Where does the time go?

Hello Everyone

Just where does it go? My only excuse is that I have not yet achieved Life Balance. Ah, the holy grail...

I can just imagine what will happen when I return to university. The good news is that (if I pass my subjects) I will have finished my Master of Arts degree by end of 2009. It's been a terrific ride with some wonderful tutors. Although I'm much older than most of the students (probably nearly all of them) I've been treated as one of the crowd, Have had some fantastic fun while learning and recommend it to those who had to leave school early. You CAN do it.

By the way, the Black Dog Institute will be featured on our website any day now. They have requested a link on our website to them and Raema and I are happy to help. The Black Dog Institute is a not-for-profit, educational, research, clinical and community-oriented facility offering specialist expertise in depression and bipolar disorder.

I gave a talk at Warrandyte in Victoria this week. A terrific group of women came and seemed to enjoyed learning more about how to manage our health better in these later years. I must have been convincing as nearly everyone bought a book and also some Loris and Lucy greeting cards (you can view them on this website). Proceeds from the talks and cards and some of the book income are going to cancer and osteoporosis education and research.

Raema (co-author and sister) and I are just as passionate about the subject (post-menopausal health) as when we started on the book a few years back. Jo Ashman, the owner of Taste of the Yarra, put on some fine finger food and Warramate winery brought some delightful wines to sample. We had a raffle and Mandy of the Nillumbik Women's Network won a Loris and Lucy's Later Life Guide.

Talks - I haven't had time to follow up on giving talks so if you would like us to make a presentation on women and later life health, please get in touch through this website or my other email: cstrathdee@bigpond.com Would love to hear from you.
At the moment Raema and I are operating in the Melbourne area only. however I am looking into some regional 'gigs' if there's the interest. We're keen to look into how we might help with heart health education, too. Enquiries are underway... Sorry to sound vague but I'll be able to be more descriptive when things are nailed in. No point in jumping the gun.

Life must be busy; I sprayed my hair with Glen 20 (disinfectant product) the other day instead of the regular hair spray.
As I told the girls at Warrandyte on Monday, I've also been known to walk out of the house with my fluorescent orange ear plugs in. I wear them when I'm blow-drying my hair to protect my hearing. As my hearing is pretty good, I don't notice I've got them in and get into the car to shop, etc. Last week I had some capillaries - a whole stack of nasty purply ones from child-bearing decades ago -removed so I'm now sporting a support stocking. Try getting out of the house in a hurry when you have to wear one of those. I'm sure my blood supply is going to be cut off and my leg become gangrenous.

This week has been busy with grand-child, walks, gym, yoga, talk at Warrandyte, business matters, birthdays, and probably much more that I can't remember. I will promise to blog more often - Loris and Lucy have been receiving quite a bit of interest on their website and it's a lovely feeling. Let's hope our women's organisations, general health organisations and women's support groups in our directory (lifted from our book) are helping visitors to the site.

Do blog a message back. It's great to receive your thoughts -

Until next time,

Good health and fun times,

Camille.