shianne

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Jenny

When we were in Tassie, we met a great little girl

Her name was Shianne

You may have seen her on the Tasmania vlog

At about the 2:36 mark

Her Mum, Chantelle, had sent a letter asking if Shianne could meet Dad

She’s only 11, but knows all the words to Dad’s songs

And loves him

You have to be 18 to see the show

So she came backstage before the Burnie concert to say hi and get some pics taken

Shianne has Alopecia

It’s a disease where your hair falls out

Sometimes in patches, sometimes all over

Shianne has Alopecia totalis

Which has made her totally bald

Eyebrows, eyelashes – all of it

Shianne first started loosing her hair when she was 7

As a Mum with a daughter who will be 7 this year

I try to imagine how she would cope losing her beautiful, long hair at this age

Being her Mum, I’m not sure I would handle it too well

Chantelle’s letter told of the hard time that Shianne gets at school

She gets teased constantly

Because we all know what motherfuckers how cruel kids can be sometimes

(And how much I hate bullying BUT how standing up to them can help)

So having something as obvious as ‘no hair’ would be such a magnet for the arsehole kids

So they give her a hard time

All the time

According to Chantelle, the school where Shianne goes, does fuck all about it is not too great at handling the situation

Shianne was told to, ‘deal with it’

As she would look like it for the rest of her life

So it’s in her ‘best interest’ to get used to the stares and smart arsed comments

When I spoke to Chantelle about it, I was gobsmacked

I’m not sure if changing schools is an option

But it’s something I would look into

After I told them to all go fuck themselves!

Asking an 11 year old girl to just deal with name-calling and constant teasing?

If that’s not absolute bullshit, I don’t know what is

Then I spoke to Shianne

And seriously, she is the cutest, sweetest, giggly little girl in the world

It seems so unfair

What she has to go through every day

Her friends and family are currently raising money

So that Shianne can go and meet some other kids who have Alopecia

She’s the only one in Tasmania

And has never met anyone else who suffers from it

She’s very excited

She wanted to have one of my albums, but we’d sold out on the night

Plus I was a little hesitant

OK, I was A LOT hesitant

About handing over an album of my ‘fuck’ songs to an 11 year old kid

Her Mum assured me it was OK

So I ended up sending her a signed copy

Along with a kick boxing dvd

To help her deal with the fuckers at school

And maybe kick some arse

I figure if I’m going to be a bad influence

I might as well give it my best shot

Update – they raised the money, so Shianne is planning her trip to go & meet some new friends!!

giggles

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Jenny

There are some things that are guaranteed to make you smile

Certain photos, videos

I was looking through some photos from the last month

As I start to put together the video blog for the WA leg of this tour

And got to these pics

And just started laughing

When I spent the day with Sammy for her birthday

We started off with a pedicure

And it didn’t take long to work out she’d never had one before

She was so ticklish

And giggly

The ladies that worked at the salon thought we were idiots

The lady doing my feet didn’t like me at all

Which, if you’ve smelt my feet, is totally understandable

She was filing & buffing away so much it hurt

But it was hard to concentrate on that when I was getting so much joy out of watching Sammy squirm

And wriggle as she giggled

Like I said, the ladies that worked there thought we were complete fuckwits

And I KNOW they thought we had more than coffee in our coffee cups

I think it was pretty obvious

happy father’s day

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Jenny

(for my U.S. & U.K. mates – the Aussies have to wait until September)

Ok, so last Sunday I put a post on Facebook saying, “Happy Father’s Day to all the Dad’s in the US “

And being the genius I’m obviously not, I deleted it

Why?

Because it’s today
I was a week early
Go me!
I went shopping with the girls before I left
So they have all their gifts for Diamond sorted out
Cute little homemade cards to go with it too , which he’s going to love
We took extra care to hide the presents really well
We needed them to be somewhere he wouldn’t find them
Because yes, he would totally go looking for them
And they also had to be hidden somewhere that the girls would remember, and be able to get to
So the top of my closet wasn’t going to work
We decided that under Miss 4′s bed was the best bet
They would remember that spot, and be able to access it easily
Plus under Miss 6′s bed is full of biology books she bought at a garage sale?!?
Apprently the access was too easy
Cause on Skype this morning, the ever efficient and always on top of things, Miss 6, was near meltdown
Mummy, Daddy’s presents are gone!
Are you sure?
Yes. The only thing under the bed is dust & Fluffy’s dog bowl”

(I’m not even going to speculate why the dog’s bowl is under the bed – because the dog is too big to go up the stairs, let alone in the bedrooms and UNDER the bed)
Can you go get Daddy for me?
OK
I’m thinking Diamond has been a shit decided that he could’t wait for his World’s Best Daddy trophy

So I asked him, did you get your presents out from under the bed?
What presents?
Dude, your Father’s Day ones. We hid them, and now they’re gone
I didn’t take them
Truth?
Truth. But only ’cause I couldn’t find them

(Told you he’d look!)
Well they’re gone. And you know what that means?
Shit, yes I do
Yep, the little thief strikes again
The little thief being Miss 4
Remember the telephone incident?? and what fun that wasn’t
Yeah, well she’s shown no signs of curbing her enthusiasm for ‘borrowing’ shit that’s not hers
Now she’s moved onto prewrapped tacky gifts for grown men
She comes over to the computer
I look her straight in eye and asked her if she took them
And she puts her face right up to the screen, and says, took what Mummy?
But then she smirks

Just a little one, but it’s enough to prove to me that she did take it
She is incapable of taking anything seriously

Ever
It’s actually a pretty cool quality in a kid
I’m counting on chilbirth to burst that, ‘everything is a joke-ha-ha’ bubble for her one day

For now, it makes her pretty much always happy & joking around
She also happens to be an exceptional liar
I’m talking really fucking good
Well, I have no idea where they might be, I said
The tree house?
The toilet?
The bottom of the pool?
Forever the optimist, Diamond says, it’s OK they’ll show up somewhere
It won’t matter to him if he gets his gifts or not
He’s spending his Daddy’s Day with his girls
They’re going swimming
Then on a picnic

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And now with a treasure hunt thrown in for good measure
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Happy Father’s Day dudes!!