Sex and the Mother in Law

So my MIL was nice enough to buy me "Mental Floss" magazine and my first issue arrived at her house last week. They said they had a lot of problems with the magazine going to the purchaser instead of to the recipient. Well, anyway most issues are rather interesting and tame. No sex or violence. But THIS issue of course has HUGE sperm on the front with a title "The Future of Sex." It isn't really about sex sex- but the chromosomes and the technology behind future reproduction for those who can't conceive. But I think it embarrassed her more than me. Good magazine if you ever want something worth reading other than the trash that is out there on the newsstands.

Don't Believe Everything You Think

My new book is Thomas Kida's "Don't Believe Everything You Think." It was a suggested book by Amazon to compliment "Unspun". You would think that us "modern" folk would be above all this superstition and hocus pocus. However, Kida lists quite a number of commonly held beliefs that usher no physical proof: psychokinesis, UFO abductions, astrology, etc. I'm just on the first chapter so I won't get too far into it.

Well I hope Maddox lives to his 2nd birthday at least. His somewhat dirty socks caused him to slip on the floor and smack the back of his head on the hardwood. He pulled a toy onto his face, and he smooshed his face twice into wood chips. I hate wood chips! My beautiful baby boy's face scarred due to wood chips. :-( It is so sad.

My last day in 3 baby adventure babysitting service is over. A 4 mo. old, 1 year old and 2 year old get along quite well as long as the 1 year old isn't mine bent on killing the baby who is taking up your mommy's attention.

Missouri is now partly a "federal disaster" because of the flooding and we can now receive aid from the federal government to supplement our state and local. oh JOY! My hard earned tax dollars (well now my husband's) are going towards idiots that are dumb enough to build roads and buildings in a flood plain. You know WHY state farm and other companies don't offer flood insurance but the Federal government does? Because it isn't profitable. And you wonder why we're in so much national debt. Well other than the whole New Deal and all... LOL

Update on "World without End"

Finally finished "World without End" by Ken Follett which is 1016 pages - Even longer than the first!! Since it is requested at the library often I had only 2 weeks to finish and skipped quite a few paragraphs that didn't have to do with plot. Very good book! And he reduced a lot of the sex scenes... I wonder if that is because of complaints from the first book or maybe Ken is just happier now in that aspect of his life. LOL

"unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation" by Brooks Jackson. Possibly one of the BEST non-fiction reads I have. I may have to buy it since this book is also heavily requested at the library. But anyway, the premise is that companies and politicians lie to us all the time and the book explains how they do it. Makes your blood boil by how much they lie to you.

"The Perfect Stranger" is a recent Christian movie I watched and had to stop it in the middle. I just couldn't finish. The characters were one-dimensional, the dialogue mainly gradeschool Christianity, the setting was this Italian restaurant that makes you think more about the food than anything else. Oh I just couldn't take it anymore. Do not watch this movie. What a waste of time. This is why people don't watch Christian movies - they make these cheap ones that are awful so you don't even see or recognize the good ones.

Current Movies and Books

Just finished watching "Beowulf" the new movie which is an almost complete waste of time. The graphics and fantastic, however, they are clearly anti-Christian and make that plain without even knowing the original story. The movie is not true to the text more than half of the time. They show a burning cross, attribute "Christ God" to the death of "heroes" and upholding the martyrs, and state that Jesus Christ shouldn't be added to the pantheon because basically only you control your life/ destiny anyway.

Read "My Lobotomy" by Howard Tully. A sad, true story of a 12 year old boy that received this transorbital lobotomy because his stepmother thought he was too hyper. An interesting memoir.

Started reading "World without End" by Ken Follett - the sequel to "Pillars of the Earth". Very good so far with interesting characters.

Visited the Melting Pot yesterday. Very good food. Though it does make me wonder why it is MORE expensive when you even have to cook it yourself. The Bananas Foster Fondue was super yummy.

On a sad note, Patricia Thomson passed away on Monday and I was informed on Tuesday. She was 19 years old and the daughter of Bill and Cecilia.

You Need a Binky

This is my new slogan. Nobody steal it because I'm going to put it on T-shirts and make millions :-) But seriously - it needs to be on a t-shirt because it is well... much funnier than those other shirts.

The Easter Egg hunt fliers are distributed. Without a watch, I hadn't realized I had walked to every house on Flintshire Lane in 70 minutes. Yes - walking 70 minutes HURTS. I didn't realize until later I was completely drained of all energy. Next year maybe I'll just make some posters!

My laptop is now fixed. After falling down a flight of stairs the screen didn't open too well so we had to buy a new top. Mind you I couldn't find another GREEN one. Now I have a red one. The green is so pretty though - I will miss it.

And remember, you probably need a binky. :-)