. Name five things in your refrigerator. milk, orange juice, peach jam, butter, yoghurt

2. Name five things in your freezer. choc chip iceream, turkish bread, candles, ice, coffee

3. Name five things under your kitchen sink. Empty jars, Insecticides, sponge, ashtrays, plastic bags

4. Name five things around your computer. red wine, phone, cigarettes, mobile, flowers

5. Name five things in your medicine cabinet. nurofene, vitamin B6, bandaids, lightbulbs, torch

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Now this is worth a read found the last paragraph particularly interesting and true.

Still researching this document and have found this fantastic site for all things breast cancer related. This is the address:

http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk

I have tried searching the Australian (where I'm from) and US sites and they were difficult to navigate but this one is excellent! If you want or need to learn more check it out!

Now this isn't positive yet, I sneaked a look at the results of my mammogram and breast ultrasound, well I did pay for it and thought I have a right. Seeing the doc on Monday to confirm and then the next step. Below is information of what the results said I had. Looks like it's a benign cancer lump.

Fibroadenoma

This page is for women who have a benign (non-cancerous) breast condition called a fibroadenoma. It explains what a fibroadenoma is and how it is diagnosed and treated. Being diagnosed with a fibroadenoma can cause worry and anxiety. We hope the information will help you understand your condition and reassure you.

What is a fibroadenoma?

A fibroadenoma is a benign (non-cancerous) solid lump of tissue. It is thought to result from increased sensitivity to the female hormone oestrogen. It normally has a rubbery texture, is smooth to the touch and moves easily under the skin. For this reason it is sometimes called a 'breast mouse'. A fibroadenoma may be painless, or it can be tender or even painful.

Fibroadenomas are very common and it is not unusual to have more than one. They are mostly found in young women but can occur in women of any age.

Most fibroadenomas are about 1-3cm in size. These are referred to as 'common' fibroadenomas. Occasionally they can grow to more than 5cm in size, and these are called 'giant' fibroadenomas. Fibroadenomas found in teenage girls are referred to as 'juvenile' fibroadenomas.

Most fibroadenomas stay the same size. Some get smaller and some will eventually disappear over time. A small number get bigger and this may be more noticeable during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Diagnosis

Your GP will usually be able to say whether the lump feels like a fibroadenoma but s/he may refer you to a specialist at a breast clinic for a definite diagnosis.

At the breast clinic you will probably have a triple assessment, which is a breast examination, mammogram (breast x-ray) and a fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), where cells from the lump are drawn off with a fine needle and syringe. In some clinics you may have a core biopsy rather than a FNAC. This is where tissue samples of the lump are taken rather than cells. If you are under the age of 35 you are likely to have an ultrasound scan rather than a mammogram. This is because younger women's breast tissue is too dense to give a good image. For more detailed information about these tests, see our Referral to a breast clinic section.

Treatment

In most cases you will not need any treatment or follow-up once a diagnosis has been confirmed. You will generally only be asked to return to your GP or the breast clinic if the lump gets bigger or becomes painful.

In some circumstances a fibroadenoma may be removed, for example if it is larger than 3cm or if you are particularly anxious about leaving it.

The lump will be removed in a small operation under a general anaesthetic. You may be in hospital just for the day, or overnight, and you will have a small wound with a stitch or stitches in it. When the lump is removed it does not usually affect the shape of the breast, as the normal breast tissue will fill out and make up for it.

What this means for you

You may feel anxious about what having a fibroadenoma means for you. On the one hand you may feel relieved that it is a benign condition, but you may still worry about breast cancer. Having a fibroadenoma does not increase your risk of breast cancer, but it is still important to be breast aware and go back to your GP if you notice any further lumps or other changes. You can find out more about being breast aware in our Breast awareness section.

Thanks Lex now she looks much better I love her again!
No real news yet but saw the doctor which is amazing for me. Because I never go not that I'm scared just find it a bore waiting in the waiting room ready gossip mags! She checked me out and said I need to get a mammogram but she did say it's a positive thing that there is pain, good that's what I thought. She feels it's more likely fluid or fatty deposits because it is a funny almond shape and firm which is not associated with breast cancer. I was told to take Vitamin B1 and 6 which I promptly went out and bought and took straight away. The mammogram is on Thursday.

Finally told my husband today and my sister but told them not to make a fuss about it, I hate having to talk about it except for here

This blog looks like it's stuffed again not from anything I've done this time. Hopefully it will get itself back together, have loaded the pic files and about to check where I've left anything out because it's not the same. What a shame because it's such a pretty design! And it's too long will check how I stop that too. Any suggestions?

Bookclub was managed quite nicely, I managed to let everyone assume I'd read the book. Well noone asked me directly what I thought of the book. But they did ask to me rate it, so I did based on what I'd read so far. Karen managed to cook us another really disgusting meal. Poor thing has no idea, I'd suggested she get a bbq chicken which she did and then make a simple salad. Unfortunately the chicken was too small which left everyone starving and the salad whilst it was ok was also too little. Thankgod for the nibblies beforehand or we all would've been heading for maccas on the way home.

There was drama on the homefront prior to leaving, the girls proceeded to go into one of their made rages at each other because I wouldn't let them have access to the net while we were out. The end result was Emma attempted to knock me over, Chris walked in just at that moment. And this is not a good thing when he gets home as he likes to have a happy household when returning home from work. Come on honey welcome to the real world of teenage daughters. In the end the girls had to come with us, naturally they protested but for some reason they didn't argue to hard with dad. Boy they do with me, that's not fair!

Ofcourse the girls were bored to tears but who gives, this might teach them for next time. Lately I've had so much crap from them esp Em. She treats me more like her mate than her mum. That's cool but sometimes I wish she wouldn't go as far as she does.

Right now I really don't feel like dealing with all of this. Guess I'll be better focused after Tuesday's appt. It's just not close enough, but have to say I'm staying really positive and trying not to think to closely about it.

There is one thing I thought I might do just in case and that's is to use my pitas account as a journal about my childhood and travels for the girls so they can see who I was as a child. It would be really nice if I had a scanner to scan all those old pics of me in the 60's, 70's and 80's before they knew their mum. They then might realise I'm human after all!

Ha it's on tonight and I haven't read the book through yet, but I love it so far. Guess I'll get flack for this as usual. I'm a real slacker when it comes to deadlines hate them. Just as I hated doing assignments and exams. I was never able to manage my time well, there's always something more interesting to do.

Thankyou to everyone's kind words about the blog. I'm not real good at organising it, but slowly I'm getting there. There are some really great blogs out there and I really need to put them on my favourites.

I was recently asked what tags are, well they are the little or big depending on size you like, what people put at the end of their emails or if they are in an msn group, that distinguishes them from someone else. So all the designs you've seen are what I do for others and myself. There's a link to my yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sweet_Dreams_Tags/

I'm a little worried looks like I got a lump on my left breast! And it hurts real bad. Have been looking up the worst case scenario, breast cancer, and by the sounds of it, fingers crossed, I could just have a non cancerous cyst.

Have booked an appointment with the doctor for Tuesday as that was the earliest day I could get. Yes I'm scared but just trying to stay calm and cool about it. Have no intention of telling anyone even my family at this stage till I know for sure. I don't have all the symptons mentioned so should be ok. God I'm shaking this as I write not sure if this was a good idea putting it all down.

I don't normally like to tell my woes, generally I am a positive person and I am not interested in others troubles as I feel it's a way of getting sympathy, so none here thanks! Guess the worst is I lose a breast, wonder if they do replacement surgery? I could then get myself a nice new pair, got to find a laugh for this one. I always think I can't get this shit because I already have MS and you just can't two hits of badluck in one lifetime!

I'm not disabled in anyway with the MS it's still in the benign stage. On occasions of extreme heat and fatigue I suffer a mild lapse but then recover fully with loads of cortisone and sleep.

Anyway here's hoping

Was mucking about with this one and didn't know what to do with it, so many colours in there! It appears it is a very popular tag for request don't know why because it's a bit too out there for me!

Yep the day was a truly fascinating one for me, spent almost all the day home waiting for the new washing machine to arrive WOOHOO. Had to take my father in law to the hospital, fascinating, yep sarcasm. The washing machine is fantastic and ofcourse did a load of washing and works just perfectly. Can't wait to do the towels tomorrow, the bloody thing is like a computer that's probably why I love it so much!

Em has exams tomorrow, the first one is maths. Poor thing is upstairs studying before she goes to sleep. Or she's prob asleep now, hope she does well. She should as she spent the two weeks of school hols studying, how sad it is for kids these days. When I was a kid..............we played played played, went to the movies with our friends and just plain veged out. Hope this is actually for the better or she'll be real screwed when she gets older!

Boy I love this artist, so feminine! Just worked on this morning then later this after will be posting out the list tags and extras. But first have to get started on the domestic chores, great! Know where I'd rather be today, it's cold and rainy out. Started the new bookclub book, it's looking good so far. Love stories about Indian people and their assimilation into our western culture. I don't think we realise how prejudice we are, we have alot in common but alot of us haven't bothered to try and I guess I gotta say I fall victim to that mind set. But I did come from a very prejudiced background, anyone who wasn't European was just not up to scratch, yep that included Australians & the English OMG! And I'm married to one, how the hell are they coping? LOL, gotta laugh or you will cry.

Oh this'll be an exciting entry all about the woes of domestic bliss! Yep the 13 year old washing machine packed it in so off to the mall this morn to purchase a lovely new Maytag, the biggest little bugger we could find that was energy efficient. Unbelievable yes but it really is big and has a greater energy rating than other smaller brands, so cool!

Have also been working on my Halloween tags for the groups, I'm now over it! Guess the next thing will be turkeys for Thanksgiving LOL. Here's a small sample of what I've working on...............

Think I will pull out some of my sexy pinups and do something fun for now, just for relaxation.

The kids had friends over today so I'm a little out of whack. Shouldn't complain they were entertained and are now happy. It's hard keeping teens happy. Speaking of teens someone alerted me to the most disgusting msn groups site where pics of teens & younger in various revolting sex acts. We are now in the process of having this disgusting site pulled down and alerted to the authorities which I doubt can be done because these sickos are very clever. That's the problem with these groups it encourages this sort of behaviour so they can all get together. I'd say msn groups will probably close down in the near future to stop this, looks like the chat is being pulled off now. Not that I really care because I never use it too many nutters mucking about there for my liking.

Kids are back to school tomorrow, the end of holidays and my sleep ins, not that I got that many with all the phone calls coming in from friends organising their day with my girls. Oh well at least I can spend tomorrow preparing for the washing machines arrival and cleaning up the mess of having the family all home.

Teenagers don't you just love to throttle the little darlings. Mine has been hassling me all week about having a friend over Friday. Friday's here friend rings at crack of dawn, damn I needed to sleep! Friend no longer coming instead will come tomorrow, still need to sleep so will be very boring for all while they wait till I get up. I need a life other than following after what my teenager does.

Rang the man to ask if he was ok about going to Prince concert, I can get tickets real close but costs. He, the one who spent $130 on Opera tickets and I hate Opera but went along to please him, says no to me and Prince! Have already got Robbie Williams sorted he was going to come with me but wasn't that interested so was speaking to my sister and she said she'd love to go, the man wasn't too worried when I told him your off the hook!

So his substitution for not wanting to go Prince was a weekend away, my answer was that's nice honey but don't worry about it because I know it will never get organised! So no Prince for me and I'm not a happy Princess!

Yes it's been a long time..... what.... 2 days and so much is going on in my life.....scary eh? I have desperately been trying to hold onto to what is left of my life. There has been craziness going on here. Would love to make this diary all lovely and sweet but reality is what it is. I am trapped in the wrong life scary eh? Never would have admitted this but here goes. Long story but the short one is I have always done the right thing and now I'm jack of it! My family, meaning the one I was born with, I'm over! They all have preconceptions of who I am but really don't have the intelligence to know who I really am or neither the inclination to know. My mother, yes I have one of those, is clingy to the point of suffocation. As a child I suffered from nightmares of suffocation. Now I know what it means, it was obsessive love and need to have my loyalty for all the shit she gave me. Yes these are the parents who dump on me for having a weekend away from my family and yet they were the ones who left me in a hotel room in San Remo, Italy, while they went enjoying themselves on the beach! I had to go to the toilet and because I was 4 locked myself in, couldn't figure out how to get out! Yes I remember because I was scared. Hotel staff were alerted to my screams and then when they (parents) came back and finally dad came up and climbed out the windows along the ledge to instruct me how to to get myself out of that toilet and saved me, mother came down on me for spraying Arpege perfum all over the room. Yes I remember it it was traumatic and par for the course in my relationship with them (parents). I have never trusted them, even today now that I am an adult, they turn on me, and my partner wonders why I have a persecution complex, THERE'S YOUR ANWER HUN! Blame the parents! I say........oh there is more but will leave that for the next instalment.....................
Thought this was funny need some humour tonight after today's events. Yep it was lunchtime at my mum's and my sis was there. Sick of her dumping on me and my girls. Stupid thing is she doesn't realise she's doing it and worse still she has no blinking kids of her, so she should just shut the F*** up. Why is it those who don't have any are experts, like to her try for just one week! Problem is my kids will prob be really good for her because they are scared of the dragon. She's actually alot younger than me but the way she talks you wouldn't think so. Hell she doesn't know who Eminem is, now that's scary!

Now's telling how old I am. Don't usually bid on ebay but a friend emailed me and told me about this signed autograph by David Essex, British pop idol of the 70's. He is still recording and touring in the UK, was involved in Musicals like Evita and some others I can't quite remember. Will find a bio on him. Anyway back to the autograph, when she emailed I thought oh right she wants me to get it for her, no probs because she has been a very lovely friend. Then she said it's got your name on it, yeah right. Checked and yes it does not that I go by Sandie but that'll do! So fingers crossed so far I am the highest bidder and now counting the 6 hours down. Unfortunately if someone comes in with a higher bid I will be in bed sleeping, them's the breaks. But then how many people could there be in the world who want DE? Me for one. Just a reminder of my childhood and the person I once was, sad isn't it? Here's a pic for some of you who may need reminding.

I'm so excited about seeing this group it's been a long time and oh how I remember all of it. Being at the night clubs pretending that I was Girls on Film OMG that seems so long ago now saying it!
Well Well she didn't go the poor thing got stage fright, thank god she's still my little girl! Really felt for her this morning she looked so worried and when she came out with it I just had to give her a big hug. Kids here in Australia are not as grown up as kids in other parts of the world. Not sure why that is but it just is.

Friends of mine moved to Seattle and were amazed at the freedom kids 11 years old had. The mum had trouble coming to terms with it, she still picked up and dropped off her daughter whilst all the other kids bused it around at night.

So all has worked out, today we rented a whole load of videos Nene the youngest is into horror. Tried to get Nightmare on Elm Street but it just isn't available anymore so ended up with the Craft and The Exorcist yikes!

Then I spent the day trying to get frequent flyer flight to Melbourne for a girly weekend and talking to some tech person in India about why my wireless connection on the laptop wasn't working. They ended up not being able to solve it so did some more investigating and solved it myself. Process of elimination or communication breakdown dunno which!

Love love this movie JD is absolutely gorgeous and incorrigible Love it. And boy has Legolas grown up almost didn't recognise him. Geoffrey Rush is oh so scary! Made my otherwise crappy day into a pretty good one. Loved it for a disney movie. Another thing Em has asked which is nice of her if she can go for a walk with her new boy friend yep not boyfriend but boy friend if you get my drift. She's 13 so have to trust her or lose her trust! Hate the whole idea and hate how quickly it has come but I can see she's churning inside with excitement and really have to try and trust all goes well. Haven't met the boy but he's the same age and seems quite nice and young in photos I've seen. I have tried to encourage her to bring him here but she insists they are just friends! And it's no big deal mum she says yeah right that's how it starts! They've got a school social coming up next month so guess this might cement them as an item and get her kudo points at school. Just picked up my latest bookclub book "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali looks like it could be a got read will keep you posted hun. This bookclub was started by a friend of mine who is single and was trying to widen her circle of friends, so far we are stuck at 6 and I've got to say I am finding the circle pretty dull at that. They are all older and think I am a little nutty, don't know why they think everything I say is so funny, just being myself. Think they must know some pretty ordinary people who are to way up themselves to be real!


WoWeeeeeeeeeeeee I got my Robbie Williams concert tickets this morning how cool. I'm not going to see him specifically but to see the support DURAN DURAN! Saw them about 20 years ago can't wait now! Will have to go and buy something amazing for it as well as brush up on my dance! It's been awhile, Chris doesn't particularly want to go but hell he'll have to deal with it! I had to go and see a dorky opera so he can come and see this with me. Better put them somewhere safe or at least remember where I put them. Have a bad habbit of forgetting.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it :: Douglas Adams ::

This artist does the most amazing work I absolutely adore her stuff. God there's some real crap on the tele at this time of night. Think I'll go to bed once I get through my mail and get ready for another riveting day tomorrow with the girls home from school. No entertainment tho for them they had their fun today, tomorrow is study for them...........

I really must remember the code for posting the tags. All this html stuff is so so new to me, learning everyday which is great I love it and there is so much info for free on the net makes it so much more interesting and easy. But I really do think I must go do a course or something to solidify it all in my brain.

Bloody hell I'm an idiot put in the url of a poll I'm doing in Sweet Dream Design. Now here's the tag...........

http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/users/c3a9a726/bc/Yahoo!+Photo+Album/Sweet+Dreams/__hr_Sandra---1.jpg?bfmNEe_AhnfP.FuZ

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sweet_Dreams_Tags/surveys?id=1111043

Been working on this tag tonight and I am quite happy how it turned out! Love this tube it's so pretty and feminine. Will put this one up for request tomorrow morning right now I've really got to get to bed, kids are home from school on holidays and they have a rather big day planned for me............YIPEE can you just hear my sarcasm!!!!!!! Not that they plan on doing anything with me. It's just taxing them around between friends houses, malls and leisure centres GREAT FUN. Maybe I will get a chance to come on here and post some more tags and snags to the group. Just wish people would let me know when they pick up a tag so I can clear for space not that that is a real problem with the new laptop as I have a ton of space here but still cautious from the days of the old pc. Mmmmmmmmmm that sounded like a lyric for a song. LOL will have to work on that one!

Took the labs out for a major run today. The first half of the morning was spent with guide dogs discussing Elsa's strategy and them assessing her capabilities, most of the stuff they talk about i already know from having Jameson. But still you have to do this. Made it quite clear to them that I had no intention of having her back if she didn't make it, oh now I'm not sure seeing as i have put this done here. Will have to leave a window of opportunity open if this arises so i can think on it. But hell I have 2 labs, 1 maltese, 1 cat and 1 rabbit would like a break and get the garden back to normality. If only it would rain will have to water big time tomorrow because it's been so windy and that so dries out the garden.

Oh dear I've really had it today. Last nite was the engagement party of my sis and I was so run off my feet. Had a great time drank a little too much wine laughed alot and the cried at the end. All too emotional for me, meeting up with some really old friends talking about the old days makes me really sad! Got some really good compliments which makes you feel really good. The end result today was a very quiet day laying in the sun, beautiful! Army helicopters came over our house and scared the living daylights out of me! We live closeby to the football stadium and there was a game on, the copters were a demo during half time. Boy oh boy they were close but it was great to see them!

Kids are on hols so tomorrow will be my big lie in day if that freakin dog next door doesn't wake me up again like it has for the past 3 days. Ours just lie there sleeping while the stupid idiot yaps away, oh god I hate it. Bloody hell wish Chris would stop walking up and down! Now he's let our dogs in, why?

I love Olivia artwork, so feminine. Just worked on this one tonight now just absolutely buggered so off I go to beddies and a fresh start tomorrow, should be a more organised day, I hope!

Truly a dickhead just worked out where to put the notify list and phenomenal diva ring code on the nav bar. Know how to copy and paste but couldn't figure to stick it. What a total dur brain I am. All done now, going out now but when I get back will do some more changes. If you think and look long enough you will figure it out!

Geez I hate to whinge but today was incredibly hot for this time of year. It's spring and they have started the backburning for the bushfire season in Sydney. I hate waking in the middle of the night to the smell of burning, I think the house is on fire! Not sure why they bother because every year is always bad if not worse!

The kids have been bugging me to put the aircon on but it feels stupid when only last week we had the heating going......just opened a window and the neighbour closed their blinds oooops. I hate it when people close up their homes for privacy like they are scared you might see something and all they are doing is washing up, crikeys.

Well it's that time of night again for me, dinner time great i hate doing that too what a bore. Think I might grab myself a nice cold beer first before I ring my mum and have to listen to her say nothing of interest for a whole hour, nice daughter I am, but I do call after all!

At last I found a decent template I love this one so cool. Vargas is the best and so is Lex. I've added my phenomenal diva ring as well check it out, great site.

What a weekend of revelations amazing stuff. We had a after finals barbie (BBQ/grill). It was so interesting to find out the people who you thought were the most snooty were indeed quite the opposite. Looks like I've added a new member to my circle of friends, we're hooking up for lunch on Wednesday, so more gossiping! It's really fun when you meet someone who you can feel comfortable with esp since the girls have started their new school I have not been able to click when any of the mums and was beginning to feel like there was something wrong with me, because when we were living in Melbourne I had such a huge circle of friends. But then I guess that's the difference between Melbourne and Sydney. Oh how I wish we could go back I miss everything about Melbourne including the cold weather!

Today is really warm considering it's spring but it's like this every year. I remember the year of the olympics the temp reached 35 degrees centigrade but then a week later it dropped back down to 15 and rained the whole time. It was the only time Sydney was actually an interesting place. Most likely because everyone was on their best behaviour partying thru the night & day! It's not normally like this. Oh yes it looks pretty with the beaches and the harbour that's what the tourists see but you have to live here to see it has no soul. Yep zilcho because it relies on it's beauty to sell, a bit like a beautiful woman I guess.

Friday nite we did the opera what a bore that was! Although afterwards I realised how much I enjoyed it, is that a little confusing? Unfortunately operas finish late and Saturday was an early start so when we went to the barbie I got totally trashed because I was so tired! A two drink screamer not like me scary?

Sunday was lovely because I finally got that lie in I so deserve, every other day I'm up a 6am, hate that! I'm a sleeper in the morning never have I been able to sleep in the arvo (afternoon) makes me feel sick and stupid! Just putting in brackets translation for our aussie slang. Golly gee the emails are flowing in real slow today, this must be the quietest day I've ever seen.

I really must get my act together and get my extras done been a wee slack in that department as I have been trying to find a decent template and at last I've managed it!

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