By NICKY CHAMP
Welcome to Best and Worst; Mamamia’s long-standing tradition. If this is the first time you’ve ever stumbled across this post, it’s where we share the highs and lows of the week that was. Think of it as one big sounding board for advice, problems, a place to share your good news and to talk about whatever is on your mind.
I’ll go first.
Best: I dread Monday mornings (stay with me) – you see the thing about working with incredible people is often they do incredible things on the weekend. Me? Not so much.
Life with a toddler pretty much dictates that my weekends are spent hanging out at parks, cleaning food off walls and trying to decipher an unintelligible language (it’s not unlike hanging out with a drunk teenager).
Don’t get me wrong, I love my life but when Monday morning rolls around I dread the inevitable question: So, what did you get up to on the weekend?
“Um, I went to the park for a bit” doesn’t really cut it when people are trying extreme sports or going to the latest bars.
It could be the FOMO or the YOLO getting to me, but this week I actually did something fun. Something worthy of ‘smoasting’ (boasting on social media) about. Yay, go me.
On Sunday I ran the Happiest 5km on the Planet – granted it was 35 degrees and I thought I might pass out from heatstroke, but it turns out having packets of colour powder thrown at you while you run/jog/walk is fun in any type of weather. The Color Run event is coming back to Sydney in August (and travels around the country in the meantime) and I can’t wait to do it again (in hopefully cooler weather next time).
Worst: We’ve just discovered our 17-month-old toddler has an egg allergy – a potentially anaphylactic one. Since every second Australian child* apparently has an allergy, we can’t get in to see the Paediatric Immunologist to do the required testing until July.
For those of you playing along at home that is in SIX MONTHS TIME. And that’s going to a private clinic, if you go through the public system the wait time is two years. Some kids will have outgrown their allergies before they can even get in to see a specialist. How ridiculous it that?
Ok, rant over. But if you have any egg-free recipe suggestions I’d love for you to share them in the comments below!
Over to you, what’s been happening in your world this week?
*This number may be vastly exaggerated and I have no actual scientific evidence to back it up.
Mamamia’s Managing Editor Jamila Rizvi & Editorial Assistant Kahla Preston also participated in the Color Run. Jam did an excellent job of documenting the day – check out her shots here:
Top Comments
best : nearly 14 wks pregnant, lovely baby bouncing around on ultrasound at the NT scan last week, good results from it too. Allowed myself for the first time to relax a little bit and let some excitement in, went to the shops by myself and bought a teeny tiny hungry caterpillar body suit in quiet celebration. Long way to go still, but the first trimester is over :)
it could just be my imagination but my stomach seems to be rounding out already, i had two people comment on it today , i swear with my first pregnancy i did not start showing in any real way till 19/20 weeks.
No worsts for me except maybe the damn headaches i keep getting... normal panadol is ineffective but of course i cant take anything stronger.... will all be worth it though!!
Best: I just filled in in the pit orchestra for 3 shows of West Side Story. So much fun! I have a big scary hard solo right at the beginning of the show. The first night I was a bit wobbly, the 2nd night less so, and today, I nailed that sucker and it was GLORIOUS. I am still on a high from it.
Worst: major changes in the way our (amateur) concert band is being run means I have to pull out. I am really upset, even though I think it's a good thing for the band.
OMM: all things music. It's just a hobby for me, albeit one I have done for the last 31 years, and I can't work out right now how I can fit it into my life at a decent level.