The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

[sunshinedaisies]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Well, I have been and gone and am back again. And Hallo jan! I am amazed that no-one else has been here. It is a Ghost thread. That is sad. I am feeling sad.

Love and hugs everyone, Sun XX

[Grateful]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Oh, please don't be sad, Sunny! I am here...just leaving work. I love you all....just have been so busy and stressed and you all have your own problems. I just love the photos of these young ladies on the site...Jan - you look like a teenager!!! and Mish...you are very beautiful too and young. I am NOT going to put my pic up in my avatar.....I will not have Sunny telling those old jokes on me!!!:H

After I get home and get supper and what not, I will TRY to get back on tonight. A lot has gone on with all of you....and I think of you all every day even when I'm not posting. I promise...you guys are my family, my lifeline.:l

[not quite a swan]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

No pics of this old bird either going up...*looking goooooood girlies

Now i understand there is a position going on the truck for this brit....may i ask what it is.....not that iam fussy,i could do with some ? to spend (holiday fund for the cabin trip,and to tick hollow and to florida and to see sunnibutt and ...and...and),but im not terribly good at making Lattes on the move.....

Feeling abit restless this evening so maykick around here for abit:l

[not quite a swan]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

...seems im on my own here so i will go find a cosy place to get my head down...night all xx

[Grateful]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Sweet swannie...I am back...just finished making dinner. Are you still here?

[rubywillow]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Oh, I leave your on your own devices, and you fall on your faces!! I love you all, but WTF are you??
Grate, so good to see you. Must I come drag you out to face your beautiful self? They've all seen your gentle face, holding our Tink. So WHY are you reluctant? I couldn't take worse pics with my camera it I tried! (have you seen mine???" I look like a giant chipmunk!!! And more, love. If you ever think at this stage I'm worried about my looks, think again. Years ago, I could have blown away competitors, but didn't know or care. So I go on, do my thing, because vanity is far behind me.
But I'm SO glad to see you here. Have you talked to Vick?? Am I going to have to go to Miss? We are all struggling, so just throw yours in. We'll make 'Stuggle Soup', right, but always keep each other other up. It doesn't matter than we think others have more problems, the size of a problem is how close it is to each of us. So yours are real, and we care about them. And you.
Swan, I'm sorry if I've failed to reach out today. It's been a wicked day. Utility tree trimmers were here at 7 AM. TMB was not amused. Couldn't let her out, till after 4 PM, couldn't go check on Richard !V, as if she'd escaped she have eaten someone in my front lawn and she and I would have been held liable. I could deal with it. She couldn't. No warning, no notice, they're pit there ciutting my shade trees near power line, 4 outta 5 sitting in the truck while one works. After about 4 hours, I went into mental stage. I went out, called them all out of the truck, and asked, (gently) why the hell they'd been in my yard for half the day, mutilating my trees, ignoring my dog signs. 2 of them were so smug I was really pushed, but didn't go over. But I DID tell them I had places to go, but not with them there, and I would be exercising my big dogs in a few minutes. They left quickly, but not quickly enough for me to drive the 1 1/2 hour to see Dick 4. We need prayers, here. I can't, even with a credit card, put a hold on him. SEEEEETHING right now, but with my dental troubles can't blow too hard.
Had cousin call in tears, we'll meet tomorrow. Talked with various renters I WISH I'd never met, but tomorrow will resume my normal life. Or God Bless those in front of me!! Ya'll know me too well to think I'd be vindictive, but this is OLD!!
Swanny, don't you worry, you'll earn enough spending money at my cabin to keep you travelling for ages!! I always tell folks, write your name in the dust if you want, just don't date it'.~~
Sorry to jump in with such a nasty post for the day, and I'm fine. Tay came, cleaned my kitchen, didn't ask for money (but they ate up my leftovers!!), so I'm a happy girl/woman/lady/crone!! Talk to you all later. Right now I'm worried about the dog.

[Grateful]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Oh, Rubes, I'm sorry you didn't get out today....prayers going out right now for Ricky Rotty.....
And you are so right....I am too old to worry about vanity....I am who I am. (But-you definitely look much younger than me!!!). I believe that all southern women have better skin...that's why I want to move down there with y'all!!

I still wish Tay & JC would come see me.....and pick me up....and take me down there.....whine, whine, whine.

Swannie.....I hope you are resting.....I wish you were over "here" with all of us.......but we are here always for you......

[rubywillow]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Kell, I'll send them off tomorrow, postage paid, if you'll promise to come back and stay. I know now I can manage JC's boss, if needed.
And really, I think today's concept of beauty we're fed through the media (SWEET LORD, look at the Kardashians, Hiltons, etc.) is so convoluted. To me, seeing the beauty of women aging gracefully, and I only pray I do, is the true beauty. But it's the internal beauty, and you have TORRENTS, is the most important thing anyone with any sensibilities sees. Besides the nightgown, I picture you in gentle, light, flowing clothing, and working on the things in our world we should all pay attention to. Sorry, I'm key'd up still from not doing what is my first response to waking up to people mutlitating my lawn. We'll all survive.

[tlrgs]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

well hey there folks .. first i would like to say sorry iam the one that starts this thread and im no where to be found and too busy to reply to everyone post .. but just know that i do read and ill catch up this weekend after work on saturday .. .. and im getting some free chainlink and all the hardwearand gates too ... what i call recycle matreal .. if anyone needs a repair ill have the matreal ... which is always a plus i make money from someone trash and i turn it into quik money ,,,
but anyway good to see some post and hope to see the MIA'S POST soon and hope everyone is doing their bet and taking it but one day at a time and sometimes that all it takes ... love and big hugs stay strong shifting forward and thinking positive

[Mish]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

mama bear;1242162 wrote: late check in....busy, busy
Mish - you are GORGEOUS and I am soooooooo happy to hear about Ashe
will check in later

Thank you so very much, Mama. I reeded a confidence boost this morning. That was taken 10 years ago when I was 47. Wouldn't dare put up a picture of myself now...I've done the last 10 years on my face. I used to be told I had beautiful eyes, but I cried all the beauty out of them years ago. I'm not much into plastic surgery but I'd go for and eye lift in a flash, and maybe a bit of rhinoplasty (the Gardiner nose is not an asset).

I told Brooke about Ashe coming up and (cynical as always) she said "Well, don't get too excited about it. It might not happen. Let's just say it's possible she might come up."
Later I told Jacqui, a dear friend who has a lesser type of bi-polar said "When you're manic you can still tone it down and sound normal to get what you want...it's part of the disease."
Now, I'm the eternal optimist when it comes to Ashe, but I kinda felt like I'd had cold water thrown in my face. My instinct tells me she will come but my mind is telling my heart to be cautious. It's probably a good thing that they warned me because I can prepare myself for if she doesn't. I'm too emotionally fragile for a big let down, so the reality check was timely, although the euphoria was nice while it lasted.

I had another FB message from Marcy saying Chris told her a lot of stuff about Ashe (she didn't say what but I have an inkling from the discussion we had a couple of months ago when she came up for the day), and...oh, what the hey...here's what she wrote:
"It's not good Mish. What he tells me is not good. So much was going on behind his back that he has found out about and forgave her for. Still she doesn't want him anymore. I'm upset with it at the moment."
Well, hello, of course Chris isn't going to praise her to the skies, and I never suspected that there was much good in this whole fiasco to begin with. And hurrah, she doesn't want him anymore. And of course Marcy is upset. She admits Ashelee was the best thing that ever happened to Chris. She pulled him back from a very dangerous course and reunited Marcy and Chris after years of being estranged.
That being said, my daughter is no angel either. She told me that when she in the middle of a major depression trying to tell Chris to leave and he wouldn't, and they were sinking deeper and deeper into debt and he wouldn't even try to get a job while she was working at the local cafe with a serious kidney infection that put her in hospital for a week, she took a few nights (not sequential) for herself where she went out to the Rebel's clubhouse and cut loose. She's totally safe out there...they all love her to bits and would kill for her...and she danced and danced to the music, and then joined in the pole dancing. She said Brett was pretty unhappy about it (after all, she is his daughter) but none of the guys look at her that way, they were just happy she was having some fun. Now, I'm not stoked about her pole dancing in front of a lot of outlaw motorcycle gang members, but her face lit up when she told me about it and I couldn't help feel happy and sad for her at the same time.

I just wrote back to Marcy: "I can imagine and understand. I still don't know a lot of stuff. I guess it will all unfold in time. In the meanwhile, let's keep our grandchildren in mind. I have obtained permission from Ashe for you to stop by on your way back down, (That'll be fun...not). Regardless of what our kids have done we need to have a united front for the innocent babes (quick, get me a bucket) who will always be a part in both our lives."

Ah dear, it just keeps going on and on. Chris is talking of joining the army for 12 years. Whatever. He's not my problem (at last!!!). Just so long as he doesn't top himself and poison the lives of his children, their mother and all his family.

My uncle shot himself because he was over qualified for every job he applied for and couldn't find work. He never really got over my grandmother's death. He was a bit of a mama's boy. She peeled and seeded his grapes for him until he left home and (now this is really creepy) bathed him herself until he was 14. My Mother, however, was sent to Coventry for a week if she came second in class (she'd already skipped two grades) and thrashed unconscious if little brother Bill as much as stubbed his toe when she was playing with him. Not by my grandmother, though, but by my poor grandfather. "Norman'" she'd say. And give him 'the look' which meant he had to take her out to the shed and do the job to his wife's standard.
She's never been affectionate or loving, and I'm not surprised. I didn't get kisses and cuddles from her but my dad used to give me plenty, but mainly when it was just the two of us together. He adored me (he was 42 when I was born and I was the apple of his eye), and I loved him best (as any child would under the circumstances), which made Mother jealous. I loved her, of course, and put her on a pedestal because she was extremely beautiful, held top professional positions (IQ being in the top 3% of NSW), earned much more than my dad (Who was Music Supervisor at the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It didn't bother him in the least...he was so proud of his beautiful, young and intelligent wife whome he loved very much), was creative in the garden (photographers used to come and take shots),had a figure and legs to die for (I inherited the legs, fortunately) and just about perfect (I thought). I didn't understand about the damage her childhood had caused at the time, nor did I understand personality flaws). You can imagine how she felt when I was obviously intelligent, articulate, thrived in Reading and Spelling and Creative Writing, but was pretty much struggling in everything else...unless it caught my interest, and then weyhey, top of the class. As soon as I lost interest, well it was all over, bar the shouting. I went from 98% in French in Year 9 to 35% in Year 10. The story of my life. I was, and remain, a total Mathemoron. When I was diagnosed as ADHD and Discalcula, and put on the right medication...well, even Mother had to acknowledge it and understood that all the 'talks' about trying harder, not 'letting a lot of numbers beat me,' and general comments along that line wouldn't have made any difference. My parents could have saved their breath to cool their porridge.
When my dad died when I was 23, Mother said I was never the same afterwards. I hit a really bad depression and it's stayed with me ever since. I'd had minor bouts before, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Wow! I hadn't meant to write all that when I started, but like Ruby says, sometimes the words just start to flow and you have to write them down. I feel really much lighter having unburdened myself of personal details about my life. That's the joy of the Journey.

[bird]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Hi all
Well been busy all day and just got home and very tired, can't wait for bedtime as usual. Very hungry and want beer and pizza, gotta pay 1$ a pound if I gain weight to the Y, wll I want to win the prize and take home all the moola hahaha...good to see you Grateful and Swan...watching mary tyler moore....

[mama bear]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

I am here...cooked a huge spaghetti dinner and did some ironing
SUNNI - I HAVE TO CONFESS I HAD THREE BEERS LAST NIGHT WATCHING THE GAME.....there it's out, but I didn't go nuts and am back with you now....please beat me.....
Kelly and Swan....I love seeing you post. Swannie, what's the matter hun????
Mish, I get so swept up in your stories. WOW..... I posted my story (so did Roger) in that other thread....can;t think of the name of it, and it's called I Am A Survivor. If you are really bored one night, go look for it. Roger is the real inspiration here.....his story is amazing....talk about an F'd up childhood.
Hiya Rubes......go get your puppy!!! I don't like it when you are sad....

I love you peeps........

[mama bear]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Hi Bird...beer and pizza will not make one thin!!!!!
Neither will a huge vat of spaghetti and sweet tea....

[mama bear]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

oh, and I must admit......I'll have all the plastic surgery hubs can afford!!!!! (that's not much)
am thinking about some botox one day, though...I hate all the crows feet I have developed....it's from being such a sun worshiper at our lake house

[sunshinedaisies]

The Journey begins here so get YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!!!! for JANUARY 2012

Hey everyone! Well, I am so pleased to see that Grateful and swannie have posted - sorry I wasn't around!! Wish I had been. It was lovely to see your posts - both of you - I so miss you posting Grateful - we miss having you here - and swannie, we wish you would post more - and I didn't quite understand about the job going on the truck - unless you mean the taco truck???? Oh Swannie - it would be awesome if you could come over - we would pass you around to visit all of us and when you got to the end of us, you would start at the beginning again!!

I have been SO good this evening. My daughter had five pairs of jeans (she was clearing out closets)- she said she would never get into them again so asked me if I wanted them - I said yes but they were all too long - I have just taken them ALL up, plus two that I have of mine (mine were all too big so I had bought two new pairs but they were too long) so i took up 7 pairs of jeans - I have never had so many jeans in my life! Also mended a seam on a sweater, fixed the hem on a pair of work trousers, and mended the strap on a cami that had broken. GO ME !!!!! All that has been hanging over me for months - well, weeks anyway! I now have jeans that I can wear! And SO many pairs! My wardrobe will be stuffed!

Jan - okay - no way will I ever beat you - your guilt is beating you up enough. Get back on the horse and start again - okay? you are back with me - right? Good. I would love to have my eye lids done - but nothing else really I don't think - I mean, I would still look old to anyone younger than me but it would be nice to not have great bags hanging over my eyes!! And as for crows feet - don't even get me started on them! LOL smoking really helps those - and around the mouth - one more reason to quit - SIGH.

Ruby - sorry you had such a bad day. I hope and pray that TRicky Dickie is okay. they know that you are interested. did you call and tell them that you couldn't get out? I do hope he is still there tomorrow - hugs to you :l

Fen - sorry you are not posting - hugs and strength to you my friend :l:h

Bird - well, a $ per pound ....Hmmm - you had better get on it then!!! there's motivation for you anyway! Even though you wanted beer and pizza - hope you didn't have beer and pizza - did you?

Mish - gosh - what a story - I read others stories in awe of what they went through - I will never post mine, partly because it isn't that interesting and partly just because I never will. But it is amazing what other folk go through/have gone through. I will go and read jans one day - I have read Rogers and his is really incredible. Really quite amazing. He should be proud of what he has become. I hope so much that Ash holds true to her word, but try to not hold out much hope, then if she lets you down, it won't be such a shock for you......:l Prayers and love coming your way......

Well, I think I might go and do a little reading for a while. I have another day off tomorrow and all manner of things lined up to do.

love and hugs to all,

Sun XX