Well this man is an inspiration, I have never in my life heard anyone play the piano with such skill and then to top it off he has WS. I must say i was dissapointed by a fair few of the comments left with people saying he is silly for being stuck in a dead end job at disney and with such talant why doesnt he have a CD out?
I wish those people knew that he is actually probably in the best job anyone with WS could ask for having constant interaction with happy people and getting to play music all day (not to mention working at Disney would be so fun!) So, Jim i am proud of you, such extrodinary talant.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Short Fuse
Vent:
Im having one of those days, you know those days, The ones where all those little annoying quirks like repetitive questions and uncontrollable screaming because of god knows what build up and just end up pissing you off? Somedays i feel sad for those little difference, most days they are just life but today im not very nice to be around as those little differences are exactly what is making me want to pull my hair out and set fire to it too- i have been a yelling banshee who looks suited to some sort of Jerry Springer episode all morning. Augghh I need a break!
Im having one of those days, you know those days, The ones where all those little annoying quirks like repetitive questions and uncontrollable screaming because of god knows what build up and just end up pissing you off? Somedays i feel sad for those little difference, most days they are just life but today im not very nice to be around as those little differences are exactly what is making me want to pull my hair out and set fire to it too- i have been a yelling banshee who looks suited to some sort of Jerry Springer episode all morning. Augghh I need a break!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Tooth Fairy has joined the darkside...
Oh dear..
It appears that after my dear son Liam has lost his very first tooth, placed it carefully under a pillow the silly tooth fairy got distracted last night and TOTALLY forgot about this 5yr olds major life event until this morning...
I wake up to a very sad little face and the words "the tooth fairy took my tooth, but she didnt leave any money..."
OH CRAP!!
Thankfully the little zip lock bag containing said tooth had come undone during the night and subsequently spilled its contents somewhere within the depths of the bed sheets leaving some "magical-ness" intact but unfortunatly also the impression that the tooth fairy must have recently befriended the devil...
So whilst a rather upset child was consoled by his breakfast cereal, the sneaky toothfairy reappeared, snuck a small gold coin beneath the pillow and removed the missing fang from its secret location made a subtle suggestion that perhaps the child had not looked hard enough and perhaps like his shoes, that were in the wardrobe after all, some money will be exactly where it should be...
The tooth fairy also left the hair straightener on in the bathroom for several hours and miss-placed the camera cord for the computer
( i think she is becoming unreliable)
It appears that after my dear son Liam has lost his very first tooth, placed it carefully under a pillow the silly tooth fairy got distracted last night and TOTALLY forgot about this 5yr olds major life event until this morning...
I wake up to a very sad little face and the words "the tooth fairy took my tooth, but she didnt leave any money..."
OH CRAP!!
Thankfully the little zip lock bag containing said tooth had come undone during the night and subsequently spilled its contents somewhere within the depths of the bed sheets leaving some "magical-ness" intact but unfortunatly also the impression that the tooth fairy must have recently befriended the devil...
So whilst a rather upset child was consoled by his breakfast cereal, the sneaky toothfairy reappeared, snuck a small gold coin beneath the pillow and removed the missing fang from its secret location made a subtle suggestion that perhaps the child had not looked hard enough and perhaps like his shoes, that were in the wardrobe after all, some money will be exactly where it should be...
The tooth fairy also left the hair straightener on in the bathroom for several hours and miss-placed the camera cord for the computer
( i think she is becoming unreliable)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
I take it by the stream of HAZMAT response units, police cars and several fire trucks that have just exited my street that the emergancy is over, the roadblocks are lifted, people within the '200m exclusion zone' can re-enter their homes and life on the avenue will return to normal.
The excitement of the past 24hrs was the threat of an explosion, apparently one large enough to reduce the entire suburb to rubble.
First i knew of the whole event was chatting to my mother on the telephone and a fire truck whizzed past sirens a blazing, followed by a police car and another fire truck - hmm.. wonder what that is all about? approx 5 fire trucks and several police cars later i was getting curious all i could see peering up the street was a road block and a hell of a lot of flashing lights.
I went down to the school (about 500m in the other direction) to pick up Liam and an announcement came over the loudspeaker asking all children living in the following streets to assemble in the hall, after quizzing some of the other parents we were informed about a chemical spill on my street and a fire in a trailer... righto...
Picked up Liam and attempted to get home through the roadblocks and traffic jams and was lucky enough to be just outside of the no go area so while other people turned around in our driveway or parked their cars accross the road and abused police officers for not letting them go home, i sat with a hot coffee observing the commotion outside the lounge room window. When the news came on in the evening we learned that it wasnt actually a chemical spill but rather the threat of an explosion that was costing the government unthinkable sums of money in emergancy services, luckily there were no loud bangs and we went to sleep feeling fairly safe. This morning the road was STILL blocked off and fire truckes were STILL going up the road, the place looked like an emergancy services convention or something.
All in all an Anti Climax really, no explosions, no fatalities and only a small segment on the 6 o'clock local news. Apart from the annoyance of roadblocks and evacuations one wonders silently - exactly how long does it take pretty much Canberra's entire fire brigade and police force to put out a fire in a trailer anyway?
I suppose as it turned out, the act of extinguishing the fire was complicated some what by the two small bottles of explosive liquid located on the same trailer which was unfortunatly located next to two ginormous bottles of the same explosive substance...
The excitement of the past 24hrs was the threat of an explosion, apparently one large enough to reduce the entire suburb to rubble.
First i knew of the whole event was chatting to my mother on the telephone and a fire truck whizzed past sirens a blazing, followed by a police car and another fire truck - hmm.. wonder what that is all about? approx 5 fire trucks and several police cars later i was getting curious all i could see peering up the street was a road block and a hell of a lot of flashing lights.
I went down to the school (about 500m in the other direction) to pick up Liam and an announcement came over the loudspeaker asking all children living in the following streets to assemble in the hall, after quizzing some of the other parents we were informed about a chemical spill on my street and a fire in a trailer... righto...
Picked up Liam and attempted to get home through the roadblocks and traffic jams and was lucky enough to be just outside of the no go area so while other people turned around in our driveway or parked their cars accross the road and abused police officers for not letting them go home, i sat with a hot coffee observing the commotion outside the lounge room window. When the news came on in the evening we learned that it wasnt actually a chemical spill but rather the threat of an explosion that was costing the government unthinkable sums of money in emergancy services, luckily there were no loud bangs and we went to sleep feeling fairly safe. This morning the road was STILL blocked off and fire truckes were STILL going up the road, the place looked like an emergancy services convention or something.
All in all an Anti Climax really, no explosions, no fatalities and only a small segment on the 6 o'clock local news. Apart from the annoyance of roadblocks and evacuations one wonders silently - exactly how long does it take pretty much Canberra's entire fire brigade and police force to put out a fire in a trailer anyway?
I suppose as it turned out, the act of extinguishing the fire was complicated some what by the two small bottles of explosive liquid located on the same trailer which was unfortunatly located next to two ginormous bottles of the same explosive substance...
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Royal Celebrations
Its the Queens Birthday weekend and thankyou, Ms Elizabeth-The-Second for this monumentous occasion, i happen to live in the last state in Australia to allow the sale of small colourful explosives, all be it over a rather short period of two days a year, which then can be let off only between 5-9pm Saturday and Sunday.
Some friends came over and we decided to partake this year as the government is threatening to take away our annual right to blow things up next year,and much to our pleasent surprise, Jaiden only ran cowring into the house on one occasion and with exeption of some mild ear covering, seemed to thoroughly enjoy the whole event.
I sent my friend home with her intoxicated husband, grumpy exaughsted 5yr old and hungry newborn and was selfishly quite glad we held our final cracker night at my house and not hers.
Its now 11:53pm and i am sitting at the computer wishing i could fall in a heap on my bed and Sleeeeep. However as my rather intoxicated husband informed me moments before passing out fully clothed on that very bed i am so willfully thinking of:
"Youve gotta shtay uph and wahch the fiherr"
So i am casually observing whats left of a small bonfire incase a slight gust of wind directs it towards my pergola and reduces my house to ashes. Should really get a new battery for that smoke alarm...
I just finished my 4th cup of instant coffee in 45 minutes, unfortunatly it seems i am to far in the depths of caffine addiction for this to give me any sort of waking high and i must hope that the internet will contain enough interesting things to keep me mildly alert for probably another hour or so - i could end this sooner by walking out into the freezing cold and turning the iced up hose on the fire but i am much more comfortable inside, thank you very much and besides, i can catch up on the blogs i have been painfully neglecting of late...
Some friends came over and we decided to partake this year as the government is threatening to take away our annual right to blow things up next year,and much to our pleasent surprise, Jaiden only ran cowring into the house on one occasion and with exeption of some mild ear covering, seemed to thoroughly enjoy the whole event.
I sent my friend home with her intoxicated husband, grumpy exaughsted 5yr old and hungry newborn and was selfishly quite glad we held our final cracker night at my house and not hers.
Its now 11:53pm and i am sitting at the computer wishing i could fall in a heap on my bed and Sleeeeep. However as my rather intoxicated husband informed me moments before passing out fully clothed on that very bed i am so willfully thinking of:
"Youve gotta shtay uph and wahch the fiherr"
So i am casually observing whats left of a small bonfire incase a slight gust of wind directs it towards my pergola and reduces my house to ashes. Should really get a new battery for that smoke alarm...
I just finished my 4th cup of instant coffee in 45 minutes, unfortunatly it seems i am to far in the depths of caffine addiction for this to give me any sort of waking high and i must hope that the internet will contain enough interesting things to keep me mildly alert for probably another hour or so - i could end this sooner by walking out into the freezing cold and turning the iced up hose on the fire but i am much more comfortable inside, thank you very much and besides, i can catch up on the blogs i have been painfully neglecting of late...
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