I mentioned the other day in my post about being afraid to run that my hormones have gone a little iffy and I had been told I needed to start exercising. I kind of played it down a little bit, to be honest. You may or may not know (if you’ve been reading my work for a while you definitely do) I suffer from polycystic ovaries, which is caused by a hormonal imbalance, and right now my hormones have decided to have their own little party and stuff up everything in my system. It’s not been all that fun, but I’ll get over it.
Best: I’m gearing up to fill in for the manager at my work when she goes on maternity leave. There are so many amazing things in that sentence that I can’t even explain to you how cool that is – I get to be the manager for almost a year while she’s on maternity leave, and she’s having a baby! Which I still think is an incredible feat, even though I realise people do it every day. I’ve also got 2 weeks of holidays coming up! You have no idea how excited I am.
Worst: Thanks to aforementioned hormone issues, my hair is falling out. Also my eyesight seems to be deteriorating a lot quicker than normal and I may need to start wearing glasses every day. One of the new programs at work is orthoptics which are eye therapists so they had a look at my eyes and said I need new glasses at least, probably need to be referred to an opthamologist. We’ll see what the optometrist says. In the mean time, please forgive any dodgy editing on the site – I assure you, it’s me and my not amazing eyes, not any of my other wonderful editors.
This week’s pics:
Top: One of the outtakes from my entry to win an Olympus camera. I didn’t win so I used it again to enter the Fat Mum Slim competition to win the same camera.
And this, because sometimes you just have to ignore people laughing at you:
Around the web:
This post from Smaggle on people trying to rescue her from homeless people just because of how they look hit a nerve with me. The people who have hurt me owned shoes and had showers and a roof over their head, stop making assumptions people!
I also read The Tale of Zoe Foster Blake and while I’ve always respected her and thought she was funny and all that I’ve never previously understood why people fell in love with her like they did. I finally get it. This glimpse behind the makeup to the person showed me something real I can relate to, and I loved it.
I also have two videos you should watch, but I’m only going to embed one of them. The first is which summed up perfectly the experience of planning a wedding and made me realise I never want to do it again, ever. Which may seem like an unimportant thing to say given I’m already married, but I used to think I’d be interested in having a second wedding for our 25th wedding anniversary, or something down the track, and now I know I really really don’t.
Then there was this video from Smaggle (Yes, I am having a bit of a love affair with Smags, could you tell?):
On KiKi & Tea:
We had lots of posts this week! And one of these days I’ll get the hang of spacing posts out so we don’t have busy weeks and quiet weeks, but it isn’t today. We kicked off the week with a set of 3 videos of Maree, Monique & me putting our money where our mouth is and doing the ice bucket challenge. It was cold. I’m guessing you got that by all my screaming.
Our tip was how to blog from mobile devices as I primarily use mobiles these days. Maree pulled on her ranty pants (OK, she didn’t really, but I absolutely love that phrase) to talk about people misusing emergency departments by going for things that are just not emergencies, Jessica shared with us her love of Paris and Maree told us 30 things you may not know about her invisible illness for invisible illness awareness week.
