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**Weekend chat thread 2/3 Jan 2010**

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  • beanielou
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    sal ~ take care hun xxx
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  • scaredy_cat
    scaredy_cat Posts: 7,758 Forumite
    Spud, i have realised i do the same thing - save something for 'special' - and 'special' never arrives...
    Cats don't have owners - they have staff!! :D:p
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  • Shoe_Gal
    Shoe_Gal Posts: 7,235 Forumite
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    scaredy_cat wrote: »
    Suspicois Minds is one fav of mine.

    That's my all time favourite :D
    Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes - that's why we need really special ones!
    Total debt @ Oct 2008: £29,226.42 Credit Card- £[STRIKE]7493.56[/STRIKE] - £7243.56
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  • Shoe_Gal
    Shoe_Gal Posts: 7,235 Forumite
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    LouiseJ wrote: »
    Passes tissues to ShoeGal.

    Thanks, defo needed :o That one gets me everytime!
    Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes - that's why we need really special ones!
    Total debt @ Oct 2008: £29,226.42 Credit Card- £[STRIKE]7493.56[/STRIKE] - £7243.56
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  • judi24
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    Spud I am so with you on the Christmas tree and the candles! I was going to put my old artificcial tree up and left it out one morning to put up when I got home from work - my OH went out and bought the biggest real tree I have ever had! It is lovely and so sweet of him cos he knew I didn't want to waste money on a tree!
    My eldest works in Molton Brown - I have never had one of thier candles - she bought me a gorgeous set of thier candles for Christmas - but I haven't lit any - cos I know how much they cost!!! might just light one now!

    Well done for opening the wine - any achievement is important! and it doesn't sound silly!
  • Buffythedebtslayer
    Buffythedebtslayer Posts: 18,924 Forumite
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    sallyx wrote: »
    right im going to head off, don't feel too special all of a sudden
    xxx

    Hey hon you are doing it tough right now, I wish i could be more use to your, but am sending hugs and love.

    xxx
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • Shoe_Gal
    Shoe_Gal Posts: 7,235 Forumite
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    Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »
    This sounds really daft but I sort of think/believe he must be in heaven now cos he made so much happiness....?

    I sound completely bonkers now but any way.

    No Buffy, I agree - it makes it even sadder that he was so unhappy. So many of the people around him loved him (I don't include Col. Parker :mad:) but they couldn't help him - maybe loved him too much to just say 'no' sometimes :confused:
    Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes - that's why we need really special ones!
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  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    Goodness there is a right Mardy women on this Elvis show, sat like a Shop Dummy.
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • spud30
    spud30 Posts: 16,872 Forumite
    edited 2 January 2010 at 11:05PM
    scaredy_cat wrote: »
    Spud, i have realised i do the same thing - save something for 'special' - and 'special' never arrives...

    Yep, we're just the same. We need to realise that every day is special ;)
    judi24 wrote: »
    Spud I am so with you on the Christmas tree and the candles! I was going to put my old artificcial tree up and left it out one morning to put up when I got home from work - my OH went out and bought the biggest real tree I have ever had! It is lovely and so sweet of him cos he knew I didn't want to waste money on a tree!
    My eldest works in Molton Brown - I have never had one of thier candles - she bought me a gorgeous set of thier candles for Christmas - but I haven't lit any - cos I know how much they cost!!! might just light one now!

    Well done for opening the wine - any achievement is important! and it doesn't sound silly!

    I love Molton Brown stuff and once treated myself to some pre LBM. I opened each bottle to have a sniff, then saved it for a special occasion that never happened. By the time I used it, it had gone off :o

    Get your bloomin candle lit :D
    Is it better to aim for the stars and hit a tree or aim for a tree and land in its branches :think:
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  • spud30
    spud30 Posts: 16,872 Forumite
    Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »
    None of those are daft Spud, I hate those bottle things and have also over come my fear to open one- was well chuffed. And so should you be!

    And I am so SICK of saving stuff for a special occasion

    Hang on let me see if I can find that story thing.

    Well done on all of it Spud xxxx

    I've never met anyone before who was scared of them too :T

    I never thought opening bottles of fizz regularly could ever be classed as therapy, but I really think thats what we need to do :beer: :D
    Is it better to aim for the stars and hit a tree or aim for a tree and land in its branches :think:
    Loves being a Wonderbra friend :kisses3:
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