If you want to find me....

Then come to Sopron, Hungary. Then Vienna, Venice, Munich, Prague, Krakow, London, and Chicago (where I live). See ya'll in a month.

Yay! Southwest!

And another thing...

I'm just in blogging mode today. I guess it's because I actually have a little bit of free time on my hands. This means I have more time to actually think about life and not just drudge from one activity to another, like I must do when school is in session.

Every father should take their 14+ year old daughter to see The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. I wish that I could make all the absent fathers in the lives of the teenage girls that I counsel watch that movie with their daughters. If for one second, those fathers could get a glimpse of the pain their daughters carry. I have seen heaving sobs and questions of "What must be wrong with me?" and "Why doesn't he want me?"

What is wrong with this world?

How to teach our children not to think...

You know, when I was in high school always knew that my principal was a on a bit of a power trip. Unfortunately, back then I worked for the machine. (I was the valedictorian, varsity softball captain, etc. Yeah, I was that annoying kid.) I wish that I had dyed my hair blue, like I always wanted to. But, I expressed myself by dating guys who questioned the rules instead. But, I digress. Go check out the dress code at my former high school. It's ridiculous. I don't think that I have any clothes that would match these guidelines. Well, not that I wear very often. My husband doesn't either.

It makes me want to get a job there and then sue them for firing me when I dye my hair blue. It goes to show that in most high schools, we're teaching our kids not to think. I'm all for safety, but what does having an eyebrow piercing have to do with safety? Who cares if a kid's hair is pink and in a mohawk. Let's all look alike so that we call all unquestioningly do what G.W. asks. Because the principal does, I'm sure.

Random Fun Making at the World

 

If I were to make one of those obnoxious ribbons, this would be it. Funny thing is, a lot of people would want one for all the WRONG reasons.

Also, go watch this video, which was originally shown March 1998 on Saturday Night Live. It was pulled from the reruns. I wonder why.