Nervous Nellie...

... is nervous. It's been raining again. The Bruce Highway is closed. Will the visitors be able to get home??

A sick day today. I haven't been feeling too great the last few days and since I have a Dr appointment this afternoon, I decide to stay home. I mentioned last week it was to check my medication. I had been on the higher dose for a time. As a trial I thought, with an increase in this med and a decrease in that one. But somewhere along the line, I got the old script for the lower dose filled *odd for me because i usually destroy redundant scripts* and that's where the confusion lay. I'd spent the last month swapping me back to the lower dose of this med and higher dose of that one.

Sigh. Getting older is such a crock.

On the way to the Dr appointment MOTH and I travel along the motorway. At this point it's four lanes, including the merge lane. Traffic is light but there are four cars in the inner two lanes. Two in the left, two in the right and offset so that viewed from above, there would be left, right, left, right.

It must have been an interesting sight as the two in the right lane indicate and move left. Immediately the two in the left indicate and move right. Beautifully choreographed!

One of the GTs has been spending his lunch time out in the *loosely labelled* canteen area. He's been making friends with one of the water dragons. It seems to be bearing fruit as he proudly, with a huge grin plastered across his face, shows me a photograph of the lizard sitting on his lap. Apparently it climbed up the leg of his jeans while he was sitting eating lunch.

It's 5.30am and I'm in the kitchen prepping my work lunch. The cats are sitting grooming themselves, waiting for me to serve them. *yes joe, there is a heck of a lot of fluff getting about from those two!* Sometimes Jerome can get a bit snuffly when he gets his nose deep into his fur. I can hear a strange honking noise. Wow. Jerome is really getting into it. I listen some more. Suddenly I realise it's MOTH snoring! The bedroom door is open and the sound is drifting down the hall...

It's been raining a lot lately and the humidity has set in. It's so muggy that it feels like I have been standing in a light mist!

I always wear long skirts. I'm really not a jeans/trousers/short skirt kind of girl. Today's skirt is giving me trouble. I keep rolling over it with the castors of my work chair. Uh oh. This is not good. I'm stuck. My skirt is stuck in the castor. Dang. I stand up. Yep. Stuck. I try to pull it out. Nope, it's not budging. I think about stepping out of my skirt for some manoeuvrability. Usually I'm the only one here but today someone else is in early so that's not going to work either. Eventually I free it. And almost repeat the same thing next day. Different skirt, same style.

I'm at work and on the phone to MOTH. *luckily!* I burst into a fit of uncontrollable giggles. One of the GTs has a huge grin on his face and is outside the office door. He is on the top step - I guess his entry swipe card is in his pocket - jumping up and down trying to bring the card close enough to the proximity reader to unlock the door.

The house is full this weekend. A music festival is on in town and I'm expecting visitors. I discover there will be six of them. And a kitten. No problem. We'll just bbq dinner. One of the young blokes is helping himself to sausages, bacon, bread and salad and he grins. I am seriously pleased, he says, with the amount of food here.

Penny *the kitten* is small, cuddly and a bundle of purring, fluffy fun. The boys don't take to her. At all. Well, we didn't expect much else really. They are cats after all.

The concert is today and The Elder and friends head out, leaving The Teen and I to spend the day together. She's the only one not going to the festival. We decide to watch movies. I'm clever this time - I've made a list. MOTH drops us off at the video store and as we look at the shelves, I realise I've left the voucher stuck to the front of the fridge. Bugger. The retail assistant overhears me and tells me she'll let me have them for the voucher price anyway. WIN!

The Teen has been at me lately to watch Across The Universe. I've never heard of it before. It's great, she insists. It's got heaps of Beatles songs in it. Are they original? No, covers, but they are very good covers. Sigh. Don't think I'm going to beat this. We pick three movies, one she wants, one I want and one we both want. We end up with The Three Musketeers, Final Destination 5 and the one I've already mentioned.

Watched that one first and ..... I'm very pleasantly surprised. The covers are good. There are no songs that I would say are butchered. And the actor who plays Sadie has an amazing voice. Wonder how come she didn't switch to the charts. Isn't that what they usually do these days? Wait ... it was made 2007. Maybe they didn't so much back then.

Wait up. Penny and Sheldon seem to be arriving at an uneasy truce.... Jerome. Not at all.

A couple of my visitors were heading home today. But it's been raining too much and the highway is flooded. Again. Stupid summer. I ask if it's going to cause a problem for anyone? We think it might for Harry. Elder points to her crew. His boss is okay with it, he's an unemployed hobo, Burrich doesn't have to work till Tuesday night and I'm fine. Harry has checked and his boss seems alright with it, although his mother is not pleased.

This morning I have fingers crossed that the highway will open again soon and they can head home safely.