Politics

I'm so tired of the political ads!! It's so hard to tell what's true and what's fabricated. I was watching one ad in particular that made me so mad!

Here in Oregon, we have a measure on the ballot that would prevent insurance companies from using a persons credit report to figure rates. To be honest, I still don't understand how a credit rating tells them what type of driver I'll be. Please don't even start about statistics! Anyone who's taken a statistics class knows that they are subjective and very malliable.

Anyway, this woman is saying that she thought that she should vote for the measure until she learned that people with bad credit really do have more accidents. O.K....... Um....... I have bad credit due to an on-the-job injury. Does that mean I have a bad driving record?

Actually, my insurance company has given me a no accident policy because of my GOOD driving record. So, know I want to know more about these statistics and how they will handle instances like mine. Of course no one is interested in one poor schmuck who may fall through the cracks, but of course I do.

Unfortunatly, a lot of our laws are based on unfounded information that unaware voters blindly go for. What happened to people voting responsibley??? What happened to truth in advertisements?? I can tell you that it really sours one responsible voters feelings about politics.

The Kids

Wow, It's been a while since I wrote. I had planned on being much better at this! Oh well, onward and upward.....

I have two wonderful boys, 15 & 12. After a particularly good conversation with the 15 year old, (which doesn't happen as often as I'd like, after all I'm the Mom) I realized that I'm now one of THEM. I'd promised myself that I'd never be one of THEM, when I had kids! Wow!! Responsibility turns a person into the; "They just don't understand!" "I don't think they were ever our age!" "What an old fogey!" "You don't get our music!" etc. etc. etc.

Oh I hate being the grown-up sometimes! However, I've found that I love being a Mom to my boys and all of the good, bad and ugly stuff that accompanies being a parent. The most important lesson I've learned so far, is that one has to be an active listener. I never truly understood what that meant until I had kids.

The look in their eyes when they see you're really interested in what they're saying! It's so rewarding. My kids continually teach me lessons. Strange, but true!

Living with Pain

My injury occurred on 11/27/93. I've lived with pain since. For the last two years, one month and 27 days, I haven't been able to work.
I've been poked, prodded and made to jump through more insurance hoops than I knew existed.
Chronic pain is ugly, demeaning and absolutely unrelenting. I do not know a day without pain.
I've learned to be more forgiving of others who have pain of any kind. Mine happens to be from permanent nerve damage.
The sciatica. That's the nerve that branches off of the lower back and runs down both legs. I also have a herniated disc at L5.
To anyone struggling with pain, I say, take it one day at a time. It's really all you can do.

Sad

I received the article about the Blue Monday Jeans from my sister. She was understandibly outraged that these types of things are happening in the world today. It's as if it's open season on Christians.
It's sad that Bjorn Atldax is lost to Christ. I feel as Christians, our job is to pray for him. He's very confused thinking that "Christianity" is all about organized religion. He's either had a bad experience or very ignorant.
I'm hopeing ,and of course praying, that Christians will be able to stand firm and not purchase these jeans or frequent stores that sell them. It's time we started sending a very clear message.