As hinted at, I am copying the email I send to Daddy the other day. Since it is addressed to him, it might contain personal information not normally shared in this blog, but as no one reads this anyway, I am sure it is pretty safe to post it.
Maybe someday I will get back to writing original material, but maybe not. Depends on whether the moon is in the sky and the worms are in the ground. Well, something like that.
Anyway, enjoy. Look for comments at the end that help explain where we are and what we are eating. But you knew that.
I am at the office and am eating my toast, but I will try to type at the same time. Not sure if the email you sent to Juanita will go through, it looks like there is an extra space in it, but my eyes are failing so I can never really be sure.
And yes, I can't see most of the time anymore. They say it is old eyes, but it is fairly harsh if you have to work on a computer all day. I can see well enough for most things, but it is all fuzzy and I have difficulty reading my screen. When I get my eyes examined, they say my vision is the same as it was before, so I am at a loss to explain why I cannot see. I might go back to contacts so I can use reading glasses. My current glasses are bifocals but I have never seen any difference. I think they just said they were bifocals so they could charge me more money.
Maeghan had her birthday last Sunday. She is seven now. She is getting bigger, not really taller, although she is over a meter tall now, but she is getting really heavy. The doctors say we need to watch that as she should not put on weight very fast because her body will not be able to cope. She is back to going to the doctor every six months now, although when they said it would change to once a year, it never did. Her surgeon has retired and her main Dr. is about to retire, so we are seeing new people now. I only met him for a couple of minutes but he seemed nice.
They are x-raying her spine every time now. They want to watch for signs of scoliosis, which she already has a little bit but they want to monitor it and make sure it is not progressing too fast. I am not sure what they will do about it if it does, but maybe there is something they can do.
I know it will upset you and it really upsets me, but I think we are seeing the beginning of the problems she is going to face. I pray that I am wrong, but I have always tried to prepare for it. I am sure it will not be as bad as I keep imagining, but we have to know she will face problems and some of them might be severe. I don't know what else to say about it, it hurts too much to face, but I am sure she will be just fine. She is still a precious little girl.
She loves swimming and will stay in the pool for hours. Not sure what she is going to do in the winter, but for now, she is in the pool almost everyday. I think the Mingara pool is heated, so we can take her down there when the weather is cold. Mingara is the local club we belong to. They have gambling and restaurants and a big swimming pool and other things to do there. They just opened a new kids area and both Maeghan and William love it in there.
William is swimming now also. He loves the pool as well. When you open the gate to let them inside, he immediately runs to the pool and jumps in. He loves to jump in and out of the pool. He is getting to be a very good swimmer. Not as polished as Maeghan, but he can beat her in a race. He still is not able to swim and come up for air and keep swimming, but he goes fast enough under the water that he can stop, take a breath and then dive back under and keep going.
He is getting big also. A head taller than Maeghan and still only four years old. He is bigger than most of the kids in his day care. He will start school next year, or maybe not. He never sits still, so we might wait another year to send him, so he has a chance to settle down. I don't think he will ever settle down and be a quiet kid, but maybe he will learn to sit still long enough to be in a classroom. He goes to day care twice a week now, so he can get used to being there. He loves it and the teachers are saying he is getting better at sitting still and listening.
Maeghan is getting her new teeth. From what we can see, she will probably need braces. The doctors told us to come to them when that happens and they can get some help for her. I don't know what that means but I assume it will some kind of special funding. Her school already gets special funding for another teacher for her, so there will be a lot of things like that that she will be eligible for. She doesn't really need the special teacher and she copes with everything as well as anyone, but you have to get these things established early so they are available if she ever needs them. It took two years for her condition to be recognized by Centrelink (the welfare office) so Juanita could get special funding for her and she could get her wheelchair. She hardly ever uses her wheelchair but she has an outing to the zoo in the next couple of weeks so she will need it then. Too much walking for her. Juanita will be allowed to go along to push her.
I turn 50 in a couple of months. We have no plans for my birthday and will probably just go out to eat or something. Maybe go somewhere for the weekend. I have to work the whole time as my co-worker has taken the whole month of April off. I can still work as long as anywhere we go has internet connections. I have a 3G modem, so anywhere there is cell phone coverage, I should be able to connect. Even if we do go somewhere, it will only be for a couple of days or something. Nothing fancy, just get away for a while.
Not that I can get away. I have a huge project at work that takes up most of my time. Lots and lots of things to do and the deadline is fast approaching. If I don't get it done before my partner leaves, then I will be doing it on my own in April. It is a major project and will determine if I have a job or not it it does not finish on time. Not that anyone has said anything, but the impact of failing will run into the millions of dollars to fix. The fact that no one can fix it except me does not seem to be a factor. It is on a system that was built in 1995 and the code we are converting is so old, no one understand how it works anymore. My recommendation was to start over instead of trying to convert, but of course, that was shot down. Having no one that has even seen the code, let alone understands it, other than me, makes getting help with the task of converting very difficult. But, we will see.
Other than Maeghan's back problems and my eyesight, everyone is healthy and well. Juanita fell a couple of months ago and her legs still hurts from that, but there is nothing anyone can really do about it, so she lives with it. William has been well with no major problems, other than he keeps hurting himself at the day care. Running into poles and falling off things mostly, but by the time we see him, he has forgotten about it. He had a nasty bruise and cut on one eye once, but that healed quickly and he was fine.
Guess now that I have finished my toast and my coffee is cold, I should finish this up. I don't have a computer anymore that can handle a skype account. I do have the Mac, which I will setup on skype. I don't remember how to do it, but it has a built in camera so it should not be too hard. I will see what I need to do and how to use it in the next couple of days. I don't think it has a built in microphone, but I am sure we have one laying around somewhere. Maeghan got a microphone for her birthday, but it does not work for some reason. We are taking it back tomorrow and getting her the Wii game that has microphones with it. She likes to sing along in the microphone, mostly her own made up songs, but all the kids that come over love to sing into her microphone she got for Christmas. That is why we got her another one, so she can sing with her friends, but as I said, it does not work.
She loves Hannah Montana by the way and keeps saying she wants to be a singer. She likes Barbie also and has all the Barbie movies. And Tinkerbell, and anything else that has fairies or mermaids or dancing or just about any of the girlie type movies that are out. She doesn't dance as much as she used to, but she sings a lot now.
I have been asked a question at work, so I will have to go look into it. Hope this fills in some of the gaps I have left by not communicating. I always say I will get to it, but never do. Kind of hard in the situation I am in but I will try harder.
And yes, I can't see most of the time anymore. They say it is old eyes, but it is fairly harsh if you have to work on a computer all day. I can see well enough for most things, but it is all fuzzy and I have difficulty reading my screen. When I get my eyes examined, they say my vision is the same as it was before, so I am at a loss to explain why I cannot see. I might go back to contacts so I can use reading glasses. My current glasses are bifocals but I have never seen any difference. I think they just said they were bifocals so they could charge me more money.
Maeghan had her birthday last Sunday. She is seven now. She is getting bigger, not really taller, although she is over a meter tall now, but she is getting really heavy. The doctors say we need to watch that as she should not put on weight very fast because her body will not be able to cope. She is back to going to the doctor every six months now, although when they said it would change to once a year, it never did. Her surgeon has retired and her main Dr. is about to retire, so we are seeing new people now. I only met him for a couple of minutes but he seemed nice.
They are x-raying her spine every time now. They want to watch for signs of scoliosis, which she already has a little bit but they want to monitor it and make sure it is not progressing too fast. I am not sure what they will do about it if it does, but maybe there is something they can do.
I know it will upset you and it really upsets me, but I think we are seeing the beginning of the problems she is going to face. I pray that I am wrong, but I have always tried to prepare for it. I am sure it will not be as bad as I keep imagining, but we have to know she will face problems and some of them might be severe. I don't know what else to say about it, it hurts too much to face, but I am sure she will be just fine. She is still a precious little girl.
She loves swimming and will stay in the pool for hours. Not sure what she is going to do in the winter, but for now, she is in the pool almost everyday. I think the Mingara pool is heated, so we can take her down there when the weather is cold. Mingara is the local club we belong to. They have gambling and restaurants and a big swimming pool and other things to do there. They just opened a new kids area and both Maeghan and William love it in there.
William is swimming now also. He loves the pool as well. When you open the gate to let them inside, he immediately runs to the pool and jumps in. He loves to jump in and out of the pool. He is getting to be a very good swimmer. Not as polished as Maeghan, but he can beat her in a race. He still is not able to swim and come up for air and keep swimming, but he goes fast enough under the water that he can stop, take a breath and then dive back under and keep going.
He is getting big also. A head taller than Maeghan and still only four years old. He is bigger than most of the kids in his day care. He will start school next year, or maybe not. He never sits still, so we might wait another year to send him, so he has a chance to settle down. I don't think he will ever settle down and be a quiet kid, but maybe he will learn to sit still long enough to be in a classroom. He goes to day care twice a week now, so he can get used to being there. He loves it and the teachers are saying he is getting better at sitting still and listening.
Maeghan is getting her new teeth. From what we can see, she will probably need braces. The doctors told us to come to them when that happens and they can get some help for her. I don't know what that means but I assume it will some kind of special funding. Her school already gets special funding for another teacher for her, so there will be a lot of things like that that she will be eligible for. She doesn't really need the special teacher and she copes with everything as well as anyone, but you have to get these things established early so they are available if she ever needs them. It took two years for her condition to be recognized by Centrelink (the welfare office) so Juanita could get special funding for her and she could get her wheelchair. She hardly ever uses her wheelchair but she has an outing to the zoo in the next couple of weeks so she will need it then. Too much walking for her. Juanita will be allowed to go along to push her.
I turn 50 in a couple of months. We have no plans for my birthday and will probably just go out to eat or something. Maybe go somewhere for the weekend. I have to work the whole time as my co-worker has taken the whole month of April off. I can still work as long as anywhere we go has internet connections. I have a 3G modem, so anywhere there is cell phone coverage, I should be able to connect. Even if we do go somewhere, it will only be for a couple of days or something. Nothing fancy, just get away for a while.
Not that I can get away. I have a huge project at work that takes up most of my time. Lots and lots of things to do and the deadline is fast approaching. If I don't get it done before my partner leaves, then I will be doing it on my own in April. It is a major project and will determine if I have a job or not it it does not finish on time. Not that anyone has said anything, but the impact of failing will run into the millions of dollars to fix. The fact that no one can fix it except me does not seem to be a factor. It is on a system that was built in 1995 and the code we are converting is so old, no one understand how it works anymore. My recommendation was to start over instead of trying to convert, but of course, that was shot down. Having no one that has even seen the code, let alone understands it, other than me, makes getting help with the task of converting very difficult. But, we will see.
Other than Maeghan's back problems and my eyesight, everyone is healthy and well. Juanita fell a couple of months ago and her legs still hurts from that, but there is nothing anyone can really do about it, so she lives with it. William has been well with no major problems, other than he keeps hurting himself at the day care. Running into poles and falling off things mostly, but by the time we see him, he has forgotten about it. He had a nasty bruise and cut on one eye once, but that healed quickly and he was fine.
Guess now that I have finished my toast and my coffee is cold, I should finish this up. I don't have a computer anymore that can handle a skype account. I do have the Mac, which I will setup on skype. I don't remember how to do it, but it has a built in camera so it should not be too hard. I will see what I need to do and how to use it in the next couple of days. I don't think it has a built in microphone, but I am sure we have one laying around somewhere. Maeghan got a microphone for her birthday, but it does not work for some reason. We are taking it back tomorrow and getting her the Wii game that has microphones with it. She likes to sing along in the microphone, mostly her own made up songs, but all the kids that come over love to sing into her microphone she got for Christmas. That is why we got her another one, so she can sing with her friends, but as I said, it does not work.
She loves Hannah Montana by the way and keeps saying she wants to be a singer. She likes Barbie also and has all the Barbie movies. And Tinkerbell, and anything else that has fairies or mermaids or dancing or just about any of the girlie type movies that are out. She doesn't dance as much as she used to, but she sings a lot now.
I have been asked a question at work, so I will have to go look into it. Hope this fills in some of the gaps I have left by not communicating. I always say I will get to it, but never do. Kind of hard in the situation I am in but I will try harder.
Well, that was it. I hope you enjoyed it. I haven't gone back and re-read it, so I have no idea what it says. I am sure it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, or that might be the spider on your neck. The comments I promised at the beginning of this post are located here. As you can tell, there aren't any, except what I just typed, and what I just typed then, and again. You get the idea. Thats all I have to say. Be more next time. Let me know if you need help with my birthday present. I turn 39 this year, so it is a big one. Close to 40 now, so I have to slow down and pretend I am getting old. Not that you can tell to look at me. Tall, good looking, and fit as a wombat. And by wombat, I mean small, furry and can roll myself into a ball.
OK, until next time.
Talk to you later
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