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| oh lots of cool presents from china |
| 09.30.04 (10:28 pm) [edit] |
yay.. i got presents today off parents.. i got a red and black handbag.. oh love handbags and my god love black also.. i got a purple braclet with a blue heart, its so cute.. and i got a sealer.. it is carved with a buddah on top and has my name in english and chinese on the bottom so i can seal letters when i write them its awesome.. and then of course a bunch of hello kitty stuff.. yay.. of that'll do.. cya soonage.. its raining today so i dont have much to do
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| dada is home.. |
| 09.29.04 (8:56 pm) [edit] |
well driving is sydney was easy and good.. and now dad has a smile <------this big------->.. lol
he spent time in a panda bear orphanage and said it was very rewarding.. wont tell you all about it as this is my blog not his..
i got an email from my bestie in denmark.. it had a virus so i couldn't read it.. and now i cant send one back as page wasn't found.. :( never mind.. i'll fix it up..
hmm really needed my sleep last night.. yay.. feeling GOOD.. but i think i'll stay in my dressing gown today.. aaahhhh yeh.. lol
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| getting dad tomorrow morning |
| 09.28.04 (12:01 am) [edit] |
i got a phone call this arfternoon from my dad ringing from bejing. he asked my to drive down to the airport and pick them.. this means however that i have to wake up at 2.30am.. urghh how bodgy.. my normal wake up is somewhere between 8 and 10 am and now getting up at this hour.. yuk.. oh well i will get presents ...hehe yay..
i spose i have to go to bed now so i have plenty of energy. nighty night
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| A tribute to nan |
| 09.27.04 (4:44 pm) [edit] |
today it is three years since my nanna died. and i spose i just wanted to acknowledge it on my blog.. and share with you a bit of her story.. she is very loved and missed figure.
nanna was a nurse and my pop met her in when she was about 18.. my nan had two boys and eveentually ended up with 5 grandchildren.. all her life she helped pop and stood by him no what stood in the way.. my pop is an alcoholic who has just had his 40 yrs of sobriety celebration.. but it wasn't always so easy..
when pop dried out he picked all the character faults he thought nan had and made it a umpleasant first 18 months of marriage. he attended Alcoholics Anonymous but objected to the steps.. so he says he wasn't sober just dry..
they then moved out west and pop decided he wasn't an Alcoholic and that he had been a spirit drinker before and could do it again.. he wented to the pub and had two schooners.. that started a horrible journey for both himself and nan.. he says at that moment he lots every bit of human dignity he had and it turned him into a failure as a father, and a failure as a husband..
after those two drinks he woke up the next morning with a half empty bottle brandy next to the bed. pop spent all the money he got on alcohol.. and nan looked after my dad and my uncle who were little babies.. on just a tiny bit of money.. nan went to pops sister and asked for the money to put pop into detox..he did 3 detoxs and become institutionalised. through this nan had no money so she took the two boys and went to stay at her families. when he came out of detox he got a good job and nan took the two boys back to syndey to live with pop. on pop's first day he got paid and left work early and did a pub crawl across sydney until he blacked out a taxi driver kindly took him home.. nan took all the money she had to look after the boys and had pop readmitted.. when he signed himself out.. he didn't drink again..
to help nan cope she went to Al-anon (for friends and families or Alcholics).. she had her 40th anniversary in Al-anon.. just a while before she died.. Alanon helped her so much.. nan founded the "caring and sharing tape library" that recxorded meeting and then tapes were made available for ppl to take home ansd listen to later.. nan selflessly travel all over australia to make this program possible so as to help others..
pop had quite a number of heart attacks and was bed ridden for a long time.. nan stayed by him and looked after him everyday.. nan was a magnificent lady and went through a hard life..
the prayer that is associated with the Alanon fellowship is the Senerity prayer..
"god grant me the senerity to accept the things i cannot change,
courage to change the things i can,
and the wisdom to know the difference"
i was 15 when nan died and i got a tattoo on my lower back that is the chinese symbol of senerity.. i will never forget her now and hopefully some of the inner strength she possessed will be in me somewhere..
ok so thats my nan.. i love her very very much and know she looks over me everyday.
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| WOW.. how choice.. final med exams come in for semester |
| 09.27.04 (4:07 pm) [edit] |
OMG.. woohoo.. yay..
my envelope arrived in the mail.."University's Medical Test - Statement of results" printed across it.. err hesitant to open it.. i finally did.. and yes.. i got in the 98 percentile.. thats a 1st class honour.. how good is the that.. YAY YAY
:D :D :D :D :D
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| feeling dead inside.. bullying |
| 09.26.04 (6:38 pm) [edit] |
i was watching Dr. Phil and there was a lady on who had a son that they been bullied at school and he was shot in the head... she said "when i saw my son with a bullet through his head, he now looked on the outside like he had been feeling on the inside for a long time." that is so true to what so many ppl feel... i want to collect your experiences of both bullying and being a victim..
Question :BULLIES... what did you do and why?
Question :VICTIM.... what happened to you and how did you feel?
i'll start..
in high school i was in the populars. i was the kind of person who would be on the outskirts and whatever happened i would go along with until someone started up rumours which soon spread and started my group into a hate frenzy.. i was talking about, ignored, and criticised..and that was just by my close friends.. are a while i became depressed about it and was booted from the group.. as an outcast from the popular group i was still too good for any other groups.. it was a socially changing moment..
from then i was a bully.. i thought there aint no way ppl are going to get away with that.. i backstabbed, romoured, make ppl take sides and put the whole group into an uproar. eventually i had the power to play the group.. there was a air of intimidation and uncertainty that lay across the whole group..i had to make them see that things that were said about them weren't necessarily true same as the things said about me.. a reconciliation and was called between all group members..
from that time in year 8 we have all grown together. and even though nothing like that has happened since.. there is somewhat a respect ppl have for me.. maybe not a respect.. more like a fear.. and throughout my friends i'm called Genie the Meanie.. i spose i have to live with that.. because hurts my friends was one of the stupidest things i have done.. and was really really bad..
i have been both and now try hard be be assertive and not be either.. i respect other ppl's opinion as long as they respect me..
(view/add)... come on ...click the button and answer my questions..
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| picnics by the lake |
| 09.25.04 (9:41 pm) [edit] |
this morning my brother woke me up at 6 am.. i thought oh my god there must be an emergency.. but it was all ok.. he knows how unwell i've been and packed a picnic.. i must admit it wasn't the most perfect picnic i have seen but how sweet and lovely.. he asked me if i'd like to go for a drive..me driving of course. we went down to the lake and took the boat. we had breakfast on the lake and had a bit of a whizz around.. shoulda took the baby fishing rod at it would have been one of those card moments..lol
it was pretty cool and was warm too. then at 8.30 i went to work. i only went because papers needed filling out.. but we had a blackout at the pool there for nothing could be done with it.. so i swam in the pool.. really nice to take the strain off jointsand just float around looking at the sky. i presumed it was safe.. the amount of cholrine in the pool versus no one in there making extra germs.
i came home.. jumped on the net and did some discussing of uni work with my friend.. and now telling you whats been doing..
all on all been a good weekend.. takes my mind off other things.
oh yeh.. its a month today since i started blogging and 1170 hits on my site.. not too shabby for a month :)
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| just lazing in the sun.. ahhhh |
| 09.25.04 (9:32 pm) [edit] |
yesterday i got up.. went out to the yard and layed in the sun.. trying to work away my slowly developed milky white winter complexion. when my brother (aged 11) woke up he came and joined me. we both layed on our tyowels reading our books.. it was a very nice time just chattering together.. of course his book had to be better and smarter than mine.. i dont know why he insists on examining my anatomy text book when even i wont open it.. making a curve in my step as no not get to close to it in the bookcase.. lol.. just joking..
we put our swimmers on.. as i was getting a line on my shoulder where mty singlet stopped.. we searched through the grass and found some 4 leadf clovers again.. i found about 15 i think and my brother only found one.. he got cut and sad.. hehe.. i'm luckier :D
it was kinda hot so we mucked around with the hose and he always came off second best :P
i then was completely exhausted.. because i'm not spose to run around or anything.. i am following the doctors and rules and not go to shopping centre and other germ infested places.. so thwe back yard was good enough..
i have chest pains and my skin has started to dry out and peel.. not because of the sun.. just my medication.. hmm having difficulty swallowing.. oh well suits me find... dont have to eat much then.
ok thats all about yesterday.. oh holidays are very nice :):)
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| this IS me :) |
| 09.23.04 (9:37 pm) [edit] |
| How to make a genies |
Ingredients:
1 part success
1 part crazyiness
1 part instinct |
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of emotion |
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| feeling particularly ill. |
| 09.23.04 (9:23 pm) [edit] |
hi.. i didn't want to tell everyone this but i'm getting sick and ppl are starting to wonder why.. so this is really to my concerned friends.. i dont want to talk about it to you.. as i dont want to see the expression your face.. ok the truth is that i have an infection of my lymphatics.. i am developing nodes under my arm and experiencing a lot of pain.. when you have any lymph disorders it stop your immune system from working properly so i have started to aviod outdoors.. and when your lymph system isn't functioning alot of waste remains in your bloodstream and slowly develops blood poisoning.. blood poisoning make you have headaches dizziness, feeling physcially ill, cramps in your muscle and joints, and a general fatigue.
consequently i'm getting sick.. ok now you know..
bye now
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| 1000 origami peace cranes |
| 09.23.04 (3:44 am) [edit] |
woo hoo i have finally done it.. 15 days after i began making cranes i finally reached 1000.
so as the story goes.. i should have happiness and peace.. and i do.. i put my patience to the test and came out on top :) :) :)
i am happy i'm finished and at peace with myself for completing such a huge task.. :)
oh well it was easy. ans well worth it.. what an accomplishment
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| Mobile phones: can we live without them? |
| 09.22.04 (4:04 pm) [edit] |
this is a manuscript cereatd from an interview i conducted. i am aware that the information found in one interview doesn't create a valid answer but this is one of 6 done from a small scale qualitative interview..
Introduction
The topic for this research project was mobile phones and the question trying to be answered was 'can we live without them?' The reason this topic was chosen was because it was something that is relevant to everyone in the researching group and most people have some contact with mobile phones at times. The purpose of the study was to find out what factors were contributing to peoples need for a mobile phone and to see if people were indeed dependant on their mobile phones. It was also to see what impact mobile phone usage had on other occupations.
This is a relatively new area of research and literature on the topic was rather limited. But people have studied concerns that relate to information technology on the whole. Research that has already been done on the topic suggested that large numbers of adults were dependant on their phones and in denial about it (Wakefield, 2004). People are generally unwilling to admit that they have an addiction of any sort and only 26% of people admit they couldn't live without their phone while it is expected that more people are in fact attached to their phone. (Wakefield, 2004). An observational study (Swallowe, 2003) concluded that mobile phone were starting to socially exclude people both those who don’t have a phone and those who are talking on their phone and ignoring what conversation is happening around them. There is information around that also supports the other side saying the mobile phones are revolutionary in changing social relationships for the best (Kloer, 2004). Mobile phones are also very distracting and take attention and concentration from other activities that you are partaking at the same time and can be detrimental to your health and safety (Belson, 2004). Another mixed theme found throughout the literature is that of radiation and ill-health. One Author (Baghat, 1998) discuss findings that electromagnetic energy that is being emitted from our mobile phone may have harmful effects to peoples health. Some of the health risks found to be associated with mobile phone usage are headaches, eye tics, poor short term memory, buzzing in the head, loss of concentration and fatigue. In the same time that other researchers and scientists claim that there seems to no effect of mobile phones on one's health (Anonymous, 2004). Basically there is a lot of contradicting evidence that is yet to really be substantiated one way or the other, so the aim of this study is to identify whether we can or cannot live without our mobile phones. In this particular study we are creating occupational profiles on individuals with a hope to collate common themes in a final larger study. To ensure the results from each study were reliable and comparable all researchers followed a set guideline and methodology.
Methodology
Participants were chosen for this interview on the basis that they were a mobile phone owner and that they were over the age of 18 so that parental consent was not required for the interview. For the purpose of such a small study the participants were limited a person that was familiar with the researcher. The data collection was done through a semi-structured interview with mainly open-ended questions followed by prompts to continue the participant talking. The interview was done at a time and location suitable for the participant. The interview was voluntary and they were not paid for participation. To avoid ethical implications the participant was given a information sheet which they were asked to keep. They were asked to sign a consent form stating that they were willing giving information and they knew the purpose of the interview. They were also over the Each interview was approximately 25-35 minutes in length and each of the 6 researchers interviewed one participant. The findings in this manuscript are that of DS. After an interview with this person a transcript was made from the taped interview. The transcript was read and then needed to be evaluated. To assess data a simple process can be followed. All data that is received from an interview will be unique and require different analysis but the strategies by which you simplify your findings can track the same course as other interviews. A simple method described by Byrne (2001) says start by creating themes and sorting ideas into various categories, with enough supportive evidence in the transcript to warrant having that theme. She also mentions the fact that this can be done for one participant or for collaborating group findings. In this study an individual approach was taken in data analysis. In the next step Byrne (2001) suggests that data should be coded with definitions of themes and positive and negative aspects towards the theme are identified to avoid any uncertainty when discussing the findings. The last phase is to relate the information to the person, setting, and issue surrounding the purpose of the study. This processing method can be applied to most qualitative data and was sufficient for identifying themes throughout the transcript for this interview. Some of these themes will be discussed throughout the following findings.
Findings
When reading the transcript many themes were found to be common throughout the answers provided by DS. Among the data the following five things were presented.
1. Work and business
The main reason DS has the phone is keep in contact with staff that he manages. The phone is an instrumental tool in getting all the daily work required of him. He makes reference many times throughout the script. In work hours he feels it is important to have a mobile phone because the business world expects to have constant contact with you and that because a days work flows into after hours it is important to be contacting people that are at work during the time that he isn’t. Mobile phones allow DS to “still be conducting business” when absent from the workplace.
2. Pressure to perform
A reason that DS feels his mobile phone is important is because of stress and pressure placed on him. Both at work and socially there is a lot of expectation to perform faster and faster and behave in a certain way. He feels that if he is not keeping up he will be “behind the ball”. DS feels “there is a lot of demand” to be contactable all the time. High paced living is causing increasing stress levels.
3. Speed on information transfer
Similarly to the extra work the speed at which information is transferred is another reason why DS is dependant on his phone. He feels “high speed information technology” is contributing to increased need to have the phone all the time. He thinks that without a phone he will not be able to fulfill his job in time, such as the instance of a crisis and as “response times are down to the minutes” it is essential he have a mobile phone.
4. Phone Costs
DS has a mobile phone paid for by work so he is not limited to a budget and therefore eliminating a potentially negative aspect of mobile phone usage. As cost isn’t an issue DS prefers to talk on the phone as opposed to text messaging. He believes that is important to be responsible with your phone and if had a personal phone it would be prepaid to ensure he is more diligent with it.
5. Phone and travel
DS travels ¾ of an hour to work everyday and depends on his mobile phone to get work done that needs to be finished by the time he gets there and then drive home again in the afternoon and conducts business that he couldn’t fit in the workday. DS is so dependant on his phone that if let his phone when he went out he would drive back and get it. He also feels it is important that he has his phone in car in case of breakdowns and for courtesy calls.
These were main findings from the data collected and will be further explained in the discussion section of this manuscript.
Discussion
The information found out from the qualitative interview showed that this participant did have a dependency on his mobile phone. Because of business and work related stress he felt that he couldn't live without his mobile phone. DS feels that similiarly to Swallowe (2003) that mobile phone usage showed a social ignorance and thinks that in the case of personal time mobile phone usage is unnecessary. In relation to impact on health DS didn't feel that using his mobile phone had any impact on his health but as Baghat (1998) suggests that mobile phone radiation may not shoe effect until further down the track. DS has increasing stress levels due to an increase in expectation and pressure from work, he feels that his mobile phone is helping to alleviate his stress by giving him extra time to get work done. Thinking that the mobile phone is getting him through the day has build his dependence he has on it to a point where he returns to get it if he has forgotten it. This has a large impact on his other occupations that he would be involved in had he not spent time returning for it. A major occupation of DS that has been affected by mobile phones is that of driving. The literature discussed earlier that mobile phone usage is distracting and defers concentration. So apart from it interfering with his driving in the way that he is trying to partake in two occupations at once it is also unsafe for him to be using the phone at while driving. DS is so dependant on his phone that he is willing to take the risk in order to be able to use his mobile phone at that time. Although the literature varied from one end of the scale to the other I also found that the participant's views were varied also. He uses his phone in social situations and then criticizes other people's ignorance in social situation. The participant only felt that the use of other high speed information technology was forcing him to include mobile phone into his communication schedule. The questions that were asked did not cover all the possible factors that were involved with dependency on the participant but it seems from what was extracted from the qualitative interview shows that a dependency on his mobile phone was occurring. The result of this occupational profile would suggest No we cant live without mobile phones.
Summary and recommendations
The factors contributing to dependency on mobile phones in this interview were in summary, work and business commitment, pressure to be contactable, high-speed information transfer, travel time and the cost of owning a mobile phone.
This study was a qualitative interview in only one person. One person cannot alone create a conclusion or valid evidence to say whether a hypothesis is correct or not. With further investigation of comparable data from qualitative interviews with other participants we may reach a conclusion to the question ‘mobile phones: can we live without them?’ The questions that the participants were asked did not adequately address the issues related to the topic in full so on a second attempt at this investigation the question would be revised. A possible more relevant area of investigation that could be looked would be teenager’s dependency on mobile phones. This would potentially uncover a different set of factors contributing to dependency.
As a final conclusion, this participant in the mobile phone dependency investigation is dependant of their mobile phone.
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| purple |
| 09.21.04 (6:34 pm) [edit] |
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i did a personality quiz on the zone..and it said i was purple .. well der i already knew i was purple witjhout even taking taking it.. just another thing that prove i know myself well.. lol
i'll write tonight.. see ya
umm 800 cranes done :)
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| SNOW DAY.. or hail day :P |
| 09.19.04 (6:33 pm) [edit] |
it is amazing how one hour can completely change your day.. we have a snow day.. well not really we have a hail week.. we had a huge storm last night.. lucky i live away from the centre of it.. but it was so bad that our university has been closed until further notice.. which means more holidays. WOOHOO.. YAY.. CHEER..
of course i had to go and have a squizz.. so the roads were undrivable the paths were gone and the gardens and rockerywere like fully washed away. there were piles of hail like half as high as me.. as there things crushed everywhere.. well i was impressed because now i have more time to work on that assignment and i'm not nearly as stressed out about it.
ahhh what a relief..ok just telling you i'm happy again
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| just sitting around |
| 09.19.04 (5:01 pm) [edit] |
oh i've not done much today. i've been on messenger.. and noone was particularly pleasent, listened to my song really really loud and the neighbours weren't very appreciative, my brother left for school camp at 6 am and now i'm spose to be doing an assignment.. i'm analyzing a transcribed interview that i did and its pretty boring.. have to go to uni at 1pm and i dont really feel like it.. its just kinda a crappy day.
i told a girl that my friend was coming down for a day in the holidays and she thought i was a spazz and blocked me i think.. he'll be cut now that i told her so there's another piece of crap to deal with this afternoon.. oh hopefully oats will be online tonight.. yay one good thing to look forward to..
oh i've made 700 cranes too.
ok tata
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| i'm so lucky |
| 09.17.04 (3:00 am) [edit] |
today i found a 4 leaf clover in my garden.. i was laying in the yard watching the clouds, yep oats i was. :) and it kinda just poked right in my face.. i have 18 4 leaf clovers now. they are all pressed in a book, now i just have another one to add the collection.. i hope my luck increases.. although i am really lucky and happy atm.. anyway it was good.. ahh and i even had the inspiration to draw today. it took me by surprise but i was really happy with what i did..
ahh and i've made 600 cranes.. coolies.. ok guys cya
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| sociological imagination used in modern media |
| 09.15.04 (6:58 pm) [edit] |
alot of articles and stories are now printed looking at the structure of society or merely takes a vicxtim blaming stance.. here is my interpretation of an article called "eating takes a lead role as the solace of society's outcasts".. this is short and probable doesn't make much sense to you.. but if you do sociology then you'll agree that is yet another imbalanced piece...
The article is telling us that poor people are obese. It attempted to highlight and increasing problem in a section of society.
Sociological imagination is a consciousness for understanding social processes.
It contains four components that are dynamic and interrelated.
· Historical – the past is used to examine how society got its current shape
"this is an old story" shows historical. Also "food has gotten cheaper than it used to be. There is another historical aspect where she the middle class people continuing to tell the poor what they should and shouldn't do, she compares the obesity rates to that of 25 years ago.
· Structural – relationship between individual and society.
There is a lack of exercise facilities, and there is a lack of transport both to the shops and to the sporting grounds. The price of fresh produce is very high. And there is a possible lack of education about foods. A bombardment of advertising towards junk food shows a lack of structural control. Unemployment rates and low income are structural components that are increasing the tendency towards obesity. The fact there is a greater strain on the public health system is a structural phenomena. The poor living in "concrete jungles" is a structural consideration. Government also has little control over the food industry.
· Cultural – is the learned aspects of society including custom, convention and language
The income inequality is widening in Aus, Britian, and America. Exhibiting increasing obesity rates in poor. "No jobs, no prospects, no point" there is a strong stigma placed upon people who don’t have a job. "people like us telling people down there" is showing that rich people think that they are superior. Advertising of fast food seems to be of cultural importance in Australia because fast food id a western characteristic. Thin models and role models in books and magazines sand on TV leads to a lowered self esteem.
· Critical – being reflective and skeptical about the social environment.
She provides no evidence to back up her statement. She says women aren't ignorant about food but offers no evidence to prove it. She doesn't explain the criteria that she uses for poor. She doesn't suggest any alternatives; she doesn't show any % of the obesity between low and middle classes, in the title she assumes that poor ppl are societies outcasts.
She makes reference to a lot of issues but doesn't explore any of them. this is just my view... please dont gt into a big tiss if you see that your the one that wrote it..
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| this is OT related analyszing amputeeism |
| 09.15.04 (6:48 pm) [edit] |
this is just an essay i've been writing.. not much use to anyone but at leat if it is up here and my computer crashes i'll still have a copy of my assignment :P
Amputations and impact on occupation
With the use of Therapeutic tools I am able to analyze and understand what the experience of having an amputation can be like. These therapeutic tools could be the Model Of Human Occupation (MOHO) or the Model Of Occupational Performance (MOOP). Using these two models I found that my life would have significant change after sustaining an left upper limb amputation. My capabilities and habits would be altered. The MOHO and MOOP work in similar ways to look at someone's life but do have different qualities.
The MOHO takes a personal view about how people perceive their world and their thoughts and feelings through their lived body experience. It is holistic and takes into account the aspects of your life that may be affected by the disability. Although having similar concepts to the MOOP it focuses on different areas.
MOOP is a structured and laid out model and is greatly detailed. It looks at the mechanic affects of the disability. It is takes an objective view on the situation. Both the MOHO and MOOP can be used to examine my amputation in relation to occupations that I regularly participate in.
Swimming is one of my occupations. It is a sport and relaxation activity. It can be done without much practice and shows immediate results, as in you feel your body working straight away. It is also important to me because swimming in something is a social event as well as a physical thing. To have an amputation would mean that some of the aspects of this occupation would be affected. The MOHO can be the first model applied to apply to my swimming.
The first aspect of MOHO is Volition. Volition is the feelings that you have about yourself and encompasses your values, your interests and your goals (Kielhofner, 2002). I think that with an amputation I would still value swimming even though learning to perform in self-care and work would play a bigger role in my life. I would still be interested in swimming and my goal would be to continue doing this occupation.
Habituation is also a factor of MOHO. Habits are responses to certain situation and are the activities that we perform everyday without effort. Your Roles can determine what your habits will be (Kielhofner, 2002). The outcome of what I am trying to achieve will be much the same, however the way I get to the pool, dressing myself and the way I actually swim will alter my habits. My role as a swimmer would not change, but my role of a driver may change to a passenger, as I then cannot drive my manual car.
Performance Capacity is your skill to perform certain tasks with mental or physical competence (Kielhofner, 2002). From an objective view others they may see my disability as something that will make my performance limited but by using a subjective view of my experience I may say that getting in the pool and to the other end is my goal and therefore I see myself as very capable to continue swimming. I will have a hard time dealing emotionally with the fact that I am not as good as others now.
Environmental Factors will influence how you perform an activity. Physical factors are architecture or natural constraints (Kielhofner, 2002). The pool is inside and I am still able to maneuver around this will not affect me. Social environment is the people around that influence how you behave (Kielhofner, 2002). My friend is very supportive and will continue to encourage me. These factors encompass your goals, habits and capabilities will influence how you do your occupation.
Doing is in the MOHO is actually performing the activity. Firstly participation is a person’s level of involvement in an occupation. Secondly performance is simply carry out a task. And finally Skill, which is basic motor, processing and communication movement that go into making up the whole occupation (Kielhofner, 2002). In the first instance most of my skills would be diminished and I would find it very difficult to participate and perform but I am determined to be involved. In the process of doing you are shaping your Occupational identity, adaptations and competence.
My new Identity as an amputee would change myself concept. My relationships, values and sense of capabilities would all be making a dramatic shift. Occupational Competence is how long you can maintain the pattern of routine (Kielhofner, 2002). I have been swimming in the morning for more than a year so I think that my pattern can be sustained for a long time to come. Over time your Occupational Identity will mould your Adaptation. From this a therapist can start to create a treatment plan. In some situations MOOP will be more appropriate to use as a therapeutic tool.
MOOP begins by looking at Performance Areas. Swimming will come under the Play and Leisure Category. Although some of the activities associated with getting to my occupations may fall under other areas. For example dressing, showering, socialization, and community mobility are some of the Activities of Daily Living that I am participating in and will be affected by an amputation. Most of the emphasis in the MOOP comes from the second aspect and that is Performance Components.
Performance Components has three elements. The first is Sensorimotor which is how you interpret stimuli (Lamport, Coffey, & Hersch, 2001). My amputation will affect tactile interpretation, my body scheme, and propreoception. The neuromusculoskeletal element will be most affected of all the components (Lamport, Coffey, & Hersch, 2001). These affected areas include range of motion, muscle tone, strength, and postural alignment. In the motor portion of sensimotor aspects of physical movements are considered (Lamport, Coffey, & Hersch, 2001). For me the issues that would be gross coordination and my fine motor control in my left arm would be gone completely. There are other performance components that need to be taken into account.
I don’t think that any of my Cognitive Integration skills would be affected but certainly some Psychological Skills would come into play. Psychological skills involve higher order functioning and can psychological, social and self management characteristics (Lamport, Coffey, & Hersch, 2001). In the psychological area my self concept would be altered. Out of the other two I don’t feel they would be affected.
The context in which you perform occupations will affect how you do them. According to MOOP environmental and temporal aspects are what surrounds and shapes the other areas. My physical and social environments as mentioned in my MOHO analysis will be unaffected as long as I try to establish my routines again as close to what they were before the accident. But this model brings in another environmental factor that is culture. Culturally I think that I will be affected in that a person with a disability is often stared at and given extra assistance, I think this will affect me and I don’t like to be pitied. Temporally, I think that the fact that I am still young will contribute to my strengthened motivation to overcome the disability.
So as shown both of these models can assist with exploring an occupation but the two models are somewhat different in their approaches. The MOHO is very individual and is loosely structured in order to leave the therapist and client to be able to investigate the person’s whole self with an open interpretation of the model. MOOP is very ordered and does leave much for the therapist to work with, the way that in it follows a structure and doesn’t really allow other information about the person to be divulged. MOOP’s major focus is very mechanical and is most detailed in the area of the physical components that make up your occupation. The MOHO has the largest focus on personal causation and subjective experiences. Through doing the analysis I felt that MOOP did not make you think about the why behind what you’re doing, MOHO required me to look at myself at a deeper level. There are some overlapping aspects in the models. Vital factors that are in MOHO that are missing in MOOP were one the area of competence. It is important to look at where the occupation will be going in the future and two is participation. I feel that the MOOP did not consider at what level I was able to participate in activities. MOOP seems to follow a all-or-none principal in relation to all of the aspects it covers. Both models contain a surrounding environmental factor and both look at skill. MOHO is definitely the more holistic approach to the client and I found it was useful in assessing my life at the point of a disability, being an amputation.
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| just like normal |
| 09.15.04 (5:16 pm) [edit] |
today much like every other day in my life was good.. i didn't do much but i still had fun because i am easily amused. i made a quizz last night i felt pretty special because i made it. lol oh yeh news from the front.. dad is in a boat on the Li river i think it is.. whoops sorry pa i didn't read it to well .. hehe
i am going to straighten my hair now.. dont know why i just feel like it.
and i have also made 400 cranes.. yay 2/5 of the way.. i'm sure i'll write on here tonight..
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| yay, my personality is off the chart |
| 09.14.04 (1:40 am) [edit] |
check out this i got 12 out of 10 for personality woop woop woop.. go me. hehe lol
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| bumming around |
| 09.13.04 (10:45 pm) [edit] |
when to the beach yesterday and bummed around a bit, today went shopping and got a webcam.. hmm dunno if i'm gunna use it but at least i've got one. i also got a new phone because the other one was.. well it wasn't anything but i wanted one so i got one.
i am looking forward to going down to melbourne in the holidays even if i cant stay with the person i want to.. we'll have secret meetings.. mwahaha how evil nar i probably wont do that its dishonest and well unsafe. i dont want to get killed in the middle of melbourne.
i am finishing off an assignment i did. that is due tomorrow. i might put it up and see what ppl think but i guess its too late but you can look at the kind of thing that i do in my course.. anyways i see about that later. i didn't get tanned yesterday, what a bum.
oh yeh.. ive made 275 cranes now..
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| LAN's are for boys... or not |
| 09.12.04 (9:32 pm) [edit] |
a friend of mine is going to a LAN. its 40 boys and no girls. my other friends have a LAN and thats normally 8 or 9 boys and maybe one girl but they resent her going. consequently i made the comment "going to LAN's is a boy thing" i wasn't trying to create a political uproar or anything, or make it into a him versus her divide but apparent it got some ppl cut up. this one boy is like " well your sexist" and "just because there's no girls in metal work doesn't mean its a boy thing", i would just like to say sorry for my comment, it was just a spur of the moment observation. anyway i will refrain from making any more gender bias comments (although from my experience it is a male dominated area). anyway girls get into it, they can be lots of fun ;) :P hehe ok..
i haven't made any cranes today so no new update :)
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| babysitting again and news from dada |
| 09.12.04 (1:21 am) [edit] |
i thought i wouldn't have to babysit for 56 days but today i got a call, i thought about not going but hey i dont learn from my mistakes.. so i went over there. today was much less than yesterday, she took all the eggs and threw them in the garden and took the sausages and climbed way up the tall tree and ate them raw. i hope she doesn't get sick. anyways it was quite tamer than yesterday and she went to bed at 7pm excellent.
i got an email from parents.. atm they are in singapore. they went to the largest bird avary in the world with the largest manmade waterfall. my pa is bird mad and tried to handfeed all 8000 birds in one day. oh well thats enough for now, and hey its the first time i've done 2 blogs in one day. maybe i'm getting addicted, nevermind.
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| arghh who needs kids and all things september 11 |
| 09.11.04 (4:44 pm) [edit] |
yesterday i had a really bad experience...
i went to babysit this girl whos 9 i thought oh yeh i can handle it but my god was i wrong..
she went out to the car and sat in it with the doors locked beeping the horn, i eventually got her out and put her in her room, she punched a hole in the wall and then started pounding the waindow.. i put her on the lounge and she started screaming. she pucnhed things in the lounge room and then ran in the kitchen and started throwing things out of the cupboards sprawling them across the floor then she pushed over all dining room chairs and sat under the table screaming for two hours.. eventually her throat hurt and she ran outside down to the bush.. she went to her friends and then i waited until her mother returned home..
i got my things and went.. as i was walking down the stairs out the front to my car i heard the loud whines of her as her mum struck her arse with the egglifter quite a number of times.. i just thought excellent.. i get to go to my house.. leaving was the best thing about going there.. never mind.. more money for me.. mwahaha i'll be back there on tuesday :P i think i'm sadistic because i enjoy her getting in trouble for everything that she has done all day.. pure justice.. well thats mean but hey.
i also was yesterday sitting on the lounge and in the background i heard the radio that i left on in my bedroom saying "today is the anniversary of the twin towers" i felt very angry.. i mean that is entirely overrated.. 3000 people died in one day but it is given so much priority. what about the 100,000's of ppl that are dieing every day all around the world of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes and the 100,000's of ppl that are dieing due to malnutrition and poverty... where is their news story?? wher eare ther's wreathes?? where are their worldwide mourning?? i'm sorry but it just made so annoyed so i thought i'd put it in..
sorry i didn't write yesterday i was busy.. its not that i dont luv ya's..
ok 260 cranes done now only 740 left to do..:)
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| in class essay. |
| 09.09.04 (9:48 pm) [edit] |
well today went ok,
i had an inclass essay for sociology, it was explaining how the sociological imagination was used in todays media. it was a one hour exam and you weren't allowed to take any notes in.. well it went ok except my hand hurts from writing and i think i made up a few words. hehe like bombardation and a couple of other nonsensical words. never mind its done now and it was worth 40% of our final mark.
although i am quite ok about it today, i wasn't so okay about it last night. i was very worried about failing and got myself into the biggest panic i took it out on everyone else and started putting other ppl down, someone in particular last night i started to scare but i wasn't really depressed i was just so worked up and anxious about my exam that i was venting it out on them. he will be fine because he still loves me and i bet that he will read this, love you oats. anyway all that panic turned out to be nothing and i was really happy with my writing. hopefully i will get a good mark, but its dont now...
so its time to relax before i have to start my next assignment tomorrow.. yeh theres no rest for the wicked.. joking!! lame cliche ey?
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oh yeh 60 cranes down and 940 to go :P
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| on my way to 1000 cranes |
| 09.08.04 (6:48 pm) [edit] |
i was sitting on our beautiful 1920's javie lounge this morning watching the rain come down, oh i love the smell of the sky when it just begins to rain. anyway i decided that i needed some more luck and happiness in my life so i decided that i am going to make 1000 origami cranes. ok so today i made 20.. well only 980 to go but hey its a start, every day i'll try to include down the bottom of my blog how many i've made..
so got first email off father today.. it said ok, i'm just trying to familiarise myself with the system.. hmm ok dad, never mind hopefully we'll get some real news soon.
anyways i was planning to make a trip to melbourne yesterday, i had it planned for like late november but that plan soon got flattened, oh well i will try and create a new plan to get there, hopefully this time it wont blow up it my face. i know he didn't mean it but it still didn't make me feel very loved, maybe we'll me able to come to a similar arrangement, anyways i will miss his birthday but maybe he'll still want me there sometime after. nevermind i'll fix it up, its not that important for you's to know but i've been thinking about it all day and just thought if i wrote it down it would be clearer in my head.
i went for a walk last night. i was on the computer and decided i have got to get out, so on came the etnies and long pink toe socks and i was ready. hehe it was quite cold but i didn't feel the cool and the stimulation flowing through my brain was cutting off al my other senses. i went to the park, it was really bare except for this little tiny twig, branchless and just making a line in the rest of the sillouetted sky. i laid down beside it and just looked at the sky, i dont think there was a single sound around, but if there was i couldn't hear it for my own breathing... there is so much i want to do right riht now except i dont want to do any of it, oh the confusion... i was crying but i dont know why. i was crying for everything i had and then everything i didn't i cried for everyoner i knew and then for everyone i didn't .. so i watered that tree this morning. in a few years i will return to that same spot and check on that tree. i guess i will be able to measure my progress against.. if the tree dies.. well i never thought thast far ahead but anyways.
so.. who knows i may still go to melbourne :) that would be nice. oh well, i'm happy today. i know i am being selfish, because there is alot of ppl mournin gthe death of a friend today but i am sorry but i cant be sad about everysingle thing, it would do me in. anywaty best wishes to everyone in Dungog.
so thats all for today.
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20 cranes done
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| i got lost on a track very similar |
| 09.07.04 (7:34 pm) [edit] |
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today i was sitting in class, looking out of the window, examining the clouds and trying to discover how many shades of blue existed in the one patch of sky, we were inside the small white room, very sterile and cold, it was our anatomy room, as a sat there comfortably crawled up on my swivel chair i realised that this wasn't what life was spose to be about, for 13 years i worked and worked everyday to get what i always wanted, a chance to work in medicine, the media, the parents, the money, the friends all striving to reach this high goal, to save ppl's lives, putting all aside i slaved away at my goal to be here at this university in this room, but now i'm here all i ever want to do is leave it, i have fully desensitived myself to the fact that there are human remains filling the room but i still feel a great deal of fear being here, i dont know what it stems from, i have no problem with dealing with the physical side of medicine but for some reason i am trying to shut out what is going on around me. as the slightest bit of sunlight streams in the window i position my self to get into it. in the faint background i could still hear a tutor explaining the lobes of the brain but i was fully preoccupied with everything except what i was doing. What is life worth..... ? why have i struggled for 13v years to get myself in a place that i cant even stand to stay in for a whole hour.. this isn't making any to me. i want to do it.. as i have been continuously brainwashed into believing that it is the way but now i dont understand.. was it all worth it... if i am trying to escape my this job at university will i try to escape it after uni...? will i be trying to escape my life forever..? i am a bit confused at the moment.. i'm on one path and happy that i am as it was the one i chose to walk down but i am wondering if if maybe jump maybe there is another path out there that has my footsteps more perfectly mouldly into it... well i will never know because i am scared to venture off my path in exploration for another path because knowing my luck i wont find another path and just become one of the ppl who disappearing into the bush without return..
oh dear this is one of the worst analogies i have tried to create but you should still be able to understand the messages behind it..
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| does cheese give you cancer? |
| 09.06.04 (4:42 pm) [edit] |
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hey i have no idea but at least i've got your attention.
ahh parents have gone to China for a few weeks, excellent *kicks up feet and looks around at emptiness* lol nar they left me behind, oh well poor little me will have to stay here and... party up the town, woohoo. hehe joking! nar i'll give you updates over the next while so stayed tuned. its good to have quiet anyway.
i put my first two pictures up on DA this week but it still feels weird letting other ppl see what i'm doing. luckily i have a very good frend who is an superb drawer who can encourage me to strive for his excellence. mwah.
oh btw cheese is good. ok thats all i have to ay about that.
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p.s. why go to China when you could go yo Canada, yay
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| amputation lab |
| 09.05.04 (11:47 pm) [edit] |
Well today I got two things in the mail. One was a letter from a friend that was written in pink, how sweet. J the other was a birthday card from my bestie in Denmark, it had little Danish flags on in it and was really cool. Thanks guys.
Well, well today posed to be one that will be etched into my memory… yes that’s right we witnessed a surgical amputation as part of lab series. I must say that I wasn't quite ready to see such things.. I see cadaver's (dead bodies) being dissected but a living breathing person having a part of their body removed was an entirely different story. This was an old man who after much pain in his leg decided that he would have a left limb below knee amputation. Hhhmm, I'm glad I don’t have to be getting one any time soon, the tools looked very similar to that of your regular shed. I wont subject you to a blow by blow description….Next week we have a dementia lab so it will be a much less graphic for a first year student. Oh, don’t let me discourage you, it is worth it. :P
It feels weird sitting here, I mean.. my computer has been moved. This morning in was in a different room, but on returning home this afternoon it seems that someone had the brilliant idea to moved all the furniture in the house, well.. it actually doesn't look that bad but its still the principle of the thing. How can a couple of ppl, that being my mum and my brother, no no my brother was at school hmm how did my mum moved the whole house around, oh well when she comes here I will do an inquest of the situation.
Oh after a long and busy weekend it was nice to get back in my regular activities.. it was lovely and sunny this afternoon and a roller blade around the bike tracks was called for. When I returned from my scoot around snazzy big orange heads of clivea were laying on the step, excellent I love flowers. I am spose to be calming myself down but I've got peppermint scent in the oil burner, which is has hyping and awareness properties, never mind..
Ok as the vision of an orthopedic theatre still burns in my retinas I will leave you… hopefully I will find some more substanced opinions that I can put forward soon
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| what was said on saturday including my birthday |
| 09.05.04 (2:48 am) [edit] |
ok, so what i said rubbed a few ppl the wrong way. now...
Danielle i dont know why you think that i hate you, from the first day that we spoke you put on a 'i know everything' hat and decided that no matter what was said you were going to be right. well not everybody works under that system. i dont pretend to think i know absolutely everything but i least will listen to what other ppl have to say and consider their opinion. i realise that you are popular and in high school you can browbeat others into agreeing with you but in reality ppl dont want to be ridiculed and pushed around. the behaviour under which you carried out i feel that i had every right to try and defend myself with whatever means possible, you show no respect and no remorse for anything you say. i must say that not all the remarks i have made to you are mine and although andrew asked me to calm the waters with you, i will no longer take the blame for everything that was said. i dont think that you deserve to treat anyone the way you do, especially me.
Bianca, i do not hate Danielle i just think she has alot of growing to do, as we all do.
and bianca when i said dont critise me, i didn't mean dont criticise the topic i meant dont disrespect the fact that i wrote it, because i think that it took alot of courage to write. and you said that ppl have their opinion and i should listen to it, it might help, well it was danielles opinion that created the problem. so i dont feel that my listening to danielle's opinion in this situation is warranted.
ok ok, now what jess says, although she made an attempt to make it anonymous, i know her writing too well. well i think danielle has a lot of growing to do and one day hopefully we'll be able to have a decent conversation without it resulting in a war of rediculous cliches and petty slanging matches. if anyone has an issue with the content that was written in the blog i am more than willing to discus it, but the personal nature of the comments being made is entirely uncalled for in this space.
So.... it was my 19th birthday on Saturday and although all this crap arose it was still a good day. i had lunch with my dad, saw heaps of friends and then had a big party which the theme to was spring cup. everyone looked lovely and we had heaps of fun until it was time for the sound curfew and then sirened the time to hit the town. we had good time and danced until the clock ticked past and made it today.. hmmm wont tell you how the night ended but yeh i'm still tired. thanks guys, my friends are the best and made my lagh on numerous occasions with their wiley ways and bubbly personalities.
these are some of the things i got... TV, ring, f/b massage, Chopards Wish (my old one was getting low) some silver and purple butterflies, and some other some but i cant be bothered puuting it up. sorry if i didn't mention yours.
it was a great birthday and although 19 isn't a cool year like 18 or 21. it will still be worth every minute.
Genies opinion. nae, bec, deb, kate, bel, krystal, rob, sue, luv yous.
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| anorexia through your own eyes |
| 09.02.04 (5:28 am) [edit] |
i have felt like over the past week that i have been raving on a bit and have been trying to evoke pity in ppl, well i would like to say that is not my intention, please just take everything that i say as just a thought that i am having at the time and not as a scheme to get ppl to like me or feel sorry me, i do not wallow on self pity and i bounce back to a stronger form of my self after every incident.
Today the topic is living with anorexia and bulimia.
For those who don't know Anorexia is a condition where someone's self image has been altered and they see then selves as fat no matter what they look like. a symptom of this is avoiding food all together and trying to not eat anything. bulimia is where you also feel guilty about what you eat but eat a lot without thinking of consequences and then guilt sets in and you regurgitate to get the food out of your system.
When you've got both it means you eat very little then chuck up the only bit you did eat, it is a vicious cycle and make ppl very sick.
So here is a story.
For reason when you get up in the morning you feel really yuck, like you don’t want to be in my skin anymore, you feel like your body is a separate entity and you must get away from it. Every time you look in the mirror you see that’s you've gotten 4 times larger than you were yesterday, you run to the bathroom to see if the scale can shed some light on the mystery, ok since last week when you panicked and weighed yourself you've lost 2 kilos, it must be hiding somewhere because you definitely are way bigger than before, hmm after quite a few months of constantly replacing those inaccurate scale (which seems that every pair of scales must be broken) your mother starts to get a bit suspicious, quick you must fight the urge to weigh yourself because she finds out, ok note to self will get weighed when no one is home, ok now that you've kicked the scales its time to get dressed. Hmm those clothes you just bought seem to have become baggy, damn clothes line have stretched them, well good thing to you suppose seen as how you wouldn't have fitted your huge arse in them anyway. Ok time to get breakfast cool mum's already done it, half a banana in a small bowl of custard, she has already started to adjust the amounts she is giving you due to the fact that your appetite has been decreasing. Ok you can do it, banana and fat free custard is really healthy, one slice of banana and another, ok two is plenty don’t want to over do yourself, must tip the rest out before you get forced to eat the rest. Wait you've just discovered that you no longer like the taste of banana, your mouth is starting to feel funny and you think that is disgusting, psychology force yourself to feel sick, oh well cant stop it now you walk over to the bin and out comes the two mouthfuls you had consumed a couple of minutes earlier, ahh much better, never did like banana you think to yourself well good its gone now, ok time to start writing essay…… oh its lunch time already, excellent there is lettuce in the fridge and after a quick inspection of the rest of the fridge you stop the fat free dressing, yum yum all that calorie free fat free goodness you might even have a medium sized bowl. Great no guilt and you don’t feel sick at all but you still don’t manage to finish off the bowl you prepared, ok now time to finish off essay….. Oh mother is home but says she is going out tonight, woohoo you don’t have to try and conquer the thought of shoveling meat and vegetables into your already disgusting body. Well well time for dinner, seen as how no one said that you must eat for dinner you decide orange juice looks like the best option. Lets see a small glass will be plenty for your dinner, well of course it must because that fierce pain that lingers in your stomach is a good sign and you fear letting it disappear. As the glass reaches your lips and OJ starts to swill around in your mouth you realize that the acid cant be good for you, your mouth is tingling quickly spit that out into the sick and throw the glass into the sink as all the juice splashes about on the sink walls. Phew another day survived you retreat to your computer where you can be comforted by your internet friends, hopefully tomorrow your body will have returned to normal size so as you can feel confident to go outside.
Ok there is your story, putting your self in someone else's position can really help you understand better. Do what you will with this information but don’t criticized me!!
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~LUV YA OATS~
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