Dear…and a Wedding Invite!

I drove to the grocery store today with a heavy heart, preparing this blog post (more on that tomorrow).

And then I walked in the store.

All heavy heartedness went out the window! So, today, you get letters.

Dear LadyThatGivesAndTakes,
Cute kid. He’s what, about 2? You know what’s not cute? The fact that you give him a toy, and then you take it away and let him scream for a solid minute, and then you give him the toy back, and then you do it all over again! For real lady? Seriously? I mean, I understand it’s Super Wally World, but that doesn’t mean we’re all scum that like to listen to screaming kids. And let me be straight here. Id’ like to kick you in the shin and poke your eye out each time you take the toy away and give it back.

Dear LadyWithATantrumThrowing12YearOld,
How cute is it when your 12 year old follows along behind you, crying, banging his hand on anything he can reach because you won’t buy him the package of Pokemon cards he wants, and you just walk along and argue with him the whole way. All I’m saying is, if you popped him in the mouth once or twice, he probably wouldn’t be acting that way. Since you chose to not actually parent your child for the first 12 years of his life, neither of you should be allowed in public. Why should we have to deal with your lack of parenting?? At this point you both need a good ass whoopin!

Dear 90YearOldWoman,
I understand that the kind overworked crappy folks over at our fine joke of a DMV thought renewing your license was a good idea, but they were clearly mistaken. When you get on the freeway at 20 mph on a Sunday afternoon when the flow of traffic is 80, you’re a friggin traffic hazard and you should not be driving anything faster than a Lark! And as if your merging speed wasn’t bad enough, the mile you spent between the slow lane and the shoulder definitely sealed the deal. Please park your car. And throw away your keys. Thanks.

Ugh. Seriously. What is wrong with people?????

I don’t want to end this post on a bad note though, so I leave you with a wedding invite I got from a friend…it’s seriously the cutest invite I’ve ever seen!!
Aren’t they just the cutest couple ever! I can’t wait to see their babies! Sorry about not cropping it and stuff…I propped it up against the laptop to take the pictures, and cropping it seemed like a lot of work since I took the pictures at an angle…what can I say, it’s lazy Sunday

Nothing About Green Frogs…

As I was driving home last night, an SUV tried to run me off the road. Literally. Just so he could squeeze in between me and the car right in front of me. I was pissed! And then, I noticed that the back of his Trooper had Jesus fish and a bumper sticker for the local Catholic Radio station. I wanted to follow him at that point, and ask him what kind of “good Christian” tries to run people off the road!! I decided Karma will do that job better than I can though, and left it at that.
It’s hypocrites like him that remind me why I’m not a part of organized religion.

I’ve come under some fire recently for my decision to “support back yard breeding” by getting a puppy from a friend, rather than getting a rescue dog. I was sent a huge email, complete with links and quotes, from a person that I don’t even know very well. Truth be told, I’ve only met this person once, but we talk frequently on Facebook. I would have simply told her to mind her own damn business, but we’re both members of 2 groups…one of which I’m not even sure I’ll still be a part of, because one of the things she said is “we were just talking about this at our last meeting!” which leads me to believe that those folks all feel the same as she does.
Her emails really made me examine our situation and second guess my decision, and to be honest, that pissed me off! I shouldn’t feel guilty about bringing a puppy into our home simply because we’re not getting one from the pound or a rescue group! I’ve rescued a handful of dogs, including our dog Jose, and I’ve been fortunate to have great luck with these dogs. However, the 2 dogs we’ve tried to rescue since Jose have simply not worked out in our home, and when it comes right down to it, we want a 2^nd dog, and we want one that the whole family enjoys. It’s not fair to any animal to have it in a home with the wrong people, and we were definitely the wrong people for those other 2 rescue dogs!
So, while I understand that we have too many animals without homes right now, we’ve chosen to get a puppy from a friend, that yes, allowed her dog to have a litter of puppies before spaying her. I feel like this is a personal choice, for both of us, and while I respect the opinions of others, I’m also still going to do what’s right for my family.

Speaking of problems with our world right now…have you heard anything about what’s going on in Arizona? I just want to say, first of all, this is very scary to me. It’s scary that my children are growing up in a world that is seriously getting worse by the day. And I have to say, with absolute honesty, if I would have known then what I know now, I would have never brought children into this mess. It seems selfish to me to bring a new life into a world that is so unstable!
Secondly though, while I understand that illegal immigrants are a problem, I don’t think that giving police the power to harass any and everyone now is the best solution. I also don’t think simply deporting people is a solution either. I think we first need to secure the borders. If we truly don’t want illegal immigrants here, we need to make it harder for them to get here. I mean, I’m not in government, and I only have an associates degree, but to me, that seems a logical first step. And then start deporting people. And I’m not going to pretend to have a great way to go about this, but it just seems like a really bad idea to put more power in the hands of policeman, some of which already have too much power when you start looking at how they’re abusing it!

Maybe we should look at some of the Asian cultures. You have quite a bit less crime when you start cutting off body parts. Just sayin.

On that note, I leave you with something funny I heard a comedian say about his conversation with a bill collector:

“Mr. Smith, this is Joan with Visa. You have a delinquent balance here. How would you like to take care of that?”

“Um, I don’t have any money to give you right now.”

“I understand Mr. Smith. Is there someone you can borrow the money from?”

“I did that already. I think we both know how that turned out!”

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing ~ Bill Cosby