Yes I know I have used that old joke before but sometimes I just can't help myself.
Yep its been months and months since my last entry. Sorry life got in the way. It is still in the way but I've been feeling like I need to blog so here goes.
It is full on summer here now. Its hot and lately very sultry with storms in the late afternoon evening. Today, Sunday, it was a bit cooler then the last few days and nice and sunny and dry with a great wind that was just refreshing.
Bluey and I and Chilli and....Floydd went down to hear Gene play at a small Music In the Park gig. It was an activity for community members that don't get out that often organized by a staff member of Joyce's.
Gene was great but Floydd was over taken by the joy of it all and the fact that I haven't learned his language yet and he peed all over the foot of a friend that was sitting beside me visiting while we listened to the music. I was mortified. She's such a great lady she just laughed but how bad is that. We don't blame Floydd at all we just kept him close on the leash for too long. Lesson really learned.
Floydd is a rescue dog from the firing squad at Gayndah he is very charming and polite and very well trained . He is smart smart smart. We don't get why he wasn't snapped up but a connection to Jo took him even though she knew she couldn't keep him ( She all ready has 2 dogs, three cats, five kids.... you do the math) so Jo got him and she knows I've wanted a border collie for a long time. He's been here two weeks but he just passed probation, Chilli was given veto power and it took her a little time to welcome him in but she has now so he's here to stay.
Bluey is getting cranked up with fundraising to finish off the building fund it looks positive for a construction start this coming year and maybe even finish before the end of 2009 or early 2010! i'm helping with campaign as well.
I'm dong a shave campaign again but I plan on shoving my two newest recruits Tamika and Erin to the fore. They are two student leaders in the community that both had mentioned to a Community worker that they wanted to shave this year and they are both excited about helping with the campaign and maybe taking it over for the following year. We are all working very hard to get a number of smaller satellite shave/color events going in the schools this year and we are identifying students in each school already. Stay tuned.
I'm doing Lighting consultation on a Production of Wizard of Oz at the Brolga and just got invited to do the Lighting Design for hamlet at the local little theatre, Z-PAC. They have got some new equipment and the play is a challenge but its one that could allow a great deal of creativity in the design. More on that later.
I've been meaning to do some classes for young folk on lighting and sound and I may see about combining this show with that idea. More on that later.
So its probably a good thing that I'm on a new drug the side effects, of which, include increased hyper activity! Yep I'm on Prednisone (oh you have to google this one).
I just had a look back at my blog because I thought I had told a story about Prednisone way back then. I can't find it but the story is that the main Hospital Registra was concerned about my weird behavior over Neutripeno Man. You know where I dressed with my undies over my pj pants and my dressing gown as a cape......you know the super hero that is saving the world one neutrapenic at a time beacuse due to an industrial chemo acident he has way, way too many Neutriphils himself .... yes that what the Registra was worried about,.... was there a drug reaction to explain this hyper activity?... and aparently Shoeszenboots said "No that's just Chris, but God help us if we have to put him on to prednisone.
Ta Da ...He's back! That smooth talkin. jive walking energy junkie with the wakefulness and a word about everything. Its the newly created Prednisone Boy.
Anyway I'm already feeling hungry and having to watch my food, I'm way too in tune with the cosmos and although Joyce sees it differently, I only remember getting irritable when Joyce talks about shooting Prednisone Boy - to get her man back. Apparently it has mild personality altering effects. What?.......uhuh.....uhuh........uhuh ... got it. It has huge spiked personality effects mostly to do with the areas of getting along with humans that I am cohabiting with. I wish we could pick and choose our symptoms but ....! Bluey has to be fair on this though, I have made her laugh so hard she has shorted a couple of times.
Okay, why am I on this new drug? Because my fat ankles were not responding to laysics to get the water out. I have a mild form of GVHD in the skin of my ankles that leaves them spongy so I'm starting big and then I get weaned down until they still control the GVHD but reduce the sideeffects.
My friend Jerry with the heart transplant is only on 7 mg a day, the husband of my PhysioTherapist is down to 10 mg this go round for his kidney transplant and I'm on 25 mg a day. Perhaps Bluey has a point.
Anyway in two weeks I get to see what's what at the doctors.
I've been writing for a while here so I'm going to sign off and recollect on stuff I saw in the old blog' s
a link to lists..... Principles/parables of my life - a list! March first 2007
PS you can check out Neutripeno Man in blog on FRiday March 23 entry.
