Religion and Human Nature.

I am not one to discuss religion or politics. I have always maintained that a discussion of both topics rarely does anything to sway anyone's view. Mostly it becomes a shouting match with parties leaving disgruntled rather than enlightened.
However, that being said, I think I should chime in on Father Alberto Cutie.

I am not Roman Catholic and I do not claim to understand a bit of their views and traditions. I don't get their views on contraception. Sex should be used for procreation and not pleasure, is that what they are saying? In these times I think that they are turning a blind eye to the fact that there are Catholics having pre-marital sex but without contraceptives, which unfortunately leads to many other sins. I could say a funny about thats why sex within the Catholic church takes place on a homosexual level... but that's not funny, or kind. Especially to the homosexual population. The little that I know about Father Alberto Cutie.. is that he was a Catholic priest who decided to have a girlfriend. He thinks that being a Catholic priest and taking a vow of celibacy is unnatural. So he has excommunicated himself from the Catholic church... gone on to an Episcopalian one and has intentions of marrying his divorcee girlfriend. Good for him.

Yet, in the news everyday he is being hounded by the paparazzi with them plastering pictures of him and his girlfriend frolicking on the beach. Isn't that what normal couples do? There has been worse things happening within the Catholic church and so the mere fact that Father Cutie is in fact caught up with a woman (who is of age and who he plans to marry) should be celebrated.

It's not the first time something like this has happened? Didn't anyone watch The Thorn Birds??

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Summers in Florida

As all my regular shows are coming to a close, I've begun to wonder about my Summer fare of television. I expect Big Brother will be coming up soon. That's always interesting, not necessarily sensible, but interesting. There is another one called Mental, its on the DVR but I haven't gotten that far yet to watch the pilot.

Summer in Florida is always funny. You'd think that because it is Florida that it would be filled with beach going and sun. However summer is always a time of worry for us people in Florida as it is typically our rainy season as well as *shudder* hurricane season. Past seasons have proved that hurricane season can be very unpredictable. The year that they predicted that it would be our most active by far, we rarely saw an activity and yet the years that there wasn't much being said about it... we saw the most damage. So who knows what this year will bring.

My hope is that it will be a safe one. There is current threat of war from North Korea, unemployment on the rise, plus the impending hurricane season. It all leads me to believe that this summer will be one to watch. That I will be doing... watching.

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Food!

Isn't food great? Like even better than sliced bread...because hello... sliced bread is food! Unfortunately I have the belly to prove my love of food. Anyhow this won't be one of those posts. Today I'm celebrating food.

This week my friend mentioned that she had gone to a restaurant for dinner and I had never heard of it. I am always looking for a new spot, so I went on Yelp to look it up. It was Buena Vista Bistro. Good reviews too. While I was reading the reviews I thought about it and decided that since that friend loves food as well and she's particularly eloquent, then maybe she would do a great job on Yelp. I proposed the idea and she did one better... she said that she had been thinking of doing a food blog... so she did!!! Please, please check her out. She's a very good friend of mine and I think she's just fab... but chances are if she wasn't my friend I'd still think she was fab. Check it... DAT EAT GOOD errrr... nuh mind the name... she's really eloquent err usually...but her upbringing was a little ahmm rural (aka: she come from country). LOL!!

Another find today, on twitter no less, was Food Porn Daily Just as it promises by the name... some of the food shown there should be classified as X-rated. Sinful at it's best! Check it out!

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Useless fact about me #502: Descriptions

I suck at them. Seriously!

My short term memory is shot to begin with, so if someone comes in here and leaves... I can't remember what the hell it is that they were wearing. Then if you ask me to describe someone... forget it. It's just like that police sketch of a serial rapist on the news... could be just about anyone!

I can tell you the basics. Tall or short, fat or thin, white or black. But in the middle, it gets hazy. I can't tell you what is considered light skinned or dark skinned unless it's the extreme. And I definitely can't describe a nose unless its bulbous or thin. Thats it.

It's not that I don't know adjectives. I do. I just can't string them along properly to give an accurate description of someone. I can describe objects though.

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Fragrances and Memories

Smells, just like certain songs, can always transport me to somewhere in my past. They trigger memories and feelings. When I smell a certain scent.. I can't even explain what it is, I'm reminded of a time when I sat at home for 13 hours waiting on this guy to come see me. Needless to say, he never came... not that day, or the next day. He eventually did come by, but by then I was well on my way to being over him. Even now, I'm still on my way... I haven't truly gotten there as yet, but I digress.

In allowing myself to wallow in the memories with the smells and songs... I wonder.. is this it for me? I won't say I am totally unhappy, but I am unsatisfied. TOTALLY. With where am I now and what my expectations are for myself and for my family. I can't believe that I am still having certain fights with myself and with my husband. Will this ever end? It feels like torture. So much time has passed and yet we're still here in the very same position. The only consolation is that sadly with the economy the way it is, we are not alone. Yet, there is no comfort in that.

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Oprah/KFC Free Giveaway!

What the hell was KFC thinking? We're in a recession, people are broke and hungry.... then they went on OPRAH, not Jerry or Tyra, to announce that there were coupons for a free meal. Have they seen the Oprah show before? Did they hear that when she puts a book on her Book Club list usually it becomes a bestseller? And that's when people have to buy the damn book. They said they didn't expect such a turnout... as far as I'm concerned while it was a good gesture, someone at KFC needs to be fired for coming up with an idea and not doing enough research before implementing said idea.

Granted they still are going to honor the coupons, but in stages... they should have done this in the first place. Duh!

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