as promised i [finally] managed to upload some pics! i’ve gotsome of the gorgeous Keira (who, I believe, had her first birthday party to go to today - not even a month old and already miss popularity!) and some funny onesof the johnnic golf day for work (especially look out for the ones of jane doing the snake!)- oit was heldat peacnwood on 2 novemeber… enjoy!
So its been a looooooooooooooooooong time since ive had a chance to write something…. a lot has happend in the meantime: Robyn and Mark’s baby girl Keira was born on 31 October: and is she cute! i will upload some pics so whatch this space! Ian has already uploaded some pics from Milly and Justin’s wedding that happened on 21 October - congrats to them once again!
Well everything is very fast paced at the moment with Christmas approaching and everything closing - work is mad to make sure everything is on track! Ian and I will be going down to DeKelders for the break, to spend some time with my family before they all depart to Bahrain on 4 January, I am looking forward to the break but in the same sense quite sad with what has to follow.
Thanx to all the calls I got while in hospital! My Mom, sister, Bert and Rita also came through to see me which was very nice…. and i got flowers from Ian, my mom and Greatstock which is always nice while i got a massage voucher from Milly -spoilt rotten i say! Im just glad the worst is over, now if i can just get through the next 4 weeks without tearing anything or hurting myself i will be home free! at least i NEVER have to do this again!!! One thing i have to say though is that if i ever need to, i will go back to Fourways Hospital: they were very good and the sisters ad nurses are extremely helpful, it was, all things considered, quite a pleasant experience!
anyhow, i am drifting off to bed - tomorrow is another loooooong day and i dont cope to well without my 8 hours beauty sleep! stay in touch….. jud xxx
Long time, no surprise.
Wow, lots to write about. Let me start with Judiet having to go into hospital on monday evening for an appendectomy. At about 8:30pm she complained that her stomach was getting worse (she had a bladder infection the week before), so I dragged her to the hospital where they concluded it could be 1 of 3 things. Her appendix, ovarian cysts, or an ectopic pregnancy. After drawing blood, they called a surgeon down to look at her appendix. He poked around and concluded that with about 90% confidence it was her appendix, and 10% that it was an ovarian cyst. Either way they would need to operate on the same area. She went in at about 10:30pm and was out by 11:30pm with everything going well. It was her appendix so it was removed. She spent 3 days in hospital on antibiotics and is now recovering at home. Still another week until she can go back to work.
I got a new laptop. An HP NC8430. Its cool. Intel Core 2 Duo centrino thing. 256Meg graphics card, gig-o-ram etc. Its nice, still getting it all setup but so far so good.
There is lots more, just cant think of it now :\ Ill post more when I think of it.
Piece…
Its a wee tad late, but here it is none the less (Last weekend - 28 and 29 October):
On saturday we had a party to celebrate Judiets birthday. She decided that she wants a Halloween themed party and we set about making it all eerie and spooky. First on the list was a pumpkin. Having never carved a pumpkin before we set about doing it and it turned out quite well in the end. Decoration was up to Judiet and she decided that she wanted alot of candles, spider webs all over and decorated the table in green and orange. It looked awesome. For starters we served a Pan seared chicken breast served with lettuce, tomato, red pepper and cream cheese. Main meal was a Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, roasted rosemary potatos, oven roasted veggies, asparagus and gravy. Yummy. Desert was a baked chocolate pudding with soft chocolate inside. The timing was a little out, the yorkshire puddings took longer than expected and the chocolate pudding fell in a bit, but otherwise it was okay! Great time by the people that where there (Dave, Jess, Nicole, Graeme, Judiet and I).
Sunday we where VIPS at the Samsung Train Race. This was really cool because it was an old steam train and we went from the old Krugersdorp station to Magalliessig station in the Magalliesburg. The train took long to get there, and wasnt quite as luxury as we had hoped but it was fun none the less. The whole length of the marathon is around 35km’s and alot of the runners finished before the train which was quite impressive! At the end of the race there was a HUGE tent where they served drinks and some lunch. We caught a shuttle back from the end point to the station earlier as we had other things to do, but when we got back to the station we found we where parked in and couldnt leave anyway. Luckily some very very kind people where there who gave us a lift back to our house and we went to fetch the car later once the train had arrived back and we could get the car out.
The weekend was excellent! Photos are in the gallery! Checkit!
