Hallo all. It's a brand new week!
testing, testing!! I think I found the right place
Diana, hope you get on OK this week with the work on the house. Need a blow by blow account:)
Good afternoon from sunny Adelaide. My daughter's birthday. Heck, how did she get that old?
Teresa, your list reminded me of the fun I used to have with unwanted phone callers. I would tell the re-roofing ones that we didn’t have a roof, that we lived in a tent. The phone companies wanting us to change were told that we didn’t have a phone. (I loved saying that while clutching the phone!) One day I spent so long chatting and asking strange questions that the girl said "You’re weird" and hung up on me! Now we have our number on the "Do Not Call" register, we only get calls from charities and market research. For some reason these are exempt. Of course there is still the woman who calls to say we have won a holiday and to press 9 for info. Since she has an American accent, I suspect these calls are generated offshore and cannot be traced. Needless to say, I never press 9.
249 people in this group. I wonder who will be no 250.
OK. Tile sorted - not perfect, but what is, I ask? Diane: Thanks for putting things in perspective when you were on your soapbox. People starving and cold all over the world and here's Annette in sunny Southern California, whining on about mismatching tile in her brand-new kitchen! Will wear sack cloth and ashes and smack self on head and remember to be grateful for my many blessings. Another friend came by and said it all looked just fine and I was being hyper-critical. So there.
SIlly story about one man's solution to phone solicitations (and yes, Gary, we're on the Do Not Call list but funny how some calls get through!). Anyway, a radio program here ran a tape wherein this homeowner answers the phone and pretends to be a detective at the scene of a homicide. He interrupts the caller's sales pitch with "Hold on just a second, sir" to tell non-existent fellow cops to "Be sure and get a photo of the body." then comes back to the caller and starts interrogating him about how long he's known Mr. So and So and why exactly is he calling him. It goes on and on with the poor caller getting more and more paranoid and protesting his ignorance of anything and eventually hanging up. Of course, the people who make these calls are trying to earn a living, so it did seem a rather extreme solution.
Have a nice Sunday folks!
Hey AQ: Are you doing anything special for your daughter's b'day? As i mentioned on the previous thread, we're all off up the hill tomorrow for brunch with granddaughter to celebrate her 22nd next week. I was picking up a salad from the takeout place last night and the guy behind the counter and I were chatting and he said, "Time flies when you're having fun," and my response was "And at a certain point, it flies even when you're not having fun!" :-)
Hi Annette! Just stopping by to see if anything's happening here. It looks like you and i are the only ones here at the moment, and i'm off to do some dreaded housework in a minute. I'm chocked up with hayfever today. Canola and Capeweed are in full bloom everywhere in our area, and the gusty wind we have today is making me suffer, even though I'm staying inside as much as I can today. I'll be like this now until the last of the canola is harvested adn the dust has settled again, sometime around Christmas! Catch you a bit later. (Exits stage left, sneezing head off.)
Smiles, Jan.
The family gather at mother-in-law's nursing home for our birthday parties. There we take over one of their sitting rooms. The birthday person brings their own cake (strange custom that but I can't change it). Sometimes other residents wander in, much to m-i-l's agitation. We have the car loaded with large flower pots and potting mix as requested per list. I wonder if she wants some weeds to go with - I'm sure I can spare some.
Hey Wattle, our posts crossed. I feel for you. Hay fever gives me wheezes (not sneezes) and a rotten headache. Bye, I had better get myself together for going out.
Hi AQ! I thought you'd slipped away! Our names must disappear from the list while we're typing a response, I guess. Now i realy must be off! Hoo roo!
Oh. Sympathies Wattle and AQ. Have you guys tried Allegra? Works for me re general allergy symptoms, but (AQ) have to use inhaler for wheezes..