Living Under the Radar

Does it make me selfish that I like to live under the radar?  To live and let live?  I try to find the goodness in people and if I don't see it,  I just move on.  I don't try to make them feel bad about it or of who they are. I dont' try to change them... I just simply... move on.
I don't like to be bothered or inconvenienced  by other people. But isn't that a norm?  I have my own issues and my own problems.  They might not seem as big as yours, but they are bigger to me because they are my issues and my problems and it seems to me that if I am busy taking care of your issues and problems then who will take care of mine? 
Sometimes you have to be selfish because some people will try to suck you dry.  They need to sap all the strength you have to offer and even then, it still won't be enough.  Life is too short for me to have to worry about if other people are making the right decisions.  I have to make sure every decision I make is the right one for me.  So does that make me selfish that I like to live under the radar?

Karma is Not Fickle

So the unpopular verdic of NOT GUILTY was found today in the Casey Anthony case.  While listening I really thought it would be GUILTY... and was shocked that it wasn't on at least one felony account.  I think it is sad that if she did commit these crimes or have knowledge of it that she was not convicted.  I know our court system isn't perfect, but we put into place a system with a judge and a jury of our peers so that we can give everyone a fair trail.  Yet when the outcome isn't what we as a society thinks it should be we start in on opinons and on cursing the jurors or calling them stupid.  Some people are even hoping her life is horrible!  Who are these people?  It is frustrating to me really becauses no one knows for sure what happened. 

Pushing this case aside.. whatever happened to once you served your time you got to start over?  So many people can't find jobs after prison and are practically forced back into a life a crime just to survive.  And then there are the ones like Casey where once you are found not guilty, you are still considered guilty and treated as an outcast.  We would like to think our society is civilized, but it takes me back to the witch hunt days where one person declared another a witch and the entire town would rally around to burn them with little else but a mock trial.  People are cruel and unforgiving.  A court room is for Justice not revenge. 

Karma is not fickle...

Either he is really thirsty or it is a poorly thought out suicide attempt! lol

No Cussing and No Sex

Matthew is turning over a new leaf!  He no longers cusses or allows those around him to cuss and he told me today while taking him to White Water that he "needed to get a purity ring A.S.A.P before he had sex!!!"  I thought I would wreck from laughing so hard.

Matthew's Home

So glad to have Matthew, A.K.A Chandler, back home from Falls Creek.  He was extremely tired and ready to, and I quote, "Take a shower in his OWN shower!  Sleep in his OWN bed! And eat Chick f'la!"  He left on Monday with two suit cases of clean clothes and $100.00 in his wallet. I get lots of text from him throughout the week, but on Wednesday, he is ready for me to come get him.  On Thursday, he never wants to come home.  On Friday he has no clean clothes left and on Saturday he is Starving to death and has $1.00 to his name. What did he spend $100.00 on his dad asked.  "Icies!"  Matthew said.

When we go to pick him up, he drags to the truck after saying goodbye to like 800 friends.  We take him to Chick f'la and order him not just one #1, but two...  #1's... which is $15 worth of chicken and make sure he got "lots of ranch and lots of BBQ sauce."  We come into the house and he swears our house has a new house smell and everything looked different.  (nothing was different).  He even thought we had planted some new trees!!!  Sitting there, at the table he begins to dig into his meal(s)  at this point he is making some serious smacking noises!  His dad asked him to bring all his dirty clothes to the laundry room so, Matthew, a.k.a. Chandler, stuffs another piece, or three, of chicken in his mouth while he goes to get his suitcases.  Bringing them to the laundry room he dumps BOTH suitcases in the floor and walks away.  Dennis looks at the mound of clothes and spies his two pair of still folded swim trunks and asks... "Did you swim?"  Matthew who has gone back to the table to finish scarfing down his food mumbles something inaudible that sounded like. "No."  When Dennis went to pick out the swim trunks, Matthew corrected himself. "Well, wait... I fell in the lake, so I sorta went swimming... but I had on my regular clothes." and he went back to eating his food.  After he finished off both #1 meals, he climbed onto his bed and fell asleep face down for 4 hours.  So blessed to still have a kid in the house!