I also wonder a lot when I am putting up the decorations on the xmas tree. I think of da duck especially when doing that. Always. My decorations are no-where near as precious.

I wonder if I can blow some hot weather over to places where it's so cold. I have tried it before and it didn't work though, I have to tell you.

I wonder if I can explain that "gone walkabout" doesn't really mean "I've gone on an extensive hiking trip". "Going walkabout" is a little difficult to explain but I'll try... it's a bit like taking time to reflect and to remove oneself from one place to another. I *think* it was originally used by European settlers in Australia to describe our indigenous folk who sometimes found that they needed time away alone with the earth and nature to refresh and transition.

I wonder if I can tell you without too much detail that lots of it was beautiful and special but it was quite a frugal and difficult time in many ways. However, it was good for me. I totally enjoyed so much of my time away, but it was hard. I had no reception for internet of course or I would have called in here and contacted my friends. I also had to rely on other people to assist me - something I'm not very good at doing! I guess at times it felt a bit like "going on retreat" in a stone hut in the Himalayas except it wasn't that cold. LOL

Sadly, no. She's always in my heart though.

I wonder if everyone knows yet that I am on very limited internet access. I've spent a long time the past few days trying to catch up with everyone I know, but it's barely possible sadly. I was also shocked to go to PubMed for the first time in about a year or maybe even a year and a half (?), and I could never get on top of all the research I used to keep up with. My days are done with that sadly.

I wonder if all those scientists I tried to read tonight realize that if they're still spending all those freaking research dollars and getting nowhere then it may be best to spend those dollars doing something else... like education and suggesting methods to eleviate problems which may arise from certain conditions as they unfold. It might also be helpful to spend some time in helping whole families as well as the "patients" and especially in educating teachers and doctors and the general population. <sigh>

I wonder that it's going to be another hot day here tomorrow. I think it was 30C today already and it's not far into our summer yet. (that technically started on 1st of December for us) We have some new political party here just started up trying to move my state into daylight saving time in line with all the other eastern seaboard states. Frankly I don't really want to be waking up at 3.45 am with the sun streaming in my windows... Our days are so long and hot.

Well, I wonder if I've vented enough. LOL sorrrrrry.