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... and saw a boost in migration over here and a boost to our union leadership as well... US hostages released after 444 days captivity in the US emabacy in Tehran.

13 tables are awesome.... figure he thought the fact he got a class full of bogan kids to learn anything was an achievement... besides the deal was learn ya 13 times tables and he'd teach us to make marionette puppets... no deal for 14 or 15s ... 3 is the lie.... hmmm.... 2 might be true cos you might have training but you said playing and playing is a game not training so 3 is the lie because you are going swimming tonight and you wont be delayed by not packing your kit cos of some silly numbers game.

@Kate18 you nurture that nice ray of light that is filtering in, keep it protected from the shadows. Protect it and surround it with positive energy and watch it grow. I love this imagery, and am probably going to steel and plagiarize it in the near future... its caught in one of the corners of my brain and I can feel it growing. Saz is right though, keep those blood sugars up... it does help.

OK we have a winner, and an oh so humble one at that.... 1- true, prefer feet n inches for height but all the restvus metric cis the others are history subjects not math... 2- lie.. Although point of order, its a lie because I know my time tables by heart up to and including 13s...everyone in Mr O'Ds grade 6 St Joey's class learnt up to the 13s...and well they still in there. 3- True, check it twice a day for work and use it just as often.

I'd like to start by thanking my sensai Reci for all his expert training. I would like to thank the acedemy for... Oh wait wrong speech... Thanks all for the faith, here's to all the future woohoos, may they be plentiful and in readable English not my usual Strine. ? If any of you mob have a special quit buddy you want to do the woohoo for please feel free, more than happy to share.

Wash your mouth out with hot coffee Sian... While I might pledge VNN (vegemite not now) or TNT (timtams not today) I am not prepared to pledge ever... Uh uh aahhhh...

NOPE .... Definitely not a joke... Best wishes for a good scan and healthy bloods today...

Australia the penal Paradise...home of the TimTam!

1. I only do metric, unless we talking height. 2. I know my times tables by heart up to 15s. 3. I know the current exchange rates for €, £ and us$ to the Aussie.

TimTams are the best chockie bickies in the whole entire world... They a frucking divine... There is even a special way to eat them called the TimTam slam. Im all good, this will be ova before ya know it.

Congratulations @Opah on being 2 months smoke free. Well done on your work with keeping this quit. I hope you take the time to celebrate your achievements and do something special to spoil yourself.

Oh my peeps I follow are posting in there... in the COSiverse... they are sending me fizchick messages to go post... but I will be strong, I am nearly a 1/4 of the way through my detox. Its so hard being all alone though. If I send an SOS who will hear me... who will come to my aid. I must not post, right cos if I post, if i minus then I'm pretty weak... I am better than this compulsion... i can master this addiction. Oh the gnawing, aching crave to go and take one away, to steal one from the sticks tally, to hold up the chicks fight, to do my bit, I am so letting down my fellow chickies... but NONE... Not One Number Ever... I will not post today.

Thanks Lisa... luckily we seem to have caught this early-ish and the bulging eyes aren't one of my symptoms. I only have the dry eye bit. I'm actually really positive about the treatment and just glad to finally have a diagnosis. Knowing someone who has had the full blown effects and is fine, even just by association, is good. On the plus side I have dropped a heap of weight which in reality I could afford to and with the new diet regime I should be able to maintain it healthily. Although, being a hater of shopping I sent the kid with some money and I now have lovely new pink jeans.. she insists they are mushroom... but the reality is they aren't black or denim, they are frickin pink... but at least they don't fall off when I walk. @Phoebe2 ... thank you for sharing... so much of that tallys... but because it all sort of coincided with my quit (ok it started about 3-4 months before my quit but river/egypt, ostrich/sand) and my age that it was easy to chalk it up to that and or menopause (which it isn't ? )... Its all early, I want to try the drugs first as I have nodes on both sides and the isthmus so it will be a full thyroidectomy but thanks for the positive experience, It really lifts my spirits.

Well I have decided that whoever or wotever is out there pitching inside rise balls ( I can't usually hit those) can go get effed.. I've had enough of that you didn't get me at 4 weeks, you didn't get me at 7 weeks, 11 weeks... Easter, and the weeks since... You didn't get me over the weekend so its not gunna happen... You can stop testing me...I've had my share...but thank you fates...thanks for proving to me that no matter what life throws at me I don't need a smoke or nicotine to get through it.. So thank you but fvck you very much cos enough is enough.

Popcorn.. No Jaffa's...no popcorn...(who we kidding, I'm am Aussie ours would be a choc top) Movie date night... Rotate the selection or just let the other half choose.

Most times drop a "coin".... I actually buy something food wise and give them that instead.... but if they are sporting the latest shoes or clothes or they have a dog with them that looks like it is show quality... I walk on by. Domestic in the street: Intercede or Walk on By

Tossed Salad

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False - If I break a nail and its jaggared and I have no scissors I'll nibble it safe but thats it, nail biting is gross. TNP has to squeeze lumps if they get them.

Hand it in... cos I a GOOD little catholic girl and that might be someones last $100 and its a lot of money. (I found $20 at the train station and handed it in) Witness and Accident: stop to help or walk on by?

Because some people might not know what this is. In a uni (college) psych exam if the question asked you to define courage and you wrote "This" should that answer get full points?

3 the lie cos Sslippy don't don't run.... swim yeah, but run you been reding Frezflops posts in the exercising thread if that's that case.

Yesterday sucked... big fat donkey balls of suckage.... Yesterday I was diagnosed with Graves' Disease.... and I have nodes, that's right I am living with nodes.... but unlike big red in Pitch Perfect my nodes aren't on my vocal chords, mine are on my Thyroid Gland and one is on my Parathyroid Gland... but wait yesterday was so fricking good for so many reasons.... Some of you may know that I have been having some medical tests that involved me being on the worst diet on earth, the low iodine diet... what most of you wont know is that I took myself off to the doctors (after the repeated nagging of some fellow members here. Thanks @Sslip, @beazel & @jillar) because I was have issues with my heart and dizzy spells... they nagged me over there and they nagged me over here and coupled with some other symptoms I was having I had already diagnosed myself as being in menopause (nope, which I am quietly spewing about) and possibly having some form of heart disease, most likely due to my weight and smoking... so I didn't want to go to the doctor, I wanted to plop my big fat arse down on my nice comfy barge and live on that river in Egypt, you know Da Nile. Anyway, nag nag nag and off I went... took some blood tests, got a phone call Good Friday and its been appointments and blood tests and crappy diets ever since... ok and a break down or two with the treat of tossing my quit over amongst other things not being allowed to have Vegemite (thanks to both @Sslip & @Sazerac for the saves there)... then there was the plan to go back on the gum if I needed to to get em through it.... you get the idea, I was preparing myself to use it as a get out of quit guilt free card. Well yesterday I got my results. I have Graves disease and nodes, which are little lumpy things, that are usually benign, but 2 of mine have grown since the first scan on Good Friday.. which isn't necessarily bad either, they might turn into a goiter OR they might do nothing or there is the teeniest, tiniest chance they might be something a little bit nastier, but even if they are its not a worry... cos they are easy peasy to fix. Anyway... Graves Disease is totally treatable, and totally curable... the quick easy fix, which is what my doctor wants to do is to remove the thyroid gland and in my case one of the parathyroid glands and then have this special iodised radiation treatment. The hard way is to take the tablet, alter your diet (not as bad as the no iodine diet) and ride it out for 18mths to 2 years. I don't want the easy way's, side effects and possible complications or secondaries are pretty intense. I want to do the hard way... so My appointment included a yelling match between my doctor and I where I was informed I'm not fun to treat anymore... but we came to a compromise.. I would let him biopsy the nodes and he would let me try just the meds and the diet for 3 months and then we would review it.... So here is why yesterday was good: 1. I got a diagnosis 2. Its treatable and curable 3. I never would have gone to get it checked if I hadn't quit smoking, as I would have put it down to smoking and age and the like. 4. I never would have gone to the docs without the nagging of my mates, who I never woulda had if I hadn't quit smoking. 5. I didn't use it to excuse tossing my quit. 6 Despite one of the biggest symptoms of Graves being anxiety and panic attacks (which I have been suffering with pretty badly) have I NOT tossed my quit. 7. Not once, all day, before, during or after my appointment did I want, crave or even have a fleeting thought of having a smoke. NOT ONCE. So to everyone who supported me in the healthy wealthy threads with my whinging and whining about my diet... weather it was positive words, or food suggestions or even just clicking little emotions thanks for making the past 6 weeks bearable and having my back, Saz, Slippidy-doo-dah, Jilly, @WeegieWoman, @Doreensfree, @Joe7 & @Frezflops thanks. Oh and @Wee fluffy me & @PeaceTrain you guys been in on the support too. If I missed ya sorry. But this is Good. We have a plan, its frickin totally treatable, and the Nicodemon b1tch didn't even raise her ugly mug. And my unexpected QUIT benefit... I went to the doctors and found out I have something pretty serious wrong but I never would have gone to the doctors if I hadn't QUIT and I'd be ignoring all my bodies "hey dipshit somethings really not right here loveducks" signs and you know what it can do, having a thyroid flooding your body with ridiculous levels of thyroxin... it can make you dead, it can kill ya heart, it can hurt ya liver, you can have a stroke... what awesome, lovely side effects. I love my new life.

So wot ya really sayin is we still have no 2:1 from @Sslip ... he has just lost all rights to nag @Wee fluffy me if she takes yonks to post hers