Members' News

I've lived that life and made it to 27... you merely lack ambition. Who wants to be 30? And we can put something cool on your headstone about drunken debauchery leaving a well preserved corpse...

I called the folks yesterday and found out a highschool classmate had passed away last week, he was 46 and had a fatal heart attack. I went to work this morning and noticed a co-worker was crying, I asked her why and she told me Willy, who worked on the graveyard shift, had passed away last night. Willy was also a highschool classmate of mine, he also had a fatal heart attack. I had been worried about him because in addition to his job as QA(quality assurance) lead, he also had a job in the meat department at a local supermarket. I guess I was right to worry, turns out Willy is not only leaving his wife and three daughters, his wife is due sometime in January.

Live like there is no tomorrow, you never know when that will happen.

::hugs Tamyra:: I'm sorry about your classmate! It's only been 8 years since my graduation, and already there are a bunch of gravestones in the local cemetery with names from my high school album :?

I live like there's no today. Does that count?

edit: spelling

Hi there. Anyone missed me? Still don't have easy access to internet yet. What a shame, and totally frustrating!

The fule fire really is horrible, allthough i havent seen anything about it in our news. As if that wasnt enought, we (in Souh Africa and Namibia) have been having fule shortage problems for the last 2 weeks. We (my parents and i ) nearly did not make it home. The fuel tanker is scedualed to arrive today with our fuel, a whole week late!

I'll be seing you more regularly in february when i will have access to fast and "free" int access. All of you, have a great holiday and a Merry Chrismass, also a happy new year (please don't get too pissed).

Cheerio.

Hi Smoking_GNU. Happy holidays!

I just moved out. I now have a house!
It's very cool and I'll try to get some pictures online when I've really settled.

Congratulations

That desperate to get away from family/other people, eh?

hey, I'm a member now, that mean's I'm allowed to have news !!!

The latest stop-press news from this corner of the disk : our cleaner is a spitting image of Pterry... yup !!! Well, kind of between Terry and Sean... Connery... Yup... :lol:

Man, do I need a christmas break !

You're going to start stalking him for an autograph, aren't you?

Yay- 16 hours till I'm in Dublin again. *does a happy dance*




*falls over, and all the french students stare at her*

Who, me ? no. Course not.






What d'you think, once I've tied him up with the hoover lead and tickled his feet with the broom, what do I make him sign, terry or sean ?

:lol:

Well, Year 9 is officially over. Yay!

Got my report back today, which was so much better than I expected! Got a letter of excellence... because I got higher than Band 5 in every subject and got Band 6 in 50% of them. Yes, I'm feeling rather pleased with myself. I didn't even fail Music!

So now its the holidays... time to get back to normal sleeping patterns. So happy.

woo...holidays!

Off to India in a few hours....must pack :shock:

I'll see all you people later...I have no idea how much internet access I will have but I don't imagine much. So if I don't appear before hand, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Ill be in India till Sunday then I'm off to Canada...we just got sent pictures...its snowing (in canada not india :? )!!!

I'm in a good mood now...if it wasn't for my cold and sore throat I would start singing...I probably will anyway but never mind

condrats Anda!

Now I have to think about starting studing for mocks after the hols....I'll probably think about starting studying for a good while...

Heck of a climate change, Fairyliquid! Enjoy your trips!

Go, Andalusian

I am rounding up the inventory and it's the mother of all inventories. I have half a mind of taking the Excel sheets, stuff them in Powerpoint and add Christmas lights next to every drug that expires on a December.

Well, not really.

I was supposed to move out tomorrow and head back home, but my dad fell ill with the flu and he cannot come. So, I may take the equipment and drugs back to the health centre on Monday, load the car and leave on Tuesday and drop off to Amfissa on my way back and sort out tha paperwork, while fervently hoping I am not shut off by the snow.

in India....about to leave for canada...

I dont even want to think of the flight...9 hours to london and a bunch more to canada (it claims 8 but i seem to remember it being 6 from glasgow so i dont know what thats about)

Anyway, im listening to lots pf fireworks and sitting a little bored with no one in the country to speak to (except the oddities next door)

So now i shall go catch a flight and hope everyone has a good holiday themselves where ever you are

I hope you have a super holiday!

I don't finish school for the holidays until the 23rd. :evil:

My friends and I are plotting to stalk the district superintendent and pelt her with old chewing gum until she gives us a longer vacation.

In ninja pirate outfits.

Alternatively, we will sleep through classes in protest, since that is less likely to get us arrested for assault.
And is more relaxing too, which is a bonus.

Holiday ? huh ? whazzat ?

So, we have finally arrived at The Final Week Before Christmas. This means last minute VAT returns for inconsiderate people who have weird quarters, locating all the presents I have cleverly hidden, buying plants which I will try to keep alive until Christmas day, putting the rest of the decorations up, remembering to send that Christmas card, doing the food shopping early enough that it won't all have been bought by other people and late enough that it won't go rotten by Christmas day, and convincing Dawn that sitting in the carseat watching Mama rush around like a mad thing is fun, honest...


*BREATH*

Anything else?

Well, I survived my "surgery", I have to see the doctor again on Wednesday, but it was pretty much painless and I think if I don't do too much walking the next couple of days it won't be much of a problem.

The only thing that concerns me is the doctor telling me he had no idea what that thing he cut off was! He sent it to a pathologist, this will be about the sixth time I've had something checked out like this, hopefully it will be just like the others, B9.

I'd better get myself home and back to tidying up. My mother-in- law is supposed to be comming over Christmas Eve morning and I need to have it presentable.

We had a nice time with my nephew and his family Saturday but the hard time is ahead of us. Connor liked the present Jon picked out for him, a Little People truck set with a truckdriver ( you can tell its a truckdriver because he has a cell phone in one hand and an insulated coffee cup in the other). He got at least three trucks and a couple of toy tool sets, a teddy and a big super soft stuffed frog. He didn't really get the point of opening packages, but he seeemed to like his new stuff. After his mom took his sister back to her other grandma's, Connor found the box Caitlyn's My Pretty Ponies came in and I got the feeling he would have liked to have them,too.

He is going to be the one that is going to suffer the most in the situation his folks are in, he just isn't going to be able to understand, not that any of us really understand. I know my nephew to be an intelligent person and what he did is just so dumbass and yet the punishment still seems fairly harsh. He is going to be in jail for a year under the Huber act so he can still work.

I didn't go to the court with him so I only have what was printed in the paper to go on and the odd rumour. Of course in other jurisdictions he might have forfeited the right to ever drive again, and I'm sure he'd much rather get what he got instead of that. Its up to him whether he loses everything or gains anything, he's been given a chance at pulling himself back together.

At least he hasn't, I hope, reached the point another young man from Ponsford reached a couple of weeks ago. That young man walked in front of a semi truck, because his girlfriend told him she didn't want to let him see their daughter anymore. The family is in a prettty bad way, we can tell fron the notes different factions have placed in the newspaper. A prayer for healing that family wouldn't be amiss.

I'm sure I'll be posting again before Christmas but I wish everyone a merry one anyway, and for those who aren't celebrating Christmas,have a wonderful winter solstice. a Happy Hannukah, or a warm Kwanzaa or just a decent day.

Yesterday, I got some mail... well, sort of mail.. actually, it was an empty torn envelope. So torn, I can only make out that the sender lives somewhere at wen.. terrace, York, UK. So whoever sent it to me and whatever it contained, thank you, and damned the Post Office!

Woah, that is so mean !!

I hope that was a gunuinely accidently damaged envelope, otherwise there is a real stinker somewhere out there !!!

Almighty Ba !! Smite 'em !! Smite 'em !!!! :evil:

While it's true that there are mail thieves everywhere (I learned enough to wrap photographs in plain paper, before mailing them go Ukraine - otherwise they might get mistaken for money ), sometimes envelopes get mangled in mail-sorting machines. I once received a HALF of a rejection letter from a company I was applying for (with an apology from the post office)...

Edited to add: either way, losing a present sucks!!! If it was indeed stolen, then let'em choke onnit!

Owww Mal, thank you, it'd be a wonderful present.

It does look like something in the envelope got stuck somewhere and it got torn. I already asked at the post office, and they said that apart from filing a report there's nothing of any real consequence I could do.
So, basically, I'll put it down to karma getting back at me for something.. what for exactly remains to be seen. Maybe for taking so long to mail mine?


Edited to say: Half a rejection letter with an appology? A bit ironic, isn't it?

that totaly sucks that you got ripped off.

lets go hunt them down :evil:

Bugger Hsing. I hope everything turns out OK and your hubbie can find something else.

I think the package is probably in that mysterious nether world which has my secret santa from last year and eats presents... I have had awful luck with the postal system.

My news is that my parents are selling my apartment which is bloody awful timing because it means the the place has to be immaculate before I go on chrissie holidays because the open houses start before I get back. So after suffering a god awful hang over all day I then had to clean, clean and clean some more and then work out where I'm going to put the massive amounts of paper that colonises my desk, dining table, lounge and bookshelf... It was so fun :roll:

the joy of cleaning

There seems to be quite a bit of that going round, doesn't there? It's probably a government ploy to depress us all into buying more presents to make our Christmas better.
Anyway, I hope things work out ok for everyone involved.

Why are they going to close the daycare center Hsing? today my christmas holidays start. We went to the church and sang the usual hymns and afterwards we drank glühwein (lemonade one for the kids) and ate gingerbread. Now I'm going to try to find the floor, it's somewhere under all rubbish. Our biology teacher said that male reindeer lose their antlers in autumn, only female keep their during the winter. Santa's reindeers must be females. That explains why they find the way without asking and can be everywhere at the same time.

Nope. and nope, I am one of 8 kids. I'm not even inheriting anything. Theres no point in me trying to pop off the folks cos some other bloody grand child is going to get the lot... damn them and their small cuteness-like things.

I moced back home, I have a new nephew and for the past two days he is out of ICU, he doesn't take anything intravenously any more and he is feeding normally. We are expecting to bring him home tonight.

Congratulations on being an aunt!


I 'm glad that he's keeping well. have his parents decided on any names yet?

Yes - I have this problem

and I have a twin sister so it was perhaps slightly worse than other's with the dual Birthday and christmas celebrations!

Will be at my mums for the next couple of days for christmas and will have intermitten access for the next couple of weeks. WIll try hard to keep up with the werewolf game...

Merry christmas everyone and I'm sure I'll think of you in the snow and cold while I try to avoid getting sunburnt on the beach :lol:

The baby's name is Dimitris, after my uncle. We will take him home tonight.

My nephew spent the first three days of his life in ICU, I don't think the problem will be less presents, rather the opposite. I have already gone on a shopping rampage and I got this for him yesterday and I ordered a copy of this from Amazon.

I will be terribly late with the cards and the presents and I'm terribly sorry for that but believe me, it really couldn't be helped. Now that Dimitris will come home, everything will go back to normal, that is, I will be making silly faces at my nephew until my cousin throws me bodily out of the house.

Hey, congratulations to the parents, and welcome to the christmas new aunty club... My brother in Sydney and his wife have just had their first baby, a little Jimmy... pity I probably won't be able to see him for several years... :?

I'm glad all is OK, Saccharissa.

Welcome to the aunt club, both of you. I have 2 nephews somewhere on the Golden Coast in Australia, but they're a lot older than your nephews

Congatulations on the babies!

Perdita, have people ever bought presents "to both of you"? I bet that would suck, but I can imagine people doing it.

:oes the Christmas Eve Eve dance::

I've just updated my album with baby pictures, and one incriminating picture of a god.

With a baby that had to start his life in Intensive Care, and had just come home, would your cousin actually throw you out? If I was in the same position (unlikely at my age) I would probably have to be restrained from chaining my nephew (a doctor and surgeon) to the cot!

That's the one!

"What will we do tonight, Nephew?"
"Same thing we do every night Aunt. We will take over the world!"

Why does that seem so probable?

Because he's the brains of the operation.

So that makes you Doctor Pinky? I'm not sure that works!

Dawn and Dimitris are both utterly gorgeous. My nephew will be one year old on New Year's Eve, he's utterly gorgeous,too.

*looks at Dawn's photos*

AWWWWWWWWW! *goes into sugar shock*

I swear she has grown since I saw her, she'll be walking by New Year's! I wish my nephew grows as big and strong!

Just finished watching the whole first season of Little Britain. Quite fun.

Aye, it was the worst Christmas ever.

I was the only person in my family not to get any presents. Because my mother said that she wasn't prepared to spend any money on me. My mother and her family said that that I'm not worth anything to them and that they don't care about me at all.

Yes, I know Christmas is supposed to be about the giving and not the recieving, but when your gift (or lack there of) causes the reciever to break down in tears on Christmas Day because you don't think they are worth anything the whole thing breaks down.

And then I got unhappily drunk on Boxing Day because I ate too much pudding and highly alcoholic brandy sauce for breakfast. Drunk enough to lose my ability to spell and stand up straight, but not drunk enough to forget the whole ordeal.