Rock on Weather Pixie!

I just love my Weather Pixie...she's all bundled up against the cold, just like I was today!! I don't like when the sun is all shiny, but it's bitter cold...so sneaky :)
Ok, so anyways....The conference was fine. I met Dan Gartrell, the author of "The Power of Guidance." I loved that book, and hearing him speak just reminded me that I CAN be a good teacher...I have just let that slide for a while....But, otherwise, Saturday was not so good....boring. The Keynote speaker was good, but it was all about Jesus. Well Duh, I work for a Lutheran church! I have some...reservations about religion, particularly Christianity. I KNOW that there is a God...there is no way that the Earth and all on it just showed up one day, and there is no way that I can be "running" my life all by myself. Even if things don't go well or as planned, I know that Something must be in control. BUT, I have an issue with the whole Jesus as a Savior thing. I can accept that him as a prophet and a very learned Jew, but I don't know about the rest. I don't mind at all telling the children about God, but I am uncomfortable talking about Jesus..so I don't that much. Sitting in this sanctuary and all the people are reading as part of the morning worship...all I could think was "chant" because that's how it felt...chanting propoganda. Needless to say, Hubby and I do not attend church. Actually, we don't "do" Easter, but we do celebrate Christmas. I guess if anything, I'd be leaning towards Judiasm...I like the tradition, that there is a reason. It seems like many Christian tradtions were developed to suck people in to the religion (transforming a "pagan" ritual into a holiday, for example), while Jewish tradtions seem to be based more on the life at the time...Kosher laws were first made because of food safety, other rules were developed to set the Jewish people apart from the others...
Ok...I kind of got off on a tangent...sorry....
Hubby and I went to the MOA on Saturday evening...HOLY COW! That was a zoo! I don't know if the Light Rail brought in all the "riff raff" or what, but it was BAD. We left after an hour and a half. I don't care what color, race, gender, whatever you are...don't just stand around the Mall in big clumps doing nothing! You can be there if you want, but gee whiz...do you have to just loiter? Walk, window shop, park in the food court or Camp Snoopy....but DON'T clog up the walkways and intersections! FRICK! And the most confusing part was all the kids running around...and the Mall has a rule that you MUST be with an adult after 6pm Friday and Saturday is you are under the age of 16. 2 girls, maybe 13 and 14 walked in right in front of us. A Security guard was holding the door open. She nodded to them but didn't card them or ask them if they were with us or going to a movie or whatever. Ugh...we should have just left right away.
We also watched "Anchorman" that night...that was not so good. So, all in all Saturday was a waste. Sunday was catch up day...now I should be working on my paper due Wednesday, or maybe reading the rest of my readings for class...but I think I'm going to work on some house stuff first....Nope....gotta fill the cat fountain. Tigger just drank the water until it got low, and it scared her :) She's so cute :)