Back To Work

Well I have gone back to work on a casual basis and it has been quite tiring and sore I am not used to being on my feet for eight hours at a time so all in all it has been a bloody tiring week and trying to remember all I was taught in such a short period of time (yeah I am over it). My first day back I had just reached almost knock off time and I had a code blue ( the place I work that means someone is hurt or something) so if you have a senior first aid certificate, which I have you go running. There in the aisle was an elderly woman who was determined to continue what she started and wanting no help but on further investigation we found out she had chemo that morning and had no help. She has six months to live and was so frail, makes you appreciate life. She still bought her ciggies though. I suppose she thinks I have nothing to lose I am already dying. I feel for her, she was one feisty lady given her condition.

On a happier note this week was my wedding anniversary. I often ask Steve when does the honeymoon stage finish maybe because we have only been married for three years it might take a while. It was a good day and an even better night. Being married to Steve has taught me so much and it gets better each day I look forward to every day being with him. He is my husband and partner something you don't always find in this day and age.

Lucky Update

Well our little fellow is doing better so far we just have to try to alleviate his stress a bit more so we need to move him into a quiet area hopefully that will help him. He still hisses and carries on but he is showing improvement.

Other news on the wildlife front was we went and had our one on one with our wildlife co-ordinator and that was very informative, she is a very educated person when it comes to wildlife. While there I got to hold a baby magpie and see all her animals that she has in care. On arriving we pulled up out front and in her front yard was a baby kangaroo not something you see in the suburbs very often (we knew we were in the right place). While there she had another baby kangaroo in the living room a smaller version of the one outside. I am loving looking after the animals and am now looking at doing maybe a course in animal husbandry next year. I may also have another job as receptionist at the local vet which will help my career if that is what I am looking to doing.

I am starting to realise you never know what is around the corner. Hopefully something even more exciting.

Up Up and Away

One thing I have done in my forties that I have never done before was go overseas. Last year we went to the south island of New Zealand and this year we went to Hanoi Vietnam. Just lately I have been saying to Steve I would love to go to England in the next couple of years so what did he do today he went and booked us on flights to England on the 28th December this year so we will see the new year in in England. Which is interesting because not long after I met Steve I was talked into going to have my cards read tarot cards that is (I don't usually believe that sort of thing) but I was told the person I met recently would take me traveling and that he would be my partner for the rest of my life. As I had just separated and was going through my divorce and I had never been out of Australia I thought that unlikely as I was a bit anti men and commitment at that time. I was proven wrong we got married and have traveled. Doesn't mean it made me a believer though just less skeptical.

So now I have to get as much casual work as I can to save up some money for spending which won't be to hard at this time of year. Work has offered me about 7 weeks work starting next week which will bring me to mid November. Then it will be Christmas and then we leave and I still have four weeks long service leave up my sleeve so I might take them. I think it will all come around pretty quickly. At least I won't be bored.

Update on Lucky

Well two days ago we took lucky the possum to the vet with his rash and he is now on a new cream instead of bathing him (thank god) as he was becoming quite distressed not that the cream is any better he still hates us. He proved that by climbing up on my shoulder after putting the cream on him and reversing up to my neck and peed all down my shoulder and in my hair and then he poohed all down my back ( he is just a charming little fellow). The cream must be starting to work on him though as the third dose he laid on his back in my lap and went to sleep (now that was cute). I would just like our healthy happy little possum back and not the one at the moment that hisses, scratches, bites, pees and poohs all over us. (I am sure he would like to be back to).

By the way anyone know of someone who would like to house and animal sit for 5 weeks while we are overseas???

Getting Started

Where to start hopefully this will be the hardest bit and the rest will get easier. I am in my forties hence the heading. I decided to start a blog because my husband has one (the desk in the corner) and I have found it interesting watching his take shape so I thought I would give it a go. I doubt anyone but him will read it so I should be fine.

They say life begins in your forties. I know mine has diffidently changed.

So far in my forties I have gotten divorced, remarried, flown in a light aircraft, ridden on a motorbike and I have quit my job of 18 years and am now wondering what to do with my life. Although work has let me stay working casually so I will have a little bit of work in the next couple of months.

I am looking at going back to study which should prove interesting as I haven't been in a classroom for a long long time. What appeals at this point is something outside. The courses I am looking at doing are land management and conservation or animal husbandry. I have spent the last seven years not knowing if it was raining, cold or sunny outside. I have been stuck in an office with no windows (It was starting to feel like a prison) not a nice feeling at all. I am now sitting at home wondering what to do with myself as the courses I wish to do don't start till February.

One thing I have recently become is a wildlife carer and have two baby brush tails possums, a snake (Carpet Python) and a blue tongue all of which except the blue tongue will hopefully survive and be returned to their natural habitat. The blue tongue as she is to tame can not go back into the wild but hopefully will go to a good home. Hopefully they will keep me busy for a while but I can't see that happening as they sleep all day so all I have to do is clean their cages and feed them. I also have a 10 year old beagle named Xena, a cat named Dizzy, a bird named Samson and four chickens named after the four divas.

Today though one of the possums is sick his name is Lucky (He is named lucky because his mum was hit by a car and she was so mangled they didn't know she had baby at first) he was in the care of my eldest daughter but she has had to give up caring for a short time as she is in between homes. He is suffering from possum mange/dermatitus which can kill him if not treated only thing is the treatment is so stressful for him he wont come out of his dray (his bed) we have to bath him, possums hate to be bathed and my husband and myself have the scratches to prove it. So Lucky is off to the vets tonight yet again to hopefully get something to make him better.