Tis The Season To Be Jolly...

Christmas was...what, a few days ago or something? *Searches for a calendar* Ok Five days ago. I got lots of clothes, beach bag, ankelet, deodearants and very spunky watch. Oh chocolates too cos people love me.

But I stay firm on not liking the christmas season. I.Am.Always.Miserable.

This year: Giant bug bite on my leg causing me to be in hospital for a week therefore I couldnt swim. Everyone we visited had a pool. I got left out. So not cool. Totally. I felt sick for the whole day as well due to the tablets I was on and I couldn't move my right arm because the vein had become swollen from overuse on a drip. So you can imagine I had a lovely day...

But! I enjoy the holiday, seeing all my friends *sorta* if they're arent on holidays, sleeping in, staying up late and doing anything I want. Awesome. Today is new years eve and Zoe and Sarah and other ppls are coming over to celevbrate with me. Vodka anyone?

Question: WTF can't I get on SC?? *Angry*

Reality Check "December Edition"

Ok, no November edition I know...but I suck at deadlines!

December 2004 issue

R e a l i t y C h e c k

What’s so funny anyway?


“Jokes are a fact of life. They are everywhere. Some are good, some are bad, most are funny. But when you direct a joke at someone else…are you really just ‘poking fun’? And can you handle the heat?”



What would life be like without humor? Try to imagine a place where no one laughs at each others jokes. Horrible. And what’s a good joke without a little bit of an offensive edge to it? Lame. More than often we direct our humor at other people. Whether it be offensive or just plain funny, even a sarcastic remark. You laugh. They laugh. Everyone’s happy.

Some people though, take it too literally.

Three girls. Jane, Roxy and Sarah. Roxy was sitting next to Jane. Sarah walks up to Jane, a grin on her face, and suddenly sprays Jane in the face with water from her mouth. While Jane is clearly upset, Roxy tells Sarah to apologize. Sarah says, “No it’s not my fault she can’t take a joke” And walks off. Days go by and Jane decides to play a joke on Sarah, so she imitates the same joke and sprays Sarah with water! Of course Sarah doesn’t like this and goes crazy, yelling and ranting on about how rude Jane is and how it’s ‘so not funny’. So if Sarah didn’t think it was funny when Jane did it to her, then why was it funny when Sarah did it to Jane?

“Bloody stupid, really” Says Brad Jones. “They just don’t get it” Brad tells us of a time where an incident occurred.

“Just some chicks. One of them poured juice on someone, and oh boy it smelt bad! But it was all fun and games until one of them lost an eye…no just joking. Someone poured juice on another one of the chicks and let’s just say that they went nuts! She took it pretty bad”

“I think they’re extremely hypocritical” Commented Daniel Swetman, “Very insecure and to be honest, not as intelligent as the ones around them”

It happens all the time. No one can say it’s not a problem. It’s natural for us to tease each other, about height, hair or just something they did. It even occurs when someone calls you a ‘bitch’ in humor. We all laugh. No one gets hurt because behind it all, there is no malice and no intentions to cause hurt. So why do we just constantly piss each other off all the time? Where is that fine line?

To tell the truth, there is no line.

It all depends on who you are talking to and as a friend you should know the limits.

Imagine someone took your cd out of the cd player and put theirs in. Yeah, you’re ok with it. We all get ours turns. But when you do the same thing, they go off their head! Saying how dare you take off their ‘favorite song’ like that. Ever had it happen? Most of us have. Ever heard the saying, ‘Treat someone how you want to be treated’. That applies to this. You wouldn’t want someone taking off your cd so don’t do it to them! Easier said then done right? Old habits die hard.

Amelia used to scare everyone everyday. She’d sneak up to them and shout their name while grabbing their waist. It got some pretty good scares. After a while people got sick of it though and complained so she stopped. Yet they decided to have a subtle retaliation. Someone grabbed her waist, yelled her name and completely freaked her out. Of course Amelia went off her head yelling and saying how mean it is to just walk up and do that. Oh yeah, smiles all round.

So here’s the rule, the golden rule:

If you say something or do something hurtful to someone else, even if it’s out of good fun, expect to be bitten back and of you cant handle it - don’t do anything in the first place.

You don’t have the right.

Hospital food R E A L L Y sucks...

Ugh, just came back from staying a few days or so in hospital. Again.

Two years ago I spent a week in hospital at Christmas time, with the same bloody thing wrong with me. It sucks, I tell ya. Really. Bitten by something and it went all red and horrible so I had to go on a drip. Drip...drip...drip. Four injections a day. Yeouch. My first drip 'tissued' so they swapped it to the other hand. And then that one went all wonky too so now I'm at home on tablets. Yeeehaaw! But my arms are really sore. Like...really. And they gave me green soup and old salad to eat! The only decent thing I ate in there was some chicken stroganoff and they only have me SPOONFULL! Bloody oath!

I'm listening to 'I was only 19' by Redgums. Tee-hee.
Toodles.