Why don't I blog? Because I'm playing with photos and Facebook. It's sad.
But here I am...
So yesterday I got an American Girl catalog in the mail. Well, it was addressed to 'the family', but regardless, it had our name on it. I am wildly baffled that we should have gotten this catalog, A: becasue we have never had an Amerian Girl in our family, besides me that is. B: Even if we did have a girl child, he/she is now 18 years old. I'm at a loss. Also, I find the $American Girl$ 'thing to be gross. I like dolls as much as the next girl, but $doll$ is something else entirely. That said, I found one entry in the catalog, which is loaded to the gills with little girl'$ fantasies (yes, I'm doing that on purpose with the $). The ponies, the carrages.. the .. everything. Where was I? Oh yeah. This one caught my eye. Envision little blond girl, with her western boots on ane her pinto pony and austrialian cattle dog beside her... carying her.. well, they actually put a name on her.. how's that for politically correct?... Native American Girl doll. Which is fine.. no biggie there. then I read the description and almost died. "I'm Kaya. I do my best to be a friend to the Earth." WOW. $115.00 for a basic doll. Imported I'm guessing. From a not so Earth friendly place. Ug. And now it's in the recycling bin. How's that for Earth Friendly?
On the Earth Friendly note I did buy two more LED lights. I'm replacing the compact firestarter floresents in the house. So far we've had no issues with LED's, and I like them a lot. They are super bright in general. Trying some new 'flat' bulbs that have an arch of LED lights. Seems bright enough. And it doesn't get hot. Thats nice. And they were only about $4.00 each, which is far less than they have been. And if they last 4 years or more.. I'll be okay with that. I dated the bulb. So we will see how it lasts and how it holds up.
I brielfly saw something on the news feed about some soldier killing a transvestite he had taken home from a bar in some Southeastern country. How horrible. I'm sorry, I don't care how 'surprised' you are that the woman you took home is really a guy.. you don't kill someone over it. I don't know the full story, but oh. I guess he shoudl have listened to his mother and not picked up women in a bar.
I had a note regarding 'afghan soldiers' and I think I meant to comment on the guys that defected and tried to get to Canada. They were afaid for thier lives and thought the Taliban would target them. I think they totally missed the point of being solders.
It's late and I'm tired and I really need to get back into the habbit of writing in LJ. I've said that how many times. I've found I'm even lax at just reading entries. 'Oh, I'll read that later.... " and then a butterfly flies by. Yeah..