Fanny Adams

Hehe - I have a friend in another forum who was an ER nurse and is now working on the ER helicopters. Some of her tales get seriously freaky! Looks like yours will be the same!

PJTP: Doing my bit for the post count!!

If it makes you feel any better, they revised our forecast downwards and this is the current one - raining every day AGAIN! Friday Shower or two. Min 10 Max 21 Saturday Shower or two, increasing. Min 11 Max 21 Sunday Few showers, easing. Min 9 Max 18 Monday Few showers. Min 7 Max 18 Tuesday Shower or two. Min 6 Max 17 Wednesday Few showers. Min 7 Max 17 Note: Min 6C = 43F, 10C = 50F; Max 21C = 70F, 17C=62.5F Mind you, we NEED the rain!! And last week was just stunningly beautiful weather... the Max was about the same, about 21-23C but the skies were totally clear and bright blue, lovely sunshiny days... I do love our winter. Summer on the other hand... :ohmy: PS: Ebony, you hang in there, mate!! I'm sending special DownUnder joo joo that a new job comes up soon for you!

Hehehe - make all the temperatures the same as the first two days (i.e. 71-73) and that's exactly our forecast here, in the middle of winter!

Thanks for the joo joo, all! The offer came in at $368,000, which is only $500 below the previous offer, and they are not Keystart applicants (earn too much money to qualify for the 1st Homeowner grant) so I've accepted of course! Financial approval is due in only 3 weeks instead of the usual 6. If that comes through, settlement would be on 18th September, so 6 days before my birthday - how cool! *crosses fingers, toes, legs, arms, eyes, anything crossable at all*

Third time lucky? Joo joo please! So after the Home Opens on the weekend (Sat & Sun), the RE agent tells me that there's a couple coming to his office tonight (Mon) to write up an offer. I turned down an offer a couple of weeks ago because it was too low, but the agent says this one will be somewhere in the right ballpark. If it is, I'm going to grab it with both hands, but also put in a 48 hour clause to say if another buyer comes along with finance in place, they have 48 hours to make their offer unconditional or I go with the new ones. I am SO hoping that this lot don't turn out to be lying scumbags like the last two. I am really over doing the Home Open thing every weekend and I just want to get started on my new house! We've already missed the winter planting season and life has just been "on hold" for months now, with almost everything we want to do being prefaced with "when we get to Forrestfield, we'll..." Wish me luck folks, that the offer is good AND that the people are genuine!

The best compromise is the one where you say, "well I'll never get it right by your standards, so you had just better do that yourself then, hadn't you?" Works a treat!! I don't iron OR wash my partner's clothes. I offered and made the attempt early on, but managed to turn one of his favourite shirts slightly pink and double creased the sleeves on another when I ironed it, and was politely asked not to do that any more. SUCH a hard request to comply with!! PS: Why would anyone fold shirts? That's what hangers are for!!

Isn't that just one of the weirdest side effects of the band? I now find that just the smell of anything being deepfried will almost have me retching - and this from a good Aussie girl with Pommy roots, who thought that deep-fried battered fish and chips was just the yummiest food ever!! Okay, somewhere in these posts someone put the recipe for mojitos and I missed it... I'm gonna have to go back and get it now, coz you've all made me way too curious! No you wouldn't!! Not in the slightest!! Just tell them you are trying to get a pic of the cute little bird tweeting in the background for an online friend that is a bit of a bird nut... they'll believe you!! Honestly!! You can even have them email me to check What she said! Ok, I have to be an exception to this rule! As a kid, I LOATHED broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts and even today I refuse brussel sprouts in any shape or form and will only eat cauliflower in chinese food or smothered in cheese sauce, yet I've been known to drink like a fish! (Much less so after banding but still... I do love a drink now and then and that include virtually ANY spirits and most wines (not beer!) My partner will happily eat all of those vegetables and he also drinks a hot vinegar and water drink (eww!!) with breakfast each day, as he heard that it helps a lot with indigestion. No... you don't need a family, you need to GET YOUR ASS ON A PLANE TO AUSTRALIA and come and cook that for me every day!! :wink2: OMG, I think you just named all of my favourite food groups in one sitting!!

Woot woot for the hottie hot boys :laugh: Where would life be without free perving opportunities, eh? Boring! That's where it'd be!!

*waves to kc* Hi there :tt2: I'm at work in the middle of the day, so reading snippets here and there but only able to make quick posts before it gets obvious that I'm not actually working :laugh: hehehe

Thanks Glouc... I think! :thumbup: And of course, now I have to go find the chicken thread!! *edits* Okaaaaay... I found it! Wow, just wow...

Okay, someone link me to the ghetto thread! I missed the other thread that you were all talking about too - probably because I rarely read anything on this site outside of this thread, these days.

I wouldn't call that bad! I'd call that LUCKY YOU!! :smile2:

OI!!! You can't just slip that in like that!! DETAILS PLEASE!!! And CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

WAIT!!! WHAT???? WHEN? WHERE??? WTF??????? Goes back to look...

Now THAT's unusual!

Chris is in the process of rebuilding my computer, so I'm posting on my laptop and chewing my nails. He rebuilt his last weekend and all went well, so I have every confidence that he can do mine too... really I do... absolutely... I'm not nervous in the slightest... uh uh... not even a little bit!! I've backed up all my data to CD. I have the disks for all the software I need to reinstall... this will be fine, just fine... chews nails...

PJTP: I am OVER winter!! This has been my first real winter in 4 years, as I've spent the last 3 of them doing Fly In/Fly Out to the far north of Aus, which doesn't have a winter season. It's COLD down here!!! Okay, you guys are all used to snow and stuff, so you'll probably laugh at what I call cold but our houses aren't built for it and we don't have the clothes to cope either. It's been down as low as 2C (35F) in the overnight minimums and although the maximum says 20ish C (68F), it's been stormy rains and wild winds and FREEZING!! I got my feet wet at work this afternoon and my toes turned into iceblocks! I want my lovely warm northern Dry Season!! *wahhhhh waahhh wahhh* *Edits* It is also really weird to actually feel cold again. For so long, I've always felt way too hot, and was only really comfortable when it was really cool like now. But I've taken my fat blanket off and now I'm really feeling the difference! I've had an extra blanket on my bed and been resorting to the old hot water bottle at night!!

I agree that breakfast is the important meal of the day! My personal favourite is: 1 poached egg 100g baked Beans in tomato sauce 50g canned mushrooms Stats: Cals 178 Fat (g) 5.5 Carbs (g) 24.1 Prot (g) 11.9

You need to get a copy, Beth. The facial expression alone is priceless, let alone the actual pose! :scared2:

Ha! Nice try, but no cigar! And where are your semi-nudes, eh? I went looking but could only find the beach pics. What's with the pea green soup in the ocean? EW!

Thanks folks. It's nice to know I'm not alone in my weaknesses. The worst part was that I've been on an Optifast kick for the past week or so, and it was ridiculous drinking Optifast for breakfast and lunch and munching on chocolate in between. I worked out why my self-control was quite so low though - ToM arrived in the afternoon and we all know that chocolate and ToM are just made for each other, hehehe. I ended up feeling really sick from eating so many (would have eaten probably 200g!) and my tummy hurt badly, so I went home from work, which at least got me away from the temptation. Still feeling poorly this morning (just cramps), so not going in today either. Going to spend a lazy day in bed and/or pottering on the computer. Ebony, so sorry to hear the situation at work isn't improving. I really hope one of the new jobs works out for you soon. G4E, I hope your back feels better soon. Try to keep up with the chiro - they usually do offer good relief.

I just went out for a walk instead of eating lunch, coz I feel sick from eating so many chocolates :thumbup:. I should have eaten lunch early and then maybe I wouldn't have given in to the temptation... but then again, maybe I would have scoffed them anyway AND had lunch to boot! I'm not going back in that drawer though, coz I feel ILL! :thumbup:

HELP!! I have been holding risk assessment meetings with some of the blue-collar workers at my company lately and, as they usually HATE coming into the office for meetings, I've been "bribing" them with chocolates and sweets on hand during the meeting times (don't laugh, it works!!) My problem is that the meetings have finished and I have two large tupperware containers full of lollies in my desk drawer and guess who can't control herself? I was going to take them home last night so that I wouldn't have to face temptation at work, but figured I'd be even worse about giving in at night. I don't want to throw them away - not only are they expensive (and paid for out of my pocket) but I will be holding more meetings next week so will need them then. Problem is, I don't think they'll last that long if I don't manage to keep my hands out of the bowls :thumbup: How do I stop dipping into these?? *smacks own wrists* ARGH!!

*gets her freak on* At least the nekkid bonfire part was fun... coz the offer wasn't so much :sad:. He was a genuine buyer but couldn't come up any higher than $20K below my lowest price and I just can't go down lower - it would mean I couldn't buy and do the work I want to do at the next house, defeating the entire purpose of selling... The good news, however, is that there is another potential buyer who looked at the house twice on the weekend and is coming back tomorrow for another go... and apparently have already driven past and taken photos today. Sounds like they're keen, so fingers still crossed that they can find the asking price money...