OPENING PANDORA'S BOX

  FACEBOOK CULL                 I have decided to do a cull on my Facebook. I would rather have a small group of people on my Facebook than have a large number of people who are questionable. When I say cull, I mean cull on Facebook as well as real life. My safety and emotional health needs to be a priority. I only want genuine people in my life who are decent and good people. I am on the internet at least once a day for an hour or so and I use the internet to do things that I enjoy, photos of friends, family, cats, history stuff, and music. just want to use Facebook and feel comfortable using it without feeling concerned.                 I don’t cull people that often, but at the moment after everything that has happened, I feel it’s the best thing to do. I’ve had people online who have been nicer to me than some of the friends and family I’ve had in life. I treat everyone with respect and kindness, but that doesn’t give them a free pass to mistreat me. In truth, there are a lot

  ALCOHOL                 Australian drinking age is 18; however, I didn’t start drinking when I turned 18 because I was a goody goody and was afraid of alcohol. On my 18th I had three people over to celebrate with me, it wasn’t a party or anything like that it was a low-key event. Someone brought a bottle of wine and they were drinking it but I was wary of it so I didn’t. I didn’t get my ID straight away, I waited. I didn’t get ID until I was roughly around 20 years old, mainly because I wanted to go out and see bands live, which we did. Sharon would drink beer and so I drank a beer as well but I didn’t drink all of it because I didn’t like the taste. My brother and my dad drank Jack Daniels and that’s the alcohol drink that I liked so I just stuck with that one. So when we went to see a band or attended a party or nightclub I would stick with that one.                 I have had wine and have tried other alcoholic beverages as well, but they get me drunk, and at least with JD, it

  BLOW UP THE POKIES In America pokies are called slot machines, in Australia, they are called poker machines “pokies”. I’ve never been a fan of gambling and one of my least favourite things is pokies. I hate hanging around clubs that have a lot of pokies. I hate casinos and I never wanted to go to Las Vegas.                When I go out, I like to go out to socialize, chat, catch up, have a laugh, sit in comfortable seats, in comfortable warm temperatures, listen to music, drink, and preferably have a nice view. That’s what socialising is to me.                I don’t recall when I started disliking pokies; I don’t think my hatred of pokies stems from Sharon and Keith, who play them all the time. I think I started disliking them when I started going out to nightclubs when I was around 20 years old. When I go out the last thing I want to do is play pokies or hang around pokies. If I ever did play pokies it would be for about 1 or 2 minutes and I would lose interest and then walk

AEROSMITH My Music Blog                 There are people you come across in life who have good taste in music. My dad is one of those people. Autumn’s brother Samuel has good taste in music. My brother’s best friend Brenton is a huge music lover and he has influenced me with music through the years. I also have a few Facebook friends who are huge music lovers who have similar taste in music as me. One of the factors I love about the internet is that it can put you in touch with people who also love music. It’s difficult to meet people in real life and it’s even more difficult to make new friends in real life. There are a lot of apps on the internet for finding dates, but I like friendships, and people who love music and films. It’s hard to find people like that in real life, so that’s why I like the internet.                 There was a girl who went to the same high school as myself, her name was Molly and she definitely had good taste in music. She had a passion for music, I remember

  BEING AROUND ABUSERS AND BULLIES                 I’ve noticed that Keith is okay with abusers and it’s obvious. Most of the people he associates with are abusive or bullies. Perhaps the reason why he hates me so much and targets me is because I’m not like him or his friends.                 I don’t usually judge people by who they are in a relationship with, who they associate with or who they are related to. I’ve been associated with plenty of family and friends who have been dodgy and toxic so I can’t talk.                 But sometimes who someone hangs out with is a red flag. Keith and Sharon spent years putting me down. Many of the toxic people I’ve had in my life are no longer a fixture in my life and as I’ve matured I have grown enough common sense and confidence not to associate with toxic people anymore.                 He is in a relationship with Sharon and even though Sharon is a good person with a good heart, she has been incredibly toxic towards me and other p

  BLACK SHEEP                 There are black sheep and I’m one of them.                 There’s definitely some kind of class division or a hierarchy where some people think they are better than others. I don’t know what this is based on. But the truth is that it’s based entirely on who the biggest wankers are in the room. There are class groups, it’s like being on the Titanic. There are the narcissists who look down on others, then the group in the middle who aren’t in but not out either, and then there’s the ones of the bottom, the scum.                 The wankers and bitches seem to think they are better than everyone else and just sit around making snide comments about people, even when someone is right in front of them they will make snobby and bitchy comments about them.                 I tend to be a magnet for bitchy people, I’m way too nice to people and I don’t behave like they do. If someone bitches about me I don’t start World War III and I don’t bitch back.