Monday, November 9, 2009

Austin Powers Did Make Me Sick

Here's the reason why. A long time ago, on Saturday, May 3rd, 1997 I thought that Austin Powers would be my gateway to change. I started to wear loud clothes that my favourite performers wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole, except for The Beatles. I started to wear velvet, which was very hot to wear in the summer. I went from wearing my favourite ruffled Kinks inspired blouse, and started wearing an Austin Powers inspired pirate shirt. "I'll listen to The Kinks and The Who". changed to, "I'll listen to the radio to see how many songs they play from The Summer of Love, and I'll listen to Burt Bacharach, as well". Music that I never really cared for, to begin with. I don't even think that I was even looking at my CDs anymore, around my Birthday, that strange year of 1997. By May 3rd, 1998, I haven't listened to The British Invasion for three months, and I became very psychotic and depressed. Body weight and body image had nothing to do with it. I got sick, because I kept myself apart from the things that I loved, in particular, The Kinks. All that matters is that I'm taking the things that went wrong over the past 12 years, and making them right, again.

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Barbecue at The Pyrches

I went to a Barbecue with my clubhouse, Stepping Stones this evening. The family that hosted the event, also sponsors us around Christmastime, as well. I wore a nice top that was a fuller, more feminine version of the red top that Sid from Flushed Away wears, but it's pea green, bell-bottom jeans that I wear once in a while in the summer, when it's really hot outside and I want to look nice, and my green denim military style jacket. I also had my hair spiked with green hair gel.

Dean, Barb, Bonnie, Jane, Kyle, Linda H, Don P and I sat at the same table. We had hamburgers, hot dogs, salad, chips, pop and desserts. There were also different games to play. I played volley ball, badminton and boccie.

We also had door prizes. There were lots of pea green things on the table that I would have loved to have picked out. I did get to pick out something that I wanted, close to the end of the draw.

I had a really good time, and I look forward to doing it again, next year. :o)

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Cultus Lake

I've had a really good day, yesterday. I was invited to go to Cultus Lake with my friend Dean, his mum, and another family. We sat in a shady area and chatted. Frida cooked us two rounds of food. There were ribs, smokies, hot sausages, regular sausages, and beef. I swam in the lake, after the first round of food. There was a lot of Canada Geese around the picknic tables. Baby Fe and her friend, Amanda fed the geese, and I watched the people have fun in the lake. We were also close to the washrooms, so I was happy about that. I had my little Sid with me. :o) It was cool in the morning, and than it got really hot, later in the afternoon. The heat didn't really bother me. I was just grateful that I got to have a break from the area, in which I live. A break from the kids who try to be Hollywood people. I look forward to doing it again, next year. It was a day made in Heaven.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

I Have A Lot of Free Time To Enjoy

That woman who gave me that silent treatment on Canada Day pushed me away. She left a disheartening message on my machine, last week. She did phone two days later and apologized. I'm not going to phone her for a while. She clearly needs her space. I need my space as well. We have two different personalities. UK 70s and Millennium Mainstream.

As a result, I have a fair bit of free time. I have my craft projects that I want to get done, by sometime in October. I've been enjoying myself and getting a lot of that done. I've also tried to listen to some of my punk CDs, but my CD player is on the fritz. There are also many stores that I can walk to. I have a naughty secret as well. Sometimes I buy energy drinks, so I won't sleep through an entire summer's day of afternoon. I just find that I feel much more relaxed when I socialize on my own terms, on Saturdays, and the evenings that my two best rat mates and I stay home.

I know that things will repair themselves, but I'm not in a hurry, if it's going to make that woman feel uncomfortable. She has a lot of issues of her own that she's dealing with. I don't want to get caught up in that.

Until than, I will happily enjoy my free time.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Crappy Canada Day!

Canada Day was nothing like I've expected, this year. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. First of all, my close friends and I didn't make it to the celebrations at the airport. The second thing that happened is that we had lunch at a restaurant, where the employees didn't care about the customers. The third thing that happened, is that some bully who goes to my clubhouse gained up on us, and started taking advantage of one of my lady friends. The fourth thing that happened, is that I said something nasty about mainstream society, and the younger friend that I was with, took it the wrong way, and gave me the silent treatment on the way home. My older friend and I went back to my place. I had a big, bloody meltdown, and all that she did was sit there and say nothing. Her response was, "You were fine at the park." She showed absolutely no empathy. I think she's got what I have, but a little worse, but I don't look down on her, the way that I look down on the NT ones who drop me as a friend, after a bad day. Crappy Canada Day, Rain Man! May you lose a neurotypical friend, today!

If my gentleman friend who's the driver decides not to go to the celebrations, next year, I'm going to complain that I have a head cold. I'm going to watch England win the final match in World Cup Soccer, with Sid the Rat. If England wins the World Cup, I'm going to walk to the hobby shop and buy myself a Routemaster, if I can find one. That will be my Non Canada Day.

Cheers

Friday, June 26, 2009

The World Needs People With Disabilities

I feel that the world needs people with disabilities. A lot of people with disabilities have a job, and many more are capable of being a part of the general workforce. A lot of my disabled comrades work at Tim Horton's. My friends and I see them when we go there, and they do a really good job, as well. That's not all. I have a disability, and I work. I clean parking lots for two hours in the mornings, for most days out of the week. I also volunteer once a week, for $100 a month and I'm also planning on selling my crafts at the flea market, sometime before Christmas. I think and feel that anybody who wants a job should have one, whether they have a disability or not. We are not a threat to the economy, and the economy would be a lot stronger, if all of my disabled comrades who wanted a job was given the opportunity to work. The first thing that we need, is more babies, with and without disabilities to be brought into this world. The second step is that every child must be raised to believe that they have something to offer to the world and the economy, from the time that they start kindergarten, until they graduate from high school. We'd have less autistic hippies and more autistic employees who are around the age of 17 or 18. I also feel that all prenatal testing has to be stopped, now. I think that it should be billed as a hate crime. It's called genocide. People with Down Syndrome are just as capable of holding down jobs, as well as the general population of employees. Some of them work in offices. How about people in wheelchairs who have little use of their bodies? These people can become very good authours or narrators. The authours can hire scribes to type their words, and the narrators can narrate a movie or a story by reading from a script. The world needs people with disabilities.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Last Night's Purchase

Dean, Barb and I went to church for a couple of hours, yesterday evening and we went to Wal-Mart, afterwards. I just knew that I had to buy 'My Weight Loss Coach' for the Nintendo DS. I've been trying to lose weight on my own, for the past two years. I've even tried to rejoin Weight Watchers, three times. They just keep on changing the programme. Over the past 6 years, they've gone from 'Winning Points' to 'Flex Points' to 'The No Counting Plan' to 'Momentum'. It gets a little confusing, after a while. With the 'My Weight Loss Coach' game, I know that I won't get any unexpected surprise changes, like I had to deal with, while going to Weight Watchers. I think that I'm going to be able to lose the weight that I want, and keep it off for good, this time. :o)

Friday, June 12, 2009

Green Smarties

Tonight, I was out with my friends and I've bought myself a box of Smarties. There were no green or blue Smarties. Those are my two favourite colours. I won't be buying them again, until they bring back the green ones. They had all the girly colours. How I hate girly colours. I'm putting myself on Google News alerts for green smarties.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

The Abbotsford Walk for Life

One of my best friends, Dean and I went to the Abbotsford Walk for Life, yesterday. There was the 4K route and the 8K route. We decided to walk the 4K. There were cookies and water melon and balloons. I was looking at all the babies that were saved, that brought a smile to my face. I think that every baby that's conceived has the right to life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness . Dean and I are also going to a Pro-Life barbecue tonight. :o)

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

A Little Bit About Me

Hello

You probably know me as CockneyRebel from WrongPlanet.net. I'm not giving out my real name quite yet. If I give out my real name this early on, than my high school bullies might decide to send me viruses. You know what some bullies think about people who are different from the norm.

This blog is a great opportunity for people around the world to get to know me and to learn a few things along the way.

I'm 34 years old, I live on my own and I work part-time. I volunteer once a week, and I also have a loom knitting hobby that I can make money off of, as well. I also have a high functioning form of autism called Asperger's. What that means is that I'm agerage to above in intelligence, but at the same time, I can be very blunt about my opinions. I'm willing to listen to what others have to say, though.

I'm Pro-Life, which is why Autism Speaks does not speak for me, and I'm also Pr0-Family.

I have one sister and a neice, both of my parents are alive, as well as my Grandpa, Nana and my other Grandma. I also have a dog named Chico. :o)

I have quite a few special interests, but the one that stands out is the London Routemaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routemaster

As you can all see, pea green is my favourite colour.

I also like to watch movies, as well. Fl.ushed Away is my favourite movie, and my favourite character in the movie, is Sid. Sid the rat is pretty much everything about me, crammed into the body of a chubby little humanized rat. :o)

On that note, I'll sign off for now and I'll be back tomorrow.

Cheers!