They sure have the teenage daughters pegged right! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img]
They sure have the teenage daughters pegged right! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img]
Sharon, teacher
dh of 20 years-don't know what I'd do without him
gfg 14 years-old son adopted at birth-premature by 3 months-birth mother use crack,-bipolar, ADHD, Cognitive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Severe dyslexia taking clazapine, loxapine, gabapentin, clonidine during the day for help with ADHD symptoms.
pc/gfg 18 year-old daughter, also adopted, taking generic of Welbutrin for depression and Risperdal (sp?).
Talking of the chocolate-coated facsimile of "moose poop", "reindeer poop" and "Easter Bunny poop" - we couldn't do that because we get too much of the real thing, the kids might eat the wrong stuff. On our front lawns we find brushtail possum poop (looks like chocolate bullets), Rusa deer poop (enough to kill the lawn) but thankfully not much bunny poop. They get that further west!
And while we're talking about this sort of thing - you know what hundreds and thousands are? M&M poop!
Marg
me: body's cactus, brain still works.
DH: Aspie? busy job, darling man, CD member.
PC (29): adored by GFG3. Qualified OT. Married to SIL1. Mother of baby grand.
GFG1 (28): AS/ADHD/OCD.Hidden brains. Married to DIL.
PC/GFG2 (25): ADHD/OCD/Aspie?/BP? Hi IQ. Cuddlebunny. Married to
SIL2, both live on "mainland".
GFG3 (18): ADHD/Autism HF/OCD. Hyperlexic, anxious. Darling handful.
correspondence student, doing better.
Home: beach village, ‘island’ surrounded by water and 'bush'.
I wondered if there were Teenaged Son Owner's Manual as well but that would be just too gross!
Marg's Man
me: probable AS plus chronic arthritis, stressful job. Marg says I am a darling man (but she's biased).
Marg: body's cactus, brain works and I love it all.
We're two halves of the same beast - see her sig for the rest.
Marg's MIL (my mum) lives nearby.
Home: a beach village, sort of island surrounded by water and 'bush'.
Philosophy: The world cannot end today because it is tomorrow in Australia...
I wondered if there were Teenaged Son Owner's Manual as well but that would be just too gross!
Marg's Man
me: probable AS plus chronic arthritis, stressful job. Marg says I am a darling man (but she's biased).
Marg: body's cactus, brain works and I love it all.
We're two halves of the same beast - see her sig for the rest.
Marg's MIL (my mum) lives nearby.
Home: a beach village, sort of island surrounded by water and 'bush'.
Philosophy: The world cannot end today because it is tomorrow in Australia...
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When a friend of mine had her two eldest children, she didn't have health insurance. At the ages of 10 and 7, she was still paying on the hospital and doctor bills and would say, "I keep waiting for them to come repo 'em."
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I loved the teenage daughter owners manual. Thanks, Star!
~Kathy
Myself: High School Math teacher
DH: Married for 28 years; also a math teacher
GFG: 26 year old daughter, dropped out of college (again), substance abuser, went through rehab and then got kicked out of halfway house, living back at home, currently in a DBT program, just got a job as a stylist assistant to work towards renewing her license.
J: 23 year old daughter, graduated from college in May, is currently a first year high school math teacher -- like mother, like daughter.
Family pets: 4 year old Shih Tzu named Gracie, 2 year old Shih Tzu named Buddy
We "jokingly" had parent moments when GFG would be late checking in and I would worry stating "What if someone took him" and DF would look at me and say "THEY would bring him back no worries luv."
POSSUM POOP?? OMG someone here Marg-took the labels off of little finger hotdogs called Vienna meat snacks and pasted a obvious fake label on the can with a picture of a hissing N. American possum and left it in the grocery store - on the shelf!!! It was TOO funny!
The label said POTTED POSSUM - Road kill Supreme!
Opossums are not pretty. Ours are. Ours don't hiss, either, they just look at you with their big shoe-button eyes and steal the fruit off the trees... wild ones will eat from your fingers. We put out old fruit for them instead of just chucking it into the compost bins. You hear them getting excited - a horrible sound, probably a lot like the hissing of your ones, but purely out of excitement and not anger.
Mind you, DH disturbed one sleeping in MIL's garage, I think that one hissed at him until he put the picnic basket back on the shelf and tiptoed away.
In the evening we can walk outside and look up to see a quivering nose and big eyes looking down at us, as if asking for a piece of mango. They love mango.
On TV yesterday afternoon was a short segment featuring an Aboriginal gourmet chef, cooking up a meal using bush tucker. We have some interesting native foods which the Western world is only just discovering. Lemon myrtle is fairly well known, but aniseed myrtle? Bush tomatoes, finger limes, saltbush - this bloke cooked up a delectable series of small pies which he said were much more Australian than the well-known variety. He then took his wares down to Garden Island on the shores of Sydney Harbour, to Harry's Café de Wheels (famous for providing meat pies to the sailors of all nations, since WWI). They liked his pies very much - even after he told them he'd used possum.
Only Aboriginal people are permitted to hunt possum, so it's not likely to catch on here. Should go down a treat in New Zealand, though. Our possums are a pest over there, they have more possums than sheep. And more sheep than people. Big problems. Bring on the Kiwi possum pie and do your bit for the environment!
Marg
me: body's cactus, brain still works.
DH: Aspie? busy job, darling man, CD member.
PC (29): adored by GFG3. Qualified OT. Married to SIL1. Mother of baby grand.
GFG1 (28): AS/ADHD/OCD.Hidden brains. Married to DIL.
PC/GFG2 (25): ADHD/OCD/Aspie?/BP? Hi IQ. Cuddlebunny. Married to
SIL2, both live on "mainland".
GFG3 (18): ADHD/Autism HF/OCD. Hyperlexic, anxious. Darling handful.
correspondence student, doing better.
Home: beach village, ‘island’ surrounded by water and 'bush'.
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