The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

[fickle]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

tawnyfrog;799377 wrote: Ficks - have they gone yet?

He's in the shower!

Quickly looking in on everyone.. lovely to seeyas all doing fine.. just sweet actually!

Huggy things... will lookin agin soon as poss

That is all

[ronnie]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Evening all
SKY.....Congratulations on reaching 30 days A/F, you are doing such a great job and its really good to know that we are sort of there together all be it a couple of days....Well done hun:wd::wd::wd: (I know im early,.... but im not really in your time zone as you are ahead)

Well my boys went back to school today and my youngest is full time now so I spent the day cleaning half my house, so I now have to clean the other half tommorrow.
I am feelling great at the moment.....still missing my parents but thats life.
There was a snake in our back garden today and hubbie tried to kill it but it got away, so now everytime I go out there my eyes are all over the place...

I hope you all have a happy & sober February and well done aussie nurse on your day 2 A/F keep up the good work.
I hope each and everyone of you has a great nights sleep

[aussie nurse]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Congrats Sky on 30 AF days - you must be feeling great! Are you still having cravings or have they subsided? Cinders hope you're doing well - I enjoyed talking to you in chat on Australia day. Hi Angel Cakes - I've just commenced Lexapro and you're not kidding just feel so out of it and tired. Might take it at night for a week and then try morning again.

My first day was great, all so new as I've actually left psych/detox and gone back to general nursing. I was starting to get burnt out and think I probably need to take time to work on my stuff for a change. So I'm working in a general practice giving immunisations, taking bloods, wound dressings etc. and I think it will be a nice change and no more shift work or night duty, Yay!

"Snakes" oh what would an aussie summer be without them. My place is full of spiders at the moment and we've all been bitten. I've bombed them but they keep coming back.

Bridget are you going to catch up with this handsome man again?

Hope you all have a great AF Tuesday.

[tawnyfrog]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Morning all

Great job on all the AFers racking up big numbers. Bridge - you're a bit too quiet at the mo. Yup - big time spider season here too but I'm glad I haven't seen any snakes (yet). Really pretty sunrise happening right now so I'll go and watch it outside.

Have a good and happy day.

[byebyebridgetjones]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Morning Punters,
No G Force, Bear Grylls is just NOT gonna solve this one. Even eating live fish and drinking out of elephant poo will not help to attract this man.(I can't think why not. What's wrong with him?)
Don't worry 'bout the snakes Ronns. They're much more frighty of you than you are of them.
Well, I'm heading out with me dog and me coffee to survey me king/queendom.
Go hard or go home all.
Bridge.

[Miss Behaving]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

just checking in! Was in the sort of mood this morning that if I came to MWO before getting any work done I might be on here all morning!

So just having a mini-break ......

[Guitarista]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Morning Hornos, Bridgos, and all to come,
Bridge, i am impressed. I almost choked on me coffee out when i saw you up and at 'em at this hour!
Bravo! I'll tell you what's wrong with this 'handsome man'. He's probably a fan of that Purse carrier gone wild, and his 5 star hotel's at the foot of the Himalaya's!

Keep going Nurse, A. New job sounds much more relaxing, and probably nice timing given you're off the turp's.
Great going Sky! I used to stick up a few inspirational saying's or word's around the house to help keep my focus.

Have a safe, sober, magical day folk's, AND...........Go hard, or go home!

That is all.

[Guitarista]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Morning Missios!

[Miss Behaving]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

having my lunch time stop in.

Bridge ....... I hear you on the not understanding relationships, men, dating, superficiality etc stuff. I spent almost all my adult life feeling like that and truly had got around to thinking that I would spend the rest of my life single. Fell over Mr B at the age of 43 ..... we never "dated", we never played any games, we never did any of the flirty stuff. Just became best mates from the day we met. And we are not particularly romantic (although in a completely uncharacteristic - and so far sole! - gesture of romanticism he sent me a bunch of 45 red roses for my 45th birthday!). I wouldn't have it any other way.

Aussie Nurse - sounds like your new job is just what you need. A dose of normality can be a breath of fresh air ... and as you say give you the chance to wok on your own stuff for a bit.

I am so jealous about John Mayalll!!!!!!!! Was really keen on going to see Diana Krall while she is here but too broke to afford the tickets at the mo.

Reg - nothing I like to look at better than the sight of a bloke doing housework!!! And Ronie doing it too!! My house hasn't really had a proper clean since before Xmas. I've only done the absolute essentials ... thank god my cleaning person (yes, I feel embarrassed about having one, but there are only so many things that I can manage in the course of a week!) starts back this week.

My mother is driving me crazy at the moment. My brother doesn't have much time left (this is his assessment, although to all outwards appearances nothing has changed) and my mother was talking about going up to see him. Mr B and I are meeting up in Auckland next week, so I offered to drive her up ... which meant that we just had to sort out accommodation etc etc - not an easy feat given that she cant walk all that far any more and if she was going to use the public transport system it would need to be an easy and direct route. Anyway, we all stuck our head together and worked out a plan which involved several of us putting ourselves out but happy to do so in order to get this thing to happen .... except that Mum has been indicating (as late as Sunday) that she didn't really feel up to it. Except that yesterday she started telling people that she was driving up with me on Saturday, and that she was going to be staying with my brother, and that she was going to the GP to get repeat medication and enough for the next month.

So I have basically spent my morning re-organising the plans that we organised 2 weeks ago, and then un-organised because some other people needed some certainty about next week.

I'm feeling a bit at the end of my tether at the moment with it all at the moment. I do however feel great relief that I dont have the least inclination to drink, because that would be something that would make everything a lot worse.

lunch hour up .....

[Cinders]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Hello, all,

I just realized (finally) that this is a good time to catch all of you.

Tawny, thanks for the gentle reminder. I am worried about this trip. I am with a manager that loves to drink a ton of wine. She is me a few years back. When I drank a lot of wine and still didn't quite realize I was an alcoholic.

Of course, I switched to Vodka because it worked faster.

I will stay sober this week and be proud of myself. I will.

Hey, don't be killing the snakes, friends. They ARE much more afraid of you than you are of them. If it is a poisonous snake, I usually pick them up with a rake, throw them in a cooler with a top and transport them away from houses and critters. (Not an issue for you, eh, Tawny?)

A snake is just another animal that we share this planet with.

Aussie Nurse, Great going on the new job. It is important to dwell on getting sober, if a less stressful job helps, do it!! btw, my pest control guy said not to bomb the house for spiders. It kills the mama spiders but leaves the eggs alone. Then the eggs all hatch and there is no mama spider to eat them. (Weird, isn't it? Mama eats a bunch of her young?)

I had issues with black widows in Colorado, and that is when I learned that. If you are going to bomb the house, then you have to do it regularly so you kill the eggs that hatch before the young get old enough to mate. You might want to look up spider life cycles and see what the timing would be.

I do have a bit of arachnaphobia, that is for sure. We have scorpions and centipedes where I live, too, and those guys really give me the creeps. I leave them alone unless they are in my house. They are killed if they come in. I do have the outside of my house sprayed once every 3 months. It seems to keep the spiders and other arachnids population down.

Okay, wrote a tome. Sorry 'bout that.

Hope all are having a wonderful afternoon.

Love,
Cindi

[aspman]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

pleas dont kill the snakes, i second, motion carried!

but seriously, snake killing is risky stuff. on average 3 deaths a year in aus from snake bite. most are from herps(herpatoligist's) or peeps trying to kill em.
where as one peep every 15min in aus get dianosis of skin cancer.( i read it online so it must be true)
and in a safty coures i was in last week the trainer said there were 5 deaths a week realated to forklift accident in aus...

so the snake is not the big bad guy.
buy the way, in perth there lives the smallest python in the world, amazing stuff we have in aus, treasure it...
rant over and out.

hi TF, will do.

[tawnyfrog]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Agree, Aspy. In my neck of the woods we only have Tigers, Browns and the beautiful Red-bellied Blacks and there's NO way I'd try to shift one with a rake or attempt to kill one. I see a few each year and admit that it does sort of stuff my day a bit because every stick or bits of hose suddenly looks like a snake. I know they're all around me and for every one I see there's probably another 50 watching me. I have a healthy respect.

I'm ok with all spiders except for White-tails and they are met with instant and unceremonious death. Splatt!!

[ronnie]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Hi all
Ok .....I wont be killing any snakes......anyway they are too fast to catch, I am hopping the one in my back garden has gone for a very long walk away from my house....... I must admit that was the first snake I have actually seen and it was very scary....perhaps he was comming to congratualate me now im an Aussie.....lol
I always get my house sprayed inside and out by a pest man that way I dont get any spiders...that reminds me, he is due to come here and spray again.
Well my house work will not do itself so I am off
Hope you all have a great day

[tawnyfrog]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

Just spotted a newbie from Brisb. called 'Fuel' and invited him over here. I'm sure you'll all bake him a cake.

[Cinders]

The Next day Thread, February, 2010.

:welcome: Newbie from Brisbane.

It is true that there is no element that is above this disease.

We are all here.

I hope you are doing well tonight.

Love,
Cindi