Sudokuaholics Anonymous 8

Rena, fireworks on the beach sounds wonderful!

Suzanne, I wonder if Tigger has an owey? That would make me mad.

I hear sounds coming from the back room so the girls must be waking up. Kind of amazing since they didn't go to sleep until after 11. They had fun trick or treating as Pirates. I'll have to find a way to get a copy of the photos for their parents.

Ebob didn't end up going trick or treating as one of the girls was only allowed to come if they didn't. She still had a good time as evidenced by the argument we had when she decided she wanted to stay until 1am - since she's playing baseball today we thought that was a bad idea. She was with us at the Starlight Foundation thing until she started work at 3, finished work at 9, party until almost midnight... wonder if we'll even be able to get her out of bed this morning!

Nola, I haven't had time to see the news. It's great that the Starlight Foundation trip was on it. I heard that there were 50 volunteers along for the ride! There were almost that many local volunteers as well.

Plans for the day - more singing and baseball. The 2 friends Ally had over will be going to the singing with us. Because of the early start that was a condition of the overnight stay. The three of them may even sing a song together today.

There are party photos posted on fb - and it looks like they were posted sometime between 2 and 3 am. That is a sign of a good party!

Morning SA8.
I guess there will be a few people sleeping in this morning in Melbourne.
Well I submitted a few smilies for Halloween but Gath must be away. They have not been loaded.
I see CynB is on the ball. Has a cup avatar up already.

Morning Viv!

Photos on my page...

Morning SA8.
Great time at the party last night, the costumes were terrific. Hope someone posts some pics. Viv was awake at 7am Melbourne time!
No time to catch up on all the posts and will not have computer access for most of the trip. So hope you are all well.

Suzy: Thought about the owey, but he won't let me get close enough to find out. I think he's just getting old & feeling his age...at least I hope that's all it is.

Got to go feed dopey dog. Will be back later. TTFN

Good Morning everyone.

Hi everyone. Just shut off the front light. Lots of kids in the neighborhood and the beasties got lots of stuff. Rachel wore her costume and helped me hand out candy. I will post a picture tomorrow along with pictures of Brenda and Debby. I am so excited about tomorrow. I have met Debby before.

Everyone. I succeeded in scaring my friends, but not as thoroughly as I would have liked. There were just too many security lights on around their neighborhood. As it is, I was able to approach them within 10 feet before they spotted my shadow. It did take them a while to figure out who I was, since I was all in black, with a hood and cape, hunched over to disguise my size and shape, and I had a microphone hooked up inside my mask attached to a voice changer. I was trying to slip up behind Michael, and grab him, before they spotted me, but that didn't work out. But they said I MADE their Hallowe'en, nevertheless.

SUZY, he did about 5 viles of blood work to see if they could tell why my hair is falling out. I will know something next week. He thought female pattern baldness and I can use rogaine, every day for the rest of my life. Not so sure about that!

I do hope we are at the end of the babbling brook in the bathroom. It is not nice to hear water running inside the walls. Seems to be all repaired now, hope it stays that way.

We had some cute little ones at the trunk or treat. It is much too busy a highway for walkers, these were friends of members bringing the children by, a car was nescessary.
tje adults had a nice chili dinner . My cake started sliding apart after I had cut it, someone say and used a plastic knife stuck in it to keep it together! ht eicing was melting, it did not turn out as I wanted it, but some of the guys came back for seconds, so it must have tasted OK>

Now I hear my recliner calling me. good night too all, I will read the rest tomorrow.

MizT, glad halloween went well. I never care what a cake looks like, just what it tastes like. If they came back for seconds, I am sure it tasted good.
Heidi, sounds great. I wish the beastie boys were there to see you. They would have loved to help you.

Happy Halloween, Sudokuaholics!

Just getting here (10:35 p.m.) and have an early morning tomorrow, so probably won't get everything read! I hope everyone is having/has had a wongerful day!

Hi again...thx for the welcome back suzy and nola...been trying to keep up with everything but failing...nice to see so many familiar faces here :D

Approaching the witching hour here, so need to get ready for bed. Good Night, All! Take care!

Just noticed as I scrolled down the page that Susan popped in. Hello, Susan! (waving) We've missed you!

Afternoon all!
Another super hot day here today... I put some pics of Pride on my page as I figure they're all over fb so why not?

Heidi, sounds like fun!

MizT, I hope they find something else! Is there a family history?

Tami, I miss US Halloween with all the kids in costume. Sounds like the boys had a fun night!

Evening all!
Noone has posted in over 4 hours - who has a life? Come on, fess up!

We finally have the house to ourselves. I was going to change my name to Snoozy Suzy because I was so tired, but I was too tired to do it.

Susan, I missed your second post. It's great to see you around. I hope to see more of you!

To our northern Queensland sudokuites - I hope none of the new or existing fires are anywhere near you!!!!!!!!

Hi Suzy, loved all your photos.
Susan, nice to see you back. Hope you can post more often.
I think all the Melbourne contingent are still recovering. I saw a couple of photos on Bean's Blog.

Good Morning Sudokuland! It is a fine chilly morning today at my house. I am thankful the rain has stopped, we expect a week of dry if not always sunny weather now. cooler temps too.

On Friday it was summer temps, hot and humid. I was hunting something to wear out shopping and one of my favorite fall colored summer weight linen outfits, capri pants with short sleeved jacket. Had not worn but once since I have taken the pants up. I put it on, and it was a joke! the catris were not " floods", hitting just shy of long pants. they were baggy about the seat and legs, would have flapped in the breeze! Jacket was too long also, it has a drawstring back, supposed to be at the waist, and that was now about 2 inches below. much to big around also. It has been removed from my closet and consigned to the TOO BIG box. It is soo funny to me when my clothes get too long! I am still taking up sleeves and hemming pants. I must do this faster or they too will get one wearing and then off to the too big box with them! Scale is not showing much loss this second six weeks, but I have to be loosing something for clothes to continue to be to large to wear.

I am off for coffee, hope to get back later. I must change clocks this morning, I forgot to before bed time. Only our computer clocks are correct today!

Thx Julie and June...we arent going to make it to visit you Suzy. S1 is about to gradutate from uni and has already got a job in Brisbane so we'll be off there in late Jan :) will miss him so much

Good morning, I somehow have gained another hour. clocks went beack in the uk last weekend, now clocks have gone back in the US. Brilliant blue skys here and the temps are rising.
Spent a busy day yesterday and was rather tired last night. Richard and I spent some time on the beach yesterday morning and had a swim in the lovely warm sea. We remembered to use a very high factor sun screen too.
Today is going to be a fun day as we are meeting Tami, Bobbi, Debby (plus other halves) at the Tijuana Taxi for lunch today. Will take plenty of photos. I'll also take my laptop just in case there is a wifi connection and we may beable to call people on skype.

Susan good to see you back here.

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been here to let you know how the party went, but it was fantastic. As Vici said on that 'other' page, everyone got into the swing of things and the costumes were amazing. I haven't posted any on my page as yet, but to those who have access to the other place, there are a lot of photos there from a lot of different people.
Sitting up at the moment to watch the Grand Prix with hubby, then off to bed.
Night all.

Hi Susan, wonderful to see you again. I must have strong ESP because I was thinking of you just the other day. Hope all is well with you and welcome back.

Brenda, great to hear from you too. Have a fabulous time today, sudoku meets are the best!

A man is walking home alone late one foggy Halloween night, when behind him he hears:

BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...

Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.

BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...

Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing quickly behind him.
FASTER...
FASTER...
BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP....

He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him. However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket clapping.

Clappity-BUMP...
Clappity-BUMP..
Clappity-BUMP...

On his heels, as the terrified man runs.

Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps.

With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.

Bumping and clapping toward him.

The man screams and reaches for something, anything, but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup! Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket...

And,



(hopefully you're ready for this!!!)
























The coffin stopped...!

Good Maen everyone!! Heidi: that joke was TERRIBLE!! (actually cute tho)
Been up since 5:45 (time change messed me up)
Suzy: I think Tigger is ok, he came under the covers this morning. He's let me pet him & pick him up...I think he's just onery!
Yankees won last night (after 1 hour rain delay) WHOOPEEEEE

Suzanne, Yankees may be up 2 games to 1, but there is still time. The prediction is Phillies in 7.
Glad everyone is having a great day. I am getting ready to meet Brenda and Debby. I will also have my camera. Not sure if restaurant has wifi or not. For those who are interested, the web site is

www.tijuanataxico.com

We are meeting at the Coral Springs location.
I will be back later.

Vici, I went to Target this morning. I noticed, for the first time, that Pepperidge Farm (a baked good company) has a cookie called "Tim Tam" I wonder if it is the similar to the ones down under. It looked like a chocolate biscuit covered in chocolate. Next time I go, I will buy a box and post a picture.

Good morning/evening all.
The pix of the party were wonderful and I a glad you all had a good time.
I did get a laugh out of your joke Heidi,didn't see it coming.lol
Its a pity you didn't get to REALLY scare the friends but it would have been a good laugh for you all.
Brenda Tami and all,enjoy your lunch together.
Gotta move it.See you later.

Morning all!
Tami, Vici will have to try them to see if they taste the same, but here's a test for you: if you eat one and are addicted, they're the same thing, otherwise pffft...

Hehe Heidi...

Suzanne, what's your weather been like? I am wondering if Tigger has MizT's problem - acheys when the weather is changing..

Speaking of MizT - don't you go and disappear on us! Congratulations on losing more dress sizes.

Gail, the photos I have seen so far are amazing! You guys went all out! Though I think you spoiled the pav, and that green gruel carried by vdVs youngun was gross! ewewew

Susan, I'm guessing you'll get to see more of Brisbane than you ever wanted to and it still won't be enough... Sending hugs!

In the middle of the rush this weekend I forgot one very important thing that needed to be done - wash school uniforms! I'm now sitting here wishing the machine would turn faster... And also wondering if I should go back and check the posts because I think I did exactly the same thing last weekend!!!

Almost forgot - can't brag about one youngun and not the other, they might get jealous! Ebob's team won their game this weekend and Ebob scored the winning run. Her pants are also covered in clay! She is turning into a real baseball player if she's actually getting dirty!

Hello! Good Morning to those in Oz, I think. I keep figuring out the time difference, but forget. I guess I need to write it down and look at it. (I'm a visual learner.)

I barely had time to glance at a few comments last night, so will try to read and greet today.

Heidi will be getting her critters back from the petting zoo today. I hope they have enjoyed their "holiday" and are glad to return home. Heidi, did you go to your friend's house, dress as a scarecrow, and change your voice to scare the trick-or-treaters? We had 74 come to our door, I think. (I had 3 bags of 50 candy bars, and hubby was giving 2 each, ate a couple, and we had to dip into his stash of Snickers.

Stella, how was Brendan's last game of the year and the player-parent dinner afterward? Have you been out to buy some half-price candy for Ian yet today?

Brenda, I'm sorry to hear that Richard's cousin was ill and couldn't meet you at the airport. How frustrating that the cab driver didn't know which way to go. (Unfortunately, that's way too common.) I hope his cousin is feeling better and you're enjoying your visit! Enjoy the dinner with Tami, Mr. Tami, the Beastie Boys, Bobbi and Mr. Bobbi, Debby and Mr. Debby, Richard's cousin and all others who will attend! Wish I could join you, then fly across & join the other gathering!

Susan, thank you for stopping by! How is everything in your neck of the woods? We miss you!

Hooray, we also had a visit from Rena! Happy Halloween (belated) to you & your family!

Greetings to Heidi, Stella, Gail, Suzanne, CynB, Susan, Brenda, Suzy, "Green Eyed Monster", Rolanda, June, MizTricia, Rena, Mamacita, Nola, Viv, Broni and Tami!

CynB, I hope your sister is doing better! Sending prayers her way!

June, sending prayers for Sharon! Hope all goes well in this next (and hopefully last) phase!

Guess I should change my avatar - just fall vegetables, cornucopia, hay bales and corn stalks for a while.

Just got back from lunch with Tami, Bobbi and Debby.
Stuffed to the gils and have had a good laugh.
Tami's husband and sons didn't come as they had a football party to go to. Hoping to catch up with Tami again next week. I'm going to put some photos up on my page once I get them resized.

Photos now on my page