Month: October 2010

Sometimes I think I am too judgmental and others I believe I am just judgmental enough. Case in point, I firmly refuse to buy a seven year old child shoes with Velcro because they don’t know how to tie their shoes. I’m sorry, a seven year old? This child should have learned that skill at 4, 5 at the latest. So I bought tie shoes and taught said child how to tie their shoes. I judge the shoe manufacturers for making it too easy to ignore that age old ritual of teaching children to tie their shoes. Why would they manufacture the shoes for children that old with Velcro? I understand that this particular thing is a god send for adults with arthritis who can no longer tie their shoes due to an infirmity, however, children? Really?
I looked in the shoe store and saw all kinds of shoes with Velcro for older children and I am appalled. Unless these shoes are being bought for children with disabilities who cannot tie their shoes, I say to the parents everywhere of able bodied children, stop buying lazy shoes.
Is a generation of lazy children being raised? That is the real question, children who do nothing but sit and play video games, who cannot even tie their shoes? Have we really become a society of people who cannot even do something as simple as tie our own shoes?
Here is my proposal, we start a campaign, just say NO, say no to Velcro for able bodied people, say no to Velcro for children who are old enough to tie their shoes, say no to the manufacturers and eventually they will get the hint.
I will be deciding who to picket later and also will think about informational pamphlets and buttons, but until then please feel free to congregate amongst yourselves and form your own protest groups, unless we speak out about this travesty nothing will be done about it.

There is one thing on this earth that I despise more than anything else. I despise when a human being looks at another and all they see is the color of that person’s skin. It is called racism, although I believe we need to come up with another word as racism is compiled of the word race. There are people on this earth who believe there are different races of human beings; I believe there is one race, the human race. There are different ethniticities, different religions, different hair color, skin color and eye color, but only one race.
When all of us stop looking at the color of a person’s skin and making that the determination with which to judge said person then we will be free of hatred. And I do mean all of us, it is not just white people who look at others like that and judge based on that criteria. You read about it in the papers, for example the judge who would not accept the plea bargain of a “white boy”; it was based on his skin color. I see it at work, people are judged for their skin color. When will this stop? I am telling you we have to raise the future generations better. They must be better than the past, until we can see past the superficial differences of our beings how can we accomplish anything as a whole?
I want to remind everyone that according to the Bible we all come from Adam and Eve, ALL of us, not some of us, ALL of us. Most religions teach that we come from a single point of origin, and if that is the case, I say knock it off. I for one do not want to read anymore about it, I don’t want to deal with it in the work place; I don’t want to see it on television. I want everything to be like Star Trek, where we have conquered this issue along with poverty and hunger.

Where are the Judging Amy DVD’s? That seems to be the question of the day, I really didn’t realize that show was not out on DVD until I began following Amy Brenneman on Twitter. I love her; she is just an amazing actress. I loved Judging Amy; it was a show, that when it went off of the air I actually cried, it was the perfect cast of actors for the perfect cast of characters. I actually started watching Private Practice because of Amy Brenneman, and how great is the casting on that show? Has anyone noticed how many former Judging Amy actors have shown up on that show? Total greatness. If they brought the DVD’s out of the Judging Amy show I would so totally put that on my Christmas wish list.
If I pass out a petition I expect all of my friends to sign it.
I know I have been lax in updating everyone lately on the ordinariness that is my life, but I have been completely immersed in United Way happenings. I have added a fourth building in my fund raising efforts and am impossibly swamped, but I love it. It is such a worthy charity. I love that all of the money raised will stay in the community, we are helping our neighbors, family, friends, you just never know who will need an agency funded by United Way.
I am off to get dressed now for a breakfast sale! Wish us luck!

Yesterday I took a walk with Tessa and Chewie, a statement not remarkable in itself. I left my cell phone at home, and off we went on our adventure. It felt good to not be distracted by a beep, a ding or vibration, to not be distracted by facebook, twitter, text messages, email or an old fashioned phone call. It was just a Gigi, a girl and a dog, out enjoying the amazing fall like weather. I am going to do that more often; it was as if pressure had been relieved, pressure of my own making. Let’s not forget that, when we talk about how we are easily distracted in today’s society by so many electronic gadgets and so many social Medias it is of our own making. How easy was it to just leave the Iphone at home, not carry a miniature computer around with me while I enjoyed the afternoon with Tessa and the Wookie. I suggest everyone try it, especially if you have children or grandchildren, just leave it at home.
Do we really have to be so connected 24 hours a day? Shouldn’t we just shed the modern trappings once in a while? I admit it is hard for me, I have fully admitted an addiction to social Medias such as facebook and twitter, and it is so easy to lose myself in a round of words with friends, not to mention the multitude of other games I play on my Iphone. I am one of the worst offenders of never being without it. However yesterday I made the decision to just go on a simple walk, to not be distracted, and it was amazing. I feel as if I have rediscovered a sense of innocence, of the ability to pay total attention to the world around me. The physical world, not the virtual one.
Another up note, OU Sooners beat UT, go OU! I don’t watch football but I follow OU, love them. Congratulations to the Sooners.
It is going to be another gorgeous day here in North Texas, I hope everyone enjoys it!