Mel--
So good to see you back. :hugs: I'm not sure if I want to under take this degree right now, but who knows.
Nae--Sounds like you have had a good time this past week end. I love to se the wild life.
Patty Happy birthday :balloon:
I'm at work. Last week spoiled me.sigh! All the key punching I did last week was not saved. I've been key punching all morning. I can blame no one but myself. I have pass words on every thing.
It's cold outside and the clouds look a bit like snow.
Weighed in this morning at 177 pounds. Yipee.
Morning all,
Carla - what does that pink statement say????? I'm worried about you. I think you and I should get together to try and stop the rot, both yours and mine. Although I'm hoping my gain is still fluid and not fat. Come back to us and tell us what you are doing.
Patty - Happy Birthday. May you have lots more of them.
Nae - nice to have you pop in. Sounds like life is interesting for you these days.
Ceejay - gotta save that work otherwise you aint going nowhere.
Happy - Back to work with a vengeance hey? gotta wonder where we went wrong - should be able to relax and live life the way it should be by now. But we can't and don't.
Mel - great to see you back, now get off the computer and go and bathe and rest those eyes. Enough is enough.
And with that and hoping I haven't missed anyone - I gotta go. I thought we were coming to the cushy bit, but hello, it's worse now than it was before and I can see more big hours coming up. So today is a bit of training, some repair work on a couple of courses, developing a finance course, ensuring the troops have enough to do and kickin' *** with the printer. It's all go around here.
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Morning chicks,
I have 2 minutes to post.
Carla - hey woman - I noticed that tiny pink siggy too. Get yer butt back in here I'm the queen of "ok, let's start this back up again" - and don't you think you can take that away from me. You need to start posting again. I need something to smile about and that's your job
Rennie - I really like your new avatar
Patty - hope you had a nice birthday and survived your post holiday workout
Shad - get out yer stick and russle up the troops. Is this the home stretch for you or will you have to go back there after Christmas?
Congrats on a good weigh in Ceejay - look at it this way, you lost your work but are improving your typing skills
Mel - so glad you are back with us again. I like your avatar too. Will Igor come shovel Ceejay's walk too. I won't need him because there's no snow down here! Won't be either I hope you will be on your best behavior for December because you don't want you to be taking a powder on us again.
I came up with Nowhere in November. Someone else choose December's home.
6 minutes over my limit. Guess I must type R-E-A-L-L-Y slow or I just think slow
Make it a good one today. Put a little oomph in your day.
YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS BUT I WAS IN THE LOO LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING. THOSE ANTIBIOTICS JUST WON'T GIVE ME A BREAK HERE EVEN THOUGH I STOPPED TAKING THEM RIGHT AWAY. WTF!!! I HAVE BEGUN THE NECESSARY TREATMENTS AND GOING BACK TO BED. OTHER THAN THIS...ALL IS WELL
IT WAS SUNNY WHEN I WOKE UP AND NOW IT'S BLACK AS NIGHT. TOO WARM FOR SNOW SO MUST BE RAIN! HAPPY TUESDAY
CEEJAY~ DID YOU GET THOSE WHITE FLUFFY FLAKES???? I WILL SEND IGOR TO SHOVEL YOU OUT OF YOUR HOUSE!!!
HAPPY~ NOW YOU WENT AND SAID IT!!!! IT WILL PROBABLY SNOW A FOOT RIGHT ON TOP OF YOUR HOUSE!!! LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO ME...YESTERDAY I WAS BRAGGING ALL OVER TOWN ABOUT HOW GOOD I FELT AND LAST NIGHT WAS SPENT ON THE PORCELAIN GODDESS!!!
RENNIE~ GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO AND HOPE YOU ARE NOT OVER DOING IT!!
SHAD~ HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A BLOODY NOSE FROM YOU YET? NO? THEN THINGS MUST BE GOING OK FOR THE TIME BEING!! HAVE PATIENCE. YOU ARE ALMOST AT THE FINISH LINE!
Carla
I'm with Happy with you needing to be back in with us. I don't have any goals for December. I think I'm burned out. I'm keeping up with the high fiber which is what is working for me right now.
Happy
If you are the queen of starting over I'm your princess. I've started so many times it's not funny. From now on it's a life style that I have to continue because of the newest diagnosis at the doc's office.
Reenie
How are things going with you?
Shad
I should have looked on my back up disk. I had it saved there. Something weird is going on with this computer. I'm changing my password just in case someone has figured it out.
We don't have a grovelling smilie Rennie, but you are forgiven anyway!!!!! Sorry, but life is not good at the moment and I am upsetting more than a few folk around here. (I really didn't mean to upset anyone there as well.) It's not doing any good, but I am persistent, I do not like to lose (and that seems to go for weight as well). It really is the corner store/ multi national business mentality around here.
Okay - time to go muster my forces. I will be back to comment. Meantime it is back to 12+ hour days. Wonder what I did to deserve this?
I don't get out of here until the 27th January. Then they can eat my dust. I can't see that the company will get any value out of its 40 odd million dollar investment, but I try. I think age and work ethics are working against me here and it won't matter too much how I work or how hard I work, it will be a wasted effort. Anyway enough negativity, I have a meeting with the whingers and the witches this afternoon. We are going to thrash out some of the problems with the training courses and the doco and then they can take the responsibility if it is not right. Seems that whatever I do to fix things - it is not enough - it is too much or it doesn't flow.
Enough of the whinge. What will be will be.
So it seems that between Shad and I we are managing to work around the clock. I'm butt deep in test cases and other crap I know almost nothing about. Yay us! At this rate I'm putting a vote in for Demented in December.
Can't promise I'll be back soon but I will be back! Oh no, I just realized how late it has gotten and I do have to get sme sleep. Take it easy chickies. I'll be back once the dust clears (or sooner).
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Shy ... it would seem that you've been away from the corporate world for quite a while. An 8 hour day is as passee as disco. They never have enough people to do the job - you're just expected to pick up the slack. I'll stop at that lest I get on my soap box.
Sorry to hear that they are running Shad and Madcat ragged... I'm going to go sleep on it - nighty night.
And it's good night from me too! 13 hours is enough for this chick for today. Diplomacy be hanged, a good rollicking made me feel a lot better. I'm going home for some Japanese dinner and a glass of wine - whoops and some mindless tv before a good sleep and getting up to do it all over again tomorrow.
Go Madcat go!!!
Last edited by Shad; 11-28-2007 at 04:47 AM.
Reason: cos I am dyslexic as well as demented.
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Good morning my wonderfully demented friend - hope you enjoyed your Japanese dinner. I'm sure you leaned towards the more healthy choices. I would have had plum wine and tempura
Did everyone get the good rest they were hoping for? Lately around 3pm I hit a slump and I wish I could just crawl under my desk for 20 minutes or so. Then when I get to bed, boop - the eyes are wide open and toss this way, toss that way, punch the pillow, flip on my side, flip on my back... seems like I'm awake for 30 minutes or so but in reality I probably fall asleep within 10 minutes. Just seems like a longer time.
I agree with you Rennie - no one needs to work those long hours but they have us captive. Something about having a roof over your head and food in your belly that keeps you on the hamster wheel each day. But I'm rounding the home stretch, God willing...
Morning Mel. I'm coming over this weekend to repaper the walls of your loo with pictures of half naked firemen. (Do they still publish Playgirl?) If you're going to spend so much time in there - might as well make it interesting for you
Time to get a move on here. Love to the chicks...
P.S. Tell Ruth Thanksgiving is over and it's time to get her keester back home again
DEEJAY~ WE HAD A LOAD OF RAIN ALSO....BUT WERE YOU SINGING IN IT???
RENNIE~ I LIVED WITH IBS FOR MANY YEARS TO THE POINT OF COLITIS.....BUT I GOT A DIVORCE AND CUT BACK ON MY SUGAR
AS S FOR SHAD....DON'T FEEL BAD. I HAVE BEEN HER SISTER FOR MANY YEARS NOW AND SHE PASSES ME BY...I THINK SHE TALKS TO ME INSIDE HER HEAD AND FORGETS TO TYPE IT
SHAD~ I THINK YOU NEED MANY HUGS AND LOTS OF TLC TOO! HOPE THE WINE AND THE JAPANESE DID IT'S MAGIC!! ALSO GLAD TO HEAR THE PLANS FOR HELPING OUT YOUR FRIEND CHRIS. SENDING GOOD THOUGHTS HER WAY ALSO AND HOPE SHE IS FEELING OK FOR NOW.
MADCAT.....I ALMOST CHOKED JUST NOW ON MY OATMEAL!! "THE WORLDLY CHICKS BECOME DEMENTED IN DECEMBER" ROFLMYASSOFF!!! I LIKE THIS IDEA AND I AM ESPECIALLY SURE IT WILL APPEAL TO SHAD AND CARLA AND MAYBE EVEN MISS HAPPY! SENDING YOU MANY TOO!!
HAPPY~ FIREMEN WALL PAPER!! NOW WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT! I WOULDN'T MIND THE LOO TRIPS 1/2 AS MUCH THEN!! SENDING YOU MANY ALSO. I KNOW YOUR TIME IS BEING SPREAD OUT TO THE MAX ALSO. IN MY OWN TINY WORLD HERE IT IS THE SAME STORY. TOO MUCH WORK, NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE AND NO MONEY TO HIRE MORE. CORPORATE AMERICA AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ARE SAVING MONEY BY HIRING SLAVES LIKE US!!!
STAY WELL MY HARDWORKING FRIENDS.
WHERE DO I BEGIN? I HAVE A NEW AND RATHER LARGE CYST INSIDE THE LOWER LID OF MY RIGHT EYE. THIS ONE IS VERY DEEP DOWN...THE SURGICALLY-REMOVED-TYPE. I HAVE HAD T PREVIOUS SURGERIES IN THE PAST FOR "FAMILIES" OF CYSTS. THIS ONE SEEMS TO BE A LONER THANK GOD. THE ONLY THING TO DO IS WAIT AND SEE. I AM ALSO STOPPING THE DROPS WITH THE MOISTURIZING STUFF IN THEM. MY BODY JUST DOESN'T LIKE MOISTURIZERS ANYWHERE EXCEPT MY ARMS AND LEGS. SO I WILL EXPERIMENT AND SEE....BUT I AM ALMOST POSITIVE I AM RIGHT. THESE DROPS MAKE MY SKIN BREAKOUT IF THE TOUCH IT.
THE OTHER BAD NEWS IS THAT RICHIE'S MOM IS IN THE HOSPITAL AND SHE HAS GIVEN NOTICE THAT SHE DOES NOT WANT TO BE RESUCITATED IF THE NEED ARISES. SHE IS NOT DOING WELL WITH THE CONGESTIVE HEART.
I ON THE OTHER HAND FEEL BETTER TODAY AND LOST 1 POUND SINCE I HAVE GONE BACK ON THE DAILY MEDS I PUT ON A FEW POUNDS TO 185 AGAIN. TODAY WAS 184. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE MEDS ARE KEEPING ME "REGULAR" AND ALSO THE BODY SEEMS TO BE RE-ADJUSTING TO THEM NOW. YES THERE JUST MIGHT BE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!
THIS FOCUS FOR DECEMBER IS TO LOWER THE SUGAR INTAKE BEFORE THAT TOO CAUSES ANY BIGGER PROBLEMS. I AM GETTING LOTS OF WARNING SIGNALS THIS YEAR THAT IT'S TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC. DON'T WANT TO WAIT TILL IT'S TOO LATE AND NEW MEDICINES ARE NEEDED. I AM DETERMINED TO GO INTO THE NEW YEAR WITH A MORE POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND ALSO WITH PLANS FIRMLY IN PLACE. THERE IS A MIND CHANGE GOING ON INSIDE MY HEAD AND IT'S MUCH EASIER TO PUT MYSELF IN FIRST PLACE NOW. ALL IN ALL 2007 WAS A GOOD YEAR DESPITE THE ROOSTER! SO MISS HAPPY....THAT IS WHAT I HAVE DONE THIS YEAR!!
HAPPY WEDNESDAY EVERYONE
Mel
Take those meds. :Bravon that one pound lost. Since I've been taking my blood pressure pill I've not had as much fluid retention. I'm also taking myself off of caffiene. I love my Dr Pepper's but makes the heart rate to fast. I have to let them go.
Shad and Madcat
I've been workiing 12 hour days for awhile now but I do get week ends off. This 36 hour week has been an ordeal.
Happy
The week end is almost here. Hang in there.(((hugs)))
Reenie
Like Mel I suffered with IBS and colitis for about a year. The doctor finally diagnosed me with diverticulitis.
It's much better.
Yesterday I made an appointment with the dermatologist. I'm thinking very seriously about making one for the allergy clinic. This allergic rhinitis is getting the best of me.
MORNING MEL- SEE I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN YOU. Now get off the computer and do something about those eyes.
I haven't forgotten Rennie either
ANYONE ELSE FEELING 'LEFT OUT BY SHAD' OUT THERE?
Why don't you lot get on my case or something??? Don't you think I have enough dingbats to look out for around here with out you lot getting at me too?
It's cool, overcast and demented here. Demented in December sounds perfectly good to me. Demented from June to January probably fits the bill as well.
Got one son sorted for Christmas (hey Rennie I like the avatars you are using) and now have to try and line up the other son. Easier said than done. They are all over the country this mob. Anyway I need to get my act into gear before all the seats go and I have to fly them Business Class - then the wallet will take a might smack!!! It's cheaper to take an economy class trip to SF than to fly from Brisbane to Perth business class. Can't believe that one.
Oops - troubles just arrived. I'll be back to comment and say hello to all those not yet mentioned OKAY
Last edited by Shad; 11-28-2007 at 04:59 PM.
Reason: Dingbats
gotta wonder where we went wrong - should be able to relax and live life the way it should be by now. But we can't and don't.
I'm the queen of "ok, let's start this back up again" - and don't you think you can take that away from me. You need to start posting again. I need something to smile about and that's your job 
I HAVE BEGUN THE NECESSARY TREATMENTS AND GOING BACK TO BED. OTHER THAN THIS...ALL IS WELL 
HAPPY TUESDAY 
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO ME...YESTERDAY I WAS BRAGGING ALL OVER TOWN ABOUT HOW GOOD I FELT AND LAST NIGHT WAS SPENT ON THE PORCELAIN GODDESS!!! 
TO ALL THE CHICKS!!
and some mindless tv before a good sleep and getting up to do it all over again tomorrow.
SENDING YOU MANY 
n that one pound lost. Since I've been taking my blood pressure pill I've not had as much fluid retention. I'm also taking myself off of caffiene. I love my Dr Pepper's but makes the heart rate to fast. I have to let them go.