Destressing at Kings Park

Yesterday I met my friend Cathy at Kings Park - for those of you who don't know where it is, it is at the top of Mount Eliza which sits overlooking the city of Perth - for brunch.

After we ate - cinnamon pancakes with berry coulis and vanilla sorbet and an iced coffee, perfect for a morning when at 10.30am it is already 31 degrees - then took a walk on the grounds, found a lovely spot under a huge tree overlooking the river and city and tried to do a wee bit more de-stressing.

If we had both been well we would have been having out first PD day at school for the start of the new school year. We were feeling different stages of guilt, in fact I had had a migraine all week thinking that if this had been any other start of the school year I would have already begun my school year - I like to be really organised. It was hard.

I must admit that although I have my routine visits to the psychologist, I feel that fifty minutes with Cathy does me one hell of a lot more good. Who'd have thought it!!!!! Maybe we should start a self help group??? Needless to say I went home feeling much better.

Anyway... the photos probably don't do justice to our wonderful city. AND today is, after all, another day.

Busselton

Shaking the blues away...

Last week I visited my friend Cathy in Busselton, driving down on Monday morning and leaving mid afternoon on Tuesday.

I had a lovely time just chilling, chatting and attempting to chase our blues away. We looked around, ate out and drove to a camping site we used to visit when the kids were young, great stuff. Cathy had her dog Mischa with her (see photo, if I can add it) and I loved making friends with her.

Everyone around us was in a relaxed mood and I think it helped me, BUT, arriving home I fell into a hole. PERFECTLY SHITTY!!!!

January 2010

Saturday the 9th



Well here I am sitting on the couch wondering what to do with myself. Still out on stress leave - yet it cannot be REAL Stress Leave until one has dotted all of the Is and crossed all of the Ts.

I'm more stressed out now than I was two weeks ago and that is because I have no idea whether my claim for Workers Compensation will go through - I need to see an Investigator and a Psychiatrist, on top of the Clinical Psychologist whom I meet with each week. So the question is: am I going to end up off work, perhaps with no job and consequently out of money?



In the meantime I have some vacation leave, very few sick days left and some weeks left of my Long Service Leave. If my claim isn't accepted and I run out of the above leave, what will happen?



Do I quit now and try to find someone who will hire on a 58 year old woman? Do I just bite the bullet and go back to school at the beginning of the year, and probably be in the same position as I am in now before the end of first term? Do I sit back doing nothing but visit with my clinpsych, the department's investigator and an independent psychiatrist and wait the two to three months that it will take to find out whether my claim has been recognised and then duly go through the processes of going back to a school of the department's choosing?



SHIT - it's all too bloody hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!