"Met my old lover in the grocery store
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
Stole behind her in the frozen foods
And I touched her on the sleeve....
etc, etc.....
WHY is this song mixed in with Christmas music? Just because it includes the words "Christmas Eve" ONCE?
This is, in my opinion, the absolute most depressing song EVER foisted upon listeners!
They meet, drive around in her car drinking (HELLO? ), and talk about how miserable they are.
Merry Freakin' Christmas. Wake me in 2012.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dan+fogelberg/same+old+lang+syne_20035792.html
Friday, November 25, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
It's a SUPPLEMENT, Okay?
I started a comment on a blog post, but decided I'd better move it here, to my own soapbox. ;)
The blog post in question complained about going to a food pantry for help, and getting only one box of food, and cooking most of it that night.
I'm sorry, really sorry, for those having financial problems, but service organizations are there to supplement what you already have, not to re-stock your cabinets.
Regarding the one box of food you received at the food pantry. I am stock manager at a food pantry, and it is very difficult sometimes to have enough food to even give out that one box. Our pantry serves over 500 families (540 in October) each month, and we usually get two truckloads of food a month, and that food costs around $1500 each time. When donations from churches and individuals fall off (extremely low sometimes) we can only afford one truck. Imagine, if you will, 6 pallets of food that have to be divided between 540 families. No one is going to get very much. We do the best we can, stretching it as far as it will go. I have seen the volunteers at the pantry bring food from their own houses so we could make it through one more day. I've done it myself.
Climbing down off my soapbox now....
The blog post in question complained about going to a food pantry for help, and getting only one box of food, and cooking most of it that night.
I'm sorry, really sorry, for those having financial problems, but service organizations are there to supplement what you already have, not to re-stock your cabinets.
Regarding the one box of food you received at the food pantry. I am stock manager at a food pantry, and it is very difficult sometimes to have enough food to even give out that one box. Our pantry serves over 500 families (540 in October) each month, and we usually get two truckloads of food a month, and that food costs around $1500 each time. When donations from churches and individuals fall off (extremely low sometimes) we can only afford one truck. Imagine, if you will, 6 pallets of food that have to be divided between 540 families. No one is going to get very much. We do the best we can, stretching it as far as it will go. I have seen the volunteers at the pantry bring food from their own houses so we could make it through one more day. I've done it myself.
Climbing down off my soapbox now....
Friday, November 4, 2011
Spankings
One of my cousins posted on facebook a pro-spanking message....and facebook didn't see fit to put it on my news feed. ;)
I guess it knew I wouldn't "like" that kind of post? ;)
I'm thinking about going to her page and commenting....but that feels just a bit like stalking.
I'll leave a few links here, though, in case someone else might want to re-think hitting their kids...
http://www.stophitting.com/
http://www.parentinginjesusfootsteps.org/
http://www.awareparenting.com/twenty.htm
http://www.neverhitachild.org/noframes.html
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/discipline-behavior/spanking/10-reasons-not-hit-your-child
http://www.physorg.com/news189367630.html
(And, heck yes, that judge that beat his sixteen year old daughter should AT LEAST have the same thing done to him. AND all the parents who told their kids that they'd eaten all the halloween candy while the kids were sleeping should get a good kick in the pants.)
Ah...I love having a little soapbox over here in the corner....
I guess it knew I wouldn't "like" that kind of post? ;)
I'm thinking about going to her page and commenting....but that feels just a bit like stalking.
I'll leave a few links here, though, in case someone else might want to re-think hitting their kids...
http://www.stophitting.com/
http://www.parentinginjesusfootsteps.org/
http://www.awareparenting.com/twenty.htm
http://www.neverhitachild.org/noframes.html
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/discipline-behavior/spanking/10-reasons-not-hit-your-child
http://www.physorg.com/news189367630.html
(And, heck yes, that judge that beat his sixteen year old daughter should AT LEAST have the same thing done to him. AND all the parents who told their kids that they'd eaten all the halloween candy while the kids were sleeping should get a good kick in the pants.)
Ah...I love having a little soapbox over here in the corner....
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