Monday Morning Musings - Q-tip Anyone?

So the other day, I watched as Addy, very deliberately drug a chair from the kitchen table all the way into my bathroom up to my sink. She opened the jar that is on the counter with Q-tips and took one out. Then she stuck the Q-tip up her nose and then put it back in the jar and put the lid back on. Then she took the chair and scooted it back into the kitchen. And the whole time I was standing there, eyes wide, mouth open, thinking to myself, "It looks like she's done this before". Uh, yeah. So I threw away all the Q-tips.

Steve and I and the whole gang went to IKEA today and we didn't buy one darn thing! Can you believe it? I couldn't, honestly. Steve had to go to a meeting semi-close to IKEA, so the kids and I went along. We were gonna go to his meeting, then on to IKEA. Well, we were almost to the place where he was meeting and the guy called and wanted to move it to later in the afternoon. So we went straight to IKEA. We were looking for a new bedspread and sheets and we also went to get the shelving and stuff for my laundry/craft room. It took us forever to do the configuration for the laundry room and figure out everything we needed. Then it took us forever to decided on a bedspread. Then we decided not to decided on one, that we wanted to look other places. So we went to get all the stuff we needed for the laundry room (if you've bought anything like that from IKEA you know how much fun that is, to try and find all 50 million parts you need). They were out of one of the major things we needed, but I wanted my laundry room done so much that I was trying to reconfigure it to make it work. Then they were paging me to get my kids out of the play place because I was 15 minutes late, then on the way to the play place Steve and I saw a bed set that we loved and wanted, but then it was time to leave right then or Steve would be late for his meeting. So we just left. It was very frustrating.

Saturday night, Steve was working all night, and I hate going to sleep when he isn't here so I stay up until the point of passing out. Well, I was flipping through channels trying to find something to watch on TV. I haven't seen Saturday Night Live in like, forever. So I stopped there for a minute. Uh, OK. Why is that show still even on the air? The one sketch I watched was not even slightly funny.

I'm just wondering...Can anyone remember when the last time throwing money at a problem solved anything? And more importantly, when was the last time greedy, self-serving politicians throwing money around like beads at Mardi Gras did any good?