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We got a new employee at work recently who has a physical disability and needs to use a wheelchair to get around – it’s amazing what an eye opener it’s been for me. There are so many little things the general public can do to make life easier for a lot of wheelchair bound people that we don’t do, simply because we don’t think!

She was also telling me about how hard to found it to get a mobility vehicle to suit her needs. It’s not a case of just heading to a store to buy one or ordering online – each person is different with different needs after all.

She used a company called NMEDA in the end, she said they really understood her needs and worked closely with her – she was sure to deal with a NMEDA qualified dealer who actually came out to her house to find out what she was looking for and their Quality Assurance Program (QAP) is the only one of it’s kind in the USA!

You can visit the NMEDA site linked above and enter your zip code to find out where the nearest dealer to you is located – there are none near me since I am from the UK but if you are from the USA you’ll find there will be one local to you I am sure

A disappointing end to a good season for me. Again someone who sat on the sidelines walks away with the prize. As I have said countless times I know the way Sandra plays is valid, it’s won the game for her twice, it’s just not for me.

I found it quite bizarre that she highlighted at the final tribal council that her main strategy was to get Russell out, but she failed – why highlight that you had no power or sway in the game? I can only assume she was hoping to pick up anti Russell votes.

Russell blew the final tribal council no doubt (having said that does anyone really believe he’d have won if he’d pandered to the ‘oh I’m sorry, I regret everything I did’ nonsense that Danielle seemed to be trying to push him into? I’m kinda glad he stuck to his guns!) and I don’t feel like he was robbed this season as he was last one but I definitely think he and Parvati deserved it a lot more than Sandra as they both had control over the game for a large part of it where she had zero.

I don’t begrudge her the win this season but it pains me to think people are now considering her the best player of all time – we’ve had some real duds win the show over the years, winning doesn’t automatically mean you played the best game – she wouldn’t even make my personal top 10 list.

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Some other thoughts I had while watching the episode…

What was with the long pause in the Colby confessional? It almost looked like the producers forgot to cut it – maybe they were trying to build up the ‘..but I’m not giving up yet’ but it seemed a little odd.

Are Jerri and Coach not engaged/an item then? I was looking forward to that announcement at reunion.

Boston Rob refusing to shake Russell’s hand was lame. Although they all apparently hate Russell they all seemed to be getting along and playing nice at the reunion. I think once the game is over it should be the end to any nastiness (unless something really major goes down).

Does anyone know who Amanda voted for to win?

Even I was surprised that Russell won fan fave again, thought his popularity had waned somewhat and that Rupert had it in the bag.

I was bemused when he said he knew he didn’t win Samoa I am still bemused. It was interesting to hear he did change tactics because of that though and took people he perceived as unlikable to the final with him.

I have not read the other replies yet but I can bet it will be brought up that Russell was dumb to underestimate Sandra and be so cocky he could beat her – so I;d like to point out that they ALL apparently thought the same thing. Colby said as much in his final TC (We all want to be sat next to Sandra at the end because we can beat her), so it was obviously a pretty common opinion.

I was surprised Russell didn’t take out Parvati at the end, everything seemed to be pointing to him doing so and it definitely made sense to my mind. Would Jerri really have won if she’d been there? Hmm.

Biggest mistake in the game it turns out was not knocking out Sandra instead of Courtney before the merge – although as someone said upthread she’d have probably found herself in the final as well for the same reasons as Sandra, not being seen as a threat for the challenges and having coasted along not being seen as a threat to win the prize.

So Sam was finally eliminated from The Biggest Loser, and about bloody time too. I don’t usually agree with the bigger contestants moaning about how they really need to be there more than any one else – Shay was especially annoying like this last season – but in this case I think it’s true that Sam didn’t need to be there any more, he was at his goal weight, happy and confident that he’d be able to keep it up on the outside and wasn’t even interested in trying to win the money. His time had come.

And at least we know Sam won’t be hitting the appetite suppressants, for the first time in the US version he hit his goal weight and actually isn’t trying to lose any more weight before finale – good for him.

The revelation about him and Stephanie at the end made the earlier seemingly random attack on Stephanie by Koli a lot clearer though – it seemed to come out of no where and be based on nothing at the time. Now it’s apparent that it was in some way related to her getting close to Sam – either simple and petty jealousy on his part, or perhaps if I am being more sympathetic Koli was just trying to protect Sam and make sure he wasn’t distracted.

Either way I had been going off Koli for a while but this episode confirmed him in my ‘dislike’ pile – the ‘Steph thing’ coupled with his arrogance about not needing the 1 pound advantage because he’s so awesome. No, sorry kid, waterloading the previous week because you had immunity does not make a 15 pound loss awesome – it’s just science. I have no qualms about people waterloading, it’s part of the game – but lets not pretend you did something special the following week when you drop a big number.

I’m going shopping for outdoor cushions in a minute, oooh how exciting is my life? Shopping in DIY and home stores seems to be all I do on the weekends these days – I used to love DIY shopping but now it’s just tiresome. I am imagining all the other ways I would prefer to spend my Saturday afternoons – jumping out of planes, seeing friends, working out

I think I need to start taking a womens multi vitamin because I am currently bruising like a peach and in the past when I have had this issue a vitamin has sorted me out. I like to think I eat healthily but because I am trying to lose weight and keep the calories low I am sure that it’s pretty easy for me to miss out on some essentials that I need.

I appear to be in a rut fitness wise, I always stick to the elliptical because it’s convenient and I actually like it – but I know you are meant to switch it up and not just stick with the same thing all the time. I do have other fitness equipment in the house like wii fit, weights, dvds and so much more but I just can’t seem to find the motivation to use it.

I was asked to look up information about social security disability for a friend earlier, I always seem to get asked to do these things for people – like I am the only one that knows how to use google?

I don’t mind helping him out really though, he does a lot for me and is always busy as anything so it’s nice to try ease the load a little.

I think I am going to play casino games online at casinoscandinavia tonight – I have some money sitting in my account there that I want to use up. I tend to sign up to these sites when they have great bonus offers on but then forget about the bonus money – I am going to work my way through all the sites I have registered on and make sure that I have no money going to waste in any of the accounts

I think I am going to have to find a separate host for my email hosting…is that even possible?

I don’t know what’s going on with my current host and my email lately but I am not getting a lot of my mail as it’s being deleted as spam before it even gets to me. I don’t get any email notifications from Twitter for some reason and that’s just one of many sites I am having issues with.

I don’t even know if it’s possible though, to keep my domain and files on one host but have another one handle the email sending/receiving stuff.

I guess I will have to head onto some forums and read up about it and then if it is possible start looking for a reliable host – thank god sites that let you easily compare hosts exist these days so at least it should be a nice straight forward job