After all the drama of the previous months, I think I forgot what it was like to have a normal day where I don�t have anything hanging over my head. I don�t know how to feel.
It�s been beautiful out the past few days. I think winter has had its last hurrah and we�re officially into spring. My flowers are turning really green, especially my two rosebushes. The white one from my dad is going crazy; there are green leaves everywhere. The red rose bush is going a bit slower, but last week I put in two giant rose plant food stakes and I think it�s going to take off too once we�ve had about a week of warm weather.
I�m not going to go nuts this year planting flowers. I think I�ll just enjoy the fruits of my labors from last year.
The only thing I hate about spring is my allergies. They flare up big time and many days of the spring I have red eyes. Oh, and the return of the dreaded giant wood bees. Wood bees don�t seem to have any stingers, but it doesn�t matter because they still terrify you by chasing you. OH MY GOD! I�m scared to death of those things.
I hate bees. You will know me because I run like a little girl from anything that possibly has a stinger.
I talked to my older sister Melinda last night. We�re once again worried about our sister Renee because we haven�t heard from her in about a month. Last I heard, Terry was still stalking her. I am really worried he might do something crazy.
Melinda was a bit peeved at me because she called me 4 times last week and I didn�t answer the phone one single solitary time. I explained to her that I needed time to digest that this stuff with Rodn*ey Linc*oln is really over and that the ten months of waiting in hell is passed too. I just needed time to get used to this change in my life.
I ordered the movie �Schindler�s List� from overstock.com. They had it on sale for $17.99 for the DVD, which I had last priced at other websites for $45.00. Of course I had to get it. If you haven�t seen this movie, do it. I think what people need to understand is that the Holocaust is the sort of thing that happens when we don�t have tolerance and hate other people. It�s a profound movie, and I think it�s life changing along with �The Passion of Christ�. I think both movies really change the way you look at your life.
I debated letting Jackie watch �Schindler�s List�. She knows that about 60 or so years ago, people were starved, worked to death, shot or otherwise murdered because they were Jewish, were helpful to Jews, or were politicians or otherwise sympathetic to Jews. I told her that the Germans even killed little kids.
I told her I ordered a movie about it and told her it was up to her if she wanted to watch it, but we have to watch it together so that I can explain it or otherwise fast forward a few parts that are too intense.
I think as parents, we need to teach our children about history. I think that by raising their awareness of it that we are making a better, more loving generation. But that�s just my opinion.
8:38 am - April 15, 2004
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