Swearing – Who Me?

Published October 2, 2023 by helentastic67

Swearing – Who Me?

It should be needless to say; I’ve become a bit of a potty mouth in the last fifteen years since my disability. With the best of intentions, I’ll be swearing a lot here today, but all within context.

Hope you can cope? Note, not a question.

When I worked for that shitty NGO (Non-Government Organisation) twenty years ago, it was a Christian Non-Denominal Not for Profit and the grumpy ex-chef taught me one of my favourite swear words that he made work appropriately. Sort of, he would sit and behind his desk, pull up his pants and state rather loudly, “Jesus!” Brief pause “Mary! and Joseph!” I don’t know if my more Godly followers are still reading. But if that’s offended you? You should probably stop reading now. It’s only going downhill from there.

I don’t even know what I wrote for the more devout to follow me to start with, but hang in there, I’ve got something for everyone.

Meanwhile, I express, the above workplace I only refer to these days as Voldemort! If not familiar? He’s the evil person in Harry Potter and they do not utter his name for fear just doing so will bring forth his evil, I will circle back to that one day but it’s a dark place I don’t often venture.

Occasionally, I’d be out with a carer and witness stupidity from another driver on the road and I would let out a “Jesus!” Just that and my driver/carer/wheel woman would complete the saying. I’d compliment her with a “Your training is complete!”

It’s not always needed but when my boss used it, I would look in his direction and enquire, “Is that our caseload?” He would be cleaning his spectacles in quiet contemplation and I asked, “What is it?” He would quote a number that was not good.

The term caseload indicated how many clients we had currently referred to us to get in the door, get Placed or get Exited for one of many reasons. But mostly, it indicated how we were doing a lot of work and if not being efficient enough we were not actually getting paid for it. Other favourite swear words since, have been Sassafras, it’s actually an outer Melbourne suburb where it’s rather nice and lovely, but really, it’s just my creative way to swear. What does that mean? I don’t know. Whatever you think it should? Alas, I should stretch my other creative genius on swearing to another post.

Here’s to 2023

Published January 2, 2023 by helentastic67

Here’s to 2023

Write a blog post mentioning the words “Slut & Player” on your own blog and get censored from an NGO you have been volunteering at for over 10 years. Wonder what 2023 will bring? Ah, never mind! Felt like 2022 kicked me in the face.

Happy New Year everybody. Let’s hope 2023 really brings its A-Game.

Getting this post to Noelle with days to spare, she will be impressed.

Cheers,
H

Hell On Wheels

Published August 29, 2022 by helentastic67

Hell On Wheels

Now, for a brief moment I fancied I could imagine a front-page apology from the NGO (Not for Profit/Non-Government Organisation) for removing my blog link from their website despite having been an active member for over ten years. But I didn’t want it like this.

Sadly, it’s not been forthcoming and that general topic is on the back burner as I’m letting the dust settle on it. To be continued.

Meanwhile, this article is about the scooters people hire in the city in the early hours to get themselves home because they are too drunk to make better decisions and get a taxi. Ending up with fines from the police or even worse a visit to the hospital and rehab. You know the ones?

Otherwise, a fall and a surgery to catch you all up on, stay tuned for that next Monday.

Things to Miss: Fred!

Published February 19, 2016 by helentastic67

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There are many things I miss from the era before I developed my disability and I’m not referring to the stuff you would miss because you can no longer do them, because sooner or later you can’t go clubbing all night and not feel like crap the next day even if you don’t drink. That shit happens because you have gotten older and I miss feeling like a valued member of society. I miss intellectual conversations with people.

Once upon a time, I worked for an N.G.O. as I will have mentioned and a supervisor came to me with a problem. I gave him the answer, he didn’t want. That was “NO!” Then he had a follow up question to circumvent the first answer. To which he got a further answer of “Yes, but NO!” then for safe keeping I answered his next 4 questions; something like this “Yes, no, no, no, yes, no!” I know I could tell you the scenario to help you better understand and while it was 10 years ago, I no-longer recall the clients name but let’s call him Fred!(was definitely not Fred) but recall the situation perfectly, it’s not going to help you to bore you with all the details.

His response to my answers was “What was that for?” And I told him they were the answers to his next 4 questions because I knew exactly where he was going with his line of questioning. The moral of the story was Fred had been lax in starting his obligation. He could not come back as a new referral for the outstanding hours he had missed before his contract ended. He could come back for a whole new obligation before he would be eligible for the allocated funding to go toward studies & further training. Hope you can tell from this that I knew my stuff, despite the terminology I’ve just used. (Obligation/contract,etc)

I do miss those days. I miss having people respect my knowledge and think to ask me for my wisdom.

FYI: My mum hates it when I do this even though I think it slightly amuses her…That is to predict her questions and answer them before she has had a chance to ask.