Luck does have a part to play, but so do the choices you make.

If you are not already wealthy, every time to you choose to have a child you erode your financial standing to some degree, that’s just a fact. Do this seven times and you are going to have some issues.

To compound matters, one or more of her kids have some kind of disability, and disabilities are not a cheap thing to manage in this country. I don’t know if it’s the first child or the last child, but unless it was the last I definitely would have stopped after that knowing the enormous amount of resources it would require to support the child.

To put her entire situation down to luck only really comes across as denying personal responsibility.

Whatever your starting point in life, every choice you make will move you closer to your goals or further away from them. The article no doubt is missing a lot of information, since the journalist failed to analyze the situation critically, but it really does seem a lot of choices were made that would have compounded financial problems.

Silly grandstanding and empty threats from the greens. If you are serious about the supermarket duopoly then work with labour to force them to divest. Another gab fest senate inquiry not going to do jack shit.

Really don’t feel like gym tonight but it’s my second last training session before I’m on holidays for a couple of weeks so I’m telling myself to STFU and stop complaining.

I’m bored with fluffy statements from Australian politicians and diplomats. You have no power, Israel doesn’t care about you so shut the fuck up until you have something useful to say.

100% correct.

You nailed it.

People keep expecting good behavior from AFL players. Why? Young men that have been put up on a pedestal for probably most of their lives, then given a lot of money, plus the celebrity status they now have.

Money and power doesn’t usually equate to good behavior and yet people are shocked when they don’t play nice. What do you honestly expect? They are just football players and perhaps if folks stop giving the game more importance than it warrants them maybe you won’t create such big egos.

You’re right, a bit of bread and circuses

Israel doesn’t care what Australia thinks about Palestine. This is taking up way too much space in newspaper headlines.

Plenty of doctors I wouldn’t trust either tbh.

Doctors are not gods and all advice should be treated with skepticism, especially when a lot of money is going to be made and ESPECIALLY when your spine is involved.

Last night I got overheated so I’ve taken the doona out of the cover and I have:

• Top sheet and doona cover only to provide just enough warmth
• the doona itself covering my feet which I can pull up during the night if I get cold.

Really? I must be a fucking furnace because I’ve got all my windows open.

What’s with Ballarat and murders? Another one happened on Friday.

First time in ages I’ve properly put my doona in it’s cover and across the whole bed tonight as opposed to only at my feet.

Allegedly it’s an utra light summer weight doona. They must be talking about a Scandinavian summer because it’s way too hot for an Australian one. It’s too warm for most of autumn so far as well truth be told.

Hey Melbourne drivers, the rain falling doesn’t mean you turn off your brain.

Woke up at 6 today because my body still thinks it’s 7 am. Laid about for two hours hoping I’ll fall back to sleep. Not happening.

Meanwhile I see the weather is the usual Melbourne perma-grey. Thank God I’m going to Vietnam for a couple of weeks soon to somewhat extend my summer.

Süße Träume!

You can checkout but you can never leave…

Lack of sunlight makes me so drowsy and lethargic, bit Melbourne is gonna Melbourne.