Happy New Year

Hello to all and a Happy New Year to everyone.

Can you believe it, it's 2013 already.? I hope everyone had a lovely time with family and friends over the Festive Season. Personally mine was a health disaster, but I am looking for the good in it!
Backing up to my last post ,first, I drove the motorhome to +glenda and +Ray's in Woodleigh in Victoria.There ''we'' proceeded to try to empty out the ''donga'' ready for the handover to my new motorhome. Oh . the things I found! stuff i had forgotten I had with me. The pressies I had bought ! you name it I found it!  Finally I had reduced it enough! ( Well still a bit to go. you can't rush these things!)  Then I packed for my Christmas trip home to WA. Monday came, and Ray drove me the 100km or so over to Bayswater, to inspect the new ''donga''. Ooh she's lovely. (you will have to wait for next blog and pictures!).
 Tuesday i flew back to WA, picked up a hire car and spent the night at Jill and John's. That was great, to catch up with them. John is Genevieve's god father, and I certainly haven't seen as much of them .as I would have liked, although I see Jill a couple of times a year as she started patchworking with her sister in law, Dorothy, who is my sister's friend. (6 degrees of separation at work!)  Anyway next morning it was off to Geraldton, to stay with +Meg and Geoff, visit with son, Ben and family, and have a dental extraction. (in that order!)
Thats about when my visit went to the pack! Major pain, alcohol free day after wards, and soft foods! What on earth was I thinking , to have a molar removed before Christmas? Well the short story is that I drove down south to sister Jean's and her hubby Lawries' place and then all hell broke loose. After a visit to Mum, in Busselton, and a couple of days with sister Maxine, all pretensions to a Happy Christmas was over. I developed an infection plus a ''dry'' socket. Went on a very nasty anti biotic, alcohol free for 5 days, and swallowed masses of painkillers and anti inflammatories, plus had 2 visits to Jeans' dentist for syringing out infection and packing etc. I tell you I would willingly have cut my head off if I thought it would reduce the pain!!! I am such a wuss, but Ihave never experienced such pain before. Next tooth can rot in my head before I have another extraction!,
So here it is just 4 days til î fly back and I am just  getting back towards normal. down to painkillers only twice a day now. The only benefit was I lost 3 kilos, while i exsisted on yoghurt and Jeans homemade soup.
To those of you I thought I was going to visit this trip, sorry, next time. I hope everybody had a much better cHristmas Seasonthan I did, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy!
May you all have a wonderful, prosperous and healthy 2013. I will be in touch
Love Vicki