I'm here, anyway. School for the Princess starts one week from today.

Princess quote for the day:

I don't feel very hygienic tonight. It was 105 degrees today. This morning, I took the shuttle up the hill from my car to my office. At 11 am, I walked half a mile to my car.At noon, I walked half a mile, uphill, to my office. At 5 pm, I walked back to the car.

Make sure she doesn't pack her lip gloss.

well no school or Uni holidays until first week of October here .. drat! lol

Went to a breakfast meeting this morning at a certain international Hotel ... 100 plus people from Industry & Gov, lots of coffee, breakfast, cakes, blaming <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> ... and way too much talking.
But I found out our state needs 1,000's more mine workers NOW, so many trades people they haven't counted, we (State Gov) need 500 new homes a week to handle immigration increase,..... and we have no way to do it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Oh .... and we are the 11th most expensive place in the WORLD for housing <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

and I have to invent policies to resolve it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I have a SECRET plan ............ I will become a SAHM and do the NIMBY thing when they want to build public housing near me (Not In My Back Yard) like everyone else <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

YIKES!!!! I vote for being a SAHM. I'm ready. Now, I just need a fortune on which to live.

I think I'll shop the ice cream aisle for a day or two. Do we have any requests?

SS

I'm still planning to try to be a SAHM!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

however the bank manager had a turn for the worst after I mentioned it to him and my DD said does that mean we won't being eating meat again <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

SS I would like a double chocolate dipped in ... chocolate please!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I would like a double chocolate dipped in ... chocolate please!!

Ok, coming right up.

I have been partial to strawberry frozen yogurt lately. With chocolate bits in it. Mmmmmmm.

I have no hope at all of being a SAHD. Probably shouldn't even wish it, but I am sorta lazy at times.

I guess we can all dream.

AW, any more news?

Rella, what's the lastest at your house? Are you getting any rest?

Hi Neak !! You are well?

Hi CC !!
Is it close to spring yet?

T&L, did you get enough sleep today?

SS

Don't be silly! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I would've gotten more but I dreamed that a dad got impatient with his wife's labor progress and came out to announce to me that he'd ruptured her bag of waters with his car keys, since nobody seemed to have time to do it the proper way. I went in to the room and put her on the monitor just in time to hear a very slow heart rate--briefly--and then I couldn't find anything else. The implication being, of course, that the head was too high when he popped the bag; the umbilical cord prolapsed when the fluid gushed out and the baby was dying or dead because of compression on the cord, now trapped between the mother's bones and the baby's head. Before I could confirm this with a vaginal exam and a scalp electrode, or call for emergency assistance and a crash C-section, I woke up with a bad headache and a very bad attitude. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Several hours early, too, and I've got no chance of going back to sleep either. Of all the things to have inherited from my mother, that wouldn't have been my pick, if I'd been given a pick to pick. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I'm suffering from terminal lack of ambition, but can't decide what not to do next! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Well, t&l, it's a good thing that was a dream. Sorry you didn't get more sleep.

SS, not getting much more sleep. School has started again. Due to our extremely high temperatures, there are some public schools so hot that some of the peeps are getting sick. And pity the school bus drivers who have no air conditioning in the buses but have to drive them for several hours - filled with shrill, hot children. Therefore, today and yesterday, public schools have had half days. D goes to a public school.

S is having school full days as he is in a private school.

Work stinks for the most part. However, I [color:"red"]'did good'[/color] today. We had a meeting to develop a proposed list of questions to ask other state agencies about the customer service they receive from our division. The goal was 5 usable questions. At the end of the meeting, we had 5 questions - mostly known as the first, second, etc. However, the question I suggested was known as 'J-E's question' and made the list automatically with almost discussion. The JERK boss really liked it. - - - So, later in the day, they emailed around a Word document of the proposed list. The grammar, etc., bothered me, so I took my computer tools to it and wrote in red all over it. The JERK boss liked my edits and submitted the list the way I edited it.

HA! I bet no one else did that. They now have a positive example of what I could do for them if they'd let me - which, of course, they won't.

Hi everyone! been having sme internet connection problems lately.

SS It's still freezing cold here, has been a record cold winter and it's still not over!

Spent a week in Ecuador for work, which was very nice. And wasn't so cold.

Now back to routine.
But routine is good, life is good, I have no complaints.

Glad to see that everyone is doing OK. What a horrible dream t&l!!!!!

WOW ... now thats an attitude I think I should adopt!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You should be a pollie TL lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

well one of our pollies anyway. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

No SS , no news <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

My net has been down, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

We are going to meet the teacher in a few, but are well.

AJ & Mr. C are in VA again. They went past Cinderella a few nights ago, very late, and called me to say they were going by just then. Oh, Rella, the Dervish has a game belonging to Prince Catlover. I will either mail it back, but you will have to send me your mailing address.

20 minute to fix lunch and take a shower, so must dash.

Check your e-mail in a few minutes....hmmmm, Prince Catlover hasn't mentioned missing a game. I guess he's not to bereft.

My net has been back down again - I finally called them today and they said it will be down again tomorrow, too, I am just fortunate to have it for a bit this evening. (Email now received.)

Today was the first day of school with the Duelling Divas, and they both survived! The teacher hardly looked the worse for wear, either.

The Dervish is still having some very very bad spots, but his good spots are getting better. Neaksis and I both noticed that he is beginning to respond to positive reinforcement, not all the time, but even some is progress.

Tomorrow night he gets to spend this night with his lucky, lucky grandmother and grandfather. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You are making me have a very, very bad feeling about this upcoming venture. Do you want him back in once piece, or will segments suffice?

t&l

Now T&L

I don't have ANY bad feelings about it at all!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


In fact I'm perfectly ok with it all <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


Noble of me isn't it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

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

You're on the other side of the world, thousands of miles away. Of course you feel fine about it! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I feel fine about it too.

Neak, tell him to make sure his grand parents get PLENTY OF EXERCISE. I'm sure he can take it from there.

I watched my grand son last night. He is only 15 moNths old though.
He responds well to ice cream. It calms him right down.
Well, that and his stuffed cow.

AW,
W's brother got home from Afghanistan yesterday. He lives 300 miles away, so we haven't talked to him yet, but he is home. His W seems happy.

I hope Aussie comes home safe. We pray for it.

SS

I think SS has the right advice Neak, I mean it's for T&L's own good, well both of them really ... the Health officials all say 'Use it or loose it" so by being active she is keeping healthy ... I'm sure that is what SS means <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> .... well pretty sure <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

If I wasn't so far away I would love to have the Dervish over, he could keep up with Aussie, fishing all the dark hours, mucking about in the rain, BBQ, sloshing in the river mud, stinky fish smell ... and all in one night! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Glad your BIL got home safe SS ... its hard not to be on tender hooks, well we only have to last out Aussies tour now. And the prayers are so appreciated. Thank you from all of us.
of course someone has to tell DD that Jonnie goes back mid October soon or later ... DONT THEY JONNIE!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />