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Funny thing is we ran out *on* payday so filling up was a non-issue. Just left the petrol go a really long time because we're saving the deposit for the builder now our land is paid off and we didn't want to dip into it before payday :rolleyes: Typical bank fee saving scrooges. $800 to go and...

Nice embarrassing time today. We're on a *very* tight budget at the moment, something to do with saving way more than half of our income at the moment. So we let the car run to empty and kept driving it around (as you do). Until this morning, which is payday, but we still drove to the school...

Well yay, I officially gained 1kg this month and they said come back in 6 weeks, you're too boring to come in every month. Funny thing is my blood pressure keeps going down ... at least the number on the bottom does. From 60something to 40something now and the top one is holding around 120...

Child was getting ready fast last night/this morning. She needed her bathers, and fruit. Her bathers are two-piece because she only grows in one direction and they make economic sense. So we have this long, painful process that should have been either very quick or didn't need to happen at...

There's more risk of small people (or cats) climbing on the scales with you and *adding* weight than accidentally (or deliberately) underweighing yourself in this house lol

LOL I've been gaining 1-2kg a month for a while now and hoping to keep it that way. The other half weighs 65ish so I don't want to overtake him this time. He's too dainty to tarzan lift me even at my normal weight! Last two times I got pregnant I put on 25kg (close to half my weight extra)...

That would mean she has sex, and everyone knows your parents never have sex. My scales still say I'm 60kg. Either they're broken, or I'm really that weight. I might actually be on track to only gaining 15kg at this rate :eek:

I'll remember that next time I stickybeak into one of their half-built houses and chat up the tradies :D Popped into the builder yesterday and said we want to build in X town. Sales guy is like "X? I did one there last week. We've done dozens there lately. Why does everyone want to build in...

Daytripping to Adelaide today to sign our lives away with the builder. Broker seems to think we're good for a loan - not sure why the general response here was that we aren't, considering there's plenty of singles here on less than us getting way bigger loans than us. Is it a family thing? The...

Got up this morning to find Child Elder wearing a dress backwards with her nipples very much on display - she hadn't noticed, of course. I remain hopeful that she will develop both the ability to notice things and some fashion sense before she is a teenager, or I'm really going to have to watch...

The toddler decided to toilet train herself in her own strange way today. Inside, she demands a fresh nappy for every wee. Outside, she will go from wherever she is to the wading pool and wee in it, then hop out and keep playing. Shame my bathroom is too small to fit a big blue...

She was talking to a teacher from behind in a noisy playground and didn't get a response. Very normal for her. She gets scrapes and cuts at school and home pretty regularly and is quite used to being patched up - only two trips to the hospital though. As to bragging, hell yes! She's taking...

I had a browse around some of those sites last night - your google search turned up almost entirely adult-focussed aspergers support sites. I had a read through some and found it interesting the number of adults/teens with aspergers commenting that "always having to be right" is the thing that...

I just call a spade a spade :) This was 2003, back when things were a bit simpler, remember, and in her universe, a desktop PC *is* the only thing that is a computer. She's very literal and black and white - she doesn't like definitions that can cross over. Now she's older if she was interested...

We've never had a confirmation beyond forum advice or checkpoints in a wiki - none of those actually count for anything. You'd hope we can get referred to some kind of advice depending on how the assessment comes up. And I hate to nitpick (but will anyway since I've been in the computer biz for...

Its been a year since we started this process by initially ranting to our GP, who referred us to a useless psych, and we've been through the child mental health mob who pushed us to get this referral - I think Feb 17 is pretty damn close if you ask me :) We really do need help *this* year as...

One of her first documented arguments with someone other than me, in a very early webcomic dated April 2003 - almost 7 years ago. I have a lot of similar themed webcomics of her doing things like that to various other people. This young fellow was a far weaker person than she was - he gave in...

Hate to say it, but a lot of the things *do* matter and are not things I want her to grow up having a wrong idea of. If I agreed with everything and didn't let her know she was wrong, she'd come across as a complete bimbo in a few years because her general knowledge would be so warped. She's...

Actually I was thinking triffids during the argument, but they'll do :) Funny thing is, she was the one using logic on us yesterday. We just installed an extractor fan and were trying to convince her that it would suck all the air out of the room and we'd all die. She gave us the look of...

She genuinely believes she is correct - we frequently call these arguments short when it is obvious they are going nowhere. She can actually argue to noone in particular from her room, she seems to think we can hear her (we can't) and the lack of response doesn't mean anything to her. She gets...