We Welcome Notey
Is it weird that I always name inanimate objects? For example, my phone is called Bob, Moochy’s kindle is called K and our iPad is called Paddy. Soo the new addition to the family this week is my new Nissan Note:
It’s always very exciting getting a new car and this one is particularly lovely. Apart from being very comfortable inside, with lots of leg room etc etc, it’s got a lovely thing called Nissan Connect. This means that I can plug my iPhone in and make calls hands free – like with my phone in my bag and using the car’s microphone system instead. I can also listen to the songs on my iPod and it has an in-built sat-nav. It’s VERY cool and I love it.
Happy gillibobs xxx
9 weeks post op
Sugar Teddy
I realised this week that I am now 9 weeks post-op and that I am only 3 weeks away from being able to run again. The recommendations by my doctor and physio were that no heavy exercise for at least 3 months after my total abdominal hysterectomy. I am in my 3rd week back at work and what a 3 weeks it has been.
In my first week back, I had a “phased” return, which only saw me working 4 hours a day. In that week I re-started an evening class (cake decoration), I was sedated at the dentist and my Gran was taken into hospital, which meant that one day and I had to go straight from work (in Manchester) to the hospital (Whiston, Merseyside).
My second week back, I went back to full-time hours with a 6:30am alarm. In that week, I had a 2 day trip to London to watch Strictly Come Dancing and we had a slight family drama, which involved a late night and an early morning.
My third week back has been slightly calmer, but last night I think everything just caught up with me, as I fell asleep on the couch at around 19:00. I woke up at around 20:00 and just took myself to bed – I was shattered. I then slept almost unbroken until 06:00 and by the time my alarm went off at 6:30, I was wide awake and ready to get up.
The thing about having the hysterectomy that is unseen, is the toll it takes on your whole body. I don’t think I had any real concept of what “Major Surgery” meant. Of course, I understand English, so I know what the words meant, but I had no idea what it would mean for me. I remember questioning why on earth I would need 6-8 weeks off work and I couldn’t even imagine why anyone would need 3 months off sick!!! But now I realise that it’s a slow process of recovery and that you don’t just snap back into normal life, it all takes time.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel ill at all and the pain for me was relatively minimal. After the first week to 10 days at home after the op, I stopped taking pain killers altogether. It was bad at first, I’m not going to lie, but after that, it was no more than an ache, and only if I did too much in one day – certainly no worse that the period pains I had been experiencing beforehand 
The thing that has taken the longest to go for me (and as predicted by my consultant), is the tiredness. I guess my body is still healing itself which means that my energy levels are not back to what they were before the operation. I wonder if some of the sluggish feeling is because I am not allowed to run and things? Who knows, but what I do know is that being tired is a small price to pay for no more periods, no more period pains, no emotional roller coast and no more “feeling sad” a couple of times a month.
I think this whole thing will turn out to be one of the best decisions I ever made. xx
Funny Weekend
Oh well, for a vareity of reasons that I don’t want to go into, that was a very funny weekend….not funny “ha ha” either. But the good news is, is that in the middle of everything, I bought a new car!!! I havent’ got it just yet, but I have ordered it and should get it within the next couple of weeks.
It’s a Nissan Note N-Tec 1.4 and it should look something like this:
Nissan Note Library Photo
I am very excited about my new car and all the techy gadgets that come with it. It’s about time I had a nice car, I’ve worked for 21 years you know this year. omg.
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing is the title of this post as this is where we went to yesterday. *SCREAMS* and I am screaming because we didn’t go to the tour, but we went to the actual studio and it was A-MAZ-ING DAARRLING!!
We arrived in London about 12:30 and got a taxi to our hotel, The Quality Maltrise, which is the hotel we had booked for the Olympics – I was excited. Now, I don’t want to dwell on this too much, so here are my thoughts on the hotel in bullet points:
- The reception and receptionist were lovely and helpful respectively
- Our room was small, dark and very hot
- Our bathroom was tiny and there was no bath
- There were icky stains on the floor of the bedroom
- The full length mirror was on the wall to the left of the dressing table, so I had to sit on the floor to do my hair
- When we to breakfast, it was chaotic and disorganised and we had to make our own toast – well WE didn’t, as we didn’t stay. By this time, we’d had enough and just wanted to get out of there.
But, back to Strictly….
Our ticket said that we could be on site from 15:00 and we got there at 15:40 and can you believe it we were put on Standby!!!! This meant that enough people had turned up and we might not get a seat in the studio… I could have died. So we got into TV Centre at about 16:00, but it was 18:45 before they started to call people in. Moochy and I were standby numbers 011 and 012 out of 70 and would you believe that the last call they made was “Can we have yellow (stand by) tickets numbers 001 to 012 please”. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
We were led around the whole set and eventually got seats in the upstairs rows behind the judges. The view was a bit restricted and we couldn’t actually see the judges themselves, but we could see most of the dance floor, the stage and the band and we were right next to Tess’s area. I have to say at this point to, that Tess Daley in real life is very beautiful.
As it was the launch show, it was pre-recorded, which meant that they filmed things out of sequence, which was a little hard to keep up with, but it didn’t matter – it was fantastic. We saw 3 show dances from the professionals, one group dance from the celebrities and the professional and we also got to see which celebrities got partnered with which professionals. We spent the whole night whooping and cheering and I had sore hands a husky throat by the time we had finished. I couldn’t have asked for more.
The whole thing took 3 hours to record and it was awesome it really was. You can laugh if you want to, but it was honestly a dream come true. The glam and glitz of the occasion was just brilliant and we both loved getting dressed up. I couldn’t believe we were actually there and to top it all off, we were in the room with Brian May… legend.
Trip of a lifetime
Me
Yesterday saw Moochy and I wave his sister and her partner off for a trip around the world. They plan to take in many countries starting in South Africa and ending up in America and I have feeling it’s going to be epic.
It’s funny that is made me think about all the places that I have been, or NOT been as the case maybe. Due to a variety of factors, I have really NOT been the girl that does a lot of travelling and to demonstrate here are the places that I have been to that are outside the UK:
- Alabama
- New York
- Benidorm
- Puerto Rico (Spain)
- Costa Brava
- Tenerife
and that my friends, is it. Is that a waste of 37 years? It has got me thinking. In my defence, since we have had Peggy dog, we have been on many holidays, but only abroad once, as I don’t like to leave her in kennels…. but even so….it has got me thinking….
Up Early Doors
I am looking at myself in the mirror and it’s definitely me, but yet I don’t recognise the person who has been up VOLUNTARILY since 6:15, had a shower and walked Peggy dog and is now watching big brother before work??? Who knew?
Moochy pointed out this week that I have had a “funny” week. Not funny ha ha, but funny peculiar. Let’s not forget that this week I have returned to work after a 7 week sick leave, then on Wednesday I was sedated at the dentist and then yesterday my gran was taken into hospital by ambulance again and I spent 5 hours in Whiston with her. She’s fine I think, but it was a worry after having breast cancer in June.
ANYWAY today is Friday and I am going to Windsor Cake Craft after work to get some cake decorating supplies and then I am coming home to get my cake on… baking that is 
What a “funny” week….
