the smoko thing

I agree with what Tina said. i know its old news, but you know me i can't let it go till i get my 5cents out there! Here's the link for Tina's post
here's the link for the news story

A YEAR 10 student has been given permission to take cigarette breaks while at school because her doctor says she is clinically addicted to nicotine. Tara Lewis, 16, who smokes as much as a packet a day, is allowed to smoke between classes to relieve the "stress'' of her Year 10 studies.

1) All smokers are actually drug addicts!
2) The news article said she was cranky if she missed her cigarettes! yes because her body is craving nicotine!
3) She is under age, whoever is supplying her habit should be fined!
4) She is only 16 and still considered a 'minor', her parents and school should get a talking to for not acting in her best interest!
5) Allowing her to be above the law and smoking just coz she is addicted may lead her to think she can do other unlawful things and get away with it
6) Truly smoking should be banned fullstop! Smoking is not safer than ecstasy, GHB, speed, heroin! Its just as bad!!!! (the only reason it isn't is because they make alot of money in which they donate to government bodies, governments may or may not receive a $$ from taxes on cigarettes)
7) surely the 16 year old should quit so she can think! I remember my 1st 1/2 of a cigarettes (a menthol) i came back to class and my head was spinning. (i would have been 18) i couldn't focus at all. so if the focus is to keep her in school, then shouldn't it be for good grades and not poor ones? i can look back at it now and see the trouble makers and usual smokers at my school were not the ones gettin awards and high grades!
8) she should accept that its ok to be stressed and cranky (smoking for stress relief) and that she shouldn't try to fix her problems with cigarettes.

Tara's mother said she had started rewarding Tara with just six cigarettes a day if she did chores and behaved at school.

"It's not like I want my kid to smoke. I've done everything to get her to stop it, so if I can control it and say 'when you can have a cigarette, you do chores', that might help.

I'm sorry but all i can think of is the bad side of this, so often you hear about desperate drug addicts that prostitute themselves for the drug. I know the mother is trying to get her to stop by using the 'oh u can have one, AFTER YOU CLEAN YOUR ROOM' tactic that alot of parents use (however not for cigarettes) but seriously!!
sure quitting is a absolute bitch-of-a-time for anyone! but IT can be done... its an awful addiction for anyone... let alone a 16year old or any child still developing! or for anyone still living! HA!

Bindeez toy recalled over drug fears

19-month-old boy was in a Queensland hospital after ingesting a toy that was today banned interstate.

Bindeez have been found to contain a chemical that converts into the toxic illegal drug GHB, also known as fantasy, when ingested.

The toy has been banned across the country today.

A Queensland ambulance spokesman said the boy was taken to St Vincent's Hospital at Toowoomba this morning after falling ill, and would be transported to the Mater hospital this afternoon.

The boy's grandfather told ABC Radio in Sydney his grandson fell unconscious after swallowing some of the beads.

"We've just heard from my daughter in Toowoomba that her two-year-old son has just swallowed some of those beads - just recently, I don't know whether it was today or yesterday,'' said the man, identified only as Nick.

He said his grandson was being taken to Brisbane for treatment.

"Apparently he's unconscious,'' he said.

Banned interstate

Chinese-made Bindeez, which won the 2007 Australian Toy of the Year award at the Melbourne Toy and Hobby fair, contains hundreds of beads which can induce seizures, drowsiness or a coma if eaten.

Two children in New South Wales, a two-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl, have been admitted to hospital in the past ten days after eating the beads leading the toy's banning in that state.

Today the toy was also banned in South Australia.

story from here

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Can you believe it? I certainly can't and that toy looked somewhat interesting to me when i saw the ads on tv, but i didnt get it for tia (BECAUSE THEY LOOK LIKE LITTLE PIECES OF CANDY!)

another blow to china! (what were they thinking?!!!)

Jelly blubbers

While showing my brother the beach (which he thought when i mentioned it was a bus or train trip away, not the actual 5 mins walk from the shops & 2 mins walk behind maccas)
We found 2-4 big jellyfish washed on shore and a jelly blubber.
A jelly fish looks like a jellyfish and the jelly blubbers look like horeshoe shaped pieces of clear jelly. I wish i could find some wikipedia page on them, surely theres a name for them other than 'jelly blubbers'.

Sonic manipulator

So i actually got around to putting my first video together.
We bought combustion from a friend and its a awesome video editing software only i dont know how to use it, DH knows a bit.
So i just used windows movie maker. ^^
I have a few more to do! and re-do the ones i already have on youtube (mostly with tia being hard to understand or just being weird.)
This was taken on my last overnight trip to the city with DH & DD.
He has his own website also

getting behind in my photos!

So i said i hadn't cooked in like 3 days? or more..
these were taken last month. =D so they are old, but still yummy.
1) roast beef, potatoes & carrots.

2) Chocolate self sauce pudding (i always mix with the recipe so i get more cake and less sauce and i also put more cocoa so it doesnt just taste like brown sugar & water glue!

3) Tiramisu= coffee, chocolate, biscuit, macarpone & cream YUM!
We have My grandparents visiting from canberra tomorrow, so Tia will get to spend some time with her great grandparents! So thats what we will be doing on melbourne cup day!
Im not into gambling, and not interested in melbourne cup day other than its a public holiday down here! YAY!!! (my mum joked that since my brother had visited for a few days, then my grandparents that they would come down and visit for the rest of the week! LOL!)

so you think you can dance?

Thanks Maria for sharing the dancing jib jab vids with me! haha!
I made a few and then signed up and then realized that they hadn't actually somehow saved them for later use after i accidentally closed the tab. ah well!

I watched so u think you can dance this week, and all the ads leading up to the episode it was 'ooh what makes the audience walk out! tune in to see' So it was right at the end and then right when it was about to happen our digital tv (on all stations) went all crappy, jerky and stuff... and then when it came to the elimination and my faves pasha and lauren? got booted.. so anyways im guessing the audience boo-ed and left coz they were told to leave?

I think i can safely say that i can start eating healthy again, with my brother down our meals were: pizza, macdonalds, kfc, hungry jacks, churros (the 5 food groups) He said the stay was 'interesting'. We shouted him a stay at the batmans hill on collins hotel, (which is very nice inside) due to melbourne cup the cheap hotels (formule 1) had increased from $79 & $89 to $129 & $139! so a twin room at batmans hill was $145.. not bad. ;) at least he has a fridge unlike formule 1 rooms where its just shower, beds & toilets.
We went into the city and dropped him off at the hotel, showed him around a very empty city (saturday at 5pm not much open) then went back on the train and got home.

I like storms, (when im not alone) last night a big one hit around 2am. It was 6 seconds between lighting and thunder. the thunder that woke me up shook our windows!! yikes. (however Tia, slept thru it)

much to do

Been busy playing host, cleaning and playing video games, even volunteered some time to help out at DH work putting keyrings together (well in the assembly line i was putting them in bags) they didnt need any help i suppose but 2,000 keyrings to put together i thought i'd help out and talk to the new guys, DH and my brother.. one of the new guys is healthy looking and said he was doing body for life.. how interesting! ;) i think he was suprised at what i knew about the program. he said he had one of my brownies and wrote it down in his food diary! LOL! i proceeded to tell him exactly how evil it was 200g butter, 2 cups brown sugar.. etc
anyways i need to get some time and make some videos..


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