Think dad's getting Alzheimers

Emailed Bec today with a recipe she wanted from mum and then she rang tonight so talked to her for a while then passed her off to dad. Only thing is that now dad doesn't actually remember the phone call so i figure he's either going senile or getting alzheimers.
Had the fun of babysitting the kids again yesterday, joy. Wasn't too bad since it was actually nice weather which considering the weather we've been having lately is nothing more than a miracle. Took Annie, Matt and their neighbour Celeste to the BMX track which was all good until we had to come home and Annie had the theory of they'd either walk or bike homw while I drove at 2km/hr along side them down the main street of Wakefield(admittedly not very big or busy but with 5 pm rush hr coming up not the best idea she's ever had...), either that or I could drive home, they'd bike and we could meet back at the house. My theory was no bloody way and if you want to get run over by a car then fine but do it when someone other than me is looking after you. Annie was not impressed with having to drive home and consequently sulked the whole way home and kept it up til her mum got home, not that the sulking stopped her asking for a sandwich after the others wanted one.
Only have to babysit them on Thursday next week since Nicky'll be home the rest of the week, all good but means I'll get roped into doing stuff round home like walking Cassie (no problem), cleaning my room (big problem) and sorting out all my books (possibly an even bigger problem considering how many I have). Fun
My birthday's next Friday so if anyone feels the need to send presents (or more presents in the case of Kaz and Kat) please feel free.

Graduation, rain and gogo juice

Since Kat is once again bitching at me to update here it is.
Had Becs graduation down in Dunners on Saturday so spent the weekend down there. Drove down to Ashburton on Thursday with mum and becs friend Jodie, stayed the night with my aunt then went the rest of the way on Friday with a detour to pick up grandad Bob and Shirley in Timaru and to see Dot and Bill at Rosewill.
That was somewhat amusing as we learned about the wonders of "gogo juice" Some friend had sent them this stuff (which is actually called goji juice) and apparently it cures or at least helps with everything - makes you better in bed, stonger, happier and cheerful (reason not to take it I would've thought), helps with cancer, diabetes (and everything it seems except arthritis and rheumatism cos they weren't mentioned, but hey, nothings perfect), makes you live longer - some dude supposedly lived from 1638-1930 and scientists proved it. I want to know how, I mean, noone else was alive back then so what did they do? carbon date his bones or something?
Anyway, this juice does everything so Uncle Bill is trying it and figures he'll end up being 200 yrs old and bouncing off the walls. Should be highly amusing for whoever gets to see him at least.
Got down to Dunners and dropped Jods at Becs flat, Grandad Bob and Shirley at my great uncle Rex's then went on to Tony and Brons house.
Had Becs graduation on Saturday, all good as far as long, boring ceremonies go, least it wasn't as long as mine and Kats was. Went out for dinner with everone on Saturday night
Had Stellas 90th luncheon on Sunday, she's gone downhill alot since I last saw her 2 yrs ago but apparently is better than she has been.
Had the joy of coming the whole way home on Monday. About 10 hrs or so in the rain.
Rained the whole way up from Dunners to Nelson. Great fun to drive in.
My theory is that NZ is now at the top of Mother Natures hit list. The flooding seems to be moving up the country, 1st Dunedin, then Christchurch, then Nelson, well Tahuna really but it's still Nelson, so I figure it'll head on up to wellington in the next week or so.
Is actually fine today, at the moment at least. Hopefully it stays that way since I have to babysit Nicky's kids today and would much rather they can kill each other outside instead of in. much easier to clean up the mess.
Have to go see the travel person now as at the moment I'm booked to fly to Greece on Lufthansa which is all good but not sure if they have the mini t.v's in each seat. Each flight is about 11 hrs or so long, damned if I'm reading the entire time, don't have that many books for a start, so if they don't I'll change airlines. Singapore is good but means I have to stop over in Singapore and having been there for xmas as well as every flight except 1 in the last 2 years you might say I'm just a bit sick of Singapore.

Just got back from lunch out with my cousins because Tor is leaving today, probably about now actually, to go over to the UK and live there for a couple of years nursing. She's going to LA for a few days first and doing Disneyland, Universal Studios etc then going on to London and then we'll see her in July anyway when she goes over for our cousins wedding in Santorini.
Not much happening here, getting colder though. Not impressed about that.
Am very depressed at the moment as I found out on Wednesday that my baby (ok, so he's 14 yrs old but that is not the point)has cancer of the spleen and it's spread to his lymph nodes so we have a choice of a) doing nothing in which case he'll get worse and die in about 5-6 weeks b) giving him moderate chemo which will make him sick and might give him 6 mths c)giving him really aggressive chemo that'll make him really sick, make him lose all his fur and might give him 1-2 yrs - 50% chance either 1 yr or 2 yrs or d) having him put down before we go overseas. Oh goody, what great choices.
Mum's theory is it's you cat you have to decide. Great, thanks mum so either I kill my cat quickly or slowly. Joy. Got bugger all sympathy from Bec although she claims to be sympathetic. Hmmm, not sure about that one, she's never really been a cat person and wouldn't really care one way or the other.
Kaz, haven't heard back from Amazon about the books, will email them again later but since it's freezing in the study at the moment am going to go read in bed with my nice warm electric blanket on.

Am very glad that I don't live in Gisboune. Was watching the news tonight and the top story was about the tidal wave that was meant to hit Gisbourne this morning and which never happened.
There was a quake in Tonga at 3am and then Hawaii sent out a tidal wave warning for NZ and the Sth Pacific to all the international media. All good except that the NZ civil defence decided 15 minutes after the quake that there wasn't going to be any tidal wave at all but also decided that it would apparently make more sense to not actually tell anyone that there wasn't any disaster coming and instead sit back, highly amused no doubt, and watch as everyone in Gisbourne freaked out and ran for the hills after hearing about it from various international news shows. First I even heard about the whole debacle was on One news tonight and had I been living in Gisbourne would have had serious problems since I didn't actually get up until 10.30 and that was only to feed the animals and then I went back to bed. So now the civil defence dept is having to try and come up with reasons why they didn't tell anyone there was no tsunami coming.
May 17th should be interesting since NZ and a whole bunch of other countries are doing a drill for what to do if a tsunami actually hits.
Babysat Nickys kids yesterday, all good except that Matthew who's 6 was convinced that if he just kept on trying he'd be able to beat up Daniel who's 10. Given that Daniel's 4 yrs older as well as bigger and stronger this didn't happen (funny that) and Matthew spent a good while alternating screaming his head off at his brother and trying to beat him up while Annie who's 8 joined in on whichever side she felt like, usually Matthews.
Am now heading back into the lounge since it's freezing in here