Random Life Questions

1. How does a ba-jillion dollars just disappear from the national economy? Of course, I understand the concept of unrealized gains and losses. But just the vast scale of the current economic circumstance amazes me.

2. Why do people think it's acceptable to lie and cheat? I'm talking about all types of cheating here. Whether it's committing adultery, copying test answers from a friend in school, or making up numbers for your tax return so you don't owe money to the government - news flash people - it's all morally wrong!

3. Why has the Church changed their procedures on the cannery? I can't just sign up for food, pay, and have it delivered. They actually want me to go to the cannery and can my stuff myself. Not that that is a bad idea, it's just that there are limitations of time and scheduling availability for people, especially working people. So basically I'm unable to work on my food storage because of time constraints. I'm happy to pay for my goods and for the service of canning as well - I just no longer have that option.

4. Again a little along church lines, why is it so unacceptable for a woman to have a job? People simply treat you differently as a woman if you work and I don't understand it. I happen to enjoy my job and I'm good at what I do. I also love my family dearly and I love being a mom and wife. Somehow it's not ok to do both? And why do they schedule virtually all of the Relief Society activities during the day when working people can't attend? I'd love to join the quilting group or the scrapbooking group in my ward - but they meet at 10 or 11 am on Tuesdays. A little accomodation, people.

5. Why do little boys (and big boys for that matter) always have their hands down their pants? Is it comfy? Do their extremities have poor circulation and they're benefiting from the warmth of their own skin? I don't get it.

6. Why do babies have to put EVERYTHING in their mouths? You should see some of the stuff I fish out of Audrey's mouth. And if, by chance, she eats something that I don't see, she will often then spit up whatever it is. She likes to scratch at the lining on the bottom of our sofa and it sheds little fiber thingies that she then eats. So once in a while she'll cough up what looks like a hairball. She spit up a stick once. The other day her spit-up was bright red and I was having a cow sideways about it thinking she was bleeding internally. Turns out she found some stray play dough on the floor Tysen had been playing with the night before. She's rather fond of the dog food bowl as well.