Day Off.

Finally. Well, I guess he did take Saturday off but before that it had been a really long time. And then Sunday he only worked until 1 am and then until 5am on Monday. Anyway, we took Wednesday off, and we freakin' earned it.

We didn't get to sleep in because we really needed to get down to the DMV and finally get the title transferred on that old mustang of ours. My dad is trying to sell it for us, and it kind of needs to be legal in order to sell it. Don't blame us, the girl who sold it to us didn't know what she was doing and signed the wrong place on the title. Then we couldn't find her. Then the DMV of PA told us that we'd have to find her or buy a new title (which is REALLY expensive). I told Josh I had a feeling the people at PennDot were just lazy, and that the Delaware DMV would probably be able to figure it out. It's nice to be right. They fixed us up and made the car legally ours AND we got Josh a brand new DE license all for under $100. Sweet.

As stupid as it might sound, it really felt awesome to get that particular crap slinging monkey off our backs. We'd been trying to get the title work done on that car for almost two years. Sigh. We stopped by my dad's work (where the car has been sitting for the past three months) to drop off the new registration. It was a nice day, and dad had put the top down to show it off. Maaaaan...we wanted that car back. It really isn't practical. There's' no way a baby seat could fit in there, and we'd probably never get to ride with the top down (which is the BEST part of that car) plus, it's a money monster. We sure are going to miss it. At least until we get the check, then we'll just pay off more bills and smile. Hah.

After that I was really itching to go to the beach. Like I said in the previous post, it's been in the 60's and sunny and all I want to do is be outside. Of course, I could walk out into our back yard, but we don't have a porch and the dogs have basically made it into a big sand pit. I don't mind getting dirty, but there's no where to sit. I love porches, our next house will definitely have a back porch. Anyway, we had to stop at home to make sure that Michael (from the Lax show) got some big file Josh was trying to send him. We waited an hour and the stupid thing froze, so Josh called the guy, told him he was trying something else and that the show should get to him in an hour, but that we were leaving anyway. I was so proud. We were both a little nervous because the station who runs the show still hadn't contacted Michael about their feelings on the most recent one. ( Ya know, the looming black cloud that had kept my husband awake for 48 hours). On our way to the beach, we get a text from Michael. The station loved it. That just made the drive to freedom even sweeter.

Riley is going to be coming soon. Even sooner that originally expected because he's huge. I'm supposed to have about 4 more weeks left, but at my appointment this week they said they won't make me go that long. If I did, he'd come out around 10 lbs, and since I'd like to have more children in the future, I'd prefer my first one weren't that scarey. So on the way to the beach, Josh and I were trying to plan our final date before the baby comes. I can't sit through a movie in the theater anymore, which is a shame because there's some really good ones out there. So we decided we'd go down to the boardwalk one night and have Grotto's Pizza and then do some shopping. There's' nothing more "spring in Sussex County" than that.

The beach was great. It's always a little colder there than inshore, but it was beautiful nonetheless. We bought some four dollar beach fries and sat on the sidewalk. If you've never been to Rehoboth, there are a few things you MUST do. You must have Thrasher's fries, Grotto pizza, and Ice Cream Store ice cream. You can gain 10lbs in a week in Rehoboth, especially if you like to hit the bars. We also have a lot of really cool sea food places, if you're into crabs and whatever. This place is awesome. Even better than Virginia beach, in my opinion but of course in Virginia, I can actually be on vacation. Around here it's just...home. Which is cool in it's own way. Anyway, Josh threw some fries out to the birds, which is a horrible idea. Then we laughed and shared stories about being a little kid at the beach. At some point in every beach kid's life, they will have a sandwich stolen from them by a seagull. It is both horrifying and hilarious, but it happens to everyone. In one of the shops, we found the perfect bathing suit for Riley. Josh and I were worried because it seems like people just put their little infant boys in speedo's and neither one of us thought that would be a good way for him to start off life. Thank God they actually make little board shorts for babies. Hah, they even have little rash guards.

When it was time to leave, our hair was messy and sticky from the salty air and we were very satisfied with our waste of time. Nothing beats going down to the boards pre-season when it's just you and the locals and parking is still free. We'll probably spend most of our time at Lewes beach or the state park this summer, because of Riley, but maybe some generous people will help us to a few nights on our own in Rehoboth. ;)

You know it's almost Easter? I'd kind of forgotten. Josh is a big fan of all the major candy holidays such as Easter and Valentines day. I'll have to go shopping for him soon. I don't get to have any candy this year, because of the diabetes, so maybe I'll just get something else instead. I'll miss the peeps. I LOVE peeps.

For now I've probably bored you enough, plus I need to take care of my very dusty dogs. Josh is working again today, and I miss him even though he's just in the other room.

Nothing beats a day off.

Get over it.

Have I used this title already? It seems like something I say a lot.

Anyway, I've been avoiding the computer completely for about a week. The reason, I just haven't had the tolerance for negativity. I think the last time I was on I may have pushed a few buttons (in forums and on deviantart) so I guess I just didn't feel like dealing with idiotic backlashing until today. Ugh. I wish I'd just stayed away.

I'd just finished a new vector (which I've already decided I hate) so I logged on to deviantart first. I'd forgotten that the last time I was on, I'd commented on this stock footage of a girl with hideous make up. Since make up is kind of something I'm good at, and since she'd said she didn't really know how to do it, I left her a few tips. Now, I know artists are supposed to be a sensitive bunch, but give me a frigging break. She went all off on me on how she wasn't going for a "boring, normal, look" and how I don't know anything about being a run way model (which, she wasn't) and blah freakin blah. I didn't even comment back. I must be maturing. The fact is the chick had put green and purple together, and had gone above and through her eyebrow, which is just plain BAD. (Insert Napoleon Dynamite "Gawd!")

That was about all I could take. I didn't even attempt forums. I came straight to my private, pink blog which I had been wrongfully neglecting.

I've been spending a lot of time with my mom, actually. We're both in similiar states right now, I guess you could say. She had surgery on her foot, and she's supposed to lay around a lot or use cruches when she must. Neither one of us are really "lay around" people, we both honestly hate it. So we've been keeping each other company, complaining and what-not. Now that the kids are in school it's just the two of us, which is nice.

Zak begged and begged to have his hair cut into a mohawk. His teacher gave him permission, so my parents finally gave in. He's only in 4th grade, after all. He went to school and came back and didn't say a word about how his new hair cut went over until the next morning when he flipped out and had to literally be dragged into school by my father. Apparently, the kids had teased him. I honestly felt bad for him. He's learning so many lessons so late in life because this is his first year in public school. All of us who have gone through the system know it's brutal and the kids show no mercy. This was only Zak's second week of school. Poor guy.

Everybody is teased in school. It's so pointless. I'll admit, when I was young (and I mean really young, like 2nd through 5th grade) I used to tease the fat kids. I know. I'll burn in hell for it, but I'll see you there because you know you've teased people in school. It's almost a rite of passage. When I was in middle school, this indian kid with a last name as long as a book teased me about how long my last name was. The kids on my bus that lived in a trailor park that was literally a sand pit with all the trailors facing each other in a big circle, made fun of my parent's car. (By the way, the kids that tease Zak now are probably the children of the kids that teased me. They were all having babies by the time we left middle school) Are you seeing my point? It doesn't have to make sense, kids just pick on each other. No matter how perfect you may be, they will find something. Believe it. Even Josh was teased in school.

It's almost April, and I can't wait. This week is supposed to go back in the 60's and hopefully the following weeks will just get higher and higher. I want summer so bad I can taste it.

For now, I'm probably going to go watch Josh play video games which will probably just put me to sleep. Theres no way I'm dealing with forums right now, it's too much of a fire hazard.

See you next month.

Everybody has an agenda

All of us were raised to believe certain things that our parents wanted us to believe. For Josh, religion was a big one, for me, a lot of it was politics. We will probably raise Riley with a pretty good mix of both, not to mention whatever his grandparents, friends, and teachers put into his head. I believe there comes a time in a person's life where they become responsible for their own beliefs. You may stick with what you were raised to believe, but at this point in your life, you should also start to question it. This time, for me, is now.

As I said in an earlier post, I've been seeing a ton of debate on the Intelligent Design issue. Most people, as with abortion debates and politics, go with what is most popular. I realized that I wasn't able to contribute anything intelligent to the debates, and the people who knew science really seemed to know their stuff. I didn't want to be the "religious idiot" who came in and said "Well God made everything. I don't know why or how or whatever, but you're all wrong and you're going to Hell." Those kinds of people really upset me, and I would be damned before becoming one. As I said, you are responsible for your beliefs. I decided to get educated.

Refuting Evolution by Johnathan Sarfati is way over my head. I think he really does try to make it readable, but I am someone who never understood (or cared about) science. Naturally, I haven't got too far in the book yet. What I have read, and fully understand, is the disturbing fact that the evolution theory is in fact an atheist agenda. I honestly had no idea. For example, Professor Richard Lewontin (a geneticist and self-proclaimed Marxist) wrote:

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs; in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but did he just say "We'll basically come up with anything just so creation doesn't get taught"? That's kind of what I got out of it.

In the past few years especially, it seems that the country has been trying to make the word "God" the new F-bomb. The ten commandments were torn down in front of that court house in Texas ( I believe it was Texas, don't quote me on that), there have been movements to take it off our money and out of the pledge, and now we are faced with an actual court case debating whether Intelligent Design has a place in our public schools. Maybe it doesn't, but if that's the case don't you dare teach my kids about Islam. I remember learning about pretty much every religion except Christianity in a public school. Fair is fair, right?

But it's not about fair. It's about an agenda. Most people don't realize that the teaching of evolution propagates an anti-biblical religion. The first two tenets of the Humaist Manifesto II signed by many prominent evolutionists are:
1. Religious Humanists regard the universe as self-existing, not created.
2. Humanism believes that Man is a part of nature and has emerged as a result of a continuous process.

Well, isn't that exactly what evolution teaches? We may as well hand out pamphlets for the Humanist church (if there were such a thing) to the kids. Humanist leaders make no secret of using the public schools to proselytize their faith. E. O. Wilson wrote in his book, The Humanist:

I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level - preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism...
It will undoubtedly be a long, arduous, painful struggle replete with much sorrow and many tears, but humanism will emerge triumphant. It must if the family of humankind is to survive.

This quote alone raised so many red flags for me. Never mind the fact that evolution was a theory created for the sheer purpose of disputing God's creation, the fever behind pushing this agenda is just...scarey. Notice how many times he claims Humanism as a religion and evolution as its core. This seems pretty parallel to the Christian belief of Creation. If we forget the facts (or lack thereof) for a moment, and just think about that, it should become quite clear why evolution should not be taught in schools if Creation is not allowed. They are of the same animal now. Humanism=religion=evolution. Christianity=religion=Creation. What's the difference? Neither, or both should be taught, if equality was really the goal.

Later in the book he begins to go over the flaws of evolution, which I would also like to share once I get there. So far, it seems to me that, regardless of what you believe in, evolution and creation should be presented as choices. If the beginning of the world must be taught at all, then that is how it should be presented. I would also like to see "evolution" or "evolved" return to the prior theory status. Josh and I recently visited the Baltimore aquarium, and were shocked at how many times fish were said to have "evolved" certain adaptable body parts. Didn't this used to be just a theory? Since when did it become fact? The truth is, it never did. But they snuck it right in there, and nobody noticed. The atheists, and other religions pitch a huge fit every time they even think a Christian thought might wander into their spotlight, but it seems the Christians have been silenced. I wish they would get over their long case of larangitis and say something before their right to the minds of the youth is completely taken away. Maybe evolutionists are right and Christians were evolved with out a back bone. If that is the case, then let them have their evolutionary theories, but for the love of God, slither your way to the picket line and make your opinion heard too! There used to be two sides to this fight, and now there is simply the lies that evolution somehow became truth. The only thing that makes it truth is the fact that is undesputed, and that is extremely sad.

Recently my mom became pretty sick and therefore had to send my younger brother and sister, whom she'd been home schooling, to a public school. They started this week. She said to me, "You think you'll be able to send Riley away? You won't. It will break your heart, and that's because you know what is out there."

True, I don't want Humanists raising my baby.

I shower with a dog.

...I don't have anything better to talk about at the moment. *ashamed* BUT...I do have this awesome little product plug I wanna do, just for your viewing pleasure. *Please refrain from touching yourself*

Okay, so it's not THAT good, but it is really, really, REALLY cute. :-] This, is idog.


See? Cute, right? And you haven't even seen him dance. Basically, he's just a speaker for your ipod, or the music player of your choice. When you play music for him, his face lights up, he shakes his head and ears, and he barks. To put him in a good mood, you can pet him, touch his nose and most of all, play music. He doesn't have to be plugged in to react, all you have to do is turn him on and blare some tuneage. Touch his tail and he will growl and give you a few minutes of quiet.

I bought my sister this black one:


The lights on his face are brighter and more defined. He came out about a month after my white one, so I was pretty sure there'd be some improvements. Today as I was searching for pictures, I found that they are making pink ones somewhere out in Europe. I guess it would be in Hasbro's best interest to make as many colors and variations as possible in order to milk the most money out of America's youth. Right on.

Anyway, he's not the best speaker, but he's completely portable (and did I mention cute?), so that automatically makes him better than any ipod speakers I've seen. (Though, I have heard that the actual ipod speakers are pretty awesome, but they definitely don't have personality.)

I personally use him most in the shower. I just set him up on the potty, and let him go. I also happen to think Riley will appreciate him, especially in the car.

So now you know why I shower with a dog.

Tim made me do it.

You Are 64% Evil

You are very evil. And you're too evil to care. Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot.

How Evil Are You?

Mwahahaha. I liked the one that said "You'd take evil over stupid any day."

Most definitely.

The test was okay, I was pretty amazed at how many evil things I'd honestly done. There was one flaw though. They should have had a question that at the end that said, "You were laughing as you checked off the evil things you have done." I think that would have scored me a few points higher.

Could be worse, I guess.