http://www.tumblr.com/blog/specialpets
I found this easier, sorry.
In case it does not link, here it is again, tumblr.
Monday, January 2, 2012
I'm so Tired
Can not sleep again. Much on my mind and let's face it, I never slept well. Never. All I would ever do is read when I was small.
Now I am older, it doesn't work as well. Sometimes I can get my brain to shut off or just simmer down to a dull roar so I can get a few hours.
Meh. Something is bound to give. Video and lyrics are below. More than appropriate for today.
"out here i can barely see my breath surrounded by jealousy and death i can't be reached, only had one call dragged underneath, separate from you all
this time i've lost my own return in spite of everything i've learned i hid my tracks, spit out all my air slipped into cracks, stripped of all my cares
i'm so tired sheep are counting me no more struggle, no more energy no more patient and you can write that down it's all too crazy and i'm not sticking round"
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Restart of blog
New Year's is the time for resolutions and shite, but I never had been resolute. Pretty much existentialist here. Eat, live and make merry, for tomorrow we die. Why self improve?
I have let my drawing and much of my creative process die. High school votech and art school has made me hate even sketching. This pisses me off completely. I dislike that I let others influence me and taken away the one joy I had in childhood. I let years of practice slip by me.
Not a resolution, but as a convienient start date, I decided I could use my blog, which I mainly ignored this year and do a daily comic or something. I will also write about it, forcing me to excercise both.
As I can photograph a piece of paper, if away from a scanner and I have a blogger app on my phone, there should be no excuse. Bare min. of four panels daily. Sounds easy, right? RIGHT? RIIIIGGGHHTTT!?!
Dear jebus...
Monday, October 3, 2011
Thursday, September 16, 2010
October 10, 2008 - Friday One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal
October 10, 2008 - Friday
One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal
Current mood: awake
One Country's Table Scraps, Another Country's Meal
Bill Marsh and Kari Haskell/The New York Times; Photograph by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
Into the Trash It Goes A family of four's monthly share of American food waste. View full graphic.
By ANDREW MARTIN
Published: May 18, 2008
Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world.
Food, a Shrinking Burden
You'd never know it if you saw what was ending up in your landfill. As it turns out, Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen. It works out to about a pound of food every day for every American.
Grocery stores discard products because of spoilage or minor cosmetic blemishes. Restaurants throw away what they don't use. And consumers toss out everything from bananas that have turned brown to last week's Chinese leftovers. In 1997, in one of the few studies of food waste, the Department of Agriculture estimated that two years before, 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food in the United States was never eaten. Fresh produce, milk, grain products and sweeteners made up two-thirds of the waste. An update is under way.
The study didn't account for the explosion of ready-to-eat foods now available at supermarkets, from rotisserie chickens to sandwiches and soups. What do you think happens to that potato salad and meatloaf at the end of the day?
A more recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Americans generate roughly 30 million tons of food waste each year, which is about 12 percent of the total waste stream. All but about 2 percent of that food waste ends up in landfills; by comparison, 62 percent of yard waste is composted.
The numbers seem all the more staggering now, given the cost of groceries and the emerging food crisis abroad.
After President Bush said recently that India's burgeoning middle class was helping to push up food prices by demanding better food, officials in India complained that not only do Americans eat too much — if they slimmed down to the weight of middle-class Indians, said one, "many people in sub-Saharan Africa would find food on their plate" — but they also throw out too much food.
And consider this: the rotting food that ends up in landfills produces methane, a major source of greenhouse gases.
America's Second Harvest — The Nation's Food Bank Network, a group of more than 200 food banks, reports that donations of food are down 9 percent, but the number of people showing up for food has increased 20 percent. The group distributes more than two billion pounds of donated and recovered food and consumer products each year.
The problem isn't unique to the United States.
In England, a recent study revealed that Britons toss away a third of the food they purchase, including more than four million whole apples, 1.2 million sausages and 2.8 million tomatoes. In Sweden, families with small children threw out about a quarter of the food they bought, a recent study there found.
And most distressing, perhaps, is that in some parts of Africa a quarter or more of the crops go bad before they can be eaten. A study presented last week to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development found that the high losses in developing nations "are mainly due to a lack of technology and infrastructure" as well as insect infestations, microbial growth, damage and high temperatures and humidity.
For decades, wasting food has fallen into the category of things that everyone knows is a bad idea but that few do anything about, sort of like speeding and reapplying sunscreen. Didn't your mother tell you to eat all the food on your plate?
Food has long been relatively cheap, and portions were increasingly huge. With so much news about how fat everyone was getting — 66 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, according to 2003-04 government health survey — there was a compelling argument to be made that it was better to toss the leftover deep-dish pizza than eat it again the next day.
For cafeterias, restaurants and supermarkets, it was just as easy to toss food that wasn't sold into trash bins than to worry about somebody getting sick from it. And then filing a lawsuit.
"The path of least resistance is just to chuck it," said Jonathan Bloom, who started a blog last year called wastedfood.com that tracks the issue.
Of course, eliminating food waste won't solve the problems of world hunger and greenhouse-gas pollution. But it could make a dent in this country and wouldn't require a huge amount of effort or money. The Department of Agriculture estimated that recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed four million people a day; recovering 25 percent would feed 20 million people.
The Department of Agriculture said it was updating its figures on food waste and officials there weren't yet able to say if the problem has gotten better or worse.
In many major cities, including New York, food rescue organizations do nearly all the work for cafeterias and restaurants that are willing to participate. The food generally needs to be covered and in some cases placed in a freezer. Food rescue groups pick it up. One of them, City Harvest, collects excess food each day from about 170 establishments in New York.
Food, a Shrinking Burden
"We're not talking about table scraps," said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, explaining the types of wasted food that is edible. "We're talking about a pan of lasagna that was never served."
For food that isn't edible, a growing number of states and cities are offering programs to donate it to livestock farmers or to compost it. In Massachusetts, for instance, the state worked with the grocery industry to create a program to set aside for composting food that can't be used by food banks.
"The great part about this is grocers save money on their garbage bill and they contribute a product to composting," said Kate M. Krebs, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition, who calls the wasting of food "the most wrenching issue of our day."
The City of San Francisco is turning food waste from residents and restaurants into tons of compost a day. The city has structured its garbage collection system so that it provides incentives for recycling and composting.
There are also efforts to cut down on the amount of food that people pile on their plates. A handful of restaurant chains including T.G.I. Friday's are offering smaller portions. And a growing number of college cafeterias have eliminated trays, meaning students have to carry their food to a table rather than loading up a tray.
"It's sort of one of the ideas you read about and think, 'Why didn't I think of that?' " Mr. Bloom said.
The federal government tried once before, during the Clinton administration, to get the nation fired up about food waste, but the effort was discontinued by the Bush administration. The secretary of agriculture at the time, Dan Glickman, created a program to encourage food recovery and gleaning, which means collecting leftover crops from farm fields.
He assigned a member of his staff, Mr. Berg, to oversee the program, and Mr. Berg spent the next several years encouraging farmers, schools, hospitals and companies to donate extra crops and food to feeding charities. A Good Samaritan law was passed by Congress that protected food donors from liability for donating food and groceries, spurring more donations.
"We made a dent," said Mr. Berg, now at the New York City hunger group. "We reduced waste and increased the amount of people being fed. It wasn't a panacea, but it helped."
With the current food crisis, it seems possible that the issue of food waste might have more traction this time around.
Mr. Bloom said he was encouraged by the increasing Web chatter about saving money on food, something that used to be confined to the "frugal mommy blogs."
"The fundamental thing that I'm fighting against is, 'why should I care? I paid for it,' " Mr. Bloom said. "The rising prices are really an answer to that."
Currently watching:
Ghostbusters (Widescreen Edition)
Release date: 2006-03-14
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One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal
Current mood: awake
One Country's Table Scraps, Another Country's Meal
Bill Marsh and Kari Haskell/The New York Times; Photograph by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
Into the Trash It Goes A family of four's monthly share of American food waste. View full graphic.
By ANDREW MARTIN
Published: May 18, 2008
Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world.
Food, a Shrinking Burden
You'd never know it if you saw what was ending up in your landfill. As it turns out, Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen. It works out to about a pound of food every day for every American.
Grocery stores discard products because of spoilage or minor cosmetic blemishes. Restaurants throw away what they don't use. And consumers toss out everything from bananas that have turned brown to last week's Chinese leftovers. In 1997, in one of the few studies of food waste, the Department of Agriculture estimated that two years before, 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food in the United States was never eaten. Fresh produce, milk, grain products and sweeteners made up two-thirds of the waste. An update is under way.
The study didn't account for the explosion of ready-to-eat foods now available at supermarkets, from rotisserie chickens to sandwiches and soups. What do you think happens to that potato salad and meatloaf at the end of the day?
A more recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Americans generate roughly 30 million tons of food waste each year, which is about 12 percent of the total waste stream. All but about 2 percent of that food waste ends up in landfills; by comparison, 62 percent of yard waste is composted.
The numbers seem all the more staggering now, given the cost of groceries and the emerging food crisis abroad.
After President Bush said recently that India's burgeoning middle class was helping to push up food prices by demanding better food, officials in India complained that not only do Americans eat too much — if they slimmed down to the weight of middle-class Indians, said one, "many people in sub-Saharan Africa would find food on their plate" — but they also throw out too much food.
And consider this: the rotting food that ends up in landfills produces methane, a major source of greenhouse gases.
America's Second Harvest — The Nation's Food Bank Network, a group of more than 200 food banks, reports that donations of food are down 9 percent, but the number of people showing up for food has increased 20 percent. The group distributes more than two billion pounds of donated and recovered food and consumer products each year.
The problem isn't unique to the United States.
In England, a recent study revealed that Britons toss away a third of the food they purchase, including more than four million whole apples, 1.2 million sausages and 2.8 million tomatoes. In Sweden, families with small children threw out about a quarter of the food they bought, a recent study there found.
And most distressing, perhaps, is that in some parts of Africa a quarter or more of the crops go bad before they can be eaten. A study presented last week to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development found that the high losses in developing nations "are mainly due to a lack of technology and infrastructure" as well as insect infestations, microbial growth, damage and high temperatures and humidity.
For decades, wasting food has fallen into the category of things that everyone knows is a bad idea but that few do anything about, sort of like speeding and reapplying sunscreen. Didn't your mother tell you to eat all the food on your plate?
Food has long been relatively cheap, and portions were increasingly huge. With so much news about how fat everyone was getting — 66 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, according to 2003-04 government health survey — there was a compelling argument to be made that it was better to toss the leftover deep-dish pizza than eat it again the next day.
For cafeterias, restaurants and supermarkets, it was just as easy to toss food that wasn't sold into trash bins than to worry about somebody getting sick from it. And then filing a lawsuit.
"The path of least resistance is just to chuck it," said Jonathan Bloom, who started a blog last year called wastedfood.com that tracks the issue.
Of course, eliminating food waste won't solve the problems of world hunger and greenhouse-gas pollution. But it could make a dent in this country and wouldn't require a huge amount of effort or money. The Department of Agriculture estimated that recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed four million people a day; recovering 25 percent would feed 20 million people.
The Department of Agriculture said it was updating its figures on food waste and officials there weren't yet able to say if the problem has gotten better or worse.
In many major cities, including New York, food rescue organizations do nearly all the work for cafeterias and restaurants that are willing to participate. The food generally needs to be covered and in some cases placed in a freezer. Food rescue groups pick it up. One of them, City Harvest, collects excess food each day from about 170 establishments in New York.
Food, a Shrinking Burden
"We're not talking about table scraps," said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, explaining the types of wasted food that is edible. "We're talking about a pan of lasagna that was never served."
For food that isn't edible, a growing number of states and cities are offering programs to donate it to livestock farmers or to compost it. In Massachusetts, for instance, the state worked with the grocery industry to create a program to set aside for composting food that can't be used by food banks.
"The great part about this is grocers save money on their garbage bill and they contribute a product to composting," said Kate M. Krebs, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition, who calls the wasting of food "the most wrenching issue of our day."
The City of San Francisco is turning food waste from residents and restaurants into tons of compost a day. The city has structured its garbage collection system so that it provides incentives for recycling and composting.
There are also efforts to cut down on the amount of food that people pile on their plates. A handful of restaurant chains including T.G.I. Friday's are offering smaller portions. And a growing number of college cafeterias have eliminated trays, meaning students have to carry their food to a table rather than loading up a tray.
"It's sort of one of the ideas you read about and think, 'Why didn't I think of that?' " Mr. Bloom said.
The federal government tried once before, during the Clinton administration, to get the nation fired up about food waste, but the effort was discontinued by the Bush administration. The secretary of agriculture at the time, Dan Glickman, created a program to encourage food recovery and gleaning, which means collecting leftover crops from farm fields.
He assigned a member of his staff, Mr. Berg, to oversee the program, and Mr. Berg spent the next several years encouraging farmers, schools, hospitals and companies to donate extra crops and food to feeding charities. A Good Samaritan law was passed by Congress that protected food donors from liability for donating food and groceries, spurring more donations.
"We made a dent," said Mr. Berg, now at the New York City hunger group. "We reduced waste and increased the amount of people being fed. It wasn't a panacea, but it helped."
With the current food crisis, it seems possible that the issue of food waste might have more traction this time around.
Mr. Bloom said he was encouraged by the increasing Web chatter about saving money on food, something that used to be confined to the "frugal mommy blogs."
"The fundamental thing that I'm fighting against is, 'why should I care? I paid for it,' " Mr. Bloom said. "The rising prices are really an answer to that."
Currently watching:
Ghostbusters (Widescreen Edition)
Release date: 2006-03-14
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/noreasonwhy79/blog?page=7#ixzz0ziayAMpt
October 10, 2008 - Friday Old nylons, new uses
October 10, 2008 - Friday
Old nylons, new uses
Current mood: awake
Old nylons, new uses
By Huddler's Green Home Community Posted Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:04pm PDT
Huddler's tight-knit community of eco-minded consumers share their knowledge about sustainable products and services ranging from electric cars to organic toothpaste. Click here to participate.
We dedicate this to all our stockings that have bit the dust.
Many women have felt the frustration of being all dressed up when disaster strikes -- a run in your nylons. Maybe it's small and in an inconspicuous spot and can be salvaged with clear nail polish.
But if the run is beyond hope, here are some great alternative uses for your damaged stockings.
Nylons can:
Tie up things, like plants that need to be staked.
Filter old paint from one can into a new can. Just stretch the nylon across the top of the new can and pour the old paint through it. It will filter out lumps and dried paint.
Store scraps of soap. Collect enough pieces, and tie the stocking off. It will made a good soap scrubber
Protecting very small items, like handkerchiefs and doilies, in the washing machine and dryer (low temp). They may need ironing afterward, but lace trim and hem-stitching will be safe from the zippers and rivets of other clothes, and they won't find their way into the lint trap.
Be made into sachets ... put in some lavender flowers, cedar chips, or your favorite potpourri; tie a knot; cut above the knot; repeat up the leg and then toss the little bundles in drawers, shoe boxes, the pockets of stored coats ... wherever.
Remove cat hair from furniture. Pull the stocking over your hand, and wipe down your couches and chairs. It creates static and the hairs come right up.
Find lost contact lenses, earrings, or other such tiny items. Put the stocking over the end of the vacuum hose and gently vacuum the area where the item was dropped.
Repel deer and other animals from your garden. They hate the smell of humans, so you can use nylons with ivory soap staked in the garden to keep the deer away.
Shine shoes like the best of them.
"Scrub" silver, Plexiglas, and other easily scratched surfaces.
Store things like screws, nails, nuts, etc. Pour the items into the stocking, tie it off and hang it over a work table.
Be attached to the discharge hose of your washing machine to catch lint before it goes down the drain and clogs pipes.
Be pulled over a yardstick to dust under the fridge, washer, dryer, or under any hard to reach area.
Be used like a bungee cord to tie things down. Keep an old pair in your car trunk.
Become a pet toy -- for cats, fill the nylon foot with pieces of old fabric, then tie off the opening. Add a bit of catnip for an extra treat. For dogs, put a tennis ball in an old stocking and tie a knot.
Apply varnish or finish in the hard-to-reach places where a brush won't fit.
Keep kids warm -- on extra cold days, use clean old stockings as mitten liners for children. They are ideal because they can provide warmth at least up to the elbow.
Keep kids entertained -- nylons can be used to make a crafty seed sprouting creature.
Bind piles of newspapers and magazines. Cut the top of a pair of nylons off and voila! You have a large rubber band.
Reduce your heating bill. Make a stocking snake to prevent drafts by filling the leg of a nylon with sand and tie the end shut. Place at the bottom of the door to prevent cold air from seeping inside.
Haul around small toys, like action figures. This works great for road trips.
Replace expensive stuffing in homemade pillows or dolls. When the stuffed toy wears out, you can take the nylons out and use them again.
Protect shoes from scuffing while traveling. Store one shoe in each leg of the nylons.
Create an outdoor hand-washing station. Put a bar of soap into an old nylon and tie it to an outdoor faucet. If you don't have a convenient outdoor tap, an old laundry detergent container can be filled up with water. Tie the soap to the handle. You can use a hammer to poke a hole near the bottom of the container, and stick a golf tee inside to create a lower level of water flow. Now you can wash your hands after gardening, walking the dog, and playing or working outside.
Be used to create a non-slip bar of soap for kids' bath time. Put the bar of soap into the nylon, and tie off the edges. Cut off any tail. This makes the soap have better grip for kids.
Be used as a disposable headband. Cut the nylon across the leg to create circles. In a pinch they can also be used as hair bands for ponytails.
Be turned into an inexpensive softball that won't hurt kids or your furniture. Stuff an old stocking with other old pairs of nylons, and sew the top closed.
Scrub your back when you can't reach -- place a bar of soap in the middle of a stocking, and tie off both ends. Now you can grab each end of the stocking and seesaw your back clean.
Help someone with a broken arm or leg get dressed. Cut the foot part off of a stocking, and stretch it over the cast. This nylon will keep clothing from getting caught on the cast.
Make you rich quick -- go to a bank, pull the nylons over your head and ... um … maybe not. ;)
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/noreasonwhy79/blog?page=7#ixzz0zianSjjs
Old nylons, new uses
Current mood: awake
Old nylons, new uses
By Huddler's Green Home Community Posted Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:04pm PDT
Huddler's tight-knit community of eco-minded consumers share their knowledge about sustainable products and services ranging from electric cars to organic toothpaste. Click here to participate.
We dedicate this to all our stockings that have bit the dust.
Many women have felt the frustration of being all dressed up when disaster strikes -- a run in your nylons. Maybe it's small and in an inconspicuous spot and can be salvaged with clear nail polish.
But if the run is beyond hope, here are some great alternative uses for your damaged stockings.
Nylons can:
Tie up things, like plants that need to be staked.
Filter old paint from one can into a new can. Just stretch the nylon across the top of the new can and pour the old paint through it. It will filter out lumps and dried paint.
Store scraps of soap. Collect enough pieces, and tie the stocking off. It will made a good soap scrubber
Protecting very small items, like handkerchiefs and doilies, in the washing machine and dryer (low temp). They may need ironing afterward, but lace trim and hem-stitching will be safe from the zippers and rivets of other clothes, and they won't find their way into the lint trap.
Be made into sachets ... put in some lavender flowers, cedar chips, or your favorite potpourri; tie a knot; cut above the knot; repeat up the leg and then toss the little bundles in drawers, shoe boxes, the pockets of stored coats ... wherever.
Remove cat hair from furniture. Pull the stocking over your hand, and wipe down your couches and chairs. It creates static and the hairs come right up.
Find lost contact lenses, earrings, or other such tiny items. Put the stocking over the end of the vacuum hose and gently vacuum the area where the item was dropped.
Repel deer and other animals from your garden. They hate the smell of humans, so you can use nylons with ivory soap staked in the garden to keep the deer away.
Shine shoes like the best of them.
"Scrub" silver, Plexiglas, and other easily scratched surfaces.
Store things like screws, nails, nuts, etc. Pour the items into the stocking, tie it off and hang it over a work table.
Be attached to the discharge hose of your washing machine to catch lint before it goes down the drain and clogs pipes.
Be pulled over a yardstick to dust under the fridge, washer, dryer, or under any hard to reach area.
Be used like a bungee cord to tie things down. Keep an old pair in your car trunk.
Become a pet toy -- for cats, fill the nylon foot with pieces of old fabric, then tie off the opening. Add a bit of catnip for an extra treat. For dogs, put a tennis ball in an old stocking and tie a knot.
Apply varnish or finish in the hard-to-reach places where a brush won't fit.
Keep kids warm -- on extra cold days, use clean old stockings as mitten liners for children. They are ideal because they can provide warmth at least up to the elbow.
Keep kids entertained -- nylons can be used to make a crafty seed sprouting creature.
Bind piles of newspapers and magazines. Cut the top of a pair of nylons off and voila! You have a large rubber band.
Reduce your heating bill. Make a stocking snake to prevent drafts by filling the leg of a nylon with sand and tie the end shut. Place at the bottom of the door to prevent cold air from seeping inside.
Haul around small toys, like action figures. This works great for road trips.
Replace expensive stuffing in homemade pillows or dolls. When the stuffed toy wears out, you can take the nylons out and use them again.
Protect shoes from scuffing while traveling. Store one shoe in each leg of the nylons.
Create an outdoor hand-washing station. Put a bar of soap into an old nylon and tie it to an outdoor faucet. If you don't have a convenient outdoor tap, an old laundry detergent container can be filled up with water. Tie the soap to the handle. You can use a hammer to poke a hole near the bottom of the container, and stick a golf tee inside to create a lower level of water flow. Now you can wash your hands after gardening, walking the dog, and playing or working outside.
Be used to create a non-slip bar of soap for kids' bath time. Put the bar of soap into the nylon, and tie off the edges. Cut off any tail. This makes the soap have better grip for kids.
Be used as a disposable headband. Cut the nylon across the leg to create circles. In a pinch they can also be used as hair bands for ponytails.
Be turned into an inexpensive softball that won't hurt kids or your furniture. Stuff an old stocking with other old pairs of nylons, and sew the top closed.
Scrub your back when you can't reach -- place a bar of soap in the middle of a stocking, and tie off both ends. Now you can grab each end of the stocking and seesaw your back clean.
Help someone with a broken arm or leg get dressed. Cut the foot part off of a stocking, and stretch it over the cast. This nylon will keep clothing from getting caught on the cast.
Make you rich quick -- go to a bank, pull the nylons over your head and ... um … maybe not. ;)
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/noreasonwhy79/blog?page=7#ixzz0zianSjjs
October 9, 2008 - Thursday jaden needs glasses
October 9, 2008 - Thursday
jaden needs glasses
Current mood: blah
Category: Life
so i just got back from jaden's optometrist's appointment and it has been confirmed that he is farsighted (in other words he needs glasses to read his book, not the board).
in jay and my families, all eye disorders run rampant. i just would never guess jaden cos he can spot spongebob on a cheese package from one side of wal*mart to the other.
the teachers and doctors guess that he will do better in school & his behavor will improve cos he can see, but i know this runs deeper. adhd with delayed learning doesn't get healed with glasses. i have adhd, ocd, and acellerated learning & glasses did not control my behavior. i still think jaden needs to sit on his own with the same if not more 1 on 1 time with his teacher or aide. the kids sit at island tables of like 6 kids and it is more than his attention can handle.
i am glad his vision will be in check in 2 weeks when he gets his glasses in & i will try to post some pics of him with them on. i am just not looking forward to the teachers complaining again. it's hard to get decent schooling for your kid when they have learning disabilities here. some schools only offer a tidbit of occupational therapy. the private and charter schools won't take them as they say they are not equipped and take away from the other kids learning. the general consensus i seem to get is i should dope him up on pills and get him to shut up. i am close to caving, but i know if he is listless, he is not learning either, so i rather not have the chemically enhanced jaden.
one of these days i'm gonna hit the fucking power-ball & get him a private tutor...
Currently reading:
Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
By Anthony Harkins
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/noreasonwhy79/blog?page=7#ixzz0ziadowZD
jaden needs glasses
Current mood: blah
Category: Life
so i just got back from jaden's optometrist's appointment and it has been confirmed that he is farsighted (in other words he needs glasses to read his book, not the board).
in jay and my families, all eye disorders run rampant. i just would never guess jaden cos he can spot spongebob on a cheese package from one side of wal*mart to the other.
the teachers and doctors guess that he will do better in school & his behavor will improve cos he can see, but i know this runs deeper. adhd with delayed learning doesn't get healed with glasses. i have adhd, ocd, and acellerated learning & glasses did not control my behavior. i still think jaden needs to sit on his own with the same if not more 1 on 1 time with his teacher or aide. the kids sit at island tables of like 6 kids and it is more than his attention can handle.
i am glad his vision will be in check in 2 weeks when he gets his glasses in & i will try to post some pics of him with them on. i am just not looking forward to the teachers complaining again. it's hard to get decent schooling for your kid when they have learning disabilities here. some schools only offer a tidbit of occupational therapy. the private and charter schools won't take them as they say they are not equipped and take away from the other kids learning. the general consensus i seem to get is i should dope him up on pills and get him to shut up. i am close to caving, but i know if he is listless, he is not learning either, so i rather not have the chemically enhanced jaden.
one of these days i'm gonna hit the fucking power-ball & get him a private tutor...
Currently reading:
Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
By Anthony Harkins
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/noreasonwhy79/blog?page=7#ixzz0ziadowZD
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