With Antonio of course
May 2005 be the best year yet!

Well now, I seem to have misplaced my post?? It says it is here, even says I posted on the thread at the forum list opening menu but not visible to me?? Oh goodness, if this is a sign of things to come I'm going to develop a complex
Happy New Year again all you wonderful ladies of the world!! Remember to smile
Here is a little Antonio hug for you all, maybe that is why my post disappeared... have the powers that be banned off site pictures? By George, I think I've got it :eyeroll:
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Well lookie now there he is, OOOO, the last day of the year is very spookie!

Hello, I see Meadow is at it again. Don't adjust your sets girls, it's AB come to wish us a happy new year.

I think we must all be in 2005 now. Happy new year to us all. This year will be good for us - Mel is telling us so. So there it must be. I just wish Mel would tell the bugs that there is someone far more tasty down the road and I wish they would take some notice of her. I hate bugs @#$%^$%$## bugs.

Took DS1 to the airport this morning, stuck him on the Adelaide flight - good lad that. I will miss him greatly again. Still he is his own person now. I can only sit, watch and advise and it was so good of him to surprise me with the unexpected visit.

DB2 came to the airport with us. Then he came back and had a cup of tea with me and moseyed on back to his place. He seems happier these days. DS2 was resting up after partying into the night.

I worked in the garden this morning and finished repotting the pot plants. Only one left to do and I ran out of potting mix. Nothing open this morning to go buy some more. I'll do that tomorrow I guess. Then it got hot so I went back to bed for a while. I haven't really done much except tidy up for the rest of the day.

Hope Happy and DH are motoring safely down to Tennessee. It's strange here without her, and where in #$%#$ is Teel. I had a message on the phone today - she must have rung when I went out but we haven't seen her here for a day or so.

Anyway, I had better go, watch my program for the night and then go off to bed - might be time to catch up on the snoozing, although I thought I would have done that today. Catch you all over coffee tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the 11th anniversary of my Dad's passing. Some quiet, reflective time will be necessary tomorrow.

testing testing....might have a new ticker....

yipee!!!!!!!!

it worked at last so here it is for you all to see!

Meadow....antonio looks lovely as usual. Hope the New Year is good to you too!!! Was wondering where you had gone to. Happy New Year!!!

Teel~ Happy New Year to you as well and love the ticker!!! I was so excited to find a wheelchair girl amongst them!! silly but I was. Hope the New Year brings you some kind of relief and well being. fingers are crossed for you and I do think of you often!!
(((((((HUGS))))))) for 2005!

Shad~ I was a bit put out last night so I didn't want to share that,. But another big Holiday will NOT go by without us talking. Life is just too short for that. I will be thinking of you and the Dad today. I just lit a candle for my baby brother for the new year. He wasn't even 25 yet. Life marches on though no matter how much I miss him.
Enjoy the bank Holiday!!! I really must look that up! and who is coming to visit?!?!? I must get after those pesky bugs and send them to another part of OZ!!!

Well chicks....another wheelchair down and one to go! Last night the oldest one decided to try and throw it's bels off. In the company's defense,,,,this chair's makers are defunct and have been out of business for a few years now. so when it is repaired, they use the best matches for parts that there are. the belts are never right and it breaks the pulley sysstem. Back to the drawing board again. But I have an idea that I want to run by them on Mondfay. I also dusted the "donated" chair off in the maintenance room and it is charging as we speak! will I let this get me down??? NO!! I am going to pedal and put my mileage on the map. So Linus and Teel better start baking the scones! I have an excellent recipe from Shad for Australian pumpkin scones. I am off to get ready. Jen wants to re-measure me. She thinks I look a bit thinner than before. We will see if she is right. She usually does the measuring but I was in a hurry to get them done. Hope the weekend is a great one. I will not get my ride as this is the last chair and it would be foolish to take the chance. I have shopping plans for the week to come and NEED A CHAIR TO ACCOMPLISH THAT!! Unless of course Antonio would like to carry me!!! Adios my little Chiclklettes and be well and safe!! Now where did Nae and all the rest of them disappear to........?

:sman: HAPPY NEWYEARto everyone reading this post!!
May the coming days be filled with health, wealth and happiness and be full of good things for everyone to enjoy. Peace come to the earth like it is so desperately needed!!!

Talk to you all in the next few days!
With love and thanks for all the forged friendships that I hope will last forever,
Teel xx

happy new year to you all and i will get round o telling you all of the good time we all had last night but first i really need to give someone a rollicking
SHAD i always thought of you as a nice sensible world travelled lady who will grab most things with both hands and take a great big bite but GET A BLOODY GRIP how can you be so fed up with your weights and measurements you mention nothing about the ones that went down or how much you have lost all in but just pick on the bad ones and id see the point if you had put on 28llb {cringing as i write that again} but i was always under the beleif that air travel made you gain weight and so did stress and youve had buckets of both in the last few months maybe its just the time of the year or maybe with ds going home again just when you were enjoying having him under your wing again but i hate hearing you so fed up and down maybe i just reley on you to be level headed and thats terrible i dont think you need anybody else releying on you at the moment if theres anything i can do or say apart from " i met and married a millionaire and im paying for liposuction for you and is there anything else cosmetically youd like ????" actually i was just sitting here thinking that maybe i should take out the grip bit but im sorry if no-one ever talks to me again but i had to say it ill pop back later i am having mega probs with my graphoics card again keeps trying to re-set itself or reconfigure itself or something
kirsty

Morning all,
Linus, you lovely person, I would never consider not talking to you - maybe yelling at you is something I would do, but not talking is not - at least if I may stop tallking because I am laughing so hard. Every one seems to have got what I wrote a bit upside down - or maybe it is me that's upside down, downunder. I was talking about the last months figures when all but two were up for the month. Yes the year has been fairly good. Wouldn't it be nice if we wished and the pounds all dropped off immediately. I was disappointed in myself because I had worked so hard to control the gain while away in Melbourne and mostly I suceeded, back here one month and I pile it on again. Well not exactly pile but it is known in project parlance as scope creep. Teel was going off at me last night as well. Saying how good I looked in the Christmas photos - when all I could see was fat arms and hips. I might add that the fat arm measurement has not changed in 12 months - just doesn't wobble like it used to.
Mel if you want to talk to me - you actually have to get off the phone so I can get through. It doesn't actually work any other way. I've tried projecting thought before and not many get the message!!!
Teel, good to talk last night. I'm glad the ticker thing got sorted. Seems like computers may behave themselves when I am overseeing things from long distance. Wonder if there is a job to be had doing those sorts of things. Sort of Uri Geller of the computer world.
The rest of the world must be sleeping. It's real quiet out there. I've slept late and still don't feel much up to doing anything but had better go see whats worth eating for breakfast, coffee and whatever, shower, dress and just do it as the saying goes.
DS2 gave me a bonsai for Christmas and I must see if I can find the right place for the little guy - the hot sun and wind can't be doing him much good the place he is right now. Cute little thing.

So I'll check back in later to see how the world is making out with our chatty lot. Bye y'all. (just checking out the language skills for when Ms Happy gets back)

thank god for that ive been sitting watching vicar of dibley thinking i should come back in and change the post but ive never been the one for saying there there dear when i really want to say oh for f***s sake not polite and happys ldy teas when were invited id better go with the men for a bourban instead of drinking mint tea with the ladies had a great night lots to drink yet i was still the soberest there lots of wee hairy ar**d scotsmen only to willing to show you whats under the re kilts you all have to come over one year youd have a ball my tables always the roudiest so you gals will fit right in okay im off to hang up the washing annoy dh and embarass the kids
kirsty

Linus me darling dear one, I would adore to come sit at your table one year and take in all the fun! *maybe under the table peering out but enjoying myself for sure

Shad I sure would like to have your measurements. Congratulations on how far you have come. I'm sure you will set to and accomplish your goals, you have a heck of a terrific developed sense of self. I wish I had your blood lines. I'm biologically wishy washy and have a built in avoidance mechanism to things that make me feel uncomfortable. You would think tight clothes would make me get this weight moving downward but so far my aversion is just feelings.

Mel, honey, I'm so sorry your wheels are preventing you from your excursion around the neighbourhood. I wish I had money enough to get you your own mechanic that would pop out of the cupboard anytime you needed something fixed. It isn't right that you have to worry about such things. They are essential to your life, your wheels should be reliable, I've heard that you can use a pair of tights(pantyhose) in place of the fan belt in cars, wonder if that solution would help your chair until the right part comes in?

I have started writing a paper journal, as the journals here are too much for me. I have put down some goals, on the first page, so I will see them and be reminded.

1. make time for exercise
2. less sugar/processed food
3. calmer, less yelling at the kids
4. breathe in the cool air, blow out all the hot air
5. try new things

Oh Linus, if had the $$ for a ticket I'd be half way there by now. My heritrage on Dad's side is very Scottish.I was there when I was 15 ,for a month.I am pretty much in love with all things Scottish, especially men in kilts!!!! One of the best days of my life was spent roaming on Ben Nevis.It is hard to believe it was 24 years ago. It is clear as a bell.

Shad, Mel~ queit reflection seems to going around. My dear friend whose husband died was here last night. It was lots of fun. Around 2 am we got a little quieter.Had a wee cry and toasted our dear friend Ben.He has been on our minds a lot over this holiday. I was happy that she felt safe and comfortable here.

Meadow~ I have been working on not yelling at the kids as much for a while. It is working and the results have been good.It takes a whole whack of awareness and self control,waiting before reacting............now it is almost becoming habit. Good Luck with all your goals.
I haven't really put out specific goals but I will give it some thought tomorrow.

I am too pooped to party any more!!!
It has been a quiet day!
We had a great party, good friends, food, conversatoin, laughs, card playing,dancing........
I was up til 5 and woke at 8. 6 people stayed over night.After coffee and breaky I went back to bed. DH took the kids to hockey.We had supper and now he is in bed.
My angels are watching Strawberry Shortcake ,eating shrimp and are soon off to bed.
Tomorrow is a totally free day. DS has a hockey practise from 8-9 and those are all the plans!!!!!!!!!! No sunday school til next week.
The house is stil VERY clean!!
I am lovin it. I may snuggle by the fire and read all day long!! Oh, and establish some goals.

Hope everyone has had a lovely day!!!

Mel~ I just read your comment in my journal. Now I am all teary eyed. Thank you!

I'm relaxing with a cup of decaf vanilla nut coffee by candlelight. Oh, and computerscreen light.

We ran the morning of new years eve. Neither of us ran as far as we had previously, but at least we got out there and did our best. Can't ask for much more!

We had our own private party at home for New Years Eve - popcorn and wine. But then we had a very rough night. Even though both dogs got their doses of Benadryl to relax them per the vet, they were shivering and nervous about all the firecracker pops and booms. I sat on the floor with them to keep them company only because they both can't sit on my lap at once. Actually, one of them can't sit on my lap at once - they are too big! Dusty is a golden lab and Buster is a boxer.

We went to bed about 10:30 and by 11:00 we had two dogs in bed with us. There wasn't a lot of room for humans in that bed. Their shivering kept the bed in constant vibration and they wanted to be as close as possible - drooling and breathing like crazy. Finally at 1:30, dearest Hubster told them it was all over, happy new year, get off the bed! Some poor time-challenged soul started up with the fireworks again about 2:00 so back they came into bed. I am hoping that everyone had a great time last night and no money left for any more fireworks!

Dearest Hubster made black-eyed peas and pork and jalapeno cornbread for our traditional New Years Day dinner. We always have black-eyed peas on New Years day - it is a southern US tradition that it is good luck. Also, eating cabbage is supposed to bring lots of money for the new year but I can never talk him into throwing some cabbage into the pot. Guess we'll just stay lucky and poor!

My shoulder is very stiff. Think it might be related to sleeping in a very cramped position?

Happy New Year and sweet dreams to all!

Hello chickies of the world. And a happy New Year to you all. We finally made it to Memphis - a better ride than I thought though we did hit very heavy fog from the wee hours of the morning when we left until we stopped for breakfast around 9am. We made very good time and were able to pick up the keys to the flat and at least unload our stuff from the cars. DH of course said I packed wayyyyyyyy toooooo much but darling SIL who is an expert packer got most of it in the car. I had to trash a few boxes but left some cleaning supplies and all of my plants for the new owners. It is still hard for me to accept that there is someone else living in MY house and that this area is my new home. But I am glad the trip is over.

The weather is fantastic here. It is unseasonably warm - 70 degrees the end of December. I feel like I am sitting in Shad's back yard - and what a wonderful feeling that is. Even the rain stayed away and we are all out and about in the warm and the sun smiling at each other. This of course won't last and it will cool off a bit towards the end of the week but it was a welcome change. I am paying attention to the roads and trying hard to learn my way but it will take some time. DH will have to drive me to work a few days as I get my bearings. We had a quiet new year's. We ordered a pizza and had a few munchies and DH, SIL and I played blackjack until 9:30pm. SIL went to her room as we had to get up early to take her to the airport (she drove my car for me down here). DH and I watched the New Year's celebration in New York, kissed happy new year one hour before it was actually the new year here and off he went to sleep. I took a nice bath soak and for the first time as an adult, didn't stay up until midnight myself. I figured what's the point if I was by myself? I do hope this is not a trend and next year we will at least stay up to ring in the new year in a new home.

We have gone looking at more houses and will go out with the realtor tomorrow. Monday we should have the electricity turned on at the apartment and the movers will be dropping off our belongings. The rented furniture should arrive, and I do hope the cable is turned on. I start working at the new office on Tuesday and we are both looking forward to getting settled in soon.

I am sitting at a kiosk at the hotel using the Internet and can hear people walking the halls behind me eager for their turn on the computer. Shad I feel like I am living your life. So I'd better finish the post here, just wanted to check in and wish you all a happy new year. I'm way behind in catching up on posts and will speak to you later in the week. Take care...