My parents are coming over tomorrow. I'm half-assedly cleaning. I'm not putting much effort into it at all, actually.
I didn't sleep well last night at all. I kept dreaming about my house burning down. That and the dog would not settle down and just sleep. Stupid Damien... Haha, Damien loves when Jordan is gone because he gets to be in the bed and not in the kennel over night.
It kind of rained a bit today, which stopped my thoughts of grilling. Maybe tomorrow.
I've had some random and strange thoughts about going to church in the last few weeks. I feel strangely about religion. My entire family is very religious. Not frighteningly so, but they all have a strong personal faith. I mean my younger brother is a Benedictine Monk and my older brother is getting a Master's in theology. Me? I am completely wandering blindly through spiritual life. I was raised Catholic, and as far as spiritual beliefs, I still believe in many of the dogmas of Catholicism, but there are things I do have an issue with. And those things seem to be on the forefront of religious disussions lately and have little to NOTHING to do with God, let alone Jesus. For example, Nowhere in the Bible, NO WHERE, does Jesus say word one about homosexuality, and yet Christians (not just Catholics) try and take a religious stance to justify their bigotry and homophobia... I was also put off but the whole sex scandal, but you know what, it was 30 years ago and it was a difficult lesson learned. The actual fact that is happened was bad enough, but to just move it and cover it up is unspeakable... but that was a limited number of people and not a conspiracy of the entire religion. Priests and Bishops are people, and they are fallible. Yes they have a responsibility to try and be LESS fallible, but they are people.
I got so tired of the news when Pope Benedict came to America a couple of weeks ago simply due to the fact that instead of talking about why he was here all I heard about was that he wasn't going to Boston and how it's terrible to "snub" those victims and ignore the issue. Only no one mentioned that he personally met with 5 victims and their families.
Wow, I'm on a ROLL, should I just keep bitching?
GAS PRICES are ridiculous and I am pissed off that in order to LOOK like something is being done about it congress held hearing in which they "investigated" the record profits made by oil companies in the last couple of years. When told that, "yeah, we know that the average american is hurt by high gas prices, but our MULTI-BILLION dollar profit margin is necessary to fund R&D." And then our entire legislative branch collectively looked around at each other and said, "OOOOOOHHH!" and then 2 or 3 of them suggested that they think they should use 10% of you profits to fund R&D in renewable energy sources, but we won't make you. All of this talk of research and development, while CEOs are taking home 8 FIGURE salaries and bonuses and manufacturing workers are being laid off from american car builders because no one wants to buy our ridiculous gas guzzlers and CEOs of companies LOSING money and laying off blue collars are also taking home 7 figure salaries. Sometimes capitalism is ugly.
Aww, well.... that's been quite a rant and we've hit a lot of different things..
