More Me 'n' Sid

Hawaii

Me and Sid and the only way to travel in Hawaii! In the back of a pickup!

Today's deep thought: After WWII, Japan was forbidden from having a standing army. Is this restriction still necessary?
I bought a trunk, the trunk I've been looking for forever. I'll take a pic and post it.
My new favorite lotion: Boots Body Cream Patchouli and Lavender.

Complaint and another Deep Thought

This particular section of the blog is going to be spent complaining, as I need to gripe about something and this was available. Subject: my mom. She's driving me crazy. She is constantly stressing about the numerous things she has to do, but fails to notice that she's hassled because she has no sense of organization. For example, today she tells me that her home teachers are coming at four, so at 3:55 she suddenly decides that the clothes in the washer need to be taken to Sierra's to be dried (since our dryer isn't working). I look at the clock as she's about to walk out the door and it said 3:59. I tell her the clothes can wait a little while since her HT's are coming over and she replies that it can't wait, it has to be done now. At 3:59. This reminds me of a time when we were younger and she went on a cleaning kick and told us we were going to scrub the house. Instead of starting on the big things, like dishes, clutter, sweeping, the normal things, she starts by shampooing our brushes. Kendra and I told her that was something that could wait until the end, but no, it had to be done immediately. So she spends all this time on trivial little things and then gets all ticked off because she suddenly has no time for the big, important things. Try telling her this and she'll insist that it isn't because of how she's doing things, it's because she has soooo much to do because no one else will do it and on and on and on. Heaven help me if I don't get enough loan money for school because then I'd have to stay here and I think I'd have to choke something. To make everything worse, I have no car, so I can't escape!!!!!
Whew, now that I've gotten all of that off of my chest, may I say that I enjoyed the book entitled The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers. I want to read the other books he's written. They're illustrated and are I guess what you would call faery tales, but there were a lot of big words, so I don't know if it would be a children's book. Whatever. It was good.
Here's my deep thoughts for today. I was thinking about all the comments made by non-religious people about how science has proved that Creationism and the whole idea of religion is false and I thought, how do they KNOW? Six hundred years ago they KNEW the earth was flat because the science of the day proved that it was. Two hundred years ago, scientists KNEW that the size of a persons head denoted intelligence because all of the scientific experiments and instruments proved that this was true. Today science says that dinosaurs lived on the earth upteen million years ago and that cavemen lacked the mental capacity to speak or even walk upright and that they were descended from apes. Science has proved this to be true. But who knows, perhaps a handful of years down the road science proves that all of the things we now hold to be true is complete crap? Sure, scientists need to take what they now think to be true and run with it, but don't act as if you have discovered the end-all-be-all and anything to the contrary is merely wishful thinking. Going back to religion, who says religion and science are mutually exclusive? I've heard it said that the laws of nature prove that there is no all-powerful God, but who wrote those laws? Who says that God doesn't obey those laws? The Big Bang Theory is interesting and convincing, but who says that God didn't create the world in this way? The bible merely says that he created the earth, but it doesn't say how. Another big issues is of course, the timeline, but again, who says that when the bible (which is full of figurative and symboic language) says "seven days" that is was speaking figuratively? And who says that just because the materials that make up the earth are millions of years old, that the earth is too. Maybe the earth as it is really is only a few thousand years old, but was built of things much older. Prove me wrong. And even if you do, maybe we'll wait a few years and I'll be proved right. Or, of course, we'll all simply wait for the Second Coming and have our questions answered by the very people who built the earth and the God who made it all possible. But to think about: how much of what we KNOW to be true will be disproved tomorrow?

Just returned from two and a half weeks in Hawaii. Spent all of my time beach hopping and reading a million books. It was wonderful! The girls came over for a few days which was wonderful! It probably didn't mean as much to them since they're all within a few minutes of each other, but I loved it. After they left it was a few more days of sitting on the beach. One the second to last day I (drumroll please) snorkeled! Water scares me but we went to Lydgate and I was determined to do it at least once. Sidnee swam along with me just in case and once I was somewhat okay with sticking my head in the water, we swam out further. I started to get water in my mask and getting a little freaked out so I turned and started to swim for what I thought was shore. I saw a big rock I recognized and kept kicking and a little bit later I saw the rock again and was thinking what the H. apparently I was swimming in a big circle. Sidnee said she tried to swim around to my head but I kept turning and splashing her. I was dead certain I was swimming in a straight line. Whatever. Then on Tuesday we headed for the airport and after a bit of hassle got on the plane to Honolulu. Then we walked to another gate and sat there waiting to board when they got on the intercom and said they had to repair the plane and we had to wait until 11:00 pm (it was 9) to find out if it was going to be fixed in time to fly out. At 11 they tell us that the plane isn't fixed and we have to wait another half hour to find out when we can fly out and then they are going to send buses to take us to a hotel. So we are told we have to fly out the next day at 11 am and we get on buses and go to the Sheraton Princes Kaiulani hotel. The supervisor told us to call United in a couple of hours to find out what do do about our connecting flight but when we call they have no idea what we're talking about. So we get to sleep after 2am and wake up at six to have breakfast before we get on the bus again. Anyways, we do get to fly out of Honolulu and we're lucky enough to have an empty seat near us so we can sleep. When we get to San Francisco, we have to wait in line forever to verify our connecting flights and get a voucher for yet another hotel room. We got to the hotel around 10pm and have to get up at 3am to catch the bus at four. Fortunately our flight to Phoenix was uneventful (and spent sleeping) as was the flight to Boise. So originally we should have had two flights taking maybe twelve hours: Honolulu to San Fran to Boise, but when all was said and done, it took us two days and and extra flight. When we got home Thursday night and I tried to fall asleep, all I saw were airports when I closed my eyes. I love flying, but that was almost enough to make me hate it.

Okay, here's a question I've seen addressed in a book and a Law and Order episode recently. In America, it is legal to donate your organs to someone who needs them, but it is illegal to sell those same organs to someone who needs them. One reason for this is to make sure that the poor get as much of a shot at a healthy life as the rich, which I agree with. However, you are allowed to sell plasma, hair, and other such things, but not a heart, kidney, etc. The interesting question is, it's your body, should you be able to sell parts of your body? Should the government have say over what you can and cannot do to your body?