Hey!

It is wet and cold here today. More often than not lately I've been more "down" than "up" not sure why, there hasn't been any change for the worse in my condition. Maybe I've got too much time on my hands to think about things or maybe its just "the weather" I don't know???
The kids are coming and going (as they do), Erin is off to work every day, gets home asks me how my day went and I say, "OK" (as I do). She tells me I couldn't lie to save myself......actually she's always told me that. I'm just not sure how to describe how I feel......not sick, not in pain, just feeling bluhhhhhh......you know what I mean.....how do you describe bluhhhhhhh?????
I am looking forward to the weekend tho, gonna go watch our 3 oldest boys playing rugby and spend the day down at the club, maybe thats whats wrong with me haven't been able to get out to watch them for the past couple of weeks because of the weather and they've been playing out of town. I don't like going too far from home really because I'm a bit wary about access to toilets and things like that at other clubs. At our club there is easy access for me to the toilet and plenty of mates to help if I need them to.

Erin had an uneventful journey up to Auckland on Tuesday to pick her mum up off the plane. She took Patrick and Gary with her for a ride, left Pakura with me and our baby who wanted to go to her holiday programme. Anyway, she leaves some money with me to send Pakura for fish and chips for our dinner (mums plane gets to Auckland at 3.15pm), she gets home around 6.30pmish, house is in a mess, I'm cooking some dinner for me and my baby......to her credit she asks Pakura very nicely, why didn't you go and pick some fish n chips up for tea? He DUMBLY replies, coz I want to go to the movies with my mates and I can't find my cashflow card......so I was gonna use this money.......because I didn't know if you'd be back before I go to the pictures OH BOY, WRONG PAKURA REALLY WRONG.....

One look at his mothers face put an end to any ideas he had about going to the movies, he even had the grace to look guilty, then I unceremoniously get kicked out of the kitchen Pakura gets shoved out the door to "pick up some fish n chips" and while he's gone the house gets a quick vacuum, dishes done, clothes folded 1/2 hour later we're sittin down with our fish n chips......
Bloody kid wouldn't listen to me, his mother didn't even talk to him and he knew what he had to do. Hate it when that happens.....lol.
Actually I've been laughing while I've been telling that story, I feel better already.
Thanks for listening.
Bill

Feeling Better!

Hi all,


I am feeling a lot better than I was for my last post. Although I am still not where I was before I caught that cold. Again, the freezing cold is a huge issue for me. I guess because of my inactivity I can't keep warm, at the moment I spend my days rapped in a blanket sitting on my chair with the sky remote in hand but it is school holidays so I can't get near that darn remote at the moment.
Motivating myself to do more than just sit here is just a wee bit difficult right now, but I realize that I've got to keep myself moving.
Received my new electric wheelchair on Monday.....woooohoooo thats a blast. Certainly got me going places I haven't been in a while, like my garage for example......what a mess that is. Even went for a trial run down the road, certainly makes life alot easier. Only problem is, that without the proper vehicle I can only use it around home, but thats ok, the manual wheelchair and/or the walking frame will be ok for when we go out and about and I can always call a mobility taxi if I really need to go anywhere.
Went for a drive to Auckland (about 2hrs - 2 half hrs one way) on Monday to drop my mother in-law off at the airport. She flew over to Aussie to visit my brother in-law and his family. Sitting in the car for that long was a bit uncomfortable I have to say, but went to keep my wife company, she drove back from Auckland. I think she will have to take one of the boys with her when she goes to pick her mum up off the plane next week, don't think I can face another trip just now.
Have decided for the time being to eat what I want, when I want. You know how it is, they tell you to change your diet for the better, and all that healthy living stuff, but truth is while it may work for other people, I''m a "meat and spuds" kinda guy, always have been and while I don't begrudge other people doing what they think is best for themselves and their body, putting food I like to eat in my stomach is really important to me right now....there may come a day in the not too distant future when I'll be fed through a peg and until then mates, I have decided to eat what I want to eat.
Woke up yesterday with one heck of a sore throat, thought it might be the onset of yet another bout of the flu. But there was no cough or runny nose. Erin made a hot lemon drink to see if that would ease it and sure enough it did. That was a relief, but this morning she gets up and asks me how my throat is today, it was ok, so she's starting to take notes about when things happen no matter how trivial they may seem, but we've learnt that there is nothing trivial about "small" things anymore.
Anyway, I'm ok for now, family is muddling on through and roll on school........love my kids but dang these school holidays are hard....don't know how my wife did it all these years while I went to work and she was at home.