Random thread: Where's your postcount now, (tpd) bitch

[luna]

this guy is adorable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrH2MI_K2SU

[sin]

lol @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Threat

lol @ "no coherent trajectory to her career"

[threatsicle]

Yea. That was a direct quote from a magazine article too

Met Jared Leto tonight. I was tweeting that I was backstage with Skrillex and him, and my friend, who's actually 30 Seconds To Mars' tour coordinator, tweeted me that I should say hello. So I did. Went up to him and said that she tweeted me to say hi. It was soooo awkward (but funny). Really not surprised by all this small fucking world shiz anymore.

[Aaron]

I got a short shift at work today. (10am-3pm... I was supposed to leave at 2. But I stayed late...) Either way, I'm home, and kinda bored...

[Static]

Day 3 and the riots in London continue, amazingly despite being in the middle of hot areas, we've yet to see or hear anything, though it helps we live away from the stores.   Watching footage of teenage chav fucks looting in front of cops really makes me want to get the fuck out of this country.  What started off as a protest quickly escalated into a very lengthy smash and grab with select douchebags posting their loot up on social networking.  I guess I won't be going out today....

[r00]

Sorry to hear that, static.  8(  It scares me to think or what those same chavs (and the equivalent over here) will do if they ever stop receiving their government cheese.

[tim]

Even on day 3 not all the riots are about the same things.

There is widespread breakdown in social order fuelled by a mix of distrust of police, the economics of recession, feelings of alienation, failures of political representation and get-rich-quick selfishness.

Early riots clearly had a lot to do with the lies the police told after shooting a father of four, and the belief they wouldn't be held accountable. Some are clearly blind rage. Some are opportunistic criminal actions.  Today riots in Hackney started after a police stop-and-search.

Public buses and the homes of ordinary people have been set on fire, people have been made homeless and small independent traders have lost everything. Really really sad. Yet no-one has any answers. Politicians simply condemn everything and lump everyone together and in doing so fuel the alienation that drove the whole thing.

[naut]

My boss is on leave for 2 weeks and it is so nice and quiet in her without her ranting and raving.

[Aaron]

Hahahah nice!


I went looking for a D2 talent tree a week ago (the site also had the option to buy gear, lvling toons up. other shit) now, I see their site on every add I get. Youtube. Cracked.com (joke website. Some amazing stuff on there!) And I find it funny, the adds went from being random off the wall stuff. To something I was kinda interested in for a bit...

[sin]

Ugh; I was supposed to go back to my apartment today, but I got drunk and slept through when my mom left, so I couldn't get a ride.  Then a bunch of insane shit happened.  My dad was doing some light yard work and collapsed, and I managed to get him back up to being a reasonable person again, but it freaked me out something awful; if I hadn't missed my ride he would have been all alone when that shit happened.  I was 2 seconds away from calling an ambulance before he opened his eyes and sat up.  My dad turns 67 this December; he's not a young turk anymore...

It's starting to be an issue that I don't want to go back to my apartment for my PARENTS' sake, rather than my own.

[boofu]

Holy shit I kind of forgot about you guys...what working two jobs and two kids does to you. Sorry, friend. I'll never leave you again.

[Goose]

Its time for an update on the story of my little goober.

On the Thursday before Phoenix's birthday (August 28th), at about 4:15PM, almost 30 minutes before I was actually leaving work for the vacation week, I got a call from Phoenix's social worker.  He was on a visit with his mom at the time, and they were heading over immediately to apprehend him, because his mom had failed her most recent drug test.  What happened over the next two hours is largely a blur, because I was already in a panic-based mode to get the work done that I needed to before vacation, but the end result is all visitation with mom is immediately cancelled.  So he wasn't spending the week with his mom while we were in Winnipeg, meaning he'd have to come with us.

We had the party in Saskatoon as planned, and it went awesome.  It was great to have so many people from both my family, Kyla's family, and both of our groups of friends show up.  It really is a rare thing for foster parents to have such support (trust me, from speaking with other foster parents, the flack they get from their own families for trying to help children is just insane), and I can't put into words how grateful and thankful we are to have such supportive people around us.

I've put a few pics up from the party in his Phoenix's 4shared folder (password: goober).  The kid had a frickin' blast.

The next day, Kyla and I had a discussion.  Phoenix is now at an age where he does not travel well.  He's a mobile monster, and truly resents being strapped down for any length of time, meaning a 7-hour drive to Winnipeg would be hell.  As well, Kyla's endometriosis was acting up really, really badly, and we couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't need extreme amounts of pain control in the near future.  In the end, we ended up staying an extra day in Saskatoon, and cancelled the trip to Winnipeg and stayed home.  Easily the best decision we could've made, as with both of us there for multiple days in a row, it was easy to take care of Phoenix and be productive around the house.  At the end of the week, for the first time in a long, long time, I felt I was going back to work significantly more relaxed than when I left it.

During that week, we also got a handle on what his mom's situation is.  Apparently she was getting extremely stressed out, not only with taking care of Phoenix (trust me, that kid's a handful if you're not used to it, it adds stress to your life no matter what way you cut it or how much you love the kid), but with other legal and family issues she was wrangling with, and she ended up relapsing in a vain attempt to cope with it all.  When she was actually confronted with the failed drug test, she hid nothing, and was completely honest with her social worker about what happened.  So, she gets more rehab and therapy, and her visitation schedule with Phoenix is back down to where it was about three months ago (three times a week, 2-3 hours at a time, 100% supervised).

I have complete faith that Phoenix's mom will get her situation sorted out and will be able to take Phoenix home full time in the long run.  How long that will take, though, is a complete unknown right now, and we're back to just taking it one small step at a time.  And that's where this story is currently at.

[luna]

thanks for the update goose! i was wondering what was going on...i know i said it before but you are awesome for giving phoenix a family even if it isn't permanent

[Aaron]

Ya that is awesome that you are taking care of him even if it isn't permanent.

Do you think you will adopt a child or two down the road? Or just foster care children?

[rokken like dokken]

I have plans to repaint my black JS100 to some sort of Living Colour thing (think the Cult of Personality video) but I'm not sure who can actually do that for me.