go nuts

My friends and I go to vabys a bit now, espcially that lonestar and chilis have left campbelltown which we use to use for a spare of the moment casual dinner
We all like the go nuts desert so for Christmas I made it for desert for us all

Ingreadiants
8 litters of neopolitin ice cream
800 grams of peanut butter
3 packets of chocolate biscuits ( I used tiny teddies )
250 gms of butter
Chopped peanuts
And chocolate topping
you'll also need a frezzer container or smaller ones to set them in ( I used tupperware artic frezzer containers )

Blend up the teddies into fine granuals then mix with melted butter
Spoon mixture into the base of the containers and flat down
Freeze for 40 minutes
Spreed a generous about of peanut butter onto of the cookie base and then squirt with chocolate topping
Freeze again for 20 minutes
When set, spoon in ice cream using all the flavours equally
Top with topping and peanuts
Then feeze again until set

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gizmo gidget

I recently over the last week realized how reliant I am on gizmos in my life.
Mobile - I'm never far from it I carry my charger around in my bag for when I need to charge it and that's often! I primarily use it for the Internet I'm always used to facebook email man messenger and google and go onto wiki or imdb I also use it in the summer to watch the cricket live and get score updates and on the winter to get all the scores from the afl nrl and ru
iPod touch - I have fallen inlove with this! I never have this far from my side as well and I sleep with both my iPod and mobile under my pillow gone are the fear of getting brain tumors of too much exposure to frequencies from phones!
I do use it for music but basically it's my little "palmtop" and when I am home I'll use it for the net, again facebook, msn, aim, email, google ect, blogg and other stuff
I have also become addicted to downloading applications for it and playing games. Every night I'll use it to play games or read to wind down before going to sleep where I'll plug it into the idock/fm clock radio to choose a playlist to listen to to go to sleep with and wake up to
I wish I had an iphone to combine the both but when I needed a new phone iPhones were still unrealsed in Australia and they only recently become available through the 3 network which allows me to watch cricket on my phone
Navman- okay I know I don't need this as I have a pretty good sense of direction but it's more security in case I get lost of I'm in an unfamiliar place I have security that I'll be able to find my way without stress and it's something I can use better than a steer directory which I admitt I have trouble with
These days I get in the car plug the iPod in put the phone in the consol and plug the navman in and I feel funny when I'm missing them.
Pc - I live on my pc and it's almost never shut down I turn it on as soon as I get home am always doing something on it

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the other side of the pancake

So I have to get this off my chest just cos it pissed me off a fair bit when I herd it and is much as I'm trying to move past it it's all still fresh and I havnt got closure for what happened yet.
I'm talking about what happened at my old place of work
Most of you know the story so I won't rehash what happened. But apperently parents at my old place work properly informed why I left/no longer work there. Which is sad cos I never wanted them to think I don't care and just left without saying goodbye to their children or them espcially since I missed the kids terribly when I was on sick leave. Since leaving I have ran into a few parents who asked me what happened and I glossed by saying it was time for me to move on and a change was as good as a holiday. But all of those parents all went on to rant about the mangememt all without my propmting. I let them rant without comment as that is unprofessional and even though I'm writing this I'm not naming any names or adressing it to any one in particular to be deemed unprofessional.
I since found out that nasty things and lies have been told to parents to semi explain why I was forced to leave explains why I have been given the cold sholder by a lot of friends we share mutally
Yes the winner does take it all
And winners write the history books
But there is always two sides to a pancake no matter how flat it is
And I'm happy with my knowlegde knowing my side of the pancake is the truth even if some times I don't seam like the winner I'm still the one writing the history blogg

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favourite music C

i thought i would of had more choice of "Cs" but i could only think of two so if anyone can think of something i may of missed let me know

Creedence Clearwater Revival

i have loved their songs a lot growing up, one in particular was a song i can remember my grandfather singing to me a lot when i was younger so my love of the band grew from there and 

crowded house 

another great band from my childhood. and an australian band granted they have a new zealander as a front man but i love them! i cried when they broke up and during the farewell concert at the opera house that i wished i could of been to. i can remember telling my nan when i was 7 that i loved them and this song in particular "you better be home soon" but i also LOVE "fall at your feet" i actually love it that much i dont mind james blunts version 

happy 100

for those following along at home i reached 100 post on my last posting so this is 101

i was excited about getting to 100 and than completely forgot how stupid of me 

stopping the plague

yesterday, the 1st of december was world aids day , the 20th anniversary and to mark the day the w channel aired the special "rampant". which was a special about sydney and australia fought the spread of aids when it was first diagnoised and discovered in the early 80's to be a real disease

i was really interested as aids was one of the few new items and world events i can remember from my childhood. i can vividly remember the aids awareness campaign aid with the grim reaper. i also had a family friend who had aids when i was young and can remember being scared when i first found out about it and 9 years old and had a room mate with HIV when i was in my late teens 

the opening sent chills down my spine!

"25 years ago a man came in to St Vincents hospital sydney sick. he was from new york, a gardner young and fit with a crowded sexual history and he was gay. the doctors made their diagnosis the first in australia. this man had aids. no one knew what caused it or how it might be spread, later when he seamed well he was simply discharged and that was the last the doctors saw of him."

pretty soon more and more gay man were being infected with hiv/aids. no one knew thought it was a virus. they didnt know its history, what caused it, how it was spread, and how to treat it. before it was recgonised to be tarnsmitted by blood. doctors assumed that it was and that there was identified high risk groups, gay man, iv drug uses, sex workers. leapers of the community.

it took some time but the government funded aids eductation programs. needle exchanges were set up across the country so that if you used drugs you could ensure you had a clean needle, condoms were given to brothels with legislation put into place. and target education to gay men on the importance of using condoms. there was also a national program to encourage the general public to use condoms as well at very sexual encounter. a national add was put on australian tvs to shock everyone to tell everyone you were at risk of getting aids if you were not using safe sex practices. 

these were the grim reaper adds that of 1987/88 that everyone of that eara can remember. i was simple terrified of them when they came on. and they still look scary today.

these programs are the "australian model" and is funded permanently. there has never been 1 case of suspected case of a sexual worker been transmitted to a client. 25 000 people have been prevented  from contacting aids/hiv from needle exchange 

by 1987 the spread of aids was down. 6 1/2 thousand people have died in australia from aids. against the trends around the world aids/hiv rates continue to decline 

the australia model is not how hiv is fought in most of the world. elsewhere strategies to stop the virus are based on beliefs about how the world should behave.

the bigger funder of international hiv programs is the usa. most of its funds go to promoting abstinence until marriage and zero tolerance for drugs. it opposes needle exchange and limits support for condoms

around the world 25 million people have died from hiv/aids. 40 million are now infected unless policies change within 10 years 80 million will carry this deadly preventable virus 

favourite music B

its been a long while since my first post on this subject so now ill keep up with then form now on i promise =D

B is hard cos i like a lot of B stuff so ill have to cut it to 3 

Beatles no brainer here i grew up listening to them so of course i like them and i pick strawberry fields as the best cos i remember listening to it heaps when i was little 

Bee Gees i love the bee gees but i prefer the earlier stuff not the whole disco/saturday night fever stuff. i like words, started a joke, how deep is your love ect love that robin signs this one 

and of course backstreet boys i was obsessed with them when i was younger so i cant go past them. i had to put a fans clip of the favourite song. this song always drove my jen and me wild as teens so its the best i could do