Election? What Election?

When I was a kid I was convinced that the day I became an adult I would get a bill from the government telling me how much my share of the deficit would be and when it needed to be paid. I wondered if they would want it all at once or would they do a payment plan.

I never got a bill. What I got was wasted time with needless worry about a bill that never came.  

I think of that deficit billthatnevercame every time this one particular commercial comes on the air. In this commercial, an everyday mom, looking at her iPad of a sound bite (that changes from day to day and not always a sound bite but sometimes news footage of the president with someone else talking) and wondering out loud (to the camera) how her children will pay for the deficit.

I feel like an everyday mom and I don't worry about that at all.

I worry about my kid's having health insurance and being able to go to college with out a scholarship of some sort to cover the cost of skyrocketing higher education. I worry that my daughter will not have the same rights that I have and I worry my children or their friends will not be able to marry who ever they want to marry.

I am not at all concerned about the deficit.

My thoughts about the election are pretty simple and it is more of a question. What is all this gosh darn bickering about?

Really, the president, any president, is only as good as the congress that backs him and his ideals. If they don't work together, all hope is lost.

Don't get me wrong, I am certainly supporting one over the other but mainly because his ideals match my own.

Will I be voting?  Of course!  It is my right.

Will I be making tasty treats for the PTA to sell at the polling station?  Of course, that is just a brilliant idea and I made chex mix last year to sell at the bake sale and it went over so well they ran out.  )This year I made Snicker-doodle (gluten free) chex mix.)

Will I be happy when this whole thing is over?  You better believe it.  I am so tired of all the name calling, chest beating and wasted paper to last me a life time, or until the next presidential election which ever comes first.

I am participating in NaBloPoMo and this is today's prompt.

Distractions - #AtoZChallenge

Distractions, they are all around. They come by way of good looking men who beg me to gawk at them, TV ads for Joan Rivers’ hair powder or sometimes (just occasionally, though) by way of the world wide web in to many ways to count.

Sometimes I feel like all of the distractions are shouts saying – slow down! But they are to distracting so I look, click and gawk instead of stop, think, be still.

I am sometimes so overwhelmed by the distractions that I can’t catch my breath.

I just want quiet.

I guess I don't really need to be quiet because then I might start thinking. And, who needs to think when everyone else is doing it? Others, who are more important and have more letters behind their names and in their titles are doing a bang up job saying what is right and wrong. I can be distracted because I don’t have to think for myself.

With so much information coming at us, at all times, from all corners of the world, what are we going to be like in the next few years? Will we all be divorced, basket cases with cancer? Because that is just three of the fifty news articles I read today.

Here is a thought for when you are not distracted or need to be - If the world ended today would any one notice? I think not because we were way too distracted to notice that is was happening.

Distractions can be good. My husband, for instance, was my distraction. My escape from dating because we were such good friends and there was no pressure. My blog is a distraction but can easily take over my life if I succumb to the pressure to have better stat and more followers. My kids are wonderful distractions and they have such promise in their little faces that they are by far my most favorite distraction of all of the others.

However, there are many more needless (or not) distractions that we encounter at any given moment that it boggle the mind. The reality is that there are just way to many other distractions that fill up the days. I have to wonder - am I leading a meaningful life or one of empty distractions?

Are you distracted easily and if so how do you handle it?


What are some of your positive (or not so) positive distractions?

Death by Dinner

I burned dinner Friday.  The husband thinks I am trying to kill him.  I can only assume he means through starvation because I have been doing this a lot lately... burning things not trying to kill him.  In fact, it was not until he said, "You buy it.  I will make it." did I realize that was why he has been cooking so many meals the last several months.  So I burned a few meals and maybe forgot to cook but it beats cleaning up when I do cook. HA!  The kids eat.  And Jamba Mama wants to do nothing BUT nurse.  It is exhausting.  Half the time I don't think she is even "eating" just sucking and her scream... sweet Jesus!  I give in... I give in so much so that I am pretty sure I am practicing attachment parenting without meaning it. *sigh*

Today.. vote.  Can't escape the message.  It is everywhere and with good reason.  I had planned on using my company's policy in regards to voting but did not request it soon enough and I may have screwed myself.  I now have to decided between getting the kid to gymnastics or voting.  Tough choice...  Husband is working.  Not sure how I will swing this if there is a long wait.  *sigh*

The last two weeks have been pretty much like this... mini fails.  Lost Misplaced the family debit card on Friday but only realized at 4:00 PM on Halloween when I went to buy candy.  Lost Misplaced keys and had to walk to the church for my PSR class and while there my iPod died and had no way to tell time till the end bell rang.  Bought a sippy cup for the baby to only find out that they are not like Avent's and you can't use the nipple on it too to help baby learn to hold a cup (top it off I paid the same amount for one that avent has for two).  blerg.  Did I mention that I got a flat driving home to let the husband take my car because he had a flat?  *sigh* 

I have had some mini wins, too...  Bebe has her (first) two bottom teeth, I got to walk Corey to school on Monday; chatting about life and the Friday before I hung out in his classroom for their fall party.  I think he was pretty proud of me that I baked for his class and that is always a big win when your kid is proud of you.  I also made a stellar roasted vegetable soup and a killer pulled pork (with the help of the Husband's amazing BBQ sauce.. yay for team work!).  In the whole scope of things, I have more mini wins then fails but why do the fails always seem so much bigger when it is the wins that we will/should remember. *sigh*

Here is to all the big wins, the mini wins and all the stuff in between.