Something amusing from the other day….

The one problem about dating multiple guys – getting tag-teamed by both of them (not in that way you perv), with one on the phone and one standing next to me both saying “Would you say what’s going on in your head?”

Dude! I only have one good ear! Can’t focus on both at the same time! *giggles* Anyway, all’s good, it was kinda of amusing, and I have two guys that love me lots and help me out in more ways than I can count on my fingers and toes.

*mwah*

I hate nights when I have nothing but visions. It makes for an awake, yet ver, very tired freak. Especially when the good ones didn’t last long enough.

A friend of mine commented that my July 4th stuff should also include the idealists and philosophers that give cause to the reasons we fight. Which, is true…back in the 1700’s. The people who gave the ideals that framed the foundation of this country had a great deal to say, and an understanding that many of the “idealists” today, lack. Of course, being a lover of Locke, Franklin, Madison, and various others, got me labeled naive by my father, as my ideals weren’t based in the reality of the present. However, I do think we’ve lost a great deal in taking advantage with what we’ve grown accustomed to, in regards to freedoms that we take for granted. My paternal gram always used to bitch about the Suffragists and how there were better things to worry about, than politics. I consider her the ultimate Feminist (and if she were alive today she’d knock me upside the head for calling her that – she never understood the 70s either). This is a woman that did what she wanted, regardless her gender, and regardless what society told her she could do. She grew up when a good bit of American history was happening. She saw the end of Reconstruction after the Civil war, she lived through the Great Crash, the Dust Bowl, Black and Women’s Suffrage, Prohibition and the Repeal, both World Wars, etc up till 2000. Now that woman had ideals, and unfortunate to my family, I took after her. The stories she told were amazing and I regret not recording any of them. I still hold out hope for the sudden finding of a journal she wrote.

Anyway…the reason I say I don’t give much credence to the idealists of today, is the fact that they’re almost in exact opposite of what we had at the start. Honestly, I’ll say the last great idealist died when Paul Wellstone passed through the veil, and no one has stepped up to replace him. I get called a Liberal, because those on the political spectrum forget what liberal means, not to mention that being a conservative has little to nothing to do with preserving the Constitution anymore (which is what I really am – in the preserving sense). It saddens me that we’ve lost all respect for protecting the minority, in the manner we were set up to do, and we’ve become more concerned with protecting the rights of they who can yell loudest.

If I manage to group my thoughts anymore, I’ll write them down. Till then, I’ll step off my soap box.

(x-posted)

Thank a Vet/Military person Day

229 years ago, a group of guys got together and declared this country independent from Britain. They started up this row called the Revolutionary war that was embedded in an idea of self-determination and self-governance of the people. And thus, our armed forces were born. These are the people that gave us our freedoms, and they are the ones that ultimately protect them. Thank them, because they do a job that many of us either choose to not do, or cannot do because of other limitations.

This summer is going to be another test of my body’s ability to cope. I’ve never had an issue with hard work, but my leg looks my back should, with scratch marks that will be visable for another couple of days. The mosquitos were out en force and targeted me while mowing the grass and watering the porch (we’re growing moss). The heat was a bit too much too. Not sure why because I can’t say that it was all that hot today, but it hit me pretty hard. So, it can be a safe bet that I’ll be feeling pretty useless this summer and irritating those around me. Oh well, until someone can come up with a means, outside of citronella incense, that can keep asian mosquitos away from me without melting my skin off, I’m SOL, and so are those around me. *sigh*

Stole this from FreeWill:

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “He who is in love is wise and becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

Erica Jong: “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.”

Thought it was fairly appropriate for my life right now.