2 Things that bug me

First. It snowed a bunch last night (that doesn't bug me) and I had to drive my wife into work this morning (that doesn't either) because the roads are covered with snow and mostly all the cars and trucks were moving along quite nicely. We only have a few flurries this morning so it's not hard to see out the windshield except for the few people who are out who feel they don't have to clean their car or truck or whatever off before they hit the road. So they blow all the snow off their car all over everyone else. Take the 10 minutes to clean off the snow. If not for the fact that it makes driving safer for you, then for the sake of the one who has to drive behind you with big clumps of snow landing on their windshield. It's called being considerate for other people.

Second. If you've ever driven with me anywhere in my truck (which is cleaned off) you have undoubtedly heard me say, "I hope you like country music!" Because I do, and thats what I listen to while I'm driving. But there is a song that comes on all the time now by Eric Church called "Two Pink Lines." This is how it goes:

She was pacing back and forth on her front porch
I pulled up slinging gravel in my Daddy's Ford
She cried all the way to Johnson's store
I kept the motor running and parked by the door

Yeah I was foolish and wild
she was classic and regal
we were fresh out of school, both barely legal
we were young and on fire and just couldn't wait
six weeks in, she was three weeks late

one means none and we're home free
two means three and a diamond ring
yeah i wonder what fate is gonna decide
we're just sittin around waiting on two pink lines
sitting around waiting on two pink lines

yeah her Daddy's gonna kill me and thats a fact
maybe we'll just leave town and never come back
or I could stand there and tell him
face him like a man
oh who am I kidding, he'll never understand

yeah thats second hand just keeps slowing down
i swear it stopped twice the last time around
yeah we'll know the truth in three minutes time
we're just sittin around waiting on two pink lines
sitting around waiting on two pink lines

hot summer nights, whispering her name
under the blanket by the river bank
hearts beating fast we never thought twice
but she pulled me close and i held on tight

when the moment of truth finally comes
she gives me a look and then comes undone
she says looks like were lucky
someones smiling down
she grabs her coat and says see ya around

yeah these days the rabbit doesn't die
you just sit around waiting on two pink lines
praying that fate is on your side
sitting around waiting on two pink lines
sitting around waiting on two pink lines


This song has to be one of the worst songs I've come across in a long time. It is quite catchy which makes it even worse. I found myself singing along. "One means none and we're home free." No it doesn't. It really bothers me that the message portrayed here is that the only consequences of this act is a possible pregnancy. If she's not pregnant then they're "home free." Then the second verse talks about how "Her Daddy's gonna kill me" (someone should). Then he flirts with the idea of taking some sort of responsibility of standing up up like a man and telling her father what he has done but in the end makes the father out to be a bad guy for not understanding that this guy has just impregnated his daughter who is fresh out of school. Maddening! Finally they realize that they are not going to have a baby (guess they're home free!) this time and so they shrug it off saying "see you around" and suggesting that someone must be "smiling down" on them. Now I know that this song is a fictional story but it really bugs me how it makes light of the long term effects of premarital sex and makes this whole situation somehow cute or funny. Is this really how far society's view of sex has dipped. This beautiful gift from God is nothing more then, "Whoa we almost had a baby there! That was close!" It just makes me sad.

Haven't really posted much in the new year. Hows that for a Rant. Geez.

Happy New Year!

Ok, so I'm aware that I'm a day late but let me be the 34th (or so) person to wish you a happy New Year. I hope it brings you happiness, prosperity and all that other good stuff that you'll find in some hallmark card but not in this post.

It was a pretty quite new year's eve at our place but a fun one. We rang in the new year with good friends of ours by overeating some, drinking homemade Cherry Coke, Shurley temples, and some egg nogg coffee drink that develops a skin if you don't drink it fast enough, and just about anything else in the house. We played a couple games of Scene it (guys won both games! Goonies! haha) and then some heated games of Uno. We were so into Uno in fact that we almost missed the count down to the new year. It was a great time had by all, even the dogs. The year is off to a good start and I hope it only gets better.