The Queen's Rambles

Twenty-two days, people! I can’t wait. I am not looking forward to the screaming, but at least I’ll be able to walk again. Are you tired of the count down yet?

Today was the big day–my neighbor came over and cleaned half my house! She would have cleaned the other half, but we’re waiting for Erik’s next preschool day. He wanted to help but was more of a hindrance. I decided I didn’t want to pay her hourly rate once she slowed down. I didn’t tell her that part, though. I just told her I thought it would be easier without him.

It is so nice to have a mostly clean house! I can walk upstairs and not have my nose go crazy. I didn’t realize just how bad my dust allergy was getting until the dust was gone. I need to stay on top of it a lot better and maybe I will have better sleep.

Unfortunately I was supervising her/telling her where to put stuff during my preschool break so I felt like I never got any alone time today. Plus, it was a thundery, raining day so we couldn’t go outside. I was a pretty cranky mama by the time 5 pm rolled around.

This lady is like my mother’s long lost, twenty year younger clone. Making small talk was fairly exhausting. She’s a very nice lady, always trying to help people out and be kind, but we are very, very different with nothing in common. She hates reading. She’s 40 and has two grown kids. Her big excitement is to drink beer and watch Nascar. All perfectly fine stuff, but not anything I can relate to.

I had to laugh when she was complaining about the recycling guys. She’s decided to quit recycling because she tries her best but they usually put a sticker on her box telling her that it has non-recyclable items in it. I was curious about what she was putting in it since we’ve never had that problem. Turns out she was putting yard debris and cardboard in there. They do take that stuff, but you have to separate it all out. They have a completely different truck that comes by for yard waste. I am not sure how they work the cardboard, but I know it specifically says you have to keep it separate from the mixed recyclables (glass, metal, plastic). They ask that you put it out in a paper bag or small cardboard box and use the recycle bin for the mixed stuff. The instruction are printed right on it and it’s really not that hard.

Like I said, she reminds me of my mom. In my mom’s town the sanitation place provides customers with a huge recycle bin and you can put everything in it except yard waste. My mom can’t even do that because it’s “too much trouble.” Drives me nuts. How much trouble is it to throw things in two separate containers? Seriously? I don’t understand. Save the planet!

Ohhhhh!

Speaking of my liberal agenda, I was laughing my ass off at the flurry of righteous Republicans posting on my Facebook page today. I’m really excited about health care reform. There is no reason America should be the only industrialized nation that doesn’t take care of our people. Big insurance companies are pulling a lot of strings to make it sound evil, but if you strip it down to the essentials I don’t understand the objection. That’s neither here, nor there, though. I am sure the certain sub-set of very conservative Christians* on my Facebook page would never make the connection that Christians are supposed to help the poor and maybe, just maybe, universal health care would do that.

Anyway, I was laughing my ass off because several of them said they were going to move to Canada since the health care reform was going to ruin our country. Do they truly not know that Canada has had universal health care for years? Do they truly not know that Canada is much more of a “socialist” state than the US?

If you’re going to move to a country that doesn’t have universal health care, you’re going to have to look a lot further afield than Canada.

And that’s all she wrote for tonight. I’m off to enjoy my freshly cleaned room.

*Please note I am NOT referring to all Christians. Just a certain sub-set that I know very, very well since I went to college with them and was a part of their religion for many years. I do know there are Christians who fights for social justice and health care reform.