Testing my rage suppression

February 06, 2010 02:01:39 pm

I'm as anti-abortion as all of the other nut jobs out there, but it stems from a belief that innocence is to be protected.

Pictures of dead babies are things that I feel...diminish innocence. Disturb a mind, creating an opening for a callus to form. Initialize the process of desensitization.

If I was seeking to have a detrimental impact on innocence, I think I would choose the community center on a Saturday afternoon to flier cars with gruesome pictures and arguments against abortion. So now I'm left wondering what kind of organization would think that this kind of advertisement was good idea.

I work REALLY HARD to suppress my rage issues, but when I have two five year olds piling into a car and a photo of a dead baby on my driver-side window, I get a little mad. But not at a barbaric society that normalizes this, but at an organization that uses this kind of advertisement.

Less unexpected I suppose

January 16, 2010 10:06:00 am

Four times in one day I took out our internet access trying to download The White Stripes album White Blood Cells. This is my favorite of their albums, largely due to my limited exposure to them.

The next time I was on Zune's site I tried this and again took out our internet connection. I was weirded out by that but really, stranger things have happened with me and technology, so I laughed it off.

Three days ago I decided to deceive the sight and simply downloaded one song at a time. This succeeded for about three hours until my monitor started lagging and eventually the entire hard drive froze up and my lap top evolved into a giant paperweight.

So this morning as I began to rebuild my zune collection I started downloading Kutless' new album It is Well, possibly one of my favorite albums from last year and a few others. Then I remembered how much fun Ali and I had dancing around to the White Stripes and began downloading the album. And again took out our wireless network.

To protect my investment in my new laptop I think I'll just buy the CD. I don't even know where one does that sort of thing.

BathTime

January 10, 2010 06:37:16 pm

I have five minutes to post, according to the timer. I haven't posted in nearly a month and I can't for the life of me think of what I've been doing...though it did just occur to me that the date of my last post is the same day that Jay gave me the Twilight series. That only accounts for a week and a half though of my free time being used.

Maybe it's that I continue to read during my free time...so far I've read Going Rogue and I'm working on the Audacity of Hope, but I seem to make far less time to read that than I did the others. Wonder why....

Oh and the house seems more clean and the kids are happier.

And I decided yesterday to start writing, and I finally have a character outlined that I am writing about.

We'll see how this goes.

While I'm here, I have developed an unhealthy obsession with Twilight. My children were wondering who the strange man is on my wall paper screen...Addy rolled her eyes when I said Edward Cullen.

Prior to their trip to my parents house one of my friends asked me what I was going to do with all of my free time, in that shocked astounded way. Addy dryly replied "read Twilight." That's how bad it's gotten. Even my kids are totally keyed in. I read Eclipse Christmas Eve/Day. Hiding from them. Timer beeped.

Mr. Organization slowly succumbs to Miss Chaos

December 18, 2009 10:42:47 pm

After an exhausting day with children I was confronted with a house-wide search for some documentation my husband lost. Typical families would simply tear apart their office and once the document was not found the search would be over. But not in our house. Oh no, we had to take apart the kitchen, the entertainment center, one bathroom vanity (I know that's probably the weirdest) the master closet, under our bed and the storage space in the garage, in addition to the office. Oh I think I went through our buffet too.

This is on the heals of taking four kids to the Children's Museum and McDonalds.

The volume of documentation that I had given up on, and unearthed this evening, is staggering.

That I didn't sort it out into a new bin of important documentation...my vocabulary can not adequately convey the sentiment I'm feeling on that one.

We didn't find it, and to be quite honest I wasn't anticipating finding it, and I could have done with out the last hour of memories that I dredged up. From friends who have parted leaving no trace to the pictures of Addy when she was a baby that look just like Jack...in our old condo...when I was crazy.

I stood very still for a moment when I realized that we've been in this house for nearly three years. I kept trying to trace this documentation back to closing on our house but that was THREE years ago.

It's been a long day. But I feel like I'm not making the days long enough.

QPT Part II

December 17, 2009 01:45:11 pm

1989-"When I'm a mom I will NEVER send my kids to school sick. Any symptoms, they stay home."

2009-"Honey you probably just threw up because you forgot to brush your teeth. If my mouth was as gross as yours and I ate cereal I'd puke too. Now get dressed, we leave in 10 minutes."

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