Classic - FatAussie Blog

Surfing the net tonight, I found a new blog called "FatAussie" which has some good posts on it and I highly recommend it...

In particular, this made me laugh harder than anything else in ages!!

Dealing With Girls...

At the moment, seems as though some of the girls at my daughters school have had a sudden influx of Estrogen as there has been a small spate of bitchy behaviour...

 

Whilst Niki has to deal with our girls being a bit teary and having to mediate (and it turns out the offender has been giving alot of girls a hard time) I have been putting it down to "kids (namely girls) being girls"...  Boys will punch each other, girls will be nasty to each other... its the way of the world it seems.

 

One comment that got my little Brooke upset was that this girl called her "fat".  Now for those who know Brooke, she is far from fat and despite her Dad being a tad soft round the middle, she and her big sister are fit, athletic kids who dance and do acrobats and run and skip and all the other things that fit active kids do.  She is in fact short for her age but can do cartwheels, splits and the like.  She is a million miles away from being fat.

 

Then I read this article and it really alarms me.  They're pointing to 11 year olds wanting cosmetic surgery and developing anorexia!  Seriously I am sure that when I was 11, anorexia and weight obsession weren't around in our age group.  Kids were kids.  Sure some were fat and some were skinny, but no one got hung up to the extent of anorexia!

 

This is an issue that has worried me for a while and I am so happy my girls are healthy and eat well, but the last thing I want is for them to go the other way and develop such an issue.

 

But surely I can't blame the 8yr old girl at the school who called Brooke fat... she probably only has that notion in her head due to her exposure to either a weight obsessive family member, or the subliminal advertising that promotes stick thin as beautiful.

 

I cannot fathom this notion that looking like an Auschwitz survivor is beautiful?  In fact I am sure 99% of men would agree.  So if it isnt men pushing Size 6 and less as "the body beautiful" then who is?  Ladies, wake up to yourselves!

USA / Australia Love In... plus some other "asian" types....

Perused the morning news... more chatter about Security and GWB's arrival today.  Yes, he is the President of the United States, but lets not forget there are another dozen or so world leaders here this week.  What is the Chinese Premier / President / Dictator (???) thinking?  Is he ready to talk about environment and import / export treaties?  Given that China is about to overtake the US (if they already havent) as the #1 economy in the world, shouldnt Johnny Howard be talking to him more than the red-neck hack from Texas?

 

GWB is on the way out and his party probably wont be relected... so why are we fettering him with goodwill and love when really we should relegate him to the back row and be more up front with our Asian neighbours.  Oh thats right, its because they're "yella" and we dont like their slanty eyes!  Oh, I forgot that Johnny is a closet racist and condones One Nation philosophy.

 

"If they dont look like us, then they're not one of us"

 

Thank God that the Middle East nations arent part of APEC... imagine the hysteria then!

 

Oh, and can the owner(s) of the 9 rocket launchers in Sydney please make their way to the nearest police station for questioning.

 

Thank you.

Great News

One of my old mates from school emailed around this afternoon to say that he is (well his girlfriend is) expecting a baby!

Well done Gools!!

Unfortunately Gools lives in Brisbane, so now I will have a reason to go up there with Niki & the Girls. Watch out mate, there is going to be a trampling herd of people from Sydney coming up now mate!!

Well done!

One question though... did you take off the Captain Chaos mask when the deed was done?

APEC - Is it really all that necessary

APEC has started.... the Great Wall of Sydney is up...  Is it really such a big deal?  What are the world leaders discussing?  Is there an agenda or a statement of what is to be discussed?

All I seem to hear is either a) traffic chaos or b) what will they wear?  Why isnt anyone asking "What the fark are you guys going to resolve??"

 

Personally, am glad I am now at Nth Sydney!

Fathers Day Wrap

Had a great day yesterday... was able to sleep in until nearly 9am yesterday before Niki and the girls burst in bearing gifts!  The girls had been shopping at the Fathers Day stall at school and I got a coffee cup "Worlds Greatest Dad" full of lollies and a CD case to put my downloaded music in.  Also they had been on a creative spurt and made a whole range of cards and pictures for me... they're the best bit I think, when the girls draw things in their own way from their own perspective.  Which is why one of Brookie's pictures was so funny (and a little worrying).  She drew a TV and the back of the lounge and above the back of the lounge was the back of my head - spiky hair and big ears... very funny, but I am a bit disconcerted that she sees me as a head above a lounge chair!  LOL!

 

I also got a new soft leather work bag.  One of those soft leather brief case things, but with a shoulder strap.  Very nice indeed and I took it to work today.  It even has extra padding in it for laptops as well.  It will get plenty of use!

 

Then after the pressies, it was off to the Mountain Blue Cafe where we had a big breakfast.  I had the "Monster Breakfast" (which wasnt the biggest brekkie on the menu despite its name) but it was big enough with fried eggs, a sausage, bacon, baked beans and a hash brown all on thick white toast.  That went well with a big coffee.  mmmm!

 

By then it was nearly 11am and the girls had to go to a birthday party for one of Brooke's friends so I went home to the house for myself and I lazed the morning away... I did some miniature painting and some web surfing before the Saints game came on Fox at 2pm.  Watched Saints put in another botchy performance to finally end the season at 13th place.  The girls had come home during this and they had to clean up and we went to Mum & Dad's for dinner.

 

That was fun with Pizza's and wine and we sat around the table with Mum & Dad and my sister, her husband and 1yr old and it was a really good night.  Gave Dad his present (which was a digital photo frame, and he did read yesterdays post) and skimmed thru some of the photos from their world trip last month.

 

Home at 11pm where we crashed out... the kids are probably really tired today, but they were still asleep when I left this morning...

 

All in all, an excellent Fathers Day!

Fathers Day Weekend...

Made it back from Canberra in one piece... it was kinda cool to drive down to the ACT for the day, driving with the stereo up and just with my own thoughts... I cruised on 120km/h and did the trip in an 2 1/4 hrs...  The weather was great and Lake George was, as it always is for me, a mysterious site.  Spent 2hrs in a meeting and then of course drove back...

But as I sit here tonight, the house is quiet, Niki has just gone to bed exhausted after cooking up a huge Thai meal for her family - all up 17 people - and the girls have promised to a) give me a big sleep in and b) wake me up early to give me presents!  lol.  I think I know which option they will take!

The plan tomorrow is to let me be lazy but we'll head over to Glenbrook for a country breakfast at one of the local cafes and then of all things, Brooke has a classmates birthday party to attend between 11am - 2pm... On a Sunday too, let alone Fathers Day! (sinners!)

Niki will take Kate to the party as well as it's at Wascoe Siding and I will have the house to myself... and my geeky pursuits!  I will try and get my online Blood Bowl league game played and I might undercoat some miniatures as well!!  I also have to keep painting the Orcs I promised my mate Noyz... I will avoid the footy shows though on tele as I am already sick of the Andrew Johns saga... but my quick view on that matter is that whilst it is very sad that anyone uses drugs, the real issue is that such a player could continue playing for so long with a habit.  Why wasnt he busted by the drug testers long ago??  I want the investigation to happen into why the holes in the drug testing net seem huge at the moment and less rhetoric on the poor sob story of Andrew Johns...

Anyways, the day will be very lazy and then its off to Dad's place wish him a Happy Fathers day as well... and I wont say what I got him because he's probably one of the three readers who will read this on a Sunday morning ;-)

Happy Fathers Day Dad!