On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:17:08 GMT, sarah bennett
> connected the dots and wrote:

~Kathy in NZ wrote:
~> First day of a week off work. What a horrible day I've had.
~>
~> First off I was instructed by my daughter to get her tickets for
the
~> U2
~> concert in Auckland or Sydney, which went on sale at 9am today in
NZ
~> and two
~> hours later in Sydney at Sydney time. Three times I got as far as
~> "click to
~> confirm" the purchase then got dumped out. The result is the
tickets
~> were
~> sold out and I didn't get through the last stage!. So I attempted
to
~> buy
~> tickets to U2 in Sydney. Sold out. Being a dedicated mother, all
this
~> took
~> four hours on the Internet. (Anyone got tickets they want to sell
at
~> cost
~> only? I don't want to pay scalpers prices)
~>
~> So I turned my mind to making a Christmas cake, as you do.
Something
~> constructive out of a wasted first day on holiday. They have just
come
~> out
~> of the oven. I hope they taste good. My recipe makes two cakes. My
~> poor
~> husband was sent down to the supermarket three times during the
making
~> of...
~> I usually *do* read the recipe first, honest. Guess I was stressed
out
~> by
~> failing to get tickets to U2.
~>
~> Now, when they cool, they need immunising with brandy. I have a
~> syringe (the
~> real thing my doctor-daughter gave me). I have had needle stick
~> injuries in
~> the past, but since the cake has neither hepatitis nor Aids, and
nor
~> do I,
~> we both seem to survive.
~>
~> Hope your days have been better than mine
~>
~>
~>
~>
~
~I hacked a big slice into my left middle finger today, if it makes
you
~feel any better

Not really. If you didn't get any stitches in it, head for the store
and get some butterfly bandages to pull the cut edges together. It
took me a week (I sliced mine last Sunday), but it's healing nicely,
and with what looks to be less of a scar than the two cuts that they
did stitch years ago.

And Kathy, you get a big gold star for being a wonderful mother. Not
many would spend half their day on the phone for tickets for someone
else, even the best beloved child of your flesh<G>

maxine in rhode island, usa