My ADD life

Forgiveness, a word I have never truly understood. According to the dictionary it means: to give up resentment or to cease to feel resentment against. Resentment is defined as: a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistant ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury. Sounds so simple. The problem is that is runs deeper than that. If I am in a theater and the person behind me kicks my seat and says I’m sorry I didn’t mean to do that I can easily say no problem and think just don’t do it again. If my partner makes me mad about something and says she sorry I just get over being mad (sometimes this may take a little time) I look at the big picture and say no problem. If someone does something that I have asked them not to do again I get mad and will eventually say no problem. So why talk about my problem with forgiveness? Here is where I have a problem, it’s the big things. Lets take two things going on in my life right now. Someone in my life sent an email that should

Been awhile. I got sick and out of the habit of writting now I am addicted to a new game and so I have fallen to the wayside with writing. So whats on my mind. Well lets face it.... not much. My job and Church are stressing me out and so my body and mind have almost shut down. The one thing I have been pondering, since I live in Knoxville, is the trial of the guy who hacked Sarah Palins email . Most know that I am a liberal and that I think Palin is one big joke. I also am thankful McCain chose her as a running mate because if not he may have won. However this thing about this student does not sit right with me. Don't get me wrong I think he should be punished. I don't think he did it to hurt the campaign. I mean really she already looked ditzy enough, this kid did not have to help that. If he had wanted to hurt the campaign he would have gone after McCain. Having said that though he did do wrong and should be punished. So why does this not sit well with me. It's because

I have not written in a few days because of sickness in the family. I have found that in a household if you are use to a certain amont of work from each person and someone is sick or not there your work increases. Now I know this is something that sounds like I should know but still. So the flu has struck our house and I have been busier than normal. So today I will again cover three things. One: the movie Julie & Julia . We watched it yesterday and it was much better than I thought it would be. It was funny (not like rolling in the floor funny more like laugh out loud funny), and intersting. I was very jelous that her blog did so much better than mine, but I was told it was because of content. Second: " The principal of St. John's Lutheran School was fired this weekend for espousing the shocking doctrine that maybe the church is in error and men don't have total authority over women."  I get so tired of this. For years men used the Bible to supress womens rig

What you ask does that mean. Simply "don't ask don't tell". For those of you living under a rock for several years that is the military's answer to gays and lesbian serving in the miltary. When this issue first came up many years ago I had the same responce as I do today.... Why? Can these men and women not defend and die for their country just like a straight person, or a black person, or a jewish person. I really think that the major problem here is that the military is a manily male run organization and lets face it men think that all women and any gay man would be attracted to them. They are so afraid that the man in their unit would make a pass at them that they can't see allowing them in. I did read one article  in Think Progress that stated: "– 60% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe that being gay or lesbian “has no bearing on a service member’s ability to perform their duties.” Only 29% disagree. – 73% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans say i

I am amazed that the South still is as closed minded as it is. I was born in the South and really have no desire to live anywhere else. Having said that this region of the country is constantly embarassing me. Now before I go and upset a bunch of people let me say I know this is the "Bible Belt". So what do I speak of? I'm talking about Constance McMillen  and the cancellation of her prom all because she wanted to bring her girlfriend and wear a tux. Rather than face the issue and try and solve the problem the school system decides to ruin everyone fun. The bad thing is that everyone knows why they cancelled the dance. Now let me just say that being gay and a teenager is hard enough but being gay in a small southern town has got to be hell. I know it was for me. I have to applaude this girl and her would be date for at least standing up and having a voice. I know this will not be easy for her but in many ways she is paving the way for others.

Ok so I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am the Sandra Bullock won the award. Her movie “The Blind Side” was by far the best movie she has ever done. That being said it was high time she won. So I have been spending a bit of time reading about women issues. I mean I am one and you would think that I would have cared about this before now. I guess when I was younger (in my 20’s) and just coming out I did care more. I think though that as I have gotten older I don’t think about it so much. Maybe part of the problem is that I work in an office of almost all men. There is one other woman in my office and we stick together. So I guess what I mean is that when you are around them all day you or at least I tend to forget that I am woman. Not that I think I am turning into a man, God knows I would not want that. I mean guys are ok but….yuck. So anyway back to my reading up on women. I did not grow up in the bra burning age so don’t and have never felt like a feminist. I do believe that