Bloody Telstra.

Well, I am sitting at home alone with nothing on the TV worth watching and the phone on the blink. Frustratingly, the phone keeps ringing, and caller ID keeps telling me who it is, but I can't hear them. The phone has rung all bloody night!I can't ring out, and can't report the fault because yet again Trevor is off in Gulgong with my mobile as his is still away being repaired. BLOODY Telstra. I just knew we would have phone problems as soon as they did the next G upgrade last week. For those of you not on a farm, we have a radio phone, that is no cables to the house, but a little radio tower, or now, a next G booster like a mobile phone. I did say to them that I am concerned about having a next g home phone as my next G mobile service is crap! But no, Telstra assured us thatit would be wonderful. Similarly they felt that the CDMA upgrade that we have had for the last 2 years at the house would be wonderful also. But then low and behold every summer it went on the blink. One guy in Melbourne, when copping the brunt of my frustration the first summer, said to me, "does it get very hot where you are?" Duh. So I said "well today it is 47 degrees". And he said "Oh, well..., we do know that these systems don't function in extreme temperatures, say over 40 degrees". And this is the system that they put in western NSW and QLD . "What the...?"


Anyhoo, there has also been nothing on TV so I have been "facebooking" like crazy", but Kyla, my "TV taste and facebook quiz" twin, tells me that Weeds is coming on soon, which I had forgotten. SO that will be the highlight of my night!


I have had a really bad 10 days with a bad reaction to a contraceptive pill, making me irritable, tired to the point of sleepy, stressed, anxious, nauseous and incredibly short-tempered and volatile. I think Trevor was actually afraid to leave me alone with the kids to go to Gulgong. I took the last pill Saturday, having decided it was the cause of my woes. I still felt dodgy Sunday, but was back to my old self today, thank god. The difference was amazing. The house is a pigsty from 8 days of being too sick and tired to clean. I did some cleaning (still not much LOL), played with the kids, took care of bills, phone calls, making appointments etc, went to town for a afternoon preschool meeting, went to the supermarket with 3 kids at 5:30, got the kids fed, bathed and to bed and never lost my temper once all day! I achieved more today than I have in 8 days. Honestly. I think Dr Chan will have to re-think that prescription. I actually rang Trevor and told him that the kids had gotten through the day with out being yelled at, as I have been so irritable all week, and I am sure that he would have been worried. I find it amazing as I get older that I seem to have more and more bad reactions to medications, cleaning products, allergens etc. Is it child bearing that has buggered my body???


Anyhoo, best go before people start worrying that all of my posts from now on will be novel-length waffles.