Patrick Says

“As a shock tactic, a national group that opposes abortion plans to fly a billboard-size picture of an aborted fetus over Cleveland beginning Monday.”

Ain’t America great? Only here could a group force your children to look at a gigantic picture of an aborted fetus without your permission. For or against abortion, this is completely disgusting, inappropriate and WRONG. I’m glad I don’t live in Cleveland…

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What is the Friday Feast?

Appetizer
What’s the funniest dream you can remember having?
You mean like ‘Three Stooges’ funny or ‘The Office’ funny? Sorry. I rarely remember dreams.

Soup
If you were a dog, what breed would you be, and why?
Ummm…I got nothing here.

Salad
Continue this sentence: “I get confused when…”
…someone tries to explain something to me instead of just answering my question.

Main Course
Name two things that need to be done, but you are procrastinating in completing.
1 - Going back to college: I took a one month break and now I’m scared to go back. It’s very intensive and all the IT classes are done, so it’s stuff I don’t handle well, like math.

2 - Prepping the new baby’s room: again, scary.

Dessert
When was the last time you tried something new, and what was it?
Last week, I signed up as a reviewer over at Circle of Friends Reviews. I have always wanted to write. I feel like I have dozens of untold stories in my head, but I have trouble getting the drive to write them. Maybe some non-fiction reviewing can jumpstart something.

If you live in the metro Saint Louis area, you probably know we had some devastating storms last night. I hope you are all okay. But that’s not my story.

So, anyway, I’m driving home as the storms are winding down and the sky is still lit up. And these aren’t cloud-to-ground strikes. These are cloud-to-cloud runs. Eight to ten bolts would strike out like a spider from a center and they would all run across the sky. It was beautiful. At one point, I actually yelled (in my car), ‘Damn! Mother nature is HOT!’ It was quite the display in the night sky.

Cinders took this test and posted results on her blog, so I thought I’d see if the test agreed with my preceived political leanings about myself. Turns out it did.

You are a Social Liberal (65% permissive) and an… Economic Moderate (41% permissive) You are best described as a: Centrist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test