Politics Blog

I'm going to try and plug for my politics blog again, since I am having renewed vision for it, and one that may be pertinent to all people, and not just people voting for the particular senators, as interesting or disinteresting that may be. Anyway, I would love any feedback, and really just want to know what everyone thinks. And feel free to share it with your friends!

As a side note, I seem to have my greatest moments of genius and aha relating to writing when I am lying in bed trying to go to sleep. Generally I can accept that I will remember it in the morning, and go to bed, but sometimes things just make me so excited that I have to do them right now! Or I have weird pain in my hip and it distracts me from actually falling asleep, and tonight it was the two factors combined. I should probably say this on my politics blog, and I will, but I want to put some time between the posts, but I would welcome more ideas for further topics of discussion.

I Love Yoga

Yoga is sooo nice. I've been so stressed lately, but like...I spend an hour doing restorative yoga, and I feel like a baby right after feeding, in that "milk coma" as Ben (my brother-in-law) says. I just feel so rested, so restored, so in myself. It doesn't matter what is happening outside of my body, that is all I can control, and I have the power to relax the tension. And I just did, doing restorative yoga. The teacher calls a lot of the poses yummy. They didn't feel yummy at the time, but now I feel soo great. I just want to float through the rest of the evening, and then enjoy the further restoration that comes through sleep.

In memory of Jonathan Berry

I had a dream last night about an old friend who went missing just over two years ago. I had a dream that he was alive, and had married some girl in the Ukraine and had been hiding there, just for kicks and giggles apparently. Anyway, as soon as I saw him, I ran up to him, and pretty much attacked him with a hug, because I was soo happy to see him alive. And I just told him that I loved him. I woke up, and for the first time mourned his loss, because I hadn't been able to before. I miss my friend. I also wish I would have made more effort to see him when he came back from his mission, because I cared about him then, but was worried that he would distance himself from me, since he no longer had a testimony. I await the day when I will get to be reunited with him once again, and I can hug him, and I can tell him how much I love him.

Married to my best friend

I just read something on facebook, about how someone was marrying his best friend, and it made me start thinking, and so you can learn about an idiosyncrasy of mine. Lots of people say something like this, or aspire to something like this, and I think it is a good thing, but I have never said it. And there is a reason. It is because to me, the husband shouldn't get to steal both labels. Like...my best friend before I knew Janardan was Stefanie. Why should he get to steal her title when he already gets the title husband? So, it doesn't seem fair to me, so I've never said it, because to me, a best friend is someone else besides my husband. He is obviously the closest to me, and he is my closest friend, but he doesn't get to be my best friend, because that role was taken long before he ever came around. Of course he doesn't care, but, he should see it as a badge of loyalty. Just as I won't give up my best friend for some newer male model, I won't give up my husband for anything else. He's mine and mine forever. I love him, and he is wonderful, but he doesn't get to be called my best friend.

The Tasty Surprise

A few nights ago, I was making Janardan some food, and he asked along with the other things to bring him a tasty surprise. That first night I was kind of thrown by it. I hunted through the fridge looking for something different, and something tasty. I saw celery, and thought that he hadn't had any frogs on logs lately, so I made him those. He thought it was a good tasty surprise. Anyway, so then last night, I was anticipating the request of a tasty surprise, and I really like it. So I have started trying to make tasty surprises and it is fun to try and create something new that Janardan will think is a tasty surprise. And I have added a few new things to what I get for him, so that is fun, and I look forward to seeing what genius is spurred by further tasty surprises.