Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Inner Piece

Inner Piece

Wugh
I swear I am thinking about keeping my kids out of preschool next year. We have had more illnesses run through this year, and I am so fucking tired of being sick. Now, it's upper respitory crud and my head is so stopped up it is throbbing. BANG BANG BANG And 3 days of fever is more than enough, thank you verrah much.

And ds has RSV, so he's a sick little puppy. And Em has the upper respitory crud and is going to the dr tomorrow after 4 days of fever.

And, the husband is an asshat. He stayed home from work yesterday to "help out" and I swear I did just as much as I do when he isn't here, and I had to listen to him yelling at the kids because he was trying to talk on the phone. He basically spent the entire day working on his laptop.
Then today, he said he would call the ped about Em, and he didn't do it. Apparently, she isn't important enough for him to tell his co-workers to hold on for 5 min while he makes a phone call. Yes, I could have done it and I did. But ds was cranky and fussing and the girls whining and my head throbbing. I didn't want to do it.

I know I am cranky and probably unreasonable, but dammit, I feel like shit. I want to curl up in the bed and not be bothered for 3 days. I want the chance to get well.

And the husband and I are going have to have a come to Jesus talk about our parenting techniques. Apparently he thinks threatening to send them to their rooms all day is acceptable discipline for 3 yr olds. Wugh again.

And now, I am going to bed.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Jesus would be proud.

I've started a new diet.
Really I'm just working on a lifestyle change. More moving, less sitting (ha ha, as I sit here playing on the 'puter), less food and better choices. I've lost 6.5 lbs so far. Yay me.


And gossip from home.
My mother has been telling me about the goings on at the church I grew up in. They finally got rid of the preacher they had had for 25 yrs because he got alzheimers and couldn't even stand up and string sentences together, so he retired. He was an asswipe. I have little sympathy for him losing his marbles.

So, they have a new preacher. Well, they had a new one.
(I hesitate to call them ministers because they don't minister, they just preach. Ministers care about others and offer comfort and support and such. Preachers get up on Sun morning and try and pound their warped ideas of christianity into the congragations heads.)

The new guy has been there about 6 months. In that time, he has run up multiple thousands of dollars in debt. $23,000 in the month of Dec alone. He fired the volunteer financial officer, a woman, for "daring" to question his spending.

And even worse, he has been indicted on drug charges. Stealing prescriptions or forging htem or somesuch. And, he's been stealing drugs, painkillers, from people's hospital rooms. Obviously the man has a problem.

So, this news all becomes public knowledge, and the church just goes insane. Half of them members just flat out refuse to believe it. They are sending hate mail and making threatening phone calls to the other church members. They are claiming they are going to leave and start their own church. Such Christian behavior. And what a lovely church. One founded on hate. Jesus would so proud.

So anyway, Sun morning, the deacons met Preacher Boy at the door and refused to let him in. rofl He showed up with a lawyer, so obviously he knew something was up and there was a deputy there, too. I guess someone thought it might get ugly. But, the deacons have the power to fire him, so out he went. The youth minister read his "letter of resignation." God only knows who actually wrote it.

And the really sad part is that when one of the women in the church went to his wife to make sure she was all right, she knew nothing about it. She didn't know anything, not about the drug charges, the spending, nothing. Poor woman.

Honestly, how can people who claim to be Christians and claim to try and emulate the behavior of Jesus act like this? Just be honest and admit that have no fucking morals. Jesus was all about love and peace, not about hate mail and stealing and drugs. A simplification, obviously, but you get the point. It's no wonder I don't go to church anymore.