Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

Need to take Brendan to the docs. It's snowing, sleeting and raining, all at the same time!

Thanks Vici for the link! Sent a message to Suzy for the page.

What, 6ft tall at 7? Is that possible? Must go back and read the details!

Hi all, I have been away from home for a few days with hubby and had no laptop with me or internet connection either. I was just going to post before reading all the pages of chat. I'm pleased, and saddened, that I decided to read or I wouldn't have found out about Ruby.
I haven't heard anything more from Ray's friend, but am hoping that Ray himself will be well enough soon to contact everyone via Sudoku.

Zachary must be the one who is 6ft tall, not Henry!
Mariana, does he play bball like Benny?

G'day Brenda! Hope you had a lovely trip!

Hi Stella, we had a nice break even though it was cold. From what I have read not as cold as you have been experiencing. I know it was cols as Richard actually bought some gloves.. he never feels the cold.

Oh Stella - thank you for clearing that up for me! Duh! I keep demonstrating for you all how EASILY confused I get...the secret is out!
Brenda - your little get-away sounded very nice...but then I love the cold. Must have been pleasant after all the activity in your home when it was under construction.

Stella - re: Henry - and to think I was just looking at his picture on Mariana's page (from Halloween). Oh well, thank goodness I'm not the Lone Ranger!

henry is NOT 6 ft heidi! yikes! that would be scary! his brother zachery-14 is six feet and growing. a teenage boy can out eat anyone!

now i am getting confused! it was vici who who made me laugh! i'm not sure how i got vici and heidi confused! i obviously need a soda!

well, on this silly note good morning everyone. i woke up to sick elsa-3. i'm glad this happened now instead of on the car trip! i hope it stops with her too. i don't want the others to get it! of course it is not really christmas until someone throws up!

Mariana, I can eat 41 shrimp! I have eaten more than that on one occasion! On a sail boat, in Pensacola Bay, after a day of sailing, and shrimp boiled in sea water. There were plenty and more shrimp, 20 pounds were bought and cooked. One of the crew even came and removed the shells for me, so I did not have to waste time! My ex was sooo embarrassed, did not speak to me for a week after that trip, me, making a pig of myself, but they were sooooo good, and everyone else said they were glad I enjoyed myself! I had a plate piled as high as one can pile just of the shells, huumm, shells is not the word I want, but the correct one escapes me. Next morning I asked if any shrimp were left over ( how did I miss any of them hehe) and I had those for Breakfast!

did I say I LOVE SHRIMP?

I must say, they were not fried, oh that many fried shrimp wold have killed me, nope, mine were boiled and with a lovely horseradish cocktail sauce, yep, and BTW, I did not eat any of the salad or potatoes or the corn or the bread served, just shrimp!

Oh Mama Mia Mariana! Hope Elsa isn't too sick.
MzT - I love shrimp too, and your story gave me a hankering for them...especially the part about the horseradish cocktail sauce! YUM!
Off to my Chiro appointment - roads are very slick, lots of black ice so I am leaving with plenty of time to go slowly to my destination.

I too love shrimp with horseradish cocktail sauce. I can only eat a few fried, and then I wish I hadn't. Do NOT like grease.
Mariana... when I was up (?) earlier, I was too sleepy to correct Vici's mistake. I KNEW it was Zachary who was so tall.... almost as big as Benny. And this wasn't the first time you've mistaken me for Vici. I consider that a complement. She's lovely.

Morning all!
I loved the 'what did I do today' posts!
Cyn, great news for your friends!!

Brenda, glad you had a noice, if cold, trip.
Mariana, Ebob is taller than me and she's 5'4"... can't imagine having 6' tall kids! I hope Elsa feels better soon.
MizT, I'm glad he's your ex.

I think she's glad, too.

Morning Heidi
I woke ridiculously early today and couldn't get back to sleep. Not happy!

Did you wake early because your to do list was preying on your mind and it told you that you needed more time to do it Suzy?

I have so much to do that I don't know where to start. I have Emily's maternal grandfather coming over tomorrow afternoon and have just realised we haven't got his C gift sorted out yet. something else on my list to do

Could be Brenda! That and wondering if I have to break d1s heart and take her out of some of her sports next year...

Oh bugger Brenda, now you've made me remember that I remembered someone I didn't have a gift for - except I can't remember who it was!

Sorry about that Suzy, I'm sure you will remember in time.
why will d1 have to drop some sport? Will her school timetable not allow her time to do everything she wants?

Her report card this year was her worst ever. Her grades weren't bad, but they were not as good as usual. The 'worst' part was from the comments about work not handed in, casual attitude and so on.... We had a lot on this year and I'm wondering if that contributed.

Want some Mono, Suzy? You can sleep anytime, anywhere.

Correction... You WILL sleep anytime, anywhere.

No thanks Heidi!

Oh dear. How old is she? I should know but my memory is ****.
I know from the age of 14 we had problems with Emily, but she didn't do lots of outside activities.
Se had always been able to do the work without effort but when more effort was needed she didn't put it in, so we have had to nag at her ever since. Em is in her final year before hopefully going off to university

Ir is now mid afternoon. Maybe I should get busy and take care of a few critters. Only it is one ugly day out there. Just at freezing. Damp. Foggy.

Suzy... Ebob seems to have a pretty good head on her shoulders. Why not just ask her what she thinks the problem is?

Em and Ebob seem to have a lot in common - except for the outside activities bit. Ebob has always been able to coast through, getting good results with little effort. I've nagged about 'when the work gets harder you won't get away with this', including comments like 'if you can get this kind of result after forgetting you had a test, imagine what you could get if you actually studied' and then there's the old one, 'do you realise it's your future you're playing with here?' But she does too much, gym on tue, baseball training wed, bowling fri, baseball sun. Plus coming to some of d2s stuff too.

I can see there could be a problem with time, especially if there is a lot of time consuming travel involved. As Heidi suggests see if she knows what the problem is. Then maybe suggest that if she doesn't improve her results that she will have to drop some of the more pleasurable pass times.
We are going to have to lay the law down harder with Em after Christmas break. She only has roughly 15-16 weeks before her final exams, on top of that she is resitting some exams next month to hopefully get a better grade.

Left out her age! 15, coming up to 16...

Here they don't get a chance to resit exams. It's make or break with one set. She'll be in Year 10 next year, and I am told the amount of work will substantially increase. I think that may be a scare tactic though as I have heard kids say they were surprised when it didn't happen... Not going to tell her that!

Heidi is probably right. I need to sit down with her and work on it. The first thing that I think will come up is a new desk...

Re-sitting exams are not always possible here either, but when they are allowed we have to pay for them.The education system here has been mucked about with so much that the kids have important exams in yrs 11,12 and 13. Not so important ones in years 3, 6 and 10. These lesser exams are really to see how the schools are performing and, in my opinion, they put too much pressure on the kids.

Em is 18 next month

hello All.

A very busy day 4 me today.

so ya all have a grreat day.