Popup message to other computer on my network?

I know I've used a shareware program that does this but now I can't remember what it was. And I recall it either stopped working or wasn't very effective. But I'm sure you've seen this question before:
My wife is in the next room on a G5. I know she's there because I just left there. She's on the same network as me. How can I make a little message pop up on her screen that will suddenly appear as a box on top of whetever else she's doing, something like "Will you make me some coffee, pretty please?" and she'd just be able to type something, press enter and a box would pop up on MY screen with her answer. Or we could chat. I amd NOTR saying iChat or Skype -- she would have to have tese enabled or turned.
I mean a program (preferably shareware but I'd pay for it if it did what I'm talking about) that I'd only need to install onec on both computers, and that would be running at all times regradless of whether she restarted her computer or I did since the last time we used the program.
I know there WAS one, but it was a lomng time ago. We're both runniong PPCs with 10.5.8 on them.
No AppleScripts please -- it has to be a very simple program that you don't have to know anything to use.
Thanks in advance!
Oh, and putting iChat to open on restart isn't really a good solution either (unless that would work). Because you don't need some unnecessary program running all the time whjen it doesn't have to be . . .

Don't mistake me, I love iChat, but I needed something a little less powered and more "instant" which only does one thing simply, but does it well. Reminds me of the old Desk Accessories in OS 9 minus.
I think that QuickPopup would be hilarious is an office of say, 20 people sitting around just feet away from each other. You could send instant love messages to the cute secretary over by the door and no one would be any wiser!
But it's good enough to ask my wife to make the coffee this morning too! Besides, then she could ask me to take out the garbage! Works both sexist ways =+)

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