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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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I have a visitor.
I live in a concrete wasteland. From my 9th floor window I can see about 300 buildings and exactly ten trees, mostly just the tips peeping over other buildings. Yet for the last week or so I have been hearing an occasional "chee chee chee chee cheee" which I think is a Gecko (I've heard them before in Australia). It's probably one of these: It seems to be living under the fridge. They are regarded as protectors of homes. How cool, I hope it is doing okay. They eat insects and I'm not sure there are enough about to sustain it. I hope I catch a glimpse of it soon. Ok - help me name my gecko. No, I will not call it Gordon.
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Bugaboo make a version of pushchair (stroller) called the Gecko. That would be a cool name imo.
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LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
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Vicariously, I live...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: USA
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One of the pluses of living with my dad who is forever a bachelor (by his own choosing) is that the women of my mom's family (who he's still very close with) often take pity on him...we've been last minute invited to a real thanksgiving meal! Woo!
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Why oh why?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Seattle
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Making Black Friday plans with the girls. A time honored sister tradition. We are minus one this year though but we will be ringing her on the phone, per her request. (Let's see how she will like a 5am call) I think she'll already be working though.)
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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I think you should name your gecko 'little mate'. That's probably what I'd do if I were living far from home and had a new housemate.
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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It's raining - which I love when I'm in bed (00.19 here)
But what's really made me happy is I've just watched Ali's video again. Lovely house, warm climate, warm hostess - summer in my winter bedroom, what's not to love.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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wow. It's snowing like a MOF out there. On Wednesday it was sunny and 75 degrees. No one is going anywhere in my town today. And I'm snug as a bug in my house.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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I just saw this. You're a sweetheart SG.
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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As I mentioned here I believed a building near my home was about to become a destruction/construction site.
I wandered past today and saw a sign which - IF I interpreted it correctly - indicated the project will be finished in two months. There is no way they could demolish and rebuild in that time - in Japan foundations have to go waaay deep and there must be loads of steel and concrete all the way up. This all takes time. So I am now guessing it is only a renovation job. This is supported by the way the scaffolding at the top connects to the building, which I can't imagine them doing if they were planning to demolish. ![]()
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 16,493
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Well that's great news huh? It might improve the view too!
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#972 |
Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 1,409
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My new glasses came in yesterday. My brain has finally adjusted to the new prescription, and - I CAN SEE!
(I've had the same old prescription for two years, and frames that were four years old and pretty bent out of shape.) |
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why so serious
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,712
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Getting gifts from our supplier's during the holidays. Chocolates and other food stuffs. Mmmm, yummy.
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#974 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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Met my new alcohol counsellor today, she is from upstate New York. Which I didn't expect in Welling, Kent.
I'm now on the waiting list for generic counselling and a 6 week Stage 1 course which is group work for people wanting to control their drinking or become completely abstinent. It's in 90 minute sessions, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday for 6 weeks. It will play havoc with my gym class schedule but I can restart my classes any time. I can only take this help with alcohol while I am not working. The only downside is the length of the waiting lists. 2-3 months for counselling. And it's going to be a race to see if the Step 1 course occurs fully within the period I am signed off for... Ah well - the time will pass one way or another, I just have to take the steps I can when I can and trust everything else will fall into place. Also realised today just how far I have come since moving here. I was able to describe before and after and see what I have achieved. And I didn't cry once. Honestly, the amount of people I've had to tell the sordid details of my life to this year... I'm well practised now.
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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If you find you're "running out of time" for the counselling on your current period of being signed off sick, can you get your doctor to extend it? I know this goes against what you'd like to do, but maybe this would be a good course of action to consider for the longer term benefits?
Meawhile - yay you! It's great to hear that you can see the progress you've made - that's bound to be the best motivator (Mr Motivator, to you (remember him? ![]()
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