You're gonna have to work with those snapdragons of yours. She's got hollyhocks! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


t&l

Well I have TWO packages of snapdragons - mixed colors!

How do you feel about foxgloves?

Will you come do my yard? Maybe figure out what I can actually grow. I have two brown thumbs, no green ones. I even have eight brown fingers.

snapdragons, foxgloves, hollyhocks ha!!

I can grow couch!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

ok not so much grow it as having made it immune to every poison known to man......... now I try beating it to death with a shovel but it starts waving it's runners at me like in Day of the Triffids. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

SS good to hear all is well, Rella hope that ear gets better so you can enjoy the concert next week or when you can get to it.

T&L I think you should last out the 12 months if possible and do your retraining and then move to a place with better HR if it's that bad. I mean we all spend so much time at work you have to enjoy some of it or go mad...... Our Hospitals are SCREAMING for nurses and I assumed yours would be as well from all the ads you see in our papers offering big $$$ for Aust nurses to go work in the US??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Neaksis haven't heard from you in ages .... how are YOU and the anklebiters? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I found almost the perfect man for you last night <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> .... he's been away so I haven't seen him for ages ... nice gentle man as well as being a gentleman ..... about 6 ft.... broad shoulders ... so well mannered .... ok being Aust bloke he swears a little bit but nothing bad ... oh and he dances divinely <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> everything from ballroom to jazz to tango .. oh my the tango ... he danced that with Suzy a single friend of ours who made the comment " CRIPES <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> "
Own houses..... yes houses ..... a holiday home up the coast as well ... cars.... steady job .... pays well .... loves kids .... ex has begun living in a OP/OW relationship so no return issue there... 3 kids of his own who live with mum usually .... so he adopts those of his family & friends ... but he always wants to hand them back <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> ... I know .. you are thinking drawbacks?????
Not many ... no truly ... career minded perhaps ... very stubborn as he keeps telling me off for trying to 'sell him off like a side of beef' ... its for his own good I mean how can he be really happy without a wife & family of his own I ask you???? see he can't!! sisters just KNOW this stuff. And all of us sisters agree. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
it doesn't matter about the travelling job ... we can all work on him to change it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Neak sorry you are happily sown up with AJ <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I can just hear Neaksis now " Oh gee AW... THANKS SO MUCH" I will of course understand how overwhelmed she will be <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
hows the house holding up without two of the man folk around Neak? I have included the two wandering men on their see the Norwest Trip <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> in my prayers to be safe and happy and to contact home base every day. Well you know how men get sometimes <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> "Oh was it 3 days ago??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> "
Its all those vegeburgers & salted chips & cream waffles ... why can't I have those too???
oh the hips thing
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

They've gone ice skating tonight with the kiddies, so you'll have to wait until tomorrow to marry Neaksis off! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Heh, can't wait for Neaksis to get on here. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Hark, was that a thud I heard?

Well today was loads of fun. I kept making awful mistakes on my words while practicing, but really really didn't want to take a cheat sheet up with me. So I spent a good chunk of the trip writing the words out over and over, and guess what? I know them now!

The song went beautifully, I remembered all the words, and of course it went well because AJ & Mr. C prayed that it would. Then the sermon was very good, all about how we must desire God as much as we desire our air, food, water...all the necessities of life.

Afterwards, one of the nice people who said they liked the song was an older lady who complimented me enthusiastically, then flirted with Grandpa.

*sparkly voice* "And HI, 'Grandpa' - what's YOUR name???" *twinkle twinkle*

Of course being only a man he had no clue whatsoever. They turned out to have several acquaintances in common, so he was happy.

Then we had lunch and spent the afternoon with XBF's mom. (I think I told you once that AJ said no, he wouldn't mind if he saw XBF again, in fact, he wanted to shake his hand and tell him thank you for breaking up with me.) The kids had a wonderful time playing her Celtic harp, and trying to get her parrot to talk. (He did.)

We were all quite amazed at the feast she turned out, in spite of her great difficulties walking, or even standing. I am reminded to be thankful for the simple things I take for granted...basic things like balance and being able to put one foot in front of the other without a moment's thought.

This afternoon, AJ broke the news to Mr. C that he would not be home for his birthday, and wouldn't really be getting any presents right away. "That's ok, Dad," said the junior patootie-smoocher, "Being here with you is the BEST present I could ask for!"

We dashed home and got ready to go skating, then dashed back into town. It was lots of fun, and Neaksis did some tricks, yay Neaksis! I tried to take a picture, but she wouldn't let me. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

A very sweet and unassuming Rumanian man from church (Cornel, not that anyone but Mom will care), borrowed Uncle Carlos' helmet (after Uncle Carlos decided that 1.37 minutes of skating was plenty for him). He was such a good sport, and spent the whole rest of the session staggering around trying to keep his balance. It turned out to be a very good thing he had the helmet, since while I was out drinking my hot chocolate, he came out with blood dripping down one cheek, having done a lovely face-plant. Being the good sport he is, he was soon back out there with a little dab of manly sticking plaster.

Ha ha ha, I can skate better than the Princess on real ice! That's what you call 'cold comfort'. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Then on the way home, the Dervish tried to persuade us that the police helicopter was much more likely to be an alien ship. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> By only 10:30 pm he was asleep.

I'm kind of hungry. Hmmmm. Should I have more waffles, or just hot chocolate? Maybe just the HC, since it's pretty late, or early, to be eating. I'll have to think about that one. Now I do have a tiny little lemon pie sitting right next to my chair. Think, think, think. Or maybe hot chocolate AND pie.

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

Since there's only one Romanian anything at church, Mom would've known who he was regardless. In fact, Mom would've known who was being discussed if you'd simply said, "The Romanian borrowed Uncle Argentinian's helmet." <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I realize that you're an Explanationarian by ethnic heritage, and it DOES come from my side of the family, but still...

Information overkill!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

"(after Uncle Carlos decided that 1.37 minutes of skating was plenty for him)."

Tio Carlos sounds like a man after my own heart.

Now, I LOVE ice-skating. I ALWAYS watch the figure-skating on television, while sipping hot chocolate and remembering how HARD the ice is when one falls.

I just KNEW she would be overcome with joy <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> ... no need for thanks <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> ...
Mum has a whole LOAD of men in reserve she has been scoping out for potential marriage material for the extended family..... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> ... Irish grannies are just SO dangerous <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />



I am so so pleased it went well. Liz has been reminding me all week it was coming up this weekend and we lit a few candles for you and said a prayer just to add some small wings to AJ's and Mr C wonderful prayers. But of course we were certain it would go FANTASTIC.




Oh my that is just beautiful <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> junior patootie-smoocher
or not <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have a grusome story about skating which Aussies dad told me from when he was a young Dr over East. not for HC waffles and pie time. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

you know.... it LOOKED like an alien ship <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> .. well it did




Neak you need WA Gov Public Servant problem solving ... eat the whole lot ... H choc pie and waffles ... with double cream <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> ..

its 2.12am and Mikey that little devil has been up 6 times so far and wont go to sleep until he 'see daddy' so I have to show him Daddy asleep. Its amazing what kids pick up on even this early on. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

AW, I would thank you, but you said there was no need! Married people can't stand to see single people. It eats at them somehow.





I have hollyhocks...and snapdragons...and sweetpeas.

Mom, I can't even count to one after midnight. I see I spelled it wrong, too.

B, I only fell once, very gently, when I tried to make a little hop. I still like roller skating MUCH better, though Neaksis is getting tired of my whining.

AW, thank you and Liz both so much for the prayers. I could truly feel that I was being carried right through it. The song really spoke to people, and that is something that just comes from God. No matter how skilled a musician is, good execution is not enough to touch hearts. You and the rest of my prayer team really made a difference.

When are you going to tell the gruesome story? I'm not eating now. I may not even eat again, after our friends' birthday feast today.

That is so funny/sad/cute about Mikey. I may have said this before, but around here we call that "the Elisha", after the Bible story where Elijah told Elisha that he could have a double portion of God's Spirit, if he saw Elijah taken up to heaven. So Elisha followed him everywhere, scarcely daring to blink for fear he'd miss it. The kids do that to AJ when they know he is going to leave soon. Poor little chap, but didn't you have an excellent recipe for kids that can't sleep? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Neaksis, you are just being hateful. Well <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> because I have a pitchfork. And it's time for me to go shopping for more seeds again. What did you say you liked best, Mommy?

Speaking of little kids who can't sleep, I just heard one small Dervish in with his Poppa, at 11:02 pm. At least he should be tired by now, and 0630 comes mighty early for small naughty boys.

Thats perfectly ok Dear Neaksis.. its all out of love you know.


It's just that we married people want you to be as happy as we are! Happier even <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
We just want to share the ...... thats its .... the LOVE ... sorry for the distraction but this piece of Swiss chocolate was looking at me ...

no it was STARING at me! Well I fixed that! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Now back to the important stuff ... no its true ... I promise... Its all about love. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I mean how can you just go through life enjoying being single? we can't ...
I mean we don't want to. Ask your mum she will tell you. C'on T&L where are you when we need you? .. Of course ... should have known ... happily cleaning up around the house .. I know you love to do it even more than me <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Neaksis it will be a brave new world for you. I mean cleaning up after kids gets so 'been there done that" ... new challenges await ... yes I like the sound of that
... new challenges ... This box wine is just delicious ... what Hayley and Liz and my sisters haven't finished that is. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I mean how boring is it to have everyone remember your birthday ... wedding anniversary ... name .... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
but I'm only kidding <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Just imagine ... a man with a steady job ... doesn't take sickies ... won't hang around getting in your hair as he's away working for long periods .... has good bank
balance ... totally non colour coordinated ... he's not perfect but we girls need something to work with anyway <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

and to show you how much we care we'll even train him for you. I mean only sisters can love a brother like that. He's a bit confused about the MB principles so we thought we'd simplify it for him.
Now while not being able to afford electro therapy we do know a bit about hair dryers and water. Before you know it he'll be saying "Yes Dear" .... all the time ... ignore the twitching it will pass in time. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

did I mention he can dance.... even more than just moving slowly out of step around the dance floor ... foxtrot you name it ...wait until the Tango!!
All the single women go ga ga ... I wonder if I can get you a long stem rose this time of the year ???? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

oh well we'll make do.

See .. it's all about love <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Aren't you so lucky to have so many who care about you? Yes I thought so. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I have a pitchfork

So you both have pitchforks, huh? Keep this up and pretty soon you're both gonna have little forked tails, too! HONESTLY!<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Today's Dervishism:

The well-known Christmas movie, "The Colon Express".

Mom said she had one of those today. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />


Also, Neaksis' DS10, asked if my dad had fought with the Southern Army during the Civil War. Neaksis said yes, and he's never gotten over losing. Apparently Mom digs older men.

SEE!!! Now you are getting it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

except you keep it hidden until the rings on the finger <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Not touching THAT one <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />



lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

nope not that one either <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Back from the brink of nearly sick, hopefully. Children's stepmom had a stomache virus last week. She shared. Son had it over the weekend. I felt icky all day yesterday. Daughter had 'it' all night last night. Need to go buy her some popsicles before I go to work.

Oh, and the dr called yesterday. I guess it's not good to be anemic?

Not good. I think I have round two.

{{{{{{{Rella}}}}}}}}}