Last night I had this really weird dream...

My new sister

2006-09-19T00:11:53Z

After months and months of waiting, my parents have finally come to a much more exciting point in their adoption process because we now know of a little girl who will most likely be my new little sister, Abby. A list of adoptable special needs children came out today, and they have applied for this cute little 16 month old girl with chubby little cheeks. The adoption agency has approved the application, now we have to wait for China to approve it (and send us some more recent pictures). I cannot wait to see her! I wish I could go to China with them to bring her back here. I guess I will have to wait. It has been such an exciting day.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-09-13T18:12:00

2006-09-13T22:16:29Z

We had our first appointment at the midwife center today and we got to hear the baby's heartbeat. Everybody made that sound pretty exciting, and I had thought they were kind of exaggerating. But it sure is exciting! It is so neat to hear the fast little heartbeat and think about the tiny little baby in your belly.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-08-29T16:33:00

2006-08-29T20:40:42Z

I finished up my last two finals today... my last two finals ever! Finally! Now all I have to do for the next seven months is lay around and watch my belly grow. I better get working a little harder at finding a job.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-08-28T09:06:00

2006-08-28T13:09:37Z

I searched my grandfather's name on Google and found this list which I thought was pretty interesting. It traces our relatives back to a guy that was in the revolutionary war:

http://users.adelphia.net/~pam_larry/leydelikens.htm

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-08-26T20:18:00

2006-08-27T00:19:44Z

Just in case there is someone I haven't told yet, we are going to have a baby. He or she is due the beginning of April :-)

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-08-07T10:57:00

2006-08-07T15:00:31Z

Three weeks and one day left to go. Only three more weeks of classes. I am so tired. I just want to go home and skip my last two classes today. Ethics, who needs that? I have all A's except in Ethics. Stupid Ethics.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-07-27T10:33:00

2006-07-27T14:35:11Z

I got really upset by the people the homeless that sit along Forbes all day with their signs, begging for money. They were not in their usual places, they were standing around a newspaper vending machine, as one of them put change in and passed around newspapers to all of them (and they all seemed quite able to be up and walking around - why can't they get a job?).

Do they think they are hurting the Tribune Review when they do that? Wrong. The paperboy responsible for the vending machine probably pays the Tribune Review for each of those papers whether they themselves get money for the papers or not.

Why should you give money to someone that would steal from a paperboy? Because paperboys are wealthy? These homeless obviously have no concern for poor people. They are as selfish or more than the people that try to walk past them. They just think they are entitle to everything, even newspapers, for nothing.

I don't like it when people steal from paperboys. I take that personally.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-07-05T16:57:00

2006-07-05T21:05:45Z

Feels like Monday.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-06-21T19:05:00

2006-06-21T23:15:11Z

Here's an interesting article on raw cow's milk, I was reading today:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/shore5.html

(6/23/06 - for as much as I liked this article, once I read her journal entries about adoption, http://comic-mom.livejournal.com/, I am not comfortable recommending anything she has to say)

I also found a place up near where my parents live that sells raw cow milk. Next time I go up, my mom and I are going to go check it out. Maybe I'll be able to get some to try. I found it on this list:

http://www.realmilk.com/where2.html

I've also been reading some articles by this guy today because I am going to try to cut white flour and white sugar out of my diet for a little while:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds-arch.html

I like reading his articles about food. He seems to know good food. And he has some interesting ideas on what is healthy.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-06-15T10:54:00

2006-06-15T15:22:37Z

I am definitely not in Grove City anymore.

I ride the bus downtown everyday. The first day it was scary. The first week it was interesting. Now it is quite boring.

It would be too difficult to describe the entire group of people, in the summer paralegal program with me, all at once. There is quite a lot of variety. But there is also a bunch who claim to be brilliant enough for law school, there was just some unfairness that kept them from getting in.

At the first day of several of the classes, the professor began by saying something like "I want you all to get A's, it makes me look good." Which is quite the opposite of any professor at Grove City, who would say "I want the class average to be a low B, so that it looks hard."

There was a fight before the last class. One girl called another girl a retard. Then the mother of a retarded child got upset and started crying because retard is such an offensive term. Which started everyone swearing at the girl that said "retard" and telling her they are sick of her comments.

I was just laughing uncontrollably because I thought both sides were equally ridiculous and unreasonable.

Personally, I do not call someone else a retard. I think it is a bad choice of words. I do not feel the least bit sorry though for the mother having to hear someone say "retard". Not that I don't believe she hasn't had a hard time with her child, I can't fully know what that would be like, I am just not very sympathetic with her for being so sensitive.

Which makes me think of the article I just read on lewrockwell.com called Motorcycle Helmets and English-Speaking Cheese Steaks ( http://www.lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant11.html ). The cheese steak place has a sign up that says "This is AMERICA . . . WHEN ORDERING SPEAK ENGLISH." How can anyone even have a problem with that?! If you can't speak English, you can't read the sign to be offended by it.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-05-11T10:45:00

2006-05-11T14:51:34Z

I am disappointed. The Glenn Beck show will not last long. Unless it gets a lot better. It is not so bad that I will not watch it. I just do not expect it will last very long. It needs to be more like the radio show. He is much more funny when he is just reacting, not saying something he has prepared beforehand.

Told you he wouldn't like my paper

2006-05-08T19:49:13Z

"A sort of windy, conversational rant, that needs to be much more professional"

I got a 63 on my paper for ModCiv, the humanities class I am taking this semester with Dr. Folkertsma.

I realize I do not write as well as I should. I wish that I could, but I cannot. It is really hard for me to write a paper because I know that it will come out badly no matter how hard I try. This paper is no different.

My problem is not that he gave me a D, nor that he marked it up really bad for petty things, nor that he gave me negetive points for my spelling when the only spelling mistakes he noted were using "affect" instead of "effect" and "amongst" instead of "among". The thing that upsets me is that he, of all people, could write that as the comment on my paper.

Dr. Folkertsma is the professor, and he is the one that is not very professional and his class is nothing but a windy, conversational rant. This is my second class with him. He does not give a lecture on what the course is supposed to be about. He comes to class everyday, tells you where he is at on the syllabus, and then rambles on about whatever he thinks is somehow related to that topic. There is no structure or organization to his class besides that. He spends half the class making typical Republican jokes about the only other side of the issue they'll recognize, modern liberals. One day recently he didn't feel like presenting his lecture on the 1960's, so he pretty much just listened to some 60's music, and made a few comments about it.

I cannot believe he has the nerve to make a comment like that to anyone.

I just hope I can pass the class. I need it to graduate. I only got a 50 on the last exam. The entire exam was multiple choice questions, which often, in my own opinion, had nothing but incorrect answers.

The New Deal was good because
a) The New Deal saved capitalism
b) The New Deal saved the world
c) FDR came up with it, so it has to be good

That is not exactly how that particular question was worded, but close enough. If you do not believe the New Deal was good, then all three answers are wrong.

Here is an article by Folkertsma, so you can see how well he writes (and he writes pretty much the same way he speaks).

http://gcc.savvior.com/Today_s_Media_Does_WWII.php?view_all=

The Glenn Beck Show!!!!!

2006-05-08T15:37:27Z

Today is finally May 8th. Tonight is the premier of the Glenn Beck show on CNN headline news at 7:00, 9:00, and 12:00.

http://www.glennbeck.com/tv/

We do not have cable though, so I will be up in the weight room early to make sure I have control of the remote control by 7:00. I can't wait!

Also May 8th is the day that the rest of Pittsburgh, who do not have Glenn Beck Insider connections, can purchase tickets to see Glenn Beck at Heinz Hall June 12th. I already have my ticket.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-05-05T08:41:00

2006-05-05T13:26:28Z

There was a good article on lewrockwell.com yesterday about homeschooling: http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds282.html It is not anything new, it is just "Some Interesting Facts About Homeschooling".

Near the end of the article Edmonds says "Many adults are simply unwilling to give up the second income, either because they can’t do without the additional material goods they can buy, or because neither parent is willing to give up his/her career for the lowly station of homemaker/caregiver. This would be fine if such people were willing to give up having children, but many are not; they’d rather let their children be reared and shaped by people who know less, make less, and care less than the parents do. Children are just another possession for such parents, and the parents are mystified when the children grow up to be drug users, pregnant teenagers, rap fans, etc. (as was the case with two children I know, both of whose parents were full-time Methodist ministers)."

I have really been wondering a lot recently why some people even bother to have children. They don't want to give up their career, they send their children to school for the better part of the day, then to a babysitter if they can't be home from work when the children get home from school, and then they fill up the evening with sports and other activities; and I am only talking about the ones that are seen as good parents. Why do they go through all the trouble of having children? I wouldn't. It takes away every reason I am looking forward to having children.

I have said something like that recently, and with one exception it didn't go over well, even amongst reformed Christians that homeschool their own children. How dare I say that they are wrong and selfish in choosing to do that about other families? They are good parents, they just prefer to work and sent their children to school. Do I think I am so much better than them because I want to spend time with my children once I have some? No, I just simply do not understand why they do what they do. I didn't even say anything about a specific family, and I get a response like "do you think the so and so's are a bad family?" and "I don't know how you can say they are bad parents"

I shouldn't be too surprised though, these are the same people that ask "so what are you going to do when you graduate?" and give me all kinds of weird looks and better suggestions when I tell them my plans. I want to work until we have our first kid, however long that may be. I don't want to put that off to go to more school or to put a few years into a particular career first. I have really attempted to avoid answering people because I don't really want to hear their opinions on what I should do. I want to be a mother, and I want to be the one to raise my children, and I have no motivation to put off that goal so that I can do what they think I ought to do. I have no problem getting a job and working for now, but that is not my goal.

I am so thankful for what my parents did for me and my brother. I appreciate it much more now that it is gone unfortunately. And I want my children to have the same.

The people on Lew Rockwell tend to have more similar ideas to mine on homeschooling than any of the homeschoolers I grew up with. Our family homeschooled for very different reasons from any of my friends' families, and they didn't even understand if you tried to tell them. So I really like reading most of the articles on there about homeschooling.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-04-30T16:45:00

2006-04-30T21:14:50Z

I was noticing that the school has change its website some, and I noticed this on there (http://www.gcc.edu/Harbison_Chapel.php):

"Harbison Chapel is the center of the religious life of the campus."

I have no problem with the description of the chapel building, it is quite pretty, but I think that is just such an incredible claim for them to make tha the religious life of the campus is centered around that building.

I have two chapel credits left to take care of before graduation. Then I no longer have to waste my time with motivational speeches ("life is hard, but you are a Grove City College Student, and most of you are brilliant, so just keep working hard."), clowns, dancers, and slideshows about students who spend their summers volunteering in other countries.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-04-26T12:43:00

2006-04-26T16:46:22Z

Glenn Beck is going to be in Pittsburgh June 12!

Tickets go on sale May 1st. But only if you're a Glenn Beck Insider. Everyone else has to wait until May 8th. That includes me. I am only an Insider wanna be. But I will get my ticket May 8th. I'm so excited.

http://www.glennbeck.com/news/04172006.shtml

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-04-26T12:31:00

2006-04-26T16:31:53Z

I chose the wrong paper topic for ModCiv.

At the beginning of the semester I didn’t realize just how much of a socialist the professor was.

I cannot even understand why he teaches at this school.

And just around the corner from his office, is our very Austrian economics department.

I chose FDR and the New Deal for my paper, long before the professor reached that point in class. We spent many classes on the Great Depression and that period of time. The professor thinks FDR was just a wonderful guy just trying to fix a problem the best way he could. If anything bad came of it, it wasn’t intentional on FDR’s part because he wasn’t smart enough to do something like that.

I knew I didn’t really agree with the professor, but I wasn’t aware of how much I disagreed, until I started reading for my paper. FDR did some pretty awful things. It is really incredible, I don’t even know where to start for my paper, there is just too much that can be said about FDR and the New Deal. And I know it won’t go over well. I just need to pass the class though, and I don’t care too much else about it.

The book I am working on reading is FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell. Here’s an article by him from the Cato institute that kind of goes along with the book: http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v25n4/powell.pdf

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-04-25T18:02:00

2006-04-25T22:22:35Z

Are pasturized eggs labeled that they are pasturized? My carton of eggs says nothing about being pasturized. I never even noticed any eggs saying that they were pasturized. But my mother-in-law recently said something about making sure she get the pasturized eggs. It made me wonder how do you even pasturize eggs? I don't want to eat pasturized eggs. I hope mine are not.

I've been trying to stay away from dairy products since November, with the exception of a couple yogurts a week, pizza, and occasionally ice cream, as well as eating whatever is served if I am a guest somewhere. I wasn't sure if it was helping any or not. At least until last week. Thursday and Friday I had a bowl of cereal with milk. Each was followed by several hours of discomfort and bloating, and a few hard, red bumps on my face, scalp, and back. Milk is not my friend. I will not worry about throwing it down the drain next time there is a half-gallon left.

Someone really thinks I should take calcium supplements, if I am not going to drink milk. I don't buy into all that about bone density and all. I do not think that higher bone density is the solution to not breaking bones when I am older. I am more concerned about continuing to exercise for as long as I am able, so as to have stronger muscles, so as to avoid broken hips by not falling in the first place. I know that won't happen forever, but I still think stronger muscles is better than dense bones.

I wonder if I could drink organic, non-pasturized, non-homogenized milk without any problems.

liberty5_3000 @ 2006-01-23T16:08:00

2006-01-23T21:14:11Z

I have my computer back now. I'm a full-time student once again. And I am drinking lots of coffee at Panera, so I can use the internet. There are several people here doing just that. Talking on cell phones, typing things, looking busy and important.

I didn't get any of the books I needed, so I can't do any homework yet. I got a little upset when I was at the bookstore trying to get what I needed, but I guess they've probably had a hard day since it is the first day back and everyone is getting their books.

liberty5_3000 @ 2005-12-31T12:41:00

2005-12-31T18:04:51Z

I guess I am pretty uncultered. I have never learned to enjoy delicacies.

Ben and I joined his family for the last couple days of their vacation at a spiffy resort. Our first night there we met them at this restaurant. The prices on the menu were just incredible. Everyone ordered at least two courses. Everyone except me that is. All that sounded edible to me was a bowl of some kind of lobster soup. It took forever, actually an hour and a half, for all the courses to come out. And for those of us who didn't get anything with that particular course, they would bring out something small to "awaken your palette" as they explained each time.

One of the little things they brought had some raw meat in some green sauce. Yuck! It was awful. Another was pureed chesnuts. It was like baby food. At least I tried all these disgusting things. My sister-in-law got this little sandwich thing. She described the meat as really soft steak, so I tried a bite of it. I wanted to vomit. It tasted like ground up fat. A server noticed the faces we were making and came over and informed us it was goose liver! Can you believe I ate goose liver?! Never again. The last time I ate a bite of liver, my dad had paid me three dollars to try it, and I always imagined I would charge a lot more to ever eat another bite of liver. My soup was disgusting, had some weird spice in it. It wasn't even a bowl of soup. It was like a splash of soup.

The only thing that sounded good was dessert, but no one ordered dessert and I wasn't going to be the only one.

I'd rather just have pizza and beer.

liberty5_3000 @ 2005-12-21T14:29:00

2005-12-21T19:56:04Z

I had my last final yesterday, but it isn't as good as usual to be done with a semester. I was in no hurry this time. Yet it went by really fast. I am too intimidated by the thought of having to find a job (not of working itself, just the whole trouble of finding something) to be anxious to get out of school. I rather like things just as they are right now.

I went to "food day" at the place Ben works today. His group was moved downstairs since the last time I was there. Now he has a window by his cubicle. The feminists in that place are even more than I'm used to at college (I guess there's enough there that are the exact opposite of feminists to balance things out).

liberty5_3000 @ 2005-11-05T18:46:00

2005-11-05T23:54:20Z

It took three attempts, but I finally managed to stay awake through all of the Godfather. My inability to stay awake has nothing to do with how well I like the movie. I have trouble staying awake through just about any movie. The Godfather is now one of my favorite movies. Next I will have to watch part II. I'm told that part III is not so good, but I want to see it anyways.

A couple weeks ago we went to see Doom. I liked it well enough.

I really miss my dog. I want a dog so bad. I'm probably just better off waiting a while before we get a dog. But I really miss having a dog around and taking walks.

liberty5_3000 @ 2005-11-01T16:04:00

2005-11-01T21:10:46Z

I just got this e-mail from the Dean of Women:
You are on the pending list waiting to be assigned a room in a residence hall on campus. Have faith. We have not forgotten you! Don't hesitate to contact Miss Maust or me in Student Life and Learning if you have any questions. Keep checking your email for future communications. Final housing assignments will be made in December for Spring semester, and you will be notified regarding your particular assignment. Specific moving instructions will be emailed to you in December as well.

Thank you for your patience in this process.

So I guess I'm moving onto campus for the spring semester. I didn't even know I wanted a room on campus. How did I get on a waiting list? I wonder what Ben will think, when I move out to go back to the dorms. I hope he'll come to intervis. And I'm not leaving the lights on and the door open whether they like it or not.

liberty5_3000 @ 2005-07-25T18:11:00

2005-07-25T22:12:27Z

They have taken my computer from me. I am most sad.

I could have rented it for the semester for $400. It was not worth that much to me.

liberty5_3000 @ 2005-07-03T04:53:00

2005-07-03T09:06:57Z

It is only July 3. This summer has seemed so slow. August 13th is still 41 days away :-( But 57 days from now, I'll be wondering what happened to summer and do I really have to go back to school.

I got invitations sent out. That was nice to get done. We ordered tuxes today. They were not exactly to my liking, but I'm not going to let it bother me any. It seems like there is still so much to do, but you can't really do any of it until a week or two beforehand, kind of frustrating sometimes because I'd just love to get it all done.

I've become even more boring than I ever was. Or at least, I don't get enjoyment out of the same things I used to. That may not be entirely bad, besides the fact that I'm an incredibly boring person to be around.

I made sandwiches today, kind of spicy, kind of sweet shredded beef sandwiches. Oh were they good.

The birds are tweeting and keeping me awake. *yawn* time to try to sleep anyways.