Parallels, Justice and Strange things that happen

Funny how things pan out, today after spending a lot of the night before drafting a letter to Council about the fantastic kindy teacher we have...(the letter is on behalf of myself and 3-4 other mums of special needs kids who "hunted" down the teacher and badgered council to get them in a group with her...) I was thinking about all the good she is doing and how no one really knows or acknowledges her work and thought it sad.

Then today, whilst a friend was trying to get her DVD player to work, the special telecast of Schapelle Corby's trial decision came on...I had forgotten all about it. We watched as the film portrayed her actions and for about 2 minutes thought she'd been cleared, then realised something else had happened..Once we got the sound working...We found the sentence was 20 YEARS...TWENTY FRIGGIN' YEARS. I could not believe it, not only was the case flawed beyond belief but the chain of evidence was invalid, the reasonable doubt questionable and the whole case a farcical miscarriage of justice of such proportions that it is a joke. Here's a girl, who at 27 is now facing the best years of her life in a prison system which: if she survives; will age her beyond the 47 years of age she will be upon her expected release. The judge has a reputation as a hardliner, good in some cases but case by case and each on its merits..PLEEEEEEASE. I am no expert in Indonesian justice...But as a human with the logical, reasoning God gave me.. I know that this is so wrong. Why would you take drugs into a country where it is readily available on the streets of that country????It makes no sense.

And as for Johnny (I'm not saying sorry)Howard..His inference that we would not like another country interfering with our justice system reeks of hypocrisy...What do you call extradition agreements...Allowing a person accused of a crime in another country to be removed to that country for trial and viz a viz to their own country for trial in regards to criminal activities in another country...Such agreements work TWO WAYS!!!!

I'm cross, I'm sad, and I'm wondering why such stuff happens...You see the parallel is that my Dad called tonight to tell me my aunt has cancer of the liver, she fought and survived breast cancer 6 years ago, now she is in palliative care and the specialist says it'll be "sooner not later".
this is a woman who has an OA (but didn't even tell her family about it) has dedicated her life to her family(six children, seventeen grandchildren) and the church..Never asked for anything...Was always there for us and always helped anyone in the community without judgment. I have no regrets but its sad that I maybe will not see her again as I am never strong enough to visit sick family or friends, I don't go to funerals unless I have to (reading or such) and never ever attend the cemetery.

So much in the world is wrong tonight, I can't fix it, I can't make it go away or change it, cannot magically turn time about and change would haves, could haves and should haves into do, dids and done.

Lookee here.....Pratice What You Preach

Seems things have caught up with local Crs, have to question Nardella's motives (State involement in Local Governanace) but very nice to see that something is being done this possible misuse of facilities

http://tex.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texthtml?form=Hansard.adv

SEARCH under Medcraft

So now the Cr has to answer the question and maybe with the VEC amendments a new broom may sweep clean...if one can be found in the closet (hahahaha)Or under the wall paper perhaps!!!!

Put him on a plane and let him play...BY HIMSELF 

Meeeeeeemories LIke the corners of my mind....???

Never could remember the words to that song from the Strieisand/Redford movie...Anyway found a good site for locating old school friends in Australia. Most sites are US based and cost $$$. This one is Aussie and to get e.mail credits, you just refer the site to someone else...Right now you get 2 credits per referral. http://www.aussieschoolmates.com.au is the site and I'm unsure if the e.mail goes to your own address or relies on the site notification....I found one of my bus buddies on line (I caught two buses to high school, 1.5hrs each way)

But its a fun site and you can muck about and list other schools and look for other people too....On some you can list teachers too.

Also found Bravenet http://www.bravenet.com which has freebie bloggie stuff...Like counters and such ..And stuff I wouldn't try yet. Way Too Scary!!!!!Sound like I was in PC heaven last night...Well got on a roll once I worked out the template codes and went searching and surfing. But soon got tired and went nighty night..So better go now because my pal, Max (Maxine)who was supposed to be here at 0930 thought we had a date for 1200...Silly, silly. So she's on her way now

And watch out...Things should run in threes....Someone who is involved in Mr 5's education is pregnant( knew a month ago can't say who it is because its not announced yet) a friend from school who has had x3 children by IVF has fallen pregnant au naturale and now finds out its TWINS!!!!!!!

So watch out you could be next........oooooh hang about I know who no 3 is, its ok....I know who it is, NOT ME. Can't say who, too early.

Ta-Da,DUM DUM,DUM,DUM

Finally I managed to get the bloody, stuffin' links to this to work..If you can't see them or they don't work...Care Factor right now is negative 1,000,000,000 give or take.

So now all and sundry can look at the sites I like to look at too...Sharing is good, I tell my kids.

Won't tell you how I worked it out but suffice to say that Mr 2.5 have a BIG "nigh nigh" this afternoon and Mr 5 was playing trains and Supamum decide to give it one last go and looked at every resource I could find to teach my self how to write the template rather than the stupid cut/paste crap. (Which I now do in part)

Is the colour change driving you batty???? TUFF because I'm happy and colour make me happy and shows happiness...Because I mastered something(big deal to PC wizs but haven't self taught anything since Access, yonks ago)
No more purple for you,Jen..Too much will make you silly!!!

So now I understand it a bit more I am searching for some stuff to "hoon" up the site...See the counter at the bottom?? Did ya know you can rig them to a predestined number then load it?? Cheaters!!!

So HAPPY,HAPPY,HAPPY..Small things,huh??

Books, now let's try music....

OK last "tag" thingo was fun and learnt lots...Now let's try music, and show our age and preferences....

1. Best ever disco (cringe!!!) song? Hot Stuff: Donna Summer
2. Best guitarist: Mark Knoffler (Dire Straits)
3. Best percussionist (drummer): Phil Collins
4. Best song writer: toss up Bruce Springsteen and the fellow who writes for Meatloaf
5. Best Female singer: Cher/Belinda Carlise (GoGo's)Melissa Etheridge
6. Best male singer: Jimmy Barnes/Bruce Springsteen
7. Last concert you went to: Cher
8. Last band you saw live: can't remember...May have been Dire Straits
9. If you could take one album/CD/tape with you as the only music you could listen to forever, what would it be? Born To Run: Bruce Springsteen
10. If I could sing like any one I wished, I'd want a voice like....Melissa Etheridge

Bingo....Hit Shackin' Up with Caz, Guruann , More AustralianRamblings,Jen (sparkling,dangly, you know who you are) and Jen( who couldn't get on my site)

My World....Your nightmare

Got to admit, prior to having a child who is classed as "special needs"..I had no idea there was a whole other world of mums,dads, grandparents, etc out there. Sure, I had gone to school with a autistic girl who it was explained to us by the nuns was "special". One of my friends in high school became a paraplegic in an accident when we were in Yr 11 and did not to return to complete Yr 12 with her group but returned the following year. And , yes, family friends had a daughter, who in those days was labeled "retarded"...And I saw no difference in neither the child with autism or Roxy..Perhaps because I was a child myself then.

But this other world of carers...Well, its like another place...Sure I have been at EIP for over 2 years, met tonnes of people, made lots of friends, but the strength of the network and the range it encompasses is AMAZING.

You go to the supermarket and your son is playing merry hell with everything from the lolly aisle( which we avoid like the plague) to the trolleys and the donut stand. Not just touching but spinning, pushing and "rearranging"...You have one toddler who you are trying to shield (hahaha) from this behavior (monkey see, monkey do), 3 litres of milk (which by now you don't care if you drop it all over the shop floor) and some vegies ( which I could've just tossed in the air and no one would have noticed because of the havoc around them).....SUDDENLY a heavenly voice says....

"I'll take him with me to the seat out front, you settle down and get your shopping"

Now I don't know this lady from a bar of soap and she explains her son is austistic and has language problems so similar to Mr 5 that she thought he was there (he's at school), turns out she visiting friends here and she's from the other side of Melb!!!!Now I am not in the habit of letting my child go off with anyone...But she understood and HAD BEEN THERE and was NOT JUDGING !!

It was one of those moments, you hear about...I instinctively trusted this unknown woman,could not tell you why...Even now as I write this..But I did. Now this is what I'm talking about...That there is another breed of people out there who understand, live it, know it and just are there. I did let this woman take Mr 5 to the seat inside the Safeway store, she chatted with him, told him about her little boy and when I got out to them, Mr 5 tells me about "hers boy same like me"...I almost cried.

We chatted about things in common, therapies, EIP,schools, etc....And after about 20 minutes parted ways...I never asked her name,nor she mine...We were just intrinsically linked by a common factor, she saw a need, offered aide and that was it...Another world.