Lazy long weekend

Sleep tight!

My gorgeous friend Rachel irradicating the smell of boy from my room for the night! So sweet! Mmmm gardenia...

Yay! Finished physio!!!

Awkwardly enough I had no idea I had two blogs... So this is yesterday's blog but was posted on the wrong page...

Changing the Sheets

My life these last few weeks is much like my new mattress... Sunny, exciting, beautiful, and a little lumpy.

With everything wrapping up quietly and uneventfully this horrific chapter of my life is nearly over. The only hints to the nightmare that was recovery are my thousands of new (and beautiful AND GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED) pyjamas and that small jar of bio-oil keen eyes may spy in the background...

Tomorrow is my last physio rehab session and I've already seen the last of my surgeon... the surreal reality is about to begin.

Unfortunately, due to a number of circumstances my post-surgery life is not as I planned it to be. No longer will I be jetting off to Japan as a celebratory escape from recovery, no longer will I have full-time work. So I have to plan once more on how to keep busy (at least it will soon only be for 4 days a week instead of the full seven).

Crafting is my new thing. And it feel wonderful to finish things - a type of satisfaction I rarely felt before. So because I cannot live the life I planned, I am planning on making this life my new life!

The perfect opportunity to start getting up early, finishing everything, accomplishing small things, staying on task, living dreams and reading books. At the risk of sounding entirely wanky, it's given me an opportunity to re-examine my life before I truly begin one. It reminds me of Robert Frost's poem the road not taken... (always one of my least favourite poems due to the Board of Studies insistance of making us study it every year at school, but very poignant) and considering my extreme bable... I feel it's more fitting to leave you with his beautiful words

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Leaps and bounds!

I feel about a zillion times better!!!

My scar has shed it's scab leaving it grossly pink but not nearly as gross as before! My energy levels are way way up! (NB to the point where I can spend 3 hours at work before fading out into shades of grey). Physio is exciting! The group meetings after not so much!

I can walk for thirty minutes as of today and I'm pretty sure in 25 minutes I can do half of my old 'short walk' that use to take 35 minutes which is pretty good too!

AND EVEN BETTER!! I have started to finish things.

I have finished the cushions - FINALLY! was starting to doubt that would happen - AND they look wonderful! even if most of their wonder stems from the fabric I am just super excited that I was able to sew them half decently with a little help on the finishing touches from mum.

see: beautiful!

And today after my three hours of work I begin my next project - the remodelling of a model manequin. I picked it up from my old neighbours as they packed up shop to travel the world and it was pretty stinky and raggedy (evidenced above) but I have decided to give the old girl a much needed face lift! So today I start papermache... SOO Exciting I feel like I'm in primary school again!

I also have started a food diary - which isn't surprising considering I'm so obsessed with it - but not the boring kind where you count calories, the exciting kind where you are on search for the best cheap Japanese!

I will attempt to keep this all up to date, however with my new found achievements coming in leaps and bounds the nanna nap has returned also just to keep me going.

The future looks bright!!