Ashbloemstraat

Little things that made me happy today.

1. I polished all my silver flatware. I bought a whole bunch of silver at an estate sale years and years ago because I was throwing lots of parties and needed more forks and knives and such, AND it happened to be the same pattern my grandmother had. However, I never once polished them before now. They look really pretty! That isn't all of it above, by the way, just a smattering. It really took me a couple days to do it all. I have no idea why I had not done it before. This behavior is hereby rectified.

2. Today's activities included an extended excursion to Ikea to price out a new kitchen cabinet, and peruse other, more unnecessary items. I always love Ikea (always, that is, when it is the middle of the day and very very empty). I got random kitchen items and some curtain rods, as well as more fabric for the wedding which should be enough now (oh yes and lots of tealights for the wedding - woo hoo!).

3. BACHELORETTE! WEEKEND! IN! BOSTON! I leave on Friday. I sort of keep forgetting it is so soon. I'm so excited to see most of my wedding party ladies plus a few extras. Yay, Boston. How I miss you, despite how obnoxious the South End was growing.

4. I'm in this weird spending mood, which is bad, though fortunately with me they happen so rarely so I can't give myself too much crap for it. Plus I'm all about SALE items, so I bought some nice white sheets for about $20, which is nothing; and I got a nice new shower curtain, which was not on sale and relatively expensive, but I don't buy shower curtains very often so I consider it worthy of a non-sale purchase. Also I bought some naughty knickers. I AM having a lingerie shower soon but they were on sale and so cute and dirty I just couldn't resist.

5. David just sent me a text and he is on his way home early, which at 10:30pm is early indeed for a Doublewide night. We'll watch a movie and fool around before going to sleep. What a perfect evening.

Freeze.

This is so fucking rad.

Logic and science, as put forth on Dallas 100.7 Christian radio.

I make no apologies for my own atheism, but Richard Dawkins I am not. Which is to say I own my belief, but I have no interest in pushing it upon other people, or really even discussing it at all, because this is really just an arena in which nothing one says can be right, and conversations with believers tend to disappear into some vacuum wherein logic and reason do not exist, at least logic and reason as I know them, and therefore I cannot find my footing, and I'd just as well stay in my own dimension, thanks.

But of course David and I share our comments and asides with each other, and feel pretty comfortable in being as judgemental as we want to be (or not, as is sometimes the case - honestly!) as long as we are in each other's company alone.

Yesterday on the way home I listened to some Christian radio, and both enjoyed it thoroughly and was completely terrified by what I heard. When I got home I told David what I was listening to and he became curious too, so while we drove to the supermarket to buy our season passes to the Texas State Fair we listened to a show called, I believe, Bible Answer Man. The first thing we heard that caused both of us to stare at each other in utter disbelief was the following sentence - and this is almost word for word:

"Logic dictates that hell MUST exist, because if it did not, Hitler would suffer no retribution for what he did to the Jews, since he was not punished in this life."

LOGIC. DICTATES. My head almost exploded. Hey, Bible Answer Man! Did you take a SINGLE LOGIC COURSE in college? Wait, let's start earlier. Did you ever do one of those little logic problem grids in FOURTH GRADE? Yeah, well, sir, I hate to break the news to you, but there is absolutely nothing logical about the sentence that just came out of your mouth. This is having faith. But it isn't applying logic.

My other favorite was this one:

"In the recent Christian Research Institute Journal on hell, we used primary sources to prove hell exists."

PRIMARY. SOURCES. Lucifer's diary? Photographs? An interview with Hitler, whom logic dictates is living there now?

Seriously?