Cam and i went to Melbourne for a few days to see both Wicked the musical and Edward Scissorhands the ballet.

I was definately looking forward to Wicked most, I had been waiting for this 12 months, waiting for the dates to be announced the tickets to go on sale and then waiting to actually go, and it was amazing. Whenever i go to these I am always in awe of the sets and these were spectacular, I am happy to arrive early and just study the bits i can see, I sat down and most of what i could see was a giant dragon. I have a weird passion for dragons so i was grinning like an idiot before we had done more than just sit down. It was clever, amusing and perfectly done in every aspect. It was exactly what i expected and I had very high expectations. I could have quite happily gone again.

The next night we went to see Edward Scissorhands the Ballet. This is the one that Cam had been most excited about seeing. While I was looking forward to it, I wasn't nearly as excited by it as i was by Wicked.  Boy was I wrong.  It was astounding. I know most people think tutu's and swanlake when they think ballet, this couldn't be further from that stereo type. Again the sets were fantastic, they set the whole suburbia feel perfectly. To steal a quote from an article i read 'the show is more broadway than Ballet". So while there was no speaking I was still lost in the magic they told the story so well. (while it was called a ballet it certainly had other dance styles as well.)

In the end if I had to choose only one to go see again it would be Edward Scissorhands, I know next to nothing about dance and that made no difference at all, anymore than my lack of knowlegde in music affects my love of musicals.

This week at work has been crappy, we have been flat out and down a couple of people and had an extreme change in the time we have to do things.

A couple of times I have found myself getting stressed and then i just think about my last job and when i compare them i realise that the worst days in my current job would still have been a good day in last job.

I have been back almost a year and I am still grateful to be out of the last job and to have this one and that makes it ok. That and the bad days NEVER last long in this job.

I have days when the thought of staying in bed are appealing but I don't have days where i absolutely have to force myself to go to work. I am quite content  to be at work. I think having a job I despised for so long lets me appreciate how good I have it now.

I thought after being back a few months the novelty would wear off and i would start dreading work but instead I have been back 10 months and I still love being back. I think that the fact I really enjoy being around the people i work with makes all the difference in the world.

So its been a crap week and life is still good  :)

I am a happy little vegemite.

Over the last 2 years i have lost over 20 kg and then put it back on.  So this week I have started going back and eating the way i should instead of whatever i feel like eating at the time.

Its takes alot more work and planning than just grabbing whatever. I have had to start planning meals before i go to the supermarket and although i know that given a month or so I will start doing it automatically makes it no less tedious at the moment.

On the bright side I had an Atkins chocolate decadence bar today, it was choc coated, heavy fudge bar and huge. I tested my blood sugar after eating and it was well in the good to great range.  Atkins bars might just be a diabetics best friend.

Guilt free chocolate fixes...... I am all excited.


:D

They found a Unicorn, ok its a deer with a single horn instead of a pair of horns but still it looks like a unicorn.

I survived the dentist, I had 2 fillings and a quick clean.

Turns out i had a loose filling and I scrubbed my teeth to hard cleaning them and worn off the enamel, who knew you could even do that.

So now I have a bit of a toothache still but I am guessing thats just from being drilled etc and will settle down soon.

Tomorrow i have a dentist appointment.

I am so scared of the dentist I feel sick tonight just thinking about it. I never used to mind but the last few times i have been I have needed to have tooth out, I had a dry socket, it got infected, the tooth shattered so badly it took 6 weeks before i stopped pulling shell like pieces of tooth out of my gums, it also tore a small hole through to my sinus.

I cried for days it hurt so badly. I am not a complete whimp, I didn't shed a tear during childbirth and I had no drugs for that. Yet i laid in bed and I cried for a week after getting my wisdom teeth out.

Although i know chances are it will just be a filling or if it needs to be pulled I won't have any of the other complications, I am still scared shitless.

I take it back I am a complete whimp.

Yesterday I got the best bargain ever. 

I purchased a EEE pc for $359.

I am very happy.


I can now go curl up in bed and chat and be all snuggley warm  :)  I can see myself having alot of early nights.

Now i just need to wait for my tax return to get  myself a huge new shiny imac and my computer purchasing is complete for quite awhile.

I was going to go play with my camera this weekend as i haven't really had a chance to do that since Cam bought it for me but we spent yesterday arvo setting up the EEE pc instead.

All things considered I have had a fun weekend, My house is messy and needs cleaning but the kids said they will do it tomorrow so i think will take them up on that and go read. Cam bought himself a book on Japanese cookery which has more focus on Japanese food and customs than recipes, although it does have recipes in it.

I think i will just make some savoury muffins for dinner to go with some left over pumpkin soup i made a few days ago. I made a pot for m0rg0th and dropped 1/2 of it off and kept the other 1/2 for us. I made it for Craig because he was too sick to do anything but apparently Craig has been feeding it to Baggins and cats like pumpkin soup....go figure.  I am not sure if i should be amused or offended he fed it to his cat.