bunnies...what's the point?

my sister's son wanted to breed rabbits, so that's what they've been doing. one of their rabbits seemed so lonely after they sold her bunnies and my sister was saying she thought that reproducing was rabbits' purpose in life. i kind of forgot about that conversation as i was driving home one night a few weeks later and i spotted a few bunnies running down the sidewalk and into people's yards. i started to ponder the reason for rabbits and really couldn't come up with anything other than they're cute and you just can't help but be happy when you see or hold them. then my previous conversation came back to me and i discussed it further with my sister. We both agree now that the point of rabbits is to bring joy to us in life. i guess we have enough creatures that do the opposite...mosquitoes, etc...that we needed something soft, furry and cute to balance it out.

smoking and peeing...just gross

	just a thought for ya'll that i heard on tv yesterday... "having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool". if you have a problem with this and if you don't like the smoke drifting over to your table when you're out to eat, then think about this the next time you're swimming. thank you...this was a public service announcement.

i thought i had it hard...

just when i thought two kids was sort of a handful, i get an email with this article in it. now i view two kids differently. although...i guess there's a reason the lord didn't give me five in one shot...or five at all. this just makes me grateful that i have the time to spend individually with my kids and not have to divide between so many babies at once. http://www.ldsmag.com/exstories/080326miracle.html

i've decided the whole world has a.d.d. (attention deficit for those who weren't paying attention). i mean, why else would they actually have to post a 3 foot tall sign in the drive thru of mcdonald's asking you not to talk on your cell phone while ordering. or why they have to put a cinema room in gold's gym for you to watch a movie while you work out. seriously, every car now has a built in dvd...some in the dash for the driver. so for those who feel guilty for taking your child's ritalin for yourself every once in a while...i think you've got a legitimate excuse. I can't even lay on the table at the gyno without my ipod blaring. i don't know how our schools can expect our children to get through a day quietly with only a 15 minute recess when they've been raised by a generation of technology dependant parents. maybe we wouldn't be so distracted if apple and sony would come up with things that would enhance learning instead of slacking.

the air that passes through us

i'd thought i'd just share a thought that's popped into my mind now and then. i've found it rather unpleasant that the air that passes through someone else's body is then emitted, either through a burp or the other way, into my personal space. why can't we just have invisible shields to put up around us like they do on star trek? the smell is one thing, but the thought of then breathing that air into my lungs makes me want to send my stomach contents back their way. i don't know why sharing this makes me feel better other than to make people consider others before releasing gas into the air around them. " good manners: the noise you don't make when you're eating soup. " - bennett cerf

i do release my share of air, but i try not to do it in public...especially when sitting in a concert or church or somewhere that those around me will have to breathe it in. butt...to my family...i will truly try to start doing better. shayla's called me on it when i tell her not to belch and then i open my mouth to talk and what comes out but the air built up from my coke?! after all, the definition in the devil's dictionary for politeness is "the most acceptable hypocrisy".

thanks for letting me air my thoughts where you can breathe them without actually inhaling them.

...the next chapter

i called my friends that raise rats, snakes, mice and dogs and asked them what i should do with these suffering little babies. they said they have this stuff that you put in a container with them and it puts them to sleep and they die (they work in a rat lab). so i was going to go get some from them when they called back and said they'd feed them to their hungry snake. so i took them...in a girl scout thin mints box... to feed to their snake. and the snake lived happily ever after.

so it turns out, i'm not just a rat killer...i'm a mother rat killer. a baby was out looking for its mom tonight. it was so new, it's eyes weren't even open yet. i asked my husband to take it to the curb. then, after taking my daughter out to see it, i told him he could put it in front of the exhaust fumes for a few minutes to kill it. he asked if we could put it in a cage and feed it a bottle. i explained to him we're trying to get rid of the rats, not save them. so they decided to take it to the field and try to give it a chance. but by the time they got outside to take it, it had already died. so now is the quest to find the rest of the nest before they stink up the garage with their little bodies. anyone want to come clean out my garage? i'll even let you keep the little rodents.

later...i just went out and found the nest of two more babies, crying. i accidentally crushed the back legs of one and so he was dragging himself around and the other was barely alive. next to them was the skeleton of their mother, i assume. they must have been living off of her body. i don't think i'm going to sleep very well tonight. i better take extra sleeping pills tonight. i can't wait to tell you about my dreams tomorrow.