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My grandma (my mum’s mum, who’s my sole remaining grandparent, known as “Nanny”) has been in and out of hospital a fair bit in recent years. She’s turning 90 at the end of this year and has been having heart troubles for a while, though her mind is still sharp as a tack.

I got a call from mum on Monday night saying that Nanny had decided that she was sick of hospital, wanted to be discharged, wasn’t going to be taking any medicine anymore, and was just going to let nature take its course. She was going to have to take thirteen tablets in one hit, which is astonishing (and horrible, and I can see why she decided to do what she did). I said we could come to visit on Saturday, and mum said that she wasn’t sure Nanny would still be around by then. Naturally there was a whole lot of sadness and tears. Nanny had a doctor’s appointment yesterday, so I took the day off work today and kungfupolarbear and I went over to visit today.

It was actually quite a happy visit, Nanny was in really good spirits, much better than I’ve seen her for a while. Mum was there, my sister had driven up from Nowra, and my uncle was up too. We had a good chat for a couple of hours, filled Nanny in on all Beanie’s latest happenings (she’d been absolutely delighted by him when she came over a month or so ago), and griped about the state of politics, hehe.

Both kungfupolarbear and I feel a lot better about things now, and who knows, now that Nanny’s not on a heap of medicines she may last another number of months. Either way, she was really happy to see the both of us, which was nice.

Not quite five years marriage yet (that’s next month), but kungfupolarbear and I arrived back in the country five years ago to the day today! So many changes since then (we have our own house and little doggie!), but everything is still so effortless. <3

We’re heading up to Newcastle tomorrow for gypocalypse‘s wedding! Should be nice, we have enough spare time that we’ll do some wandering around and photo-taking too (the rehearsal is tomorrow, but the actual wedding isn’t until Sunday).

In the fitness news, I just tonight did a full five kilometres! That was including the warm-up and cool-down, so it wasn’t actually 5km of running, but still. Definitely glad we bought the treadmill.

I just jogged for 20 minutes straight! \o/

I’ve been doing the Couch to 5K (the goal at the end is to be able to jog for 5km) on our treadmill, and the day I just completed was just purely “jog for 20 minutes”. And I did it! It got slightly rough towards the end, but nothing terrible.

Pretty happy right now. 🙂

So we finally got a dog on Sunday! His name is Beanie and he’s a one year-old dachshund/maltese cross. kungfupolarbear took some photos yesterday.

He’s house-trained already, though he’s a bit clingy at the moment and we can’t leave the house for very long without him getting all anxious, but overall he’s such an adorable little thing!

The treadmill mentioned in my previous entry was able to fit fine, thanks to some clever rearranging by kungfupolarbear! We had it delivered on the 23rd of last month, and I’ve been giving it a good go since then. I’m using C25K to do a Couch to 5K program, and am using one of the treadmill’s built-in workout routine thingies in between (just walking, basically).

I’m still on holidays next week, and we’re going down to Canberra on the 9th and 10th to see the Mapping Our World exhibit at the National Library of Australia, and also visiting some relatives who live there. Canberra is only a three hour drive from our new place, which is nice.

In short, woot!

Woops. It’s been a while, time for a bullet-point multi-paragraph update!

• The house is still excellent. We had the air conditioning guy in a few weeks ago to fix the broken control box inside, and now the thing actually picks up temperature properly (the temperature sensor on the old box had been painted over ::facepalm::).

• In less good news, Lily’s mother decided that she’d try to get us to take Lily full-time, with no warning, claiming she was a “bad parent”. This despite kungfupolarbear having stalked her on Facebook and seen that she was busily hanging out with a bunch of new people and going to parties. Lily seems to be living with her grandma most of the time, from what we can tell. Which I’m mostly okay with, because it means I don’t have to deal with her psychopath mother. Anyway, we shut that idea down pretty hard, and she gave it up. But jesus fucking christ.

• Yesterday night was a total clusterfuck of EPIC proportions. We went to Newtown to have dinner with tannymonster and her girlfriend (which was lovely), but then someone committed suicide via train at Waverton and the ENTIRE train network fucking MELTED DOWN. We left Newtown at 8:17pm, and got home at TWENTY MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT. For some unknown reason they had trains running semi-regularly out to Penrith, but absolutely nothing on the Richmond line. We ended up going to Blacktown and sitting there for 45 minutes before a train came down that was apparently just going back and forth between Richmond and Blacktown. And even then we actually sat on the train for 15 minutes before it even started moving. Just unbelievable.

• I worked last Sunday so have today off, and I’m currently all snuggled up inside while it pisses down torrentially outside:

We’re right at the “C” in “Castle Hill”.

• Speaking of work, it’s been busy but is still good! There’s a big push to get us doing things other than the direct support queue, so I’ve been putting on my developer hat and have been doing a bit of coding, which makes a nice change. The aim is to get us doing 50% proactive (i.e. non-queue) work by December next year.

• I’m having three full weeks off over Christmas, which is going to be goddamn AMAZING because I don’t think I’ve had holidays over the Christmas period for I’m not sure how long.

• Lots and lots of photos have been taken, including our Halloween party and Melbourne Cup day. One of our office organiser girls actually messaged me the other week to ask if they minded if my Melbourne Cup photos were used in an article in Business Insider!! I said yes and asked for the photos to be credited to me. Eeee! Lots of other photos too, take a look at my Flickr page.

…I think that’s about it, though I’m sure I’ve probably forgotten something!