The Other Side

My wife worked last night and as there was nothing on TV I decided to have a play with my Echovox. Not a lot came through..... But I hadn't used it in a while so I wasn't really expecting all that much. However what came through was interesting enough to keep me playing with it.

Anyway I've been watching a show called The Other Side. It's a paranormal type reality show, the reason I like this one - even though it's made for TV, is because it doesn't have all the drama. You know where one guy yells out he's been scratched and they all start running about like lunatics. 

So on The Other Side they don't use a lot of equipment either, they mainly use a KII meter which I found interesting. They would ask the spirit to flash the lights:- 2 flashes for yes and 1 flash for no. They would try and get names by going through the alphabet, I thought this aspect would be tiring for spirits as they use what energy they have to answer yes or no..... Let alone 'flashing' for every letter of their name.

I have a KII meter and I have used it on the odd occasion when I have used the Echovox and I have had results when I have asked if 'someone' could light it up. Last night when the Echovox messages were getting a bit too garbled, I decided I might try what I saw them do on the TV show. So I sat in the lounge room with the KII and spoke to it for about 15 minutes. lol I felt a bit silly to be honest lol

Just when I was about to give up and go to bed, it flashed! At first I thought I had blinked and thought I saw it light up, so I asked for confirmation. I asked that if anyone was there, could they please make the lights flash again. The lights flashed. I asked the 'being/spirit' if they could flash the lights to answer yes (I didn't bother with no). I asked if they were someone I had been speaking with tonight - no lights. I asked if they had visited before - no lights. I asked if I had spoken to them another time - no lights. I asked if they were still there - it flashed. I asked if they were in my house - it flashed. I asked if they were going to stay in my house - it flashed. I asked if they were related - it flashed. I asked if it was my Aunt - no lights. I asked if it was my Father - it flashed.  

After that last question I didn't receive anymore responses. I sooo wished I had recorded this on video!!!! I am going to try this again after an Echovox session to see if anyone else tries to come through via the KII. From what I've read, many professional paranormal people have stated that for some reason not all spirits can communicate through all devices. I have no idea if last night my Father really did come through..... What I do know is the lights flashed only after I asked a question, they didn't flash randomly.

We Always Want What We Can't Have

About a month ago we went out with some friends for a day of kayaking and laser tag. While we were waiting for our guide/instructor I noticed a small room and so of course I had to poke my head in lol The room only had a coke machine and fireplace. . . . I've lived in houses with fireplaces and the size of them generally reflects the size of the room that needs to be heated. Well this fireplace was waaaay toooo big for such a small room!

It was so big I had to take a photo lol, then it got me thinking.... When I was a kid I preferred the American TV shows to the Australian ones. I loved everything about them, I loved that they celebrated Halloween and we didn't, I loved their houses so much! I loved that they had attics and basements and we didn't. I loved their fireplaces, they seemed so ornate and were built as a feature, not just something to serve a purpose. In the houses I've lived in that had fireplaces, they were so dull and boring - seriously! No thought had ever gone into the actual presentation of how it looked. It was almost like the house plans had 'fireplace marked on the plans' so the builders just whacked one up.

If you google American fireplaces, OMG. Some of them are pure works of art. Some are so fancy you wouldn't want to burn anything in them. This is one I found that kind of looked like the ones I saw in TV shows as a kid, nothing too fancy - but they were so much nicer than the ones built here.

Then just the other week my sister and I were talking about American homes, and she commented that we should be making better use of our land i.e basements and attics, I agreed. A few years back I did some research online trying to find out why Australian homes didn't have basements. Now I'm not a geologist lol but the information that I found basically stated that the ground water level in Australia is too high for us to have basements. That no amount of waterproofing would prevent water constantly seeping into the area. This made sense.... Case closed. 

So why don't we have attics? Have you ever been in the roof of an Australian house? I have lol This pic above is the roof framework, now there is no squeezing an attic in there. We have rather low roofs here, I don't know why, we just do. I have crawled around in the roof of a number of homes and you literally have to wriggle around like a worm to get between the beams, wiring, insulation etc.

There's a suburb about 50 mins from where we live and one day when my wife was driving I got to have a good look around and I saw that a number of homes in this area had attics! None of these homes were new or clustered together, which may suggest the same developer built them all. So straight away I was like "I want to move here! These houses have attics!" lol. 

So like the title says:- We always want what we can't have lol

Anyway, here's another pic of my progress on my Tribal Cat cross stitch. Can you see the sugar skull magnetic needle holder in the corner? My sister sent my wife and I one each in the mail the other day :) We had no idea that she had done this, so it was a huge surprise and we both love the choices she made :)    

Brrrrrrr!!!

For those of you who don't know, it's Autumn in Australia right now. We don't get snow in Autumn.... Well apparently that's the rule! Anyway, the rule was broken yesterday and it snowed in Australia! It didn't snow where we live now, but it did snow where we used to live. In any case it was quite cold - snow or no snow at home yesterday. It's quite cold again today. Over the past few years the seasons in Australia seem to be a little out of whack...

So what do you do when it's cold? You move around! LOL! Call me insane, but I refuse to put the heater on in Autumn!!!! It's crazy!! Autumn in Australia 'should be' warm - not hot, sunny - no snow, a little cool in the evenings - not bloody freezing! Naturally it gets colder the closer you get to Winter, but Winter doesn't strike until June. So I decided to have a cleaning day today. I started with the pool filter, I was then going to wash the car, but the wind was soooo cold I didn't want to go and play in the water so I decided some inside cleaning would suffice lol

I pulled the vacuum cleaner apart and washed the filters, I cleaned the range hood...... Then the wind outside picked up and started howling..... So what did I clean next? The gas heater filters! Let me just say, that I did not turn the heater on! lol I just cleaned the lint filters. I did some other bits and pieces, all of which are rather boring, but kept me moving lol.

So apart from cleaning, here's an update on my Tribal Cat cross stitch. I haven't had a chance to do any for a few days, but I will say that I don't think I will ever stitch on black aida again lol It's killing my eyes!

Okie dokie! I'll catch you again soon! I hope you all had a great Easter!    

Long Time. No Write.

Okay I hope the format of this post isn't all over the place as I'm writing it on my tablet, not my pc (my tablet never seems to keep the right format for some reason?). It's been quite awhile since I last wrote. I don't have the usual "I didn't have time or I've been busy working" excuse. I was actually sick, the sickest I've ever been in my whole life! 

Almost two months ago I felt a bit yuck like I was catching a cold, so I went to the Drs and got checked over. The conclusion was that I had a bit of a chest infection, so my Dr gave me a script for some antibiotics and I was on my way. I was a good patient and took the medication as prescribed for a week. In the meantime my wife was working nightshift, so we weren't seeing much of each other so she wasn't seeing how ill I was. Anyway on the morning that my wife finished her last shift she was still awake when I dragged my backside out of bed to get a drink. I actually hadn't heard her come home. My wife took one look at me and started taking my observations and asking me a bunch of questions. After she had finished being a Registered Nurse with me, we had a backward and forward conversation where she told me I was going to hospital and I kept saying no. 

So why wouldn't I go to hospital? Well my temperature was so high that I was delirious! Yep! I was off with the pixies lol! Finally I was convinced that I needed to go to hospital so off we went. My wife was still wearing her uniform lol When we got there, I couldn't believe it but the first nurse that I saw on entering the emergency department was one of my customers lol Anyway after having more observations taken, blood and xrays done I was hooked up to a drip and spent 3 days and 2 nights in a 4 bedded ward with 3 old codgers lol.

It turned out I had septic pneumonia and if I had put off going to hospital longer than I had, they would have had to knock me out for 2 days while a machine did my breathing for me. When the Dr's agreed that I could go home they told me that for 2 weeks I was to do nothing and that the following weeks I would slowly start to feel better but would be quite tired. Yeah they weren't wrong about the whole tired thing! I pretty much slept for the first 2 weeks. Since then I feel ok, but get tired soo quickly! It's so frustrating! I wake up feeling okay but between 11am - 12pm I seriously run out of energy. If it wasn't for my android tablet I would have gone crazy! I was too tired to do anything. 

One thing I did do just recently is finish a small cross stitch pattern that I had started a while ago. It's called "Queen Rock Band" from Clouds Factory.

Queen Rock Band.

Sorry about the crease, I'm yet to wash and iron it lol I've just started another one called "Tribal Cat", it's supposed to be stitched in black floss on white 14 count aida. I've decided to stitch it in pink floss on black 14 count aida...... Yeah, I'm just trying to my life easy lol I've never stitched on black aida before lol It's a wee bit hard on the eyes, especially without one of those lap light thingamajigs. Here's my progress over the past two days. 

First day.      Second day.  

The pink (DMC 3608) is actually much darker/brighter in real life, for some reason is photographs quite pale :/  

DMC 3608

Tribal Cat - White Willow Stitching

This is what is will look like (hopefully lol) once it's finished. :)

Okay, well I'll be off now! I hope you all have a great Easter and get lots of nice chocies and have a bit of a rest!