Sudokuaholics Anonymous 4

Sigh, well I guess I'll have to go and do some work.....

all. Been busy here, trying to catch up on all that bad stuff around here. Will try not to gas on like before.

CynB, glad to hear the good news on your squashing.

June, congrats on your win. Good luck on the semis. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

MizT, please blow some of that warmth up my way. It's been cold and dank here for ages. BTW, how was the burgundy chicken?

to SA4 Lee.

Made Tortilla Soup and pita chips tonight, both for the first time. Way too healthy.

Hey Suzy.. I checked out your pictures on flickr...loved the Aussie lantren...the paintings by the girls are great too...whodid the fence? Pretty neat all in all! Sorry that I was tagged before you got tome...but thats life...

Hi all Hubby & I went to movies & saw The Painted Veil will post review on the movies forum now for all our Queensland viewers & New South Wales folk who will be disappointed at the outcome its STATE against STATE go our MIGHTY MAROONS do em like a dinner hehehe

Hi all just popping in before I go out with a friend to buy some new rose bushes for her garden.
Has anyone heard from Rolanda lately I haven't seen her around for a while?

Oops I have just gone back a few pages and have seen that Rolanda has been around and I missed her. Really must get these new glasses broken in so I can see properly

Today is her shopping day.
She just lurves shopping!

Don't we all Gail?
Almost as much as I lurve cooking the dinner every night...and on that night I bit you adieu as I go rattle some pots and pans and throw a few plates around the kitchen!!!
Girls retreat at Torquay looking pretty good right now ... surely we have take away down there!! I'm taking Jess [even tho she's a dog she's the right sex..] males all stay in Melbourne. Prob won't get away until Friday morn. now but I'll still manage a night or two.

2nd night=note....getting my nights and notes all in a mess!!!
BRB...after chow down

Hi Mamacita! Mum painted the fence. She also did the side of her shed, though it was more of a scene. Since then people who have seen or heard about it have asked her to do theirs! She has offered to do the side of my shed when she comes back at Xmas. The Aussie Lantern came about because we couldn't get a pumpkin last year. None of the shops had them!

Hi Bean, we must have been typing at the same time! And now you have gone to rattle pots and pans! We've already eaten and I've gotten an early start on the vino...

Going to sit in the chatroom and talk to myself for a while....

BECKY, Burgandy chicken was a hit, hubby said please buy that again. AND it was enough for 2 meals, so he will get his wish next really busy day I have. Nice to have something easy for those days.

I must remember to write down the name of that item on my grocery list tmeplate, and will check out the freezer case for other offerings from that company. If they are as good as this one was . . .

It is time for coffee!

My cuppa was very satisfying today, think I shall have one more, maybe the third? surely not the fourth? but who is counting??

Today is a lovely day, was cool enough to turn off AC last night and open windows> Milder temps are expected today. YEAH, I might go most of the day with doors and windows open, that is a good thing.

Finished the mowing for the week on Monday, but need to do the trim. Today's cooler temps might get me out and whipper snipping today.

Yes, we have extremes in temps, but neither lasts too long. We have about 6 weeks of the really hot and humid, and in winter, a day or 2 at a time of the cold, with mild winter days in between. BUT it is colder than 50 many days. And we watch for tornadoes, but one has never found me, yet. close a couple of times, and I still go to shelter for storms, since mobile homes (transportables you call them?) are unsafe in tornadoes.

Good morning all! Don't have time to go back and catch up with everyone. Spring pick-up is this week and trying to get all of the junk out of the house. Been busy with appointments and Max had his Spring concert last night. It was very nice but we didn't get home until 10:30 and we were one of the first ones to leave the reception after the concert. Trying to find someone to go see Indiana Jones with me tomorrow. This will be a record for me, 2 movies in a week! I usually only go to the movies 3 times a year, but Indiana is something I can't miss on the big screen!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Just time for a quick hello as I'm shutting everything down... time for bed
Suzy.. what a pity I missed you. Had a few problems in the kitchen... my menu was voted out! [maybe i stir fry a bit too often...] We ended up with something easier tho.. shop bought ravioli. I think it is time I took a leaf out of Gails book... it isn't the cooking that is the problem... it is deciding what to cook!!

Stella... I am so looking forward to the latest Indiana Jones movie and Mama Mia...
I love going to the movies and try to go once a week. My 'movie going friend' rarely misses a thing [or so it seems to me] and come Oscars time she ensures that she has seen every film that has been nominated... I think it AMAZING!!! She is a fountain of information tho... can always refer me to a film to suit my mood... we love comedies 'cause we laugh at the same things. It is unbelievably SATISFYING watching something and NOT have to explain what you find so funny.

Brenda.. what are the new roses called? [lurve roses - had 54+ before the drout]
I have 3 new Heritage roses waiting to go in... I recycle/reuse everything - a friend was revamping her garden and was digging them out. I'm trying to prepare a new bed for them before winter sets in properly.. half done now but my knee keeps packing it in a causing a halt in the proceedings.

is there a good reason why I shouldn't CP?

thought not.. have a good day every body.. see you in a few hours. Ciao

Bean, didn't get to go shopping for my friends roses as she had forgotten a hospital appointment she had to attend. Will go next week to see what she wants. They have to be container roses as she has had her garden block paved. She isn't a gardener and having had both her hips replaced she couldn't do much gardening now.

Hello, all. June, when I was learning to play golf I often played with a 76 year-old woman who beat me regularly -- at first. She motivated me to play better. I hope you win your championship. Get motivated!

HI ALL, I am here for all the sympothy I can get today. I have a boo boo, I fell in the bedroom. Scared me as much as hurt me, as I was in the house alone and the phone was across the room. Thought I would have to lie on the floor forever (slight exageration, but that kind of feeling) Took me a while to work out how to get to the phone and get hubby in from the dome, but I am resourceful.

anyhow, I have a very sore knee now and some sore toes, OUCH! Hubby did a fast check and pronounced nothing broken. "You are just going to be sore a few days" yep, can tell that already.

I indulged in a rare pain pill, cause not only the knee, but I jarred everything, and old bones do not like being jarred. Now, I shall take a nap, and hope it is better when i wake up this afternoon.

Thanks for letting me whine a bit

Ooh MizT, sorry to hear about your boo boo. Know exactly how you feel, though. Few years back, I fell in our back yard and hubby wasn't home. Started to crawl towards the door when the neighbor saw me and helped me into the house. So, you've got all my sympathy.

Hope you're not too stoved up and are up and about soon.

MizT, I'm sorry to hear about your boo boo too. My mother had a similar experience when she dislocated her new hip in the front yard. It was the middle of a work day so it was probably an hour before someone heard her calling and came to help. She was very sunburnt and very sore by the time they came. We tried to get her to carry a mobile/cell phone after that but she wouldn't consider it.

I am sitting here waiting for Mum to drop in to say goodbye to the girls. She has a friend going back with her so has gone to pick her up. That gave my kids an extra half hour of sleep...

THANK YOU, Suzy and Becky, I do feel a lot better after a nap. I will recover, it was just so unexpected, you know?

ONLY 10 more till TOPPs, but who is counting?

She has been and gone... She has suggested the girls take a train and bus to go out to see her next school holidays. d2 is extremely intimidated by the idea. She has until September to get used to it though and maybe we'll do some trips to Sydney or something to help her between now and then....

I'm glad you're feeling better MizT, but expect that you will be stiff and sore tomorrow. I will be thinking of you!!!

Hi Everyone...I need to go fling some pots around, but had to say hello.
Hey Suzy....Tell your mum that I need her to visit me and paint my privacy fences like yours...that is so neat. Great story.
MizT ...you sure have my symphany...those hurtful, unexpected jolts to our systems are not to be dismissed too lightly...be careful and continue to feel better. I've been there as recently as my first day in Paris....scared the daylights out of me...but didn't stop me from spending my money!!!!LoL! Peaceand Love...

Well I'm off. I will leave the TOPP to someone else, only 5 away now. Have a great day!

MizT, mountains of sympathy for your booboo.

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Don't let a thing like this get to you, falls happen to the best of us!
Please take care, you are important to us.

MizT, it was not a booboo, merely a shift in the time/space continuum. One moment you were upright, the next???

Anyway..

I would race to the topp...BUT

I have been shaped