OS daily thead Sunday 23rd December 2007

Churchmouse

I've just had a thought, it's coming up for 7am on Christmas Eve in Oz. I bet Aussie is running around like fury:rotfl: :rotfl: I suddenly feel a whole lot better about how long I've got to do things:D

Ophie

thriftlady wrote: »

Evening everybody:santa2:

I've only read the last 2 posts I'm afraid, so welcome to Ophie, my nephew is 6 tomorrow and is in a state of extreme excitedness at the moment. So, enjoy the relative calm before your dd gets older and the madness of a birthday combined with Christmas hits you.

Thank you for the welcome thiftlady.

I'm dreading Christmas/birthday as she gets older. I wonder if there is an OS recipe for sleeping potion I could use

I'm just looking round now and wondering where I am going to put her birthday cards I have managed to hide her fish from her for 2 days now - by simply not allowing her to go over to that bit of the room. She knew the tank was there as it was there for a week just settling in... but the fish she has no clue about. I am contemplating not telling her about them tomorrow so she doesn't sneak round when anyone is out of the room and bash the tank!!!!

The fish have names too..

Mary
Joseph and...

Jesus - but said Heyzeus

Not that she can say any of the names, but I take delight in pointing them out to myself.

AussieLass

Churchmouse wrote: »

I've just had a thought, it's coming up for 7am on Christmas Eve in Oz. I bet Aussie is running around like fury:rotfl: :rotfl: I suddenly feel a whole lot better about how long I've got to do things:D

You're wrong it's only 7.30am.

Welcome to Ophie.

I had the worst night sleep last night. :rolleyes: We went to bed past midnight and for some reason tossed and turned. I feel like going back to bed but the kitchen calls me. On the plus side it's overcast, windy and cool. :T I've woken up DD, Ninny's little helper and she'd drinking coffee to wake up as I type.

Churchmouse Did you just change your time? Too bad. I'm not changing my post. We all missed you. Have a good night sleep everyone. Byeeeeeeeeeee

Churchmouse

Yep, i did edit the time:D For those that didn't see I originally posted coming up for 9am:o ( sometimes I'm thick:rotfl: )

donny-gal

Hi Aussie - its not that late yet!

Welcome Ophie - don't be fooled it is only a few :A 's who are organised, the rest of us live in chaosville.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Well I think I will cope with Christmas now, just go to take DS's car to DNephew tomorrow for a service, take the wreaths to DH's M&D and my M's crem plots. Go and see DS's GodM who is one of my best friends. She is blind but she has a brilliant sense of humour and also a very good listener when I need an ear, but most of the time we end up laughing.

Get any veg I need from Aldi, and do without anything I have forgotten.

All this before 2 pm as DS goes to town at that stage.

Just watching Vanity Fair.

Is it me or does it feel a bit flat at the moment??
DG

HariboJunkie

Churchmouse wrote: »

Yep, i did edit the time:D For those that didn't see I originally posted coming up for 9am:o ( sometimes I'm thick:rotfl: )

Thank goodness for that. I thought Aussie was mixing the meds and sherry in the mornings now.

Roger Roger Aussie. Merry Christmas Eve to you and yours.

Welcome Ophie. What a special couple of days ahead for you.

I was just getting the girls to bed when my brothers kids phoned to ask if they could open their presents early. The twins overheard and so have opened theirs from him. :rolleyes: There is now a pink sewing machine and a microscope on the living room floor and I have just seen OH literally tearing his hair out in the kitchen to examine it under the microscope. :rotfl:

I've been playing this all evening.

donny-gal

I have just received this in an email, one I should send on to 7 friends but I never do, but I thought the older OSers would enjoy it!

Old Age, I have decided, is a gift.

I am now, probably for the first time in mylife, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggyeyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that oldperson that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother!), but I don't agonize over those things for long. I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and lesscritical of myself. I've become my own friend.

I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to beextravagant.

Ihave seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before theyunderstood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep untilnoon?

I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60&70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and willdive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the importantthings.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a lovedone, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength andunderstanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine andsterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don'tquestion myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free.I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever,but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day. (If I feel like it)

DG

Bargain_Rzl

Evening folks :hello:

Happy birthday Catowen :bdaycake:

I've been running around all day. Choir practice and church this morning, followed by helping to puy up the Christmas decorations at church, followed by the customary group lunch at a local pizza restaurant for all the helpers, followed by choir practice again, followed by carol service.

Got a text from my mum earlier saying "Please buy the dog a Christmas present, as she found the hide bone I bought her and ate it while I was out!" :rotfl: Luckily I should be able to do this tomorrow, there is a pet shop 10 mins from home so I can come back from work that way.

I am going to try and set off for work early tomorrow, the queue outside the Neal's Yard Dairy cheese shop in Borough Market yesterday was not so much a queue as a mob :eek: so I am planning on getting there tomorrow before work (it's 5 mins from the office) as they open at 8. I have promised to take cheese to my mum's when I go there for Christmas.

Oh, just as I am about to go away for a few days my upstairs neighbour called round last night and said he'd seriously flooded his bathroom. So I am apprehensively waiting to see whether water starts dripping through my ceiling :eek: which fortunately it hasn't yet The thing is, the problem he's had sounds like it is something that might become a problem for me too (pipework not lagged behind the bath, leading to severe buildup of condensation soaking into the floor) as our bathrooms are identical. So I think I might have a little task after Christmas to take the panel off my bath and investigate :eek:

Off to do some tidying - the Christmas tree looks lovely

Rzl xx :wave:

Churchmouse

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I've been playing this all evening.

Gee thanks Haribo! That's exactly what I needed, an addictive little game to while away all those SPARE hours I've got!!!! :rotfl:

Bargain_Rzl

Oh by the way, not sure if anybody's interested but there are a couple of really good opera broadcasts on telly over Christmas. "Carmen" is on BBC2 on Boxing Day afternoon, and "La fille du regiment" is on BBC4 on the 30th. I saw them both live when they were on at the opera house and they are both fab. Carmen is a good traditional dramatic production full of good recognisable tunes, and La fille du regiment is hilarious (and features an rather adorable man in uniform singing like an angel ). Nothing to do with OS, obviously, but thought I'd mention it as both of these would be good shows to see even if opera's not really your thing. Both are sung in French with English subtitles.