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From: number 6
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 11:06 AM

Finally some peace and quiet here at home!

biLL

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From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:08 AM

Because my fence fell down but I am in no danger from an imminent tsunami.

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From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 07:32 AM

I am listening to some wonderful singing - 3 great CDs from my secret santa, snuffy!

freda

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 11:41 PM

I received my grades today from the university and was most happy to see that I earned myself a 4.0!   :) To celebrate, my husband took me out to dinner at a local favorite (Wren's Nest...check it out if you're ever in the area!). When we arrived, we were seated only to find a note on the table...hmmmm. He read it first and chuckled. I opened it and found the following:

Enjoy a complimentary bottle of wine, your choice.

CONGRATULATIONS! We KNEW you could do it all along!

Love,

My best girlfriend & Kids

:) So...thanks Love for the WONDERFUL evening out and that little black box....and thanks to you my friend for a very thoughtful surprise!!!!! :) :) :)

Michelle

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 06:46 PM

***********HAPPY DANCE*******************

Well...make that HALF of a HAPPY DANCE! While I will miss my students more than I can express, I am excited to have completed my goal of becoming a teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I gave it everything I had and it has paid off in ways I never could have imagined!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) Michelle

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From: skarpi
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 01:22 AM

hehehe this is the loooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggest
13 th of September I have ever seen :>)))

All the best Skarpi Iceland.

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 08:41 PM

Today is a good day because I am now in the homestretch....all my work for Student Teaching is complete. All the lessons have been taught, all the university work has been filed and I'll be graduating this week!

Michelle

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From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 12:07 AM

I sent out resumes, so now they are out of my hands and it is no longer up to me. The sun was shining. I wore my favorite shoes. I learned words to a new song. I talked to mom. My friend is doing better. I remembered something that is important to me.

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From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 12:02 AM

God still loves me, even when I don't love myself.

That's amazing.

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From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 12:01 AM

Christmas music is on all day long.

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From: GUEST,katy
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 11:58 PM

i ate chocolate. twice.

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From: Diva
Date: 18 Nov 06 - 06:28 AM

Well its bright and cold and not that horrible grey. My brain is slowly returning from under the fog, so hopefully I'll be able to sort out the essay problem!!!!

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From: JennyO
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 08:44 PM

It's a gorgeous day, the wind has dropped and the sun is shining. The Christmas bush is reddening and looks wonderful against the blue sky. I spotted my first red cherry tomato, there's a cucumber almost full size, the climbing beans are rocketing up the frame and small beans are starting, I'm getting little purple, yellow and red capsicums, and little basil plants are finally popping up from seed that I scattered. Lots more, but generally, it's a pleasure to be in the garden.

Everything's coming together for John's CD launch tomorrow. This thing looks like being bigger than Ben Hur. Now we've got complimentary champagne for early arrivals and gawd knows what else. Should be fun!

I'll try and remember your parsley Sandra, but with everything else going on, I wonder if I will? No good putting it in the car now - it would cook.

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From: rock chick
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 08:37 PM

Today is a good day, and why should it not be as it only 1.40am here and so far its not been bad, time will tell!!

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 08:29 PM

you got me counting days Wilfried, I have 13 weeks left before I retire.

13 weeks is 65 days, but as I will no longer be working Wednesdays, this means I only have 52 days left.

I'll be working 4-day weeks cos my wonderful Assistant Director says I can use some of my remaining holidays to attend a Craft group that meets on Wednesdays!!

Only 52 days to go!!

Oops, I forgot the Christmas shutdown & a long weekend for a Festival so it's even less.

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From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 07:56 PM

Today is another beautiful post-republican era day!

Peter

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From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 11:31 AM

I keep waiting for a good day. Must try harder.

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From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 10:52 AM

... weekend starts and I have only 469 days to go and the rest of today till I get my pension = 279 working days (all kinds of holidays subtracted)
And tomorrow I'll lead a guided tour through my hometown with a bunch of interested (and interesting) ladies.

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From: JennyO
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 11:14 AM

Tomorrow's Friday - weekend's coming up, my vege garden is growing fast, I have lots of tomatoes getting bigger but still green, I picked my very first dwarf beans - spring is such an exciting time in the garden! Also I now have everything I need for my Santee. I just need to get it all together and send it.

The only other thing I have to do this weekend is host a CD launch at my folk club on Sunday, which will involve some work, but it will be worthwhile. It's a performance of "Yarri of Wiradjuri", which John wrote 9 years ago, and it has now been recorded - more about it here and here

After last weekend, it's just good to be home doing normal things!

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From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 15 Nov 06 - 04:42 PM

After a short terror concerning our flight reservations not having gone through, we finally found out that they HAD actually gone through. Whew! It would have cost us either double the price for the tickets or we would have had to get up at 2 in the morning to make it to a substitute flight at 6. But that has been resolved.

And everything is taken care of at work, and I am (mostly) packed and the remaining items on my list will be quickly handled. And then...off to the wedding in Sao Paulo, where I go from Autumn-into-Winter to Spring-into-Summer, and the warm embrace of lovely wife's family and friends! And fresh, sweet mangoes and papaya. And figgos, too. Love them figgos. (Them's dried figs before they get dried. A whole different experience eating them fresh and juicy.)

I wish all 'Catters a wonderful Thanksgiving, and none of that routine dysfunctional family stuff that we hear so much about. Tchau!

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 08:13 PM

Today is a good day because:

1. All my lessons went extremely well.
2. I had dinner with a good friend complete with lots of laughter.
3. I just finished baking 7 loaves of pumpkin bread to share with folks I love.
4. My house smells absolutely divine!

Michelle :)

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From: JennyO
Date: 13 Nov 06 - 07:51 AM

Today is a good day because I'm back from my stressful weekend which was a mixture of some fun and some pretty awful family squabbles - and the vege garden is looking brilliant. I want to hug my tomato plants, but they have tomato dust on them, so I won't.

Now I need a weekend to recover from my weekend!

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:30 PM

Today is a good day because I got to catch up on some much needed rest. :) I love rainy days when I have time to snuggle in with a good book and sleep to my heart's content. :)

Michelle

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From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 05:34 PM

my spleen did not explode

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From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:07 PM

Hi Dad! :) I didn't forget...........

XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Michelle

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From: JennyO
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 08:21 AM

Mainly because it's nearly over. Actually it was a bloody horrible rotten day, full of stress, and everything that could possibly go wrong, did. I don't even have a chance to enjoy a weekend in the garden, which I had originally planned to do, because my father-in-law died on Wednesday, so I'm being picked up by my son at 6.30 tomorrow morning and I'm spending the weekend in Kempsey at a family gathering with my ex-husband's family.

My daughter may or may not make it depending on whether she can get her act together enough. More stress either way. That's a whole 'nother story. To be fair, these are nice people - it's just that after this week I REALLY could have done with a quiet weekend with my beans and tomatoes.

Then when I come back on Monday there will be the matter of my car to deal with. All of a sudden the most reliable car in the world is starting to play up, and they haven't got to the bottom of the problem yet because it's an intermittent problem. It behaved perfectly when the NRMA came to have a look. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

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From: Diva
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:04 AM

well its an improvement on yesterday......it was my dear ma in laws funeral.....good age 84 and we gave her a fitting send off with family and friends

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From: michaelr
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 03:26 PM

...the Republicans are getting their asses kicked from one end of the country to the other.

Cheers,
Michael

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From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 01:17 PM

it was my day off.

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 12:27 AM

After several hours of thought & work, I created shelves for my 52 Mudcat CDs - now I have 3 shelves about 12'/30cm long on the back of my computer desk

For yonks I've had most of the Mudcat CDs resting precariously on 3 metal bookends sitting on top of the back of said desk. The rest sat in front of the printer almost getting in the way.

Now I have a wonderful homemade (it's definitley not handcrafted!) set of shelves. I've jut got to make sure any visiting handyperson/carpenter doesn't take a close look.

But I did it & it works!!

sandra

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 08:58 PM

My husband walked in the door and surprised me with a kayaking and fishing vacation....10 days to explore and poke around the coastal and marshlands along the east coast!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOO HOOOOOOOOO...I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 05:41 PM

Today was a very bittersweet day. It was the last day of my first placement in student teaching. My experience has been absolutely incredible and leaving was really tough. Today is a good day, though. Today I received multitudes of letters (90+) full of fond memories of the last 8 weeks. One 11 year-old young lady wrote me the following:

Mrs. Lilyfestre

The woman who I know made learning a lot less difficult for some people.
The lady who taught me so much, opptamism (her spelling!), happiness and joy.
The Person who always seemed to have something good to say.
The Student Teacher who was THE BEST!!

There were many others that made me realize exactly how big of an impact I had on the children and in more ways than I had anticipated.      The love they showed me today was amazing and that makes today a FANTASTIC (said in 6th grade fashion....you had to be there!) day!!!!


Michelle

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From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 09:29 PM

I coded a complicated table in LaTeX and it came out right the first time.

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:14 PM

Today is a good day because I got to go out for breakfast with my husband, mother-in-law and her fiance. We had a great visit and afterwards my husband and I went for a drive in the woods. It is a beautiful day, the sky is blue, the leaves are changing and it was very relaxing! We spent the afternoon at the house of a friend who turned 60 today! We were part of a little surprise party that her daughter had planned. She was surprised and we had fun catching up with folks we haven't seen in a bit! Now we are home, my work is done and I have tomorrow all to myself....YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 02:39 PM

Today is a good day because I played my violin in the Fabulous 1890's Festival Motorless Parade that was held today! I played old-timey music and approximately 70 children sang along to the 1,000+ people along the parade route. I had THE best time and can't wait to do it again next year!

Michelle

PS...the children and I were dressed in time period clothing which made it all the more fun!!!!!!!!!

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From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 02:26 AM

My first solid poop for a week. Thank heaven for that. Thought it was dysenterry.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 07:22 AM

It's a good day because today is the first day in 2 weeks that I've not been in agony thanks to an abcess on my upper canine tooth. It's also the first day that my glasses haven't sat crookedly on my face because of the swelling of said abcess.

LTS

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From: jimmyt
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 06:57 AM

I get to go to work in an hour. I am one of those rare folks that celebrate TGIM. I love Monday mornings. I love to see my staff and see how their weekend was, to get started back working on patients, to drink the best coffee in the world and to visit with my patienrs, tell a couple jokes sing a bit all day long.

I spent the weekend buying nrw furnature and art to redecorate my reception room which had managed to slip into an eighties look. I also made fudge for my mother-in-law who is in a rehab facility dealing with a recent hip replacement. She told me how on the telephone yesterday and it came out marvelous. Jayne is going to Ohio today to deliver my candy. Ah yes. It will be a grand day.

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 06:33 AM

Awwwwwww...that is the sweetest thing!!! Congratulations Papa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle :)

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From: number 6
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 12:04 AM

My 18 month old grandson called me 'papa' for the first time. Doesn't seem like much to some people, but to me it was very, very special.

sIx

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 09:23 PM

Today is a good day because I caught up on my work and am now a week ahead of myself! Ahhhhhhhhhh....NICE!

Michelle

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From: Dave'sWife
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 01:18 PM

Today is a good day becuase a friend of mine battling alcholism has managed to cut his daily intake by half which is quite something. It may not seem like much, but he's drinking less than he has in years and is still on the way down. We hope in a month he will be able to quit entirely.

it is also a good day because Inky the cat who lives under my house, didn't have to have stitches. He got into a major territorial dispute with a young tough Tomcat who insists on coming into our yard. Said Tomcat slashed his face twice, opening up his healed surgical incision from 2 weeks ago. The Vet was able to clean him up and close the wounds with surgical superglue! Amazing. Even better, he doesn't have to wear that cone on his head. It's a good day for Inky! Poor ole Inky. he's such a good boy. I only wish he'd let me make him a housecat. His frequent beefs with this other cat are a good advertisement for why cats are better off living the good life indoors.

It is also a good day because my dinner-plate Dahlias have come back into bloom. They are a nice buttery yellow. The blooms last a long time and are quite profuse. they line the walk up to our cottage. So pretty!

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From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:17 PM

i have a great big Snickers with my name on it!

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From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:02 PM

it is way better than yesterday... :)

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From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:35 PM

Today is a good day because I spent it with the person I love most! We got lots accomplished today and still managed to get out on the water for an hour and a half or so before it got dark. I saw 4 Blue Herons and my very fist Bald Eagle in the wild. Absolutely stunning....and I got photos one of which is the eagle in full flight!

:)

Michelle

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From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 05:41 PM

I suceeded in hacking down a purple berberis without injury. The last time I went near it I ended up in casualty having one of it's barbs removed from my index finger, that I didn't know was in there until the poison spread up my arm. The time before I attempted to go near it I ended up in casualty because in my endeavour to secateur it without injury I secateured my little finger and a blood soaked tea towel was the garb of the day.

Today I beat the bugger and it is now a distant memory.

Human 1 - Berberis 0.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 05:12 PM

I got post 500 and I visited Alderley Edge (think Alan Garner novels), a childhood entry on my 'Things to Do' list.

Had a wonderful, if elongated walk around the woods, found the wizards' well, took some amazing photos of the view from the edge, and other green pursuits... but didn't drink in the Wizard Inn because it's a posh restaurant now, not a pub... and we weren't in the mood for a Sunday lunch at £19 without alcohol.

So there we go... a good day.

LTS

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From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 02:01 PM

I haven't had a drink yet

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 08:31 AM

thanks for sharing what works for you. I can also get into a meditative-like state by listening to different pieces of music.

I'm determined that I won't allow myself to fall into the habit of panic attacks, so have been been doing my best to practice breathing quietly & consistently as I've been taught at a Buteyko workshop a few weeks ago.

Today I got the tight feeling in my chest that comes from doing too much (I'd walked around town at lunchtime for over 90 minutes) & knew my heart would start racing unless I sat quietly breathing evenly. It took a while, but I was eventually able to continue my day (eat lunch!) then work at my desk for the rest of the afternoon. I ignored the stuff that had to be done on my feet, & I still have a bit of tightness & tiredness 6 hours later, but heart is working slowly & surely, because I've been concentrating on my breathing all that time.

Because I never learnt to breathe properly my physio had been at me for months to do a course in Buteyko technique, and as improper breathing causes lots of my problems (tiredness, lack of concentration, racing heart, panic attack symptoms) I'm getting better the more I follow instructions.

sandra who had another good day!

History of Dr Buteyko & his work

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From: Dave'sWife
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:41 AM

Sandra - I'm glad you are able to stop taking a medication that was giving you such trouble. Here's hoping the panic attacks lessen and disappear. I've had them myself off and on and it feels like you're having a massive heart-attack, doesn't it? I don't wish surgery on anyone but I've had friends who have nodes removed surgically and they did very well. Today at least, is good because you don't have to think about this right now. Please try not to. You can always promise yourself to think about tomorrow or at your next octor exam.

MY cure for my panic attacks is actually to listen to 2 different tracks from a Roger Eno album over and over again in a dark room with noise cancellation headphones. I was trained to do biofeedback on myself and alter the ole brainwaves thru will and it works. I can zone myself into a waking coma with Roger's help. If anyone knows him, thank him for me and tell him my doctor now recommends his music to all his panicked and anxious patients.