Last Shreds Of Sanity

Ramblings...My daughter keeps gleefully ripping the heads & arms off her Polly Pockets~esque dolls, then showing me how they go back on...well almost always go back on anyway. Does this mean she is going to be a famous doctor or scientist? Or does it mean that she is destined for intense, lengthy psychotherapy (on top of what my Mothering skills will cause) by the time she is a teenager, lest she become a sociopath or serial killer?

She also likes to eat hand & body lotion & Aquaphor Ointment. Go figure...

Ruminations...Three people were killed on Black Friday while shopping. WTF????? Since when did Christmas shopping become a bloodsport? Two men shot & killed each other in a Toys 'R Us in Palm Desert, CA, after their female companions came to bloody fisticuffs over a toy. They had children with them. Again, WTF??? Who brings a gun to a toy store? Was that 79 cent piece of plastic, assembled by a 9 year old in a sweatshop in China, worth your life?? Or traumatizing young children & their families?

At a Wal~Mart in Valley Stream, Long Island, NY, a security guard was trampled to death by insane shoppers as the doors were opened for their "Blitz Line". Are you freakin' kidding me?? What in the Hell was in that store that was worth killing a 34 year old man over? As far as I am concerned, every person who stampeded through that door is a murderer.

It was reported that employees who tried to help the security guard were trampled themselves. It was also reported that, when the announcement was made that Wal~Mart would be closing because of the death, customers began to scream & complain that they had been in line since Thursday morning! I am completely dumbfounded.

Wal~Mart is evil & must be destroyed!!

Please stop this crap, people!! Is this what we have become? The whole human race concerned only with how much we can get our grubby little hands on for the cheapest price & who cares how we come into possession of said material goods? Does anyone wonder why so many other countries & religions hate us so much that they want to kill us? I am truly sickened by this.

Christmas is about the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, not who has the most crap.

Sarcasm...Late Night Television...Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen! 60's Peace, Love & Freedom Icon, Peter Fonda has succumbed to age & commercialism & done an infomercial for Time Life's Flower Power CD Collection. The same man who reveled in his "Easy Rider" rebel status, the "tune in, turn on & drop out" movement (let's not forget lil' sis, Hanoi Jane) & railed against his conservative father, Henry Fonda's beliefs, is hawking Hippie Generation music on cheesy paid advertisements wearing "Grandpa" jeans & a bad black leather jacket (the soft like butta kind). Good Lawd!

Dennis Hopper, Mr. I don't Remember the 60's cos I Wasn't All There/Fight The Power/ Kill The Establishment is doing commercials for Ameriprise Financial Planning (with "Gimme Some Lovin'" playing in the background). Ummm, sounds like a pretty "establishment" job there, Dennis. I guess Flower Power don't pay well enough for retirement, huh?

What are these you ask? Well, in an effort to go green, in all areas of our life, we are going to start taking monthly showers (to save precious water), washing clothes by hand (to save electricity), wearing hemp clothing (more environmentally friendly, but expensive), shunning electricity (yet another environmentally friendly move) & using a compost bowl for our excrement. We are subscribing to the "reduce, reuse, recycle" mantra, so...they are reusable, knitted tampons! I just hope they are hypoallergenic & wont give me Toxic Shock Syndrome. I have a sensitive system...

I'm kidding (maybe)! I found this little gem over at Pulsipher Predilections. Kristina P. has a twisted, wicked sense of humor!