The year is half over...

That went so fast! Time really does. Especially when you reflect on recent events, like famous people dying...and you remember that stuff happens to ordinary people, every single day. The world is messed up. I hope and pray there's some way of making it better without making it worse. I say that after having read a lot of the Bible recently, which I've actually found kind of discouraging. I believe in God and I'm aware that we need him more and more in this world, but the whole "it's bad and it's going to get worse until it's all over" theory doesn't make me feel hopeful! Confused, rather. Why did He let things get this bad? Why not destroy evil, rather than letting it destroy people, and then destroying those people for being evil? Why create people with free will, only to punish them if they don't choose the Christian life? It goes around in my head, but I don't have the answers. Nor do I know why the Bible claims God is love, yet it seems so full of judgment and violence. Or why people claim to follow Jesus yet commit acts of violence in his name. What's that about? Strict Christians claim the relationship-focused ones are wrong, and vice versa. I'm just stuck between the two. It's hard to have faith without understanding. It's hard to trust God when there are people telling you to go in every different direction to please him. People with every possible theory for the future trying to predict what Jesus himself said we couldn't predict. Creating fear, wanting followers, or powers, or to cause fear, I don't know. But I'm definitely not feeling at peace about it.
Anywaayyy...the point of this was supposed to be just an update to tell you Ruby got desexed yesterday. She's doing ok so far in recovering. I have cramps today so I'm in pain in a similar area for different reasons, and sympathize. Well, I have work in the morning so I better go...

Frustration...

I've been contemplating blog topics a lot over the past couple of months. And while I don't feel it would be right to express my "dirty laundry" or personal business, (or other people's personal business) here, I just want to make a few points. Probably inspired by some of the people in my life, but they apply to the world in general. So here goes...

I am not responsible for another persons happiness. And I really resent people acting as if I am. Don't tell me 'if only' I did this or that you'd be happy. That's bull. You'd find something else to complain about, just as you always have.

Parents- just because your child is now an adult, doesn't mean it's ok for you to forget everything you ever taught your child. For 22 years you have taught me right from wrong, over and over. So now, when you KNOW you have done the wrong thing, apologize. Or better yet, don't do it in the first place. It's what you'd expect of me. So don't be a hypocrite.

Violence is never the answer. I don't care if we had a fight. I don't care how mad I, or anyone else makes you. It's never ok to hit someone.

I don't like therapists. I'm sure there are some good ones out there who genuinely care, and some people who have really benefited from them. But I'm not one of those people. I find they stereotype way too fast based on whatever textbook they have studied. You don't know what I think, or how I feel, so why don't you listen to me rather than making assumptions? Also, it's rather obvious that you are DOING YOUR JOB. I don't resent that. But I resent that people so rarely notice the way they tell the person paying the bills exactly what that person wants to hear, yet when the person with the money is not there, they say something rather different!!! ;)

Religious, or even non-Religious prophesy people. Whether you mean well, or your out to make money, it's hard to tell. But I wish you would just NOT. Nobody knows for sure what's going to happen in the future. And yes, we wonder. We have some beliefs. But pushing your conspiracy theories on others is not constructive, or kind. The same goes for the film industry cashing in on it. I feel sick thinking about it. Making money off people's fears is an awful thing to do. Do you even consider the consequences it might have for some people's lives?

Tiredness. PMSing. Need sleep now. Venting over.

Belle's Birthday!!!

My youngest fur/feather-baby turns 1 year old today!! Happy Birthday!!!

Miss Ruby...

Has been sick :( She and Pete were acting strangely on Thursday afternoon, so I took them to the vet. They thought she had an enlarged liver or spleen, so they sent us to a specialist vet an hour away, who did ultrasounds and hospitalized her over the weekend. It turns out she had a bad case of Gastrointestinal Stasis. (Which she has had before, but it wasn't as bad previously.) We really don't know what caused it though. The X Rays showed nothing, so maybe it's a food intolerance? Anyway it hasn't been a fun long weekend for Pete and I but she's home now and we're hoping and praying for the best.