Glad church and family are doing well! I am happy to report that I can say the same about mine. Dementia is such a cruel disease, though. I am sorry you are having to go through that journey.

Hi! Real life is good. Mostly just been hiding from the online world. It is so exhausting. How are you?

I love that in a messed up world of crazy nonsense, you are still here posting wordle scores. It makes me happy.

Kinetic sand has just been recalled in Australia due to asbestos contamination. So I would go with real sand.

That's not what happened. He was too weak and couldn't continue.

Yes.

Yeah Ashley can definitely be a masculine name. I would say it is 30/70 male/female. Ashleigh is 100% female though.

Obviously I can't read. It says Leslie not Lindsay 🤦🏼‍♀️Still female though.

Feminine all. Lindsay leans slightly towards masculine.
-Australia

I don't trust your opinion. Sorry.

What about opinions on everything that is untrendy?

He's also a terrorist.

Yeah still gross. Sorry your kids have poor taste.

I am right side up, thank you very much, Mr Wes.

Amy.

Doesn't matter when you add the pasta and boil the water. Mac n cheese is always going to be gross either way.

If I had a pet dragon, she would probably be called Bernice.

In Australia, if someone "lucked out" it would be the same as saying they were out of luck. But I have heard Americans use the phrase "lucked out" to mean they were lucky. I am generally pretty good at translating between English and American, but when meanings are completely backwards it is tricky!

This may or may not have been the weather mimicking my birthday yesterday...

My neurologist once told me I have a 'fantastic-looking brain'. When things get tough, I like to remind myself of this fact.

Please don't taste your lamps. It is not good for your health.

p.s. Americans, stop adding an extra 'r' sound that doesn't exist. 'or' is a digraph. 2 letters making one sound, not two.

or - corn
ore - snore
au - sauce
augh - caught
aw - lawn
awe - awesome
oor - door
al - walk
ough - thought
ure - sure
a - water
our - course
oar - board

Bonus:
ou're - you're
ea - Sean

These all make the same sound, and if you disagree, you are wrong.

Right. Time for an education. The phoneme /or/ can be represented by at least 13 different graphemes in the English language, the most common of these being 'or' as in 'corn'. But the letters au spell the sound /or/, also.

Well then you say them wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

There is only one correct side.

Wrong.

I mean, they definitely do not rhyme.

Americans are really out there trying to convince the world that "criss-cross, apple sauce" rhymes. 🫤