Heat Problem

Today I will address Carrie's and my first and largest disagreement as a married couple.

This is a problem that we may need to see a marriage counselor about as we just cannot seem to reach an agreement on and neither one of us has been willing to compromise. The number one issue is who controls the thermostat.

Now typically, guys are warm and women are cold, am I wrong? In our case it is opposite. I don't know why, but since I was little, my body temperature is always unbelievably cool. I believe this is due to poor blood circulation. In any case, I did not realize when I signed the marriage license, that Carrie's blood circulation must be really...strong? Is that the right word? Anyway, she is never cold. I have developed a couple of theories as to why this is the case.

One theory is that she was born on some other planet such as Mars or Jupiter. This is why she gets so warm, because ever since she transported to earth somehow (I'm still trying to figure out how, trying to locate a UFO of some sort, or sneak up on her when she isn't expecting it in hopes of intercepting a conversation between her and other extraterrestrials), she naturally would be warm being several millions of miles closer to the sun. She would have had to have been raised in cooler climates because that would explain why she is having difficulties adjusting to planet earth. This would also explain her "out of this world" beauty she possesses. ;)

My other theory is that she is part human and part penguin. This would explain a lot. Look at the similarities. Penguins are terrific swimmers. Carrie is a terrific swimmer. Penguins feed off of krill and fish and such. Carrie enjoys seafood. Penguins don't have many predators just sea lions. Carrie's predators are mice, snakes, things that scare her, green cars, and, you guessed it, sea lions. Penguins can't fly. Carrie can't fly. Penguins waddle. Carrie...well...I guess the comparison stops there. At any rate, if she was part penguin, she would never be cold because look at penguins, they waddle around in the snow all day and never get cold. I think this is the stronger of my two theories.

Usually we have two fans going in our apartment, along with the air conditioning, along with the heat on full blast, and sometimes she cracks a window also. A waist of energy you say? We call it a compromise. When I get up in the morning, due to the fact that heat rises it has actually gotten pretty comical how in my walk from the bed to the shower, I will notice my face sweating and my feet freezing.

I guess you could say I was forewarned about this. After all, from the from the first day I laid eyes on her, I knew that she was extremely hot.

Stalker

Apparently we have a stalker in our midst. While Carrie was walking from her car into our apartment a couple of days ago, a short little lady bolts across the parking lot yelling "EXCUSE ME!!". She proceeded to warn Carrie about a man wearing a doctor's mask whom she had seen sitting idle in his green car apparently stalking little children and women. I don't doubt that there are many weird and crazed individuals, and we should take the warning seriously and take necessary precautions. However, Carrie is now freaking out over all parked green cars in the parking lot. Its kind of funny. I offered to sit in my window with my shotgun every time she leaves the apartment, but she said that makes her feel less comfortable as she has very little confidence in my aim.

Abortion

In church on Sunday Pastor Paul brought up a good point that I had been thinking about for a while. I think it is worthwhile to write this one out.

Pastor Paul talked about how in this political season, with the election just around the corner, so much focus is being put on the economy, bailout and financial crisis in Washington, some are putting other important issues on the backburner. This is extremely dangerous. I would like to bring up the issue of abortion. Every election I vote for the republican for this particular issue. Obviously there are other issues that are important, but to me, there is no one issue that is more important than this one. Most people that would read this would think I'm crazy for suggesting that the topic of abortion is more important than what's happening in the economy, but stop and think a second, is having money in our wallets or in a 401k or other investments REALLY more important than the millions of innocent, helpless babies that are murdered in cold blood each and every year? Are we really that selfish? You could make the case that if we have a president who doesn't know how to get us out of this financial crisis we could slip into a depression and people would lose jobs, food and goods would become harder to get and our quality of life would decline. But again I ask, is even our quality of life more important than the killing of millions of babies? Something to think about.

Trying Something New

I decided to try something new. I am not much of a blogger, I have tried keeping one before and could not keep up on it. I'm not much of a writer for that matter, it always seems like I have better things to be doing than sitting down and typing away. But in an effort to better keep track of the events that take place in my life, and to have something to look back on and recall, makes it worth it for me. I don't expect people to read this, its more for me to have an online journal because it is next to impossible for me to keep a real journal. But feel free to read as I am making this public. This way you can easily keep tabs on what Carrie and I are up too. This is just an intro. I'm tired. I meant to start this tonight but I think I'll just leave it where it's at and start this thing tomorrow or something. I got a paragraph. Nice.