It’s when you hit the ground

Oyy, what a crazy couple of weeks. I have to say, it’s not been a good semester. With mum being in hospital and the recent news about Granddad, It’s been a whole heap of extra stress on top of my already fairly hectic schedule.

Apparently my Granddad had surgery to place a tube in his throat the other day. It went successfully, but they were able to see just how developed the cancer is: and It’s a lot further along than the doctors thought. Still, he’ll have a few months, which is all we can ask for really. Dad and his siblings are going over to the UK for two weeks in a few days, and it’s possible that Dad might take me and my brother over sometime in July. Not really sure what’s happening yet though. I do know I’ll be heading to Sydney at the end of June, so that will be good.

Eh… Don’t really have much more to say. Will blog again in a day or so :)

It appears as if New Zealand has picked itself up and migrated south. Far south. Antarctica south. Auckland is absolutely FREEZING. I don’t think it got warmer than about 12C today. I’ve been sitting in James’s room rugged up, two heaters going… and I’m STILL cold. Hopefully the room warms up properly soon, or I might end up in bed very early just to stay warm!

So, I’ve not really heard any more news on my Granddad. Apparently my dad, aunts and uncles, are going to visit him in a few weeks. It’ll be good for them to see him, but I think it’ll be really hard on them too. :( I feel really sorry for my dad, but so proud of him the way he’s been handling all this stuff the past few weeks.

I’ve spent today studying. I still don’t understand much at all about chemistry, but hopefully the more I read over my notes and do practice questions, the more I’ll get my head around it. I really am looking forward to finishing this semester once and for all. It has most definitely been the semester from hell.

All this uni work and other crap that’s been going on is starting to wear me down. I’ve felt very lonely, and to be honest, quite depressed the last few days. I really hate feeling like this. Nothing seems to get rid of the feeling I get from it at the moment. Spending some time with James makes me feel a little better, but as soon as he goes back to his computer room the feeling comes back and I feel quite empty again. I guess it’s not really helping that I don’t know many people around here, and most of them are quite busy with their own lives. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch up with my friend, Trish, this week.

I think I’m going to start returning comments a lot more nowadays. I used to do it quite religiously years ago, but have gotten quite lazy in the past year. Within the next few days, i’ll start replying to some recent comments, and will keep it up too. :)

I got some bad news this evening. My cousin told me that my Grandad, who lives in the United Kingdom, is dying of throat cancer. He’s been really weak for a few years now, and apparently some recent tests have shown that he has the beginnings of throat cancer. :(

He’s too weak to do Radiotherapy. They’re going to place a tube in his throat so at least he’ll get the summer but … Chances are he won’t live to the end of the year.

The hardest part is that all his family, his children and grandchildren, live in Australia. It will cost an arm and a leg to visit him before he dies, and then we’ll be spending a lot of money on getting to the funeral too.

Don’t get me wrong, we’ve been expecting it for a while, but still, it is a shock to the system… :(

I just got back from buying some tea! Seeing Chrissy and Anna with their Adagio tea kits made me very jealous, especially because Adagio won’t ship to New Zealand.

I did a bit of research and found some tea stockists in Auckland, so I ran out and bought myself some tea as well as a cute blue teapot!

More photos under the cut :)

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Yes, i know i’ve had more websites over the years than one can poke a stick at, but I felt it was time to move into an additional blog. Sewwy.com will now be used for paid blogging, as I’m poor and don’t have nearly enough hours at work. Non-photography posts will be cross posted from here, to sewwy.com, so you most likely won’t miss out on my blog action, but either way, I have a new blog. :D

Thanks to Reese who let me modify one of her themes again, woo! :)

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