apparently it was my birthday....

The funniest thing happened yesterday...I was sitting in one of the computer labs at school. I had been there for almost 8 hours straight, besides about an hour break, working on a computer assignment, when my phone rang...

the people on the other end proceeded to say "Rebecca?" and then without waiting for an answer, sang me happy birthday! When it was all over, i thanked them, but told them they unfortunately had the wrong number. It sounded like someone's granparents acutally, which was so cute and he said "well i guess you dont get that every day hey?" and i told them they had made my day.....which they did :)

whoever's birthday it is out there today, this is for you...

Salsa!

I totally thought of something today that I wanted to blog about and now it is in some little box in my brain and doesn't want to come out...so instead i will show you some pictures. My friend Kim came to visit from Seattle last weekend and we had a great time playing Wii, sitting in the hot tub, going to the ski hill, reading, eating....and making very tasty salsa!

You know you should wash your car when....

You also know you need to change your oil when the idling doesn't sound right and ....oops you can hardly see any on the dipstick!

Just about forgot!

I was just about to go to bed when i remembered...BLOG! Today I will muse on the story of the lady who just had octuplets. I just watched Dateline where they interviewed her pretty in depth....and she seems surprisingly...rational. There are so many debates you can have over this whole situation i'm not surprised the world is having a hay-day with it all. Children's rights is one of them for sure...how can she possibly take care of 14 children? How is it fair to her first 6 children to bring 8 more into the family...will they get enough attention, care, opportunity?

and yet....

people ask why she didn't selectively reduce her fetuses when she found out she was having 7 more.(the eighth was a surprise during the c-section) So I ask what about the rights of those babies? Do the rights of children outside the womb mean more than the rights of children inside the whom? I believe our world says they do. I say no. This woman went right to the embryo stage and said that each of them had a right to live, although she didn't know if they would, she left that up to God. This sort of sparks another debate....Yes her fertility doctor implanted 6 embryo's (there is controversy over what is the standard there of how many to implant) but two previous attmpts at implantation after her six children and before these eight had failed. This was the last time before she called it 'quits' and it happened not to fail.

Do these babies have purpose? yes
will life be easy for this family? no
Are these children loved? yes
Does all of the criticism and attack on her help her in ANY way? no i don't think so

It sounded as if she was conflicted...definitely as a young person, wanting children, struggling with reproductive issues, a failed marriage, disability, deciding to have IVF while still in school....maybe not the best decision, but some people just want to be mom's and that's ok....

I guess there are people that plan to bring babies into this world, and there are babies that are born that aren't planned...

God says 'love your neighbour' and 'feed, clothe and house the needy'...i would say this means people in our own continent as well as around the world.

Defeat of Purpose.

Today I bought a starbucks mug. It looks like this. Made of 29% recycled materials. I bought it becuase, well i needed a new one, but i also feel bad every time i get a disposable cup. So I was so excited to get a drink in my new mug because you get a free beverage when you purchase it. So i got to the counter and the lady told me you can't get your drink in the mug on the day you buy the mug...they give you a coupon to come back. So I paid for a drink which they put in a paper cup and I promptly poured it into my new mug and threw away the cup! Why couldn't they have put my drink in my new mug?!?!? The joy of not creating garbage was robbed of me today..... but I DO like my new mug :)

Fresh

So I was told I need to update my blog more regularily....OK, OK, OK....I am going to try something crazy...a blog post a day!

WHAT?

oh yes, no matter what, I am going to try to post a blog a day for the next little while and see how it goes. I know some of you have tried this and succeded, others may have failed, I dont know how I will manage...But interesting content or not I will TRY!

So do you like my new layout?? I needed something fresh to inspire me. I may change the title as well....we'll see how creative I feel.

Did you know that on this day last year Toronto got so much snow they were thinking of calling in the canadian armed forces to dig out the streets....oops they were in Afghanistan! Where is the army when you need them hey??