What I care (and don't care) about

[missjulia]

What I care about, today:

• The economy.  Duh.
• How late I get to sleep in on Saturday, with my fine husband who just got home from his business trip.
• My son, the class clown's balancing act of school work vs. play; and learning how to keep a straight face when he's cleverly smarting off to me.
• The Presidential election.  I also worry about Obama's safety and am afraid of seeing a 2008 version of Bobby Kennedy's assassination. 
• My numerous neighbors, friends and family who have lost home equity, retirement money and jobs-especially the ones who are no longer marketable in the current economy.
• Better assessing "need" from "want," especially as the holidays approach.
• My stepsons' safety, happiness and stability-and how compromised they've been.
• Getting the most joy out of each day, by appreciating the little things and surrendering to what I can't change.
• Making sure to give each of my children some undivided attention, each day, even when I'm dead tired.
• Making sure that I live up to or surpass expectations for giving to and teaching the children in my care, each day.
• The Thanksgiving dilemma: After Obama wins, will it be worth it to dine in a room where 90% of the occupants believe that Obama is a "Muslim mole (whatever that is)"?  Maybe we'll just keep it simple and just us.
• The fact that the ice cream man has just bought the house across the street and has two really ugly vans that he parks in the driveway.
• Creating the next winning Haagen-Dazs ice cream flavor.  And I might have found it!
• Babies who are (allegedly) abused and/or neglected-especially when their photos are posted on the Internet-and most especially when logic, reason and duty are questioned, as if someone needs to be hit atop the head by a carved tablet from God, Himself, to ACT upon moral obligation and human decency.

 What I don't care about, ever:

•·        Banding together to teach some power-hungry crazy person with misplaced anger some e-lesson.

•·        Winning an e-trophy for doing the aforementioned.

•·        CM "Admins" who've mistaken their pink button for a scepter.  Their perceived power is more appreciated than my e-trophy would be.

•·        Giving bullies "what they want."  So?  I'm weaker for feeding them, not for starving them.  But if I don't care, I'm not thinking too hard about them either way.

 

[JezebelKel]

Oct. 16, 2008 at 5:34 PM

Great post----I was in that group for one day----saw where it was going and said no-thank-you.

Nuts I tell you-nuts.

[Darlin67]

Oct. 16, 2008 at 5:53 PM

LLOL!  Love it! 

[lawmom623]

Oct. 17, 2008 at 1:21 AM

great post!