An alternate life

I have continued to be well and have enjoyed the last few days.

On Thursday evening I made it to an RPM class and although I did take it a little easier than I would have in my former life, I still worked fairly hard and had a great class.

Yesterday, Friday, was our tenth wedding anniversary. Hooray! It doesn't seem like that long at all, but at the same time it seems like it's always been this way. One of those weird things. As a gift to us, both girls had a particularly bad night's sleep so we weren't that happy yesterday morning. However this soon changed as we dropped them with their blessed aunt, uncle and cousins for the next 24 hours.

Another special anniversary gift to us was an appointment with Dr Giri at the RAH. I'm so glad we could share our momentous day with the lymphoma specialist. At least I didn't have to have an anniversary IV bag. Dr Giri didn't have a whole lot to say except that he thought I was doing well and was glad to see that I had been feeling better this round. He said some people on BEACOPP end up in hospital every round, so I'm doing better than that.

After that we were on a little anniversary adventure sans kiddies. We had a wander in the city and did a little shopping. I got a new hat which I will take a picture of and put in soon. We had a delicious dinner at Vietnam Star City, an icecream at Glenelg and then stayed at a hotel in Adelaide like carefree young folk. We continued our alternate life with a late breakfast at The Store followed by Avatar 3D. After that it was back to reality as we returned to our children and then our messy house. It was a lovely 24 hours....

I would like to note, however, that I think the cinema is a total sham and that I think it is a complete farce that there are no concession tickets for 3D movies. $20 for a ticket and 3D glasses. So crap. They make you pay a gazillion dollars for a box of puffed corn that cost them about 50 cents and then another gazillion dollars for a cup of carbonated, flavoured water that costs them another 50 cents. It's a joke. I know you don't have to buy it, and we don't always, but I still think it's daylight robbery. Bastards. Apart from that, the movie was great.

I would also like to note that Maesie had a ripper of a tanty at bedtime tonight. It was a bit late and she had fallen asleep in the car so she was all out of sorts. She was screaming and yelling from her bed and it was a real doozy. Towards the end she screamed out "I don't love you mummy". I had expected this at some point but didn't think it would occur quite so early in her life. Anyway, Dave went down after that and sorted things out and in amongst it all she said she didn't like that I was sick and she didn't want me to go to the doctors. It's strange the way their young minds work. It looks like they're going okay with things but really there's more going on in there than they know how to say. So that upset me a little bit - poor Maesie's getting messed about by all this more than I thought.