Mmmmmmm, Sjokolade!

So today, me and mum made a slab of malteser nougat, some hazelnut pralines and some raspberry truffles! The truffles and pralines need to cool overnight before you shape them so I'll try and post some pictures tomorrow when they're all finished!

I got a little carried away!

Do you remember last year (or the year before) when I made those hoodies?

Well I've gone a little further recently. When I was in Cornwall I started making a knee-length-multi-coloured-patchwork-waistcoat which I finished a month or two ago. On Friday night I decided I wanted to make a t-shirt, so I looked up how to do it and on Saturday I went into town to buy the things I needed. And what with me not really doing anything today, I decided today was the day! I made two, mainly because it was a pack of two t-shirts but also I was allowed to make a mistake or few as long as they were kept to the same shirt! As predicted, one came out awesome, the other-less so. I'm only putting up pictures of the awesome one!

ME!

The Front

The Back

The front of my coat-note the Cornish flag and Tin Mine!

The back of the coat *upside-down*

Upside-down view of the front with the magician lining on display!

In my Nana's odds-and-ends box I found a strip of name-tags from when my mum was in school, so they had to go on! They're on the left shoulder.

8 Legged Pervs

A spider just crawled out of my top. It was a fairly big one (for England). Urgh.

I'm going to have nightmare's tonight...if I even get to sleep...

Reality

I just landed myself face first into reality. I booked my flights. Suddenly I HAVE to make the money/pass my driving test/organise a visa etc. and in time! I fly out on the 3rd Feb which is 11 weeks yesterday. The countdown has begun (again!).

75 Days

Granny Care

I'm essentially doing nightshifts with my Granny. She has advanced alzheimers and has been getting up a lot in the night so my parents haven't been getting a lot of sleep. We think of her like a toddler which makes it a lot easier to cope/deal with her. It sounds a little harsh like that. Let me explain! With my kids in SA, I didn't want to know their stories at first because I was scared that all I saw when I looked at them would be the abuse they had suffered. Instead, when I learned their stories one by one it gave me a better understanding of how their minds worked and where they were coming from and so I was able to come up with solutions for any problems we had that suited the individual child. Same with Granny. If we think of her as a perfectly able old lady we get horrendously frustrated, she can be very stubborn and argumentative sometimes. But if we think of her as a toddler, we can look after her better.

With me working lates at M&S it means I can sleep all day, so we're trialling me on nightshifts to see if it helps any. I'm working a rough 2 days on 2 days off system and I'm only doing it 4 nights a week. I've also arranged it so that I'm not pulling an all-nighter when I have to work at midday at Marks.

I'd forgotten how tiring it is though. And how it's 9 hours of waiting to be able to go to bed! Yoh!

Puny Penicillin Pills

Check out these puny pills! That's right...I have tonsillitis again :D And for the record: Penicillin is much more pleasant to swallow than Augmentin. Although where I was 2 of those a day, I'm on one tablet, 4 times a day of these (for 10 days). It takes some planning, let me tell you! And it said on the packet that they should be taken on an empty stomach 1 hour before food or 2 hours after, and that was REALLY hard to plan. You don't realise how much you eat randomly until you can't! And I had to think about when to eat and what to eat so that I wouldn't run out of energy for my bike ride to and from work...YOH! It was HARD. But then an anaesthetist who lives on our road told me it doesn't really matter about taking them on an empty stomach as much as it matters about taking things after food, so I'm ignoring the empty stomach thing.

Be prepared for more 'philosophical' night ramblings from me: I'm staying up all night in my Granny's room to see if we can keep her in bed for the night. YAY NIGHTSHIFTS! But luckily my parents will pay me (the things I do for SA!) 

Passports

My passport has been renewed, flights have been looked at (but not booked quite yet...sort of need the new passport to come through!) and I'm studiously avoiding anything to do with visa's.

All is going well!