Must. Clear. Head.

As those who know me well know, my brain is a whirling albatross that runs 24/7 at a very high speed. And where ever it stops, I must disembark the thoughts. Which drives my hubby crazy. So, right now I am overwhelmed with all the projects/commitments/thoughts running through my head.

Today, for the first time in days, Sophie took a nap. So I was able to work on some things. When she doesn't take a nap, I only have the evening to work on things, and my brain is usually mush, so I watch tv and read my various message boards, blogs, and Facebook. I do some job applying, if I am not too tired. When she does take a nap, I usually do some housework. But today I finally sat down and wrote out what I needed to get done, and in what order. I am in charge of something for my moms group this year, and I was able to get some work done on that. The thing is, I have to rely on someone else on this project, and she is very slow in responding to my emails. But I got my part done for now, and will await her reply. The next thing I have to do is decide what I am doing about Sophie's birthday. But I have to wait and see if Chet is going to get the time off before I can plan a party. I am terrible about making decisions about this sort of things. And Chet is no help. My practical side says I have no business spending money on a party when I don't have a job. My mommy side says that I should do it while I don't have to worry about having to work. Yikes.

Money. That is the other thing blaring in my brain. To keep the amount I want to have in savings, I need to start working by mid August. But there is so much going on this summer, that I would like to wait until September. Which would be okay, because I could just start building up savings again. If I got a full time, retail management job. But that does not work well with family life. I applied last week for two great jobs, neither would be nearly the money I made before, but they would give me a great work/life balance. And we may have to cut some things out, and possibly refinance the house. But I haven't heard anything yet. I am crossing my fingers.

More media-mania

So, I have established my disdain for the media, our local outlets in particular. A couple of weeks ago there was an incident in Seattle. A Seattle police officer attempted to cite four girls for jaywalking across a busy street. Instead of stepping to the side and showing their id as requested, one starts to just walk away. So of course the officer grabs her arm and tries to arrest her. At which time her friend tries to stop the officer by pushing him away from her friend. So the officer punches said girl in the face. Meanwhile, a crowd has gathered, including a complete moron getting all on video, all the while giving us his intelligent feedback. There were lots of people recording with their cell phones, but this video that has gone viral was recorded by some dude with the intelligence of a nat. Over and over we get to hear, "Are you serious?" in what I can only describe as the dumbest voice I have ever heard. Along with lots of swearing. He also shares with the crowd that this video is going straight to CNN, ABC, "all those". He's going to get rich, man. Frickin idiot. Not only were the two girls stupid enough to think they could resist a police officer, it seemed that most of the crowd thought they had hit the jackpot. Like they were watching the next Rodney King and they were going to cash in. It never occurred to them that the girls were in the wrong. Who is raising these morons?

But wait! It appears they were justified in their thinking, wrong as it was. Because the media went wild with this one. Over and over we see a still image of the officer hitting the girl. Mind you, we have lost seven police officers in the line of duty in less than a year. Including 4 shot while drinking coffee in a coffee shop and one doing paperwork in his patrol car. Yet the media is making this guy look like he was in the wrong. And the Chief of Police, who is only an interim Chief but is up for the job, is not fully backing his officer. What the hell? Did I mention that the girls and most of the crowd were black, and the officer was white? Shouldn't matter, right? But of course it does. The NCAAP was on this like white on rice. A white officer punched a black minor girl in the face!! It must be because she is black!! Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that she was interfering with an officers duties?! This video went viral, and literally was viewed all over the world. Now, if you just read a news article and saw the image of him punching her, you would get the idea that he was totally in the wrong. But if you watch the whole video, if you can deal with all the cussing and ignoramous people, you will see this officer showed great restraint. He calmly asked video moron to step back, but told him he could still record. The punch was a very clear tactical move, not a violent reaction. He could have put her on the ground, and still be following policy. But here he had a growing, irate crowd. He could easily have been overcome by the crowd and shot with his own gun. He handled the situation very well. Yet over and over I keep reading comments that he needs more training. I loved the response from the person that said yeah, training in how to use a taser.

Why, why is the media not backing our officers? Because God forbid they not be politically correct! Are these stupid morons the ones watching our backs? Umm, no. It is the officers that risk their lives everyday to protect us all, including the morons and the freakin media idiots. As a matter of fact, this all started when the officer tried to teach four dumb girls the lesson that if they run across a five lane highway, they might be killed. What an asshole.