joeychen

Mum is doing better this morning. She had a rough night and afternoon yesterday with the pain, and I felt bad leaving her last night :(
It seems to be much more under control today tho, and she really notices how much better she feels. 
She's been sitting up in her chair all morning, and even took a walk around the ICU. 
Just waiting until a bed in the regular ward opens up and then she'll be moved out.

went into the city early today to watch my favourite almost 10 yr old at her skating competition. She came in first in her group, yay!

After that, I meandered around and did some shopping. It was a beautiful day up in the city. Got a few shirts and some makeup. It was nice to just wander around on my own, hadn't done that in ages.

ok, now off to convince Chris we need Chinese for tea. Green beans, mmmm.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48915102@N00/sets/72157622060515552/

great day, beautiful weather, awesome cars!!

Hmm, I always seem to be posting depressing things lately. I'll have to do a happier post later...

http://laughingsquid.com/goodbye-to-tom-kennedy-art-car-artist-activist-teacher-prankster/

the old one (well, it was only 2 yrs old, so that kinda sucked) crapped out it's motherboard. Looked on Costco.com and they had a nice HP refurbished laptop for $500, clicky cliky and now it's here.  Gotta try and pull all the stuff of the old one, but that's a project for Chris :)
This is actually now the nicest, fastest, biggest storage computer in the house, haha.

so, Xmas was nice. Dinner turned out great! My first attempt at the family recipe Cauliflower Gratin turned out quite respectably! We still have leftovers tho, that should really just get tossed.

Sunday night after Xmas we went over to a gathering at Chris's friends place, and lots of nice spicy food and too much drink and I was not happy on Monday and went home after 1/2 hour. Don't know if it was too much excess, or mild food poisoning, but ugh. Being sick while driving, not good (sorry, TMI? haha)

A result of being sick is that my back muscles between my shoulder blades have been f*ed, that and also I fell asleep weirdly on my back Tuesday night for a couple of hours. We went over to an ArtCar friend's place for NYE, and it was nice, but I was in so much pain I only lasted till 10:45 then we went home.
The next day we went into the city for a party at a scooter friend's place, and she had a gal there doing chair massages, which I did, and which helped! She's a massuese that will come to your place, so I actually had a massage at home tonight and it was lovely! So nice not to have to go somewhere afterwards! Very reasonable rates too. Yesterday my back felt a lot better, but then I musta slept weird again cause this morning till 11am it was horrible! I was so relieved when it finally loosened up. So the timing of the massage was great.

This last weekend was great. Got a suprising amount done! Cleaned the bathroom. Went thru the bookcase in our room and culled out 4 boxes of book to sell/donate. Chris and I also made major strides in cleaning up the garage, it's looking so much better now and we're not even done! I'm hoping to be able to get rid of the wardrobe in the kitchen and move that stuff (including the bike gear - jacket and helmets) into the garage. Then the kitchen will be so much more open!

BWO (Big Wet One) rally this weekend, and forecast looks nice, phew! Yeah, BWO is the theme, but I'd still rather not ride in the rain. It's an inter-club rally, which is always nice. We're hosting the alley cat race on Sat.

we had a great time in Klamath Falls, it was nice to go somewhere where there wasn't that much to do, as it meant that we did plenty of relaxing!
Mum is doing OK on her drugs (I haven't really mentioned it, but her kidney cancer spots in her lungs are big enough to treat, one is growing faster than the others and she's needed to start treatment), the typical side effects, but nothing too unmanageable, but she is tired a lot.
Lava Beds was fun, went down into quite a few caves. Also had really good italian food, there's a hidden gem restarant in KFalls, woo!

We did go see Australia of course! It was fun, although I was hoping for more out of it. It was like two movies, the first half was campy, but kinda not good campy, it just didn't seem to fit that much. There were also some weird effects where you could tell it was like a fake background, and I was thinking, Dude, you filmed up in the Top End, you had the beautiful locations, what's with weird look! Anyway, overall it was good. It wasn't like I couldn't NOT see it! :)

back at home. Cases all unpacked, and laundry in.

We got to hear the news while we were at the Air Newzealand lounge in Sydney (there's no United lounge there, and thankgoodness, cause it was schweet!) so it was OK for me to get on the place to come back!
Bummed about Prop8 tho. Haters.

Slept some on the plane, it was again not full, and I booted Chris to the row before us, so we each had 3 seats to spread out in. Now need to stay up to a semi regular time, then it's back to work tomorrow, boo.

I'm home! 
My cousins and their kids met us at the airport, I cried :)
Yay! Had a yummy b'fast of all bran and raisin toast.

Off to the central market, my favourite place in Adelaide, and to consult with the guy who's going to do my tattoo on monday.

Reunion tonight, eek!

will post pics once i take some.