a fifo wife {a fifo wife: tell me again}

Tell me again what we are doing this for? Happiness, stability, security, to be able to retire by the time we {fifo husband} is forty? No. Its paris. Paris Paris Paris. I want to to go.. well… I have been yes I have been and I loved it. Fifo husband loved it and I want too go again. For awhile and by that I mean months maybe a year. I want to take my kids there to attend school so they can have french school lunches….lol..

Its been my dream since we went back in 2004…oh that seems so long ago….thats a lifetime ago. That was my self indulgent dream for me and now what I want for us is to be the first one to show my boys the world…thats my plan..I want to show them the world. Good and bad. It will happen. I know it will happen but in the mean time I sit and look at pictures like these and imagine myself there. Imagine my boys there. Imagine fifo husband and I there. It will happen and I cant wait.

xxDeb

 

 

 

a fifo wife {a fifo life: wants and needs}

My husband called me last night at 1130pm in a bit of a fluff. We discussed what was on his mind. It was something I had written in a email and he had read it over and over again. Twisting and turning the words as you do when all you have too do is work, watch movies and think. Why I dont learn my lesson and quite with the email and use the phone I dont know. Well I do know its because the email is then and now when I need it. The phone I have to wait for him to call.

Do you need me to come home he said? No, why I asked. Your email (sent and written SEVEN days ago) you sound like your angry with me that ‘we’ are in trouble. Ummm no not at all if anything I was apologiesing for the bad mood I was in when you called? How he got that from my email Im not sure but instead of ranting and raving we went through everything again. Yep I was angry not at you but the situation I was in and I was behaving like a selfish pittying git making life difficult for myself and now Im good I said. A bit bi polar of me but I built a bridge I sucked it up and here we are back to the swing of things. It happens every now and then. Its allowed to happen. Im okay that it happened. We are good. Yes I will tell you when we are not good and no Im not the slightest bit angry with you. Nor was I really ever. No there is no one else. No I have never cheated on you and yes I will tell you if I have the slighest inclination too. We are good. All good. I love you more than the day I married you.

Are you sure he said. Im not the brightest ball in the bunch he said. I hate it when he says that. I hate it becasue his lack of confidence in himself is courtsey of his mother and its not required. He wouldnt have done what he has done if he wasnt bright. I wouldnt have dated him let alone married him if that was so.

This conversation will pop every six months or so. Its more likely to occur when someone elses marriage is crumbling before there eyes and they just cant work out why or when a wife has asked for a divorce when there husband is 600 kilometers out to sea because she is to gutless or afraid Im never sure which to do it when he is home. It can be frustrating but patience is all thats required he after all is stuck out there. It doesnt help though that we share different views on sex and whats deemed as a acceptable. It plays on his mind a little and I get that but when your married I think you play by what your partner deems as acceptable. I dont think he fully understands how okay Iam with this lifestyle even after 13 years. I really do believe you want to make good money you got to go work for it. Its as simple as that. You suffer the ups and downs to get that said amount of money it really is that simple.

So do you need me to come home he asked again. I was getting a little frustrated it was 1236am at this point we then went through this fifo gig and how its ‘effecting’ me. I appreciate the concern but Im all good. We are all good. I couldnt have said that two years ago when every one should have been asking but now Im good.  We are good. I didnt relaise there was a problem with us. With me maybe but not us. I know now when I need to get my crap together. I know when to ask for help and now is not that time. I like the concern he now has. Im not sure many husbands do that. I appreciate that. I really, really do but at 1236am?

Look baby I said I want you to come home but I dont need you to come home..understand? I want you home but I dont need you to be here. Not right now. Right now we are good. Perhaps harsh but true. Yep understand he said. Im not sure how he feels about that or if he really does get it. Im hoping so. Im hoping that he is kind of proud at that fact. Im hoping.

xxDeb

a fifo wife {recipe: sesame peanut noodles}

My boys LOVE this recipe so its a regular addition to or menu plan..so easy to make and quick. Great hot or cold..

This recipe is courtesy of Nigella.

Sesame peanut noodles…

Ingredients:

FOR THE DRESSING:

  • 1 x 15ml tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1 x 15ml tablespoon garlic oil
  • 1 x 15ml tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 x 15ml tablespoons sweet chilli sauce
  • 100g smooth peanut butter
  • 2 x 15ml tablespoons lime juice

FOR THE SALAD:

  • 125g snow peas (I use beans if I cant get snow peas)
  • 150g beansprouts, rinsed
  • 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into small strips
  • 2 spring onions, finely sliced
  • 2 x 275g packets or 550g ready-prepared egg noodles
  • 20g sesame seeds
  • 4 x 15ml tablespoons chopped fresh coriander

Serves:  8

How to:

  1. Whisk together all the dressing ingredients in a bowl or jug.
  2. Put the snow peas, beansprouts, red pepper strips, sliced spring onions and the noodles into a bowl.
  3. Pour the dressing over them and mix thoroughly to coat everything well.
  4. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds and chopped coriander and pack up as needed.

a fifo wife {me: indulgences and eyebrows}

I’m off to the ‘spa therapist’ that’s the correct term these days for what I use to call the beautician..I feel so old right now.

I’m off to get my eye brows done by a ‘professional’ its the only thing I didn’t let go of when I moved to the country and had kids. I may not have time to wash my hair every night or shave my legs when they really need to be done…after all a pony tail and pair of jeans can hide that dilemma but I always get my brows and eyelashes done every six weeks waxed and tinted.

I tried to do them myself when I first arrived here and after I had the kids. I followed advice from various websites, magazines etc but it was a disaster. I was either lopsided, looked like a raccoon or had developed the dreaded ocd of ‘brow shaping’. Now I leave it to the ‘professionals’ its easier…a little pricey but hey its my only real indulgence.

I’m blessed with what I deem damn good eyelashes and ala eyebrows. Think Liz Taylor and Sophia Loren. Its the only thing I can deem damn good about of this little body of mine and so I’m gonna flaunt it…lol.

I feel ‘pretty’ with them done. Its one of my best attributes.

Whats yours best attribute? Whats your little indulgence?

xxD