Fun time

I'm on a roll here, catching up and funning about a bit

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful

You've got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog. Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights. A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time. You blog for yourself - and you don't care how popular (or unpopular) your blog is!

What's Your Blogging Personality?

Your Inner Child Is Sad

You're a very sensitive soul. You haven't grown that thick skin that most adults have. Easily hurt, you tend to retreat to your comfort zone. You don't let many people in - unless you've trusted them for a long time.

How Is Your Inner Child?

Your Career Type: Investigative

You are precise, scientific, and intellectual. Your talents lie in understanding and solving math and science problems. You would make an excellent: Architect - Biologist - Chemist Dentist - Electrical Technician - Mathematician Medical Technician - Meteorologist - Pharmacist Physician - Surveyor - Veterinarian The worst career options for your are enterprising careers, like lawyer or real estate agent.

What's Your Ideal Career?

You Are a Punk Rocker!

When it comes to rock, you don't follow any rules You know that rocking out is all about taking down the man You've got an incredible stage presence and rock persona You scare moms, make bad girls (or boys) swoon, and live life on the edge!

What Kind of Rocker Are You?

BAD HABITS

I got my regular "hit" of memes and got tagged by who else but Mr Brian AGAIN. So without further ado, here's the

FIVE BAD HABITS OF SUPAMUM

1: I am so SUPER I have no habits which could be decreed BAD

LMAO

OK really here we go...

1. I have a strong sense of what is right and wrong, if you are a statutory body, Government office, service provider and you cross me...I will complain, ring your boss,I will march in protest, contact the departmental head , the CEO, I will write letters and demand explanations, I will contact the relevant governing/compliance authority and demand action, I will take the matter to VCAT, Court, tribunal...its a bad habit/trait and I inherited it from my mum.

2.: I drink TOO MUCH COKE, I have mentioned this before but it really is a habit forming thing in my life..Some say but you don't drink coffee so it s ok...No it is not, it is full of sugar and I drink" leaded" (regular) not unleaded (caffeine/sugarfree) and I get antsy if I don' t have some at least once every few days.

3: I talk TOO, TOO much to people I hardly know or have just met. I am the bane of parties as I will "get in your ear" about economics, politics, government policies, funding shortfalls and all manner of inappropriate "just met you" chatter and you will avoid me for the rest of your life!!!!

4: I have to many opinions about too many things which I will pass on to people with or without their asking, I know too much about this and that(or think I do) and am too quick to "advise" someone on what I think they should be doing....Generally, I am BOSSY!!!

5:I like kids lollies, Chupa Chups, Bombs, mates, bubble gum, Sherbies, you name it I like it. My kids have lollies rarely..But Grandda brings them over and they go in a jar in the pantry and guess who is in there the most......ME!!!

So there you have it I am human not super
Now to tag...........
1. JAMIE because Brian told me I could and Jamie is often tagged by Brian, so it is my turn
2. Guruann because she still "owes" a meme from months ago and never did it, but if she's too busy it's ok
3. Jen ...You know who you are..Put it in the comments,but you really should start a blog, you know
4. Supermom because she says I am her antipodean twin, but she does it harder than me
5. ANY ONE ELSE????

Time to think.....

2IC has returned to work and as I am not using the car, he's driving instead of doing the bus/train/bus thing. No car is nice as it means I have no reason the leave the house, cannot visit anyone who asks me to come over and don't have to go to the shops...Unsocial bitch aren't I??

I'm a bit over the whole "people everywhere" thing and just want to be a home body hermit for a while...I am sure I am not the only one to feel like this, probably the only one with the guts to admit it.

I am not adverse to the odd social outing, like Tuesday afternoon I went to the gym with my friend and we made appointments for our reassessments/new programs for last night...I can handle that sort of stuff. It the visits for hours from people who also bring their kids so there are 6,7,8 who knows kids about into everything. I don't mind having people over but during the holidays it seems our place becomes the Mecca for kids...Maybe its my kids toys and games, maybe its my policy of "let them play, clean up afterwards" I don't know...But I am a bit tired of visiting hordes of kids now. For the rest of the week...I'm not home..Least I will try not to answer the phone and screen my calls, answering the door is a bit hard( the kids won't play "lets be quiet and maybe they'll go away") I am unable to comfortably "fib" when someone calls and says "what are you doing?" and reply "Just on my way out", can't think fast enough for that one.

I just want some time with the children to play, garden, read, sit on the verandah and watch them play, talk,tidy up some stuff, clean out old toys, what ever...Without others here.
Am I selfish or is it reasonable???

And on a lighter note, being politically correct and adverse to comments about people based on any diversity...Could not help myself when I read this joke, has to be one of the better blonde jokes ever.

How close was I? Nice puss-puss 

Soundtrack of 2005

I got tagged by Brian to list my soundtrack for 2005, I don't think it has to include 2005 songs as such as he has some ancient stuff on his..LOL, so here goes.............

2005 SOUNDTRACK
1. Cold Hard Bitch: Jet
2. Sound of White: Missy Higgins
3. Meet Me By the River: Melissa Etheridge
4. Where The Streets Have no Name: U2
5. Sunday, Bloody, Sunday: U2
6.Walking In Memphis: Cher
7. Love Can Build A Bridge: Cher, Chrissie Hynde and Nenah Cherry
8. Black Betty: Spiderbait version
9. Can't Help Falling In Love with You: Elvis
10: Burning Love: Elvis
11: Evie Part 1,2 and 3: The Wrights
12.anything by The Whitlams (original line up)
13: Anything by Meatloaf

I know the last two are probably cheats but there are too many I like to mention.
Now to TAGGING hmmmm who shall it be? Well as I am on promises not to tag and not many people like to do these as I do, I will leave it up to each and every person who peruses this blog...Yes all six of you, LOL, to enter it to your own blog or in comments should you choose to undertake this mission. Leave a note in comments when you are done.

Where does time go?

I have to wonder where time has gone lately...Yes I know I have been doing nothing and everything but time has run amuck on me it seems. I have already read my Christmas "junk" book "Lovers and Players" by Jackie Collins ...Yes I read trashy stuff too!!!! Almost finished "Predator" by Patricia Cornwell and think I may have missed reading the previous one "Trace" but have to check the bookcases. The two eldest went to see "The Chronicles OF Narnia"with Daddy. We have redecorated/redesigned Miss 8's room. I have cleaned out the toy box in her room and the children's book case. Mr 3 is fully toilet trained and how melancholy it is not to buy nappies any more when shopping after NINE years of buying them....I almost miss it. At least I admit it.

We are working on the kitchen/vegetable garden and have to get rid of some agapanthus along the fence...Really bad plants to have to dig up but it has to be done. 2IC has done some lovely hanging baskets for the back verandah which are nice. He fixed Mr 5's remote control truck which broke last Feb and never got repaired. We shopped for school shoes and lunch boxes, Mr 5 is a size 13!!!! And I have labeled all the clothing for Mr 5 which needed labeling. He now wakes up each day asking if he goes to school today.

Best of all..We got placed with the speech pathologist we wanted, she rang on the 22nd December to say she could take Mr5 as a patient. He sees her on the 2nd Feb for an assessment...Lets hope it continues with the funding from the Catholic Education Office coming through for help at school for his teacher.

The kids have been playing under the soaker hose on the hot (40degrees Celsius plus) evenings...Oops I mean the hand held spray attatched to the hose being used during assigned hours of operation as per the water restrictions.

They have been riding bikes, playing with the pup (who is growing and now weights in at 7.6kgs)reading, playing PC games, running about and YES, GLORY BE....SLEEPING IN!!!!
I did not know what hit me when it first happened and then it kept happening, no children in our room or our bed with us before 0930 or even 1030....MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!!

Happy 2006

Hello again,
I have been remiss but with good reason for 'tis the season to be jolly or plain lazy which ever is your preference I guess. I've been recovering from Christmas and cleaning up and chucking stuff away and redecorating and planting and ,and and and well, just everything and nothing it seems.

Christmas was fine, except 2ICs mother was in and out of hospital the week before Christmas with "chest pains"( let's say no more about it as it seems to happen EVERY year about this time and I know what I think!!!!), we had my nieces 21st a week before Christmas, annual Christmas catch up with friends BBQ at our place and then Christmas eve...Some of our friends (not all at the same time) decided our house was THE place to bee Christmas Eve and visited over the course of our quiet evening at home watching the nightly parade of people viewing the lights and displays about the area. Needless to say a few Brown Brothers whites were had by myself and the girls and it was quite fun to quip about his and that in our inebriated state. Do you realise how funny reindeer antlers REALLY are??

Santa visited and left some potatoes in the sacks to warn the children that they might just get ONLY potatoes next time if the behavior fails to better. He left bikes and a "mean machine" in the garage, books, puzzles, pajamas, CDs, miners helmet with torch, Thunderbird No 1 rocket and chocolate stocking in the sacks.

We had my Dad and aunt over for Christmas lunch and hope to be granted a reprieve next year (SOMEHOW) as you can only listen to who has died and how long they had this or that malady for a very LIMITED time. 2ICs mother came over with his SIL and brother for tea..They no longer come for lunch as last year because we were moving so close to Christmas we asked that they do Christmas dinner and they replied they were doing their own"thing" that year and could not do it...So they do their own "Thing" each year in fear that we ask them to take a turn!!!!
My BIL gave 2IC a carton of beer for Christmas as he was "given too much as gifts at work" (nice cheap present with lots of thought NOT!!!!!) 2IC doesn't even drink regularly only at Christmas and such, so this THOUGHTFUL present combined with the "oldies" lack of manners (Get us another drink, pass the beans, give us the vegetable dish, make some gravy will you) REALLY REALLY REALLY pissed him (and myself) off no end. Add this to my aunt staying overnight and running out the hot water and wanting a COOKED breakfast the next morning, we got desperate and told her we had to go out at midday so she would just go. (last year she hung about till 3 in the afternoon the day after Christmas and we got nothing done)

I AM SO OVER CHRISTMAS!!!!

So now we enter the frey of 2006..........................

My Letter to Santa

Dear Santa
For Christmas this year I don't want much for myself a new pair of cross trainers will do or I can just wait and buy them myself, its ok.
But could I please ask that all the people of the world remember that without diversity we learn little, without understanding we lack acceptance and without love of our fellow man, we are bitter...So can you sprinkle some understanding and spray some some love about in your nocturnal travels?
Could you help the so called leaders of this world understand that what they think is right is not always right and they are only human...No one can be expected to be infallible ( except God/Allah/ Yaweh and maybe the mortal leaders of all faiths) So some humility for them would be nice too.
Could we please, perhaps, have no disasters...Natural or manmade for 2006, just so the world can get itself sorted out a bit more. It has been proven we are pretty inept sometimes but mostly we are a generous , caring, compassionate society...Despite some leaders lack of response to some things.
Can I please ask that people realise that the world is a melting pot of differing opinions and that to enforce your beliefs or opinions on others does not make it the right one. Respect of others beliefs and understanding of cultural, religious, and other differences would go a long way to solving our troubles, I think.
Can you please make sure all the children of the world get something tomorrow night? Even if it is something little like a special shell upon a beach or some extra food, toys and such mean little when you have nothing.
For my family , could my children enjoy good health and happiness,and my special "sausage" enjoy his first year at school with minimum disruption, my first born learn that best friends do not stay best friends forever and my youngest continue to be a source of utter amazement to us all with his antics. For my soulmate, my friend, my lover, my eternal love I wish only happiness and health and the occasional sleep in.
For my friends, close and afar, I wish them all the joys of Christmas in the true spirit in which it is meant to be , that they enjoy family, friends, and fine health along with the occasional overeating/overdrinking of what ever they chose to indulge in.
A lot to ask for I know, Santa, and you are busy but without your help with some of the above, I fear for the joy of Christmas future
Thanks
Merry Christmas
Supamum ( u know who I am)
PS Biscuits and milk under the tree, carrots and reindeer food on the lawn as usual

My Blogger type

Thanks to Brian (he finds all the GOOD stuff)

Your Blogging Type is Artistic and Passionate

You see your blog as the ultimate personal expression - and work hard to make it great. One moment you may be working on a new dramatic design for your blog... And the next, you're passionately writing about your pet causes. Your blog is very important - and you're careful about who you share it with.

What's Your Blogging Personality?

MERRY BLOODY CHRISTMAS

I am ropable today, some person/s without any sense of responsibility or concern for others saw fit to STEAL the 3 foot high bear light we had in our garden. The bear was dressed in a Santa suit and had a candle light which they left behind ( so if you've stolen if for your own garden I will find you next year cause you won't have the candle, revenge is a meal best eaten cold so watch out, arsehole)
We bought the light for the kids as do many people who put up lights and displays, for our kids and the neighborhood kids and the ones who visit every night looking at the lights in the court...Not to win any competition, just for the Christmas spirit of it.

Now I have a 3 year old who wants his teddy back, a 5 year old who wants the other lights down in case someone steals them too and a disillusioned and jaded 8 year old who wonders "why some one would do that because its only for the kids to look at"

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE ARSEHOLE, BASTARD, DICK BRAIN WHO HASN'T THE SENSE TO SEE HOW THEIR PRANK HAS AFFECTED OTHERS....THEY CUT THE WIRE SO THEY COULD NOT USE IT EVEN WITHOUT MASSIVE REPAIRS AND THEY WENT TO SO MUCH TROUBLE TO REMOVE IT AS IT WAS TIED TO A STAKE TO HELP PREVENT THIS.

I WON'T BE GETTING ANOTHER AND WILL THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT DISPLAYS NEXT YEAR AS WE HAVE ALREADY HAD A WOODEN ELF STOLEN THIS YEAR ALSO.
MAYBE NEXT YEAR ...NO DISPLAY, LET'S WRECK IT FOR EVERYONE EH??

PS: And we just discovered they took the "Santa please stop here" light and a neighbors deer all were cut and are useless to any one really...senseless, just senseless

Meme,Meme,Meme,Meme

Another meme...Thanks to Brian
The rules for this particular meme are as follows:

Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot. Easy, no?


1. Vince
2. Spider
3. Mr. Secret, Woe
4. Mr. Brian
5. Supamum

Then you get to select five people to pass the love on to. This is the best part. Check the following blogs in the next day or two to see what they have to say about me and my meme.

1. Goddess
2. singlemom
3. Danielle
4. FoxyBrown
5. Supermom

(note: I hardly know anyone who like these and have made ironclad promises not to tag some bloggers ever ever again...So I used some of the friends of Brian and Jamie, hope you don't mind.

So here we go......

What were you doing 10 years ago?
December 1995 sans kids, working out of Canberra 14 plus hours a day. Looked in my diary and found I was on a 1430 flight back to Melbourne in the 19th December. Then probably went out to an all night shopping centre to shop at midnight and get the Christmas shopping done.

What were you doing 1 year ago?
Still unpacking after moving on the 10th, trying to Christmas shop, unpack and do the Christmas thing.

Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Chips.
2. Chocolate
3. Fruit
4. Twisties
5. Fruit


Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
1. "Two Outta Three Ain't Bad" Meatloaf
2. "Copperhead Road"
3. "Evie..Part 1,2,and 3" Stevie Wright and new version by The Wrights
4. "Met Me By the River" Melissa Etherridge
5. Anything from Grease

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1. Pay off our house
2. Pay of friends houses
3. Buy 2nd car
4. Put money into trust for childrens educations and support whilst studying
5. Do same for friends children

...all in that order.

Five bad habits:
1. Drinking Coke
2. Being right...You know I am ALWAYS right
3. Speaking before I think
4. Being too much of a friend to everyone
5. Drinking too much Coke

Five things you like doing:
1. Cooking
2. Sleeping...Like I ever get to do that as much as I'd like
3. Going to the gym
4. Training the new pup
5. Doing stuff with the kids

Five things you would never wear again:
1. Ski overalls...Warm but not a good look
2. Ugg boots...When they were in the first time ..NOT NOW PEOPLE
3. Tights with clogs
4. a wedding dress ( hahahahah)
5. Anything my sister in law buys me

Five favorite toys:
1. PC
2. Mobile phone
3. Hot Wheels
4. Polly Pocket
5. Tamagotchi (still going)


So there you are, if you got tagged ( I'm sorry) but its ok if you don't wish to participate and share

Almost years end and a boy has grown............

I have been remiss and placing meme's on my posts instead of saying stuff...Its just I have sooooo much to say and meme's were nice and easy, plus I do have a love affair with them and cannot help myself if I find one or am tagged for one.

2005 is coming to a close and Christmas is upon us. Mr 5 had his kindergarten pageant the other day and he was one of the three wise men and looked very WISE indeed. The teachers did a wonderful job with the kids for the concert and the kids loved the "chacha cha" song. I watched him as he and the other wise men we're prompted by the kinder assistant to take their places, as he happily joined in the singing of the "chachacha" song but not the other songs. I watched him as he took his cues from one of the aides as to where he was to sit and what he was to do. I watched as my little boy tried to keep up with the actions of the song he so dearly loved and as he did a bloody good job of it too and I cried.

I cried for all the seemingly insurmountable hurdles I recognised which we have almost overcome, I cried for the fact that his innocence once did not allow him to know he was not as able as other children and that innocence is lost now, I cried because I realise the vast differences in my children as Mr 3 has the speech ability now that Mr 5 currently has. I cried for all the struggles he has had to contend with just to make himself understood. For all the struggles yet to come. Most of all I cried because he is at a stage I was once told he would not attain...That of speaking almost coherently, being able to sit and socialise, and about to attend mainstream school.

He may not be able to speak fluently as you and I know it to be, but in the world of children he manages to make his ideas clear enough for others to follow. I was told he may never be able to have fully comprehensible speech...Well, we will prove them wrong for on the day he graduates Grade Six in 2011 he will read the graduation poem I wrote for the Grade Sixs at the school. This decision is usually left up to the Grade sixs to decide but I will "pull rank" as the author and ask that he read it that year.

I have seen him grow into a little boy who loves Buzz, StarWars, "cool" cars, and who tries hard to instigate play with others, I am glad in a way that none of the children he went to kinder with are attending school with him; yet it is sad. He has a wonderful support network at school with some older boys who often play with him at school and have asked about his speech and behavior and have shown great understanding and patience with him...For them I am very grateful. He also has some siblings of his sisters friends who are in the same class as him next year and he knows these children too. He is my "Sausage Chops" who is now a "big school boy", he has been a constant wonder this year to myself, his therapists, teachers and family and I can only hope that he continues to grow and in growing, to learn.

Guilty or Innocent

Thanks to Brian to forfilling my "hit" of this weeks meme's, I really think I need MA (memes anon.)


The Meme:

Guilty or Innocent?

Singing in the shower?
Guilty...Only the kids know and they aren't telling anyone (oh oh what have I said??)

Left the stove on?
Innocent....Too anal retentive not to check it 10 times after finishing dinner

Ate Stolen food?
Innocent...At least I didn't steal it, I might have and not known it was stolen I suppose

Spit in someone's Drink?
Innocent....Why would you do that anyway??

Stole Something from a friend?
Innocent....never in a million years

Bossed your friends around?
Guilty....I am the boss of everything, you know

Played w/ Barbies?
Never had them as a child but have partaken in the odd tea party at Barbies with my daughter and run them over with tractors with the boys ( they deserve it you know) GUILTY

Sang the wrong words to your favorite song?
Guilty....Always and forever

Lit candles & let wax run all down your desk?
Innocent...No that would be messy and the kids would get to it

Kissed your posters of your favorite stars?
Guilty...You know if you kissed Woody's (Bay City Rollers)pic often enough he'd fall in love with you..you know that's true, don''t you?

Listened to stupid music & said you like it?
Innocent...If its crap, I will say its crap

Had sex w/ a stranger?
Pleading the 5th amendment here, refusal to comment on the grounds it may incriminate myself and/or others

Did a Wrestling move on someone?
Guilty....a girl has to protect herself some how

Had a Tonka or Barbie toy?
Guilty, never Barbie played with my brothers Tonkas though

Gave a surprise party for someone?
Guilty....Always for 2IC, I love surprises for others

Made someone cry?
Guilty....Do 3 year olds count??

Had the balls to ask someone out?
Guilty....I am very forward

Opened your Christmas presents early?
Guilty....What kid doesn't?

Ever been caught doing something "dirty"?
Guilty....But it wasn't my fault, it was all his fault..Yeah yeah yeah

Found money & didn't turn it in?
Guilty....No name on it. But wallets and purses get turned in EVERY time.

Gave money to a homeless person?
Guilty...Yes, I know some of them are frauds, but who am I to judge and decide?

Sang cheesy 80's songs?
Guilty....They are the best

Dug for buried treasure?
Guilty....Who hasn't?

Thought Star Wars was cool?
Innocent....Its not Star Trek but the boys are into it thanks to Daddy

Had a super-hero costume?
Guilty....mum made me an Ocean boy costume because I wanted one.

Still sleep w/ your baby blanket?
Innocent.

Told a family member to fuck off?
Guilty...I really love my little brother

Lied to protect a friend?
Guilty....It was for a good reason , really

Broken a bone?
Guilty....To many to list.

Got lost in your own little world?
Guilty....What were you saying?

Seen "The Goonies" more than 10 times?
Innocent....I hated it

Played a Video game for more than 5 hours?
Innocent....Can think of 100 better things to do

Watched "Scream" and actually Screamed?
Innocent...I don't like scary movies

Dyed your hair a color from the rainbow?
Guilty....Pink, green, blue and magenta (all at different times of course)

Hugged your mom in the past 24 hours?
Innocent....I wish every day that I could hug her again

Drunk until you passed out?
Guilty...If falling asleep counts as passing out

Fought over a boy/girl?
Innocent....Why bother??

Holiday Meme

Thanks again to Jamie for this meme, I wonder if there is such a thing as meme addiction.......
I did change Q7 for the warmer climes.
The Holiday Ten

Instructions: Copy and paste the questions to your blog (with your answers, not mine).

One. What is your favorite holiday movie?
Christmas with the Kranks and Miracle On 34th Street

Two. What is your favorite holiday song (title and artist)?
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band version (LIVE)

Three. What was the best holiday gift you were ever given, and why?
My claddagh ring, it represents my heritage but also the loyalty, friendship and love I share with 2IC

Four. Do you have a special someone to kiss at the stroke of midnight on New Year Eve?
I have four of them...hahahhah

Five. Name of your favorite reindeer?
Vixen.Because I think she'd be a real shit stirrer

Six. Favorite Holiday food?
Ice cream Christmas pudding, BBQ anything

Seven. Warm sunny day- lay outside, read a new book or get into the jobs you had'nt time for before?
Bit of both

Eight. What was your New Year Years resolution for this year? Did you stick to it?
Stop drinking so much Coke. NO way!!!

Nine. Is there really a Santa Claus?
In every heart of every person they know there is. Anyway if you don't believe, he doesn't' come to you.

Ten. Present, or stocking stuffer?
Both I am very greedy!!!

A puppy is a boys best friend, especially in a world where you feel you have no voice....... 

Here I am AGAIN!!!

Sorry been busy folks...What's new?, who isn't? And who cares? You say...Well if you said the last comment you can leave the room now, go on, you are not wanted here with your swarmy comments..Have they gone? Good. Nasty little piece that one, not needed here at all!!

Now to continue I have been busy, we went to Portland in Saturday because the PUPPY was ready to come home!!!!* cheers, applause and standing ovation* And we stayed at a FANTASTIC place called Trewalla Springs Farm which is just out towards Cape Bridgewater. The farms house is circa 1850;s and the owners live there we stayed in the school house which still has the black boards and is just great. They have ostriches ( Zambia is a bit agro but fun to watch) emus, Clydesdayles, shetlands, ducks, geese, dogs, deer and the children can feed them all (except Zambia who's agro) they even hitch up the shetland to a jinker and take the kids for rides..Its grand and as far as costs go very very reasonable...So if you've children and are headed that way visit Marilyn and Neill...Oh and Marilyn just happens top be a intergration aide a the local school so we had lots to discuss about special needs kids.

The pup is GREAT and slept most of the way home on Sunday, he is very smart and has take to the family as if he has always been here, Jemma , our other dog has welcomed him and will tolerate his puppy antics until a point ( fair enough) then tells him to be on his way and he takes note and goes to find something else to pester....Like a tree or the swing usually something bigger than him. We have called him Lawson, after Henry Lawson, his full title is something like Cutlers Lawson Silhouette or such.

Profile of Cutlers Lawson
LIKES: eating, running at glass doors, eating children shoes
DISLIKES: nothing yet has no fear instinct yet
TURN ONS: food, food, my squeaky dumb bell
TURN OFFS: the big dog who lives here who won't play all the time, that they don't have Puppy Pal bites on supply 24/7 here
My wish for the world:what"s a world??

What I have done (or have'nt)

Now I love meme's but no one else (about town) really seems to and I am on my word not to tag SOME people EVER again, so if you wanna, join feel free( yeah, like any one about here will ) Thanks to Brian again for sharing


I . . .
(x) smoked a cigarette
( ) crashed a friend's car
(x) Got drunk with a good friend
( ) stolen a car
(x) been in love
(x) been dumped
( ) shoplifted
(x) been fired
(x) been in a fist fight
(x) snuck out of your parent's house

( ) been arrested (may be/ maybe not)
( ) gone on a blind date
(x) skipped school
(x) seen someone die
( ) been to Canada
( ) been to Mexico
(x) been on a plane
( ) purposely set a part of yourself on fire
( ) eaten Sushi
(x) been skiing.. snowboarding

(x) been moshing at a concert
(x) taken painkillers
(x) love someone or miss someone right now
(x) lain on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping
(x) played dress up
(x) jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) gone sledding

(x) cheated while playing a game
(x) been lonely
(x) fallen asleep at work/school
( ) used a fake id(maybe/maybe not)
(X) watched the sun set
(x ) felt an earthquake/tremor
(x) touched a snake
(X ) slept beneath the stars
(x) been tickled
(x ) been robbed
(x) been misunderstood

(x) pet a reindeer/goat
(x) won a contest
(x) run a red light
(x ) been suspended from school
(x) been in a car crash
(x ) had braces
(x) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had deja vu
(x) danced in the moonlight
(x) liked the way you look
(x) witnessed a crime

(X) questioned your heart
( ) been obsessed with post-it notes
(X) squished barefoot through the mud
(X) been lost
( ) been to the opposite side of the country
(x ) swum in the ocean
(X) felt like dying
(X) cried yourself to sleep
(X) played cops and robbers
(x) recently colored with crayons
(X) sung karaoke

(x ) paid for a meal with only coins
(X) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x ) made prank phone calls
(X) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(X) caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) danced in the rain
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus
( ) been kissed under a mistletoe
(x ) watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(x) blown bubbles
(x ) made a bonfire on the beach

(x) crashed a party
(x) gone roller-skating
(x) had a wish come true
( ) worn pearls
( ) jumped off a bridge
( ) ate dog/cat food
(x ) told a complete stranger you loved them
( ) kissed a mirror
(X) sung in the shower
( ) had a dream that you married someone
(x ) glued your hand to something

( ) got your tongue stuck to a flag pole
( ) kissed a fish
(x) sat on a roof top
(x) screamed at the top of your lungs
( ) done a one-handed cartwheel
() talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
(x) stayed up all night
( ) didn't take a shower for a week
(x) pick and ate an apple right off the tree
(x) climbed a tree
(x ) had a tree house
(x) are scared to watch scary movies alone (or at all)

(x) believe in ghosts
( ) have more then 30 pairs of shoes
( ) worn a really ugly outfit to school just to see what others say
( ) gone streaking
(x ) gone doorbell ditching
( ) played chicken
(x ) jumped into a pool/hot tub/lake with all your clothes on
(x) been told you're hot by a complete stranger
(x) broken a bone
(x) been easily amused
() caught a fish then ate it (but I cooked it before eating it)

(x) caught a butterfly
(x) laughed so hard you cried
(x) cried so hard you laughed
(x) cheated on a test
( ) have a Britney Spears CD -
(x) forgotten someone's name
( ) French braided someone's hair
(x ) gone skinny dipping in a pool
() been threatened to be kicked out of your house
( ) been kicked out your house
() have had a fantasy over someone you love as a good friend
(x ) sun tanned naked(topless actually )
( ) ran naked in the rain
Well that's more about me, happy reading and don't forget to wash the windows!!

Puppies...............................................

Puppies..........this is Pup, he has no name yet. Ain't he cute. He's only three weeks old here. woof woof woof

Equal representation = true representation

Local elections are all over bar the shouting, we voted, we decided, we overcame. After years of an inequitable situation where the "representation" of women in the community was left up to the nuances of MEN...We now have not ONE but TWO female representatives on Council. Well done to Ann Potter (Jackson Ward) and Moya White (Aitken Ward)!!!

The concept of real independent, representation stems not from the ideal of non alignment with party polices or guidelines but from the representative taking an advocating role for groups and individuals as well as a spokesperson and representative role for the community who elected them. This is not to say that every little upset and dispute can be solved by the Councillor, but that people have a sounding board who can often explain processes and assist in minimising later problems in the matter. Many people do not realise that Crs have NO control over Council employees. Having female representative allows for accessiblity to a wider part of the community who may not have spoken out before or felt they had true representation.

Councillors who attempt to push their own issues in the guise of the communities issues have a mistaken understanding of their role as a REPRESENTATIVE. The use of a public office, be it local, State or Federal, for the grandstanding and pushing of ones personal agenda is an abuse of the faith placed in a person by the electorate.

I , for one, am glad we now have more women on Council..I'd like to see more but I think it is an unenviable position to take on the role as advocate and spokesperson for so many people with diverse opinions. But I am grateful to those who do, they represent the mother, the female form, and often the voice of reason, they offer another view, another opinion that is not dominated by a tetstorone generated pissing contest.
** With apologies to all my male readers.

I played with Lego...........

I spent yesterday morning on "fruit duty" that's "Claytons fruit duty" , the fruit duty you do when there is no fruit...But I digress. I was on duty at Mr5's kinder which means Mr 3 gets to be a big boy and attend also. I love fruit duty...This is shitting me... Let's call it kinder duty OK?? Like I said, I love kinder duty as it gives me an opportunity to watch Mr 5 in an environment outside of his control ( the kids are not additional needs and all speak well , apart for the two other additional needs kids there) to watch him communicate his needs and ideas to other and how they react and reciprocate (or not).

There is a new Lego set called "Action Man" which has propellers, wingsets, wheels and cockpits for construction of flying machines and space ship which George Lucas will never ,ever think of. Do you think I can find this set of Lego any where...Of course not!!!! It was amazing, the Lego set has been available for play during free time for weeks and all the kids gravitate to it, good thing they have quite a few sets or there'd be trouble. The concepts that these minds come up with and what they put on the "ships' is just beyond comprehension...Their minds are like blank paper and along comes an instrument of creation like a pen and a masterpiece is created. It was wondrous to watch and when asked to build something I could come no where near to the masterpieces these kids created.

I watched and helped some girls cut and paste some balls for a juggling clown, listened to them chatter and chatted with them...One is going to Italy on a cruise for a holiday at Christmas, she tells me...I was later told by the teacher this is a fib and she is only saying it because her friend did go on a cruise to Italy. One upmanship and competiveness starts at 4 it seems.

I was involved in a conspiracy to hide one of the teachers shoes, I built a landing pad with wooden blocks for a the spaceships, I painted funny pictures whilst they ate their snacks, I played with play dough, made cakes and pizzas and "ate" them, I coloured, read ,painted and kicked, climbed the fort (one child would not leave it when it was time to go back into the classroom) I had a ball...dunno about the kids but I had fun.