Snuggles

I love Kitty snuggles. I probably would not enjoy snuggles from Kitty in she wasn't so darn fluffy and soft. Husband is gone on travel and Kitty makes for a great companion. She is excited to see me, although still remains at the back door in the hope that Husband will return and play with her, she follows me around the house, and most importantly she crawls on the bed and curls up next to me each night to sleep. She purrs and provides much needed comfort and warmth.

Especially since it has become a tradition that "something" happens to my car while Husband is out of town and sometimes you just need something soft to dry your tears.

Tow

So my car *almost* got towed Tuesday night. Not cool. I was shocked when I saw five guys standing around the parking lot with two tow trucks and two cars getting loaded onto them. Why it required so many guys, I have no idea. Three of them were tow-truck guys and two were HOA rent-a-cops. Still far too many men if you ask me...were they planning on lifting the cars onto the trucks using only their brute strength?

In the end the guys laughed at me and my nonsensical question of "How do I get my car off of there?" (In my defense, they had done *something* to the car and started walking away saying, "You're free to go now." after I handed them $25 cash...which I'm sure is not technically policy...I could continue, but for the sake of boring my few readers I will not elaborate.) And of course when it was over and I was safe and sound in my car I burst into uncontrollable sobbing tears and called Hubby. I cried for a good 20 minutes...it was ridiculous and I just couldn't stop.

One of my gals informed me that all tow truck men are mean. This is how she thinks the interview for being a tow-truck man goes:

"I want to be a tow-guy."
"Well are you a douche-bag?"
"Yes I am!"
"Okay, you're in."

Perhaps my tears would have turned into giggles more quickly if I had known this prior to Tuesday night.

Science

An interesting discussion occurred this week touching on many related topics, but at it's core, the questions boiled down to "what is science?"

Science, according to Webster's, is: knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through the scientific method and concerned with the physical world and its phenomena.

From Wikipedia I confirmed that; essential to the idea of "science" is the formation of hypotheses, theories, and laws.

I believe the confusion begins when natural science and social science are taught in conjunction with one another. Attempts to incorporate social science into natural science is only asking for trouble.

To what degree is the current body of scientific knowledge can be taken as an indicator of what is actually true? Has science become it's own theology?

How difficult it must be to be a scientist with a Christian world-view. Assuming their world-view is not compartmentalized into various areas, but they view the entire world with their Christian world-view...

Church

It's official! The Frontline Internet Church Campus is open. From the website you can now view Frontline LIVE on Sundays at 5:30pm. You can take part in the worship as well as the message along with your fellow Frontliners. How cool is that? What an awesome idea. For all of you that I've been talking about Frontline to, now's your chance to see what I'm talking about! Of course you're still always welcome to come with!

Check out the new Internet Campus by going to this website:
www.frontlinedc.com

I hope you can check it out some Sunday real soon!

TV

So it's about that time. Time that I sit down and consider what is rotting my brain...on the TV that is...Fall 2007 Edition.

So I started out with a HUGE list of new shows I wanted to check out, only a few even made it to "pilot viewing" and less have made the cut. It looks like my choices are pretty solid (except for one, maybe two) so let's see what I have been tuning into...

Dancing with the Stars - my family is into the show, the only show they watch, gives Mom, the grandparents and me something to talk about in the pop-culture realm...this is a first...I shall hang onto this show considering how much I love movies/tv and never get to share that with them...with the exception of my Grandma who has a love for the movies...probably where I get it from...

Heroes - no explanation needed.

Journeyman - I could probably live without, but Husband loves it and I am not opposed, not sure how this can run more than one season though...and from the network chatter it seems this show is doomed (much like our well-loved Justice from last season...so sad...)

Chuck - love it! Needs to continue...'nough said.

Beauty and the Geek - our favorite reality show has taken a downward turn with the addition of a girl geek and boy beauty...so not the same or fair...should totally come up with Hottie and the Nerd or something if they want to reverse the genders. Still a keeper though!

The Office - hilarious...when Michael Scott isn't the center of attention that is...some of these hour-long episodes have been rather painful. Loving the Pam/Jim subplot and Angela and her accounting crew are representing as usual =)

Smallville - totally rocks this season...quite possibly our favorite show on TV right now.

Scrubs - makes it's return for their final season this Thursday...of course I'll be watching...and if I were able, would have already pre-ordered the DVDs on Amazon.com.

Big Shots - another newbie...probably going to get canned (by the networks) but I just love Michael Vartan...I can't just sit by and watch ex-Alias stars get new shows and not watch...it would be wrong...Sark on Heroes, Vaughn on Big Shots...excellent, excellent. Not sure this show is going to last though...too many guys...too many sub-plots.

So there you have it. LOST isn't back until February, so then I'm sure the line-up will become shuffled yet again...it may be time to say good-bye to Journeyman and Big Shots by then...only time will tell...

Yes, I know that I am a dork.

Iggy

So much talk over a little dog. I didn't even have to hear the whole story to figure out the problem though...as soon as I heard, "Ellen got a dog from a rescue agency and gave it to...." I knew it was over. You can't do that.

One of three things the cat rescue agency we got our kitties from said before we were even allowed to apply for them was "if you chose not to keep the cats for any reason you must return them to us so that we can find them a good home," (in addition to they must be spayed/neutered and you cannot get them declawed). We asked for how long that rule applied, they said forever. "So in 5 years if we decide to move and we can't take them...." Hubby and I started to say. "We'll take them back regardless," they said. That was that. We learned how to clip nails and made appointments for sterilization (check and check).

Six weeks later when Tucker was still not recovering properly from the tail fiasco we knew we could not keep him. So we called up the cat rescue agency and arranged to drop him off at their animal clinic with the vet of their choice. We were refunded our adoption fee and that was that.

We followed the rules.

I am not an animal fanatic, but I assume rules are there for a reason, and the people who choose to make their life's work around animals certainly are more capable of setting these rules than I am. This is not a crazy rule, but rather standard for pet rescue agencies as opposed to humane society programs.

Duh.

Sweet

I love sweet things, don't get me wrong, but dumping an extra sugar packet into my tea was not what I anticipated this morning. Ick.

How long is socially acceptable to wait before helping yourself to "meeting snacks" for a meeting to which you were not invited? Breakfast snacks from 8am...by 10am those are fair game right? That's what I thought.