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Requesting a hug please.

Posted Jul 7, 2005

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Shiny!

Posted May 25, 2005

How happy can a new gadget make you When I first opened it, there was no one to talk to but the So I was going through all the special stuff with her

Look! No switchy, press me buttons, it's touch screeny stuff *listens to the "oooh"s*
Watch me, watch me! *lightly presses down button and scroll bar highlights lots of special things*

And look! *goes in box* It's got a casey thing! Ooooh and here! *fishes clippy thing that fits on back of casey thing* And that's not all there's another accessory that clips on the back so it stands up! *charges shiny machine whilst it's stood up*

Hello little machine!

Oh yeah! One more thing, watch it as it charges, look carefully....see that? As it charges the light gets brighter and then fades out, like a pulse. It's alive!!! Alive I tell you! I'm going to call it Maurice



All this happiness from a teeny mp3 player I've just won

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Latest reply: May 25, 2005

I don't know what you're talking about! I wouldn't dream of hootooing at work....

Posted May 24, 2005

As soon as the clock strikes 9am, I don't surf at all

But if ever the thought did cross my mind, I could do it safely....

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/76ed/

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Latest reply: May 24, 2005

Stressed

Posted May 22, 2005

At the end of last year I found out that my older brother was having an affair with my best friend. They were both in long term relationships, his has since broken down, partly because of the affair. My friend is still in a relationship with her boyfriend, they have a child together and she is pregnant again.

When I first found out about what was going on, my brother and his girlfriend were both living at home with me and our parents. I also work with my best friends, boyfriends relative. It has made me feel so stressed out and anxious, having to think about everything I say and make sure I don't slip up. The relative of my friends boyfriend - who I work with, is a good friend of mine and she often asks me how my friend and he are getting on, whether I think they will stay together etc. Before my brother and his girlfriend broke up, my parents would often ask me what I thought was going wrong between them and I'd have to lie to them to cover up what I knew was really happening.

When my best friend found out that she was pregnant, she told me that she is unsure as to whether it is my brothers or her boyfriends. My best friends boyfriend is sticking with her. He knows she has had an affair but thinks she has put a stop to it. He has said that if it ends up being his baby he will stay. If it isn't then he doesn't want anything to do with it and will leave her.

My brother has told me that if it is his baby, he doesn't want anything to do with it. Even though he has said this, he continues to see my friend.

I feel like I can't talk to anyone, I can't speak to my parents about it, I can't speak about it with my friend at work, I can't speak about it with my friend obviously as she seems to be obsessed by my brother and is blinded by it. When I talk to my brother about it, he just seems to shrug it off and says that she is obssessed.

Whenever I give advice to either of them, it's just ignored and they carry on. I find myself hating both of them. Whenever I see my friend she always asks me waht my brother has been doing, whether he's talked to his ex etc.I know I have no control over what they do but I get so wound up about it.

The past few weeks have been a bit quiet, what with some of the people involved going on holidays and the like. So I've not felt as stressed out and uneasy. But last night I heard my friend come into the house with my brother. I've heard this happen plenty of times before and is usually followed the next morning by a frantic phone call from the room next door, my friend asking me to help smuggle her out of the house without my parents seeing.

This morning it proved impossible for that to happen. Broter went to work early, my mom went into brothers bedroom and saw her there. Friend left and I was asked millions of questions about what was going on between them. It's not up to me to tell them anything so I avoided most of the questions.



I just wanted to get a bit of a rant out of my system. Sorry. You may now continue normal business (badgers, nontables, ferrets without an agenda etc)

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Latest reply: May 22, 2005

GAME OVER

Posted Apr 22, 2005

My home computer is defunct, bust, broken, pushing up the daisies, never again to light up my computer room with it's "Da na!"

Time of death: 8.17pm Thursday the 21st April 2005. RIP

Or at least I think so Maybe it will see the light and turn back to me

So if I'm not online this weekend then it's not because I've run away and joined a nunnery or, God forbid, gone out!! It's because I've bust my foot from kicking my computer and it's still not working

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