Sudokuaholics Anonymous 9A

My previous post I got booted off the internet so replied to MizT instead. Brenda think my last post answers your question. Was just telling Lizzy shellfish is off my diet but am introducing things slowly, will probably suffer but prawns and morton bay bugs I cannot give up totally.

Brenda, same wishes back at you and your family.

MizT, no wheat, dairy, gluten, pig, only free range chicken once a month and no shellfish but have been able to convert a lot of my recipes with some great results, even Possum looks forward to what I am going to cook of an evening.

Going to be really bad over the next couple of days, prawns and Morton Bay Bugs, will probably suffer for it but hey this is my only life!

Shrimp would be hard to give up! That is a traditional Christmas thing down under isn't it? Now the " bugs" is that similar to our crayfish? I could do without those no problem.

More like a large shrimp/prawn or crab MizT and they are as sweet as, have six in my fridge for the dinner tomorrow night and starting to salivate.
On that note I should be in bed, have a big day tomorrow.
Love to my friends, please stay safe and watch out for those others..

Merry Christmas to you all xoxo

and Goodnight!

Since it is Christmas eve down under, I want to wish all my friends a very Merry Christmas

I hope the Christmas joy lasts all year.

Suzy, when you said you had good news, I was NOT thinking about you being pregnant. My first thought was that you found a teaching job and was going to join me in my noble, if underpaid, profession.

Wishing all my down under friends a very Merry Christmas

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends. May the joy of the season last all year.

Forgot to say that the second greeting is from Dylan.

Be back later. Gotta go run some errands.

It's time for me to wish all my friends Down Under and Topside a
filled with great presents and LOTS of love.

Good Maen everyone! Boy are you folks chatty!!! I caught up on 3 more pages since my last post!
to everyone everywhere!! May you all have blessings & happiness this coming year!
Don't know if I'll be able to post in the next few days. Going to Wendover, Nevada (small gambling town across Utah state line) on the 26th & 27th for our anniversary.
Stay safe everyone! Lots of love, TTFN!

It is Christmas Eve down under.
I feel very privileged to be a part of this compassionate,uplifting and sincere group of lovely people on Sudokuholics.You have all enriched my life.
May you all have a safe and very happy Christmas with a 2010 that brings many of lifes pleasures,good health and peace.

Special thanks to Gath and Tricia

Happy Anniversary Suzanne to you and Darryl.

Good Morning All. Looks like is going to be a warm one today. I should not be here! I should be getting everything done so I can relax with the aircon. later when it is too hot to do anything! Also the 'sucky' lady is coming today so must see everything is off the floor.

Another warm one here also June.It will be good weather to get into the pool tomorrow when we have christmas lunch with the family.

I am in the middle of baking brownies to take to a Christmas party Mitchell was invited to. It is from the teacher sponsor of his school's brain bowl team. Mitchell is one of 8 boys on the team. Competition starts in January. She is having the party for the team but invited the parents also. We are bringing the brownies. First batch is done, second batch soon to be started.

Morning all!
MizT and Broni, that is such fantastic news, even better than winning lotto!

The blonde Pride girl is looking at a diet pretty much like that for the rest of her life, except with almost nothing cooked. She is eating small amounts of cooked food, just so her mother can keep her on the diet most of the time. If she could read and identify with you I think it would be easier for her.

Suzy, as the pride girl grows up she will get used to the diet and figure out ways to "cheat" without getting sick again.

I am exhausted. Robert and I got 3 busted fences repaired!!! That includes removing old, rotted posts and replacing them. One of the fences was a stockade/ privacy fence I use as a wind block in the calving pasture. We had to replace posts and several panels, as well as a bunch of 2x6's I use for strengthening it. My back is killing me. I'm gonna take some methadone, go to bed and watch a movie.

Now for a nice mug of hot cocoa.

Morning everyone.

I would like to take this oportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and a Happy and Prosperous New Year

I hope to go individual pages to wish you all in person, please do not be offended if I don't manage to get to yours.
I am so lucky that I have soo many friends on this site, and am grateful for all the support that you have bestowed upon me and mine during Mum's illness.

Hi folks... have been missing you guys. Started going around peoples pages but have had to call a halt to that... dial up is making it impossibly slow [not that I am not enjoying the opportunity to sit down...]

CANNOT believe it is Christmas eve... what presents and stuff I haven't got now I cease to care about... I DO NEED to get in some food!

I have felt so dreadful for so long that I finally admitted I needed help and went back to the doctor and let him have his say.... that is never good! I have been prodded, poked, X-rayed & bled. Not surprisingly the findings weren't good... Good news tho despite the feeling that bone is grinding on bone in the hips it isn't 'quite' ... there is still a wafer thin gap between the bones... Will get some more results next week and a couple of referrals. Rang up to book one of the annual 'maintenance' checks expecting a few weeks delay and was shocked when they said I could come in today... thought about the traffic and said that next Tuesday would be fine...

I am hoping that the small fortune I spent at the chemist yesterday might give me some relief and enable me to walk for more than 10-15' without being crippled by pain... Wish me luck..

Will be catching up with a lot of family over Christmas which will be good. We will be having lunch with the in-laws and if I am up to it I will head out to my sisters in the afternoon. I cannot remember when it could possibly be that we haven't spent Christmas together. I hope to catch up with at least two of my brothers. One brother is down from Queensland and the other is not well enough to travel so hopefully will get up to see him while he is still able to enjoy visitors. I haven't seen him since his diagnosis with MND.

Have a load of washing I'm waiting to hang out and hopefully I will have completed my shopping list by then and then be able to go out to restock the larder...

I THINK it is good not being able to remember what else was on my list for today...

Good for you Bean, a sensible thing to have done. Time to think about Numero Uno.
Did they bring out the leaches?!! Sounds like they did just about everything but!
Best of luck for trying to fit in the family tomorrow, try your hardest, it's important.

If I don't get back I would like to wish you and your families all the best for the festive season...

Smilies won't load at this speed so go take another look at Heidi's assortment on my behalf...

Love you all...

Here's my assortment, Bean. Consider them shared.....
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Missed these....

LOL....THANK YOU VERY MUCH HEIDI....

Oh what a joy it is to come to this page a visit with you lovely people. As someone else said, you have all enriched my life and one of the highlights of the year for me would have to be my trip to Sydney where I got to meet some of you in person. I would love to meet you all.
I'm another one who is pushing for time to send individual messages, I will try but can't promise. Thank you to those who have sent messages to me.
I wish you all and your loved ones a wonderful Merry Christmas and a safe, Happy and healthy New Year - for those who've had a bad year this year, I hope for a better one next year. I love you all!

Ah Broni - I'm with you for the Moreton Bay bug - yummmmm! We're not having them this Christmas though - we have ham and Colin will be spending the morning barbecuing the chooks with beer cans up their whatsies. I won't be eating them but the rest of the family will. I've done my final shopping and this afternoon will be making Suzy's choc ripple dessert for those in the family who don't like Christmas pudding and rum butter (fools) - I will have both - diet be darned! See I even utilise recipes from my sudoku mates!!

Chickens are cooking and look and even smell good, Broni - photo to come after Christmas. He's being very religious about basting every 10 mins - even setting the timer - men are so pedantic.
Suzy - choc ripple dessert made and in the fridge - yee haa!! I used raspberry jam (warmed up) on the bickies.
I must have a paper cut on my finger and got chili in it when I was chopping it up - it still smarts hours and several washes later.

One more then I've got to go - did everybody see that Shar (Madby3) posted on Easy??

I did see that Cyn, hopefully Shar will have a bit of time over the holidays to come and play with us again.

CynB may I have your share of the beer can chicken? I love that stuff.

Rain is headed our way, with wind, a miserable day tomorrow. I did get a walk today, perhaps if I am early enough I can get one tomorrow fore rain gets here. Will take my brolley just in case.

Merrry Merry to the Aussies, not long now for you. It is now offically Christmas Eve here in Alabama, and past time for me to get to sleep.

Hugs to each and every one of you.

Evening all!

Christmas wishes to one and all! I have not managed to send individual messages and probably won't be able to now. I wish it could be different as every one of you is special to me and has made an amazing impact on my life. You are all special people and I am so lucky to have 'met' you all!!!!

Cyn, it's not my recipe! I got it from Gail...

I only get to be here for long enough to try to burn a CD for my brother. He has been looking for a copy of Bing Crosby's 'Small One' for several years now. I only just found that out and have managed to find one online. So far I've successfully downloaded it and unzipped it and am now trying to burn it to a CD - one failure so far...

I am not close to my brother but wanted to do something for him this year. I found out today that his first grandchild died 2 weeks ago. She was premature and had the cord wrapped around her neck. The poor little thing didn't make it. Typical of my brother he hadn't told anyone, but broke down today and told our mother.

...I wasn't going to say anything...