Nice buy Suzi! My parents are also looking into buying one with a 120 GB Hard Drive.

I got my braces off today yay!

Yay Dara!!!
Now where's that new pic of you with a great big smile? My daughter and I have fantastic smile because we both had braces when we were in our early teens. In 'my day' they were called 'bands' because a metal band went around the entire tooth, and anyway, braces were those things that held up your trousers! heheh. Oh my Dara, you wont know yourself, then in a couple of weeks you'll forget you ever had them on!

Thanks Norman, I am very happy with it. The 80gb models are all being superceded by 160's now. I could have bought a 160gb model pioneer from one place on wednesday (because they didn't want me to leave the shop and  buy somewhere else) for $700. but I didn't have THAT much money. In fact I spent at least $50-$100 more than I budgeted for and had to forego other less important things.

Hehe, it feels sooo weird!
I have a retainer on the back now though, pretty annoying but at least you can't see it
Lol, I'll take a photo soon, the cameras full

How old is your daughter Suzi? and from what years did you both have braces?

hey peeps

nice pic normangerman

Well I finally started my assignment for english which I'vebeen putting off since before camp, though printing two songs isn't excactly making a good start but oh well
You see we have to analyse 2 poems and 1 song or 2 songs and 1 poem so I picked some random poem and two very intellectual songs, I still call australia home and home among the gum trees
haha.
Don't get me wrong I don't usually bludge english... but I think analysing poems saying what it means to be australian and all australian crap is stupid when you're not even australian
So I got my poems off a kids website, smartness huh
Cooking up a roast
Vegemite on toast
Just you and me
And a cup of tea  
The use of rhyming in this poem demonstrates the companionship amongst australian's which has been around forever though the ideals have changed drastically over the years. this will be discussed. think, just you and me, and a cup of tea. this is very common these days. in the old days it was not. but they did other stuff. australian spirit etc.
I am so tempted to hand that in. must find a tape recorder, did i mention it turns into a radio show? the 3rd one in two years, i HAte them!
haha im putting off starting by typing a really long post. should stop.
brilliant work i did don't yous think? hahahah!
EDIT- brilliant brainwave, do my show on big brother, with examples on claire's backstabbing, hahaha!

Those words reminded me of a song I used to love, still do

Me and You and a Dog named Boo..........by Lobo


I remember to this day
The bright red Georgia clay
And how it stuck to the tires
After the summer rain
Will power made that old car go
A woman's mind told me that so
Oh how I wish
We were back on the road again

Me and you and a dog named boo
Travelin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man

I can still recall
The wheat fields of St. Paul
And the morning we got caught
Robbing from an old hen
Old McDonald he made us work
But then he paid us for what it was worth
Another tank of gas
And back on the road again

Me and you and a dog named boo
Travelin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man

I'll never forget the day
We motored stately into big L.A.
The lights of the city put settlin'
Down in my brain
Though it's only been a month or so
That old car's buggin' us to go
We've gotta get away and get back on
The road again

Me and you and a dog named boo
Travelin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man

Me and you and a dog named boo
Travelin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man

Quoted from normangerman

How old is your daughter Suzi? and from what years did you both have braces?

My daughter is now 29 and my son is 21 and a half.
Kat and I had braces from ages 13 through to 15 or so. The 'bands' they used in 'my day' actually have done a lot of harm to my teeth. The band was so tight it actually put such stress on the tooth that mine now have vertical cracks and are starting to deteriorate. I have lost one and have been told a couple more will need pulling within a couple of years. Not happy about that.
Kat's were put on when the bands were improved and didn't go around the circumference of the tooth. I remember wearing the plate Dara, and had the lisp with it. Braces, I remember were not the most comfortable things to kiss with.

I don't have a plate it's like a thin wire glued to the back of my front teeth.

OO guess who's done 298 words of her assignment. Hahaha
It's a start
On staurday I have to do work training For 3 hours..

Good news for all South Australian students (like me): Holidays have started today!

What a bummer that it had to be ruined by homework like major projects and whatnot... but then again I have 1 full term left and the final exams. I'm really excited.

Wow almost done with school!
what will you do after yr 12?
at least you've done yr 11, which is supposed to be the hardest yr.

No way, Year 12 is much harder than Year 11. The marking is much more strict.

But year 11 has waaay more work!
YEAH!!!!
1000 posts for me!

Year 11 doesn't have more work; it's harder and far more is expected of students.