Well I said the next two weeks would prove interesting.. but it turns out that the last two weeks weren't the interesting part.. it was this AM. With my huge temp drop on 12dpo.. Thursday.. I knew the end was coming.. So for the past ohh 36 hours I have been telling my husband he better get it while he can.. as the wicked bitch would be here when I wake up on Saturday AM and then it would be 4-5 days before he would get any. Hmm.. let me clarify.. I wasn't telling him this for his benefit.. its absolutely and totally for me.. as I am on a three day time frame.. more than that.. and I am terribly unpleasant to live with.. lol.. Only when I have no control over it do I last longer without consequence. Well seeing as how he had a hard beat down day yesterday.. ( and who wouldn't coming up on your 70th work hour this week, and looking at another 10 the next day?), we didn't get any loving in last night.. so I resigned myself to the fact that it will be mid/late next week when I could "replenish". The interesting part in all this is that when I eagerly went to the bathroom this morning I was so ready to see her arrival.. and low and behold.. she was MIA! Well now I am baffled.. Since I have been ovulating.. I have had a 14 day LP to the nose.. each time.. well she shows up on 14dpo.. so whatever way you want to look at it.
We had a busy morning with soccer pictures then a game following.. and I could have sworn during the game she showed.. so instead of going directly to my friends house as I had planned.. we made a pit stop at home.. just to check.. and change clothes if necessary and plug of course.. but again.. nothing.. So at this juncture, I am just guessing I have to have ovulated later than I thought. My temps don't correlate with that.. but what's a girl to do?? Fairly certain I am not pregnant.. so my guess is that she will be here in the AM. Maybe probably.. well most likely.. I o'd a day later than we thought. I might test.. but they failed me miserably the first pregnancy.. so I don't put much faith in them.. but then again,, I have three.. so what the hell right?
Feeling her draw near.. I have gone ahead and put into motion getting surgery scheduled. I went to the seminar and got that out of the way. I called the insurance company and inquired about getting my approval transferred to the new doc.. and was told that it was covered and shouldn't be a problem to transfer .. so all I gotta do now is talk to the insurance lady in the new doc office and give her the number to call and get it set up and approved blah blah.. then set up my consultation and I am guessing at the consult they will set up a surgery date.. which I was told was booking at 3-4 weeks out.. so its very possible I will be going under the knife in less than two months.. possibly late Sept early Oct. That will be here before I know it.
This time a week ago.. I put my doggie out in the back yard as usual and commenced with daily routines. Kenobi, my dog, stays out at night.. and mostly all day in doors with us--me. Well Sunday when we went down to let him in.. he just sat there at the fence,, not waiting at the door and having a coronary wanting in. So hubby left him out.. thought well.. he's all comfy.. no biggie. An hour or so later, I sent my son down to let him in.. and he came in .. but didnt' follow him upstairs.. I told my husband something was up and he went to check on him.. came back up and said.. yep.. he's sick.. he's got diarrhea bad.. So we commenced to giving him a bath and he just kinda laid around. So I made an appt the next day to bring him in. I took him by after picking my son up from school. He had a 105 temp and was so lethargic it wasn't even funny. Not to mention he did a nice poop job on me right then and there.. OMG I thought I was gonna choke it smelled so bad.. ( yeah.. you wanted to know that much information right?). So they proceed to do the workup blah blah.. and say.. we're keeping him overnight.. well that one night turned into three .. but in the end I got a better pup. He's back to his old self and humping the cat with unbiased enthusiasm every time she enters the house! Its good to have him back.. minus the vet bill..
I just thought I would make mention of the yummy cucumber sandwiches I had this afternoon. I have a good friend that sells home interior and she had an open house this afternoon so I went by there to sit with her for a while.. and she had the yummiest cucumber sandwiches.. the only bad thing about cucumbers ... that is also a con in the bell pepper eatery as well.. is the aftertaste.. err should I say the revisitation(yes I know that's not a real word.. but hey.. it gets my point across) of the "flavor".. even the slightest little bitty burp.. will bring back the memoirs!!
I will try to update a little sooner than this next time... of course I am sure that I will have something to report about AF in the next couple days.. therefore making me do the replacement dreams dance .. from babies right now.. to being skinny for the first time in my life.. well maybe not skinny.. but at least no longer overweight. Replacing dreams isn't so bad.. I mean,, its not like I am giving up a dream.. just pursuing a different one for the time being. Eventually I know I will realize most if not all of my dreams.... and I have to go back to the old saying a professor once said. "Patience is not a virtue.. but rather, a skill." Well I have certainly mastered it.. to say the least!
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Monday, August 16, 2004
The Beginning of the End of the Beginning.....
Well here it is.. we are about to embark on something new and leave something old behind.. and start anew on my road. Here I am... thinking that I may not ovulate this time.. my body knowing that this is my last chance for a good long while to conceive a child.. and with my luck figured it would fail me. Much to my surprise I started getting the signs that the egg was about to make her appearance.. all in the same time as I got a head cold.. lovely! So the past few days have been spent mulling about feeling quite miserable being stopped up, unable to breath clearly, and keeping coughs to a minimum .. you know those yuck ass coughs! Amazingly, I haven't been able to sleep... normally if I can get comfortable for just a few then I am out like a light.. but not this time!! So sleep evades me at the moment.. getting a sense of my luck here? lol
So, one of the endings that is part of a new beginning for me is that my son started Kindgergarten a couple weeks ago.. No longer my little baby.. not even a toddler.. a little boy.. growing in leaps and bounds.. I can't believe that he is five years old .. I can remember sniffing his head as he lay on my chest as a baby after a bath and just being so small.. seems like yesterday...oh how I long for that again. So many people tried giving advice,, as they will do.. about don't hold him too much.. don't let him sleep with you.. etc etc.. but we did what we wanted.. and made sure that the "baby" time was filled with all the things we couldn't do later.. ie.. the holding all the time.. I held him as much as he would let me.. and savored every moment.. He was still crawling ahead of time and walking at 9 months... so that wasn't slowed down..and boy we are so thankful every day that we did.. cause yeah, we get hugs and stuff now.. but it isn't the same as HOLDING them.. or them being so small when you do. He also slept with us till he was 3.. and it took all of two whole nights for him to love being in his new room in our new house.. so not worried about him being in the bed with us when he's in high school.
All the other "advice" we were given were taken with a grain of salt and we raised our baby, as ours.. not someone else's.. which is the way it should be.. unless of course you are neglecting your child or abusing them.. then some outside influence is justified.. but otherwise,, that is your child.. your gift from above.. do your best and always be loving and kind.. so they will know to too. We must not have done a bad job with him afterall.. he is very polite, and almost always.. well mannered ( always would just be a flat out lie.. but almost always) and the tons of TV we have allowed him to watch of pbs.. well he's just a smart kid for that. So today is his first full day.. and we got up showered and talked about lunch and all that jazz.. I figure he will come home starved cause he's going through a picky phase at the moment. It won't be long I will be leaving out to pick him up and hear all about his day.. and do it all over again tomorrow and then throw in some soccer practice twice a week and we're golden! Wow.. he's playing sports already too.. Where has my baby gone?
Another page to be turned soon is that of another child or surgery.. somehow my gut has been leading me on my way to thinking its gonna be surgery. I have my seminar for this new doc tomorrow night.. might as well get that out of the way.. everything out of the way except for setting a surgery date.. and be done with it. I don't know what it is about this time around.. or the pains I had yesterday.. but it felt like I was popping an egg the size of my exercise ball!! I haven't cramped like that EVER! I had to lay down for a while for it to even begin to subside. Even then it wasn't gone totally. God, if this is your way of telling me this is it,, then THANKS!
I am quite nervous about the prospect of having surgery.. many thoughts go through my head about my psyche afterwards.. even though I have plenty need to be in some kind of therapy.. I think I am pretty level headed most of the time, but all of this becoming a reality .. me actually being thin... something I have never experienced.. just kinda rocks my world.. I worry about that. Hmm I feel another blog coming on for that torment!
Again, here we sit,, a growing child entering the "world" so to speak.. leaving his days at home with mom behind... and here I am .. sitting on the brink of conception and surgery. These next couple of weeks should prove to be quite interesting .. to say the least........
So, one of the endings that is part of a new beginning for me is that my son started Kindgergarten a couple weeks ago.. No longer my little baby.. not even a toddler.. a little boy.. growing in leaps and bounds.. I can't believe that he is five years old .. I can remember sniffing his head as he lay on my chest as a baby after a bath and just being so small.. seems like yesterday...oh how I long for that again. So many people tried giving advice,, as they will do.. about don't hold him too much.. don't let him sleep with you.. etc etc.. but we did what we wanted.. and made sure that the "baby" time was filled with all the things we couldn't do later.. ie.. the holding all the time.. I held him as much as he would let me.. and savored every moment.. He was still crawling ahead of time and walking at 9 months... so that wasn't slowed down..and boy we are so thankful every day that we did.. cause yeah, we get hugs and stuff now.. but it isn't the same as HOLDING them.. or them being so small when you do. He also slept with us till he was 3.. and it took all of two whole nights for him to love being in his new room in our new house.. so not worried about him being in the bed with us when he's in high school.
All the other "advice" we were given were taken with a grain of salt and we raised our baby, as ours.. not someone else's.. which is the way it should be.. unless of course you are neglecting your child or abusing them.. then some outside influence is justified.. but otherwise,, that is your child.. your gift from above.. do your best and always be loving and kind.. so they will know to too. We must not have done a bad job with him afterall.. he is very polite, and almost always.. well mannered ( always would just be a flat out lie.. but almost always) and the tons of TV we have allowed him to watch of pbs.. well he's just a smart kid for that. So today is his first full day.. and we got up showered and talked about lunch and all that jazz.. I figure he will come home starved cause he's going through a picky phase at the moment. It won't be long I will be leaving out to pick him up and hear all about his day.. and do it all over again tomorrow and then throw in some soccer practice twice a week and we're golden! Wow.. he's playing sports already too.. Where has my baby gone?
Another page to be turned soon is that of another child or surgery.. somehow my gut has been leading me on my way to thinking its gonna be surgery. I have my seminar for this new doc tomorrow night.. might as well get that out of the way.. everything out of the way except for setting a surgery date.. and be done with it. I don't know what it is about this time around.. or the pains I had yesterday.. but it felt like I was popping an egg the size of my exercise ball!! I haven't cramped like that EVER! I had to lay down for a while for it to even begin to subside. Even then it wasn't gone totally. God, if this is your way of telling me this is it,, then THANKS!
I am quite nervous about the prospect of having surgery.. many thoughts go through my head about my psyche afterwards.. even though I have plenty need to be in some kind of therapy.. I think I am pretty level headed most of the time, but all of this becoming a reality .. me actually being thin... something I have never experienced.. just kinda rocks my world.. I worry about that. Hmm I feel another blog coming on for that torment!
Again, here we sit,, a growing child entering the "world" so to speak.. leaving his days at home with mom behind... and here I am .. sitting on the brink of conception and surgery. These next couple of weeks should prove to be quite interesting .. to say the least........
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
The List.. ehh the beginning anyways...
The past few days I have been reading a lot.. on ttc boards and blogs, naturally.. and I don't know if there is something in the air.. or the clomid is driving me batty.. but on a few of them.. I have been indirectly offended, directly offended and had my mouth drop to the floor gasping WTF??? So in an effort to get this off my chest.. I have decided to compile a list... a list of pet peeves and opinions. Here we go!
1. Well.. the first thing I have a problem with.. is people imposing their beliefs onto someone else. What started this indirect offense was a political debate on one of my boards. I was ok, happily reading everyone's opinions on which person should or shouldn't be our next president.. when several girls popped up and said.. well I want to vote for Bush because I am against gay marriages. OK.. I understand that you don't agree with it.. totally ok with that.. but my problem is your excuse for wanting to ban it. One girl in particular had stated previously that she was quite promiscuous and basically went through a football team in her rebellious stage.. but she didn't want gay marriage because of "family values". Now I have to ask, what does two people you don't know, don't deal with on a daily basis, have to do with your family values?? Its not society's responsibility to instill family values in your children or your family.. its our jobs as parents.. It has absolutely nothing to do with the marrying of people of the same gender. EVEN if they weren't allowed to get married, they are gonna continue living as a couple.. and really.. probably even have some sort of committment ceremony at some point,, the only thing they want from a marriage is the legality of it.. and to have the same rights as other couples.. err I should say hetero couples. Maybe I am just too liberal or something but I can't wrap my mind around how allowing gay couples to marry can affect ones own personal family value system. Its not like allowing that will change the nations values.. I believe it actually increases the value of human beings as just that.. human beings.. who want to love, live and laugh the same as everyone else.. but not punishing them for who they fell in love with. Seriously.. I have thought and thought and thought some more about how allowing gay couples to marry would affect me.. and simply enough.. it just doesn't. It wouldn't even matter to me if they lived next door to me. The only thing that would offend me is if they were doing it out in the front yard.. and even then I wouldn't particularly care if a hetero couple were doing that.. its just wrong.. not so much for me to see but the possibility that my child will see it. I mean do we as individuals really let other peoples decisions affect how we live?? I realize that maybe some of you don't agree with me and want to ban this amendment.. and as much as I try to see your side I just can't understand for the life of me why it matters. If its about you and how you live... that's a personal problem.. why are you allowing someone else to affect your values? As much as some would like to think, there will ALWAYS be gay couples/people. Unless there is some unknown genocide planned to rid us of all gay people.. and then who in the world would own up to it now? I totally get it if they are shoving their opinions and beliefs in your face... yes.. I get that.. the whole reason for this being number one.. but 9 times out of 10.. they are in your face.. just wanting the same rights.. You may be asking at this point why this is an indirect offense to me.. well .. my sister is gay.. and while I support her and her lifestyle.. I am not by far an activist.. and she can tell you.. I just don't get involved.. simply.. its not my fight.. but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion on it.. or am hurt that people don't want to let them live as they want.
So, what I wanted to try to do was make an arguement for the "ban" side. I wouldn't even know where to start. You could say.. family values.. but I think I just argued this.. and again it comes down to whether or not you allow outside influences to affect your own personal beliefs and those you instill in your children.. and if you do.. then its not the gay populations fault, its a personal problem you have. Also,, if that is the "main" arguement against this, then why is it that my son is totally normal, respectful, loving, caring, giving, and all around good little boy if its so "contaminating" to the society?? I mean, afterall, he does have an Aunt who is gay.. and is planning on getting married this coming week.. HMMMm.. I guess the answer would be that his parents taught him their family values, their compassion, their kindness to all humans.. he isn't affected.. and surely he would be wouldn't he.. I mean being that close to it and all right?? Yeah,, ok.. don't buy it. In the end,, what right do we have to tell other people how to live?? They live their lives, you live yours.. it really is as simple as that.
OK.. I know I probably just lost a few readers for my stance on that.. but that's ok.. its your right.. but if you want to continue.. rest assured that I don't go on rants like this often or even once in a blue moon.. but with it being so in my face the past few days.. well I had to get that out.
2. Putting two together in this one. I have no problem whatsoever with people having opinions.. hell I have my own.. as you may have noticed.. haha.. Its when those people are just out and out hateful to those with differing opinions. For instance,, in the past two days.. one blogger has managed to offend me a couple of times. Even with that, I am torn on whether I continue reading and possibly offering support when needed after she's done this. I mean would she even respect or appreciate me if she knew we had opposite views on certain things? First of all.. I can get on board with the whole popular baby names.. when one catches on its blazes through like a brush fire in the desert.. and this is minor,, but insinuating that EVERY one who uses that name used it for one particular reason, is absurd. My kid does have the name of a town, but it was in no way an tribute to that town or the state in is in. Hell I have only been in the state via means of one of the international airports! Naturally, when we picked this name,, well I should say when I picked this name.. nearly five years before he was even a thought, the name wasn't popular at all.. not out of the ordinary, just not terribly common. For some unique-ness, as a lot of people do, we picked an uncommon middle name, Storm. This in part is because I have always always LOVED thunderstorms and LOVE rain. Which incidentally will be my daughters middle name.. should I have one.. Raine.. something we picked out years ago.. So, while I may fall into the category of giving my child a "unique" name.. I think it quite unfair to assume that we did it to be trendy.. our names were picked in way that meant something to both of us. So there...
Another offense and "group" I got piled into was that of the owner of an SUV. There are many SUV owners out there that fit this description.. but and asshole .. I am not.. unless that is your provoke me. You already know what kind of truck I drive,, as stated in my last post.. but I have to say that .. I picked this truck not only because it looked great.. but because it was the smoothest riding SUV I have ever been in. This includes the high end suv's seen on the road as well. I don't go barrelling down the highway wasting all the gas the world has to offer, in fact even with the gas prices being what they are these days.. I only use roughly 32-35 bucks to fill up.. and that is EVERY TWO WEEKS! So, I have to ask,, are the people that are driving around in their non asshole cars filling their tanks on an average weekly basis with only 15 bucks?? If you are,, yay for you.. but don't lump everyone who drives an SUV into the category of asshole. I am a conscientious driver who only drives when I have to. When I do drive for pleasure.. I am puttering around on some back road.. barely hitting the 35 mph mark. Now in then anti SUV defense, I agree that a lot of people DO abuse the SUV availability. Like the wives that have the largest passenger seating ones that are lone drivers.. or only have one kid or something like that.. I think that irresponsible, and they need to downsize. I can only imagine what their gas costs them a week. I am here to tell you that in my mid size SUV.. we use every inch of it.. and could probably find use if there were more space. I also will agree to the absolutely and totally useless SUV's that are simply for status symbol purposes only.. ie.. the H2.. I can't imagine what purpose that would serve the every day man, other than to say.. Look how great I am that I spent a fortune buying this and now spend a fortune just to drive it from one end of town to the other! So, while there are definitely two sides to the coin of SUV drivers and non drivers.. let's just agree to disagree and realize that not everyone that owns one is a BAD BAD person..
3. My final on today's list.. people who have little to no money, complaining about having little to no money and spending that said money on frivilous items and borrowing money to live on. This drives me nuts! Sure everyone can do as they please and spend their money how they please.. but come on.. if you are gonna be ignorant in your spending then don't turn around and complain about it!! Ya know,, when it gets tight around here,, we dont' spend one red cent that isn't necessary to our day to day living. I just don't understand how someone who is down to their last few bucks decides to spend that on an outing instead of going to the store to buy what groceries they can with it. Ok.. I will even give the argument that you shouldn't be good to yourself every once in a while and treat yourself.. but is it me.. or what.. but when you don't have the money.. wouldn't that be better saved to enjoy when you can afford it?? I mean please don't spend your last 30 bucks on going to the water park on the weekend and then turn around and ask me for 50 bucks to buy your groceries for the week!! COMMON SENSE PEOPLE!! Anybody get what I am saying here?? AHH that feels good to get out!
Well I think that will wrap up today's list.. I am sure to have other lists before its all said and done.. Now I will go and read other blogs.
Edited to say: After having read a few of my blogs just now, I realize that one of them is very similar to one of the things on my list.. just wanted to say.. this blog is not what I was referring to, just wanted to make that clear as to not offend anyone.. Also, I really had no intention of offending anyone with my list today.. Naturally everyone is gonna have a different perspective on some of the same issues, and that's part of what this country is all about.. Your right to feel whatever way you want about those issues. My attempt at writing this today was to try and understand better these things.. not offend.
1. Well.. the first thing I have a problem with.. is people imposing their beliefs onto someone else. What started this indirect offense was a political debate on one of my boards. I was ok, happily reading everyone's opinions on which person should or shouldn't be our next president.. when several girls popped up and said.. well I want to vote for Bush because I am against gay marriages. OK.. I understand that you don't agree with it.. totally ok with that.. but my problem is your excuse for wanting to ban it. One girl in particular had stated previously that she was quite promiscuous and basically went through a football team in her rebellious stage.. but she didn't want gay marriage because of "family values". Now I have to ask, what does two people you don't know, don't deal with on a daily basis, have to do with your family values?? Its not society's responsibility to instill family values in your children or your family.. its our jobs as parents.. It has absolutely nothing to do with the marrying of people of the same gender. EVEN if they weren't allowed to get married, they are gonna continue living as a couple.. and really.. probably even have some sort of committment ceremony at some point,, the only thing they want from a marriage is the legality of it.. and to have the same rights as other couples.. err I should say hetero couples. Maybe I am just too liberal or something but I can't wrap my mind around how allowing gay couples to marry can affect ones own personal family value system. Its not like allowing that will change the nations values.. I believe it actually increases the value of human beings as just that.. human beings.. who want to love, live and laugh the same as everyone else.. but not punishing them for who they fell in love with. Seriously.. I have thought and thought and thought some more about how allowing gay couples to marry would affect me.. and simply enough.. it just doesn't. It wouldn't even matter to me if they lived next door to me. The only thing that would offend me is if they were doing it out in the front yard.. and even then I wouldn't particularly care if a hetero couple were doing that.. its just wrong.. not so much for me to see but the possibility that my child will see it. I mean do we as individuals really let other peoples decisions affect how we live?? I realize that maybe some of you don't agree with me and want to ban this amendment.. and as much as I try to see your side I just can't understand for the life of me why it matters. If its about you and how you live... that's a personal problem.. why are you allowing someone else to affect your values? As much as some would like to think, there will ALWAYS be gay couples/people. Unless there is some unknown genocide planned to rid us of all gay people.. and then who in the world would own up to it now? I totally get it if they are shoving their opinions and beliefs in your face... yes.. I get that.. the whole reason for this being number one.. but 9 times out of 10.. they are in your face.. just wanting the same rights.. You may be asking at this point why this is an indirect offense to me.. well .. my sister is gay.. and while I support her and her lifestyle.. I am not by far an activist.. and she can tell you.. I just don't get involved.. simply.. its not my fight.. but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion on it.. or am hurt that people don't want to let them live as they want.
So, what I wanted to try to do was make an arguement for the "ban" side. I wouldn't even know where to start. You could say.. family values.. but I think I just argued this.. and again it comes down to whether or not you allow outside influences to affect your own personal beliefs and those you instill in your children.. and if you do.. then its not the gay populations fault, its a personal problem you have. Also,, if that is the "main" arguement against this, then why is it that my son is totally normal, respectful, loving, caring, giving, and all around good little boy if its so "contaminating" to the society?? I mean, afterall, he does have an Aunt who is gay.. and is planning on getting married this coming week.. HMMMm.. I guess the answer would be that his parents taught him their family values, their compassion, their kindness to all humans.. he isn't affected.. and surely he would be wouldn't he.. I mean being that close to it and all right?? Yeah,, ok.. don't buy it. In the end,, what right do we have to tell other people how to live?? They live their lives, you live yours.. it really is as simple as that.
OK.. I know I probably just lost a few readers for my stance on that.. but that's ok.. its your right.. but if you want to continue.. rest assured that I don't go on rants like this often or even once in a blue moon.. but with it being so in my face the past few days.. well I had to get that out.
2. Putting two together in this one. I have no problem whatsoever with people having opinions.. hell I have my own.. as you may have noticed.. haha.. Its when those people are just out and out hateful to those with differing opinions. For instance,, in the past two days.. one blogger has managed to offend me a couple of times. Even with that, I am torn on whether I continue reading and possibly offering support when needed after she's done this. I mean would she even respect or appreciate me if she knew we had opposite views on certain things? First of all.. I can get on board with the whole popular baby names.. when one catches on its blazes through like a brush fire in the desert.. and this is minor,, but insinuating that EVERY one who uses that name used it for one particular reason, is absurd. My kid does have the name of a town, but it was in no way an tribute to that town or the state in is in. Hell I have only been in the state via means of one of the international airports! Naturally, when we picked this name,, well I should say when I picked this name.. nearly five years before he was even a thought, the name wasn't popular at all.. not out of the ordinary, just not terribly common. For some unique-ness, as a lot of people do, we picked an uncommon middle name, Storm. This in part is because I have always always LOVED thunderstorms and LOVE rain. Which incidentally will be my daughters middle name.. should I have one.. Raine.. something we picked out years ago.. So, while I may fall into the category of giving my child a "unique" name.. I think it quite unfair to assume that we did it to be trendy.. our names were picked in way that meant something to both of us. So there...
Another offense and "group" I got piled into was that of the owner of an SUV. There are many SUV owners out there that fit this description.. but and asshole .. I am not.. unless that is your provoke me. You already know what kind of truck I drive,, as stated in my last post.. but I have to say that .. I picked this truck not only because it looked great.. but because it was the smoothest riding SUV I have ever been in. This includes the high end suv's seen on the road as well. I don't go barrelling down the highway wasting all the gas the world has to offer, in fact even with the gas prices being what they are these days.. I only use roughly 32-35 bucks to fill up.. and that is EVERY TWO WEEKS! So, I have to ask,, are the people that are driving around in their non asshole cars filling their tanks on an average weekly basis with only 15 bucks?? If you are,, yay for you.. but don't lump everyone who drives an SUV into the category of asshole. I am a conscientious driver who only drives when I have to. When I do drive for pleasure.. I am puttering around on some back road.. barely hitting the 35 mph mark. Now in then anti SUV defense, I agree that a lot of people DO abuse the SUV availability. Like the wives that have the largest passenger seating ones that are lone drivers.. or only have one kid or something like that.. I think that irresponsible, and they need to downsize. I can only imagine what their gas costs them a week. I am here to tell you that in my mid size SUV.. we use every inch of it.. and could probably find use if there were more space. I also will agree to the absolutely and totally useless SUV's that are simply for status symbol purposes only.. ie.. the H2.. I can't imagine what purpose that would serve the every day man, other than to say.. Look how great I am that I spent a fortune buying this and now spend a fortune just to drive it from one end of town to the other! So, while there are definitely two sides to the coin of SUV drivers and non drivers.. let's just agree to disagree and realize that not everyone that owns one is a BAD BAD person..
3. My final on today's list.. people who have little to no money, complaining about having little to no money and spending that said money on frivilous items and borrowing money to live on. This drives me nuts! Sure everyone can do as they please and spend their money how they please.. but come on.. if you are gonna be ignorant in your spending then don't turn around and complain about it!! Ya know,, when it gets tight around here,, we dont' spend one red cent that isn't necessary to our day to day living. I just don't understand how someone who is down to their last few bucks decides to spend that on an outing instead of going to the store to buy what groceries they can with it. Ok.. I will even give the argument that you shouldn't be good to yourself every once in a while and treat yourself.. but is it me.. or what.. but when you don't have the money.. wouldn't that be better saved to enjoy when you can afford it?? I mean please don't spend your last 30 bucks on going to the water park on the weekend and then turn around and ask me for 50 bucks to buy your groceries for the week!! COMMON SENSE PEOPLE!! Anybody get what I am saying here?? AHH that feels good to get out!
Well I think that will wrap up today's list.. I am sure to have other lists before its all said and done.. Now I will go and read other blogs.
Edited to say: After having read a few of my blogs just now, I realize that one of them is very similar to one of the things on my list.. just wanted to say.. this blog is not what I was referring to, just wanted to make that clear as to not offend anyone.. Also, I really had no intention of offending anyone with my list today.. Naturally everyone is gonna have a different perspective on some of the same issues, and that's part of what this country is all about.. Your right to feel whatever way you want about those issues. My attempt at writing this today was to try and understand better these things.. not offend.
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