Police

So, say the police had pulled someone over onto the shoulder of the road (no, not me). At this point, the road has three lanes and a shoulder, just ahead of the pulled over vehicle and the cop car a right turning lane begins. Say you have to turn right up ahead, and typically you use the aforementioned right turning lane. Just before you enter the new lane, CopCar pulls out in front of you and creeps along and then stops (not anywhere near the traffic light or the turn mind you, just stops). Now you are stuck behind CopCar and cannot turn right. There's a break in traffic, so you decide to get back into the regular lane, go around CopCar and make your turn. Maybe there is something in the road he is shielding you from, or maybe something is wrong with the shoulder so he can't pull off the road properly, whatever the case may be, you decide to be nice and move around him (as opposed to honk your horn like you would if this were a "real person" and not a cop...somehow honking at a cop seems...wrong.) Well, wouldn't you know that as soon as you move over, CopCar starts creeping along in the turning lane. He's going just fast enough that you would draw much unnecessarily attention to yourself to gun it and whip around him...and even though you are technically "early" for work, you are not "early" enough to spend some time talking to CopCarCop while his lights flash behind you drilling into your very soul. So you try your best, use your turn signal, and nothing. What the crap was CopCarCop looking at? Why was he crawling to his next destination? Distracted by a donut? Coffee go cold?

I missed my turn and had to use the Toll Road to get to work (which requires paying fifty cents and encountering some insane sun glare). You have no idea how sad that makes me, especially since I was craving McDonald's coffee which could only have be purchased if I had made that freaking right turn! As previously mentioned in this blog, the "coffee" at work is disgusting...so tea will have to do today.

Cold

Strawberry rhubarb pie is the only pie I eat (by choice) cold. It's just better that way. For me, warm and tart aren't two words that should go together.

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie = The Way Into Rach's Heart

Purpose

Okay, so this was some food for thought today from my daily devotional courtesy of Rick Warren and the Purpose Driven Life crew:

"… After David had served his generation according to the will of God, he died…." Acts 13:36 (NLT)

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Imagine having that statement inscribed on your tombstone: "She served God's purpose in her own generation!"

Wow. Now that's some perspective for you, huh? Every once in a while when I get bogged down by "life" it's good to remember I was brought here, in with this particular generation (no matter how frustrating it may seem at times) for a purpose. I was neither too soon, nor too late. I was brought to this Earth at the absolute perfect time in history.

How am I doing at living out my purpose?

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

~Jeremiah 29:11

BO

"He was never my spiritual adviser, he was never my spiritual mentor — he was my pastor."
- Barack Obama, April 29, 2008

Seriously B.O.? This is how you will be "disowning" Rev. Wright? Really? Would you like to go ahead and claim Snopes.com as your source, or perhaps quote some revolutionary advice from a fortune cookie or two? If a pastor isn't a spiritual advisor, then what might he be? (Yes, that's right I said he, don't worry it was on purpose, we can talk about it later kids.)

Does someone write the dribble for you, or do you come up with it all on your own?

...there I go...about to vomit again...

Two

Today Kitty turned two years old. Quite an accomplishment in the home of the Bings I must say! We are pleased that we have successfully kept Kitty alive and well for the majority of her two years. That's way better than any of the plants we've attempted to keep alive (which we thought was a logical first step in preparing ourselves for children...apparently plants are harder than we anticipated...right or wrong, we quickly moved up to kitties.) We decided to give plants another go today, figuring Kitty has gone quite well, maybe it's time to "move up" in the journey to prepare for kids. Two planters had been purchased, along with our Christmas tree, back in October. Patiently they sat in the garage until springtime. After much deliberation, and reading of little plant ID tags, we settled on marigolds and geraniums.

We now have 3 3/4 cubic feet of potting soil in our garage. We don't estimate things very well. Anyone need any dirt?

Appauling

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351608,00.html

Art?! You call this art?! I agree with Wanda Franz, President of the National Right to Life Committee. This is serial MURDER, not art. And at Yale of all places? How ridiculous has our high education system become...?

This girl had better NOT be a recipient of Federal assistance to pay for her college education. My tax dollars are pissed off enough to be providing funding to frivolous majors which guarantee nothing in the form of actual employment upon graduation, or funding "undeclared" major students trying to "find themselves" while wasting thousands of dollars. They will not be paying for serial murder as well.

College is not for everyone. It should not be for everyone.

Our children will not be going to college until they can tell us what occupation they wish to seek out upon graduation. Should they choose to abandon that pursuit, they will leave school, get a job, and pay us (or someone else) rent until they determine whether or not a college education is necessary for their desired future occupation.

Ugh. I think I'm going to vomit.

Pope

"In a world where some treat life as something to be debased and discarded, we need your message that all human life is sacred and that each of us is willed, each of us is loved, and each of us is necessary." President Bush in remarks to Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday, April 16, 2008.

I may not be Catholic and I may not agree with the majority of Catholic doctrine, but I do agree that all human life is sacred.