The Irony....
First off- I have a new favorite show!
'Copper' on BBC.
It's absolutely wonderful.
I can't stop thinking about it.
In other news, I didn't sleep well last night.
A raccoon tried to get in the house and he wasn't giving up.
The city is building a new mega-bridge over this tiny insignificant creek down the street and it destroyed an entire ecosystem.
There is much displaced wildlife.
All because a city official wants his or her photo taken on the new super bridge.
So, my son and I went out this morning and witnessed the damages caused by this most insistent of varmints
There is a phone cord pulled down from the roof- obviously this was a most rotund insistent varmint.
And the asbestos siding was pulled off the side of the wall.
I also witnessed horrible rotting wood beyond the tar paper and I almost started crying.
We cleaned up and fixed the siding, and I was about to go get moth balls to throw around to fend off this critter when my Sweet Baboo called to ask how I was.
Since the accident on Thursday, I feel like a metal spike was driven through the top of my head and out the roof of my mouth.
I feel like I was punched in the nose and am about to have a nosebleed.
And I have pain behind my eyes.
He wants me to go see a real doctor, but....seriously?
With what?
My good looks?
I just paid the IRS over $1,600 dollars and owe them $400 more.
I borrowed $200 from my dad to help me through the month and I used that up going to the clinic doctor just for the pain I was experiencing.
But x-rays?
Tests?
Forget it!
I told him about the raccoon and he got really upset.
"I'm going to come over and shoot it!" he said.
And that's when I got upset.
Ironically, I'm discussing gun control with a friend on his forum.
I hate guns.
And I feel the 2nd amendment is a bit antiquated.
It was written before the 1800's.
But the world is ever evolving.
Ever changing.
We have wonderful technology at our disposal due to advancements in modern thinking.
We are supposed to be a nation striving towards the paramount of civility.
And as a Christian- ever closer to God by our growth and understanding.
I can see now that notion is also antiquated.
I told my Sweet Baboo, GG, "If you ever bring up guns around me again- I don't care if I waited a lifetime for you. I don't care if I break up with you knowing full well I will die alone if I do. I don't care if you were the only thing in the world I ever truly wanted and still cannot believe my good luck in actually getting you. If you ever threaten anything again with a gun- that's it. It's over."
I only gave him this warning and another chance, because if I had broken it off with him right then and there as I was about to-
I know he'd use a gun on himself.
It is my strong belief that people in desperate situations use guns to rob because they're broke and need money, drugs, food, this that etc, etc and are frightening to the whole of society.
But those prone to bad tempers, and people with nothing to do, and own guns, frighten me much much more.
No one is ever going to win this argument.
No one.