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Oh, that would be awesome Carmel. Fingers crossed I will be able to join ya'll this time :)
*sigh* I can almost positive Ill be working Christmas day :(
we usually just have a big family lunch with mums side of the family... very loud, lots of laughter and arguing over who is adopted and who grandma will put on page one of the will lol...big families lots of food and to much merriment i hate missing out on it!
I'm pretty lucky all of mums family lives on the coast both my parents were born and raised on the coast we have one park and one street named after us.
couple of my dads sisters have moved states so we dont get to seem them as often...mums sisters on the other hand...lol
ah well at least I shall have boxing day with them all :D
we usually just have a big family lunch with mums side of the family... very loud, lots of laughter and arguing over who is adopted and who grandma will put on page one of the will lol...big families lots of food and to much merriment i hate missing out on it!
I'm pretty lucky all of mums family lives on the coast both my parents were born and raised on the coast we have one park and one street named after us.
couple of my dads sisters have moved states so we dont get to seem them as often...mums sisters on the other hand...lol
ah well at least I shall have boxing day with them all :D
@Brenda, be safe when driving and i hope the weather doesn't get nasty at all! Weeks drag when working but when on holidays just FLLLLLLLYYY away XDSounds like everyone got some pretty interesting/busy Christmas times coming up :)
Mine has already started, working in a school Christmas themes are happening in the early childhood area (which is where I'm based). It's fun seeing how excited the kids get over Christmas, something that doesn't really happen anymore in this family.
I want to convince Dad to go Christmas Tree hunting like we did a few years ago. Got to cut our own tree down which was awesomely fun.
Then family will most likely come over which will be a very small gathering. And then Boxing Day is with some family friends.
I should get excited about Christmas but each year just seems to get uhm..Dunno the right words at the moment..lol
This Christmas is the first Christmas I am spending without any family. Just me and my hubby. Not my idea of the best Christmas but unfortionately you can only treat me a certain way before I decide enoughs enough. But my hubby is determined to make it special for us so I am sure we will have a lovely time.Sorry I didn't mean to drag everybody down.
Christmas is always stressful, busy, hilarious and lots of fun. But I'm always so relieved when Boxing Day arrives! This year seems more difficult though. I have a niece's birthday 8 days before Christmas, another niece 8 days after, a brother 2 weeks after Christmas, and my parents' 30th wedding anniversary New Year's Eve... I need to go rest again now, I'm exhausted thinking about it all!! :D
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Thanks Laura, the weather was wet, and as we got further south it got wetter, but it wasn't too bad. A semi went into the very swollen river at Macksville, on the sharp bend which goes off the highway and over the bridge into town. He must have missed the bend, and kept going! Cabin in the water, with most of the rest of the truck, but luckily he seems ok. Then there was a 3 car fairly serious accident just south of Port Macquarie as well, so we are now staying in a motel in Port, and will do the final leg tomorrow!
The rivers all the way down the coast are so incredibly high, even though we were told by a local at Ulmara that theirs could definitely go much higher!!
Carmel wrote: "Sounds like that going to keep you busy alright Amber!! Have fun!!"Lol thanks, Carmel!!
We're having xmas at our house this year, with some extra family coming down from Sydney. So once NaNoWriMo is over (5 days to go!) I am going to need to spend lots of time in my garden which has turned totally wild :) Then I'm thinking there will be bbq's and salads, and I also need to find a real tree (love that smell!)...
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Well, if I can convinve everyone to agree to another week in November I should be fine :)About halfway (e.g. 25K words) with less than a week left - my stats tell me I need 4,286 words a day to make it... So anti-social weekend and a day off work coming up!
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Jessy wrote: "This Christmas is the first Christmas I am spending without any family. Just me and my hubby. Not my idea of the best Christmas but unfortionately you can only treat me a certain way before I decid..."Jessy, being away from the family at Christmas reminded me of an unusual present that I received one Christmas Day.
I was at sea in the South China Sea. ‘Elf & Safety hadn’t been invented then, as we were all expected to take reasonability for our own actions.
Anyway, at that time if you had 100 people on board a British ship you had to carry a doctor. On this particular ship (before containerisation) we carried around 50 officers & crew.
This meant that if anyone was sick or had an accident the medical knowledge available was that which the captain or first mate had collected over their years at sea.
This particular Christmas day at sea one of the crew (we had Indian crew) complained of a boil on the left cheek of his behind. I was a cadet at the time, so the First Mate calls me and told me to take the seaman to a spare cabin and to get him ready - face down with his bare behind ready for inspection. The language on the ship was Hindi and many of the crew couldn’t speak English. As a cadet my command of Hindi was limited – but getting the seaman to drop his gear in another story.
The Mate arrived with a medical kit of aspirin, plasters and a few bottles of this and that. He checked the crew member and could see a very angry boil, which had swollen to a lump. He attempted to pressure the area to drain the boil, but the cries of pain from the seaman caused him to stop. He swabbed the area with warm to hot water in an effort to soften the skin so that the skin would break to relieve the pressure. The Mate pushed down on the lump and a mall amount of matter was expelled, but the core or root of the boil was buried within the cheek.
By this time the crew member was distressed, so the Mate eased off and studied the situation. He considered lancing the boil, but was not sure he would be able to remove all of the poison.
‘Fetch my bottle of brandy, and three glasses from my cabin,’ he ordered.
I duly collected the bottle and glasses and returned to the Mate.
He poured out a generous glass of brandy. Oh! good thought I – drinks all round before we lance the boil.
Wrong!
The Mate swirled the brandy as if he had just finished a good meal and was about to chat about life and meaning of 42.
He drank the brandy and then dropped a lighted match in to the fumes within the glass. He then slammed the glass over the boil. The lighted match burned off the brandy fumes and what little oxygen was within the glass. This caused a vacuum, which nature abhors.
The vacuum caused the boil to open and the poison and root of the problem, along with clean blood was sucked in to the glass.
The seaman screamed and levitated above the bunk before falling back whimpering in to the pillow.
The Mate removed the glass gave it to me, wished me Merry Christmas, and told me to throw it overboard – which I did.
The wound was cleaned and antiseptic ointment applied and covered with a clean bandage and taped to the surrounding skin.
I returned to the cabin to find the Mate standing, glass in hand, as the seaman dressed himself.
‘Help yourself to a drink’ said the Mate to me.
‘There’s only one glass, what about the kalassi (Hindi for seaman)?’
‘He doesn’t drink, he’s a Hindu,’ was the reply.
The kalassi shook the Mates hand and left the cabin. The day after Boxing Day he was back at work. His wound was checked twice a day and freshly bandaged.
On arrival at the next port the kalassi was seen by a doctor and found to be fit and well.
The brandy glass and contents was the most unusual Christmas present I’d ever received.
But I did help the Mate finish the rest of the bottle, after all it was Christmas Day.
cheers - hic
Thanks Brenda and Carmel! I will certainly try :)
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Just letting everyone know I wont be on much-if at all-this coming week, due to end of year exams. Ive been studying hard but now its getting dead serious, as my first is Tuesday morning. I have Monday off school, to study. So yeah, you guys aren't the only ones I'll be rejecting. I turned down a party invite and a sleepover in the name of study :P
Wish my luck, see you later this week!
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Best of luck Jess.- When going through hell... Keep going -
Good luck Jess :) Today I found vegemite chips on sale from Smiths for only 50cents..I wonder if they'll be horrible! lol
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Oh these are yummmmmmy...Not over powering actually...goooood stuff!
National Year of Reading (ABC/Au Govt site)http://www.love2read.org.au/our-story...
Check out the latest books and vote...
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urgh those big ads on the site for dragon tattoo is going to get annoying :|
Velvetink wrote: "National Year of Reading (ABC/Au Govt site)http://www.love2read.org.au/our-story...
Check out the latest books and vote..."
Great link :) Thanks!
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Not seen those yet Laura?
Aaah just discovered, on Goodreads front page... grr annoying!P.S. am open to punishment for even being on goodreads right now - have 18,053 words to write for NaNo in next 24 hours...
So, g'night :)
Michael wrote: "Front page Brenda annoying as. =/"
totally agree
totally agree
Not to sound like I live in a hole or something, but wasn't Dragon Tattoo at the movies a year or so ago? I'm sure I remember people going to see it, about the same time everyone I knew started reading the book.
I'm in USA and find a place that sells Vegemite I fell in <3
Again cause wen u don't have it for a year it gets better luv da Americans but advance Australia fair.
Megan wrote: "Not to sound like I live in a hole or something, but wasn't Dragon Tattoo at the movies a year or so ago? I'm sure I remember people going to see it, about the same time everyone I knew started rea..."
yea that was the Spanish one...or something..its not in English the whole trilogy is out
this one is the new american Hollywood one hence the bigger adds and things
yea that was the Spanish one...or something..its not in English the whole trilogy is out
this one is the new american Hollywood one hence the bigger adds and things
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Ahhhh! Found it...it's on my home page, and I rarely go there, so it's probably not going to bother me too much!!
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P.S. am open to punishment for even being on goodreads right now - have 18,053 words to write for NaNo in next 24 hours...
So, g'nig..."
Good luck Emily:)
Last exam tomorrow morning...science. I conceded defeat a long time ago. I'll be lucky to get more than one question right. But, otherwise, I think Ive done okay. I'm pretty sure I did amazingly in humanities and maths, french was better than expected and english was kinda disappointing (got 16/20 :|). Looking forward to holidays!
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16/20 is still 80% which comes out as an A right? Just tell people (and yourself :D) that you got an A and forget what the actual score was - A is for awesome :)
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Very well said Megan!
Just a reminder everyone, you can buy Category 5 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
direct from Tropical writers as well.
http://www.tropicalwriters.com/books....
direct from Tropical writers as well.
http://www.tropicalwriters.com/books....
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direct from Tropical writers as well.
http://www.tropicalwriters.com/books...."
Thanks David!
Exams over, bring on year 11! Aaaaand I did just as poorly as I expected in science.
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Aaaaand I did just as poorly as I expected in science."
At least it's over now....when do you actually finish school?
going home to australia from usa in 4 days
Well, we have no more lessons. My locker is practically empty and I took all my books home today. Tommorow my year level is in casual clothes, and its pretty much a day to do final clean up/watch movies.
Monday we have an induction day into year 11.
Tuesday/Wednesday and Thursday we get to stay at home, and Friday is a whole school formal end-of-year assembly.
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Have a good trip home Max:)
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Tommorow my year level is in casual clothes, and its pretty much a day to do final clean up/watch ..."
Woohoo! Sounds cruisy Jess!!
ya first we gunna hit up disney land to take up 3 of 4 days
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Have fun:)
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Thank you Brenda, by the way...I'm on the right...LOL."
Haha!! I knew that;D