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Date: 10 July 2008 21:01:47
Well, the last couple of weeks seem to have flown by in the blink of an eye. Last week was spent mainly slogging my guts out trying to make sure that I'd sorted out everything at work that could possibly happen in my absence so that I could take this week off without worrying and stressing about work stuff. Sadly, there are not enough hours in my life to do all the things that were on my desk before I left, but I'm hoping when I go back on Monday nothing major will have gone wrong while I've been off.
The main reason for taking this week off (other than I haven't had any holiday in a long while and have been working extra hard in the last couple of weeks and was generally bloody knackered) was that dad was having surgery last Friday. Following his heart attack, he needed a stent inserting into the artery where the problem had been in order to help keep it open and unclogged. Apparently, though, when the surgeons took a look they decided the artery was sufficiently long enough to require not one, not two, but three stents. So, Tina took a couple of days off at the end of last week to help out around the house and be there for mum, and when she left on Saturday, I turned up to do much the same as dad came home. He's doing very well so far, and hopefully will soon be able to do the lifting and stretching that I had to do for him while I was there.
Since returning home a couple of days ago, I've largely been taking it easy, and trying to sort out some of those little bits and pieces that I've been putting off for months, or in some cases years. I'm just hitting a point where I'm feeling motivated to change some things, do some new things, and generally push myself to not just sit on my fat arse feeling miserable at the fact that I've been putting these things off for so long.
Anyway, things are going well and overall I'm a happy bunny. Huzzah.