It’s day …. crap I don’t even know what day it is anymore.
I’m going nuts.
I miss Matt.
Working in the office is a heck of a lot better than working from home.
I may have cabin fever.
I’ve stopped checking the weather status.
How is it we’re still cooped up inside?
I think I have a glimpse into what prison is like. It’s ugly.
Still praying electricity, heat, hot water and internet don’t collapse. After all at least prisoners have that (maybe not so much the internet).
Coherent thoughts are no longer formed in my brain.
If anyone ever hears me say “it’s hot in the summer” or “I wish we had snow!” I give you permission to smack me.
The only thing giving me a great amount of happiness and pleasure is Sarah Palin showing her immense stupidity and ridiculousness when she read from her hand at the tea bagging convention.
OH YES I WENT THERE.
Also, I miss Matt.
And I love Jon Stewart. (Matt loves him too.)
More pictures here.
I’ve learned a few things about myself this winter. Certain things – I am not proud to say – which have made me into a petite female version of Scrooge.
- Spending more than 72 hours cooped up with the same person will drive me nuts and make me yell at the person.
- Spending more than 72 hours cooped up by myself will drive me nuts and make me hate myself.
- Snow makes me sleepy, therefore I was sleepy most of Friday and Saturday because it WOULDN’T STOP SNOWING.
- Being without heat and hot water for just a few hours made me less of a happy person. Good thing electricity was still on and I could use my heating pad.
- Tights were created by Satan.
- I hate snow.
- My ass has grown five sizes because there’s nothing to do but eat and watch TV. For those whose electricity was cut, I feel for you and I hope you found a warm place because electricity has apparently NOT been restored to everyone.
- I hate snow.
- Winter sucks.
- WTF does Mother Nature have against us this season???
- I am becoming a very bitter person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah I know, I know all you wonderful northern states and countries and the North Pole find this amusing, hilarious and think we’re pussies. But you know what?? I’d like to see you all come down here and go through these fabulously horrid snow storms we’ve been having. I guarantee you will become as bitter because you won’t be able to go ANYWHERE. Unfortunately, they DO NOT clean it out as fast here and DO NOT have as much equipment as you since this DOES NOT happen often.
I would move to the Caribbean but seeing that the airports are oh about 95% shut down that’s not an option at the moment.
On top of all this, WE ARE GETTING MORE SNOW ON TUESDAY. Apparently none of us are leaving our houses again until spring. If spring ever shows its face around these parts again.
P.S. This is all Sarah Palin’s fault.
I have a confession to make: 90% of why I watch the Super Bowl is for the ads. I want to see what sort of ridiculousness and hilarity people can come up with time and again. Can they top the previous year?
Apparently this year they are. But it has taken a more serious form and is highly lacking in the funny department. You may have heard about the Tim Tebow commercial coming out during the Super Bowl this year that has caused quite the stir among pro-choice groups.
CBS will be airing the ad – which is paid for by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family – featuring Tebow’s mother who during her pregnancy with her son, Tim, was given a recommendation by doctors to abort the pregnancy because she had contracted amoebic dysentery which required heavy medication. The medication and treatment could have not only damaged the fetus but also endangered her life.
Since Tebow is around we know that she chose not to and had her son.
Some of you will say that the ad is obviously portraying “pro-choice” since she had the option of abortion but she decided against it. My worry is that it will be seen more in the light of YOU SEE??? HAD SHE ABORTED THE BABY, THIS GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYER WOULD NOT EXIST! THEREFORE ABORTION IS BAD! BAD! BAD!
Then of course there’s the whole issue of whether she really did have a choice in the matter. When she became ill, it was back in 1987 in the Philippines where abortion was and still is illegal, no exceptions whatsoever. Makes one ponder for a bit.
While pro-choice groups have made a ruckus, my question to them is well, why don’t you come up with your own 3 million ad (that’s about how much it costs to air during the Super Bowl) to counter this one? Show a different side. Even test CBS to see if they really have relaxed their rules and are showing advocacy ads now. I’d love to see CBS try to finagle their way out of that!
But let’s not forget what is important here – choice. More specifically a woman’s choice. If the choice of abortion is taken away, what’s next? Birth control? Her right to voice her opinion? Why don’t we just go ahead and revoke the 19th amendment all together?
Where do we draw the line?!
Ladies, I know you have a voice. USE IT. Margaret Sanger – the woman who started what we know today as Planned Parenthood – strongly advocated to educate women on birth control, sex and most importantly their health. She spoke up and fought. Without her and women like her, just imagine what the world would be like for us today.
No choice over our own bodies.
One friend and blogger is standing up and making her choice – go over to Alice’s and see what she has promised to do.
The lovely Nilsa also wrote about this very issue (which I actually didn’t know about until today). Read about it here.
Tell me, what are you choosing to do?
Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. – Edward Paul Abbey
