Happy Happy Happy

Well a BIG "hello" to all you people out there in cyberspace land, Well not long to go now only 4 more sleeps :0), then fly out on the saturday night. What more can i say - im as happy as a pig in shit, even happier saturday tho, LOL

Did i mention only 4 more sleeps - yeeehaa

Finishing up work on Thursday for 7 weeks, ( oooh can't wait )

Friday - Neuro's appointment ( 6 monthly checkup ), a few last minute things to do, have some family and friends down for dinner and drinks friday night

Saturday,probably runnin around like headless chooks throughout the day ( well Fiona anyways ) LOL

trip into Tullamaraine Board Plane and off we goooooooooooooo. :0)

And did i mention only 4 more sleeps to go

For now the wombat waddells off - Waving

ANOTHER almost Pre-trip Fiasco

Well a big hello out there to all you cyberspace fans, :0)
Only 2 WEEKS to go didya get that 2 WEEKS today so this time on the saturday night i will be on a plane and been in the air for an hour, with only 13 more hours till we get to our stopover in Dubai.
Anyhow at the start of the week the new school term resumed and all was going good, then on the Tuesday, Fiona got a call from our son Nathan at lunchtime from school, telling her that he had hurt his leg and it was hard to move as it was #caining him# (as he put it ) LOL
Anyways, Fiona asked him what had happened and he told her that in P.E. they were doing backflips off a small type trampoline and someone had moved the mat, so when he came down he had hit his knee on the floor and the teacher had just said to him to move the mat so no-one else would do the same thing. Never checked him or sent him off to the sick bay (whatever happened to Duty of care )mmm Not happy Jan !!!!
Well Fiona told Nathan to go to the sick bay and see the nurse before it started to swell, when he replied it already is, so with thathe went off to the sick bay. A little while later the nurse from the sick bay rang and asked us which Dr did we use as his knee was REALLY SWELLED UP and didnt look that crash hot and he could hardly walk, and thought that he may have popped his kneecap out. (Fionas thinking - great thats all we need 3 weeks out from the trip )
Well the nurse took Nathan to the Drs, and Fiona left work early to come home and make sure he was alright,by the time she got back into town she went straight to the Drs in case they were still there ( which they were - they were just coming out )so she met up with them and Nathan got into the car so he could be taken home. The Nurse had said that when they first got there even the other nurses and the Dr thought (by looking at the size of the swelling ) that yes he had Popped his Kneecap out, so organised an X-ray to check it, as it worked out he hadnt popped it out but had Badly bruised it and the swelling was due to the internal bleeding, so they Pressure Bandaged the area around his knee and put a sort of elastic type stocking on over the top of it to stop it from swelling any further ( shit i reckon the horse has already bolted, when i saw it that night ) and gave him the next day off school. So when i got home from work he was moving around the house on the crutches that i had, from when i broke my ankle some 4 years ago, and when i asked him how his knee was - well its just cainin me dad dont touch it.
Wednesday when i got home from work i looked at his kneeand it was still up like the goodyear blimp so i told him, i didnt think he should go to school on the thursday as well ( and i wasnt hearing any complaints - not that i was expecting any LOL )and we would take another look on the thursday night, Fiona rang the school on the Thursday and spoke to the year co-ordinator and told her that he wouldnt be in again that day, and Fiona told her what had taken place on the Tuesday (as she didnt know anything about it ) and that we were not happy. ( Isnt communication just wonderful at that school )
Thursday night i again checked his knee - still swollen and very hard to walk (by now hes down to 1 crutch) so i said he may as well stay home again on the friday and rest it more and Fiona was going to take him back to the Drs and get someone else to have a look at it.
Fri - Fiona took him in to see another Dr, ( had to wait 1 and 1/2 hours)Got checked and he said yes its badly bruised and theres alot of fluid in there and when he landed on his knee, he had probably done some damage but couldnt be sure until the swelling went down competely and the kneecap was probably rubbing on the joint, but he would be right to fly when we leave. ( Oh relief :0) )
Friday night the pressure bandage came off and he has a descent size bruise on the knee, with more bruising coming out on the Saturday, and probably more to come. And i never even got a piccy of it to post :0(
oh well.
Alls well in the end, Hey did i mention we only got 2 WEEKS till we go Yeeeha

For know the Wombat waddells off
Waving

Getting closer !!!!!

Well Helllloooo to all you people out there in cyberspaceland. :0)
ONLY 3 WEEKS and 3 days....... didya see that ...... : 3 Weeks and 3 days to go, till the Overseas adventure begins, or should i say National Lampoons (wombats version) European vacation. LOL
I am doing this blog tonight on the Baby Laptop that we brought for the trip, the eeeeeepc (darin) as i thought that i had better give it a try and see how my fingers and EYES stand up to the smallness of this little gizmo. So as its stands i have been in the MS peer group site chat room tonight on here, and found using this lappy a little bit more difficult but only because of the size of screen (7 inch) and small keyboard,whereas i am used to a bigger screen normally... or a normal size laptop, we also have a baby size mouse to go with it and i had problems to no-end using that but only because of my retarded fingers LOL, so i ended up changing the mouse with my wife so i have been using a normal one and shes got the baby one cos she can use it better than i, so i have made a suggestion that we take the normal mouse on the trip as well.
All in all apart from some problems using this (because of the lack of feeling and sensations i have in hands and fingers) if i take my time its not so bad, anyway my wife doesnt mind using it and doesnt have a problem so all will be good.
So only time will tell if it works out to be a good purchase for the trip. Size wise it is ideal.
Back to the trip, still looking for a hotel or B&B to stay at while in london just prior to the trip to europe as it is proving to be difficult to say the least (when your booking for 4) Fionas been looking into it for the last 4 nights with not alot of success as everywhere she has e-mailed were booked out for the times that we want, but as i am typing this we have success, with an enquiry that we sent about an hour ago, just looked at the site on the internet (mmm, Looking nice ) good reviews, so i think this ones a definite starter. - :0) Its all starting to come together. My bags packed, my sons bag - is half packed and my wife hasnt started yet :0/ lol. Yes - we are getting closer to takeoff, did i mention that we only have another 3 weeks and 3days to go ( not that im counting ) MUCH hahahaha.
Anyhow till next time - The Wombat waddells off
Wavin

The MEGA meeting. :0)

Well Gedday again, all those out there in no-mans land. Its me again, just cant stay away of late (especially as the fog lifts from the brain and i remember stuff - it sucks to have MS )

Well as you all know i have MS, and as such am part of a very big Family here within our shores of Oz, i am just a small part in an on-line MS peer support group, where we have a chat room and newslinks,and forums, which is all very good and informative, especially for those who are new to MS and are unsure - scared -or the like, sort of like in Limbo and where do i go from here feeling.

You get to meet via the chat room a whole lot of people who are in the same situation as yourself, and talk about everyday happenings wether it be MS related or just family stuff, pretty cool - and when you are feeling ill,down,or having another episode people can relate and you dont feel as alone as everyone is thinking of you and sends there best wishes etc.

Its funny that you can get into the chat room week after week or as much as you can and be chatting with all these wonderful, funny people from around the country, and some from o/seas occassionally, and as your sitting in the chair typing away you form a picture in your head of what each person looks like and the expressions on their faces as something funny is brought up., and believe me we can get some real funny shit going on in the chat room :0) LOL

Most of these people we will never get to actually meet in person as we are all very far apart from each other and dependant on circumstances ( some drive some don't etc ). a couple of weeks back in the chat room one night one of the other members was asking how things were and that she would be coming past my way on the sunday as she was heading up to Ballarat to see her parents on the weekend, i said if she lets me know what time she'd be passing thru i would go over to the footbridge which goes over the freeway and wave to her LOL, later on i sent her a PM ( personell message ) and said if she had time she was quite welcome to call in and have a coffee or tea or milo or water or whatever she drinks LOL. And it would be a break in the trip for her as it was a long drive from her home wayb out Gippsland way. Well the next morning, she rang me and asked for my address as she would be calling in to break up trip so would be glad for the break, Mega - aka Margaret arrived around the 3.30 mark and was here for around an hour - hour and a half, so it was finally good to meet and put a face to one of the people i had been chatting to for so long. :0) .

It was Fiona's ( my wifes) birthday and we had her mum and other family members around when Mega dropped in but hey all was good Mega said i should have told her and she wouldn't have called in, but i said it was fine and our meeting had been organised before all this so all was good, so she got to meet not only my wife and kids, but others from my wifes family as well LOL. She also got to meet the new Kitten as well. Anyhow after a cuppa tea and a chat it was time for her to be on her way, so some piccy's were taken buy Mega and by my wife and with that she left.

Mega aka Margaret and Me the wombat in the kitchen just prior to her leaving. :0)

For now the Wombat Waddells off ( till next time )

Waving.

Our Daughters Eighteen !!!!!!!!!!!

Hello again all you cyber geeks LOL , i can say that as i'm definately not one as i aint that adventuress in case i bust something - Ha Ha Ha (and my wife probably wouldn't be to happy either.)

Were do i start, gee last friday "27th of June" our little girl ( who in the past 12 months, i believe was related to Damien Omen. LOL ) turned #18# by golly we - are getting on arn't we. lol

Well in the last 6 months or so we have been getting on a lot better than we had, which has been good and i have settled somewhat. So we decided to let her have a small party at home. She didn't make a fuss and just went with the flow and in the end decided that yes that would be good, so she made up list of a few of her close friends ( and i thought the list was going to be endless, as she has a lot of friends) but to my surprise she didnt have all that many in the end there were alot that didnt get an invite, and i'm probably thinking she didn't want to have a massive party at the house, as it might have got out of hand. So with the list made up comprising of Family and some of her friends, i think we ended up having about 38 people ( or something like that which wasn't to bad. ) My wife spent the day on Saturday getting the food organised and setting up the Party mode outside under the back Patio with lights, streamers and all that other parafenalia that goes along with having a shin dig, while i was getting the dogs pen ( that i had built for my sons dog for when she's on heat ) setup, to keep the dogs locked up and away from the partygoers that night.

Invitations had been sent out, and all was set for the night to kick off around 7.30 pm

Everyone was looking forward to having the party go off without a hitch, and we were also going to meet her Boyfriend of the last 8 months, properly for the first time. Who by the way, had been invited to dinner a couple of times, but always seemed to not show as something else came up, so our daughter came for tea but not him, and i had heard on the grapevine that he was shit scared of me as one of Danielles friends had said to him, early on in their relationship that i was en ex biker and pretty mean.......LOL ...... just the way i like it. ( keep em on there toes.) :0)

Well Danielle had gotten to our place earlier in the afternoon, so around 7.30 people started to arrive and everything started to get underway, then Dani's boyfriend and some others who were invited showed up, while i was out the front with my eldest son moving cars onto the front lawn. The first conversation that we had went something like ( the b-friend walking up and in a deepish kind of voice ..Hi - howareya - do ya drink ? REPLY was Hi - what, yea, the front doors open everyones out the back just head on thru. With that they headed off thru the house only for me to catch up very shortly picking up my drink off the kitchen bench on the way thru and the b-friend seeing this and saying oh ya drink scotch i used to drink that but me mates got me onto the bourbon instead. By this stage i thought to myself that things wern't going to go along well at all over the course of the night,but went on regardless and didnt say to much to upset my Daughter as it was her birthday.I spoke to Johnny the B-friend a couple of times over the course of the night but was mingling with everyone else as well, so was doing the rounds, only to have my daughter come up to me later that night and ask me was i talking to johnny as he had said that he had tried to talk to me a few times and that i would answer as a yep....yep....yep....to whatever he was asking or talking to me about. I did reply to her that i was talking to him and that i was also doing the rounds and chatting with everyone else as well. so all was well

Over the course of the night Photos were taken of most people including photos with Mum,Dad,Daughter and Boyfriend, (so im not holding any grudges...or i'd have kicked him out LOL )

Later on in the night, the Karaoke got a kick start and Fiona (my wife) who was pretty happy (if ya know what i mean ) was inside singing away, during this time johhny was in the house and got an earful from Mother re looking after our Daughter (hehehe) he's had a few drinks and starts to carry on about how he loves our daughter and that we dont understand to which Fiona said how long do you think her father and i have been together......25 years, which he replied.....oh you do understand and sauntered back off to his mates. (Aargh kids nowadays think they're the only ones who know anything about this stuff :0) )

Anyhow the night went along quite well, no gatecrashers, no fights, people were having a good time food and drink was had by all and the night ended well around 1.30 in the morning.

The following day when our Daughter called in, she thanked us again for having the party for her and she was wrapped with it and everything for the night. So alls well that ends well.

Oh well only one more to go and thats Nathan who will be 18 in 3 more years.

" oooooooohhhhhhhh "

Where does the time go, it only seems like yesterday that they were only babies, or for that fact we were 18 ..... :0)

Anyhow thats it for now as the Wombat waddells off ( at a very slow pace )

Waving :0/

Another Mouth to feed :0) Meow

Well hooowdy to all you folk out there in cyberspace land, haven't had much new happen over the last 3 weeks or so........ OR HAVE I
Well yes, to start with around 3 weeks ago i got home from work and there was a kitten sitting in the bushes near the front door meowing away, so i had a look and it was very young probably about 5 or 6 weeks old, so being not such a cat lover i got the watering can and poured a little bit of water over it hopeing that it would go back from where it once had cometh :0). Well it took off up around the corner and hid behind the bins for a little bit then came back to the same spot and plonked its bum back downin the wet area again ( dumb kitten :0) ). So i headed back inside the house. When my wife got home from work she had a look at it while i was standing behind her ( saying dont you pick up that cat or it'll never leave ) when she picked it up she said your all wet, so i told her what i had done in the hope it would take off, well she picked it up and took it in the house to dry it off,(with me saying dont you feed it - put it back outside ). Well once it was dry she went outside with it and walked down the road where she then let it go. needless to say it followed her back home so she picked it back up and took it further away before letting it loose, then ran back to the house via the nature strip, but the kitten had started to follow her then got sidetracked by something in the air under the streetlight, so she then came back inside for the night.
The following Day when i left for work, i had a very quick look around but couldn't hear or see it so i headed off to work. On the way home i had been thinking about it on and off for most of the day and had thought that if it was still there i would have to take it inside and give it a drink and something to eat as by that stage it would have been about 2 days ( That i figured )that it wouldn't have had any nourishment, and for a kitten it would have been starving, and i'm not that heartless a bloke that i would let that happen. Well got home and the next door neighbor was out the front having a smoke and said ( theres a cat in my bushes somewhere meowing i can hear it but not see it,) i just grinned. With that he knelt down and looking it the shrubs said there it is, i said is it a grey colour, he said yep, i then said ( well it was at our house but now it yours ) and laughed. Well he doesn't lie cats either so he wasnt going to pick it up, he just started to stir it up, in the meantime my wife had got home from work and came over, so she picked it up to calm it down abit so i said we may as well bring it in and give it a drink etc, and keep an eye out to see if anyone advertises a missing kitten. ( High hopes LOL )
Night 1:- all went well, After giving her a drink ( which she gulped down ) gee i think she was thirsty. we gave her a little bit of food. She ( the kitten ) knows kitty litter and used it, and is the most friendliest little thing, i'm sitting in my recliner chair and she just sits on my lap and goes to sleep, happily purring away, a bed was made up for her in the laundry and thats where she went for the night.
Day 2 :- Got some more kitten food and more kitty litter, and some play toys for her, had a bit of a play with her. ( shes a funny bugger and quick darts around the house like a flash of lightening ) fed her at dinner time and she used the litter tray again. ( had been using it all the time) and for a small kitten when she does number two's - " pooey " - she stinks LOL. anyhow after more plays etc it was time for bed so i decided to take her and put her on our bed where i figured she could sleep for the night being that she was so good. Well after getting into bed she was chasing our feet ( which were under the dounna ) around the bed as we kept moving from one side to the other, she did some quite funny little jumps and rolls and pounces, so after a little while she laid down at the end of the bed and went to sleep. Early next morning i awoke to a purring around my ear drum ( she had decided to move on up the bed where we were and go to sleep ) and believe me as your laying there asleep and its quiet and you are woken by a purring that gets louder and Louder and LOUDER as it get closer - its quite funny (especially as the purring becomes a dull Roar when shes right above your ear. Well finally left her be and went back to sleep, only to wake later and wonder where she went, to find that shes asleep between the 2 pillows.
Day 3 :- Same as previous day
Day 4 :- Same
Day 5:- well was awoken again by the young Lioness roaming to the top end of the bed, but this time she was laying on the top of my pillow and slapped me over the head with her paw whilst purring into my ear, i moved her off and went back to sleep, only for her to do the same thing an hour and a half later - purring in ear like a bull horn, light paw slap -resting the paw on my face i woke and moved her again, went back to sleep. About two hours later the same thing she has wandered up to the top of the bed all the while the purring is getting louder and louder ( by this stage i'm awake but just laying still ) as she gets to my pillowwalks up it lays down purring right in my ear and brings the paw down to rest on the side of my face again, as i started to move she must have got a fright, as the claws came out (ouch) didnt scratch just claws out while paw still sitting there on the side of my face. so i lifted her and put her back down the end of the bed and went back to sleep. Next thing i knew the alarm went off, Christ i was buggered all day :0)
Days have gone by, by now and the wife has had her nights where the kitten goes and wakes her, (hehehe)
So where are we at now 3 weeks later, the kitten will come and sit on my lap while i am watching TV and go to sleep, much to my wifes annoyance ( as i was the one who poured water on her, and she's the one who feeds it ) LOL And i'm not doing to bad for someone who hates cats, and i'm the one who took her to bed with us BLAH BLAH BLAH :0) LOL
Well - Yes i have taken a shine to her, shes a funny little bugger and i dont mind her sitting on my lap or purring in my ear and all those other funny little things that she does.
As for her name well we couldn,t decide there was a few things mentioned but i had said for a kitten and with whats shes eating her stomachs getting bigger and bigger (shes getting a little puddy guts, so i started calling her Pud and so did my wife. after about the 2nd week some ginger was starting to come out around the back of her ears andsome down her back, so my wife said we should call her Meg! ( Ginger Megs ) i still call her Pud the wife calls her Meg, she calls her i call her LOL, but i have noticed that my wife does revert back to calling her Pud, so all is good LOL.
No-one has listed a kitten thats missing (Shock Horror) but we have come across an add, that was looking for a free home for a kitten that had been dumped at their place which isnt to far from our place, time frame was day before we found ours, its a male, very friendly,litter friendly and grey in colour, and around the same age. MMM maybe Puds brother, i'd say someones been dumping their cats litter off around the town. So i have now said that if anyone comes looking for a lost kitten , just say no - we haven't seen a lost kitten (as what we have, has now become part of the house .
So to sum up our Zoo, We have - 2 Bearded Dragon Lizards, 1 kitten, 2 dogs, 1 horse and 2 birds out in the aviary.

An ammendment to the zoo which i forgot about, the 2 birds (1 budgie and 1 cockatiel died)

In sons room on his computer , little sticky beak LOL

For now - the Wombat waddels off
WAVING