[Trudy]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN

I'll come back later...

[Lizziepie]

Thanks for all the good wishes. It has been a very good day.See you tomorrow. Ann

[Ashe]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN.

[survivor]

Ann, I hope I haven't missed it, but Happy Birthday. Hope you are having a wonderful celebration! At this point in our lives it is so wonderful to celebrate the joy of being alive and enjoying the life God gave us. Hope the neighborhood is rocking for you!
Glenda

[painter5]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN! Not sure when but hope it is wonderful.

[flaggies]

G'day all,

I am home!!!!

Left Sydney at 5.45am on Monday morning, drove for 12 hours and overnighted at a small country town. I was still feeling quite OK and had thought of carrying on a bit further however when I stopped to get petrol, it really hit me that I was 'stuffed' and would have been foolish to go on. The petrol station attendant also warned me that because of the drought, there were many kangeroos and especially emu's to watch out for.
I had a good night sleep and set off the next morning again at 6 am. I never have a cooked breakfast but dh rang and told me that I must have a good breakfast. About 8 I stopped at a road house and ordered scrambled eggs and bacon. I went to sit down and noticed dead flies on the windowsills, ants crawling on the floor etc. etc., too late to cancel breakfast . Breakfast arrived, huge rashers of bacon with the rind on and the scrambled eggs were swimming in some sort of liquid. I had a few mouths full and just had to leave it. The lady running the place was huge, I am sure she eats all the left overs left by dissatisfied customers
Technology is wonderful and dh, dd and ds all kept in touch by mobile phone whenever I was in range.
I arrived in Adelaide early in the afternoon, a beautiful sunny day. It was a bit of an anti-climax as I came to an empty house. DS rang to see if I could meet him at 5pm on the other side of town, to look at a house that he has put an offer on. Did that, (very nice new townhouse) came home again and got some Thai take-away and finally went to bed about 11.
I certainly have my work cut out for the next week or so, it is VERY noticable that a fellow has lived in my house on his own DS is very tidy, but doesn't believe in dusting, cleaning the bathrooms too often, cooktop etc., I am sure you have the picture.
I am very pleased that he received a call last night to say that the offer for his new house has been accepted and he will be moving out within a month.
I will then be able to re-organise my house the way I like it and when I return home everything will be where I left it
The other thing is that ds asked if we could help to contribute to the wedding. I reminded him that we had already given him the equivalent of dd's wedding. I told him that I would speak to dh and see what we can come up with. Kids

So there you have it, I am home with lots to do before dh arrives home next week. He has a meeting today with his bosses and is going to try and convince them that it would be a good idea for him to work from home till after Christmas. One cannot make too many demands in the present climate, so we will see how it goes.

Before I start tackling my kitchen, I must just wish Ann belatedly Happy Birthday , I hope you had a great day.
I enjoyed everyone's posts, hope things ease up for you Peggy with all the running around you are doing.

Cheers
Maria

[Trudy]

I just had to go see the Greek Wedding movie after reading the raves from Glenda and I think it was Ann (hope I got that right). The movie was so funny and it reminded me of my Polish grandmother's house way back when. All her brothers and their kids would be in my "baba's" house for all the holidays, they would bring their musical instruments and there would be so much food, and so many people we would eat in shifts. I laughed so hard at the windex and will have to buy some when I go grocery shopping this week..
Maria so glad you are back home. You really amaze me, driving all that way alone. I don't think I could have done it. Your life is way more exciting than mine ever has been. I will keep my fingers crossed so you and your DH can stay home till after Christmas. You sure do deserve some peaceful time in the home you love.
It was a cool rainy day today, and the WW meeting was ok, we had a substitute. Of course the highlight of the day was Tea Time, all 5 of us again. Good food, good friends and lots of laughs, what more can we ask for?

Off to bed..
... talk to you tomorrow

[survivor]

Trudy, I am so glad you enjoyed the Greek Wedding. We go to the show every week and sometimes the choices are just awful, so we have seen that movie three times (with different people) and enjoyed it immensely each time. The funniest part for me was when his parents (white toast) were walking with the bundt cake across the lawn to the "family." Such dread! And just so funny!

Maria, what timing! Glad your son's offer was accepted so you can have some time alone in your house. It must be wonderful to be in familiar surroundings.

Lily, when is your vacation?

My boss is grumpy and tired. Might be a long day.
Glenda

[LilyG]

Maria: Welcome Home! I think I would of left the resturant. That sounds awful. Sounds like you have lots to do to catch up on. But Im sure you are happy to be in your own home for a change. And good that your son found a place to!

Trudy: Guess Im gonna have to go see that movie. Everyone seems to like it. Sounds like tea time was fun. But then it always is!

Glenda: Vacation starts next Sat. Got tons to do before we head out.
I need to buy a light jacket. And also need to buy something for the WW Innovations that is coming up when we get back. Not sure what to buy for it. ALAS...

Ann: Glad you had a great BD!

This new Journal Entry option looks interesting.

Best get busy.

[flaggies]

G'day all,

Starting to get back into it again. I had a lovely sleep last night and this morning I am trying to get all my linen look white again I guess it was foolish to have white linen when you know your son is using the bed.
It is not too bad, just a light grey

Son and future d-i-l are moving into their new house on October 12, only another 3 weeks and I can really and truly have the house back to myself
Had another talk to ds about our contribution to the wedding and he now understands where we are coming from.
Sunday we are having a 'brainstorming' lunch at my place with girlfriends parents, ds and myself. Thank goodness girlfriend's parents and us think very much the same, no doubt we will work it al out.

Lily anything happening with your dh? We got more gloomy news yesterday of more redundancies, hopefully dh will survive it again if not our new car will be very short lived

The Greek Wedding movie must be a movie for me to watch out for, sounds like my kind of movie.
Trudy your teatime sounds like just good old fashion fun, there should be more of it! That is what I am looking forward to, catching up with friends, just getting on the phone and call. Most of our friends are of course our age and still are reluctant to call long distance eventhough the cost has reduced considerably.

Back to the washing!

Have a great day all,
Cheers
Maria

[slavika]

Hi Everybody
Well my grandbabies are bathed, and fast asleep. It's my big kids I'm worried about. They arrived in New Orleans today, early afternoon. DS sent an e-mail saying they arrived safe and sound at the hotel but there was a LOT of "water" around. I checked the weather out for New Orleans and looks like Hurricane Isidore is doing her best to cause massive flooding and high winds, for what looks like all of Louisiana. I think they said New Orleans already had a foot and half of rain. If I don't hear again from them shortly I will call them on their cell phone.
Maria you sound so happy to be back in your own house with all your own stuff. I'm sure you have tons of things to do, but somehow that's ok, because you're home.
I managed to lose 1# at WW and we had a great Tea Time. For a change we were all there. It was really nice having everybody all together again.
Talk to you all soon. Night all.

[slavika]

Hi Everybody heard from DS and the storm is over in New Orleans, even the rain has stopped and both he and DIL are doing great. GOOd, now I can relax.

[flaggies]

G'day all,

I heard about 'Isidore' on the news and wondered if any of you were effected. Good to hear all is well Slavika and you can now relax!
Congratulations another pound well done.
DS told me last night that my new scales are out by about 4kg, as in 4kg heavier. DS is a fitness freak and prefers the scales to read heavier Goodness knows how much I have lost/gained or whatever! At the moment that is the furthest thing on my mind.
Went to the cancer specialist yesterday and all is well
Today I am messing about doing some wedding invitations for the kids. No-one home here until Sunday when they all come for lunch. Nice to have the place to myself, just wished I knew where everything is
Have a great day all
Cheers
Maria

[painter5]

Maria glad that you made it home safe and sound. How does your own bed feel? So happy that your checkup was good. I go in a week. How are the invitations coming? My niece just made hers-they were nice and simple and she had a lavender ribbon at the top. Slavika glad the kids survived the hurricane. I saw how much collects in normal rainstorm when we were there last year - saw all the water on tv. It must have been something when Bourbon Street was closed. Maybe the rain help wash the odors away. We had 2 days of heavy downpours from it. Wasn't My Big Fat Greek Wedding the best? It was so nice to see a movie where you didn't have to think and try to figure out what was going on. Now I want to see Sweet Home Alabama. Hopefully my days of driving my son to therapy have come to an end. He thinks that he is able to drive now=he has been practicing on his driveway. Enjoy the day,

[Karen L]

Hi all,
I just wanted you all to know that I didn't fall off the edge of the earth. My life has been so busy with work and family. After this week it should slow down for a while. We finally got all the redecorating done , and I am very happy with the results. In the process I've renamed My office/ exercise room the Wreck Room because it is always a wreck!!! I no sooner get it straight when in comes some more WW stuff from the UPS man. He knows my schedule and will only stop when I am here. Good thing other wise he would be running back and forth all the time. We had two weekends of party's. One in St Paul for all my Dad's family to get together one last time before the snow fly's and those who leave for the winter can say bye- bye to all. Then Mother's birthday. She was 76 couldn't let that go by with out a party. We had that here in my little house. It was fun but I was glad when it was all over. Needless to say when I stepped on the scale last Tuesday it laughed at me. Should have known better than to party 2 weekends in a row. So am back to 18-23 points a day until I lose those unwanted pounds. (3). It sounds like all of you are happy and busy. I hope to beable to get back here more often. I miss talking to all of you.
See you later
Karen