Monday, June 12, 2006

has the world gone mad?

Just an informal, completely unscientific survey here - I'm trying to find out if the entire world has gone mad, or if it's more of a local phenomenon, or if it's just a personal phenomenon. Maybe it's just a madness I don't understand. Perhaps a special form of Texas madness. I'm not above believing there's madness everywhere...but I understand the madness in the midwest.

Have you ever felt like God is breaking things on purpose? Even the things you believe were put in place by Him? I sometimes think my biggest problem is my need to understand why - that's my biggest faith obstacle. Not that it precludes faith, but that much greater things could happen in my life if I wasn't hung up on trying to understand all the time.

(As evidence of the madness, I would refer you to the College World Series bracket. So far, no fewer than 3 of the national top eight seeds have been eliminated and aren't even going to the CWS. And UNC is going. A world gone mad, I tell you.)

Sunday, June 04, 2006

conspiracy

I'm sure it's a conspiracy; I'm not sure by whom, but somehow we've become completely dependent upon cars. Okay, at least in the places I've lived, you simply cannot be a functioning member of society without a car.

The trouble is, cars are nothing but trouble.

I've had my share of cars that stop working in the middle of the road. It is, however, a completely different experience when you have two small children in the car... Things did work out as smoothly as they possibly could have, at least until we get the estimate of the repairs.

It's not as if I'm a Ludite or anything (you are reading my blog, after all), it's just frustrating to be so dependent on something so undependable.

Sidebar: I'm not Jewish, but if I were, I would warn you, gentle readers, to beware of car trouble. Bad things occur in threes, after all. Lisa's accident would be 1, we would be 2, so that leaves 3, unless you count Azina's ongoing trouble with her car, in which case everyone else is safe!

Thursday, June 01, 2006

argh (again...different topic)

You know those days when there are things that just hack you off and you really need to tell somebody about it, but are afraid that you'll sound like you're being petty or just completely ridiculous? That's how I feel right now.

Admittedly, I'm sure it's largely hormone-induced. I have discovered that I am extremely short-tempered when I'm pregnant, which is strange for me, because I am usually a very calm and collected person.

So I've decided I'm going to blog whenever I feel like this, and I run less risk of hurting someone's feelings or just sounding like a crazy hormonal woman.

I'm really annoyed at people who try to help do things and just end up creating more work for me because dishes DO NOT get clean by virtue of simply being IN the dishwasher!!

(And it wasn't Joe, just for the record.) :)