I would like to talk about the idea of “re-gifting” presents. Is it wrong if you get a crap gift for example a rubber chicken, then decided that it is going to go to waste so either next Christmas or for a birthday give somebody else the present.

In the old day when I was just a tucker I was told that you didn’t do that, but times are changing? So is it wrong to give a present again? Is it been cheap? Or is is recycling?

Im sick so im back to work tonight

I am thinking of having a look at the sales…na maybe not

How fun is google with all its fun logo changes over christmas

http://www.google.com.au/doodle10.html

12,540,000 cans of Coke are drunk all over the world every 60 minutes!

Merry Christmas

Christmas is just a few hours away and the time to remember Christ’s birth.

Santa is just passing Tasmania he is about to arrive

What happened to the days of Carols by candle light were just great fun community events where you say the well know christmas carols, waved a candle and joined in.

Watching the Carols from the Myer Music Bowl it looks like a performance and a least song had nothing to christmas when ever I flicked over they were not even carols I knew.

Even the carols are going to the dogs, where is this world going?

All are out of 6.876
Surfing: 4.2
Sleep 5.2
Tiredness 6.4
Pain 6.876 (after the drive back leaving at 4am)
Fun 5.6
Sunburn 2.1
Cost 6.876

Anyway fun holiday I had down the south coast of NSW, stayed at my Grandmothers & Auntys house in Mollymook.

Tuesday
Arrived, Surfed, Shops, talked with family

Wed (I am to tired to work out how to spell it-Jenny might need to help)
Slept, surfed, went to Yattah Yatta for the worlds worst coffee! A flying visit to Lake Conjola, a surf at Brill and a visit to Uncle Alan & Ronda for the avo

Thursday
Visit to Beach again, very nothingness of a day

Friday
Visit to beach again, breakfast at Milton had the best pancakes ever!, then off to Brill, spend the day with Uncle Al playing computer games, then dinner with Jo & Nan, then back to see my cousin.

Saturday
Get up at 4am to leave home.

Joshy tired & feel really sick

I like rice bubbles!

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman 90% Robin 87% Iron Man 75% Batman 65% The Flash 55% Spider-Man 55% Hulk 50% Wonder Woman 50% Green Lantern 50% Supergirl 50% Catwoman 40%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

I thought some of you might be interested in an article that appeared in the Herald Sun today (Tuesday 13th December) by John Hamilton - an Associate Editor - who suggested that conscription should be re-enacted for young people in response to the events in Cronulla

Put them all in uniform
JOHN HAMILTON
720 words
13 December 2005
TOO fat. Too drunk. Too stoned, even to defend their own country.
A nation full of binge drinkers of both sexes, and bored, overweight foul-mouthed yobs of both sexes.
They revere the heroes and heroines of shows such as Big Brother as aspirational role models.
They drift, rudderless and undisciplined, in a moral vacuum.
Their musical tastes are dictated by American ghetto music, composed by convicted rapsters
Their dancing has to be accompanied by the ingestion of mind-altering drugs.
Welcome to Australia 2005. A nation full of aimless, feckless youth now reduced to inter-racial bashings over who should lie about on Sydney beaches.
Now is surely the time to bring back National Service. For Australia’s sake and for the sake of its youth.
The need is becoming urgent. Ask yourself these two questions:
1. Has there been a deterioration in Australia’s strategic position?
2. Does Australia have adequate defence manpower?
These were two of the reasons given by the Government when it reintroduced National Service in 1964.
It can be easily argued that Australia’s strategic position has deteriorated since September 11, 2001 and the beginning of the war on terrorism.
And the Australian Defence Force is now at full stretch and struggling to meet our international commitments.
Then, coinciding with the images of the booze-filled mayhem out of Sydney, came the report yesterday from the ADF that increasingly unhealthy lifestyles, along with the ageing population and competition from private sector jobs, were hindering efforts to attract enough physically and mentally fit recruits to defend the nation.
Coupled with this were the latest warnings in Melbourne from both the Australian Drug Foundation and the Australian Medical Association that teenage boozing and binge drinking was increasing dangerously.
More kids are attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, alongside former drinkers up to 50 years their senior.
On the defence front, the ADF warns that the defence force will shrink from about 52,000 personnel to 48,500 by 2010, significantly below the 55,000 planned level.
The ADF warns that overuse of recreational drugs, particularly marijuana, among 15-year-olds, together with junk food related obesity, are expected to worsen and will “severely limit the pool of recruitable candidates”.
One out of 12 military candidates already fails the physical or mental fitness tests and the ADF fell 1000 short of its recruitment targets last year.
What did National Service do in the past?
For a start, it gave young Australians a sense of purpose and direction, taught them how to look after themselves and be smart, gave them a pride in their country, themselves and their mates. Things sadly missing today.
Yes, some national servicemen DID die for their country in a war in Vietnam, a war so unpopular it eventually led to the abolition of National Service in 1972.
But that war aside, don’t forget 325,800 national servicemen wore uniform over a 21-year period when serving was part of growing up.
Of those who served, 187 gave their lives and 1500 were wounded.
There were two recent periods of National Service.
Between 1951-57, some 500,000 18-year-olds registered and 227,000 were trained.
They served a training period of 176 days, then spent five years in the reserve.
The second period lasted from 1965 to 1972.
This time 800,000 registered and 63,000 were conscripted by ballot.
Of these, more than 19,000 served in Vietnam.
Another 35,000 who registered, elected to meet their obligations by training and serving part-time in the Citizens Military Forces.
Australia today simply needs some form of compulsory service for both its young men and women.
FOR many it will simply give them something worthwhile to do and something to believe in.
Just look how service life transforms youngsters now proudly wearing their country’s uniform in the ADF.
Just remember those images of pure selflessness as these young men and women went about their duties, not in combat, but in helping victims of the Bali bombings and the tsunami disaster.
Then just think of Cronulla at the weekend.
Isn’t it time?
JOHN HAMILTON is a Herald Sun Associate Editor.

For those interested in emailing the Herald Sun, the address of the Opinion Editor is costerp@heraldsun.com.au .

Well! It happened again! Nothing to do with me this time which hey that was good. My Car was just parked on the street from my mum and dads house and a incident happened a car hit another car and there car hit the back of mine not a huge problem but will need a new bumber I think hopefully that will be all!

Anyway a bit annoying

Today is my fathers 50th Birthday and I am about to enter a group life lab!

I am on holidays! yay yay 2 weeks!

When your hot and gross is it better to:
A) Start with Cold water and move to a warm shower so you are used to the heat again
B) Start with Hot water and move to a cold shower
C) Start & End with a cold shower
D) Start & End with a Hot Shower

I think A