you asked

Amanda wants to know:

6 Things I Value:

1. Ikea. It is less than a mile away from my house and it provides me with furniture that is practically disposable. I used to be the girl who couldn't stand feet or heads on her furniture, let alone the 4P's of motherhood (pukepooppeanutbutter&pee) but now I could care less. As I type, my couch is in the washing machine.

2. Community. A clean __, a safe__, a welcoming __, a sense of __. No matter where I go.

3. Cohesiveness. Remember when I said that we should stop pissing on each other and start pissing with each other? We need to stick together. We are all in the same boat. Let's keep it floating rather than sinking.

4. Sleep.

5. Money. I like my bills paid and food in my pantry. I like a roof over my head and a reliable automobile. No one is supposed to say they value money because it makes us sound selfish and rude. But dammit, I like the dollars. And I like what the dollars can get for me.

6. Honesty, trust, integrity, friendship, the arts, love, and whatever else everyone has on this list. I have to say that or I sound like a total sociopathic a-hole.

6 Things I Support:

1. You and your path through life. You're doing a good job, you know. Such a good job that you have a bit of time to take a break and sit down at a costly technological device and read what other people have to say. You are open to ideas that may be different than your own and enjoy discovering that there are a lot of people out there who think like you do. You know how to get back on your path if you wander off and things aren't working out for you. You know how to survive and thrive and help others to do the same. You take care of yourself so you may take care of others.
Thank you.
That's kind of what this life is all about, don't you think?

2. My family. Even if they are a bunch of retards.

3. My friends, especially since they are a bunch of retards.

4. Animal rights, women's rights, gay rights, basic human rights. My right to support the beasts and the fags and the ladies. My right to have a voice. My right to use it, however the fuck I want. My right to say we are all equal dammit, and if someday I decide to marry a special lady friend or my cat I want to go ahead and do it. Double points for Dave if I marry a special lady friend and him at the same time, right? I think Dave is really pulling for that right. The Trimarriage Act, we will be calling it.
Sexy.
Holler.


5. Clean Air and Clean Water and Clean Land legislation. It does matter.

6. There has to be something else I care about. Ask me later. Five years ago I would have said "my local bartender". But now I'm lame. But I'm still a good tipper.


6 Things I Do Not Support:

1. The combination of Church and State. Not because I'm so concerned with the Church leaking into the State. No matter what Church we choose, we basically have the same morals and values. I don't want the State involved with our Churches. Especially now that we have the Muslim in office.
Can you imagine having to kneel to Mecca every ten minutes?
Christ, I'm kidding. About Barack. Not about doing other people's church and political crap as part of my daily grind.

2. My boobs. I can't do it anymore. No bra is good enough to lift them to that magical place where they once rested.
Somebody call the doctor.

3. Selfishness. Once you have everything you need and most of the stuff you want, how about sharing with the rest of us?

4. Whining.

5. Inaction.

6. Apathy.


6 People I Tag

I would love to know these things about the following bloggers so hopefully they will play along (if they want to) and then let me know when they have posted so I can come read.

1. Amy Jo at Cheese Party
2. Samantha at Fish Face (check it! she finally started her blog!)
3. Rissabear at Puffy the Opossum
4. my Uncle Charley at Sagittarum
5. Sara at Growing Up is Hard to Do (when you're ready)
6. you. Please link to your post in the comments so we can all find out what makes you tick. And that's a serious tag-all. Not just a lazygirl way to deal with a sixth. Do it.

Also, if you are truly in the mood to do what I tell you, can you please click over there on the left and start following my blog if you don't already? Not because I need a bigger number to bolster my self-esteem (read:I need a bigger number to bolster my self-esteem) but the fact that I'm just a couple short of a number divisible by 5 is really effecting my obsessive compulsive tendencies.

PS-Amanda and I grew up in the same town in the same kind of family situation and she probably passed my brother in the halls of her elementary school a million times. We found each other online a handful of months ago and can't let a day go by without at least one email, tweet, or blog comment. This is why blogging is better than Facebook. I don't want to be bothered with the weirdos and the pretty girls and the boys who broke my heart in highschool but I want to connect with people who won't make me dredge up awkward teenaged feelings but help me get through the day today.