LYRICS: Spread a Little Friendship and Love

There is no need for all this hate

We’re all people running the same race

At least til the heavens tell us our fate

We’re stuck together in this same place

Shouldn’t matter the colour of her skin

Or the sexual identity of a teenage boy

Black or white, rich or poor, we’re all akin

We’re all imperfect humans not your toys

Spread a little friendship and love today

Hate should never have a place in our heart

Show our leaders a brand-new way

Hate can stop so love can start

It’s never been okay to discriminate

Just cause some old book tells you to do

Please grab your heart and wipe the hate

Fill the empty heart with love, don’t take it slow

Shouldn’t matter the colour of her skin

Or the sexual identity of a teenage boy

Black or white, rich or poor, we’re all akin

We’re all imperfect humans not toys

Spread a little friendship and love today

Hate should never have a place in our heart

Show our leaders a brand-new way

Hate must stop so love can start

We don’t have forever up our sleeves

Next generation learn from what we say

They carry the flame when we leave

Teach them that love is the right way

Shouldn’t matter the colour of her skin

Or the sexual identity of a teenage boy

Black or white, rich or poor, we’re all akin

We’re all imperfect humans not your toys

Spread a little friendship and love today

Hate should never have a place in our heart

Show our leaders a brand-new way

Hate must stop so love can start

Shooting down the SSM misnomers

Not that I will be voting No in the same-sex marriage postal survey but I thought I'd go through some of their arguments against same sex marriage.

Same Sex Marriage will impinge on freedom of speech

No, it won't. Two people of the same gender who are in love and want to recognise their commitment to each other through the act of marriage won't stop protests against coal fired power stations or the latest gripe from Tony Abbott about Malcolm Turnbull's leadership. Indeed same sex marriage won't stop people ringing talkback radio to whinge about banks or the fact today's modern teenagers are a bunch of no hopers, your right to free outrage is safe as per most are doing right now with their spurious claims.

Same Sex Marriage is a Disaster for Religious Freedoms

Another furphy, the only way same-sex marriage would hurt religious freedom was if people were so angered by priests conducting same sex marriage ceremonies that they ultimately wouldn't go to the church anymore.

Same-sex marriage won't stop Christians being Christians, Islam being Islam and so on. If anything religion will continue being religion while most in leadership in Anglican and Catholic church condemn same-sex marriage while shuffling on abusive paedophile priests from one denomination to another.

In other words, God will not deny Lyle Shelton his thirty virgins if he wanted them because LGBTIQ people are allowed to marry.

Schools will force homosexuality on children

Yet again this is just a load of nonsense. I see more parents pushing their views and their ideas on their children than teachers at school, same-sex marriage won't see schools ram homosexuality down children's throats, its more a case of schools encourage children to be 'who they are' and if a boy of mine wanted to go to school in a dress, I'd legit say "okay' because that is his choice and not one that I have forced upon him.

Legalisation of same-marriage won't fundamentally change education at all and it's time people stop trying to say it will because it won't.

Other quick shoot downs.

1. Yes, LGBTIQ relationships breakdown and don't work but heterosexual relationships also suffer the same problems. It wasn't that long ago that it was found that half of all marriages end up in divorce.
2. Same-sex marriage only affects those that would benefit from it being legalised. The question is whether two people of same gender who are very much in love should be allowed to celebrate their love and commitment to each other by getting married so if you aren't homosexual than you won't be affected by the law changing.

LYRICS: I'm Your Yesterday's Girl

I am not the girl you want to see

Well you know that’s just fine by me

Hey honey, I feel just the same

It’s not the same since I found out

What your lying games were about

Hey baby, I’m your little fool no doubt.

 So you can stop bringing up her name

She’s not the one I’m placing the blame

Damn it man, your excuses are lame

It’s just the guilt that’s killing you

It shows in everything that you do

Goodbye baby, I think it’s time I go

It’s the blame game you want to play

You say I’m at fault for your moral decay

Goodbye baby, I’m your yesterday’s girl today

You know I’ve been thinking you were right

Maybe I was a little too clingy and uptight

Pushed you to her on a ‘quiet work’ night

I’m sorry that I didn’t hold you tight

Love you all the way through the night

Still doesn’t make what you did right

You can stop bringing up her name

She’s not the one I’m placing the blame

Damn it man, your excuses are lame

It’s just the guilt that’s killing you

It shows in everything that you do

Goodbye baby, I think it’s time I go

It’s the blame game you want to play

You say I’m at fault for your moral decay

Goodbye baby, I’m your yesterday’s girl today

Now you’ve condemned us to history

After I solved you’re on the side mystery

This yesterday’s girl has finally broken free

You can stop bringing up her name

She’s not the one I’m placing the blame

Damn it man, your excuses are lame

It’s just the guilt that’s killing you

It shows in everything that you do

Goodbye baby, I think it’s time I go

It’s the blame game you want to play

You say I’m at fault for your moral decay

Goodbye baby, I’m your yesterday’s girl today

Yeah, I'm your yesterday's girl today...

(Lyrics written by Julie Keast)

SSM vote: It's not my right to deny another person happiness.

I thought I'd write this because I wanted to get my thoughts down as to why I am voting yes and I won't be persuaded otherwise.

For me, rhis impending same sex marriage survey is asking me to decide on whether homosexuals should have the same right as heterosexuals to happiness and fuifilment in life from a committed relationship where a person pledges their love forever to somebody, they say wedding day is meant to be the happiest day of any couple's life? I can't deny somebody that just because they are LGBTIQ, it's not right or even remotely fair to deny a person a chance to be happy, I just don't see how in any way I have the right to deny a group of people the right to be happy because of their sexual orientation.

Voting 'no' and possibly denying somebody the right to happiness based on their sexual orientation would make me a coward, bully and a hypocrite, all I ever want from life is to be happy, how can I justify the want to be happy when playing a part in denying somebody else's happiness is just something that doesn't sit right with me.

This is not a survey on religious freedom, freedom of speech or any other stuff you have heard spouted by various people who have been quite prolific in the media in recent times, this is a survey on allowing two people who are of the same gender and are in love the right to marry and be happy just like Adam and Eve or Mark and Claire are and I am not about to pick up a pen and deny Susan and Jenny or Thomas and Nathan that right to be happy and show their love and commitment to each other because quite simply it is not and never has been my right to deny happiness.

LYRICS: You Are Everything (I'm Not)

Six-foot-tall and a smile that lights up the dark

Yeah damn, you are the kind of person

That this little heart of mine goes for

Curly hair and an infectious laugh

Yeah, you are the only person

That makes me laugh along with you

I know that you won’t notice me

Watching you strut your stuff

Like the person I wish I could be

Confident, smart and dead set dreamy

You are everything that I will never be

Sorry for my low-down jealousy

I’m the nervous, scared little girl

Who can only dream of being like you

You are everything I know I can’t be

Athletic and amazingly co ordinated

You’ve got your life all planned

While I stare at question marks in my head

Sing and play a guitar like a pro

While I stand here swaying to and fro

Singing “Its not easy being green”

I know that you won’t notice me

Watching you strut your stuff

Like the person, I wish I could be

Confident, smart and dead set dreamy

You are everything that I will never be

Sorry for my low-down jealousy

I’m the nervous, scared little girl

Who can only dream of being like you

You are everything I know I can’t be

How can I ever live up to your standards?

When you constantly blow me away

Shouldn’t have gotten out of bed today

I know that you won’t notice me

Watching you strut your stuff

Like the person, I wish I could be

Confident, smart and dead set dreamy

You are everything that I will never be

Sorry for my low-down jealousy

I’m the nervous, scared little girl

Who can only dream of being like you

You are everything I know I can’t be

How to avoid the chuggers/cadgers

There is nothing worse when you have things to do and places to be on a busy work day to be accosted by some person saying in an overtly chirping voice and sounding slightly brainwashed "Hi I'm Anita, do you know what some group are doing to the elephants in Asia?" and if you answer no, they rattle off into a very long explanation of what they claim is happening (sometimes inaccurate) to these elephants and usually they do it in such a way to guilt trip YOU into giving them money (which I think goes toward administration costs more so than any cause they've guilt tripped you about)

So here's my guide into avoiding chuggers/cadgers:

• Pretend to be on your phone arranging an appointment or holding a rather tense phone conversation about work. (I pretended recently to be talking to somebody about getting my boyfriend a penis enlargement appointment)
• Music is handy. Look as though you are away with the music. They will not bug you if you have earphones in and you are listening to music.
• If they are one side of the street. Walk the other side. I realize this piece of advice is no use if your business is on the same side of the street as the chuggers/cadgers.
• Avoid making eye contact with them. That gives them the sign that you are keen and eager to talk turkey with them.
• Constantly check your watch or phone and look extremely annoyed and impatient. 

If you have anymore tips or ideas, please post a comment. 

It's P.E.T.A who need a name change not Hunters & Collectors

So its been kind of inavoidable today that the People from the Ethical Treatment of Animals have asked legendary Australian band Hunters & Collectors to change their name because they want to raise awareness of duck hunting because its evil etc and to PETA, they find the word "Hunters" or "Hunter" a bit intolerable in fact I figure they are allergic to the word.

God help them if they come to the HUNTER Valley.

Jokes aside, asking a band to change their name for a cause is political correctness gone mad, only going to incite ridicule from a public fed up with political correctness and I would hope Mark Seymour isn't even giving P.E.T.A's suggestion one iota of thought.

It also smells like a desperate bid by this activist group to stay relevant when other organisations are doing more in their actions to protect animals like RSPCA rather than staging desperate word campaigns that will more than likely turn the public against them and their cause like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

So after I heard about this I decided to drill and investigate if P.E.T.A are really for the ethical treatment of animals which is when I came across an article from the Huffington Post in 2013 entitled PETA's Secret Slaughter of kittens, puppies by Nathan J, Winograd (be warned, there are some graphic images in the piece), the disturbing and shocking story details how this supposedly ethical treatment of animals organisation has gone about the murder of perfectly healthy and ready for adoption puppies and kittens and how at the PETA shelter in Virginia, very few of these animals are adopted out per year and most end up murdered, placed in garbage bags and either placed in P.E.T.A's massive walk in freezer dumped in shopping centre garbage bins

It was then I found out the horrifying figures of the amount of dogs and cats 'euthanised' by PETA since 1998 and discovered that according to stats by the Virgina Department of Agriculture and Consumer services, 34,970 animals were murdered by P.E,T.A.

If ever there was a band or organisation that needs a name change, its not Hunters & Collectors, its People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because PETA right now are lying to their donors and to the general public.

Top 10 Worst Songs of 2016

It has occurred to me that we're 14 days into 2017 and I haven't revealed my most disliked songs for the year. I'll be honest, it wasn't a good year for music in 2016,  finding gold (good music) in the ARIA top 100 for 2016 was harder to find than finding something to watch on TV during the Christmas period. Any one of about 20 songs could have made this list but I did manage to narrow it down to my top 10.

10. “Hair” by Little Mix

I genuinely think Little Mix are a talented bunch of ladies and “Shoutout to My Ex” is a pretty good song but when they sit down to prepare their next album, can they please sit down with decent R ‘n’ B songwriters so they aren’t releasing songs like “Hair”. Ugh, this song had potential to be so much better but the sing songy chorus was just a massive no especially with the opening line of the chorus “Cause he was just a dick and I knew it. Got me sitting in this chair like I don’t care”. Just no way, Little Mix, you gals are so much better than this.

9. “Treat You Better’ by Shawn Mendes.

Not a lot to say about this generic if slightly whiny pop song. It’s just a boring song about a guy bitching his ex is with somebody else and now he wants her back. Yawn.

On a side note: would have also been very easy to slide “Stitches” in given it fits in the same mould of generic whine pop.

8. Fast Car by Jonas Blue

This is just plain bad when you take a classic song like Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and put a thumping dance beat and combine it with female vocals that lack emotion and don’t really convey any emotion. I’ll stick to the original thanks.

7. “Hands to Myself” by Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez could be a really good artist if she tried but “Hands to Myself” is basically a sound alike of that duet with Charlie Puth “We Don’t Talk anymore”, both use a lot of the same horrific sounds. Sorry Selena but I could keep my hands away from this vacuous excuse of a song.

6. Any song by The Chainsmokers

Yes, the group that brought us “#SELFIE” in 2015, brought even worse songs in 2016 with the pick of them being the number one song for the year in Australia “Closer” which features Halsey. Seriously? Screeching with a thumping dance beat does not make a good song. You can take your pick as fair as forgettable songs from the Chainsmokers.

5. “Love Yourself” by Justin Bieber

I put this song in mainly because I just think it could have been so much better, it needed something like a good guitar or piano riff which it didn’t get so in a sense that annoyed me and the singing is only just passable.

4. “Hide Away” by Daya

Less said about this song the better. I needed a place to hide away from this song last year. Daya has a decent voice but it was wasted on this song.

3. “Me Too” by Meghan Trainor

I am one of the few people who didn’t mind “No” to certain extent (not that I listened to it repeatedly because one listen at a time is enough) but then Meghan had to go and remind us that in effect she is a novelty musician whose welcome died when “All About that Bass” run ended in the charts. “Me Too” is a lyrical and musical disaster from start to finish

2. “Panda” by Desiigner

Now, how in the name of all that is good about music did this song chart? It’s just an annoying beat that doesn’t eventuate to a heck of a lot. Left me with a lot of headaches in 2016.

1.      “Work from Home” by Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla Sign

If it wasn’t bad enough, Fifth Harmony released one of the most annoying songs of 2015 with “Worth It”, they follow that up with the most stupid and annoying songs of 2016. There is nothing remotely saveable about "Work from Home". Its composition is lazy and no, getting somebody fired from their job is not a good idea hence plain stupid as a lyric in ANY song.

In defence of child care educators

Yet again another day where another politician derides the work of the child care industry. David Lleyonhjelm decided to use Channel Ten's The Project to attack the child care sector as being where the only things child care workers do is 'wipe kids noises and stop them from killing each other'

A pretty vacuous and ignorant remark made worse on Sunrise by Australia's favourite flame haired politician Pauline Hanson agreeing with him. Now I am willing to bet neither have spent a day in a child care facility to understand what the good educators both men and women do within child care facilities.

I have spent time in child care centres before a mental health issue struck and I left, interacting with children and observing what a child care educator does so I like to thing I can help Lazy Lleyonhjelm and Hazy Hanson learn a lot about what child care educators actually do.

1.  Child care workers don't just spend the day watching the children for no reason other than to make sure they don't kill each other, they make observations on each individual child's interests and developmental needs so that when the child is playing, the educator can wotk with the child on that developmental need. Eg: If the child is struggling with language and the child is interested in dinosaurs, the educator might use an age appropriate book on dinosaurs to help improve the child's language.
2. Create lesson plans and play times that see children not only have fun but they learn and grow socially and emotionally. After all not all children have siblings at home where they can easily learn to share and believe me child care is a great place to help children uinderstand that they aren't the only ones who want to play with the duplo or with the playdough.
3. Educators foster the children's imagination. Heck, I once taught a group of children about a purple peg being a human being and having real emotions and that there were friendly dinosaurs. 
4. Prepare the young ones for the big leap that is big school. School is terrifying enough for a young child. Imagine how terrifying it would be if you weren't prepared for it or behind the other children in your class. Child care educators ensure that the children have a knowledge of 1-10 and know the alphabet.
5. Talking to parents about behaviours observed and what the parents see when the children are at home with them and any concerns the parents
6. Ensure the safety of the children, not just supervising so they 'don't kill each other' but making sure they aren't putting things in their mouths that they shoudn't, checking play equipment for anything that the children might hurt themselves on
7. To that end if a child does hurt themselves or winds up with a virus. At least one educator needs to care for that child until Mummy or Daddy can come and take the sick child home.
8. Report child abuse or neglect.
9. Keep up with changes to the early childhood education curriculum
10. Also keep up with changes in relation to federal and state laws surrounding child care. 
11. Educators more often that not deal with having to teach children right from wrong because a minority of parents cannot be bothered
12. Train students who want to work in the childcare sector
13. If the centre doesn't have a chef. Staff have to check what the children are bringing to child care is healthy and nutritous for them.
14. Handle nap time and any children whose parents have requested that they not have a nap.

In fact educators in the child care centre deal with a heck of a lot more and there's no doubt they go home some days, tired, stressed and emtional while being criminally underpaid given they are also preparing a child for the future in same ways much like school days.

So David and Pauline, childcare more than wiping noses and somehow killing each other (the children tend to kill each other with cuddles if I am completely honest). How about respecting the work a child care educator does instead of deriding it?. Because unlike most politicians, child care workers do an honest day's work instead of ripping off the tax payer to go watch polo matches, buying expensive apartments on the Gold Coast or overseas junkets for no other reason than a taxpayer funded holiday.

Then again its probably ignorance on the part of Lleyonhjelm and Hanson, maybe they should go to a child care centre in Canberra or wherever they come from and see the hard work that our underpaid childcare educators put in so to stop their ignorant bleating in mainstream media.