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Oh Cat,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
8 months is amazing!!!
Love K xxxTo live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Hi Lizbeth,
Your grandson is keeping you busy!!! 
So pleased to read you are living your life.  I wish I could have shorter hair, unfortunately I look a little like a boy!!! (well I think I do!), Im going to end up on one of those talk shows where the woman hasn’t cut her hair for 20 years and they chop it all off!!!!
Have a lovely day,
Love Kathryn xxxTo live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Thinking about you this morning P, it’s 6.30am here and I’m having my coffee with you, it’s actually a bit cold (the coffee) so if you’re making I’ll have a fresh one! Your friends are waiting for you when you are ready…. Love K ***

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I AM IN!!!!!!

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Im just about to head to bed, im soooo very tired,i
I went and looked at a possible wedding venue/reception centre with Brea today, it is lovely and I think she has her heart set on it.  Its $104 per head and the count at the moment is 110 people….you do the math (aaahhhhhhh!!!)
I do have a plan to open an account for her after we get back from Fiji and deposit $200 a week.  It almost makes me cry, all that money but she is my daughter and I love her.  It wont be enough to cover the whole wedding but at least the reception will be pretty much paid for.  When I got home I decided to go and see my neighbour who is a celebrant and ask her how its all done.  I had spoken to Brea about it and she agreed that she is a lovely lady and that she would be happy for her to marry them.  So, over I went, an hour and a half later I left (the woman can talk!!!) and headed home, by this time it was after 7 and we were cooking a roast for dinner. 
I didn’t take my key so when I got home I rang the doorbell only to be met by and extremely irate husband who wanted to know ‘WHERE I HAD BEEN!!!’.  Now, I had told him where I was going but unfortunately didn’t get home in time to put my apron on and he had to turn on the vegetables….tragedy!!!!
Needless to say I am not speaking to him right now, im going to hit the hay and have a good nights sleep.  I wont go into what I said, im sure your imaginations will suffice!!!!
After the weekend he has had I would be a little nicer if I were him.
Love to you all,
K xxxxTo live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Hope you’re having a lovely weekend Miss B,
Cant wait to hear all about it,
Love K xxxTo live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Hi All,
Well, interesting times at my house………
Yesterday Dames had a work day, it was like a lunch that some big company put on, free lunch, free beer, at the races!  Dames has always had a bet on the horses and as far as I know it was a little bit of money a week.  Anyway, he took $200 with him (cause we aren’t saving for Fiji or anything!!!) and during the day was sending me photos of himself with some local celebrities and looked like he was having a blast.
I was going shopping last night and he rang me and asked if I could pick him up on the way home (it was 6pm by this stage) and he had been drinking for almost 8 hours.  He was going to one of my gambling venues and I knew then that it would be trouble.  He gets delusions of grandeur and was with some hobnob so I knew that he was being a bigshot and nothing good was going to come of it…..
Anyway, after the shopping debarcle (ive posted on RGs thread about that) he called me and said that he would catch a cab home cause I was taking too long, which was fine with me!
Fast forward to this morning, he was angry and I knew he had stuffed up.  He told me that he left the races with the money he took (I am 100% sure that he would have won more but didn’t tell me) he then went to the slots, lost the $200, took another $200 out of our tax account and then took $100 out of our savings to get the cab home.  Add that to the fact that he lost a days pay and that’s a $800 day!!!!!
He said he is done with gambling (im sceptical), he said that he was changing his phone because he cant access his racing account from that phone, I also added that perhaps he could give me the card that is attatched to that account (he can only spend what he puts in that account, no credit)
He didn’t offer me the card so I think that speaks volumes.  I also don’t know if he has taken more out of the tax account so im going to get the card and get a balance. Ugh…..didn’t need this at the moment, not when we are saving to go away.
As for me, the whole thing makes me feel ill and hasn’t given me any urges.  I knew this was going to happen, he cant help himself.  Im disappointed but not surprised.  Hopefully this will open his eyes. 
He is working today.  Im doing my grocery shop and staying close to home this weekend.  I am, however going to have a look at a possible reception place for Breas wedding with her tomorrow. That should be fun, it looks magnificent!!! (im not thinking about the money!!!)
Have a great day my friends,
Love K xxxxxxxTo live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Hello miss B,
Please dont blame yourself about your neice, it is done, and you are doing the very best thing you can to help her now. 
I hope you do something lovely for yourself in your week off.  Even if its browsing the shops (if youre not in too much pain) or enjoying coffee with friends.  I love nothing more than sitting and having a cuppa and watching the world go by, i always wonder where they are going, what they are doing…….
Anyways, just dropped by before bed, take care of yourself my lovely friend and keep smiling.
Love K xxx
 To live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Thank you all for your posts…..
I have had an interesting time lately, i have today off as i spent the weekend with 4 friends in Melbourne. As you know my bestie is getting married and we got the dress!!!!
Unfortunately one of the women decided to get extremely drunk and abuse the brides sister in law on the way home in the taxi, i have never wanted the earth to swallow me up as i did then and when we got back to the room she decided she was leaving.
Of course i couldnt let that happen.  I spent the rest of the night (we got home at 2.30am) until 8am sitting in front of the door so that she couldnt leave.  She had her parents come and pick her up (a 2 hour drive for them).  Jode and myself were devastated, she has been a friend for a long long time and what she did was unforgiveable, not to mention the fact that she did not think for 1 minute that she had done a thing wrong.  I guess she wasnt a friend after all and i am just grateful that we found out now.  She had planned to come to Fiji as well , obviously that isnt happening now, so thank goodness it didnt happen over there, on an island with no where to hide.  It was a very dissapointing end to a fantastic weeked, prior to that we had been dancing the night away……..
My 4 year anniversary passed last week.  I remember my 1st gamble free year i was soooo excited, lol.  It really is another gambe free day for me but it was lovely to think back to how i was when i first found GT and the positive changes i have made in my life since then.  I am looking forward to the future, 1st things 1st though, the holiday…..i cant wait!!!!
My daughter is taking her brothers away this week, from Thursday to Sunday.  3 whole nights with no children, i hope Dames and i can find that much conversation!!!!
Finally, i am almost at my goal weight, im pretty sure i have put a little bit on this week with the weekend and all, but i am determined to reach goal by the time i get on that plane to Fiji.
I think i might go and have a look at ebay for some new bathers.  Mine are too big and i need to feel a little bit stylish laying by that pool with a pina colada!!!!
Take care my friends,
Love K xxxxxxxxxTo live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Just so you know I cooked dinner last night…….. There was a candle on the table!!!! That’s as romantic as it got folks! Lol!!!!! I’m off to pick up my new car, RG it’s a Nissan x trail, silver! Have a good one, love k xxx

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Morning all! It’s my wedding anniversary today, 21 years! I thought about trading up but really, he’s been through hell with me and I’ve almost got him perfectly trained!!!! Have a lovely day friends, love K xxxx

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Hi Hetty,
I just saw your post….
So happy to read that things are going well for you. 
Cant wait to hear about the maiden voyage!!!!
Keep up the good work,
Love K xxxTo live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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Hi p… I have been using my iPhone cause my computer is kaput…. Your thread isn’t closed on here (iPhone) so perhaps that is why, I didn’t even know it was closed !!!! So, last post on this one for me, take care xx

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I’m bringing you back to the top…..love k ******

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Hi All,
Back at work on Monday morning….ugh. 
So I have a few things going on in my life at the moment…. I bought a new car last week, I haven’t picked it up yet but we needed something bigger and im really pleased with the deal I got, im quite the barterer apparently!!!!!
I have been looking after myself, I have lost a considerable amount of weight and am very close to my goal which is really exciting.  Yesterday morning I did a ‘fat’ clothes cleanout……3 bags full to go to the good will.  I am not keeping one thing that is too big as I don’t want to go back there.  I have been doing the bikram yoga quite a bit and although it is very hot (40c) I am finding my energy levels are amazing, my skin is blemish free but unfortunately im not one bit ‘bendier’ than I was.  I do the best I can but I don’t think I will ever be able to put my feet together, bend down and touch my toes…..
Lastly, some exciting news…my daughter got engaged on the weekend!!!!!! I had no idea, her now fiancée had been to see my husband last Wednesday to ask his permission which I thought was lovely.  Dames had not said a word all week!  They went away on the weekend and they came over yesterday to share the news. I cried all day on and off, I am so so happy for her, she is absolutely glowing with happiness.  It seems the wedding will be next November.  Not a lot of time to save, but I thank all the powers that be that I am not gambling, imagine the ‘panic poking’ I would be doing leading up to it!  I am one very proud mother and I am planning to look sensational on her wedding day, although I will have to find the most waterproof mascara in the world!
Only 8 weeks until my holiday to Fiji, good grief, im trying to not be too overwhelmed.  If I wasn’t excluded I think I would be in trouble as im worrying that we will not have enough money.  I want to go on this holiday without a care in the world!!!!!
So, that’s about all from me for now,
Hope you are all well and happy,
Love K xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 To live, that would be a great adventure – Peter Pan

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