CountryMouse's Refuge

Happy Ostara, everyone! It may not feel like it, but officially (at least in the Eastern Time Zone of the US) it's Spring!

So start that frolicking! :-D

Here is a link to a very interesting article:

Obama's Minister Committed "Treason" But When My Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero

ETA: But wait, there's more:

I have four words for the GOP: John Hagee, Rod Parsley

I need to avoid any more politics today. I've gotten overloaded lately, and it's too much. I am feeling afraid and depressed. When I get this way, I have to look at what I need to do to "lighten the load".

I need to let someone else...or rather Someone Else (probably Ganesha)...handle this stuff. Politics and commentary and news articles and all the rest will go on whether I pay attention to it or engage in it or not. I just can't do it now, today.

I need to think about my immediate family, what I need to do *just today*. I need to go through some coupons and make the grocery list (a day earlier than usual, so I will have time tomorrow, before Cat'r comes up here, to get other things done). I need to think about celebrating Cat'r's birthday tomorrow (a day late--today is his birthday). I need to think about *us*.

Bunnicula says we can afford to get me a few tops/blouses for summer out of the joint account; so that means I can afford to get myself (out of my own money) a beautiful "Adorable Elephant" at Build-A-Bear Workshop this weekend. We have a lot of stuffed animals; but B. understands why elephants are important to me: Ganesha and totems.

And an Episcopal minister told me a long time ago that when I feel depressed or overwhelmed by all the "bad" in the world, I should read children's books. I extend that to the comfort of a kinder, safer world, which includes stuffed animals.

As to worries about expenses when we all get a place together: B. reassured me about that, saying that we'll have three incomes, that we've been steadily paying down our debts, that we all have health insurance, that he feels confident we can do it. I guess I need to circle the wagons for now. Too much to process in too short a time. I need a break, a vacation.

Oh, I'll still be posting everyday--just might be not-so-heavy stuff. :-)

I'm pretty sure the elephant I will be bringing home will be a boy. And his name will be Elliot. But I keep having this sneaking suspicion I already *have* someone named Elliot.

I've been looking through all my stuffed animal photos on my website, and I don't see a single Elliot. I had an Everett, who is a mouse who has since gone on to another home.

Maybe one of my figurines is named Elliot? I can't recall. Well if another name pops into my head when we're at Build-A-Bear, I'll see if that's the right name instead.