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I am sick of journos describing Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's 2 kids as "adopted"... yeah, so they ARE adopted, but they are also, just their kids..... why make the distinction? when somebody adopts children, they become parents in every way; they ARE the parents of that child.

The reason this is in my head today is because i just read some tabloid (yeah yeah) article about Tom and Katie-i'm-still-a-little-girl Holme's new baby. When writing about it, the journalist wrote something along the lines of  "This is Tom and Katie's first child; Tom has 2 adopted children with Nicole Kidman but no natural children of his own...."

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..... and Tom keeps going on about how magical it was to be at the birth of his child, something that he has never experienced before. All i can do is feel sorry for Connor and Isabella (his and nicole's kids).

Being adopted myself, i do feel very hurt when people are so scathing of adoption. When my parents found out that my brother was blind and autistic when he was 6months old, somebody said to my mum, "well, at least he's not your real child" as if that made it ok. Yet another bright spark asked her is she was "going to give him back" like had she kept the fucking receipt?!

As far as i'm concerned, my mum and dad are my mum and dad, i have no desire to meet my birth parents. i don't feel any anger or resentment towards them either- they did what they had to do; they were only 16 at the time after all. I don't really think about them at all to be honest, and i certainly don't feel traumatised or blame anything on my being adopted. My birth parents did the best thing ever when they gave me up- they gave me 2 parents whom i love to bits and who have given me the best life they possibly could. i thank my natural parents for that, and for not going for the "easier" option of abortion. i've met several other adopted children and they seem to htink that they can blame everything that goes wrong in their lives on the fact that they are adopted; GROW UP! Ok, so maybe i'm lucky that i have my parents but still....

Hum. Ranting now aren't i? i guess i'm so protective of my parents and when i read shit like that article... it just makes me so sad and angry.

Sorry for being boring. it's just something i feel strongly about

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Meme pinched from imbeiaiel

Step 1: Put your iPod or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING

(comments will be screened until songs have been guessed!!)

tagging everyone on my f-list who hasn't done it... and can be bothered!! :D

1. Well, I wish I was a catfish, swimming in a  deep, blue sea.

2. Here she comes in her palanquin, on the back of an elephant

3. I had a dream last night, a nightmare to be exact

4. Well you should see Polythene Pam, she's so good looking but she looks like a man
Polythene Pam by  The Beatles - guessed by  imbeiaiel

5. Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black, Don't look back and I love you
Get it On (Bang a Gong) by T-Rex blktauna  imbeiaiel

6. Beethoven's gone but his music lives on   
Decomposing Composers by Monty Python - </em>mysgreen

7. Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather, Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Venus in Furs by The Velvet Underground - guessed by imbeiaiel grumpy_thomas

9. If we can't get along, we ought to be apart, and i'm wondering where d'ya get that cold, cold heart?

10.  Met a man i thought i knew, with his eyes he can see through you

11. When I stole a twig from our little nest, and gave it to a bird with nothing in her beak

12. The antique people are down in the dungeons, run by machines and afraid of the tax

13. Come you masters of war, you that build all the guns
Masters of War by Bob Dylan - mysgreen

14. Life's a show and we all play our parts
Something to Sing About- from Buffy episode "Once More with Feeling" : guessed by eclectic62442

15. In from the coast, riding like the wind and racing the moon

16. Take care daughter dear, don't dream on many gallant men tonight

17. She's very wealthy it's true, so in that she is one up on you

18. You're the one I think about time after time, you're the one that comes to me, visions in the night

19. Ah, I’m a mean, mean woman, and I don’t mean no one man, no good

20. There were three men, came out of the west, their fortunes for to try

21. Well, she's walking through the clouds with a circus mind that's running wild.
Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix - guessed by imbeiaiel

22. The pirate anchored on a Wednesday, and why he came to port I wonder

23. We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin :  blktauna imbeiaiel

24. Well, we live in a trailer at the edge of town, you never see us 'cause we don't come around.

25. I been told when a boy kiss a girl, take a trip around the world
Boys (the version by The Beatles) - mysgreen

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Hi everyone, I wanted to draw your attention to a brilliant e-book that has just been “published”. It’s by a mate of mine from university and, biased allowed, it really is a darn good read. I’m so proud of Tom (the author) for writing this and I want everyone to DOWNLOAD AND READ!!! Then I want 1,000 words handed in by next month on what you thought- think of it as back-to-school regression- people pay thousands of £’s to do that kind of thing…

So yeah, please just take a few minutes to read the following blurb, visit the site and download “Mr Nice Guy” (you don't have to do the 1,000 words really ; p)

Thanks everyone

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