Mels mind is a wondrous thing. It goes along it's merry way, such wonders to perform. Then it spits the images and words out at breakneck speed. If you ever wondered why she is in a wheelchair its because her legs ran out of puff trying to keep up with her mind!!! :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: - oops sorry Mel ================= (splat)

SHAD~ I WOULD NEVER RUN YOU OVER:moped:======(beep, beep..outa the way)
:rofl: I WENT TO BED LAST NIGHT LAUGHING....GOTTA BE A GOOD THING NO? LOL I WENT TO THE SOAP WEBSITE AND WOULD BE AFRAID I'D TAKE A BITE!! I ALREADY BEGAN CATCHING UP WITH YOUR PHOTOS. THEY ARE ALL GORGEOUS! I LIKED THE KANGAROO PAWS...WAS THAT THE NAME? AND THE HELITOUR PHOTOS TOO. ALTHOUGH I CANNOT IMAGINE MYSELF IN ONE OF THOSE BIG BIRDS.:faint:

HAPPY~ I AM SO SORRY YOU LOST YUOUR NECKLACE. I GUESS NOW IS AS GOOD A TIME TO TELL YOU THAT THE GLASS BOOKMARK GOT RUN OVER AND MASHED INTO THE CARPET :scooter: :yikes: :faint: BUT IT WAS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTED. HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR ALONE TIME. PUT IT TO GOOD USE CAUSE IT DOESN'T LAST FOREVER :rofl: :rofl:

RENNIE~ I LOVE MAXINE. :rofl: WE ARE ALOT ALIKE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THINK I AM LESS CYNICAL!! LOL
WHEN I WAS FIRST IN THE WHEELCHAIR I WAS STILL IRONING. THEN I GOT BURNED A FEW TIMES AND ONLY IRONED THE FRONT OF MY CLOTHES...NO ONE EVER SAW THE BACKS!!! :lol3: :lol3:

THE MEN PROMPTLY WOKE ME AT 7AM AND IT'S A GOOD THING. LATELY I HAVE BEEN SLOTH-LIKE AND NOT ROLLING OUT OF BED TILL DANG NEAR 8. VERY LAZY!!
GOOD THING I CANCELLED OUT ON THE FOOD SHOP YESTERDAY. I HEARD IT WAS A GRAND MESS TRYING TO GET EVERYONE AND THEIR BUNDLES IN THE BLDG. OF COURSE THE BUS WAS FULL AS SOON AS THE SENIORS SAW ALL THE WORK GOING ON AND A MASS OF TRUCKS JAMMED INTO OUR SMALL PARKINGLOT. THEY ARE SUCH CHILDREN. I CAN ONLY HOPE I KEEP SOME OF MY SANITY RIGHT TO THE END. OTHERWISE I'LL HAVE TO MYOVE DOWN BY SHAD....I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE DOWN THERE :rofl: :rofl:
iI BETTER GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE OUR SHADDIE COMES AFTER ME :rollpin:

:wave: TO ALL THE GALS!!!
***AND A NOTE TO CARLA~ I WILL HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT FOR OUR CHALLENGE WE HAD GOING BEFORE THIS ONE...I CALL IT THE "DRINKS" CHALLENGE:rofl: ALTHOUGH I WAVER IN MY MIND....I THINK I AM OFF THE COFFEE FOR GOOD. IT'S BEEN WORSE THAN GIVING UP CIGARETTES! :faint: SO THANKS FOR THE PUSH!

HAPPY WEDNESDAY EVERYONE! :moped:

A full round of sibling drama has been completed...many wails of DS is fake farting on my head.....DD wont stop humming......I want toast not corn flakes...I cant wear these shorts .... All are fed and dressed and ready to go.
I have time for some dishes or laundry.

It is going up to 27C today with high humidity.

Avon Presidents Club Dinner Banquet tonight. DS has Cross Country.....

Love you ladies.

Quickie! I totally agree with that dog's attitude. I should print it out and stick it on the fridge.

'm still coming to life here although the Girls are at it full steam! It's Day 7 for Lucy and there are no side effects from her chemo so we may have dodged the bullet for a while. Two more weeks before the next one and I do think her breathing is a tad better.

My cold has settled in so I am skipping gym and hoping for a quiet day. I've already cancelled today's sandwich making marathon as they won't want folks with colds contaminating the 450 box lunches that have to be at the Ploughing Match by 10:30. The weather has been wonderful and the crowds are huge. I am trying to avoid going there.

My first quilting class was yesterday and I've already learned lots of things. I did get a new and lighter sewing machine - not as smooth as my old (1975) one but works fine for the classes. I love my old machine but it's way to heavy to carry around! The beginners' project is a table runner. I don't know if I'll use it but it is definitely a candidate for my "giftable" box.

Donna come to clean this morning so I'd best do a bit of tidying. If my cold capsule works and I feel a bit more human, I will go to town to the optometrist. Did I tell you Lucy ate yet another pair of glasses on Sunday? Oy!

Morning chicks,

A quilting class sounds like fun Ruth. On behalf of 450 strangers, let me thank you for not making their sandwiches today :lol: The worst illness I ever got was from catered food at a party - most of the guests got terribly, terribly ill and we figured someone who was preparing the food must have contaminated it. So thank you, as Mel would say - it's the thought that counts ;)

Eee gads Holly, my hair is standing on end just reading your post. :yikes: Here's to a quiet hour and a nice cup of coffee once the door closes and they are on the bus :coffee:

Mel, I'm still laughing. I want to press help you "press" your clothes - will you let me borrow a spare chair? :rofl: Eee gads number 2 - a bunch of people like my mom ticked off and milling about on the bus :eek: :eek: :eek: Feet's get me movin' outta dat place :lol:

Shad the necklace had shimmery blue-greens in it. Not so much the colors as the sentimental value I am mourning. Those soaps are quite interesting. If I had a bath with a big expanse of cabinetry, I would consider some for decorations. However I/we have decided retirement can't come soon enough so I will have to learn to re-evaluate every purchase/expense going forward and try to conserve the funds - so I will have to try and mold the soaps myself. Hard to do when you use liquid body washes :lol: As a school project long ago we were taught to whittle using a bar of soap. I made a mean fish as I recall. Good luck finding jobs in America here - that would be nice for all of us :D :crossed:

The coffee is gone and an early morning meeting awaits me so off I go for another day of thrills and excitement. Will compare notes later with Shad to see who had the more fun day :D

THE STORE CALLED TARGET HAS A RECIPE WEBSITE. I GOT AN E-MAIL TODAY FROM THEM AND IT HAD A RECIPE FOR CURRIED PUMPKIN SOUP. SO I WENT TO CHECK OUT THE ISTE. I WONDER WHAT A SUPER STORE IS DOING WITH A WEBSITE LIKE THIS? Hmmmm

http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/

OHHHH I GET IT. TARGET IS SPONSORING IT. IT'S REALLY THE AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA-RADIO TALK SHOW. YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR NEWSLETTERS THAT HAVE RECIPES OR LISTEN TO THEIR PROGRAM. OK....THE BLOND MOMENT HAS PASSED. :dance:

A WARNING TO ALL UNWARY MEN:
Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties and local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman. Many females use a date rape drug on the market called "Beer."

The drug is found in liquid form and is available anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, or from taps and in large "kegs". Beer is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and sleep with them. A woman needs only to get a guy to consume a few units of Beer and then simply ask him home for no strings attached sex.

Men are rendered helpless against this approach. After several beers, men will often succumb to the desires to sleep with horrific looking women to whom they would never normally be attracted. After drinking beer, men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly what happened to them the night before, often with just a vague feeling that "something bad" occurred.

At other times these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life's savings, in a familiar scam known as "a relationship." In extreme cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a longer term form of servitude and punishment referred to as "marriage." Men are much more susceptible to this scam after beer is administered and sex is offered by the predatory females.

Please! Forward this warning to every male you know. If you fall victim to this "Beer" scam and the women administering it, there are male support groups where you can discuss the details of your shocking encounter with similarly victimised men. For the support group nearest you, just look up "Golf Courses" in the phone book.

For a video to see how beer works click here:

http://www.brackenspub.com/beer.swf

Just popping into say hello--More stuff to do. :wave:

Melody
Darn mine didn't drink beer and still doesn't. He made me give him a wedding ring to get sex from him lol.

Morning all, or should that be mourning all,

It's with great sorrow and ineptitude that I declare I have had enough of this challenge and will spend the next week burying it in the back of the closet. Motivation is not there, I'm finding it so difficult to get up in the morning and exercise and food is simply there to be eaten in quantities. I'm not feeling great either which doesn't help. I think I need a dose of sun and whatever in equal quantities. Even the 17 million dollar view is not helping. So today I'm not eating - or at least trying not to eat - much to see if it will help with the plumbing which is acting like an a*sehole - sorry if that was too much info !

And then I will go and get on with the day - more of the same as yesterday which was little achieved and a huge pile of questions and problems on my plate. Yesterdays triumph was that my team had the first fully signed off documentation - signed off by the subject matter experts and the Business. That's an achievement since we started last and are now getting some results that the others are not getting. Must be something to do with the :bomb: I threatened them with the other week or its more likely that the man in power (terribly heavy smoker) took me at my word when I suggested he might like to take some outside and check them out when he went out for a smoke. That way he could stay out longer and clear his desk at the same time. Beats me why he didn't think of it in the first place. Comfy chair, cup of coffee, smokes and my masterpieces - what more could a man want!

Mel - of course we would notice the difference. Sanity, or the lack, of comes in many forms. American accents still stand out round here. Canadian ones are more common. Is that saying that the Canucks are more insane??
Thanks for the beep before the =========<splat>. But I'm getting a bit deaf as well as blind as well as tired and thick.

Rennie - I like Maxine because she is so cynical. She's says what I think a lot of the time. There are times, even in WA, where one has to be a little more politically correct - excuse me, would you mind moving to the left a little - is somewhat better than - shift your middling brown ***!!! Not as satisfying mind you.

Holly - I'll send you over some of the new and more comfortable earplugs - you may never want to take them out!

Happy - I promise to have a good day if you will. Actually the team hasn't been too bad lately. Yesterday I had to suffer a bout of can and can't from the younger two (maybe I'll keep those ear plugs Holly). Then a dose of South African pique at not being able to do something on the system, but other than that, they are pulling together a bit better now. Of course massive doses of chocolate fish smooths the myriad of crossed paths. They are getting the idea that if I call them by their full names and not abbreviating them ie Melody instead of Mel, they have overstepped the mark and should shut up before disaster looms. It's like being back with the kids at home in their teenage years.

Ruth, I'm so glad Lucy is still wending her merry way along life's path. I don't think there is too much that is going to get that dog down. Sorry to hear that you haven't been well, and good on ya for not peeling them darned eggs (aigs). Anyway, it's not as if you don't do enough for the community.
Hope we get to see pictures of the quilting when it is finished.

Okay, better buzz off and see if I can achieve something before the mob arrives. I'll check in on you at various times of the day. Don't say you weren't warned.

Morning Rennie
See you snuck in to read Mels jokes before I got to post mine.

Oh and Melody - That's blonde and not blond. You are definitely not male!

lol politically correct. No one would ever accuse me of being politically correct. I tend to say things in the nicest way I can BUT I do not pull punches and I don't worry, at times, about someone being offended. I don't see anyone caring if I am offended when they use Gods name as a curse word. I don't see them caring if I am offended when they have sexual relations in front of my children and myself that are against the bible. I have decided I don't care if they are offended either. I am teaching my children to stand up for that they believe in.

Ruth
I love quilting. We have a quilting shop right down the street. We meet there once a week and have a whole lot of fun.

Ear plugs might work. Who'd ever guess, i miss them like crazy right now. I had a Avon dinner banquet right after work and now they are sleeping. They look so angelic.I even miss hubby. It has been a busy few weeks. Things are GREAT!! Just busy.Not complaining at all!

HUGS!!!!

Miss who? The earplugs, the kids or the DH?

Rennie - if we don't stand up for ourselves, who we going to call when the mob tramples right over the top of us?? We can happily be assertive, but I'm not keen on aggression.