care bears are lame anyways

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	Friend Bear You are everyone's ideal friend because you are sincere and genuinely kind. Sometimes you worry about your friends' problems so much, you forget about your own responsibilities, which can get you into trouble. For you, it's the little things that really count. You also happen to be the main driver of the Cloud Car. No speeding!
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[mago-frog.livejournal.com]

please call my mum
they have had a car problem and are stuck in esperence

[absinthetears.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better I got love a lot

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

lol that soulnds like it could be a monty python charactor

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

shit

just got this message and my mobile is out of juice (was just about to email you too.

do you have my work email?

[absinthetears.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a bad name for a village bike..

Hmm...

[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

Hey, I get to be the red one! When I watched with my sisters I always got to be grumpy (or sometimes sleepy) - I think it was the blue that did it - among three sisters I had to hang onto something boyish, even if it was just a colour ;)

	Love-a-Lot Bear You love to take care of others and people love being around you because you make them feel appreciated. You are very sweet and soft-spoken. You are also a romantic and consider yourself an excellent matchmaker, so you tend to be a bit nosy. But everyone still considers you the sweetest person they know.
Take the Which Care Bear Are You? Quiz!

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

i polite way of calling the bike anyways

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

see I always hated that blue was for boys and pink was for girls. I hated being put into a box and that box being pink

i used to say my favourite colour was orange because of it

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[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

gender role-ing is tough. On one hand, it really helps develop a cultural awareness, and even if the values are arbitary, as long as they don't re-inforce something negative they can really help with identification as kids grow up (trust me - growing up surrounded by girls I needed a few guy things to identify with - for me it was mostly the computer and computer games).

The annoying thing is when people don't fit into the expectations. Because I can talk about jewelry, and are a bit feminine in some ways, I've been called gay a few times - that is really annoying. I know I like girls, so I'm fine (apart from being shy about it) - but I've got a few friends who were consistently called Gay because they're a bit feminine (one of them did like the color pink), and started to beleive it. They didn't fit into the expected "boy" box - so they were stuck in the "gay" box. THAT pisses me off.

Orange is a good colour - I'm told looking at the colour orange is good for the Thyroid gland. Pity it's hard to rhyme with....

So what do you say your favorite colour is now?

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

hand...

anyways. now I like deep blues, browns and greys. I also have a lot of purple in my wardrobe, but that I am ashamed to bring out because my footy team sucks so bad (though not as bad as the west coke eagles).

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[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

the orange, not the gland
my rhymes aren't that bland

but the orange
is so strange
pronounced properly
it's got monopoly

I'd probably say if anything, my team would be the eagles (it helps to have something to go for when you hang around with rabid followers of the swans - and if it's not AFL, it's league or union) - but note the if anything, I'd rather play sport than watch it and it's probably been a few years since I've played any football - or any sport if you don't include hiking or swimming. More identification stuff really, not that I want to be identified with coke.

Thus says the guy hanging around the olympic venues (mind you, I am interested in some of the swimming events - the water cube is very cool).

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

i was always too unco to play sports. my brother played, I watched. it is unaustralian not to like watching sport though

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[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

Well pardon me for being so bloody un-australian
bugger that, not like I need YOUR approval ;)

Dancing counts as a sport doesn't it? I mean it's just like wrestling, except they don't (usually) hit each other. I've watched that with friends and family fairly often - so you think you can dance, dancing with the stars, etc...

Besides, it's not that I don't *like* watching sports, just that I'd rather play - and that motivation is pretty low.

Kinda like on the "like" scale - 0 being indifferent, 100 being fanatical, playing sport would be somewhere around 10-20, watching maybe 5-10 (where hanging with friends fits around 70, and watching anime or playing computer games is 50-60 or a good conversation might be around 70 as well). So, the composite scores mean that watching sport with friends (say it's a good sport rated at 10) would score 73 where playing the same sport would hit 76, watching anime with friends would score an 85, and having a good conversation with friends would hit 91 (and to do the maths, watching anime AND having a good conversations with friends would hit somewhere around 97). Dancing, Hiking, Swimming or Chess would all rate higher than other sports, somewhere around the 50 mark, but apart from dancing, none of them are really good sports for the audience to watch.

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

in australia... for men... no dancing doesnt count as a sport... sorry

see with afl, my interest is 100 if freo are doing good or WC eagles are doing bad. 95 for the gf. 90 if freo dont look like they are going to completely fuck it up and about 80 for everything else afl.

about 60 for test cricket and 70 for one day if it isnt a close game (if it is about 95) then various amounts for other sports depending on the game. i sat at 100 for a tennis match when mcenroe was playing about 15 years ago.

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[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

*sigh* you got me there - I'm a certified tree-hugger, youthworker, religious, geek, leader (with at least equivalent of Tafe Certificate III in each). I seem to specialise in anything but sports.

Having said that, I have been un-intentionally exagerating - doing youth work I was playing basketball at least once a week with the guys (highschoolers, up to year 12), and that was fun (I at least held my own or could beat most of the year 12s), and at least once a month participate in other sports, including ultimate frisbee. Including occasional new things like rafting, catamaraning, abseiling and such.

I just don't think of it as sport - I think of it as youthwork. Especially since more of my attention is usually on making sure they work well together, rather than trying to win. I think that's more fun anyway.

Besides, I also really enjoy Lazer sports, and sailing (those catamarans on the swan river are fun) - and that is a man's sport - if you disagree, you need to read more Hemmingway (with no mention that I know enough about poetry to know who that is - that would make my situation look worse at the moment).

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

yeah see I played Basketball a bit over the years, but that wasnt sport for me, that was catching up with the girls and writing complaints to the basketball association of WA about a girl who liked to take football marks on other peoples backs even when they were grounded and the refs (one of whom was her boyfriend) wouldn't call fouls (and she severely injured one of my friends like this and I was slightly injured by her). I would have wrote to Wally Hagan stadium about it (where we played) but we had already made many complaints about the refs (verbally and in writing) and still the senior ladies leagues only ever got junior refs. oh the politics of basketball.

yeah that ruined me for playing sports

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[eldaeb.livejournal.com]

There always seems to be someone around to make it hard for others. For me I'm allergic to some deoderants, so hanging around sweaty guys is a good way to end up with a rash and/or headache - it was usually un-intentional, but not always.

But I think the other big thing for me was having no fine motor skills (since I was born) - so if there's no competition it is fine, but when people start getting serious then things that require fine adjustment are a lot harder for me to pick up than they are for any of my mates so it gets pretty frustrating.

On the other hand my (in response, seriously over-compensated) grand motor skills probably indicate why I enjoy things like swimming and dancing so much - martial arts too most of the time. I was also pretty good at goalie in soccer - to stop the ball at least, but after I got the ball, placing it to the right person was often the challenge.

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[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

yeah see for me it was more my vision. my left i wanders and my depth perception gets a bit screwed from it so i wouldnt take shots too often, I was manly the defence b!tch. anyway occassionaly i would and miss.

anyway this one night i randomly took a shot (with my teammates encouragement) we were playing a team that knew us so whn i got the ball, they worked on the defence and didnt bother about me knowing i rarely take shots, so i popped one up and it went straight in.

my friends husband was scoring (each team had to supply a scorer) and when he was told that I got the goal, he wouldn't believe it. he very nearly wouldnt put the score next to my name

anyway later in the same game I thought i would pop another one up for a bit of fun (we were winning anyways) and again it went straight in, no rim, nothing. my friends husband saw that one and couldnt deny it but he couldnt believe it.

that remains my highest score... 4 points. I know... really slack for the tallest girl on the team (for all but 2 seasons)