A 360 Roll Over
The following is one of the few remaining from the 360 blog that I'm moving over. It's quite comical. I can't believe that it's been almost a year since it's happened. When I made the post, it didn't even have a title. Enjoy:
Entry for December 27, 2007
I hate that I had an extremely long post composed about a week ago and I haven't come back to re-do it. It was one of those that the internet just seemed to have eaten when I pushed the post button. It was about the entire ridiculous happenings with city hall and the placing of religious icons there. I'm still just as annoyed by the whole thing now as I was a week ago, but I'm just flat out sick of it and sick of talking about it. I am sick of the shallowness that is human life.
Would you believe that someone actually placed their hand on my head at a christmas party and said "May the Lord bless you and keep you." She then hugged me and said "I was talking to your mother (as in mother-in-law) and I know you need it." There is no reason a grown woman should do this to another grown woman. It was like I should have been the rebelling teenager.
In hindsight of the situation there are numerous things that I wish I had been able to find my tongue to say, but I was completely taken aback. She did the same thing to my sister-in-law and my SIL replied with "I appreciate the sentiment." But even that was not right. She should not have had to "appreciate" that someone was trying to "save" her.
I'm going to start saying my goodbyes with "May your way always be guided by our Lord and our Lady," and see what people have to say about me dropping my shit on them the way they do when they think they are doing me such a huge favor. But dammit, I can't. I am so against radical religious acts by anyone, even myself.
I think I'm just so upset by this because it's never happened before, not so outlandishly. But I will be much better prepared next time. Derek said that I should just let it go and they can be happy thinking they did the world a favor and such but I can't be completely silent in this and so I will take this lesson from Brenna.
"No, thank you."
Entry for December 27, 2007
I hate that I had an extremely long post composed about a week ago and I haven't come back to re-do it. It was one of those that the internet just seemed to have eaten when I pushed the post button. It was about the entire ridiculous happenings with city hall and the placing of religious icons there. I'm still just as annoyed by the whole thing now as I was a week ago, but I'm just flat out sick of it and sick of talking about it. I am sick of the shallowness that is human life.
Would you believe that someone actually placed their hand on my head at a christmas party and said "May the Lord bless you and keep you." She then hugged me and said "I was talking to your mother (as in mother-in-law) and I know you need it." There is no reason a grown woman should do this to another grown woman. It was like I should have been the rebelling teenager.
In hindsight of the situation there are numerous things that I wish I had been able to find my tongue to say, but I was completely taken aback. She did the same thing to my sister-in-law and my SIL replied with "I appreciate the sentiment." But even that was not right. She should not have had to "appreciate" that someone was trying to "save" her.
I'm going to start saying my goodbyes with "May your way always be guided by our Lord and our Lady," and see what people have to say about me dropping my shit on them the way they do when they think they are doing me such a huge favor. But dammit, I can't. I am so against radical religious acts by anyone, even myself.
I think I'm just so upset by this because it's never happened before, not so outlandishly. But I will be much better prepared next time. Derek said that I should just let it go and they can be happy thinking they did the world a favor and such but I can't be completely silent in this and so I will take this lesson from Brenna.
"No, thank you."