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My 2016 mobile phone screensaver :)! |
Happy New Year
This year, I will not be running on Lollipop, but on Marshmallow (Android 6.0) on my Nexus 5X, and here is my 2016 screen saver: my daughter Josie's foot in a Wonder Woman thong! ... the road is going to be tough ... but here we come 2016!
My 2015 in Review
Well, the year has been dominated by hospital stays ...
..and random acts of violence by disenfranchised and radicalized souls in Paris.
Enough imagery has been around the subject. Intolerance is not about belief, it is about power.
It is about abuse of power.
There has been delightful moments as well .. Oscar releasing a koala in the wild in St Bees Island, Queensland, in May, while on a research trip with his dad ...
and being invited to co-fly the plane on the way to the Island :)
'Maman, this is the best day of my life', he texted me'
and being invited to co-fly the plane on the way to the Island :)
'Maman, this is the best day of my life', he texted me'
A bit of extravaganza for my birthday in June : I was reunited with invaluable friends for a week in a house that looked like a trendy retreat temple :) with some very creative stained glasses in some of the bedrooms, 50m from the beach in Byron Bay, surrounded by two wooden decks with plenty of space for all - meditation in a tent at a backpacking place next door a few times :), running with lit up balloons at night on the beach, going crazy with Mimi-closet burlesque dress ups in a farm nearby, cooking delightful meals all together with the kids in the evening, Australian floral essences massages, a memorable meal at the nearby Fig Tree Restaurant, a favourite of mine.
And a kangaroo family in the garden here for the long run, so it seems ?
I am not going to be very eloquent.
At the moment, I am just hoping for better time as I am concentrating very heavily on my daughter's health and well-being, after four trips to emergency services in the last three weeks.
We are now organizing a trip to Sydney for the end of January to have access to special imaging equipment (one machine of this kind in Australia), and an subject expert specialist visit on recommendation of her surgeon.
We were extremely appreciative of being able to spend Christmas with her at home rather than in the hospital. We even saw red Christmas tinsel garland drawing heart rate curve displayed on the wall of emergency ward this year: while there seem to be no boundaries to humour, this shows how close to Christmas we were then.
As a result, we made Christmas day extra special this year. Each and every one of us present (a very small committee) made a special dish: a special gingerbread house, a bûche de Noêl decorated with cherries, a sophisticated filling for the five-K turkey, scallops feuilletés with home made chicken stock among other secret ingredients, and rosemary parsnips and potatoes.
We all enjoyed our presents in the morning: our presents from her to us were even sealed with blue wax and a «J» (nice touch :).
A few days ago, I got excellent news from work that should make the next few months much easier for me, and the prospect of new exciting management developments that are coming as a breeze of fresh air to me (sadly, I lost many friends at work who went to seek jobs elsewhere this year).
I hope this wave of good news is going to continue blowing in 2016 ... if it does, there will be HEAPS OF CATCHING UP TO DO!
