It's been over a month since I posted. That would require time to actually write. I have a short reprieve right now so I thought I would put down some thoughts. Rambling is fun.
1. I think I might be crazy!
Let me explain how. I work a full-time job. I am taking 9 hours this semester. I decided at the beginning of football season that I could also handle working the home OU Sooners games. After all, there are only 6. Someone should have slapped me and said remember that in November everything for every class is all going to be due at once, including group projects, which means getting said groups together! However, things have been working out in that respect. Group Project #1 is tonight so that is almost over. Group Project #2 is the Wednesday after Thanksgiving AFTER the final OU game. The group still needs to put everything together but we did get the draft turned in so at least we'll have some feedback to go off of. And then all that is left is finals. And, as I might have mentioned in my last several posts, only six more hours stand between my degree and me! Yes!
2. Obamacare
One of my group projects is over the Affordable Care Act. Didn't President Obama say that this wouldn't be a tax on the American people? Well, the Supreme Court said otherwise. Someone sure didn't think that one through considering that if you don't obtain insurance coverage by 2014 that you are penalized on your income taxes. Can anyone explain how that wasn't a tax? Yeah, that's what I thought. (My point to this don't tell me something isn't a tax when it clearly is...I don't care which side of the aisle you are on!)
3. 30 Days of Thankful
I am one of THOSE people doing the 30 days of thankful on Facebook. This is the first year I had decided to do it and to be honest I am glad I did. There's something about putting what you are thankful for out there for all to see to help you realize how truly blessed you really are! A person can go around telling people that they know they are blessed all they want, but until you list those blessings (on paper or Facebook or wherever) it can still seem surreal. So, with that said, I am thankful for being blessed!
4. Pinterest
Sigh. I have boards and boards of recipes I want to try, crafts I want to make and tons of things I would like to do to my house (the current one or a future one.) Whose dumb invention was Pinterest again? LOL. I hope to someday try a minimum of 25% of the things I have pinned. The good news is I have made some of the recipes so I have done .01%. It's a start...
5. Christmas ads
Christmas ads should be outlawed until the week of Thanksgiving. I realize we "have" to see their Black Friday commercials but they shouldn't begin showing them before Halloween (way to go Target!) It's bad enough that we've turned Christmas - the birth of our Lord and Savior - into a materialistic game of one-upmanship, but now we can't even take the time to be thankful for our blessings before being bombarded with buy everyone everything! With that said, I do enjoy giving gifts. I do enjoy seeing the faces of the little ones light up as they open something fun and cool. Most of all, I enjoy being with family.
