For goodness sake, slow down Kirsty. You make me tired. Can't someone else do something as well! I know with painting that you want to get as much done as possible when you are there because of the mess and the cleaning up and the rest of the stuff that goes with paint, like smell and drips and splats all over your hair, arms and glasses etc. Pull the carpet up, it won't make much difference between now and Thursday, then you will get to see how much dust, dirt and mayhem the carpet hides and you will have to clean that up before painting. If you leave it until Thursday, all that will be in front of you and will need to be done in a hurry, because for once the carpet layers will be early!!!
Was feeling mighty stressed myself yesterday, not because of the house, but because I seem to be losing my stamina and energy. I could only get through 20 minutes of the step class yesterday. I packed it in and left with tears streaming down my face. Don't now what is going on here, but ever since those new weights came in from Jason, I have no energy for anything else. I was totally mad at myself for giving in and not finishing, but I couldn't get any rhythm up and couldn't work out what she was doing, she's not consistent with number of exercises and I just wasn't fast enough. The music was too loud and I just couldn't cope. Spent the rest of the day with horrible thoughts going through my mind and the tears ever present for whatever I thought of next - like dog, like kid leaving home, like no job, like the tomatoes are not ripening, like recruiters not ringing me back, like anything else that popped into my head. It wasn't a good day. I didn't bother to read many peoples journals in case I felt moved to type something sarcastic and cutting - like why don't you just put up or shut up about it!!! I think a word with Jason may be in order. I find that the more of those bloody weights that I do, the less weight I lose. I don't want to be the biggest strongest kid on the block!!
Didn't get any tiles laid yesterday. Spent some time preparing the floor for the next lot instead. DS had laid some tiles, but he didn't take into account the matching on floor to wall etc and just laid them where he thought he could use the least number of tiles. So up they came. Wasn't many of them and I did get some relief from my chaotic brain by imagining that each hammer blow landed squarely on a particular recruiters private bits. Sorry I'll explain that one another day.
Someone (Mel??) asked if DS#1 will be closer to me when he moves to Adelaide than he is now. Answer is no. This wide brown land is so big, that Brisbane is closer to New Zealand than it is to South Australia (1800k compared to around 2500K) However we will be on the same continent and I won't have to take my passport to visit. It will take me probably 24 hours of straight driving to go for lunch - don't think I will bother unless he asks me to stay over!
Where is Happy? WHERE IS HAPPY? WHERE IS HAPPY?? :mag: :mag::mag::mag: You haven't fallen over DH's tripod have you? Or into the fishpond at the local gardens? Please just put in a post to say you are okay.
Teel, tonight is the big night for you isn't it? Off to Salzburg. Good on you for the luggage bit. We travellers need to do our bit for the economy and for the environment. Bring home some good stuff - although all I can think of from Austria is those pastries, cakes, chocolate, coffee and cream. Oh there is scenery and architecture as well. Do not overindulge, but have a wonderful, wonderful time.

Right I am off, take my woes out on the treadmill or rowing machine, not to mention those p*ssy weights - oh and Jason as well if he is there. It's probably lucky he wasn't yesterday as we may not be speaking now.

is that not where you get cuckoo clocks from ??? shad i would leave something to someone else but for some reason they dont want to do anything thats what i get for having men and i lay the carpets in this house another string on my bow anyway the reason im on here at 12.25 am is
:wave: :wave: :wave: :cb: :cb: HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAE AND HAVE A BLOOMING GOOD TIME :grouphug: :grouphug: :dancer: :gift: :gift: :flow2: :flow2: :high: :queen: :encore: :encore: :encore: :gossip: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :goodluck: :cheers: :sunny: :sunny: :balloons: :balloons: :goodvibes :goodvibes :hat: :hat: :hat: :bravo: have a lovely day and let us know how good a time you have we all could do with cheering up between shad and i weve raised the tides
kirsty

Happy Birthday Roseblush!!
 

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Tomorrow I hope you have a wonderful time! I already celebrated today with a Pepsi!!! :rofl: I may just celebrate your birthday all WEEK!!! :lol:
Hope all your wishes come true!!!! Have a great Birthday Year!

I tried to bring more graphics but 3FC says I already have them here! I will get another lesson from Shad next we are on the pphone!! Don't take the stuff on your mini vacation! Wait till you get back! You should be relaxing! Not reading diet junk! :rofl:

Hello girls, I am here. Lurking. Always seem to be behind lately. Found an English Ivy at the Arboretum that I absolutely fell in love with. If I was not such a guilt laden lapsed Catholic, I would have tweeked a tiny cutting for myself. Been trying to identify it all weekend. Of course I have to pick a plant that has over 400 varieties. *** pound, pound, pound. ***

Right now it is time for my evening walk with DH. We are going to waste our money buying a lottery ticket for the 250 million drawing tomorrow. At least we get a nice walk in. Then when we return, DH wants me to show him how to update the web pages on his web site. So I'll be back in a few hours to catch up and set up for Nae's BD party.

Thanks for worrying about me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday was a better outing day for us so we went one of our favorite gardens spots and also tried out a new arboretum we had never been too. While at the arboretum we walked the JOY PATH. Honest, we should have taken a picture of the sign - heaven knows at this point there will be no pictures of me. But we walked the path, it was lovely and we talked about you all the way. So see, you are quite often along with us on our walk abouts.

So, my dear horticultural wonder friend, do you have any idea what this Ivy might be named? The leave is mostly creamy white and the part that fascinates me is the verigation in the center. It is abstract with green and gray green shadows and it appears to me for all the world to look like a water color painting. I was just in awe of this ivy and must have sat there admiring it for a good 25 minutes as DH was snapping pictures around me. I did think to snip a cutting but I knew that wasn't right and the arboretum store only sells selected plants once a year as a fund raiser. I thought I'd be able to find it in a nursery but I may have missed the ivy season... Here's the pic, hope you can see what I'm describing...

I will be back to comment later - You must have read the same journal entry I did. Quit your whining and excuses, get off the stick and BE AN ADULT!!!!!!!!! (Not applicable to you fine ladies here of course). Anyway, I will be back shortly...

Came home to CHAOS
 

I had a wonderful time at the Mall. I was bad and spent saved $$ though. I bought another outfit and some face stuff. I think it's cause I was depressed! :rofl: I think that's a good enough excuse! I will wear the new clothes tomorrow and parade around!
I came home and our construction crap was in chaos and the office too. I had it straightened out in 17 minutes what they were frantic about for HOURS!!! I work very well under pressure but I seem to be the ONLY one that does! I am asking for a chunk of $$ this month. I'll start at $500 and see if I get it. I'll be able to pay off 1 bill at least.

Dear Shad~ I send my love and hugs and caring to you and I think you have been quite the little soldier while your world has been torn apart. It's a lot of sh*t to go through all at one time. Besides your still grieving Shad the dog. I have no magic cure but time does heal all wounds. I wish a job would come your way so it would take your mind off things a bit. I think you're also suffering from cabin fever. You are NOT used to being in one place for so LONG!!
You are in my thoughts every day Kahurangi! Pleas hang in there. Love, Porangi

Teel~ I hope you have a grand time and I'm not too late to say goodbye!!!
Bring back all the details as I have never been anywhere and love other peoples tales!!! Adios my friend!!!

Linus~ God woman do you ever slow down??? I think that none of us do! LOL We are all workaholics. That is how I got hooked up with Shad and Happy. Birds of a feather flock together or so the saying goes! :rofl: good luck with all the plans! No wonder you need vitamins! :lol:

Nae~ Of course I wish you well again for tomorrow. I have enjoyed your company and caring also and support. Your notes have also kept me going.
i sound tough and curse a lot but inside I am MUSH! :rofl: Not too many people know that. I try and keep it a secret in my day to day life. Keeps the enemy away! They're afraid of me! :rofl: Anyway.......Good Tuesday to you a few hours early.

I am posting this all now cause tomorrow I want to be dressed and ready when a bigwig comes. I intend to get rid of the burden of the contractor responsibility and have him give it to someone else. The whole reason for this mess was becaise someone went on vacation for a week(this one) and now no one wants to take over the decision making. Well Mel the Doormat is no longer an option for them and they need reminding of that tomorrow! I am woman and you all will hear me roar!!!! The next growl you hear will be ME!!! :rofl: I am going to take a shower and then books and bed I think. I'm too tired to comment ion others journals and like Shad I might just write WTF in ALL OF THEM!!!! Or post a pic of me in the wheelchair and maybe they would cut the crap! What do you think Shad?!?!?:rofl: Good night my friends and take care!

PS Happy~ where for art thou! :lol:

Happy, I have sent you a couple of e-mails that deal with Ivy. (hedera helix variagatum or something similar) Maybe it is good that you didn't take a cutting as such. Maybe it was common sense and not catholic guilt which stopped you. Ivies are lovely, however they can be dangerous both to the garden and you. Check carefully before you buy hey!

Thanks everyone for your good wishes .....I love all the graphics.....they really bring me such a warm pleasant feeling to know you guys take time to wish me well..... You are the best ...all of you! I am holding on to the night in thoughts of the last decade and how much your life does change in the 40"s....it is amazing. But I am sure fabulous and fifty will be fine..... Nite Nite everyone....see you all tomorrow on the top of this hill I am going over.......
Nae

It's time, it's time, it's time!!!

HappyBirthdayNae

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Wishing you the happiest of days to last you the entire year!

I am still waiting for the fabulous part of 50 to appear, when it's knocks me on the side of the head, I will clue you in. However, I do believe that every day you wake up and can get out of bed is a good one.

I played a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday to you on DH's harmonica. Pity you couldn't hear to enjoy it... perhaps I'll make a recording and ask Suzanne to allow MP3 files :rofl: :rofl:

Happy Birthday kiddo... :D :D :D

Silly me, I back paged to catch up on posts and lost part of what I had written... Thank you Shad for your prompt response on my inquiry. I do believe the Glacier version you found is close to what this was. I was surprised to read in my research what a pest plant Ivy can become. As you say, might be more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps I could find a nice silk arrangement instead :lol: I was just fascinated by the leaves, what can I say, I find amusement in some of the silliest things!

Sorry to hear that you are in need of a good vent Shad. Tears are not like you except we all have our breaking points. Tears are also a good way to shed toxins from the body, did you know that? I think you may be better off in striking a happy balance of your own gym routine via trial and error. I'm sure Jason will be eager to help but everyone is a bit different. Yes, you do need muscle to efficiently burn the calories all day long but I must question your routine if all of a sudden you don't have the stamina to get through a class now. My trainer said there are 5 core muscle groups you should work for a basic weight training program. I can look for my notebook if you like - his program was sound for overall fitness and health. You can always delve deeper if you wish to train for competion :strong: I think you have a solid program, perhaps look a bit at tweeking the food if you wish to shuffle things around. It's frustrating too on the job front, I wish people were more courteous. I will add you to the list as I fall asleep at night and wish good karma for all my friends and the good people of the world. ;) ;)

Linus, you sound like a whirling dirvish of activity today. Had to sit down a bit and rest after reading your post! Take care not to mess your back up anymore. And good going on cutting back on the cigarettes. Pity you can't take the Zyban but it gets to the point where it's sheer willpower anyway. Just keep trying to cut one or 2 from your daily consumption each week and over a few week's time you will be down to next to nothing!

Teel, is it time for your trip already? Bon Voyage - have a safe, happy and totally exciting trip filled with wonder and laughs and enough good food and sites to make you smile each and every day. Remember, we travel vicariously through each other so bring us back some wonderful stories.

Mel, I have to laugh every time I see you post graphics. You sure are a quick learner and come up with some very creative ideas. I do hope you stand your ground tomorrow and give back these responsibilities that they drop off on you more and more. Your health and well being is more important and there are others waiting for you to be their secret angel - save your strength for them. I will be listening for the roar tomorrow :drill: - just don't make them cry - or maybe you should after all.

Nae, happy birthday again to you. Wish we could have seen the picture after your friends dressed you up. I know what you mean about wondering where the years went to. I still think at this point my MOM is 50, not me. And I guess that's the way it goes because she said she thinks HER mom is 70, not her. Someone once told me that the reason time passes so quickly is that when we are younger and working, we keep wishing it was Friday and the weekend and over time, we have indeed, wished our lives away. So now I enjoy each day for whatever it brings - even if it's a bad one, I know it won't last that long.

I did go to see the gyne doctor today tho the breast smashing will hold off until January. She was very pleased I quit smoking - even said you didn't gain THAT much weight since last year and quitting smoking was the best thing you could have done health wise. So that was good news and other than that I appear to be a little slower, blinder, stiffer but still in relatively good health. I am hearing from the doctors alot lately, well, you ARE getting older and these things DO happen. All of them say diet and exercise and a few good laughs a day are the secret to feeling the best you can.

So ladies, eat well, move a bit, tell a good joke and have a few good deep cleansing breaths as you go about your day. Time for me to catch up to Nae's party via the Dreamland Express. G'night all...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to NAE!!!!

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Well the day is here for our third June chick's birthday and all good wishes coming your way dear Roseblush. Have a super day as you stop "pushing 50!!!".
Tonight's the night! I have packed my cabin bag...weighs 4kg out of an allowed 5kg, and I have put a few extra bits in my case....I just hope those scales are correct!! My only wish is that I was sleeping better. I have really got into this pattern of waking every two hours or less. I'm sitting here :comp: :comp: thinking shucks! I am tired even now, at this hour of 09:47hrs! :tired: :tired: :tired: I think my best plan is to go to sleep early this evening and get as much as I can....
Well I had better go now as the gardener is arriving so ta ta for now...see you next Thursday probably! Take good care.
Love from Teel xx :D

Goodbye Teel!!!!!!
 

:wave: Goodbye Teel!!! Have a great time!!! :wave:

Nae~ Hope the birthday is going well and you are celebrating along with us! :rofl: We'll use any excuse to bend the elbows whether it's with Pepsi or spirits of some sort! :rofl:

Happy~this whole day has been a joke but not the laughing kind as of yet. I plan to change my mood soon though! I promise! :lol: Hope you find some good things to laugh about today too! :DMy daughter and I have tried very hard to grow ivies indoors. Many different varieties but neither of us have been successful. They grow for awhile, we train them on a wore shape and just when they start to look like something, they start to die!LOL She hasd a varigated one too, something like the pic but smaller leaf. I am babysitting it along wioth the bird!! I had a lovely english Ivy and we had a funeral for it last year! :rofl: Good luck!

Well met with a boss man. neither of us raised our voices. He will take care of everything this time and has already started to put me back as a tenant and putting the blame on them for "taking orders" from a tenant. They all took it as a slap in the face from him and are now mad at him too. He says this is the was it's done in the "busiiness" world. I must take his advice cause Im never was in this position before. Everyone is "sad" for me and think I'm getting squeezed out. It's exactly the reaction he exp[ected and said for me to leave him as the "monster". so I came up and here I am!!! Guess I better start learning what to do with my time and break open the waterco.ors.:rofl:
There is a bit of sadness on my part though. I liked some of the responsibility. Makes you feel needed, important and keeps you "alive". I must now learn how to do this on my own cause if I screw this up this time, He will kill me! :rofl: In the end, the "passing" of authority went off with out the roar, or bang or any noise other than his scathing tongue and ever so quietly too. :shrug: who'd a thunk it! :lol: I need to get the chicken ready to bake so catch you all later.

just a quick pop in im still decorating TEEL havr a lovely time and maybe like i was your just plain old excited and looking forward to your holiday hope so and that your sleep pattern goes back to normal SHAD youve got itchy feet and an itchy brain if youve worked all your life and now are having an enforced holiday i felt very lost bored depressed and OLD and feeble when i had to give up work but i suppose you cant lift old people when your likely to drop them on there *** so that was me hope things get back on an even keel soon HAPPY will show mum the photo when she comes back from hull shes going to visit my sister for her birthday and stepdad is going to visit his family while they are there but if you want to grow ivy and dont want to end up with a lovely building covered in ivy {and we have 4 floors} pot it and the secret with ivy,s is to be very mean to them they dont like rich soil and they like to fend for themselves we treat them like weeds over here everywhee you go there are buildings covered with ivy what they are really good for is if you have a really well established decidous tree they will climb over it and when the tree drops it,s leaves the ivy will still be there as its evergreen even down to minus 5 and colder i will try and find the syrain for you our local garden centre specialises in them but i think shad might be right NAE hope your still celebrating i wont ever forget your birthday as youre right between my mum and dad so if i forget it means ive forgotten theres and i will be in big trouble well conners at his leavers party and im bent over double after painting skirting boards and the bloody walls decieded that they would need two coats and poor dh after helping me move one set of bunk beds and one wardrobe and then sitting on his backside all day has pulled his back and hasnt stopped moaning all day actually apoligies he moved the telly and craigs pc all by his self poor soul MEN
kirsty

so sorry mel i left you out it wasnt meant we all know you are mush youve got a golden heart and an angels soul and we all love you kepp well and get real good at your painting and ill buy one and well all make you rich by having a mel original
kirsty

Hi ya all. I'm back again to celebrate the rest of 'Nae's birthday :cheers: and to publish the dreaded weights and measurements.

Weight - 75/75/75/74.5/74/ 73
Upper Chest 40/39.5/39/39.5/39 / 39.5
Bust 44/43.5/42.5/43.5/43.25/ 42.5
Lower Chest 36/35.75/35.5/36/35/ 34
Waist 36/36.5/35.5/35.75/35.5/ 34
Upper Hips 42/41.5/41/42.25/41/ 40.5
Lower Hips 41/40.5/40/40.5/40/ 40
Top of Leg 22.5/22/21.5/22/21.75/ 21.75
Top of Arm 12.5/12.5/12.5/12.5/12.5/ 12.5

Not too bad eh??????

'Nae, I hope you are having a great birthday. I rang my sister last night as it is/was her birthday as well. She is 51. So she has survived her first year in the 50s.
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Linus - your poor DH - Oh I feel so sorry (not) for him. Well I do, because back pain is not funny, but here you are always aching and he comes in all gungho and strains his back. Sounds like the renovating is coming along a treat. Of course you know what happens when you get it all done? You move and have to do it all over again.

Mel, maybe when the watercolours start to flow, you can get together with mooz49 - she paints in oils and very well too! You can stage an exhibition - maybe you can get happy to create a virtual gallery so you can show all over the world!

Teel, you are off today - probably already at the airport and floating free over the 'uberland' Have a wonderful time and I am sorry I missed your call yesterday. I meant to ring back last night, but decided you needed sleep more than my dulcet tones telling you the same warnings your Mum probably gave you.

Okay, I am getting cold. I need to go shower, have breakfast and move on with the day. I have a recruitment bloke from Melbourne ringing me at 11.45 for a chat. I'm not getting excited yet. We will see what gives.