The Lies Conditions Have Us Believe.

I subscribe to a daily parenting site that e-mails me, you guessed it, daily. I would say half the time I skim them but not today. Todays “thought” I had already been “thinking” about.  Here’s todays daily, The Big Lie.   This article speaks to me not only on a parenting level but on other relationships as well. I have experienced those that would like to control me, my family or for me to control my children or my spouse. I’ve always had a problem with this. I don’t believe I or anyone of us should have to meet certain conditions to be accepted or befriended.

I myself can practice self-control and demonstrate that to those around me but do so because of my own desire to contribute to my community. Now the question is how do children get to that point without being controlled? The only thing that I can compare this to is my own experience with God, who I view as the ultimate parental figure. He in no way forced me to believe in Him or follow but I do so out of faith and love. If God can trust the process of un-conditionality than so can I because of His example.  Therefore, I will do my best to reflect this in my relationships with my family and friends.  I refuse to give in to the lies of conditions.

How to avoid overweight teasing and Obesity

The video links in no way express the views of the blog author but are purely for twisted humor and complete sarcasm!  Don’t take it too seriously.

Fat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule By Swimming With Shirt On

The Onion Movie- Obesity

 

If only this could have been implemented years and years ago.  So many people would have been saved the shame of obesity.

Sniff..sniff..is that pee?

My daily ritual is get up, pee, brush teeth, make breakfast, get online and shower.  After getting the kids fed I meander downstairs to the computer to check e-mail, myspace, facebook, freecycle, craigslist, my yahoo groups and blog.  For like a week, I think, I would do this and everytime I sat down at the desk I would smell urine!  I thought for sure one of the 3 dogs had found its way downstairs, despite the gate that is up 98% of the time and leaked somewhere.  I was ready to pass it off on the puppy we just got and even sniffed around on the ground for pee spots.  I pretty much soaked the floor surrounding the desk and felt great satisfaction until the next day came along.

The phone rings and I answer it.  This is part of the conversation that I had with a complete stranger.  “WHy yes, we have pictures of our house in Hawaii.  Let me e-mail them over to you.  I believe they are saved on a disk..oh here they are.  What is that?  Is that..sniff..sniff..is that PEE?  Oh my gosh!  OK!  WHO peed on the hard drive?  Jesse HELP me clean this off!  I’m so sorry about this.  We have 3 kids and 3 dogs.  I’m not sure how long this has been like this?!  Oh gross!”  Meanwhile the guy on the other end, who admits later in the conversation to having some wine, is apologizing to me for his chuckling and is quite amused at the current finding.  I’m just glad he was kind enough to continue in the conversation or maybe just entertaining himself, either way I was horrified and somehow nothing surprises the husband anymore.

So we got the “puddle-o-pee” cleaned up and washed of the outside of the tower, as well as the disks that were on top of it.  I don’t think any of it got inside becuase it was pretty much sitting on top and ran down the sides, onto the floor.  I really hate carpet for this fact.  Not only is it a trap for dust, dirt, & skin flakes, it also soaks in liquids and captivates the odor indefinitely!  So as hard as I try to keep the only carpet, which is down stairs, clean I am constantly loosing the battle to pee!  In fact the first week we moved into the house we are RENTING  both dogs decided to loose their ability to contain the bladders.  Where do you ask?  DOWNSTAIRS!  OH NO not upstairs on the hard wood or tile but downstairs where there’s nice, soft, fluffy carpet!  Curse you carpet!

Anyways, I can now sit at my relatively pee free zone and blog to my hearts content!