples for dinner - had Thai it was fantastic! Then went on to a farewell party - my ex-boss and his family leaving for Australia. We got home just after 11:00pm and I practically fell into bed - completely exhausted! LOL

Did I mention that I've been out walking - my "shorter" old circuit - 5.5kms - both Friday and Saturday mornings. My hammies are really tight, hip a bit sore this morning - just getting this ole stiff body moving again is taking a bit of work. On Saturday after I got home from my walk, all the blood vessels around my knees and upper calves came up - all blotchy and red it was disgusting - gave both Craig and I a hell of a fright, but we are just picking that its the circulation just kicking back in after 8 weeks of no "formal" exercise. Hopefully after a week or so of walking, everything will settle down again *fingers crossed*.

This morning I got up around 8, feel very lethargic - I reckon its the weather! Craig blew up the vacuum cleaner on Friday so we went a replaced that this morning. Then we came home to do the housework before heading down to the hospital for a catch up with the district nurses. The wounds are going great guns now - we are blown away at how much smaller both wounds are looking - very exciting - and on target for healing by Christmas. Cant imagine not being able to swim when its 35 bloody degrees!

I'm ready for a nanna nap :)