Where did all these thoughts come from?

My brain is seriously on some sort of overdrive right now. I feel as if I could type essays in here all day, but of course time does not permit that. Then something happends to spawn more ideas and I am just spilling over!! Perhaps this blogging thing has created a monster. I’ve spent my whole life saying that I hate to write. Maybe I need to give myself a little attitude adjustment and stop saying that.

Today was a weird weird day. It follwed a lovely evening out with Jax at her lawyers clubs’ reproductive choice commitee mixer. She’s gotten herself invovled with Planned Parenthood and I always told her that once Alex doesn’t need me on so many sports related volunteer committees, that will be my first choice of places to spend my time. So I was lucky to find out that the communications director for PP in Riverside and San Diego was talking at this mixer AND Alex was with Erik for once! Well, the lovely win and cheese event cause me to write my second ever diary on DailyKos. I came write home and threw my thoughts into a Word doc and then gathered all the supporting story links and cleaned things up to post this afternoon. I was so nervous! This site is so widely read that it is scary. I am not sure if I am strong enough in my writing to take too much criticsm yet 😉 But I also know that I have a built in support system from my Cheers and Jeers buddies so that makes me braver. Diary #2

It’s on another attempt to make a law about parental notification for abortions. I know some of my mom friends who are pro-choice would think this was a good idea. But that is because I am almost 99% certain that none of your daughters would ever need it since they live in loving and supportive homes. No, this law would endanger the rare girl who has no parental support. No family to lean on. One who at 16 is not about to get herself to a courthouse and tell total strangers (judge) why she needs an abortion. This law is not needed here. California has reduced the rates of teen pregnancies and abortions more than any other state over the last decade through the use of open access to birth control and education (NOT abstinence only). Planned Parenthood’s study of those under 18 in CA who go to their clinics reveals that almost all have someone with them. Either a parent or grandparent or aunt. So why does this initiative keep getting put on the ballot (it was already defeated last year)? Because it is a battle that those who want to reverse Roe V Wade think they can win. They want to legislate family communication in order to impose a restriction on access to birth control and abortions. Oh, and the biggest source of funding is of course a white male. As Jax said – it’s always the ones without a vagina that want to control how I use mine!!

So yes, the weird day. First of all I had an unhappy tummy last night either from raw veggies, or fruit or crackers and cheese or red wine or all of the above. First time in a LOONG time that I’ve felt that. Actually, one of the worst attacks of this kind before was after a party with similar finger foods. I need to remember that! Anyway, that kept me up past midnight. Then I woke up woke up to total weirdness! My bedroom door was open. Very odd! Then when I went out to the garage I saw that the car’s security lights were still on. Huh? Then I get to work and put the laptop in the docking station and it is still hung up on some program that never let it shut down the night before! Huh?? It was like everything which is normally shut down, turned off, closed tight was left in limbo last night. Trippy. Of course, there were logical explanations for all three which I just needed to think through, but being tired, with a weak tummy and then those three odd things really had me off on the wrong (very confused) foot. Plus, I still had that diary to finish and I WAS nervous about it as if it was an assigned paper for a class!

No news yet on my friends from their cancer tests/surgeries. I will see Grumpy on Saturday though – or his wife if he is still not up to going to the football game. Now Marcus is gone up to Sunnyvale to see his grandma. He got a call Monday night that she was not eating. She is 92. He has gone up ahead to scout out the situation and the rest of his family will fly up on Friday night for the three day weekend. Sigh..be well everyone. Please.