How long do you take in the shower?
Submitted by Strive2Be.

I'm a good country girl. I grew up on a farm with tank water so we were always aware of the importance of water conservation. Three minute showers for us and never a bath. At least we weren't one of those families that put a bit of water in the bath then all the kids used it, one after the other. Youngest to oldest. I had a friend who was the oldest in a family that did that. When I had a sleepover there I hated getting in that murky lukewarm water.

I've passed the three minute rule on to my kids now. I can't understand people who stand under a shower for ten or 15 minutes. They don't seem to understand the importance of saving our water supply.  They're probably the same ones who will kick up a fuss when they have to start drinking treated effluent in the future.

We are under very strict water restrictions here anyway - as are most of NSW - due to a long drought. We are living in a time where you can get bashed to death for watering your lawn (as happened in Sydney last year).

So here is a photo of my shower. As you can see I take water conservation very seriously. When we shower we stand in that bucket then put the water on the garden.

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Just kidding - no, we recently pulled the bath out and just have a shower now. I was sick of stepping over a bath to get to the shower plus they are a massive waste of water. Baths should be banned. 

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I just saw the scone I bought for Lizzies morning tea in the pantry. Forgot all about it. Took the easy/slack option of throwing some money at her for lunch today. I've been making school lunches for years. Not that I mind, I like to see them go off with a nice lunch. Some kids take nothing or get told to pack it themselves so take a few packs of chips.But I must admit that after doing it for 15 years, well some days I just can't find the enthusiasm to come up with a thrilling new sandwich filling. Does my head in sometimes to think of the meals I've prepared over the years. Surely I must be qualified to be a chef by now. Or at least a bistro cook.

Lunches

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Lloyd leaves next friday for a four month trip overseas.

I wondered yesterday how he was going to find his way around europe and america when he can't seem to find a loaf of bread on the kitchen bench.

I just finished these cute coasters. I have perfected the spray technique. I always read the bit on the can that says several light coats are better then one or two heavy coats. But I can't seem to control my finger when its on the nozzle. Its like when you use hair wax. You have it looking pretty good but think you'll just put a bit extra on and then it all turns to shit.

Oh damn - I put them in the scanner in the wrong order - the little clown with the balloons is supposed to be gradually falling down. You get the idea

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Show us a puppy.

Teddy

Teddy

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I just noticed these photos were in my photos here but I thought I'd deleted them. However here is me with Jem before we went out on Saturday. As you can see my hair is in the interesting orange shades on its way to blonde but it's only had two hits of bleach so going well.

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And this is probably what we looked like about ten minutes into that crap move The Happening and realised it may not have been such a great choice.

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Every now and then Jem comes for a sleepover. We go to the movies then go out and eat and drink too much and talk and laugh a lot. And every time we go out we always see something strange and hilarious. Last time we saw a plastic shopping bag stuck to the road and it was slowly waving about and as we approached it we thought it was a dog that had been hit by a car and was in its final death throes and we were going to have to deal with it. Mind you that wouldn't have been hilarious. But when we crept up to it and saw it was a shopping bag, well we thought that was hysterical. This time of course the movie was the strange and hilarious thing we saw. Although we did see dying feather boa on the footpath. And a loaf of garlic bread sitting on a park bench we considered hiding just in case we couldn't get a meal anywhere. But we had an enormous chicken snitzel and it was bloody good so we didn't need the garlic bread. And Kimba had said we were not in any way allowed to go to the pub that she goes to because you don't want your mum hanging around with you on a saturday night. So of course we went straight there. But she didn't really mind because I am the money tree apparently and bought her drinks. Then we had a laugh at a few strange people and I had to tell Jem to put her manners back in. Twice mind you because she's going deaf and talks really loudly. And she's really annoying because she's one of those people that as soon as you say - don't look now - turns immediately for a gawk. I wonder did anywhere else in the world see that australian interview where tom cruise told Peter to put his manners back in. Ahh good times. 

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Show us something in your house from the 1970s.

Well the 70s started this way

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And then they went this way

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What would make you question a friendship?
Submitted by stueykins.

I am definitely going to have to question my friendship with Jem if she continues to make me go with her to watch crap movies. Last night she dragged me along to see The Happening, which after about 10 minutes we decided was the worst movie we'd ever seen. Lucky it turned out to be a comedy though. Lucky we didn't get kicked out for laughing so much. How did Marky Mark read that script and think it was good. How funny was the lawn mower death.

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What is your personal motto?

Do I look like I care?

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Having an email clean up.

This is kind of intresting

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST  

Count every ' F ' in the following text :

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?
WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down..

The reasoning behind is further down.
The brain cannot process 'OF'.
               

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What's making you smile today?

Three women: one engaged, one married, and one a mistress, are chatting about their relationships and decide to amaze their men

....that night all three will wear a leather S&M style bodice, stiletto's and mask over their eyes. After a few days they meet again.....

The engaged girlfriend:'The other night, when my boyfriend came back home, he found me with the leather bodice, 12 cms stilettos and mask. he saw me and said: 'you are the woman of my life, I love you'...then we made love all night long. 

The mistress: 'Ah! Me too, the other night I met my lover in the office and I was wearing the leather bodice, mega stilettos, mask over my eyes and a raincoat, when I opened the raincoat... He did not say anything....but we had wild sex all night.                                                           

The married one: The other night I sent the kids to stay at my mothers for the night, I got myself ready: leather bodice, super stilettos and mask over my eyes....my husband comes home from work, opens the door and says: 'Hey Batman! What's for dinner?' 

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