The Happy Homemaker

Today is my 31st birthday. I celebrated my birthday last night by eating at an Italian Restaurant and then going to see The Dark Knight. The movie was good but I would give it a 6 mainly for the annoying voice of Batman and the fact that the Hong Kong businessman story kind of got forgotten. It was kind of like Spiderman 3, there were too many miniplots that did not wrap up evenly in the end. The director did a great job with what he had.

A lady from church babysat the kids for free. I only asked her if she knew a young teenaged girl to babysit and she offered to do it for free, just to be nice. I was very thankful and it is people like her that prove that there is still kindness in America. Why am I thinking this way? Well, I read a blog kept by a liberal writer and from his blog you would think the world is an apocalyptical nightmare full of tattooed cannibals and that Bush is the anti-Christ. There seemed to be no hope for or society and the only solution is to have Obama tell us to change our lives through the government. As I read on I saw a hint of Marxism, especially in his glorification of the 1930’s working class man. I read on to find out that the man has no family, no hint of a wife or kids, some dogs, and has spent his life living in the city though he lives in a smaller town now in his old age. He also went to one of those “camps” which I wonder if that “camp” was those Communist camps popular right around the time when he was a teenager. He probably never goes to church or synagogue either.

I see the world so differently, but the way we most differ is that I view the world optimistically. I have been around enough good people to know that we do not live in a wasteland. I have seen those tatooed youths grow up and become responsible citizens. I spent my life outside an urban environment and thus I do not believe that the urban lifestyle is neccessarily heaven on earth. If anything I thought the urban liberal areas like New York City were nightmarish and almost third world like. I can live like a princess in the country on the same income as I would living in a dump in New York City. The great thing is that I have a choice not to live there. I also have a choice not to destroy me life and to not eat Cheetohs. This writer made it sound like that a special leader from the intelligentsia who probably never had kids or any responsibility other than pleasing themselves has to keep us normal folks in check. Doesn’t he realize that it was the government and the intelligentsia who put us in the predictament that we are currently in? The old ways of small town America was a Conservative movement, not a Liberal one. Family took care of family, and the government had to “butt out”! I think this writer James Howard Kunstler needs to spend time in rural Alabama or rural Utah. I promise his attitude of America will change. That is if he would tone down his spoiled brat attitude. (That is what he sounds like to me)

Those are my thoughts on my birthday. I gave myself more reason to be optimistic. Do something nice for a neighbor today!