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I had dental surgery and feel sore and sorry for myself today. Was upset because I could not see Hubby. Really admire those who cannot see their loved one very often.
What has everyone been up to??

Em,

I hope you are feeling better soon. Take good care of yourself and rest up. Hope you get to see hubby soon and that it cheers you up. :)

How was your Bathurst weekend??

Hubby will call tonight, that will cheer me up, it will be amusing as I cannot talk!! LOL The kids will have to speak on my behalf! Loving the time off work, oh and I have not had a cigga for 4 days now, very long days!

My weekend was awesome!! :) I had such a good time. I think I got a heap of really good photos, so can't wait to see what they look like tomorrow!! Met some awesome people and laughed the whole weekend!! :)

I am sure that hubby will be able to understand you tonight. :) I hope that the pain gets better soon.

Hey Nessy how did the photos turn out??
Today for me has been good, I really do like not having to go to work. Spending more time with the kids is so fun, in portions that is LOL.

Hey Em,

Alot of the photos turned out really well. I am still trying to work out my camera and get all the settings right, for the right shot that I want. I couldn't find one of my rolls of film, but finally found it today, so will get that back tomorrow. And ofcourse it was the roll of film that I really wanted to have a look at!! :)

I bet you are loving having some time with the kids. Also really glad to hear that you are feeling better today. :)

howdy all. Nothing much happening here. Its my brothers 11th birthday today and I spent ages at the court house getting papers for DH to sign so he can summon the Dect to come a testify. Its all over my head, but was told we need a lawyer to sort it out ?!?!!?
Its really hot here today. Just been on the phone to DH and he said there is lots of Bush Fires around him at the moment. I guess Summer is here. YAY!!!!

Summer is on its way all right, its been lovely and warm apparently will be hotter tomorrow.
I've had huge amount of work on and its last week of school holidays here so am also flat out with the kids. Love the holidays just wish I had more time in the day! :D
I am a little fed up with the system at the moment but might save that vent for another time its too nice a day to spoil it thinking about the idiocy.
Em hope your feeling better after the dentist, Nessy am jealous but glad you had awesome weekend at Bathurst and Kellz best of luck getting everything ready for DH and with your MIL

Nessy I can never work out the camera properly, I read the manual but never remember what is what.
Happy B'day to your little bro Kellz.
I would stress about the bush fires near Hubby, last year they were close to Hubby and I was stressing.
How is your MIL?
Hey Rooby - love the name! the last week of holidays I am hanging to take the kids back to school, they are driving me crazy.
Loving the weather here- having the bbq going for tea tonight.
Thanks for the wishes - the brusing and swelling are going.

Well umm, hmm. Hi. LOL. I'm back, though I went no where. Haha.

Anyways, my day has been average, been dizzy and feeling off colour for the last 2 days, so have just been bumming around the house.

Hope you feel better soon Lauren.

Man- I've been sitting at the computer for hours and COMPLETELY forgot that you were all in the chatroom tonight! Now I have to wait a whole week again!

hey Amanda, you can still chat away here if you like.
Taking the kids to school they wanted me to come and pick them up at 12.30 today, they want me to take them clothes shopping!!!
Not walking into that one!!! They really think I am going to do this.... (shaking my head) they have alot to learn. LOL

Hey Em,

You have to give your kids some points for trying!! LOL Are you going to give in and take them??

YYYIIIPPEEE I did not give in, went to the pub for lunch with the girls. It has been so long since we have all been together.
Still have not had a cigga - 6 days now!!!

Good on you Em, I gave up the smokes well it must of been over 5 months ago now it was bloody hard that first little bit.
So congratulations if you want it you can do it... 6 days is fantastic.

Wow Em!!! That is great that you didn't have a smoke when you were in the pub!! That is the hardest thing for me and yes, I am smoking again, (bad bad nessy!! :) )

Good to hear you didn't give into the kids, and that you got to have lunch with your friends.

Thanks all. It's 7 days today!!!!
It is so warm agin today I am loving this, well I will once I have been waxed - can rasie my arms up then.... hhhmmm too much info there hey! LOL

Today it is Friday the 13TH.. WATCH OUT!!!! OOOOHHHhhh
What is your favourite superstition????

Black Cats on Black Friday. Oh and never put shoes on tables!!

I'm having a really bad week this week. Hope you all don't mind if i have a whinge...
He hasn't called me. He calls me every tuesday and every thursday, and it's friday now and i haven't had a call ALL WEEK! And on top of that, i visit him EVERY sunday, but this week i can't because my father has been working overseas for 4 months and he's coming home late saturday night, and i know that he wants to spend sunday with the family. My honey knows this, and the parents don't much approve of my man, and he doesn't want me to visit him on sunday-he doesn't want to give the parents any more reason to resent him. So usually there is 2 phone calls and a visit. On a week where the visit isn't going to happen, HE DOESNT CALL me at all. he knows I'm missing him like crazy, and i'm disappointed that I can't visit, and because of that i think the phone calls have extra importance this week. HE HASN'T CALLED. I don't know whether to be mad at him for being so inconsiderate (which isn't like him at all), or to be concerned that there is something wrong, or that he's been moved or something. Apart from that, the week has been high stress for me anyway with the end of semester coming up and all my assignments are due... I'd just like him to call so i can vent my frustration with him, or hear his voice, and reassuring words. BUT HE HASN'T CALLED!!! It's making me crazy!

Sorry- had to vent.

Dont be sorry, we all need to debrief every now and then. That is why we are all here to assist.

If he had been moved I know in Vic they are given a free call to family to inform of the move.
He maybe out of money.
I know with Hubby's prison there was phone problems recently - the phones he could use were out of order. Once that had been fixed they put on the phones the wrong recording annoucing where they were from!
Not being able to visit really pulls at the heart strings. You would love to go and want to but cant.
There could be a hundred reasons why.
When this happened with Hubby I wrote him a letter telling him how I needed the routine of the calls and how it may me feel when I got them and did not get them.
Sounds like you have your hands full finishing evrything off for end of semester. What are you studing?
Hope you get a call or letter soon.

Hey my Fav superstition is the no new shoes on the table. Walking under a ladder.
What about wierd/ strange ones????

He's not out of money. I deposited a fairly large sum on sunday!

I know they weer having trouble with one of their phones, so there is only one phone to service about 160 prisoners. But IN A WHOLE WEEK, to not be able to fit in even a 5 minute phone call is a bit unreasonable! 160 isn't that many when you consider all the hours in a day! (not to mention the fact that it has been several weeks and they haven't fixed it!)
I did write him a letter, but it sounded so accusatory and nasty (which isn't really how I'm feeling) that i didn't send it. Best to wait until I'm feeling a bit better about it i think- be a little bit more rational, and not make him feel bad. He had better have a good excuse!

I'm studying to be a paramedic. The course is online and i suffer a bit from motivation problems, so the end of the semester comes and everything has to be done at once! I'm in a bit of a panic (but strangely, i always have time to jump on here and be distracted!)

Thanks for the reassuring words... i feel a little bit better now.

I'm not a very superstitious person... i think that if i counted all the years of bad luck I've acumulated over years of walking under ladders, and breaking mirrors, i think i'll at least live a very long life working them off! I've never heard the one about shoes on tables. Tell me more! What does it mean, and what is the punishment?!

My Grandmother told me about it. And I think it is bad luck always. So I am always yelling at anyone that goes and puts shoes on a table. I think it is brand new shoes, but I just don't let anyone put any shoes on a table.

Grrr. Am going to go visit my brother tomorrow, we didn't go last weekend as it's been costing mum about $70 + a week to go see him, which in no way is fair on someone who only recieves $400 a fortnight. Anyways, that's not really the issue here, the issue is that I hate the heat, and it's gonna be so darn hot tomorrow. LOL.
Ah well, in about 10 months or something, we won't have to worry about visits anymore, as he should be out by than.

Lauren,

I guess that is where my family was lucky when our loved one was in. We were only a half an hour drive a way so it really didn't cost us that much to travel to see him. It was the other costs involved that hit us, the drinks, food and smokes.

Amanda I know exactly how you feel. When you get into a routine with phone calls and they don't come it's hard not to think the worst. When hubby didn't ring me as expected recently I was thinking all sorts of things. It turned out to be a malfunction of the phone system. Not being able to visit makes it ten times worse. I hope you hear from him soon.

When it comes to superstitions I never put shoes on the table. My mum always told me it was bad luck to do so. She applied it to all shoes but I later heard that it was new shoes. Despite the fact that I don't really think bad luck will come if I do it I can't put shoes on a table or even a bench top.

Others that come to mind are not putting an umbrella up indoors. I once worked with a woman who would go spare if you passed her on the stairs. She said it was bad luck. I've never met anyone else who was superstitious about this one.

Other than walking under ladders or black cats crossing your path I can't think of any others but I'm sure more will come to me.

Amanda I hope you hear from your man soon, when no calls has happened to me the frustration of not knowing why or how he is? Just gets under my skin. Its such a crap feeling so I hope it sorts itself out soon for you and best of luck with end of semester workload.
I 'm not hugely superstious on friday 13th stuff... having said that when I gave birth to one of my girls it was on a Thursday 12th @ 11.57pm, it had been a long labour and when the midwife pointed out to me at 11.30pm she thought my baby girl might arrive on Friday 13th, I quickly set out to prove her wrong.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.

When it comes to superstitions I never put shoes on the table. My mum always told me it was bad luck to do so. She applied it to all shoes but I later heard that it was new shoes. Despite the fact that I don't really think bad luck will come if I do it I can't put shoes on a table or even a bench top.

This really makes me laugh! I would never put OLD shoes on the table... they'd be dirty, and smelly, and who knows what has been stepped in over the years! But new shoes? I bet that's how the superstition started...

"Kids- get your shoes off the table! We EAT there!"
"But MUUUUUM, they're new!"
And to stop the habit forming, Mum says "It'll give you bad luck for the rest of your days!" And the word became truth.

Sounds logical to me... I'm afraid i never heard this one until today, so I'll have lots of bad luck, i never even thought about it, so who knows how many times i've done it!

How has everyones weekend been so far?
I went to see Hubby, asked the canteen ladies if I could buy shares in the canteen prison apparently I am not allowed, prison red tape! I wish the amount of money we spend. Not a problem to go through $60 for lunch! the kids get bored and Hubby wants to spoil them.
My son got a headache while we were there and I left the panadol in the locker - the guards let us walk back out to our locker and get it! Usually they would cancel the visit. I had to explain to my son they need to check his mouth to ensure he has taken the panadol. Which he was fine about. An officer who knew us walked out and watched usthe whole time. Just thought that was nice as the officer didn't want to see us leave early.

Still got a bruise on my chin from the tooth being pulled and alot of officers wanted to know all about my fight - they were dissappointed when I told the truth.

2morrow we have to do our monthly shopping and mow lawns. YYiippee. The kids will drive me crazy 2morrow!

Amanda you will have to let us know when you hear for your partner.

Amanda you will have to let us know when you hear for your partner.
He rang first thing ( FIRST FIRST thing- i was still fast asleep) this morning. Tells me the phones were broken. He promised he'd call again tomorrow. All is good. It was WONDERFUL to hear his voice again. Stil wish i could visit. Thanks for the reassurance and concern.

GREAT, He must have been stressed out too. You must be on a high now.
Hope you have a good weekend with your family and finishing your assignments for school.

Wow- everyone's been so quiet over the last few days! What has everyone been up to? I have a huge scary job interview tomorrow! Huge stress! I'll let you knwo how it goes. other than that it's been nothing but study for me- finished one big assignment today, one day late. how is everyone else?

Amanda,

I hope all goes well with your assessment. And I wish you the best of luck with your job interview today!! :)

Well done Em!!! Keep up the good work!

Hey all,
How the job interview go??
I still have not had a cigga but would love one. Busy with work want to win lotto so I dont ever have to work!!!!!!
Thanks Mel.

Interview went ok. It was a pretty huge stress for me, but i was never too worried about whether or not i'd get it. I'd like the job, but i'm willing to apply again if necessary. I don't feel overly confident, but i don't think i totally blew it. I'll let you know in a month if i got through!

Fingers crossed for you Amanda!

Thanks!

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH, just got my car back from the mechanics and have been told I need to look at buying a new car. I love my car I dont want a new car NNNNNOOOO.
OH 2 wks without a cigga. I am getting there! Can a smoker please stand next to me?? LOL
Hope everyone has had a good weekend. Going to see Hubby 2morow. They nearly shipped Hubby of to another prison by accident during the week - all fixed now but he would have lost his job, room and our visits!! Got a new date for our visits! Counting down now.

OMG Em! Glad you got the accidental transfer sorted out! What a huge stress for you and hubby.

I'm just leaving for my visit now. Who knows, we might be there at the same time. :)

Yeah Hubby was stressed about it, I knew after the fact. I did not really stress about it, by the time I knew it was all sorted. Lucky his sister was home to sort it out. As everyone was out and he would have been shipped out!
Close Wissy but I didnt go today went yesterday. Maybe next week then. Hope you had a good weekend.
This is great our own forum Longe now. Great Idea!

Wow our own forum lounge!!! :)

Em, glad to hear that the mix up with hubby was sorted out.

Don't mind me Em, I don't even know what day it is. I saw that you posted on the 20th that you were having a visit tomorrow but I had it in my head that today was the 21st not the 22nd. I even set off early for my visit with the intention of going to the Farmers Market on the way. It wasn't until I got there and there were no cars parked nearby that I realised the market was yesterday! I felt like such a dope :o .

At least I had a good visit with DH. Made up for the rotten week I've had.

wys

Wissy,

I hope that this week is great!!! :)

Now everyone is going to wonder why I changed the title of this thread from Outback Club to Outback Chat. Well all clubs are closed and even though our's is not really a club, we have decided to just call it the Outback Chat for now.

Hey Wissy great mistake you made. That one lasted you a while LOL. At least 4hrs with your loved one made it all good.
Have to let me know what the market is like as I drive past it but have never stopped. I would spend all my money there and not have any left for visit!!!

I keep thinking today is wednesday! I got so excited about chat tonight, got here, and when no-one was there i realised that i'm a day ahead...

It's our 1 year anniversary tomorrow!!! One year with my honey. Exactly one year ago tomorrow he first told me that he loved me. Man we've been through a lot in that time! i NEVER expected that he would be in jail a year after we met... I drove him to rehab in May... we passed dhurringile and he told me that he'd been there a few years ago. I NEVER expected that i would be visiting there less than 4 months later... It has been an experience, i'll say that much!

It's just a shame that we can't spend the day together. I wrote him a list- over 100 things that I love about him. I hope he likes it.

Amanda, that is so sweet!! :) I am sure that he will like it. Congrats on your anniversary.

Congrats.
Sorry I couldn't join everyone last night on chat. Hoep it all went great.

Its all good Em!! :) I missed you!! :) There was only a couple of us there, but it is still nice to have a chat.

I was disappointed I could not make it on chat night, I love catching up and talking the night away. Missed it.

Hey all Hubby got moved to a cottage, it has 4 people in there and their room doors are not locked just the main unit is. It is a unit with 4 bedrooms. They buy their own food and cook it all. Oly prob is we have to wait to get on cheap ph calls.
This is great to have him in the cottages, at least he has an idea of what its like, he will be there for the 2yrs.
Hey just so we all know next week it will 4yrs exactly til day release!!!
He is coming home in 4yrs to visit his wife and kids!!!

That is great news Em, that is he is in a cottage. Is he liking it in the cottage and does he get along with the guys that he is having to share with??

Thats great news Em, hope it goes well and it renews my temporary loss of faith that positive things are happening.


I just got off the phone to my bf and they have recommended he be transfered to Lithgow :( I'm not exactly sure what the options are?
He has been at Goulburn with his little brother since sentencing hes worried about leaving him. I'm not sure if the move is going to be improvement and I just feel at a loss.
The moves not definite but could easily happen tomorrow, next week or next month?? I'm not exactly sure why they bothered to gives a heads up with no certainity about it other than causing stress?? :confused:

That is wonderful news Em. Im so pleased for him. How come he only stays their for 2 years? Is there somewhere else he will go to after the 2 years?
How do they buy all their own food? Do they get more money now or do you have to supply the money?

DH didnt get his early release. The Parole board had their meeting yesterday and it was refused. Thats fine. We just have to wait for it to happen in December. He is feeling really negative at the moment. I think it is everything that has happened over the last couple of weeks is starting to really get to him. Only 1mth and 10 days till he goes for parole!!

Kellz, I am so sorry to hear that. I was thinking about you yesterday and wondering how it all went. Hoping that this will all be over for you soon.

Hey all,
Hubby is loving the new move apparently 15 blokes meet him at the entrance to give him a welcome and hand to move in. He gets along with the 3 others he is sharing with.
They have an accout of $115 a mth to buy their food for the month. Hubby was so happy to run through the list of food they already have in the freezer, fridge and pantry for us today. Oh my heard alot of STEAK!!
Hubby is moved from here to go to a prison that runs the programs he must complete for release. He has been told he is not able to complete these programs at his current place.

Robby your loved one can speak to his CM and request not to be moved yet. The reason he is to be moved though could be in preparation for release. Which he needs to be moved.
I know of people who have been able to delay their transfer due to hardship o their families. They may be the exception to the rule though.

Kellz, it sounds like Murphy's law just keeps on coming. It sounds so fustrating. How have you and your family been over the last few weeks? Hopefully everything ran as smoothly as possible.

Well as for us Hubby had to leave our visit early today due to having a pain in his right side, which I have gone through all my medical books and have short listed my predictions! Hubby was meant to call tonight and tell me how he was but hasn't.
I do know he has 4 phs between approx 60 people now but I am going to stress until I hear now.
oh and 3rd week and still havent had a cigga.

Wow, Em, that's great news that your hubby is now in a cottage. I bet he's pleased to be there.

Not so good news that he wasn't well and that you haven't heard from him. Hopefully it's nothing serious and you will hear something soon.

Hubby is ok now. I ended up haing to ring the prison and ask as I could not wait for his call anymore.
Should not have called as some officer gave me some line about him playing soccer and I am like thanks but he doesnt like soccer. So he admitted he had lied! WHAT THE???

Em that sucks! I hate when they mess with your head. I have noticed one particular officer up there who always looks like he has toothache. He will never smile at you or share a joke, whereas most of the others seem to be pleasant enough to me and to DH.

It makes a world of difference when they treat you like a human being. We both know my DH deserves to be there. However, he got longer than we anticipated and we can either do it the hard way or the easy way. Doing it the hard way would just make the whole thing seem even longer and more miserable.

It seems some officers won't give you the chance though which is stupid really because it makes it just as hard on them as it is on us.

I'm just glad your hubby is ok Em but it's a pity you got messed about while trying to find out how he is.

Hey all, how is every one going??
My week has been good. Visited Hubby yesterday. It was great. We all had a ball.
My Bro just came down form Queensland for a surprise visit. It has been great. He is down for 2 weeks do we hope to take him up to see Hubby. We haven't seen him for 4mths.
Also I have been walking lately and have found this to really help me relax. I had a full body massage the other day I was so worried about it as I had never had one before- it was great but the next day I was sore and never had back pain before, had massive back pain!
Concerned this was from the massage.