Round we go.

Dizzy. Again. It's Ralphie May night, too. :( And dinner with a bunch of Hayeses that I love. And I'm dizzy and I'd rather stay at home. :( BOO. And all the neighbor kids are here. It's such a catch 22. My kids deserve to play with kids, even on the weekends, and for the LOVE OF GOD, I deserve to have some peace and quiet and not feed and listen to everyone else's kids 7 days a week. How nice for everyone else to get a break from their own children that they don't see that often. I have to pay someone and LEAVE MY HOUSE to get a break. UGH. Probably doesn't help that I'm not feeling well. Oh well. My enter button isn't working. Stupid effing computer. I learned something new last night- which is always a good thing. I learned that I am not political because I don't FIT in any one category. I cannot be boxed. I'm so liberal in some ways it's a miracle that my mom and my inlaws don't fall over at the sight of me (except that I don't share my views). I did not know that I was a little bit "republican". They were all discussing healthcare last night- and I do think universal healthcare is a good thing. I also realized it's where you are and what you see that forms some of these ideas. My parents own their own business and paying for healthcare has cost them an ENORMOUS amount of RIDICULOUS money, and that's stupid and disgusting. > I also think that when you come from the mindset that we are all one, and in the end, we're all human, helping one another is the clear and obvious thing to do. I mean come ON. Who was the first asshole to walk by someone in obvious need of help and turn his head and say "too bad for you" ? Don't we teach our kids to share with one another? We teach things we don't (in general) practice. I do agree that welfare is in need of reform, immediately. Not only because there are people abusing it, because WE ARE AT FAULT FOR THAT. We have enabled people and taken away their freedom. We've made it so staying on welfare makes more sense than working and supporting themselves. Our fault. Same as making someone dependent on you. OUR fault. Reform it. BUT- here is where the republican side that I didn't know I had came out. People need to work. There is work. Get the fuck over yourselves and get a job. There. I said it. This is coming from someone who did not go to college because I don't, in general, see how it's helpful. Except that we're all stupid enough to have decided that a piece of paper is more important than actual experience. People pigeonhole themselves into one type of "thing" they are "qualified" to do. If a job isn't in their "field", they won't look, won't take it. Some people might have a nice nest egg to live off of (or a family that will help support them, or refi a house to get money or whatever) that affords them that. That's fine. But I completely disagree that some people just "can't" get a job. Furthermore, people seem to have forgotten that there is an option out there: work for yourself. Stop begging other people to take you on, and use the skills you have to make some money. But this is all very easy for me to say: I don't require much, and many, many people require MORE in order to live. They buy expensive food, expensive toys, and therefore they require a certain job in a certain area, even if it's something they don't particularly LIKE. They are willing to go to a job they don't love, see people more often than their family that they don't love, do something they aren't overly passionate about, for the paycheck so they can eat their food, have their toys, etc. That's the path they want, and it's fine. However, having watched my husband, and even myself, hop from one way of making money to another without a blip on the screen makes me think that certain people are being job snobs. There is work. There are jobs. If you are so desperate to support your family, pick one. Be a job snob if you want, but you can't do it while saying "There's no work" because there is. Who knew I was slightly on the other side on that one? Not me. Why doesn't my enter button work. So annoying. What am i going to eat? CJ is on his way to Spencer's house. Spencers mom is Matt, kidney Matt's sister. Such a small world. Okay, off to google fast remedies for dizziness.