Now kids, play nice. (Or I'll spank NCW.)

~snicker~ <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


What do German chickens eat?
A Diet of Worms.

What do roosters use to fasten their shoes?
Vel-crow.

Chicken Christmas carols:

In the Beak Midwinter
Scratching in a Winter Wonderland
Jolly Old Saint Nicrowlaus
I Saw Mommy Pecking Santa Claus

SS, at least on my end things are headed in the right direction, as of the last day or so. Ir remains to keep climbing. Thank you.

Neak you have a message from my mum...

"I'm watching" scary isn't it? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

but I am pleased things have moved ahead for you on that end of things <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

We lost a SAS soldier and his pilot yesterday with another 7 injured on the very task Aussie was being considered for however another team went. My blessings are many, I won't question them for there but for the Grace of God.. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
My heart & my prayers go out to the families.

well something far more lighthearted & humorous ...today I was reading with a girlfriend at work a book she brought in ..How to kill your husband (and other handy household hints)by Kathy Lette.
It is so funny I just about cracked a rib. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

So nc, would you like a beer? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.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="" />

The world may not have peace, but we can have peace in our hearts anyway.

Isn't it wonderful.

I'm glad Aussie is at home. I realize it is sometimes necessary for some to be in harms way. I am thankful they are willing to sacrifice to proptect the rest of us.

I think it was Neak that pointed out that the world won't have peace until the Savior comes. I know that is true, but I pray for peace anyway. Perhaps some will turn to God, and change for the better.

Cinders is quiet about her trip to the far kingdom. I'm not sure if that is good or bad.

CC,
It was good to see you back, even if only for a little while. Any changes on the job front?

Thanks to those who have lightened our days with humor. I have enjoyed the jokes. We are busy at work - being in retail as we are. It's hard to comment sometimes, but I nearly everything.

Neak,
Our daily lives - - the way we spend our time....... gives insight into how we are doing. I doubt your first choice would be to be driving truck.

The nature of the test we are participating in requires that we cope with things we would usually not choose to do on our own.
Even though trials can be turned to our good, God says "wo unto those by whom they come." In the case of child molesters, he says it would be better that they be drowned in the depts of the sea - I am sure you know the quote.

I don't worry about you in the sense that you might be lost to God. That is far more serious than the discomfort you are going through, but it is not my worry, because your heart is turned to God, and you want to do his will.

I am concerned about the circumstances of your life preventing you from reaching the goals you have as a wife, and as a mother.

I am concerned for your mother too - though I think it may make her uncomfortable. She has written (early on this thread) that her marriage is not all that it could be. I would like to see it become what it can, and what it should be. I would also like to see her health improve, her stress level drop a few notches.

I don't worry much about the Dervish. If he lives into adult hood, I think he'll do fine. (Says SS with a chuckle) No, I think he'll be fine. By the time I turned 19 and left home, I had broken both my arms, (not at the same time) and the scars are so many that I could write a book. God must love boys a lot - you can tell by the way so many of them grow up and lead nearly normal lives.

Also, I want your marriage to continue to improve, and your H to be the man God wants him to be. For many men, including myself, that is difficult. I hope he is progressing, and helping you the way you ought to be helped.

I could say more - including things about Neaksis, but since she seems to be shy, I won't put her in the spotlight. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


SS

hello SS & Neak & TL (I know you are peeking!)

It is so wonderful to have Aussie home for a Xmas for once however its 3.20am and SOMEONE came home from his work and woke his son up because he hadn't seen him for 20 whole hours! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
but guess who has TO GET HIM BACK TO SLEEP <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

But after 10 mins he is asleep, Mikey is WIDE awake and I'm exhausted.

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

Figures. Men! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

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

You have to train him better than that.

Get a cast iron frying pan, and hit him over the head with it when he comes in the door.

Do it again the next night, and the next....... until he starts coming in the back door and sneaking into bed quietly.

I know that probably wouldn't work, but it's fun to talk about it.

You can always tell your Mum, and let her train him. She has had more experience.

Or you can call Mrs SS, and talk to her. I'm the boss at my house, and I have her permission to say that.

SS

To take down someone trained in combat, they would probably be better off if they each had a frying pan. One could be the decoy, while the other one sneaked up behind.

final post for the night .. I mean morning? 4.35am and Mikeys asleep at last ..I'm off to bed

Only 3 hours to go before I have to get up.. what fun <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Neak said:
Figures. Men!

Oh, how right you are Neak. I would never do that myself, but it's only recently that I have started to "get it." Day before yeasterday, or maybe last night??

I'll improve even more too.......... soon...........


SS

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

Figures. Men!

You know what that is?

That is the female equivalent of when we say "Yes, dear."

So strange - a group of beings that aren't happy unless we are "like them."

Well I, for one, am glad you are not "like me."

Geez. All the pubic hairs you would shed everywhere would give me the willies.

NCW ROTFLMAO ... well yes its that of course but a WHOLE lot more .. girl thing. lol

Nice to hear from you though.

I got up at 7.00 prepared the masters breaky and took some in to Aussie with a cuppa
He lazily looked up at me and said he thought he would sleep in for a while. So the temptation to 'accidently' drop it alkl over him was briskly defeated with a smile <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Oh you mean SLEEP IN <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> well I was half asleep wasn't I.

DD by this time was happily taking her little brother off to play group ... she says for 'practice' <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> .. poor dad is NOT coping well with that kind of talk he'd rather think of immaculate conceptions as far as his princess goes. That evil grin she wore going out the door after pushing daddys buttons didn't come from my side of the family <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/pfft.gif" alt="" />

So, I haven't said enough about the diplomatic mission?

When I left work right before the trip, I was dreadfully behind. But I TRULY needed the break.

Found out a few hours before I got on the plane that I have 2 bad discs and am developing some bone spurs in my neck. The chiropractor's goal is to keep me from having surgery just as long as they can. So, I continue to get my adjustments. And, when necessary, I can have a trigger point injection/s.

Bought the gear to train for walking the half-marathon this spring. Came home wondering if the neck thing would prevent me from participating. After I bought 300$ in gear and paid 100$ for training program.

Will it prevent me from continuing to hoop?

On Monday, I have an MRI, psychiatrist appt (lovely to have ADD and a family history of depression), and my physical. I know they will fuss about my weight (can be a side effect of the meds for the above) and my cholesterol (lovely family history). Last few times someone took my blood pressure, it was higher than usual (could be side effect).

Did I mention, I have a bladder infection. (That won't help the labwork on Monday).

Cinders,
I hope you can get it all fixed in time.

Last time I went to my doc, he told me that the there wasn't much they could do for some things. Not till the
resurrection anyway. He was nice about it, and smiled a lot though.

No, not enough about the diplomatic mission. We want details -

Hope you get more sleep tonight AW.

I'm still waiting for Aussie to come here and explain why he isn't talking more - I still think he knows better.

SS

Since it's almost the weekend, and you started the chicken jokes -

QUESTION: Why did the chicken cross the road?

KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side.

PLATO: For the greater good.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.

KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.

TIMOTHY LEARY: Because that's the only trip the establishment would let it take.

SADDAM HUSSEIN: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

RONALD REAGAN: I forget.

CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

HIPPOCRATES: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.

ANDERSEN CONSULTING: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM). Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens, along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry, to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was the solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road". And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?

RICHARD M NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.

MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.

JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?"

FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook.

OLIVER STONE: The question is not, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Rather, it is, "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"

DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.

EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road it transcended it.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die.In the rain.

COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one.

HILARY CLINTON: It's a Right "Wing" conspiracy.

THE WEATHER CHANNEL: El Niño is responsible for altering the regular North American migratory patterns of chickens, thus causing the chicken here in question to cross the road contrary to normal behavioral trends.

THE SIERRA CLUB: The inaction on the part of Congressional Republicans to proactively engage the issue of Global Warming and to forge a bi-partisan coalition to resolve the dangers associated with worldwide climatic changes is responsible for the chicken forsaking its natural habitat for the opposite side of the unnatural, immoral, man-made roadway. Furthermore, the Sierra Club wishes to formally petition responsible members of government to officially designate this particular stretch of road as "Endangered Chicken-crossing Habitat" and permanently restrict public access to this region.

AL GORE : I was there helping the Chicken - to make sure it got across the road safely.

GEORGE W. BUSH: I want everyone to know that [censored] Cheney and I have a much, much, better foreign policy than the chicken.


End -
SS

Too bad, so sad!

I typed a whole post about the Diplomatic Mission and it got eaten. Just use your imagination.

Cinders

we STILL want the details ... just type in word first and copy to here.. I do that a lot in larger posts because it tends to drop out every now & then... ummm like this one <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

SS .. what to say. At times it feels like a reverse entitlement yet I don't think its entirely so. I suspect its more that I am so sware more these days and he is less so.
He is very very focused on training and though of course not knowing what they are doing it seems to be something being practiced over & over .. and not working out well. I dont want to delve into what that indicates, one day at a time.

I just want one Christmas where all my family is together damn it.

Aussies brother had his birthday yesterday which they celebtated this morning by both of them running 35km to Cockburn Sound and back along the beach ... it just so happens that there is a nudest beach mainly populated by young women as chance would have it on that little tour <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> My sis in law and I just went " MEN!" & <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="" />

And its my daughters Birthday today!! She has a terribly wicked sense of humour. As she 'swaned' around the house after her dad's little run with his brother she casually said "Good to see a granddad so fit isn't it mum?" Her poor dad just about choked on his coffee ... it went everywhere ..lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
The rest of us thought it was very funny, even my dad who MIRACLES of miracles actually turned up to say Happy birthday to his Granddaughter.His comment to Aussie was .."Revenge is sweet son!" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

and just to clear up that point .. no shes not prego <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Do you think I should get her dad the book "My Baby's having a baby" for Christmas? hehehehehehehehe

*wiping tears of laughter and thinking of chickens*

There was a chicken at our living nativity tonight.

It was hilarious, and I only wish I had video. The living nativity, not so much the chicken.

It was put on by the children, and they inspired many new takes on old Christmas favorites, "O Twitchy Town of Bethlehem" and "While Shepherds Tossed Their Flocks by Night", to name two.

And I made Neaksis laugh till she cried when, upon looking at the Dervish in his sheep-herder costume making monkey faces while bouncing up and down in a squatting position, I told her we should call him Simian the Shepherd.

I slay myself! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

There was also a live pony and a dog. People actually stopped to let their children visit. In spite of the still-costumed Simian jumping up and down the steps two at a time, bell-shaped robe swaying to keep time. (It acted like a hoop skirt because Dad had him wear his - Dad's - quilted vest under it to keep him warm.)

And I was shocked earlier in the day when Dad called to tell me that my pumpkin pie efforts (old family recipe from his side of the family) were my best yet. I would have been more thrilled, had this not been the first year I broke down and used store-bought crusts since I was gone trucking till the night before. And that was the only change from how I ALWAYS MAKE IT!!!!!!

So he meant it very nicely, but what I couldn't help hearing was, "With your awful crusts out of the way, your pie was nearly edible."

LOL!

We cannot all be pastry chefs.