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Actually Trill the cake was cr*p. I had a piece of almond & apricot cake - which sounds nummo, but failed to deliver a perfect cakey texture. Apparently he needs his finger xrayed too, although I am of the opinion that if he'd taken the ring off in the first instance it wouldn't have swollen up that big :lol:. Where was the first aider at work when he needed them??? Am trying not to freak out about the pituitary thing, but am all too aware that these sorts of things are treated with brain surgery.
Cally, he was rabbiting on about getting the ring fixed and resized ASAP...I said nothing but thought quietly to myself "not for a couple of months you won't". Dressups at this age are easy, just raid the dress up box. I bet there are a million halloween fairies and princesses there on Fri LOL. That wee on the carpet before bedtime sounds like a scene at our house.
Trill, I'm so glad the hay baling all got done and paid for. :) Gosh your sis sounds OTT! I think ignoring sounds like the best strategy for now. My Dad told me he puts fly wire at the bottom of his pots before he puts the soil in, it stops the earwigs etc getting into the pots. Too late for me this year, my toms are already potted. But I've got those self watering pots so maybe the water well in the bottom will keep them out.
ETA - ladies, looks like I'm about to find out more about endocrinology & neurosurgery than I ever wanted to know :(. Fortunately if the tiny little something is a something, then at least it's tiny. That's good.
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MD, I'm sure you will deal with all this new-found knowledge just fine :hug:
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Ladies, where is all the light-hearted chatty banter when I need it??? huh?
Trill and Arte and Cass and Isadora and anyone else who is studying - read this and weeeeeeep ----> NO exams in my course. Zero zip nada! :rofl: Suddenly "The Librarians" all makes sense...which reminds me it's funny night on the telly tonight. IT crowd back to back with the Librarians aaaaah how good does it get?
I'm not sure if I told you but Missy E is coping much better now that the CC disaster is far behind us. She's still a bit clingy some mornings but it's a fraction of what it was before. She's going to bed much happier than she was too.
So Ginger, are you going to get a "my dog" dog now? LOL
Cass, how is your bb going now with the meds? Much more comfortable i hope.
BTW - has anyone else seen all the halloween crap in the shops. My local had plastic pumpkins FFS! What is going on?! OK, so it's fun when your kid decides they want a halloween party for their birthday (cos you can stockpile for when the party rolls round) but seriously, who is buying all that stuff?! We don't even get trick or treaters in our street. Although I admit to buying a sharepack of chocolate bars every year, just in case :lol:
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I guess that is a good thing about have a crap 'super'market - they barely have the essentials so they don't bother with things like halloween. Although they do have the xmas gear out already.
MD, is that no exams for your entire course??? I have just realised that 5 short answer questions at one page each means I have to write 5 pages! Don't they know this is the computer age? I don't know if I have written 5 pages total in the last 10 years lol. I am going to get RSI or carpel tunnel or something!
W stayed the full session at kindy by himself today. I got to take A to music and the park and actually got some decent one-on-one time with her which she doesn't get much. And then he tried sushi for tea - and he liked it!
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**** MD- When is that roller coaster going to end??? I hope it is a small straight forward tumor that is easily removed. :hug: They can fix jewelry so it looks like it never broke. My wedding band was my great grandmas and was broken when i got it, you couldn't tell now. :)
I've been MIA, computer broke and i've been sick. :sick: They think i have Typhoid and Malaria, but that's a whole other thread. :wall:
:hello: all.
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geez MD...here are a bucketload of these phat ones :hug: (oh and bucketload of really rich, smooth and gooey all at once mudcake...cause chocolate makes the world a better place :p).
...oh, i also chose my subjects based on whether they had exams or not...this is why i did not become a journalist...waaayyyy too many exams :rofl: funny cause it's true bahahaha!
and totally! what is with the halloween stuff??!!! i have noticed that in the last 2 years that they have been going hard in trying to get us all into it (ie buying the crap at coles et al). i dont really get it???
awesome stuff about missy e...mummy's instincts were totally right again!
JM: well, it would appear that you dont do things in halves my friend...typhoid and malaria all rolled up into one. hope that you are holding up ok xx
Cally: hmmm miss K and miss L seem to be of the same stock lol! lots of battles atm in our house too...lots of back-chat which is new....
AFM: well, lots of TMI but man, i am at war with my boobs at the moment lol. the ABs for the mastitis did the devil on me and now i have boob thrush. which means that so does Marta...
good news for us is that we are on holiday! currently in canberra hanging out with friends, and tomorrow to wollongong to sit by the beach and eat fish and chips and paddle in the ocean, and then maybe relax on the verandah watching the dolphins go by...it's tough LOL!
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Enjoy the paddle Cass, the salt water will do your hooters wonders. :)
Luella asked me why there were dressed up on 'deal or no deal' (lots of couch time atm. ;) ) I said it was for Halloween, some silly thing they do in America, but i realised i had NO IDEA of it's origin or meaning? Anyone care to enlighten me?
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Gosh JM you never do things by halves, woman! I bet you can't wait to hit our fair shores again. :hug: Got everything crossed for a swift recovery and no complications.
Yay for holidays Cass, I hope this gives your immune system a big boost so your bbs get better asap. Remember they like sunshine and fresh air (is there a nude beach in Woll? :rofl:) I also found that using cloth breast pads and changing them a zillion times a day was better than the sposies.
Re Halloween. In the Catholic calendar, Nov 1st is the feast day for all the saints (ie people who have died who are known to have "definitely" gone to heaven) and Nov 2nd is the day you pray for the souls of everyone else who has died. So lots of remembering dead people on Nov 1 & 2. All Hallows (meaning all saints) is the old name, and Hallow e'en means the Evening of. It's considered to be a time when the veil between the worlds is thinnest, so the dead can make contact with the living, but whether that's a pagan concept or a kinda superstitious oldy fashioned christian one I don't know. Pagans also celebrate to honour the dead at this time.
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But as usual, someone realised that there was a dollar to be made and completely commercialised it, making it the farce it is today. LOL. I hate Halloween with a passion and I refuse to entertain any idea of us celebrating it. It's not 'ours' kwim?
MD, great to hear that E has settled again.
Cass, I hope the thrush clears quickly
And JM, I hope we don't have to start calling you Typhoid Mary :rofl:
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hi girls, sorry been a bit MIA
md- big hugs to you my friend. i hope everything turns out ok. thinking of you
jm- how are you? you poor thing. missed you down at franga beach today. lewis was trying to wrestle with my friend's ds but he was giving him nothing. he really needed a lulu wrestle.
i hate halloween too......not getting a 'my dog' dog, their temperament sounds way too psycho for this household......oh and can i just say that i would take an exam over an assignment any day of the week. i love exams! all over and done with in one day
eta- thinking of removing my weight loss ticker cos it seems to not be moving at all! lost all motivation.....
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I'd take the exam over assignment too. I love exams. The adrenalin, the fact that's it's all over in a couple of hours. That combined with the fact i used ot have a cracking memory which made exams easy. :p Maybe i'd feel differently these days!
Yeah ditch the ticker G, we're eating out! :p Can't believe you went to MY beach without me?! *****! What is the world coming to?
I'm ok, still a bit sick, but nothing different to usual when i'm UTD. Can't wait to get to Aus.
Cass- how's the paddling? Thrush getting better?
MD- i knew you'd know about Halloween. :lol: We always lived out of town as kids, so no trick or treating. Never really got into HAlloween, or Valentines day for that matter. I'm just a big ol' party pooper.
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I pick exams over assignments as well. I am good under pressure and they are much less work than assignments. My special talent in life was that I have always been "exam lucky" - I seem to 'know' what topics will and won't be covered in exams so I can study less. Coasted though a whole degree on my system lol. No advantage this time though because they have given us so many hints as to what is in the exam that they may as well have just handed out the actual test. Loving the social sciences!
DH has gone away until Sunday night. I should have been doing some study but instead I watched Grown-ups. It was reasonably amusing, a bit slapstick in places but a few good gags.
Ginger, W took a pic with my phone of me from behind and OMG I need to do something about my weight. It is appalling! I can't believe how big my arse is! I am thinking of printing the pic and hanging near the biscuit tin as a reminder.
JM, hope you are feeling alright. It is not a race you know, you don't need to get all the tropical diseases as fast as you can!
Cass, hope you had a good swim at the beach. We went to the river the other day for the first time of the season and it was lovely.
Poor A is cutting her third tooth - it looks as though someone has hacked at her gum with a blunt file!
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weight loss ticker is gone! i definitely still need to lose a few, but i'm happy to stay where i am for the time being and slowly chip away at it over summer.
i'm actually squeezing myself into a size 12 dress to wear to a wedding tomorrow, and i really do mean 'squeeze'- i'm wearing a super tight size 14 gut busting suit and the zip is so friggen tight that dh has to do it up and i cannot breathe or drink or sing or laugh or do anything or it will pop open on me
jm- yes we are eating out, if you count mcmuffins as eating out LOL i'll have to do lots of walking while you're here!
glad i'm not the only one that likes exams. i love the way you can't procrastinate with them either. you just turn up and spill what you know! i think their bad name is undeserved. assignments, on the other hand, suck!
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LOL Ginger, I hope that the wedding was good and you managed to make it thought without suffocating in your gutbuster.
I was just thinking of getting some gut busting garments - my belly is looking suspiciously pregnant and I am sure it is only a matter of time before someone asks when I am due lol - that will be awkward for everyone.
I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I am seriously looking forward to DH coming home tomorrow night. I hate doing bedtime with both of them, it is such hard work.
What else can I ramble about.... hmmm.... I think it is safe to say W is night time TT now. He begged for undies a few weeks ago and the first week was a bit of a disaster but he has only had one accident in the past couple of weeks so he is doing pretty well. I have probably jinxed it now and fully expect an accident tonight.
W and A are playing together now and it is adorable! You see W running past with a toy and then A is wobbling after him with another laughing her head off. She just loves him, it is the cutest thing to see.
Again I should be studying but I am not. Exam is on Friday but DH is taking Wednesday and Thursday off work so I can study (since he went away this weekend). It works out better for me anyway because during the week I can go to the library for the entire day but if I tried to study at home over the weekend I know I would only end up doing a few hours with a million interruptions.
Now as we drive along W points out the window and says things like "Mum, do you like those beautiful Rhododendrons?" lol - DH will be pleased.
Anyways, enough dribbling from me. Off to check FB and procrastinate some more.
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My main problem with exams is that, having spewed forth the entire contents of my memory, five minutes later I can no longer remember any of it. Not a very useful learning tool IMO. Totally agree weekends are a terrible time to study. I believe the recreation gives your brain a boost anyway. Good luck with it Arte.
Sorry but I just don't believe in gutsucking undergarments...it's gotta squeeze it all somewhere. I reckon even if I got a whole-body model I would just end up with some really fat sausages at my neck, wrists and ankles. Not a good look. Either that or it will all get squeezed inwards and I'll develop a bumhole prolapse :rofl:. I'm seriously battling the pregnant tum thing, I'm getting the menopausal spare tyre in a big way, for the first time in my life my stomach protrudes out way further than my size 18D boobs (now that's sayin something) :lol:. But there are worse things in life than being fat.
Ginger, I hope your gutbusters stayed in place throughout the wedding (I had visions of you going "SPROING") and that you managed to dissolve some sustenance under your tongue without needing to swallow anything LOL. A mcmuffin and a walk sounds like an excellent plan, only wish I could join you.
Arte, I can't believe W has conquered the rhododendron concept!!! I talked about them ceaselessly when we were there (it was this time of year and the bright pink tree ones were in full swing) and DH *still* has no idea what rhododendron means. Well done with the nighttime TTing. We had a breakthrough today at the shops when Missy E declared she wanted to go to the toilet halfway down aisle 9 so I think we're on our way too. BTW is your local library any good, do they get stuff in for you via Te Puna when you want it? Or can you get material sent out by your uni's library?
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Well I got the results for the quiz tonight and a bit bummed I only got 64% which is only a Pass. It made it harder that you had to get the entire question correct to get the points, otherwise you got nothing at all. So there were a few questions where had the rules been different I would have got a higher mark because there were slight mistakes but some of the answer was still right. Anyway, I hope it doesn't pull my average down too much.
Arte, that's great he is night trained now. It makes such a difference doesn't it? I hope the study day pans out the way you want it to and you ace the test.
MD, I much prefer research assignments. I don't mind wearing the suck me in pants LOL, but not so that they are too tight, just so that they stop the jiggly bits from jiggling ;) Don't you just love it when you are in the middle of the supermarket and they have to go to the loo?
