Happy 39th birthday to my little sister. I wish she was well enough to be in our lives so my kids could get to know her, but I don't believe she ever will be and it saddens me greatly.
Slept hard last night and had nightmares after I got Sharky up and I went back to sleep. The alarm finally roused me and, while I forgot the nightmares, I didn't shed the creepy feeling they gave me. Yucky.
Gabby's swelling under her eye started going down yesterday and is even lower today. Our latest theory is that on Saturday morning, while playing in the yard, she was bit by something (spider, wasp, etc.). That would explain the fast swelling and the slow let down and the fact that it is hard to the touch. I'd think it would hurt, but maybe there was a bit of nerve damage? I was stung by a bee once and it killed a huge area of nerves surrounding the stinger entry. Considering how good it looks, I think I will cancel her appointment tomorrow.
In the news:
Atheist soldier sues Army for 'unconstitutional' discrimination
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/08/atheist.soldier/index.html
What the article doesn't say is if Hall was extremely vocal about his atheism. Who knows, he might have pissed a lot of people off by complaining and proselytizing his atheistic views? *shrugs* Any kind of discrimination is bad, but sometimes you can push people the wrong way with your views, and have it backlash into what might appear to be discrimination.
I'm sorry, but I personally think that everyone should just mind their own freaking business about religion. Not a "don't ask don't tell" mindset, but a "don't shove it in everyone else's face" one instead. I am what I am, I don't feel the need to flaunt it or wear it like a suit of armor (like many Christians and other faiths do).
When I was in the service, I changed my dogtags a few times because my beliefs kept changing. I started off with Episcopal (my Mom's religion), then went to atheist, then agnostic and might have had some others as well. (Wait, I'm pretty sure I had "undecided" too. LOL) Never put pagan or Wiccan on them because, in the mid 80s, that wasn't one of the choices on the dogtag choice list. No one cared because we didn't walk around checking out each other's dogtags! I didn't know any of my friends' religions unless they told me. No one forced me to go to church - although sometimes friends would ask, just like you'd ask if someone would go to lunch with you.
Of course, that wasn't during war time and that does change things. But I still am of the opinion that a lot of this "discrimination" might not have occurred if it wasn't advertised.
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