LOL!!!

my hubbyman is so totally awesomely wonderful...he's right up there next to Jesus in my book (i said "next to", don't get the undies in a bunch!)

i'm still feeling a tad tired out from "feminine" issues  and my sweetest hubbyman told me to FORGET about cleaning today and he will actually scrub outthe evil shower over the weekend...doesn't your heart just melt! he's da bestest!

so, in other news, i am on Chapter Three of "Crunchy Cons"...this isn't my usualy "light read" that i enjoy, this is the first book in a while that i have had to "digest slowly". Rod Dreher has alot of interesting and important stuff to say and it desrves my full attention. I hate to just "parrot" what others have said, and i admit fully to doing it more than i should, and i find that he is saying alot of what i feel WAY down inside.

two exerpts that have struck me so far are these:

"Our liberty and prosperity have made us feeble, because the things we've forgotten to conserve in the rush to riches were the real virtues necessary to build a stable society. Does anybody really believe we can grow our way out of our problems? Is another tax cut, gimmiky educational scheme, or entitlement reform- or whatever glorious program the Republican Party promises will call down the New Jeruselam- going to save marriages, restore children to their parents, heal the land, renew the commonwealth? Come on."

and:

"We cannot carry on indefinately under an economic system that pillages our resources, divides our communities, waekens our families, and compromises our character. Either we figure out a way to live our economic lives according to traditional values or we advance the cause of chaos and our own demise."

(Crunchy Cons, chapter 2, pgs 51 and 53)

why is it that we can't be conservative and buy organic foods and be concerned about the environment at the same time? The "Crunchy Cons" have taken the best of hippie life, meshed it with their conservative views (mainly religious views) and people think they are crazy! On BOTH sides? Since when is it not "Christian" to be concerned about the dolphins? Or recycle? (i admit to being lax in both areas personally, but that doesn't mean i think it's a BAD or WRONG thing biblically speaking)

anyhow, i'm liking this book immensely...and it may be the first book in a looooooong time that takes me more than 3 days to finish!

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