I was just reading an article on CNN about Gore’s visit to the Senate to talk about global warming.  People actually do not think that global warming is occuring?  Are they insane?  I’m sure the polar ice caps are just thawing for kicks.  Anyone notice how the only senators who think global warming is a joke are from  states where the only science that is taught involves the use of a weather rock?

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Work is going really well today - my new business cards are ordered, my new logo is ready to go, my new accounting system is online and I’ve figured out a Linux workaround for it, my help wanted ad is in the paper and on Craigslist and it is not even noon yet! I need a laptop asap…

The stock market and our stocks in paticular seem to be heading up! Yay!

While I was on the phone some Jehovah’s Witnesses came to the door AGAIN (I just told these people recently not to come back) and gave me some flyer for a “very important” meeting at the Kingdom Hall in our village.

I have decided to find my birthfamily so I can secure some health related information.  I have enlisted the help of a private investigation company that searches for birthparents in Florida.  This should be interesting…

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Brian has been making me watch Seinfeld on DVD.  I never even watched the show (or any show, really) when it was on TV years ago.  Brian thinks watching Seinfeld will put me more in touch with the “common man” and what they are thinking (or not thinking).  I do think it is an interesting show and it’s really not about “nothing” but rather about mundane everyday things in life.  We are also watching Voyager on DVD as well.  Wow, what a terrible beginning that show has - we are on season 2 and it is not really getting any better.  Brian says that it picks up at the start of Season 4 when they introduce Seven of Nine.  We shall see…  This weekend, we watched “Conan the Barbarian” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and it was a pretty good movie.  We have been renting a lot of movies lately with the Blockbuster online service - it is not a bad service but our DVDs come from California so it takes about 2-3 days to receive them which is quite unfortunate.  Oh well, we are busy anyway…

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Yesterday, Brian and I went to the body board shop of his colleague’s boyfriend and I found a new board.  I really like it - it’s a Mike Stewart Science board in blue.  I had fun with it down at Honolii Beach yesterday too.  I did end up with a busted lip and scraped knees but I had a blast.  Apparently, the day before a whale had died off the coast and 14 ft. sharks were seen eating it - I found this out when I was already in the water.  ;)  The absolute coolest part was being able to surf with some turtles - apparently  they really like to surf at Honolii - they are really cute too.  It was great…

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I am currently cutting hair out of my head for a hair analysis test.  I have to cut the hair at the root and discard everything but the first inch of the hair.  My hair is thin to begin with - like I need to go and cut more out of it.  Joy.  I’m heading towards being bald or at the very least having really bad hair…  Brian said he would do this for me but he never will do it.  I hope I do not end up looking like a complete wacko.

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I don’t really use recipes.  I am one of those people that says I use a recipe until someone asks for the recipe and then I realize that I did not in fact follow the recipe at all but instead made up something entirely different.  It makes me wonder why I continue to think that I actually follow recipes.

At any rate…  I was looking online for some new recipes to inspire me.  Specifically, I was looking for recipes that have blackbeans in them.  I always seem to be rather shocked at the horrific things people put in their mouths.  I saw way too many recipes that included Cheese Whiz (is that even a food?) and many many processed cheese products, random canned foods, and a myriad of unhealthy items with unforseeable quantities of unnatural colors and additives.  Why do people eat that crap?  Do they really believe it is healthy?  Or am I delusional for thinking people want to be healthy?  In a world of McDonalds and fast food am I weird for eating a healthy vegetarian diet?

In other news, my doctor is presenting *me* or more specifically my case at a medical conference to get other opinions on what is wrong with me.  I have been referred to an endocrinologist for further study.  I will have to fly to Oahu to see one in Honolulu which is fine…

In other news, I am going to the mainland in May - it should be a fun little trip.  Brian wants to head to Alaska during the summer…

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I seriously wish the stock market would stop plunging into oblivion.  I am not *really* worried in the long-term but the short term loss is astounding.  I am probably just being hyper-sensitive since the center of my homepage shows how we are doing in the market and also the top of my browser follows the stocks we are invested in currently.  At least it has not stopped being fun…

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Yesterday, while we were in Kona I bought a book called “The Sexual Politics of Meat” by Carol J. Adams.  She has a very interesting viewpoint on vegetarianism and feminism.  She basically thinks that one theory cannot exist without the other (successfully).  She was the winner of the Continuum Women’s Studies Award for this book.  I have only read a small portion of the book thus far but some of her arguments seem a bit far-fetched to me.  I hardly think using the book “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott and referring to the father character justifies her argument.  Namely, that the father was a vegetarian and did not wish to enslave animals to do work so he made the family move to a communal farm to do work but he did not quite have the desire to actually do manual labor so he left the women to do the work - in a sense enslaving them.  However, this is fiction!  I can see her point about feminism and vegetarianism going hand in hand in many ways.  Vegetarianism is inherently anti-patriarchal because of associations with men/meat/hunters and women/vegetables/gatherers.  However, I think these notions are absurd for society today.

I doubt every feminist cares about animals and I doubt that every animal rights activist cares about feminism and most would not see the other group as being vital to their cause.  This is really the same issue with First Wave Feminism and the abolitionist movement.  Initially, it was a fine pairing until it all went sour out of anger and jealousy.  Will the same thing not occur if animals are “liberated” while so many women are not?  I suppose a bigger question to ask is who should be liberated first:  women or animals?  And what is animal liberation?  Does that mean everyone is vegan and bears run through our living room and the family dog is set free?

Just random thoughts on random topics…

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I was not able to sleep last night because of my sunburn but I got out of bed at 7 AM when Brian got up. He announced that we needed to head over to Kona AGAIN (we just went on Thursday and returned on Friday evening) so we could drop off this packet at the Kona office that he forgot to leave on Friday. He claimed it could not be faxed or sent via mail but this is entirely untrue. So, we ventured over to Kona and made the almost three hour drive to Kealakekua (south of Kona) and he just had to stop at every bookstore in Kona and finally we ate lunch. Then, we drove down to Kealakekua to drop off this *super important* packet and the gate was locked so we were unable to leave the packet. We drove all the way over there for NOTHING. The ONLY thing I wanted this morning was some advil to kill the pain of my sunburn and to take back a couple of DVDs to Blockbuster. I was unable to do anything I needed or wanted to do today. Then he bailed out on the drive from Kona to Kealakekua and also the drive home because he was tired and driving like a maniac and had a major attitude problem. Naturally, the better driver was me since I had no sleep to his 9 hours of sleep… Yeah, right. After we found out that he couldn’t drop off this *super important* package that we just drove three hours to hand deliver he just shrugged his shoulders and said “oh well” and did not even bother to call the director to get them to come or ask to drop it by their house. Yeah, it must have been REALLY important. Right. What’s he doing with the packet tomorrow - he’s faxing it. What a way to waste the day…

It really gets under my skin because he gets annoyed with me if I run only one errand in town - like *only* going to the grocery store which puts a grand total of 5 miles on the car roundtrip.  But he just takes off on a random joy ride to Kona and that is okay - especially when we JUST went there!  Gas is incredibly expensive here and to top it off he always has to buy a ton of books and then we have to eat at least one meal en route to Kona or on the way back - it’s just an absurd waste of money for a trip that wasn’t even fun.  Bleh, I’m not even going to talk about how horrible the rest of the trip was today, it’s just not worth it.

I am done venting now.

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I am obviously bored due to being up at this late hour.  Has anyone taken the enneagram test based on Gurdjeiff’s work?  I am a hybrid 1 & 5 and Brian is a 5.  What about the MBTI/Kiersey?  I am INTJ and Brian is INTP…  I will stop rambling for now…

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Brian and I spent Thursday night and all day Friday in Kona because he had some business to attend to over there.  Unfortunately, we were not able to stay over the weekend because we had to volunteer at the library on Saturday morning.  Brian, of course, was not willing to give that up for the weekend because the reward for volunteering an hour is being able to have first pick of nearly new books for less than $1.  While he had a fun day of doing a presentation I went to Hapuna Beach in North Kohala.  I love that beach.  I would live on it if I could but my skin does not like that beach as much as I like that beach.  I  was on the beach from 9:30 AM until 1 PM  and I applied sunscreen three times and my skin still burned like crazy. I went bodyboarding and had a great time - the waves were huge and the shorebreak made it all the more fun for me.  My nasty sunburn has created quite an annoying problem for me.  I wish to sleep but cannot because the sunburn is hurting too much so I have taken some Ibuprofen to help with the pain but it has caffeine in it so I cannot sleep.  Joy.  Plus, Brian is mad at me because I got a sunburn so he is intentionally going out of his way to be mean to me about my sunburn - poo on him.  I have ordered a rashguard shirt with UV protection to protect me in the future.

Brian found these weird old board games where you recreate one of Napoleon’s Campaigns in Germany - no one had even bothered to play the game and we’re still trying to figure out how to play exactly.  Very strange…  He also found a World War II game that is somewhat similar - both should be quite interesting.

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