Just caught up with everyone!!! HUGS!!!!!!

The house is basically unburied. I may do some cleaning tomorrow. Hockey tonight, Meet the Teacher tomorrow, Gymnastics on Friday, signing a new rep on Sat, Bday party that aft( for kids) and evening( for grownups), church in Sunday and then REST!!!!

I have my first afternoon off on Thurs. Next week will be Mon, Wed and Fri!!!
Been getting my 7 hours sleep every night!!!

Shad~ I do the 15 min thing all the time. I am a flylady devotee. I use my daily control journal and lists every day. Glad you are going home!!

hi all
No time for posting the last couple of days but have come in to read!

I am sorted! And proud of myself. I have achieved. I went shopping as I said on Tuesday and no big spends just a little look. I do love those vouchers but haven't seen the ultimate "thing". I had a huge try on of about 50 items and really didn't like any of them on me so i ditched the lot. i wasn't going to settle just because I had vouchers. I will wait.
Last night i came home searched the closet. I tried on everything, it all fit but some things a little snug. I thought "this is it" So I am on the band wagon again instead of sweeping it all under the rug. I haven't gained any of my 4 lbs I lost but not lost anymore. So it's bite the bullet time .....again. I will just try to be good and fit in that exercise. I have just noticed all these flabby bits....ugg.

The floors are finally sorted. I have since had a call from the insurers and theya re settling the claim via a cheque so I went off yesterday to research flooring. We have decided on a floating, solid timber flooring in "forest reds" It's a lovely rich grain with a few native timbers. I know it is going to look great. I have organised the guys to take up the carpet carefully so it can be relaid in the damaged area. All this should be completed by the time our friends come on the 27th ( fingers crossed ) we were going to attack DS14 room this weekend but will wait until we "have " to. I am very pleased as I have always wanted the timber flooring and so it has hurried up the process somewhat but at not too much extra cost! Yaaaay

I have bought some annuals to plant out in the front flowers bed.
I exercised this morning with a walk with hubby so the day is redeemed. Tonight it's sushi for tea up at our local jaunt. I am looking forward to that.
DS13 has his surfing lessons after a long break. He will be glad to be back out in the waves.
DD has been home with me this afternoon, she had a nasty headache. I bought her flowers and she loved them.
I have been out with some friends to the local cafe and had a lovely healthy lunch, when we came to pay the bill had already been sorted. OUr "naughty" friend who really can't afford it paid, she is such a sweety, single Mum working hard with 2 kids. What a darling. We were all growling about it saying how she couldn't afford it and then thought..."no" she wanted to do this for us.


Hope you all are having great days. I better go and get something organised for this lot.

Love to all
Suz

Good morning chicks,

Suzi - good on yah for the self control in the store. I like that you didn't get just any old thing just because you had the vouchers! And the new flooring sounds beautiful.

Keep flying Holly!

Rest up CeeJay - sometimes it's good to just stay home and chill out and get your enegy back.

Madcat, I hope you are feeling better.

No post from Shad? she must be out dancing in the streets - "I'm going HOME , I'm going HOME, didjah hear me, I'm going home

Hellos to Meadow and PainterWoman and Tig and Mel and all others I have missed. Got to jump in the shower, busy day ahead.

Hello to all, Get well wishes to Mel. This place is just not the same without you. You have been suffering long enough and we need your smilin face and voice. To every one else who is suffering from sickness or allergies... best wishes for a speedy recovery.
The cool wind of fall is blowing this morning and they are saying possible snow showers in the mountains... I am motivated to clean house and get the dead bug out of the windows sills and get the house ready for a cozy fall and approaching winter.
Suzi it is great you did a play. Nothing like facing your fears and stepping out and doing something so fun and enjoyable for yourself and many others. What a talented bunch we have here.
Happy so sad to hear about the robbery but the great thing is they caught them.... that is just so scary. Please be safe. Thank you so much for the pics of the hummers they are amazing to watch... Mine are gone now.
Shad homeward bound soon? Very Good. Then where are you off to? Do you get to stay home for a while? Who is watching the cat this time?
Ceejay I am with you about getting serious again about shedding these pounds. I am still losing slowing since my vacation and determined to continue. When I was home another friend of mine has been losing and so we have a fun party to attend the end of October and we are going to wear something new.
Madcat hope you get to feeling better soon!
Holly I can so understand the hockey mom thing. Jesse is still playing goalie at the college level now. I could never just sit through a game when he was in the goal. Enjoyed those days.... but don't miss the smell of the gear!!!!!!

Ok ladies I have a situation and if you care to comment I would welcome it. I have a friend who is Icare very much about and we had some words that did not go over very well. I have apologized more than once for the part I played in it. Then after that I guess she was offended by something I had no control over so the silence now between us is huge. I continue to write her letters and cards just expressing myself like our phone conversations use to be.... keeping her informed about my life and pets so on and so forth. Any suggestions?

Hope this finds everyone well and moving more and eating healthy..... thanks for just being here.
Peace,
Nae

It's so nice outside. I love fall.

Not much to say.

Rose,
Regarding your question about your possibly lost friendship. This is one of my all time favorite essays. I hope it gives you some comfort. Sometimes things are not meant to continue, even tho we wish otherwise. I think you are right in trying to keep corresponding, but at some point, accept that the friendship may have just run its course.

Are Your Friends Here for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime?

Anonymous

Many of us are fortunate enough to have friends who are a consistent part of our lives throughout all our ups and downs. However, sometimes others we consider friends appear to enter, then depart from our lives for reasons we try to, but don't always, understand. This piece nicely explains the flow of people in and out of our lives.

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.

Then people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.

Happy thank you so much for taking the time to give me that piece. I appreciate it very much it was well done. It is a difficult place to be in waiting and wanting someone's forgiveness..... the punishment is far worse than the original offense. But I am a very paitent person and am trying to remain hopeful that some communication will exist sometime in the future.
Thanks Happy,
nae

Happy has, I think, said it all in that piece. Although she has quoted Reason, Season and Lifetime previously, I don't think I have ever seen the full article.

The only thing I could add to this is to go see the friend. Explain your reasons, problems, and perceived solutions. Then if she will not accept the facts or has a problem with them or something else about you, accept that the friendship has gone. It's hard but it is not as if you have to ignore her or not speak anymore. The relationship may rekindle if you do not permanently shut the door on her, but it will never be the same. You've done your best, you know there is little else you can do. Move on.

Good to hear from you Holly. Hope it all comes out as planned.

Suzi - well you aren't going to get a call from your credit card provider to see if your card is stolen - not if you don't buy anything. But I hear you with - not going to spend just because you have vouchers. Wise move.
The floors sound good, similar to what I will put in my place when the flooring gets its turn. I'm trying to go for solid timber - it may be more expensive but I reckon it will last longer. Don't need carpet where I am. A rug does the job over tiles or flooring - too hot otherwise.

Not much happening here, again. I've been in my favourite place - out with the blokes working and learning from them as much as they learn from me. Hope we can continue to do this until my time here is run. However the other two tend to get the cream stuff so I doubt that I will have much more to do. Boring.
Still it is only just over a week to go and I will be out of here. One of the people I have trained has invited me out on Sunday for a trip through the bush and up the coast about 70K. I will enjoy that. My co-worker who has given me a fair amount of sh*t wants me to work her shift tomorrow. I may decide to say no as she is going drinking tonight and will probably be in no shape for tomorrow. Sounds nasty but a bit of pay back goes a long way. She hasn't exactly been the milk of human kindness to me. Enough. I'll make the decision shortly.

Okay, I'll catch up with you all later. It's the weekend here shortly and I have a class in about 30 minutes. See ya

You are quite welcome Nae. Good luck with your friend - I hope all is not lost and I can completely understand your comment about the punishment being far greater than the offense. Sometimes we have the unfortunate position of being the last one to tick someone off for some minor infraction and we instead take the heat for everything that has gone wrong in that other person's life that day. And once you flame or ignore someone, sometimes it's hard to mend things. The worst is when someone misinterprets something that was never intended that way. As such, I am trying not to be such a hothead myself.

Therefore I should council Shad here to be a love and take over Miss Priss' class tomorrow when I would actually MUCH rather tell her to wait until about an hour after Miss Not Very Team Oriented stumbles in drunken like and then bang 2 pots together loudly announcing that she has a class in 3 hours. I will phone it into her if you like **mad, evil, giggle - muhahahahahahaha***

I am glad you reported in Shad, I was getting worried. No word in almost 2 days - didn't know if your delicate bum was stuck to a hot railroad iron, if you had gone troppo dancing the roads of Weipa or whether you were down in the mines investigating how to apply the best of SAP process control. Glad to hear you are just your curious helpful self.

CeeJay, I know exactly what you mean about the fall weather. It is glorious out there. Should be downright chilly next week. Where did I put those fall sweaters????

I was at the library tonight picking up my next book for book club. There was a ruckus going on. Turns out it was 4 teenaged girls who should have known better. They were all cute. You could easily see that these were the "in click" who were full of themselves, mean, spiteful, thought they owned the world and were probably ruining more than one young girl's high school days. I'm glad I'm not in school anymore. I think the kids are much meaner to each other than we ever were. And it's a breeding ground for low self esteem thanks to twits like that.

I'm tired. Going to bed now before I get myself all riled up. Good night ladies.

Aaaah - I'm one step ahead of you Happy. I thought long and hard and then decided I wouldn't sink down to the lower level and accepted the job. After all I only have one week left. Then with some luck, we will not work together again - after all I have avoided her during the last 10 years, why not the next ten.

It amazes me how so often we all seem to be thinking about the same things, for different reasons. I was reading a book called "Above all, be kind" a bit of a guidance book for teaching one's kids how to respect others. I put together this wp today, just because images have always aided me in crystalizing my thoughts I found this picture from a book of Aesop fables about the lion and the mouse, one of my favourites and the quote "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" *Aesop I changed the middle bit to "however small" because the "no matter" bugged me for some reason... childhood regression therapy needed to find out the root of that

Great picture, great thoughts Meadow. I will carry them with me today. Thank you for the reminder.

You are indeed the better person for stepping up Shad.

Ok, let me go wreak some acts of kindness today. Guess I can start by letting some maniac pass me on the road On with the show...

Mel is BACK!!!!!



We've missed you soooooo very much.