Another year

It's a quiet new year's for me tonight. I have spent most of the weekend under the spell of panadol and aspirin - simple analgesics that work better then I suspected. I have a viral tonsillitis complete with headaches and malaise. I'm feeling much better today then I have the last three days and this evening am not under the influence of analgesia. Instead Matt and I are celebrating a quiet new year's eve. We have broken open the Moet that matt's aunt gave us and we are watching DVD's. We are currently trying to make up for a week of eating tonnes of food at christmas by having a week of "salads" so tonight I made a crunchy thai salad and we bought some grilled fish from the fish and chip place. It was a yummy dinner. Tomorrow I work 14 hours so I'm not planning a wild or late night. I hope everyone has a lovely night, whatever you plan on doing, and that you are with people you love. Must go, my icecream awaits (not really in the spirit of salad week, but we're celebrating!).

Merry Christmas

Hope everyone is either somewhere peaceful where they can relax, or running around crazily with their family laughing and celebrating. Naturally, I'm going to be doing the latter. The usual seafood BBQ, airconditioned house, swimming pool recipe for me. Just logged in to say Merry Christmas to everyone, Happy Birthday to Jesus (just in case he's surfing the net today).

It's a sinking feeling pulls me through the seat of chairs

Title stolen again, but it's such a perfect description of my week (esp last week)
"It's a sinking feeling,
Pulls me through the seat of chairs.
When will you come rescue me,
Find solace, and then take me there?
You'll say, You re not too tired for this life,
And it's not gonna matter if you fall down twice" - Snow Day by Lisa Loeb

Well a combination of the fact that work is exhausting and my computer is still in the "computer hospital" means I've been slack.

The other night I came home from my 14hour hellish (I got "lunch" at about 7.30pm, was so dehydrated by that point I felt dizzy) shift, exhausted and bloodied (unfortunate incident where I parted a vaginal wall to see the tear in it and an arterial spurt went straight out and down my v-neck top, nicely avoiding the plastic apron I put on to keep my clothes clean, and managing to get my bra and top), had a shower, scribbled in my notebook and went to bed.
Here is my scribbles:

I want to lay down
And not stand up again
I want to rest
Uninterrupted by tomorrow
I don't want the sun to rise
The bells to sound
I want to dream
Silent and still
I want to dream
A different life

I will lay down
But I will stand up again
It's a short rest
Because tomorrow is coming
The sun will rise strong and steady
The bells will sound
I will dream
Chaotic and restless
I will dream
The same life

Still Missing

I just thought I'd write a quick post letting people know I'm okay. My computer is still in the computer hospital and it is very sad. The computer we have is the one matt uses for his work so I'm not using it too often (plus it's old and I don't like it too much). I wish I had more time because I really want to read everyone's blogs, but alas I'm about to leave for work. Things that have occured while I have been away from this space:

Went camping on the Murray river up at Gunbower for a weekend. It was a great time except that it was 43 degrees celsius or something like that - we spent a bit of time floating in the river. When we got home, the bird who sits on a nest outside my window was gone:( Either died in the heat, hit by a car, or eaten by a cat I suppose. The little nest is abandoned and I will never see the babies hatch:( I felt so sad.

My friend Kate was here this weekend, and i had some other friends over for dinner saturday night, which was a good but exhausting night.

I have started at O&G at BHH - I find it frantic and chaotic and I am tired very often. Next week is christmas, and I'm guessing I won't have much of a chance to blog then either. Hope everyone is well, soon I hope to read everyone's blogs, see how they are going, and leave silly comments on their blogs.