Into The Rain

Trying new things

Bobbi-lee — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:47:00 +0000

I always thought I was open to the idea of trying new things, in fact I thought I was quite adventurist and willing to take risks. Maybe that is what I wanted myself to believe, because now that I think about it, I cannot even remember the last time I tried something new.

I will never try sky diving because I am too scared of heights and flying. I have never tried a Krispy Kreme, mostly because I hate donuts anyway. I have never read a single Harry Potter book, and whats more I have never watched a single HP movie. But those are things I haven’t tried becuase I have no desire to try them.

There are things I want to try. I want to go scuba diving, I want to learn to knit, I want to taste foods I have never tried. There are so many things in this world that I want to try but I have made no effort whatsoever. Every time the TV is on I hear the same annoying advertisement “wait til you try a Jesters pie” and I am still waiting to try one. I have even walked past Jesters many times but lame as it sounds I couldn’t justify paying $6 for one pie.

I’ve never been one to rush out and watch a new release movie the day it comes out, or line up for hours to buy that new techno gadget available. I have had the same mobile phone for 3 years, and the one I had before that I had for 4 years (whilst my sister went through approx. 10 phones in that time).

For the first time last week I tried cake with fruit in it. I have this weird idea that fruit should not be cooked and if it is, it is disgustingly gross (despite having never tried it). I made it myself using a blueberry cake recipe but replaced the blueberries with strawberries, and it was surprisingly really good, in fact it was the best cake I have ever made. I’m on a roll now, I want to try new things.

Introducing my little man

Bobbi-lee — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:16:22 +0000

Sebastian Anthony Jon finally decided to enter the world, 8 days late, on 16th August at 23:23pm. He weighed 8lbs 8oz and measured 51cms long. The labour was a very long 20 hours and very stressful but the end result is totally worth it.

Overdue

Bobbi-lee — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:35:03 +0000

I am now 40 weeks and 3 days pregnant.

Nothing can describe how I am feeling right now. I am so over being pregnant, I am so anxious, and I can’t wait to hold my baby. I have tried every old wives tale to try induce labour from walking everywhere to drinking raspberry leaf tea, all in the hopes of getting that first contraction. The Braxton Hicks have been getting worse though so it has to be soon.

One of those days.

Bobbi-lee — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:04:49 +0000

Carl and I have a home phone line but I can only count on one hand the amount of people who actually know that number, and even less that actually use it. We only have the home phone connected so that we can take advantage of having a broadband connection. This morning I woke up to the sound of the home phone ringing. I looked at the clock, it was 8.59am-one more minute and that would have classified as sleeping in. It’s very rare that I get to bed before 2am these days so any sleeping in I can get, I cherish.

Not wanting to answer the phone I thought to myself, whoever it is will know my mobile number and if it is so important they can ring that. So I closed my eyes and tried to ignore it, hoping the answering machine would pick up. The phone stops ringing but then seconds later it’s ringing again.

I then remember that a roof repair man is supposed to come out sometime this week (he didn’t specify a date, just that “when the rain dies down”) and I listen and hear it is not raining. He must be outside knocking on the door and I can’t hear him and perhaps the real estate gave him our home number. I get up out of bed as fast as I can, which isn’t fast at all because when you have the belly the size of a watermelon and you waddle like a duck it is very hard. I put on my dressing gown and slippers then waddle to the window and look outside. No one is here. The phone is still ringing!

So I walk to my bedroom door, go out and towards the phone table. Just as I get there, the phone stops. I wait a little bit in case this person who is ringing wants to ring again. I wait and wait, and after a few minutes I start to go back to my room.

Ring Ring.

By now I feel like picking up this phone and yelling “WHAT?!”. Whoever is ringing better be telling me I have won a million dollars, or a new car, or at the least a box of chocolates! I finally answer the phone, only to find it was a “wrong number”. I couldn’t even get back to sleep either. Thanks, lady on the phone for persistently ringing and ringing and depriving me of my much needed sleep.

Have you ever been interrupted from something important only to find it was a waste of time or useless?

Another year

Bobbi-lee — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:11:44 +0000

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been another whole year. Carl and I have been together for 6 years. It’s so amazing how fast time goes by, and soon we will have our own little family, it’s all really overwhelming.

Whenever I look at old couples in love, shopping together, I get happy just thinking how sweet they look and how I hope that’s how Carl and I look in another 30 years. I admire those relationships that stand the test of time and that are still so strong. Here’s to another year, and many more to come!

Tax Time

Bobbi-lee — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:33:57 +0000

Last weekend I went with Carl to our accountant to do our tax return. I’m pretty sure we usually do a combined return every other year, I never really paid attention since I was only a student and would get nothing back. When we got there the accountant told us we had to do each tax return seperately. So that meant we would be charged a fee each so double the charge didn’t sound very good to us.

I was only expecting around $500 back as I had only worked 8 months of the financial year and honestly didn’t think I had paid much tax. I was shocked when she told me the final figure. Over triple what I expected! I’m getting more tax back then Carl and he is the main income earner.

I am going to be responsible with the money though, with over 70% going towards bills and debts, but the remaining; I can do whatever I want with it. And since I have all the baby stuff I need, I’m thinking post-pregnancy fashion shopping spree!

Taking longer than expected.

Bobbi-lee — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:13:18 +0000

I’m starting to think trying to revive this domain is just another step towards failing. There’s so much more to do than expected. Ever since my domain was hacked without my knowledge (resulting in horrible hidden links to horrible sites) this blog seems a waste of time. I had so many problems re-installing Wordpress itself and importing the old posts. Wordpress then decided to turn all my pages, into blog posts so any blog posts of the same name were overwritten and all my URL structures were lost. I managed to overcome most of that and still tried to revive this domain, but have been faced with hurdle after hurdle.

So many pages are either lost, or the page is there but the images are gone. I am going to have to go through every single page and post to check if the images are there or not, then try and re-add them. I want to revamp the whole site and get rid of useless pages and make it more design related.

But asides from all that, I still want to blog. Even if I only blog once a week or fortnight. I wish I could blog every day but my life really isn’t that interesting.

I have 17 days left until my baby boy is due! After that I will probably blog even less, so I do apologise. But I will try my best because I don’t want this website sitting here turning to dust.

Give me a few days

Bobbi-lee — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:23:08 +0000

My blog is finally back thanks to the generous Rachael for hosting me!

Just give me a few days to sort out a layout, organise the posts and pages etc and get this blog up and running smoothly.

(Oh and I know it looks like the last time I blogged was in February, but I am currently going through all my posts and deleting the ones I didn’t need/like-sort of like starting fresh except not)

So I gave in.

Bobbi-lee — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:02:58 +0000

I couldn’t stay away, I miss blogging too much, despite my last two blog posts being a month apart each. I am thinking of getting another domain name though as too many people I know, even people from work, have read my blog. I miss the whole “blog atmosphere”. I still read my daily blogs every day and occasionally commented. I still searched from blog to blog for interesting posts. I came online every day, I even checked my stats every few days. It was too hard to ignore the big fat “closed” sign. So here it is, open again, whether that is a good thing or not. Maybe not for the visitors I have probably lost, but for myself to…vent and write. So in true “returning to to the blogosphere” style, heres a list of things that happened to me since I last blogged.

My fiance has recovered from his injury and is back at work
I have less than 30 days before my contract at work ends
My family came down for Christmas and stayed for over 2 months
I traded in my car bought a brand new, more economical car (from a 6 cylinder to a 4 cylinder)
My younger sister started her first year of high school at a boarding school
My kitten Thomas turned a full year old. He still looks like he is only 6 months old
My baby nephew never stops smiling and he is growing so quick
Speaking of babies, I’m having one myself, due in August. I can’t wait!
I am in the process of turning the spare room into a baby room/office for myself and the baby

So thats my life so far. I am very excited about the baby, it is something I have wanted in so long. Tomorrow I will have a better (proper) blog post, for now this is just my mini-updates.

Dealing with it

Bobbi-lee — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:05:08 +0000

In my previous post I asked how I could get my blog more personal. Now I sit here struggling to not be too personal. Some of you may have seen my other post (which has now been deleted) where I probably went a bit emo on everyone talking about life and how depressing it can be and blah. I sat there and tried to write what I wanted to say (like now) but I am finding it hard to say it. So basically here it is nice and short.

On Saturday my fiance was involved in an incident which resulted in a blow to the back of his head. He ended up in hospital for almost a week with concussion and loss of short-term memory. He kept crying out to me every 5 minutes saying “Ow I feel like I have been hit in the head”, so then I’d tell him what had happened and then he would ask me again as soon as I finished as he couldn’t remember a thing.

This happened whilst we were in the middle of moving, so I had to call my co-worker to help me move the rest of the furniture ourselves with her van. I was so busy with work, deadlines, moving and running around doing everything. I was and am still so stressed out.

He is out of hospital now, under the Doctors instruction to rest and not work or drive for 3 months as he has swelling of the brain. Now more than ever I know I need to get my license. He is fine now physically though not at all mentally. He is the worst in the mornings when he wakes up in excrusiating pain. I feel totally useless.

So to cut the story short and not be too personal, I am quite emotional and putting a lot of things in life back into perspective. I am dealing with it slowly.