rants

Oh Liz, that sucks about the nets. Tell your mum its not the done thing to have nets anymore and Jake was just doing her a favour . Or if that doesnt work try the sallies or op shops for some new ones.

Re Lewis. As you said he has alot of female friends so its prob just that the emailer got it wrong, but to put your mind at rest i think you should bring the subject up with him.

I second what Maria said re the Lewis thing. Having lots of girl-friends is easily misconstrued by many people. I reckon the emailer got it wrong. I think that to put your mind at rest you are gonna have to mention it to him, otherwise it will bug you.

Bugger about the curtains!
I cant really comment on the Lewis issue. The dynamics of your relationship is very different to mine and I would not put up with the things you do, plus IM a naturally suspicious person but I do think you should talk to him for your own piece of mind. Do you know who the email came from

Bummer about the nets, Liz.
I am with the above, in the bring it up casually line of thinking. Personally, though, I know it would be driving me to distraction, mainly because he is so far away and you can't physically *see* anything. I, myself, am a suspisious person by nature, so I wouldn't be able to help myself... actually, I would be on a plane right now, ont he way to Japan!
Big hugs to you!

ok then here we go - we are staying at my sister's place and her 9 yr old is just at the moody brooding sulky slamming door stage of entering woman-hood - lolol... except now my wee 2 yr old has decided that it is perfectly fine for her to copy. now i know she's far from perfect and a bit of a princess, but i am beginning to forget the last time i saw her smile, and i absolutely cannot remember when i last asked her to do something (even if it was something nice) and had her look at me and happily agree. ARGH this is gonna take weeks of reprogramming!!!

Then add to that that since sunday night, miss ayja has had sky high temperatures, even pamol has not done much, and she has woken the whole house up screaming uncontrollably for the last 2 nights, every hour or so. she will not feed, she will not cuddle, she will not take pamol, NOTHING will make it stop. We took her all the way into hamilton yesterday to the 24 docs to be told that there was nothing they could find, it was probably.... wait for it... viral (am sure they say that when they can't admit they have no idea). so here we are, going home in 2 days time, and i am hoping that tonight she will not scream all night. we are going to have to go home to get sleep and re-programme our kids.

there ya go, there's my rant.

oh yeah, and our new house we found just a few days before we came away on holiday - is pretty much infested with large black spiders. (ARGH!!!!!!) and our cat has not come home.


Liz, can sympathise with you for the nets thing, my mum still has them, and grandkids are forever ripping them. chances are they are about 20 years old and only held together by 2 threads anyway. lol

one for Janine and one for Liz!!!

Oh actually I lie... I had some crazy hippy doctor do some magic stuff on her. I have no idea what it was... or if it actually made any difference but it was weird... very very weird... lots of saliva in belly buttons and head tapping etc. I didn't ask too many questions!

Okay, I think she's asleep now...

Thank goodness it only takes a simple blood test to get her diagnosed these days! I had her tested when she was 12 months old (negative), but some research since has told us that there is more likely to be a true result when the child is 5 or more.

Glad she got to sleep finally Becca. Well on the plus side, at least you'll know what she's going through and can be there to help her. You also know that she's going to be fine! (Better than not knowing anyway...)
Hope she doesn't have sore feet/ankles for long.
Lots of hugs

Oh no Becca! I hope little Kiya isn't in too much pain. Big huggles from me!