Why, Oh, Why? (Please love me anyway!)

Why is it that as I was sitting at a park day with friends does one of them have to bring up politics? Especially, HER?

Why do I have to read and mostly enjoy a book, but really and truly hate it, when everyone else seems to think it's been written by a wonderful author?

Okay, so maybe this isn't the most positive post, but I want to get this out anyway!

On Friday, I was sitting with some friends and one of them asked what we all thought of Sarah Palin. Immediately, all of them except for two (one who doesn't keep up with politics and me) gushed about how much they love her! They really didn't talk much about her politics, but more about her attitude and the fact that she is a mom. They were of course all moms, but that is hardly a reason to vote for someone. I honestly think Sarah Palin is about the last person I want to be in line to be president! (If you haven't seen it already, go read this. This is worth reading, too.) Honestly, someone who is that controlling and manipulative is seriously looking like a fascist, to me.

So, I didn't say anything, but I really wanted to.

And on to the book. I just finished reading Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer. To start, I did read it in three days, so I enjoyed it. But... when I even think about it a little bit, I hate some of the things she did with it. I think my biggest complaint is that she wrote these books for teenage girls. There are things that are grossly inappropriate for girls to be reading. They don't need to think that life it the way it is painted in this book. I know, I know, it's just a story, and furthermore, it's written about vampires, but still. There is way to much s*x, too much of the idea that "life will be better after this horrible life I'm living" and too much emphasis placed on how beautiful they become and how that makes Bella feel so much better about herself. We are all human and teenagers hate enough things about themselves to have these ideas put into their heads. I understand the need for an escape...what do you think reading this book provided me? I just think that Ms. Meyer takes things too far. While I'm at it, there are so many better books written for that age that are SO much better. There are better writers that don't take twice as long to say something as they need!

Okay, I'm done. I hope you all still love me...oh and I'm really not a left-wing Democrat or anything. I just have more moderate views and the Republicans are trying to be so far right at the moment that it really irritates me!

Fine Tuning

I have decided on a new goal for myself. I want to be less critical, negative and judgmental. I know, I've tried before, but this time I really want to work hard at this.

We had a Sunday School lesson in which a really good analogy was made:

When you hit a tuning fork and then move it close to another object, the object resonates with the same sound.

When we are negative and "vent", we not only don't feel better afterwards, we usually lead the person we are talking to down to further negativity, as well.

I don't want to be that kind of influence on others anymore. Heck, I don't want to be that kind of influence on me anymore!

So, I think it would be more effective to replace a bad behavior with a good one. What better than if I feel the need to be negative or share a story that would only make me and the hearer more negative, I'll say something good. I suppose keeping my mouth shut would also be effective if there isn't anything nice to say!

I'm Pottytrained!

If only Princess were as well.

This is day three and we have had only one or two accidents per day so far! It is great! As long as I remember to make her sit on the toilet about every hour, she does great. So, I'm really the one that is trained for now. I hope that eventually she catches on, too. She is enjoying the Tinkerbell panties and feeling like a big girl.

One horror story: After the first day of going on the toilet, we went to the store to get some "pretty panties", as promised. She had gone to the bathroom a little before we left, so I thought she'd be fine on a 20 minute trip. Well, she wet her pants right in front of the underwear display. It was really embarrassing to walk through the store holding new panties, with a little girl in wet pants. I got lucky, though. We had a towel in the van that she could sit on so that she didn't soak her car seat!

Lesson Learned

A bit of advice: Don't have Goodreads open in the background for an extended amount of time while you are up in the middle of the night with your baby.

I got some interesting invitations to be "friends" with men from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka since I was listed as online. Before now, I have only gotten or sent invitations to people I know (at least online). Apparently, I'm attractive on the other side of the world, too!

7-11

I'm thinking the baby should come today. Her birthday would be 7-11, and we'd take her for Slurpees on every birthday! That would be fun, right?? That should be enough motivation for anyone!