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Hahaha @reciprocity.... Actually tinned fruit...stewed fruit was recommended for the first 2 weeks...only one who cooks in the house so yeah nah...just got some tinned stuffs.

I really do live in the lucky country. So far, since I fell ill last Friday my out of pocket expenses have been $18.60 in medications, $40 in parking and some food supplies that wouldn't normally be in my house. We have social health down under, for everyone. We pay an additional tax each year and it covers medical. Something's are deemed elective, cos you will live without them and there are wait lusts, but most things are covered. I'm home this morning, just having a boring black tea after a second little trip in to Hossy due to some complications, dunno maybe sending me home less than 24hrs after the first op wasn't the best way to go...anyway...all good now on the mend...feet up, very tired but I am off for an iron transfusion on Monday which should perk me up a bit.

I will say first, these are not ones you have used before.... But I think 1 is the lie.... I know you have a penchant for collecting religious ephemera and I like to think they 3 is true, there are many gifts to be found in random places...1, I just don't see you as the formalised structured religion gal...although it's certainly within your wheelhouse to go to all the religious services just because they all have their own beauty at times and watching others and how they worship is rewarding in itself in a way.

Thanks everyone. First day home...and becsuse we are scaling back iso my parents insisted I go there for the day...where I got the joy of homeschooling...today's class were PE...where she went for a 45min walk to the lake (pond) and back....science where we did some elemental chemistry and I got to explain isotopes and mass numbers and protons and electrons....Fit for life (fake sport, its about diet and work life balance and tai chi and yoga and meditation and emotional health and I can't believe it's a subject) where she had to cook something healthy and record the process and feed people...dunno how she turned my 30min quick feed pumpkin soup into a 2 hour marathon but apparently it was lovely (not on the list of food i get yet)...then watch footy with my dad...he has been taping old games that my team won for me because we have had no footy....and then he made me laugh do much I might have bust some stitches.

Ding ding ding....winner winner chicken dinner....Saz is right... 1. True...even though I have never seen it snow I have been "to the snow" as we say down here...Victoria has ski fields, but they are often the result of snow machines....I have been to the snow 5 times in my life and I skied, snowboarded and tobogganed but I have never seen it snow...I have however had ski patrol haul my broken arse down the mountain. 2. True...after going skiing on the Darwin dam (croc free I was told) we were going this drinking game/inner tube jackass thing which resulted in me being knocked unconcious, my mates got me out of the water, made sure I was concious and left me to sleek off me severe concussion in the not so shade of the tree...my knees and shins were so badly sunburnt I had to spend nearly a week in hossy. 3... LIE....I have only ever windsurfed on a lake or in the bay and nothing was ever dislocated windsurfing. Although I did once cut my leg and get alluvial gold in it and it healed over and I had this sparkly patch on my skin until my mum noticed and scrubbed it out with a steal brush whole she was getting out gravel the same way from another fall.

@Sazerac ??? @Doreensfree ??? @WeegieWoman??? @Sslip??.

False.. tnp has a cuppa tea every day.

Right now I'm sitting on my chair in my lounge minus one gallbladder and with a repaired hernia. 2 for 1 who could ask for better than that. Didn't even know I had a hernia. 20hrs after a 4 hour surgery and I was discharged. But omg, besides feeling like someone's just used my tummy as a punching bag I am pain free. Wonderful nurses, great doctors, I love my socialist health service. @Boo there will be no farmers walks for 6 weeks as I have a 5kg limit...come on who am I kidding, there will be no farmers walks. If I didn't forget how you do a secret squirrel box I'd give you the gross op notes...the kids not talking to me because I didn't ask them to keep the stone. At least they got it out before it burst. On the us side, the post op nurse is putting me in her book...when I was coming out of the general she asked if I knew where I was..."of course I bloody know where I am, post op at fricken Sunshine Hossy after just having me gallbladder out" and then I was off with the fairies again....next time I was semi lucid she informed me they found a hernia while in there and fixed that to, do I said "Twofer, gotta love a twofer"...god only knows what else FL from my mouth but she thanked me for the laughs as they wheeled me back to the ward.

Acute colecistitis .... Fasting for surgery. Might get bumped if an emergency comes in. No comications, back to work Friday or Monday.

Still waiting on the ultrasound...so fasted all day, 6pm...no can't do the scan until tomorrow...oh well getting by....little old Yaya Maria went home and my new roomie is a bit of a nightmare...telly on full ball, speaking to the nurses like they are her servants, just rude and demanding and obnoxious. Probably Gunna be another long night.

Still in limbo, spent the night on a ward alternating between walking laps and sitting in a chair. Just watched the sunrise over my city. So I am waiting for a ultra sound. The surgeon who admitted me said without the ultrasound his guess will be surgery today, tomorrow or 3-4 weeks...the charge nurse from last night thinks it will be sooner rather than later. I feel ok except for pain...and tired.

5 attempts, 2 with the ultrasound And we have an IV.

Sitting in casualty at Sunshine Hossy (possible gallstones) watching the jacks interview a bloke who they think was in a hit n run....never a dull moment when ya a Westie. It kinda sucks I won't go to me local Hossy cos I know nurses there and I don't like their version of confidentiality.

Dunno if I'm a fan of the old mother's Day....it was good when my grandma was here....and I thought it would be good when I had a kid but mostly unless I get myself something she usually forgets....but mostly it's a sad day missing my grandma...missing what I didn't/don't have with my mum...

So with baby Boo's imminent arrival and @Boo's his future of Let It Go and the wiggles on repeat.... let's share nursery rhymes and kiddy songs from our childhoods (or our kids) to determine sensitise his sensitive ears.... So here are some of my faves...

The Black Balloon...

Wash your face with orange juice - Peter Coombs What's your beauty routine?

10

9...cos I'm honest like that. Yeah ghost town here too.

7...you stayin safe there in Cali?

7....Gski ... Reci ...happy satdee arvo Aren't we all meant to be getting the numbers down?

Hmmmm....... 1. I had to have the ski patrol stretcher me off the mountain after dislocating my knee when my ski didn't realise while I somersaulted down the slope. 2. I got third degree sunburn on my legs when my drunk mates knocked me unconcious in a tubing/drinking game accident then left my unconcious arse lying on the bank of river under the shade of a tree for 7 hours while they kept skiing and tubing. 3. I dislocated my shoulder while windsurfing when I washed out on a wave and got caught in the safety rope.

Works best with Thai but it's nice with India...although my lot reckon it's too much coconut with a korma. I like it best with a satay or as a balance to a really hot curry like a Thai Green curry. Works well with a lot of Malaysian recipient too. Works best with Thai but it's nice with India...although my lot reckon it's too much coconut with a korma. I like it best with a satay or as a balance to a really hot curry like a Thai Green curry. Works well with a lot of Malaysian recipient too.

Most of our boys were still busy in the Pacific but VE day bought out the crowds in Melbourne... The building is our Shrine of Remembrance built after WW1

Here ya go @catlover.... Coconut Rice 1 cup jasmine rice (you can use basmati or long grain too) 1 tin coconut milk (not the lite one...I dunno why it makes a difference but it does) 1/4 cup of shredded coconut (optional) Water (1 use about 3/4 of the empty milk tin) Pinch of salt (This is a milk, sweat rice to undercut a spicy curry, especially Thai..but if there are use ups (left overs) I'll usually just mix through some chilli and sliced spring onions and eat it plain) Now I'm lazy, I cook all my rice in a rice cooker but I'll give you both... Rice cooker... 1. Rice rice, just once (normally I'd rice rice until the water is clear unless I'm doing sticky rice or sushi rice). 2. Add milk and coconut, give a mix, add enough water so that if you put your index finger in to sit on the rice the water level sits at you second finger bend (normal rice is 1st finger bend and sushi rice is above the 2nd finger bend, again dunno why it's just how my Filo friends Lola showed me) 3. Set to cook and walk away. Stove top... Steps 1-2 as above Step 3..bring to boil, reduce to simmer, storing occasionally until cooked through...you may need to add water if dries out. Will need to cook for about 15 mins.