Don't know why I'm still up, browsing the forum of all things. I've been lacking sleep the last 3 days, so damn tired. I get up too late to exercise, which makes me feel better. Sigh....:( Actually, I get like this when I'm depress. Need... to... exercise....

Diz clawed me on the lip last night.
Didn't mean to of course, but hurt just the same.
He has an appointment with Mr Clippers before bedtime tonight.

I'm thinking of trying him on those claw covers...
Can't really justify the expense when I can just clip them. Except that I use a human nail clipper, so it's not ideal - sometimes they splinter a little...

Ouch! That's the most painful place that a cat can scratch you (in my experience anyway). Hope it heals up very soon SG.

Anyone seen Scrubs Series 9? I'm thinking specifically here of the horse funerals. :D

Back to the holiday discussion...apparently, Puerto Rico has the most public holidays at 31 per year, but you'd have to move around the island to be entitled to all of them.

I've been on this fucking board for 10 years now?! I've known Sheppsie and some of you motherfuckers for that long?! Son of a bitch! I'm old! That means I was 25 when I started on this board! Since I started on this board, I've:

--Lived in 3 different cities
--Had 2 fiancees
--Got married
--Got divorced
--Almost lost an eye
--Went through more jobs than I can count
--Met a bunch of you
--Have driven hundreds of thousands of miles

Whoa!

There's a post that came back to haunt you!

humm, I WAS going to ask for the recipe.

Why not experiment sometime when you've going to be by yourself for 24 hours or so. No guarantee that it's going to affect your digestive system the same way that it affects Ali's.

I am posting this shit from a fucking cell phone! Who thought we'd be doing this shit 10 years ago?!

*amazed*

[For anyone who's new or hasn't gathered this already, I've spent a fair bit of my life living in countries other than the one where I am a citizen]. I am still constantly amazed at how much things have changed, even since 2002 when I was worked in China and Internet was common place.

Even though it's nothing unusual now, I was reminded the other day how fantastic the advances in technology are as I was chatting via my email account's chat function with my Argentinean hostmum who was on holiday in Ecuador while chatting with someone else in Australia. (Sounding a bit like an advertisement here, but still...it is incredible).

I love that a phonecall no longer has to be something special that you save up for once a month like the first time I went o/s in 1990 and given all the paperwork/logistics stuff that still has to be organised for my house back in Oz, the ease and affordability of communication is a godsend.

We used to make cassette tapes for my Aunt & Uncle in Oz.
Some news (from the radio) some chat and some songs.
They used to make Uncle Jimmy cry.

I keep bugging my 19 yo cousin to get her arse in gear so we can have a Skype call.
Her parents don't have the technological wherewithal to do it themselves, but of course they'd be the ones to really benefit. And Mum. Writing this I really must push harder. It would be amazing to see them.

Do they still have them?

In 1993, my friends in Argentina made a tape and sent it over to Australia with one of my lecturers who had gone home (to Argentina) for a holiday. I think that at that stage, some of my friends didn't even have landlines so to hear their voices was magic. I've had that tape transferred onto CD.

One time I had some ice cream.

Stone cold ice cream. It's as expensive as hell, but they make up for it my spreading it on a cold stone slab until it is nice and creamy. You then have about 100 toppings to choose from. The only toppings I really like are the Oreo cookie on vanilla or nuts. My favorite flavors are mocha, PINK peppermint with the peppermint chunks and licorice sometimes.