3 months without drinking

Is it a lifestyle choice? No.
Is it to prepare for the City to Surf run? No.
Or is it because of my feet? Yes.....Erm, what!

Well due a nasty foot fungus over the last 18 months that refuses to go away especially in the nails, I've had to resort to the tablets which are the last course of action typically. Having gone through this lovely process about 15 years ago, I thought it would be a few weeks of tablets and then all good and aware there can be some side effects (hence the last approach).

But the doctor assured me these new ones are safer although best to do a longer course of 3 months and the only side effect may be a slight increase in the affects of UV sunlight (good job it's not summer at the moment). So I'm standing at the chemist (pharmacy) getting the prescription and the following conversation happens:

Pharmacist: "That will be $3 million for each prescription, Mr Duffy" (OK, bit of an exaggeration, but it is Perth...)
Me: "Oh, you must have given me a discount :)"
Pharmacist: "Here is your 1 month course of tablets"
Pharmacist: "You do know you can't drink any alcohol while on this medication?"
Me: "Umm, Well I do now!! - Do you mean NO alcohol at all?"
Pharmacist: "Yup, it can make you really drowsy and reduce the effectiveness of the medication"
Pharmacist: "Oh and I see you have 2 repeat prescriptions for the next 2 months (laughs to himself)"
Me: "Yes, well sucks to be me, but might save some money..."

And of course Janice just laughed, as she had not been drinking while preggo with frog-boy.

Saturday morning with dad

Sharing the porridge experience whilst sleeping...after distracting me to make it boil over and stinking the house out! We had to put a pot of coffee on quickly to avoid "the wrath" of the momma :)

Although that would entail her getting out of bed to catch us, and L and I are quick when we want to be!

3 mile reef

You gotta love the Ozzy way of saying it like it is. So we headed out to a couple of dive sites along the line of reef, out from the harbour at Hillarys.

It was an interesting start to the diving day due to the fact that I just heard about the latest white pointer attack as I was driving towards the harbour, so was naturally a little bit more nervous than usual. The sharks are always there of course, but 5 fatal attacks in 10 months does make you think and pay a bit more attention on a safety stop, hanging mid-water!

Besides that though, the dives were pretty good with a classic dive plan of "drop in off the boat and cruise around a bit" in a group. And I do forget sometimes that I've done a few dives, but when you see the new divers not knowing which way around to setup their gear and struggle to clear their ears in the water as they drop like a stone, you have to chuckle to yourself...while helping them of course.

So we set off in a group although with two of us doing a camera dive we were quickly left behind by some of the buddy pairs as they tore off through the water in search of everything :)

The first site was similar topography to most Perth based dives with the most interesting thing being a HUGE Cowrie shell. Huge being relative of course and it's hard to tell but it was about 20cm across, about 4 times the usual size.

Trust me, this was a big fellah

Then I had a quick in-between bounce dive as the anchor got stuck in some reef so I jumped back in to free it and float it out the way with a lift bag, was like the old days of working back on the boats in Cairns (without the bourbon).

Discovered an interesting piece of jetsam on the last dive, which was like the base of large traffic cone. So I freed that and towed it around with me on the dive, playing with it to create some fun photo ops with my fellow divers.

A gloved finger sneaking in the shot....

As ever, more photos on picasa. 

Who'd have thought eating could be so difficult

Well it obviously is when you're only 6 weeks old!

Little "frog boy" has had some fun and games feeding with the momma and when we thought the feeding was going alright, he wasn't actually getting enough! So now on top-ups with formula which is fattening him up slowly but surely and everyone a bit happier, especially the momma.

And now fully appreciate the tough times other people go through as we've had a few trips to PMH (Princess Margaret Hospital) and seeing the really sick kids there!

Chillin out on one the PMH trips

But what is really good now is the smiles that we get pretty often now, makes it all worthwhile :)