My baby girl is a Senior now

Nicole had her Girls Brigade badge ceremony last night. Shes been attending Girls Brigade since she was 4.5 years old. Even though the usual starting age is 5. When girls turn 9 they are promoted from Juniors up to Seniors where they stay until they are 13. At 13 they go to Pioneers for 4 years then they're done as 'girls' and can do leadership training if they wish.

Because Nicole has been at brigade since she was 5 she was promoted to Seniors with all 4 of her junior stars. The first year they get their blue, then their green, their red then finally their gold. Say a girl starts when shes 8 she only spends one year in juniors and only gets her blue star.

So anyways Nicole was very excited to get her gold star and to be promoted to seniors. She did get a bit sad when she realized that Mrs Steele would no longer be the leader working with her anymore though.

Birfdays

Twas my birthday last Monday the 5th November. Pretty much a non event really. I had class in the morning, an exam (which I passed with 100% thus enabling me to pass the whole course with merit) in the afternoon. I then went home, cooked tea and that was about it.

Stewart = Prison Break 2 series on DVD
Nicole = made me a card and a picture to hang on the wall
Dad and co = Ecard and cash
Michael = text
John = text
Suzanne = text
Jimmy = Ecard
Manu = text
Stewart's Aunty Denise = phone call

Shit, my Christmas card list is tiny this year!!!

Whatever happened to cardboard cards? How come people don't do them anymore? Tis a shame, I always used to get satisfaction from seeing them all lined up along the wall.

Nails and tears

Nicole has been a nail biter since she was about 3. It all started when she used to go to daycare. The daycare put the younger children down for afternoon naps. Around this time Nicole grew out of needing to take naps. She then used to lie on her bed chewing her fingernails off to entertain herself. Once I realized this was happening I asked the daycare to stop putting her down for naps. But too late, the habit was formed.

About a month ago I was doing manicures as part of my course. One day I practiced on Nicole (and Stewart minus the nail polish). Since that day she hasn't bitten her nails at all. They are getting quite long. Today disaster struck. She broke a nail for the first time EVER! She was so upset. Reluctantly she let me cut it before it tore and hurt her.

Some people make me laugh

People who have emails with their boyfriend/girlfriend's names in them. eg someone loves someone or someones babygirl etc. ARE WE 12 YEARS OLD???

Thanks...

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue on envelopes because I now use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing.
Also, now I 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 in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.
I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill 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 no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.
I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.
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.
I no longer drink Coca Cola because I've learned that it can remove toilet stains.
I no longer buy gasoline without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.
I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.
I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.
I now know that 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 check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.
I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.
I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.
I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops or the Salvation Army.
I no longer answer the phone because someone 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 have any sneakers -- but that will change once I receive my free replacement pair from Nike.
I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.
Thanks to my many internet friends, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.
And thanks to the great advice, I will never pick up $5.00 I dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.
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 PM this afternoon and the fleas from 12 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 neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician...
Have a wonderful day....