Céline Dion Is Pregnant- with Twins!

Céline Dion's dream to expand her family has come true.

The singer, 42, is pregnant with twins after undergoing her sixth in-vitro fertilization attempt and turning to acupuncture to improve her chances of a pregnancy, her rep Kim Jakwerth confirms.

Dion, mom to 9-year-old son René-Charles, is 14 weeks along. She will find out the gender of the twins next month.

"We're ecstatic," her husband/manager René Angelil tells PEOPLE. "Celine is just hoping for a healthy pregnancy. She was hoping for one baby and the news that we are having two is a double blessing." !"

Some wonderful news from www.people.com !!! :D

This course sure keeps me busy...

Did you know Sydney has about 700 suburbs? No wonder I have no idea where things are. I had to drive someplace today, to an animal shelter, because I have an excursion there this week and I wanted to make sure I'd be able to get there. This involved driving on a motorway, having to go faster than I've ever gone before...and...with my Dad. Talk about scary!!! Not to mention I was already anxious because I hate driving, hate merging, it was a 45 minute trip and I'd just had some coffee. But we survived.
After I got home I started putting together an animal first aid kit for one of my classes. It was kind of cool when I realised that thanks to 21 years of pet ownership and 3 years of living with Opi, we already had all but 2 items in our house! It's awesome and pink and girly, as you can see above.
Tonight I did some of an assignment, starting with a brochure on pet rabbits. I thought that would be easy since I wouldn't need to research it but I think I care too much because I'm pretty sure it's much longer and more in depth than it was supposed to be!!!
Did you also know that there are almost twice as many pets as there are people in Australia? Now that's awesome...

Day 3 of Work Experience..

..Only lasted a few hours. Just restocking, typing up some lab results and stamping a bunch of letters. Only 2 dogs came in and there were no surgeries so I left at about 11.30am. Maybe that's good, I'm very tired and quite emotional at the moment. I'll try not to elaborate. It seems better to wait in silence than let it all explode out. Unfortunately a lot of stress and suppressed emotions can become too much and situations like last night happen. I wish I had patience. I wish there was some positive way to deal with all that's going on.

Thankyou, Google.

I have accomplished nothing this weekend. Why? Because every time I go to use your search engine to look up something for my assignment, I end up playing pacman instead. I didn't even know how to play pacman until yesterday. Now I can't seem to stop, even though my hand hurts quite a bit from it. Ahh.

The Story of Sunbake.

When I was 5 years old, I really wanted a pet. My goldfish (Wanda and William) had both died, and my parents said no. After begging over and over again, I wandered into the backyard and got myself a pet snail. I decided it was a girl and named her Sunbake.
I kept her in a little tank that came with a butterfly catching kit, fed her leaves, played with her, and even took her to school with me. I think I only had her for a few weeks before one day, my year 6 "buddy" decided to squash and kill her. I cried so much that my teacher had to call the priest (Catholic school) to calm me down and tell me she was now buried in the cemetery. I was much too upset after that to get another snail, and didn't have another pet until Pecksie, when I was 8.
I was reminded of this on Wednesday night when I got home from work experience at the Vet, and saw a whole family of snails near our front door. I considered picking them up and moving them out of the way one by one, so they wouldn't get stepped on, but I was exhausted and I figured they'd have moved by the time Matt got home that night. I wish I had, because I found one of them dead the next day. That made me sad.
My current pet wish list includes a dog, a cat, a turtle, and a mouse- none of which I am allowed to have while living in this house. So I decided to irritate my Mother today by announcing that I was getting another snail and she couldn't stop me. She just sighed and said "I'll find the tank for you."

Day 2 of Work Experience.

9 hours- a long day.
There was a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a Maltese, and some kind of Corgi-ish looking thing in for surgery, and one of the nurses cats. I practiced restraint on most of those, helping with blood tests etc. Watched part of a dental.
A lot of cleaning and washing, learned to process an XRay, use autoclave, Pre GA bloods machine and Urine analysis.
Computer data entry and forms. Lab results, blood test forms, admission forms.
Evening consultations were pretty much all dogs with various ailments. There was a Cockatiel and a native Myna bird there too.

Opi's Belated Birthday Celebration.

It wasn't much, just a cake, a song, and a few photos. Here's me and Opi today..sort of like a part 2 to yesterday's entry. :) And yes I know my hair went weird, but Mama didn't think to tell me that before taking the photo.

Opi is home!

Opi came home tonight!! That's good, cause I missed him! We're hoping he won't have to go into hospital again. He decided he wants to die at home, so the palliative care people set up some stuff in our house, he has a wheely chair thingy and a big metal contraption to help him get out of bed. Mama talked to the Doctor more and they confirmed the cancer is stage IV, so it'll all be downhill from here. It's still hard to predict though, whether in his individual case that's going to mean weeks, or months. I know it's not going to be easy, but the most important things rarely are. I'm praying for strength for us all as a family. I finally got to give him his Birthday gift! It was this photo of us, in a frame. (I actually thought I'd already posted it but I can't find it.) He's still a bit confused.. he woke up, looked at me and said "Oh, it's you. Where's the other one? The male one?" That would be Matt, and he's at work. :)

Really...big...dog...

This is just a picture I found. I did not take the photo. In today's class I learned...that I am scared of Great Danes. It kind of figures, since I'm scared of German Shepherds and just about anything bigger. I think it's because a) I've never owned a dog, so I'm still not 100% comfortable with them b) My Grandparents had a German Shepherd, Bach, when I was a kid, and she was nice but she would jump on me in excitement and knock me over, and c) I'm used to animals being small enough that I can just pick them up, and know that if they tried to hurt me or someone else, they couldn't really do much damage. It's annoying because I do like larger animals, like the Great Dane we had in class today, and I don't want to be scared of them! They're so awkwardly big and seem to have a lot of character.. I just feel so nervous around them and I can't help it. I hope experience will make that better. It was weird because the teacher said I really calmed the dog down, her heart rate went a lot slower while I was dealing with her, yet I was not feeling that calm at all. She also suggested I do some horse riding, which is...well...I'd like to try, but I'm scared of horses too.

Day 1 of Work Experience- again.

I started my second round of work experience today. I had already finished it, but it turns out the college I attend did not bother to let us know we'd need to be doing some in the second term in order to complete our assignments...hence...here we go again, at a different clinic this time. Wednesday is a very quiet day for them so there was a lot of talking, learning how things operate, computer systems, admittance, isolation, and surgery procedures, cleaning, a cat that had its nails cut, a Border Collie who needed a paw X Ray and wanted to bite us, and a cat spay. I actually started feeling sick during the cat spay which is weird since I've seen all that before and it wasn't too bad. Hmm. Maybe I just felt sick anyway? My cold is almost gone though. I filled in some microchipping forms, played fetch which I am not so good at lol, and then came home. Anyway, writing notes here helped last time when it came time to sort out assignments, so I'm doing the same this time. And hopefully I'll be able to actually get started on them soon, since I have even more this term than last term. I still have reading to do, and a lot of cleaning, and hopefully Opi will be home on Friday. Dad has to have toe surgery so he's going to be out of action, and Matt does nothing anyway. Oh joy. Wish me energy and luck!

Happy Mothers' Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to all your Mama's out there!!! Especially my own Mama who I admire so much for taking care of Opi and our family the way she does. She and I made Dad watch Celine: Through the Eyes of the World this afternoon, which was great but would've been greater if he didn't keep trying to escape!! ;) My fur babies didn't get me anything for Mothers Day, but that's ok, their love is enough. :D And yes, they do count as children because I get pooped on, peed on, thrown up on, and woken up in the night too... only my babies probably won't grow out of it the way human babies do!

Lunch with the German Relatives...

Today my family and I had lunch with some relatives who are visiting from Germany. They are my (Maternal) Grandmother's sister, her husband, and son. I'd never met them before and they speak no English, so I was a bit nervous about the whole thing, but it turned out to be ok. I restrained myself from reciting for them the few German words I do know (the bad words, of course!) and their son actually can speak English so it wasn't a totally silent or awkward meal after all! It made me sad that Opi is still in hospital and couldn't join us and celebrate his Birthday. It also made me sad that Omi couldn't be there since she passed away 10 years ago. It reminded me today how much I miss her. I only spent a few hours around her sister, but they seemed quite similar in being very emotional, affectionate people. I guess it's Mum's side of the family that I get my over-emotional-ness from! But I already knew that. ;) I was very close to Omi, am very close to Opa and so scared of losing him, and other than that all Mum's side has left in Sydney is Ellie. That's our only extended family. Dad has his siblings and father but I'm not close to them at all. They're just not family oriented the way Mum's side are, despite any distance. Dad's family go years without speaking to one another, they barely seem to care and any interaction with them is always awkward. It sounds bad, but I don't know what to do with that so I just...don't. I guess Omi and Opa set the standard. I hope someday to have my own family with as much love and loyalty. :)
Photo: Me as a child, with Omi.

Bits and Pieces.

Hey...
Ok, busy week. And it's only going to get worse. Our German relatives are going to be here Saturday, Sunday is Mother's Day, and starting next week I have more work experience, this time at the vet that treats my babies! :) It'd be good except I feel like I'm being pulled in all directions by the priorities in my life and I can't let anything down! I'm getting sicker, not better, probably because I'm so stressed out and have absolutely no time or ability to rest.
Tuesday's class we did some practical lessons with bunnies, which was awesome, and some stuff about nutrition which was pretty easy for me thank goodness, with the Food Tech background. Today we met our new teacher for Thursday classes which was interesting.
Opi's back in hospital for some tests, he hasn't been so well, and today is his 76th Birthday. I didn't even get to see him which is hard, I miss him and I usually always see him on his Birthday. *Sigh.* Life is mean.
I just watched the final episode of the Price of Beauty. It was strange for a minute, seeing Jess so emotional. She really did a good thing with this show.
An observation from today..it's International No Diet Day and there were posters and balloons and fundraisers for Eating Disorder charities all around campus. I think it's kind of cool that people are raising more awareness and not being so ashamed to discuss it. A strange moment of thought...in class today we were looking at some pics of abused animals and there were some photos of malnourished dogs and horses...everyone was like OMG that's so awful...and I was thinking, why can people recognize so easily that it's awful when animals are starving, yet if they see a human looking like that, they think it's beauty? It was just a moment that highlighted to me how twisted and unnatural our culture is. But anyway, feel free to ignore my randomness lol.

Decide, immune system!

...And the cycle continues, of me almost getting sick, then better, almost sick, then better. It's very annoying. I'm not sick enough to justify a day off spent in bed, but sick enough to feel like sh*t as I try to go about my day. I probably shouldn't have gone to work though, it's very difficult to serve customers food when you desperately need a tissue! If I were a man, I'm sure I would be in my rocking chair watching cartoons by now, but being a female, there are dishes and laundry and groceries to do and people to take care of. Oh well. Lets just hope I get some more energy soon because looking at my calender the rest of this term is going to be pretty full on!!

I thought this was too hilarious to not post!!

The Anniversary of their Sex

Today is a very, very special today. It’s one of the most precious days of all f-cking time. Can you hear the doves? They are singing and fluttering and our hearts should be soaring with the memory and the love and the joy of the memory of the love and the passion of the soul and the miracle of the life.

Who?

WHO ELSE TALKS LIKE THIS?

It’s La Grande Cheese. It’s Celine Dion. And today is April 30th. And you know what April 30th is?

April 30th is the Anniversary of their Sex.

It’s the first time she and Rene Angelil had sex. And how do we know this?

BECAUSE SHE TOLD US.

Before we begin, I need you to steel yourself. Because you might overdose on the cheese and the sick. It’s very possible. But if you can get through the nausea, I promise you there’s a reward at the end of it. The most amazing f-cking sh-t you will ever read. It’ll be your favourite thing for days. I promise. I challenge you to get through this without covering your face.

You ready? Fontrum!

This is the story of the Anniversary of their Sex:

"It was in Dublin, on that unforgettable day of April 30, 1988, the evening of the Eurovision competition. He went back to my room with me ... I was seated at the head of the bed, legs folded under the covers. I was happy about being alone with the man I loved. And I had a very precise plan. I took his head in my hands and I kissed him on the lips. I put my arms around his neck ... He held me tight, the door still open behind him. Then he removed my arms. He fled to his room. I stayed there for a moment all alone, my heart beating — trembling and dumbfounded. I knew that I’d won. The flight was an admission of it. I grabbed the telephone and called his room to tell him: 'If you don’t come back here immediately, I’m going to knock on your door.' But there was no answer. It was he who called me several minutes later from the lobby of the hotel. To ask if I was all right. And then he told me: 'If you really want to, I’ll be the first.' And I answered him: 'You’ll be the first. And the only.'"

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