Housecleaning and gun control!

To post or not to post -- that is the question...

Not much has been going on. (Don't most three-page posts start that way?)

Most of this week, I've been falling-down tired, and I'm not sure why. It's not like my usual depressed bonelessness. (If you've ever done it, you'd know it. Think: sitting in the kitchen chair, slumped over the table like a boneless chicken.) The Husband is now down with a creeping illness, which involves a sore throat and sleeping through dinner. Bad trend.

I've been keeping my resolution to be more compulsive about the housework by following the FlyLady. It's been interesting. And very tiring. Seriously, the idea is that you can do anything for 5 or 15 minutes. That hideous pile of papers and junk by the telephone, the one so huge that you'll never get rid of it? Just try working on it for 15 minutes. You can do that, right? Then later, try again. And so on until it's gone. You'll feel so good when it's gone that you'll start on the pile of stuff on your dresser, 15 minutes at a time. Then you'll then feel so good that you'll work yourself to death, 15 minutes at a time. ;)

Seriously, I had to re-arrange her schedule a bit so that I didn't have 12 chores to do before breakfast, but other than that, the house is noticeably cleaner, and getting less cluttered. I kept up on the basic presentable-ness of the house this week, so I was able to sit around in my pajamas and talk gun control with The Husband this morning without feeling guilty about not cleaning something. Hey, it's a start.

As for the gun control, well, it's complicated. The founding fathers wanted us all to own guns so that when The Invasion came, we could all grab our muskets from the pegs over our door and run down to the town green to join up with our regiment. Now the military handles that whole "well-regulated militia" thing, and we don't really need a musket hanging over our door. It's all fubar. The NRA insists that they want local governments to control their own gun regulations, but then they turn around and try to legislate how the city of Chicago regulates their citizens' gun use.

I'm convinced that for every shop clerk or homeowner that foils a robbery with a gun, there is at least one child that accidentally shoots himself. Most suburban and urban gun owners are total idiots. Hey, the only way that you can prevent a night-time invasion of your property is to keep that gun loaded in the nightstand with the safety off. Yeahhh. That sounds like a good idea. And do you know how many of those gun owners can hit the side of the barn that they're aiming at? Yeahhh. I have no problem with trained, experienced people owning guns -- the same way that I don't mind trained, experienced drivers on the road. But most of the yahoos wearing a sidearm into Starbucks are total idiots and should not be trusted with a gun.

The NRA should as themselves: should people like MomontheVerge really be carrying guns and shooting them when they're feeling threatened? I think we can all agree the answer is, "Hell no!" ;)