One of those Sundays...

I love my Marine♥ But, I'm beginning to find it annoying that he fights for your right to bitch and complain all day long and be rude about. No one ever says, "Wow, I'm lucky to NOT live in a 3rd world country, where people are starving every day and disease is taking over". No one ever is thankful that they don't live in Europe where gas has always been more than $4.00! When people complain about our economic situation or politics they don't agree with, they will deliberately not talk about how our military is being affected, and that the military doesn't matter as much as teachers or doctors. This is the reason I'm on this rant.(Saw something on Facebook) I don't understand how you can think a country's military is not important. And then people who say the troops don't do as much as some doctors/teachers/etc. WHATTTTT? How can you say that? I know many teachers that didn't teach me ANYTHING in school and weren't in the classroom half the time. Yet my area has good test scores. I studied on MY OWN and I comprehended the subjects, not them. I see the doctor and I'm not sure why they are paid as much as they are to tell me things I can figure out on my own. And then to suggest a treatment that doesn't work, they just said "let's try this". Explain to me how someone can say something they do more than our troops. Ughhh I don't know. I just needed to rant. 


Be thankful for your lives. Most of the world does not live the way we do and we're taking it for granted. Someone always has it worse than you do.

[*4 More Days*]

Pat leaves in four days... Its bittersweet. He's at MEPS right now, weighing in. I lost a day because of this, but as long as he leaves on Monday- I'm okay with it. [I guess]
Ahh... I'm a little stressed right now. Let's talk about something else.

The link I posted the other day came up in a convo I was having a with my sister. After reading the books that were on that list I was thinking things over. A really large percentage of those books, we read through out school.
Books we read in middle school(banned in libraries/schools):
Diary of a Young Girl, Scarlet Letter, Catcher in the Rye, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

Books we read in high school (banned in libraries/schools):
Grapes of Wrath, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies

And not to mention the books we performed in school plays or that are performed in public playhouses:
Oliver Twist, Les Misérables

How does that make sense? If my child(if I ever have one) likes to read, by all means- they will be able to read what ever they choose at the apprpriate age. I just don't understand how BOOKS can be banned for multiple/different reasons... when the movies and tv shows on TV RIGHT NOW, show children more than what a book can write about. ??

In other book news: I received in the mail my books I ordered from Amazon!! Yay!
I got Erich von Daniken's, Chariots of the Gods. The Words of Gandhi. And Henry Rollins' Black Coffee Blues. I'm excited, to say the least! :)