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Neak #1374879 07/01/06 10:30 AM
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Happy Birthday my love <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


Happily recovered!and Happily Married :0)

Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:3
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Ahhhhhh, AJ - you are so sweet.

Happy Birthday Neak.

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Hi young Neak!!

AW would answer you but she's right out of it as of about 5 mins or so ago. Just closed her eyes and and that was it, dead to the world. Worked very hard today and is exhausted.

I do so wish you a happy birthday, however I guess she was making some smart comment as well because she wouldn't let me see the final email to you <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
You young people you. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

tl keep an eye on these two! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Now all together please - chords here
Happy Birthday chords

Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU

Happy Birthday Dear Neak
Happy Birthday to YOU
Hip hip Hooray
Hip hip Hooray


WooHoo <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />


Life may feel as if you are constantly getting kicked on a daily basis, living is about picking yourself up each day and going on and on and on regardless.

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Happy Birthday to you
cha cha cha
Happy Birthday to you
cha cha cha
Happy Birthday Dear NEAK
cha cha cha
Happy Birthday to you
cha cha cha

I had never heard it with the cha-cha-chas in it till my son was in kindergarten.

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Happy Birthday neak - I hope you got some rest.

Hi Rella - I hope your weekend is a good one

Thinking about T&L. She's quiet.
Good quiet, or bad quiet?


Hi AW, and AWM !!

SS


I think sometimes about all the pain in the world. I hope we can ease that here, even if only a little bit.
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I hope you are progrssing. Was thinking about you today. Probalby the same question as for T&L.

Good quiet, or bad quiet?

SS


I think sometimes about all the pain in the world. I hope we can ease that here, even if only a little bit.
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So far, so good. Working on PowerPoint presentation for church tomorrow.

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What's your PPP about, Rella?

SS, I got a nap.

That wasn't loud enough.

I G O T A N A P ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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good evening to ss & rella and the silent tl and the birthday girl NEAK, oh and neaksis and all those wonderful kids!! Do you ever loose track of 'who's is whoms?' (thats an ozite term if you cannot tell) <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="" />

AW was so sore in church she groaned as she knelt and sat and got up - lol it was so funny - some friends of hers who sat next to us 'sniggered' with the obvious inference
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
I swear, when the lot of them get together its like having a bunch of teenagers all over again! Its the adult and near adult children that give them away though <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

tl this is for you - when my GD sung this it was very special. It cut close to the bone for myself though.


Like a freeze-dried rose, you will never be,
What you were, what you were to me in memory.
But if I listen to the dark,
You'll embrace me like a star,
Envelope me, envelope me...
If things get real for me down here,
Promise to take me to before you went away -
If only for a day.
If things get real for me down here,
Promise to take me back to the tune
We played before you went away.

And if I listen to, the sound of white,
Sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light.
Yeah if I listen to, the sound of white ..
You're my mystery. One mystery. My mystery. One mystery.

My silence solidifies,
Until that hollow void erases you,
Erases you so I can't feel at all.
But if I never feel again, at least that nothingness
Will end the painful dream, of you and me...
If things get real for me down here, promise to take me to
Before you went away, if only for a day.
If things get real for me down here, promise to take me back to
The tune we played before you went away.

And if I listen to, the sound of white
Sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light.
Yeah if I listen to, the sound of white
Sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light.
And if I listen to, the sound of white.

I knelt before some strangers face,
I'd never have the courage or belief to trust this place,
But I dropped my head, 'cos it felt like lead,
And I'm sure I felt your fingers through my hair...

And if I listen to, the sound of white sometimes
I hear your smile, and breathe your light.
Yeah if I listen to, the sound of white.
The sound of white,
The sound of white,
The sound of white.


Life may feel as if you are constantly getting kicked on a daily basis, living is about picking yourself up each day and going on and on and on regardless.

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The presentation is a bunch of announcements for the congregation - when baby showers are, when the youth group is doing something, just things the congregation needs to know. I spend all this time doing them but I don't think anyone notices.

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Try using Macromedia Flash for presentations. It is far more exciting than Powerpoint.

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Cross-dressing fashion tips AND computer helps!! You are a man of many parts, Pio. I am impressed. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

t&l

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I have no idea whether it is on the other computer - there are two in the balcony at church....

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Macromedia Flash ?

is that when ya havta run from your humpy to the showers in the nud?

But why would ya be doin it in a church? oh showers out the back I guess <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> makes sense to me.

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We do have showers in the church believe it or not....you would have to run down the stairs from the balcony, through the auditorium or outside along the side of the building, upstairs, down the hall and into the shower room. Since we are on one of the busiest streets in town, this could be dangerous in more ways than one.

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I'm posting this here in addition to Iville because there are some folks here that aren't there very often................

How would you deal w/ this......

(Background - my nephew pled guilty to aggravated sexual battery of my daughter. Since then, I have had no communication from my sister. We are the only siblings. My mom is siding w/ my sister. Says I handled it all wrong. I had no choice as disclosure was made while daughter was in hospital and all alternatives were taken away from me by the 'authorities'. I was not willing to go to jail for discussing it w/ my sister. I have not heard a word from my sister since October. She is manipulative anyway but now appears vindictive. 81yo mom is having surgery today.)

The following is an email exchange between sister and me concerning our mom's surgery.

[color:"blue"](sister's response)If there are complications we will let you know.
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> From: "JaneElise"
> Date: 2006/07/02 Sun PM 05:25:22 EDT
> To: "Ca....a
> Subject: BB
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> I would like to be kept informed on BB’s status according to doctors.
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> She has told me she has cataract surgery scheduled for tomorrow but, other
> than telling me that it is at Baptist, she has not been able to give me any
> particulars though I have asked.
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> Can you provide me with any information?
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> I have offered, on more than one occasion, to take her to some of the
> appointments but have not been given any information as to when my help
> might be needed. I am more than willing to help our mother in any way I
> can.
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> Thanks,
> Jane [/color]

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IMO, you have done what you can by offering.

Clearly, they are cutting you out of their lives. They are not friends of you or your daughter, because they place her rapist at a higher value than her.

I could have understood if they wanted to try and keep the adults in the family together, even if they were only close by phone, and just keep the kids separate, but to cut you off entirely because your daughter had the misfortune to be victimized by their son/grandson shows they are people of poor character.

It sounds as if you are still upset that the hospital folk had to report this. (Not that you blame them, just that you wish you could have handled it yourself.) But really, what happened was the best for your daughter. It is unfortunate that the rest of the family showed their true colors in the manner that they did, but your daughter feels safe, important, and believed. You are her champion, and her hero. Don't regret that for a minute.

Since your sis and mom are unhealthy people for you at this point, you can consider going into Plan B on them. Whether or not you actually send it, I think it would be good for you to write a letter to them as well. "Because you continue to blame the innocent victim in this, and vilify me for bringing the truth out into the open, I choose to no longer have you in my life."

Then focus on your beautiful daughter, who still needs you very much (whether or not she knows it).

Just my .02 <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


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Um, Aussie, there are only sinks in our church. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />


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Neak - thanks for the strength I am now feeling.

I will not send them a plan B letter. I will keep the children separate. I have no hard feelings toward anyone but nephew about what happened. We are all his secondary victims.

If my sister chooses to destroy the family, that is her choice.

I think that, from now on, I will send a monthly update requesting information. She may continue to send me such emails. I will consider contesting my mother's will if it turns out I feel she was unduly influenced by them.

Granted, she is still very much with us - but at 81, who knows how much longer she will last - 6 weeks/16 years. You just never know.

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crikey bet THATS cold in winter then!

from what I remember we dont even have a sink in the cathedral , I think. Ask AW she'll tell you the details of such places more than likely.

AW is bed bound right now with a crook back. Told her not to barrow that cement without a back support but does the woman listen ?
Has done a nerve in the 3rd disk - what a barney to get her to take the anti-inflamatories <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
"I TOLD you I'm ok" while unable to sit or stand, but mum fixed her alright. I always wondered if mum was a child whisperer, you know like them horsey whisperers. Mum did some whispering and she couldn't take them fast enough <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />


I was also going to tell her shes not 20 any more but fear prevented it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

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