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The Big Day is here, for some it’s almost over. We have had a house full of family here today, with much laughter, fun, food and of course just a little bit of alcohol. Oh, and lots of presents too. Mainly for the kids Another great Christmas spending time with family, most of whom we don’t get to see enough of during the year.As another year draws to an end, its a time of reflection on the year just gone and lots of predictions and hope for the year ahead. I’ll post more on the year that has been closer to New Year’s, but Christmas seems to be a time of general reflection, almost as much as the New Year.

So my wish for you all for this Christmas, regardless of whether you celebrate it or not, and if so how, is that it is filled with much love, laughter and happiness and spending time with those that you care about, be they family or friends.

For those that need it, I also wish for forgiveness and peace. Not necessarily world peace, but inner peace.

I know, I’m a bit of a dreamer sometimes, but without dreams you have nothing to strive for. And no-one ever said that dreams have to be attainable, they just have to be dreams. Or goals, I guess it depends on how you look at it.

To my husband, thank you for another wonderful Christmas, at the end of another great year. I love you. And to my kids, thank you for the magic that kids put into Christmas, it truly is wonderful. I love you both.

All my very best wishes to all of you for Christmas. I hope that the holiday season is good to you and stay safe and well all of you.

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Anja posted this meme and I put my hand up for a letter. First of all, the rules for the meme are as follows:

You leave a comment on this post and I’ll assign you a letter. You write about ten things you love that begin with your assigned letter, and post it at your place. When people comment on your list, you give them a letter, and the chain continues on and on.

You DO NOT have to do the meme if you only want to comment. Tell me if you want to do it. Otherwise you will not be tagged.

My nominated letter is “L” – here goes:

1. Love -because it makes the world go round. There are so many types of love and so many feelings associated with love, from unconditional love to romantic love and loving ourselves. I don’t mean vanity, I mean thinking enough of ourselves, knowing that we are all worthwhile and worthy of love and respect.

2. Letters – who doesn’t love to get old fashioned snail mail. Remember the good old days (OK so maybe some of you aren’t old enough) when snail mail was the only option? And letters declaring someone’s undying love – that’s the stuff old fashioned romance is made of

3. Lamb – When its roasted, its one of the ultimate comfort foods – with gravy and roast vegies of course.

4. Laughter – It really is the best medicine. How good is it when you laugh so hard your belly aches? Yeah it aches, but its worth it. And some days, if you don’t laugh you’ll cry, so better to laugh I say

5. Lawn – the smell of it freshly mowed and walking barefoot in it.

6. Learning – none of us should ever stop learning, whether its a conscious effort or just learning from our own mistakes. Only an arrogant person says that they have nothing else to learn

7. Lemon – the best accompaniment to my favourite food – seafood. Especially oysters, apparently they are an aphrodisiac………

8. Language – This is so much more than just words and without it we would all be lost in a world of no communication. How boring and quiet would life be. We humans are social beings and it is impossible to be social in any way without language.

9. Luggage – great if its yours, even better if its mine, cause then it means I am going somewhere.

10. Lunar – I find the moon fascinating and very soothing. There is just something about it. And it has an impact on all of us in ways we can’t begin to imagine as well as things like the tides. What an amazing thing our moon is.

So, there’s my 10 things. If you want to do the meme, then let me know in the comments and I will send you a letter

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I’m not sure to be honest, it was probably the pain making me crazy. Or at least turning molehills into mountains. How could giving up blogging be a good thing??? Ummm, it wouldn’t be, for lots of reasons. But my reasoning was a little distorted, to say the least.

Early in November I was in a little bit of pain from an abscessed tooth. But there was a problem – my Uni exams were about a week later and I couldn’t miss them, right???? So, I did what any needle-phobic student with exams looming would do, went into denial and just took painkillers. I thought it was a great idea, just keep popping Nurofen Plus (ibuprofen and codeine in one marvellous tablet) and everything will be OK. I got the first exam done and then the next day (Friday) I admitted defeat and went to the Dentist. She gave me a script for antibiotics and an appointment was made for the Monday (straight after my second exam) to have the tooth out.

Remember that bit about me being needle-phobic??? That means for me to go to the Dentist and have a needle I have to have someone with me to calm my nerves a bit and squeeze the life out of their hand while the needle goes in. Right, Hubby lined up to take some time off work and come with me. We waited almost an hour in the waiting room and still no sign that I would be seeing the Dentist any time soon. By this time I was a sobbing mess at the anticipation of having to have a needle. I was close to being physically sick so we walked out. After talking to the Dentist about my needle phobia, another appointment was made for the Wednesday night and I was going to have to go by myself *gulp*.

After an hour and a half in the chair, I left with one tooth less than I walked in with, a stitch in my mouth where the tooth was and a script for some super pain killers. Oh, and a tendency to dribble after having a local anaesthetic . So the plan was now that the tooth was gone and the antibiotics finished all would improve. WRONG!!!!!!! It got worse……. I had Dry Socket (that link is to Wikipedia and gives an easy to understand explanation if you have never heard of it). The pain was worse than the abscess had been. I struggled to get through every day for another week and a half. I was so miserable because I wasn’t expecting to get worse, I was in pain and I couldn’t eat anything that required chewing at all. I guess the upside is I did lose a bit of weight.

This was about the time that I posted that I wasn’t going to blog anymore. I really wasn’t keeping my head above water and I was getting behind at work and at home. I really felt at the time that the best option was to remove any online distractions, including my blog. The other online things are gone, except for Aussie Bloggers Forum and I have decided to keep my blog going, for a few reasons.

Early this year I decided that this was going to be a year for me to do things just for me and the two big things are Uni and blogging. To give up now with the blogging would mean giving up something that I love doing. Not just the blogging, but the friendships formed through blogging and the people that I have met, both online and in real life. That means too much to me to give it up.

So, if anyone still has me in the readers, or their blogroll, then I am officially back

Things are looking up a lot – I have had 3 or 4 days with no painkillers and my Uni results are in and even with the tooth dramas I still managed to pass both units. So now I have time with family and friends over Christmas and two weeks off work for relaxing to look forward to. Bring it on.

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