Some random thoughts

I haven't been too worried about the swine flu. I haven't kept my kids from doing stuff (we still go to the park and story time and nursery) or stopped doing what I normally do. Especially since it hasn't hit too close to home. But yesterday there was a case in our school district in a school that isn't too far from us. I'm still not worried about it. It is the flu and like my friend Sarah said before, more people die from the regular flu every year. So not panicking here. Well, at least not yet;)

I've been thinking about doing something different for a job lately. Not seriously thinking but every now and then, I get tired of massaging and my mind wanders while doing so. I have been doing it for ten years and I think I just want a change but I would have no idea what else to do. Nothing else sounds great and there really isn't anything else that I can do for a couple of days a week and make the same money that I do. And since the goal is to be home with my girlies as much as possible, it doesn't seem feasible right now. Maybe I will revisit this when my kids are all in school.

I would love to put Makenna in a preschool but even the rec center is pretty expensive. Is it bad if she doesn't go to preschool? I'm not worried that she will be behind. She's smart as a whip but I just want her to get used to sitting quietly and following directions before she hits kindergarten. I think it would be good for social interaction. Maybe her Sunbeam class will help her prepare and playdates for the social???

I really want to punch our governor. It's like he's using our teachers to make up for everything. He said we lived large for a couple of years and now we have to tighten our belts and take pay cuts. Ummm....teachers never lived large when the economy was going great! They wouldn't even give them raises and the cost of living was ridiculous when times were good but he expects the teachers to take a pay cut and pay for the whole state's debt. He doesn't want to raise taxes because he doesn't want to take even more money out of people's pockets (his words) but that is exactly what he will do to a certain section of people. That makes a lot of sense to cut pay for teachers when a first year teacher can already qualify for food stamps. Niiiiiice!! I'm so glad politicians tell the truth when they are campaigning. He said 'education first' and he would fight to raise teachers pay. What a joke!!

I'm just wondering who's great idea it was to do construction on all roads going North/South??? Well, at least every road that I go on to get to work. It's quite idiotic.

Why does it always get so hot so early!! We are ten degrees higher than normal. It always happens. That's why I don't like spring. We jump up higher than we are supposed to and then never go back down and go right into summer. My girls love to be outside and it's just not pleasant when we are almost a 100 degrees.

I'm over Target. (sorry Jen;) I don't know how it happened. It just did. It just doesn't do it for me anymore and I've moved on;-} LOL! Seriously, I don't go to Target very often anymore. I think it started when I wasn't working much over the winter. I used to use my tip money to buy stuff and since I didn't have any, I didn't go. I don't miss it either. I do my weekly grocery shopping at Walmart and I can get everything I want there! I don't need Target anymore. I will still go there for certain things so I'm not totally nixing it out of my life;)

I'm super excited that all the major holidays this year land on the days that I don't work on. Well, except Thanksgiving. But that will always be on the same day so that doesn't count but it sucks that my manager that would give workers with kids those days off automatically was laid off six months ago. So, I'm not sure what to expect this year. I guess we shall see.

That's all for now. It's time to take the girls to the park (before it gets to almost 100 degrees) and to story time at the library;)

Some of my thoughts

A few days ago, a pizza delivery driver was shot and killed not too far from here. This hit a nerve with me because I used to deliver pizzas. And to top it off, this man was putting himself through massage school which is what I was doing 10 years ago. It made me realize how dangerous the world is and how stupid people can just turn it upside down in an instant. It made me realize how blessed (even though I was undeserving of it at the time) I was while I worked this job. I never had anyone come up to me and steal my money. The only major problems I had in the whole four years that I did this job was some retard exposed himself in front of me and I also had my pizzas stolen. They had called with an address that was an empty residence (just like this guys) and lurked there until I realized that no one was at this apartment. They blocked my way and yanked the pizzas from my hands and took off running. They never asked for my money but I was pissed that they did that to me. I even tried to hang on to those dumb pizzas and struggled with them for a minute. How stupid that was and how worse things could have been. And it wasn't like there wasn't anyone that got robbed at my store. Lots of people did but I personally never did. I always thought that it was because I was a girl but now that I'm thinking about it, I know that I was being watched over. I had to go to some pretty shady areas, namely Civic Center and Cheyenne (much worse than this murdered man) and I had no problems. It was pretty scary but I feel so blessed that I never had any issues. I hope the guys that shot this man get found because they need to rot in jail!!

And another thing I've been thinking about is how nonchalant people are about abortion these days. Like it's no big deal!! Especially late term abortion (which Obama totally supports) when there is a chance that the baby can survive. I don't know how that can't be perceived as murder. And I can't understand why they don't just give birth and give the baby up for adoption to couples that are desperate to have children if they are that far into the pregnancy! It boggles my mind. Travis and I would have been that couple if our IUI's didn't work. We didn't have (nor have now) $20,000 to spend on InVitro. Our only other option would have been adoption. I recently saw this AD that was put out by catholicvote.org. It is awesome!! Click on it and view. It's only 41 seconds. The best part about it is there is no argument that anyone can say against it!! JMO!!

Anyway, I have just been thinking about how precious life is and feel very blessed to have the family that I have.