Reading…\
This review may be a little weird. I read it solely while either getting heat or ice at physical therapy. I loved it. It’s ridiculous, in the way the best Monty Python skits are ridiculous. It’s smart, well-written and extremely sly. The jokes are constant, and really really funny. If you think the following things and people are funny: Dave Eggers, Good Omens, McSweeney’s or, The Onion, you’ll love this book. Now I have to find something else to read while getting cooked, frozen and electrocuted. I’ve been reading The Meaning Of Everything, which is really good (almost done… can’t wait to see how it turns out! do they finish the dictionary??!!), but dense. It takes concentration to read, which I don’t really have when being tortured… any suggestions?
When Brian is told “no”, he throws his hands in the air, looks up toward heaven, slowly flops backwards, rolls halfway on one side, and then half on the other side. And then he is done. It is really funny. Except for the times when there is something behind him that he falls on. I guess that happened one too many times, and now usually he falls forward. But his hands are busy being thrown into the air, so they can’t brace his forward fall, so he lands face first into the carpet. Heh, kids are funny.
Wow, no one wanted to talk about heaven? Huh. I find that odd given the time of the year it is. I understand that religion is a sticky subject, since it is so personal and everyone thinks they are right. But come on, man, Heaven rocks!\
BW’s special also included a snippet from a scientist who located a “mutated” gene in some people and these people are more likely to believe in a higher power. Because I am already a believer, this just confirms my belief rather than make me question it. Perhaps God has given some people the extra gift of believing easily through this unusual gene.\
BW also talked about near death experiences. Some scientists claim these experiences are simply hallucinations caused by a dying brain. Having never had one, I can’t say. However, I am confused that some people would be greeted and welcomed into Heaven but then “returned” back to their bodies. Wouldn’t God know that these people weren’t really going to die? So what’s with the big unneeded “welcome”?\
Just in case it wasn’t clear before, I don’t know everything. 🙂 But it is fun to speculate about.\
Now then, on to the more pressing topic: who stabbed Felix?
I love my husband; he is wonderful. Everyone should have a spouse as thoughtful and loving.\
But you can’t have mine, go find your own.
I have a really bad, tickly itch in my throat and lungs that won’t go away. (I had a cold last week.) Any suggestions for how to get rid if it?
After months, and years, of playing nursemaid, I finally go to play secretary today. Kevin needed something work-related printed out, so I did it for him. And I got a slap on the ass as thanks.
Seen on a t-shirt: Abstinence is for virgins.\
Hee. That is so true! I want that shirt. I would never wear it outside of the house and I don’t wear t-shrts anyway, so it would be a huge waste of money. But heeeee.
I brought Kevin some breakfast, but he is stuck “in a meeting.” Would be wrong of me to steal the breakfast?