Friday Night:
My company holiday party, what a fun night! It's good to spend time with your coworkers out of the office and cut it loose a little, 109 in all with family was our turn out. That's pretty massive for our little office, but when you consider all the kids ands partners, it grows quickly. The snow came in about 7ish though and that got some of us moving sooner rather than later. Max and I were home by 9, happy and content with the nights festivities.
Saturday:
It snowed. All day. And was cold, bitterly cold actually. Max and I are broke folk so we weren't able to make to H's bday party, which is a drag, but I think my friends understand. So, we mostly just watched movies, napped and pushed Kasha outside to use the potty occasionally. Snow does not a happy Kasha make, though she's getting better. Gaia, on the other hand, seems eager to be outside until she takes those first tentative steps through the wetness to determine it's depth and finds that she's in over her head. Silly kitty. We watched Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End, which I highly recommend of course. I *heart* Johnny Depp, I love that he's a little effeminate and completely off his rocker in his character as Captain Jack Sparrow. It just makes me desire him all the more:) It doesn't matter that he's 13 years my senior, not at all!
Sunday:
Something about below freezing temps and steadily falling snow makes sleep an incredibly comfortable place to be. Waking up doesn't seem necessary when your all snuggled up. Max and I fell asleep together on the couch down stairs Saturday night in a mountain of blankets, pillows and sleeping bags. Kind of a sleep over with Kasha and Gaia wrapped up in the middle of all of it somewhere. Kasha was in a state of total bliss, she kept making her noises and stretching and peeking out at us from under the covers. Max was feeling quite cuddly that night, he's a strange one sometimes. Leave me alone, love me. Go away, I hate you...come hug me, I love you. ???? Oh well, I love him no matter how strange he is:) And he I, so it works out. We slept until roughly 10 am and awoke to yet more snow and a really cold morning.
Made breakfast, have convinced Max that turkey sausage is a fine compromise between pork sausage (blech) and my veggie sausage (which he refuses to even consider eating) and we spent most of the morning munching, reading the paper (poor paper boy!) and throwing Kasha out in the snow against her wishes. We are mean parents!
Turned on the tube to watch Jericho per M's suggestion (Not convinced on that one yet M, it's a little too tv drama for my taste though the Skeet Ulrich I can handle!) and had it on CNN only to discover the church shootings, less than 3 miles from where I live. As I am trying to find out more info on this, movie time is postponed and the shootings in Co Springs occur as I'm searching the net for more information on the Arvada shootings from the previous night. Sigh. I don't really know what to say except that it is very sad, but I am not totally surprised any more. I really don't understand people in this world sometimes, I don't understand how someone can take the life of another so casually. That's someone's child! It is horrifying, but I know it happens every day, across the planet. Yet, you could flip through every cable news channel last night and this story was pretty much the main one of the day. Is it any less shocking to us when a mosque is bombed in Iraq and 19 people are murdered? Or another 50 thousand people are forced into refugee camps in Sudan (Darfur) and of those 50 thousand, at least half are not expected to survive due to starvation and if they do survive what will they look forward to? Or a plane crashes somewhere and all on board die? Sometimes I think I've become increasingly callous through these past years and that weighs on me. After 911 and now a war in which the human cost at the hands of American's is more than I can stomach to consider to deeply. The number of shootings in schools (in my own backyard, more than once) and the men who murder their pregnant wives or the children who suffer at the hands of their own parents. It's all too much some days and I suppose any perceived callousness may be a direct result of the horrific things we do to each other in the name of religion and politics and selfishness and sickness, simply my body's way of allowing me to function every day without becoming overly consumed with things I cannot control. It's no wonder this country has become so apathetic, it's the easiest way to get through the day and goodness knows we like the easy way out.
I'm sure more detail will come out as time passes in these coming days and weeks about the Sunday events in CO. I'm just glad more people weren't hurt. It really could've been a lot worse I'm thinking.
This morning I'm dragging arse a little, I've been kind of fighting a cold or something. Sinuses. Just the way things are for me lately. I did decide to do a little detoxing these next few weeks. Did you know that you need to eat the right kinds of food to feel good and stay healthy? Huh, there's a thought! Food isn't just about tasting good and comfort, oh no! It has all kinds of important functions otherwise. Fascinating. AND, if you are a lazy sloth all weekend it will make your energy level sloth like. Hrm. Interesting.....
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