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lighter:
Tupp? I was going to reply to you on this thread. Where did you go?
Lighter
lighter:
I pulled weeds 4 hours, atr lovely German bean soup,mmmmm, warmed me right up. Very blustery cold today.
My youngest dd15 and I picked a Christmas tree out and had it strapped to the truck roof. She put wet paper towels onver the cut end and capped with plastic bag and rubber bands. She's right....it does look like the tree has a diaper.
It's just wrong. :: Shaking head::
Lighter
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: lighter on November 22, 2017, 03:55:08 PM ---I pulled weeds 4 hours, atr lovely German bean soup,mmmmm, warmed me right up. Very blustery cold today.
My youngest dd15 and I picked a Christmas tree out and had it strapped to the truck roof. She put wet paper towels onver the cut end and capped with plastic bag and rubber bands. She's right....it does look like the tree has a diaper.
It's just wrong. :: Shaking head::
Lighter
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Lol, I like that image, Lighter :)
I'm not sure if I replied earlier in the thread or not? Sometimes I know I want to reply but don't have the time right at that moment and then forget - in my head I think I did it :) But maybe not, lol, but your neighbour with the big dog rang a bell for me. I get that need for protection so badly. We have a ferocious cat :)
I'm impressed with your self care rituals, mine still go out of the window when I'm pushed for time; I'm working on it :) The creative space isn't there yet as I've hit a bit of a stumbling block with the decorating. We have a really big sofa - too big for our flat but I didn't realise before we moved in. It's a nightmare to get in or out of the room (horribly tight fit and takes all the paint off the door frame) and there's nowhere else to put it because none of the other rooms are big enough. So it really needs to go before I can get anything else done (I've done as much as I can but everything else now hinges on this sofa vanishing). I've been advertising it as a give away for a month or so but nobody wants it yet. I can have it disposed of but it's expensive and always seems such a waste to me - it's a nice sofa, it's just too big for our flat. Someone else suggested cutting it up to get it out which again just seems such a waste. So I'm holding on for the time being in the hope someone can use it. It doesn't have the right fire safety certificates on it for a charity to take it and for the same reason I can't rehome it to a residential home or waiting room or something. So either it will be someone wants it or it will go to the dump. Hopefully the former. But no creative space until it's gone :) xx
lighter:
Ahh, Tupp. I feel for you about the sofa. I instinctively want to paint the darned thing. Isn't that odd? I do, though. Maybe you'll find it a good home, and things will work out. Wasting lovely things seems so wrong.
I have several large containers of new moss to plant. I'm not up to it with this darned cold, though it might take my mind off the misery. Today is better, to be fair, but youngest dd missed school with her fever.
She has a voice performance tomorrow night at a fund raiser hosted by our school's music teacher.... record album release party.... very exciting, except youngest dd has a solo, and must perform with the cold AND she's not comfortable with either. Also, the chorus will perform out of the audience, flash mob style, which isn't youngest dd's style.
I bought a front row seat for it.
::shaking head::
Poor kid.
Lighter
lighter:
DDD15 appeared on stage and did what had to be done in a stoic, get the job over manner that was beautiful.
The chorus sang several ok songs, but oh my....the last one "Happy", was flat, slow and almost unrecognizable.
At the end I leaned toward the lady sitting next to me, a teacher from a private school who bought a 25.00 ticket out of the blue, and said....
" I bet you didn't see that coming," as the kids left the stage to roaring applause. The teacher burst out laughing....there was laughter all night, and mostly great entertainment. DD15 will speak to music teacher about asking the chorus to perform songs they can't pull off going forward. I love that she's advocating for herself.
The highlights of the evening....the fundraiser was a huge success. Our gentle kind vetrinarian won the spa basket, which was amazing, and Gary Jules took the the stage for 3 songs. He was funny and DD15 was over the top happy, which helped balance out the mortification of "Happy."
Lighter
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