September 7th

Here’s a stupid thing I’m going to do. It’s called sad story/happy story. I’m going to post something sad and then make up for it with something not sad. Ready, GO:

My friend Jen put this as her Facebook status tonight:

Right outside my parents house today I found a car still running. Much to my horror there was a young girl inside unconscious with a syringe in one hand and a band wrapped tight on her other arm. Apparently her plan was to keep driving after stopping for a fix. Driving down a road that my kids ride bikes on and we walk our dog. Hold your kids tighter tonight and teach them to be strong.

That shit is terrifying. While I think community action programs combined with education of our youngest citizens and some boots on the ground policing is a great idea…part of me thinks I should just treat it like the zombie apocalypse:

Ok so that was the sad story about my amazing (and I mean that) home town and the shitty heroin problem we have here. People have said, well yeah, but there’s heroin problems all over. That’s fine, but I don’t live all over. I live here. Let’s worry about here. Let’s worry about here, now.

Here’s a better story:

When I was a kid my parents gave me a quiz book to write in and one question was “What’s your pet peeve”. I wrote, “my dog”. My mom read my answer and said it was very cute that I wrote that. I said “Why? That dog is SO damn annoying.”

Get it? Get it?

Ok I didn’t say that last part, but I did write down “Mickey”, which was my dogs name. Sorry for not knowing what a pet peeve was at 6, Kid’s Fun Book.

Jerks.

So today. Today was great. Worked for a few hours this morning, went down to see some of my favorite people, Jonah and Erin at the roofsit for the deserving children’s christmas shopping tour. Basically they raise money by doing a roofsit and then they spend that money on kids at Christmas. Volunteers take them shopping and they get 100 bucks to spend on clothes and shoes and coats and hats and such. It’s a great program and I think I’ve volunteered to take a kid shopping 4 years in a row now? I don’t know. I enjoy it a LOT and if you are interested in it, let me know and I’ll get you some info. Here’s us this morning:

They were firing t-shirts off of the roof. I ran at one with a FERVOR. I was soooo close to catching it!* ……………………… *I was not

All of this charity stuff that I randomly get involved with is of course really great, but my biggest issue with the idea of charity as a whole is that it’s got to be boring or straight laced or religious or you have to have a face like this while you do it:

That’s dumb.

I like the idea of Swearity™

swear·i·ty

noun, plural swear·i·ties.