Christening

Lots and lots of pics, so the ones of the event itself will be under the cut... So, yesterday afternoon I had a Eureka moment when I remembered that I got all of the information for Emily's book on Wikipedia, and I had it in my head to do something similar for Lauren's.


and for the Christening itself, it was cool :) Lots of pictures lol!

Quick 'un

It's bed time and I've just got my application off for Holly's Design team. Fingers crossed, but if in the likely event that I don't get it, there's always time to make layouts and stuff ready for next time :)

Now I got to go eat stuff so I can take my tablets (which are finally working. Still not sleeping well, but at least I can breath and move without the pain. Except when I cough or do something strenuous) and to clean up the mess in the kitchen. After mum spent ages cleaning it all for me on Tuesday I've been trying to keep it up together otherwise that would class as strenuous!

Anyway, G is in bed so I have to dash.

Love my mummy

Mum came around and helped me so much today. After all the drama back in January/February the council's contractors rang me about an electric fire. This made me so mad and made the pain in my chest worse. Funnily though when I answered the phone the guy said: "Is your parents home?" and I just said: "No". Why does this always happen to me?

So the guy comes out and has a look at the fire, takes pictures to e-mail off and took a complete ear bashing from both my mum and myself and by this point, I was in floods of tears recalling the day I got home from work to be sat in the cold after my boiler packed up and my gas fire was still disconnected and how the council were completely incompetant in the matter.

Sunday was spent in bed all day, and Monday I just wanted to get out the house, so I suggested a nearby carboot and fete just so I could walk around after being stuck in bed all this time. After all of 10 mins at the fete which was incredibly disappointing, Mum (who came with me & G) suggested Blooms garden centre. We didn't even get to look all the way around. After me and mum drooled over the Yankee Candles and grabbed 3 each, G was hungry and grabbed a sandwich. He sat down and started eating when I started coughing so badly the pain got really bad. I was crying, so we ended up paying for the candles and I came home. G was so annoyed with the NHS and how things were turning out with my pain that he took me back down the hospital last night for the out of hours doctor as it was the bank holiday and I no other doctors were open.
Finally this one said that it sounded like a chest infection and prescribed me antibiotics (this brings my medication count up to 5 now for this) but I do feel a little better this afternoon.
This morning I was awake at 4am. Couldn't move. Couldn't breathe. It was 6am before I could get up for my painkillers. By lunch time though I hadn't coughed since I first got up and I felt the pain killers were working. Which after all this time is such a relief. The pain is back right at this very moment though, cos I just had a big coughing fit :( Ouchy. But once G is back from work we can eat then I can have my tablets. Can't have them on an empty stomach so I've had to eat at the oddest times, Like a bowl of cereal at 6 this morning when I wasn't even hungry. Ugh.

But my mum came round and cleaned the kitchen, did the washing, washing up, vacuuming, ironing etc :) super mum :D :heart: And for that I'm so grateful and she knows how it's been driving me nuts. I wanted to do it, I was desperate for it to be done, but I simply couldn't do it.

Bed Bound

Thursday was actually quite scary. I couldn't take a normal breath without being in pain. I couldn't move because my chest really hurt, G said he'd take me to hospital but it seemed a bit drastic to me, but to be honest, I really wasn't feeling too good so we rang the NHS direct helpline to get some advice, as by this time I was in tears from the pain.

Their advice? Phone an ambulance.

This made me a little worse to be honest. G put me in the car and drove me to the Casualty department at the hospital. I was shaking, but got seen straight away. They put all these wires on me, I got anti-inflammatory medication and painkillers, and I had a chest X-ray.

Ask anyone who's been around me coughing and they'll tell you something is obviously wrong. The nurse who saw me first said he could hear something on my chest, but the doctor said she couldn't hear a thing. The chest X-ray showed no infection.

The hospital is confuddled what's wrong. We were there til the early hours of the morning and I felt so bad as G had to get up for work. No one can tell me why I've been coughing for months, but they do believe the pain in my chest is a pulled muscle, so I'm laying down resting constantly. The bank holiday weekend and I'm bed bound. Although I did put clothes on today just to lay on top of the bed. My chest still hurts, not when I move and not so much when I breathe today though. Just when I cough I get a very sharp pain. Yesterday I just lay on the sofa and watched TV all day. I got about 3-4 pillows to prop me up so I'm resting but sat upright so I can still eat and drink. Today I've got my laptop resting on my stomach lol, and I got some magazines that arrived from America :) I'm just missing the Ali Edwards book, but it's making me itch to get some scrapbooking done on Monday when I can. In fact, I checked my e-mails and found out that Holly McCaig sent an e-mail to her group saying that she's putting out a design team call. 3 month term, and I LOVE Holly's stuff! I've only ever put in for a design team once late last year I believe it was and I got rejected so I never bothered to enter again. But this, OH! I so want to have a go at this, if I don't get it I don't, but at least I tried, and Holly rocks. So you got to be in it to win it.

I hope to be up and about on Monday though, so as long as I stay on the sofa bed I should be well rested to be up and about by then.

I never thought...

This is my medication for my damn cough. I took the tablets for my perennial rhinitis anyway, this summer it became unbearable so I just had to. Then I went to see the doctor about this horrible cough and he gave me the nasal spray to go along with the tablets as he was far more concerned with my congestion than the cough - ironic really because I'm always so congested that I'm a constant mouth breather. But I must admit that now I can breathe with my mouth closed :) Awesomeness. Now went back today and every single time I go to the doctors they always do an athsma test on me, and every time I do the peak flow meter it comes back fine. But with my cough the doctor decided it might be beneficial to have an inhaler. I mean when I was at school I wasn't unfit at all, I did karate, dance and gymnastics and I rarely had a day to myself when I wasn't doing some sport... yet I couldn't walk up 3 flights of stairs to the top floor of Ribston without wheezing, and the athsma tests came back fine. They always put it down to my perennial rhinitis anyway. But I never thought I'd have to have an inhaler. I didn't want an inhaler, they were sooo uncool.

So fingers crossed that the cough goes away soon because the pain in my ribs are killing me. I think I pulled a muscle from all the coughing. And if the inhaler works and my cough goes, then I proclaim that inhalers are awesome.

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No freaking way! Sims 3 is released on 20th February... That's what I'll be spending my bday money on!

Sims latest

While my DVD is still encoding, I thought I'd share my Sims latest...

This picture was taken a long time ago, the family were on their holidays in the mountains. As I've had quite a few generations in my family they're pretty rich! They go on a holiday pretty often.


Currently Zac is on a gap year. He fell in love with an Island local. I'm trying to complete all the tourist things to see what happens :)

Ready to burst

Someone disgustingly backed the toilets up at work today - heck I was so desperate to pee I'd have used the Workshops loo (and that is saying something!) but the drains were all blocked so I couldn't have and to be honest so gross I won't say anymore than that. But not having toilet facilities made me freak out a little and made me want to go all the more... I was dancing around and I was told I could drive to the nearest public loo - in Sainsburys. Such a long drive when you're desperate!! Took me 20 minutes to get there and back.

I'm off now anyway, it's 8.25pm I've just been doing some research for a top secret project (about 5 people know about it so far) and I still have so so much to do, and tonight is the first night I have not been distracted by the super cool and friendly UK Etsians in their thread lol, but G is insisting that I go and have some food right now, I've not eaten yet - it's taking up quite a lot of my time, but I suppose it's something I will be getting used to. LJ people, I will let you know soon :)

Bye bye Puter

My computer has been making such a squealing noise for so long, so much so I hardly go on it. Then there's the slowness (gave up trying to play Sims on it, and my laptop crashes constantly so I've not been on it), the blue screen of death and the fact I've had it for a good 4 years or so anyway. I think it was the Blue screen of death and the number of times it would just kinda shut itself down as if to say: "That's it, I give up! No more!" that was the final straw for me.

So a trip to PC World with G in tow, we decided to go halves on a computer that would be both of ours rather than G feeling he couldn't use my PC as it was mine and not both of ours, and we purchased one. It's so cute! It's a HP Elite M9277. It has an internal 500GB hard drive and an external one that you can insert into the computer like a cartridge with a further 500GB memory, and it has 4GB RAM. But all that memory will be super what with my photos - I used up a bunch of DVDs to back up my files lol. So G is looking forward to getting on World Of Warcraft, and I am looking forward to continuing my Legacy on Sims 2, and while G's on WoW, I shall be on the Wii Fit working out. Oh, and it has lightscribe which was the seller for me! LOL! But next year when Sims 3 comes out I shall already be prepared :)