The girly turns 17 today and hell breaks loose at home

Yep.. all it took was for me to say No to her staying over the night with friends who are both in their mid 20's.

She does not see what is wrong with the whole scenario, well, she is still a kid after all. And yes I am aware many parents let their 16 and 17 year olds do whatever they want.. and that is why so many are in trouble, pregnant, living with boyfriends, etc.

The hardest thing I find is being the 1 in 1,000 parents who do try to have boundaries in place, who do try to have Consequences in place and who love their kid enough to say no and then stand through the storm that comes with it.

I get threats of leaving home.. still acting like a 14 year old then. I get screamed at for not letting her do whatever she wants, when she wants... but she goes and does what she wants anyway!

I can't give in. She keeps breaking all the rules, every day, steals the money out of the account we set up for her car so that it only has 7 cents in it.. and she keeps making my life Hell with her Teen Angst bullshit.

And it only ever happens when I say No to something.. anything she wants.. and that is when the world goes sour and she gets ready to push it way harder than she needs to. She has at times wanted to push things to violence with me.. she has even instigated it in order to get her own way. Still acting like a 14 year old huh?

So all I can do today is get out of the house, get away from her for the day so I don't have to put up with the now booming bedroom music, the filthy looks, the stomping around and slamming doors and the on-going argument she wants to push.

So time to hang on to my Happy Thought......

I'm buying a motorcycle next year

Ahh.. it's Saturday

I love the weekends..even though every day is the same for me anyway. Weird that.

Maybe my still loving the weekends is some sort of throw-back to when I was able to work full time? I think our Indoctrination into Society really sinks in.

Saturday, the day when single men wash and polish their cars/bikes ready to go cruising about on Sunday. It's also the day that most lawns get mowed, more washing gets done, more house cleaning has to be done.... oh crap.. did I really say I love Saturday?

Hmmm.. positives for Saturday...... hmmmm.. well this Saturday is race day for my online Simulator racing group.. that's always a highlight.

My daughter will be at her part time work.. so the house will be quiet.. no BOOM BOOM BOOM coming from her room... Yay!!

The Sun is still out today... that's always a positive at this part of the year.. until Summer comes then we all try to avoid the midday sun as much as possible.. it gets HOT!! Which is only fair because it is a Sun after all.

Brain is slowing down.. forgot to make Coffee this morning.. going to kitchen now.

Enjoy the day.

Being Poisoned by your Government?

If you live in Queensland Australia then YES you are now being poisoned by your State Government. Poisoned with the Waste Product of Fertilizer Manufacturing.

Someone must have gotten a nice bonus when they thought up the idea to sell this Toxic Waste off as being the Next Best Thing for your Teeth.

But most of you only heard the bit they offered about it being good for kids teeth and the decision was based on solid peer-reviewed Science. They even said it improves kids teeth by 40% on average.

Liars!! But being aware thinkers you already knew the Government treats you like a Mushroom anyway.

How old is this Peer-reviewed Science anyway? The lastest info I can find about Flouride from a solid source says it is a major concern now that long term effects are being seen in countries using Flouride for 20 to 30 years.

I also read a lot of quotes from various countries Health Ministers who are on record as saying they dfo not have the LEGAL Right to Mass Medicate their populations! Take that Queensland Health Minister.

There is testimony from people in the know back in the late 1940's to early 1950's who are on record as saying Flouride should never be Ingested, that it has very negative effects on various organs of the body as well as minimizing a person's ability to be Self-Directed.. meaning the use of Flouride in water so that you will Ingest, will slowly decrease your own ability to think clearly for Yourself.

I recently had an email exchange with my State's Health Minister who had a strong objection to my use of the term, "Mass Medicating the Population". He was very, very offended.

He also told me the standard line that Nature thought of it first and so they are simply supporting that for our health. What a crock of BS that is. The natural amounts of Flouride in water is so tiny that it is not worth worrying about.

My Health Minister says that a Safe Level in drinking water for Queensland is 15mg per Litre.. and then stressed how small that amount is.

So I immediately went to read up on The Flouride Alert website ... in 2006 a major review took place in the USA to find out what the Current thinking was on Ingesting Flouride from the water supply.

Any guesses as to what they recommended now as the absolute highest limit? 4mg per Litre!!! Yep almost 4 times lower than my State has decided is GOOD FOR US.

And why did they decide on this figure?

Because there is good evidence surfacing that proves beyond doubt how dangerous ingesting this Toxin really is. This Group of Scientists and Health Workers chose such a low level of added Flouride because Medical Science is seeing increased Flourosis of the Teeth in children, is seeing a large recorded increase in Bone Density Issues causing something like Osteo-porosis.. they even have a proper name for this disease now.. I just don't remember it right now.

I've seen the bags of Flouride that are purchased from CHINA for the water supply. Each bag has a HUGE Health Warning on the front.. it lists the body organs that Flouride effects negatively.. but people don't seem to take much note of these things in order to keep their jobs at the Water Department.

Here is THE PROOF.....

Why is Oldie telling you all of this?

So that YOU can make your own decisions based on a balanced perspective from someone who has looked openly at the issue. Check out Flouride Alert on the web to do more of your own research folks.

I do not want my Pineal Gland to Atrophy earlier in life than is normal. I do not want my ability to think clearly and act on my own thinking to be impacted because "Elected Public Servants" are not doing their job properly. I do not want to suffer the illnesses that comes with long term ingestion of the KNOWN TOXIC SUBSTANCE called Flouride.

But each to their own I suppose... you can still keep using as much Flouridated Toothpaste as you like.. provding you follow the Health Guidelines and NOT SWALLOW the garbage.

Come on Folks.. get with it. Stop going about your daily grind with blindfolds on.. force your government to be somewhat more Honest with you than they have been so far. Do not accept the forced Mass Medication by a Toxic Substance... get yourself enlightened about the real Issues with this Substance so that you can make a clearer decision before you hopefully take some ACTION.

Again.. I ask, "What do you choose now?

Power Company Gouging Us?

Hell Yeah.

Like everyone else we have watched our bills increasing astronomically. When you ring the company you get told the charge per kilowatt hour has increased again by another 15 to 17%. So that's FIVE increases of around that much in only two years.

So then we see friendly TV ads telling us to turn off heaters in winter, use less power.. use less power to get lower bills!! WTF??

They say the increases are needed to cover the costs for new infrastructure. I want to ask, "Well what have you been doing with your massive profits for the past 20 years then?"

But... we should also know by now that we have No Voice. You do not get heard anymore. They say use your vote to be heard.... that is never enough in a well propped-up Two Party Preferred System that fails constituents almost every time.

No Oldie.. don't go off into a political rant right now.. stay on topic.

So how do you get your Voice Heard? How do you let the power companies know you are fed up with their BS lines of reasoning? You can't disconnect from their supply because the Law states having electricity in the home is a Must Have. You can't not pay the Bill, because strangely enough the Power Companies can break that Law and cut off your power supply.

What are we to do about it?

Well, since we are Aussies here in Oz I could expect a lot of "She'll be right mate" from the plebs who are already fully bent over but are too scared to stand up to the Government or their Power Company.

I want Revolution!! And I want it before I am too old to play my part in it.

Time folks to Stand Up and be Counted.. or just keep bending over an taking it until there is nothing left to give.

Your choice is?

Teenage Girly Monster Alert !!

Funny things aren't they? Can't put them back where they came from and can't trade them on a nice motorcycle... just have to bear with it.

Who would have thought the little, beautiful bub I brought home and fought for would SUDDENLY become a strong minded young women, much to my discontent and ever-greying hair... and total tiredness from years of broken sleep.. and totally worn out emotionally.. and, getting older just to make matters seem worse.

Somehow these little humans we bring into the world can suck the fun out of anything. They can make you find strength you didn't think you had in you. They can surprise you with caring and gentleness as much as they can shock you with the popular modern version of teenage angst .. the complete bitch from hell who wants to push really...really.... Hard... and Often.

Sure find something inside yourself right there.

My girl has been all the above, and many times over already. She is 17 on Sunday.

Almost everyone she knows her age is either living with boyfriends and pregnant once or twice over, or living with boyfriends/girlfriends. Very few live at home with their parents. Seems I'm lucky, apparently.

So the girly decided to have a gap year to work more and do some study before making a "final" decision on career direction.

As mentioned in the first blog post, I was wondering what I would do with life once she left home. I came up with an interim plan to buy a motorcycle.. pick up where I left off 18 years before.

I can have a gap year too, can't I ? I'm not too old yet, am I ?

Pffft. I think making it through these last 17 years deserves a reward, hee hee.

There are two basic types of children....

1/. The Ruthless Child:- One who will not compromise or accept boundaries, will argue from an early age, will seek out any word you say to twist the topic against you.. I call that last one, Making-Wrong. Life with the ruthless child is always a rollercoaster affair of sleepless nights and drama upon drama, dishonest answers to any question about what they are doing after school, etc.

You get the picture.

2./ The Malleable Child:- One who parents say is a pleasure to raise, who will accept boundaries and house rules, who will co-operate with the family most of the time. These kids don't always behave like little angels, they are kids after all. But in general they don't push their parents so very hard to exclusively get whatever it is they want at the time... above all else. These kids are generally quite truthful about their actions when asked.

Having one of the Type 1 kids, I learned a lot about Me, a lot about when I made mistakes raising her, learned a lot about accepting who she was and what she wants in life, and learned to forgive myself for the mistakes we both made.

Awww.. isn't that all warm and fuzzy feeling now ?

You won't get a lot of that from me.

So you didn't get to have a Mid-Life Crisis?

If raising children took up all your time?

If somehow, 20 years have got behind you?  (Thanks to Pink Floyd for most of that sentence)

Then an Early Senior-Life Crisis may be the answer!

Kids leaving or left already? Nothing much to do now except wait for the inevitable health-nasties to show up, work the last of your fingers to the bone so you can afford retirement, pay off that second mortgage on the now too big Dream Home and maybe think about a Caravan in another 10 to 15 years?

Say NO to that.

A whole world still lay outside your door. While you breathe you can Live Life as it comes.

Why wait until you are almost too old to do the things you dreamed of doing when you were younger?

Being a single Dad for the past 16 years I tended to make my life one of raising my daughter as best I could. I was already pensioned-off so had plenty of free time to put into it.. and I did. I loved it.

I got to experience what most Dad's miss out on because they go to work every morning until late. That includes 6 years working at the School's Tuckshop with the other Mum's, supervising on bus trips, helping in the classroom and lots of excellent life experiences any male could have.

But.. and there is almost always a "But".. kids grow up and they stop needing you as much as they did before. And one day they move on with their life while you think about what Life without kids at home would be like.

Staying at home, gardening, cooking too much food each day, washing clothes for the hell of routine doesn't interest me one little bit.. nor should it.

While all this thinking was oging on I hit upon a clever interim plan... I decided ot buy a Motorcycle.

Okay, that sure sounds like Mid-Life Crisis doesn't it? But I was too busy raising my girl in my 40's to worry about that stuff.. so now I have the Leisure to go ahead with it now.

The universe or god or someone called Pete or Maria put an older women in my way one day while down town. She showed me her passion toy... a Japa-Harley as I used to call them. It was very nice, and surprisingly cheap. That got me to thinking some more.

The Plan

To take one year and save like crazy to buy one of these big bore Japa-Harleys and hit the road again. I haven't owned and ridden a bike since just before my girly-monster was born, so I think I owe it to myself to do this.

How to put a smile on Oldie's face?

Put him on his bike and say, "Go for a Ride Oldie".

I don't care if anyone thinks I am being a stupid old fart.. in fact all of my buddies and family think it is a great idea. Very supportive they are.

So there ya go folks, you can and should do the things you want to do when you can do them.

Stay tuned for more.....