• checka03
      • hello Francesca Hubbard
      • Username: checka03
      • In response to: "What's the one thing you're never gonna give up?" Writing and talking absoloute nonsense and lovin' it.
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    • If you could read minds for a day, would you?

      • This is definitely one of those scenarios where you would choose to and then later regret it. Yea it would be very enlightening and perhaps life-changing but it would also probably mess with your mind. To know every detail of the judging glance of a stranger or the white lies of a friend could really shatter your confidence. Your own personal thoughts are enough to contend with in one day, sod taking the brunt of everyone else’s as well. The dark is a simpler place...

      • answered by checka03 on 02/24/2011
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    • What charities do you support and why?

      • I will always support Shelter
        Some people need to pay more attention to this charity and get their facts right. There is a lot of negative associations when it comes to homeless people. I can understand why people have this view, however, people who refuse to support charities such as Shelter because they believe they are helping lowlife addicts who don't want to help themselves are wrong. A little ignorant. Becoming homeless can happen to anyone. Someone who has been made redundant for example, who comes home one day to find their house repossessed - they approach Shelter. Shelter gives free professional advice to people entering a downward spiral which can really pull them out of it. What about 15 year old john who’s parents have kicked him out and he cannot get a job. Or a woman who has run away from domestic violence with her 3 children and has no-where to go. Shelter.
        I have never been homeless myself but I feel particularly passionate about it. Have you ever been locked out in the rain for an hour? It's horrible. Your home is your place of comfort, relaxation, privacy. Identity. Without it not only are there the obvious practical problems, but there are going to be mental ones. I can’t imagine not having a home. It's such a big part of my life to be able to escape home at the end of the day and recline with my home comforts around me. So perhaps there have been drugs. A small mistake, a disagreement, a teenage rough patch, whatever. A home is pretty much a human right; everyone deserves one of them, or at least the opportunity to get one. Ah I’m ranting now but just imagine. In this day and age there should not be as many people on the street as there are. Government figures are wrong. Homelessness is the one illness in our society we could really cure.

      • answered by checka03 on 12/30/2010
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    • Whats your idea of the perfect Sunday?

      • I will be in a foreign beautiful place. Firstly, I must wake up with a fuzzy sleepy, yet excited feeling. I will lie there for a bit. Flip my pillow over, wrap the covers around me tightly and smile. There will be no rush to get up.
        When I do, a lovely outfit will fall together with little effort, my hair will be especially shiny and my skin flawless. I will then eat breakfast which will be a buffet of yoghurts, fruit, Nutella, cereal and orange juice, which I will eat outside in delicate sunshine.
        With someone whose company I enjoy, we will take a stroll and end up in a park. The weather is beautiful. Nicely warm with a slight breeze. We will sit around all afternoon reminiscing on good times and laughing hard. We will drink ice cold drinks and eat ice cream. I will take the time to sit back, look at my life and the people in it and feel blessed. It is a Sunday after all.
        Finally, when it begins to get dark I will wrap the blanket around me and we will eat a light picnic. When it gets too cold it’s time to stroll home. Here I will fall straight back on that bed and feel that fuzzy sleepy feeling again.

      • answered by checka03 on 12/30/2010
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    • You find a big spider in your bedroom. Your next move is to...

      • Find a man. Any will do. Unless my brother is the only man around, cos he's more scared of spiders than me.
        If the man search fails (which it often does...) It’s a glass and paper job....It takes me ten minutes or so to psyche myself up. This may involve excessive frowning, girlish screaming or a shot of vodka if available. I will then advance upon the beast and slam my glass down around him with great anger and a feeling of empowerment. Then will follow a few more dramatic moments as my heart rate decreases and I gasp for breath. Next, my heart increases again as I slide, with great care a piece of paper underneath, praying that the spider will not do a Houdini on me. Next, things become even more complicated. He needs to be ditched outside right... but what if, when I lift the glass, the little bugger dashes out and crawls up my arm?...So, I carefully carry the spider in glass to the end of my street. It is here that we part. I leave him still trapped in his glass cage 5 houses down – well until some randomer kicks over the next day and spidey can scare the shit out of them and then venture his way back into another house....Sorted.
        Except when it is me that kicks over that goddamn glass...

      • answered by checka03 on 12/08/2010
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