27-05-2026 02:36 PM
27-05-2026 02:36 PM
@ENKELI can my positive right now just be that I'm happy that you're back on the forums too? I do miss you when you're not around sweetheart.
You've done so well to finish your studies, I'm so very proud of you for pushing through ❤️.
27-05-2026 02:46 PM
27-05-2026 02:46 PM
@Taali I did post but a comment I made breached guidelines, for which I am sorry. I was comparing technology to boyfriends, can't live with them, can't live with them! Lol My bestie used to joke and say "I've heard boyfriends make wonderful pets!"
Technology is far more useful ha ha ha!
(not a man hater, just like to joke and tease 🙂 )
27-05-2026 02:47 PM
27-05-2026 02:47 PM
@MissGremlin my absence was not my choosing if you get my drift. If I ever disappear without notice it's not because I want to be absent. I am just too opinionated for the forums it seems.
I missed you lots! I just absolutely adore your little frog diamond painting too, it is delightful and I would hang it on my wall.
I picked up a couple of books from the op shop/low cost supermarket where my brother works and have been reading. I am not sure what else I will do while I now have to find full time work.
I am getting new gutters on my house today, once complete I will have a new roof and guttering. It will breathe new life into the old girl. At least on the outside!
27-05-2026 03:12 PM
27-05-2026 03:12 PM
@ENKELI i get your drift and I've been through it myself before many times.
Hehe the frog one is cute and it makes me smile when I look at it. Still working on trying to get a folder to store them all in, for now a Lego box does the job 😂.
Oohhh reading is good, i like reading but get frustrated that i can't comprehend things😂. You need to find a hobby so you've got something to do.
Yay for new gutters, I'm sure the house will look amazing from the outside once that's done.
27-05-2026 03:21 PM
27-05-2026 03:21 PM
My hobby is doing my Spanish lessons on duolingo @MissGremlin .
27-05-2026 03:46 PM
27-05-2026 03:46 PM
@GezzaP that is a great hobby to have too 🙂
27-05-2026 03:51 PM
27-05-2026 03:51 PM
@MissGremlin reading is my kryptonite. I have been so involved in a book that everything else is forgotten. It's one of the many things that bonds bestie and I. Aside from being friends for over 50 years, we both read voraciously. Our mums were/are the same. I remember her mum telling me she didn't get to sleep until after 3am one morning because she was reading a good book. I said I can relate!!
Have you always found comprehending some things hard? I can understand it being frustrating.
27-05-2026 03:51 PM
27-05-2026 03:51 PM
Yep @ENKELI . I like to read novels as well and also working my way through short stories in Spanish that my Argentine friend gave me. She used t work in the Spanish Dept at the Uni where I worked in the Politics Dept.
27-05-2026 06:15 PM
27-05-2026 06:15 PM
Ah... that's precisely what the love my life said to his mother (replace men with women) before breaking my heart.
Don't worry nothing has triggered me at all.
I never imagined that I'd be up to sharing that. Whew, feels good 👍
27-05-2026 07:34 PM
27-05-2026 07:34 PM
@Taali yes, I had much the same thing happen to me. I much prefer being single and the only man to share my bed is my cat!
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