I see Morgan's all dressed up and ready to go.

So I guess it's the festive season!

MERRY HAPPY EVERYTHING EVERYONE!!!

Merry Christmas everybody..

Hope Santa visits you all, cos I know you've all been good..

Merry Christmas andro!!

The Christmas avatar is about the most christmassy I'm gonna be this year.

Normally I really like Christmas, but this year it all just seems too hard 

Yeh, I won't be doing anything, as usual, but I am feelin festive

I'd forgotten about my Xmas hat until I saw Morgan's avatar.

And then I couldn't remember where I'd left it.

You're not getting deksanta out?

I will!!

hmmm Have just realised there exists a pic of me wearing a real Santa hat. Might try and get hold of that

LOL!

As 2010 nears the  end, I want to  thank all of you at Tangler for your educational e-mails over the past year. I  am totally screwed up now and have little chance of  recovery.

I no longer open a  bathroom door without using a paper towel,  or have the waitress put lemon slices in my ice water without  worrying about the bacteria on the lemon peel.

I can't sit down on the  hotel bedspread because I can only imagine  what has happened on it since it was last washed

I have trouble shaking  hands with someone who has been  driving because the number one pastime while driving alone is  picking one's nose.

Eating a little snack  sends me on a guilt trip because I can only imagine how  many gallons of Trans fats I have consumed over the  years.

I can't touch any woman's  purse for fear she has placed it on  the floor of a public restroom.

I MUST SEND MY SPECIAL  THANKS to whoever sent me the one  about rat poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a  wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing.

ALSO, now I have to scrub the top of  every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any  savings because I gave it to a sick  girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die for the 1,387,258th  time.

I no longer have any  money, but that will change once I  receive the $15,000 thatBill  Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for  participating in their special e-mail program.

I no longer worry about  my soul because I have 363,214 angels  looking out for me, and St. Theresa's Novena has  granted my every wish.

I can't have a drink in a  bar because I'll wake up in  a bathtub full of ice with my kidneys gone.

I can't eat at  KFC because their chickens are  actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes, feet or  feathers.

I can't use  cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a  water buffalo on a hot day.

THANKS TO  YOU I  have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an  e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five  minutes.

BECAUSE OF YOUR  CONCERN, I no longer drink Coca Cola  because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer  buy gas  without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer  doesn't crawl in my back seat when I'm filling up.


I no longer use Cling  Wrap in  the microwave because it causes seven different types of  cancer.

AND THANKS FOR LETTING  ME KNOW I can't boil a cup of water in  the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face.  Disfiguring me for life.

I no longer go to the  movies because I could be pricked  with a needle infected with AIDS when I sit down.

I no longer go to shopping  malls because someone will drug me  with a perfume sample and rob me.

And I no longer answer the phone  becausesomeone will ask me to dial a  number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica ,  Uganda , Singapore , and Uzbekistan

I no longer buy cookies  from Woollies since I now have their  recipe.

THANKS TO  YOU I  can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big black snake could  be lurking under the seat and cause me instant death when it bites  my butt.

AND THANKS TO YOUR GREAT  ADVICE I  can't ever pick up $2.00 coin dropped in the car park because it  probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting to grab me as I  bend over.


I can't do any  gardening because I'm afraid I'll get  bitten by the White Tailed Spider and my hand will fall  off.

If you don't send this  e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large  dove with diarrhoea will land on your head at 5:00 p.m. Tomorrow  afternoon, and the fleas from 120 camels will infest your back,  causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it  actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor's  ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's best friend's  beautician . ..

Oh, by the  way.....

A German scientist from  Argentina , after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with  insufficient brain activity read their e-mail with their hand on the  mouse.

Don't bother taking it  off now, it's too late.

P.  S.: I  now keep my toothbrush in the living room, because I was told by  e-mail that water splashes over 6 ft. Out of the  toilet. 

HAHAHAHAHA

That's why you should close the lid

Hahahaha....I don't clean my teeth in the dunny..

So you were having us on then!!

No, I always clean em in the living room!

I do believe that I have never sent you an email andro. Although, I did receive that one a couple of weeks ago...

Flawless victory

I do believe that I have never sent you an email andro. Although, I did receive that one a couple of weeks ago...

  Oh dear, please accept my humblest apologies, Morgan..

What did you win SK? LOL!

I meant andro 

hahahaha D'oh

I can't wait until Christmas is over. I'm excited about the actual event, but speaking from a "I-work-in-retail-and-this-month-has-been-hell" point of view, I seriously wish January would just hurry the f up and get here already.

Yeh, I get ya

I'm swinging between feeling festive and not having anything to do about it, and being completely grinchy.

Right now, I'm grinchy

I'm on the verge. Not so much grinchy, but definetly losing patience very quickly.

Come on over to the dark side... you know ya wanna...

No, because once I get there I won't get back, and I think I'm going to need whatever tiny bit of cheer that's left to get me through the boxing day sales. Especially when we're open 8 til 8, and I have to be at work by 7:30, which means waking up at 6:30, which means morgan will be cranky enough thankyouverymuch

Oh geeesas

Not fun at all

No definitely not lol.... COME ON JANUARY!!!!!!

Yay!

That's work finished with for the year.

Care to come help me?

(and by 'help' I mean 'you do everything while i sit back and drink') hehehe

If the help is required for consuming desserts, then I'd be happy to assist.

And that 'sit back and drink' sounds quite strenuous so I may have to help with that too.

Sure, I ain't got nothing better to do

I've decided to make another pav on Christmas Day. Come one, come all.

*sigh*

I'm gonna raid the fridge now

I tried to raid the biscuit jar earlier, but the ants had beaten me to it. I just left them there. After the week I've had, I figured it was too much effort to move them on at 1am. They are quite welcome to it for now.
I've actually had a lot of ants in my place recently, (probably because of the weather) which hopefully means a huge bout of rain coming along shortly. Wish the ants would go live at the neighbours' place though.

So many reasons why I don't miss the tropical climate

Ok, I'm off to bed..

Chat to you in the eve

Nite!

I am bored and can't think of anything to do >[

Go to the shops and walk around reeeeaaalllyyy slowly, just to piss off everyone else. 

The problem with that is that I'd be the one getting annoyed

I will go for a wlk. To look at Chrissy lights

Tho the  neighbourhood seems scarce on those

Wheeee! A Very Specky Christmas is on!

*walk postponed*

Still have to wait another hour and a half over here 

Poor you

It's 1 am.

Santa will here any moment now

*watches the garage door eagerly*

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas to you too.

Not sure if Santa uses doors, especially garage ones.

Well I ain't got no chimney.

Which is just as well. Would be full of red backs in this neighbourhood

Maybe you could start a business that hires out chimneys for the night.

One really busy period in the year and the rest if the time you can do whatever you want.

The rest of the year you spend keeping red backs and snakes out of the stored chimneys?

You could leave them there and call it a free gift.

And then start a pest control business?

Ah, something to occupy the rest of your time.....great idea.

dek = clever!

Of course you are,,,,don't let anyone say otherwise.

Yesh shir!

Right. Merry Christmas for the next hundred years. There, now I never have to celebrate the fucking thing again.

Going back to bed now to avoid the rest of the day.

364 days till the next one

Sorry to hear your day was trying Morgan

Actually it wasn't. Found something that was open on Christmas Day, free, and fun to do. Spent the better half of the day at a national park

OH!!!

Crazy girl. Got me feeling all bad fer ya

Well I woke up in a bad mood but the day did get better. Just needed to get out of the house and away from everything I think.

Good

I had a nice day with rellies at Caboolture, (in spite of the weather) there were more kids than hoomans, so was ok..

Had a few beers, a couple of single malts, heaps of tirasimu, chicken, ham, pavlova, amd plum pudding and you name it, then was driven home afterwards...

Nothin wrong with national parks either Morgan..

Sounds like a good lunch!

Yep, the diet went out the window....Wouldn't be Christmas if it didn't..

Eggactly

I haven't eaten anything all day.... hmm.. wonder if mcdonalds is open 

What...,  Maccas for Christmas?  poor girl..

Well the only othe food I have in the house is either packet macaroni cheese, or two minute noodles.

And I really feel like being unhealthy.

Not eating all day is being unhealthy!

Oh well..

Tried to call but no answer.. I guess its mac n cheese then.

Fry up some mince and onion and mix it with the macaroni/cheese, even add a bit of garlic...It was one of my standby recipes in the old days before I learned to cook..

So where do I get mince onion etc on xmas day? Should I go slaughter a cow myself?

LOL

its ok.. the mac and cheese was alright

FWIW, I had McDonalds for dinner

I blame Morgan

  You got mcdonalds??

Not fair... they weren't open up here!

I kept thinking of you. As I drove there, there were so many 'proper' restaurants open on the way too

that's the difference between an actual city and darwin i suppose!

There is a thunderstorm shaking down my house right now. Everything around me is rattling.

D'oh

I like the storms! 

So far this year, we haven't had enough of them! It's been a very dry "wet season"

You should move to Queensland!

Or anywhere else in aus it seems. Storms, cyclones, flooding. Everyone else is stealing our weather!

hahahah

Have a look at the National weather map on the BoM Morgan, I think there's some moisture up your way, with the monsoons and the tropical low over Qld..

You would be correct, andro. Although the satellite image shows mostly cloud, we have had a few scattered showers recently and on occassion a good thunderstorm. The trough lays to the south of us though, and has been there all week and refuses to move north. This is still bad news for us darwinites, because it means that the access to Darwin gets cut off, with the only road out getting flooded. This happens every year, so for a few weeks every dec/jan we go without fresh fruit and veg. No biggie.

I'm hearing there's a big downpour in Darwin now? (hearing on Twitter that is)

Yeah, the rain is lovely! Really needs to happen in the day though! When everything is too hot 

Bit late, but here's a gift guide for dads

Glenfiddich is bloody awful whisky...

Glenfiddich is bloody awful whisky...

I'd have to agree Arfur..certainly not among the great single malt's..

I already have a power saw and slippers, but anything else would be gladly appreciated. 

Glenfiddich it is then

Make sure you wrap it well..

Yesh sir!

Ohhh... So it's a power saw. Wondered what that was.

LOL!!

I thought it was a fishing reel. 

*scrolls up*

hmmmm yeah, no I can see how it might look like one

Fishing reel!  Bloody-hell!.  You don't hear voices do you Morgan...?  Come to that do you hear them as well Dek...?  Hells teeth if it wasn't for my dodgy ankle I might well have been at your mercy in a few days time.  Scary!

Oh and I hope you all had a good Christmas and are all set for the best New Year you've ever had...

I had a moist (but good) Christmas, and am expecting a fine Hogmanay. (weather wise and fun wise)..

That reminds me, better get started on the haggis..

Dear Mr Dent, it's time for more painkillers
heh heh

I ain't got no plans for New Year's. This might be the year I go looking for a new vantage point for the fireworks.
Then again, I'm kinda over them.

I am very excited about the upcoming year though. This year was a blast. Will keep it up in the next!

Come up to Brissie deezee, (I'll put some whisky in the haggis fer ya)..

I have a friend whose birthday is January 1st, so the combined event is my normal New Years' plans (this year no exception).

"Happy New Year and also Happy Birthday" is a bit more of a mouthful when the clock hits midnight, but we manage.

LOL!

Yeah, I have a birthday on the first too, but the celebrations are on the first.

Hmmm.... very tempting Andro. All of a sudden the reasons to visit Brissie are piling up.

Your birthday is also the 1st?

That makes 3 people that I know... and another guy on the 31st of December so that's sort of the same combovent I guess.

Oh, sorry. I could have worded that better.

I meant I have a friend with a birthday on the First

Although it's a crazy time of the year for birthdays among people I know. One today, one on the 31st, one on the 1st. Actually, maybe more on the first, can recall now. Mum on the 4th

And I have a chronic inability to keep track of dates at the end of the year. Gets mucho messy

I've been thinking about a holiday in Qld... An extended holiday to be exact. Want to take a few months off to tour around the entire state. Work won't let me do it though, and I have financial commitments that I can't leave at the moment. I'm super-bummed about it.

And dek, don't forget a special birthday 19 days from now!! 

Yes maam!!