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Mostly dry today. In the 24 hours up to 9am this morning, we received somewhere around/between 51 (~2 inches) and 72mm (~3 inches) (two closest rainfall readings to us). Which over the 3 days amounts to 4-5 inches. The grass already looks greener.

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Bubby Lara came to dinner. I cuddled her for quite a while, she fussed a bit because she was tired and I had to walk around with her. Her little eyes would be nearly closed, but as soon as I sat down, they were open again. K said she can sense the difference in air pressure ;)

3 months old in 4 days. And still gorgeous. And she smiled at me :)

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Doctor wasn't as bad as I feared. Mum nearly killed some brats in the waiting room. Imagine Lynette and her 3 sons from DH (2 school age and the other around 2 - the 2 year old was an angel in comparison to the older two). The receptionist had to come in and tell them to be quiet, and she said afterwards that they're always trouble and the mother's had a go at her before when she's asked them to stop mucking around. Mum was getting to the point where she was going to say something. She brought up 4 kids, including 2 boys close in age (who couldn't be near each other without thumping each other), but we knew that when out in public you were to be on your best behaviour. Shopkeepers used to tell mum they were happy to have us in their shops, she could even take us into places with breakables - we knew not to touch or run around.

This woman had next to no control, the eldest boy pretty much laughed at her when she tried to pull him into line. When we went in there was also an older lady in there, she left and a younger lady came in. After the brats went into their appointment, the younger lady said that she was there with her 4.5 month old, and the older lady was her mother. Her mother had sent her into the waiting room to "see how not to bring up children".

I'll have to see my GP again soon. He has to draw up a mental health care plan, hoping to get onto one of the programs so I can get a Medicare rebate on some of my counselling.

Talked to him about my chronic tiredness, to see whether he had any ideas. He thinks it's a part and parcel with the arthritis/circulation problems, rather than being something separate. Which is pretty much the conclusion we came to :( It's difficult when they still can't put a name to the arthritis beyond "inflammatory" and I have symptoms from a number of different conditions instead of just one.

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Mostly dry today. In the 24 hours up to 9am this morning, we received somewhere around/between 51 (~2 inches) and 72mm (~3 inches) (two closest rainfall readings to us). Which over the 3 days amounts to 4-5 inches. The grass already looks greener.

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Bubby Lara came to dinner. I cuddled her for quite a while, she fussed a bit because she was tired and I had to walk around with her. Her little eyes would be nearly closed, but as soon as I sat down, they were open again. K said she can sense the difference in air pressure ;)

3 months old in 4 days. And still gorgeous. And she smiled at me :)

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Doctor wasn't as bad as I feared. Mum nearly killed some brats in the waiting room. Imagine Lynette and her 3 sons from DH (2 school age and the other around 2 - the 2 year old was an angel in comparison to the older two). The receptionist had to come in and tell them to be quiet, and she said afterwards that they're always trouble and the mother's had a go at her before when she's asked them to stop mucking around. Mum was getting to the point where she was going to say something. She brought up 4 kids, including 2 boys close in age (who couldn't be near each other without thumping each other), but we knew that when out in public you were to be on your best behaviour. Shopkeepers used to tell mum they were happy to have us in their shops, she could even take us into places with breakables - we knew not to touch or run around.

This woman had next to no control, the eldest boy pretty much laughed at her when she tried to pull him into line. When we went in there was also an older lady in there, she left and a younger lady came in. After the brats went into their appointment, the younger lady said that she was there with her 4.5 month old, and the older lady was her mother. Her mother had sent her into the waiting room to "see how not to bring up children".

I'll have to see my GP again soon. He has to draw up a mental health care plan, hoping to get onto one of the programs so I can get a Medicare rebate on some of my counselling.

Talked to him about my chronic tiredness, to see whether he had any ideas. He thinks it's a part and parcel with the arthritis/circulation problems, rather than being something separate. Which is pretty much the conclusion we came to :( It's difficult when they still can't put a name to the arthritis beyond "inflammatory" and I have symptoms from a number of different conditions instead of just one.