I has been a while hasn't it??

Oh dear!! I do get behind with things and rather a lot has been keeping me busy a the moment, including two stays in hospital to have a gastric ulcer invesigated! This started on Chrismas day last year, of all days, in the morning and had to be rushed to hospital because I was vomiting blood...I had just about every test under the sun, x-rays and all kinds of stuff, and so many needles I felt like a pin cushion. But it all came down to an ulcer blocking my gastric tract (what ever that is) and several weeks ago I was back with the same thing. Now years ago my mum had exactly the same problam, so I am kind of half betting I have inherited it from her!! Cheers mum!! UGH!! Anyway I have to go back in a fortnight to have my colon investigated too...crikey!! that will be fun!! NOT!!
Derek has finally sorted the plans for our conservatory, and work will begin next month. We had several quotes but choose a local, but well recommeneded company. The conservatory itself will house my spa- jacuzzi and excercise bike as well as my 8 inch reflecting telescope and some furniture, and at the moment I am trying to talk Derek into geting a waterproof TV (Yes they do exist!!) so I wont miss Coronation street while I am bubbling and steaming away in my spa! The conservaory we have chosen is a Victorian design, that opens out onto our garden, and talking of the spa I am well looking forward to it tonight, and just waiting for it to heat to a lovely 40 degrees!!...We also have our holiday in Devon soon!! Not quite as exotic as our past travels, but as I have mentioned before I wont put Sirius into kennals so we have to choose dog friendly holidays. I coulden't bare to be parted from Sirius-pud!! soft arse as I am!!
As I am now rushing head-long at the hill that says 44 years old, I thought it would be a good idea to write down some memories, that make stories and so far I have wrote quite a bit.(its very private for now) A very good friend of mine said they should be published, but I would have to change the names to protect the innocent!! LOL!! and have a bloody good editor to sort out my hopeless grammer and spelling!! hehehe!!! I am trying to put together a huge piece about our travels around the world, as well as backpacking in Asia and trekking on the Everest trek, but I have figured it would read like some kind of odd disaster novel!!! With bus crashes, hotel fires, ameobic dysentry, rats in a dormatry in Kula Lumpur where I ran off and booked myself into a 5 star hotel being sick and tired of the hovels we were saying in, as well as geting stuck in a snow storm 15,000 feet up on a pass in the Solu Khumb region of Nepal....Fortunatly for the past 16 years or so I have managed to keep a fairly accurate travel diary (s) about 4 in all covering everywhere from Costa Rica to Vietnam with a huge chunk dedicated to my all time favortie place, Bali in Indoniesia...Well if I do decided to write it, it will possibly take years, so I may just do a bit at a time....and while I am on the subject of time, I do not have much time left as a Second degree Fellow craft Freemason, as I am due to be Raised this spring and I have so much study to do to prepare myself! We have our first lodge of the new year this Saturday and our new Right Worshipfull Master will be installed which I am looking forward to, and indeed seeing my excellent Bretherin again!! It will be a very specail Lodge indeed and I have been wondering what to take for our Festive Board...one of my Bretherin asked if it would be another "wonky" cake!! hehehe...its a long story!
Well thats about it for now, and I shall be slipping into my spa in about an hour, and then watch a film and have a bottle of wine. I am off the Port for the moment as I am trying to diet so I have switched back to dry white wine for now!

see you soon! luv Vix x