I have tried to keep myself busy this week while Dad has been in PNG and Robyn has been holidaying with her daughter. I went to the Family History Centre on Monday to have lunch with my friend, Denise. She is the FHC Director so she is there on Mondays and Fridays. We like to go for a walk when we get together, but it wasn't going to work out this week, so lunch was it. There was another lady at the FHC who decided to eat lunch with us and so Denise and I didn't really get to catch up that day. So, on
Tuesday, I drove to Denise's house after lunch and spent a couple of
hours with her getting lots of talking in.
On Wednesday, I had a doctor's appointment for a skin check -
fun.....not! My doctor gives us one every year just to make sure that there isn't anything suspicious happening on our skin. Anyway, my doctor told me that he wants to take out a
thing on my back - it's like a skin tag - and he wants to get it checked out. He only does procedures on Tuesdays and he said he was
full up for March and that he was going on vacation for the first week
of April. So, my name has been put on a waiting list in case
someone cancels.
On Thursday, I met up with my friend, Haidi, at the 'Coffee Club' in Eli Waters for
lunch. I had an iced chocolate for lunch. They are so filling that I can't have that and eat as well - so, of course, I chose the iced chocolate. :-) We stayed there talking for almost three
hours - it was nice to catch up with her as well.
On Friday evening, I met up with my friends, Alison and Thea, and Thea's daughter, Rachel at the movie theatre. Thea had called me and asked me if I
wanted to join them in seeing 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'. Robyn had loaned the first one to me and so I watched it during the day on
Friday and I gave it a 7/10 and I would say that the second one was a
7/10 as well. Afterwards, we went to the 'Hogsbreath Cafe' for dessert - I had a
trifle sundae - it was okay - nothing to write home about - I should
have ordered the mud cake. :-) We did have a nice time chatting and
laughing together.
I was hoping to be flying to Wagga Wagga today to spend a few days with Auntie Norma, but since I have to wait
and see what is going to happen with the doctor's office, I had to put
that off - sheesh. If the doctor's office doesn't call me tomorrow, I might see if I can fly out to Wagga on Wednesday and then
come back on the following Monday in case I get a call to come in on
that Tuesday. It's such a hassle, but I want to be around if I get the
call to go in for the procedure. If I do get to go to Wagga, I want to do some family history with Auntie Norma, including asking her questions about her childhood. I am hoping to use this information to write Poppy's life story.
Things have been going okay for Dad in PNG. He is staying at a hotel
right beside the airport and basically spends his time in either place
as the training room is at the airport. The training manager has been
picking Dad up at the hotel in the morning and dropping him off at the
hotel at the end of class. He has also taken Dad to the grocery store
twice so that he could pick up a few things. Dad has been eating
breakfast and supper at the hotel (usual expensive hotel food) and then
eating noodle soup and snacks for lunch. It's not great that he can't
go outside of those places, but it's for his own safety. Even the
training manager told Dad not to go anywhere unless he had a driver to
take him. Dad has been kept busy when he is not teaching, though, as
there is a lot of prepping to do for this course.
We are talking to each other on Skype each day, but the internet in PNG is a bit dicey, so it's not always consistent. We can text each other, but it is really expensive for Dad to text from PNG and so we don't want to do that too often. We are both looking forward to him returning to HB. :-)
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