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17 August 2008

Mutiny!!!! is what I call it. My one time genteel offspring are now plotting and ganging up on me with chorus's of ...

Them "Dad - you're hogging the computer again!"

Me "Feck off"

Them "Gasps.... Mammy.....Daddy used that word again"

Herself "Dave!!!!!!!!!??"

Me "Sorrrrrrreeeeeeee - but I'm not shifting, its my turn"

Them "5 mins Dad - then its our turn and have you set up the account yet on e bay so we can buy those action figures"

and so it starts... does this mean that I will have to buy a load of laptops for the Kinder?
Its very very cool and a bit surreal doing this from home, with whiskeys and GIN & Tonics so it is.... it doesn't seem completely 'comfy' yet cause the set up (Keyboard desk etc) still seems a bit strange - but its utterly brilliant to be able to pop in on the weekends now.

The holdiay is going well.... lazy days hangin' and watch the olympics esp Mr (fort knox) Phelps... what a thing!

ok... have to split... there's a mob here and they are turnin' nasty!

xxxx

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16 August 2008

Weigh-in: 166.8 lb

lost so far: 22.2 lb

still to go: 12.8 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

add comment losing 0.2 lb a week

14 August 2008

Just Dashing in.... can't stay, but I just wamted to give a big wave to ya'll from our new internet connection .....AT HOME!! Sarah is here beside me and we have been having a quick look around.... she will be up and running by the weekend so be kind....she's already shellshocked from having to live with me for so long!!!

Have to dash...won't be around tomorrow but we will BOTH be here on Saturday...

Excitin' aint it!!!!

later... xx

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13 August 2008

Holy Mother of perpetual succour!!!! Thank you all and I mean sincere thanks for all your posts messages and mails with help on the baking for Tinny that you sent - each one is treasured and truely appreciated tremendously.

When I got home last night I pull out one of the many downloaded recipe's (the easiest one I could find) and went to work amid plumes of almond and splenda dust and to the gloopy sound of beaten eggs and melted butter... it was a real simple muffin mixture... into the moderate oven for 15 mins - during which time I was told 100 times "NO you can't open the oven door, just to check"

Then a wonderous thing occured...

after about 10 mins there was this smell in the kitchen which was NOT burning..it actually smelled of ....baking. All the boys INCLUDING the teenage human dustbin (Conor) became interested..so the timer went off... and out came the baking trays....with these things that looks amazingly like muffins/buns...let them cool for a few mins before we all had one...

I could nearly moisten me eyes at this point... a resounding success they were... no throwing up or grabbing at the throat...no cramps or dashing to the loo and lots of requests for more!!! Am delighted and will now progress to include many of your kind suggestions.. thank you.

I'm sorry that I never got to post to your journals yesterday - I started to but then work whisked me away completely and I never got back... will try to do better today. 'tis a daunting task at times to journal and make comments isin't it... can take over an hour at times!!

Oh ... I telephoned the internet company with my stern voice yesterday demanding to know when installation would take place (considering that I paid them weeks and weeks ago) after many apologies they assure me that they will be with us at the end of this week or the start of next week for sure.. which means of course that me carefree days of being able to prance around here in me underpants will be over... cause of course Sarah is mad keen to meet all the wonderful people that I keep telling her about..Remember now to let her know that I'm generally well behaved and only use words like "feck 'n' brastrap 'n' speadable cream" on a limited basis... coughs...

So off I pop for a few days R & R.. but hopefully I'll talk to ya from home next...

*doing the Vulcan sign* as I say..."Eat well and prosper"

xx

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12 August 2008

Have been really feeling sorry for Tiernan, (Tinny) my youngest who is 8yrs, he's on the left in the pic. He found out in March that he was type one Diabetic and since then has conquered his fear of injections, lost any freedom at the candy store and has sometimes caused consternation if we have to leave him anywhere....people are terrified. What if this happens or that happens.. which means that he can be the only one to have his parents hanging about at a birthday pary, sports clubs etc

But my real sadness comes at home as I see him just trying to do ordinary things most especially with food... I see him scrutinize each label for carb content and reason it all out and he is BRILLIANT 95% of the time... its just that 5% that gets to ya when ya see him so TOTALLY fed up because of pure boredom of choice or if he forgets and becomes all excited about something sweet only to realize that he really can't have it. We always reason it out in the end and chivvy him along and the other two lads have been brilliant and have changed their habits too in order to help out.. Which brings me to my next project - I'm gonna learn how to bake!! low carb bake..just for options....Ohhhh I'm gonna crack eggs, stir 'n' mix and whip (in a non kinky manner!)...

Does anyone know any good recipes for bread or buns etc (to give him some sweet options that he is missing) that does not involve really fancy ingredients? I've seen a few recipes but some of them seem to require weired things

Eggs - check
Vanilla - check
water - check
Virgin ju ju flour from the husk of a rampant rhino - ya wha?
cream of gangi nectar from the inner santum of the fa fa plant - !!

Honest to jaysus some of my *wags finger* 'efforts' to date have been fairly ..... Interesting to the point where Conor has almost threatened to leave home iffin he has to be a guinea pig one more time! Anyway... we'll see.

Kim asked yesterday where the time is going to.... I think that time flies off to a great accelerater in the sky which in turn generates a vacuum which makes all other time move quicker and quicker... I'm off from after work tomorrow for a week...The family are off all summer and have had a couple of trips as ya know.. so I'm gonna take a week and hang out with them at home, catch up, play fight, bake!, walk the dogs and house hunt (we are looking for new a lil cottage or site on a few acres... our lil patch of the planet..

My god... ramblefest or what! sorry...

later guys..

xx

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