Well, it's been a little while. I haven't had a lot to say, but then I've been depressed a lot over the past few weeks, since America's Great Mistake. I plain and simple did not want Obama to win; the man is a socialist, and the direction he wants to take this country is simply wrong. But he won, and he's going to be my President whether I like it or not, so I've got little choice but to support him, pray for him in particular and the country in general, and hope that he proves me wrong.
Some of his cabinet choices tell me that he's at least willing to put out the appearance of governing from the center (and that he's finally acknowledging the fact that he clearly abandoned the notion of "Change" as far back as his boneheaded act of naming Joe Biden as his vice-presidential pick). We'll have to see. As a friend of mine put it recently, though, I survived the first Carter administration, and both Clinton administrations; I can survive Carter II and/or Clinton III.
Enough grousing; I keep going on about Obama and I'm going to get really grouchy.
On the plus side, I got to spend two Thanksgivings with family. Tiffany, Bronte, and I spent Thursday with her family at my mother-in-law's house, and Saturday with most of my family over at my mom's. It was good; it would have been nice if my brother Steve could have made it, but I'm not sure if he was back in Iraq after his leave, or not quite back on leave in the first place. You can't have everything, though.
Tiff seems to be through the worst part of her pregnancy. Of course, I say that now, and sure enough she'll wake up not feeling so hot tomorrow. However, she seems to have been on a steady upswing these last few days, and that is encouraging to me.
The job hunt is very, very discouraging to me right now, though it does continue. The economy as a whole is, you'll pardon the term, depressing, but we'll survive. I've got faith that God's got things under control, though I sure do wish that He'd be a little less cryptic in how He shows and tells us things. I'm a little dense much of the time, and subtle things are often lost on me.
I find that I still don't have much to say, so I'm going to go ahead and call it a night and hope that I'm more inspired later in the week.
2 comments:
A good way to get around depression is to be thankful for what we have instead of looking at what we have not. Another way is to stop watching the news, especially the national and presidential news. All that is established and so we can't do a thing about it. One of the things that Jesus said over and over is "Fear not"...so get busy fearing not. It does a body good.
I won't go into too much detail here; but, on Nov 9 I started having chest pains and ended up in the ER a week later. After testing in the ER and a stress test at a cardiologist, the doctors are pretty sure it's not my heart. Instead, they think I have acid reflux; plus, other symptoms that they still cannot fully diagnose. In short, I'm currently on two medications: one for reflux and one for high blood pressure. Considering the timing, I told Karen it's all Obama's fault.
The moral of this story is, don't stress out over the President-elect. :)
Merry Christmas!
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