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grace assembly christmas eve celebration

Going for christmas shopping. Nah. Just had breakfast here. Since lena had not come here before n it's been awhile since I last came. Well drop by n have a lookeee...

tropicana city mall

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gorgeous outfit!

See you later people.

We leave soon to go to Sydney for the night then fly away in the morning.

Fun will be had, cocktails will be had, massages will also be had. And by the look of my glowing white legs I'd say a dose of sunburn may be had.

And I'm thinking by the look of my crazy hair I might come back with dreadlocks. Because I'm not taking a hair straightener and I'm not even going to dry it with the dryer. It can just go wild for the next week or so. Will pack plenty of hair elastics.

Me

So I wish all my friends and neighbours here on vox a very merry christmas. I'l think of you lot over there in the snow and sleet while I'm lying on my sun lounge soaking up some rays. And to all my aussie neighbours I hope the weather gods treat you well and you don't get a real scorcher for christmas day.

I think this is the first christmas, or even December, of my life that I haven't eaten ham. Can't say I'm missing it either.

Catch you on the flip side guys.

Today the lady at the bank flummoxed me.

But I was doing something else at the same time so I didn't realise she'd flummoxed me until I got home.

I said to her

if I lose my credit card in Thailand is there a number I can ring?

and she said

yes, it's on the back of the card

But now I see that thats not really going to work.

Nevermind, because my day 2 plan involved researching phone numbers for mastercard, all the places I can use a mastercard in Thailand, and where to ring if I lose it,  phone numbers for local police, tourist police, the australian embassy and hospitals. I have sent copies of all our passports and insurance details to Emjay and filled in my travel journal with her phone number and my brothers details.

Honestly, I should have been a wedding planner. No stone is left unturned.

I have just finished cleaning out the fridge and tomorrow I will give the house a quick hoo ha. Because even though I am a terrible housekeeper, there is nothing worse than coming home after a nice holiday, to a dirty house. I have set up a light on a timer to come on each night so Betty isn't scared and I'm considering setting up the airconditioner to come on for a few hours each day for her so she won't be too hot. I haven't decided yet if this is really needed. Daz thinks it is but he is a city boy. I grew up on a farm where dogs lived on chains and had a log to sleep in.

I have bought our little baggies to put all my dangerous liquids and explosive lipsticks in, I have returned my library books, asked the neighbour to put out our rubbish and I am now about to take off my toenail polish, snip my nails down a bit and coat them with a cheery holiday colour. Which I wish was green but I couldn't find a nice one.

And thats about it for today I think.

If I've forgotten anything, feel free to let me know.

For most of Japanese people, December is a season of year-end parties.  Year-end is just a reason for alcohol lovers to have parties.  Such people, including me, easily detect a good reason for making a toast.

Anyway, there are a little too much parties in this December for me.  I was not able to maintain my time for the photo quest, so I brought my cameras to such parties and asked my friends whether I can take their shoes.

hehehe, as you can imagine, most of my photos of my friends' shoes are mess; out of focus, blur, too much dark and so on.  I selected four photos of shoes for the photo quest as follows:

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Back on track. But so hot here today. And windy. And stuffy.

So today is get all the final little bits and pieces I want to add to the pile.

I know it looks like there's a lot of wet ones there but I'll be the one laughing when there's no toilet paper somewhere we go. They they'll all be calling for me.

Muesli bars because Emjay has convinced me I must never eat on a plane for fear of food poisoning. Because then there will only be 2 toilets between hundreds of people. And my wet ones would be in high demand then.

Diarrhoea tablets, because..... well because its starting to sound like I have some fixation with toilets and bowels.

Lots of antiseptic handwash, allergy tabs because I always get itchy and ear wax because my ears get sore in water. I think I only need to add panadol and mylanta.

I'm sure I can buy all this stuff over there for half the price. I should have been a girl guide. Apprently you can get all your prescription meds there with no prescription really cheap.

Essentials

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And I'm cashed up in baht now. I felt like I was carrying a brick around in my handbag. Just enough for us all to get through a few days.

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And now I'm off to take up my temple pants.  Bought a pair of light white longs in case we go anywhere where they like you to be fully covered.

Which means getting out the trusty old sewing kit. Look, it even has white cotton.

Sewing-kit

Then its off to my doctor to see what he thinks about what the hospital doctor told me and advised.

Well the plan for today had a major upset.

Mainly me finding myself at the hospital at 9am hooked up to the ECG machine thinking I was having a heart attack.

I thought I was having a heart attack yesterday morning. About ten minutes into my morning treadmill session. But as usual you tell yourself you're being ridiculous and it seemed to get better pretty quickly anyway.

Then this morning I thought I'd just walk on the treadmill. All went well until I finished and got in the shower. Then I had the most terrible gripping chest pains.

So I had an aspirin and went and lay on the bed. Then after five minutes I had two quick-eze and went back to bed. After ten minutes I put on my shoes and a bit of blush. And after twenty minutes I rang Daz and said, if you're close by can you come and take me to the hospital.

So I walked in and said to the desk lady - do I have to see you before I see a nurse. And she said - yes, just wait a minute and went back to her phone call. And after a bit I said - its chest pains, leaning on her desk and gripping my chest.

So nice nurse came and got me and put an oxygen mask on me, slipped a pill under my tongue and wanted to give me an aspirin but I told her I'd had one. Then she hooked me up to the machine and mixed me a not terribly pleasant drink of mylanta mixed with pink anaesthetic.

Doctor came and YAY - no heart attack. Some wobbly bit on the graph but apparently nothing important.

So he tells me maybe its gallstones or a stomach ulcer. I said what gives you gallstones. And he said too much of that fatty rich food we all eat too much of. Are you kidding I said, I've just lost 8 kilos, I haven't eaten a piece of fat for months. So I didn't really think it was gallstones, because I googled it and it didn't feel like that anyway.

But it still meant an hours drive to the ultrasound place to have the pesky gall looked at. But YAY no gallstones.

So now I'm taking a course of tablets for 6 days for stomach ulcers. I don't think its that either really.

Stomach ulcer doesn't bode well for Thailand food. Better though than a heart attack I have to say. Or gallstones.

He tells me that sometimes the body just has strange pains. I have to see him on Thursday for a final check over. But there will be no exercising again before we go.

Its been a tiring kind of day. And now I'm going to end it with Lizzies school presentation night. A long night in a hot hall full of women wearing way too much perfume, and watching a lot of kids I have no interest in getting their awards. Until we get to the important one. Lizzies. And she's last because she's in the highest year.

No rest for mothers. Can't even have a suspected heart attack and get a night off the job.