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Dec 14, 2014 07:23AM
Happy birthday Cherie! Are you doing anything special to celebrate?
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Happy birthday to you, Cherie. Have a great day and do something fun.
Happy happy birthday, Cherie!! Hope you have a great day!!
Happy Birthday, Cherie! It's my husbands birthday today too! That explains why you are so cool!
Happy Birthday, Cherie! Hope your day is a good one! :)
Thank you, everyone for the Birthady wishes! I am going to pick up Amy and the boys and we are all going to Becky's house. They have something planned. :0)
Enjoy whatever it is they have got planned for you Cherie :)
Happy birthday Cherie! And belated wishes to Janice! And everyone else I've missed!
Thank you so much for all of the Birthady wishes! My daughter made me a cake that looked like the Star Trek Enterprise! As soon as I figure out how to send the picture to Photobucket again, I will post it. I also got a ST pizza cutter. I could NEVER bring myself to use it, but it is so great! There must be a link on Amazon somewhere so that you can all see it! I will look. I had a great day!!!
Happy Birthday Cherie for yesterday. Sounds like an amazing cake! Would love to see a pic when you figure it out.I spent a small portion of yesterday chopping kindling for our wood burner and I was in agony in bed last night - I've clearly overworked my shoulder muscle. Seriously in need of a massage right now.
The cake and pizza cutter sound great Cherie! I'm really glad you had a nice day.Sarah, I hope you shoulder eases up soon. Have you got a heat pack or something like that to put on it? That might help.
Nice one Lisa for the reminder - I have one in my cupboard. That is so going on before I go to work this morning.
Oh, I hope your shoulder eases up soon, Sarah. I remember doing the very same thing when we moved to our house in Oregon. It was the first time we had a fire place, and we had a whole side yard of firewood that needed to be split and stacked. I could not stand not helping and the day after heaving that 8 pound splitting moll and hand axe, I could hardly gripe my coffee cup, let alone lift it up to take a sip my shoulder hurt so bad.Just don't get carried away and thunk your knuckle when you split kindling. I had to call my husband to come home from work so I could go have it looked at. No stitches, but I had to get a tetanus shot and I felt like an idiot telling the doctor what I had done and how. Not as bad as when I split my knuckle punching boards at Tae-Kwon-Do though. I had to have six stitches for that. He did a nice job of stitching after he quit laughing.
Too bad your on the opposite coast Cherie, I'm pretty sure you and my auny would get along splendidly. She's a die hard trekky too.
Just got up and read in the news on-line what's going on in the Lindt Cafe in Sydney, where hostages are being held. Horible. Are you near Sydney, Rusalka?
Sandra wrote: "Just got up and read in the news on-line what's going on in the Lindt Cafe in Sydney, where hostages are being held. Horible. Are you near Sydney, Rusalka?"Oh my goodness, that is horrible :-(
What is wrong with our world? Hope you aren't near that Rusalka!
I have just heard about that too! Terrible! I hope you are well away from there Rusalka!
oh no! I hope you are away form there as well...
Rusalka lives in Canberra which is south of Sydney.
It's so sad the way that situation ended with 2 of the hostages dead. Both victims were in their 30's. The gunman is dead too.
Belated happy birthday Cherie!! ooo..the cake n pizza cutter sound great..hope u had fun!
Sorry, sleeping! Nah, as Cherie says, I'm about 400km away. But Aus is very small, and I have friends who work in Martin Place. So it's a bit to close to home really. It's the middle of the city, with all the financial institutions, state parliament, law courts and such around, and a big shopping area, so the week before Christmas... he knew full well what he was doing.It finished after 16 hours, 2 hostages (a 38yr old lawyer - Katrina, and the 34 yr old cafe manager - Tori) and the gunman dead, 4 injured, 17 hostages total. He wasn't a member of a terrorist organisation so was on his own, but was known to police for extremist and violent behaviour. However, I don't know how you could possibly predict someone would do that.
There is a good thing about this though. We've had a horrible year of Islamaphobia in Australia due to the ISIS stuff, as they are recruiting a whole heap of disenfranchised Muslim youth in Australia, and other Australians freaked out and started attacking Muslims (particularly women as they are easily identified with their Hijab or Niqabs), mainly verbally but some violently. The gov hasn't helped either
Someone on twitter told a story about her standing up on the train for a Muslim lady yesterday in Sydney. And her story started a hashtag on twitter #illridewithyou where people were saying where they lived or were travelling too and encouraging people to get in touch with them if they were scared of travelling in any religious attire. When I went to bed last night, in a couple of hours it had over 90 000 tweets, and was trending worldwide and this morning people were handing out badges in stations, sticking the hashtag on their bags so people knew to ask them, and checking in on strangers.
This event so had the potential to rock Aus hard, but seems like we are carrying on doing what we do best, and most of us are looking after people around us.
that's a great story, Rusalka. There are so many good people in this world. <3Speaking of gunmen and hostages, we have a gunman loose here in PA (the next county over from me). Sadly, it's a domestic affair (at this point), many killed. Very sad.
I'm glad to hear of the good in this world though. :)
Yes, it's a comforting story, Rusalka.
It's nice to see something good come from tragedy. I was reading about the PA incident this morning. How sad. 3 in Australia, 5 in PA. It will be a difficult Christmas for the families involved.
He is in the next town over now last I heard about an hour ago. Needless to say, we are in for the night.
It's a weird feeling. I am trying to keep my daughter away from the front door bc we have windows there wthout scaring her. So instead she thinks I'm weird for trying to keep her in the living room. Earlier my husband was freaking out when I took her out to dance class but the gunman was in the next county over so I didn't think it was a big deal. Now, I would not be going out. I haven't heard anything lately but I also haven't he has been caught. ugh...
Someone just updated and said helicopters are flying overhead and cops are walking around with shotguns...he must still be in that town. good for me but bad for family and friends living there...
and now a friend got the "shelter in place" phone call...
That is so tense. Be safe Tasha, and keep us posted.
Such tragedies... Stay safe Tasha!That twitter stuff is quite beautiful Rusalka! It's nice to see people stand together like that
The hashtag thing was shown on the news here last night and I thought it was brilliant how people have rallied around. It does restore faith in humankind. I wish people in the UK were more like that. When those nutjobs killed Lee Rigby here there was such a backlash and fueled the Islamaphobia . I think the way the media in Oz are portraying that guy is good - focusing on him being a lone wolf but also that he was mentally unstable.I hadn't heard about the PA thing - stay safe Tasha - that must be scary to get one of those phone calls!
We need some nice positive news now to cheer us up!
From what I read the guy in PA had obly harmed or killed his in laws or ex inlaws. Not that that makes it any better but unless he compketely flipped his lid most people should have been ok as long as they stayed out of his way. Still crazy is crazy and you can't predict crazy so certainly best to hole up and try to stay safe. Guess I hadn't given it much thought but I can't seem to think of any good news either. Had a stroke of bad luck around here lately as well
That's what I think as well, Travis. Usually the people outside of the domestic lines are safe. It's the cops who need to be most careful at this point. It's just freaky hearing this guy is on the loose nearby. It seems to have been a quiet night here though so he may have moved on or laid low. I think he is still at large though. That's what is so amazing. All these people are looking for him yet he keeps moving.
No, it's not over. They are still looking for the guy. I'm in PA too, but at least 3 hours far from the area being under alert. Hopefully he will be find soon. He's probably getting tired, and at some point the anxiety of running away will finally crack him. I hope nobody else get hurt, and they don't need to shoot the guy to finish with this sad situation.
The world is such a scary place anymore. Why does there have to be bad in the world? It makes me sad :-(But when people can band together and support each other during a time of tragedy, that is when I find faith in the human race again.
Yeah, he's gotta be tired. I haven't watched the news yet but I will soon. I like to have some quiet time in the morning, reading and drinking my tea or coffee. It's the only quiet time I get, lol!
Just finish taking a look to the new. Not happy news. Let's keep on trying tomorrow. :)
A major reason why I usually avoid the news, Sandra. It's usually full of negative stories!
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