showered with babies!

Well, I always thought that baby showers were supposed to be a time of celebration for the mother and her friends. I guess I was wrong! No, baby showers have nothing to do with celebrating! They are all about the babies. If your next baby shower doesn't have at least 10-15% of the people attending age 1 and under, you are obviously doing something wrong! I went to a baby shower tonight, and there were more babies there than cake (and there was a lot of cake)! It was crazy. Someone was holding someone else's baby while someone else was calming a crying baby and another person was feeding a baby that they didn't even know! I'm sure the mother-to-be was so excited for all of the noisy joy to be her own soon. The next time I go to a baby shower, I think I'll ask exactally how many babies we're going to be showered with!

my parents abandoned me!

so this is basically how my life goes: my parents leave for the weekend, and i am alone. Well, not really, I normally end up inviting people over to hang out. It's pretty sweet. Like today, I went out for lunch and the plan was to come to my house and play Texas Hold Em', but it didn't work out. Craig and Ruth had to go to the cities and Reid decided to go home. I think he thought it'd be weird just hanging out with girls (although, it's kind of weird considering he's 17, i think, and would be alone with only girls. but reid's not like that. He's right, he probably would have just been weirded out). Then there's Matt who came over but found out he was the only boy and said he needed to go to his cousin's. Personally, I think he was afraid of being weirded out too. Anyway, I tried to call the Reini's, but the line was busy. I called Brooke too, and she came, so did Brittany. Well, they're still here, and we're going to Subway. At seven we're going to a baby shower, so maybe I'll write something that's not so boring when I get back.

HAWK NELSON!

Hawk Nelson rocks! They are a band from Canada. Some people think that they're less than desirable, but I think they're great! I went to their concert in Duluth Saturday night to kind of get away from things, and it was awsome. My favorite song is "Letters to the President." I like it because I definately feel the same way as Hawk with this song. It talks about how there is always something going on that should be changed. Yet no one ever wants to do anything about it!
That is so evident almost everywhere you go. Schools, for example, can always improve one way or another. Parents complain to schools about how discipline should be tougher so students don't get into as much trouble. Some of those same parents then complain again when their child is "over disciplined" or "unjustly" accused of a crime. Instead of taking action and disciplining the child where he/she should be disciplined (at home), the parents just talk about what they think everyone else should do.
Of course, that is just one scenario (and not all parents are like that). But, if you think about it, that sort of thing happens all the time. We complain about the filthy air, yet we drive when we could walk. So many of our problems could probably be solved if we just did something about them. My philosophy is: if you don't have the will power to change it, don't complain about it!

What to do?

Okay, so here's the deal, on Friday, a good friend of mine passed away. It really hurt a lot. I am, though, starting to get to the acceptance stage of greiving. A lot of my friends, however, aren't. I don't know whether I am supposed to carry on from where I'm at or wait for my friends. The only logical thing I can think of is to continue on from the place I'm at and be understanding towards my friends. But I never am too sure about things.