At Home with Dobbs

I discovered a few years ago that I am allergic to red wine. Since then I have restricted myself to a few sips here and there and the occasional half-glass of white wine. However last week we opened a bottle of really nice white wine and I indulged more than usual. The result — an itchy rash thankfully confined to my upper thigh that has lasted for a few days now despite some antihistamines. Guess I have to stop drinking wine after this lol!

One of my favourite Astro channels is Discovery Travel and Living as I enjoy “travelling” to places all over the world from the comfort of my armchair. I especially enjoyed the Places We Go episode shown yesterday on Peru. After the show I remarked to hubby that the show put paid to my dreams of visiting Machu Picchu as it takes about 4 days to get there hiking the Inca Trail. But the view when you get there sure makes it worthwhile!

I did some googling today and found out that you can actually take a bus to Machu Picchu if you are not up to the hike, so perhaps I can still dream of visiting one day

Despite vigorous protests, I managed to cut the son’s hair last week and took only around half an hour to do it. I am sure he realised how much cooler it was with a short cut.

Envying his nice cool look, I decided to have a haircut myself last Sunday. For the last year or so I have been cutting my hair in a Cut ‘n Go place in Carrefour, where hubby has been cutting his hair for several years now. The last time I had it cut a couple of months back, the hairstylist (there are several on duty at any one time) refused declined to cut my sides as short as I wanted it. Even hubby noticed (!) and this time round I told her that my husband did not like it so long at the sides. I think she really took me at my word (or was it revenge?) for she gave me a really short cut. So fibrate, here is how it looks like

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Thank you Yan, for your love and generosity. The fridge magnets are just awesome, and I will think of you when I sip the Sabah tea.
I had another reason for joy today….. one last tablet of Ciprobay to go!

Check these out!
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Pretty cool

This one is specially for hubby. Happy Anniversary with love ♥

One of the things that has changed the past few years is my sleeping habits. I used to be very fussy about sleep - no lights, no noise and being unable to fall back asleep once awakened. The son is an early riser, usually around 6 am, so I have learnt to adapt. I can now sleep through a playing TV and fall back asleep in the mornings, with the help of some Piriton taken the previous night. Take today for instance….
6 am Wake up, toilet break and let the son PU. Put on VCD for son and go back to sleep.
7 am Wake up again and put on Astro for son. Go back to sleep.
7.30 am Woken up by sound of son crawling out of room. Stagger outside and help him onto daychair.
7.45 am Have breakfast. Could do with some caffeine but I guess the smell of the decaf coffee will have to do

It’s been 5 years since my last bout of UTI so I had really forgotten how difficult it is to catch a mid-stream urine specimen in a tiny bottle. Well I had to do it again 2 days back and managed to, but sure wished I had a more convenient device to use like the Whiz Cleancatch Midstream (found a local distributor but the website doesn’t work) Anyway a dose of Monurol seem to have done the trick although it did give me diarrhoea. Today the C&S came back as Proteus mirabilis sensitive to all the antibiotics tested. Was very thankful as 5 years back my urine C&S grew E. coli which was pretty resistant and I ended up having daily infusions of ertapanem for 5 days - no fun I assure you! Hubby has stocked up on cranberry juice and insists I take it regularly after this.

The movie treat was more than enough but dear hubby came up with 2 more surprises yesterday. I had to look up the meaning of yellow roses.

The bright, sunny color of yellow roses evokes a feeling of warmth and happiness. The warm feelings associated with the yellow rose are often akin to those shared with a true friend. As such, the yellow rose is an ideal symbol for joy and friendship.

Thank you Alan for your friendship these last 30 plus years and the joy you bring to my life! ♥

What can I say? After a break of 15 years from the cinema, hubby took me to see Star Trek yesterday and it was awesome! Great special effects, touches of humour and reminiscent of the original series (without looking so chronic lol!). Frankly the only thing I didn’t like about it was the “romantic scenes” which I thought were implausible and shall we say illogical? Not giving away any spoilers about the movie — just go and see it for yourself. You won’t be disappointed!