The good things in your day :)

The good thing is to know my son is in a caring place with some most awesome carers in his journey to get into a better place.

Another good thing was to be accepted as me. and given support, care and help in some of my many areas. TO someone out there, dude, you have no idea what you have done for me in the short time I have known you. Truly brings tears to my eyes. Feel so much gratitude to have had my teacher appear, someone I can really relate to and share everything with, how often does that happen. I am blessed, even though it really hurts.

TO that person. THANKYOU. What ever happens in my life, you are one person I will never forget. ANd I dont have many people in that place. Forever grateful to you for how you have treated me with so much care acceptance and ground root foot work walking around and around somewhere with me!!

Still flying high!!

Seeing new faces from old places here with us at TBBD.

Paddy 'n TBT

Well, that didn’t go so badly after all.

I saw my GP today and told him that I’d cancelled my referral to a hospital for double hip replacement surgery because I don’t want the operations done. Yeah, for various reasons.

He was perfectly fine about it – none of this (as I thought might happen with my luck) ‘well we’ll Section ya and do it then, mwahahahaha.’ Whew, I’m glad about that.

And I’ll get a referral for a home needs assessment and see if I can get me a Zimmer Frame and some help with a few household chores which are getting hard to do. Cool.

My neck and spinal injuries are such that a hip or two really is neither here nor there in the scheme of things. I’ll still struggle to walk, so why waste the new hips on me when there might be some young fulla or fullaess’ who can benefit more from getting their hips sorted? Exactly.

Woohoo, a Zimmer frame. I want one with a seat, please.

Paddy.

Gotta be - accepting an invite to coffee with a cobber and his young family (and surviving his two year old with the tatters of my already dodgy sanity, intact.) An active wee chap that one.

I 'gave him a ride' on an elbow crutch by lifting him up and sticking his arm through the arm-hole thingy onto the handle. He thought that great fun but tactically it was an error 'cos he kept trying to take it from me, then. Kids.

It was good - I got a ride to the library and one to the supermarket and home. And a nice coffee and a few hours of yarns. Pity we had to compete with noise of The Wiggles, but. 'Cor blimmin Orstralyns.

Have a good safe night all of ya's,

Paddy.

Crikey!

I had the privilege of meeting our ‘Max’, her Bloke and their lovely well behaved and nicely-spoken grandson this arvo – yeah, they dropped in on their way somewhere else and it was lovely to meet you hon, and your Bloke and wee fella. Hope he enjoys the eggs, lol.

Enjoy ya weekend of crash and bash at the Speedway and please, feel free to drop in anytime you’re in the vicinity, now ya know the way. I have shortbread!

Paddy.

We had a great weekend. Would mind still been down that way but a bit cold for me. The young one palyed on it a bit but all he does is talks about the easter eggs Paddy gave to him. He said to say Thank you.

Crikey and haven’t I had a good run of visitors in the last week.

Me old cobber Mike turned up unexpectedly this morning – yeah, I’d just headed off for a nana nap after doing the laundry and there was a voice I ain’t heard in a while. Yeah, silly ignorant sod – caught DIY (at long last) and has not had use of a motor vehicle and won’t for a while yet.

Whanau were shopping in town here, so they dropped him off for a visit. Ah, coffee and fibs, just like in the good old days when he had a licence. Still wanna nana nap, though.

Paddy.

P.S. Max, he said Thank You at the time. I'm pleased he enjoyed them, as I enjoyed your visit. Thanks so much for that.

Attending an ANZAC Day Dawn Parade and service.

There was more than 1,000 people of all ages, which wasn't too shabby for a wee town like Marton. Yeah, it hurt like feck standing there on crutches but I did it and then retired to bed for a well earned nana nap. I'm pleased I made the effort.

Paddy.

The good thing in my day is this:

I realised today that I am worth something. Be it a little something or a big something, I still have it.

I also realised today that people do still like me - for who I am and what I believe.

I realised this after many years of fighting depression, when I did not believe I was worth something.

We are all appreciated and worth something to someone or something. Yes you, the reader - you are worth something too and you are appreciated.

Opening my latest and 'actual reading' power account and finding its in credit. Whew. Don't tell TBT, but just maybe, Mr. Heater can visit more often, and earlier in the night.

I dread opening window envelopes, but that one wasn't so bad, whew.

And I've been for a walk in pouring rain to get milk and other essentials and although the walk and carry home was as usual, bloody painful, I enjoyed being out and about.

Even more gooda, a mate called in and told me all about his brand new son (nah, didn't have his phone, so no photos) - 6 days old, he is. Apparently mum and bubs are both doing well, but I won't visit for a day or so - I have the sniffles and don't want the wee fella to have to find out about Man Flu this early in life.

Paddy.

Realising (again) that when one door closes another door opens.

Options that i thought would always been there have been shut to me for the last week or so, and i'm finding opportunities arising in places i forgot i could look!

Having cuddles with a baby. And with his big brother, who is two.

I was terrified of dropping him, but I had me first cuddle - Welcome to the World, little fella. We'll do our bit to keep an eye out for ya's both, won't we TBT. Then, we'll both run, not just TBT.

I'd forgotten too, how satisfying it was to hand a baby back to its mum - stinky little blighters, babies. I think he'd saving it up for me. Cher, bro.

Uncle Paddy.

the good thing in my day is that we are one step closer to being in a house.... yay!!

The Sunshine.
Nice friends.

Smilies...I love them!
The simple things in life.

Loving the new place, loving the newly installed heat pump.
loving the last day of kids soccer, and having to drive to the beach for the game.
loving the picnic i've prepared and loving how quickly my creative-minded daughter picked up Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano last night.