Beck, I'm crossing all my fingers and toes, and sending all my prayers, thoughts and good vibes your dad's way... And yours... Hang in there and don't stress yourself please!

Amanda. I am jealous. Next time, don't go anywhere without taking all of us with you. We promise we won't be in the way

Michelle - oh dear. You've moved so much and changed jobs so many times... I think it would be easier to move home though - there is less adjustment and disorientation at the new place? And I'll bet if you ever wanted to come back to this place your boss would welcome you with open arms... I'm sure he/she understands the situation you're in...Your mum is visiting this week isn't she?

Laurette - I'm looking forward to getting your DVD on wed We've started to distribute ours already. Did you guys have a nice long weekend? My cousin in Canberra enjoyed a long weekend...Again, so jealous!

Hangin out for November.....Melbourne cup public holiday!

Sending positive vibes Bec! Hope it is all ok!

Sending positive vibes Beck!

Chloe, I forgot to bring the DVD to work, so wont be posting it until tomorrow, I apologise

Our tickets are booked for Perth, we leave 28th Oct come back 6th Nov, then when we get back he leaves 10th Nov and I leave 11th Nov (his date has been changed, again, last week it was 29th Nov )

Oh gawd Michelle - that's getting so close It's good to have dates though - I really hope that you enjoy your holiday

No probs Laurette! I'll just have to wait patiently before seeing your gorgeous beautiful wedding.....


Dum di da....

Oh Michelle - thank goodness you know what's happening now Now you can move forward! Yay for you and keep us updated with the move etc....

Off to go to our first dancing class since March... We're going to perform at the end of year ball and we haven't done this dance since March 18.... Scary

Ohh Chloe how exciting doing your wedding dance again. Have fun!

We are babysitting a doberman or rotweiler dog at the moment. Its bloody huge and muscly(but is staying outside, he isnt coming in to wreck my new lounges). My cat hasnt been downstairs since the dog arrived, we've had to take her kitty litter tray and food bowls upstairs to her hehe. Poor cat.

Awwww poor piggy!!!!

Ark! Big dogs freak me out. SOrry, but I wont be coming to visit while it's there! I really dont like those big scary ones...

Chloe, that's awesome about the dance! You will be sensational - I know.

Chloe I think you will be fine with that dance. You looked awesome on the video I saw!

Amanda

Hehehehehehehehehe

Wish you girls coulda seen us last night - sooooooo frckin funny. Amazingly, I remembered the dance, but Alex would be ok then get to a bit where he wasn't and I'd be like "that way - no turn!" It was hilarious! We were teasing eachother all the way through

Thanks for the vote of confidence girls!


Wow, today I feel like I've been run over by a truck. Feelin really sluggish - might take some sudafed. It's going to be 30 degrees here in Melb today!

Oh Chloe, that would have been funny! I am going to the pub for lunch today, I am sure that it's going to almost put me to sleep! he he he. It's hot outside here today too, so I hope that we can get a table under the shade to make it better to sit outside... Cant wait to get a massive icy glass of coke into me...

oh pregnancy does wonderful things...

Wow we were second from the top of the Twins, usually we are down the bottom, good work girls. Its going to be 35 here today, but Im in A/C til home time so its ok. Glad your dance went ok Chloe!

I wish that I could turn the air con on in here, but other people dont love the cold as much as me. So I will just sit here in a lather with a headache.

I think it is only going to be 25 here today.

Im just busy trying to book flights to perth to see mum and dad in December! WOOHOO!

ooh, Perth! That will be interesting - I have never been there. I hope that you can get some cheap Amanda!

we just paid $800 per person to get to Perth for our holiday - can't wait!

What sort of stuff are you going to do over there Michelle?

Just relax. We are booked at Duxton Hotel in Perth which is meant to be nice, we want to go to Rotnest Island, and I wanted to go to Monkey Mia and see the dolphins but thats about 9 hours north of Perth. I started a thread in GCC asking for suggestions and the Perth-ites were very helpful. We havent had our honeymoon yet, so ideally just want to relax, drink lots, spend quality time together etc. We can only go for a week or so (28th Oct - 5th Nov) but I am looking forward to the break.

I am so sure that you will have a wonderful time - Nothing else to worry about except each other.

Laurette are you ok? I read that you passed out??? Take care of yourself xo



British Army

I think I have posted this on I-do before, I think its a crack up. Its the british army in Iraq. No wonder they did the video, they must be bored out of their brains.

Perth sounds really cool (or hot)!

I've always wanted to go to Monkey Mia!

Hope you have fun.

Mark and I are going on a holiday soon as well, don't know where or when at this stage, but it'll be a 'last holiday before bubs' kinda thing. It'll be somewhere along the bay here maybe Rye, Portsea Sorrento or something. I want a room with a huge spa but i've read hot spas are a big no-no during prenancy do you know if this is true Laurette?

Beck

Laurette!?!?!!?

You passed out?!?!?!?!

OMG - you ok?!??!?!!?

Yeah, try and stay away from them Beck I think - getting your body temperature up too high is bad for the baby, not the actual spa itself - it's the fact that it's hot. If you just have a normal bath, with warm water, then that's fine.

Yeah, I fainted on Wednesday. Michelle, have you been stalking my Jan mummies thread? I think that I just got a bit hot and tired, bent over to take my work shoes off and all the blood must have run to my head or something and I blacked out, but woke up straight away as I hit the ground, if that makes sense. I'm OK. The doc wasnt worried, thought that maybe my blood sugar had just dropped too low.

Take care of yourself yummy mummy. And Chess Jr!

Im thinking of chess Jr now actually....well, the fact he/she is the size of a hotdog. I'd kill for a hotdog. I have a bad hangover. Too much wine last night. Urgh.

Michelle you will have to tell me all about Perth. I will need some hints, though no doubt mum and dad will have it all planned!

Amanda

Urhg, hotdog...

There is a story in the preg complications/health issues forum about a girl that delievered her bubba at 23w2d - that was like on Tuesday if it was me! I cant imagine that my bubba would be anywhere near ready to survive yet...

A friend of ours had a premmy baby at 23 weeks. She (baby) is about 2 yrs old now - she is very very small but she made it! At the time, she was the most premmy baby in Australia (?)... Not sure but it was significant

The baby was so small, the husband's wedding ring would go all the way up the baby's thigh - that's how small and tiny she was. What a miracle!

So glad to hear you're ok Laurette - eat more sugar!! Eat more sugar!!! Lol

Perth - ooooh Perth is beautiful!!!

Number one priority place to go - Margaret River wineries!!!! Gosh, I really am an alcoholic!

Wow Chloe, that's another amazing story! I just hope that mine stays in there a bit longer!

Last night we went to a cocktail party for the boys going o/s. Mum is here now also. Neils fam wil be up in a week or 2 to attend the official farewell ceremony the minister for defence and possibly PM will be there. Im glad his family will be there, I didnt want to go alone. When I picked mum up at the airport I got a little teary thinking that in almost 4 weeks I will be there saying goodbye to N.

Hope your all having a great weekend, I need to go lie down still feeling seedy from said cocktailparty.

Ohh.

I am hung over.

Poor Chloe - I hope you recover as fast as I did. We went to sushi train for lunch and it perked me right up.

Heheh michelle I doubt if I could have handled any kind of fish this morning - let alone raw fish@@@

Well, I have done nothing today.

Nothing - nada zip. Feel like I have wasted the day away tomorrow is Monday. Work day.

How sad.

Cooking roast chicken though and it smells so damn fine but not ready for another half an hour.

Off to more drinks tonight

Well Chloe they say the way to break a hangover is to just keep drinking! We had roast chook the other night it was great. Last night we went on a sunset cruise and had oysters and prawns (didnt get rash from oysters today so must be over my allergy) then chicken satay and grilled barramundi with mango relish, then fruit platter. Delish.

We did roast chook last night too!

I am at work marking assignments

I hate it...

At least there is no gym this arvo cause I went this morning!

Good girl Amanda - very proud of you!

No hangovers here, only for Glenn! Michelle, that food sounds AMAZING!

Hi

My name is Chloe and I have remained sober for 1 whole day.

Well, the day's not over yet but hey, its getting dark now so I reckon that counts

xoxo

Chloe.

Warning, whinge below dont read if you dont want...

I had a good day today, took mum to the wilflife park here which was good, they have crocs (of course) tigers, lions, leopard, monkeys etc. Then we went for some retail therapy which was nice. Then ever since N got home Ive been in tears. Im having a mental health day I think. Crying is very exhasting. Oh and my boss had a turn at work today so I have to work now, I was meant to be on holidays with mum, but oh well. I only have 14 more work days til I leave anyway. So much to do, so little time. I feel like my head might explode sometimes I am quite stressed out and uber emotional. 4 weeks and 4 days til he leaves me... 4 weeks 5 days til I leave Darwin....

Oh dear Michelle (((((((((((((((((HUGE HUGS))))))))))))))))))))

I am so sorry to hear you sounding so down... I dont know what to say/what to do for you. Just know that anytime you need to get anything out, we're here for you, OK?

xxxxx

Michelle - you know we are here for you. You poor thing! Big hugs coming your way!

Amanda

Im sorry, I need to not post when Im having a bad day, not helpful to anyone. Im ok today have been flat out at work because Im here alone, but its making time go quick which is good.

Hope your all ok
xo

Glad to hear that you're keeping busy. How's your mum?

I came home from work at 1.30 and slept all afternoon... was good. I was so exhausted. Just hope that I will be able to actually sleep through tonight. I dont think that I have slept more than about 4 hours a night for the past week and it's wearing me down.

Chloe, promise that I havent forgotten about the DVD, I just forget every morning when I am leaving the house!

Aw Laurette thats no good re: the sleep. Do you know why your not sleeping? Uncomfortable or thinking too much? Are you able to take anything to help you sleep? I guess not Hope you sleep better tonight *insert lullaby and nice comfy inviting bed for Laurette*

Oh yeah, we are 1/4 of my wedding cake :'( it was soo delish, I am trying to resist defrosting the rest and eating it all. N's mum and step dad are coming up next week for the farewell parade, so we shall eat more then..

Oh yum! When I go on maternity leave, I am so going to start defrosting mine! So I can EAT IT ALL

I dont really know what causes it Michelle. When you're pregnant, you dont have so much deep sleep, but your REM sleep (the light sleep where you dream) increases, so you are sleeping lightly more and having more dreams, and waking more. Just the way it is. Sunday night, I dreamt that MIL got eaten by an orca (killer whale) - I even felt really bad about it.

mmmm wedding cake! we still have half of our middle layer and the full top layer! Argh!

Hope you get some better sleep tonight mumma laurette!

BOOKED PERTH TICKETS YESTERDAY! YAY!

mmm, cake.

I just found out that some of the girls from work here are taking me out for lunch for my upcoming birthday Makes me feel special

-Yesterday I changed our Perth tickets to have a 2 night stop over in Alice Springs on the way home. Cost me $580 to change but oh well, we wont get to see Uluru any other time.

-Neil is away at the moment til next Friday.

-My mum leaves here 1am Thursday morning, and his mum gets in at 2am Thursday morning... he gets back Friday hopefully, I cried when he left

-His farewell parade is next Sat, I hope to get some pics of him looking fine in his uniform. Im sure I will cry at the parade too.

- I have 2 weeks left at work.

Hope your having a great birthday Laurette

Have a happy birthday Laurette!!

So sorry you're having such a tough time with Niel leaving Michelle.

Not much new with me. Belly is growing at a rediculous rate, so i guess that means all is still good with Munchkin. I've got my first pregnancy class at the hospital in roughly 10 days. I'll get my first bounty bag then! Yay for free samples! I start my antenatal/birthing classes on the 15th Feb. Currently waiting for my next antenatal appointment so my obstetrician can give me another referral to have my morphology scan, then i'll (fingers crossed) be able to finally find out if it's a boy or girl.

Beck

Beck glad to hear all is going well with bubs. How is your dad? Any more news?

Beck - your news is so exciting! Are you going to tell people the sex, or keep it secret? I bet you look gorgeous! Photos of the BUMP please!

Michelle, keep your chin up darls and remember we are here for you. Enjoy your holiday to Perth and savour every moment. Try not to think too much about Neil leaving and enjoy the break. I think the stop in Alice Springs will be fantastic - take lots of pics.

Nothing new here....just marking assignments and working. Urgh.

AManda