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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7905 on: October 27, 2011, 09:51:04 PM »
Took the PR to the Halloween dance for the disabled adults of the area.  The usual Star Wars characters showed up, Luke and the Storm Troopers.  You have not lived until you have seen Storm Troopers dancing with disabled adults to LaBamba, Tequila and Shout.
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7906 on: October 28, 2011, 04:32:20 AM »
Just finished a first draft of my conference presentation.
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7907 on: October 28, 2011, 01:19:39 PM »
Fireworks!

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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7908 on: October 28, 2011, 02:42:46 PM »
During the school holiday's the dinner ladies run a little
holiday club.  I sent the urchin on Monday,  expecting
to receive a phone call half way through the day to pick
him up.  He can be a handful,  and the dinner ladies have
no qualifications for children with special needs.

No phone call came.

Picked him up at three which was the agreed time.  He had
been good as gold  :o  This was partly due to an older boy
called Joe,  who had taken him under his wing.  The dinner
ladies said Joe had been really good with the urchin and showed
him how to use the play station and various other games.

So,  i took him there every day except one, where i took him
on a steam train.   All i have heard all week has been "Joe this"
and "Joe that"  I even had to incorporate 'Joe' into his bedtime
story.

Let me tell you about Joe.  He is 15 yrs old.  He used to attend
urchin's school until he was 11  (it is only an infants and junior
school)  He is partially blind, almost totally deaf, he does speak
but doesn't sound like you or i.  He returns every year to help
the dinner ladies with the out of school club.  He is a real star.
He has been so good with the urchin and i found out that he has
done a letter to his class teacher, Miss Socket, to say what a
good boy he had been (he heard about the trouble he has been in)

I decided to get Joe a little 'thank you' card, and shoved a tenner
inside and left it in urchins bag when i dropped him off this morning.

When i picked him up at 3pm,  Joe's mum came over to me and
said thanks for the card etc and how proud she was of him.  She
said they were trying to get him to pick a career path at his own
school but before today he had no direction.  Joe had told his Mum
when he showed her his card that he has decided he wants to work
with kids with special needs.  Nice one Joe :thumbup:

I gave him a big hug, and those who don't know me might have
thought they saw a tear in my eye.  Obviously,  it was just
something in my eye.  But i felt almost human,  momentarily.
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7909 on: October 28, 2011, 03:20:03 PM »
Hooray for all the Joes in this world.  They do make a difference in so many lives. 
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7910 on: October 28, 2011, 03:24:43 PM »
Yes indeed Your Majesty!

*wonders if her majesty has done her short list
for knighthoods yet*
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7911 on: October 28, 2011, 03:29:03 PM »
Yes indeed Your Majesty!

*wonders if her majesty has done her short list
for knighthoods yet*

It would give me great pleasure to recognize Joe's special talents and award him a post as Ambassador to Those in Need.
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7912 on: October 28, 2011, 03:35:36 PM »
Might be seeing Sam and David in town on sunday :)

haven''t seen Sam since she left London ages ago. will be nice to see them

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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7913 on: October 28, 2011, 03:40:29 PM »
Yes indeed Your Majesty!

*wonders if her majesty has done her short list
for knighthoods yet*

It would give me great pleasure to recognize Joe's special talents and award him a post as Ambassador to Those in Need.
ah, very good, your majesty!

oh btw,  have you heard about the changes regarding royal succession to the throne? i heard on the news that the first born child of the reigning monarch will be next on the throne,  whether it be male or female.  If this had been the case in your reign then your son Edward would have never been King,  but his sister,  Victoria,  aka  the PR would have been crowned Queen.  Interesting.
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7914 on: October 28, 2011, 03:43:23 PM »
Yes indeed Your Majesty!

*wonders if her majesty has done her short list
for knighthoods yet*

It would give me great pleasure to recognize Joe's special talents and award him a post as Ambassador to Those in Need.
ah, very good, your majesty!

oh btw,  have you heard about the changes regarding royal succession to the throne? i heard on the news that the first born child of the reigning monarch will be next on the throne,  whether it be male or female.  If this had been the case in your reign then your son Edward would have never been King,  but his sister,  Victoria,  aka  the PR would have been crowned Queen.  Interesting.

Having been a wonderful female ruler who far outshone her immediate male predecessors and will outshine an unnamed male successor I agree wholeheartedly with the change.
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7915 on: October 28, 2011, 03:46:52 PM »
During the school holiday's the dinner ladies run a little
holiday club.  I sent the urchin on Monday,  expecting
to receive a phone call half way through the day to pick
him up.  He can be a handful,  and the dinner ladies have
no qualifications for children with special needs.

No phone call came.

Picked him up at three which was the agreed time.  He had
been good as gold  :o  This was partly due to an older boy
called Joe,  who had taken him under his wing.  The dinner
ladies said Joe had been really good with the urchin and showed
him how to use the play station and various other games.

So,  i took him there every day except one, where i took him
on a steam train.   All i have heard all week has been "Joe this"
and "Joe that"  I even had to incorporate 'Joe' into his bedtime
story.

Let me tell you about Joe.  He is 15 yrs old.  He used to attend
urchin's school until he was 11  (it is only an infants and junior
school)  He is partially blind, almost totally deaf, he does speak
but doesn't sound like you or i.  He returns every year to help
the dinner ladies with the out of school club.  He is a real star.
He has been so good with the urchin and i found out that he has
done a letter to his class teacher, Miss Socket, to say what a
good boy he had been (he heard about the trouble he has been in)

I decided to get Joe a little 'thank you' card, and shoved a tenner
inside and left it in urchins bag when i dropped him off this morning.

When i picked him up at 3pm,  Joe's mum came over to me and
said thanks for the card etc and how proud she was of him.  She
said they were trying to get him to pick a career path at his own
school but before today he had no direction.  Joe had told his Mum
when he showed her his card that he has decided he wants to work
with kids with special needs.  Nice one Joe :thumbup:

I gave him a big hug, and those who don't know me might have
thought they saw a tear in my eye.  Obviously,  it was just
something in my eye.  But i felt almost human,  momentarily.
I'm all verklempt. It has been my experience that the best people who have worked with monkeyboy are teens, and some of them are spectrumy too. There's nothing monkeyboy could throw at them that they couldn't handle and I think a lot of it is because as we grow up we develop preconceived notions of what kids "should" be like at various ages. The younger set just take them for who they are and wherever they're at. The rest of the world could learn a thing or two from them.

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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7916 on: October 28, 2011, 06:33:34 PM »
My Dad came out of hospital today, after 4 weeks, with only a two day break.
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7917 on: October 28, 2011, 06:34:12 PM »
My Dad came out of hospital today, after 4 weeks, with only a two day break.

 Yay hyke's dad, how is he feeling?  :)
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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7918 on: October 28, 2011, 06:35:22 PM »
old man cat took a nap with me. silly old cat.

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Re: Post something good that happened today
« Reply #7919 on: October 28, 2011, 06:40:30 PM »
My Dad came out of hospital today, after 4 weeks, with only a two day break.

 Yay hyke's dad, how is he feeling?  :)

Quite well, thank you.

He lost quite some weight though, weighing 10% less than four weeks ago.
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