Blog Vacation!

I am off from work for the next two glorious days. That means that I will be doing absolutely nothing productive through Monday and that includes updating this blog.

Recycling!

Yep, that pretty much explains it all right there.

Allergy Attack Saturday

I could have marched in Portandia’s Allergy Pride Parade today. I’m not sure what happened. I woke up just a little congested. By 11AM, I was having a full blown allergy attack – watery and burning eyes, burning nose, atomic sneezes – I had ALL of it.

After some Benadryl and Advil Congestion Relief, I finally got it under control. Of course, this was after I sneezed my way through lunch and a trip to Walmart.

From the department of “I must use as many coupons as possible because I have little other excitement I my life”,we got to the checkout at Walmart and I realized that we only had one box of Orville Redenbacher’s Ultimate Butter Pop-Up Bowl Popcorn and I needed two for my 75 cent coupon! I then decided to send Sara on a mission – run across the entire store – knock down old people if that is what it takes – but get that popcorn. I turned into one of those people who shrug and make the people behind me wait while they want to kill me.

She ran quite fast. I got my 75 cents off.

Something is wrong with me.

Why is your silence more important than my prayer?

I made the mistake of reading this “banned” high school editorial and went on the Twitter rant that follows:

• Forcing your atheist beliefs on me is just as unconstitutional as me forcing my Christian beliefs on you
• Atheism is a belief. It's a belief of not believing. So, what makes your belief better than my belief?
• Atheists don't want public prayer because they prefer no prayer. That would be atheism happening in public places. That's unconstitutional.
• Sorry. This letter gets my goat.http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/296899-a-copy-of-the-editorial-krystal-myers-tried-to.html Teachers should hide their religion but atheists can flaunt their non-religion.
• If there is a prayer at a football game and that's all you have to endure, 99.9% of the week had no prayer. The atheists win!
• "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." always gets ignored. It goes both ways. It guarantees my prayer AND your decision not to.

I’m fine with Krystal’s atheism. It’s her choice. Does that mean that her choice is more important than my choice? We live in an atheistic world. It’s the norm to NOT talk about being a Christian if you want to keep your job. Everyone is just waiting to be offended.

The atheists go on and on about their rights when they won a long time ago. I don’t see anyone trying to force the silence out of schools. I don’t see anyone protesting the lack of belief among the leaders in our government. We sure swoon and act disgusted when those we trust have affairs or worse but we turn right around and tell everyone not to have a belief system.

You might call that interesting. I just call it America.

Lord help us.

A brief taste of summer

Ahhhh – the sunshine and the breeze made for day that was more like early May than late February. I still have the windows open and the fresh air blowing in. Also, the kids are outside so the TV is off and I’m streaming some Lawrence Welk radio via iheartradio. You just can’t feel bad when you’re listening to the oldies! It’s like I’m sitting in a Chick-Fil-A!!

Too bad it will be 40-something tomorrow and we’ll be back to reality.

What a week. I think things couldn’t get more hectic and then it goes up a notch. I’m thinking of taking a couple of days off next week just to try to get some sanity back. I also haven’t had a real day off in months since most of my days off center around the kids. That’s fine and all but I would really like to sit here in complete silence for a while with no one asking me to get down the potato chips and no phone ringing and no emails buzzing.

Tomorrow is Friday and I have a completely open day on my work calendar. There are no conference calls! Funny how that lulls you into thinking you might actually accomplish something without interruptions. I’m not going to bet on anything other than the typical chaos to end the week.

I guess it’s now time to huddle around the television and see if the storms that are supposed to end humanity as we know it are really coming. Two of our stations are now in a battle of who has the most powerful weather radar. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. The radar is only as good as the person reading it! Five radars, six radars – who cares! Just tell me what it’s going to do and then get off the screen so I can watch Wheel of Fortune!

The only snowman of winter?

This might be it for this winter….

Our chance of two to three inches of snow quickly melted away and we’re back up in the 60’s by Tuesday.

I returned from Knoxville Friday with a nasty cold and spent most of yesterday on the couch in a medicine daze. I didn’t plan on watching the four hour long Whitney Houston funeral but I did. I guess I expected them to lift her up on a pedestal and make all sorts of excuses for her downfall but that is not what happened. They were quite honest and I thought they used the service as a way to warn others struggling with addiction or who knows what that this could end up being their fate also. Here’s a moment that I thought was particularly worth sharing:

Of course, it wasn’t long after this moment that I fell asleep on the couch. I also slept two hours in the middle of the day today and that’s quite unusual for me. Maybe I’ll sleep off the rest of this cold tonight because tomorrow is a holiday for many but I will be back at work!

Ate too much, drank too much coffee

It wasn’t nearly as foggy as they said it would be.

I ate a breakfast burger. It was awesome but I am sure I will need to buy elastic waistband pants for the rest of my life if I make eating like this a habit.

I came back to the hotel after dinner and called and complained because my air conditioning would not turn on. They explained that it was too cold for it to come on since it is 49 degrees outside. I told them they were silly and it was my choice to freeze for the amount of money I am paying.

So, I have it running on vent full blast. It’s still not cold enough in here but I will manage somehow.

More meetings tomorrow – home Friday.