Almost Free

This is my “Goodbye Post” to PT (PinkTruth).  I posted this on Friday, August 24, 2007~on PT.  It only stayed up for a brief moment.  Thank goodness we are so good at copying, pasting, and saving.  And-thank goodness for DUH! Thought I would post it here for my archives.

To all of my PT friends:  I’ve only been here about a month and a half and I’ve made quite a few good friends. I’ve really enjoyed my time here with everyone, especially my new friends—until the latest incidents that have occurred in the last few weeks-the bannings, people leaving, the public humiliations…then the way I was treated.  I just want my peeps to know that I will miss you and you know how to reach me, of course:

miss.periwinkle@hotmail.com (not my email anymore)

First of all-I never wanted to cause any trouble here on PT.  I came here to seek the truth, get answers, make friends, and speak my opinion.  Obviously speaking my opinion isn’t allowed here on PT.  The last few posts I have made I have been misunderstood, publicly mocked, or falsely accused.  I did nothing to deserve this. 
My last post on the thread about “Please read the Rules”, I asked a simple question about the rules being edited thinking Tracy might want to put the new last edited date on the rules.  I had just read the rules with a last edited date of May 2007 a few days before Tracy posted this thread. I did not appreciate her comment directed to me saying:

“Yes, Miss Peri. the rules have been revised.
Your copying of posts and sending them to trash sites for ridicule is not allowed. I suspect you knew that it wasn’t appropriate, but now it’s spelled out in the rules for you and everyone else. Thanks for your future compliance”

This is libel.  I never copied and pasted a thread on another site.  The only thing I have done is emailed a thread to a friend.  What she did with it – I don’t know.  Haven’t many of us here at PT copied and pasted info from UnitNet and other websites?  What about the pictures that are posted from Seminar?  Aren’t those copyrighted?   IMO-I thought that once something was on the internet it was free game. 

I feel that when someone asks a question that challenges Tracy, she deletes the thread.  She can’t handle the challenge so she deletes the thread.  Then she starts taking away privileges…If I don’t have any privileges, then why am I here?  This is how a bully works-someone challenges a bully and the bully can’t take the heat so he/she does whatever else he/she can do…in her case- deletes threads/posts and take away privileges.
I thought Tracy always said that we could ask her anything.  The last few times I have asked her anything I have been jumped on, ousted, deleted, publicly ridiculed and “grounded” (privileges taken away).  This doesn’t sound quite right to me. It actually sounds immature, silly, and downright childish to me.

Another good question I have wondered about -If certain people have been banned or deleted, then why does it still say “member”? LIES-LIES-LIES.  I came here for the truth and all I ended up with was a lot more childish-immature behavior, deceit and lies.  I didn’t ask for this-I am not a trouble maker.  I could understand this if I was trying to cause trouble.  But I don’t have time for trouble.

Because of these recent incidents that have occurred-that I sure did not see coming-I am requesting that my banning process be completed.  If I do not have regular privileges like everyone else-why am I here? Why start something and not finish it-let the banning finish-please. Tracy, please delete my account.

Sincerely,
Miss Periwinkle 

Do you have a “goodbye post” to PT or comments you would like to share?

Merry Christmas

    

Merry Christmas!

This is the most beautiful Christmas card.

Just follow the instructions and enjoy!

                 

Click here: The Snowdog – animated Flash ecard by Jacquie Lawson

    

     

So~How did that make you feel?

The Woodpecker Might Have to Go!

                                            

 Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah’s Ark                                       (and in Kindergarten-of course…lol)

One: Don’t miss the boat.

Two: Remember that we are all in the same boat.

Three: Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.

Four: Stay fit When you’re 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.

Five: Don’t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.

Six: Build your future on high ground.

Seven: For safety’s sake, travel in pairs.

Eight: Speed isn’t always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.

Nine: When you’re stressed, float a while.

Ten: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

 Eleven: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there’s always a rainbow waiting…

May your troubles be less,
May your blessings be more,
And may nothing but happiness
Come through your door!

(Email forward sent to me by a fellow teacher)

Questions to Ponder

1. Can you cry under water?
2. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? 
3. Why do you have to put your two cents in.. but it’s only a penny for your thoughts? Where’s that extra penny going to?
4. Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
5. Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
6. What disease did cured ham actually have?
7. How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
8. Why is it that people say they slept like a baby when babies wake up like every two hours?
9. If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
10. Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?
11. Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
12. Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway.
13. Why is bra singular and panties plural?
14. Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp,
    which no decent human being would eat?
15. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
16. Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?
17. If the professor on Gilligan’s Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?
18. Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!
19. If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?
20. If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
21. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
22. Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
23. Why did you just try singing the two songs above?
24. Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your butt?
25. Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Do you have any more questions to ponder?

The Answer

Email forward sent to me (this is so funny): 

California staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades – even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough schoolwork to pass their classes. The outgoing message:

“Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff  member, please listen to all the options before making a selection: 

1. To lie about why your child is absent – Press 1 

2. To make excuses for why your child did not do his work-Press 2

3. To complain about what we do – Press 3

4. To swear at staff members – Press 4

5. To ask why you didn’t get information that was already enclosed  in your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you – Press 5 

6. If you want us to raise your child – Press 6

7. If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone -Press 7

8. To request another teacher, for the third time this year -Press 8

9. To complain about bus transportation – Press 9

10. To complain about school lunches – Press 0

11. If you realize this is the real world and your child must be
    accountable and responsible for his/her own behavior, class work, homework and that it’s not the teachers’ fault for your child’s lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!

12. If you want this in Spanish, you must be in the wrong country.”

What do you think about that?

Teacher Applicant

                                  

Email forward sent to me and oh so true 

After being interviewed by the school administration, the teaching prospect said:

Let me see if I’ve got this right: You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning.

You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride. You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job.

You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the state exams. You want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card.

I am to be a paragon of virtue larger than life, such that my very presence will awe my students into being obedient and respectful of authority. I am to pledge allegiance to supporting family values, a return to the basics, and to my current administration. I am to incorporate technology into the learning, and monitor all Web sites while providing a personal relationship with each student. I am to decide who might be potentially dangerous and/or liable to commit crimes in school or who is possibly being abused, and I can be sent to jail for not mentioning these suspicions.

I’m required by my contract to be working on my own time summer and evenings at my own expense toward advance certification and a master’s degree; and after school, I am to attend committee and faculty meetings and participate in staff development training to maintain my employment status. 

You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps. You want me to do all this and then you tell me…

 I CAN’T PRAY?”

FIRST CORINTHIANS 13 – CHRISTMAS VERSION

If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, 
Strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, 
But do not show love to my family, 
I’m just another decorator. 

If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, 
Preparing gourmet meals 
And arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, 
But do not show love to my family, 
I’m just another cook. 

If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home 
And give all that I have to charity, 
But do not show love to my family, 
It profits me nothing. 

If I trim the spruce tree with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, 
Attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir’s cantata, 
But do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point. 

Love stops the cooking to hug the child.  Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband. Love is kind, though harried and tired. 

Love doesn’t envy another’s home that has coordinated 
Christmas china and table linens. 

Love doesn’t yell at the kids to get out of the way, 
but is thankful they are there to be in the way. 

Love doesn’t give only to those who are able to give in return, 
but rejoices in giving to those who can’t. 

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 

Love never fails. 

Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust…. 
But giving the gift of love will endure. You can give without loving, 
but you cannot love without giving. 

(email forward~I love this!)