Brats of The Family

Hi Bloggers,
I have an issue that is very hard to fix. You see I have a younger brother who is five years old. His favourite past times are; swearing,getting me into trouble, playing Adventure Quest in the cyber world even though he cant read the set missions,Yelling,eating, going on his scooter and dancing. He is incredibly annoying.

I have to pick him up from his class on Wednesdays,Thursdays and Fridays. He likes to swear at the passing highschoolers with the foul words hes learnt frome them, run ahead or lag behind,cry or complain about how heavy his bag is and attatch himself to someone of wich I am having a disagreement with all the way to the highschool. When I tell Mum what he has done the common response is"Joey darling you wouldnt do something like that would you.. Ive brought you up better than that" And he gets away with it and I get into trouble for supposed lying. Joey just couldnt possibly be doing stuff like that though could he..nooo.(if you didnt pick that up..it was sarcasm) He is allways getting me into trouble.

He is incharge of the remote.I never get to watch my chanels. He gets to pick his baby shows like Playschool. Right now he is drinking actual concentrate lemon juice from a bottle..yes a bottle. Anyway. If I pick a chanel i like he yells out aor screams to mum and i get in trouble for being selfish and not sharing with my brother.. Ah Hello he picks allll the time. He is such a brat.

H steals my lipglosses and eats them. He drinks all the school food and blames it on me and I get in trouble for it. H eputs his dirty washing in my room.He trys so hard to get me in trouble and when I do he says "kids these days"....hes a kid too I am older than him..wayy older like 6 years older!

He gets away with everything absolutley . I hate him so much and he hates me too. I think being an only child would be better than this. i wish he would go away sometimes and give me a break.

Cigarette Butts thrown by the litter BUGS

Hey bloggers,
Lately..well since our previous neighbours moved around 3 months ago we(my family and I) have been getting lots of cigarette butts in between the fence on our new neighbours side and our clothes line. No one that I live with smokes. My Mum and Aunty that I live with both thought it was the wind pushing our neighbours cigarette butts under the fence until now.

The cigarette buts are not the usual orange/brown..they are white.They have rubber like stoppers at the bottom and tobacco inside...they obviously by the tobacco and paper and wrap it themselves.

There are about 3 or 4 cigarette butts per day.I myself have taken on the responsibility to sweep it back under the fence.As I have previously said my Aunty and Mum both thought it was the wind until now. The reason being, the cigarette butts stopped coming for about a week. they were just not there. But our neighbours were. Forgive me if I am mistaken but I do not believe a smoker can just stop smoking for a week and start again. Ive been told it is extremely hard to uit smoking becuase smoking is addictive. I believe that they just stopped throwing it over the fence. The wind cannot be the reason becuase the wind is usually swaying our neighbours way.

I thought we could collect the cigarette butts in a plastic bag over a week then throw the bag back over with a note attatched saying "I believe these are yours". But I soon realised that would backfire and make the situation somewhat worse.

I am continuicing to sweep the cigarette butts under the fence back to their side...you would think that would be enough and they would get thge fact that we do not appreciate them throwing their dirty cigarette butts under our fence and have the decency to put it in an ash tray.I guess I could give them an ashtray...but Im not giving in.They need to grow up and stop litering.

Hot and Cold

Hey Bloggers, For those fellow tweens of mine Im quite sue you would understand this social issue as it is close to home. Hot and Cold Friends. You may ask what I mean by Hot and Cold.Well. I mean like they are your best friend and your really tight sharing your deepest secrets then your supposed "friend" goes and tells everyone what you told them or they soon hate you after being good friends. They like you, they dont, they are your BFF, then your worst enemy. Its really annoying.

A wise teacher of mine (my grade 4 teacher) once said "its easier to get along with someone whos allways mean than someone whos mood swings up and down" I guess she means that its also easier to be freinds with a really happy person as well as a mean one. When I reflect on what she says I realise she was actually right. I get along better with a person I know who is allways mean then my supposed "best friend" who is continuosley up and down, hot and cold.I try to let what my teacher said influence the way I myself is towards people,but I dont allways get the same treatment back. You know how adults allways say 'treat others how you want to be treated and youll be treated well back'. Not allways true.With my friend I try so hard as my Mum would say"I bend over backwards for that to work" and I am allways insulted back.

This person(my supposed friend) was so mean to me at school on a friday on the last day of school, gave me hate letters and threw nasty comments at me pretty much all day. then on a Sunday my supposed friend invited me to her Christmas party. My Mum does'nt see my supposed friend to"be as bad as I make out" so I had to go. Things were ok because my other real freinds were with me there. but it just wasnt the same it just wasnt right. She thought she could just be so horrible to me then act like nothing happened the next day or so with out even making up.We are like frenemies. Friends then enamies.

So we didnt talk for about the whole holiday then she invited my family over. We were there for seven hours or so(4:30 pm untill 10:30). So we are still friends, we havnt spent enough time together to hate eachother just yet. I know she doesnt like me much. I think of resons why. Flashes of resons go through my mind, her diary maybe has how she dislikes me. Its hard to explain but I felt like I was going to have silver droplets (read t-e-a-r-s) rolling and crashing down my face like waves soon . I could fel my eyes welling up. I decide to just put a brave face on and just be her friend for now...until the fight restarts......

Rubbish Being Dumped at Charity Bins

Hey Bloggers its Shelly,
I have recently seen and heard about Rubbish that should be at the dump put in the charity bins. I thought it was discusting and I still do think it is. The Salvation Army has to pay 6 million dollars to remove the unusable items. I saw a plastic, dirty table with only three legs dumped at a Lifeline bin. No one I repeat NO ONE can use a table with three legs... It wouldnt stand up. I also saw a broken tv, an old NAPPY yes NAPPY,a dirty old esky and a lot of broken toys. All dumped outside of the bin. I believe that to put something in a Charity bin you have to follow these rules:
1. It is usable. Can another person like your friend or yourself use it again?
2. It fits in the Charity bin. If its too big its likely the organisation cant use it.
3. Its not broken. If its broken it belongs at the dump.

As Ive said the Salvation army spends 6 million dollars removing the rubbish..money that could be spent on the homeless rather than on removing useless items dumped by careless people. For those of you who do it, let this be not a warning but an understanding to not to dump trash at Charity bins but instead put it in the real bins..where it belongs.

Parents Singing to Songs They Dont Know

Hi Bloggers its Shelly.Today not long after creating this acount I was brought to a new topic.Parents singing to songs they dont know.We were in the car listening to the radio and a song called "Dream Catch Me" came on. My Mum obviously had no idea what the lyrics were so instead she would sing "dreeeeammm catcchhh mee whheenn I faaaalllll" in her out of tone raspy voice in innappropriate times(when she wasnt supposed to). It was out of time and pretty awful.Its not the only time a song comes on that Mum dosnt know the words but still sings to it. For instance when playing We Sing on the wii she will attempt to sing 'Poker Face' by Lady Gaga with bad timing and and out of tune singing . She will say p-p-poker f-f face instead of p-p-p-poker face. Its hard to explain but very embarrasing. One of my freinds was over when Mum was doing this as well. My friends Mum and my Mum were dancing around the carpet singing. If the professional singers that actually sang those songs heard my Mum I dont know what they would say but I know it wont be "you should be touring Earth".Even though on the ratings it said'you sounded like the crazy frog' she still doesnt get it. I know Mum doesnt mean to be totally embarrasingly uncool but when I tell her she says not to worry. I cant not worry if your singing poker face wrong outside a restraunt on an Island infront of other people my age! Im not getting angry or insulting anyone but Im trying to get across my point that if your going to sing a song...sing one you know and can do well. I hope other people dont have the same problem as me.-Shelly