It’s January and it’s nearly 60 degrees. What is up with this? Owen wanted to go outside so we have been out front for the past half hour. He crawled all over the driveway and I pulled a few dead weeds out of the flower beds. We both got pretty dirty.
Had a chance to talk to my neighbor a bit too. The family next door is very nice and I look forward to getting to know them better. They are a fairly young couple with four boys. The oldest is 6 or 7 and the youngest is 16 months. It will be nice to have a little boy close to Owen’s age for him to play with as he gets older.
I should go to Wal-Mart yet today but I dread going. I just don’t like leaving the house. I’m not a hermit, I just don’t like all the work it takes to do simple things. There’s a system out there that sees me as a statistic and a target for marketing their junk, they treat me as such and rarely do I feel that I’m being efficient or practical when I’m out in “the system”. Being practical is important to me. It’s one of my favorite things about myself. It makes me feel that logic still has some control in my emotionally charged soul. Wal-Mart and many other stores, they aren’t alone, say poo-poo to my logic and force me to step onto their conveyor belt of “buy it now” logic which has the potential to put my emotions in a frenzy. Thankfully…I still have my little weapon of self-control. I pull it from it’s holster several times during these excursions. “I don’t need that” it says. “Strangling this person with the shoe-strings I’m about to buy, is not a reasonable response to being slow.” “God loves dumb people too.” “No…you can’t spank someone else’s child for taking items out of your cart.” “Long lines are an exercise in patience and the back of the parking lot is an opportunity to burn calories.” “Telling the young girl who offers you another credit card to receive 10% off of your purchase today to shut-up, will not make her go away.” These and other handy nuggets of wisdom are available to me at a moment’s notice because God knows I need them, and if I haven’t mentioned it before…God likes me.
Well, I just heard the mail man go so I’m going to go back outside and pick up what he dropped off. I think I’ll go knock on the neighbor’s door too and see if she wants to go to the zoo sometime. As long as it’s nice, we may as well be out enjoying it.
this was very funny! You really should write a book. You could do it in blog format!
I really like your paragraph about exercizing self-control in those types of environments. Wal-Mart and Target and stores like that are the reason why I prefer the smaller shops as well as buying online. Those things are less of an invasion. Why does it feel like the second I step inside Wal-Mart, I feel like I need to go take a shower?
P.S. I set up a website and it has a blog on it if you’re interested. It’s at http://www.varjesekund.com
I don’t remember if I mentioned that before but anyway there it is. Have a great day!