Sick with no Voice.

I'm so sick...I thought I was getting over the flu when it came and knocked me for six again.  I had taken 2 days off work on 8/9 August..went back to work on the 10 and 11th and then took Friday off cause I was still not well, then as I thought I was getting better after nearly a week at work, I took Friday 19 off to have lunch with Shirley, Jacq & Bindy. Shirley made chicken sticky rice, Jacq made a passionfruit cheesecake slice and Bindy made fresh lemonade. I made macarons, but they didn't really turn out as I had wanted them to. Jacq picked me up and we went to Top Ryde after the lunch, as Jacq was looking for a dress for a wedding coming up. Met up with Marion.  Then on Saturday, I went to the Gardening Expo with Mare at Rosehill.

On Sunday, I woke up and knew that I was coming down with the flu again.  Janet and Kaylene had gone to see the doctors on the Friday and both had the flu.  So when Monday came around I went to see the doctor again.  This time she prescribed antibiotics and a Durotuss and gave me 3 days off work. But after three nights of waking up coughing, I rang work and got the rest of the week off. In the meantime...I lost my voice. When I rang work, they didn't recognise me.  I rested and watched a lot of TV series, especially, American Pickers and American Restoration. Spent some time in the garden getting some sun and weeding. But the weekend came and went and I still have no voice.  Went back to work on Monday 29th but couldn't answer the phone. Although I think I'm getting better, I still am coughing and my voice comes and go, but mostly goes. Went to Zumba on Tuesday night and I'm usually whooping it up, but there was no way I could, even if I tried.
Wed 31/8/11 and still no voice :(

Macarons??

Still don't know whether I'm a fan of the macaron, but Janet had bought a mix and so I decided to give it a go. Sylvia had already tried her hand at making them, but they didn't rise and were so big, that they didn't look like macarons, so I thought I'd see whether I could try my hand at them taking into account what she had done previously.

Although the packet says it makes 20, I ended up making more than that and will have to remember next time to space them out on the tray more evenly. But not bad for my first attempt. Next time will have to try from ingredients and not the packet.

A. Cath's 69th Birthday

We went out to celebrate A. Cath's birthday at Hurstville RSL on Thursday 4th August.

Only Lily, Janet, Nathan, Sylvia, Darren and I went. Mark was working, Justin was working and Kaylene had to study for her Trials. But we bought take-a-way containers and packed food for the two kids.

 Gave her a card with $50 so she can buy what ever she wants.

Jersey Boys

I've been wanting to go see this show, since Darren asked me whether I wanted tickets as a Christmas present, but he never did end up buying me a ticket.

In July, Marion asked me if I was interested in going to see the musical Hairspray. Yes, of course I'm interested, but she was going to take her mum as a birthday present, the birthday came and went, and she still hadn't organised buying the tickets.

And then I saw ads again for Jersey Boys, so, I asked around and found that Marion and Jacqui wanted to go see it as well. Did Mare still want to go to Hairspray? Was she going to organise getting the tickets? Still nothing, so I organised a date, asked what days suited Jacqui, since she was the one with the baby, and worked around that date. Then it was time to book the tickets. Marion still was undecided, should she see Jersey Boys, or go and see Hairspray? Finally locked her in and managed to also book the tickets after a lot of um-ing and ah-ing. The time: Wednesday night at 7pm on August 3rd at the Theatre Royal.

I finished work early and got home around 4.30pm. Janet was still preparing mousakka for the others  and hadn't even started baking the lasagne that we were to eat. Ended up helping her cook the potato and eggplant for the mousakka and layering it all and putting it in the oven, before we headed out by train around 6pm. Got into the city and met up with Mare and Jacq. Mare had gone to work and then gone home to drive Jacq and herself into the city. They had already got into the city when we left home. I bought a program for $20, on top of the $95 for the tickets.

No photography was allowed in the theatre, so we made do with taking photos outside the theatre. The songs were great and it was so hard to resist getting up and dancing and singing along. Great show and worth going to see.