What is there left to do but work? I know. I can't think of anything either. Blast.

I could tell you, but then, I am a guy - so you can guess what it would be about. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Of course, when everything is paid for, you can travel. Maybe you could go clear around the lake, and back. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Neak,
are you back to full good health?
I mean, as well as a mother of small children can hope to be?

Cinders,
Go ahead and tell us what happened, we'll then disect it like we did T&L's dream. It might not be accurate, but it will be fun.

Did CC reunite with her H?
She's pretty quiet these days.

SS

Health is improved, but it's too hot to know if I'm actually back to full strength, such as that is.

Mom, you're stuck with the stick. It's all Grandpa's fault.

It was AJ's idea to give you his car anyway. Just be sure you pull the window up firmly before you go in. Maybe if somebody breaks the window the insurance will pay to have it fixed.

Last night we went to Taco Bell Tuesday. Of course, since the set of keys that has the door key to my car went missing when I got sick, I have not been locking it. Well, Grandpa decided to be helpful.

So my car is still in Ione, sitting in front of the church. Neaksis had to go to Jackson and therapy today, and didn't want to take the suburban. So lo, you are stuck with the Mustang. If you want to trade me at some point for the suburban, that is fine, now that I am done with my errands.

Also, AJ just called me up to see if there was any way I could team this load with him, so he could be back before Friday night. I have not gotten ahold of Neaksis yet to see if this is doable. If I go, there will be lots of extra cars around.

(That are not stick.)

Sometimes I just sit here with my mouth open, and don't know what to say.
SS finally closes mouth. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I drive an old car, and don't lock it. Not worth stealing, nothing in it to take. The jumper cables in the trunk might be worth more than the car. You can't open the trunk without the key, so they are safe.

Take the surburban, or drive the stick. What a choice.
Of course, you can always just go back to bed, and sleep it off.
# 2 son lived in Guatemala for a while, and worked with the natives in some of the more isolated vilages. When he came home he had no patience with us when we complained about things. He would say something like "You get to ride, and you're STILL NOT HAPPY???"

Yeah, I know, you would make a poor pioneer women.
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

SS

Hmm-m-m-m-m. Do I want to be hung or shot? Life is always SO much better when I have options. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Hey guys! I'm around but I seem to be busy... not sure why. Still in plan B otherwise I'll update my OWN thread! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

How insular. How provincial. How selfish!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> to you too!

t&l

P.S. How's it looking for August. The Tidiness Fairy is getting nervous... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Besides, even if you can't come to CA, it would be easier to ship your shirt to somewhere in the continental US than out-of-country.

CC's trying to be polite. You should encourage her. It's always so nice to communicate with people who have manners.

Unlike most grandchildren. (speaking or mine, of course.)

What does T&L usually drive, and why can't you drive it?

SS

Very nice, CC. It IS very nice to communicate with someone with manners. (I do not do this very often, and I include myself in that. I may have had manners at one time.) I hope you can come visit. I will even help clean. Mom says she should have named me Missed Manners. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Mom usually drives the van. It is in the shop, and Neaksis' car goes in tomorrow when the van comes out, so we will still be down a car. And Mom does not like to drive stick. Or big. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />


Picky, picky, picky. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

If cc was trying to be polite, she wouldn't have used all those <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> emoticons, and stuck her tongue out at us a bunch of times. Maybe <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> is Spanish for "hello" but otherwise I think it meant the same thing as when I repeated it to her in English! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I don't like driving stick shift any more. Too much leg work. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Besides, I can slide out of the van. The Mustang is short and squatty, and I have to hoist up to get out.

I played a joke on Neaksis. I can't decide whether or not to tell everybody, or to wait and see if I can play it on Neak, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> It was the most fun I've had all week.

t&l

I do SO like to drive big. It's the only way I'm ever tall enough to see what's going on! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Note to self - if T&L ever comes to visit us, let her drive the surburban so she can see what's going on.

Look out Neak, she's gunning for you.

Everyone at the AW house must be sleeping now. Maybe even Mikey. (If they are lucky.)

CC, busy at work must be good. I'll wait for the update.

SS

Yes guys, I am busy <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="" />

Don't really know doing what but I'm nearly, nearly on holidays <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="" /> so I don't take much seriously. Next week I'll be in Guatemala (1 whole day air trip) to give a 10 minute talk!!!!!!!

The good thing is that I'm there for 3 days plus the trip to a fro I don't come to work until the following monday!

Then 10 days later I'm off to USA, CONTINENTAL USA <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="" /> so that t&l can send me the t-shirt because I think it's a little crazy to go to California.

I don't really have that much time, because the wedding is 2 weeks later and then we travel to Miami for a week.

I'll give you the addresses later t&l.

In the meantime I am peaceful, too peaceful maybe. But I'll worry about that later.

Work is peaceful, life at home is fun. The girls seem to have settled down to this new lifestyle and are now usually cheerful, surrounded by friends who drop in all the time. They seem to be doing well in their studies.

I don't know much about their relationship with WH. He still sees them once a week, they don't talk much about it, but they have more control over their lives and when and if they want to see him.

So that's all. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Not as exciting as the crash against the gate or cinderella in the nude or t&l driving shift! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Nah, no way!!!! I was not in the nude! It just looked like it.

So you say, Cinderella, but you STILL haven't showed us any pictures. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Forgot to take camera w/ me. Stopped at store and bought throw-away. Haven't had film processed. Don't have pictures. You'll have to take my word for it.

[color:"purple"]Are you sure you want me to make them available? [/color]
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

[color:"blue"] Because, if I do, everyone else must make their photo available....and in the photo, you must be clad in your underwear! [/color]
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[color:"red"] And, YOU MUST go first! If you aren't brave enough to go first, I don't have to accept your dare!!! [/color]
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

hi cc good to hear from you!! Hi neak & tl and ss and rella!!

Been a bad momma tonight, had to go shopping and spent some money on Mikey for clothes and bought son socks to send him from the wool mill and I got dd some very cute jumpers and lay by a lot of toys for Mikey for Xmas, can you believe the cost of basic little toys for toddlers these days??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
Oh and also got son a all weather wool jacket,,, well its cold in Canberra. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
But after all that I didin't buy any food to cook for dinner so I got takeaway chinese which is yummy!! Veges in Oyster sauce and fried rice and chicken with crab meat sauce which is one of Aussies fav and just guess who has discovered that one ?? Mt DD's Jonnie <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> see we've stolen him already lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Oh did I forget to tell you he flew back early this morning to be with dd?? I'm getting a bit vague in my old age .... cripes did I remember to tell mum he was arriving today?
oh well when she arrives in the next half hour as Dad goes to work will SHE be surprised!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> oops

I can't wait until the weekend to begin the enclose the patio. I hope none of you can actually listen in though I seem to have been infected with Aussies potty mouth when building things go wrong <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I actually shocked my mum , rather proud of myself <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.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="" /> Oh I shouldn't have said that should I <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Um, yeah, you probably shouldn't have said that if she was coming on here later today. Believe me, we won't be able to bury it deep enough to save you in that length of time.

You remind me of Tim "The Toolman" Taylor from Home Improvement. More concrete! More bricks! Let's wire something! (If you haven't learned to channel electricity yet, that might be something to work on and surprise Aussie.)

I want a stick shift... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

And a dye job... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

And chin lipo... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Vroom. Vroom. Vroo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oom!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

hello tl and Neak

and oh yes is AW ever busted - and if you heard what she said YOU would have fallen over in shock too!!
<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/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

While we are wishing -

I want my body at 25 back please <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> along with all I know now!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

however I have no need to punish AW for being so cheeky -- Michael has decided to vomit all over her and the poor little man is not a happy chap. Never should have let him interact with the rabble at the play group - full of bugs and nasties. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
oh there he goes again - yuck <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I could give you a full colour description however I'm sure you are more than acquainted with baby spit over the years, however if you want ???????? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

oh well nanna just cant stand to see him distressed I'll see if AW wants help to clean the darling up. Actually he looks quite a bit better after that last little spit. I suspect it's my mere presence of course that has improved the situation. <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="" />

nanna magic <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="" />

TL ask my GD how is the dress fitting going? She ignores MY hints <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="" />