What as morning, I was debating with myself if I would do a post due to how I have been feeling but here I am doing one. It is Tuesday so it is creature day and this week wed are looking at the Brown-Throated Sloth, there is a bloody lot that is unusual about this mammal.
Such as its thick brown fur regularly looks green-blue because of the algae growing on it. The colour helps it stay well, hidden in its rainforest home. Next instead of toes it has three long claws on both front and back feet, which help it hang upside down from branches. It can also swivel its head almost 90 degrees and its mouth are shaped in a permanent smile.
It is the size of a cat, weighs around 4kg and rarely walks, it stays in trees except when it needs to poo, which it does once a week.
They eat leaves, twigs, and fruit, because they move so little and use hardly any energy a single meal can take up to a month to pass through its body.
It is a species of three-toed sloth found in the Neotropical realm of Central and South America. It is the most common of the four species of three-toed sloth and is found in the forests of South and Central America.
Although they can walk along the ground, and even swim, they spend most of their lives in the high branches of trees, descending once every eight days or so to defecate in the soil. It has no preference for sleeping say or night.
It is Monday and the last day of the school holidays.
It is also time for this week’s facts, this week we are looking at weather.
The word weather is used to describe the conditions in the atmosphere close to the Earth’s surface.
The Sun plays a crucial part in determining the weather. Its rays have the strongest effect where they hit the ground around the planet’s surface or the equator. So, the further away from the equator the colder it is.
Regions along the equator receive the same strength of sunlight all year round, these places only have two distinguishable seasons, wet and dry.
Heat from the sun causes water from the seas to evaporate, as the water vapour rises and cools it condenses, forming tiny water droplets which group together to form clouds.
Weather conditions change throughout the year because the Earth is tilted on its axis. As the Earth orbits the Sun, the Suns rays fall on different areas causing the seasons.
A decent enough night, it is another wet morning with the temp being 16 degrees. I had to turn the heater on for a bit.
By midday it was 20 degrees.
The spat between Jess, Sam & Tim has gotten worse that is till Tasha got involved giving Jess & Sam a lecture then Tim about respect, acceptance and not acting like children. She also had a go at Tim about his refusal to see someone about his depression and his refusal to try medication for it.
It has felt like a long sad day.
A new day, the start of the last week of school holidays. A cold start to the day with a temp of 14 degrees. I am feeling drained this morning, shaking and sweating and feeling sad.
Summer is here today.
Sandy came over to us her new car, it is a white 2013 Holden Captiva, runs on diesel.
Tim & Summer went to Kmart so Tim could buy a couple of heaters. He also stopped and bought Hungry Jacks for lunch I just had a small chips.
This afternoon Tim told me he will endeavour to call Sam she or her, but it doesn’t change his believes or opinions that is fine now one expected it to.
I have no idea why he changed his mind because yesterday he was adamant he would not do so.
I could tell when he told Jess that she was happy.
I had a better night last night it is only 13 degrees this morning. Also, this morning I found a bunch of my medication laying lose on my desk, Tim obviously spilt them which is annoying but what can you do.
Summer is here today, and she has been a big help dividing fruit, unpacking groceries as well as other stuff.
Tim had a job interview, he said it went well. However, they want to wait till after he has seen his hand specialist again about removing a plate in his wrist, before offering him a job.
The temperature got to 25 degrees around midday.
Had a rough start to last night, I was tossing and turning and moving so much I felt seasick. Tim said it took my 5 hours to settle.
Once I settled, I slept well.
This morning’s temp at 5am was 13 degrees.
Tim has gone to a doctor’s appointment then he is going to cash in some bottles.
By midday it was 26 degrees.
ANZAC DAY
Had a much better night settled quickly and slept pretty much through the night.
The temp at 5am was 13 degrees but doesn’t feel that cold. It got to a top of 23 degrees by 11am.
I washed the kitchen and bathroom floors using the steam mop then Tim went over it using a normal mop and plain water. Tim also cleaned the exhaust fan in the bathroom.
Had a good night’s sleep, woke with the alarm, discovered Tim had done a load of washing and tossed it in the dryer, it is folded and waiting for me to put it away.
It is 12 degrees at 5am.
Tried on the new grey pants I bought. They are a size too big, but I can’t return them as they were on the clearance rank. I also will need them hemmed but they felt good on, I was going to wear them to the doctors but changed my mind as a piece of thread got caught in my toes.
By midday the temp was 21 degrees.
Had a doctor’s appointment all went well just needed forms filled in, also had a flu shot.
I feel terrible this afternoon like I have the flu, damn flu shot.
Had another good night, did take me a while to settle fully but once I did, I slept through the night. It is 11 degrees at 5am. By midday it was 21degrees.
I haven’t felt well all day just like I have the damn flu, but I don’t have to do anything but rest.
I did manage to answer 4 letters which is something and blog of course.
Hi, everyone this week we are looking at fear of abandonment and borderline personality disorder.
We all must deal with the death of a loved one or the end of a relationship as loss is a natural part of life. However, people with BPD live in fear of such loses.
People with BPD tend to think the following thoughts, you’re going to leave me, you don’t really love me, or you aren’t here for me.
Those with BPD can have tremendous fears of rejection and being abandon to the point they may sabotage themselves and relationships. The fear they feel can be real or just perceived but it is highly intrusive.
So it isn’t uncommon for the suffer to assume people will leave them, this can be caused by past evidenced of people leaving them or could just be a more general belief that they can‘t trust others and will end up being hurt.
A simple tiff with a loved one may trigger an abandonment response.
Those with BPD are essentially waiting for their loved one to leaved them which may cause them to withdraw, lash out, threaten or even in some case harm others, which sadly reinforces the likelihood of being left.
Suffers of BPD often feel empty inside and if the feel someone is going to leave them, they can become fearful and angry, lashing out first.
It is not a good idea to give the BPD suffer ultimatums or threaten to leaved if their behaviour doesn’t change this will only make them test the limits you set.
More next week.
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Hi, everyone this week we are looking at fear of abandonment and borderline personality disorder.
We all must deal with the death of a loved one or the end of a relationship as loss is a natural part of life. However, people with BPD live in fear of such loses.
People with BPD tend to think the following thoughts, you’re going to leave me, you don’t really love me, or you aren’t here for me.
Those with BPD can have tremendous fears of rejection and being abandon to the point they may sabotage themselves and relationships. The fear they feel can be real or just perceived but it is highly intrusive.
So it isn’t uncommon for the suffer to assume people will leave them, this can be caused by past evidenced of people leaving them or could just be a more general belief that they can‘t trust others and will end up being hurt.
A simple tiff with a loved one may trigger an abandonment response.
Those with BPD are essentially waiting for their loved one to leaved them which may cause them to withdraw, lash out, threaten or even in some case harm others, which sadly reinforces the likelihood of being left.
Suffers of BPD often feel empty inside and if the feel someone is going to leave them, they can become fearful and angry, lashing out first.
It is not a good idea to give the BPD suffer ultimatums or threaten to leaved if their behaviour doesn’t change this will only make them test the limits you set.
Time to learn a bit more about Parkinson’s Disease this week at posture and dribbling, first off is posture. Many people thing of the characteristic posture of a slight stoop, with rounded shoulders and arms, legs, hips, and knees bent.
This posture places added strain on the joints and muscles and may cause pain. While sitting the suffer may find themselves leaning to one sided, this one reason they should sit in chairs with arm support. You may see a suffer waling with one arm held across the body instead of swinging normally by the side.
With concentration these problems can be corrected but sadly at times the suffer isn’t even aware they are doing these things.
Now dribbling this for me and many other suffers is distressing and it’s caused by excess saliva, it is more about how Parkinson’s reduces the amount of automatic swallowing we all do. Also, if the suffer has a posture problem causing their head to tilt forward which causes the saliva to accumulate at the front of the mouth. People who find their head tilting forward are told to practice having their head tilted backwards.
Connected with dribbling is swallowing and swallowing can be so difficult at times due to many fac
tors including the disease itself but the drugs we take can make swallowing worse as well causing dry mouth or spasms of the muscles in the throat.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
So, after going through some stuff, I found this book called Australians Under Fire 1942 and have decoded to use it for my Wednesday posts. We will start with the introduction that is in the book because the start of the book is the best place to start if you don’t want to be all over the damn place, which I do not. As the title says this book is focused mostly on the year 1942.
It seems like the year 1942 was a dark, uncertain, and crucial one for Australia, with several events taking place such as the bombing of Darwin, the battle of the Coral Sea, Milne Bay, Kokoda and El Alamein these where all major events Australia played a part in.
Since the start of hostilities in September 1939 us Aussies had fought bravely on distant battlefields in Greece, Crete and the Middle East.
Then at the end on 1941 the Japanese joined the war, and, on the 7 December 1941, they bombed Pearl Harbour bringing the USA into the war. Till this time the war seemed far away to Aussies, however these events frightened many Aussies.
As the Japanese steadily advanced against the British on the island fortress of Singapore it became obvious that Britain wouldn’t be able to defend Australia.
Ironically during the first World War Japan’s navy acted as one of Australia’s protectors and was now a feared enemy.
Japan was in an ideal position to launch an attack on the northern part of Australia.
Hello Tuesday, you are day for another freaky creature, this week it is the Common Basilisk, have you heard of it? I have not but it is a lizard that has been nicknamed the Jesus Christ lizard.
It received this nickname because of its ability to run on water. When it’s threatened it can escape by sprinting towards any water. When they reach the edge of the water they just keep going.
They run on their back legs with their body upright and arm by its side. They have been clocked at 8km/h on water and 11km/h on land.
The reason it’s so good on water is its feet, it has big feet with flaps of scaly skin along the toes which create air bubbles which then push down which keeps it afloat.
The young can run atop water for up to 20m, but adults can only manage a quarter of that, not because they are slower just bigger.
There is little chance of them drowning as they are great swimmers and can stay underwater for up to 30 minutes.
Monday again, so time for some more facts, still about sea creatures.
There are a million known species of plants and animals living in the world’s oceans, with many more to be discovered.
There are around 65,000 newly discovered species of yet given formal names.
Coral reefs cover less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor, but support around 25 per cent of all marine life.
A female octopus is called hen, The Giant Pacific Octopus lays around 100,000 eggs at a time.
Most of the octopus’s body is spongy and flexible, but its eyes are more solid. Ost spies can squeeze through tight spaces that are only slightly larger than their eyes.
An octopus’s eyes remain at the same orientation regardless of its position, so if it is on its side or even upside now its gaze doesn’t change.
Another good night, slept till the alarm went off but I did get up once to pee. Temp is 15 degrees at 5am.
There was an incident in Sydney were a man entered a shopping centre and stabbed and killing up to 6 people including a 9-month-old, on the 5am news they said the baby was still alive, but the mother died. The man was shot and killed by a police officer.
Tasha came down and asked if I would like to go to Woolies myself tomorrow, I said I would.
Had a really good night, woke at 4.50am with at temp of 12 degrees according to the laptop or 15 degrees according to my phone.
Tasha took me out shopping but after half an hour, I start to sweat a lot it was dripping off me and I felt I was going to collapse.
The rest of the day has been good.
It is 10.30pm and I can’t settle down, I am drenched in sweat and my body will not stop moving.
Sam just walked in and is concerned that I am awake and that I am moving so much.
When I went back to bed last night Sam sat with me holing my hand and talking in a soft voice till, I started to relax. I then went back to sleep and slept through to 5am. It was 14 degrees when I got up but reached a top of 25 degrees.
Kathy dropped the girls off, they have spent a lot of time with Tasha, Tim bought Hungry Jacks for lunch.
Just before 11am I went for a nap slept for an hour and 15 minutes, could have slept longer but didn’t that would be a good idea.
The girls spent a far bit of time with Tasha.
Had a better night, although it did take me a while to fully settle.
Temp this morning is 16 degrees, I do have both front and back doors open but will close one shortly, I expect.
By 11am it is 23 degrees.
Tim rang to see how we go about arranging for a bulk waste collection, as I thought the Dept of Housing needs to arrange it. I thought Tim was somewhat rude on the phone but he didn’t.
It is chilly Thursday morning here in my part of Newie, a decent enough sleep after a restless start to the night. It is 15 degrees at 5.30am, by midday it was 24 degrees.
Tim went and brought fresh bread a couple of snags and a bit of bacon and made snags, bacon & cheese sandwiches for lunch.
It started to rain at 3pm, the temp was still 22 degrees. The rain was pissing down but didn’t last long.
It is cold this morning with a temp of 13 degrees, too cold now to open the doors. I had a good night better than the last few as I settled down much faster.
Kathy rang as she usually does on a Friday, but she was in a right mood so didn’t talk, instead I said we will talk on Monday.
Sam came down this morning to just chill with me for a while and was here over an hour maybe longer.
I am having trouble settling again so I got up for a bit, spent 45 minutes talking to Tim, now I am back to bed.
After returning to bed last night I settled without issue, I slept till the alarm went at 5am. It is a wet morning with a temp of 15 degrees, I think we are in for a wet day.
Jess came down to tell me about an issue she had with her dad last night concerning Sam‘s medication and how she doesn’t keep track of it.
When he got up Tim showed me the messages from Jess, they were not bad messages and a couple of his replies seemed childish to me and uncalled for and I said so. I know he was pissed that I didn’t agree 100% with him but I don’t have to.
It has rained on and off all day getting to a top temp of 17 degrees.
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