Yeah, I think that would be a good plan. Who will email the Harleys with the proposal?

I thought you were quoting back to me something I'd said in the past. It just had a familiar ring to it. If you weren't, then I abjectly apologize to whoever I just called a dope! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

So nice that you could enjoy your DD's musical talents. For a parent, those performances are such satisfying compensations for all the music lessons, and nagging to practice, and screechy/scratchy novice musicality that have gone before. I remember when my kids got big enough to play real music with me...how much fun that was! And my dad still comes up to me after church and tells me how much he enjoys listening to me play, and that he's glad I'm glad he made me practice...to the point of sitting at the piano bench during my practice time (so I couldn't escape like HE did as a child) and holding a big cardboard shield over my hands so I'd learn to play by touch and not have to look at the keys all the time. Well, it wasn't that much fun back then, especially when all the little kids in the mission apartments were learning the Indian War Dance at the same time ( <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />), but listening to your no-longer-little-darlings, as big guys, doing well what they once couldn't do at all, is a treat so special it should be bottled and sold! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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A. Nony Mous. He's brave enough for anything!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

D & S dropped by, with their dad and their niece.

(X who had elementary school aged children married a grandmother. Now he has adult stepchildren, his 2 teenagers [almost], and 2.6 grandchildren.)

S and x fixed my mailbox which was battered to death by someone who apparently had a lot of fun w/ a baseball bat (after post had been damaged a bit by someone who hit it w/ their front fender - looks ok but mailbox is angled a bit.)

So, d, the niece, and I watched part of Master of Disquise while the guys worked outside. The niece gave me a hug when they left which is more than teenaged daughter did. That was cool!

Then I slept all afternoon. And, guess what had happened while I slept!


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We had slipped to the second page.

Send over the chef! I need food!!! NOW!!!!

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I wish I slept all afternoon! However, it's 5:30PM now and I'm on my way to bed for the night, so it's not all bad! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Tomorrow night I'll get to welcome in the new year at work. At least labor and delivery is more fun to work New Year's Eve than the emergency room! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> And since I'm working in Turlock this year, instead of Stockton, I don't have to worry about my vehicle windows being shot out again by one of the people with guns who celebrate each new year at midnight by a burst of gunfire so extensive that it sounds like 4th of July fire crackers. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Sweet dreams to me, may the owls in the attic be quiet tonight! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

T&L - Would you believe that we can't go out on the street on New Year's Eve? The idiots up on the hill fire guns into the air, and the bullets come down HERE. Last year there were two flattened bullets by my house. One put a hole in my awning. I think I MIGHT move to Montana.

I was tl , then I REALISED I had given the same advice to others !!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

oh well the advice is still good ........ I will TRY to even follow it ... but its so hard. I want to reach out and shake the men of my family and tell them to GET OUT of the Army.

BUT, the but, is that they wont for now.

You know, my secret nightmare is losing them all one after the other and my DD & I just helplessly watching. But it's just a nightmare not reality & God willing never will be.
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I never really pushed her to the music tl, that was Aussies thing to encourage her interest. While I love many types of music I have sadly not a musical bone in my body.
Aussie on the other hand, according to his dad because God forbid that he ever tell me, used to play the guitar and clarinet and - get ready for it - the bagpipes in cadets at school. That was before he started playing with guns and knives and things that go bang in the night <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Our DS thinks music started with Cold Chisel because his dad likes it and ends with Eminem and Missy Higgins [thinks shes a hot bit <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />] oh the Dixie Chicks are acceptable too for OBVIOUS reasons <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

But I love to listen to her play or sing because she does it for fun , pure fun, or sometimes to express her feelings & it never hurts to be able to do something more than your chosen career.

Oh got the disk from last night so I'll try to copy to the pc ..the bloke from the choir told me they have been converted to MP3 for me so hopefully neak can send them on to you ok. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

B thats hard to accept in a townsite!! I mean we have had some wild New Years over the years in some wild places but not people firing guns at us ... well not me & the kids.

I have the perfect solution .... those who fire guns near you get drafted into the Army/Marines whatever and can go to Iraq if they are so eager!!

I'm sure some reservists would be happy to let them go <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Are you going to go out or do anthing B?

Also, Neak, when you get Aw's DD's mp3s, send them my way please <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I'd love to hear them! Ciao bellas.

Gun fire here, too. Last year we found a hole in the top of ds's truck.

This year, we are solving that problem. We going to a friend who lives near the firing range. The sane people will be in there house, so it should be quiet.

There is a burning ban in Texas and a 500.00 fine for shooting fireworks.

Of course there is no fine for selling them.

Makes no sense

AW - Nope, not going out. For the last 24 years, since I was stuck with kids, I have made it my mission to babysit my neighbors and friends kids. We have a HUGE party that lasts until they all fall asleep, sometimes 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.

well, time for me to start heading to bed. Can you sleep too much when you are trying to get well?

Emptied and loaded the dishwasher - first time since children left Sunday. It's not full. That tells you how little I have cooked, etc, in nearly a week. Self-care is not my strongest trait.

Guess the sun is up today. Probably should head to the grocery store.

Shopping list:

Stop at Target for some of those sinus clearing bath salts

Turnip Greens (son will eat)

Black eyed peas (I will eat)

Egg Nogg (children will drink)

Milk (what we have is old - yucky headed woman hasn't been drinking it)

Tums (alternative calcium source)

Maybe steak to grill tomorrow night if children aren't fed before coming home from their dad's

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I actually heard the gunfire that shattered my van windows. I just didn't know it at the time. We opened the department windows on the 3rd floor at midnight so I could listen to the gunfire, which was quite impressive to me, given that this was the first year I worked there and I had no idea that this barrage of bullets was the "in" thing. It wasn't till I went out to go home in the morning that I found that someone had shot through the 2 rear windows of the van and shattered both of them. Happy New Year! Welcome to Stockton! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Kind of a chilly ride home, it was. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

hi tl & neak crew

lost internet for 8 hours today ..what a buggar was supposed to email the relees in the East for New Years ... had to leave message bank voice mail - very old fashioned ..lol

just got back from the dogs..we came home early & missed the fireworks as DS was not feeling well - self inflicted irish overdose dad would be proud <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> -

so we have 20 mins until the New Year WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO hello 2006 got to be better than 2005 <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I was wondering if we would make it home before he barfed in the car or not ... we did ... ah boys ..what would we do without them???? oh well no harm done & I would rather he got tanked here than out driving somewhere.

The 'OTHERWOMAN' was that red dress beauty with the big eyes, at least he has taste and she is rather nice - worse luck! - oops did I write that??
just keep repeating to myself "mummy let go, mummy let go"

The gunfire thing I thing is over doing it especially near a hopsital - do I hear banjo's & a guitar ??? lol

B sorry I did not anser you but I lost the web for about 8 hours today.

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Oh no! No web for 8 hours??????

I nearly died B !!!! lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

oh by the way

HAPPY NEW YEAR from the antipodes <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Thanks AW - it's almost 9:00AM here, so we have 15 more hours till the New Year. Actually this has been a very good year for me, and I hate to see it go.

Hope everything is well with you.

On the war thing, I've been meaning to tell you about a show I saw on TV. It was before the war in Afghanistan, just when there was a possibility of one. They interviewed a teacher, and it was soooooo sad. She said that she and her students had been running from place to place to avoid the guerillas (or whatever they were). She said they had no food, no life, and would be relieved if they just got bombed into oblivion.

I often think of her, and hope that things are better for the people there. When you are missing your soldier, think about how much the people there have been suffering for years.