So it's Thursday, what a wonderful day. The best thing about Thursday is that it means that tomorrow is Friday and we all know how great Fridays are, right?
So Hubby comes home from work yesterday all painful and cry baby-ish. He didn't drive yesterday. Yesterday he had to go work in the yard, what he had to do was clear out about 8 years of compressed paper products from the back of a trailer. The paper was cardboard and similar crap that had been soaked with oil and water and who the hell knows what else was in it.
Hubby had to shovel all of it of the back of that trailer, he also had to weigh it. I do not know why. He could not explain the need for this to me. But he weighed it all and kept a tally for his boss and it turns out that he shoveled almost 5 tonnes of paper out of that truck. Now 5 tons of paper seems like a lot of paper to me. But Hubby tells me it isn't. He says what made up all the weight was the moisture from all that oil and water and crap.
So Hubby limps through the door, moaning and groaning from the moment he came in to the moment he went to bed. He didnt' stop once.
He asked me to rub Icy Hot on his shoulders, back and the backs of his thighs because his muscles were so sore. I did.
But me being the evil witch that I am I decided that his butt cheeks needed a little Icy Hot as well.
Ha ha. C'mon, it was funny to watch the boy squirm as it heated up.
Am I evil?
All kids are at school. No one is home sick. This makes me happy. Very happy. Nobody is coming home for lunch either. Yay.
I have errands to run today and I'm not looking forward to it. It's not that these errands are stuff that I don't want to do, it's just that I don't want to be bothered with them right now.
Today I just want to sit back and take it easy.
Ok who am I kidding, today I want to change all the sheets and blankets on the kids beds and give them a good wash. I want to scrub some floors in the kids rooms and get them all set for switching rooms this weekend.
I know that Hubby has told me that he doesn't think his muscles will be up to moving furniture this weekend. But this is something that really needs to get done. If it doesn't happen this weekend I'm hoping that it will happen soon (the next weekend after).
I made the Goulash last night, and wow it was a bit spicy. The stuff gave me heartburn. But it was good. It wasn't hungarian style goulash, it had paprika in it but it had a lot of tomatos and chili powder as well (surprise that I got heartburn... not not really!)
The kids loved it and have asked when I think I can make it again?
I'll make it again, yes. But first I have a few more recipes to try out on them first.
I'm so sick of hearing about this damn election. Everytime I turn around there is some other nasty ad on the television, it seems that the campaigning has become all about discrediting your adversary and arguing about the sensationalized bits of fluff that the media loves to grab onto and beat like a dead horse. I'd like to hear some more information about the important issues, stop telling me how the other parties are going to butcher social services, health care and education. Stop trying to panic all of us with news about gun violence. Lets hear about some of the social programs that you are hoping to help, lets hear about how you are planning to help our kids in their schools? Lets hear about how you are going to ensure that Canadians are always able to get in to see good quality doctors without having to worry about the cost of seeing those doctors.
It seems like such a waste all of it. I couldn't care less right now about anything they are saying. Yes I know that there is a large amount of gun violence in Toronto right now. But that problem isn't something that you can fix over night. It's part of a much larger issue. It isn't going to be fixed by making a couple of changes in gun control, minimum sentancing or any number of other issues that people are saying to change.
No, this situation needs to be treated on the whole. You can't cut it up into parts and hope that by changing one or two bits that it will end the violence.
There are so many reasons why this violence is happening and all of those reasons need to be addressed.
Yes, changes to the Young offenders act would be a good thing. Growing up I knew more than my fair share of underage offenders and they laughed at the system. They need to be made more accountable for their actions and certain crimes should be tried as adults.
More social programs would be a good thing, yes. Lets get these kids into programs that will increase their self confidence, maybe even get them some mentoring.
I've heard some people say make the parents accountable for the child's actions, which in some situtations might be a good thing. But some of these kids come from single parent families, some come from families that have two parents but those parents have to work so hard to make ends meet that they kids don't ever get to see them. Ok these families can't afford good daycare, they can't afford to stay home with their kids. How can they be expected to know what their kids are up to on a regular basis.
Perhaps raising the minimum wage to a level where it's equal to or better than the cost of living might be a better thing. It would make life easier for low income families that's for sure.
Gun control, yes it's a good idea. Ban handguns completely. Put in mandatory sentances for anyone caught with a handgun, minimum 25 years. That would get the gun carrying thugs from the streets so that they wouldn't be around to corrupt the younger kids coming up.
We also have to teach these communities that they have to be responsible for what goes on in their neighbourhoods as well. How is it that shootings can happen right in the middle of a large crowd and yet nobody actually sees a thing? If they want to end the violence they need to step up and turn these thugs in.
Like I said there are so many things that really need to be put into place to stop this cycle of violence, we need to stop the smuggling of illegal weapons from the states, we need to increase the economic status of these communities, we need to show these kids that they are capable of so much more than just carrying a gun and living a life of crime. They need to learn that it takes two to make a baby but it takes even more to raise a child. It takes loving parents and a community that will band together and fight to keep that child walking the line, teaching him that he/she has a future that doesn't have to be filled with violence, drugs and crime.
And they also need to be taught that the only person responsible for their lives is them. Stop looking to blame everyone else out there.
Society also has to realize that it's not going to help everyone. There have always been gangs in some form or another, there are just some people who are not going to walk away from that life. You can't help everyone, but that shouldn't stop you from trying.
9:55 p.m. - January 12, 2006
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