|
|
Post by mazza on Jul 8, 2011 20:37:14 GMT 9.5
Shak
Giz is talking a lot of sense.
It is very easy to let things distract you and at the moment your studies have to come first. I’ve gone through 2 year 12s in the last three years (my two sons). Each of them had a goal and approached their studies with those goals in mind. If you know what you want for the future whatever that may be think it through carefully. Have you discussed a future career with anyone at school? Is there a career advisor or the like? I suppose you have already done this before you chose your subjects for year 12. Just imagine how proud everyone, including Anthony, will be when you pass with flying colours. Use that as a inspiration and a focus for your studies. Don’t waste energy trying to hate anyone. Loving people is much easier and far more rewarding.
I hope this helps.
|
|
shakattack
Phantom
What Kind of Fool Am I?...... Please don't answer that
Posts: 204
|
Post by shakattack on Jul 8, 2011 21:57:52 GMT 9.5
wow you guys are fantastic at motivational speeches, I think that may have been a major attraction in the first place, he was my inspiration to go into the performing arts, it may have been that I felt sometimes that it was too much about just him rather than the music or the stage. I haven't been allowed to do my own thing this year (perform) and so I guess im a bit lost and decided to blame him (sorry mate) I shouldn't do it but I get stressed easily and music is a way for me to escape and I could only do that when I went to the theatre this year to see him and as much as I love living in a country town it is hard to travel so I fell a bit left out. I don't think I could ever really hate him, he introduced me to what I now love
|
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Jul 9, 2011 22:41:31 GMT 9.5
Apparently it's really hard to find decent bear ear headgear.  |
|
|
|
Post by mazza on Jul 9, 2011 23:59:38 GMT 9.5
You've lost me there Fred!
I'm trying to finish a Polar bear head for a costume that's hard enough.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Jul 10, 2011 0:06:54 GMT 9.5
Marie-Cris got a pair of rabbit ears on a headband for Easter, and I wore them all day today. But I'm not a rabbit.... so I went searching for bear ears.
A polar bear head sounds awkward.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Jul 26, 2011 19:50:26 GMT 9.5
I slightly, and accidentally, attacked my arm with a piece of emery on a split mandrel which happened to be spinning really quickly on the end of my flexishaft drill. Which is possibly meaningless to everyone else, but it left a pattern of ouch for a couple of centimetres. And there was skin on the emery. Ew.
Actually, it didn't hurt too much, until we put tea tree oil on it a couple of minutes ago. Owwwwwwwwwwww........
|
|
|
|
Post by gizelmo on Jul 30, 2011 22:43:21 GMT 9.5
Sounds painful, hope you've recovered since then Fred. Anyway, randomly stumbled across this link Would've loved an Anthony Warlow-blend tea  |
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Jul 31, 2011 0:53:19 GMT 9.5
Aw, ripped off! I don't drink tea, but I might have had to make an exception for Warlow tea.
.... and, yes, thanks. My arm is much better. Marie-Cris has to keep telling me to stop scratching at it now (you know how things go all itchy when they're healing? Blah), but it's all good.
|
|
|
|
Post by tori2210 on Jul 31, 2011 7:15:30 GMT 9.5
Go back to school on Tuesday, which I don't mind. But the Ministry of Education has altered the dates and length of the school terms this year, due to a certain World Cup that will take place here soon. Pretty much means the first two terms were really long, and now going back to term 3, will only be sixish weeks, and then I have study leave and prelim exams. Term four will only be two weeks, and then it's finals. And by looking at my course outline, thats hardly enough to cover all the work.
|
|
|
|
Post by poppy on Aug 3, 2011 16:28:05 GMT 9.5
Do I need to HYDE or can everyone feel my wrath regarding the Helpmans!  |
|
|
|
Post by tori2210 on Aug 4, 2011 14:35:29 GMT 9.5
Found out today that a Year 9 girl at my school died last night... we don't know why yet but apparently it may have been a suicide. I didn't know the girl but I used to have a class or two with one of her brothers, who also played in our WSS band. Everyone is completely shocked and sad...
|
|
|
|
Post by mazza on Aug 4, 2011 20:23:27 GMT 9.5
Tori
That is so sad. It's hard to know what to say when you hear news like that. It is just so devastating for everyone concerned.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Aug 7, 2011 16:56:22 GMT 9.5
I'm sorry, Tori. That is awful.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Aug 12, 2011 21:29:51 GMT 9.5
On an unrelated topic, I'm sorry I've been absent so much lately. My laptop screen has stopped working, so we've got back to the old system of having two browsers open on Marie-Cris's laptop. Which makes it awkward. So we've both been spending a lot of time playing Mario Kart, which is easier. Stupid laptop. I knew I shouldn't trust anything my sister gave me. |
|
|
|
Post by Injeanious on Aug 15, 2011 7:36:51 GMT 9.5
We had snow here yesterday and as I live at the top of the highest street in Karori I copped the lot! My lawns were covered with around 3 inches of snow, the road was white and this morning it was all still there. I had such a lot of trouble getting all the snow off the car so I could come to work, then driving down the steep street was so scary. It has been over 40 years since it has snowed like this in Wellington.
|
|
|
|
Post by mazza on Aug 15, 2011 11:46:54 GMT 9.5
@ Giz I've only just looked at the link about the tea blends Dr. Katrina Warren is listed as a vet. I'm sure she never actually finished her veterinary studies she is a doctor of nutrition not Veterinary medicine.
@ Inj I can’t say I miss the snow too much. I can remember driving home with my son when he was quite young. It suddenly started to snow heavily. We got to within two or three roads of our house and had to leave the car as the road was just to dangerous to drive on. Great fun walking through the snow with a young child in tow!
|
|
shakattack
Phantom
What Kind of Fool Am I?...... Please don't answer that
Posts: 204
|
Post by shakattack on Aug 24, 2011 20:45:58 GMT 9.5
I lost my Treble Clef necklace today, the one that I bought the day I met Anthony. I am absolutely devastated, retraced my steps can't find it. It would have been year, next Friday, that I met him. The necklace had such major sentimental value, I wore everyday even to school, and everytime I sang, even underneath costumes. To me it was a symbol of what I wanted to be, the day I met my hero, the love I have for music etc. I've been crying for ages  |
|
|
|
Post by mazza on Aug 25, 2011 12:05:09 GMT 9.5
Shak, sorry to hear that. I know you have probably looked everywhere but have you checked the bathroom and bedroom. Would it fit down the drain in the shower? Could it be caught in a sweater or other clothing? Could it be in your bed? I hope you find it.
|
|
|
|
Post by tori2210 on Aug 25, 2011 14:32:25 GMT 9.5
Aww man, I hope you get it back Shak. Try in between tables/dressers/jewelery boxers or whereever you keep it when you're not wearing it. It could have fallen down behind something.
|
|
|
|
Post by gizelmo on Aug 25, 2011 18:37:08 GMT 9.5
I'm sorry to hear that Shak, hope you find it!
|
|
shakattack
Phantom
What Kind of Fool Am I?...... Please don't answer that
Posts: 204
|
Post by shakattack on Aug 25, 2011 19:38:37 GMT 9.5
major problem was, I went running when I lost it so I've got 7km of dirt tracks, long grass and roads to trek back over  |
|
|
|
Post by Marie-Cris on Aug 27, 2011 20:38:44 GMT 9.5
Aw shak, I'm sorry you lost it! I hope it turns up eventually.
|
|
|
|
Post by tori2210 on Aug 28, 2011 5:25:53 GMT 9.5
Who knows, someone might find and hand it in.
Not liking the Wallabies at all right now. >.>
|
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Sept 1, 2011 22:32:21 GMT 9.5
I have a friend on Facebook, a 16 year old girl that I've only met a couple of times in real life, and she's been talking to me... via Facebook ... over the last few weeks while she's been rapidly descending into the midst of bulimia. This is absolute hell. I don't know why she chose me, of all the people she knows, to talk to.... I'm trying to help, and I guess I must be to some extent, as she keeps coming back to our conversation... but I feel like I've just slammed her over and over again. I'm trying as hard as I can, but I don't know what I'm doing, and I'm afraid I'm going to push her into something more drastic, and ... this is hell. I was stressed already, and this is just tipping me over.
|
|
|
|
Post by tori2210 on Sept 2, 2011 10:28:14 GMT 9.5
I hope she gets better, Fred. Probably the best thing you can do is encourage her to seek professional help. Since she's turing to you she'd probably be more responsive to hearing it from you rather than someone else and would be more inclined to get help.
|
|
|
|
Post by mazza on Sept 2, 2011 12:27:11 GMT 9.5
|
|
|
|
Post by Fredus on Sept 2, 2011 20:51:02 GMT 9.5
As it happens, it's not just me. She has a sister that is substantially older than she is, and she's being more or less forced into getting help. I'm still trying to just talk her into working out why she started doing this ... I figure that if she can see the reason, there's more chance that she'll want to get better. Downside is that currently, she's just pig-headedly repeating over and over that she wanted to be thin. I suspect that she's just not thinking clearly at the moment due to ... everything ... but when she's had to eat for awhile... I'm hoping she'll remember what I'm saying now when she can think about it properly. Thanks for the links, Mazza. I'll scope them out.  |
|
Please feel free to introduce yourself in the Introducing thread in the General board, also to contact myself or anyone here if you have any questions. We hope you enjoy your time with US!