Matter of degrees.

Outrageous, despicable, immoral etc etc a few of the words that could describe the current scandal that is ''Hackgate''. 
How can they justify hacking into murder victims/families phones to get the latest headline? We are all becoming aware of the depth of this situation and how corrupt our own government seem as we learn that it doesn't stop at the editors room. 
We are thirsty for more information, for more awareness of the corruption, now we realise we have been living in a bubble, but what if the information we receive is from the corrupt itself? Do we carry on listening intently in the hope that those who have led us down the garden path will be brought to justice or do we take the moral high ground and refuse to indulge in this new information as it is most likely being brought to us by the same methods that created the corruption to start with. 

What makes us better? 

Are we the same as the crooked politicians and bent coppers, only deciding if something is wrong if it doesn't suit our purpose? Or is it for the greater good? I can't make up my mind, surely if something is wrong, there is no room for maneuver, or is it a matter of degrees?

End of the (NOT) World?

Lets face it, it hardly is, or is it? At least the world as we know it anyway. 
Scandal is everywhere, it's just a dramatised word for gossip imo. What has made Murdochs empire has ultimately been the downfall of it. Like most gossips, it isn't long before the subject of their idle conversations finds out and the tables are turned.
Inevitably once the gossip is out, it will stay out, you can not take away what has been said, however much truth or fiction is attached. So how is this the end of the world? Well our lives are lived through the media - consciously and sub consciously, our conversations revolve around the news and we are drawn to it like an old woman over the garden fence, it's a human trait - curiosity. However, our curiosity is no longer the gossip that has been drip fed to us, it's the roots of it, the people who have fed it us, the reasons why and how we have been manipulated to enable crooks to become the most powerful people in the world.  So now that we know that we have been living in a media matrix............will we take the red pill or the blue pill?

Get rid of the junk

Clutter accumulates over time, sometimes without even knowing it. Cupboards, drawers, boxes, wardrobes etc etc At some point the clutter will inevitably become visible and/or a nuisance.
As I stood rummaging through various storage spaces today I realised that I had to be ruthless and throw out the unnecessary collection of junk my family had collected over the last few months.
Every aspect of life needs a system, in order to function. Even our bodies have a system, a way of getting rid of waste and storing the most important things we need. What is the use of keeping things that are useless or cause problems? None. So why do we hoard things? Some people may keep useless things in the hope that one day they might need them, some may keep things as they hold sentimental attachment to them, some may just not like to part with their property. In other cases some people may not want to get rid of the junk as if they do, then they risk part of themselves being exposed to others,  and imho, that is THE only logical reason why Rupert Murdoch insists on hoarding Rebekah Brooks.
So, as I go through my messy family home and de clutter every nook and cranny, I have the satisfaction of knowing that at the end of it, everything will be organised and easily accessible - the only sensible way to find things. 
I suppose if I wanted to hide something though, the best way to do it would be to keep all the unnecessary things, that way the important things would be a lot harder to uncover.

Only 4 months!

Admittedly I have never been the worlds most avid reader,but now and again a book will pop up that grabs my attention. In the case of Twilight, it happens to be 4 books. 
I have watched almost every type of horror film and enjoyed most, but vampire films have never appealed to me, in fact I would go out of my way not to watch one. 
I first came about Twilight through my step children, and watched the first film anticipating an hour and a half of boredom, but as it happens I was captivated. My initial opinion of the film was along the same lines of a High school Musical film, but as I watched and continued on to the next 2 sequels, I was a firm fan. (Along with a few million teenagers)
I'm now reading the final installment of the Twilight series : Breaking Dawn, and I've never been so impatient in my life, I want to flip to the last page having all the information that preceded it, but where's the fun in that?
So tonight I will have a bath put a new pair of pyjamas on and indulge in a few more chapters, as I wait very patiently for November. :)

They're only pyjamas!!

Why is it that when you have to lay the law down to your kids, guilt takes over and the innate need to buy/spoil/pacify soon follows? 

With the rather heavy dose of lectures last night, I woke up this morning feeling like Hitler. 

After dropping the kids off at school I wandered round the shops a bit lost and plagued with the thought that my children would think I was mean and horrible and that they would be planning on leaving home, so I found some very nice pyjamas with pictures of their favourite characters on and planned a cosy night with a dvd and maybe an ice cream. 

After listening to words of wisdom from my own mother,  I am slowly coming out of denial and realising, if only a tad, that spoiling them after warning them that from now on all privileges had to be earned, could maybe seen as a mixed message?

So in summary, it appears to be me that has the problem with my tough love technique, not the kids, and dvd night will have to be earned.

As for the pyjamas?......................They're only pyjamas!!