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Post by victoriasdad on Feb 13, 2009 3:31:22 GMT -5
the world special olympics have come for the first time to the united states. in my back yard, so locally we have been getting news coverage for months, actually about two years in preparation for the games, gathering volunteers, ect. its not just the special olympics, its the world special olympics! we have been anticipathing it, hearing about it , its prestigous, i think about 190 countries competed, some of these countries are shall we say are not friendly toward each other have put away their differences to compete, to show us the true meaning of the olympics, the true heart of the competitor, competitors and volunteers, host families that opened their homes to people from across the globe, the face of all things good in humanity, hope, inspiration,dedication,overcoming time after time true and overwhelming adversity, act after act of giving for the sake of giving. And not a peep from the national news media, no coverage, no mention, its almost as if no one cared............
we didnt realize it , in our lil corner of the usa, we had our local news all abuzz , big doings in these parts, imagine us little ole idaho being the center of the WORLD winter special olympics, that we were virtually ignored by our own national media, so ignored in fact that foreign news agencys have made mention of it.
it is a very telling fact in our society that the choice of a dog for our new president got more press then the entire world special olympics, well its over, not much we can do about it now, except maybe let them know how we feel, write letters to the special olympics officials, sponsors, our nation media centers and our governmental representives letting them know what an opportunity they have missed to bring something special to the national level. or not............ apathy, i heard its catchy........
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Post by victoriasdad on Feb 9, 2009 10:30:27 GMT -5
wow thanks for letting me know, now i can show my wife next time the roll goes....... well rolling across the floor, yeah i can see it now, i will give her the 'i cant believe you are so clumsy look," then i can pick the roll up and pop the tab and hand it back while i pat her on the head in a real condescending way, making that tch tch tch sound , while i walk away slowly shaking my head from side to side, yes i can see it now..... now i need a tab to keep victorias pants up
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Post by victoriasdad on Feb 9, 2009 10:27:51 GMT -5
exacty! victorias eyes dont goo up since she had her adnoids out, well not much anymore, but her tears are clear grrrrrrrrrrrr... today i took victoria to class and the sacrificial teachers aid took her from me all the rest of them averted their eyes and put their heads down kinda comical, i disagreed with the teacher i never raised my voice, not im the trouble parent i guess.............
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Post by victoriasdad on Feb 9, 2009 2:09:13 GMT -5
three weeks ago they called my wife at work and told her that victoria was coughing, and had weepy eyes, and since wooping cough was going around they wanted her to come get tori, so wife left work, but i guess it wasnt fast enough for them they also called my wifes mother and asked her to get tori, when my wife arrived at the school victoria was already gone.
victoria coughed twice that day and twice more the next day i saw one clear tear come out of her eye. one period. because of congestive heart disease victoria always has some congestion and ........ well her eyes will weep sometimes ..... i think its because ......... well she has down syndrome duh...... this week they called my wife and called her to get victoria because they said she had uncontrolled diareah (sic) she never messed herself but i think she kept asking to go to the toilet, maybe she just wanted to fool around because when she got home she had a normal stool, not even sorta loose, i dont know whats going on at the school , her teacher always hides when i bring victoria because we had a fight because i refused to sign the iep unless all the iep team members came to the meeting... she told my wife if we didnt sign it victoria couldnt go to school there,, now she hides from me and im beginning to wonder if she s pullin this crap to get even... it costs us over a hundred dollars everytime my wife leaves work and its getting kinda tiresome.
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Post by victoriasdad on Feb 9, 2009 1:55:40 GMT -5
the world winter special olympics are here in the usa for the first time and right here in idaho, opening ceremonies were spectacular! the excitement was overwhelming, WOOT!! ;D
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Post by victoriasdad on Jan 14, 2009 21:56:39 GMT -5
im so sorry im sure you guys wont appreciate my sense of humor but on utube is a video of burger king murdering ronald mcdonald, it is the funniest thing ive ever seen .........
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Post by victoriasdad on Oct 19, 2008 21:18:13 GMT -5
lol being married is like being in combat, i will bring the donuts
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Sarah
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Post by victoriasdad on Oct 17, 2008 23:28:28 GMT -5
well i just want to interject a mans point of view on all this sarah palin controversy, if alaska is so cold how in the world did they get such a hot govenor?
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Post by victoriasdad on Sept 10, 2008 20:26:29 GMT -5
called an attorney, he says he cant help me because hes not licensed in calif. told me he would call a associate in california to get me a referral ,,,,,,,,,,,, no return call , i smell a brush off............ one of my customers son lives in los angelos and just got through a personal injury suit shes gonna bring me her sons lawyers name to morrow........................
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Post by victoriasdad on Sept 9, 2008 20:00:06 GMT -5
lol it was suppose to make you laugh, about holland , i been living in holland for eight years now . lololol i wonder.......... do they sell pacifico in holland ....... and is it cold?
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Post by victoriasdad on Sept 8, 2008 23:11:21 GMT -5
well my wife and i have worked at an auction house for twenty five years, we took all of our kids to the auction when they were babies so they could be fed, there isnt many things more noisey or chaotic than an auction in full swing, my kids slept through all of it,
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Post by victoriasdad on Sept 8, 2008 23:04:01 GMT -5
well im not sure if this will help but my mother in law talks to me like i am ten yrs old
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Post by victoriasdad on Sept 8, 2008 1:56:51 GMT -5
beth and i finally did it., left all the kids at home, we havent been away from them for more than three days in eighteen years, booked a cruise, saved some fun money, bought "cruise clothes" and off we went, we flew in from idaho to lax in las angelos, jumped into a shuttle van to go to our hotel room, unfortunately our driver was in so much of a hurry he decided to cut across two lanes of oncoming traffic and we got T-boned by a taxi, the taxi hit us broadside on our rear tire sending us onto and over the front of the taxi, my head was slammed into the top of the window and roof of the van and then back into beth who was rebounding off the opposite wall, shaken up but not hurt it seemed, until the next day on the cruise ship , when i discovered i could barely walk having thrown out my lower back, (i have three bulging discs) i went to the cruise doctor she took xrays and gave me a shot of demoral , told me i would sleep all night and wake up fine, i took a nap for two hours and was up all night, the next day we made port in cabo, i made a bee line for the fleamarket to get a cane, i was in excruciating pain, so when i get to the vendor he takes one look at me and tells me that the crappy multicolored, carved by a five year old cane he is holding is worth twenty dollars, i need the cane, he knows i know i need the cane so i tell him ten dollars, grinding my teeth because i know i could buy the same cane in the dollar store back home for.....well ... a dollar... he looks at the sweat poring off of my forehead and the pain in my eyes and tells me fifteen, i tell him ten..... he says fifteen i tell him 12.50 he smiles and tells me fifteen, i give the heartless parasite on the misery of humanity the fifteen dollars and curse his grandmother as i hobble away to find the nearest cold pacifico... when we get back to the ship we get a note from the customer relations department that we have exceeded our ship credit, thats also when we get the bill for 740.00 for the hospital visit, so now we have no shipboard credit , so now we are stuck on a cruise where we cant buy booze, cant book any excursions, cant even play bingo.. meanwhile my back gets progressively worse, i can barely hobble around the ship, we hire a private tour van when we get to maztland so there was minimal walking thank god, but no walks on the beach, no dancing in the senor frogs, nothing like what we had planned........... i was so disapointed not only for myself but for my wife, i felt like i let her down, the next day we hit puerto vallarta, we hobbled down to the docks, in the distance i saw a shimmering light, the smell of calikas rising up in the air..... u know this could be heaven or this could be hell, no it wasnt the hotel california it was....... the WALMART! we slowly made our way out of the marina across six lanes of mexican traffic( lol the traffic signs dont have a walk/dont walk sign, they have a figure of a man running!) i felt like a very sweaty frogger.. we made it to the walmart parking lot i grabbed the nearest shopping cart to use as a walker, we were almost killed by the rows of speeding taxis in the parking lot, we made it through the doors! u know there is nothing that makes u feel more safe and surrounded by love than a walmart!! and they had AIR CONDITIONING !!! i forgot to mention the 90% humidity didnt i? now we were in walmart , beth and i looked at each other , i asked her "well we are here what did u need to buy", she looked at me and said " i thought u needed something"......... after much discussion we decided to buy two liters of pepsi , (as they only serve coke on the ship), when we got back to the ship we discovered that american pepsi and mexican pepsi are not .......... made with the same ingredients, evidently we americans have been getting ripped off all this time, i guess pepsico in order to save money in the good old usa has decided to omit the main ingredient in mexican pepsi,,,, beth and i kept swishing the pepsi around and around in our mouths trying to decide what that secret ingredient is......... beth finally figured it out ,,DISH SOAP!, yup, mexican pepsi tastes like dish soap, so i am asking all of you loyal pepsi drinkers to stand up to the cost cutting CEO of pepsico inc. and demand our fair share of dishsoap in our pepsi, you guys dont know what you are missing,..two days back to the states , we dock . then onto a full size bus to the airport, barely miss running into a fuel truck on the free way, our driver runs some nice friendly people out of their lane, i know they are friendly because they follow us for a couple of miles , they must of been friends of the bus drivers because they kept honking and i think they may have been hearing impaired also because they kept using sign language at us, i think they may have known only one sign though , u know the one , u stick your middle finger up and raise and lower your fist in a up and down motion! well we finally made it to the airport and went into the building where there were hundreds of us running around frantically, to the "new" automated checkout! remember im still in excruciating pain, and there is a man with a bull horn yelling at us, demanding that we take the next vacant "automatic" bag checker thingmabob, envision this sight, there is total bedlam and here is this impecalably (sic)dressed, middle aged african american man wearing a , smart little vest on, shoes that shone like mirrors , a neatly trimmed graying beard and a squared away 1930's hair cut, really nice, and ..... i dont know much about gel and doo and all that being a balding middle aged man,,,, but he had this stuff on his hair, and it was on so thick it looked like the whole jar of vaseline and the frosting on a cinnamon roll,,,and he is yelling at us(not beth and i, but he is yelling at all of us) because we are too stupid to realize there is a vacant checker thingmabob, so finally we get to the checker thingie, and beth follows the instructions and puts her credit card into the slot, it refuses to read the card, remember the mass of humanity , the noise , the chaos, the guy with he bull horn, so beth uses the passport option, and sticks it into the slot, where it gets stuck, crammed in stuck actually, she asks the attendant for help and the lady sneers at her and walks off, finally beth realizes that the passport has to be open to be scanned,(cuz there is a picture of an open passport next to the slot) but its really stuck, i need a knife to dig it out,, well that aint happening, we are at the airport after all, so i pry it out with a ball point pin, im a hero! whereapon beth opens it to her picture and crams it in again! i say "maybe its not in far enough and cram it in somemore it just doesnt look right... thats when we notice the scanner tray over to the side,, it seems the slot we stuck her passport in is where the tags come out for your luggage, beth is about to cry, im about to pass out from pain, beth kept asking the attendant for help, and being ignored, i actually for a brief moment was going to scream BOMB! just so someone , anyone would come and help us! finally beth tells the attendant, LOOK YOU DONT UNDERSTAND! MY PASSPORT IS STUCK IN THIS SLOT AND WE ARENT LEAVING UNTIL I GET MY PASSPORT OUT! "oh" says the attendant,like why ever didnt you say so before, she yells to another attendant and they take out their keys and open the machine and gets the passport out. there is a loud hurrah! from the countless mass of humanity waiting to use our thingmabob and we check our bags! wallah! "automated" what a time saver! we go through security and they ask me if i can walk with out my cane................ uh ........... look into my eyes....... do i look like i can walk without it? three hour wait for our plane,, finally made it home , to beautiful idaho, i was never so happy to be home, it was almost as good as bieing in a walmart in a foriegn country..............tomorrow ....im letting my fingers do the walking im going to find a good lawyer............
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Post by victoriasdad on Sept 8, 2008 0:49:34 GMT -5
what is a cruise control?
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Post by victoriasdad on Aug 22, 2008 1:29:07 GMT -5
well there has been lots of wonderful , inciteful dialogue on this site and others, which is the true purpose of these sites after all, we are not all going to agree on any one subject, the thing about down syndrome is its a nondiscriminating thing. it touches every aspect of our society, from the poorest to the richest, no matter what race, religion, sex, or social station it touches all of us. these sights are wonderful in that we put aside (or try to) all the usual social barriers and concentrate on supporting each other to learn and grow , or just lend a shoulder when things get a little overwhelming, its not a "your with us or your against us"mentality, we all have one goal in mind to better life for our children, to make it a better safer world for them to grow in. you know tropic thunder is a very negative movie, intentionally or not, but its things like this, the" last straw" type of things that galvanize people to action, look at history, a tax on tea, refusing to ride at the back of a bus, little acts of courage are like snow flakes , eventually enough snow flakes bind together and become a rolling snowball thundering down a mountain side.
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