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False ...well they have value to me but the reality is they have little value...I collect poppies and Anzac biscuit tins. TNP has touched they eyes after cutting chillies or using lineament

Ranga. A redhead, short for orangutan...seeing as they are the same colour. My kid is a ranga.

Trying to decide if I want dessert.

Hope you up an about real soon Reci, with a full recovery.

Bet that's not what Sugar Britches says

Right now... Not sleeping...that is what I am doing....not sleeping.

..and....Up yours self destructive self!

^another great talent sadly gone too soon.

Saying thank you to @Boo and @Sazerac for a VERY successful Melbourne Cup... Thank you Saz & Boo..... and why do they get my thanks.....got the last three quinellas (1st & 2nd) in races 8-10.. . And 2 of them are thanks to them....huh? you say....weeeeeelllllll I always take 2 & 6 in the quinella cos it was me grandad's unit (WW2.. 2nd6th)...and then I box in a third horse which is also me each way bet...so I couldn't decide on a third horse so I went nah-yeah I'll take 'Looks Like Elvis' cos Boo n Saz like him (blurgh)...and then I could pick a third in another so I went, I'll just take 11 like the Elvis horse....so the quinella in race 8 was 2 & 11 ...race 9 was 2&11 and race 10 was 2&6.....$1,389.70 (few each way bets in there too)....so thanks Boo and Saz cos $1000 of that was from your love of Elvis.

^ aah, successfully masturbation!

Bon Jovi is winning....didn't see that one....don't forget to vote. Will be up till Satdee.

@Boo had my guess....so as a back up I'm Gunna run with.....

NOPE ... Not on Cup Day....

I had one at about the 10 month mark...but in the early quit days I had some truely crazy dreams.....just not smoking ones but often about people here....and really odd.

Hannibal lector

Just watched Remember the Titans ... With the kid..... Bit sad we sat there saying the lines...

@Vivianne...thanks for asking me to.

I grew up in a smoke free house and in Australia where the anti smoking lobby was about 20 years ahead of elsewhere...when I started smoking it wasn't cool ... Only idiots smoked .... As a teen most public places were already smoke free...but smoking for me was a bit if an FU to my mum but also all the safe places growing up, the grandparents, the aunts and uncles I'd get farmed out to smoked that smell to me was safety...and love. Just like you I quit when preggas and didn't stop until I finished feeding...but I knew it was just temporary I had no intention of making it permanent.

Love your monthly check ins keep living the smoke free dream.

Well it's the week of the come backs. Jack popped in for his monthly catch up. @Stewietech popped in and we kinda hope he sticks around. When he I saw his post a little voice inside me yelled "Hallelujah, he's back" ...and thus I give you the Hallelujah Cover Poll....no not the chorus ....but Leonard Cohen's one.... So here we go, the original by the man who penned it: Then we have Jeff Buckley who bought it to the masses.... Then she made it hers at the Winter Olympics and gave it a new feel...I give you Katherine Dawn Lang.. Then not wanting to be left out Jon Bon Jovi gave it a burl... And then rounding out our voting options is that little ginger guitar ninja all the way from the British Isles.....Ed Sheeran Wait a second groovers....we got some yanks, we covered Canada, we have a Britski but where's the bloody Aussie....here's 10 of the...the Ten Tenors..

Pork Chop! I have been so worried for you since you left and missed you very much. Super proud you are smoke free despite life's hurdles, that tells you how strong you are. You were a huge part of my early quit and one of my guiding lights. Know you are often in my thoughts and if you do want to be here lots of us would love you to stay.

Sip icy cold water...always helps me post migraine.

Why when they have a whole frickin pergola to sit under do my moron dogs sit in the middle of the yard in a rain storm?

Check-in put the BOM radar... Not that we don't need it but kinda wish we could send some of this to Cali and NSW and QLD.....I'm on the edge western edge (left) of the first yellow blob)...slow moving storm...we were on an asthma thunderstorm watch but this was so slow movie we dodged that bullet. Are asthma thunderstorms an Aussie thing? Seem to be more a Melbourne thing down here....need a run of days in the 30Cs...northerly winds, plain trees and some other plants in flower....then a sudden temp drop and thunderstorm..boom every ER in Melbourne is flooded with asthma attacks, people die....it's awful.

I wonder if I'm on Santa's bad list?