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    <updated>2008-06-30T05:39:24Z</updated> 
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    <subtitle>If I am a Goddess why are my feet stuck in the trenches?</subtitle>  
    
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        <title>My sister has a mutant handbag gene</title>   
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        <p>My sister drove an hour and a half from her home to visit some friends. An hour down the return trip she asked husband to find something in her handbag [she is such a control freak she has to drive even though he is a FAR better driver. He gives in for peace]. He could not find her handbag [pocketbook]. They had to turn around, drive an hour back to the friend, collect the handbag and then drive the 90 minutes home.</p>
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<p>WHAT WOMAN FORGETS HER HANDBAG? We are born with a handbag clutched in one chubby hand.. And this is not a one off. She does it on a regular basis. She is so busy trying to control everything around her that she forgets her handbag, her glasses, and everything else she has. If she visits me I always walk around and check my house for her belongings before allowing her to drive away.</p>
<p>But what woman forgets her handbag? Our lives are in our handbag. I don&#39;t think she is human. She must have some mutant gene.</p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>inalienable truth</title>   
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        <published>2008-05-13T23:14:37Z</published>
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        <p>Vatican refuses to rule out alien life!</p>
<p>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/vatican-refuses-to-rule-out-alien-life/2008/05/14/1210444477504.html?sssdmh=dm16.314841 ]</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Not surprised&#160; - they have lived in an alien world for centuries! </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Fluctuating fortunes can be somewhat alien.</title>   
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman"></span></span></span></span>&#160;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">Aliens are diabolical. They are masters of mind control. They can taken a normal woman and turn her into a raving obsessed lunatic with the flash of a dial. Yes it was weight day. First 4 scale readings on my electronic scales (I am nothing if not thorough)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160; </span>reported that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160; </span>I was a whopping 2.5 kgs smaller than last week. I knew they were having me on. So I walked away for three minutes then came back. Those 3 readings so I was now a kilo lighter than the same time and day last week. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">Now I should have been happy with that, but no, I had to challenge the aliens. I had to weight myself again. Twice, actually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160; </span>Back to 2.5. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">I then lost all composure. I moved the scales to different floor positions, tried walking on with first the right foot, then the left foot. I did it in fast succession. Multiple times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160;</span>Went away and dried my hair a little more until I risked looking like the triangular haired girl out of Dilbert. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160;</span>Weighed again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160;</span>The readings ricocheted between the two figures. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">I pulled myself together when I heard a noise and realized I was groaning and mumbling to myself. The aliens were playing the tune and I was twirling around my bathroom like a frenzied member of the Irish <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Riverdance</em> troupe. I am glad the bathroom door was closed, so that no close family member witnessed Mother having more than a moment. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">Reason would have told any sane women to split the difference and feel superior, but I think it is fairly well established I am a little short on sanity, especially under stress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160; </span>I could have also not been greedy and sensibly embraced the1 kilo reading as a job well down. No, I had to try outwitting those aliens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160;</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">I shook the scales before replacing them on the floor and alighting once more. The top half of two electronic red zeros glared back at me. It refused to give me a coherent reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160; </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: times new roman">Do I take this as a godsend as the alien saga could now be put to rest? Or do I go out and purchase new bathroom scales, and maybe a tape measure to measure my circumference as a counterbalance to error?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160; </span>Oh, and a hair shirt (this season’s color of course!), all the better to torment myself with…</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman">&#160;</span></span></p>
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