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skirt is fixed - 10:00 PM

on friday afternoon i went back to the tailor's to pick up my skirt that they massacred with a great ugly topstitched hem. thankfully, they fixed it up so it looks just the way it should have. last night i...

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really bad tailors - 07:10 AM

my apologies for yesterday. if you tuned in you would have found that the cam image wasn't updating since about 6am through to 3am the next day. the ftp server that i use was not allowing anyone to connect so...

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grandma improving - 05:40 PM

my cousin beck has been with grandma all day & has just sent me some encouraging emails. she told me that grandma has been able to talk a little bit today & is more alert than she has been. she's...

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pneumonia & cruise shopping - 09:30 AM

my grandma isn't doing so well. she has pneumonia & they've taken her off the chemo. my sister & i are going with mum this morning to visit her .. everybody is making sure to visit in the next few...

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surprise cruise - 07:25 PM

well, here's some exciting news. i'm going on a cruise! it's kind of an emergency, would you believe? sort of sad undertones as to why i'm going though. my dad planned to go on a cruise with his mum &...

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kelsey's third birthday - 07:00 PM

we went to kelsey's (my sweet little niece) third birthday party today. it was really fun. kelsey dressed up as a queen, she looked like a princess really, same thing as far as dressing up goes, but to a kid...

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migraine & uti - 10:45 PM

what a day. i was supposed to work today but i woke up two hours before i was meant to start with another migraine (surprise, surprise). i called in sick & i'm so glad i did. the past few days...

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the diet continues - 07:15 AM

shroom has started the diet with me, yay! we get to suffer together! .. hehe *chuckle* no, really, it means that we can eat the same meals & support each other while we try to be strong enough to stick...

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poor sleep & a foul mood - 10:00 PM

yesterday i started work on shroom's mum's site. she does pottery. she makes not only pots but other things too, like kind of tribal looking faces that you can hang inside or outside on a wall, pots that can be...

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danny's eighteenth - 06:00 PM

we went out on saturday night & i failed to tell you all about it. it was a great night. we went with mungbean & ryan to help celebrate mung's little brother, danny's eighteenth birthday. we had a fantastic night....

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college's crossing - 05:00 PM

we just came back from taking the dog to college's crossing. they've built a big recreation area around where the river goes through a hilly section & they've done quite a good job. on almost any weekend (in fine weather)...

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counterfeit - 06:35 AM

in my extreme state of hunger last night .. *chuckle* .. i forgot to mention in my diary here something pretty exciting & unusual that happened yesterday at work. we found a counterfeit twenty dollar bill! really! i've never seen...

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obsessed with food - 07:05 PM

the first day of my diet & already i'm obsessed with food! i got my eski of food yesterday. all looked pretty good. there seems to be enough of it. only thing is, the total day's food comes to no...

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weight loss - 02:55 PM

well today i did something that i've never done before. i went in search of weight loss! okay, okay, i know that some of you are saying, "but you don't need to lose weight!" but you haven't seen the view...

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doggie still at school - 10:10 PM

doggie school was fun today. i woke up with a headache this morning so i wasn't really with it for class but i still enjoyed it as i have for the previous two weeks. it's funny really, you get to...

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digital camera & more on grandma - 08:35 PM

we bought a digital camera yesterday! yay! i haven't really gone anywhere to use it yet but how about i show you a couple of the good ones that i took while playing around with it? click here to go...

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turn for the worse - 04:00 PM

i'm almost sure that i had some exciting things to say this afternoon, but all of a sudden i don't remember any of it. my dad rang just before. mum's at the hospital with my grandma, her mum. if you've...

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too young for children - 07:10 AM

i look very young. i always have. people always think i'm younger than i am. usually it doesn't bother me, it's just a fact of life. the other day though, someone said something, in thinking that i was much younger,...

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hair cut - 04:35 PM

i got my hair trimmed this morning. didn't get much cut off, probably about an inch & a half. i must have the most sensitive head in the world. i got a headache from having my hair cut! i mean,...

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sensitive head - 06:30 PM

i visited my sister & her two babies today. it must have been way too long since my last visit because little brittany looks so much more grown up than when i saw her previously. babies change so quickly. it...

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comedy, pubs & doggie school - 05:05 PM

i've had such a great weekend! friday night shroom & i went out to a comedy club restaurant at the gold coast with some people from his work. it was a riot, the comedians were so very funny! of course,...

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web cam gallery - 06:55 AM

the web cam gallery is up! yay! now, when i'm not around, you can amuse yourself by looking through no less than forty-five (wow!) pictures snapped by the web cam throughout august. to get there, go the web cam page...

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