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The Weekend (Yeah, I know boring title)
Dec. 7th, 2003 11:03 pmTomorrow is the last day of classes. God I'm fried, but I still have to write that dammed Harry Potter paper by the 15th... my brain is going to explode, I know it...
I knew there was a reason I always go inot the holidays with a mixture of horror and anticipation. Shopping... my god, someone just shoot me now...
I went shopping with Amanda and Chris Saturday afternoon. Chris almost god sideswiped by some old bitty who didn't even look when she started to change lanes, and I think I have just about everyone at school taken care of. I'll worry about my family later. Anyway... mall, people... shopping.. Ack! Normally I'm not much of a shopper, I need a pair of pants, I go get said pair of pants. It takes me an hour and I'm out of there.
God, people were everywhere, annoying preteens, old biddys, young couples walking obliviously with those damn blue strollers with their misbehaving screaming kids. I don't know about your mothers, but if I had been crying for the last 5 minutes about not getting a certain toy my Mom would have made me pay for it. Tantrums were never tolerated in my house growing up. Arg... Leave kids younger that 5 out of Christmas shopping.. Please. Save our sanity!
On a more serious life changing note...
After a conversation with a good friend (see about 2 entries ago) I realized that I have never read the bible. I consider myself Christian, yet I don't know the difference between Peter or Paul, or the chapters of the bible or even the exact names of all the apostles. I decided that I'm going to give the bible a shot. When I told my parents, my mom gave me a big hug and said that it had made her day. She then admitted that she never had read it either, yet she has probably the most faith of the entire family. My dad being the more skeptical one of religion slapped his copy of Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible in my hand. It's 1295 pages long. Sheesh... this is going to be fun.
I'm going to enjoy forming my own opinions on Christianity and throwing monkey wrenches at one or two of my more conservative friends. Just to see what they do when I throw a different opinion at them then the one they learned in Bible School.
The longer I stay away from home the more I realize I'm like my dad. I'm still trying to decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing... cuz the aforementioned comment is almost exactly what he would have said in my situation.
I knew there was a reason I always go inot the holidays with a mixture of horror and anticipation. Shopping... my god, someone just shoot me now...
I went shopping with Amanda and Chris Saturday afternoon. Chris almost god sideswiped by some old bitty who didn't even look when she started to change lanes, and I think I have just about everyone at school taken care of. I'll worry about my family later. Anyway... mall, people... shopping.. Ack! Normally I'm not much of a shopper, I need a pair of pants, I go get said pair of pants. It takes me an hour and I'm out of there.
God, people were everywhere, annoying preteens, old biddys, young couples walking obliviously with those damn blue strollers with their misbehaving screaming kids. I don't know about your mothers, but if I had been crying for the last 5 minutes about not getting a certain toy my Mom would have made me pay for it. Tantrums were never tolerated in my house growing up. Arg... Leave kids younger that 5 out of Christmas shopping.. Please. Save our sanity!
On a more serious life changing note...
After a conversation with a good friend (see about 2 entries ago) I realized that I have never read the bible. I consider myself Christian, yet I don't know the difference between Peter or Paul, or the chapters of the bible or even the exact names of all the apostles. I decided that I'm going to give the bible a shot. When I told my parents, my mom gave me a big hug and said that it had made her day. She then admitted that she never had read it either, yet she has probably the most faith of the entire family. My dad being the more skeptical one of religion slapped his copy of Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible in my hand. It's 1295 pages long. Sheesh... this is going to be fun.
I'm going to enjoy forming my own opinions on Christianity and throwing monkey wrenches at one or two of my more conservative friends. Just to see what they do when I throw a different opinion at them then the one they learned in Bible School.
The longer I stay away from home the more I realize I'm like my dad. I'm still trying to decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing... cuz the aforementioned comment is almost exactly what he would have said in my situation.
